Mods Anthology 2/Music-AmigaModsAnthology-2of4-Psychodk.mcsteam.iso/Modules/Authors.G-Q/Nao/Docs/SuperNao.DOC

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> SuperNao on the keys:
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Supernao - the name comes from a brilliant comic book where the main
character is called Nao, and after a while I grew bored with that, so I
added that Super ingredient. Ever since, my nick name is like that,
although some of my very old friends, way back from the ST scene, still
call me Wiz.

At first, way back on the ST scene, I only did graphics, but after a
while this program called 'quartet' came out. I did some tracks with a
friend of mine, and we made a 15 track musicdisk. In one night.
After a while, a few friends of mine, who all had amigas, lured me to
their homes with superior sound and graphics quality. Soundtracker was
far more superior to Quartet, and I still loved to draw the odd bits, so
DPaint was like DegasElite's big brother. Anyway, I had to get myself a
500, and thats where it all started.
I got into the group of my school mates, the Magiclords. How's that for
an old-school name! It soon changed to Realm, and Astro (yes, him) left
for either Rebels or Silents, I don't know which came first again. I
joined up with Freestyle, a group from the south of holland, only to
release 1 tune and to leave after a week. Then all of the sudden I got a
call from Facet - the amiga scene incarnate. He liked my music, and
wanted to use a few tunes for his pack. We called almost every day from
that point - and he 'pulled' me into the scene. I can now consider him
one of my very best friends, as I consider more people from the scene
very good friends. It's a mighty strange world.
Anyway, he had the plan of starting Lemon., and I was in it from the
beginning. From there on we went group hopping, we've been in Spaceballs,
Virtual Dreams, ehhh... well at least it FELT like group hopping. And
now, we've restarted Lemon. with those crazy englishmen and that lovely
norwegian boy. I hope this combo will last forever, 'cause I consider
them all good friends.
The funny thing is, I'm now attending art class (art and media technology
to be precise) and I came back to my roots: graphics!
Well, moving graphics and video and all that. But what the hell - it's
still graphics. And I'm in the same class as Facet. :)

About my music: I've shifted from amiga-ish tunes (although I must say
I've never mastered that particular genre) to the more conventional
music, and in extremes - the experimental music. There are a few names
that need to be mentioned in my musical progress on the amiga: First of
all, and most strongly: Martin Iveson aka Spaceman. The artist formerly
known as Nuke has influenced my work a great deal - he has more or less
introduced me to 'serious' tracking, by which I mean trying to form an
idea and executing that using your tool (protracker) instead of the
conventional method of tracking on amiga, starting with the drums and
ending up doing a melody - with maybe the occasional bridge or two.
Two other persons who influenced me a lot - especially during the beginning
of my amiga period - are Dizzy and Heatbeat. Their music was, even in
that period of time, so sophisticated that I learned a lot about
technique by analysing their modules. And it constantly reminded me of
the fact that I had a long and hard road ahead of me, to get that good.
After being exposed to Martin, though, I haven't really been influenced
by amiga artists anymore - only by 'proffesional' artists.


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> Thanks Michiel! :)