Now - You Feel It

I suppose your first question is how did I get involved in the alternative electronic arts scene to begin with? I'm not quite sure, but it happened back in the early 1990's when I'd all but given up on university and I'd become totally fed up with the commercial (read tacky and uninspiring), contemporary music scene. I started to branch out, and it's probably a natural progressive thing that I went forward into electronic music because of my passion for things electronic.

My early interests in the electronic music field were Kraftwerk (one of the original, innovative techno groups) along with Jean Michel Jarre and Vangelis, both being prominent for developing their own styles of non-commercial electronic music in the late 1980's and early 1990s. As I hungered for more underground types of material, I concentrated on buying specifically dance tracks from the commercial music stores. However, this soon became dull since the limited ammount of underground electronic dance music available from these outlets just didn't fit the bill anymore.

It was about this time (around 1992) that I discovered a now-defunct radio program called 'Musiquarium' on 2SER, a Sydney-based community radio station broadcasting at 107.3 MHz in the FM band. As it turned out, I ended up having an active involvement with the development and running of this radio show from about the middle of 1993 to the middle of 1995, and through this my interest in the techno and trance styles of electronic dance music really took off. It's also during this time that I decided that I'd like to learn about being a DJ since I was fascinated by watching other DJ's do their stuff in the studio.

As an offshoot, I soon started buying all my music on vinyl instead of CD (since none of the quality underground techno and trance I like is produced in CD format), and I now visit an assortment of specialised music stores regularly while avoiding the commercial music stores almost entirely. Unfortunately vinyl pressing plants are slowly disappearing, except in Europe and the US where the market for recorded music on vinyl is still very large and potent. The last pressing plant here in Australia (located in the inner-city Sydney suburb of Newtown) closed during 1995.


I have my own set of turntables (Technics SL-1200 Mk2's, almost as pictured above), and various pieces of recording equipment with which to record mixes I do here at home, and generally to practise and learn from my own experience and that of others. I'm not producing my own music at this stage (I don't have any room for the equipment!), but that is a long-term goal.

Clan Analogue - Innovative Experimental Electronica

I have been an active Member of Clan Analogue (a non-profit collective of people who experiment with alternative electronic audio and visual arts) since the middle of 1995. Clan is based here in Sydney, Australia, although there are also active groups of Clan Members in some of the other state capitals.

I became very seriously interested in the strictly alternative side of electronic audio and visual arts when the rave scene here started becoming too commercialised and started attracting too much negative publicity in the media in the latter part of 1994. I'd previously purchased various items of Clan Produkt prior to joining Clan since one of my main musical interests is collecting quality Australian non-commercial electronic music.

Through my involvement in Clan I've had a chance to learn more about creating music using analog music equipment. One of the things I'd like to do one day (under the umbrella of my Clan membership) is start collecting analog music equipment and experiment with creating my own sounds and music. Everyone in the collective supports each other, so I'd have masses of experience to draw on for advice!!

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