How long have you produced music for:

I've been producing music since I was seven years old (1996), I've only been really serious about it in the last five or so years.

I see you do alot of sequencing do you use hardware, and what hardware do you own:

I do mainly sequence a majority of my music, but I do use outboard samplers as I find them much better equipt than some software samplers I've tried in the past, i.e: Kontakt, Serum, Perxis. I own a Roland Juno-106, Juno D, Yamaha Tyros and Motif ES, Korg Triton and M3, Radias, and Microsampler (all keyboards). I own a Yamaha A3000 sampler and a Akai S6000 sampler. I have different outboard effects and stomp boxes, as well as gates, compressors and other channel strips. I own a Tascam DP-02 Digital Recorder, as well as a Yamaha Tape deck and a Akai Reel to Reel. I have a M-Audio CTRL 49 MIDI keyboard, Presonus soundcard as well as a pair of Adam main monitors, a pair of KRK G3's 6's active nearfield monitors, a pair of Heco Lab 2's reference speakers and two Nakamichi PA-7 Amps to power the Heco's. As many know I have a 120 bass Weiltmeister Diana Piano Accordion, three melodicas, a selection of harmonica's. I also have two consender microphones, and about ten dynamic SM58 clones. To top off I have a Doepfler system 1000 and four circuit bent stylophones. 

I see you've just been on tour of the UK and parts of europe, when are you coming to the US?

Our fan base at the moment is mostly in the UK, some parts of france and Holland, and thats about it. So until we establish ourselves more over the pond, theres not much point. Sorry!

Did you ever have music lessons, or are youself taught?

Good Question! I had about seven years of Trombone lessons, two years on Violin and about a year and a bit on Accordion. I'm self taught piano, organs and keyboard. I would say I'm about grade five (English music system scale), I'm currently receiving vocal lessons and may take classical piano lessons at some point in the future. 

I went to college and did musical and production engineering, plus apprenticship, for around five years, and have nearly eight years experience in total working at viarious studios across the UK. 

You have said before you are a technician at a studio, what studio, what do you do and how much do you get per year, as I'm interested in working in the industry. 

I work for a high school friends dads old studio, in Brighton and Shoreham By Sea, its called "Lomax Studios" and the shoreham studio is called "Big Idea, Ideal Solutions Studios". Lomax studios gets in bands and singers when the big idea is for orchestral recordings as well as company internal projects, i.e: recently been making remakes of hit music for usage in supermarkets. I personally make cables, repair equipment, set bands up, play with the microphones, fiddle with outboard to make the signal clean, then some very light mixing (mainly as we have three seprate mix artists which work at our company. One for genral, one for live and general mixing and a guy thats very good at mastering tracks). Last year I got paid £24k which ain't bad, but as the industry goes it not brilliant either. The mix artists get upto £50k a year, and davis is on around 80, but he owns the studio. I probably get about 10k in bonuses, and get paid for over time as well. We get free health insurance, and four weeks paid vacation per year.

Daniel Aka Fireball is on about double what I make but he works with us plus, leases his personal studio out during the week, and does recordings for clients on weekends,

I have my own personal room on site with my own mixing console, all my outboard, small live room, but no spefic vocal recording space. Having my own space there has really helped me as I can go in there when I'm free and make my own music. I probably have this honor as I'm close friends with the boss, and we have been so for the last two decades. So I found my way into the industry through friends, and if your looking for a job, this is the best way to go about doing things, otherwise you would most probably have to have a Degree of some description, plus about a decade of work experience.

You release so many genres of music its hard knowing if your going to bring out my style of music that day or not? 

I get a lot of complaints about myself writing all sorts of different genres of music. But I do this to avoid A.) been type cast as a [EDM, ROCK, DnB, etc...] Producer, B.) I need to change it up on a regular bases as to avoid boredom. C.) I'm improving all areas of my sound and composition skills and trying to stay as fresh as humanily possible. 

If you like a specfic genre of my music tell me and I'll try and push the boundaries in that direction. 

How many genres of music do you produce and why?

The what and why is in the last answer, but I make, Dance, Trance, Trip, Drum and bass, dance floor, Disco, Electronica, Rock, Metal, Rap and Hip hop, Italio, New wave, Synth wave and many more and inbetween these genres as well as my own fusion styles. 

Where do you download your VSTi's and VSTe's?

Well I use VST4free which is a site doing freeware VST's of most descriptions. Apart from that I do something called, purhasing VSTs through our studio but with multi computer licensing, that way we save a bundle of money. When I went to college I got things like my DAW Cubase with an educational License, again this makes things a lot cheaper.

Whats your favourite VST or hardware, if any?

Favourite VSTi is Vanguard because its an excellent dance and trance synth and wasn't too expensive. 

Whats your most regrettable music sale, or swap?

My Yamaha A3000 (the first one I purchased), plus my Juno-G

How much do you charge for a track?

Same as most people, how many hours it took at my rate of £12 an hour, plus rights to the royalties of the track and my name as composer (as I don't do ghost producing!)

Your an MPC guy, tell me why did you buy a MPC?

I purchased a MPC to do all my drums on and try a different sampling and recording style.