A: I was actually born in California, but raised in Stillwater, MN a small suburb of Minneapolis/St. Paul. I do enjoy the Minnesota spring and fall seasons, but I am undecided if I'm going to stay here for the rest of my life...

A: Computer Science

A: Nope, nearly everything I've done (with the exception of a few vocal samples) has all been created digitally.

A: I really wasn't sure what to expect. I was too inexperienced to realize what I was or wasn't capable of.

A: Nope, MP3.com was just being a bitch about that one. They cracked down on any name that could be deriving popularity from any popular culture event etc...Many songs were renamed because of that rule.

A: Raymond Wave's remix of my Dream Formula was featured on the genre charts, which got us both quite a bit of publicity. I took advantage of this and promoted myself online as much as I could....luck took care of the rest.

A: I don't know if you could say that I've come to that realization yet :)

A: Yeah, thats where I 'discovered' trance, basically. I had listened to some misc. electronic music in the past, but nothing that had affected me the same as melodic trance. When I came home from that vacation, I went and downloaded some mp3s and was instantly inspired to create a band online.

A: I'm a bit of a cynical person, but that really had nothing to do with the name 'The Cynic Project'.

A: Interesting you ask this, what makes you think there was any inspiration besides RTM requesting that I do a remix :) hehe...actually I took up the project because of inspiration from Lange, one of the most respectable trance artists out there in my opinion. Lange does alot of remixes where he just takes female vocals, and then turns it into a completely different song. That's what I was trying to do with this track.

A: Yes, however I just haven't had the time. I am currently in production for another remix for Return to Mono.

A: I'm not sponsored by any of these companies. I believe especially fruityloops and the Alesis QS6.1 are affordable, high quality tools for beginning musicians who don't just want to make 'beats', and thus recommend them to many people.

A: It's still up in the air, I suppose. I am currently taking one class at the U of M toward my degree, working part time at a local music software company, and spending the rest of my time producing and with my girlfriend. I haven't quite figured out what I want to do.

A: Yes. I am currently (still) in negotiations with MP3.com to reverse this decision and reinstate me in the p4p program.

A: As of September 6th, 2001, I am still suspended indefinitely, however I have another band that I post under: Trance Generation (http://www.mp3.com/trancegeneration) that is still earning p4p monies. I continue to post music there including the new Trans Symphony, which resides there now.

A: Not yet. I have purchased turntables and am working on a live set for sometime in the future...

A: I've done both. It depends what kind of mood I'm in, I suppose. Sometimes I just start with a really good bassline/hook, or sometimes I have previously written the melody on a piano and formed a song out of it, and I decide to make a trance track from that.

A: Although I don't even use it anymore, everything I am doing right now, I could do on the Alesis Qs6.1. It has probably been the most versitile piece of equipment I've ever owned. Currently, the Roland XV-3080 is the equipment I use the most, it accounts for about 50% of the sounds on my tracks.

A: I did the ones for Soundscapes Sampler and Sidewinder, using freeware ray-tracing software. The Soundscapes 2000 picture is an original work by a friend, Aaron Reiners.

A: Soon. When it does get released, it will be on http://www.mp3.com/trancegeneration/, and not my official mp3.com cynic project site.