A: Well I started out taking lessons but I didn't really like it. Sort of had the same feeling as going to school which takes the fun out of everything so I quit after about a year or so. From then on I just taught myself.

A: Let's see...a bit hard to remember, but I think I first started to really get into music after listening to some Front Line Assembly ("Millenium" was the first song I heard.) When I first really got into music production, it was actually the Ejay program that influenced me (yes I know a lot of people hate it, and I do agree that it's more of a toy meant for kids than for musicians). It was pretty fun when I first started, but then I realized I wasn't actually making my own music, so that's how I got into Fruityloops and other stuff.

A: When I first started making music, I made some pretty corny techno and even made a few attempts at rock music. I realized that I wasn't going to get anywhere in those genres and that's when I started experimenting with trance and dance music. Cheezy but catchy melodies came pretty easily to me so that's why I stuck with it.

A: I'm terrible with song titles, so usually the first thing that comes into my mind when I hear one of my own songs gets the title. I guess if I just have one word as the song title then it can be seen in many different ways and the listener interperets it how they want.

A: Yes... hehe ...my songs are really more like "epic sound adventures". I guess what affects a songs direction to me, is what style I'm going for (dark, happy, sad), usually though the song just evolves into something else though. Like, for example, in "Stronger" I was trying to make some kind of darkish trance song and then out of nowhere comes this happy-wuss melody! I guess you could call it that. It's actually quite hard for me to control the exact direction that I want a song to go in.

A: Hahaha! Crack does that to you..... Lemme see.... the contest was a long time ago (well not that long - I think 6 mon. - 1 year ago). It was just over the internet. I didn't go to some big Fruitylooper convention where people were walking around dressed in big fruit costumes or anything. I realized that my song was listed 4th (out of top ten) on the list but the songs were just the best songs in no particular order. So come to think of it my song could have been... no wait a sec. I'm positive that it couldn't not have be #1 hahaha! ... theres that crack again...

A: I think "Hydrosphere" took me a few hours (it went pretty quick) to make. In the contest I was limited to using only a few (and very crappy) samples might I add, so I didn't have a lot of time to waste picking out which sounds to make.

A: I try to get it to not make people's ears bleed. I guess that's the No. 1 priority :) After that I try to get something professional sounding, which isn't easy using software. I try to get an equal mix of sounds and frequencies (although a lot of my first songs had neither of these). I guess one of the main things I try to do is make it seem like it wasn't made in Fruityloops. I like it when people ask me what hardware/synths I use to make my tracks.

A: Like I mentioned earlier I got a demo for Dance Ejay. I quickly threw together some random sounds and samples, put in a beat, and bam! I had myself one hell of a song. I listened to it thinking I was some serious hot stuff and then I listened to the demo song it came with...it sounded almost exactly the same! To anyone out there EJAY IS FOR KIDS!!! If you make your own loops and samples and use it as a sequencer then that's another story. Okay, enough bashing Ejay for now. After that I got some sort of demo for ACID. I wanted to make my own loops for it so I searched for a program to make loops with and that's how I found Fruityloops, which I now use to make almost all my complete songs.

A: I went to Disneyland once. The people dressed up as cartoon characters were scary...some guy dressed as a monk tried to sell me a book about his religion. Maybe one day I'll return after I recover from the trauma of the first trip. Haha, just joking, I actually really enjoyed my time in the states!

A: Well, I wouldn't want to wreck any already good soundtracks. I would like to do a soundtrack for a movie that's in production still. If I had to pick a movie that's already out to do a soundtrack to I guess I would like to do Gladiator (no it wouldn't be trance music.) I don't think it would suit the movie well if Russell Crowe was gettin' his groove on to some mad beats while decapitating barbarians and such.

A: The Lord of the Rings, of course! I like lots of medieval and sci-fi movies. I guess the Lord of the Rings will be some sort of combination of those (well not really).

A: Britney Spears herself asked me to name that song after her own because she liked it so much, but then she told me I'd better say it wasn't a remix so people wouldn't get confused. So far the count is at 0 misguided people so I seem to be doing my job.

A: Well, I was making a cd cover for a school project and I was trying to think of a corny, but cool sounding title. Somehow I came up with Infekt. I used Infe"k"t instead of Infe"c"t because everybody knows that K's are tougher looking than C's. Just trying to gain some street cred if you know what I'm sayin' - can I get a "Hell Yeah!!" Whoa, sorry I got a little excited for some reason.

A: I'm always working on new tracks...too bad only about 5% of them I manage to finish. I probably have more than a hundred unfinished songs if you can believe it. I'm trying to put together some sort of "industrial trance" (kind of like VNV nation) or something. I just got a vocoder too so maybe I will add some tough vocals.

A: Hehe...yeah I can get pretty lazy sometimes. This summer I'm averaging a sleep in time till about 1pm!! What have I done this week? Let's see...a couple of new tracks (actually that's pretty much all I do in my spare time now.)

A: A Japanese cowboy? Hehe, that's actually a pretty good description. I sort of went a bit overboard on the pitchbend on that song because I think that's went I was first starting to learn how to use pitch bends. I used it quite a bit better in "Fireball" and "Dragonfly" but after that I haven't used it as much. Sometimes it can sound really corny if not used properly. A lot of people overuse it in Fruityloops and it makes me want to gouge my ears out sometimes.

A: Well, I use Fruityloops. I guess a user would be a Fruityloops user = floopster. It's just a play on words he was using it's not an official term. When you buy Fruityloops don't expect to get a pin or a badge that says "official floopster". Although I'm sure it would attract the ladies like a magnet!

A: I really (or at least use to) like to draw a lot. I haven't done a lot of drawing lately because I've been doing so much music stuff though. I plan to put up an artwork section on my webpage where I can put drawings and art and other stuff. Not that many would visit that section, but it would give myself an excuse to start drawing again.

A: If I wanted I could have my second CD up now, but to be honest, I'm not really pleased with the quality of all the tracks I have made. My first CD didn't sell many (O copies ...haha don't pity me) so I want the second one to be of more professional quality. I have about 15-20 new tracks made and about 5 that I am happy with the quality. I want people to actually want to pay money for my music one day you know! I'll probably think of the title of my next CD in the matter of a couple seconds.