Jonnay - Live PA: Acid Techno, Dark Jungle, Downtempo and Atmospheric Drum & Bass

Biography

In 1990 I got my very own personal computer, an Amiga 500. My first real forays into the world of electronic music started on it, with its bundled copy of Deluxe Music. After awhile, I started getting into the mod scene, and started using MED, and eventually OctaMed.

In 1995 I started getting into Trance, Hardcore and Ambient. I thought to myself that there was no reason why I couldn't make this kind of music.

In 1996, I got my firt piece of gear, a Kawai FS690 piece of fucking shit. In 1997, I got my second piece of gear, an MC-303 piece of fucking shit. '97 was also the year that I started to get out there. I formed a band with my friends Cory and Jen, and we called ourselves TrYbE. We played a few coffee shops and got a few shows (thanks to Tom and Jody really).

In 1998 I got really serious about the msuic, and expanded my collection of gear to a 12 channel mixer and a Yamaha A3000 sampler.

In 2000 I started to dis-engage myself from the scene, and focus more on the music for its own sake (which is a pretentious way of saying ":I turned into a hermit"). I also picked up a Yamaha Rm1x and a 16 channel mixer.

Between 2000 and 2005 there wasn't much in teh world of gear purchases, but I continued to make music, and play live shows around Calgary and Vancouver.

In 2005 my wife and I built an x0xb0x. Currently my plans are to design and build my own effects units, and possibly more analog synthesizers.

Influences And Kudos

My influences are as varried as the music I make. My biggest influences have been friends and family, rather then the faceless DJ/Producer guys. Here is a small list of those people (in no particular order) in my life who have affected how I make music: My Wonderful Wife Shell, and our Lovely Daughter Harmony, House of Slack (Craig and Jen, TMT, Tom, Jody, Rad, Keith, Chelsea), TrYbE (Jen, Cory), Mux, Jason Stormchild, Spun-G from Translucent Dreams, Doc Atomic, Wilf.

Favorite Artists

Now that all the mushy crap is out of the way, I do in fact have a short list of artists that I try to keep an eye on, because I generally enjoy most of what they do.

Again, in no particular order.

Previous Events

This is my no means an exacustive list. There are probably a few events that I am missing.

1997

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1999

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2003

2004

2005


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