Pictures used with kind permission of Bit.Shifter
I was lucky enough to chat a little to gwEm, author of Maxymiser, hell survivor, Hardcore rave tunesmith and International Rock Star.
LB – Thanks most kindly for doing this.
gwEm – No worries!
LB – What came first for you, music or computers?
gwEm – Hard to say… Today music comes first though, I don’t care too much for computers. I was very young when I had my first computer, so I can’t exactly recall. Maybe I had a musical instrument before then..?! No idea :)
LB – What was your first machine?
gwEm – It was an Oric Atmos 48k
LB – Not the most popular of machines at the time, did you start coding on it?
gwEm – Yes, but I was very young, and didn’t do much worth speaking about. It was all BASIC stuff.
LB – Did you hop from that to the Atari series or was there something in between?
gwEm – No, the Oric broke, and then our family got an Atari ST.
LB – Did the sound chip capture your imagination right away?
gwEm – I’d have to say no – that came much later. The late 80s demo scene didn’t attract me at all. Atari ST was based around the megademo format – which in retrospect is kind of cool but at the time I thought it was an ugly way to present screens. But it only took a couple of years to get into making music on the ST.
LB – Which trackers did you start on?
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