I have been writing songs and music since I was sixteen but for a long time I was confined to guitar based compositions and lyric structures.

My career path was similar to so many singer songwriters in that I played in small halls and acoustic nights but I left the big cities in my twenties and headed for  the country which although was good for writing it made it difficult to have any sort of musical  career.At this time  the internet was a gleam in Tim Berners-Lee’s eye and publicity was a poster stuck on the wall of the local shop.

Recording was done  on a four track tape deck and living in a house without mains electricity meant everything running off 12 volt batteries.

Music took a little bit of a back seat while I concentrated on building a painting career.

Finally moving out of the hills  to an apartment near the beach meant equipment rusted more quickly but I could buy myself a computer and join the 20th and then the 21st century.

By this time I had become frustrated with the confines of the guitar/piano song format and also increasingly frustrated with the difficulties of working with other people’s production. A friend dropped by and showed me a sample and loop program called Acid 2.0 and suddenly a whole world opened up. I could hear not only the potential of the music structures and production values now possible, I was suddenly connected to whole world of other like-minded musicians also obsessed with sample and loop music creation . I spent over a year in my hot little spare bedroom by the beach trying to master acid, soundforge and a number of other peripherals. I was inspired to make an entire album of instrumental tracks that were created solely from loops and samples and manipulated them to fit  into the melodic structures  I needed .It would have been easier to have used  my synth or guitars to produce sounds but I was fascinated by the the creations on many loop and sample libraries where other musicians just put sounds they had created up to see what others could make out of them.The very first tracks I created I put up on the original MP3 site. For free. everyone said I was mad- I was giving it away. But as it turned out, I got so much back from it. It changed my musical world.