Well, I was born in th UK during 1977, after the death of “the king” (thank goodness, not god). Who else is a jubilee baby?
At around the age of 5-ish my mum bought me my first 7": Paul McCartneys “frog song”, loved it, until it got melted on the platter by the sun through a window… I cried for what felt like days, but was only probably a few minutes.
I was given a few tapes by my uncles as I grew up, which included Chris Rea, and other random rock stuff, as well as listening to a few Mike Oldfield and Jean Michelle Jarre here and there, which sparked a bit of passion for music from me. I moved in with my nan around this time, and was lucky enough to acquire bigger pressies like my Amstrad CPC464, and was fascinated with sampling itsy-bitsy snippets of sounds, which were generally useless. So I started code writing music using the trusty SOUND command, and data arrays, and finished some simple, but effective melodic instumental pieces, which are long gone now.
In ‘89, my guru friend “Bones” started ranting about all this new rave music malarkey, he was also into a lot of Mike O, Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin and the likes, which I then heard a lot more of. Tunes like Bizarre Inc’s “Plutonic”, and Tigers in space caught my ear, and of course, the release of the Prodigy’s (still kickin’) experience. 
Music from the Reinforced label, Moving shadow etc developed, and curried my favour.
After this, I got an Amiga, got into tracking along with a couple of mates, and started composing stuff, I didn’t have an amp, so using car boot sale parts (often encased in lego chassis’) had to suffice. I got moved into a 14ft by 8ft shed in the back garden because of the noises I was making. I also hung around the local underground record shop, and was taking my amiga in to show off what I was doing. I also learnt loads there, but was still completely oblivious to the world of intoxications (apart from the odd bit of puff) 
Then my mum died…
Now you could say this is where I went off the rails, and started to fly
Learned about MIDI, and built up a setup, followed MED 1.3 to OctaMED SS 1.3 and haven’t turned back since (although I’m awaiting a Beta of 1.5 before I consider porting over). I now listen to all kinds of music, and was thankful that the likes of Paul McCartney, and Chris Rea didn’t affect my tastes. Now, I generally like big PHAT breaks and grunty synths, festivals, run-down warehouses/hospitals, buttons & knobs, wires, reefers, biscuits and especially partying.
I now compose a variety of electronic dance stuff ranging from ambient to full on D&B (My fave), finally got a tune pressed, and have DJ’ed in plenty of places, as far as Milan. I’ve held a few of my own nights which involve me & my mates (esp Viewfinder) playing our stuff out live to peeps, they like it, and even dance on occasions, especially to the bootlegs, so it can’t be that bad. Anyone wanna tell me what they think? Take a listen!.
