Music and computers both grabbed my attention in 1979. I had began learning to make music and program as separate endeavors but that year I encountered a piece of music that would demonstrate the power of combining the two. I happened to hear Pop Muzik by M at a Christmas party and everything else around me suddenly became trivial. I had never heard anything quite like it and luckily it was playing on a jukebox so that I could easily find out the name of the song and artist. It was not very long after that I would encounter Games Without Frontiers by Peter Gabriel and that would cement in my mind the feeling that computers and music belonged together. It wasn’t just the act of combining the two that held me spellbound so much as the way in which these artists mixed the elements. The music was not only different but seemingly out-and- out bizarre which, right or wrong, really spoke to me. It almost seemed to assuage the awkwardness I felt as a child that lived largely in their own head. Music is an amazing and universal language that can speak to all without the need for translation and this is a site for lovers of ambient and electronica everywhere and this universality we share.
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