Artist description Patrik Gustafsson. Birthday: 23th June 1983. Hometown: Västervik. Country: Sweden.

Music Style Melodic Trance.

Musical Influences My own spirit.

Artist History I became interested in music at a very early stage. That was my sixteen years older brother’s thankful desert. He is an artist both in music and painting. So when I listened to his songs I got lots of inspiration to begin to make music by myself. There was just one little problem to solve. I had no instruments or equipments at all to start with! One thing was sure, my brother had it all, all stuffs you can require. But there was no way to ask him if I could borrow something. Hey! I was only four! I couldn’t handle those high-tech functions, and if I could, I couldn’t even touch the expensive things in front of my brother. So all I had to do was just wait to be riper. Two years passed and finally in 1989 I got my first keyboard. I taught myself the basic steps and started to make “songs”. Now I was old enough to even use my brother’s splendid keyboard, to compensate the functions that my one didn’t had. A couple of years playing and practising resulted in to experience and I would to advance in level by upgrade my old keyboard to achieve the three b’s (bigger, better, bombastic) musical instrument. So in 1994 I got the new one. It had full-size keys that made it easier to play, more sounds and rhythms to use and at least two song banks for recording, like on my brother’s keyboard. It had also a revolutionary function that didn’t exist on my brother’s one, a MIDI in- and output interface. This was (and still is) perfect for them who weren’t able to use the hard disk record-method, because of the large amount of free space you had to sacrifice (1 min = 10 MB!), comparison with the MIDI-files that just took up a few kilobytes on the disk. Anyway, the worst was that we hadn’t any computer. So when I should save my songs, I could just save it on tapes. But three years later we bought a computer that sorrowfully broke only about a year later. That is another but sad story. God da…fu…su…shi…of crap just pisses me off! Well, anyway, now I could work more seriously with my music. In 1998 we had to buy a new computer. This one was really powerful proportionately to the other one. The hard disk had the capacity to work with hard disk recording and the processor was so powerful that I could use more advanced software. All the puzzle pieces were on the right place, except one, a better keyboard with more high-tech functions, like touch response, to get more feelings into the songs, a floppy disk drive for use to import and export songs, pitch bend and modulation effects to get, for example, the guitar sounds more authentic, a built- in synthesizer to make own sounds and so on. Said and done. In 1999 I invested in the latest and greatest one of the three keyboards I have. Finally I had the opportunity to re-record all my songs that I had made through the years and make new, more concrete music.

Instruments Hardware: Keyboard\Synth: Casio CTK-811 EX, Software: Fruity Loops Pro TS404, Cool Edit Pro and Sound Forge.

Location Westervik, Småland - Sweden

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