Artist description Video game musician that is seeking publicity and trying to get into the video game music scene, for musicon consoles such as Nintendo GameCube and/or Sony PSX2. Preferably Nintendo GameCube. :)

Music Style Orchestral, Synthetic, Video Game

Musical Influences Chris Huelsbeck, Nobuo Uematsu, Lufia musicians, lunar musicians. Um, well, myself, me, um, I.

Artist History Born on January 2nd, 1981 in Brampton, Ontario. I went to school at St. John Fisher. It was cool there, cool people.. missed opportunities as well.. hrmm anyway.. they didn't teach music well there, but that didn't stop me from wanting to learn, if even to experiment with amateur skills. My first keyboard was a little yamaha thing back in 1986. It really wasn't that good. I didn't officially start to learn how to play until I was 16. I really don't have much of a history. My first RPG game was Final Fantasy 2 for SNES in 1991, and the music blew me away, for an 8 channel, 64k limit anyways. (Back then, I didn't know what that meant to be honest...)It wasn't until then that I realized I wanted to do this sort of thing, and it wasn't until 1995 that I actually made an attempt. I spent the next 4 years doing music in module format, and the past 2 years learning and experimenting with midi. I've got a lot of experience though, I'll tell you that much.

Group Members Mathew Valente

Instruments Impulse Tracker, SBLive, Cakewalk 8, Concertmate 1500 keyboard, Vienna, Sound Forge 4.5, Cool Edit Pro, Cubase (when I get it). Work mainly in a MOD format, but can work on MIDI.

Albums Revelation Soundtrack, Chrono Trigger 64

Press Reviews won 1st place on an Original Music competition for Thinking of You, and first place for FF7: World Crisis in a Music Remake competition (my reputation was at stake.) Third place for RPG midi remix song from Lufia 2: Rise of the Sinistrals. The song was called "For the saviour" and the competition was held on www.RPGamer.com

Additional Info Thanks goes to: Jake Stine most of all (Winamp fame), Jeffrey Lim (for helping me and such. I'm proud to say I started the video game music trend to have IT as the best choice for it), Amber Ritchie (for countless things..), UOSMP, UOSHP, RPGamer, Detrafilia, Chris Huelsbeck (for being the great guy and musician he is), Nobuo Uematsu (for not getting his lawyers after me for the countless SquareSoft remakes I've done, Alan Shoesmith (for teaching not only me but countless musicians to improve themselves in music and such) and my English Teacher, Mr. Blake (for being a cool teacher, and being there..). If I missed anyone that deserved thanks, then I appologize.

Location Brampton, Ontario - Canada

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