D Fast - that's-a-me!

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EPISODE 001: D Fast - that's-a-me!
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So here we go, my first actual blog entry. Exciting, isn't it? And I start things by telling about myself. Quite the egotrip.

What is f0nk? It's just a way to say I love funk - and it's also the title of my personal music archive (http://www.f0nk.com), where I store most of my songs in mp3 form and it's basically just a personal stash of various things. And since I "accidentally" broke the MySQL database at my main website and not able to update it without any major issues, I thought I'd finally start writing this blog thing.

I'm so lazy that I'll just copy/paste my brief history from my main website:

• 1985: year of birth.
• 1990: first piano lessons that lasted for a year.
• 1994: got interested in playing the drums.
• 1995: experiments with Macintosh Power PC's E-Jay like software.
• 1997: obtained Yamaha's Clavinova and made my first full compositions.
• 1998: took piano lessons every now and then.
• 1999: friend introduced me to a tracker music software (Fast Tracker 2).
• 2001: started to play with Yamaha's MOTIF8 synthesizer.
• 2004: slight experiments with Cubase and Fruity Loops.
• 2005: switched from FT2 to Renoise and ended up studying music business and audio engineering in a polytechnic school.
• 2006: started working on my first more or less official release.
• 2007: my first CD release and lots of new music gear at my disposal.
• 2008: music being played on finnish TV channels Nelonen and JimTV, lots of on-going music projects.
• 2009: (hopefully) graduating and moving back to Helsinki.

Here's a big bunch of websites where you can find me doing this and that, but mostly just stuff concerning music:

dfastmusic.net - my main website.
mikseri.net/dfast - my oldest artist profile in the web, a finnish mp3 site.
myspace.com/dfast - my MySpace profile.
last.fm/music/D+Fast - my last.fm artist page.
f0nk.com - my personal meadow and an archive of all sorts.
D Fast @ Facebook - artist profile, be a fan!
D Fast @ Facebook - artist group, didn't know how to create the artist page so this came first. My bad...
Harry @ Facebook - my personal profile, don't bother adding me if I don't know you.
twitter.com/dfast - the latest addition to the ever growing link mayhem.
D Fast @ The ModArchive - some of my earlier music can be found from here, mostly in .xm format.

That's quite about it. And me. Glad we got that out of the way. Coming up next: something about music.

- Harry aka D Fast

Introduction to f0nk

Hello, whoever you might be!

I'm a Finnish musician/producer/composer hailing from Helsinki and that's already more than you'd want to know.

This blog will be about my music, the way I make the songs and sounds, what projects I'm working on and I will also write about things that inspire, move or get my attention in any way.
I'll be sharing a lot of song clips, sound examples, hopefully photos/screenshots and my techniques through this blog. This blog is a continuation to my ever growing personal music archive, only this time I'm going to make it more public than before.

Gotz tha b f0nkeh!

- Harry aka D Fast