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WT: What was
your first contact with the chiptune scene?
Xyno:
I discovered chipmusic in the
fall of 2006 when I saw the trailer for the movie "We are the
strange" !!! The song in it was TATU's cover of 30minut made by Yerzmyey
!!! I found it so good that I went to the website and tried to find it but
discovered 8BP instead...It was love at first sight !!! :)
WT: What's the story behind your moniker, ‘Xyno’?
X: It’s
from 2000 when my mom got her 1st computer (Pentium MMX 200mhz). There was an
IRC software on Win95 called Microsoft chat, and you were able to chat in comic
mode (with characters, squares and bubbles) and I once chased the alien and I
wanted a nick that was sounding like a mix of an intergalactic name and my
first name too...Xyno was created but I didn’t know that it would stick for more than a decade! :)
WT: Could you
explain what you use to create your music, and why you chose that method?
X: Like many chip musicians, I’m using
trackers to make my music because it's technical and really powerful !!! My
favourite ones are Musicmon 2.5e on ST, REALLY easy and the sound editor is the
same as YMvst !!! LSDJ on Gameboy and LGPT on psp are also good for their
portability and interface.
WT: Who have been the most
important influences to you musically?
X: My biggest influences are mostly guys like STu, gwEm, 505, Paza and
other people around the ST scene. Outside that, my influences are The Prodigy,
Jel, Vim!, Mike Patton, Nullsleep and Snoopdroop !!!
WT: Which of your releases have
you enjoyed writing the most?
X: I think
I will go with Cunt Troller! Had a lot of fun doing it ! Also got a lot of good
and bad stories behind it...From funky breaks to dark hardcore, it totally
freed me from some heavy emotions I’d felt for quite some time!
WT: Do you
play live often? If so, what’s your set-up and reception like, and if not,
what’s turning you off from doing so?
X: Yep I do some shows !!! We’ve got a nice scene in Montreal ! Big thanks
to XC3N and Pocaille for their Toy Company events ! Small TC events bring
something between 50-100 people while big ones around 150-300 people ! The
reception is quite good but most of them are more into Gameboy stuffs surely
because of the nostalgia ! :P
My usual setup is 2 DMG with LSDJ, a PSP with LGPT a small netbook for
my XM and an Atari STe running STj (a SNDH player made by gwEm means that you
don't need a screen to play your songs :D) all plugged in a small mixer !
WT: Could you
describe a bit about your WeeklyTreat submission? How it was created and the
inspirations behind it?
X: Hmm, it's been a while since I
made something with LSDJ and I wanted to get back to my old stuff a little bit.
So I undusted my cart (insert-remove the cart 20 times so it can run lol) and
made deep sounds out of it...the result is kinda thrash !! ;)
Maybe I can say it's a little tribute to my friend Beastmode ? lol
WT: You
talked about Montreal earlier, what is your opinion on the Canadian chiptune as
it stands?
X: Canada has got some great chip musicians !!! Chipmusic is more active
(in terms of shows) in the east in places like Montreal or Toronto. Great for
me since I'm around but it's sad for people living in the west because there
are a lot of cool guys there too but since it's a big country, it can be
expensive to travel to the other side of it !!! :(
WT: What are
your future plans for Xyno?
X: I'm producing 3 eps with different style of music
(still in chipmusic ;) ), will play some shows in Montreal and there is chances
to play outside of the country when I will finally get a passport lol
!
