ARTIST INTERVIEW
: Tell us a little about your music background? Carbinax: “It started when I was 10 when I heard Kraftwerk’s The Model. It was an epiphany – I knew I had found my music. I listened to Jarre, Vangelis, all the 80s new wave and became a big fan of Howard Jones and Depeche Mode. I had some Yamaha and Casio home keyboards, but it wasn’t until the late 80s that I got into acid house and finally Detroit techno, and it was only then that everything came together and I knew I wanted to make electronic music seriously. It still took a few years to get to the point of making it on a computer. At one point, I had a
Roland D-20 and a Fostex 4-track. Then I got a Playstation and I bought a ‘game’ called Music 2000 which was incredible. It was probably my first rudimentary DAW, and I could load samples into it, and somehow I found out that this magazine called Computer Music also had samples on the disc, so I started buying it regularly for that. I then discovered I could do everything I imagined on a computer, so I absolutely had to get one.”
: Tell us a little about your current projects “I have zero restrictions, and my imagination has absolute freedom to make whatever comes into my head. I’m currently working on 300+ tracks and I’m working on all of them simultaneously! My dad is an artist and he works on multiple