M U S I C

Music has a profound influence on my existence - it's always been there, playing in the background or blasting my eardrums at a club. Music is my companion no matter what mood I'm in.

My first memories of music, at least that to which I can sing the words or hum the tunes, developed in the days after my mother left my father when I was 8. Dad would pick my brother and I up and the songs of the era and the tapes he owned were usually playing away in the van. Dad would ask us who was on now - helping me identify artists.

At home he had a collection of albums including Emerson, Lake and Palmer, probably the most influential group I first made contact with.

Then there's some music I specifically use for relaxation and meditation - like Enya, Delirium and Enigma, Jean Michele Jarr, music for raging - like Sacred Reich, Metallica, NIN, Rage Against the Machine, Static-X, Tool and even some old Judas Priest. I have music when I feel sophisticated like 9th Century Gregorian Chant and Tchaikovsky and music to get lost in like ATB and other obscure trance music and dance music.

Of course, having been a teenager in the 80's, I also enjoy the old stuff like Depeche mode, New Order, Art of Noise, Devo and Jethro Tull.

I'm totally open to listening to any style of music (expect, I must admit, Country is not on my list), however, Drum and Bass, house, trance and deep forms thereof are where I really like to be. Techno heads the top of my musical drive. High energy, happy music.

Updated 15 August, 2004