who?

name
jani rantanen

date of birth
23 sep 1981

occupation
information technology

location
tampere, finland

favorite music
a wide range of electronic music, like techno, house, ambient, synthpop, triphop, jungle, idm. melodic or non-melodic fresh sounding things. also, i enjoy listening to many kinds of world music (traditional ethnic music) and some classical compositions.

some other enjoyable/interesting things
japanese language and culture, artistic compositions, autumn breeze filled with leaves :-)

what?

producing more or less dance orientated electronic music.

why?

short answer: just for the joy of it.

long answer: after years of this hobby, i still consider myself a mere learner, and for me there is still a lot that can (and has to) be learned to achieve a level of skill that allows accurate expression of every musical ideas. through producing and driven by the curse(?) of perfectionism, i practice these skills and in the meantime provide the scene with some pieces of mind that others can hopefully enjoy too.

how?

pretty much everything happens currently with software. the program i use for making the basic build of the tracks is reason 4.0. the current computer in use is a pc (intel core2quad q6600 processor, 2 gigabytes of memory, running windows vista) accompanied by m-audio oxygen 49 midi keyboard.