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Projects: DeadZone, H-F, L.O.C. Person: Panu Savolainen Place of Birth: Lestijärvi, Finland Instruments: Synths, guitar, bass Style: D'n'B, chill, electro-ambient Label: N/A Influences: <click here> |
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Interest of making own music started in 1992 with Amiga 500, 8-bit sampler and old Viscount MIDI-keyboard, which I got some years earlier (age of 10). SoundTracker and sampling software were the main tools. In 1994 I started at the business school in Kokkola. I was still doing 4-track music with Amiga (but now with Amiga 1200 with turbo) but I also got my first real synthesizer: Roland D-5 and later Roland XP-10, Yamaha CS1x and Korg Wavestation EX. I also made couple of songs for some small party competitions, "Distorted Reality" to mention one of those (at Proxy 1999). Later I went to army and in 1999 started stuyding at the business
college in Kokkola. In that year, I made track called "Surrounded"
and soon song "Reactor". Thanks to the mp3.com, people
found DeadZone and I started to get e-mails all over the world.
In 2000/2001 I made again some nice (IMO)tracks, like "Digital
Edge", "Dreamwaves" and "Fields Of Motion".
After some more tracks, I finished the first album called "Surrounded"
in 2001. |
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In 2003 I moved to Seinäjoki, started to work as ADP-designer and also to learn more of studio-tech and synths. Soon I finished the "Mindfields" album. In 2004 I send song "Starcycle" to the song contest of Mikseri.Net. They picked up 24 tracks from the total of 2000 songs, and happily "Starcycle" was one of finalists. Half of those tracks were selected to the album but "Starcycle" didn't manage to CD. In 2005 I started to use electric guitar and bass in songs and the new project called "Half-Normalized" was born. Experimenting with guitars opened whole new world... In 2006 new project "L.O.C." was created because of few
game-projects and I didn't want spoil DZ with flimsy trance tracks.
Also some listeners thought tracks were good. So that's why new
project. |
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During the years, taste of music has changed but there is still all-time-favourites. At 90's I listened much dance-oriented music but also rock, metal etc. Later I started to listen progressive rock&metal, jazz and fusion. These are still one of the most interesting genres... |
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Nowadays work takes most of the time and energy but new music is still coming. DeadZone music has been used in few projects (check some of those from "Discography" page). Style seems to be changing during the years but there will always be the sound of DeadZone. DeadZone
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