This is both a super easy question with two easy answers, or if you look deeper into it, a rather complex question which I am afraid that I cannot answer.

The two easy answers:

• I make the kind of music that I love and would like to listen to myself (and yes, I am doing just that)
• Electronic music

But if I would try to answer the question on a deeper level, taking into account that there are different genres and styles of music, than I get lost. In general, I have a hard time with labels (not meaning music labels who historically have owned the music industry, but the kind of label that defines things and place it in a certain category or box). Not that it is unnecessary, only that I really do not grasp the sublevels of the labels. I mean, sure, Rock, that is a rather solid genre on the top level, but going down into different levels and directions, to define the various flavours and styles of rock, I just get lost. And Pop, that seems to be able to be just anything.

So, as for the top level, I create electronic music. And as for sublevels, no idea, and if I have to come up with a guess, it is not in just one sublevel, but rather many, or in between many.

To me, the foundation of my music creation is the (software-) synths. Various ways of generating sound, unlike a traditional instrument that can produce one or a few types of sounds, depending on how you handle the instrument and your skills using it. And when it comes to synths, there are so many ways to generate the sounds, different techniques, different waveshapes, accompanied by loads of other parameters that you can tweak to generate the sound. This is the foundation of what I like. Each synth with its own features on generating and tweaking sounds. Adding to that the very vast layer of effects (which is also applicable to traditional instruments) it opens an exciting world to explore and discover.

Even though I started out making sample based music (with the old tracker softwares for Amiga and later PC), the synthworld is more interesting for me to explore. However, I’d like to revisit the samplebased way of working, with the knowledge, experience and perspectives I have today. What that will bring or give me is unclear at the moment, but it is on my list of future things and ideas to try.

Stay curious!

//Nalle