let's start at the beginning...

Evening chaps and chapesses. I'm Jon, and this is going to be my blog for the next month.
The intro from Chris covered pretty much all the basics about who I am, but I think I should probably start by saying why I started making music, etc.

I started in early 2003, because at the time I was very much into Underworld and Leftfield, and wanted to make similar techno-ish music. I also rather liked dub reggae music, but at the time it seemed like a vast swamp of variable sound quality recordings from another planet. Even starting at King Tubby meant trawling through 20 or 30 albums in search of that one classic cut. However I loved the tape delay, the drum fills, the snatches of reverberating vocal, and obviously the enormous overpowering basslines.

This was projected into a desire of wanting to create electronic but organic music. I spent more time worrying about delay and reverb than ever trying to create original sounding synths or drums, and the earliest recordings that I have were mainly acid house derivatives.

So here are a few of them:
Orange EP by mosqvito

Mosqvito - Orange EP [2003]
01 : Akabusi Acid
02 : Earbox
03 : Box Energy VIP
04 : Baltic Thunder
05 : Mosqvito's on Fire

I recorded this under the name 'Mosqvito', but I also used 'AC39'. Not too many people have heard these recordings, but I'm quite proud of them, considering I was 15 when I recorded these. They were all recorded live onto tape, using a program called Jeskola Buzz (which I use to this day). I would program in a series of basic patterns, press record and jam on the fly - muting channels, reprogramming paterns, adding effects and changing the parameters while the music is playing. I continued using this method until embarrassingly recently, because sequencing in Buzz is horrible (in my opinion) and I'm a lazy bastard.

So...Jeskola Buzz? It was the second program I ever downloaded for music production, after Acid Pro. It's buggy and massively overly complicated, and it's easy to get into a repetitive boring set process of using the same synths and effects, but I still use it today. Probably out of stubbornness to be different.

Over the next few weeks, I'll be doing sporadic live broadcasts that you can tune into, and I'll be posting them up on Soundcloud for you to listen to or download. Hopefully you'll enjoy some of it!

The first broadcast will be on Sunday at 5pm GMT, which I'll be posting the link to earlier that day - hope you can listen in.

Cheers,
Jon