Acidfrog (Cam Goodman)
Jungle tracker, DJ and radio presenter from British Columbia; co-founder of Radiance with zinc, who named him his main influence. Sources: Zinc's own interview (source: s-tw032-interview-zinc) and Zinc's interview of him in January 1996 (source: s-tw044-interview-acidfrog).
Facts#
- Cam Goodman, 19 in January 1996; tracking for about two years; a DJ for about five (a TV/radio show, then college radio); two years of high-school music theory including MIDI (source: s-tw044-interview-acidfrog).
- Groups: Radiance — founded in mid-1995 with Zinc and Jake Blues, Acidfrog for jungle and trip-hop (source: s-tw032-interview-zinc) — and Spice; "sitting in limbo" with lok without a release there (source: s-tw044-interview-acidfrog).
- Tools: fasttracker-2 — releases are XMs on ftp.cdrom.com from 1995, always
AF-*.ZIP. Rig: a 386DX40 with a GUS MAX fed by a mixer, CD player, tape deck and turntable for sampling, into a 250 W amp; buy the hi-fi parts at garage sales (source: s-tw044-interview-acidfrog; see recording-samples). - On MIDI vs tracking: the same idea, but MIDI gear is quicker, especially for effects; "even on FT2 you have to put alot more work into your music"; samples in trackers "will never be up to par with MIDI due to the lack of memory on the PC" (source: s-tw044-interview-acidfrog).
- Goals: a first 12", a studio and label; "I try to learn something new with every song I do". On groups: "used as a status symbol … just stay true to yourself" (source: s-tw044-interview-acidfrog).
Related#
zinc · lok · fasttracker-2 · gravis-ultrasound · recording-samples · realism-in-tracked-music