Liam the Lemming (Liam Hesse)
Liverpool tracker of S!P and Mach One, known for catchy piano-led tunes and the disk AutoEmotive; the single source for this page is his TraxWeekly interview of August 1996 (source: s-tw066-interview-liam-the-lemming).
Facts#
- 22 in August 1996, Software Engineering student; father an Irish-showband musician; no formal training.
- Tools: ModEdit 2.00 (December 1993) → tetraMed → Composer 669 → scream-tracker-3 3.01; first upload May 1995; by 1996 some tracks in the
.itformat of impulse-tracker, whose player support was "sparse" (it-format). - Groups: Bass Productions (with AmusiC of the 20-minute-chip-compo; closed 1996), S!P, moz[IC]art; co-founded Mach One with AmusiC in 1996 for a musicdisk; nearly joined Defiance at perisoft's urging in 1995.
- Influences: purple-motion, SLL and Laxity (Kefrens), Yannis Brown, Blackwolf's "Goodbye To A Good Thing".
- AutoEmotive: basehead faulted its percussion, sample choice and "cheeziness", liked "Wastelands" (tracking-workflow).
- Met Mellow-D, necros and khyron at The Party 5; NAID '96 "the happiest three or four days of my life"; a Music Contest 4 veteran and judge applicant (compos).
- Observed the 1996 trend toward guitar tunes, lyrics and realism (realism-in-tracked-music); lists Radix, rage, Elusive, Elwood, Sirrus and Darkwolf as underrated.
Related#
compos · 20-minute-chip-compo · realism-in-tracked-music · scream-tracker-3 · impulse-tracker · khyron · perisoft · traxweekly