Pariah (Edwin de la Vega)
Toronto dance-music tracker of the group V.S.L, with ten years of instruments behind him and a creed that there is no bad music, "only music that some people aren't too FOND about". The single source is his traxweekly interview by Master of Darkness, the first of a Toronto-scene series (source: s-tw043-interview-pariah). In that IRC log his nick is <Ender> — not ender of Foundation, a different person.
Facts#
- Edwin de la Vega, 19 in January 1996; composing since early 1995. First group DDT (Digital Dream Tyrants), where nobody communicated and he could not release; then V.S.L, the Toronto dance-music group founded by vicious, which grew fast from a small start. Prefers small groups with a common goal (source: s-tw043-interview-pariah).
- Over ten years of music: theory, piano, bass, guitar, drums, trumpet, recorder; plays in live bands; composes by ear (source: s-tw043-interview-pariah).
- Releases in MTM format (1995):
v-hybrid.zip,v-moverr.zip,v-ncpush.zip,vsl-xmas.zipand the five VSL DJ's Dream Disks (vsl-dj-1.zip…vsl-dj-5.zip) on ftp.cdrom.com and Da Club BBS (source: s-tw043-interview-pariah). - Opinions: dance music is dismissed as easy "because it's so easy to make in FT2", yet bad dance entries, not the style, earn the bad name; a Demonews rating is one person's opinion (see hornet). Advice: lessons if you can pay, otherwise a newcomer-friendly group (Aim Higher, epinicion), and "examine other peoples' songs, but don't rip em" — borrowing a C–F–G progression is fine, copying a whole song is not (source: s-tw043-interview-pariah; see sample-ripping, chord-progressions).
- Named by vicious (October 1995) as one of VSL's veterans, with E and d.j. XL — "among the best I've ever seen" (source: s-tw031-interview-vicious).
Related#
vicious · master-of-darkness · sample-ripping · hornet · chord-progressions · tracking-workflow · tracker-scene-history · fasttracker-2