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Hello, my name is Andrew Rietze-Fehr and I come from Winkler, Manitoba. I make Electronic Dance Music. Pleased to meet you!
I've never had any formal music training beyond the two years of band in elementary school. I player the clarinet the first year, and the tenor sax the second year. I hated them both. I suppose there's only so many times a child can play "When the Saints Come Marching In". My parents bought me my first guitar when I was 9, which I played on and off. I never really gave that much attention either, but I never hated it and still continue to casually play guitar. My father also bought me a Fender Squire Strat one christmas, which I played quite a bit with some friends.
So, how did I, then a teenager, far from the beaches of Ibiza and the clubs of Manchester, ever get into electronic music production? Well usually I credit my friend Jeff, a friend I played guitar with, with inadvertantly getting me into mixing and producing. In the summer of 1998 he wanted me to download a drum machine program so that he could practice his guitar to it. I ended up downloading the shareware copy of Fruityloops, which is pretty much exactly what he wanted. I also saw FruityTracks, and downloaded that as well. The thought had previously occured to me of what kind of process people go through to create electronic music. At the time I was very much into The Crystal Method and had been exposed to the music side of the Demoscene. FruityTracks was immediately cool to me as I could track wave files together. Those wave files were drum beats at first, but later they contained the melodies of my first album, Fully Functional War Driven Animaltronics.
Finally, what does actually redLymb mean? Perhaps the more appropraite question is what does redLymb mean to you as it really has no meaning to me. Over the years it has become my moniker, and I suppose that means something, but initially the meaning of the name went no further than my fingers hitting almost random letters on the keyboard. |
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Production Gear:
- Reason 4
- Edirol PCR-1 MIDI Keyboard by Roland
- Adobe Audition
- Intel Q6600, 4GB of RAM, M-Audio Revolution 5.1 Soundcard |
Producing is what I've been doing the longest in regards to music. Now, when I say producing, I mean producing my own music, although I have done some production work for others. I think I like the term Electronic Dance Music the best because it doesn't have the limitations of a more specific genre such as Trance or House. Don't get me wrong, I like both, in fact most of my music could be considered trance, but not all of it, and that's why I like the term "EDM".
I'm not sure how well I can describe producing to you. It's really just something that I can't stop doing, and that I can't control. When I'm writing a song, I can't describe the process I go through. I use Reason 3.0 these days. Since January 2003 I've been using some version of Reason to write, compose, and produce music. I got my PCR-1 MIDI Keyboard in January of 2006, which makes an awesome addition to any Reason setup. Plus, it's small, portable, doubles as a USB soundcard and I sometimes use it in conjunction with Reason as part of my live set up. Adobe Audition is used to clean up samples and get them ready to be used within Reason.
Past setups include Cool Edit Pro (the software Adobe Audition is based upon)
with FruityTracks and a Yamaha PSS-170 and another generic non-MIDI keyboard (both keyboards can be heard on my album Electric Trance Renegades). I used this setup from 2000 through to the end of 2002.
The main part of all my producing has been a PC. I started using Reason 2.0 on a Celeron 300A, if you can believe that! At the moment I'm running an Athlon 64 which has been doing just fine. I've been asked a few times as to what kind of insane computer I have to make these songs, and really, it's just a common-place desktop. |
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DJ Gear:
- 2 x Technics SL-1200 M5G Turntables
- Shure M44-7 Cartridges
- 1 x Pioneer CDJ-100S
- Pioneer DJM-300S Mixer
- Lots of records |
DJing is fun new addition to redLymb. I started producing in 1998 but I only started DJing in 2004 with PCDJ Red. Later I got myself two Technics SL-1200 mkIIs and a mixer. My wallet has been empty from buying new vinyl ever since! But that's okay, spinning the perfect records at the perfect time is reward enough.
So, I've been DJing in my basement with some University in between. At the moment I'm what would be called a bedroom DJ. I make mixtapes/MP3s, broadcast over the internet on occasion, but haven't spun infront of an audience really. That's the next step, and I can't wait to take it. |
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