Hey :)
A little about me! (I've been making electronic music for a very long time) 😭
I'm currently rebuilding my Soundcloud page for short previews of my work, you can find this below and I'll be adding to this a lot over the next few days/weeks!
https://soundcloud.com/astraldreamzmusic
I started on the Amiga when I was 16, back in 1992, under the handle Sonic. I was active in the demoscene with groups including Titan, Royal Amiga Force (RAF), Apocalypse (APC), Cyberdreams, Fact and Nerve Axis, Spoon to name a few — writing MODs, doing graphics and occasionally coding demos.Four channels, tiny samples and an unreasonable determination to make the Amiga do things it really wasn't designed to do :)
I later became Dreamz, moved through the tracker/internet scene and was active on Trax in Space until the end. Eventually I moved into more conventional production and had trance/electronic music commercially released through a few independent labels.
I've been gaming since I my dad brought a ZX Spectrum home and around the original Team Fortress Classic era I played as dr3amz for Bodycount, SLH and 8th Legion to name a few - competing at the highest level of league play — back when competitive gaming meant IRC, clan servers, questionable dial-up/ISDN connections and nobody was really calling it esports yet :)
Fast-forward an alarming number of years and I'm still making music and still gaming #onceagamer
I've recently been digging through my old Amiga modules and demos — some of which somehow still exist online after 30+ years — and it reminded me of the one direction I always wanted to take all of this but never did:
Games.
So... why not now?
These days I produce as Astral Dreamz, although I've thankfully upgraded from four audio channels.
Musically, I'm not tied to a genre. I can write in pretty much any style the project calls for — electronic, orchestral, cinematic, ambient, rock, pop, dance, dark, uplifting, minimal, completely fucking strange... whatever serves the game.
For me it's about understanding the world, emotion and energy of a project and finding the sound that belongs to it.
I'd mainly like to meet developers, artists and other audio people (especially from the old scene days), get involved with the indie scene and hopefully make something cool together.
And if any other ancient Amiga/demoscene survivors are lurking around here... greetings :)
Paul aka Sonic aka Dreamz aka Astral Dreamz