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Mixcloud is my main streaming page.
https://www.mixcloud.com/GuyVanDerGraaf/
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Guy Volpi aka Guy Van der Graaf, was born in Jordan.
His musical experiments began with House Music and Underground in Rome and in 1992 when he moved to London, he was introduced to Jungle and Drum&Bass. The eclecticity of his style has its roots in Progressive Rock from the 70’s, Funky and Pop from the 80’s alongside Classical Indian music, to which, he dedicated 5 years of intense study in Tabla in the city of Benaras, India, with Guru, Lacchu Maharaj..
For years he performed as a Dj in the main alternative venues of Goa (India) such as the 9Bar, Club West End, Hill Top, UV Bar, Bubble Brunch, Elephant, Hippies Club, Cat's & Soup, Curlies and many more.

He participated at the Shamballa Festival (Turkey 2014), Gem Festival, 1st edition (Georgia 2015) and the WorldWide Festival (Rome 2017).

Today he lives in Rome and continues to work with music.

Bought some decks in 95 and haven't stopped since just play a bit slower now.....I'm getting old.

Welcome - It all started when I was 6 and studied musical school on the top of normal school. We learned classical music - notation, scales, chords, etc. Within a couple of years, I got pretty good foundation of music theory, and I kept playing flute for next 5 years. 

But the real fun started at 13, when I purchased my first guitar, and then started composing within a year. I wrote many simple pop songs, punk songs, and some gospel, later on learned to play and compose very complicated riffs, licks, and many solo techniques, eventually landed in death metal band, where I played guitar for 3 years. 
     
Of course, that is a long history now, and I gave up making music at 31. But roughly 11 years after that I came along to own my first Ipad, which happened to have Garageband app. And since then I slowly learn more and more tricks, and have now done over 2 hours of music, which you can hear for free on this page. 
     
Every song is an experiment itself, although I tend to be melodic, upbeat, and various. I'm still using diatonic scales and chords as main channel for composition, just as I learned in school as a little kid. Although some pentatonic scales now and then won't hurt, right? 
     
Here is how I see it about the music. The most basic and effective way to make the magic is the combination of good chord progression and good melody. So basically, brilliant cords, brilliant melody and how much they complement each other - that is the magic. And, of course, the structure that utilizes all that to the max. All the rest is just a gravy, (I mean, "just" a gravy) Don't get me wrong, the gravy can be very beautiful and  enjoyable, and most of my tracks so far are mostly gravy, but the proper meal should contain some meat, Know what I mean? My most "meaty" songs so far are probably Autumn Falls and Hint Of Tribecore. The biggest and dirtiest gravy so far would be probably Tribal Beginnings and Warning Immediate Noise. But you can judge that for yourself. 

Still, my main focus now increasingly becomes a sound modulation, and structures of song, because more I play with that tweaking of sound, more crazy sound I can hear. The goal here is pure magic and beauty distilled into nice 2-6 min. pieces. 
     
Also, a little disclaimer here. I don't do any vocals, mixes, remixes, or live pieces. All should be well thought through, electronic, and freshly new, and original. So enjoy listening and feel free to comment. I appreciate the feedback as it gives me more info and insight.
Peace.

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