I grew up listening to disco, funk, and R&B, was once an aspiring DJ in the early 1980's who for quite a while made a living selling mix cassettes to friends and acquaintances to buy expensive maxi-singles for potential airplay. However, I felt that R&B music had undergone a regressive transformation in 1983 and 1984 so radically that I fell out of love with R&B and delved into punk, new wave, and brit pop. I scrapped my ambition to become a dance club disc jockey for a very long time. In 1996, while going out dancing with my friends in Germany, techno, trance, and house music caught my attention, I would occasionally find a tune worthy of a mix or two but I was not in the correct environment to find the necessary inspiration as my favorite clubs were, one after the other, while living in German going out of business, Anyway, time went on, and I expanded my horizons musically by listening to music from many parts of the planet, such as anime, along with mainstream and traditional Chinese and Japanese tunes, finding Yuki Kajiura and Faye Wong particularly inspiring. I stumbled my way back to electronic music very recently and noticed that it had evolved so much in the past 20 years, is much better than during my years in Germany. In the future I have inspiration to mix or compose tracks of my own while many DJs and producers I follow on Soundtrack offer plenty of inspiration for me. For now my interest in musical styles are changing week after week so I'll keep you updated now and then. For now, I like some good raging techno or some melodic progressive trance, progressive house, synthwave, ambient, vaporwave, chillwave, and lounge.

Edwin Alan