Around the time my parents bought their first pc, a Pentium 100 with 64 mb ram running windows 95, I switched from protracker on the Amiga to fasttracker II for my music. 

No more one megabyte songs in 8 bit sound quality and four mono track limit, but the luxury of enough tracks & sample memory to use in 16 bit stereo :) . Of course I abused this newfound freedom, lifting a lot of loops from the Hip Hop music I was into at the time with often questionable results. Creating sort of like party jams, reminiscent of early Frankie Cutlass or watered down Fatman Scoop/Crooklyn Clan instrumentals. Basically a mix of unobscured familiar loops playing in succession without worrying about copyright. 

As there weren't cd-burners yet, and the tracks were too big to fit onto a 3.5 inch disk, a lot of attempts at music have died with the harddisk of the machine, but some have been recovered as I sometimes recorded tracks to decrepit cassette tapes, like this compilation of hip hop'ish & jungly tracks made between 1997 - 1999.
credits
released December 31, 1999 

Richard Jonas on the beats.

97' - 99' Fasttracker II Selection. - 01 Pooier Biet

We are all from outer space.  My particles are as old as time, and so are yours.  

An intermediate bedroom b̸͔͆rainc̸̩̃ore and glỉ͖tc̪̏h̠͌ music producer.

I'm combining aleatoric and imperative composition methods to achieve unpredictable, but still enjoyable music patterns and motifs.
In my opinion, mainstream music throughout history overvalued the place of tone in music, so in my craft, I'm trying to concentrate more on the juicy timbre and the mind-breaking rhythm.

I'm Bug, Italian 27 years old music producer.
I was a member of the Lokatek Gang, playing all over the country in the underground venues and in the illegal tekno-rave scene for 7 years, opening evenings to artists such as Melly (Tekiteazy) and Kaygen Kaotic. Lokatek Gang's dissolution in 2016 but Bug continues to produce electronic music moving on IDM and Braindance sounding, speriemental in general.
In May 2014, Bug collaborated with Monkey Man, of the Villasound, an Italian rap-hiphop group, remixing some of De André's tracks to make a Tribute Album titled "DeAndRap". There have been many hip hop productions.
At the end of 2016, Bug compose a small Ep for Ephedrine (Rome) titled "[EPH149] LeveL" released February 13, 2017. An IDM / Chill-out Ep that further defines musical evolution towards more experimental electronic genres.
In March 2017 Bug blends with Blender11i, with a track called Unicum, a double collaboration! Blender composed the melodies, and Bugs the percussion and rhythmic, a work done in digital by sending out their compositions, and never knowing in person. In May 2017, Blender revisited Bug rhythms.
*future*
June 15, 2017 Bug releases a pair of songs in freedownload thanks to SeekSickSound with more extreme and tested sounds.

Dread Maker, Beat Maker, Sound Designer

Around the time my parents bought their first pc, a Pentium 100 with 64 mb ram running windows 95, I switched from protracker on the Amiga to fasttracker II for my music. 

No more one megabyte songs in 8 bit sound quality and four mono track limit, but the luxury of enough tracks & sample memory to use in 16 bit stereo :) . Of course I abused this newfound freedom, lifting a lot of loops from the Hip Hop music I was into at the time with often questionable results. Creating sort of like party jams, reminiscent of early Frankie Cutlass or watered down Fatman Scoop/Crooklyn Clan instrumentals. Basically a mix of unobscured familiar loops playing in succession without worrying about copyright. 

As there weren't cd-burners yet, and the tracks were too big to fit onto a 3.5 inch disk, a lot of attempts at music have died with the harddisk of the machine, but some have been recovered as I sometimes recorded tracks to decrepit cassette tapes, like this compilation of hip hop'ish & jungly tracks made between 1997 - 1999.

Samplebased Boombap electronica: 
@jonas-from-nijmegen

Glitchhousebreakbeatdance: 
@oelek

Arty-farty cinematic sounddesign:
@r_jonas_arty_farty2 (*newer)
@r_jonas_arty_farty

Remix selections:
@plugexpertremix2 (*newer)
@plugexpertremix

Plugexpert:
@plugexpert2014left (2014/left-overs)
@plugexpert201213 (2012/13)
@plugexpert2011 (2011)
@plugexpert201011 (2010/11)
@plugexpert010203 (2001/02/03)
@plugexpert2001 (2001)
@r_jonas_2000 (2000)

93'-95' Jungle gabber tracker music:
@richard_jonas_trackers

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97' - 99' Fasttracker II Selection. - 01 Pooier Biet

Richard Jonas (97​-​99 Fasttracker II Selection)

Richard Jonas (97-99 Fasttracker II Selection)