More than ever 
Apart from what I posted, my first tracks were Hardcore (thatās all lost though), and now I make more Hardcore than ever and almost forget about Industrial sometimes 
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Once something is done recording wise i move on and thatās cool. But the struggle brings the brillant music.
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Youāve got me trawling for a 30-year-old MIDI fileā¦
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lol sameā¦ but I lost all of my old midi files a long time ago when one of my first computers died. Didnāt think to try and salvage it, so most of the very first stuff I was doing with freeware midi sequencers and Hammerhead are long gone.
I was able to find one of the first recordings I ever did though. I posted it in 2004 but itās a bit older than that, probably originally from like 2002, maybe earlier.
Very NIN-inspired (I guess āHurtā and āA Warm Placeā specifically) and subsequently the first (and I guess only) song I ever played live at an open mic night.
Just a guitar (a very abused Jackson Kelly) into probably a Big Muff, an Alesis effects rack, and a some Fender amp with spring reverb, overdubbed in Digital Performer.
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Hereās mine, and not too long ago really. Listening back, I still dig it.
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Iām going to try and find the cassette.
I know it made it onto a copy somewhereā¦
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good question thanks, i think i am still yearning for the sounds in my head that are hard to reproduce in the world of audio, but i keep trying
I never showed this to anyone 
Made with Reason 1.01 in 2002:
My first recording after switching from DAW to hardware (MC-707, 2022): LINK
Thatās not counting some Amiga mods in early 90ās, which are long gone and were never recorded into audio.
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Iāll try to find an 8 track cartridge player. 
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First demo I ever sent out 1988/9 to Kickin Records, I was 18/19, although I did not get signed they sent me a letter of encouragement saying they liked the tracks and to keep at it, they also returned the tape which is handy as Iād never have had a copy otherwise 
I guess it is proto IDM, there are 2 tracks, I canāt remember the name of the second one but the first one was called āTerra Firmaā. Gear used was a SH-101, MC-202, TR-606, TR-727, Korg Poly 800, no midi I just synced everything up using sync24, I did not yet have a proper sequencer. Quality is rough, which is to be expected given it was recorded onto type1 cassette tape 36 years ago.
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Yeah i also but my stuff on Tape.
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2012, Ableton context.
You had 24h to drop a track after you had downloaded the samples. I had used only the provided samples, took me 3h to get it done on Ableton 8. And 23h to mix it: I knew nothing at that time and learned a lot about bass killing a mix.
And why one would need proper monitors, which I got a couple years later.
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wrote this in FL studio in 2017, I think I was 17? was the first piece of music I composed myself, and then never touched FL studio again lol
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Pretty much, dabbled in other things but largely stick to acid, techno, house and electro which is where I started when I was 18. I do also work the same way, live jamming of patterns recorded in one take, I think my work ethic and energy levels were much better back then, seems like a lifetime ago TBH.
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These are absolutely brilliant, thanks for sharing
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Thanks and Iām glad you enjoyed them
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I donāt remember if this is my first Electronic Music recording but as far as I remember, this was my first Song composed on the Electribes.
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I donāt have a recording but I know what it was: a cover of āstand by meā sequenced on a Commodore 64 and the Sequential Six-Trak in, uhā¦1985 maybe?
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I have something from 1985.
( I donāt know why the original URL was so broken. Trying again. )
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It was made using FL Studio 9 almost 10 years ago. It made me realize I could WRITE music using BRICKS on a computer, without the ability to read sheet music. It changed my life.
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