East Pole
After getting the 32-bit Archimedes in 1992, then a sampler for it in 1994 (which plugged in the parallel port and offered 8-bit quality!), it still took me a while to cotton on to the possibilities of it all. That moment came when I bought a copy of Future Music Magazine in WHSmiths. The cover CD had demos of keyboard and other equipment, reader demos and music from commercial artists, but most importantly it had loads of stuff you could sample and use in your own tracks. The first Future Music I bought featured a review of 'Vindaloops', which was a CD you could buy containing stuff you could sample. The sounds were of an eastern flavour, and there were a few on the cover CD. So I got sampling and created East Pole.
