An Interview with dor-x

Well, not much actually. As a kid, I didn't have the luxury of being able to just listen to the c64, as my parents would always be hanging around, so i would just play the games as fast as i could before they decide to shut me down. Plus, and i ask forgiveness from everybody here in advance, i think most of the tunes were horrible. They never thought that twenty years on, someone would listen to that stuff, so many times, it's obvious the tune just borrowed a piece from commercial music (rambo, lazy jones), or just seem very much in a harsh, or be far too short (the excellent cauldron 2), or will go on forever untill you begged for mercy.
The thing is, i like the SOUND of the sid more than anything, the sound effects in andrew braybrook games, for example, or the clash of sword in Barbarian (which i used in Impossible Mission).

Forbidden Forest had the best music ever, but Exploding Fist was o.k too. Zig Zag is a great track .
The thing is, some of the modern demo scene has the best music, that is quite amazing. The Orangi Extend demo has the most impressive minimalistic techno, that I never thought could be possible on the sid alone. And it has a uniqu 3d graphic routine, whose only problem is that it's over too soon. and Smash Design's Second Reality, even has some sampled voices that go along with the excellent tune. And many more. I was amazed when i first heard all those demos.

Pentium 733, Cubase 5, orion, T-racks for mastering, Fruity loop sometimes, and Cool Edit, and rarely acid, and i play electric guitar (fender squire stratocaster) and bass (fender jazz bass) , and a sony-karaoky mike that i got free about ten years ago with a large tape-player i bought.

I haven't (see next question).

It's true. They are not remixes at all. They are trips in musical space that use the c64 as the launching pad.

Well, it has to reflect on anyone's music. I guess i feel closer to iggy pop these days, but there were times i admired deep purple, hendrix, prince, john barry (james bond composer) and many more.
On the electronic side of things, i like photek, krust, aphex twin, add n to x, jimi tenor.
Also there were times i danced in gothic rock clubs, which is like eighties electronic, with dark mood (the cure, bauhause, nin)
On the female side i feel the lion and the cobra by sinead oconnor, is probably the best ever debut album for a girl singer, and i like suzanne vega too.
Basicly, i come from rock. A singer-song writer, and i even had a few bands in my time.

What do you mean?! Pole Position is not mainstream?! Impossible Mission is not mainstream?!? You watch your language, buddy!

I'm inspired most of the time. It's just that often I don't have the energy to work it out. Or I prefare to go out drinking. And smoking.

That's too private. I'm sorry. Really, i can't answer that. Sorry. Well, o.k, you got me in a corner here. I look for sids that sound good.

It began in 85, my parents went for vecation, and for four days straight, me and two buddies of mine just stayed in doors, played games, and ate many many chocholate vaffels. We were aged 12 to 14, so when we finally left the apartment our faces were fully covered in red pimples.
One of the guys, Gabi, few years later, went on one day to harras our cousine that droped in for a visit, and this cousine's sister ran up to say they were beating him, so my mother ran down, all the kids ran like hell, except Gabi who didn't, and my mother just, sort of, beat the shit out of him, and she is a small woman. So the police came and stuff. But fifteen years later, this Gabi somehow lost tracks or something, and became a very gentle, unsecure person, and went on to become a teacher, and he came to my mother's school to gaine experience, and guess who was his guiding teacher?!
My mother. No one else would do it, as the money wasn't worth it. I said to her I fucking can't believe that you beat him so hard and now you're helping him, just like that! She didn't remember what i was talking about.
The other guy, Erez went crazy toward the end of the military service. I should say mental. Five years later, on a day off from the hospital he insisted on moving in with me and my girl, in our one-room-apartment. Just for a short while. A week or two. To that i couldn't agree, of course, he was, after all, sick, and my girl was so young and naive, and besides, where the fuck was i supposed to put him?!!
We haven't spoken since.

Charlotte Sometimes, by the cure, is nice, I'm On Fire by springsteen is nice too. lyrics and music that touch emotions, in a way that i just don't. Also Smoke on the water, for the money. And Waiting For a miracle, baby, i've been waiting half my life away…

Do you expect me to say you?! Never! o.k, you.
Just kidding. But seriously, what scene?

Because of emulators.

I like many, really, but i should point out the relatively unknown, Sublevel 3. the man behind, Espen Riskedal, is a great musician, very accomplished, and lovely mood, and beats, and melodic, and samples in his music. He can be a very nice man too, and i downloaded all their music, and i still listen to it sometimes. A friend of mine said the music borrowed heavily from others, but mabe he was just jealous. I haven't heard anybody that sounds like that. It's the music i would do, if i could, and was born in Sweden and not in the war-prone Israel.
Plus i should say that i think Bart Klepka did his bruce lee remix because of an article i wrote about the game in classic gaming. He is a fine musician, but still very young.
The Out Run remix by Instant Remedy, is the one i love the most.

Let me tell you something, the sid remixes is maybe the only thing that i do just for the fun, and only while it's fun.

One of the true problems i have, is that i don't work in one style. Never have. And i wasted a lot of time on other arts, painting, and literature, and even in those arts i spread all over styles. The university teachers often didn't know what to make of it.
In short: I don't know.

I don't think about it that often.

Pole Position came out very attractive, but the last one, forbidden forest, is more hardcore, which i like, and is maybe the first true remix, because it uses more of the tune, and not just a phrase. But I'm not like the other musicians who always says that their last work is their best… I say, my future work is the best…so be prepared for - Impossible Mission 😃estroy Him, My Robots..!.

You people scare me! You just wouldn't let go!

But it's great you found something you feel passion about. So i wish the scene to go on for a long time, stay underground, you don't want to become commercial, it'll just destroy the music, and don't neglect the life that's out side. Cos one day, you might wake up, and see how much love and excitement and sex, drugs, and rocknroll you missed because of computers. I know i did. Still do.