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born 1975 United States
Andrew Gregory Sega (born 20 May 1975), also known as Necros, is an American musician best known for tracking modules in the 1990s demoscene, as well as for composing music for several well-known video games. He is currently part of the group Iris, a live member of Stromkern, and has his own recording label known as Diffusion Records.
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A song is not just a collection of melodic riffs, it is an emotional statement.
I'm starting to realize that touring really involves a lot of waiting around doing nothing.
Silicon approaches certain fundamental limits; organic bliss is the soul catcher.
I think as a musician you really have to have a wide variety of tastes, or else you will unconsciously get into a rut.
One of the issues these days is the sheer amount of music out there to be listened to. There are more bands than one could ever hope to explore.
If anything I probably gravitate to things with great melodies/harmonies, and interesting/syncopated beats.
There's a big difference between playing shows for fun, and playing shows because you're in desperate need of the money.
I find a lot of club music extremely boring.
I feel that music is the art which can best express the emotions which flow within us. It conveys something bigger than it is.
Some people are like "Oh, I hate guitars." How can you hate a guitar? It makes no sense. It's just an instrument.
One of the most common failings [when writing a drum track] is repetition. Nobody wants to hear that same stupid 16-line bass-snare pattern throughout the WHOLE song. Didn't your mother ever teach you that variety is the spice of life?
Usually musicians have egos and personality quirks which makes it difficult to form collaborative efforts (for long periods of time, anyways).
Music is nothing but ratios and harmonic math, anyways.
As with any collaboration, you have to find someone that's in your 'mode' of making music.
A lot of [my] songs have various strange oddities in them - usually this is the result of late-night dementia.
Once you have a basic grasp of the theories underlying music, you can pretty much pick up any instrument you want.
Unfortunately Sting's jazz work isn't nearly as inventive as his rock songs.
Sometimes if you polish too much, you rub off the shine.
To impact someone emotionally, [a musical piece] has to contain "interesting" melodic, harmonic, or rhythmic content, and what defines "interesting" is up to the listener.
Stylistic evolution comes from listening to what other people have done and making a Darwinistic modification.
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