* b o g u s   t r a c k s :

zipped mp3s

01. booty time 2000.....drum and bass..........4.6M
02. pathfinder..........ambient d'n'b..........8.0M
03. bits 'n' pieces.....drum and bass / dub....5.9M
04. green stuff.........electro-trance.........7.0M
05. five................drum and bass..........5.4M
06. no toe curling......drum and bass..........4.8M
07. isomorph............drum and bass..........5.6M
08. machines............drum and bass..........8.6M
09. the path............drum and bass..........4.1M
10. d-brane.............drum and bass..........4.9M
11. 11th commandment....popu-techno............4.6M
12. rush................popu-trance............6.6M

feedback: arie.kanarie@@@zonnet.nl (updated!)

b u z z   f i l e s :

pathfinder..............drum and bass..........766k
machines................drum and bass..........429k
green stuff (remake)....electro-trance.........O17k
bits 'n' pieces.........d'n'b/dub/trance.......875k
green stuff.............electro-trance.........O53k
genius smarties.........electro................608k
ambivalencia............ambient................016k
unplugged...............drum and bass..........454k
no toe curling..........drum and bass..........754k
maquinaria..............techno.................177k
pulvertum...............top 40 clone...........013k

b u z z    l i n k s :

jeskola.com download buzz here
zephod great buzz developer
djlaser.com neat buzz resource
buzztrack.com will it ever be up again..?
buzzmachines.com large machine archive
J. Argüellesgreat guru machines
SequencerkilleR great buzzer
the scene united links, songs, and more
jimmac great music
planet buzz many links

i n f o :

My name is Arjan Driessen. I currently (nov. 2000) live in Delft, the Netherlands. I work at Delft Technnical University as a technician at the faculty of electronics, in the solar cell group. I maintain and improve thin layer characterization equipment, and I do experiments on solar cells.
As a kid, I was fascinated by electronic music. I owned an MSX home-computer, which was equipped with a 3-channel programmable sound generator. I wrote some MSX-BASIC programs to create my own sounds, and make music. It wasn't until 1993 before I welded my first real sound equipment: a so-called covox. It consisted of 20 resistors, a capacitor, and a parallel plug. I tried to make some kind of melodic techno with it, using Scream Tracker. In 1994 I bought a cheap soundcard. I started making serious garbage with the FM-synth and Cakewalk. At that time I was so frustrated about the results, that I bought myself a brand new AWE32 in 1995. As a result of that, there was a very productive period in which I made the worst music ever made on the planet. Then I discovered Rebirth RB338, which made me realize that everything I had made before was shit. I mixed the AWE wavetable sounds with Rebirth samples, which is really not a funny way to make music.
About 2 years ago, I discovered a very nice music program called "buzz". It's a new generation digital composer, based upon ancient trackers. The virtual machines (so-called 'generators' and 'effects') give the user incredible freedom in creating original sounds. The use of samples is also supported. Examples of Buzz Gear: all kinds of synths (including the legendary 303!), drum machines (including the legendary 909!), and effects, like filters, pitch-shifters, delays, chorus, reverb are all available, and still being implemented by a whole bunch of DSP wizards. With Buzz, the possibilities are truly endless.