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Alex Quintana has been into music ever since he can remember. Learning
to play the piano at an early age, he began to experiment with electronic
music on his Commodore 64 computer. Though not composing tracks of his own
until late 1992, he made covers and orchestrations of existing
tracks/songs. In 1993 Alex joined the Commodore Amiga MOD music scene as
"Rave Demon" with some strange minimal techno-ish tracks.. Due to
influences from the euro demo-scene and trying to get into a popular demo
group, Alex's style changed from minimal techno beats to pseudo-synth pop,
which was a popular style in the demo-scene. In about 1995 he started to
regress back to his simplistic electronic music roots, this time focusing his work with heavy influences from the Ambient and
"Intelligent" dance music scenes, and came up with the "Game
Program" moniker which he now composes all of his music under. In addition
to being melody oriented, he is also very beat oriented, and enjoys
experimenting in chaotic beats that sound all wrong when separated, but
come together when the various elements are overlapped. Game Program met
Insane Ian around 1996, both attending Essex Community College at the time.
When Insane Ian mentioned to Alex that he'd like to have him cover a PUSA
song for Ian's upcoming tribute album, Alex jumped at the chance. They chose
"Volcano" for it's simplistic stylings and the ability to be worked well into
the "ambient" mold.
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