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Same here. I mostly played in punk-ska bands as a kid, and I didn't even know there was a way to count. Those little metal chug-chug-chug off beat moments in songs were just something I learned to play by feel. I didn't realize a "swing beat" was different until I tried to program a MIDI with a swing beat and couldn't understand why it sounded too rigid. It wasn't until I jammed with some old guys from my area and was playing Money by Pink Floyd and some other prog-ish stuff that I realized how that works. I think it's still best by feel. But somehow Castor and C-Clamp completely get in my head with their changes, I feel compelled to understand them...

I realized I never did an intro thing. I'm a indie game composer and developer who left his normal day job about two years ago to do music full time. Although in the last year I've gotten back into freelance programming for some more stability. I'm sort of obsessed with retro stuff, I run a blog about old video games, emulation, chiptune bands and any other thing that appeals to children of the 80s. I don't really perform live anymore but I do play guitar and drums on many of my professional commissions.

I'm not super well known as a composer but I have enough loyal clients to pay the bills. I'm best known for the Cognitile and Rubicon soundtracks. I'm not gonna use this post to get hits so if you care, you can google to find my blog, business and games I've worked on. I work with DJ Cutman sometimes and write for his blog video game dj. I like all kinds of chiptune, most of the time BoTB radio is playing in my house when I'm programming and I love any shoegaze/post rock styled fusion. I do some stuff with LsDJ but mostly I use Plogue Chipsounds just for expediency (heresay!).

I also enjoy fitness and have two insane cats and a cool wife as coworkers.

I do the same thing. It's easy to keep the steady beat, it's the extra beats that can throw you, but I admit I've never played anything more complex than black dog by led zeppelin.

Yeah, I remember I put on some serious weight when I was like 17, learning to program drinking loads of surge to stay awake. I had to order one can for old time's sake (although the 16oz is a ripoff).

That's what I observed too, it's like it goes all shifty and weird but if you keep tapping the snare at some point it comes back together. I can't decide if they're geniuses or just really good at following a crazy drummer. Similar band that does this is C-Clamp. Yet they somehow manage to be relaxing mixing up tempos and time sigs...i am considering making some chip tunes inspired by this stuff..