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Some words about the music I make.
Although I find it very difficult to say something about my own music, I would like to try it anyway.
I use a mixture of analog and digital synthesizers, because I think both have their advantages and disadvantages.
I always try to make a kind of atmosphere, often heard in the e-music of the 70's and begin 80's.
To create this kind of atmosphere it is usual to make tracks longer then a pop-song you hear on the radio (with the exception of classic and jazz).
Bands/artists who, I think, also create this kind of atmosphere are, to name a few: Tangerine Dream, Neuronium, Jarre and Schulze. But also bands like Pink Floyd, Camel, Pulsar, Ozric Tentacles, Orbital and Future Sound of London.
My name is Marcel Engels.

It was around 1980 (at the age of 7) when I heard records from Jean-Michel Jarre and Tomita.

I really liked and still like those records, although I didn't had a clue who they were or how they made such music. Later I knew.

When I was 14 years I bought my first keyboard. It was a small Yamaha keyboard and I was very happy with it. Later came a new keyboard and soon after that the first synthesizers appeared.

I now have a nice studio at my home where I can experiment with sounds and record the things I like. As Mike Oldfield once stated in an interview: "It's a room with possibilities".

Here's a list of (the ever expanding) equipment I use:

Toshiba 486DX40 laptop/Cubase
AMD Duron 700
Event Gina
SoundForge / Yamaha CDR102 for mastering
Arrick Synthesizers.com modular synthesizer
Access Virus advanced simulated analog synth
Yamaha A3000 128MB/2.1HD sampler
Kawai K4 digital synth
Eminent Solina String Ensemble
Korg Polysix 6voice analog synth midified
Kawai 100f monophonic analog synth
Alesis SR 16 drumcomputer
Kenton Pro 2 Midi-CV converter
Ensoniq DP/2 fx-processor
D&R Qverb
Behringer MX2642 mixing-desk



Impulse
1996
Pointless Reminder
1999
Passenger 4 (with Dweller At The Threshold) 
2004
Protoavis
2004
Moyland
2005
Okefenokee Dreams
2000
Atmospheric Conditions 
2002
Gent
2007
Narrow Lane
2008
Substance
1997
procyon 
2009
british aisles
2008