Thank you, my synthetic siblings.

[A E J O T Z]

Finding electro-music.com is probably the best thing that has ever happened to me, musically.

In 1983 I was the only kid on the block who owned Tomita and Synergy albums. I bought a Casio MT-65, a Syndrum and a 4-track recorder to augment my guitar-based demos with other instrument sounds. Instead, I found myself spontaneously making AEJOTZ style synth music. I was excited by how good it sounded to me. I spent a month making this new music, resulting in a 60-minute cassette album that I gave to friends, family and fans of my guitar-based music. The response was unanimous:

"Don't quit your guitar job."

Figuring that I must be wrong about my e-music being any good, I shelved the MT and returned to my crappy guitar-based songwwriting.

Around 2000 AD I divorced my guitar and tried to quit music. But after a few years I felt the urge to continue my synth experiments from 1983.

In 2011 I finally gave in to the creative urge and bought a couple of secondhand synths and a new-fangled digital recorder. AEJOTZ was reborn. The biggest difference from 1983 was that I no longer cared very much if anyone liked my synth music. I cared some, but not enough that it broke my heart that no one thought it was as good as I thought it was.

Then a funny thing happened. Not long after I uploaded some of my music to electro-music.com I heard it played on radio/electro-music .com and I received appreciation and encouragement from a number of forum members. I had found my synthetic siblings!

Other cool things have happened since, like getting played on terrestrial FM and various web-radio programs, but finding electro-music.com is my rock because my bros have got my back.

I've made friends here but I should have made more. I haven't held up my side. I've been too miserly about offering appreciation and encouragement to others. I want to change that.

[MusicMan11712]

[A E J O T Z]

[blue hell]