well, if you're here, you're either genuinely interested in who djabacus is, or you accidentally missed the "audio" button. either way, you're here now.
hi, i'm tim. i write music under the clever guise of djabacus.
musically, i have little to no training.
i started enjoying music after i decided that there was more to life than gaither gospel tapes.
no offense intended.
i discovered that many of the video games i enjoyed so heavily had background music that made the game more enjoyable.
i started with mixtapes.
gradius, gyruss, journey to silius. sonic the hedgehog, f-zero.
then a dark period where video game music was abandoned for toxic levels of weird al yankovic.
afterwards, it evolved further from consoles to computers.
fury³, megarace, terminal velocity.
clearly electronic music had a special place in my heart.
i just didn't know it yet.
i was given a hand-me-down hagström 3 guitar, and self-taught power chords and likewise.
i took a few guitar lessons.
i never got particularly good at it.
guitar gave way to vocals.
i was in somewhere between 2 and 6 thousand bands.
one of which played a show, anywhere, ever.
i was kicked out because i was "too emo."
by that point, emo was the new grunge, since hardcore nü-metal was on its way out.
being emo previously, i knew how un-cool it was to go with the crowd.
i ditched emo. kind of.
you'll still hear some heart-rending caterwauling coming from my speakers.
back to the matter at hand, i discovered the fantastic world of computerized music.
hammerhead was the first music software i ever understood to the point of being capable.
i had toyed with others years previously but had no clue what any of it was.
from hammerhead to magix music studio.
from magix to acid, which was still being produced by sonic foundry.
from acid to reason.
stop.