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Scambler
10+ albums
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The first track Scambler laid down was programmed in Basic on a 32K BBC B. He was nine at the time and would probably like to tell everyone that it was something seriously funky. It was however the Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G major reproduced as a series of electronic beeps. During the eighties when Scambler was in his early teens he was primarily influenced by Big Country and Nik Kershaw, but ABBA, Boney M, Status Quo, Glen Campbell, the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds were regularly played by his parents. As a result of watching too many Pink Panther cartoons and seventies TV cop shows, the seed for a later interest in jazzy lounge music and up beat funky disco was planted. After the release of Bon Jovi’s “Living on a prayer”, Europe’s “The final countdown” and Def Leppard’s “Pour some sugar on me” Scambler’s taste in music broadened and went down two quite distinct routes. In time one direction led to the powerful rock sounds of Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple, Faith No More, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Rage Against the Machine, Senser, Metallica and the more industrial Nine Inch Nails. Over the years the second route led to lighter guitar-based music, such as Runrig, Del Amitri, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Counting Crows, Eagle Eye Cherry, The Four of Us, José González and Bon Ivor. By the age of fourteen Scambler had acquired an Amiga and started using OctaMED sequencing software to write music. The first version of OctaMED only allowed for four
