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BIOGRAPHY
While the music is difficult to classify, Imphenzia reaches a worldwide audience with the mixture of trance, club and goa influenced music. Despite the vast number of electronic artists of today, the sound of Imphenzia carries unique characteristics that daily attract more listeners. Mainly releasing his music on the Internet has enabled hundreds of thousands of listeners from around the world to enjoy the hypnotic moods created in his compositions.Imphenzia consists of one artist, Stefan Persson, who was born in Haninge a few miles south of Stockholm, Sweden in the year 1975. By making short segments of music for multimedia presentations in the early 1990s his interest quickly grew and full-length electronic tracks started to take shape. Being nothing more than a spare time hobby, the hardware set up was very limited and tracks were produced using nothing more than a computer and a piece of software called "Fast Tracker". During the first years the tracks were made in a project named "Elite Beat", and most of the completed tracks remain unreleased yet today.
It wasn't until 1997 that Imphenzia emerged, replacing the previous Elite Beat project. Tracks were released on the Internet and as the public showed much interest in the music, Stefan focused more resources and time, aiming to further progress as a musician and artist. The first independent album named "Sector" was released in the summer of 1999. Apart from being sold on and off the Internet, Sector also acted as the first demo CD. Shortly after the release of Sector, Stefan moved from Sweden to live in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
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The following year Imphenzia released the second album, "Propulsion", which raised the interest of numerous magazines, radio stations, and on-line music web sites. Tracks included on the Propulsion album earned great reviews in magazines such as Computer Music, and also rocketed Imphenzia to a #2 position in the trance charts on the influential European music site "peoplesound.com". The music can appropriately be described as "lavishly filtered layers of euphoric pads, samples, and effects with a deep genuine beat". While the majority of earlier releases were heavily genre focused and purely instrumental - new elements are being introduced as Imphenzia progresses. Also, the voice of another quickly emerging Internet artist Nicky F. can be heard in vocal performances in several of the later releases. Nicky will continue to work closely with Imphenzia bringing the music to life with vocals. The third, a double disc album, named Event Horizon was released in October 2002. Following this release Imphenzia was somewhat dormant due to Stefan moving back to Sweden and it wasn't until early 2008 the fourth album Illusion was released. Activity picked up with the release of Illusion and the 5th album by the name of Duplicate My Soul was released on 20th March 2010 and Imphenzia continues to drawmore listeners by the day. As a pioneer on the Internet when it comes to releasing music digitally Imphenzia is not pursuing a record deal and continues to make music available on the official web site. EquipmentDuring production all audio is processed in 24 bit 44.1KHz. After a track has been downmixed and mastered it is converted using dithering to 16 bit audio for audio CD compatibility.SequencingComputer: Intel Q6600 2.4GHz, 4 GB Memory, 1 TB HD, 24" BenQ + 20" Samsung MonitorsExternalRoland FP-7 Stage Piano / Midi controller (Really nice hammer action 88 key controller)Sound CardASUS Realtek Motherboard audio - it's all done digitally so there really is no need for fancy boards anymore (see historic equipment)SoftwareSequencer: Steinberg Cubase 5 VST Instruments: Native Cubase VSTi, reFX Nexus2 (plus numerous expansions), reFX VanGuard (plus numerous expansions)SpeakersHeadphones: Sennheiser PXC 450 Speakers: Logitech Z4 (Must replace these with studio monitors =)Historic EquipmentHere is a list of what I used to use before computers became powerful enough to be used exclusively:Creamware Pulsar II - 6 x DSP powered studio card (no Windows 7 x64 drivers so I can't use this board anymore) Yamaha CS6R (Great box with awesome pads) EMU X-Lead 1 (Great box with awesome pads) Novation A-Station (Small but great VA module!) Roland JX-305 (Master keyboard, all purpose synth) Emagic AMT8 (8i8o - 16 channels - Midi Interface) Fostex VC-8 (Digital -> Analog Converter) Shure SM57 Microphone (Good performer!) Alesis 1622 Mixing Table (Used as mic amp) Technics SA-GX470 Receiver (Old surround amp) 2 x JPW speakers (Gonna get monitors!) Fostex T5 Headphones (Fell apart in the end) |
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