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Brickaloch (or just Bricky) is one of the aliases used by Dermot Buckley in a vain attempt to hide some of the more embarrassing things he's done in his life. It's also the name that he is currently producing music under.
Dermot qualified as an engineer from UCC in Ireland in 1997, and immediately decided that working as an engineer would be no fun at all. So he saved up for a year and went back to college to study computer science (which looked like much more fun). He turned out to be pretty good at this, so when he qualified he joined the faceless nameless millions who keep our technological clocks ticking.
Around 2001, he was introduced to Trance music by a good friend and co-worker (qui-oui.com) and thought "Wow, that's nice ... I wish I could do that".
In 2002 he got tired of making money for other people, so he decided to start his own geotechnical software company. He tells himself now that the idea was ahead of it's time. Everyone else knows that it was just a bad idea.
When it started to look like geotechnical software wasn't going to take off (in late 2003), he (and another guy) started a t-shirt company, T-Shirts Ireland. This would have been a roaring success if either of them had been willing to put some work into it.
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In 2004 a friend gave him a copy of eJay. He messed around with it for a day, produced some very embarrassing music, and thought "There's gotta be a better way than this". Within a week he had discovered and acquired Fruity Loops. This resulted in yet more embarrasing music. Then he found Reason (the software, not the concept ... he'd lost that long ago) ... yet more embarrassing music.
In short, he dropped everything and spent 24/7 trying to produce trance.
Now he spends his waking hours surrounded by sparkling LEDs and computer screens. Occasionally he picks up a guitar. He smiles alot and makes more than his fair share of noise. He finds any music he produced more than two months ago distressing to listen to ... he takes this as a sign that he is improving. |
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Brickaloch Lists the following Influences
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Chicane, Matt Darey, Adam White, Orbital, Brainbug ... I think you get the idea. Oh yeah ... and lots of classical stuff too.
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