| A quick bio about me... by me...
I've always been into making electronic music.. I received my first keyboard in the 6th grade from my parents for christmas.... then in the 10th grade my father scraped together $2000 and bought me an Ensoniq VFX sd II... which had it's own built in sequencer, and I immediately began making sequences and songs that reminded me of my heroes : Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, New Order, Dead or Alive, Pet Shop Boys... and so on.. I formed my first band with my best friend 'JOE' and we called ourselves 'Darius Pogue'... (I still use the initials 'dp' for some of my projects and remixes) ...by the time I graduated high school I had 2 huge shoeboxes full of lyrics, songs, and ideas that I still pull from today...
我一直很喜欢做电子乐。6年级的圣诞节，我从父母那里得到了我的第一个电子琴。然后在10年级我的父亲用2000美元买了我的SD二Ensoniq视觉特效...而它自己内置编曲，我立即开始制作序列和歌曲，使我想起我的英雄们： Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, New Order, Dead or Alive, Pet Shop Boys等等..我和我最好的朋友JOE组建了第一支乐队，我们管自己叫"大流士 伯格"...(我仍然用首字母"dp"来署名我的一些作品和混音作品)...我从高中毕业时，我已经有两大鞋盒的歌词、歌曲和那些直到现在还仍如泉涌的创意...
After graduating in 1991, I quickly relocated to Chicago where I got my first Mac computer.. it was 1992 and it was called a 'Performa'... I purchased the sequencing program called Logic and began making music with a computer.. while in Chicago I started creating industrial music, based around the concepts of my new music heroes : Nine Inch Nails, Front 242, Front Line Assembly, Skinny Puppy, Meat Beat Manifesto, Ministry, KLF, KMFDM, and still Depeche Mode and Kraftwerk... my friend 'JOE' moved to Chicago a fews years later and I wrote tons of songs, and we performed in a few bars... Eventually 'JOE' moved back to our hometown in Cincinnatti and I began making more chilled out electronic music without a singer, using loads of t.v. samples and other bizarre sound effects based on my new music heroes: Nightmares on Wax, Daft Punk, Coldcut, DJ Accucrack, and a handful of other unknown acts that I can no longer remember....
1991年毕业后，我迅速地搬到了芝加哥，在那我得到了我的第一台苹果电脑。那是在1992年，那时它还被叫做"Performa"，我买了叫做“逻辑”的...然后开始用一台电脑做音乐。在芝加哥时，我开始创造工业音乐，它们是基于那些我的新英雄(Nine Inch Nails, Front 242, Front Line Assembly, Skinny Puppy, Meat Beat Manifesto, Ministry, KLF, KMFDM, 以及一如既往的Depeche Mode和Kraftwerk )的观念。我的朋友“JOE”几年后也搬到了芝加哥，而我也写了几吨的歌:)，我们还在一些酒吧表演。最终，JOE还是搬回了我们的老家辛辛那提而我开始做更多的舒缓的电子乐，但没有一位歌手来唱，我还用了大量的t.v.样品(什么东西?)和奇异的音响效果，这些又是基于我的新音雄:Nightmares on Wax, Daft Punk, Coldcut, DJ Accucrack，以及少数其他我记不得的不知道的的艺术家....
After 5 years in Chicago I had another 200 experimental songs under my belt and another 2 shoeboxes full of lyrics... I left Chicago in 1997 and moved to Phoenix Arizona, where I met up with my next collaborator 'Matt Kelly', aka, MK Ultra, aka K. Roxwell... he was a dj that spun hip hop beats for a small St. Louis hip hop act called 'Fat Trash'... we hit it off immediately and began making full blown electronica.. we called ourselves specificus and started pumping out tracks based on new influences such as : The Chemical Brother, The Crystal Method, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, and lots of hip hop acts... the first track we created was a song called 'Conversation With Your Hitman'.. which can be checked out at www.specificus.com almost all of the early music that we created is posted at that site.. it's tricky to find and download the music at the site, but I assure you it can be done, and it's worth it.. some of the music is so 'out there' it's unbelievable... very experimental... and in my opinion very cool... all of the tracks are very rough demo's so don't judge me on the production or the mixes... I still plan to put together a proper Specificus album and get it released someday...
在芝加哥呆了5年，我又有了200首实验性质的歌，和两大鞋盒的歌词...在97年我离开了芝加哥，搬到了亚利桑那州的凤凰城，在那我遇见了我的第二个合作者Matt Kelly，又名 MK Ultra，又名 K. Roxwell...他是一个为一个叫Fat Trash的小型hip hop中心表演的dj。我们一拍即合，立即开始制作迷人的电子乐。我们把自己称为specificus。然后开始做一些受了新影响的音乐，如：Chemical Brother, The Crystal Method, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher,还有许多hip hop的东西。我们创作的第一首歌叫'Conversation With Your Hitman'，你们可以在www.specificus.com上找到。我们早期做的一些音乐大部分都投到那个网站了，想要在那个网站找到并且下载到那些音乐一定要很狡猾...但我保证那是可以做到的，也很值得。那些音乐里有些是非常不符合常规的，简直是难以置信的，很具有实验气质，我的意思是很酷。这些是很粗糙的样品，所以别通过那些作品或者它们的混音来评断我。我仍然计划把Specificus的一些歌放一起做成个合适的专辑然后期望某天能发行了它们...
In 1999 K. Roxwell and I moved to Hollywood, where we both got unpaid jobs working in a recording studio called Tone King... we were scrubbing toilets, paying bills, cleaning, and doing a whole lot of struggling.... and then one day the boss got the gig recording and mixing what was to be called 'KISS ALIVE IV'.. a live KISS album... I hung out with Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, fetching their lunches, cleaning up their messes, stealing their guitar picks, and fondling their guitars...
1999年，我和K. Roxwell搬到了好莱坞。在那里，我们都得到了在一个叫tone king的音乐室无偿工作的机会。 我们洗厕所，支付账单，做清洁，一直努力着。后来有一天，老板接到了叫'KISS ALIVE IV'的演唱会的演出录音和混音的工作，一个live kiss 专辑。我和Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley一起外出，给他们拿午餐，打扫他们制造出的脏乱，偷他们的吉他拨片，顺便抚弄他们的吉他...
One day while working with KISS the boss got a call that a producer named Walter Afanasieff and the songwriter who wrote 'Livin' La Vida Loca', Robi 'Draco' Rosa were going to be coming into the studio to work on some new ideas for Ricky Martin... the boss knew that I was proficient at running 'Logic' so he set up a small writing lab in his studio b room, and put me in the room as the programmer / engineer... basically to be in the room, run the computer.. record the ideas.. make rough mixes, and send them home with a cd...
有一天和正和KISS工作的时候，老板接到了一个叫Walter Afanasieff的制作人（写了'Livin' La Vida Loca', Robi 'Draco' Rosa这些歌的音乐人）的电话。他说他要进入工作室为Ricky Martin出一些新点子。老板知道我精通于“逻辑操作”，所以他在他的工作室B里建立了一个小的写歌实验室。让我作为一个程序员/工程师，呆在那房间里......根本上就是，呆在房间里，运行电脑，记录下那些想法，做粗略的混音，然后用一张CD把他们打发回家......
After working with Walter A. for about 3 hours we broke for lunch and Walter and I starting talking.. he asked me 'why are you working in a dump like this?'... I said I was just hanging out for a great opportunity, and he hired me on the spot.. offered to move me to San Rafael CA, put me up in his multi million dollar guest house, loan me a Range Rover to drive, and start training me to become his 'right hand man'... the first song that we started and completed was She Bangs for Ricky Martin, which was started in Hollywood and completed in San Rafael... I worked with Walter A. as a programmer and engineer for the next couple of years. During this time I got to experience first hand how an amazing producer works.. I learned how everything is done, from recording, layering and comp-ing vocals, to knowing how get the best performances out of the artists.. I got to see how hit singles are conceived, demoed, recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered... and everything technical that lies in between.. During my years with Walter A. we worked with the following artists : Ricky Martin, Celine Dion, Santana (my personal favorite), Destiny's Child, Beyonce, Nick Lachey, Jessica Simpson, Placido Domingo, Josh Groban, Joey Mcintyre, Billy Mann, Robi 'Draco' Rosa (another personal favorite), Stephen Jenkins (3rd Eye Blind)... Neil Schon (Journey), Aldo Nova, Bruce Roberts... and handful of others great songwriters that I can't really remember right now... and of course Darren Hayes
和Walter A.工作了大概3个小时候我们休息了下，吃了午餐，Walter和我开始聊天。他问我"你干嘛在这个垃圾场工作？"我说我只是在等待一个伟大的机遇，他就立马雇佣了我，让我搬去加州的圣拉斐尔，把我安置在他的百万客房里，借了我一辆路虎揽胜，开始训练我成为他的副手...我们做的第一首歌是给 Ricky Martin的作于好莱坞终于圣拉斐尔的She Bangs...我以programmer and engineer 的身份和Walter A.在接下来的几年中一起工作。这个时期我必须亲身体验一个伟大的制作人是怎么样工作的，我学会了每件事是如何做到的，从录音, layering, comp-ing vocals，到了解如何把最好的表演者从艺术家中调出来。我必须目睹成功的单曲是怎么被构造，初步录制，录音，制作，混音，mastered，也学到了那些技术性的东西...和Walter A.在一起的这些年我们一下艺术家合作过:Ricky Martin(瑞奇 马丁), Celine Dion(席琳 迪翁), Santana(桑塔纳) (是我的个人最爱), Destiny's Child(真命天女), Beyonce(碧昂斯), Nick Lachey(尼克 拉奇), Jessica Simpson(杰西卡 辛普森), Placido Domingo(普拉西多 多明戈), Josh Groban, Joey Mcintyre, Billy Mann, Robi 'Draco' Rosa (另外一个个人最爱), Stephen Jenkins (心灵蒙蔽乐队的吉他手)... Neil Schon (旅行合唱团), Aldo Nova,Bruce Roberts...还有其他一些我一时想不起来的伟大的音乐人。当然，还有Darren Hayes。
I became fast friends with Darren when he started coming in to the studio to work on some of his demo's, and eventually I co-wrote one song with him for his first solo album titled : 'Spin'.. the song was called 'Crush (1980me).. it was a throwback to the 80's song.. very pop... quite fun... you can hear it :... here.... Crush 1980(me)
当Darren Hayes进入工作室来做一些他的demo的时候，我很快与他成为朋友。最终我和他为他叫“spin”的第一张单飞专辑一起写了一首歌，名字叫'Crush (1980m)'。那是一首回顾80年代的歌，流行味十足，也很有趣。你可以在这里听到。
this was the first song that I ever had released...
这是我发行的第一首歌......
After we finished the 'Spin' album, Darren invited me to come on tour with him and let my electronica band 'Specificus' be his support band for his world tour.... we toured for a year all across the globe : England, Europe, Russia, Japan, Australia, Mexico, and countless other places.. The experience was amazing, and I got to see the world with my friends... you can see clips of me on the tour with Darren on his documentary DVD titled 'Too Close For Comfort Tour'... (here's a link to buy the DVD)...
在我们完成spin之后，darren邀请我和他做一个巡演，并且让我的电子乐队'Specificus'为他的世界巡演做伴奏乐队。我们在全球各地巡演了一年：英国，欧洲，俄罗斯，日本，澳大利亚，墨西哥，以及其他无数地方...... 这经历很奇妙，并且和我的朋友一起游历了这个世界。你可以看见一些我在Darren的DVD记录片“Too Close For Comfort Tour”里的片段。（这里是买这张DVD的网址）
As soon as the tour was over we went back to San Francisco and I began making new tracks for an unnamed side project with Darren... after being back from touring for just a couple of days Darren became interested in one of the tracks that I was working on, which became the first song written for his second solo album.. the song was called 'Sense of Humor'.. we were both very excited about this new song and new direction and it is still my favorite song from his second solo album titled : The Tension and the Spark ... you can hear the song here :SENSE OF HUMOR
巡演一结束我们就返回旧金山，我开始与Darren做新的作品给一个无名的边缘性的project...只是从巡演回来后的几天，Darren就对那些我正在创作的作品中的一首产生了兴趣，后来那成他第二张单飞专辑中第一首完成的歌。那歌就是Sense of Humor。我们对于这首新歌和新的方向(专辑的整体风格)都很激动，而这也是他的第二张单飞专辑The Tension and the Spark里我最常喜欢的歌。
Over the next couple of months we wrote and produced the following songs : LIGHT , HERO , DARKNESS , UNLOVABLE, LOVE AND ATTRACTION, EGO (another favorite) and the first single POPULAR! there are a couple of clips on youtube where we performed the song on different tv shows around the world, and you can catch of glimpse of me performing HERE, and HERE.
几个月下来,我们创作并制作了下面这些歌: LIGHT, HERO , DARKNESS, UNLOVABLE, LOVE AND ATTRACTION, EGO(又一个个人最爱), 以及第一首单曲POPULAR!在Youtube上有一些我们在世界各地的电视节目上表演这首歌的片段，,你可以瞥见我在表演。
We also wrote and produced the B-Sides TOUCH and 'Zero' (couldn't find a link)... and I also co-produced DUBLIN SKY and VOID and 'Feel' (couldn't find a link)....
我们也写了并创作了一些B-Sides如TOUCH 和 'Zero' (找不到试听链接)...我们也一起制作了DUBLIN SKY 和 VOID 和 'Feel' (找不到试听链接)....
We were both extremely proud of this album, and we went to the UK for three weeks to have the tracks mixed by one of our mixing engineer heroes Mark 'Spike' Stent ... he mixed the entire album with us, and it is still one of my career highlights.... after we had the album mixed we moved to the UK to promote the album.... we received amazing reviews (which I will post in a series of blogs eventually, once I round them all up), and Darren put together the next tour (The Dark Light Tour), and we took it out on the road... this time I was on stage with him performing our songs...
我们都为这张专辑感到非常的骄傲，我们为了让我们的混音工程师英雄Mark 'Spike' Stent 混这些歌去英国呆了3个月。他与我们为整张专辑混了音，这依然是我职业生涯最突出的经历。在我们完成混音之后，我们转移到英国去宣传这张专辑，我们收到了惊人的评论（等我把他们都集中起来以后，我将在最后发表一系列博客。）Darren准备好了下一次巡演（The Dark Light Tour），我们一起上路(took it out on the road这个不太会翻译)。这一次，我和他一起在舞台上表演了。
When the 'Dark Light' shows were completed we went back to the UK and put together a new single to go on the Savage Garden Greatest Hits album that Sony wanted to put out... This song was called SO BEAUTIFUL ... the song did well, and I still have people tell me that it has been played at their wedding... which is great (and a little creepy)....
当'Dark Light'演唱会完成后，我们返回英国，做了新的单曲放到了索尼想发行的野人花园精选集里。那首歌就是SO BEAUTIFUL。这歌的反响挺不错的，直到现在仍然有人告诉我他们在他们婚礼时放这歌......
To promote the 'Savage Garden Greatest Hits' and 'So Beautiful', Darren put together a new audience participation show to take and play at the Sydney Opera House, which you could see on DVD if you were interested... it is titled A Big Night In With Darren Hayes ... I'm sure there are some clips on YouTube to check out...
为了宣传'Savage Garden Greatest Hits' 和 'So Beautiful'，darren把一个观众参与节目放到了悉尼歌剧院的演出里。如果你感兴趣，你可以在DVD上看看。这场演出叫做“A Big Night In With Darren Hayes”。我确定在youtube上可以看到一些视频......
When we finished doing promo for 'So Beautiful', Darren and I went back into the studio and began working on more new songs.. we had tons of great demo's, but after living in the UK for 18 months I was ready to get back to the States. I moved to the desert in Phoenix Arizona, set up a studio in a spare bedroom, and starting working on some new ideas...
当我们结束了宣传so beautiful，我和Darren重新回到了工作室，开始做一些新歌。我们作出了很多很棒的demo，但是在住在英国18个月之后，我准备好了回到美国。我搬到了亚利桑那州的凤凰城的沙漠里。在一个备用的卧室里建了一个工作室，开始用一些新的点子做音乐。
While in Phoenix I reconnected with MK Ultra and worked on some new specificus tracks... I also formed another electronica chill out duo with Australian songwriter / producer Vince Pizzinga... that project is called The Beautiful Left and we completed an entire album in 2 weeks.
在凤凰城时，我再次和MK Ultra合作做了一些新的specificus作品。我还和澳大利亚音乐人/制作人Vince Pizzinga组建了另一个舒缓的电子乐组合。那个project叫做 The Beautiful Left，我们两周内就完成整个
专辑。
I also started making a handful of new tracks, and after a short visit from Darren they became the central theme to his 3rd solo album titled : This Delicate Thing We've Made ... on this album we collaborated on the following songs : 'WAKING THE MONSTER, 'HOW TO BUILD A TIME MACHINE', STEP INTO THE LIGHT , LISTEN ALL YOU PEOPLE , THE GREAT BIG DISCONNECT, THE FUTURE HOLDS A LIONS HEART , 'MAYBE', 'LUCKY TOWN', 'A HUNDRED CHALLENGING THINGS A BOY CAN DO', 'LOVE IS IN EVERYTHING, and the first single ON THE VERGE OF SOMETHING WONDERFUL
我也开始创作一些新作品，在对Darren做了一次短暂的探访后，它们成了他的第三张单飞专辑This Delicate Thing We've Made的主题。在这种专辑中我们合作了以下歌曲:'WAKING THE MONSTER, 'HOW TO BUILD A TIME MACHINE', STEP INTO THE LIGHT , LISTEN ALL YOU PEOPLE , THE GREAT BIG DISCONNECT, THE FUTURE HOLDS A LIONS HEART , 'MAYBE', 'LUCKY TOWN', 'A HUNDRED CHALLENGING THINGS A BOY CAN DO', 'LOVE IS IN EVERYTHING(这个是This Delicate Thing We've Made的iTunes下载版上才有的歌)，以及第一支单曲ON THE VERGE OF SOMETHING WONDERFUL。
Darren put together a very impressive tour for this album with an amazing tour designer named Willie Williams called The Time Machine Tour and took it out on the road with his new band... I got to see the tour from the audience in Australia, and was very impressed by it's magnitude. The DVD of this show can be purchased HERE
Darren为了这张专辑和一个棒极了的巡演设计师Willie Williams准备了一个非常令人钦佩的巡演，叫做The Time Machine Tour，并与他的新乐队一起上路了。我以观众的身份在澳大利亚看了的演出，被它的壮观所震撼了。这场演出的DVD可以在这里购买。
In May of 2007 I signed a publishing deal with Simon Moor at Sony ATV Publishing in Australia and moved to Sydney, which is where I am right NOW.... I have been working as a songwriter and producer for a handful of up and coming acts... including 'The Adventure (I've written 5 songs with them, and they are working on an E.P. which will contain two of the songs that I co-wrote), Penny Phillips (we are working on an album at the moment that I am producing.. it is amazing and the songs are going to blow you away... I promise), and Axle Whitehead ... I co-wrote and produced 9 of 11 songs on this album, and we are very excited about it. Axle and I have become close friends, and I have had a great time writing and hanging out with him. We currently have a new single at radio titled Anywhere which I co-wrote with Canadian songwriter James Bryan on a recent songwriting trip to London. It is the second single from Axles forthcoming album. The first single called I Don't Do Surprises , co-written with Axle, went GOLD in Australia, and has been used on 3 Compilation Albums, including the 'NOW' series, and will be used in the Playstation 3 game Sing Sing Karaoke.
在2007年5月我在澳大利亚和Sony ATV Publishing的西蒙·摩尔签署了一项出版协议，然后我就搬到了悉尼，也就是现在我所在的地方。我已经以一个音乐人和制作人的身份为一些大有前途的艺术家工作了很久，包括The Adventure(我已经和他们写了5首歌，而他们正在做一张会有两首我写的歌的EP)，Penny Phillips(我们正在合作一张由我担任制作的专辑。专辑很棒，那些歌会让你飘飘欲仙的~，我保证。)还有Axle Whitehead...我写了并制作了这张专辑11首歌中的9首，我们对此非常激动。Axle 和我已经成了很亲密的朋友，和他在一起写歌或闲逛真是太棒了。目前我们有了一支叫Anywhere单曲，这是我和加拿大音乐人James Bryan在最近的一次到伦敦去的音乐写作旅行中完成的。这是Axles的第四张即将发行的专辑中的第二支单曲，第一支我和Axle写的单曲I Don't Do Surprises在澳大利亚买了上百万张，而且已经被用在了3 Compilation Albums，包括'NOW' 系列，还会被用在the Playstation 3 game Sing Sing Karaoke。
It is also being used in 3 t.v. promo clips, one for Channel 9 and two for Channel 10.. you can see one of them here CHANNEL 10 PROMO and the other one is posted under my 'VIDEOS' tab on this myspace page.
它也被用在了3个电视广告片中，一个给第9频道，两个给第10频道。你可以从10频道的宣传片看到它们中的一个，另一个在这个myspace页的视频栏里。
I've also produced a new version of the song 'Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime' for the Channel 10 show 'The Biggest Loser' in Sydney.. it is being sung by female artist Robyn Loau... (I can't find the link.. but maybe I'll put the promo up at this site eventually).
我也在悉尼为10频道的节目'The Biggest Loser'给Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime制作了了个新版本。女歌手Robyn Loau演唱了它(我找不到试听链接，但也许我最后会把这个广告片放到这个网站来的)。
I am also putting the finishing touches on a the soundtrack for an independent film that I have co-written the script for. It is a music based project that revolves entirely around songs that I have written or co-written with other artists. Stay tuned on this myspace page to hear more about it. The movie is called 'Before the End'... and it's going to be killer.
我在完成给一部独立电影的音轨的最后几笔，我给这部片子写了脚本(应该是音乐方面的吧)。这是一部以音乐为基础的全部围绕音乐而作的电影，我单独或和其他一些艺术家一块写了它。经常来看看在这个myspace页，我可能会把它放出来。这部电影叫做'Before the End'，它会非常迷人的。
Currently, June 2008, I am on a 3 month songwriting trip, that will take me to L.A., Toronto and Nashville.
现在是2008年六月，我正处于一个3个月的音乐写作旅行中，我将会到洛杉矶，多伦多和纳什维尔。
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