Michael Hensen

Pain, Suffering, Curve Balls and Excessive competition have all been a part of the role music has played in my life. More often then not things have not exactly gone the way I've envisioned, but maybe its been for my good, or at least I hope so.
From the beginning music was a big dream for me. It was just a spark when it all started, driving around in the back of my parents station wagon with a tape recorder in my lap. Both my Mother and my Father have always loved music and dancing. For me it was a way to connect with the things around me and started me dreaming early on. I loved listening to best of the 80's tapes, while my mother and father listened current radio hits and mostly 60's and 70's music which I also began to listen to and make a part of my musical threads. Bands like the Beatles, Simon and Garfunkle, Rod Stewart and Mowtown's greatest help to shape the foundation. Even artists like Captain and Tenelle and Led Zepplin all played a part in sculpting my early background.
At some point later I began taking a personal interest in music during school, and even dancing as I played Alto Sax for 4 years and made break dancing a part of my daily routine. It wasn't too much later that I started playing guitar, writing music, and recording my first demo's on a Tascam 4 track recorder. I used to lay down both acoustic and electric guitars with my own percussion efforts like tambourine and slapping on boxes and pots. However, if you back up a bit, its to be noted I was also getting into the beginnings of digital music having some of the first compressed digital files on my Commodore 64. I remember playing Billy Idol's - Flesh for Fantasy on my C-64 and couldn't believe I had an amazing 20 secs of digital audio on my computer.

It was just a little after that, that I began diving into a program called Cakewalk by Twelve Tone Systems. From that point I was now hooked on home studio recordings and taking it to new levels. Over the years I followed a variety of digital recording systems and software only to eventually land on a piece of software that has been a mainstay in my digital audio production efforts. Fruity Loops (Studio), or now what is known as FL Studio 20 was the key to me producing and creating my own full length songs. It eventually became the focus of my digital recording studio in 2004-2005 called Digital One Studios where we created, engineered and mixed Hip Hop, Modern Rock, R&B and even acoustic pop style tunes.

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