Thomas was born in 1976, and loved music and computers already as a small child. When about 8 years old, he was programming his own computer games. For this reasons it was natural that at some point (when 15 years old in 1991) he began making music with computers. Before internet got wide-spread, there was another (kind of underground) way to communicate with computers: bulletin board systems. Thomas distributed his works this way, and got in contact with the so-called demo scene. He thus joined groups of creative people, and with them made kind of multimedia creations (so-called demos and intros), some of which won competitions, or got close to it.
The chance to get more known came with the internet. Since Thomas entered the internet world, in 1999, his music started to be downloaded much more than before. From september 1999 to march 2007, his tunes have been downloaded over 960 thousand times (counting both completed and incomplete downloads and streams). Lately they get downloaded around 500-600 times daily, with peaks of of about 8,000 daily. Thomas' main web sites receive thousands of visits per month.
In year 1998, Thomas unfortunately got injured at the spinal cord, and still now uses a wheel-chair. This has not hindered his musical activity; in fact he got active more than before. And meanwhile he also took music lessons (harmony, composition, flute, guitar, keyboard), some of which are still going on.
Apart from composing, Thomas likes improvisation. Instead of learning to play other people's music with the guitar and keyboard, he prefers to become skillful at improvising his own music.
Thomas isn't bound to a sinlge genre, but likes to experiment. He is currently in search for a record label to publish his works.
(Updated on 4 may 2007.)
Band Members & Instruments:
Thomas Becker: computer, guitars, keyboard/synthesizers
Similar Artists:
Vangelis, Mike Oldfield, Tangerine Dream, Enya, Steve Roach, Ray Lynch, Em:t releases, Massive Attack, Enigma
Influenced by:
Vangelis, Mike Oldfield, Enya, Alan Parsons Project, Decoryah, Astral Projection, Kit Watkins, Em:t label releases, Amiga-scene musicians
Origin:
Europe
-  Italy
- Milano
Homepage: http://www.tbecker.net
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