My very first keyboard, which was a gift from my parents, was a Roland. An E36. I still remember reading the manual and dreaming about all the things that I could do. MIDI was the key to my to dreams. Patience and practice became the road to my new future.

And than the moment I was waiting for arived. Finally I was able to play the music I liked listening to. Just one problem... I did not know how to play keyboard.  

I did knew how to play the guitar, kinda, but this was something else. It did not hold me back and I forced myself to learn some keyboard. 

At the time, Pentium was launched, and I was able to connect my Roland via MIDI to my fathers computer. As I recall it was a Soundblaster soundcard and I made my first steps into making music by computer. Meanwhile I also got a program called Goldwave. On one hand I was figuring out how to actual play desent music, but at the other hand I was trying to find and use breakbeat. I found a sample of Funky Dreamer, by James Brown. It was the sample I was looking for. But due the lack of knowledge,  I could not do much with it than loop the sample. I must have enjoyed it for hours, I am sure.

But I was the proud owner of a Roland keyboard. And it was connected to a computer. Surely I should be able to make those kinds of music myself, or so I thought. 

A cold shower. Before getting the keyboard I did some drumming. I wasn't that good (as a autodidact I just plat and learn along the way), but I knew enough to play and compose drunbeats and loops. But it still sounded like MIDI. Not much body in the sounds. And whatever I tried, somehow I was not able to write down the notes that could make the d 'n b I was falling in love with at the time. Or the thunderdome for that matter. My parents did not bought me the keyboard to play those kinds of music. Both of them are lovers of jazz rock music. Music I really like, but is also at a level that was not for beginners.