A short interview, and lots of good music!
Ugress is an electronica oriented group, mainly comprised of Gisle Martens Meyer aka GMM, along with various guest artists. Now a famous Norwegian artist, like all good artists, he cut his teeth on the Commodore 64 and Amiga.
Before becoming Ugress, GMM was known as Gnosis on the scene, a good collection of the tracks made by him on his Amiga´s can be found on the modarchives. A great deal of free downloadable music is available online from his recent years as Ugress as well. All of which are available on Ugress.com. It´s also worth noting that all his tracks are on Spotify. So listen and enjoy!
Now for the fun part;
Q: I´m wondering, do you still have any of the the modules made on any of your Amigas?
A: Yes, I still have most of the modules. A good portion of them are available on the net, however I couldn’t immediately find them with google, found some of them here, there are more.
http://modarchive.org/index.php?query=gnosis&submit=Find&request=search&search_type=guessed_artist
Q: Im of course curious, do you still use any original gear, like the C64 Amiga or hard-sid or any of these devices these days?
A: I´ve never used the hardsid, (but had a sidstation), on the other hand, I used the original C64 and Amiga a lot, but these days I mostly do emulation.
Q: Have you had the chance to play with a C64/128 with the MSSIAH cartridge?
A: I had the predecessor to the mssiah cart, I cant remember It´s name, the previous version. I sold everything two years ago. And smashed the Amiga´s on stage as a finale. (I didn’t break working machines, they were already dead)
With that I thank you Gisle for taking some time to trip down nostalgia lane with me and wish you the best with your new found ski slope match making skills.
Some pictures and footage of the Amiga´s encounter with the stage floor and some more background information amiga.ugress.com.
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