For those of you who doesn’t know me I’m Dwb (a.k.a Dr.Winston O’Boogie and pronounced as Dee-Wee-Bee). And for those who know me I’m still Dwb, I’m a jolly good fellow, which nobody can deny…
Dwb is my secret stage-name and I am Christian G. Nelson in real life. I’m 39years old, born in Sweden. I grew up in both Finland and Sweden but I reside in the latter. What makes my life interesting is that I have a multi-cultural background which made me feel rootless in a unique way. I am of a Finnish-Swedish-American descend on my dad’s side with a mix of German-Russian descend on my mother’s side. And I am grateful to my parents for having a quad-lingual background that benefited me greatly in many situations.
I love music! I played both piano and guitar a lot when I was still in school. I used to listen to dad’s records back then. He had a large selection to choose from, with everything from avant-garde music to Elvis Presley, Bluegrass and country music . But there’s this one album that caught my attention. It’s the album entitled “The Golden Sound of Hammond” By Klaus Wunderlich. It often kept playing on the turntable and got me inspired in exploring electronic music. Through this one album I came to know Robert Moog and his invention the Minimoog synthesizer!
My interest in electronics and high-tech stuff started in the early 80’s my first home computer was a SHARP MZ-700. My passion grew stronger and later I got a C64. The turning point for me was the AMIGA Home computer with 4 channels audio! I could sample my own sounds and make “real” 4-channel tracks with Protracker, thats’ how i come to love making my own beats and tracks.
“Back in the late 80s, the legendary demo scene bloomed, groups outperformed each other with the greatest audio and video presentation for the home computers, such as the AMIGA, ATARI ST, and early Macintosh. One of the reasons for this great success of these productions was due to the embedded tunes, called .mods.”
We became a part of this scene! My brother Sergej (TraDe) discovered his artistic flare and ability to create graphics and Henrik (Art Mooney) bought a reference assembler manual. We released numerous Demo’s, and music presentations under the moniker Anathema (ATM), we split up some 10 years later to pursuit solo projects. Me and Olof Gustafsson a.k.a. Blaizer (The Silents) Continued to collaborate and we put out some groovy AMIGA Mods…
My early heroes include Brian Eno (Apollo Atmospheres & Soundtracks), Kraftwerk (Autobahn), Depeche Mode (Speak & Spell) to name a few. The Ambient and electronic music inspire my creativity, especially Brian Eno The man who has his finger on the ambient pulse of the universe. He gave a name to music based on patterns and harmonic texture soundscapes.
“Thought, sentimental memories and passion”
By the way, you have to know that I’m a private person; I feel the need to be left alone every now and then. And I do socialize when it’s on my terms. Others describe me as a pondering and a secretive person. It is my nature to keep certain things to myself. I was compared to an onion once which means that I am a complex and a multilayered individual. I know this to be true. But I certainly do have a handful of friends who can stand my weirdness (You know who you are, Thank You!). And I trust and share my life with them.
My life is a constant struggle between life and death… black or white. I cannot exist in gray-zones and I hardly ever compromise. I stand on something when I set my mind to it most of the time. The panic attacks that I suffered from, in my early years, has made me both weak and strong. Without my faith in God Almighty and the help from my Doctor, I’d be 6 feet under by now. All these would have been too tough to for a young man to cope without some help.
I am still trying to figure out who I am, What’s is my purpose? I thought I had everything figured out till i realised that My life and my very existence does not work even in theory, Talk about hitting a bump. I have no social life whatsoever, I feel fake when i socialise with people, hiding behind my clown mask so that nobody can see how much pain i am in. The only thing giving me some self-esteem is generosity, helping a complete stranger without the embarrassing gratitudes and thank-you’s from them person I just helped. Maybe this is the beginning of my midlife crises, what do i know? Let’s move along… this is getting way deep [...]
“Life is a constant movement of change, You don’t need to be strong all the time, you can exist anyway”
Some Facts:
I’d say my DAD is the most influential person there is in the whole world! And I’m living my life to the fullest and enjoying it with my interests such as Design, Art (preferably Minimal and the works of Phil Wolstenholme), Sports (cycling) and photography. The shades of Green, Grey, Yellow and Orange add color to my world with a pinch of fun to it by my favorite cartoon character Mickey Mouse. And to complete my out of this world experience, let STAR WARS and STAR TREK do the trick.
I like getting inspired by reading the works of Ernest Hemingway and have fun playing with my favorite games – Tetris (Quinn OS X), WipEout® HD with my Sony Play station 3.
Listening to ambient, electronic, minimal and experimental genre of music keeps me up and allows me to be captivated by the sounds of The Orb (Alex Paterson ,Transit Kings, High Frequency Bandwidth, Cab’s (Richard H. Kirk). And nothing beats playing my favorite music 24/7 through itunes on Mac (with OS X Snow Leopard and some of my works to make my Mac monitor more interesting!) and in my iphone – Aqua as my shell of choice. My tool of the trade is Adobe CS4.
Last words… “DON’T LEAVE EARTH WITHOUT ONE”
