One of the leading Dutch MIDI composers making their music available for the BBS community in the 80's was Hans Ouwejan. He began his MIDI experience in 1987 with the Yamaha HS-4 figuring out the three MIDI connections at the back of the HS-4. The first MIDI-sequencer Hans used was DR.T form KCS on a Amiga 500. Soon Hans switched to a Atari 1040ST, mainly because of the GUI of Cubase (version 1.0 at that time). Hans became one of the leading MIDI file makers in the Netherlands at that time, mainly for the SC-55 module of Roland, and became a known name in the Dutch MIDI scene. Hans also worked for several years as a freelance musician at a local recording studio. PixelHazard hired Hans Ouwejan and his music partner Felix Faassen to produce 40 minutes of digital audio."Catgun, Victory Mission G" was presented at a game developer's and publisher's fair in London. A number of big companies were interested in the game and they especially liked the embedded 44.1Khz CD-quality music. Not 30 second loops, but real tracks. This was the first platform game which had real CD-audio. Although one publisher (Philips Interactive) signed a contract with PixelHazard, Catgun was never released due to reorganisations at Phillips. Shortly thereafter, Hans came into contact with Will Davis. Davis was a composer for Attention To Detail (ATD) Founded in September 1988 by five graduates of Birmingham University (ATD now employs more than 70 programmers, artists and designers) Davis mainly composed music (tracked music) for the Commodore Amiga and Atari 1040ST. Hans and Felix sent Davis a CD of their music. Davis was very impressed and enthusiastic about their work and planned a weekend in Warwick UK, a small town 94 miles from London.By this time the Internet had grown to be the most popular and accessible medium for the transmission of information. Hans build his own Internet site where people could freely download his music in the popular MP3 format. This way he ensured that everyone would hear his music as they intended it to be heard. Many Internet fans supported the boldness in using this new way of distributing songs -- downloading through Internet for free! This also resulted in one of the first online awards:"The NarcoPop Award".The list of fans was rapidly growing all over the world thanks to the endorcement between Hans & Justin Frankel.At the age of eighteen Justin Frankel invented Winamp, the first software program that made it easy to play digital music on your computer. After graduating from high school in 1996, he uploaded Winamp a few months later. In a year and a half, 15 million people downloaded the program. Click here for a article"The world's most dangerous geek" from David Kushner on www.rollingstone.com about Justin. Eventually, Hans and his music partner Felix wrote two musical compositions for the sample archive of Justin Frankel's Nullsoft/Winamp, in exchange for a link to their website. These songs were added in the Justins Winamp archive . Hans & Felix began receiving many compliments from fans around the world who had downloaded Winamp. And remember, this was before Cable , ISDN and DSL connections! Most of our fans, in that period, used 33K6 modems and a telephone line, so you can imagine how long it would take to download all our music since they were all about 3 or 4 MB a piece!Many requests for a CD of their music were received, so the next step to be taken was obvious. The perfect time to produce a CD has arrived! Hans and Felix started working on their debut CD called"Emoceans". At first, there was no clear theme for the CD. What was important to Hans and Felix was that they create something unique and that the listener should be free to decide the meaning of the music for themselves. All of the songs on Emoceans are named after the"seas","lakes" and"oceans" on the moon. Some of these names describe human feelings and emotions. This lead to the naming of the CD, emotions and oceans combined into one name: Emoceans. The relationship between the song and its name is for you, the listener, to determine. Mark"Fyren" Haidar, a fan, wrote about his feelings for E * Que's music in the following:"I can listen to any of your compositions and become immersed, thinking what I want and feeling what I want...I believe instrumental music is great in that aspect because it lets the listener decide what it's about. The composers meanings aren't forced on the listener with lyrics that don't fit their feelings or thoughts of the music." You can also find"Emoceans" on Itunes.