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Hi, I'm Sven, aka Al Bongo and I'm pleased to meet you. Let me quickly introduce myself. Music production is a huge passion of mine, I'd even say it's an addiction. But it hasn't always been this way. I grew up in a very small town near Berlin, called Brandenburg an der Havel. My grandfather used to play in a band and my parents were quite eager for him to teach me playing the piano and learn basic music theory. I even ended up in a music school at some point. As a child, however, I always had better things to do. I hardly practiced and I'd give my grandpa as well as my music teacher a hard time. About 20 years later, after I moved from Germany to Australia, things changed from one day to the next. I remember one night I was watching various youtube music videos and I somehow stumbled upon a music production tutorial. I was instantly mesmerised. To me, the idea that you could combine simple wave forms into a complex and beautifully sounding electronic music track was just mind-blowing. I just couldn't stop and kept learning more and more topics around music production, sound design, mixing and mastering. And the best thing was that all the music theory I learned as a child suddenly made sense to me and it was fun! It has now been a few years since I started producing and my fascination for music production has only grown. I love the idea of making people happy by giving them a soundtrack to their daily lives in the form of melodic deep house and progressive house tracks.