mpointon
Zurgena, Spain
Supporting Member
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Albums
Tracks
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December 16, 2022Rock remix by LittleWing feat. mpointon on Drums Track # 258601Final Countdown
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March 13, 2022Pop remix by Gees17 feat. mpointon on Drums Track # 239837Something Missing (lo-fi version)
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December 7, 2021Rock remix by Carlomac feat. mpointon on Drums Track # 232709When the dark side shines
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March 17, 2021Jazz-Rock remix by Marceys feat. mpointon on Drums Track # 213236Under Surveillance
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November 30, 2020Jazz jam feat. mpointon on Mixer & Drums Track # 204354Purple Clouds (OliV Remix)
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November 12, 2020Jazz-Rock remix by Ernie440 feat. mpointon on Drums Track # 202952Under the Surveillance Grid
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September 14, 2020Pop remix by jhonrobert feat. mpointon on Drums Track # 198334Didn't Expect You Too! 2
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August 23, 2020Jazz-Rock remix by OliVBee feat. mpointon on Drums Track # 196970Lucky Charm - Pewi Flute solo mix
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November 9, 2019Electronic remix by jussef63 feat. mpointon on Drums Track # 175576Maybe this way
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September 5, 2019Blues remix by marmotte feat. mpointon on Drums Track # 171003Broken
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August 26, 2019Jazz remix by OliVBee feat. mpointon on Drums Track # 170283Summer Breeze - Fivestringer mix
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July 28, 2019Jazz-Rock jam feat. mpointon on Drums Track # 168337The Wheel Of Life - Oli Mix
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June 22, 2019Funk jam feat. mpointon on Mixer Track # 165980Fisco Dunky
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June 3, 2019Pop remix by Tofzegrit feat. mpointon on Drums Track # 164629Pianissimo Fusionare
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May 9, 2019Rock remix by ivax feat. mpointon on Drums Track # 163164Velvet Sun IV el Reencuentro
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February 27, 2019Jazz-Rock remix by Tofzegrit feat. mpointon on Drums Track # 158701Half Terms (Mix/edit)
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September 15, 2018Jazz remix by OliVBee feat. mpointon on Drums Track # 146678Two Suns - Fivestringer mix
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October 28, 2017Samba remix by nadrek feat. mpointon on Drums Track # 119970Let's Party!
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September 18, 2016Jazz remix by marmotte feat. mpointon on Drums Track # 84108Relax Just A Little + BackVocs
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August 28, 2016Blues remix by OliVBee feat. mpointon on Drums Track # 81987My Key Blues - Martin mixed
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May 17, 2016Rock remix by Wade feat. mpointon on Guitar Track # 73268Crumbled Universe...Yum!
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April 14, 2016Rock remix by allan1970 feat. mpointon on Drums Track # 70100Waves of emotion
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February 9, 2016Jazz remix by JDF feat. mpointon on Drums Track # 64223Day Tripper
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September 12, 2015World jam feat. mpointon on Drums Track # 49551The Boy Don't Live Here
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May 26, 2015Rock remix by Milachica feat. mpointon on Drums Track # 40974The Wish
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March 2, 2015Funk remix by Tofzegrit feat. mpointon on Drums Track # 34178Mid Tern
Contact Information
Biography
I'm bald. I play drums. What's not to like? (probably lots!)
Been playing around 35 years on and off. Worked professionally in my early '20s after graduating from Musician's Institute (PIT) in London but ended up in software development not long after in order to make a livable wage. Still there. Thanks to the marvels of home working, I got to the age of 48 and ditched my home country of the UK and moved to gorgeous Andalucia in Southern Spain. Mostly because I adore the Mediterranean culture and lifestyle but also because of my disgust with Brexit which provided the final push for me to move on. I never thought I'd live to be ashamed of my [blue] British passport but hey.
Anyway... Drums have always been and always will be my primary interest. Along with playing in local bands, Wikiloops is my primary musical outlet and ongoing musical guide. I'm always striving to improve my playing and learn as much as I can. You're never too old or too experienced to learn new things from other musicians. Moving to Spain has helped me achieve two dreams I always had: affording to own a house that has a swimming pool and a having a dedicated recording studio! I also fly paramotors because I'm also a flying obsessive.
You might think all you do is 'give back' when you're experienced but I'm always learning here from players of all abilities. There's many places out there like Wikiloops but none of them have the camaraderie of this place - an oasis of working and playing together for the sheer hell of it no matter where you come from. The pure joy of unjudged music and creativity where who you are or where you're from just doesn't matter.
Instruments
- 8-Piece Yamaha 9000 (Recording Custom) all-birch kit in oddly-rare Cobalt Blue. Sizes are: 22x16, 18x16, 16x16, 14x12, 13x11, 12x10, 10x10, 8x8. All drums using Remo Emperor coated heads
- Spaun four-piece all-maple kit with Gibraltar hardware. Sizes are: 22x18, 16x14, 12x8. This kit currently resides in the UK but I'll hopefully get it shipped over soon
- Triggers for snare, kick and toms
- Millenium 850 (Thomann) trigger module
- Snares:
14x4.5 1964 Ludwig 400 Supraphonic (my default snare, currently stuck in the UK)
14x5 Yamaha 8000 mahogany
14x5 Handmade (by me!) Premier Birch/Eucalyptus XPK
13x3 Pearl Brass Piccolo
- Alesis SamplePad Pro (cheap Octapad copy!). Also stuck in the UK.
Tambourine, LP egg shaker, blue and red LP Jam Blocks and other assorted percussion
recording devices
- AKG 5-piece drum kit mics with condenser overheads
- 3 x generic goosneck clip-on tom mics
- 1 x AKG D112 Kick mic
- 2 x Audio-Technica gooseneck tom mics
- 2 x Sony stereo mics which I should use but never get around to
- Tascam Model 24 live mixing desk/22-in USB recording interface
- PreSonus StudioLive 64S digital mixer (waiting to be brought over from UK)
- 2017 MacBook Pro with Bootcamp Windows running PreSonus Studio One 6 with loads of plugins including Waves Gold suite v9 and Izotope (can’t run waves on my Mac as they are 32-bit)
- Enough cables to start my own bungee jumping company
- Recording studio made by extending an existing shed. Fully sound insulated with Rockwool and acoustically treated.
- 300 days of sunshine a year :)
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