Jan Fex
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Jan Fex is a Swedish software developer, musician and lecturer born on March 14, 1955, in the university town of Lund, Sweden.
Early life[edit]
Jan Fex is the eldest child in the marriage between Sören Fex and Anna Herslow-Fex and grandchild of Tora Garm-Fex and Ernst C:son Herslow.
The son of academics, Fex grew up in central Lund in the midst of the 1960s student revolution and the corresponding explosion of popular rock, jazz and soul music.
Having started with piano lessons at the ripe age of four, Fex took up guitar in his primary school days and at sixteen years of age was he playing lead guitar in local blues bands with members from Peps Persson's band and then went on to play electric bass in progressive rock projects.
1972-74 Fex played Caribbean calypso bass with Trevor Kydd and the Sweet Pan Steelband.
Career - Music[edit]
By 1980 Fex moved to the neighboring city of Malmoe which at the time was a better place to be for practicing and performing improvised music.
In Malmoe Fex also started to make demoes of his songs and recorded in 1982 a solo single.[1] for a local record company. The production got good reviews in the national press which spurred Fex to pursue his music projects with original material.
He joined the pop-group Änglabarn[2] in 1983 and toured Scandinavia with them as support act[3] for UK group Queen (who at that point was one of the 2-3 highest paid rock acts in the world). During this period he also recorded and toured Sweden with Basse Wickmans band.[4]
After some years as working musician Fex recorded in 1984 a solo album[5] for Mercury Records. Released in 1985 the album comprised of 8 original tunes produced in the styles of Electronic Dance Music, Hip Hop and Contemporary R&B.
Jan Fex moved to Copenhagen, Denmark in 1985 and set up a Fairlight CMI rental session service, thereby becoming one of the very first Swedes who worked with digital samplers and sequencers.
He worked for 3 years at Werner/Replay Studios in Copenhagen as session programmer[6] and then built his own 16 track demo studio where he wrote and produced for Danish TV and stage[7]. He also played guitar in local Copenhagen bands with members from Before and the Sandmen and worked with Morten Lindberg aka Master Fatman[8]
Career - Digital[edit]
1992 Fex left the music business and moved back to Sweden where he focused on learning conventional computer programming.
In 1995 he was teaching computer classes in Malmoe and in 1997 he was hired by DDB Needham in Copenhagen as lead programmer for the Carlsberg Corporation's web account. carlsberg.com became one of the very first corporate sites built entirely with vector graphics.
In 2000 Fex moved to UK where he stayed for a decade and worked with digital agencies and clients in central London.
Fex went on to produce digital content for MTV Networks, Sony/Last.fm, Shell, Motorola, LG Electronics and Nokia among many others, and with agencies like AlTogetherNow, Ogilvy, Jack Morton, AKQA, Grey, TBWA-GG, Leo Burnett and IRIS Worldwide.
He worked for BBC Future Media and Technology, BBC Jam and BBC iPlayer as Senior Interactive Developer between 2005-2008.
By 2011 Fex moved to South East Asia and continued with software development but rather as digital project manager working with remote dev teams. He also worked for a period in Cambodia as lecturer in English and taught over 4500 lessons with Cambodian students. He pursued his music in South East Asia and is still to this day playing, studying and writing about music on a daily basis.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Fexy Music – hambotango / mitt i natten (1982, Vinyl) - Discogs". discogs.com.
- ↑ "Änglabarn - Discography - Discogs". discogs.com.
- ↑ https://www.queenconcerts.com/support-bands.html
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrorborV8aE
- ↑ "Jan Fex – Utanför Mitt Liv (1984, Vinyl) - Discogs". discogs.com.
- ↑ "Jan Fex - Discography - Discogs". discogs.com.
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL53EC0271C755AB29
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL53EC0271C755AB29
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