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Born in the small
town of Big Sandy, Texas, Karl Harmdierks
(aka, Bladiator) came to learn music through the
innate plunking of his father. At the age of five years, Blad's father taught him the basics of chordal harmony. From there, Blad
eventually went on to take lessons for about 3 years (9-12 years old),
until his teacher up and left town. He continued to putz
around on the piano and had some fun trying to write music.
Fast forward to
college, where Karl told them he WAS going to be a musician. Amidst the
chaos of six years in higher learning, he finally graduated, not as a
pianist (though still a pretty durn good one),
but as a composition major.
Finally, after 3 or
so years of enjoyable but low-pay musical livelihood, Karl decided that he
had to find something else to do with his life. He was offered a job in the DFW area doing IT work for radiology firms. If you think that sounds complicated, you’d
be right. This has pretty much put
the kibosh on his music career as well as just taking time to play the
piano in general. In the last few
weeks (as of the re-writing of this bio), Karl met up with OCRemix superstars djpretzel
and Liontamer and has found a new excitement to
work on remixes again, thus the first revisions to this website in over
three years.
Also, Karl is getting
married to his biggest fan, the beautiful Lacey, on September 13,
2009. Yet, he still figures he can
get a remix or two out before that happens.
…I love you
Lacey!
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