I've been into electronic music since I was 4 years old . When I heard Kraftwerk's Autobahn , that did it . I got my first synthesizer in 1983 , I was 13 . I did learn to play piano , but , on a synthesizer a keyboard is only one way to control the instrument . I have some with metal touchplates , some with ribbon controllers , some with analog sequencers . I just love electronic music , I never really cared for rock and roll . It's always been electronic music for me . New Wave was the only form of rock and roll that I could handle . We perform electronic music with very little keyboard playing , because the keyboard is just one way to control a synthesizer .