For as long as I can remember, I've been fascinated with music - if I was anywhere near a piano, I was drawn to plink on it... even if I wasn't allowed to. When I was 5, friends of the family played "Dark Side of the Moon" for me, and it was in stereo! My little mind was blown, that was some radical stuff right there! (This was in the 8-track tape days.)
Then, in the mid 80s, I got hooked on "The Art of Noise," originally because they had Max Headroom in their music video. The bits with him in weren't even on the album, but I was hooked anyway.
Around 86, I got my first keyboard - a Yammy toy, but even so, I started making (really terrible) music on it, then later on my Commodore 64 and my best friend's Amiga whenever I could get him to let me use it.
In the early 90s, I finally took some music theory, and suddenly, my music wasn't completely random noise, it had proper harmony and structure. It still wasn't exactly great, but it wasn't horrid either.
A few years later, I bought my first real hardware synth, a Yamaha CS1x, followed by a Roland JX305, a Yammy RM1x and a Yammy WX5 (I used to really dig Yamaha hardware). I made an electronica album with some friends (I was composing, she was singing, he was muddying up the engineering), but that fell apart because they were dating... and then, they weren't any more.
I took several years off, only making the odd tune, but then I took a job as the Tech Lead at a small indy video game company in Amsterdam and moved from Alaska to the Netherlands. While there, life got very challenging, and I started looking for something to help my mood.
Around the same time, I discovered Ghetto Funk. Woah, now that was some shit, man, I can dig it! I connected that with needing to improve my mood and decided I was going to learn how to DJ, playing at a private party every Friday for some folks from the A'dam game and movie industry, and occasionally small shows (100-200 people) around the Netherlands and Germany. However, it wasn't long after that to where I wanted to try making that kind of music, so I picked up Ableton and Massive, and started hacking away.
Somewhere along the way, I stopped absolutely hating my own music, but I am still my own harshest critic. That said, every track I make, I learn something new, and I get better.