The “very young” part is not just a joke.

Around 1981, when Tul was about two years old, he was already sitting on his mother’s lap, pressing the Enter key and watching code appear on the screen. He was exposed to programming the same way a carpenter’s son is exposed to wood – naturally, constantly, and before anyone even thinks to call it “learning.”

School, on the other hand, was never really his natural habitat. He was a bad student, a real street punk (green mohawk) not exactly the kind of kid who enjoyed sitting quietly in class. But computers were different. By the age of 14, Tul passed the final school exam in programming, and heard Psytrance Music for the first time.

The music side started just as early.

Around the age of 9 or 10, Tul became completely captured by the power of music. He started experimenting with loops and synthesis on his older brother’s Casio MIDI synth, and a few years later connected that synth by MIDI to his shiny new XT computer, running Impulse Tracker and other DOS music programs.

That fire for making music never burned out. It only grew.

By the age of 20, Tul had turned his music into a complicated live act and started performing on stages around the world. Over the next 15 years, he played in more than 35 countries, from small dancefloors with 50 people to huge stages with more than 15,000 people dancing.

Later came the studio years.

After finishing sound school and teaching synthesis, Tul started producing more seriously. He released five full-length CD albums, as Tribal Tul and as 1NTT with Stephan Holvec from Total Eclipse, along with tracks on different compilations.

But the deeper he got into music technology, the more obvious the problem became: the equipment was never really enough.

The live shows became too hard to build, too heavy to carry, too long to set up, and still too limited in expression. No matter how much gear he tried, Tul couldn’t find a tool that really felt worthy – something powerful, playable, immediate, and alive.

That missing tool slowly became the reason Kadabra had to exist.