. founded march 12, 1995 _| : _____ t r a x w e e k l y # 64 ______________ |___| _ _______/ /\___________________________ / ____________/ /\__\ _ _______/____/_____________________________ / / _________ \/__/ ______\ \_____________________________ / / / `_ . .~ \____\/ _ __ ___ / / / _____ . _ \ __ ___ _/__/\ / / / / /\ _ The Music Scene Newsletter __ __\__\/ _/__/ / ____/ /__\_________________________________ _____ ___ _ / /\/ /___ __________ _ ______ _ ___ \/ /\ / / /____/ \ \ / /\ / __/\ / /\ \ \ / \ /____/ / / \ / \/ /_ \___/___/ \ \_/___/ / \_/ / / \ ___\ / /_/ /______/\/ \ /______/\/ \ /_____/ // \ \ / / / \ / / \ \ \ \_\ \ \ \_\ \ //____/\____\/ / / / / / \______\/ \______\/ \_____\/ \ \ \ \ / / / / \____\/\____\ / / / / _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ / / / /__/ w /\___/ /\___/ e /\___/ /\__ / l /\___/ /\____/ / / __/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/________/ / __\ \____\ e \____\ \____\ k \ ___\ \____\ y \__________/ \____\/ \____\/ \____\/ \____\/ \____\/ \____\/WW ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - | TraxWeekly Issue #64 | Release date: 07-18-96 | Subscribers: 672 | - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- /-[Introduction]------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ Welcome to TraxWeekly #64. Finally back on track (no pun intended) after a brief hiatus, TraxWeekly continues to bring you plenty of useful (and worthless) music scene-related material and information... TraxCulture is especially interesting this week. I'd just like to quickly point out that this week's column is not meant as an insult to any single culture, but the background served as an interesting vehicle for humor. Enjoy it! We also have some miscellaneous articles I've been mailed within the last three weeks I have been meaning to clear out, so here they are. And for those of you who are wondering, yes, the next issue of Audiofile will be mailed out in a similar fashion via the TraxWeekly list (well, as soon as the next issue makes it out =). Until next week! Gene Wie (Psibelius) TraxWeekly Publishing gwie@owl.csusm.edu /-[Contents]---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ ________ _________________________________________________________________ / ____/_/ __/ \ __/ / _____/ \ __/ __/ ___/_ < \____\ \ \\ \ \\____ __/ __/_\ \ \\____ \_____ \__ \ \ \ \\ \ \ww\ \\ \\ \ \ \ \ \_ _\________\________\\___\____\ \_____\\_______\\___\____\ \_____\_______\ Letters and Feedback 1. Frederic Motte 2. Miss Saigon 3. Peter Kunath 4. Marcin Nowak General Articles 5. TraxCulture...................................Random Lamers 6. Sample Ripping (again)........................Kristian Eriksen 7. To Be(come) A Southern Italian Tracker........It-Alien 8. Potted Tracking History.......................Ganja Man Group Columns 9. Explizit Advertisement 10. Music Trackers International (MTi) 11. MTi Member List Closing Distribution Subscription/Contribution Information TraxWeekly Staff Sheet /-[Letters and Feedback]---------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ --[1. Letter from Frederic Motte]------------------------------------------- From fmotte@mindscape.comFri Jul 12 14:26:06 1996 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 96 12:04:32 PDT From: fmotte@mindscape.com To: gwie@mailhost2.csusm.edu Subject: sad news Hi, I just wanted to inform the trax people that Martin Agger, better known as Maestro of Kefrens, died the 14th of june. His name may not sound very familiar the newest guys in the scene, but I'm sure the other ones didn't forget his amiga carreer. May he rest in peace. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --[2. Letter from Miss Saigon]---------------------------------------------- From jms001@ns1.wmc.car.md.usFri Jul 12 14:25:16 1996 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 02:59:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Jacquelin Smith To: Gene Wie Subject: letter to the editor The other night on #trax, I tried to play mother and settle a dispute between a newbie and some oldbies. I thought I was doing everybody a big favor and maybe getting a few people to behave with more consideration toward each other. After a long talk that didn't really end up doing much good, one of them told me something very true: "You can't change the world." I realized that while I was lecturing them about tolerance and knowing when to just drop it, I was not following my own advice. I wanted to be right. I wanted to win, and I didn't want any of them to leave the discussion until they accepted my point of view. I made a big mess out of something that would probably not have caused a big problem. To all involved, I'm sorry, and I think I learned more than I _thought_ I was teaching you. - Miss Saigon ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --[3. Letter from Peter Kunath]--------------------------------------------- From kunath@informatik.uni-muenchen.deMon Jul 15 21:08:19 1996 Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 09:39:37 +0200 From: Peter Kunath To: gwie@mailhost2.csusm.edu Subject: bug in TraxWeekly Issue #63 Hi! There's a bug in the article 'The Mod Revolution' (TraxWeekly Issue #63). The 31 instrument MOD format was not invented by Mahoney & Kaktus. M.K. are the initials of Michael Kleps (aka Unknown/DOC). He created the first SoundTracker which supported 31 instruments. It would be nice if you could forward this info to the autor of the article (Eric Bell). I couldn't find his email address anywhere in TraxWeekly... 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TraxCulture]-----------------------------------------[Random Lamers]-- T R A X _____ __ __ __ _______ __ __ ______ _____ _____________/ __/\/ /\/ // //__ __// /\/ /\/ ____/\ / __/____________ /____________/ /__\/ /_/ // /_\ / /\_/ /_/ / / _ \_\// __/____________/\ \___________/_____//_____//____//_/ //_____/ /__\___/\/____/\____________\/ \_____\\_____\\____\\_\/ \_____\/\___\__\/\____\/ww I sincerely hope the following article doesn't offend anyone, because it's as funny as all hell. Ladies and gentlemen, please watch and be entertained as the #trax populace once again shifts tone... Once again, uncensored as well, so those of you with delicate senses... get lost! comrade dennisc! your kopek-edible fruit juicer machine of the "mr coffee" design is nor for invading my soviet storecounters and the fake foodstamps are notwithstanding but base!! in the people's drab depressing off-white paint factory they are manufacturing efficiently the new microchip which makes the moscow mcdonalds make the square hamburgers like the white castle! base - we had of abandoning the post! uri and group "for best results squeeze bottom and flatten as you go up" needing the amphitheatre to perform depressing rock songs in the new world style with the democratic and free-world accordion and elektrik guitar dennisc: you and are singings in your CCCP microphones-labelled "down on gorky park" with your moscow firings and tanks eall need base - the CCCP "down on gorky park" was a mistake, we had written before on the back of our people's pamphlet and guide to ak-47 maintenance for the elderly we of putting the lyrics to our new song, "leningrad b-ball in my st.petersburg hood" but the blini boris put it in the burger machine at the moscow "burger premier," the cheap knockoff of the imperialist stooge "burker king" in 1987 USSR tour comrade billy joel can play only 5 songs.. in 1994 Commonwealth tour Billy Joel can play 8 songs under free market economy in 1996 billy joel breaking pianos on 'scheningrad' piano costings 60 trilllion kopeks and my funds for last 20 years comrade phoenix, but under the free market i am not having enough perestrojka rubles! the hard currency is not here unlike the old days! i miss mother russia and the beige tones of all the buildings in the moscow! i want to see the working man revold against his capitalist oppressor! i am wanting to see billy joel in speedo on the st.petersburg shoreline, diving into saltwater ah, comrade dennis, i am enjoying free market economy under the great new leadership! three years ago, my family have one potato for dinner. But now, we have TWO potato for dinner under free market economy diablo is hoarding the kopeks so he is buying "AUDI" automobile! comrade dennisc is hoarding his stash of infinity kopeks to buy yugo with muffler missing diablo - buy the perestrojka version of the gravis ultrasound, the "gravunov powerbeats" COMRADE DENNISC, YOU WILL BE KILLINGS MOOSE AND SQUIRREL AND TAKING THEM TO CCCP COMMAND HQ denisc: you and your perestroika get little ivan killed and i come and hang you like goose you are! silly stale borscht-drinking jumping up and down fool! you make me wish i was shit cleaner for lenin back in olden days when chickens were fresh! YES, NATASHA, WE ARE FINDING MOOSE AND SQUIRREL AND FIX THEM REALLY GOOT COMRADE BOOOREES the gravunov powrbeats is featuring new 7 channels in 19000hz for only two thousand kopeks necros: you and your old ways!! i am not wanting to speak the russian anymore! i want to study at "ridgemont high" and join the "alpha beta" fraternity in american university! your old ways of concrete and beige paint will be shattered by the rebellious noise of my band "tungsten carbide mining syndicate" COMRADE NECROS the chickens are never the FRESH, always RUBLES RUBLES RUBLES all you care about is dirty chickens running around with automatic weapons and wearing your stalin memorabilia on your henny comrade dennisc i am with you for the new thinking! i am hoping for bon jovi to tour moscow soon I will show you capitalist. I will make oligarchy to control pitiful country dennisc: nine iron fingers grab from the ground! the tomb of ancient man opens wide! let the revolution begin! me and my syndicate bring "Benny Hill" reruns to Kamchatka! We start the new age! my family make kamchatka from toilet water in native homeland! you silly americans put it in martini comrade basehead, your rebelliousness is not pleasing the people's association of intimidating death squads! you are reforming or you disappear, no? how you are liking to make square hamburger at the moscow mcdonalds all the day like american teenager, eh? THE WODKA IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU, EH? YOU WANT YOUR "ZIMA, EH?? BENNY HILL, BANE OF SIBERIA, COMRADE NECROS.. peoples are cutting into cable wires eliminating benny hill regime moya tovarisch basehead, vui znaesh o muziku? necros - never!!! the proletariat and people's civil air napalm defense will not allow the master of revolution known as "benny hill" to generate such insurgency! the working man will triumph against the imperialist pig known as dick cavett and all the van dykes will rot in their graves for the sake of the proletariat! comrade dennisc your new thinking reminds me of the american youth hero bart simpson such as do not have one cow, man comrade dennisc, I FLY SPUTNIK, I GET AMERICAN-SAY "SHIT", YOU FLY SPUTNIK? new regime start, i am not thinking there is the fairness in our country base: you must go high in shuttle before american call you comrade i fly sputnik into moon to get attention! basehead, i toil all the day in people's satellite and intimidating concrete structure manufacturement for what? so you and your wild american friends can roam the street singing "here i am, rock you like hurricane?" you will not rock russia like hurricane! base: there will be no potatoes for you make stupid american "moon-shyne" comrade bazeheadunov, you think regime handles traitorous ones with you?? you think willie nelson records go hidden in your apartment? our kgb informants know true plan you hide! i come back moondust on my head and stalin memorabilia is weightless there you, you want your 3 stooges, in moscow, we toil for many ruble, with not this 'slapstick' common amongst everyday moscow worker. i am sitting in the kremlin desk job wanting to ake off my pants and be free but dick cavett is there watchful eye and i must eat my bread and hush myself! BAH, american shuttlecraft is weak, grat soviet station mir 14 will hold three cosmonauts for 1 year and safe to the environment with only recycled aluminum necros: you will not have potatoes! my ultisov has spotted you stealing from mcdonald's in glorious red square! KGB ALWAYS THERE! CCCP-LABELLED MICROPHONES!! billy joel on the radio, and i am wishing the next single "BACK IN THE U.S.S.A." den: stupid idiot. ten chicken blood pools on ground for every head we chop from your neck! you take moon dust from clouds and think it bring glasnost to czar?? the iron man of russia Borischnev Fuckwitkovich Denisovich Ivanovsky Stolichnaya will lead the people back from capitalistic imperialist stooge-ridden rule and the american oppressor will crush like siberian otter under the vast weight of the people's metal-plated insurgent submarine nuclear accident! necros: you will be put in jail where your comrade jimmy hoffa is comrade diablo, i enjoy the new modern era of mcdonalds, last week i only wait two days in line for great mac comrade dennisc!! you crush siberian otter under weight of puny self, where now is cosmonaut loyalty ?? no you and your blond women and american jeans with holes in the crotches! phoenix: that not possible. workers instructed to make people stand in line at LEAST 3 week COMRADES, STOP, ABORT TOMMY HILFIGER MISSION LABELLED KGB MISSION necros - your talk is cheap! you do not understand how the foul cherry tree of mother russia will be cut like cement bricks for the people's dreary fun plaza just so you and your wild american women can run the street wildly without your cumbersome depressing scarf TOMMY HILFIGER CLOTHIGNS SHOT ON SIGHT.. cosmonauts preparing for the big war government has plan to sell basehead as double agent! comrades!! I urge you, work much hard, so that you may have a moltovian chicken in every georgian pot!! diablo: i pose as boris yeltsin and they are serving me many fried borschts under free market economy den: you make me puke borscht on old womans! imperialist oxen and you shall march off cliff and fall onto fat american housewife who large from watching 'another worldski' and eating big Bo-Bo chocolate for ten month and not work like REAL russian! anya, varya, and all CCCP sisters of me take an axe to mother russia and our gay housekeeper phx: that not possible, mcdonalds still under communist control base - ach you understand not!! what good is the days of security if we cannot eat the square hamburger and listen to elton john on the cheap knockoff of american "zenith" name- brand radio? the change is good and we are now cooking the potatoes and borscht in designer paisley ovens instead of beige oppressing old-world style we in moscow, pround to recieve original 'a-team' pilot epsiode not 2 day ago! cosmonaut dennisc!@#!#@ i am not appreciating the old fruit you are tossing at my tree! you, you want your 3 stooges, in moscow, we toil for many ruble, with not this 'slapstick' common amongst everyday moscow worker. the iron man of russia Borischnev Fuckwitkovich Denisovich Ivanovsky Stolichnaya will lead the people back from capitalistic imperialist stooge-ridden rule and the american oppressor will crush like siberian otter under the vast weight of the people's metal-plated insurgent submarine nuclear accident! and your americans, FEH-SKI.. with your influences and your poison culturings... your Leningrad 90210 with Lukov Perryovski and all this rublesmy stein: we more proud also to receive original airwolf series den: i quote old russian poet Vladimiar Dostoyevsky that wrote "kvet botanyavsky iilych!" which means "slippery when wet!" in foul amerikanski tongueed to play piano. ah, comrade devil, you think of old mcdonalds, while the new free market economy mcdonalds is running with maximum efficiency and serving fifteen people every day sister plays that. dennisc: square hamburger is western poison!!! diab: you, and your 'flying motor vehicle' this is not acceptable. jah smile on lenin, and the joy he give. COMRADE NECROS... you are in fear of KGB mission ""Abort Tommy Hilfiger"" but why?? necros - kvenchy stolichnaya absolut imperialist scumwater! you are not understanding but the youth will overpower in seventies bell-bottom and faded fake levi's den: and you think to mean our spies do not control hamburger processing plant in all states of amerikanski 'bible belt'?? yes even now agents are sticking metal parts from original sputnik in beef patties! cosmonaut dennisc has got into CCCP-labelled papers with billy joel stamp of western poison approval! he is western poison in blood now, karvysky ! and other naughtski back in the motherland, we save everyday and work extra 20 minutes to recieve special lenin monument in red square. BIBLE BELT SECRET PASSKEY COMRADE NECROS, SECURITY BREACHED, LOCKDOWNSKI necros - ACH! but you are not understanding that the days of beet stew and weak tea are over! the old russia is buried like one day in the life of ivan denishovich, the subversive otter vomit you are teaching the children base: papers not necessary with drop of totalitarian regime! now space travel as free as travel to toilet! no more of going to market and giving many ruble for used sierra software! no paper in toilet either under new regime buy russian. buy many cccccpcatch brand modules, from popular amusement software, one must toil 2097 den: you too must lock up! take chicken teeth and sell them for the new russia! eat tree roots and live with hairy grandmother and enjoy her monthly rewards! under new market, has half of food, but half of freedom too! den: the great mother too has a mouth, eyes, and ears! do not make me call in my informants to report some subversive activity! you not make land rot like old cheese! I am not understanding Vegas and his wiping of tunes much like "Priscilla Wagner and the 40 thieves" in mexican production now russia demoscene is strong and we have 17 channel pulskovtracker I wait in line where there is no meat instead of line where there is phoenix you new scenekids in the russia are using the "ibm compatible pc" instead of the zx spectrum... your 32 bits cannot compare with the eight of old russia, and the vector may spin and please now but it will soon shatter under the pressure of the oldschool coppperbars you, and your pompus americanisky attutides, in homeland, we strive many hours of day to keep many defective 'AOL' modules out of public marketplace.. we eat AOL disks in new market comrade phoenix, you are getting 1900hz from democard when playing song? Under old regime we were having only 2000hz from russian-made "Noise maker of sounds" box-attachment" I am much liking this new thinking. dennisc we must use our zmirakev pc compatible 386 turbo to ride on new information superroad to bring russian cultural explosion to world recently, we receive every episode of 'joyfullness days' with funny fellow 'henri winkler' as the fuzz. much joy! den: see the hidden eye! looking at you! lenin does not make you hemp, even if you ask him! no man lies alone in grave without work and toil and potato farm! comrade pheonix, I am pressing of button "turbo" but am not reaching supperroad so fabled in capatlist slogans of the "Push down and then turn" movement capitalist microsoft ask "where I want go today" I say america, but pirate Word 8.0beta no take necros - i am trying, comrade, but the seductive "mad about you" and "quincy, medical examiner" are too much! the wesern charms make me hate the days of toilet paper and rutabaga! I pay many ruble for fabled 'microsoft bob', but come to find no human being in box! ah, comrade k8tov, you may find the underground ibm super club in st petersburg where they will show you how to adjust phone wires and connect to internet I pay 3 time price of AOL disk for pirate CD-ROM in rossiya and word no take me to amerika, I no use AOL den: beware helen hunt, she is the eye of the great yellow man! her heaving bosom make good russian man stray from life of dirt and grubs! let us not forget the sacrifice! necros - let us not forget the betrayal on the night of the rotten beet and potatoe! when the death squads roamed the streets and took our fake walkmen! one instance on 'AOL' I find myself insultidad by spokeswoman 'PC Norma'!" den: and let us not remember the bombs which took away our glorious 2400 baud modem! i never forget sad day when russian people lose connection to internetski! now we forced to strive for communicationiski greatness with fellow of name 'archie' dennisc i am waiting for russia tv to show the third season of fabulous american quincy showst nec: I see seinfeld on televizor I buy on black market for 7 years wage and I long for being like comrade kramer stupid amerkanski have program with ghost in space and mantis which talk like dead lenin! ya love televizor program from german land, but wonder why bill cosby lips don't move same as voice" comrade cosby speak of 'pudding pop' but come to find all pudding replaced with manure of farm animal.. zinc: well soon audiofile become real magazine of tracking professionalski leave! or I shall taunt you a second time with my molotov cocktailsky all sleep and no work make russain worker into microsoft employee, we hang our head in shameex [necros!necros@shell.global2000.net] shh you not supposed to know top secret KGB informatik, i could lock you in prison cell with old grandmother with three eyes we just now recieve indy jones movie, and have much glee from enemy hitler much in russia, we work many day for noisetracker competitive upgrade, only come to find, it missing extra 5th promised channel! IT IS GD, THE CAPITALIST OPPRESSOR and then, we wait in line for many months, for promised dmp version 1.0 beta, only to see it only play .ult format! gd is even now studying our grammarian creations and is waiting for proper time to make wrong-changing statements ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --[6. Sample Ripping (again)]---------------------------[Kristian Eriksen]-- Let me start off by saying that I'm probably the worst sample ripper in the entire world. Only 0.3% of my instruments have been sampled by me, but I have my reasons. I cannot see anything wrong in using (ripping) other composers samples. All this 'You'd better not f---ing rip my f---ing samples you f---ing lamer, or I'll rip your f---ing balls off' does not disencourage me at all, and at the same time I loose all the respect for the one who made the song. 'Please notify me if you use my samples' is better, but still I use the samples without notifying anyone. Why? Most samples come from a commercial source, like CD's or synthesizers. The only one who really has any copyright on them is the ones who made the product, like Roland, Akai, Nine Inch Nails or the Prodigy. The only real sample theft, as I can see it, is done by the ones who sample it in the first place (the trackamaniacs, that is). Of course there are people who show of their guitar skills and sample some cool riffs, but such samples are rarely of any interrest to anyone but the creators. Second, not all people have great expensive synthesizers to sample from, or any decent sampling utilities, or even any possibilities to sample at all. Often homemade samples turn out to be very bad and useless (so I have experienced, hehe...). Therefore, why not use the other samples, which are of great quality? Beats me. Of course those who sample the instruments often have a hard work making them sound good, they should not be mad if anyone used them. They should rather be proud that their samples is of such a quality that people will use them... If anyone sincerely disagree in these views, or get veryveryvery angry, please mail me. Kezoomer / TLS kristier@ifi.ntnu.no ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --[7. To Be(come) a Southern Italian Tracker]-------------------[It-Alien]-- If you think that to become a tracker into US is difficult, you have to try to become a tracker in southern Italy... Some of you, reading these lines above, would say: " !!!!! There is an italian scene too !!!!! " ... Yes, there is, and very often, an italian musician (like It-Alien himself ?! >:) ) "crashes" onto the scene due to an incredible series of lucky (...) events... My adventure started during the 15th year of my life onto this planet (now i'm in the 19th)... One day I asked, it was not more than curiosity, to my software dealer if some novice-usable music-maker programs existed for my Amiga 500+ (I was pretty a lamer, don't you think?! Well, Now I'm even worse, if it's possible :) ) The answer was StarTrekker(maybe v1.2). Well, think at what would mean to use Startrekker (and that is enough..), with absolute no-knowledge of the following matters: -tracking music -making music -tracking scene I asked for help to a friend of mine, Antanio.He was (and is) a guitarist, and he had an Amiga too, so we took our brains out of naphtalene, and started to mix up our first 25-30 samples (!!!!!!!)... The only verb I can use to describe our first attempts is "to suck", and I'm proud (???) to say that expecially my ones sucked like an anemic leech... I may have some of them on an old Amiga Disk...If you wanna have a lot of fun, email me to have some... >|:-) Our first "serious releases" were funny techno-dance toons, with solos, tempo changes, speechs (burps, politician orations, radio talkshow, aso.) You maybe know that no great changes occurred to my music since that days... :) We suddenly became pretty popular in our city for our songs, so we decided to try to release 'em on a demotape to search for luck (!!!!!). Unfortunately, we met the wrong "person", who systematically dampened our spirits (ok, our tunes were 4 chns ones and we was 16, but his behaviour really cheated our psyches...!!). Antanio decided to abandon tracking, whereas I promised to redeem myself: I bought ProTracker v1.3 (WHOA!), tried to forget and to restart. In 1993 I got my first...hem...my PC, and one of the first things I did was to search for something similar to (and possibly better than) ProTracker v1.3... So I founded FastTracker v1.0, which I called "The Tracking Extension of My Soul" (???)... It seemed a dream to me... 8 chns (barely playable with my self made LPT1 adapter ($10 in 1993...)!!!! I used ST to sample,DOS2DOS to import on PC and FT to track...aaaaaahhh golden age...>:) During these years (from Aug 1993 to Nov 1995) I've learned a lot, using from 100 (1993) to 500 (1996) samples, and I was convinced that I was nearly the only one in Italy to track (maybe it was true :)), and I became another time pretty famous as a DJ assistant (AAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!). Then, in Dec 1995 I decided to buy a modem and an Internet account together with Antanio and, believe me, the first thing I did was to go into NetScape, Http://www.yahoo.com, search for Music->Computer->Tracker and I finally found TRAX !!!! I fainted. Is like you had been living for 4 years in a room, growing up crops and recycling, then one day you discover the roomkey, you open your door, seeing an interminable Strawberry field... Once I've learned the use of IRC (thanx to TRAX), I reached #trax, and I started to introduce myself: when ppl heard that I used FT v1.0, any kind of vegetable was thrown to me... They were crude (not the vegetables, don't be stupid...:) ), but they was right, so another time I decided to start learning... They weren't 3 wasted years, because I was able to learn more and more easier and faster than ever, and this time I had the chance to download files from Hornet, to meet worldwide (and Italian!!!) trackers, to be in a contest... And so it is, it's Late June 1996, I have convinced Antanio to return tracking, we both have FT v2.06, an SB, a 486, and I'll be in MC4... and this time the result is not important. What I would desire more?! Alien scene?! >|:-|) It-Alien email : napodano@inopera.lognet.it on IRC : #demo-ita (serv: irc.ccii.unipi.it) #italia, #avellino (undernet servers) #trax on ftp.cdrom.com : /pub/demos/music/songs/1996/xm/i/it-*.zip (XM files, some were 1994/1995 MOD files) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --[8. Potted Tracking History]---------------------------------[Ganja Man]-- Hi ppl. Here's what happened to me last Monday. 1:40pm Decided to shut Psib up by writing an article for trax-weekly. 1:42pm Decided there wasn't anything to write about 1:43pm Decided to do a top ten of all-time best MODs. 1:45pm Decided I couldn't think of ten MODs to single out as better than the rest. 1:46pm Decided to write a potted history of tracking. So, here it is: Don't believe the bible. It lies. It may tell you that in the beginning there was nothing (or America if you're reading the yank version :)). In reality of course, in the beginning there was the C64, as far as the tracking scene is concerned anyway. Yes, I know the Z80 really came first, but that had shitty sound. Anyway, with the birth of the C64 came the birth of 'WaYeRz TrAdeRz'. There were only young, and had not yet learnt the difference between s and z or the importance of capitol letters or anything like that. Anyway, they wanted to copy games off their friends. So they did. Until, that is, companies started putting in copy protection. Suddenly they couldn't copy all these games. So some of them started to code. And when they started coding, they started looking around in all these games. And they found out how to remove the copy protection. Suddenly, they could copy games again. Anyway, all these people 'cracking' games were regarded as 'eLiTe' by their so-called friends. They put their handle at the beginning of the game they had cracked. (Handles had to be used so they wouldn't be traced you see..). Then they decided it'd be a good idea to show off some of their coding skill by having a little intro to the game. At first these were just scrolling text affairs. But they grew. They got cleverer. And they got music. Well, the intros grew into spectacles in their own right, showing off the skill of the coder, the greatness of the musician. The demo scene was born. As the C64 kids grew up, so did their computers. They replaced their C64s with Amigas and Atari STs. Both had support for four channels of SAMPLED sound. Music no longer had to be made by the shitty chips on the C64. MODs were born. At first, these sample channels were wasted on the musicians. They continued to write tunes very similar to those they had on the C64, what we now know as 'chip' tunes. Anyway, eventually musicians found that with in reason, they could actually have any instrument they wanted. And here the real fun begins. It was actually due to the MOD scene that gabba came about. Legend has it that some Dutch group (whose name I can't remember) were experiment with some really fast house stuff using 909 samples in OctaMED. The disk they saved it on was dodgy, and the file got corrupted. The drum samples got seriously distorted. But they liked the sound, and gabba was born. Anyway, once the PC finally got its act together in the way of sound a demo scene started to grow on this new format. Groups like Future Crew and Renaissance started writing demos. Musicians found that these new machines could handle 8 or even 16 channels (remember we're talking pre-GUS infiltration here..). And so the tracking scene moved primarily to the PC. And the rest, as they say, is history. Ganja Man [LoK] Ganja.Man@dial.pipex.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- /-[Group Columns]----------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ --[9. Explizit]------------------------------------------------------------- .____. .....______________.____________________________________________| |__.. :::::\__ _____ | ______ \ \______) \_____)_ _____/:: :::::::/ __>/\/ . __/| __/ / /__ \_____ \ \| |::::: ::::::/ | / \ : \| \_____/ / \ \_ _____/ \ |::::: :::::/ \__| \_ :::\ / / / | \ / |::::: :::::\__________/::|______/____|:::\_______/_____/________/_____/___:::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::[sYNOPTiC]:: "We Are The Music Makers" Explizit TraxWeekly column issue #25 - July 18, 1996 Yow! And again a lot had happened to Explizit. First of all, we had to regret the leaving of Sagittarius. This dude never was a real Explizit member, only being in his 'trial-period'. He didn't fancy Impulse Tracker anymore, in fact, he didn't fancy making music at all. I understand he's now trying to become a DJ or something. Well, good luck to you. Then there's Armadon, who left Blacktron (nowadays known as Blacktron Music Productions) and joined us! He has already put out his first Explizit song called 'Winter in July', a Dreamhouse-Robert Miles kind of song. And today Landslide had announced to leave Explizit. Why? Composing in Impulse Tracker sucks compared to composing in MIDI, with his synths at home. Landslide has a high goal set: to become a respected rave producer putting out his music on vinyl/CD. And while we're all muddling through :) two Webmasters are working on our very new homepage: Starduck for the HTML and Graphics, Killerwolf for the coding. Our new homepage will be a lot more attractive than the old one. Just wait and see ;) Last few words: we're in PC Format this month, pg. 94 I believe. Read the section on 'Music groups with Web pages' :) Well, later. Ch:ilm / Explizit postmaster@explizit.org ...oOO[ The Explizit HomeSpace3 ]OOo... ..:: http://www.explizit.org ::.. ..:: Music, Links, Info, Art, More ::.. ..:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- /-[Advertisement]----------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ --[10. Music Trackers International]---------------------------------------- MTi Information Document Facts and Queries File NB: The WWW home page and FTP site are not as yet operational. -Saurax Index 1. What is MTi? 2. Can you publicize my tracked music? 3. How do I go about requesting to be a member of MTi? 4. What are the terms involved in being a member? 5. How do I contact MTi? 6. When is everything going to become a reality already?! 7. Is there something I can do to help? 8. Will there be a text version of the MTi web site available? 9. Ignorant people skip to this question. 10. With MTi do I have to track a certain number of songs per month? 11. What's in it for Saurax? 12. What's in it for Daedalus? 13. The MTi email talk list 14. Who are the members of MTi so far? 1. What is MTi? (Music Trackers International) MTi is a non-profit organization with one aim in mind: to publicize digitally tracked music far and wide, our primary means being the Internet services - that is, World Wide Web and FTP. You or your music group can have FTP space and WWW space for your music! MTi is NOT a group. It is simply a service for the tracking community" of the scene. 2. Can you publicize my tracked music? Yes! Our FTP and Web sites offer music, which is divided into two sections: country and composer. MTi wants to distribute *your* music, under specific conditions of cause. There is no "catch", only the fact that your attitude is positive towards what you do as a musician. Obscenities will not be in your favour. It is recommended that you possess an Internet E-mail address (or access to one). 3. How do I go about requesting to be a member of MTi? Firstly, it does not matter if you are part of a group; MTi still wants to publicize your music. In fact, MTi supports groups too! There are certain terms that must be followed and disobeying these terms will, indeed, not be in your favour. See Section 4. 4. What are these terms? Here they are: (1) MTi only supports the following module formats: ù MOD/NST/WOW Standard 4/8/16/etc modules formats ù FastTracker XM ù ScreamTracker III S3M ù Impulse Tracker IT ù MultiTracker MTM Other formats (ie. 669, AMS, DSM, DMF, OKT, ULT, STM, PSM, PTM, etc.) are accepted occasionally, but certainly NOT on a regular basis! (2) All music styles are accepted. (eg. Techno, Rock, Trance, Classic, OPERA!) (3) Modules may not exceed 2 megabytes (not strict term, exceptions are made). (4) Present a Professional Attitude in regards to your music, and others. (5) It doesn't concern us if you are a member of a "demo" etc group: you may still publicize your modules here. Kosmic/NOISE members allowed too! :) (6) Upon each submission of your module to us, please include a completed module description file (MDZ format | email me for more info). ** This is no longer required, but preferred :). (7) Samples may be ripped. It does not concern us. (8) Pattern content of other composers' modules are allowed in your modules required that you have acquired permission from the original composer to do so. (9) If you are a member of MTi you may use our name - but only when the situation is linked to tracking/modules. (ie. as one of your references.) (10)We will not hold ourselves responsible for any criminal act on your part. This includes, but is not limited to, copyright violations. (11)Keep MTi updated on where to contact you. ie. inform us of email address changes. (12)While MTi will offer FTP and WWW access for your work, everyone will have access to your material. MTi, and the members of its staff cannot accept responsibility for any unauthorized commercial use of your work. (13)MTi reserves the right to remove you from our database due to disobedience of these terms or unforeseen circumstances. 5. How do I contact MTi? You can only contact MTi via Internet E-mail at this time. To submit queries and suggestions, please send E-mail to: Saurax : saurax@netafrica.com Daedalus: bennetts@netvoyage.net Or you can usually find either one of us on IRC.. AnotherNet Servers: neato.org, irc.phonet.com Channel: #trax 6. When is everything going to become a reality already?! In the very near future, just hang in there :) ... my ISP says that the leased line should be installed here by the end of June, so MTi at latest, should be around by the end of July 96. 7. Is there something I can do to help speed up the arrival of MTi? Well, that depends :). A lot of time, effort and finance is going into the MTi project. Donations of any type will be welcomed and will definitely go to a good cause. 8. Will there be a text version of the MTi web site for my browser? Yes! Even in the construction stages of the web there is a text version available. 9. What is MTi? Go to Query Number 1. 10. With MTi do I have to track a certain number of songs per month? No. 11. So, Saurax, what's in it for you? My intention is not for personal gain, but gain for MTi as a whole. Trackers need support and hopefully MTi can give them that support. 12. So what's in it for Daedalus then? A chance to try and help the scene move into the future... and to ensure that it's a household topic around the world... =) 13. The MTi Email Talk List Feel free to join the MTi talk list, where members and supporters of MTi share their views of MTi, tracking and the scene in general! Simply email majordomo@www.netafrica with no subject (ie. leave the subject field blank) and in the body of the message just type subscribe mti and you'll be able to post and receive mail in the talk list. 14. Who are the members of MTi so far? The member list is constantly increasing so it would be painful to continuously update this text file with a member list. If you are seriously interested in knowing who the members of MTi are, email me at saurax@netafrica.com and I shall send you the latest available member list, or ask me on IRC and I shall send it to you via DCC. Regards Saurax - President | MTi : saurax@netafrica.com Daedalus - VP | MTi : bennetts@netvoyage.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --[11. MTi Member List]----------------------------------------------------- MUSIC TRACKERS INTERNATIONAL MEMBERS LIST 11/07/96 ----------------------------------------- Australia: Mick Rippon rip@hunterlink.net.au Ozone ozone@fl.net.au Brazil: Feijao feijao@cdj.com.br Guizmo guizmo@cdj.com.br Marlboro rasjr@ibm.net Uterere uterere@iis.com.br Canada: Balrog cote05@gel.ulaval.ca DHarmony dharmony@canada.com FutureAssassin woop@magi.com MikPos burrell@eagle.wbm.ca Porus mlad@echo-on.net Finland: Galahad halogen@netppl.fi Germany: Vivid vivid@tuebingen.netsurf.de Luxembourg: Screamager scrm@cri.lu Netherlands: Bert bert@kosmic.org Norway: Nexus alex@hsr.no Poland: PGM South Africa: Elemental elemental@icon.co.za Saurax saurax@netafrica.com United Kingdom: Aquafresh simon@simjohn.demon.co.uk Lemm cmslhes1@livjm.ac.uk United States: Basehead basehead@ice.org C. Ray C. cramerc@elwha.evergreen.edu cd cyb@inetnebr.com Cylus cylus@together.net Daedalus bennetts@netvoyage.net Floss norg@cyberspace.com Fred fred@paracom.com gd gd@ftp.cdrom.com Inner Vision iv@callnet.com KamoPhlage undert@primenet.com Khyron khyron@iglou.com Leviathan ac@interaccess.com Malakai mram@airmail.net Necros necros@fm.org Nemesis nemesis@crl.com NightTiger NightTiger@Forum.NCDL.com OxideMan jwong@negia.net Paradoks clay@fdldotnet.com Parity mclifton@phoenix.calpoly.edu PeriSoft ew23@cornell.edu pfister pfister@connectnet.com Siren alec@citcom.net Synapse crusadr@primenet.com Szalemandre szale@raven.cybercom.com Tempest tempest@cgold.com Uranium uranium@tcac.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- /-[Closing]----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ TraxWeekly is available via FTP from: ftp.cdrom.com /demos/incoming/news (new issues) ftp.cdrom.com /demos/info/traxw/ (back issues) To subscribe, send mail to: listserver@unseen.aztec.co.za and put in the message body: subscribe trax-weekly [name] (NOT address) To unsubscribe, mail same and: unsubscribe trax-weekly (in message body) Contributions for TraxWeekly must be formatted for *76* columns, must have a space preceding each line, and must be readable and understandable. 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