SWEDISH SCENE çddf,faa,afa,aaf,faf,ffa,aff ¢ The Swedish scene sucked 1993 ³ by Diesel/Razor 1911 ¹The Swedish scene has never been the best around , but it has certainly been better than it is now! A couple of years ago, we had groups like Phenomena, Silents and Dual Crew, all active and all more or less elite. What do we have now? Well, there are always Razor 1911 and Rage, but are there ANY other groups that are active and elite? Nope. There are different people who are very skilled indeed, but they're all members of groups that can't put a single demo together. Examples of skilled, active but misplaced guys are D-Dsign/Virtual and Trionic/Therapy, that both belong to the absolute elite but aren't able to release anything due to inactive groups. ³ No GOOD demos ¹ I can count the GOOD demos from Sweden this year on one hand, because actually there has been just one. Of course there have been lots of average demos, and even more of the below-average demos, but just ½'Memorial Songs'¹ has belonged to the absolute top(correct me if I'm wrong!). ²Rage¹ has released three demos since May, but they have hardly kept average standard. ¶²Illusion¹(now ³Razor 1911¹) released one trackmo(½'Waterproof'¹) that was a bit over average speaking about the coding, but neither the graphics or the music kept average standard. Anyway, I know that these guys are up to something extra right now, so let's hope it will be better. ²Infect¹ has a very skilled coder called Exidor, but he's a golden example of the guys that are misplaced. ²Infect¹ does neither have the talented graphicians or musicians that are a must for an Elite-group. Exidor should have won the intro-competition at ECC, but Yodel had the good taste to include a 'Kill Fascism'-sign that collected quite a few votes. Where are ²D.C.S¹? Both Dual Crew and Shining have members that could take over the Swedish scene totally, but they haven't released anything for ages, and probably won't either(if not here at party III?). I still can't see the reason why two talented(though inactive) teams should sign up in one even more inactive?? Many members of ex. Shining have outspoken their dislike of the merge, but have stayed since they didn't want to leave their old friends. Many have more or less quit the scene, whether this has to do with the merge or not is not clear, but it's a damn pity! ²Virtual¹ has got some very skilled dudes on hands and should soon release their musicdisk with music from Alf, ¶who reached the second place at Party II and TCC. This musicdisk has been planned for almost 1 1/2 year and have been changed entirely many times. Let's hope it will be released soon! Their intros have been very nice so far, but why can't they do more? By the way, rumours say that they earned quite a lot of cash from the ECC-party, but that they couldn't help it since they didn't notice it before it was too late to change the prices again.. ²X-trade¹ was actually one of the best groups in the beginning of this year, but they lost all their active members and only released one intro this year! Right now, the Swedish is one of the worst scenes around, when it should be the other way around. It can be changed, but it probably won't be. If Razor can stay together, it will be the most active and the best team 1994. No team won the 1993 award for best Swedish group, because none was even nominated! Merry christmas, happy new year and an active 1994!!