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MAD VISION STORY
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By Def KLF of Mad Vision
Here is the 1st article of what should
be a long series. Stories of bands told
by themselves.
If you are interested in writting the
story of your band.Come on,out with it!
As I'm the founder of Mad vision,I'm
going to narrate you our long story...
] Christmas 1988 to August 1989:
The band is not really formed.Def KLF
under the names of ACID ECSTAZY or
ACIDUO ( I choose the name before Acid
house movement. I was one of the rare
people knowing what XTC pills are ... )
has been in different lame little
french bands releasing some games
menus ( Ghostbusters ,Ghost house... ).
I asked to Alexis and Fantasia my
2 best friends at school to join me.
We decided to nammed us : MAD VISION
probably under the influences of the
skate clothes STREET VISION , and the
american comic mag MAD.It did something
very hard to understand what it could
mean...
[ We liked this name because each time
[we try to give a significance to Mad V.
[ours poor brains failed. The meaning
[may be the view others people have of
[Mad Vision's members => Wacky guys. It
[can also define our cynic, nihilist and
[detached vision of life. Or just be our
[definition of an hallucination due to
[XTC pills or any illicit substances.
] August 89 to 1990:
We planed to do a megademo called the
MEGABLAST , but it failed because of a
lack of motivation,whereas BMT,ACF,FIRE
CRACKERS ( now AVG ) , FASHION and many
other did screens for us... We have
lost too much time and energy on this
demo... We have worked on for about 10
months !
We left the Ghostbusters for Genesis
a band we found with SPY 3 and MAXI of
SPYJACK company. But because of many
internal problems we left the band and
created a new one: The intruders.
About Genesis that is the same band as
the one that did a screen in the trans-
beauce 2 ( It is but an exemple ).
With the Intruders we coded a few
intros and MAXI released a few cracks,
the Overlanders ripped a few one off
too.
But DOM asked Maxi to join the REPS,
so the band split up.
Fed up by all those bands,we couldn't
control everything.We (I,Alex,Fantasia)
decided to be a 'self-governing' band.
Our 1st production under the name of
Mad Vision has been an intro menus. As
many people wrote us to tell us they
enjoyed it,we released 3 other menus.
During this period we also coded some
intros for the Reps.(We were still good
friends with MAXI after his departure
for the REPLICANTS.)
004 who did background work for the
famous french band S.T.C.S of the Blade
Runners joined us. Because his friends
Ratboy,Banzai and Jabberwoocky left the
ST scene for different reasons.
He has been the fourth to be a
member of the team.So he nammed himself
004. Few days later SPY 3 joined us ,
because we were friend for a so long
time , it was stupid, not to let him
join MAD VISION.
Our swapping activities began to be
very important & we begin winning fame.
In June 1990, MAXX-OUT joined us after
his travel to the I.C.C 1 with the REPS
because he was a very good friend of
SPY 3 and MAXI , because he owned an
autograph of Nick/T.C.B on his Joystick
and because he was definitively a cool
guy.
] 1991:
We begin to release game menus,and if
people blamed us for our beeing proud
of ourselves in the scrolltext, it came
only from jealous bands , because with
less than 4 menus we had been famous.
Whereas as we said in the texts of our
intros, "our aim is not to compete with
F.O.F , P.P. , TMB or BBC but to spread
faster than light Replicants'cracks ,
some of the games may not work but we
don't mind.That's the menus of the mega
consumers !"
But because of a lack of time we
stopped our menus. Many bands copied us
and release now file version menus ,
doing nearly nothing except having the
latest news.One of my regret is to have
stopped just when Awesome began,I would
want to check which of us will be the
fastest.
We also opened a UK section with HAL
and the Highlander.
] 1992:
The MASSIVE ATTACK is finally released
ST is almost dead(?),Amazine issue 1 is
there, some professional menus are done
by Gangster of Mad Vision UK (a new
active member ). And we did some
background work with/for Factory.
] As a conclusion,I want to stress two
]facts:
] - Mad Vision has always tried to be
]a band where friendship ruled.
] - Our policy has always been and
]still is... NO COMPROMISE !
It means,that we have ALWAYS said all
that we really think. And did all that
we wanted to. Some of you may think we
are stupid assholes, but they can't say
we are hyprocrits and opportunists.
Some people think we are proud because
we often slag people off , but if we
sometime say somebody does something
lame,we have never said like many bands
do,that we are the best,and if you take
a closer look to our scrolltext you
will perceive the tone is that of irony
and humour.
I hope you didn't get bored of reading
this,if you did... Tell us the story of
your band... The story of Quartex
or Hotline must be more interesting
because full of rapes ,sodomies & other
interesting habits between members. I'm
sorry but we don't usualy practise such
things between members in MAD VISION...
[MAD VISION is about to die...
We have decided to stop ours
HACKtivities on atari ST:
[ WHY ?
- Too much troubles with french soft-
ware companies.
- ST scene is dying...
- Coding on ST is hard,boring & limited
- ST is lame,isn't it ?
Mad Vision's members are still friends
and we really hope to make a new band
together in a near future on a new
atari machine ( FALCON ? ).
But we really hope to release an
other issue of AMAZine with a real code
in language machine and a smooth scroll
in July 92.
SO SEND US ARTICLES !