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- Short: ATTENTION all MUSO'S: Please Read, Won't Take Long
- Author: Toby Zuÿdveld (tzuyd@crosswinds.net)
- Uploader: Toby Zuÿdveld (Hotcakes)
- Type: text/misc
-
- (Spoiler:I wanna start a new music group! All interested read on)
-
- It really isn't -that- long ago. I grew up in the time of Sanity and
- Spaceballs, Sylph and Sidewinder, Da mOVEmENT and Melon, U4IA/F8, Juice,
- D.A.X., Echo, h0llyw00d, Celcius, Sheffra, Pink, where are all these names
- now? I'm sure other people have their own favourites who seemingly died
- along with the Amiga many a moon ago.
-
- Mono211 (set up by h0L) at www.mono211.com has lost it's Amiga origins and
- have chosen to dedicate their soul to the dark side (PC's and Mp3's).
- Still check their site out tho, cuz they have a new'n'improved "old and
- forgotten modules" sub-site linked to that addy... nice stuff there.
- Indeed.
-
- Phase Dimension (set up by Juice) has dissappeared from the face of the
- Earth (well, the 'net anyway:), as well as F8. Well, not entirely true.
- ftp.scene.org has (now that they've finally come back online:) revived
- their old phd directory, but the group itself, well, I'm pretty sure
- they don't exist anymore =]
-
- I know Melon have a website somewhere (phew! Search for Melon Dezign on
- www.google.com!) and it's very, very Melonny, wow, cool, wonderful! Ever
- wanted a nice, old, Spaceballs-style Amiga demo in Shockwave-Flash? ;]
-
- "Yeah!"
-
- Sidewinder is still showing off his skills at www.txdirect.net/~sidewind/
- (and a really nice bloke he is, too!:) but also only mp3s I think..?
-
- D.A.X. (www.ravebusters.de - "temporarily not accessible" for the last month
- or so) is happilly living off a budget fed to him from Sony.
- Congratulations! Unfortunately for the rest of us it means he's gone Mp3ish
- too.
-
- I can't be the only one who hates Mp3's ;]
-
- Somebody asked me if I really thought mp3's were demon-spawn. Well, no, I
- guess they aren't, but they really are over rated.
-
- Let's face it, the good old-fashioned music group is a thing of the past.
- Sure, there's bound to be a few left out there, but if there's any Amiga
- based ones they're not very widely known. And when I say widely I mean the
- AmiNet, cuz let's face it, that's basically all there is left of the Amiga
- community these days =[
-
- (Comments, criticisms, complaints, arguments, etc, may be posted to my EMail
- addy specified up the top of this doc - I'd love to be corrected...)
-
- So if there's not (m)any known groups out there, surely it couldn't be too
- hard to crack one into the mixing bowl at have it's yoke-decorated interior
- get noticed <grin>
-
- So here I go. I want to set up a tribute group for the likes of mOnO and
- Ph^D (before they both went the wrong ways:) and I need members to do it
- with.
-
- If you are (still?:) an interested musician who's not afraid to release
- MODULES of the typical formats (OctaMED, FastTracker, ImpulseTracker and of
- course good old fashioned ProTracker and derivatives - NOT MP3'S!) into a
- group environment and can write good electronica (anything from ambience to
- gabber, as mono used to say - they didn't release a single gabber track in
- history if memory serves me correctly;) CONTACT ME! ASCII artists and good
- group-name-come-upperers are useful too. =]
-
- Anyone donating a site I can release .zip's onto are also very nice
- people. =]
-
- tzuyd@crosswinds.net
-
- I'll require a few demos (2 or 3) of your previous stuff or releasable
- stuff (don't send em 'till I ask 4 em!). You'll also be required to post
- me some new stuff regularly...
-
- An appreciation for Mono211 and Ph^D is preferred, as well as being an
- Amiga-musician, but none of it's compulsory. Also, skilled people feeling
- they deserve to get a little more 'noticed' are preferred over famous
- people, but famous people reading this (if there are any left in the
- scene:) are more than welcome too =]
-
-
-
- I plan to open the group on 2001 and have at least one release a month.
-
-
-
- tzuyd@crosswinds.net - This could be a fun time again people... The net has
- killed the BBS scene and made everything seem so much more business and so
- less personal/pleasurable. I know so many people these days that don't even
- know what a 'demo' is. If you're one of them, I suggest you join too =]
-
- In the last two months, I have received interest from about 5 people. Not
- enough! C'Mon people... where's your sense of adventure? =]
-
- Nuff said. Mail now! =]
-
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