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- My stay in Citron. is my longest stay in a group this far, going on two years and six months. However, I joined the merry and friendly but still deeply serious Sardonyx as a "double-member" a couple of weeks ago at the \1Hype Micro Party '95\2 in Molnlycke, Sweden...
- Phew, that was a rather long story, I guess, although I haven't been in that many groups - comparatively. "Scene stories" as well as "life stories" are always interesting, aren't they?
\3Why did you guys name the group Citron.? (For all those who don't know, Citron. means, exactly, Lemon. in Swedish.)
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- We named our group Citron. as a kind of protest against all fruit groups. Not that we had anything against Melon Dezign or Lemon. or other clones, but it appeared that people couldn't come up with anything original when one saw, time and time again, group names constructed of the M, E, L, O, N - letters (Nemol, Nolem...), logos drawn using the same principle as the classic black and white Melon logo, etc, etc. We thought that Citron. - at least in Sweden - sounded ridiculous enough to make people understand that we wanted them to react and wake up. Maybe we succeeded, maybe we only managed to throw ourselves onto the pile of other fruits. Anyway, the whole fruit-phenomenon seems to have had it's time, and, honestly, I've actually grown a bit weary about the name; the risk of getting connected to Absolute Vodka Citron is obvious - and no good - when the fruit trend is long ago forgotten. But, on the other hand, Lemon. seems to be back...
\3Why doesn't Citron. release more intros, demos etc.? Citron. has actually one of the most talented coders in Sweden, namely S.Duvan. And you are one of the best designers / graphicians in Sweden.
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- The fact that we only have released Oepir Risti this far is mainly due to our having very few members and these members' being no full-time sceners. In short words, time's the only enemy. Though, perhaps with the true meaning of the word - there will be an intro for Icing '96. Thus, I wouldn't mind if we had time to release other things once in a while - as long as they would keep a decent degree of quality.
\3Please, tell us why Citron. only consists of 3 persons. (S.Duvan, Tobias Jansson and Slash.)
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- We believe that if one wants to keep a group together for a long period of time and manage to keep up a good atmosphere it's far easier to have three members instead of 20 or 30. However, one or two more members would do no harm as things tend to go faster and sometimes also end up better when more people cooperate.
\3How come that your diskmagazine are that non-scene related compared to other diskmagazines? And why do you think your mag get that small support?. According to the Oepir Risti Staff, the mag gets to little support. Tell us what you think about that.
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- Oepir Risti was initially meant as a small mag-like production in which Puh/Agony would publish his short stories and poems. When we decided to make a full-size magnetic publication, a disk magazine, it was natural to make it kind of alternative with Puh's literature column as one of the main sections. Thus, we've never aimed to release an ordinary scene publication; we see the disk magazine as one medium among others in which topics of just any kind can be dealt with. From the start we've had a notion not to publish much news and plain "reports" from scene events and doings as there are some - nowadays rather professional - magazines that take care of that part. If we are to publish scene articles they should preferably be articles of debate that can create opinion and cause discussion; The Scene also needs magazines that watch and criticize rather than objectively and plainly report. These kind of articles are naturally more difficult to write as they demand interesting subjects and thought trough ideas. A "scene report" or news column doesn't really need that much thought from the writer.
