TEKNO Music Mania 1998/TEKNO_1998_Music_Mania.ISO/read-me.txt

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To all you hip and hard-rockin', head-bangin',
hair-danglin', high-tootin', hog-howlin', hyper-active
bedroom-musicians out there!

Here's a CDROM with nearly all the music from the 1998
music competition in Tekno Magazine!

I say "nearly" because I couldn't fit all the music on the
CD - so I had to do some "ecomomizing" with the disk-space.
If you'd sent in modules (XM, S3M, IT, MOD, etc.), you are
pretty safe to have got both your modules included, because
modules don't take that much space. So in most cases, we
included both modules, even if we didn't like them very
much. There were some exceptions, where people had sent in
*very big* modules - we only included these
disk-space-eaters if we really liked them a lot.

If you sent in CD, MP3 or tape, then we have coded your
music to MP3 and put it on this CD. For those who sent in
two songs on CD, tape or MP3, we have in most cases only
included the one that we liked best. Except, if we
liked both songs very much, then we included both of them.

Sometimes we also shortened the songs before we coded them
to MP3. We hope you won't be too upset by this - remember,
we did it because we needed the disk-space so that
*everybody* could get some of their music on this CD.

Then again, some entries were simply **SO INCREDIBLY BAD**
that we chose to include them just for fun. :-)

All in all, this CD contains music from *all* 220
participants!

Note that the number in front of each directory name
("001backs" and so on) is *not* a score; this is simply the
order in which the entries were listened to by the jury,
i.e. a totally random order in which they came out of the
box when we went through them.

For the best scores etc., look in the Tekno magazine. The
entries were judged by me, Bj°rn Lynne, together with other
people from Tekno and Roland.

The songs that were sent in as modules (MOD, OctaMED, XM,
IT, etc.) are simply stored in the directories as modules.
For MOD and XM, play with FastTracker 2.08. For IT, use
MikIT or ImpulseTracker. If the song needs to be played
with a special player like ModPlug or OctaMEDPlayer or
whatever, look for it in the "Players" directory. Note
that the WinAmp MP3 player can play modules, but it doesn't
support all the effects and stuff, so modules most likely
will *not* sound correct when played with WinAmp. You
should
always play modules with the real program that the module
was made with.

All the entries that were sent on normal cassettes were
sampled through a Korg 168RC SoundLink digital mixer with
an optical digital link to a Frontier Design Wavecenter
card in my PC. I then used SoundForge 4.0 for noise/hiss
reduction, volume normalizing and some light
level-compression, and then I coded them to MP3 (128
kbit/s).

The entries that were sent on CD were read digitally from
the CD and just coded to MP3 (128 kbit/s).

The entries that were sent on DAT tapes were digitally
sampled through an optical link from a Fostex D5 DAT deck
to the Frontier Design Wavecenter card; and then it was
coded to MP3 (128 kbit/s).

The songs that were sent in as General MIDI files or MIDI
files with custom-made SoundFonts, we have quite simply
just put all the files in the directory. Note that to play
the songs that have SoundFonts (*.sf2), you *must* have an
SB Live, AWE32 or AWE64 with sufficient onboard RAM in
order
to play these songs - and you *must* install the correct
SoundFont before you play them. If you don't know what a
SoundFont is, don't even try to play these songs, it will
just be a mess.

If I have made some mistakes, like placed the wrong song in
the wrong directory or something like that, I'm very sorry.
There was a *LOT* of songs to go through, and disks, tapes,
cassettes and CDs were literally scattered around
wall-to-wall in my room. I tried my best to keep it tidy
and get everything correct.

Sound quality: I tried to make the songs sound as good as
possible, using some of the best digital sound processing
tools available to balance levels, clean up hiss and noise,
etc. But on some occasions, the recording was just too poor
to get a good result. So if you hear a lot of hiss and
generally poor sound quality, you can rest assured that
what you are hearing sounds a lot better than the source
that we got. Some people also didn't seem to read, or care
about, the contest rules. We said "only chrome or metal
tapes" in the rules, but still some people sent in *really
crap* old re-used and re-re-re-used normal-position tapes.
Their recordings sounded *terrible*, and even if the song
had been very very good, you wouldn't have had a chance of
winning, simply because of the sound quality. I mean, come
on - some guy sent in his songs on an old tape, and I could
hear the old recording of Simply Red coming through
underneath! Surely he wasn't expecting any prize for that
kind of delivery.

Anyway...

Some people also sent in floppy-disks (again, re-used and
re-re-re-used ones), and some of them had read-errors. When
that happened, I didn't just throw them away without trying
to salvage them. I know that people put a lot of time and
effort into creating this music, and I thought I owed it to
them at least to try and salvage whatever I could, with
"disk-scan" and things like that. Sometimes this was partly
successful, i.e. I was able to salvage most of it - so you
might hear, for example, an MP3 song with some "drop-outs"
or an XM module in which a few instruments are missing.
This probably means that the disk had read-errors, but I
was able to salvage enough of it to make the song playable.
And sometimes I couldn't salvage it at all, after about
half-an-hour of trying to get the disk to work (using 3
different PC's), I gave up.

Finally... a special mention must go to the idiot who had
ripped sections from my own old song "12th Warrior", which
I personally composed back in 1991 or 1992 or whatever. I
mean, what is the matter with people? The competition-rules
clearly said that the song had to be your own original
composition. So this guy takes a song that someone else has
composed, copies the whole middle-section and all the
instruments, changes the drums, signs a paper saying "I
promise that this is my own composition" - and then he
sends the song in for a competition... where the main judge
is the guy who wrote the original song!!!!!! What!! Anyway,
I won't mention his name, although I really wanted to tell
everybody who he is, I'll be nice to him and not put his
name here.

Okay, I guess that's it from me. I hope you'll enjoy this
CD, because I put a lot of hard work into putting it all
together. Now start listening, and have a good time!

- Bj°rn Lynne, main-judge and CD-arranger - Tekno


Finally, here is a list of all participants, along with
their "participant number": (Remember that the order is
*random*).

001    Mikael Backstr÷m
002    Chris Vel°y
003    Daniel Lindquist
004    Snorre Forsgren
005    Kenneth Jakobsen
006    John Ekstr÷m
007    Nils Hσkansson
008    Andreas Winther
009    Andreas FranzΘn
010    Morten Hagen Svendsen
011    Oskar Granstrand
012    Mats Antonsson
013    Thorbj°rn Berg Skjetne
014    Geir Sigve Hokstad
015    ╪ystein Solberg
016    Linus Walleij
017    Jan Rune Wahlstr°m
018    Manuela Hofer
019    Tryggve Sollid
020    Espen Gulbrandsen
021    Jon Swane Bµkken
022    ╪ystein Eliassen
023    Jogeir Liljedahl
024    Eivind A. Moland
025    Bj°rn Andre Elton
026    Fredrik Holmstr°m
027    Andreas Ekstr÷m
028    Stefan J÷nsson
029    Axel N. Stabursvik
030    Peter Carlsson
031    Geir Ove Balstad
032    Jens Tandstad
033    Roger Skagerstr÷m
034    Martin Cedrot
035    Marcus Lundh
036    Tom-Ivar Larsen
037    Johannes Johannessen
038    Patrick "Nomy" Marquardt
039    Daniel Myhr
040    Kaj Roger Willumsen
041    Marcus Knudsen
042    Andreas Jonsson
043    Mikael Jonsson
044    Anders Graner°d
045    Carl Bond
046    J°rgen Andersson
047    Erlend Steen
048    Michal Karpinski & Gustav Espenes
049    Stefan Kristiansson
050    Jens Th÷rnell
051    Raymond Strandheim
052    Stig Andre N.  Muri
053    Eirik Myhr
054    Mikael Diser
055    Petter Andresen
056    Tor Andre Str°msnes
057    Lars Kristian Hagen
058    Christian Romedahl
059    Daniel Granquist
060    Torkjel Austad
061    James Lernestσl
062    Kimmo Kiviranta
063    John Soo Hatten Solvang
064    John Andersson
065    Daniel Nylander
066    Geir Nilsskog
067    Jonas Asp
068    Steffen Karlsen
069    Rodrigo Ramos
070    Lukas Mattson
071    Tony Westman
072    Morten Lind Losnegaard
073    Tor Christian Eliassen
074    Amdreas Wa°°grem
075    Christian Edstr÷m
076    Tommy Eriksson
077    Tomas Syversen
078    Tony Huttunen
079    Per Kristian Fonn
080    Joakim Roberg
081    Christian Antonsen
082    Kent-Erik Sjursen
083    Orhan Karag÷z & Johannes Norneby (The Yalla Project)
084    David M. Karlsson
085    Kevin Olsen
086    Jeanette Lindell
087    Richard Karlsson
088    Michael Thonfors
089    Henrik ┼str÷m
090    Petter K÷rnemark
091    Johannes Ahlebrand
092    Nisse Eriksson
093    Tom Petter Hansen
094    Jesper Hemdarve
095    Ingar Bordi
096    Erik ┼lstedt Sund
097    Anders Vigren
098    Carl Wijnbladh
099    Ragni Elisabeth Funner
100    Joakim Stenkvist
101    ╓rjan Wiklund
102    Fredrik Werkander
103    Viktor Sehr
104    Ola Gunnarsson
105    Fredrik von Braun
106    ╪yvind Borge
107    Frode Korbijn
108    Robert Nilsson
109    Richard Sviestins
110    Kenneth ╓dlund
111    Ove Pedersen
112    Mikael Larsson
113    Are Refsdal
114    Stig Tornes
115    David Kjellin
116    Erik Danielsson
117    Kent WalldΘn
118    ╪yvind Rosvold Jr
119    Therese ┼ldstedt
120    Stian Str°m
121    Kenneth Grimsmo
122    Per Christian Lilleby
123    Robert Olofsson
124    Fredrik Andreasson
125    ╪yvind St°le
126    Johan Mitchell
127    J÷rgen Fransson
128    Robert Kreese
129    Kristian Lood
130    Johnny Gustavsson
131    John KΣppi
132    Tim Palander
133    Mikael Tatti
134    Tomas Nordstr÷m
135    Eskil Lauritsen
136    Martin Aasbrenn
137    Joachim Larsen
138    Peter Bergstr÷m
139    Joakim Hammarin
140    Anders Ingemansson
141    Egil Seljeset
142    Christian M÷lk
143    Daniel Olsen
144    Bj÷rn Nordstr÷m
145    Tomas Bergstr°m
146    Frode Angell-Petersen
147    Anders Walla
148    Lars Olav Gjetten
149    Erlend Schjelderup
150    Martin Thoresen
151    Thomas Anker
152    Peter Eklund & Ulf Bogren (Staysin)
153    Svenn Arve Myklebost
154    Gustav Embretsen
155    Asmund Grinaker
156    Magnus ╓stman
157    Ole Kristoffer ╪ye
158    Linus Persson
159    Lars AhlzΘn
160    Magnus Nebdal
161    Hans-Petter Persen
162    Magic Reality (band)
163    Fredrik Askebris
164    Patrik Bj÷rkman
165    Preben Kirkeng
166    AndrΘ L. J. L°ver
167    Lars Kristian Kvarenes
168    Jonatan Nilsson
169    Bj÷rn Holmberg
170    Mattias Sj÷÷
171    Per Eivind Vestgarden
172    Tor Kristian Bj°rneb°le
173    Fredrik Forsberg
174    Tom Johansson
175    Simon Rybrand
176    Wolfgang Wee
177    Johan Petersson
178    Torbj÷rn Staaf
179    J°rn Knutsen
180    Mikael Svensson
181    Stian Nahavandi
182    Leo Sarela
183    Tommy M. Olsen
184    Niklas Johansson
185    David Gunnarsson
186    Mikael Andersson
187    Morten Rivelsrud
188    Geir Gundersen
189    Mattias Flodin
190    Marcus Lindmark
191    Tomas Moe Skj°ldsvold
192    Lars Gustav Gulbrandsen
193    Mattias Jacobson
194    Ulf Dahl
195    Tony Kjellin
196    Bj÷rn Hagman
197    Sonny Nilsson
198    Hans Magne R°rvik
199    Magnus H÷jer
200    Mattias Dahlberg
201    Thorleif Arnesen
202    Daniel Andersson
203    Kristian Larsen
204    Erik Johansson
205    Olof Ortstad
206    Per Johan Nyhate
207    Stefan Stokki
208    Olav Aune Thomassen
209    Robert Sundelin
210    Kent Ove Josefsen
211    Mikkel Hastrup
212    Martin Nilsson
213    Pσl Nordlien
214    Petter Ljung
215    Robert Pohl
216    Asbj°rn Skeie
217    ╪ystein Claussen
218    Christian Espeland
219    ╪rjan T. Bell
220    Jon Sandelin