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| TraxWeekly Issue: #23 | Release date: 08-18-95 | Current subscribers: 270 |
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TraxWeekly is in need of one of more columnists that can provide at least
3 articles a month for TraxWeekly. If you are interested, mail
campbell@fox.nstn.ca
This week, I'd like to introduce a new section to TraxWeekly:
The Xixit Scoreboard. Send your top scores to me at
campbell@fox.nstn.ca, and next week we will see who will go
down in the Xixit hall of fame.
I was very excited to get two applications for columnist this week,
they both looked so good I accepted both of them. Morham has
written his first article this week. I will accept one more
columnist, so if you think you are the right person for the
remaining spot, drop me a line!
We are hoping to get Imphobia #11 out in mid-September, if anyone
would like to make a contribution to Imphobia, you may send it
to me and I will make sure Darkness get's it in time for publication.
- Popcorn [campbell@fox.nstn.ca]
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Letters / Feedback
General Articles
Introducing Baygle.........................Popcorn
Morham says Hello..........................Morham
Force Ten pack #6 review...................Bert
Being new to the scene.....................Tackle
Headline News..............................Vortex
Assembly '95 results.......................Popcorn
Trax Culture
Group Columns
Epinicion..................................Psibelius
Closing
Distribution Sites..........................Neurosis
TraxWeekly Subscribing/FTP/WWW Info.........TraxWeekly Staff
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 12:46:28 -0300
From: andrewf@searchme.demon.co.uk
To: campbell@fox.nstn.ca
Subject: Letter for TraxWeekly
I have been watching the demo/tracking scene etc. from a
distance for a while now. This is not because I'm a musician, coder,
artist (I'm hopeless at all three!) but simply because I enjoy the
fruits of what these kind people do for free. I'd just like to add
some opinions to those currently bandied about to see what people
think of them. Please don't see them as flames or grumbles, simply
suggestions.
First of all, the music in the scene, though undoubtedly
very good, lacks variety between genres. There are some very varied
examples of techno and 'demo' style music, but that's all we seem
to get. Doesn't anyone write anything different? Also, the talents of
some of the old 'true' mod writers seems to have disappeared. People
who could fit an excellent song into a standard 4-track MOD don't
seem to be around any more. These days, you have to have a fast 486
because all the really good music is at least 12-channel s3m. Those of
us w/ slow computers - e.g. 386SX16 can't keep up. And a lot of these
large s3m/xm mods seem to have very unnecessary channels - e.g. 2 chn.
for left and right where a simple pan command could have chopped the
number in half.
But I don't want to sound like a moaner, or that I'm being
patronising. The demos, graphics, and music you people produce
just gets better by the day. I'd add to it if only I could think of a
way to. And by the way, TraxWeekly is excellent. Keep up the good work,
Mr Editor.
Andrew Ferrier
andrewf@searchme.demon.co.uk
Spheroid Software - spheroid@searchme.demon.co.uk
[I'd like to point out that Necros composed all his music on a 386/16
with a sound blaster pro before he won a Gravis Ultrasound at NAID,
and now, recentally, has purchased a 486/100 computer. If you are
having trouble playing songs, I suggest you buy a Gravis Ultrasound
Ace. It will work fine with whatever card you have now, and
can handle 32 channels in hardware with no slowdowns, for under
$100 US. I'm the proud owner of a GUS v3.4]
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Date: Sat, 5 Aug 1995 06:36:43 +0000
From: Scott Rutkowski <scottr@ion.apana.org.au>
Subject: trax weekly
To: campbell@fox.nstn.ca
Hi to all you trax weekly readers. I have recently stumbled across Trax
weekly and wish to commend all the editors, columnists etc for the fine
work they do putting together this fine magazine. I have been on the net
for 2 years now and think the demo seen is great.
I especially enjoy music disks and xm modules and many other music
formats. I play the keyboard and enjoy it very much.
Basically I just wanted to commend everyone for there work with trax
weekly and hope there are many issues to come.
Keep up the good work musicians and I hope to write some reviews or
something for trax weekly if anyone wuld be interested.
I would write some mods of my own but due to my vision impairment, I
can't write mods with these new beaut graphical user interfaces.
I hope that some day someone will write a tracker that is note dependent
so people like myself can write music without having to just ftp other
people's fine work.
Cheers and bye for now.
[thanks for your letter, we are very interested in any contributions
to the mag]
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 03:03:46 -0500 (CDT)
From: Necros / FM <necros@axs.net>
To: campbell@fox.nstn.ca
i just got thru reading traxweekly #22 and i must say:
' ARE YOU PEOPLE CRAZY??????????????? '
It contained ONE THOUSAND LINES of IRC captures. Now perhaps some people,
along with deranged rats, Sudanese camel-sellers, and festering lepers
enjoy reading this much IRC scroll. But most of us realize how utterly SILLY
it is. Fear scanning through hundreds of lines of text to find the
occasional quirky comment. If you are going to include them in the
future, PLEASE edit the fuck out of them, and don't make your readers wade
thru pages and pages of mindless crap...
[Hey, that's our IRC channel you are talking about here (: - seriously,
I agree that I did put too much #trax cuts in TraxWeekly #22. There is
not a flood at all in this issue, so I hope you enjoy reading it better.
We all look forward to the next time you feel like writing another article]
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After a succesful 2 weeks taking care of #asm95 as Assembly, Baygle
is now serving time in #trax. Unlike the bots that came before it,
Baygle is not around just to give people their +o, it is also
a fileserver. Currentally Baygle contains 150 megs of files:
All Assembly '95 releases [/asm95]
All Kosmic '94 and '95 releases [/music/kosmic]
All released songs from Necros [/music/necros]
All released tunes from FM [/music/fm]
All songs by Jogier [/music/jogeir]
All songs by Heatbeat [/music/heatbeat]
All songs by Dr. Awesome [/music/awesome]
All Jazz tunes from Aminet [/music/jazz]
All Rock tunes from Aminet [/rock]
All TraxWeekly issues [/traxweekly]
My favorite demos and music [/classic]
The machine Baygle is running from is connected via Ethernet to a
T1, so speeds should be very good. Thank you to Ryan Cramer for
the machine and drive space.
To get access to the bot's file area:
1. Type /msg baygle hello if you haven't already
2. /dcc chat baygle
3. Wait while the login information scrolls by
4. /msg =baygle .files
5. If you need any help with commands, /msg =baygle help
If any groups or artists would like their releases on the filebot,
please mail popcorn at campbell@fox.nstn.ca
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Greetings to all.
As you're probably aware, this is my first article for TraxWeekly.
Hopefully, it will be far from my last! Some of you might be asking,
just who is this guy? Well, let me get the formalities out of the way
and talk briefly about myself.
My handle is Mhoram - a name taken from The Cronicles of Thomas Covenant,
by Stephen Donaldson. Excellent books; highly recommended reading. My
real name is John Niespodzianski, and I live in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
Currently I'm a musician for The Natives, an up and coming demo group from
Belgium. All members, except for myself and my brother, The Crow, are
from various areas of Belgium. I hooked up almost a year ago with the guys
via Internet - ah, the power of global communication! We're currently
planning on releasing a mega demo at Wired '95.
So far, I've entered three different music contests - MC2, MC3, and The
Composers Competition. I finished 10th in the veterans competition in MC2;
I was glad to finish so high but disappointed I didn't finish at least 8th;
if you recall the top 8 veterans entries made it onto the CD... oh well! I
really felt I entered a great song, but the extended guitar solo samples
must have cost me some points. My MC3 entry finished near the bottom - and
it should have. All I wanted to do was finish in the middle of the pack,
but the great competition left me in the dust. More on that in a minute -
that's the subject of my article. I'm getting there, honest!
My biggest disappointment was The Composers Competition. I entered what I
felt was a great song - The Final Hour. But unfortunately the organizer of
the competition pulled the plug on the contest during the judging phase.
So my song never won anything, and was ineligible to be entered in any
future contests. Argh! I can't complain, though - that song has brought
me many compliments from people all over the globe - thanks, guys!
OK, now that you know a little about me, let's get to the point. It's no
secret that the biggest event of the year for PC Trackers around the world
just ended - MC3! Although several articles have been written already on
MC3, I'd like to offer my thoughts and opinions.
First, I can't believe the increase in the talent of the musicians between
MC2 and MC3. Incredible! Just pick any entry from the vet competition and
it's going to be impressive. The scene is really growing - and for the
better. Everything has improved - samples, arrangement, melodies, etc! As
a musician I couldn't be happier - the great tunes just keep on coming. As
a competitor, I'm inspired... I have to work twice as hard to keep up with
the great musicians now on the scene. I only wish that there was more
cooperation and openness between the musicians and less bashing on the scene -
but that's the subject of a future article.
Second, I noticed a strong movement towards classical and piano-based tunes
in MC3. Not that there's anything wrong with this; I love this type of
music. But it can also be bad. One of the great things about the tracking
scene is the variety of music styles that you find. It seems that there is
a strong movement away from all types of house/tek/rave music and towards
more traditional forms. I personally prefer the diversity, and wish that
MC3 had a wider range of music entered. This isn't intended as a slam, but
it seems that everyone is trying to become Skaven and write their own spin
on Second Reality. One of the things I admire most about Skaven (who just
so happens to be my favorite composer, btw) is his incredible diversity.
I think we all should strive to be as varied as possible; but that's just my
feeble 2 cents, for what little it's worth.
Of all the entries, two really stick out to me. The first is the entry by
Necros. Mainly because it was a guitar tune, and I love good guitar music!
I'm really impressed with the music that I've heard from Necros, and his MC3
entry is no different. He's paved his own style and it shows. Keep up the
great work! I can't remember who wrote the other entry (and I'm too lazy to
go look it up right now <G>), but it was the song with the recorded lyrics.
I was surprised it didn't finish in the Top 10. In my opinion, the song
itself was fantastic - and recording the lyrics was an innovative idea. He
wasn't the greatest vocalist (trust me, I have no room to talk!) but gave it
a great effort.
All I know is that MC4 should be the toughest competition ever - and I can't
wait! One thing is for sure - I'll spend much longer than six hours working
on my entry for that one. Although I'd love to win as much as the next
person, the thing I enjoy the most is the competition and hearing all of the
great music. I think it's important to be a fan first and a musician second.
That's enough for now - my baby's crying and Baseball Tonight is coming on
in a few minutes. Thanks for taking the time to read this, and hopefully
I'll catch you in my next article or see you on #trax. Track on!
-Mhoram
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Forceten-pack-#6 - A closer look
One mornin i woke up and my first thought was: lets do something usefull
today...and so we press some power buttons and boot up the ceepeeuuhh...
Well..not that usefull so far..but where heading the right direction..Now
we're goin to hook up the modem and do some neat ftp'in...And there it is:
A huge file (almost 2 Megs, if i do recall correctly) called f10_pck6.zip,
sipping through my modem line....lets get another cup of coffee...
At last it has safely arrived on my hd. After some unzippin we get to see
a bunch of songs (8 to be more specific), some f10 musicplayer files and
off course the usual info files.
My goal of today is to do some serious (?) reviewing on the latest musicdisk
by forceten...But thats what you would have figured out by now.
At first, I think its usefull to know on what sort of system the musicdisk
has been played. That is a 486DX-VLB with 8 megs of ram and a GUSMAX 512kb.
One small hint for any future projects concernin more than 1.4546???? Megs:
Why dont you out there archive such files with the command:
arj a -r -y -v1440 itfits.arj *.*
I'm sure you know that this option will archive all files in parts of a 1.44
meg floppy disk...That might be handy for people who cant ftp at home (and
there're a lot of them), like those who download at the university for
example and want to take all the stuff home on floppy disk...
Okay, that will cover the >> 1.44 megs part...
Lets get back to business...The info files are clear. There're some
hints and tips in it about min.sys req.mnts and FQS's.
We simply start the show by typing f10 at the dos prompt...Next we get con-
fronted by a graphics info screen that askes "a little patience please"
for the graphics that needs to be loaded..Gives me some time to warn my
neighbours about the noise level the next half an hour. Within the startup
screen is a nice progress meter showing the progress...hmmm, progress would
be better on a pentium I suppose. Anyway, within a bunch of seconds later
we get to see a very nice screen layout. Nice graphics, with flickering
"forceten" logo's and in between them a song-info-selection screen. No
making-you-want-to-kill-somebody-intro-tune that's in your head for the next
fourty years..just enjoy the silence..
The interface is great by its simplicity. Just use the left/right cursor to
scroll your way along the different song info screens. When you've made your
choice just hit return and the selected song get loaded. And all this can be
done with your mouse too. There's a note on the screen that you can drag with
all over the screen with your mouse. So both ST3 and FT2 freaks must be able
to control this file selector. I only wonder why the note is moving like a
flag in the wind....
After the desired song is loaded in memory (I just love my GUS hmm) it starts
to play in the play-screen (hey!). This screen also looks very nice, with
spectrum analysed look-a-like channel display. The song starts playing and
one can skip through the patterns by using the left/right cursor. Also the
song can be paused, or even stopped. This can be all done by mouse controled
action too. Pressing the F-i (i=1...#channels) keys, toggles the i_th channel
on/off.
So far the interface, now we get to the major part: the songs. Lets start
with the default song when you start up f10, and listening them from left
to right in the file-selector...the normal way..
1. Origins - The Zapper! / 27 patterns / Total playing time: 3.59
Nice intro with a strong sympho like chord progression. Then the rythm
comes in accompagnied by the melody lines. Later on the speed drops down
to another symphonic bridge. Then, as a sudden, tempo gets back up together
with fast piano leads. Ending with again a sympho part like in the start,
that fades out.
2. It shook the world! - The Zapper! / 17 patterns / Total playing time: 1.57
This song starts with very heavy rythm guitars and major ruling basslines &
drums. So far the intro. Then there's the lead guitar, which i think
personally sounds a bit weird. But that's what TheZapper! tells us in
the info screen. Like TheZapper! himself: "This is a crazy song".
3. The African sun - The Zapper! / 21 patterns / Total playing time: 3.05
Starts with really impressive percussion lines done by the Duellist (he's a
drummer, you can hear that) The following chords are sympho style - I like
that in a song - with nice leads. Halfway, there's the drummers solo part...
It rocks! I just wonder about the lead -> is it a guitar or a flute??
4. Anormal Confusion - Vizz / 32 patterns / Total playing time: 4.??
How fast should we go ? That's definitely the main question that rises when
analysing this beat. This is one-hundred-percent pure ambient-techno. The
first half is beats, basses and echoing synth's beats. Halfway there's an
ambient part to get catch some breath. But not for long. The next part is
rollin like a steady train. Then it ends with howling winds, and after a
period of silence it's like Vizz accidently pasted some patterns of another
song to it. Why didn't he call it Abnormal Confusion. I got so confused
I forgot to keep track of the exact playin time...hmmm...
5. Undescrible thoughts - Vizz / 25 patterns / Total playing time: 3.36
This is what I like in a song: Two basic string chords along with a
cool lead synth, and awesome percussion line. Then the rythm breaks
and we here just the leads, now playing another melody.
Soon the drums return, now a really nice "Marillion" like drum line.
The song builds up a climax, which ends in an outburst of the leads..
Finally some more string chords which fade out towards the end..
Absolutely my favourite song!
6. Desired Affair - Vizz / 29 patterns / Total playing time: 3.30
Another dance-a-like tune from mister Vizz. I like the fast volume
slides, which enable the triggering effects on the notes. While playing
tyhe song, the rythm drops down and the leads take over. Later together
by chords and a good bassline. Songs fades out to the end.
7. Touch of Nature - The Duellist / 20 patterns / Total playing time: 3.00
Sounds like an easy listening tune. Happy song, with even happier lead
lines (flute). Would do nice in the title tune of some soap series i think.
Everytime when you think it has ended, it starts again in another transpose
position. However, the song has been tracked beautifully...
8. Dive into Jazz! - The Zapper! / 24 patterns / Total playin time: 2.57
A Jazzy tune....The bass line sounds very realistic...good one..Just like
the groove...nice bridges in the drum patterns..
However, it is still hard to get a realistic sound out of a trumpet sample
in a tracked song..The piano and organs achieve a much better realistic
sound.
Closing words:
Overall i think the 'forceten' team did a wonderfull job by releasing their
sixth music-pack. I havent heard any of their earlier packs, so i cant draw
a line from that, but i can tell you that all the eight songs are of high
sound quality and contain many different music styles, like symphonic,
ambient/techno, funk, rock, jazz and happy-live-forever...
If you can, get it....
thanx for reading, and have a nice day!
Bert [Epinicion.PositiveNoise]
Email: D.R.vanderVelden@Wbmt.TUdelft.NL
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REFLECTIONS ON BEING A NEW TRACKER
by Tackle (tackle@sky.net)
It's tough being a new tracker these days. Hell, maybe it was tough back
in the old days, too, but I wasn't around then, so I can't really comment,
now can I? I'm fairly sure you've never heard my work, and if you have,
you haven't told me, so I'll just assume that no one is listening. I
bet I'm not the only person like this either.
What is frustrating to me is why this is so. I've offered my XM's on IRC,
and I have a web page set up that allows my compositions to be downloaded.
On IRC, no more than one or two people ever get my compositions, and I
really have no way of knowing how many people get the stuff off of my
web site, but I doubt very many people do. Now, I'm new at the tracking
game. You all remember what it was like when you were new, don't ya?
It's frustrating. You spend hours and hours (or days and days) tracking,
only to find that nobody is even willing to take a few minutes out of
their lives to listen to it. It hurts. I know. I'm there.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, listen to the music of beginners. Sure,
it's gonna be no where near the stuff that won MC3 (or even got close to
winning), but just take a little time to listen to this stuff. Don't only
listen, but if they've got an internet E-Mail address, let 'em know what
you thought of it. It's hard to get better when you don't even know what
other people think of it. Give 'em some tips on what they could do to
make future compostitions better. Or, just let 'em know you heard it.
Even that is better than nothing. I personally put my E-Mail adress in
every single XM I make, and I've made and offered 5 so far via either
IRC or my Web page. I haven't gotten 1 single solitary piece of mail
from anybody regarding something I've tracked. No "Hey man, nice MOD."
No "Next time, try this instead of this." Not even a "You suck, give up."
Even that's better than nothing.
I know that it's really hard to keep up with everything that's coming
out nowadays, and there's probably 80 people in the same situation I'm in.
I'm also sure they wanna hear a comment or two on something they've done,
not necissarily to kiss their ass, but just something. I can guarantee
that any E-Mail you send to anybody would be greatly appreciated, even
if you totally trash their music. Think of it as giving back something
to the community.
I think that the lack of response that people get may be the reason
that ripping is such a problem in the tracking community. People figure,
"Man, if people don't say anything about my music, it must really suck."
Trust me, I've thought that myself. So, they take something that didn't
make it really big, but is still a good piece of work, and they delete all
the info and call it their own. They figure that it will get them some
degree of attention if nobody figures out, and even if they do, hey, you
get your name in Demo News or Trax Weekly, and somebody writes an article
about you. Better than nothing, right?
In conclusion, support the beginning tracker. Pick up some stuff that
didn't win a music compo, or stuff that wasn't even entered in a music
compo. And then send 'em some feedback. You could be responsible
for helping guide a future Necros or Purple Motion, and also helping
ensure that there will be at the very least a generation of decent
trackers putting out some decent music to the tracking scene.
If you wanna hear my stuff, just fire up your web browser and give a look
at http://www.sky.net/~tackle/, or I'm on IRC as Tackle, feel free to
ask me for my stuff. Thanks.
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Hello everyone. Yes, it's me again, the guy everyone loves to hate.
This article is to detail some stunning new evidence I received recently
regarding the infamous issue of us apparently ripping songs for our music
disk Fire in the Soul. You'll all be happy to know that the evidence is in
your favour.
By now you're wondering what the evidence is. Well, it's the most
pwoerful kind; a confession. Yes, MuzikMan admitted to me that he ripped
every song in Fire in the Soul. Up to that point, he had been repeatedly
denying that he did anything, but now, everything has been revealed. Right
now, I am beyond furious with him and would kick the crap out of him if I
believed such a thing could solve anything. As for his future in Immortal
Software Productions, it's going to be a member vote with majority rules.
Personally, I'm voting to kick him, but I have no idea what the others will
decide. One other member has already voted to keep him.
Well, this article isn't just to reveal the new evidence. It's to
try to make peace with some people. I am personally apologising to each to
every person who was ripped from including Future Assassin, Pinion, Maelcum
and whoever else I missed. I will however, not apologise to anyone who I
said was handling this issue immaturely and who was being an asshole about
it. Those people know who they are and they now know that I don't think
they deserve any form of apology from me.
It's up to you people whether or not I come back to #TRAX. I would
like to, but won't lose any sleep if you don't want me around. I can
understand why you wouldn't. Thanks for taking the time to read this. Keep
up the good work everyone!
Gerry Corcoran/Vortex (gcorc@synapse.net),
President of Immortal Software Productions
[note: Immortal Software Productions has voted to kick MuzikMan from the
group]
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-[ Assembly '95 Results ]---------------------------------------------------
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PC DEMO
1 10 (3646 points) Noon "Stars : Wonders of the world"
2 7 (1482 points) Juice "Psychic link"
3 12 (1204 points) RealTech "DX Project"
4 1 (1039 points) Capacala "Zweilight Zone"
5 2 (916 points) Epical "Rebel Mind"
6 3 (896 points) Miracle "Higher Desire"
7 15 (799 points) Orange "Television"
8 5 (587 points) Dubius "Optimal Torque"
9 8 (541 points) Kosmic "Little Green Men"
10 13 (372 points) Japotek "Figthing for something"
11 4 (224 points) Masque "Mystery"
12 6 (175 points) tArzAn tuotanto "Syllabization"
13 11 (153 points) Black Rain "Overflow"
14 9 (143 points) Deus ex Machina "Fever"
15 14 (33 points) Simplicity "Elegant"
AMIGA DEMO
1 11 (2917 points) Parallax "ZIF"
2 9 (1950 points) Pygmy Projects "Logic"
3 12 (1366 points) Stellar "Miracles"
4 10 (1224 points) Silents "Fruit Kitchen"
5 2 (980 points) Juliet and Case "C42"
6 7 (902 points) Complex "Dive"
7 8 (457 points) Fanatic "Hate 2"
8 6 (356 points) Balance "Embryo"
9 4 (317 points) Zymosis "Wc goes to wc"
10 3 (281 points) Embassy "Thrilled"
11 1 (235 points) Abyss "High Anxiety"
12 13 (217 points) Black Lotus " "
13 5 (115 points) Domination "Domination's Dentro"
PC 64K INTRO
1 4 (2750 points) Wild Light "Drift"
2 10 (1899 points) Coma "Stickman's World"
3 15 (1364 points) Complex "Bill G Force"
4 14 (1219 points) Jamm "Nation Zero"
5 2 (1112 points) Halcyon "Detour"
6 13 (1041 points) Valhalla "Believe"
7 1 (527 points) Mist "Alchymid"
8 6 (506 points) Halo "Reality Impact"
9 3 (471 points) Symptom "Camera"
10 11 (364 points) Abaddon "Pied"
11 9 (358 points) Epsilon "Dream"
12 7 (271 points) Hazard "Cocaholic"
13 12 (225 points) Anarchy "Tam"
14 8 (194 points) Woodpeckers from Mars "No Class"
15 5 (185 points) @ "Byte me"
AMIGA INTRO
1 2 (2312 points) Sonik "FAD"
2 3 (1933 points) Hirmu "Hauki"
3 5 (1354 points) Sonik "Blur"
4 1 (869 points) Banal Projects "Seasick"
5 4 (772 points) C-Lous "Assembly 95 40k Intro"
6 11 (714 points) Extend "Sections"
7 9 (648 points) Yodel "Oberon"
8 10 (427 points) RRR "Cinderhatch"
9 13 (340 points) Bomb Squad "Ultimate Stress"
10 6 (311 points) Heretic "Delirium"
11 8 (272 points) Royal "Sauna!"
12 15 (209 points) Cirion "Hope"
13 14 (206 points) Kinky "Sumu"
14 7 (188 points) Amacon "Mission Impossible"
15 12 (108 points) Diffusion "Kintro"
GRAPHICS
1 13 (1769 points) Visualize/Jamm "Fiction"
2 6 (1457 points) Artifec/Complex "Mystery"
3 7 (1285 points) Jogi/Mellow Chips "Agony"
4 1 (1177 points) Visigoth/Pure Resistance "Valkyria"
5 5 (948 points) Kube/CNCD "Mustafa"
6 2 (880 points) Kal/Astroidea "Morphosis"
7 12 (802 points) Yoga/United Artists "An axe"
8 11 (702 points) IronMan "Phobic"
9 4 (664 points) Mazor/Paragon "Pain 2"
10 8 (639 points) Facet&Super Nao/Lemon. "Baby"
11 10 (616 points) Wolf/X-Trade "NO"
12 15 (428 points) Tyshdomolo/Abyss "Grandma"
13 3 (372 points) Zeb/Orange "Nut Fish"
14 14 (254 points) Neutesten/Zirkonium "Blend"
15 9 (201 points) Destop/CNCD "Wicked"
RAYTRACE
1 14 (2375 points) Diffusion "The Desktop"
2 11 (1487 points) Andy "Church Windows"
3 2 (1039 points) Tapsah/Absolute Xtacy "Flower"
4 15 (981 points) Dark Juha/Hirmu "Da End"
5 13 (976 points) Toalnkor/Realtech "Sunset in Vectorcity"
6 10 (866 points) Fish/Damane "Candle"
7 5 (737 points) Marek Gibney "Jesu"
8 1 (466 points) Spiff/Obsession Development "On"
9 4 (396 points) Daemon/Dawn "Interface"
10 3 (392 points) Minx/Fascination "Planscape"
11 6 (313 points) Willysoft "Room of runes"
12 12 (263 points) Serge "The Twilights"
13 7 (214 points) - "World"
14 8 (191 points) Havenlock/DKS "Grimreaper"
15 9 (147 points) Turo/Fascination "Kielo"
ANIMATION
1 5 (2247 points) Flow by Jaco
2 8 (2247 points) Pulp by RRRR & Bang
3 11 (2156 points) Space 01 by Cubic Team
4 10 (1346 points) Chestmaster 2001 by Slimy Devil
5 2 (604 points) Fastline in vector city by Toalnkor
6 6 (603 points) Space Mountain by Execom
7 4 (384 points) Dawn by Artifex
8 3 (307 points) Bomb Ride by Vertex Twister
9 9 (175 points) Insel by Marek Gibner
10 1 (147 points) Cityscape by Zinx
11 13 (134 points) The Choice by Jan-Erik Tervo
12 7 (118 points) AAA-Animation by Shaq
13 12 (93 points) NIH by Frank
14 14 (11 points) Atlantis by Price and Tennessee
4 CHANNEL
1 11 (1420 points) Theseus/Anathema "Funkyeeh"
2 9 (1280 points) Cube/Dee "Illumination"
3 2 (1193 points) Lizardking/Razor 1911 "Crayfish Party"
4 7 (1080 points) Breeze/Capacala "Aroma of northwest"
5 8 (1056 points) Oxide/Sonik "Topless"
6 15 (921 points) Ukulele/Banal Projects "Jormuan Lava"
7 6 (824 points) Radix/Limited Edition "Rymdfunk"
8 12 (797 points) Dizzy/CNCD "Suuntaviivat"
9 1 (742 points) Brem/Bomb Squad "Get it"
10 4 (707 points) Groo/CNCD "Pop Huora"
11 3 (579 points) Andy/Banal Projects "Balthazar"
12 13 (462 points) Boheme/Bomb Squad "The Robot Kingdom"
13 10 (458 points) Sphinx/Fanatic "Holocaust"
14 5 (369 points) Yoga/United Artists "Chuynia"
15 14 (330 points) Dj. Roberto "Blowing House"
32 CHANNEL
1 7 (2999 points) Skaven "Catch that Goblin"
2 5 (1017 points) Rage "Guild of sounds"
3 11 (988 points) Lizardking "World of unicorns"
4 2 (968 points) Stargazer "Garage"
5 8 (886 points) Prism "Can you feel it"
6 6 (811 points) Beathawk "Breaking the sky"
7 4 (724 points) Yolk "Temple of sun"
8 10 (699 points) Purple Motion "Astraying Voyages"
9 9 (648 points) Zake "Kaapu-Pete Matkustaa"
10 3 (528 points) Pauli Rm "Music for the forest"
11 1 (504 points) Yzi "Spinning"
12 13 (380 points) Turtle "Power Boogie"
13 12 (228 points) RSE "So.if.fix.x."
14 14 (201 points) Pete "Sy-Stems"
15 15 (200 points) Edge "Farewell to Lyrics"
C64 DEMO
1 5 (3874 points) Byterapers Inc. "Extremes"
2 4 (2227 points) Panic "Break Through II"
3 6 (2212 points) Beyond Force "7 Years"
4 3 (1132 points) Crest "It's comming"
5 2 (1012 points) Symptom C64 Section "Bizarre"
6 1 (647 points) Chaos C64 Division "Tribute to Albert Hofmann"
7 7 (107 points) -
8 8 (25 points) -
9 12 (23 points) -
10 14 (18 points) -
11 9 (14 points) -
12 11 (6 points) -
13 15 (5 points) -
14 13 (3 points) -
15 10 (2 points) -
C64 MUSIC
1 1 (2224 points) Zardax/Origo Dreamline "Martinism"
2 3 (2016 points) Thor/Extend "Kirta"
3 2 (1983 points) Dr.Voice/Panic "Compomusic"
4 6 (1479 points) AMJ/Side B "Sys 4096"
5 5 (996 points) Warlock/Panic "Compotune"
6 4 (790 points) Barracuda/Extend "Brainscanaloop"
C64 GFX
1 3 (2631 points) Dr. Dick /Byterapers inc. "Dragon"
2 1 (2628 points) Debris/Panic/Extacy "Compopicture"
3 2 (1636 points) Votka/Pullo "Animaali"
PC 4K INTRO
1 8 (2100 points) Animate
2 9 (1729 points) Heaven
3 2 (1008 points) Crashtest
4 13 (948 points) Chrome
5 12 (836 points) Havoc
6 5 (801 points) Speed
7 10 (696 points) Compexity
8 15 (608 points) Dragon
9 4 (559 points) Bit
10 11 (430 points) Loop01
11 14 (366 points) Ahrum
12 3 (340 points) Only for few bytes
13 1 (337 points) Redrum
14 6 (326 points) Strictly 4kb
15 7 (324 points) Shine
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What happens when a bunch of trax freex get together l8 one night that are
obsessed with skaven?
Find out here!
[clef] a skaven a day keeps the doctor away
[heat] Go ahead. Skave my day.
[loserbaby] Where there's a will, there's a Skaven.
[U4ia] where there's a pizza sample there's a skaven
[ACTION] DarkHeart has logged this for traxculture. :)
[E_Megas] Stop Skavening, or I will be forced to throw you into the ABYSS
[U4ia] and what do you call an assassin who accuses an assassin anyway?
[U4ia] my friend
[clef] u4ia: a skaven
[clef] Charlie and the Chocolate Skaven
[U4ia] i don't skaven, though i get on with peter quite well
[loserbaby] My favorite mythical creature? The Skaven of course.
[loserbaby] Misery no longer loves company; nowadays it insists on Skaven.
<DarkHeart> my favorite color? Skaven
<DarkHeart> <And traxculture growz> :)
[loserbaby] Minding your own Skaven will not be tolerated.
<DarkHeart> skav----en! Come together with your hands,
<Darkheart> save me.... I'm together with your plan. ;)
[clef] now eat up your Skavens!
<DarkHeart> grasshopper: heed the word of skaven, they shall lead you
<DarkHeart> to your destiny...
[loserbaby] Love shines like a burning Skaven falling from the sky.
[clef] Can't fake the Skaven
[SERVER] clef has changed topic to The Skaven Clan
[loserbaby] Let's see your Skaven hunting permit, sir.
[clef] dark: you're gonna have fun editing this
Oh, It's extremely fun clef! =) NOOOT!
[clef] Use the Skaven, Luke
[clef] Skaven '95 = Microsoft Musician
[loserbaby] speak softly but carry a big skaven.
[loserbaby] I think that I shall never see a Skaven lovely as a tree.
<DarkHeart> I love the smell of Skaven in the morning?! :)
[loserbaby] Be a Skaven Today - Send $1.00 for full details.
[Nothing] MAKE SKAVEN FAST!!! IT WORKS!! ADD YOUR NAME TO THE LIST!!
[loserbaby] 2 kinds of people: those who can Skaven and those who can't.
<DarkHeart> Those who can Skaven, do... Those who can't, teach.
<DarkHeart> DO NOT MAKE MY SKAVEN ANGRY!
[loserbaby] A Skaven in the hand is safer than one overhead.
[loserbaby] A man may be young in years, yet old in Skavens.
[SERVER] _Axl!axel@dialup6-hugin.oden.se has joined this channel
[SERVER] clef has quit IRC Dead Socket
[SERVER] clef!clef@suburbia.apana.org.au has joined this channel
<DarkHeart> feel the rhythm on your own, Speak to Skaven all alone...
[loserbaby] An ounce of Skaven is worth a pound of performance.
[SERVER] fallout!fallout@delta1.deltanet.com has joined this channel
<DarkHeart> A Man's best friend is his Skaven.
[SERVER] Skaven!clef@suburbia.apana.org.au has joined this channel
[loserbaby] Better to light one Skaven than to curse the darkness.
[fallout] skaven --- wow.
[Skaven] hello my deciples
<DarkHeart> One man's folly is another man's Skaven...
[loserbaby] Bill Gates: 640 Skavens outta be enough for anybody.
[Skaven] preach my word
<DarkHeart> yes! OH MIGHTY ONE!
[Skaven] darkheart: you will prosper greatly in your skaven-life
[loserbaby] Blessed are the Skavens for they shall inherit the skies.
<DarkHeart> Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray to Skaven my trakkz to keep,
<DarkHeart> if I die b4 I wake, I pray to Skaven my trakkz to take...
[SERVER] Daedalus!hbthe005@huey.csun.edu has joined this channel
[loserbaby] Captain please, not in front of the Skavens.
[fallout] little boy: Mommie.. I wanna be a skaven when i grow up, #@!$
[fallout] astronauts!
[SERVER] Unreal!irc@student.uci.agh.edu.pl has joined this channel
[loserbaby] Come in, Beverly, and I'll show you a real Skaven maneuver.
<DarkHeart> Daed: I'm feeling a bit Skavenous today. :)
[Daedalus] oh, it's clef!
[Skaven] daed: this is the voice of skaven.... i've taken over clef
[Daedalus] haha shit, i shoulda KNOWN something was up by the topic
Just under the buzzer Daed! WOO HOO! :)
[loserbaby] Could you state that as a Skaven, please?
[fallout] Try our new Bic razor, it gives the CLOSEST skave
[SERVER] Skaven's nickname is now clef
[Daedalus] watch it folks, yer skaven on thin ice.
[fallout] a pennie skaved, is a pennie earned
[clef] haha!! people fell for it :)
U da man. :) Now the WHOLE WHIRRLED knows that you impersonated Skaven. :)
<DarkHeart> We don't need no purple motion! We don't need no Future crew!
No Dark Encounters at Assembly, skaven, teach our trax to
grow.... HEY! SKAVEN! Teach our trax to grow! All in all, it's
just a---nutha Skave in the wall...
[loserbaby] Never judge a Skaven by its cover.
<DarkHeart> Would------you like to see----------Skaven rule again?
My friend? All ya have ta do, is move to Ireland... :)
[luzerbaby] Frankly my dear, I don't give a Skaven.
[luzerbaby] Get thee down. Be thou funky. Learn to Skaven.
<DarkHeart> Skaven: "Damn it Gore, I'm a GFX artist, not a trakker. :)"
[luzerbaby] Have You Hugged Your Skaven lately?
[loky] heh, i'm clean skaven.
<DarkHeart> 's G/F is clean skaven. :)
[luzerbaby] Help! I've Skavened, and i can't get up.
[loky] i like pizza, i like tony, but nothing beats my first skaven
[luzerbaby] Honey, I Skavened the kids.
[luzerbaby] Honk if you Skaven.
[luzerbaby] I am not discriminatory, I Skaven everyone equally.
[loky] werd to your skaven
[loky] somebody Skaven me please...
[loky] i'm suffering from Skaven deprevation
[luzerbaby] I saw Elvis. He sat between me, Skaven and the UFO.
[luzerbaby] If it feels too good to be Skaven, then it prolly isn't.
[luzerbaby] This channel is being broadcast in Skaven ..Where avaiable.
[luzerbaby] Geez..6:30...my my my...i've been skavening way too long :)
[luzerbaby] hehehe...best to get it out of my system..b4 skaven happens along
[E_Megas] lb:I COMMAND THEE TO HALT THY SKAVENING!
<DarkHeart> yo ho ho ho, skaven's life for me... He trakkz he draws,
likez chickz in bras...
<DarkHeart> Mom always told me life was like a bowl of Skavens
[E_Megas] DH:Yeah, yeah...Shaddap =)
[DISP-#trax][luzerbaby] GD and floss started it :)
Yes, we must all give thanx to GD and floss for starting this whole tribute!
[loky] heh i kicked my cat, and unplugged my Skaven
[loky] er, computer
[luzerbaby] was that really 7800 skaven polys?
<DarkHeart> AGH! It's RAINING CATZ AND SKAVENS!
[luzerbaby] Scat-man Skaven
<DarkHeart> play that funky music Skav---en...
Leaving...
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New songs this week include: "Visions of Rain" by Zeus which placed 8th
in the Music Contest 3 Rookie division; "The Remembrance" by Psibelius
which placed 32nd in the MC3 Veteran division; "Seeds of Desire" by
Blackwolf, which placed 19th in the MC3 Rookie division; "My Fairytale
Arbor of Light" and "Gladrow Happiness" by Alphabitz; and "Shadow's Run"
by KXmode.
New Members this week include Dodger (C9425527@cc.newcastle.edu.au),
Calvin (calvin@vestnett.no), and Streetwize (jlowe@wtl1.demon.co.uk).
Epinicion is now up to one hundred-seven members.
The September musicdisk is well under way. Thanks to the following for
their current contributions: Aradia, Ng Pei Sin, Red King, River, Zalt,
and Zoner. All members as well as guests are encouraged to help in what
we hope will be Epinicion's best release yet.
NOTICES:
All of Epinicion's 1995 releases can be found at kosmic.wit.com in
/kosmic/epinicion. Server problems have temporarily downed the WWW server
here as well as Epinicion's home page. We are working in the problem,
and sorry for the inconvenience.
Psibelius (Gene Wie)
Epinicion Founder
gwie@owl.csusm.edu
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From: niespodj@neon3.neonramp.com (John Niespodzianski)
Subject: Re: [TRAX-WEEKLY:27] TraxWeekly #22
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