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Welcome to TraxWeekly #58.
We've got plenty of interesting articles this week, including a rather
humorous "blacklist" by Zinc, discussion on organisation by Red Haze, and
a new coding competition, CODE-VEC! Catspaw brings us info on tracking
tips, highlighting one of our older features that hasn't been present in
quite some time...
Explizit's still here, and we have a new group, Mono!
Gene Wie (Psibelius)
TraxWeekly Publishing
gwie@owl.csusm.edu
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Letters and Feedback
1. Letter from Raul
General Articles
2. The Finishing Touches.........................Catspaw
3. Organisation..................................Red Haze
4. The Blacklist.................................Zinc
5. CODE-VEC......................................FCSaNS
Group Columns
6. Explizit
7. Mono
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--[1. Letter from Raul]-----------------------------------------------------
From f2629312@est.fib.upc.esTue May 14 15:50:30 1996
Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 20:17:38 +0100 (WET DST)
From: RAUL GOMEZ SANCHEZ <f2629312@est.fib.upc.es>
To: gwie@mailhost2.csusm.edu
Subject: Music Scene related page
Hi Psib,
A few months ago appeared in traxweekly a request for music scene
web pages.So,I've been working last week in my music scene page and
actually has some stuff.It has info of some groups(FM,Kosmic,...),
people(Necros,Leviathan,Skaven,...) and compo results.Also are
some links to music utilities.
Please ,check it and mail me what you think.All coments are welcome.
PD:Traxweekly is great,Music reviews are great,Hornet ratings
discussions are boooowhoaaaooring
Music Scene Page
http://www-fib.upc.es/~f2629312/music
email:f2629312@est.fib.upc.es
Raul
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Intro
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Tracker nightmare #4,732:
*** DCC SEND:/usr/baygled/newtewnz.zip to necros completed 4.38 kb/sec
<baygledawg> necroze: t3ll m3 wh4t j00 th1nk 0f my n3w t3wn!%@%@!
Now is not the time to realize you forgot to put the finishing touches
on your song. :>
I've seen several articles over the time I've been reading TraxWeekly
that deal with style, rhythm, and musical theory, but very rarely do I see
anything written on the finer technical points of writing module-based
music. Granted, little technical details won't necessarily make bad music
sound good, and the absence of them won't necessarily make good music
awful... but those finer points are what can make the difference between a
good song with potential, and a great one which has realized that potential.
So on that note, I'm writing to you today about some of those little
details... hopefully you'll find one or more of these hints useful.
Example Notation
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In TraxWeekly 15, Basehead published a phenomenal article on tracking
tips. In this article, when demonstrating an aspect of tracking, he used an
ASCII simulation of an ST3 interface. Now I'm aware that not everyone uses
ST3 or Impulse Tracker, but it's what I'm most familiar with, and since
Basehead's diagrams worked well for me, I'm going to use them here. To wit:
| C#5 16 48 H83 |
/^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^\
Note & Octave | | ST3/IT Effect & Amount of effect
| |
sample # |
|
volume
With that out of the way... on to today's spammage. :>
An Endless Circle
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Okay folks, let's take it from the top.. then the bottom.. and back to
the top again. Do you want your song to loop, or do you want it to come to
a complete stop at the end of its run? For that matter, do you want it to
even stop? Whatever the case, there are two patterns you should pay real
close attention to... the first, and the last.
Many of us like to put songs in the background and have them loop for a
while, while many more set up extended playlists and leave them going while
we're doing other things. I've seen many otherwise good trackers display a
remarkable lack of foresight for whether or not their song is going to be
looped.
Let me highlight a common mistake to see at the end of a song, for
example (what each instrument stands for isn't important; try tracks 1-3
with a lead instrument and track 4 with drums):
Last Pattern:
Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Track 4
27 | C-5 01 .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | D#5 03 .. D10 | | C-5 02 .. .00 |
28 | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. F02 | | C-5 02 32 .00 |
29 | C-5 01 .. .00 | | G-5 01 .. .00 | | E-5 03 .. G30 | | C-5 04 .. .00 |
30 | ... .. 00 AFF | | ... .. 00 .00 | | ... .. 00 .00 | | ... .. .. .00 |
31 | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 |
32 | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 |
: : : :
63 | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 |
First Pattern:
1 | C-5 01 .. .00 | | E-5 01 .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | C-5 04 .. .00 |
2 | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 |
The flaws in this won't be obvious from first looking at it...at least,
not until you play it through and let it loop. It's common for composers to
set the speed to its lowest setting (AFF in ST3/IT) so that the song will
have a pause of silence at the end. However, they often don't take heed of
what will happen *after* the song ends.
There are two problems with the above example.
First, the speed is set to 255 (FFh) in the middle of the last pattern,
with no C00 command to break the pattern. At this rate, the song will take
a very long time to get to the end of the pattern. :>
Second, if you look at the first pattern, there is no Axx command to
actually set the speed. This isn't normally a problem for most players,
since ST3 and IT have a field in which you can set the default speed for
the song. The problem is, the default speed and pan positions are all just
that: defaults. They start at that speed or position, but are ignored after
the song starts playing. This means that while your song could start at
speed 6 because it defaults to that, it will still be at 255 when it loops
around.
Oops.
So very simply, here's how to rectify that problem, if you haven't
guessed: regardless of whether your song is designed to loop or not, you
should always initialize the pan positions, speed, tempo, channel volumes,
etc at the beginning of the song--manually, with effect commands. If the
opening pattern of your song doesn't have room for this, make a dummy
pattern which looks like this:
Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Track 4
1 | ^^^ .. .. X3C | | ^^^ .. .. X40 | | ^^^ .. .. T7D | | ^^^ .. .. A06 |
2 | ... .. .. C00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. X44 | | ... .. .. X40 |
This dummy pattern goes at the beginning of the song, in the first
order, and lasts for all of a fraction of a second. It makes no sound,
doesn't really affect the song, and does nothing but ensure that no sound
carries over from the end of the song (via the ^^^ notecuts--if you want
your song to loop smoothly and have designed it for that, you probably
don't need them), sets up the default panning positions via the Xxx
commands, which work in ITs (and in S3Ms, despite ST3's claim to the
contrary :), and most importantly, sets the default speed to 6 and the
default tempo to 125 (A06 and T7D, respectively).
Now, place a C00 effect on the same line as the AFF in the last pattern
and you have a song that will delay for just a few seconds before beginning
all over again--just as it started the first time.
Simple? Perhaps, but you'd be surprised how many people neglect this
kind of finishing touch. I've seen extremely talented musicians do this,
and I end up going into the song and making the modifications myself just
so I can listen to it on loop or in a playlist.
As a side note, if you intend for the song to play in Cubic, you might
want to have a delay of more than one row at AFF before issuing the pattern
break effect. For some reason, Cubic instantly stops the song the moment it
encounters a C00, whereas every other effect on that row is supposed to be
interpreted first. :> So, to summarize, out last pattern should now look
somewhat like this:
Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Track 4
27 | C-5 01 .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | D#5 03 .. D10 | | C-5 02 .. .00 |
28 | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. F02 | | C-5 02 32 .00 |
29 | C-5 01 .. .00 | | G-5 01 .. .00 | | E-5 03 .. G30 | | C-5 04 .. .00 |
30 | ... .. 00 AFF | | ... .. 00 .00 | | ... .. 00 .00 | | ... .. .. .00 |
31 | ... .. .. C00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 |
Voila! It's ready to loop. And now, for my next trick, I will devour a
mongolian yak whole!
Sorry, wrong zine. Anyway, on to our next subject...
Transitions and Speed Changes
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We've all heard it in one song or another. How many times have you
listened to a song going through a transition, or coming to a close, and
heard this kind of a change:
Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Track 4
1 | C-5 01 .. A06 | | ... .. 00 T7D | | E-5 03 .. .00 | | C-5 06 .. .00 |
2 | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | C-5 04 32 .00 |
: : : :
30 | B-4 01 .. .00 | | D#5 03 .. .00 | | D#5 03 .. G20 | | C-5 07 .. .00 |
31 | ... .. .. C00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. F02 | | C-5 04 32 .00 |
1 | C-5 01 .. A07 | | ... .. 00 .00 | | E-5 03 .. .00 | | C-5 06 .. .00 |
2 | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | C-5 04 32 .00 |
3 | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | C-5 07 .. .00 |
This is a classic method of slowing down a song when you're nearing the
end of it, or when nearing a transition to a slower part or a held note.
Speed 6 to speed 7 isn't *that* drastic of a change, but if it's right in
the middle of a melody, it's noticeable. And the slower the speed, the more
noticeable the change gets. This doesn't really sound natural to the ear
most of the time, and if the song involves a lot of speed changes, it can
do serious damage to an otherwise good tune. Let's try this again, assuming
that the next to last pattern starts with an A06 and T7D as it does above:
Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Track 4
(A06) (T7D)
24 | C-5 01 .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | C-5 07 .. .00 |
25 | ... .. .. H81 | | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | C-5 04 32 .00 |
26 | ... .. .. H82 | | ... .. .. T7A | | ... .. .. .00 | | C-5 07 .. .00 |
27 | ... .. .. H00 | | ... .. .. T75 | | ... .. .. .00 | | C-5 04 32 .00 |
28 | ... .. .. H71 | | ... .. .. T70 | | E-5 03 .. .00 | | C-5 06 .. .00 |
29 | ... .. .. K02 | | ... .. .. T7C | | ... .. .. E02 | | C-5 04 32 .00 |
30 | B-4 01 .. .00 | | D#5 03 .. T68 | | D#5 03 .. G20 | | C-5 07 .. .00 |
31 | ... .. .. C00 | | ... .. .. T64 | | ... .. .. F02 | | C-5 04 32 .00 |
1 | C-5 01 .. A07 | | ... .. 00 T7D | | E-5 03 .. .00 | | C-5 06 .. .00 |
2 | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | C-5 04 32 .00 |
3 | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | ... .. .. .00 | | C-5 07 .. .00 |
There, that's much better. This starts to slide the tempo down a bit on
the last three beats of the lead-in pattern, so that the change from speed
6 to speed 7 (at which point we set the tempo back to 7Dh) will not sound
as harsh. Feel free to play with these values and use whatever sounds best
to your ear. I've found that using tempo to slow things down works *much*
better than using different speeds--by using tempo, you don't have to worry
about modifying your volumeslides, retrigs, or anything else dependant on
the current speed (frames per row). It also gives a much smoother
transition from one speed to another, making the jump from 6 to 7, 6 to 5,
or what have you, much less abrupt.
Aren't your ears happier now?
Closing - For Now
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In the solemn interests of keeping the size of TraxWeekly reasonable,
I'm going to be spreading this extremely spammy editorial over a few weeks.
If people like what I have to say, this may turn into a semi-regular
feature for the zine... so if you have comments, feel more than free to
email me at the addys listed below, or /msg catspaw on #trax. I'd love to
hear any subjects you'd like to see covered, questions you'd like to see
answered, and especially any tips and suggestions of your own you'd like to
impart. Until then, this is Catsy, signi%#&ghkegg%#^2 . 6 *
*** catspaw has been kicked off channel #trax by everyone (damn flooder)
Catspaw / Rat Rat City (206) 246-6647
catspaw@eskimo.com catspaw@masterpiece.com
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If you don't like reading about very useful, new utilities, then don't
read this article. :)
I read Zinc's article in Trax #57 about organising the mod-type music
files on your hard disk when you have lots of them, and was very happy.
"Why?" you may ask. Well it's because I have made a solution to part of
his problem, which was how to arrange your songs so that you can find
songs easily. What I've done is written a TSR (well it's not a true TSR
yet, but who cares?!) which convinces DOS that files in one place in your
computer are also somewhere else.
No idea what I'm on about? Well it's effectively the same as unix's
symbolic links, but for DOS.
The consequence of this program (called DOSLink) is that you don't have
to ponder over this question anymore: "Hmmm should I put that mod file here,
or there, or... in there?"
Now you can have that song which came 1st place at party X in your
directory for that party, AND the artist's own directory AND your
favourite songs directory, AND maybe even a directory with ALL your music
in it! Perhaps, as suggested by Zinc, you could also have directories for
each style of music you want, and link your songs into those.
Anyway, if you've read this far you might be thinking "but Windows 95
has file aliasing! Who needs DOSLink?", and I've got an easy answer for
you: Not everyone has/wants Win'95!
Okay so how can you get your hands on DOSLink? Well, since I haven't had
time to write up any docs for it at the moment, it's not on Hornet yet.
But if you really want it, and are willing to try using it without manuals,
feel free to email me and ask for the beta version. Trust me, it works
really well - I've used it to link across music from the Freedom CD
directly to my hard disk and it works like a dream in Cubic Player. The
link maintaining program looks quite bland, but it's simple to use and
effective, so don't be scared to ask me for a copy. :)
It's quite funny that Zinc wrote that article last week, because I've been
writing DOSLink for my personal use (with the help of Pulse - the legendary
coder of Impulse Tracker) lately, and nearly everyone I told about it
couldn't see the use of it at all!
Maybe Zinc's "Mission" has "Accomplished" more than he intended - brought
to public attention this way to organise music. (with symbolic links) :)
Anyway, keep an eye out for DOSLink if you have a practical use for it.
I will put it on Hornet as soon as I've done some manuals for it.
Zinc> Until next time, keep eating those peaches, and avoid the lemons.
But I don't like peaches! What do you suggest I do? :)
Cyaz all later,
- Red Haze/FTS/fORCE - redhaze@student.adelaide.edu.au
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Usually when I download songs from cdrom.com, I'm very selective in what
I get. There's so much, you can't just download anything, or you'll get a
lot of lousy songs. I realized that the other day when I just downloaded
a whole bunch of songs at random to see how bad they could really be. The
results led me to start a new review column, The Blacklist!
I find it rather sickening that when people review songs for TraxWeekly,
the % numbers seem to be always above 50 percent. This doesn't make
sense to me, because there must be a lot of bad songs to justify giving
every other song a high rating. Therefore, I thought I'd provide you with
this issue's Top Ten Songs To Avoid a.k.a The Blacklist. (INPO) I won't
list the author's name here, to avoid any embarrassment, even though they
may deserve it for wasting space on cdrom.com!
BTW This issue's Blacklist songs are all from incoming s3ms.
BIRTHDAY.S3M - Most of the samples in this song were voice samples,
which seem to be used just for the sake of having voice
samples. The 'music' consists of a simple 'kick, snare,
kick, snare' drum line, and a seemingly-random piano
fingering. It sounds like my cat fell on my keyboard
or something. Yuck.
A_LVSWAR.S3M - "Love Is War" Oh boy, the whole percussion consists of
a repetitive march snare over and over. It starts off
with some sporadic pizzicatos and then some feeble strings
that never shut up. Bells are going on for no apparent
reason, and we hear some poor piano going on. He even
uses portomentos on the piano, and _9_ channels just to
echo the last note played with the piano sample! sheesh..
BI_DOOR.S3M - "Doorway To Death" Well, I can't really describe this
song, but if you could put throwing up to music, this would
be it. Every sample doubles up channels, and there really
is no musical direction whatsoever. Interesting sample
text, though.
FM-GREEN.S3M - Don't be fooled by the 'FM'. FM actually stands for
Funky Modsquad in this case. I wouldn't have named the
group, but its incredibly lame to name it 'FM', so I'll
make the exception. Anyways, I think this song is made
to sound intentionally bad. So it seems. This song is
pure noise; it sounds similiar to trying to manually spin
a techno record backwards on your turntables.
FM-INDIG.S3M - R.I.P. my poor ears. Seriously, it's sheer torture to
listen to this song. There should be a warning on the
diz - "WARNING! You may go tone deaf listening to this!"
FM-LARGE.S3M - Everything is out of tune, nothing makes sense. The End.
K2_IAPOA.S3M - I'd like to see Maelcum file a lawsuit against these
guys, if such a thing were possible. I don't want to
repeat the text in this thing, but I will say that it's
blatant slander against Kosmic. But that aside, let's
review the (ahem) song. It's called "I Am Proud Of
America", and is almost completely done in one channel.
What's in the one channel? A poor bassline, almost the
entire song. The only break is for a Tom Drum solo! In
fact, the whole song is a solo. Next please.
K2_CD.S3M - This is a 'cover' of a U2 song. Well, if they plan to
cover one of the greatest bands in the world, they'd
better do a good job! (hits F5) Argh! Send in the MOD
police! This is truly an insult. It may be one of the
'least bad' of this Blacklist, but that's not saying
much.
K2_OTR.S3M - "Over The Rainbow" According to the sampletext, it's
supposed to be a dance tune. I don't know about the guy
who made it, but there's no way I'd be able to, or would
want to, dance to this.
ODETO.S3M - Finally, "Ode To Necros Whom I Stalk" I've heard that
this got '*' on hornet. Whoever gave it that much should
be hung by his nosehairs! This one sounds like a bunch
of instruments sneezing or something. D'oh!
Anyways, that's the Blacklist for this issue. If you feel unfairly
dissed, please respond to TW in public. You may want to download one
or two of these songs for a good laugh, but otherwise, stay away from
them at all costs!
Until next time, avoid the lemons, and stay peachy keen!
- zinc
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Digital Executioners / Chaotic Order
http://tscnet.com/pages/sumerflt/index.html
http://sunburn.cs.csi.cuny.edu/co.html
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------------------------------------------------------------< Introduction
Announcing the first (hopefully annual) CODE-VeC internet compo, held
by the two groups "Chaotic Order" and "Digital Executioners." This compo,
as the title implies, only for vector demos!
The size of the file does not matter in this case, only the effects
inside the entry are evaluated...and of course good, smooth animation helps
too:)
An intro will be coded by FSCaNF[DiE,EMiC,AGE] and thefuror of
Chaotic Order. Email contacts for questions follow:
FSCaNF: sumerflt@tscnet.com
thefuror: mcarusol@mail.idt.net
We will answer all email promptly. More info, and updates for the
compo will appear on http://tscnet.com/pages/sumerflt/vector.htm.
----------------------------------------------------< Entering the CoDe-VeC
To enter the compo, send mail to FSCaNF or thefuror with the
following data: (Please make the subject "CODE-VeC"). You can also fill a
form out on the vector WEB page!
-Your full name (optional)
-Your scene handle
-The language you are going to code your entry in, if more than one, list
all of them...
-Your email address
-You page, or BBS, if any (optional...if there are many people
participating in the compo, this can be a good way to advertise...if you
decide to list your BBS, or page, it will appear by your name on the
CODE-VeC page, if you win...)
***PLEASE DO NOT JUST UPLOAD YOUR ENTRY...APPLY BEFORE YOU SEND!***
Upload your entry to ftp://163.238.179.39/incoming/
----------------------------------------------------< Rules And Regulations
The list below are the current rules as of this writing. Be sure to
check out the official CoDe-VeC Web Page (listed above) for updates as new
ideas form. If you do not find the information you are looking for on the
page the feel free to email either thefuror or FSCaNF (Contact info above).
* No previous releases are allowed, so that all entries muust be made just
for the CODE-VeC competition. However, the demo may be released after
the contest deadline is past, as long as it mentions that it was made for
this compo.
* All scenes in the demo but be 3d, what type of 3d effect is up to you,
though animation is required.
* Any other effects are up to you. Music, sound effects, or any 2d-effects
are allowed, but adhere to the above rule...ALL SCENES in the entry must
have a 3d effect in them:)
* The demo must be coded in ASM, C++, C, or PASCAL...mixed languages ARE
allowed.
* It IS LEGAL for more that one person to cooperate in an entry, or a demo
group to enter one.
* All enteries must stop at a keypress.
Keep in mind that a deadline has not been set yet... so please check the
page for a deadline.
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All winners will be announced on the official CoDe-VeC Page
http://tscnet.com/pages/sumerflt/vector.htm
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Explizit TraxWeekly column issue #19 - May 16, 1996
Hi there!
Finally some new stuff from KoM'AH :)
This guy really is becoming one of the f*ckin' best composers I've ever
had the pleasure to be around with! Not only is he a cewl dude in real
life (paddo's heersen toch) but he makes some kick-ass chewns as well!
Take "Live On A Star" for instance (e-b_star.zip). This song is ready
to be released on cd-singe, and believe me, it would hit the charts
like a maniac and stay there for a couple of months! It contains all
the elements of a summer-hit, nice beat, female voices, a little bit
male rap, happy chords and a nice piano-melody. Call me biased, but this
song really ought to be released in "real life".
Speaking of real life, Dutch subscribers: from June I will publish a
column in Holland's dopest rave-magazine: STROBE. This _is_ a "real-life"
sort of magazine, since it's made of paper and ink and stuff :)
Serious now. From June, Explizit will have it's own montly column in
that magazine, informing you about internet, hot sites, cool chewns,
interesting links, soundcards and all the other interesting (?) stuff
we're familiar with. 's Gonna rule!
Speaking of ruling things :), I've just updated the Explizit homepage
and it's now called: "Explizit HomeSpace3" ... it looks cooler, has new
graphics, colors, and some Java surprises. I'm continuously working on
this, however i could use somebody to make "News-Flash" HTML pages,
with hot news from the scene. Anyone doing that already? Pse let me know,
so i can link directly to your page ;)
We have another new member! His name (well, handle) is Landslide, and
he is a rave composer. He has already released his first track, and it's
damn fine! We're all sure he'll get even better with every release. Taking
Ls! as composer resulted in a complete member-stop, we're not taking any
new members anymore. Seven is enough as it is. We've also stopped taking
Dutch distro's, but foreign distro's are welcomed. Especially USA distros!!
DirtBag is working on the graphics for an Explizit Cap ... we don't know
if we're gonna go through with this, although a cap of your own group is
kinda cool :)
Thunderbass has released his first Explizit track, and, take my word for
it, this one rulez three times around the earth! One of the few really
cool happyhardtrance songs existing. If you're into our fast style you
definately will like it!
I've seen new RBi releases this week, those guys should get some more
attention really, some of their chewns are nucking futs! hehe
Try to get some RBI-*.* files somewhere, because, well, most of the
Morphine songs really kick ass. They deserve more attention. Ok,
they have a non-existant WHQ but that's cool in it's own way ;-)).
I'm off. C u later...
Ch:ilm . explizit
Explizit internet Hq: http://huizen.dds.nl/~explizit
USA Ftp: http://www.rpi.edu/~tillbm/site/explizit
Euro Ftp: ftp://sdc.wtm.tudelft.nl/pub/music/groups/EXPLIZIT/
Italy Ftp: ftp://shadow.pegasus.it/music/groups/explizit/
Now online! The Explizit HomeSpace3 !!!!!!!!!!!
http://huizen.dds.nl/~explizit
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(!Mono! - Eklektik. Elektronik. Musik.)
Greetings to TW readers. h0l here. You might possibly know me as
Hollywood of Kosmic+Valhalla. Or you might quite possibly not know me at
all. In any case, I'm here to introduce you to a brand new musicgroup.
Not any ordinary musicgroup, oh no. we're different.
Why? Well, all our releases come in .lha files (gorsh, what are they?),
and every single release is done in 4 channels. Yep, we're an Amiga-based
music-group. However, we're aiming our releases squarely at all parts
of the scene, PC owners as much as Amiga owners. And it's not that
our tunes are 'surprisingly good for 4 channels'. Having 4 channels
is no impediment to composing good, even great modules, as those who
are a fan of Dizzy, Heatbeat, Nuke, et al. will agree.
Not, of course, that we're saying we're as good as them. But if you don't
check out our songs, you'll never know. :) I wouldn't dare draw comparisons
and Maelcum is gonna get very pissed off with me if I keep doing this, but
I'd say we're approaching Kosmic quality standards. Albeit with a much
more European slant to our music. We only release 'elektronik' music,
by the way, anything from ambient through trance, techno, to drum n bass,
triphop, gabba.. anything that way inclined. :)
I find it quite difficult to write this info-file without lapsing into
megalomania, but it's true that the majority of our members either DJ or
are professional musicians. One of our members won the Assembly 4-channel
music competition last year (although he didn't ever tell me, I found out
by accident, pah. :P) And.. well, I'm just trying to persuade you to have
a listen to our stuff, really. I formed this group because there were a lot
of amazing musicians who just weren't getting their stuff spread, so I'm
very, very keen to get as many people as possible to enjoy our tunes.
I genuinely think it's worth downloading every Mono song, because we
don't think about releasing in quantity, we release quality. Go check
some of our tunes now. Yeah, now. :)
Think I've hyped Mono up enough now? ;)
(If the Mono tunes haven't been put in the right place in cdrom.com yet,
they're still in the incoming/music/mod directory. Or you can grab them
off Aminet or the Papa ftp site in Germany.)
Guess that's about it. Oh, we wouldn't mind some American/Canadian/wherever
distribution BBSes, so if you're a sysop who thinks they can help out,
email me at hollywood@kosmic.org. Each new Mono release would get emailed
to you, or else you can check ftp sites for it, either way. :)
Thanks for reading, check out the release and info files below for more
Monosyllabic information. And stay cool. :)
h0l/Simon. [hollywood@kosmic.org]
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[1996 MuS!c ReLeAsEs!]
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[name] [composer] [length] [bpm] [date]
1a."Time Slip (h0l remix.)".- Dr3amf!$h+h0l. - 04.28 - 160 - 22/04/96
(M_TIME.LHA - classic trance with techno/jungle inflexions.)
1b."Return".................- Twilight..... - 02.22 - 135 - 22/04/96
(M_RTURN.LHA - scratched funky hip-hop techno.)
2. "Tribute Remix"..........- TheFoxII..... - 08.31 - 125 - 28/04/96
(M_TRIB.LHA - flowing, melodic synth-techno. With style.)
3. "Subi's Back"............- Subi......... - 05.15 - 164 - 01/05/96
(M_SUBI.LHA - unique analogstyled guitar-trance stomper.)
4. "Adults".................- Dreamfish.... - 05.08 - 165 - 04/05/96
(M_ADULT.LHA - drum+bass head-on-smash remix of "Children".)
5. "Farawayadventure".......- Carebear..... - 05.50 - 96 - 08/05/96
(M_FAR.LHA - an ambient drift across distant worlds.)
BIG thanks to Kosmic for wholesale importation of their release-text style!
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[MEMBERS.]
h0l.....................................................[organiser, musik.]
twilight...........................................................[musik.]
subi...............................................................[musik.]
dreamfi$h..........................................................[musik.]
thefox2............................................................[musik.]
iso................................................................[musik.]
carebear...........................................................[musik.]
(if you're interested in joining the Monotonic warriors, email us...!)
[contact Mono? email h0l: hollywood@kosmic.org]
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[DISTRIBUTION?]
!nTeRnEt: ftp i41s20.ira.uka.de, pub/mods/mono/ [Papa demo archive!]
ftp src.doc.ic.ac.uk, pub/aminet/mods/misc/ [Aminet UK.]
ftp wuarchive.wustl.edu,pub/aminet/mods/misc/ [Aminet US.]
(and all other Aminet mirrors worldwide!)
ftp.cdrom.com, pub/demos/music/songs/1996/mods/m
[Hornet (mainly PC) demo archive!]
[please note, all Mono releases use a m_ filename. easy to find.]
[If you can't find a release via ftp, look in the /incoming directory!]
BBSes:
WHQ => D!g!tal Candy - +44-191-232-5527 - !Hybrid! - 6 node ringdown.
DHQ => Samplec!ty - +31-0-165-365610 - !Dynamix! - funkitDutchstyle!
GHQ => Los Endos - +49-0-2103-52440 - !Exon! - 33k6 power. :)
SHQ => Intersect!on - +46-8-774-4895 - !Zalt! - smart tunez galore.
SFHQ => Spl!t Sec0nd - +358-31-3630820 - !Carebear! - cool Mono sysop!
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