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  • Aim Higher groupA Toronto newcomers' music group founded in 1995 (Atlantic's "Introducing: Aim Higher" ran in TraxWeekly #20, 27 July 1995, per the TOC) by master-of-darkness (Todd Andlar) "like epinicion ", because "there is little …
  • Codemasters groupDavid and Richard Darling's budget label, for which matt-gray freelanced from Fruit Machine Simulator (1987) on — and "the ones who convinced me to write my own player. Back then, there was little chance of doing games …
  • Compunet groupThe British C64 online service of the mid-1980s where demos were uploaded and talent was scouted — matt-gray 's route into the games industry: "If it hadn't been for Compunet, I would probably have never left first …
  • Defiance groupA small PC music and demo group of 1994–95, founded around Zer0 and run from spring 1995 by perisoft ; it had a "Defiance Column" in the first issues of traxweekly (TOC: #1, #2, #4, #11), and Zer0 wrote for the …
  • Epinicion groupThe group psibelius founded so that newcomers would not be hazed (source: s-tw003-beginning-the-tracking-experience ) ; the IT manual thanks him as "the nice friendly Epinicion founder" (source: s-it-manual ) . Most of …
  • Esper Division groupA two-man Montreal band — Francois-Jean de Brienne (melodies) and Alexandre Jean-Claude (rhythms) — that performed live with lyrics sung over tracked pieces; "no handle", the band's name is the name. The single source …
  • Five Musicians (FM) groupA five-member "band" formed on IRC in March 1995 by necros , Mellow-D (Jaakko Manninen), big-jim (James Storer), basehead and purple-motion . Necros and Mellow-D wanted "a new music group with just a few people in it"; …
  • Future Crew groupThe Finnish demogroup behind scream-tracker-3 and the s3m-format : sami-tammilehto (Psi) wrote the tracker and its format document; the S3M "old stereo control" command was used only by "the soundtrack from Panic by …
  • Hewson Consultants groupThe British publisher that gave maniacs-of-noise its first job — Battle Valley , commissioned at the PCW show in September 1987, "our first paid gig" — and for whom jeroen-tel wrote "the music and sound for most of …
  • Hornet groupThe demoscene archive and group behind "Demonews", the newsletter traxweekly was modelled on and spun off from; TraxWeekly was "a HORNET affiliation", distributed from ftp.hornet.org and www.hornet.org (sources: …
  • Kosmic (KFMF) groupA major PC music group of the 1990s, founded by maelcum and one other person in the fall of 1992 as the "Kosmic Loader Foundation" (KLF), a VGA-loader/ANSI group in the ACiD mould that became a music group with the …
  • LoK groupA UK music group set up by ganja-man because "there weren't really any demo/music groups" in Britain that he knew of, with a second aim of educating #trax about jungle. The expansion of the name is not printed in the …
  • Maniacs of Noise groupThe Dutch music group founded by jeroen-tel and charles-deenen , who met "at computer meetings in Venlo"; the name was thought up by the two of them, and their first shared player routine was "our first MoN routine" ( …
  • NOISE (New Objectives In Sound Exploration) groupA small Quebec music group headed by shawnm , founded about early 1995, that ranged from techno and ambient to industrial, hard rock and "classical" and had a group column in traxweekly (#42, #50 in the TOC). Sources: …
  • Probe Software groupThe English developer that took jeroen-tel from maniacs-of-noise into full-time work — "i'm moving to England, because i'm working at Probe Software now" (64'er, 3/91) — and one of charles-deenen 's remembered freelance …
  • Rainbow Arts group"The first big german games developer", which hired chris-huelsbeck on the phone after shades and had him in-house from February/March 1987: great-giana-sisters (label Time Warp), Katakis , R-Type , Turrican (sources: …
  • Renaissance groupAn early PC demo group, reached through The Sound Barrier BBS in New York, whose demos — above all Amnesia (seen by khyron "sometime in 93", before future-crew 's Second Reality ) — and whose tracker, MultiTracker, …
  • Scoop Designs groupThe Dutch C64 demo group that maniacs-of-noise grew out of: C=Lehti's 1989 profile calls SCOOP known for demos polished and planned to the last detail, with charles-deenen coding the top ones and jeroen-tel and Marcel …
  • System 3 groupMark Cale's London developer of the Last Ninja games; matt-gray was its exclusive musician from November 1987 to about March 1989 ( last-ninja-2 , dominator , Tusker , Vendetta ), after which "the Maniacs of Noise had …
  • The Modsquad groupBongo Jongo, Spessartini and Neon Hunter (modsquad@juno.com), authors of the four-part satirical chiptune "seminar" in traxweekly #77–#81 (November–December 1996) and of a musicdisk "Potato Chips" with "like 500k of …
  • Triton (Fredrik Huss and Magnus Högdahl) groupThe Swedish group whose programmers Fredrik Huss and Magnus Högdahl wrote fasttracker-2 : Huss's FastTracker 1.01 (1993-01-23, 8 channels) and the two authors' 2.00 (November 1994) through 2.06 (1996); the 2.08 build of …
  • Ultrabeat groupA music-only techno "tribe" founded about March 1996 by injekted and subhuman — "no coding, no graphics… just the music" — for ravers and "foreign techno heads", with a proposed five-member cap and the five-musicians as …