#1990s
- 20 Minute Chip Compo (20mc) eventAn IRC competition, held on EFnet channel #ChIpCoMpO from September 1995, in which trackers had twenty minutes to make a chiptune from a shared sample pack; organised by amusic (Sotiris Varotsis, Bass Productions, …
- 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 …
- Andreas Varga personAuthor of the sid-homepage (sidmusic.org) and the person who interviewed bob-yannes about the sid by e-mail in August 1996, with some questions contributed by King Fisher of Triad — the interview that made Yannes aware …
- Asger Alstrup personAuthor of the two Examination of SID … waveform pages on Andreas Varga's sid-homepage (1995; HTML by andreas-varga ) — the earliest register-level measurements of the sid in this wiki. He read voice 3's output register …
- Commodore Zone publicationA British C64 magazine of the mid-1990s whose composer interviews the sid-homepage reprinted: jeroen-tel (June 1997, reprinted with Warren Pilkington's permission), martin-galway (issues 6 and 7, typed in by Adam …
- 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 …
- 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"; …
- Gravis UltraSound (GUS) platformThe PC sound card of the 1990s tracker scene: a wavetable card with its own sample RAM and hardware voices, which is why tracker changelogs list "GUS" as a feature, why ST3's panning command is a GUS command, and why …
- 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 …
- 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: …
- 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, …
- The SID Homepage (sidmusic.org) publicationandreas-varga 's 1990s website about the sid — the place where the designer of the chip, bob-yannes , first learned that programs like SIDPLAY and PlaySID existed ("I only recently became aware of them (through your …
- TraxWeekly publicationA text-only newsletter of the PC tracker scene, published semi-weekly from 12 March 1995 to 1998 for 119 issues, modelled after hornet 's "Demonews" and "a HORNET affiliation": distributed from ftp.hornet.org / …
- 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 …