#faces-in-the-crowd
- 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 …
- Atlantic (Barry Freeman) personTracker of Neophyte and Aim Higher, a friend of master-of-darkness , and one of the four staff of traxweekly 's "Faces in the Crowd" (FITC) from October 1995 — its tips writer, song reviewer and occasional interviewer; …
- DennisC (Dennis Courtney) person"Faces in the Crowd" interviewer of traxweekly from October 1995 to January 1996 and the author of "Chiptunes Aren't Dead!" (#38), the reply to Szalemandre's "The Death of the Chiptune". The sources are his six …
- Kal Zakath (John Townsend) person"Aspiring musician" of Inferno Productions ('jtown' on #trax) who created and ran traxweekly 's "Faces in the Crowd" (FITC) column from issue #26 (14 September 1995): interviews with unknown composers so that they are …
- Master of Darkness (Todd Andlar) personFounder of AIM Higher, a newcomers' group "like epinicion ", the first "Faces in the Crowd" interviewee (September 1995) and within two weeks one of the column's interviewers; the sources are his own FITC interview and …
- TW #26 — Faces in the Crowd: the column's manifesto (Kal Zakath) summaryThe announcement of "Faces in the Crowd" (FITC), "a new weekly feature of TraxWeekly" by kal-zakath (John Townsend, Inferno Productions), meant to help unknown composers "make a name for themselves". Nobody is …
- TW #27 — Faces in the Crowd #1: Master of Darkness (Kal Zakath) summaryThe first "Faces in the Crowd" interview (IRC, Friday 15 September 1995): kal-zakath talks with master-of-darkness , founder of the newcomer group AIM Higher, about starting out, techno and how #trax treats newbies; a …
- TW #28 — Faces in the Crowd #2: Mesonyx (Kal Zakath) summaryThe second "Faces in the Crowd" interview, conducted over two days (16–17 September 1995): kal-zakath with mesonyx , a 15-year-old from Reykjavik who had just written the music for the game Xixit . Date note: the issue …
- TW #29 — Faces in the Crowd #4: Smeghead (Master of Darkness) summary"Faces In The Crowd: The Publication — Interview #4", conducted on Saturday 30 September 1995 by master-of-darkness , now an FITC interviewer, with smeghead of Terraformer; an 18-title release listing follows. …
- TW #29 — Faces in the Crowd #5: Esper Division (DennisC) summary"Faces In The Crowd: The Publication — Interview #5": DennisC (Dennis Courtney; the header prints master-of-darkness 's address maz@io.org next to his name, evidently a copy-and-paste slip) with Francois-Jean de …
- TW #41 — Interview with Shawn (shawnm / NOISE) summaryDennisC interviews Shawn (IRC nick shawnm ), head of the small group New Objectives In Sound Exploration ( NOISE ), an orchestral-percussion student who tracks in scream-tracker-3 . The same shawnm wrote "Serial …
- TW #42 — Interview with Balrog (Kosmic) summaryzinc interviews balrog , a kosmic trance tracker from Quebec who had "never been interviewed" because he released little during a bad year; the piece records his tracker history (ST 2.23 → ModEdit → X-Tracker → FT2), a …
- TW #43 — Interview with Pariah (V.S.L) summaryMaster of Darkness (Aim Higher; a Demonews reviewer) restarts "Faces In The Crowd" with a series on his local Toronto scene; the first guest is pariah of the dance-music group V.S.L (founded by vicious ), logged under …
- TW #44 — Interview with Acidfrog (Radiance / Spice) summaryzinc interviews acidfrog , his Radiance co-founder and main influence: a DJ and radio presenter from the 604 area code (British Columbia) who tracks jungle in fasttracker-2 on a 386 with a GUS MAX and a sampling rig …
- TW #50 — Interview with VadimVS (NOISE) summaryA short interview, cut off when zinc ran out of time, with vadimvs , a Russian scream-tracker-3 user who had just joined N.O.I.S.E. — one of the few voices from Russia in the archive, tracking on borrowed hardware with …
- TW #52 — Interview with Daedalus (Neophyte / Epinicion) summaryzinc interviews daedalus , a 28-year-old theatre student and Tangerine Dream devotee who came to tracking through ModEdit and scream-tracker-3 after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; conducted "very very late at night" in …
- TW #52 — Interview with Ganja Man (LoK) summaryzinc interviews ganja-man , a 15-year-old from the UK who founded LoK to give Britain a music group and to spread jungle; four months later he would write the "Potted Tracking History" ( s-tw064-potted-tracking-history …
- TW #54 — Interview with Injekted & Subhuman (Ultrabeat) summaryCerulean talks to the two founders of ultrabeat , injekted and subhuman , just after the group's first release Lucid : a music-only, five-member "tribe" for ravers and techno heads, structurally modelled on the …
- TW #54 — Interview with Quantam Porcupine summaryzinc interviews quantam-porcupine (properly "Quantum Porcupine", as he points out at the end), a 17-year-old pianist-turned-tracker who came from Music Construction Set on the C64 through Whacker Tracker to …
- TW #54 — Interview with Saxy (XX) summaryKal Zakath (jtown; Inferno and traxweekly ) interviews saxy , a saxophonist two months into tracking and a member of XX, "the scene's only all-female musicgroup", after her first tune Symphony in her Mind . His preface …
- TW #54 — Interview with Scirocco summaryzinc interviews scirocco , a groupless fasttracker-2 user at 4 a.m. in Manhattan on his first real night in #trax — a self-taught "lurker on the sidelines" with a five-star XM on ftp.cdrom.com and advice about quality …
- TW #55 — Interview with Clef (Catch 22, ex-Epinicion) summaryzinc interviews clef , a 17-year-old Australian pianist, coder and chiptune specialist — twice a 20-minute-chip-compo winner, author of the menu chips on the epinicion disks, winner of the 16k music compo at OZ'96 — who …
- TW #60 — Faces in the Crowd: fisherman (Zinc) summaryzinc interviews fisherman, "who I hadn't heard of before", and closes with the column's charter: "The scene is full of faces, and unless we are as famous as [enter famous person here], we can get lost in the crowd. FITC …
- TW #62 — Interview with Vegas (Kal Zakath and Kleitus) summaryKal Zakath (jtown) and Kleitus interview vegas of Mystique, an IRC capture from "several weeks" before NAID '96; the preface adds that his NAID entry "The Path Taken" was selected by the jury and finished 15th, and that …
- TW #63 — Interview with Ryan (Kleitus) summaryKleitus (Seth Katzman) interviews Ryan of Grey — a 4,600-word IRC log, edited by Ryan himself, that is mostly jokes; Kleitus disclaims "the lameness that follows". This Ryan is Ryan Sprott of Grey, not Ryan Cramer …
- TW #66 — Interview with Liam the Lemming (Kal Zakath) summaryKal Zakath interviews liam-the-lemming , "a very accomplished musician and one of the most popular #trax personalities", in an IRC log with the interviewer's own remarks cut and "some rearrangement ... for clarity".
- TW #67 — Interview with U4IA (Mage) summaryMage (Glen Dwayne Warner) interviewed u4ia by e-mail over "a month and a half or so" — "a well-known Amiga musician" whose name, the preface says, is "known throughout the internet by trackers everywhere, despite his …