#fasttracker
- Acidfrog (Cam Goodman) personJungle tracker, DJ and radio presenter from British Columbia; co-founder of Radiance with zinc , who named him his main influence. Sources: Zinc's own interview (source: s-tw032-interview-zinc ) and Zinc's interview of …
- Balrog (Samuel Cote) personTrance tracker from Quebec, an early Canadian member of kosmic who moved to ultrabeat in 1996; a fasttracker-2 user after Scream Tracker 2, ModEdit and X-Tracker. The main source is his January 1996 traxweekly interview …
- Blaze Runner (Christian Desnoyers) personBelgian techno tracker, music coordinator of PURE (formerly TRAXX) with Blue Adonis, and the first traxweekly interviewee to describe registering his tunes with a collecting society and preparing a vinyl release. The …
- Claim personCoder-musician of defiance and Lithium, an Apple IIgs veteran who took up tracking seriously the week fasttracker-2 was released. The single source for this page is Gator's TraxWeekly interview of June 1995 (source: …
- Cosmic (Matthias Ksoll) personGerman house/trance tracker of Radical Rhythms (RR) with about 100 released tracks by 1997; the single source for this page is his TraxWeekly interview of March 1997 (source: s-tw090-interview-cosmic ) . Spieg, author …
- Deus Ex (Chill Productions) personFounder of Chill Productions, a Toronto group started in 1995 by a 30-year-old techno/trance/ambient composer who "was getting flack" from other groups for his style, his GUS and his FastTracker; also a member of …
- Ganja Man (Sam Bashton) personTeenage founder of the UK group lok , a handbag-house and jungle tracker in fasttracker-2 , and the author of traxweekly 's "Potted Tracking History". Sources: his March 1996 interview by zinc (source: …
- Jase (Jason Chong) personAustralian tracker of the demo groups Oxygen and Enigma who won Music Contest 3 in 1995 with an XM, beating necros ; the main source is clef 's TraxWeekly interview of August 1995 (source: s-tw022-interview-jase ; …
- Leinad (Daniel Falk) personSwedish composer of the Amiga era (from 1989, most active 1990–91) who by 1995 tracked on a PC for the games of MAGE, the small development outfit he ran with friends, and wrote multimedia for a living. The single …
- Ryan Sprott (Grey) personFounder of the music group Grey and a #trax regular, interviewed by Kleitus in July 1996 — the single source for this page (source: s-tw063-interview-ryan-sprott ) . Not to be confused with Ryan Cramer (TraxWeekly #7) …
- Saxy (Courtney Risch) personSaxophonist and member of XX, the all-female music group of 1996, interviewed by Kal Zakath after Symphony in her Mind , the first tune she ever tracked. The single source is that traxweekly interview (source: …
- Scirocco (Ian Lyman) personGroupless fasttracker-2 tracker and NYU film student who learned alone by "picking apart other tracker's work", claimed the only five-star XM on ftp.cdrom.com, and advised newcomers to upload only what they are proud …
- U4IA / F8 (James Young) personBristol-based Amiga-generation composer of underground dance modules — over 150 released by 1996 — who quit as U4IA in 1994 and returned under the name F8; the single source for this page is his e-mail interview in …
- Zalt (Tobias Garder) personSixteen-year-old Stockholm tracker ("zalt of groove.phenomena.mistery"), 2nd in the Icing'95 multichannel music compo, who came from Atari NoiseTracker to FastTracker 2 ; interviewed by psibelius in traxweekly #40 …
- TW #10 — Interview with Jugi (White Wizard) summaryWhite Wizard interviews jugi of Complex, the musician of Dope , the winning demo of The Gathering 1995 — "nobody knows anything about him", writes Populus, who edited both participants' English.
- TW #119 — Interview with Mental Floss (Zinc) summaryzinc interviews mental-floss of kosmic , "a long-time tracker we all know and love", in the last issue of the archive — his first TraxWeekly interview, "lovingly edited" by Zinc. The useful core is how he plays tracked …
- TW #15 — Interview with Claim (Gator) summaryGator's "Interview 'Wiff Claim": a 19-year-old coder-musician of defiance and Lithium who started tracking seriously the week fasttracker-2 came out. The first issue with a categorised contents list ("Interviews" as a …
- TW #2 — Interview with Leinad (Populus) summaryPopulus met leinad "by coincidence" on IRC and interviewed him on 1995-03-15 (14:57–16:13): an Amiga-era Swedish composer, most active in 1990–91, who by 1995 made multimedia for a living and tracked on a PC with a GUS …
- TW #22 — Interview with Jase (Clef) summaryclef of epinicion interviews jase , the Australian winner of Music Contest 3 — "after NetSplits, capture problems, and time limits".
- TW #3 — Interview with Chuck Biscuits (Epeius) summaryEpeius's first assignment for TraxWeekly: an interview with Chuck Biscuits of the Australian demogroup Heretics (formerly iCE and the ANSI group DiE), contributor to the Australian musicdisk expOZe .
- TW #31 — Faces in the Crowd: Interview with Luv Kohli (DennisC) summaryDennisC's Faces in the Crowd interview (printed as "#10") with luv-kohli , co-founder of the two-member Virginia group Empyrean — a newcomer's account of tracker lineage, BBS distribution and the AOL ban. A correction …
- TW #34 — Faces in the Crowd: Interview with Deus Ex (Master of Darkness) summaryThe #34 Faces in the Crowd column — editorial by Kal Zakath , Master of Darkness 's interview with deus-ex (printed as "Interview #11"), three song reviews by Atlantic (not summarised) and closing words. Deus Ex, 30, …
- TW #40 — Interview with Zalt (Psibelius) summarypsibelius interviews zalt , a 16-year-old Stockholm tracker who came from Atari NoiseTracker to FastTracker 2 and placed 2nd in the Icing'95 multichannel compo — a European counterweight to the North American voices of …
- TW #41 — Faces in the Crowd: Interview with Mick Rippon (DennisC) summaryDennisC interviews mick-rippon , a music student from Newcastle, Australia, with three years of Amiga tracking behind him and three months on the internet — the interview traxweekly 's FITC editor had promised in #34 …
- 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 #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 #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 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 #55–56 — Panning (GBlues) / Panning? Hello? (Trixter) summaryThe correct mental model of tracker panning (a balance, not a switch) for stereo-panning ; the "opposite-side echo" survives as a stereo fake-echo idea.
- 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 #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 …
- TW #8 — Interview with Blaze Runner (Populus) summaryPopulus 's "last minute" live interview with blaze-runner , music coordinator of PURE, about "subjects that don't get around much": copyright registration and going commercial, plus an AWE32 workflow in a GUS-dominated …
- TW #90 — Interview with Cosmic/RR (Pizza Head) summaryPizza Head interviews cosmic of Radical Rhythms, "one of the reasons that I got me into tracking" — his songs "were all over the bbs's i called". A short IRC log.