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64'er 2/88 — Von der Spielidee ins Regal (Rainbow Arts, with Hülsbeck) summary64'er visits rainbow-arts in Gütersloh to trace how a game is made — and sound comes last in the pipeline. Hülsbeck's segment is a four-question mini-interview taken while great-giana-sisters was new and To Be On Top …
Arcade Attack — Matt Gray (VGM Maestro) interview (2020/2021) summaryA short late interview with matt-gray : the Last Ninja 2 brief in one sentence, the NES port of his player, and the three Reformation albums.
C64.COM interview #36: Matt Gray (2014) summaryThe most technical of matt-gray 's interviews: how his player was organised, what made its vibrato "his", which games he did in which year and how long each took, and the Compunet-to-System 3 career path.
C64.COM interview #8 — Charles Deenen (2010) summarycharles-deenen 's own long-form C64 Q&A: the fullest first-hand list of what he actually did per game — and it is mostly sound effects , with music on a shorter list. Introduces himself as "co-founder of Maniacs of …
C=Lehti 4/89 — SIDin hollantilaiset valjastajat (Maniacs of Noise) summaryThe only contemporary (1989) profile of maniacs-of-noise in this wiki — written by Jori Olkkonen while Tel was 16 and Deenen 19, with details no retrospective interview repeats: the driver's version number, a …
Charles Deenen interviews: Domination #11 (1998) and Designing Sound (2010) summarycharles-deenen in his own words — the programmer half of maniacs-of-noise on the driver, the tool and the money, and later the sound designer looking back at how it started.
chipmusic.org — two Johan Kotlinski interviews (2012, 2014) summaryTwo short interviews with johan-kotlinski reposted on chipmusic-org : a 2012 e-mail interview for a school paper on Game Boy music history, and a 2014 piece for Devise Magazine. Both predate the longer 2020 intense-tech …
Domination #1 — Interview with Jeroen Tel (Jazzcat, 1994) summaryThe earliest of the wiki's long Tel interviews — jeroen-tel at 22, still mid-career, walking through the whole C64 road from BASIC player to Probe Software and the Nintendo CD.
Game Audio Network Guild — Interview with Chris Huelsbeck (2011) summaryA career-summary interview for the game-audio trade guild; little technique, but Hülsbeck's own one-sentence version of the Soundmonitor story and of his self-taught, tools-first approach.
GamesArt interview — Jeroen Tel (2015) summaryThe Tel Me More-era interview: why he crowdfunded remakes of his 1987–1991 C64 work, where the funk in his basslines comes from, and his first game credit named — Hawkeye .
Happy Computer 3/87 — Der Soundprofessor (Hülsbeck at work) summaryA reporter takes the 6:35 Intercity from Munich to visit the 18-year-old chris-huelsbeck in Langen — the earliest eyewitness account of his workplace in this wiki, published the month he joined rainbow-arts .
Hugi #38 — Up Close & Personal: Jeroen Tel of Maniacs of Noise (2014) summaryMagic of Nah-Kolor's interview with jeroen-tel for the diskmag Hugi, early 2014: biography, what rob-hubbard and martin-galway meant to him, his working methods in 2014, the state of maniacs-of-noise , and his live …
IMR interview — Chris Hülsbeck (1996) summaryA short questionnaire with one big claim: Hülsbeck believes he beat martin-galway to sampled sound on the sid — and lost the fame to a release delay.
IMR interview — Jeroen Tel (1996) summaryThe scene-questionnaire Tel: aliases, group chronology and his own theory of why his music mattered. Settles his birthplace : "I was born on the 19th of May 1972 in Eindhoven in the Netherlands. I have lived in Helmond …
Intense Tech #13 — Interview with LSDj Developer Johan Kotlinski (Defense Mechanism) summarydefense-mechanism interviews johan-kotlinski shortly before lsdj 's twentieth birthday: why the Game Boy, his background in the Swedish C64/Amiga scene, the birth of the Game Boy music movement, live mode, the changes …
Remix64 — An Interview with Anders Carlsson aka GOTO80 (Neil Carr, 2002) summaryNeil Carr interviews goto80 (Anders Carlsson, born 1981, Swedish) for Remix64 on 2002-09-18 — early in his career, just after moving to Gothenburg. The intro frames him as a maker of "rather funky and experimental SID …
Remix64 — An Interview with Chris Huelsbeck (2001) summaryNeil Carr's 2001 interview with chris-huelsbeck for the remix community: why he started on the C64, what shades did for him, what he loves and dislikes about the sid , and how composing changed once real instruments …
Remix64 — An Interview with Martin Galway (Neil Carr, 2001) summaryNeil Carr's e-mail interview with martin-galway for the remix community site Remix64, dated 2001-03-28, when Galway was Audio Lead on Freelancer at Microsoft's Magic Anvil studio. Mostly about taste, remixes and career, …
Retro Gamesmaster — Matt Gray Interview (Peter Ward) summaryThe interview with the most complete game-by-game commentary from matt-gray — dates, fees, what was cut — and his one-paragraph description of the C64 workflow.
Retrogaming Planet / EmuWiki — Interview with Chris Huelsbeck (2011) summaryThe interview in which chris-huelsbeck describes his actual C64 workflow — two machines, soundmonitor then TFMX Editor, hex numbers shown as A-2 / G#3 — and the idea behind tfmx 's per-note script.
RVG Interviews: Matt Gray (2016) summaryA forum-sourced interview whose value is one answer on technique: matt-gray on the "note or chord plex", pulse-width sweeps on chords, drums by waveform switching, and the fact that "even putting a vibrato on a sound …
SIDin #1 — Luca Carrafiello (Luca/FIRE) interview (Stefano Tognon, 2002) summaryThe first interview of sidin : Stefano Tognon asks the Italian Plus/4 scener and SID composer luca-carrafiello how someone without a SID chip came to write SID music — through converted Plus/4 editors, a SIDcard and a …
SIDin #10 — Richard Bayliss interview (Stefano Tognon, 2006) summarystefano-tognon interviews richard-bayliss , the prolific British C64 game-maker and musician ("maybe you are the unique scener around today that can release a game a week?"), in July 2006 for sidin . The useful part for …
SIDin #11 — Laxity interview (Stefano Tognon, 2007) summarylaxity (Thomas Egeskov Petersen) of Vibrants and maniacs-of-noise , "a old composer … He recently started to compose again with sid", interviewed by mail in January 2007 — about the ten C64 sound drivers he has written, …
SIDin #12 — Mihály Horváth (Hermit) interview (Stefano Tognon, 2008) summaryhermit four years before sid-wizard : Tognon interviews him about "a tracker that can control 3 sid chips", written on a real commodore-64 between January and May 2008. The interview gives his real name, age and job, …
SIDin #13 — TSM & Freedom interview (Stefano Tognon, 2010) summaryTwo Italian SID composers who wrote music for the (then unreleased) C64 conversion of the Amiga game Pushover , questioned in parallel: how they came to the SID, why both ended up in goattracker , what they think of …
SIDin #14 — Scarzix interview (Carsten Berggreen: JCH's editor, CombatZone, the return with CheeseCutter, 2015) summaryTognon interviews scarzix (Carsten Berggreen), a composer of the 1989–90 JCH-editor generation who came back in 2013, joined Offence, and made himself the public voice of the cheesecutter editor — the interview is the …
SIDin #15 — Matt Gray interview (technical questions during Reformation, 2015) summaryThe most technical of the matt-gray interviews: why his tunes are tuned to A4 ≈ 424 Hz, when he started using filters, how the matt-gray-player took shape and what he borrowed from Hubbard, the Serpent Demo samples, and …
SIDin #2 — Lasse Öörni (Cadaver) interview (Stefano Tognon, 2002) summaryA short e-mail interview with lasse-oorni made in November 2002 — the year goattracker was new — in which he explains why he kept writing players (memory and rastertime), why GoatTracker's music "takes too much memory", …
SIDin #3 — Stephan Schmid (Steppe) interview (Stefano Tognon, 2003) summaryThe sidin interview with stephan-schmid — Steppe, webmaster of the Demodungeon and since October 2002 a member of the hvsc crew: three weeks of Soundmonitor in 1991, what an HVSC crew member actually does all day, a …
SIDin #4 — Chris Abbott interview (Stefano Tognon, 2003) summaryAn email interview with chris-abbott — occasional SID composer, but above all the man behind C64Audio.com, the Back in Time CDs and the BIT Live concerts — done for sidin #4 in June 2003. Biography, the economics of the …
SIDin #5 — Chris Huelsbeck interview (Stefano Tognon, 2004) summaryA short e-mail interview with chris-huelsbeck whose one long answer is the most precise account he has given of his C64 drivers: Soundmonitor built on his third player, then TFM and a sample revision, then tfmx — and …
SIDin #6 — Jan Diabelez Arnt Harries (Rambones) interview (Stefano Tognon, 2004) summaryAn interview with jan-harries — Danish demo-scener (The Supply Team), Soundmonitor composer "Rambones", the ripper behind the Ripped-Off series and a founding member of the hvsc team — made in February 2004 for Stefano …
SIDin #7 — Dustbin (Stefano Palmonari) interview (Stefano Tognon, 2005) summaryAn interview with dustbin , the Italian composer who wrote game music for Simulmondo in the early 1990s on C64, Amiga, PC and Game Boy without formal musical training — on learning the SID from taped Hubbard and Tel …
SIDin #8 — Aleksi Eeben interview (Stefano Tognon, 2005) summaryTognon interviews aleksi-eeben , "a coder and a musician that had created some useful tools for creating music" — the low-rastertime C64 editor John Player and the four-channel sample tracker Polly Tracker , released …
SIDin #9 — Nata (Stephan Parth) interview (Stefano Tognon, 2006) summaryTognon's interview with nata , "a very young and active Italian composer" who started SID music in 2003 and composes in goattracker — a portrait of the mid-2000s cross-composing scener: GoatTracker 2.2 with reSID …
The SID Homepage — Interview with Bob Yannes (Andreas Varga, August 1996) summaryandreas-varga 's e-mail interview with bob-yannes , the designer of the sid , done in August 1996 for the sid-homepage ; some questions came from King Fisher of Triad. The first half is about intentions and regrets, the …
The SID Homepage — Interviews with Jeroen Tel (Commodore Zone 1997, 64'er 3/91) summaryTwo reprinted interviews with jeroen-tel on the sid-homepage : a long commodore-zone interview from June 1997 (Warren Pilkington gave permission) and a short one from the German magazine 64'er, issue 3/91. Between them: …
The SID Homepage — Interviews with Martin Galway (Commodore Zone 6–7, Happy Computer 11/86) summaryTwo interviews with martin-galway reprinted on the sid-homepage : a long commodore-zone one from the mid-1990s and a short Happy Computer one from November 1986, when he was twenty and at Ocean. Together they give the …
The SID Homepage — Interviews with Rob Hubbard (Commodore Zone, Happy Computer 7/86) summaryTwo interviews with rob-hubbard reprinted on the sid-homepage : a commodore-zone question-and-answer by Waz and Kenz (answered "within 24 hours", from Electronic Arts, about 1997) and a short Happy Computer interview …
TW #1 — Interview with Basehead (Populus) summaryTraxWeekly's very first interview (conducted 1995-03-05 on IRC). Populus introduces basehead as "one of the very best techno/trance/ambient trackers", a member of Imphobia, kosmic /KFMF and iCE, and lists the songs …
TW #1 — Interview with Phoenix (Populus) summaryIRC interview (1995-03-09/10) with phoenix (Andrew Voss) of the kosmic Free Music Foundation, credited by Populus with 107 songs; his own picks are The Red Horizon , Nervous Breakdown (extended mix) , Synaesthesia , …
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 #103 — Interview with Mikmak (Behemoth) summaryBehemoth's "first contribution to Trax-Weekly as a staffer": an IRC interview with mikmak , author of the MikMod and MikIT module players — chosen because "most people know only him by name, but not too many know about …
TW #105 — Interview With A Couple Of Newbies (Behemoth) summaryBehemoth interviews two beginners — Exokai (Dan Aley, 13, San Diego, a month in the scene) and Sonalore (Kevin Malin, 15, Marietta GA, listening for a year and a half, tracking for a year without a release) — "to give …
TW #109 — Interview: Skaven (Zinc) summaryzinc 's first interview in months: skaven of future-crew , "a tracker who needs no introduction", back on #trax after a long absence.
TW #11 — Interview with Beaner (Popcorn) summaryPopcorn's second interview of the issue, with beaner — "a really cool dude, and a friend" — of ACiD and epinicion : a 16-year-old with two jobs, an ST3 loyalist who cannot write without new samples.
TW #11 — Interview with Perisoft (Popcorn) summaryPopcorn ("no time to write a long intro, must release TraxWeekly") interviews perisoft , the new president of defiance and the author of issue #8's "Samples And Rippers" piece that started the row over basehead 's NAID …
TW #111 — Interview with Khyron (again =) (Jeremy Rice) summaryJeremy Rice catches khyron of kosmic on #trax — "a respected name in the Demoscene" who, the introduction says, was there when "the #coders people wanted all the musicians to stop flooding the channel with music talk …
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 #13 — Interview with Big Jim (Popcorn) summaryPopcorn heard Foreign Skys and "just had to interview the next Purple Motion": big-jim of Valhalla and the five-musicians , a British computer-science student who writes on guitar and then tracks. The second half drifts …
TW #14 — Interview with Pinion (Flood) summaryFlood interviews pinion at 7 a.m. on a borrowed Mac keyboard. (The same issue's Trax Culture column that follows in the file is a flame at PeriSoft by Lord Pegasus and is not summarised.)
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 #15 — Interview with SV (GraveDigger) summaryA joke piece, summarised only as a note. GraveDigger of hornet (gd@ftp.cdrom.com) "interviews" SV — Scarlet Vinson, "famous on #trax but has never been on the channel and has never composed any music" — during a …
TW #16 — Interview with Populus (Psibelius) summarypsibelius 's farewell interview with populus , one of traxweekly 's founders, on why he is leaving the newsletter and on the "dumb techno" he sees flooding the scene in mid-1995. The issue prints a disclaimer before and …
TW #17 — Interview with AmusiC (Popcorn) summaryPopcorn — signing as "TraxWeekly Editor" of "Hornet.TraxWeekly.MC3" — talks on IRC with amusic of Bass Productions in Athens, two months before AmusiC started the 20-minute-chip-compo . Half of the log is about the …
TW #18 — Interview With Basehead (again) (Psibelius) summarypsibelius gives basehead a second interview "because he was bored"; it covers "vastly different ground" from #1 — mostly scene politics and ethics.
TW #18 — Interview with Lord Pegasus (Psibelius) summarypsibelius interviews "Sammich Man" lord-pegasus of kosmic and ACiD on IRC, with private messages from blackwolf printed in between; Psibelius's capture failed before the end. (Lord Pegasus's earlier flame at perisoft , …
TW #19 — Interview with Quarex (Maelcum) summarymaelcum 's "complete and UNEDITED" IRC log with quarex of kosmic — some 7,000 words, half of them pre-interview chatter in which Maelcum vents about Kosmic's lost FTP site, credit for samples and the "Necros is my …
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 #27 — Basehead on Lotus Position (Cyberdmon) summaryA short IRC interview about basehead 's solo musicdisk Lotus Position , released under five-musicians .
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 #27 — Interview with Zapper (The Finn) summaryThe Finn interviews the-zapper of Force Ten at 4:45 in the morning, Montreal time.
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 #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 #3 — Interview with the Five Musicians (Populus) summaryGroup IRC interview (1995-03-26) with the newly formed five-musicians (FM): Big Jim, basehead , necros and Mellow-D; purple-motion missed the appointment. The editor frames it as the answer to "all the flames" the union …
TW #30 — Faces in the Crowd: Interview with Ender (Master of Darkness) summaryMaster of Darkness ("Mdark", Aim Higher) talks to ender , the sole musician of the small Albany demo group Foundation, in the Faces in the Crowd interview printed as "#7" and conducted on 1995-10-07. Half of it is a …
TW #30 — Faces in the Crowd: Interview with Paganus (Atlantic) summaryAtlantic interviews paganus of epinicion and Aim Higher (also printed as "Interview #7"; conducted 1995-10-10): a piano-centred Toronto-area tracker who came in through a local BBS and has strong views on scene …
TW #31 — Faces in the Crowd: Interview with Fred (Dynamic Harmony) summaryDynamic Harmony's "quickie" Faces in the Crowd interview (printed as "#12", conducted 1995-10-17) with Fred of iNK, a Virginia tracker who had just gone "net-wide" with "Bawal". No real name is printed.
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 #31 — Faces in the Crowd: Interview with Vicious (Master of Darkness) summaryMaster of Darkness interviews vicious , founder of the Toronto dance group V.S.L. (FITC "Interview #11", conducted 1995-10-18). The centre of the piece is a house producer's case that sample ripping is simply how dance …
TW #32 — Faces in the Crowd: Interview with Zinc (DennisC) summaryDennisC's "Faces in the Crowd" interview with zinc , a week after he first joined #trax; printed as "Interview #10", which is the series' own (unreliable) count, not DennisC's — the same number is printed on his Luv …
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 #35 — Interview with Loki (Trifixion) summaryTrifixion's first real TraxWeekly article, an edited IRC interview with loki , a 17-year-old Oregon tracker who had just joined zinc 's group Radiance. Printed under General Articles, outside the Faces in the Crowd …
TW #4 — Interview with Nemesis (Populus) summaryPopulus interviews nemesis , one of the newest members of renaissance — "a really great composer" whose tunes are "very realistic and catchy" but who "hasn't got enough exposure and respect" — in a chat that ended on …
TW #4 — Interview with Stalker (Zer0) summaryZer0's first interview ("bare with me"), with stalker of OTM, who had joined Zer0's own group defiance two days earlier. Half banter; the facts are the tracker lineage and OTM's story.
TW #40 — Interview with Blackwolf (Psibelius) summarypsibelius revisits blackwolf — "last interviewed in TraxWeekly #6, back when Populus was still running the show" — for "the last TW interview for 1995", after what Psibelius calls "a very long time since we've had some …
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 #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 #41 — Interview with Zinc on the Impromptu Compo (DennisC) summaryA short follow-up interview: zinc explains the ImpromptuCompo he started in #trax.
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 #5 — Interview with TheHacker (Popcorn) summaryPopcorn's first appearance in traxweekly ("I've been with TraxWeekly since the first issue, but this will be the first … something involving me appears"): thehacker of kosmic asked to be interviewed by IRC message, and …
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 #57 — Interview with Catspaw (Zinc) summaryzinc 's "conversational style" interview with catspaw of Rat, at quarter to one in the morning, Seattle time.
TW #6 — The NAID Music Compo: Opinion Interviews (Psibelius) summarypsibelius , signing as "TraxWeekly Columnist", collects two views of the music competition at NAID 1995 (the North American International Demo competition): island-of-reil of epinicion , who attended, and mosaic of …
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 #60 — Interview with Rage (Kal Zakath and Kleitus) summaryKal Zakath (jtown) and Kleitus interview rage of Jade and Night55, the Finn who took 2nd place in the Assembly '95 multichannel music competition with "Guild of Sounds" — an IRC capture "with a bit of editing for the …
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 …
TW #7 — Interview with Ryan Cramer (Popcorn) summaryPopcorn, now signing "TraxWeekly Co-Editor", interviews ryan-cramer of Iguana and renaissance , "one of my favorite composers", a week later than planned. The extract file inbox/tw-extracts/tw007-5-interviews.txt holds …
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 #80 — #trax Mass Interview (Zinc) summaryzinc interviewed "every non-idler in #trax at once", collecting answers by private message so nobody saw the others'. Mostly banter; a few questions produce usable scene data.
TW #87 — Interview with Perisoft (Pizza Head) summaryPizza Head's first interview for TraxWeekly, an unformatted IRC log that psibelius printed uncorrected; the subject is perisoft , interviewed before in #11 (May 1995) and known in the wiki from necros 's 1995 reply to …
TW #9 — Interview with Maelcum (k8to) summaryk8to interviews maelcum , founder of the kosmic Free Music Foundation — "a little more 'maelcum' oriented as opposed to 'trax' oriented".
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.
Vandalism News #63 — Interview with Matt Gray (Jazzcat, 2014) summaryThe longest matt-gray interview: how he learnt 6502 to build his player, what he thinks a player is, why System 3 let him go, the Sanxion trick behind his Bangkok Knights bass, and his 1990s pop career (Motiv8, …