#kosmic
- 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 …
- Basehead (Dan Grandpre) personProminent PC-scene musician of the mid-1990s — "one of the very best techno/trance/ambient trackers" to TraxWeekly's first interviewer — of Imphobia, kosmic /KFMF and iCE, and from March 1995 one of the five-musicians …
- Khyron (Paul Schultz) personkosmic musician from Cincinnati who by 1997 built synthesizers at the revived Moog Music and had moved from tracking to MIDI sequencing. The main source is Jeremy Rice's interview in TraxWeekly #111 (source: …
- Leviathan personMusician of Renaissance and kosmic who wrote traxweekly 's first article, "Modal and Chord Theory" (#1, 12 March 1995) — a modal chart and degree-based chord formulas for the self-taught (source: …
- Lord Pegasus (Zack Smith) personkosmic and ACiD (pHluid) tracker from Georgia, USA, self-taught by ear and schooled by basehead ; the single substantial source is his TraxWeekly interview of July 1995 (source: s-tw018-interview-lord-pegasus ) . His …
- Maelcum personFounder of the kosmic Free Music Foundation, coordinator of the musicdisk label Exceedingly Great Grooves (EGG), and member of epinicion and Underground Gabber Source; k8to credits him with "a thousand mods or so" …
- Mellow-D (Jaakko Manninen) personFinnish tracker who co-founded the five-musicians with necros in March 1995 — the "virtual band" was his idea — and who tracks entirely by ear. He has no interview of his own in the traxweekly archive; the sources are …
- Mental Floss (Andrew McCallum) personToronto techno musician of kosmic (from about 1994) who played tracked music live at raves and put out the album Grey Matter ; the single source for this page is his TraxWeekly interview of February 1998 (source: …
- Nemesis (Andrew Wise) personMusician of renaissance , kosmic and iCE, known in 1995 for "realistic and catchy" songs and, by his own account, aiming at a "professional" MIDI-like production rather than realism. The main source is his TraxWeekly …
- Phoenix (Andrew Voss) personkosmic musician from Troy, NY (vossa@rpi.edu). Joined the Kosmic Loader Foundation in April 1994 via an application seen on The Sound Barrier BBS after a solo musicdisk, Pyrology ; by March 1995 he had about 20 …
- Quarex (Drew Hunt) personSixteen-year-old member of kosmic , epinicion and his own one-man group TFX, known for PORK.MOD ; the single source for this page is maelcum 's unedited IRC-log interview of July 1995 (source: s-tw019-interview-quarex ) …
- TheHacker (Krisjanis Gale) personkosmic (KFMF) musician who released eleven songs in one batch in spring 1995 and tracked ambient and rave on a 386-25 with MultiTracker. The single source for this page is his TraxWeekly interview of April 1995 (source: …
- 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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".