#sample-ripping
- Perisoft (David Wiernicki) personPresident of defiance from spring 1995, epinicion member, scream-tracker-3 user, and the author of the traxweekly #8 article "Samples And Rippers, Rippers And Samples" that accused basehead 's NAID entry of being "35 % …
- little-scale — extracting samples from Game Boy and GBA ROMs (2010, 2012) summaryThe generic trick for getting audio out of any ROM, with the settings that work for the Game Boy Advance — and one worked result.
- 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #9 — Samples, Lameness, Preconceptions, and Fluffy Bunnies (Necros) summaryA reply to Perisoft's piece in #8: why necros , once a "siner-synth" purist, became "a loop junkie".