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  • Commercial tracking — selling and producing tracked music conceptCan a module be a product? traxweekly argued it out in October 1997 – January 1998 after Behemoth's "The Scene and the Commercial Market". The useful residue is a list of real cases, a production workflow for …
  • Compos — music competitions in the tracker scene conceptA compo is a competition with a deadline, a rule set and a vote; in the 1990s PC scene they ran on IRC, by e-mail and at parties, and they were the main way a tracker got quick, public feedback. The one this wiki has …
  • Sample ripping conceptTaking samples out of other people's modules — with a ripper such as GetSamps v2.42 by Zab [Hardcode], or by loading the module in a tracker — and reusing them in your own songs. In the 1990s PC scene it was both …
  • The PC tracker scene 1995–98, as it saw itself conceptWhat traxweekly 's writers said about where tracking came from, how music moved around, who judged it and where it was going. This is the scene's own narrative, mostly written by teenagers in an afternoon; for checked …
  • Tracking workflow — advice from the scene conceptHow experienced trackers of the 1990s said to work — most of it still true for sid-wizard and lsdj .
  • 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 …
  • Defiance groupA small PC music and demo group of 1994–95, founded around Zer0 and run from spring 1995 by perisoft ; it had a "Defiance Column" in the first issues of traxweekly (TOC: #1, #2, #4, #11), and Zer0 wrote for the …
  • Epinicion groupThe group psibelius founded so that newcomers would not be hazed (source: s-tw003-beginning-the-tracking-experience ) ; the IT manual thanks him as "the nice friendly Epinicion founder" (source: s-it-manual ) . Most of …
  • Five Musicians (FM) groupA five-member "band" formed on IRC in March 1995 by necros , Mellow-D (Jaakko Manninen), big-jim (James Storer), basehead and purple-motion . Necros and Mellow-D wanted "a new music group with just a few people in it"; …
  • Future Composer (C64) toolThe scene editor of 1988 built on the first maniacs-of-noise player: "Another player cracked: Future Composer! It's released by Finnish Gold. It's the first TMC/MON player, but Finnish Gold had made an editor for it. …
  • Hornet groupThe demoscene archive and group behind "Demonews", the newsletter traxweekly was modelled on and spun off from; TraxWeekly was "a HORNET affiliation", distributed from ftp.hornet.org and www.hornet.org (sources: …
  • Kosmic (KFMF) groupA major PC music group of the 1990s, founded by maelcum and one other person in the fall of 1992 as the "Kosmic Loader Foundation" (KLF), a VGA-loader/ANSI group in the ACiD mould that became a music group with the …
  • LoK groupA UK music group set up by ganja-man because "there weren't really any demo/music groups" in Britain that he knew of, with a second aim of educating #trax about jungle. The expansion of the name is not printed in the …
  • Luca Carrafiello (Luca/FIRE) personItalian Plus/4 scener and SID composer of the FIRE crew (Fantastic Italian Research Enterprise), interviewed in the first issue of sidin (September 2002) as the composer of Soulfixer — second in the SidWine online …
  • NOISE (New Objectives In Sound Exploration) groupA small Quebec music group headed by shawnm , founded about early 1995, that ranged from techno and ambient to industrial, hard rock and "classical" and had a group column in traxweekly (#42, #50 in the TOC). Sources: …
  • Renaissance groupAn early PC demo group, reached through The Sound Barrier BBS in New York, whose demos — above all Amnesia (seen by khyron "sometime in 93", before future-crew 's Second Reality ) — and whose tracker, MultiTracker, …
  • Rockmonitor toolThe scene's unofficial extension of soundmonitor with a sampled drum track, made by The Dutch USA-Team in 1987: "Dutch USA-Team take Soundmonitor from Chris Hülsbeck … and adds a digi-drum routine to it, so you can edit …
  • Scarzix (Carsten Berggreen) personSID composer and 6510 coder, born 1972, active around 1989–90 in the jch-editor ( CombatZone , Galactix for Triangle) and again from 2013 in Offence, where he became the public face of the cheesecutter editor — its …
  • Ultrabeat groupA music-only techno "tribe" founded about March 1996 by injekted and subhuman — "no coding, no graphics… just the music" — for ravers and "foreign techno heads", with a proposed five-member cap and the five-musicians as …
  • CSDb release pages: Soundmonitor V1.0 (1986) and Shades (1986) summaryThe database entries for the program and the tune, useful for downloads, dating and the scene's own view of them.
  • little-scale — Microtonal Chipmusic Compilation, call for tracks (2009) summaryShort, and included because it is where little-scale states the point of the whole 2009 tuning project and lists the routes into it — a contemporary bibliography of chip microtuning as of December 2009.
  • little-scale — Sync Options for Game Boy Music (2008) summaryThe census of Game Boy synchronisation as it stood in October 2008: eighteen devices, what each one can and cannot do, and who made it. Nothing else in the wiki maps this territory.
  • little-scale — the LSDJ kit releases, and the stock kits extracted (2008–2014) summarySix years of giving lsdj kits away, from Street Fighter voices in 2008 to a louder TR-808 in 2014. Individually these are announcements; together they are the record of who supplied the scene's kits, and one of them …
  • The Brief History of SID — Jan Harries (SIDwave), Vandalism News #64 (2015) summaryA scener's memoir of C64 music from 1982 to the 2010s, written by a ripper who says he has "seen many players, 5600+ to be exact" — opinionated, sometimes score-settling, but full of first-hand claims about who wrote …
  • TW #11 — How to enhance your music collection (Popcorn) summaryA short guide by TraxWeekly's then editor to building a module collection; its value today is as a map of the 1995 distribution channels.
  • TW #113–#118 — The Scene and the Commercial Market: the commercial-tracking debate summaryBehemoth lectured on demos and tracking to 40–50 people at his college's electronics department (most over 30; one asked "how a computer was able to sound 'not like a computer'") and concluded with five reasons tracking …
  • TW #118 — Tracking the Format (Jesper Pedersen) summaryBlayd Zro (#116, 18 December 1997) proposed distributing songs as MP3 so nobody could rip samples or patterns; Pedersen argues the module format itself is what makes the scene worth having.
  • 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 #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 #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 #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 #26–#33, #50 — the 20 MeEnUhTz Chip Compo column (AmusiC) summaryThe weekly column of the 20-minute-chip-compo (20mc): its origin story, the rules, the voting system and its changes, three result tables from autumn 1995, and — in #50 — why it stopped after Christmas 1995 and came …
  • 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 — Music: Beginning the Tracking Experience (Psibelius) summarypsibelius on how he started tracking and what a newcomer should avoid.
  • TW #32 — Faces in the Crowd: Complaints (Master of Darkness) summaryA short opinion column by Master of Darkness ("Mdark", maz@io.org ) in the Faces in the Crowd section of #32, between DennisC's Zinc interview ( s-tw032-interview-zinc ) and Atlantic's "Not So Advanced Tracking Tips" ( …
  • TW #32–#34 — Tracker Survey / New Tracker (Psibelius, Jason Diamond) summaryNot a survey of which trackers people used: TraxWeekly's two "Tracker Survey" notices asked readers to send feature wishes to Jason Diamond (diamond@deltanet.com, IRC nick mofochckn), who was writing "a totally new …
  • TW #37–38 — The Death of the Chiptune / Chiptunes Aren't Dead! summaryA two-part exchange from December 1995 that documents what "chiptune" meant in the PC tracker scene and the effect of the 20-minute-chip-compo .
  • TW #43–#45 — the Demonews ratings argument (Light, Trixter / Hornet) summaryLight of kosmic (an artist, "not a musician") watched two friends fall out on #trax over "the cdrom ratings" and wrote that the five-star system in Demonews and the 00index files makes lesser trackers give up; trixter …
  • TW #5 — What it's like to be a PC Musician (Necros) summarynecros on "fame" in the tracker scene, signed "Andy, aka. Necros / FM" (asega@ic.sunysb.edu).
  • TW #50 — Aesthetics of Composition and Music Groups (Spyder / NOISE) summaryAn opinion piece from #trax conversations about music groups and "the philosophy about composition practices", written after one year of tracking.
  • TW #65–#66 — Tracking as an Olympic Sport, parts I–II (Blackwolf) summaryWritten from Atlanta during the 1996 Games: a mock letter to the organising committee proposing tracking as an exhibition sport, and a mock refusal. The joke describes, quite precisely, the compo format the scene took …
  • 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 #99 — Why Tracking Is The Perfect Artform (anonymous) summaryAn enthusiast's "top reasons for tracking like crazy", with one concrete story about how compo feedback improved a song.