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  • 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 …
  • Beaner (Sean Cummins) personMusician of ACiD's music division and of epinicion (also Infiniti 2001 and CIA); a scream-tracker-3 3.21b user who needs new samples before he can write. The single source for this page is Popcorn's TraxWeekly interview …
  • Big Jim (James Storer) personBritish musician of Valhalla and of the five-musicians , the band he named ("FM" fits "four AND five"); a school- and college-trained composer who writes on guitar and then tracks (sources: …
  • Fred (Ink) personTracker from Hampton, Virginia, and musician of iNK, a Kansas artist group that was starting to make demos; interviewed by Dynamic Harmony for traxweekly 's Faces in the Crowd in October 1995, two weeks after his first …
  • Future Crew groupThe Finnish demogroup behind scream-tracker-3 and the s3m-format : sami-tammilehto (Psi) wrote the tracker and its format document; the S3M "old stereo control" command was used only by "the soundtrack from Panic by …
  • 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 …
  • Luv Kohli personCo-founder, with his brother Manu, of the two-member Virginia group Empyrean; interviewed by DennisC for traxweekly 's Faces in the Crowd in October 1995 after about a year of releases. The sources for this page are …
  • Master of Darkness (Todd Andlar) personFounder of AIM Higher, a newcomers' group "like epinicion ", the first "Faces in the Crowd" interviewee (September 1995) and within two weeks one of the column's interviewers; the sources are his own FITC interview and …
  • 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 % …
  • Popcorn (Chris Campbell) personCanadian high-school tracker who edited traxweekly through most of 1995 — between its founder populus , who handed him the job, and psibelius , who succeeded him — conducted six of its early interviews, and was a member …
  • Sami Tammilehto (Psi) personAuthor of Scream Tracker: 2.21 (1990-09-03), 2.24 (1991), the ST Music Interface Kit (1991–92) and scream-tracker-3 3.01–3.21 (1994), a member of future-crew (source: s-tracker-history-notes ) . He wrote the S3M format …
  • Smeghead (David Oranchak) personTechno tracker of the Virginia group Terraformer, a scream-tracker-3 user who composes by "stream of consciousness"; the main source is master-of-darkness 's "Faces in the Crowd" interview of October 1995 (source: …
  • Stalker (Ariel Gross) personMusician of the demo group OTM and, from April 1995, of defiance ; a scream-tracker-3 user since its release who started on Composer 669 in December 1993. The main source is Zer0's TraxWeekly interview of April 1995 …
  • 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 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 #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 …