#techno
- Blaze Runner (Christian Desnoyers) personBelgian techno tracker, music coordinator of PURE (formerly TRAXX) with Blue Adonis, and the first traxweekly interviewee to describe registering his tunes with a collecting society and preparing a vinyl release. The …
- Deus Ex (Chill Productions) personFounder of Chill Productions, a Toronto group started in 1995 by a 30-year-old techno/trance/ambient composer who "was getting flack" from other groups for his style, his GUS and his FastTracker; also a member of …
- Esper Division groupA two-man Montreal band — Francois-Jean de Brienne (melodies) and Alexandre Jean-Claude (rhythms) — that performed live with lyrics sung over tracked pieces; "no handle", the band's name is the name. The single source …
- Injekted (Brandon Balliett) personSixteen-year-old raver who conceived and named ultrabeat , a music-only techno group, after an earlier non-tracking stint as Zer0 of defiance . The single source is Cerulean's traxweekly interview with him and subhuman …
- 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: …
- 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: …
- 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 …
- 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 #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 #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 #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 #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 …