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  • 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: …
  • Chris Abbott personBritish occasional SID composer (born 1970 in Ilford, Essex) who became the C64 remix scene's publisher and promoter: C64Audio.com, the Back in Time CD series and the BIT Live concerts. By June 2003 the label had paid …
  • Codemasters groupDavid and Richard Darling's budget label, for which matt-gray freelanced from Fruit Machine Simulator (1987) on — and "the ones who convinced me to write my own player. Back then, there was little chance of doing games …
  • Commodore Zone publicationA British C64 magazine of the mid-1990s whose composer interviews the sid-homepage reprinted: jeroen-tel (June 1997, reprinted with Warren Pilkington's permission), martin-galway (issues 6 and 7, typed in by Adam …
  • Compunet groupThe British C64 online service of the mid-1980s where demos were uploaded and talent was scouted — matt-gray 's route into the games industry: "If it hadn't been for Compunet, I would probably have never left first …
  • Ganja Man (Sam Bashton) personTeenage founder of the UK group lok , a handbag-house and jungle tracker in fasttracker-2 , and the author of traxweekly 's "Potted Tracking History". Sources: his March 1996 interview by zinc (source: …
  • Hewson Consultants groupThe British publisher that gave maniacs-of-noise its first job — Battle Valley , commissioned at the PCW show in September 1987, "our first paid gig" — and for whom jeroen-tel wrote "the music and sound for most of …
  • Liam the Lemming (Liam Hesse) personLiverpool tracker of S!P and Mach One, known for catchy piano-led tunes and the disk AutoEmotive ; the single source for this page is his TraxWeekly interview of August 1996 (source: s-tw066-interview-liam-the-lemming ) …
  • 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 …
  • Matt Gray personBritish C64 composer (born May 1970 in Kent), in-house at system-3 for last-ninja-2 , dominator , Tusker and Vendetta , freelance for codemasters , Thalamus, Incentive ( driller ), hewson , Silverbird and Dalali; he …
  • Probe Software groupThe English developer that took jeroen-tel from maniacs-of-noise into full-time work — "i'm moving to England, because i'm working at Probe Software now" (64'er, 3/91) — and one of charles-deenen 's remembered freelance …
  • Richard Bayliss personBritish C64 game programmer and musician, active since 1991 with SEUCK games and since 1994 with BASIC games and his own music, prolific enough in 2006 that stefano-tognon asked whether he was "the unique scener around …
  • System 3 groupMark Cale's London developer of the Last Ninja games; matt-gray was its exclusive musician from November 1987 to about March 1989 ( last-ninja-2 , dominator , Tusker , Vendetta ), after which "the Maniacs of Noise had …
  • U4IA / F8 (James Young) personBristol-based Amiga-generation composer of underground dance modules — over 150 released by 1996 — who quit as U4IA in 1994 and returned under the name F8; the single source for this page is his e-mail interview in …
  • 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 #52 — Interview with Ganja Man (LoK) summaryzinc interviews ganja-man , a 15-year-old from the UK who founded LoK to give Britain a music group and to spread jungle; four months later he would write the "Potted Tracking History" ( s-tw064-potted-tracking-history …
  • TW #66 — Interview with Liam the Lemming (Kal Zakath) summaryKal Zakath interviews liam-the-lemming , "a very accomplished musician and one of the most popular #trax personalities", in an IRC log with the interviewer's own remarks cut and "some rearrangement ... for clarity".
  • 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 …