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Lord Pegasus (Zack Smith)

entity person PC trackers #person #musician #kosmic #acid #scream-tracker
aliases Lord Pegasus, lpegasus, Zack Smith, Sammich Man
sources TW #18 — Interview with Lord Pegasus (Psibelius) · TW #14 — Interview with Pinion (Flood) · TW #62 — Interview with Vegas (Kal Zakath and Kleitus) · TW #63 — Interview with Ryan (Kleitus)
created 2026-08-30 · updated 2026-08-30

kosmic 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 flame at perisoft, appended to the pinion interview in #14, is not summarised (source: s-tw014-interview-pinion).

Facts#

  • Origin: heard control77 and die.mod through the PC speaker, got a Sound Blaster 1.0 and then an SB16 ("why no gus? I dunno"), found ModEdit 1.0 and wrote distorsion — one guitar sample, one pattern, seven seconds. "I started writing MUSIC when I got st3" (scream-tracker-3); he kept his first S3M (source: s-tw018-interview-lord-pegasus).
  • Basehead taught him chords over the phone on the piano and "helped school me"; about half his samples are Basehead's; Basehead's poet!klf is a remix of one of Lord Pegasus's own songs. He learns theory from the necros and Basehead articles (source: s-tw018-interview-lord-pegasus).
  • Workflow: no set way — bassline, chord pattern, chosen samples or key-banging; "I just keep changing notes until I find what sounds 'good'"; two samples from his PSR keyboard in his latest tune; all-day sessions on caffeine. Against Necros's "don't drink while tracking": caffeine keeps ideas, alcohol just makes odd songs, such as his funky Dragon Warrior theme (source: s-tw018-interview-lord-pegasus; see tracking-workflow).
  • Scene views: rippers "have no musical talent" and a whole S3M of his was ripped (sample-ripping); the scene is not known enough to affect the "real world" — the Wired article on the demoscene is a start; "KOSMIC WERLD DOMINATION" (source: s-tw018-interview-lord-pegasus).
  • Later: vegas names him an influence (June 1996) (source: s-tw062-interview-vegas); ryan-sprott met him in July 1996 — still in Kosmic, on a six-week road trip, keyboard broken (source: s-tw063-interview-ryan-sprott).

To verify#

  • (unverified) poet!klf is Basehead's Poetry in Motion listed on basehead.

basehead · kosmic · scream-tracker-3 · psibelius · pinion · perisoft · tracking-workflow · sample-ripping · vegas · ryan-sprott

Sources#

s-tw018-interview-lord-pegasus · s-tw014-interview-pinion · s-tw062-interview-vegas · s-tw063-interview-ryan-sprott

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