Phoenix (Andrew Voss)
kosmic musician from Troy, NY (vossa@rpi.edu). Joined the Kosmic Loader Foundation in April 1994 via an application seen on The Sound Barrier BBS after a solo musicdisk, Pyrology; by March 1995 he had about 20 KLF/Kosmic releases (Populus counts 107 songs in all), from a techno remix to hard trance, and rated The Red Horizon ("a very deep industrial ballad") his best. Starts songs from "a simple rhythm or synth pattern"; was inspired by maelcum, skaven and Deus once he got past Amiga MODs at the end of 1993; predicted "alternative demo-music" for 1995 and a restructuring of the over-large Kosmic (source: s-tw001-interview-phoenix). Catspaw names him among the newer trackers he respects (source: s-tw057-interview-catspaw). The TOC lists the Kosmic column of #18 as "Maelcum/Phoenix" (source: s-traxweekly-archive).
In the interviews (1995–97)#
- perisoft names him among his five favourite trackers — Synaesthesia "makes my head spin" (May 1995) (source: s-tw011-interview-perisoft).
- shawnm's example of a known tracker with no theory (source: s-tw041-interview-shawnm); greeted by balrog (source: s-tw042-interview-balrog).
- Kleitus (July 1996): Phoenix "might be trying to organize a winter party at RPI" (source: s-tw063-interview-ryan-sprott); khyron (1997): "I used to be able to kick phoenix's ass in scenetriv, now I don't even stand a chance" (source: s-tw111-interview-khyron).
Related#
kosmic · maelcum · perisoft · khyron
Sources#
s-tw001-interview-phoenix · s-tw057-interview-catspaw · s-traxweekly-archive · s-tw011-interview-perisoft · s-tw041-interview-shawnm · s-tw042-interview-balrog · s-tw063-interview-ryan-sprott · s-tw111-interview-khyron