VadimVS (Vadim Shustov)
Russian scream-tracker-3 user from Simbirsk who joined N.O.I.S.E. in February 1996 and tracked heavy, pop and disco tunes on borrowed hardware with samples ripped from other modules. The single source is his short traxweekly interview by zinc (source: s-tw050-interview-vadimvs).
Facts#
- Vadim Shustov, 22 in March 1996, of Simbirsk (Ulyanovsk); no music lessons; listens to Metallica, Camouflage, Grover Washington, Jeff Beck, Yello; "i'd never track techno/rave" (source: s-tw050-interview-vadimvs).
- Tools: "basically, it st3", sometimes fasttracker-2 and impulse-tracker; expects only trackers with 16-bit samples and instruments to survive, ST3 for "a couple of years" more. Hardware, none of it his: Pentium 75, 16 MB, 540 MB disk, Sound Blaster 16 (source: s-tw050-interview-vadimvs).
- Releases:
vs_*files on cdrom.com — "You're My Guest" (vs_guest.zip) from a planned hard'n'heavy pack Master Of Ceremony; everything atftp.bmsu.simbirsk.su:/pub/demos/music/vs_stuff(source: s-tw050-interview-vadimvs). - Opinions: ratings are "a good idea … it's honour"; the scene's biggest problem is ripping — of samples and of ideas — though he rips most of his own samples from modules for lack of money for hardware (source: s-tw050-interview-vadimvs; see sample-ripping).
Related#
noise-group · shawnm · scream-tracker-3 · sample-ripping · tracker-scene-history