______\____ Issue #69 | \\ \ ______ - T R A X W E E K L Y - |: \/ | the music scene newsletter | | _______ ________ __________ _______ ______| / ._\ __|\ ._ // _. \\ | / | | |/ _/ \| \_ _/. |_______|_____/ \_____\___._/ |_____| sTZ!/sE . \_____/ |______| _______ | ________ ____\ /__________ ________ ____ ______ _____ \ /___ ._\ \ \\ _. // _. // |/ // |___\__ / /_ | /\ \ \|__/ \|__/ / __/. | /___ \_ |____________/_______________________\______|_________._/ ______/ . |______\ | | |___\\____/\ :| Founded 21 March 1996 \ \_______| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | TraxWeekly Issue #69 | Release Date: 22 August 1996 | Subscribers: 766 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _____ Welcome to TraxWeekly #69! _:__ / | | \/ | This week, we are proud to /\ _________ ______ ________ _______ feature a "generic" TraxWeekly / \\ \\ \_\ _ \\ \ article, brought to us with / \ \ / _/ / _/. \ the same flair shown in his /______\___/ /_______|_____\____|_______/ "TraxWeekly World News." /___\ sTZ!/sE . | /\__|_ We also have a person "Top 100 |_____/ : listing from Interphaze. It is extremely interesting to see some of the opinions voiced by members of the music scene about what the think represent the cream of the crop of tracked music. A number of reknown composers dot the list, so please check it out. For another dash of humor, I've included a little spoof on the recent movie Independence Day. For those of you who haven't seen it yet, or have no idea what it is, please try to avoid it. The humor is rather subtle. Ascii art this week comes from Stezotehic! His approach to logos has allowed us to "flow around" the art a little better. Again, another slow week. Life goes on. =) Gene Wie - gwie@csusm.edu TraxWeekly Publishing /-[Contents]---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ . General Articles _ _:_______ 1. Generic TW Article........Zinc | \ __ 2. Top 100 Mods..............Interphaze | \\/ ____ 3. Indoctrination Day........Dean Kanipe | sTZ!/sE \ / | Group Columns : \/ | 4. Explizit _____ _______ ________ _____ ______ ________ ______ _____ / _/___\ \\ \\ \_\__ |\ \\ \_\ _/___ / \ \_ \ \ / _/ /___| \ / _/_____ \ \__________/______/___/ /______|____________/ /_______| /_______/ . /___\ /___\ | /\ |_____/ \ __ | Closing \\/ \\ Subscribing \ \ Contributions \_____|_ _ TraxWeekly Staff : . /-[General Articles]-------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ --[1. Generic (Pointless) TraxWeekly Article]-----------------------[Zinc]-- Welp, I just had to due something for this special issue! That's right, the one issue that really counts - issue 69! Before I go further, I'd like to express my disappointment with Blackwolf for stealing my "TraxWeekly World News" title! Now that that is over with.. Here comes my article: a satire on the number of silly, not-very-useful articles from the past. [Editor's Note: Blackwolf didn't steal it. We just continued using the name. But thanks for the information, mr. egomaniac. -Ed.] Hi! I'm Mr. Generic TraxWeekly Article! First of all, I'd like to start off with a few handy-dandy neato-licious phantasmagoriffic tracking tips! Load up your copy of ScreamTracker 3 (you can download the latest version from an ftp site called "ftp.cdrom.com", which has a lot of neat stuff). Go to pattern one, which is ACTUALLY called pattern ZERO. Now, go the the very first column on the F2 screen. A quick way to get there is just to hold down the HOME key until the CPU starts beeping. Press your 'Q' key! Now you've entered a note! A C-5, probably. So, the trick is to go to the order list, and enter a bunch of numbers, which represent patterns. Still though, you won't hear any sound. This is the trick, because if you are following these directions, we're probably better off not hearing your tracks. Now, a good idea is to load PM-SINER.SMP into all 99 sample slots, and press CTRL-S. Save your song with the name "K_MART.S3M" and be sure to upload it - unzipped of course - to the ftp site I mentioned earlier. You may want to go to the sample list first, though, and put in some neat high-ascii comments, because this always impresses people. Onto another topic: sample ripping! Sample ripping is what happens when you take other people's samples and use them in your own song. Everybody does this, but you should still go into #trax (the irc channel) and start up debates about this every now and then. Something of upmost importance to us all is the interview, so I've decided to interview somebody who is of incredible importance to the interview itself, and this is myself, because I'm the only one who will understand the strange questions I ask. Okay let's start with the basic stuff like your real name and age and anything else you want to reveal. Do I have to say my real name? There's some warez grubbers who will kill me if they my true identity. so make something up. okay, I name is Bob Dole. Alrighty then, bob. What is your opinion on sample ripping? hey is this supposed to be funny because you were talking about sample ripping in this article? Shut up! Don't answer my questions with questions! Okay, sorry. well nevermind that question then. What do you think about all the retarded, pointless interviews we see in traxweekly? What's that supposed to mean? Well let's wrap this thing up. Please tell us where you can get your latest mods, and anybody you'd like to say hi to. Um. My tracks are pretty pathetic though, so I don't want people to get them. And I don't want to greet anybody, cuz I don't think anybody likes me in the first place. That's right. Not even me. Go away. *END OF INTERVIEW* Well, that interview didn't go too well. I guess some people just don't get it. So I'd better move on. New subject! The demo! [Editor's Note: I told zinc not to submit this crappy article, because it sucks beyond all imagination, but he did anyways. Sorry. -Ed.] Since Second Reality, I haven't seen any good demos. I sure, there have been demos, but not DEMOS! I mean, yeah they were demos, per se, but as far as demos go, the only real demo must be like "DEM-OH" and not like "Dee Moe" because a DEMO isn't a Dee Moe. So there you have it. Okay. This is the end of the article. I apologize to everybody who have submitted stupid articles and are offended, but that's your own problem, so why am _I_ apologizing. Nevermind that. I'll just take a brief moment to plug two new songs of mine: BECKOFM.ZIP in incoming/it. It's a neato track which goes where no mod has gone before. Also, TREK.ZIP, which is in incoming/s3m and was my ambient mc4 entry. Yay. During the time it took you to read this, 5 people will have died from motor-vehicle accidents, and 1 person will have died from smoking. Also, 1 fetus will have been aborted, and most importantly, 74 people will have fallen asleep from reading this same article. Toodles. [Editor's Note: Make that close to 700 people. If you keep writing articles like this, people aren't going to read TraxWeekly anymore. They'll find other things to do, like read AudioFile. =) -Ed.] - zinc / rays@direct.ca ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --[2. Top 100 Songs]------------------------------------------[Interphaze]-- This is Interphaze speaking, giving you a warm hello. This is my Top 100 list of mods, which I hope you might have some interest in. I like *all* the songs listed here a great deal, ie; whatever gets last is not a *bad* tune, but a *brillient* tune. There are a lot of mods out there. But first, some cautionary words: 1. If you're a composer and not mentioned on the list, I might not have heard too much of your work, so don't get angry with me. Also there are many composers I like that I haven't mentioned too much (or at all) on this list. The songs they write don't seem to stand out too much in my mind -- they are all of a good quality (for instance Heatbeat is a better composer than Emax but Heatbeat isn't mentioned in my list at all; sorry!) 2. Note I don't judge on professionalism; I judge what tune I like the most. I don't care if a certain module has real guitars/16bit samples/ excellent stereo panning and (arrgh!) vocals. None of this means anything if the tune is bad. 3. Please note I am not at all influenced by the opinions of those on #trax, or of the publication Traxweekly itself. It would be much easier kissing up to everyone on the scene by mentioning current composer's tunes, believe me. 4. (or POSSIBLE FLAME ALERT) If you wholly disagree with this list, thinking I've made some glaring ommisions, or that I'm musically illiterate etc. (well, anyone who likes disco music runs that risk, don't they?), then why not make your *own* list, and send it into Traxweekly. Well, that's enough chat. Here's the list... 1. Space Debris Captain 2. Insideout Purple Motion 3. Skyrider Purple Motion 4. Beyond Music Captain 5. Defloration Emax 6. Ambient Power Vogue 7. When the Heavens Fall Purple Motion 8. A Touch of Spring Purple Motion 9. Near Dark Purple Motion 10. Party II Intromuzak Skaven 11. Stardust Memories Jester 12. Assembly_94 invitation Purple Motion 13. Enigma Tip/Firefox 14. Compulsion To Obey Lizard King 15. Inspiration Purple Motion 16. Starshine Purple Motion 17. Mysticism Necros 18. Charts Overdrive Purple Motion 19. Turbulence Purple Motion 20. Gravitation Lizard King 21. Macrocosm Firefox 22. Desert Dawn Lizard King 23. Crusin' Hawaii Jogeir 24. Artificial Intelligence Prism 25. Abra1 Jogeir 26. Electrification Groo 27. Nargual Dance Jugi 28. Biomechaniod Groo 29. 2nd_Reality Purple Motion 30. ID Skaven 31. 2nd_Reality Skaven 32. Exploration Purple Motion 33. Realization II Necros 34. Aquaphobia Purple Motion 35. World of Plastic Purple Motion 36. War.. Middle Earth Skaven 37. Skyscraper (remix) Necros 38. SSI Intro Purple Motion 39. Point of Departure Necros 40. Space Gravition Lizard King 41. Satellite 1 Purple Motion 42. The Decalogue Vogue 43. Underwater Breathin' Purple Motion 44. Virtual Dreams Dntro Groo 45. Realization Necros 46. Fracture in Space Purple Motion 47. Andante Necros 48. Shadowrun Purple Motion 49. World of Mages Lizard King 50. Led Storm Jogeir 51. Towards Immortality Groo 52. Respirator Zodiak 53. Mental Motion Amadeus 54. Blowup Larios/feyd 55. Zine SFX Omega 56. Banana-split Dizzy 57. Cream of the Earth ? 58. Can't Fake the Funk Basehead 59. Global Motion Purple Motion 60. Just Spank It Tip/Firefox 61. Dope_(on Jugi 62. Age of Legends Lizard King 63. New Beginning Purple Motion 64. Metroplex Necros 65. Ambient Light Vouge 66. Cybermoon Jugi 67. Purple Sky II Purple Motion 68. Elekfunk Moby 69. Lucid Dreams Jugi 70. Greynote Necros 71. Amegas ? old 72. Ominiphillia Skaven 73. Bounty Eyebrow 74. Echoing ? old 75. TMP (from Unreal demo) Purple Motion 76. Catch that Goblin Skaven 77. Molecule's Revenge Jester 78. Darkness/Pinball Purple Motion 79. Acid Jazz-Part 1 Nuke 80. Sundance Purple Motion 81. Realm of Chaos Skaven 82. Elimination Lizard King 83. He Has No Face Skaven 84. Arcadia Necros 85. Chipslayer Lizard King 86. Click Necros 87. Basic Instinct Jester 88. Astraying Voyages Purple Motion 89. Guitar Slinger Jogier 90. Miracle Man Purple Motion 91. Claustrophobia Lizard King 92. Longstabben Lizark King 93. Blowaway Jugi 94. Scenial Purple Motion 95. Galactic Lizard King 96. Cloudscape Zodiak 97. Free From Guitar ? 98. Comm-Jazz Jogeir 99. Variations Jogeir 100. Aurora Orion Jugi Anyway, please direct comments to [jayr@break.com.au], such as whether I've missed certain songs or just anything at all. As it is, this list was done quite quickly and could be much better than it is. For instance some of the placing *may* need to be rearranged. Thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --[3. Indoctrination Day]------------------------------------[Dean Kanipe]-- [Editor's Note: If you haven't seen Independence Day the movie or have no idea what it is, ignore this entire article. -Ed.] 40 Things I Learned From ID4 That I Never Knew Before By Dean Kanipe Area 51 Research Center While viewing the film Independence Day, it became apparent that I was remarkably uninformed about several things related to Area 51, aliens, military operations, and America in general. Below is a quick list of a few important things I learned from the film that I never knew before, and a few lessons that were inferred from the plot. I wish to thank the creators of ID4 for making these facts much clearer to me. 1. Aliens like to blow up significant land marks first. Apparently the best way to destroy a city is to position your "Death Ray" over the most recognizable building. 2. All pro-UFO people are morons who dance atop the building directly under the Death Ray. 3. If alien "Destroyers" come to your city to blast it into oblivion, leave BEFORE they fire the Death Ray. 4. If alien "Destroyers" come to your city to blast it into oblivion and you are caught in traffic at the last minute, make sure that you are travelling with a dog and a small child. The Law of Averages says you'll survive the Death Ray. 5. If alien "Destroyers" come to your city to blast it into oblivion and you are caught in traffic at the last minute, make sure that you are NOT a raspy-voiced homosexual cable TV executive. The Law of Averages says you'll get waxxed by the Death Ray. 6. Stripping is a lucrative profession that allows one to "Pay the bills," "take care of one's boy," and own a nice house in a middle class subdivision. 7. Strippers got moxie. When the going gets tough, they can drive California Highway Department utility vehicles, collect refugees and use their extensive survival skills to provide food and comfort to survivers. 8. NASA sends out rejection letters, just like Harvard. 9. Area 51 is an "Assault Base". 10. A fleet of RVs can travel across the Nevada Test Site in line-abreast formation without the need of roads, thanks to the imense expanses of Salt Flats and the lack of impeding mountains. 11. Area 51 has a big chain-link fence around it, and the guards at the gate wear black combat fatigues with white metal helmets in 120 degree heat. 12. Any bonehead with an RV can get to Area 51 by driving across the Salt Flat to the gate and flashing a captured alien to the guard. 13. Standard operating procedure for the Air Force is to cluster all vehicles, aircraft, and ground personel on a 200 meter section of tarmac in the middle of an Alien Invasion. 14. The F-18 is the sole fighter in use by all branches of the service, including Marines and Air Force. 15. From the assault scenes on the Alien "Destroyers', it appears that the F-18 must have had a 10,000 unit production run. 16. Both F-18s and B-2s must close to within 10 km of a target 20 km across before engaging with both air-to-air missiles and aerial launched nuclear cruise missiles. 17. People too drunk to walk can still fly crop dusters and F-18s. 18. Any bonehead with rudimentary aviation experience can be taught to pilot an F-18 in 5 hours. 19. Any bonehead with F-18 flight experience can learn to pilot an Alien fighter in 5 minutes. 20. Aliens with anatomy that includes tentacles and clawed feet use flight yokes just like ours. 21. Aliens are wimps, even the ones in "Bio-Mechanical" armor. They have glass jaws and can be taken out with a punch by Will Smith. (He has had a lot of practice on photographers, though. ) 22. Aliens are stupid. When one of their fighters approaches the carrier, they don't bother to communicate with the pilot. 23. Aliens are even more stupid. They pursue their targets into canyons walls and closing blast doors. 24. Aliens are unbelievably stupid. While unarmed and unarmored, they do things to piss off people with hand guns. 25. Aliens are just too stupid for words to express. An alien air traffic controller can look at a fighter that has been human-modified for 20 minutes and is only 50 feet away and not notice the welded-on missile rack until the missle is fired through his work station. 26. Aliens are remarkably inarticulate. All they can say is, "Release you the laughing stock of the community, never fear. When their "Destroyers" come, you will be vindicated to those who mocked your tale. 33. If aliens abduct you and do unspeakable things to you, you can have revenge upon them by flying an F-18 into their Death Ray. 34. If aliens abduct you and do unspeakable things to you and you have revenge upon them by flying an F-18 into their Death Ray, you will obtain redemption and your children will be proud of you. 35. The best way to win back a former wife is to be very annoying, look perpetually vexxed, and keep wearing your wedding ring for 4 years after the divorce. 36. In 10 hours, one man with a Macintosh Laptop can code a virus in C++ that will take down a completely alien computer system. 37. Even though the Mac isn't compatible with most other Earthly operating systems, it can interface with an alien computer. 38. Alien network security is nonexistant. 39. Rather than attacking a planet when they first encounter it (ie, 1940s), aliens wait until the planet has developed just enough technology to possibly defend itself. 40. Scientists at Area 51 are a bit touched in the head, and "Don't get out much." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- /-[Group Columns]----------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ --[4. Explizit]------------------------------------------------------------- .____. .....______________.____________________________________________| |__.. :::::\__ _____ | ______ \ \______) \_____)_ _____/:: :::::::/ __>/\/ . __/| __/ / /__ \_____ \ \| |::::: ::::::/ | / \ : \| \_____/ / \ \_ _____/ \ |::::: :::::/ \__| \_ :::\ / / / | \ / |::::: :::::\__________/::|______/____|:::\_______/_____/________/_____/___:::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::[sYNOPTiC]:: Explizit TraxWeekly column issue #27 Hi! The second edition of our diskmag Exploration, called 'Malevolent Karma' is about to be released. This Diskmag contains over 400k of articles about the Dutch music scene, so it should be pretty worth the download. Sturm has joined our ranks to enlighten us with Acid sounds. He has already released 'Mind Alteration'; an Acid MusicDisk. 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