. founded march 12, 1995 _| : _____ t r a x w e e k l y # 79 ______________ |___| _ _______/ /\___________________________ / ____________/ /\__\ _ _______/____/_____________________________ / / _________ \/__/ ______\ \_____________________________ / / / `_ . .~ \____\/ _ __ ___ / / / _____ . _ \ __ ___ _/__/\ / / / / /\ _ The Music Scene Newsletter __ __\__\/ _/__/ / ____/ /__\_________________________________ _____ ___ _ / /\/ /___ __________ _ ______ _ ___ \/ /\ / / /____/ \ \ / /\ / __/\ / /\ \ \ / \ /____/ / / \ / \/ /_ \___/___/ \ \_/___/ / \_/ / / \ ___\ / /_/ /______/\/ \ /______/\/ \ /_____/ // \ \ / / / \ / / \ \ \ \_\ \ \ \_\ \ //____/\____\/ / / / / / \______\/ \______\/ \_____\/ \ \ \ \ / / / / \____\/\____\ / / / / _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ / / / /__/ w /\___/ /\___/ e /\___/ /\__ / l /\___/ /\____/ / / __/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/____/________/ / __\ \____\ e \____\ \____\ k \ ___\ \____\ y \__________/ \____\/ \____\/ \____\/ \____\/ \____\/ \____\/WW ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | TraxWeekly Issue #79 | Release date: 06 Dec. 1996 | Subscribers: 895 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- /-[Introduction]------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ Welcome to TraxWeekly #79. The Plagiarism in the Music Scene column is back again after a few months of inactivity. It seems that stupidity in the music scene is on the rise again. This time, we have someone ripping the song from the v2.08 release of Impulse Tracker ("WHAT?" You say? Exactly.). Notes: Cyberdemon changed his handle to CD quite awhile ago. He would appreciate it very much if people would stop calling him be his formal handle. Also, TraxWeekly needs some serious writers who can write serious articles. I'm tired of getting column after column of complete bull$#!t. I really could not care about 100% correct grammar, but I'd like to see some original ideas, decent writing, and significant material. Being able to *communicate* is one of the most important skills in our information society. If you can't do that, LEARN. Until next time, Gene Wie (Psibelius) TraxWeekly Publishing gwie@csusm.edu /-[Contents]---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ ________ _________________________________________________________________ / ____/_/ __/ \ __/ / _____/ \ __/ __/ ___/_ < \____\ \ \\ \ \\____ __/ __/_\ \ \\____ \_____ \__ \ \ \ \\ \ \ww\ \\ \\ \ \ \ \ \_ _\________\________\\___\____\ \_____\\_______\\___\____\ \_____\_______\ Letters and Feedback 1. Letter from Bez 2. Letter from Masakado 3. Letter from Kamophlage 4. Letter from shaithis General Articles 5. Plagiarism in the Music Scene.................Psibelius 6. "Ode to Lamers"...............................Zinc 7. Intro to Music Theory Vol. 3..................Greg Heo 8. Is BBS'ing dead?..............................Pizza Head Group Columns 9. Explizit 10. Skyjump Team Closing Distribution Subscription/Contribution Information TraxWeekly Staff Sheet /-[Letters and Feedback]---------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ --[1. Letter from Bez]------------------------------------------------------ From roberts@execpc.comFri Nov 22 21:58:38 1996 Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 00:31:45 GMT From: Rob Sanheim To: gwie@mailhost2.csusm.edu Subject: argh, drop the chip tune articles in TW Hiya, PLEASE drop the stupid chip tune articles those 3 guys are writing,...they are trying to be funny and failing miserably. I'd rather have a smaller traxweekly with more quality than a big tw with all sorts of crud in it. Rob Sanheim - aka "Bez" roberts@execpc.com ---- I have read the 'modsquad's article submission for this week, and I agree. It's completely garbage. Its has been filed in the round file. -Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --[2. Letter from Masakado]------------------------------------------------- Hi there. dear fellow TraxWeekly readers. This is only a quick announcement about the music compo that Blacktron Music Productions will be running within a week from now. Of course, it will be a fun compo in the first place, but with a few serious influences. Perhaps you have heard something from Blacktron before, perhaps not. Anyway, we are a dutch/swizz music group and the music we release changes from hardtechno to smooth jungly vibes. As I said, this is just to announce that we're going to organize that compo, the official info pack will be available next weekend, around december 14, 1996. If you're interested in joining the compo, or just want to know more about it, you can get the info from the following places. Get the info from our homepages at: http://sdc.wtm.tudelft.nl/blacktron http://tillbm.stu.rpi.edu/~maszive or from our main site at: http://www.xs4all.nl/~marbov Do you want to end up on CD Well. That's all for now. Hope to hear from you in the compo, Regards, Martin. Masakado_Bmp ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --[3. Letter from KamoPhlage]----------------------------------------------- From undert@primenet.comFri Nov 22 21:58:11 1996 Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 15:52:55 -0700 (MST) From: Ryan Fariss-Law To: gwie@mailhost1.csusm.edu Subject: TW Article Just wanted to thank you for printing your response to that terrible article by Rubz. It was certainly one of the most brainless articles I've seen in the last year or so. I really agree with your point about bashing older, more popular scene members being the 'trendy' thing to do lately. Anyway, I just thought it was a great response, and if it wasn't there I might have even written something similar up myself and sent it in. Well blarg...Lates. :) -- / To: Gene Wie Subject: Re: [TRAX-WEEKLY:101] traxWeekly Issue #78 Allow me to say thank you, for publishing a statement that I have made numerous times on #trax. What is with this old-school bashing? Especially FC bashing? I mean, yes, the tracking scene has improved since the days of global motion or Ice Frontier, but does that mean that these songs are unlistenable and should be removed from all hard drives across the world? Hell no. Purple Motion's music is, at this point, no less than two years old, yet he is still by far and large one of the most popular trackers ever to have graced the scene. There is a reason for this. The man was (and probably still is) and extremely talented and accomplished musician. Listen to a necros tune sometime, especially the older ones, and tell me you can't hear the purple motion influence. I defy the tracking scene as a whole to tell me that purple motion and the rest of FC were not an inspiration to them in some part. My personal tracking style is nothing like purple motion's, but I still cannot deny his influence on me. These people were innovators. They were musicians. Above all, they were artists. A great work of art does not fade with time, and I fervently hope that there are others such as myself who consider the music that came from Purple Motion and many of his peers to be just that, works of art. I still listen to Global Motion, Soul-o-matic, Ice Frontier, and many other works from the future crew musicians, and I am not ashamed to admit this. I fail to understand the logic of bashing old school trackers when we have people who are still in the scene such as Wave, who have been tracking for just as long as PM or Skaven, and still continue to win compos. Wave is an excellent musician, who continues to contribute to the tracking scene. Does this put him on a level above Purple Motion? I highly doubt that. I think if you asked him, or many other prominent scene members, they would tell you that they have a high level respect for Purple Motion and the music he produced. Sorry this letter is so long, but I am getting really tired of the current trend of bashing anything that's more than two years old. It is pathetic, stupid, and represents nothing more than a few people's jealousy for a level of music they cannot reach. Feel free to publish this in traxweekly. I hope that others will respond to it and let me know either A) Why they are bashing a group of extraordinarily talented people or B) That they agree with me that it should not be so. Anyway, thanks for letting me speak my mind, and please continue with Traxweekly. While it's lost some of its support, I still consider it an excellent scene mag and anticipate reading it each week. Latz Shaithis (Chris Buecheler) shaithis@buffnet.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- /-[General Articles]-------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ --[5. Plagiarism in the Music Scene]---------------------------[Psibelius]-- Plagiarism in the Music Scene (PMS) - protecting the rights and intellectual property of musicians worldwide - And just when you thought that nothing interesting was going to be in TraxWeekly this week. I thought that the entire point of PMS was completely dead LAST year, after that whole smash-up with Immortal Software Productions. However, some recent events have prompted me to revive this column. The other night on IRC, Liam the Lemming and Legend informed me that someone had released a rip of Legend's 'Acid Dreams' song, which happened to be the example song for Pulse's latest Impulse Tracker v2.08 release. I will skip the conversation and following emails to say this: Phoncie or Phonkie, whatever his handle is, is a musician from the group Explizit. He has released a song called 'glencoe' under the filename e-glence.zip. This core of this song is a number of ripped patterns from Legend's 'Acid Dreams.' Inside his rip, Phoncie/Phonkie only mentions that he "ripped a few patterns from that it208 song," and fails to credit Legend for the original ideas. He also adds a (c) to his rip, which is ridiculous, espescially for a plagiarized work! Now why is this disturbing? Put it this way: why would ANYONE be stupid enough to rip the song from an internationally distributed tracking program?! It blows my mind. How utterly *retarded* does one have to be to do such a thing? Don't answer that. I encourage all of you to contact Legend at legend@fl.net.au to obtain a copy of both songs and see for yourself. You can download IT208 from one of the three hundred sites it is available on worldwide (doh!) to get Legend's song. I also encourage all of you to email Ch:ilm, the head of Explizit at postmaster@explizit.org and tell him to dump this lame Phoncie/Phonkie whoever from the group. You can email Phoncie/Phonkie and express your displeasure at his activites at phoncie@explizit.org. To Phoncie/Phonkie: I'd better see a public apology to Legend within the next week, or your a$$ is toast. And PMS is resurrected for yet another week... -Psibelius [TW] gwie@csusm.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --[6 "Ode To Lamers"]-----------------------------------------------[Zinc]-- See the lamers track a song only thirty seconds long. From the local boards they come turning #trax into a slum. See the lamer flood with greets, when necros and base he meets. Tell me why they even bother? Uploads worthy of yak fodder. "Get my music! It's so cool! Even made my mommy drool! "It's the first song that I've made. Download, please, and give me aid." See here, newbie, cuz #trax fears that crap you made that bleeds our ears. It's horrible, can you not see? It's some kind of monstrosity. Why don't you quit and stop this noise? Go play with your Fisherprice toys! Just get the heck out of our world or we'll release our wrath unfurled. We hate your songs! Your face! Your guts! You must be insane, crazy, nuts! Now stop uploading so much slop to cdrom.com: this must stop! - written in a very annoyed mood caused by the garbage found in the cdrom.com music directories. zinc / rays@direct.ca ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --[7. introduction to musical theory: volume three]-------------[Greg Heo]-- __introduction__ musical form: the organization of the various components of music available to the composer (or tracker). This article will discuss various ways of organizing your music. First, I'll go into a little pre-article definitions and stuff... __pre-article definitions and stuff__ The first thing you must realize is that there are two things a listener picks up regarding form...repetition and contrast. Are your tunes one giant loop? Are you assigning values of F to the SBx command? Do you have two patterns with 36 orders? Or are your tunes the ones with a billion themes and melodies, with no interconnection. Both repetition and contrast are important elements in a tune, but like all opposites, they have to be balanced. Phrasing. I think this has been covered before somewhere, so I'll just touch on it. Take the lyrics: "twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are." The part before the comma would be considered a phrase, and the second half another phrase. The entire line is referred to as a period. A phrase is a smaller section, while periods are complete melodies consisting of two or more phrases, and ending with some kind of cadence (usually). What's a cadence?? read on... Cadence comes from the Latin "cadere", which means 'to fall'. Briefly, a perfect cadence ends a phrase. In the above example, the words "you are" in the song twinkle twinkle concludes the song. Imperfect cadences are like the commas in a sentence...an intermediary pause. And finally, a deceptive cadence is like a period in a sentence that turns into an ugly semicolon at the last minute. Sorry for rushing through, but I'm getting off topic... __musical forms__ And now I will discuss the most popular types of musical forms: - binary form Pretty simple, I think. Bi = two. So this type of song has two parts to it. Sometimes referred to with letters (i.e. AB format). This is the very basic tune with two main themes that are played after each other. Maybe an introduction and an end bit too. - ternary form ABA. Sort of an extension on binary form. The B section should have a different feel to it, but still connect with a common motif to the previous A section. after an optional bridge of some sort, the A section repeats, possible with some kind of variation. - Rondo form Usually in ABACA or ABACADA format. It consists of a main theme (A) alternating with contrasting sections. - theme and variation Again, the name should speak for itself. The tune starts with a main theme. It then goes into a variation of this main theme, and then into a finale. Note that it usually does not end with the main theme repeated again, although the finale is just another variation, but with that 'finalizing' sound to it. In order to make this type of tune interesting and not too repetitive sounding, each variation should have contrasting volumes and tempo. - verse and chorus Not very prevalent in tracked music, but I'll cover it anyway. This is what 97% of the songs you hear on the radio will use. I guess you need lyrics with it, or it'll be repetitive. - straight No, I'm not referring to sexual orientation :>. This type of song runs straight through. No repetition. No nothing. You hear various themes played after each other and then the end. Very simple. Kinda like binary form, but more parts. Think of it as an ABCDEFG form, if you like that better. - sonata form This is an oldie. Mozart wrote these things in the 1750s. There are three main parts, the exposition, development, and recapitulation. In a nutshell, the exposition exposes the listener to the main themes. The development develops and plays around with these themes a little, and does not introduce any new ones. The recapitulation recaps only the very first main theme, and goes into a coda (another word for "the finale or ending thing"). Remember that I am generalizing a lot of this. There is typically an introduction before the A section, and ending, and a bridge somewhere. This is just the very simple skeletal plan. Songs with form help the listener to 'remember' the song a little better, i think. __conclusion__ whee, so that's my 90 line article for today. Hope you learned something. next time (hopefully) i'll cover pre-chord theory stuff. reeeaaly basic. seeya next week, greg.river -[river@io.org]- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --[8. Is BBS'ing dead?]---------------------------------------[Pizza Head]-- Hi, I've been meaning to write you concerning the article I'm suppose to be doing for trax weekly, unfortuantly I was in the middle of getting prepared to move, and my computer was down for 2 weeks, well ive moved into my new house and my computer is up, but theres boxes surrounding me :) , anyway hopefully I will have a review next week, in the meantime heres an article , o btw has anyone replied to you about my article a couple weeks ago? Id like to know if anyones agred with me, ok well here... I have been thinking allot about bbs'ing. Other than the fact to meet people arount you, what good are bbs's? The internet is taking the world by storm and people dont even know what the hell a bbs is. All the yuppies go out and by computers and dont even know how the fuck to use them. I mean comeon I just heard about a article in a newspaper the other day that had a guy who worked at customer service at some computer store, and he got a call from some guy who just bought his computer. The guy told him that his cup holder broke, and the worker asked him what does he mean, and the guy told him that the cupholder that says 4x on it broke. I mean come on, people are buying a computer only because of all the talk thats going on about it. Its really making me mad, but there is one question, what will happen to the bbs's out there, if i had a choice between bbs's and the internet, im sorry to say i would choose the internet. For a couple of reasons, soon bbs's will be obsolete, well calling them direct will, 50% of bbs's will be on the web. This is a shame but its the truth. BBS's are already doing that today. The only reason bbs's wouldnt want to go on the web is if there dealing with pirate software. The internet is a great tool if you know how to use it. There is the irc which is great because you can chat with tons of people, get files, give files, learn stuff etc. The www is great too, every product nowadays has a f---in www adress, u look through tv guide and on the back it says www.tvguide.com , you watch hbo and they got print on the bottom of the screen saying www.hbo.com, movies are even getting into it. And now the worst thing is going to happen to the demo scene. Its already starting to happen. People are going to ruin are scene. These people are big companies like Microsoft, im telling you next year there going to have programs out, like Make Your own Demo, where you can click which shape you want to spin across the screen, and what kind of music you want in the back ground, and people are going to get this crap and upload there so call "demos" to the internet, or even cdrom.com, saying its a great demo and you should take a look at it. There's software out there right now that's changin the ways demo's are made. A good demo requires 3 sets of people : people who code, people who do graphics, and people who do music. Well ever heard of avi? Im sure you have and allot of people are releasing demos containg these, it take's little talent to make avi demo, now dont get me wrong, ive seen some nice demos with avi's but its deleating the soul purpose of the demo, the purpose of a demo is basically to "look what i can program the computer to do" not "look what this program made computer do". Theres also commercial tracking programs being released, well there not real tracking programs like impulse tracker, there crappy programs where you can put in wav's and mix them, and then save them as a file. Big time corps. like Microsoft are going to stick there noses in are scene, see money potential and try and take over. Why do big companies think that taking something underground and making it commerical will sell? They could give to shits about ruining are scene that people have been organizing for years just so they can make a few dollers, they ruin all music like this, like rave and underground techno and music like that, Some record companie see's potential and decides to make a crappy compilation of music they never heard of, with artists that had hits 10 years ago, but they dont know that, thell just throw a title on the record like #1 rave collection, best songs ever made, and people with no knowledge of the underground will go buy it just cus they think it will make them cool. I hope you understand what im trying to say, well send me some feed back, you can reach me at PiZZa_HeaD@juno.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- /-[Group Columns]----------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ --[9. Explizit]------------------------------------------------------------- .____. .....______________.____________________________________________| |__... :::::\__ _____ | ______ \ \______) \_____)_ _____/::: :::::::/ __>/\/ . __/| __/ / /__ \_____ \ \| |:::::: ::::::/ | / \ : \| \_____/ / \ \_ _____/ \ |:::::: :::::/ \__| \_ :::\ / / / | \ / |:::::: :::::\__________/::|______/____|:::\_______/_____/________/_____/___::::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::[sYNOPTiC]::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: - E x p l i z i t - E X P L O R A T I O N I S S U E T H R E E - Exploration, what is it? Exploration is a DiskMag about the music scene. In fact it's an .EXE file with some accompanying files, that you can execute. Once executed, you'll hear some nice music thru your GUS/SB/PAS/WSS and you'll be presented with a menu. From that menu you can choose articles to read. - Articles? Yeah, these articles will be written by .... YOU! That's right! If you want to appear in this diskmag send some articles to us and we'll place them for sure. Your article will be read by hundreds, if not thousands of people all over the world. You can write about your group, what you do, what your group does. If you're not in a group, write down something about yourself, write down what your next song will be, write down about the scene, what you think of your friends, write down some greets or some extra-special notes to somebody .... Please write information about upcoming parties, events, or anything like that. News-flashes, tracking hints, music theory... the list is endless. - Exploration III features * coded in protected mode * Native music playback on Gus/SB/WSS and PAS soundcards * Group and Board addies * Articles, Interviews, Newsflashes * Stunning graphics - I've written sumthin ... now what? Now send that masterpiece to us, postmaster@explizit.org Exploration Issue III will be released in December 96/January 97. We do need quite a few articles, so if you're any good at writing, feel free to help us out. Ch:ilm [Explizit] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --[10. 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