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- »CL4: by Curt Cool
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- »CL0:If you are on the modem scene, or at
- least call a/some boards regularly,
- or just tend to hang around on IRC a
- bit, you will have noticed a
- phenomenon, which is, if not quite
- new, then at least far from as old
- as the scene itself.
- Yes, as the more perceptive readers
- might have guessed, I'm thinking about
- groups like Mono and Phase Distortion
- (and quite a few others), which
- release a lot of modules (and usually
- only the modules, no musicdisks etc.)
- onto the unsuspecting scene, archived
- with only a file_id.diz and a textfile
- or two to explain about the module and
- the group.
- To put in other words, this is a »CL1:new
- scene trend».
- I think that at least the more active
- sceners & scenesses among you have
- seen these archives, but anyhow, for
- those of you who have not, I can tell
- that the modules are usually in some
- sort of techno style. eg. trance, goa,
- acid, jungle etc. etc., and made by
- musicians who, at least when it comes
- to Mono, are quite well known in the
- scene (names like SuperNao, Vim!,
- Yolk, Hollywood, Substance, Mortimer
- Twang certainly ring a bell in most
- sceners' heads I think... Or what?).
- But these groups does not only release
- modules from the musicians from their
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- own groups, no, some guest releases
- are also very normal (»CL1:Azazel» made a
- mod. for Mono, and »CL1:Chromag» made one
- for Phase Distortion).
- But of course the big question is why
- they do it, after all you might as
- well just spread the module normally
- or get it released in some production?
- Or are there just too many musicians
- (or too few coders & graphicians) on
- the scene to make this happen?
- Or is it because that the musicdisk
- as a genre has almost died out these
- days? (which is incredibly sad, since
- I know that there are many musicians
- out there who have some brilliant
- stuff just waiting to be released)
- Look in the 2 interviews
- with »CL1:Pirat/Phase Distortion» and
- »CL1:Hollywood/Mono» to find out!
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