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- »CL8: Interview with Pirat/PHD
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- »CL4: by Curt Cool
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- »CL5:CC:»CL4: Hi Pirat! First I would like you
- to tell me a bit about yourself, where
- you live, family, study, scene? etc.
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- »CL1:PR:»CL0:Hi CC!, my real name is "Sascha
- Dages" and I live in Germany/
- Karlsruhe. I live at home together
- with my great family. It's really
- funny at home :). My scene-career
- started as musician in the year 1994
- with a old and dead pc-group called
- "The Cross" (hi Raytrayza). After
- this nice beginning i created "Phase
- Distortion" together with Juice, and
- that's it.
- Now I'm the organizer (and of course
- musician) in PHD. My real job is a
- kind of trader in the sector
- "communication".
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- »CL5:CC:»CL4: To get to the point, how did you
- get the idea to start a "module group"
- like Phase Distortion?
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- »CL1:PR:»CL0: Hmm, I had no experience in the
- scene before we created Phase^D, so it
- was a new idea to make a "music crew".
- I saw that there are so many musicians
- without a demo-group out there, so I
- wanted to create a music-only-crew.
- A short while later I noticed that
- there are so many music-groups on pc,
- and I believe that we are not the
- first music-group, unfortunately. :))
- PHD is an older group than Mono, but
- Mono were the first to release their
- mods in lha archives on Amiga.
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- »CL5:CC:»CL4: Why does these module groups
- release "guest releases" from
- eachothers' members? It seems a bit
- silly to me, after all it's just a
- question of which diz is in the
- archive... ;)
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- »CL1:PR:»CL0: Hehe, no, its only a way to gain
- more connections to other music-crews.
- The people can see that we are all
- friendly, if we releasing mods from
- other groups. ;)
- Its also a chance to get more known.
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- »CL5:CC:»CL4: Why do the module groups, PHD not
- excluded, only release techno modules
- of one kind or another? Aren't there
- any good non-techno musicians left, or
- is there another reason?
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- »CL1:PR:»CL0: I can't find many good non-techno
- musicians in scene, so i think yes,
- that's the reason.
- Maybe another reason is that we have
- more techno-fans as non-techno-fans.
- We never forget our legends like
- Jester, Lizardking, Mr. Man and so
- one, though.
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- »CL5:CC:»CL4: PHD isn't strictly AMIGA but
- neverthless has its basis on the AMIGA
- scene. Why release pc-xm's onto the
- AMIGA scene?
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- »CL1:PR:»CL0: Hmm, its right that AMIGA is our
- homebase, but our future goes more and
- more in pc-direction. The reason is,
- that the world of multichannel sounds
- better as the tiny 4 channel mods.
- Thats the fault of our old Commodore.
- With an 8 Bit Audio Chip we are badly
- punished.
- Hmm, OctaMed SS is a good way to
- compose multichannel-stuff on amiga,
- but would you pay for a tracker ca.
- $120?
- Commercial Soft will be never a
- standard on amiga. Fastracker and
- Screamtracker on pc are freeware.
- Shame on you Teijo!
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- »CL5:CC:»CL4: When you release the modules in
- such a simple manner, is it also
- thought to be a way of gaining more
- fame in the scene? After all the
- module is the only thing you present,
- there is no fancy code nor graphics to
- lead the mind away from it...
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- »CL1:PR:»CL0: Are we famous on the scene?? :)
- Anyway, every week, we release 2
- modules, mostly different styles and
- author, so we have variety.
- But "pssssst", this idea is our
- secret!
- For the moment we don't have any
- productions with code or gfx, YES, but
- not in future, because in 2-3 weeks
- our first real musicdisk will be out.
- And another fine musicdisk is in the
- making.
- We have some other small projects, but
- some of us are very lazy... :)
- The best example is myself! :)
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- »CL5:CC:»CL4: Could you explain to me how you
- get the modules from your guest
- composers. Do you ask them or do they
- ask you?
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- »CL1:PR:»CL0: I asked them, but there are
- also some guys who asked me or Juice.
- Most of the people i ask are fucking
- friendly, so its easy to organize some
- great tunes from the guests.
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- »CL5:CC:»CL4: I believe that PHD and Mono are
- the leading module groups on the scene
- today. How do you feel about the
- competition? Hopefully both groups can
- exist peacefully together?!
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- »CL1:PR:»CL0: There is no competition, because
- Mono have got their own style, and we
- have our own style. I'm in firm
- contact with most of the Mono-members,
- and i think we will always have a
- peaceful life together. (Hi h0l)
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- »CL5:CC:»CL4: There are also some other module
- groups who are more specific in the
- choice of style (Black Sista etc.).
- Do you think that is that the way to
- go?
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- »CL1:PR:»CL0: We have many musicians in the
- Amiga scene, and some of these
- musicians are good, talented and in
- no group, because we don't have enough
- demo-groups in our small Amiga scene.
- The leading demo-crews are able to
- choose the very best musicians in the
- scene, so there is no room for the
- others. This is one reason, why I
- think that "Music-Groups" are
- important.
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- »CL5:CC:»CL4: Tell me about the members of Phase
- Distortion, music styles, etc. etc.
- Surely we can expect some new PHD
- goodies soon?!
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- »CL1:PR:»CL0: Our members, hmm, i can say, that
- we have many different styles in our
- group. Such as LINUS, our Funk-Master,
- one of the best funk-composers on
- Amiga i think. Then TEIS and
- RAYTRAYZA, our two junglist composers.
- I hope for more releases from these
- guys!. Another one is BASS-CADET, his
- tunes sounds really experimental and
- he is very talented. I should not
- forget our USA Team "HILLIE+SKYFUSION"
- with their upcoming releases. Our
- quiet "AIRON" is one of the experts
- of us, so he is our old iron :). Ehmm,
- our musician called "FBY" is nowhere,
- no releases from him , nothing, but i
- hope he come back from army. Oeh, and
- our 2 new musicians called "DEXTER"
- and "RONNY" are new bloood in our
- castle. The Main-Figure is "JUICE",
- our distributor and techno-musician.
- We also have some good helpers, but I
- think, its not so important to write
- something about these nice guys.
- [Although they probably wouldn't mind
- -ed.]
- Last but not least, my lazy self, my
- job is to organize this club of
- brothers.
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- At the moment our organizing plan is
- full of work. The next step is to
- release our first musicdisk called
- "Symbolix" with some music by me.
- After this spreading-time, I will get
- time for our new musicdisk called
- "Depth Phase". Of course, our normal
- mod-releasing (every week 2 mods)
- will continue.
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- »CL5:CC:»CL4: Okay, I think that is all for
- today... Thank you for your time!
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- »CL1:PR:»CL0: Thank YOUUUUU!! .. and big kisses
- to your sister, if you have one :) [I
- haven't -ed].
- Some advertising: Join #phd, our
- interactive IRC-channel!!
- bye Curt Cool!
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