This text comes from IMPHOBIA Issue XI - December 1995 ======================================================== Here we go for an interview with the almighty Necros of Legend Design & FM. Necros is surely one of the most hyped musician at the moment and in addition he's a really cool guy. This interview has been made on a long night thru IRC and one can say I had quite a lot of fun doing that one (guess you can see this judging by the size of it). Well, let's better stop that introduction now and let's take a look at that interview. ====================================== <Darkness_> Darkness/Imphobia [Necros_] Necros/Legend Design/FM ====================================== <darkness_> Hi Necros, well.. shall we begin now? [necros_] hi there :) sure i'm ready.. <darkness_> ok. :).. well, for the one who haven't heard of you yet.. could you introduce yourself to the readers.. what's your age, skills, occupations, how do you look like etc... whatever people should know about Necros. [necros_] hmm.. ok. umm my real name is Andy, i'm 20 years old.. i'm a professional tracker (hehe).. right now i'm working for Origin Systems... i look like a weirdo, just as any demo freak does ;) (well maybe not so, but...)... I mostly do music, but i do code a bit also... hmm and what else? i also like to waste my life away on IRC a lot... <darkness_> How did you started your "carreer" as a musician? For how many time have you been tracking now?... have you been active on any other computer scene 'fore? [necros_] well i've been playing piano/keyboards for about hmm 14 or so years now.. i didn't get into the scene though until early 1993, that's when i first picked up a copy of FastTracker 1.0 and started playing with it.... I was never in the 'scene' really until then... i was just a C=64 lamer :) <darkness_> You're a member of Legend Design for not a so long time.. How did you happened to join LD.. Did you had any contacts with members of the group 'fore? [necros_] well i got into LD about hmm maybe a year or so ago... i was looking for a demo group to join, and i was talking to pit bull and he said that they needed another music person, so i figured that it would be cool to join... I know it's weird to be the only American in a german demo group, but i don't care :) they are all really cool guys.... <darkness_> What do you think would be the average prize of one kilo of peanuts? [necros_] hehe. peanuts? I don't like peanuts that much really... however i do like chocolate covered raisins, they are great to eat when it's 5 in the morning and the sun is rising and you've been tracking for 20 hours straight....;) <darkness_> hehe.. talking about tracking, what tracker do you use to compose your songs.. and why this one? [necros_] well i use screamtracker3, and i like it a lot.. everyone says 'yeah yeah ft2 is better' but i don't really care.. st3 has wonderful keyboard macros, and that lets me track _really_ fast... i don't like the ft2 mouse interface.... but really it doesn't matter much at all which tracker you use as long as you can write good songs with it.. i've seen people do amazing things even with horrible trackers like mmedit ;) <darkness_> Right.. still about trackers, what do you think are the most important ingredients in order to make a good tracker program? [necros_] well, personally, the best things that could be in a tracker are.. 1) really good keyboard commands.. mouse stuff is too slow, get rid of the buttons. 2) 16-bit support. 3) envelopes. 4) good replay routines, no bugs. 5) internal sample editor .. <darkness_> You're also part (and founder) of FM.. Could you explain us what does it stands for, how does it all started .. and what is the aim of creating a "group" like that? [necros_] FM was founded by me and Mellow-D to try to create a true music group, where the members would work together to help each other improve their styles and do joint/cooperative tunes... it's also kinda intended to counter the current trend of music groups with 25-30+ members.. we like to keep it small and good... that's why we called it Five Musicians, that way we aren't tempted to invite more people in :) Currently we are working on a bunch of musicdisks, one from me (which was already released, Progression), and ones also from Basehead, Stalker, and Mellow-D... and hopefully almost all of us will be present at The Party 5, so we'll try to invade Denmark and win all the music compoes hehe :) <darkness_> A year ago you weren't very famous, now a lot of people know about you and your music.. Your new musicdisk "Progression" has been like a "revelation" and made a wider range of people recognize your skills.. How do you feel about it? [necros_] well it is very hard to get any sort of recognition without having your music in a big demo (something which i have not done yet).. it's only been in the last year or so that i've been really happy with the stuff i've been doing, so i decided to try to do another big musicdisk with a range of styles in it, and try to get it a big distribution and hope people like it.... Another problem is that coming from the U.S., i'm kinda far from the center of the euro demo scene, so it's really hard to get my stuff distributed over there.. but hopefully now that i have a lot of good stuff out, people will spread it for me :) <darkness_> Yup that's true.. I must say i only heard of you and Basehead about a year and an half ago.. Zodiak was at my place and we...
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