File created on: 12.07.97, 11:27:00 (CET)
By: Phat-n-Phunky (Boris Lorenz)
For: All of you
Subject: Re-release of various mods
Included with: retro04.lha
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All modules found in this archive have been composed by Boris M. Lorenz
way back in time, beginning from the year 1989 till 1995. In these days I
used to work with an A1000, later A500, and found that nothing eludes me
more than arranging tracks.
At that time I often worked for several demo- or intro-projects for
groups like Unicorn, Laser Dance and for my own stuff, PDI (Prime Design),
thus spreading my sound to an open public. This increased the rate of theft
nominally; about four of my tracks have been used by other people (including
commercial companies). But this was not so much negative as the ways of
commercial exploitation were not that hard and annoying than today.
So here they are, piece by piece, in smuggly little archives, ranging from
01 to ... - Well, in fact I started the whole thing TODAY to slightly return
to my then familiar "scene"; as a system-administrator (a profession which
I consider to be the logical consequence of my former "hobby"...) I forgot
the Amiga a bit when speech came to the PC and all things multimedia.
Unfortunately, the market with the largest growth in the computer-biz is
NOT the Amiga-scene, so one can not seriously "work around" a dos- or
windows-based PC (at least not for commercial needs). But, after all, I
still consider the Amiga as one of the most innovative computers both
for home and professional use in certain ways. The modules represent
some artificial approach to those days back in the late eighties, when
we still went to the arcade if we wanted to play some really smashing
game... Of course the Amiga was already infamous for being some sort
of extended game-console, but most of the users still active today
realised very quick what they held in their hands.
Today I am making music with some more complex machinery, synthesizers,
samplers, effect-processors an a lot of cables, and my music is somehow
more elaborate than it could have been without my Amiga-roots; my music
is made with electronical means, and so it sounds. My roots are based
upon German techno from Kraftwerk, but also on electric funk, electro
and the early hip-hop, as well as belgian underground-ebm and techno.
Globally, I feel home in Detroit´s technological shores, but I have never
lost the essence of creativity: Experimentation. Use the sound, forget the
notes - do it hard and scratch.
If you feel like writing to me, mail your comments to: lorenz@osn.de,
or feel free to contact me on CompuServe under 101602,723. Mail is
always appreciated, but please don´t unattendetly send mods or similar
digital media to me because I really have no interest in swapping
anymore (you should have asked me for it five years ago...!) ;)
Listen with an open mind.
COMMENTS TO ARCHIVE "RETRO04.LHA"------------------------------------------
This is archive 04 of 08 which contains modules made for the eclaedon-cycle.
Only a few of them have been released before so this is merely a debut...
The mods themselves have been composed in 1994 using StarTrekker. At that
time, chip-mods began to take control over the intro-coding-scene because
of size-problems; after all, I liked the chip-sound very much but never
created one myself, at least not on Amiga. Back to 1987 I used Sidmon to
produce bleepy, strange "sound-objects" which I used to use for kinda
"demos" completely with basic-scrolly, poke 53280,x-jokes and the like -
ya know the score, ain´t ya!
Later on Amiga the demos got more professional but people wanted to do
demo-compilations so they had to be small, single-filed and smashing...
This narrowed down the excessive use of samples to a point where no
digitized sound could be heard at all.
Today´s hard-disk-sizes make it possible to archive a lot more of bytes
than we used to store on our 80 MB-harddrives from GVP... I remember that
I had packed all files on my HD exceeding a certain size with powerpacker
in order to safe space; nobody thought about those 8 ms 20MB/sec fast-scsi
3.2 GB-monstahzs some of us now use as their storing-facility at that
time...!
"Was it a dream? Answer delays - and time passes..."
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THANKS AND GREETINGS-------------------------------------------------------
THanx are due to S. Fuchs for giving my emulation life - now I know what
"xcopy" can do to amiga file-systems ;)
Respect to those still involved in all things amigoid - May it everything
but the PC to drain the lifeforce of the Amiga ;))
And finally, peace to you for reading that far - a new series of archives
is on their way called "classic01 - classic??" who will contain fresh,
old tunes made with nothing else but Noisetracker this time! These are
my oldest tracks (dating back to 1988) and are smiling and kuddly to
listen to, so sit back and enjoy the feeling!
If you want to keep update with all my further releases, mail me.
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DISCLAIMER-----------------------------------------------------------------
The modules found in the archive mentioned above are herewith purely
PUBLIC DOMAIN. Do what you want with it, except for changing the
arrangements or samples within a distributed track without crediting
the original author, Boris M. Lorenz. Commercial use is strictly
prohibited.
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