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DemoNews Issue #98 - August 6, 1995 | Subscribers : 1467
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DemoNews is a weekly newsletter for the demo scene. | Change : +12
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It is produced by Hornet at the site ftp.cdrom.com. | Archive Size : 941M
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Our demo archive is located under /pub/demos. | Last Week : 908M
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<CONTENTS>
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Uploads
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Articles
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Changes.....................................Snowman
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Greetings...................................Darkness
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Tracking Society Editorial..................Snowman
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Music Contest 3 Thoughts....................Ryan Cramer
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Subscribing
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Closing
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=-[Uploads]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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=----------------------------------------------------------[File Information]-=
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All files listed below are on ftp.cdrom.com or one of its mirrors.
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Ratings are completely subjective and do not necessarily reflect opinions
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of the demo scene in general.
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ftp.cdrom.com too slow? Try our mirror at ftp.luth.se. You may even
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upload to this site under /pub/msdos/demos_upload.
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Location /demos/alpha/1995 Size Rated Description
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/../../humor/demos/soap.zip 45 ** Soap (a play on DOPE)
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/../1994/c/confyooz.zip 25 **+ confy00zhen!
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/../1994/v/vs_vreal.zip 671 *** Virtual Reality by Vacant Space
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/a/ademo12 120 ** ADemo 1.2 by Nullsoft
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/c/cocobbs1.zip 31 ** The Coconuts BBS Intro by NM
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/i/imp_gena.zip 26 **+ Genesis BBS Intro by Imphobia
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/m/mighty.zip 1061 **** Mighty by Xtacy (very nice)
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/m/mtro2fix.zip 22 *** MouseTRO ][ by Solar Designer
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/n/noc-bri2.zip 668 ***+ Brilliance by Noice (2nd Icing 95)
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/n/nsdemo.zip 483 **+ Nimbus Studio by Wolf/Jtr/ZH
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Juhla '95 Demos
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/x/x14.zip 692 ****+ 1st X14 by Orange
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/f/ftj_pika.zip 552 **** 2nd Cyboman 3 by Plant
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/h/h-life.zip 297 **** 3rd Lifeforms by Halcyon
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/p/pro-nut 627 ***+ 7th Prof. Nutbutter by Mindprobe
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Juhla '95 Intros
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/s/sehabla.zip 67 **** 1st Sehablad Routines by Jamm
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/t/tuhnu.zip 66 *** 2nd Paine-erokorkeus by Tarzan
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/m/matteus.zip 159 [n/a] Matteus by @
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Bush Party 4k Intros
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/a/alabtro.zip 4 **** Alabtro by Ghoul/Xenon
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/a/anim.zip 4 *** Anim! by Neon/Spetsnaz
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/d/donut.zip 3 *** Donut by Sorrox
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/f/fjomptro.zip 7 * Fjomptro #1 by Rectum Cauda
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/i/innon3k.zip 4 ***+ 3k Innocence by Twaddler/Proxima
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/o/ooto4k.zip 5 *** Ooto 4k by SC
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=-------------------------------------------------------------[Music:General]-=
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Location /demos/music Size Rated Title Author
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/disks/1995/a/alloy-01.zip 1176 **** Alloy #1 R.Rick+Ellipse
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/disks/1995/c/ciadsk13.zip 1494 *** CiA disk #13 CiA
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/disks/1995/f/fndation.zip 2024 **+ Foundation Aim Higher
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/disks/1995/l/laws.zip 2643 ***+ Laws of Evil.. Fencer/Cult
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/disks/1995/m/mazrave2.zip 1674 *+ Rave Culture 2 Mazurka
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/disks/1995/m/moz-0004.zip 1155 * Mozicpack #4 Mozicart
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/disks/1995/m/moz-cbc1.zip 1196 *+ Arabian Skies Cubico/Mozicart
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/disks/1995/p/pure-ge2.zip 507 *+ Music For Export (G)eore/Pure
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/disks/1995/r/ryansong.zip 789 **+ ? KodexMode
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/disks/1995/s/sky_cmd1.zip 901 * Cataclysma Spearmaster
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/disks/1995/t/trilogy.zip 181 **+ Trilogy Abstract Vision
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/disks/1995/v/vortex1.zip 1178 *** Vortex 1 LakEEE / Craw
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/disks/1995/v/vortex2.zip 1082 *** Vortex 2 LakEEE / Craw
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/songs/1995/midi/t-escdar.zip 17 **** Escape from Dark Guardian
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/songs/1995/mod/g/grmania.lha 69 **+ Greekmania CJ Dib
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/songs/1995/mod/h/hw-cair.lha 350 *** LondonCairoFuji Hollywood/Val
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/songs/1995/mod/h/hyper.zip 327 *+ Hyper-Hyper(rmx) Gregory Staikos
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/songs/1995/mod/i/impmisio.zip 88 *+ Mission Impossib Frog
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/songs/1995/mod/k/kriskros.zip 131 **+ Kriskross Jump.. Frog
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/songs/1995/mod/l/limbo.zip 50 * Limbo "mod" rock Frog
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/songs/1995/mod/l/loop_tgs.zip 303 *+ Loops & Tings Gregory Staikos
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/songs/1995/mod/m/maya.zip 337 *+ Mayatribe LGM
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/songs/1995/mod/m/mindripp.zip 82 ** Mind Ripper! Frog
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/songs/1995/mod/m/move_klf.zip 170 *+ You Got to Mov.. Maelcum
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/songs/1995/mod/n/newgirl.zip 67 ** The New Girl I.. Frog
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/songs/1995/mtm/k/k_nojoke.zip 260 *** No Joke Phoenix+TH/KFMF
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/songs/1995/mtm/t/t-abslve.zip 282 **+ Absolve the amb. Sybaris
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/songs/1995/mtm/t/t-aftmid.zip 226 ** After midnight Fortunato
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/songs/1995/mtm/t/t-aftmix.zip 1141 *** After midnight Fortunato
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/songs/1995/mtm/t/t-crmcrs.zip 387 **+ Crimson & Cryst. Fortunato
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/songs/1995/mtm/t/t-elctro.zip 455 ** The electric or. Fortunato
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/songs/1995/mtm/t/t-indtdu.zip 297 *** iNDiePuNK2 Sybaris
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/songs/1995/mtm/t/t-midbre.zip 365 **+ The midnight br. Fortunato
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/songs/1995/mtm/t/t-minpst.zip 209 **+ Twelve 'Oh One Fortunato
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/songs/1995/mtm/t/t-mischf.zip 288 *** Mischief Sybaris
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/songs/1995/mtm/t/t-musgnr.zip 227 *+ Musicageneratrix Sybaris
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/songs/1995/mtm/t/t-odysey.zip 166 *** Hyperspace Odys. Sybaris
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/songs/1995/mtm/t/t-olmpic.zip 184 **+ Olympic (XPCReM. Sybaris
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/songs/1995/mtm/t/t-phntsm.zip 244 ** Phantasm Sybaris
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/songs/1995/mtm/t/t-travst.zip 168 **+ Travesties Vol.3 Sybaris
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/songs/1995/mtm/t/t-vision.zip 331 ***+ Celestial Vision Sybaris / Time
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/songs/1995/s3m/0-9/2-spirit.zip 196 ** I found da spir. Ch:ilm
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/songs/1995/s3m/a/ace_atsw.zip 815 ***+ All that she w Bedlamite
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/songs/1995/s3m/a/actof2.zip 273 **+ Act of Change Brandon Bannerman
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/songs/1995/s3m/a/artshaw.zip 149 * Artie Shaw Hannibal Lechter
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/songs/1995/s3m/b/beyondch.zip 214 *** Beyond Chaos Luv Kohli
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/songs/1995/s3m/b/blackno1.zip 206 *+ Black #1 Catspaw
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/songs/1995/s3m/b/brth-had.zip 64 *** Happybirfday! Hadji
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/songs/1995/s3m/c/cuts.zip 228 *+ Cuts Hannibal Lechter
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/songs/1995/s3m/d/deathknl.zip 140 *** Death Knell AIM higher
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/songs/1995/s3m/d/diarrhea.zip 147 ***+ Diarrhea Dna-Groove
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/songs/1995/s3m/d/dig_sor.zip 60 ** Silence of Reaso Dark Heart
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/songs/1995/s3m/d/doh-nut.zip 114 **** Coastal Journey Floss
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/songs/1995/s3m/e/epi-amma.zip 46 ** A Million Miles Aradia
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/songs/1995/s3m/e/es-dance.zip 151 **+ Lets Dance Cold H
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/songs/1995/s3m/i/ificdfly.zip 79 *+ If I Could Fly The Crow/Natives
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/songs/1995/s3m/i/illegal.zip 99 *+ Thaddeus Illegal Wonder Boy
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/songs/1995/s3m/j/j_arbor.zip 23 *** My Fairytale Arb alphabitz/EPI
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/songs/1995/s3m/k/k_macro.zip 241 **** Macrocosm (mojo) Chuck Biscuits
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/songs/1995/s3m/k/k_orange.zip 156 *** Orange Skies Lord Pegasus
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/songs/1995/s3m/k/k_tranq.zip 167 **** Tranquility Leviathan/KFMF
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/songs/1995/s3m/k/kosmoss.zip 102 ** Los Kosmoss Erec Lemming/j
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/songs/1995/s3m/m/monk_drm.zip 159 ** Monk's Dream Hannibal Lecter
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/songs/1995/s3m/m/muddyman.arj 201 *** Muddyman in .. Sir Roger
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/songs/1995/s3m/n/nex-seed.zip 290 **+ Space Seeds NeXus
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/songs/1995/s3m/n/no-dance.zip 111 ** Summer Beach .. Harry
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/songs/1995/s3m/n/no-dream.zip 287 **+ The Dreamer Harry
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/songs/1995/s3m/n/no-funk.zip 148 **+ Funk in TinTal ShawnM
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/songs/1995/s3m/n/no-maxi.zip 230 **+ Maximum Freq. Harry
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/songs/1995/s3m/n/no-voyag.zip 124 **+ Renaissance Voy. ShawnM
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/songs/1995/s3m/n/not-real.zip 335 ***+ Nothing Seems .. DiaBlo
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/songs/1995/s3m/n/nv-emtn.zip 152 **+ Surreal Emotions Nova
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/songs/1995/s3m/o/oldskool.zip 153 *+ Old Skool Riders
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/songs/1995/s3m/o/oq-color.zip 319 *** Colors Octoque
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/songs/1995/s3m/o/orch-hit.zip 32 ** Orch Hit Madness Moo-kow
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/songs/1995/s3m/o/oxygne4.zip 181 *** Oxygene Part 4 The Zapper
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/songs/1995/s3m/p/peanuts.zip 94 *** Livin' on Pean.. Freejack
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/songs/1995/s3m/s/shaken.zip 379 ** Shaken, not sti. hANNIBAL lECTER
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/songs/1995/s3m/s/sky_rngr.zip 419 ** Ranger Danger! D.J. Yoyo
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/songs/1995/s3m/t/tek-digi.zip 126 **+ Digital Tek/OTM95
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/songs/1995/s3m/t/thelump.zip 99 + The lump Grinner
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/songs/1995/s3m/t/tohappy.zip 108 *+ Toward Happiness Master of Dark.
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/songs/1995/s3m/u/ultralog.arj 107 ** Ultralogic Sir Roger
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/songs/1995/s3m/w/whacker.zip 115 *+ Son to whack of. Mystical
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/songs/1995/s3m/w/what_da.zip 66 *+ What the f**k?! Nitro
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/songs/1995/s3m/x/xtc-tday.zip 83 **+ ... the day ... Ch:ilm
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/songs/1995/special/moz-adlb.zip 20 ** 2 Adlib Tunez Omega+Mayaman
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/songs/1995/xm/d/dl-being.zip 350 **+ Being Alive Sonic
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/songs/1995/xm/g/gameplan.zip 369 **+ Game Plan Scirocco
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/songs/1995/xm/g/gl-start.zip 393 ***+ Start To Live Gillespie/Flip
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/songs/1995/xm/g/gloryknt.zip 322 *** Glory Knight Mike X+Ghoul
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/songs/1995/xm/j/jungle.zip 746 **+ Jungle Cities Noiseman
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/songs/1995/xm/k/k_vortx3.zip 334 *** Eternal Vortex 3 Khyron/KFMF
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/songs/1995/xm/k/krkn-bdn.zip 917 **+ Beat That Will.. The Kraken
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/songs/1995/xm/k/krkncym2.zip 999 **+ Change Your Mirr The Kraken
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/songs/1995/xm/k/krknsvct.zip 806 ***+ Strange Vector The Kraken
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/songs/1995/xm/m/misthart.zip 358 ****+ Misty Heart NG PEI SIN
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/songs/1995/xm/n/no-sn.zip 86 *** Summer Night Benoit Charland
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/songs/1995/xm/s/sweetthi.zip 160 **+ Sweet Thing Balrog/Creation
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/songs/1995/xm/t/t-inwest.zip 328 **** Inwest Sybaris / Time
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/songs/1995/xm/t/thunderd.zip 450 + Thunderdome GHoST
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/songs/1995/xm/t/turning.zip 180 ***+ Keep Turning Ar. TiTO
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/programs/players/awemod76.zip 36 AweMod v0.76 by Infiniti 2001
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/programs/rippers/m3rip220.zip 34 M3RIP 2.20
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/programs/rippers/p-rip300.zip 124 PowerRip 3.00 by J. Russell
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/programs/trackers/ft204.zip 359 FastTracker 2.04 by Triton
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/pictures 474 Juhla '95 Party Graphics (16 pictures)
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/party/misc/posintro.arj 61 Posadas Amiga Party '95 Intro
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=-[Articles]=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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=--------------------------------------------------------[Changes]--[Snowman]-=
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Sorry about the lack of articles in this week's issue of DemoNews. Next
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week we should have some very provocative information.
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Here are some little infobits I thought I'd mention.
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-All demos under /alpha are being moved to directories by year (like
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/alpha/1994, /alpha/1995, etc.)
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-TraxWeekly is now produced by Hornet.
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-From now on, most BBS intros uploaded to our site will be deleted.
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Christopher G. Mann / Hornet - r3cgm@ftp.cdrom.com
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=--------------------------------------------[Greetings]--[Darkness/Imphobia]-=
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[This was supposed to be included last week but I forgot.. doh!]
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Hi there demonews readers...
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Well, this won't be a 10kb killer article, I don't have much time to play
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with words right now as I'm again busy with another exams session...
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I just, like most of you, received that generic mail from Snowman today
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explaining the return of Demonews and i just wanted to write a little note
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on the issue. I've been reading demonews since issue 71 or so, at that time
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i didn't had any internet account yet so i leeched it from bbs'es and every
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Sunday I called Genesis bbs several times a day to check if demonews had
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been uploaded.
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As soon as I've been reading demonews, I've been surprised by it's good
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quality, DemoNews had that special atmosphere you cannot find on many
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newsletters/diskmags and I didn't found that atmosphere back with that
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HornetNews/o1 method.
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By writing this little note I just want to say a "welcome back" to DemoNews
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and wants to encourage *YOU* the readers to take the opportunity to believe
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in DemoNews and to make of it the DemoNews it has been before...
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Regards,
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Darkness / Imphobia - jeff.van.audenhove@infoboard.be
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=-------------------------------------[Tracking Society Editorial]--[Snowman]-=
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_____Introduction
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Hello folks. Its been a long time since I've been able to just kick back
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and write a general editorial for DemoNews. Over time, I've learned that
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you can ENGAGE your readers with ZIPPIE BLOWIE action pizazy words in
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random case, or you can cultivate their blossoming ids with grandiose and
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superfluous words that know one seems to understand anyway. I opt for a
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ka-BOOM! compromise. On to this article's topic...
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"Daddy, I wanna play on #trax but none of big kids will let me! :("
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"Well son, without hurting your feelings, its probably because you SUCK!"
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Class warfare. We all know and feel it. Maybe you (like me) were a wimp
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back in high school, admiring the football jockeys as they swept the
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cheerleaders off their feet, oblivious to your crafty new TI-81 program.
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Maybe you could barely afford a 2400 while your nerdy peers sported their
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shiny 28.8k's.
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You were different. But somehow, some way, you found that small niche of
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friends who you could just be yourself with and not get teased.
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[abrupt transition]
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The demo scene is a rapidly changing place. I shudder to think what even
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this newsletter will look like by issue 314. The scene's music gets
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better, the demo effects become more complex, the graphicians use higher
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color resolutions... where does it end? It does not my friend and _this_
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is the key. The only constant in the scene is that it continues to evolve
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beyond our wildest expectations.
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"Scene Evolution" is not constrained to the hardware we work our magic on.
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As the ability to communicate increases, so does our ability to express
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ourselves and our desires. With IRC, easy e-mail, and even budding audio
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over the 'net, people we used to know only by their nicknames suddenly have
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character and personality.
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Inspired by a #trax-junkie, I thought I'd take a minute to write about some
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trends I see forming. Before you read on, go back up to the file listings
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above and just skim over the music section. No, I mean it! Look at all
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those pretty uploads. Over 100 songs, music disks, trackers, and players
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reviewed in one week alone. Now go take a look at DemoNews #60 or
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something. Quite a difference, eh?
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_____The Point
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What is my point in telling you all this? Well, couple the ever-increasing
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number of new musicians in the scene together with better communication.
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What do you end up with? Class.
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There are just so many people in the music scene that some sort of division
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will inevitably take place. We can't see each other, so segregation based
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on skin color is out. We don't transact money (at least that much), so
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class based on financial well-being is also not possible. When you get
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down to it, there are actually very few things we all have in common.
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So we only have two elements left that are universally accepted. Ability
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and friends. If you're a talented musician, you're k3wL. If you have
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friends who are talented, you're k3wL.
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Thus we divvy up the music scene into 3 general blanket classes:
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1. The k3wL People
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2. The OK People
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3. The Lamer People
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_____How Does it Work?
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Let us assume we have a new musician named Garf (if there is actually
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anyone out there with this handle, forgive me). Garf discovers the demo
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scene, Scream Tracker 3, and IRC. Now Garf tries his to make his first
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song. For practical purposes Garf is in pergatory, awaiting (dis)approval
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from his peers that will decide his standing in the scene.
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Let's say Garf's tune is horrible. He's immature and annoying on IRC. His
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destiny is decided: he's a lamer.
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Let's say Garf's tune (while unpolished) is _very_ good. Garf befriends
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Necros and Jak on IRC. Shooting toward stardom, Garf is now k3wL.
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Like it or not, each of us is undergoing this same process of selection.
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Many decide to sidestep this stepping up of upper and lower class
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classification by just ignoring the whole thing. I'm one of these
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people. :)
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_____Conclusion (this is the good stuff)
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Here's some food for thought.
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I mentioned how the k3wL people and Suck people are chosen, but what about
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all those in between? Those people, those great many people, can adopt a
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more neutral standpoint of the whole thing. They can hate the upper class,
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and still feel good that they're not in the lower class. Its the kind of
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balance only a society can take.
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And my friend, the music scene is becoming a society.
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[Thanks to Perisoft for inspiring this editorial]
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Christopher G. Mann / Hornet - r3cgm@ftp.cdrom.com
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=-----------------------------------[Music Contest 3 Thoughts]--[Ryan Cramer]-=
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_____Introduction
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Last week, the results for Music Contest III finally came out. The evening
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that they came out, there were more people on #trax then I have ever seen.
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It was amazing. It was a huge angry mob of angry #traxers waiting for the
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results. I thought that someone would go insane and start doing
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mass-flashes or something, but it never happened. Eventually the results
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did come out, and then everybody calmed down (apparently!).
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Now that the results have come out, I think that everybody is pretty much
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satisfied. But, I think that there was a small but unavoidable margin of
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error in the contest. Everything that follows are my own opinions and
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observations only...
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_____Observations
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Lets start out with the first and second song. I'd say that Jase's first
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place song and Necros's second place song were right in line with each
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other. If fact, I'm surprised we didn't see a head to head tie between
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those two songs. They were the obvious winners. I think that Jase's song
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has better initial impact, as a result, this helped him to take the lead.
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However, Necros's song had much better samples then Jase's song did. Both
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songs were outstanding.
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I was kind of surprised at some of the other songs that placed so high.
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They were all great songs, but most of the songs in the top 10 were all on
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equal quality (excluding the top 2 which were the obvious winners). One
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thing though, Markell Moss's 6th place song should have placed better. It
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was an excellent song that was up there with Jase's and Necros's song. The
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MC3 voting system did not do Markell Moss's song justice, it was really an
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excellent piece of work.
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I myself really thought that I'd place better then 8th, but such is life. I
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felt that I should have been in the top five, but then again, I did not get
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to judge my own song. :) Forget about me though, lets try to figure this
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one out. Stalker placed 29th!!! Stalker's song should have been in the top
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five, *easily*. I don't know how to explain why Stalker placed so bad. Go
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back and listen to his song, and compare it to some of the other songs in
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the top 10. Make your own judgments. I guess that I'd question the judgment
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ability of some of the MC3 judges. Stalker got ripped off.
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_____Analysis
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As I said before, I think that the voting system worked out quite well, and
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the results were fairly accurate. However, there is a problem in the voting
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system, and there is no way to get around it. The MC3 voting system did
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what it was supposed to, and it worked as well as it could have, but let me
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explain where the margin of error comes in:
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As an example, lets take Necros, and lets take MuzikMan. By some freak of
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nature, MuzikMan has managed to get his music and tracking abilities up to
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the quality of NiteWynd.
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Lets also take two MC3 CORE judges, lets say they are Basehead, and
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Popcorn. Each judge has 15 different songs to vote on. In Basehead's group
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of songs, MuzikMan's song happens to be the best in his group of songs
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(Base ended up with a really shitty group of songs, as many of the MC3 CORE
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judges actually did). Popcorn on the other hand ended up judging some of
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the best songs in the contest.
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While this may not be the case for all judges, this sort of situation does
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happen. Because MuzikMan's song is the best in Basehead's group of songs,
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he gives it a fairly high score like an overall score of 8. Well, Popcorn
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on the other hand has a bunch of great songs, he hears Jase's song and
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gives him a 10! Wow what a song! Then he hears the other songs which are
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also quite good, so he gives them scores like 9s and 8s and stuff. Of
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course, he's got a few bad songs too which get like 3s and 4s. Lets say
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that he heard Stalker's song and gave him an 8.
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Well, do you see what happens here? Two very unequal songs get equal
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ratings! MuzikMan's song is a piece of shit, but it was one of the better
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ones in Basehead's group of songs, as a result, it was placed pretty high.
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It was placed on the same equal plane as Stalker's song.
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[NOTE: The judges & musicians used here are for fictional purposes only
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and are being used for example purposes only. Don't send me no
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steenkin' email's about this! =]
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_____Conclusion
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Is there a better way to do the judging system? Unfortunately not, at least
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not realistically. The only truly accurate way to avoid the margin of error
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would be to have every judge vote on every single song. Because of the
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sheer amount of songs in the contest, this is not possible. As a result, I
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would have to conclude that despite the margin of error, the current voting
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system is really the best way to do it.
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Maybe in the future, it would be possible to have a few very dedicated and
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qualified judges vote on all of the songs, and have their votes count
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double or something. ...But who wants to do this? =]
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_____Closing
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MC3 is actually the largest scene music competition ever. There were
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almost two hundred total songs in the contest. Stop and think about
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that! I'd like to send congrats to everybody that was involved in the
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contest, no matter how well you placed. You should be proud that you
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competed in this event.
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Special thanks especially to Snowman and Floss that brought you this
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contest and put countless hours into managing the huge number of songs.
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Send them a thanx when you get the chance..
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Ryan Cramer / Renaissance - rcramer1@osf1.gmu.edu
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