

                             "s y s t e m"


         necros / five musicians          17 november 1997


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                             what, and why
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This is a collection of music written mostly in the span of about six months
which sort of "forced" itself to be released. It leans heavily towards the
electronic side, stylistically, but that's what comes out of me these days,
I can't help it. This is probably my last musicdisk per se, I don't know if
I'll have the time to spend another half-year of my life in front of a tracker.
Certainly it is rewarding, though.

                                 songs
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(in the order that I think they work best in, comments in the sampletext)

                           "dreaming in green"
                              "mindspring"
                              "river boat"
                        "paranoid android (b2 mix)"
                              "dirty walk"
                             "silent night"

(all songs are in IT214 compressed format to save space. if you can't play
them then you need to either get the IT upgrade from hornet.org or use
a standalone player like MikIT)

                               where now
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Currently I'm working at Digital Anvil, in Austin. For some reason I have
turned into a 3D graphics programmer; I guess the cerebral part of my brain
wants to take over now for a bit. It is possible I may do music as well there
but it depends on a large number of unknown quantities (some of them self-
imposed). We'll see.

                                soapbox
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Where will tracking go? I always viewed it as a step to somewhere else. It
can be argued that it loses relevance in the age of rapidly decreasing
prices of "real" gear and MIDI synths and enhanced PC products and on and on.
That may be true. Tracking still has the hobbyist market pinned down, though.
As file transfer speeds and hard drive spaces increase, I think something
similar to MP3's will take over this niche. So what. I've already gone through
three or four trackers, what's a few more.

Up until this year, tracking has been, at least for me, the easiest means of
musical expression. There are walls, though, as in anything; lately I've been
hitting them head-on. I don't know how many more modules I'll do, maybe two,
maybe two hundred. It all depends on that elusive quantity "inspiration". (I
maintain its value to be random(x).)

See you all again soon.

                                people
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I tried to make a list of people to thank and why but it was either way too
large or way too selective. So I have to resort to the generic.

Thanks to everyone who has given a constructive comment, made an interesting
song, listened to some rambling, swapped a sample, entertained, listened,
heard, or sedated me over the last few years. It's meant a lot, and probably
kept me from going off the deep end.


                                 who
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contact:
            necros / five musicians

email:
            necros@fm.org (preferred)
            asega@digitalanvil.com

snailmail:
            Andrew G. Sega
            201 E 4th Street #239
            Austin TX USA 78701

note: there is no official web or FTP right now, however the fm.org website
should be up sometime soon, and when my own archive finally goes up, there will
be a link off that. all new songs will go on hornet.org though of course
so check that first for any new releases.

