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                     |+=-We Break The Sound Barrier!@!-=+|
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LEMM sez his bit...
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MACH ONE? WTF is Mach One??!?
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Mach One is a group dedicated, purely and simply, to music. No "hmm-
maybe-we'll-do-a-demo-someday", no "lets-recruit-a-coder-to-put-together-
our-musicdisk-interfaces"... nope, all we're interested in is making
decent quality music, and releasing it. We're keeping ourselves pretty
small and, apart from the occasional impromptu musicdisk on the whim of
one or two of its members, will be just releasing stuff whenever. :)

Mach One consists of three members (er, correct at time of writing ;) )...
aMUSiC - former 20MC guy (but we forgive him ;D ) and winner of The
         Gardening music compo =)
Welti  - source of many rather wonderful samples which god knows the
         other two of us could do with ;}
Lemm   - one of them dang brits. ;) Four-times winner of The Trackering,
         14th-placer at NAID96 and, er, total wash-out from MC4. *sob*

In essence, we're a little like an FM that's not 31337. ;} Seriously.
All the members of FM are usually busy doing stuff to release things on
a regular basis, but when they do it's usually something special. Same
here; our members (aMUSiC, myself and Welti - so far ;) ) are often busy
doing other things - Welti writing for games and stuff, aMUSiC with other
groups, and me with, uhm, The Trackering... *blush* ...and doing songs
for compoetitions which are like a whole YEAR away. ;) But anyway. :)

Mach One... WHY?
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Well, aMUSiC and I got together one time recently (er, okay, a few months
back) and decided that Bass Productions (yeah, that lot :) ) was more or
less comatose, so we decided to do the decent thing and disengage life
support. :) But where to go from there? I didn't really relish the idea
of being a member of Independent ;) so aMUSiC and I decided to start up a
new group. (As if there weren't enough already. Yeesh. :) ) We threw a
few names around, and eventually settled for "Mach One".

Why? For a few reasons...
 - it sounded kinda n33t (uh, to us anyway :} )
 - it gave us the chance to have a silly "motto" (ie "We Break The Sound
   Barrier") ;)
 - we could identify our songs on cdrom.com with an "M1-" prefix so we
   had a whole EXTRA LETTER to name our files with!!!#@$@!#$@!#$@$#@#$ ;D

Anyway, all the members are fairly laid back, which is fine for me cos I
hate having to release x number of mods in y number of weeks and so on.
There's not really likely to be a deluge of releases from us, but when we
-do- release something... ;)

Mach One... WHERE?
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We'll be upping all our releases to the Hornet Archive (of coz) so look
for "m1-*.zip" in .../music/disks/*/m and .../music/songs/*/*/m (cos
aMUSiC does MODs, I do S3M/ITs and Welti does XMs (judging from his
stockade of .XI files :) ).

We should also have a directory on the MTI server when it finally gets
up and running. More info on that if it ...ahem, -when- it happens. ;)
(j/k)

Mach One... WERD!@#@
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Thank you. :) Here's our e-mail addresses in case you want to contact any
of us for no reason whatsoever... :)

Lemm	- cmslhes1@livjm.ac.uk
	 (cmslhes1@kryten.cms.livjm.ac.uk for attachments)

aMUSiC	- amusic@beryl.kapatel.gr

Welti	- wilfried@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de

And, of course, we all frequent #trax regularly, so you'll probably see
one or two of us there cos we're on there far too much for our own social
health. ;D

See ya at the sound barrier... :)
                                              Liam the Lemming / Mach One