POLAND SCENE REPORT çddf,faa,afa,aaf,faf,ffa,aff ¢ POLISH SCENE REPORT ¼ written by Cromax/Alchemy ³ This - for sure uncomplete - Polish scene report is brought to You by Cromax of Alchemy. I decided to sort all groups alphabeticaly, but unfortunetly my group is the first one... It is only because of the name... Oh, there's yet something - sorry to all PPL, for any errors or facts do not matching with the truth... Ok, let's begin! ¢ ALCHEMY ¹ Hmmm... What can I say? I will tell all the thrut. Alchemy was found... about three years ago (I am not quiet sure about it). Their first relase was demo called "Toxic Ziemniak" (what means "Trujacy Potato"). After some time Alchemy made second - and till now last one - demo, called "Marchewki" ("Carrots" this time...). It tooks second place on Warsaw Copy-Party '92. Then I (Cromax) joined Alchemy. Time passed, and nothing was relased. Some months ago, we start to issue zine, called "Zasmashka". It is all Polish, so it isn't so popular (or rather it's unknown) for other countries. Now we're working at second issue of "Zasmashka"... ³Some known members: Axel, Backfire, Bob, Cromax, Exolon, Frodo, Saggitarius , Tiptop and Vico ¶¢ APPLAUSE ¹ Story of this group is a little bit complicated. First - some of Applause's members were in Grace PL - Polish division of Grace (but it died) and some in other group called "Future Revolution". I don't know exists FR anymore, but I haven't heard about them for a very long time. FR was issuing zine "Next Life" - cool and full of humour mag. When FR died (?) some guys from FR and Grace PL found new group - Applause namely. They made some intros, but more important thing is, that they have organized party in may (probably; I have weak memory). Some guys claims, that this party was bad organized, some don't. I can't say anything about it, because I wasn't present there... Now they start issuing another zine "Thing". It's also in English language, so You can get it too! ³Some known members: Thorgal. ¢ DEFORM ¹ It is (or was) quiet big group. Their "Deformations" - first demo - tooks first place on Warsaw CP '92. Another their products are: "Weekend Dance", "Deform Megamix", "Music Disk", "Slide Show". Deform came to life by fusion of some small groups: Hell Order Team, Zack Team, aaaand... ¶some other groups... Oh, it is worth to add, that H.O.T. made first "Power of inspiration" and than joined with other groups. ³Some members: Musashi, Pluton, Seq. ¢ FLUFFY BEARS ¹ I exactly know this group from two productions - one with famous "Anti Atari Song" and from another sound disk - "Masturbation". I don't know anything else about them, I don't even knoe exesit they at all... ¢ FLYING COW(S) ¹ A new group founded about one year ago (?). Some demos (sorry, I don't know names) and sound disk - "Hunt for the red kret" (mole). Nothing about members or past... ¢ INVESTATION ¹ It is one from older group in Poland (before I joined Alchemy, I was in Investation). First thing they made was zine - "Fat Agnus". Now there's 14 issues and everyting says, they will continue their work. They made some intros, file demos ("Optical Race 1, 2", "Ingis") and - of course - demos ("Hydra" and something about "Heaven", but I don't know what...). ³Some known Members: Berserker, Dan, Dr.D, M-Iron, Tap and Ziemniak ¶¢ JOKER ¹ Legendary group... Demos: Lucky Luck (it was probably their first demo... but I still have it!), The Return, Party-zanci, Art Disk and many sound disks. ³Some known members: Dalthon, GBH, Kadi, Peters, Rafii and Rys). ¢ LUNATIC ASYLUM ¹ I don't know have they any productions, but I am in contact with it's member - Macias . Probably LA and Alchemy will organize a VeRy StraNgE and unnormal party in may '94 (in Poland). Look for invitation intro - comming soon! ¢ LUZERS ¹ Luzers but no loosers. Some wired guys. They are issuing - sometimes - different zines. First it was "Alamakota", then "Lamataoka" and now "Paper White". I herad some rumors, that they quit issuing Paper White and start to issue new mag. They also made some demos - "Defene cos tam". ³Some known members: Black, Conrad and Pavelo ¢ MAD ELKS ¹ Quite new group, but very popular. Their "Technological Dead" is known all around thw world. Lately they ¶organized "Polish Autumn Party", but - in my opinion - it was very bad organized. ³Some members: Kopara, Qwerty ¢ OLD BULLS ¹ Pretty active group. Many demos - "Damage", "Impulse", "Xenium", "Fugazi", "Autobiography" also sound disks - "Sigh", "Orgasm", "Illusion". So, I can not say, that "quantity is over quality". All productions (maybe exept "Xenium") are good, its has interesting design. Old Bulls contains two divisions - TILT and Gel Dezign. Actually member list (from Amigowiec 5-6/93): Aiwen, Arcus, Bycek, Blind, Brunner, G.B., Ghengis, Ghost, Mikie, Processor, Sator, Shean, The Bill, The Generat, The Spy, Venom, Vindemiatrix, Walker, from TILT: Bukka, Hudi, Sabe and from Gel: Accord and Zefir. ¢ PIC SAINT LOUP ¹ Strange group. PSL consists only of musician. The make music for other groups. Some members: Cloo, Scorpik ¢ SUSPECT ¹ Well known group, but I can not say, their produtions belongs to the bests... They have relased some demos - "Immortal visions" won demo competition on Mountain Beer Party in Zywiec '92. Other demos: ¶"Alternative Reality", "Music Tracks" (sound disk), "Varathron". Main organizer of Suspect - Kalosz other members: Kane , BFA andfor sure some other guys... ¢ UNION ¹ I have heard, that this group already died. Some guys of Union joined Mystic. Union was founded by fusion some guys from different groups: from Action Direct, Deform, G-Force, legendary Katharsis and from Suspect. I don't know exist Union anymore... They are (were?) issuing two mags: "Zig Zag" and "Poczytaj mi mamo" (something like "Read to me mum"). Theres another mag "Poland B", but I don't know which group issue it. Probably Union too, but I am not quiet sure... ¢ W.F.M.H. ¹ Also one from older formations in Poland. W.F.M.H. means World Federation of Mad Hackers. Some cool demos: "Faster than Hell", "Software". ³Some members: Robin, Zybul ²There for sure are many, many more formations in Poland, but they are to unknown (for me) or I forgot to mention someone or some groups don't exists at presence... Sorry to everybody, who has been missed or I wrote something wrong about him... I do my best.