»CL9:-------------------------------------- »CL8: Interview with Pirat/PHD »CL9:-------------------------------------- »CL4: by Curt Cool »CL5:CC:»CL4: Hi Pirat! First I would like you to tell me a bit about yourself, where you live, family, study, scene? etc. »CL1:PR:»CL0:Hi CC!, my real name is "Sascha Dages" and I live in Germany/ Karlsruhe. I live at home together with my great family. It's really funny at home :). My scene-career started as musician in the year 1994 with a old and dead pc-group called "The Cross" (hi Raytrayza). After this nice beginning i created "Phase Distortion" together with Juice, and that's it. Now I'm the organizer (and of course musician) in PHD. My real job is a kind of trader in the sector "communication". »CL5:CC:»CL4: To get to the point, how did you get the idea to start a "module group" like Phase Distortion? »CL1:PR:»CL0: Hmm, I had no experience in the scene before we created Phase^D, so it was a new idea to make a "music crew". I saw that there are so many musicians without a demo-group out there, so I wanted to create a music-only-crew. A short while later I noticed that there are so many music-groups on pc, and I believe that we are not the first music-group, unfortunately. :)) PHD is an older group than Mono, but Mono were the first to release their mods in lha archives on Amiga. »CL5:CC:»CL4: Why does these module groups release "guest releases" from eachothers' members? It seems a bit silly to me, after all it's just a question of which diz is in the archive... ;) »CL1:PR:»CL0: Hehe, no, its only a way to gain more connections to other music-crews. The people can see that we are all friendly, if we releasing mods from other groups. ;) Its also a chance to get more known. »CL5:CC:»CL4: Why do the module groups, PHD not excluded, only release techno modules of one kind or another? Aren't there any good non-techno musicians left, or is there another reason? »PIC:BD1» »CL1:PR:»CL0: I can't find many good non-techno musicians in scene, so i think yes, that's the reason. Maybe another reason is that we have more techno-fans as non-techno-fans. We never forget our legends like Jester, Lizardking, Mr. Man and so one, though. »CL5:CC:»CL4: PHD isn't strictly AMIGA but neverthless has its basis on the AMIGA scene. Why release pc-xm's onto the AMIGA scene? »CL1:PR:»CL0: Hmm, its right that AMIGA is our homebase, but our future goes more and more in pc-direction. The reason is, that the world of multichannel sounds better as the tiny 4 channel mods. Thats the fault of our old Commodore. With an 8 Bit Audio Chip we are badly punished. Hmm, OctaMed SS is a good way to compose multichannel-stuff on amiga, but would you pay for a tracker ca. $120? Commercial Soft will be never a standard on amiga. Fastracker and Screamtracker on pc are freeware. Shame on you Teijo! »CL5:CC:»CL4: When you release the modules in such a simple manner, is it also thought to be a way of gaining more fame in the scene? After all the module is the only thing you present, there is no fancy code nor graphics to lead the mind away from it... »CL1:PR:»CL0: Are we famous on the scene?? :) Anyway, every week, we release 2 modules, mostly different styles and author, so we have variety. But "pssssst", this idea is our secret! For the moment we don't have any productions with code or gfx, YES, but not in future, because in 2-3 weeks our first real musicdisk will be out. And another fine musicdisk is in the making. We have some other small projects, but some of us are very lazy... :) The best example is myself! :) »CL5:CC:»CL4: Could you explain to me how you get the modules from your guest composers. Do you ask them or do they ask you? »CL1:PR:»CL0: I asked them, but there are also some guys who asked me or Juice. Most of the people i ask are fucking friendly, so its easy to organize some great tunes from the guests. »CL5:CC:»CL4: I believe that PHD and Mono are the leading module groups on the scene today. How do you feel about the competition? Hopefully both groups can exist peacefully together?! »CL1:PR:»CL0: There is no competition, because Mono have got their own style, and we have our own style. I'm in firm contact with most of the Mono-members, and i think we will always have a peaceful life together. (Hi h0l) »CL5:CC:»CL4: There are also some other module groups who are more specific in the choice of style (Black Sista etc.). Do you think that is that the way to go? »CL1:PR:»CL0: We have many musicians in the Amiga scene, and some of these musicians are good, talented and in no group, because we don't have enough demo-groups in our small Amiga scene. The leading demo-crews are able to choose the very best musicians in the scene, so there is no room for the others. This is one reason, why I think that "Music-Groups" are important. »CL5:CC:»CL4: Tell me about the members of Phase Distortion, music styles, etc. etc. Surely we can expect some new PHD goodies soon?! »CL1:PR:»CL0: Our members, hmm, i can say, that we have many different styles in our group. Such as LINUS, our Funk-Master, one of the best funk-composers on Amiga i think. Then TEIS and RAYTRAYZA, our two junglist composers. I hope for more releases from these guys!. Another one is BASS-CADET, his tunes sounds really experimental and he is very talented. I should not forget our USA Team "HILLIE+SKYFUSION" with their upcoming releases. Our quiet "AIRON" is one of the experts of us, so he is our old iron :). Ehmm, our musician called "FBY" is nowhere, no releases from him , nothing, but i hope he come back from army. Oeh, and our 2 new musicians called "DEXTER" and "RONNY" are new bloood in our castle. The Main-Figure is "JUICE", our distributor and techno-musician. We also have some good helpers, but I think, its not so important to write something about these nice guys. [Although they probably wouldn't mind -ed.] Last but not least, my lazy self, my job is to organize this club of brothers. At the moment our organizing plan is full of work. The next step is to release our first musicdisk called "Symbolix" with some music by me. After this spreading-time, I will get time for our new musicdisk called "Depth Phase". Of course, our normal mod-releasing (every week 2 mods) will continue. »CL5:CC:»CL4: Okay, I think that is all for today... Thank you for your time! »CL1:PR:»CL0: Thank YOUUUUU!! .. and big kisses to your sister, if you have one :) [I haven't -ed]. Some advertising: Join #phd, our interactive IRC-channel!! bye Curt Cool!