| MagBox: |
Hi Reverse, first of all state, your real name, your age, your positions in DIGITAL and eventually other interesting details about you! (drink, food, dance, holidays place, movie, lp, mag, girls) |
| Reverse: |
Well, my real firstname is Sebastien, I'm living in France, I'm 18 and I'm a musician in this cool team called DIGITAL!!! Hrrmmm, I like boozing with my friends, watching TV or movies, listening to nice music, eating pizzas, Cindy Crawford, Meg Ryan, Summer holidays and of course my girlfriend: Laurence! (3 years of wonderful LIFE!) |
| MagBox: |
What kind of music,do you listen to? Name your favourite bands? |
| Reverse: |
Hard question! some years ago, I used to listen to PUNK-HARDCORE music but now my taste are a little bit different, I enjoy a lot of differents kind of musics!!! Well, I think my favourites bands are The Washington Dead Cats, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dead Kennedys and some really stunning solo guitar players like Greg Howe or Michael Lee Firkins! but I'm listening to some classical(?!?) artists too like Henry's Purcell! (Hi Clawz!!!) Purcell is really the best composer ever, it's so amazing!!! |
| MagBox: |
Do you have any hobbies a part from music? |
| Reverse: |
Some months ago, I enjoyed using Deluxe-Paint, but it was just for fun because i'm really in lake of talent! But anyway, nowaday, I really enjoy working with my cool friends in DIGITAL France, making Ansi-logos, reading disk-mags and being a beta tester for Xann/TSL's tools, check them out!!! they are so powerful!!! |
| MagBox: |
Now, it's time to remind us your whole Amiga history! |
| Reverse: |
Ok! Let's GO!!! I've bought my Amiga in July 1991, coz Von Bubble of LIQUID, one of my neighbour had one and I thought it was quite a cool computer! So I decided to by my own AMIGA 500 1.3! At that time Von Bubble and me were not in the scene, but I was very interested in it! So I answered to an advert in Hack-Mag issue 7! And so we joined a little (lame?) group called BARBARIANS, at that time I was under my old handle: Thorflinn... But after 2 letters, no more answer from the Danish HQ, so we decided to form a new group called GRAAL (dec 1991) but it really sucked! In March 1992, I went to a party in the north of France, there, I met some really cool guys, there actual handle and groups are: Alex/DREAMDEALERS, Axel/HMD, Spock/HMD, Monty/ANALOG, Xann/SILENTS! And in this very little party (about 25 guys!), Monty of ANALOG gave me my first PROTRACKER!!! And I really started composing!!! Just after the party I met a guy from SOLARIS on the French Minitel (kind of BBS!) and they were searching for a Musician! So, I've sent my modz and just after I've joined my first real team: SOLARIS!
So I started to work with Gengis who was the main coder and organizer of SLS, and it worked well, we had a hell of good times and so on!!! After I renamed myself to H3o+! Quite a strange handle but it was funny! In July 1992, Gengis and me left SOLARIS coz of some internal problems!!!
We joined NEGAT!VE D-ZIGN and LIQUID!!! We released the REFLEX trackmo with one of my tunes, and just after (Sept 1992) we were asked by the DIGITAL HQ to join and so we did... and at that time I renamed myself to REVERSE! (my last and definitive handle!!!)
So Gengis and me are the former members of DTL Fr!!! And now we are still in DTL with some new really cool members! We were 9th with our 'Lethal Exit'
trackmo at the X-MAS PARTY 2!!! Our official french memberlist on the
5/3/1992 is:
Gengis (Coder, Organizer)
Dancer (Coder)
Clawz (Musician)
Reverse (Musician)
Vodka (Trader, Packer)
Wizz (Trader, Packer)
And nobody else! No graphicians... sniff If some talented french guys are interested, so don't hesitate, send samples of your gfx, ok? |
| MagBox: |
Tell us what you do need to compose some musics (hardware) and where you do get your inspiration from? |
| Reverse: |
My own configuration is: A500 1.3, 1mb, extra-drive, Amstrad manual multisynchro monitor(dynablaster rule!!!), MK3, Trilogic Sampler, and of course HI-FI!!! No keyboards! My brother own a Korg M1 but he no longer lives at home so no more samples from this cool synth!!! sniff again!!!
About my inspiration!!!, I don't think I'm a very original musician! So I've to find something interesting to say! Well, usually I just run protracker, check some friends samples!!! one I've a good one, I start to make something, and it become a kind a noise! (zik?) No, seriously I've no real inspiration sources!!! |
| MagBox: |
Can you tell about your project among your own groups? |
| Reverse: |
Gengis is working on another great trackmo (1200), I'm working together with Clawz on a Music-Disk project! It will be called EXTEMPORIZED! and Dancer will release an intro! But Gengis, Clawz, some professional graphicians and me are working on an Amiga 1200's game project!!! |
| MagBox: |
What do you think about the scene? |
| Reverse: |
I'm not a pessimistic guy, I think the scene is OK! I've a lot of fun with it and I hope everybody will try to continue the amiga scene on the A1200! So the scene is cool and I don't want to stop my activities, I think it's really sad to see some really talented guys leaving progressively the scene!!! |
| MagBox: |
Who/what are your favorite coder, musicians, graphicians, swapper and demo? |
| Reverse: |
Hmmm, lets go for an A-Z list of some no-DIGITAL members or productions!
Coders:
Head X/ANDROMEDA
Mr. HYDE/ANDROMEDA
Xann/THE SILENTS
Graphicians:
Alex/DREAMDEALERS
Duel/ANDROMEDA
Fairfax/ANDROMEDA
Hof/THE SILENTS
Iridon/SHINING
Mack/MELON DEZIGN
Ra/DREAMDEALERS
Musicians:
Heatbeat/CARILLON
Hollywood/JETSET
Jester/SANITY
Jogeir Liljhedal/NOISELESS
Lizard/ANDROMEDA
Lord Interface/ANDROMEDA
Moby/DREAMDEALERS
Subject/BALANCE
Swappers:
Axel/HMD
Moxy/ANDROMEDA
Trasher/SANITY
Demos:
D.O.S/ANDROMEDA
Mindriot/ANDROMEDA
Absolute Inebriation/V.D/FLT
Voyage/RAZOR 1911
World of Commodore/SANITY
Lamers: (Worst Order!)
Baby/MAJIC 12
Daryl/PARADOX <---(ahahaha!!!) |
| MagBox: |
Give us your opinion about piracy on amiga? |
| Reverse: |
I don't care about the crack scene! They can do everything they want!!! In the past I've done a tune for a SKID ROW intro with Stunning GFX by RA/DRD!! But as I never play games, I'm not involved in the crack-scene! |
| MagBox: |
What do you think about friendship? |
| Reverse: |
I think NO FRIENDSHIP=NO SCENE!!! But I dislike guys who hide their lameness or their lazyness behind friendship... You know the guys who contact you and say: 'If you don't answer me you are not a cool guy and not a friendly dude!!!' So I prefer having friendship with some really motivated scene guys!!! |
| MagBox: |
Ouf, thank you, do you have any message? |
| Reverse: |
Yep, Well thanks to you for this Interview and let's go for some restricted hellos:
Monty, Fairfax, Hydra, Moxy, Lord Interface, Mr Hyde, Subject, Connor, Lite, Alex, Antony, Moby, Ra, Axel, Hollywood, Trasher, Meta, Hof, Cougar, Jester, Microforce, OLP, Xann. And all members of DIGITAL worlwide!!!
Special message for Clawz/DIGITAL:
D-30EC30
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---00000 Rulezzz forever !!!
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D-300000
Qualified musicians can reach me for samples,modules and everything else, don't hesitate:
REVERSE/DTL
Atoch Sebastien
19 Rue Ronsard
78180 MONTIGNY
FRANCE
Tel: (+33) 1 .30.57.14.54
(Sebastien) |
| MagBox: |
HELLO TO Napoleon/BADCAT, Shun,/LIQUID, Scope/BLC (PLEASE CONTINUE LTC!!!), GAG AND ALL AMIGA BOYS AND GIRLS |