Freedom CD Intro
OCTOBER 13th 1995 DISCONNECT It was roughly eight months ago when I discussed the possibility of a sequel to ESCAPE with Snowman (Christopher G. Mann). He liked the idea-- again--and I liked the idea of creating a better CD. So once again I undertook this long walk but not without the help of a lot of talented people. MADE IN USA All the printing, mastering, and CD pressing was done in the Unite States of America. However, much of the art, music, and files were created in other countries. PLANET Remember ESCAPE? It was released approximately 1 year ago with MC2 digital audio and 209 megs of demos/music/stuff. ESCAPE was a mixed mode CD and that was also my plan for the FREEDOM CD. However, Popcorn (ex TraxWeekly editor) asked me about a 2 CD solution--separate Audio and Data. I thought "Great Idea" but I need more DATA and I need to research the cost. Popcorn led me to Ryan Cramer who could help with the data collection thanks to a T1 line he had access to. When I learned adding another CD would only add about $3 to the price the dual CD idea became more of a reality. Discussions with the Hornet crew convinced me to "Go for two." Thus FREEDOM became 2 CDs three-quarters the way through the project. General Info: The FREEDOM CDs come in a 2x CD jewel box (aka Brilliant-Box) with a full color (on one side) 6 page insert. A vinyl sticker is also included with every CD--check ftp.cdrom.com /demos/hornet/freedom for the sticker graphics as four stickers were created. See "orderfrm.txt" for ordering information. The Data CD: The data CD (ISO-9660) contains approximately 542 megs worth of music by artists, music disks, Music Contest 1, 2, and 3 entries, trackers, music players, all TraxWeekly, DemoNews, and Imphobia issues, demos, intros, graphics from various compos/artists, a demobook, the full CODE directory from ftp.cdrom.com, ansi packs, and a bit of other scene related stuff. The data for this CD was gathered from: ftp.cdrom.com, ftp.mpoli.fi, peace.wit.com, dragon.axs.net, Ryan Cramer's BBS, and a variety of musicians archives. View the "dirlist.txt" file for the contents of the data CD. The Audio CD: The audio CD consists of the top 12 MC3 Veteran winners and top 3 MC3 Rookie winners as well as songs by The REW, Cybelius, Zodiak, Jason, and Krystall. Here is exactly how things are arranged on the CD: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRACK 1 : Kingdom Skies, Jase, 4:45 TRACK 2 : The Crossing, Necros, 4:28 TRACK 3 : Drift, Nemesis, 4:54 TRACK 4 : Wanderlust, Leviathan, 3:13 TRACK 5 : Second Thoughts, Big Jim, 4:41 TRACK 6 : Sendoff Flight, Markell P. Moss, 3:48 TRACK 7 : Can't Fake Michelle, Shikando, 2:33 TRACK 8 : Babewatch, Ryan Cramer, 4:02 TRACK 9 : Fate, Roberto Barabino, 3:38 TRACK 10: Forgotten Dreamtime, FireLight, 3:07 TRACK 11: Phoebe, Esper Division, 4:31 TRACK 12: Betrayal of Innocense, Future Assassin, 2:56 TRACK 13: Bits & Bytes, Mayhem, 3:30 TRACK 14: Upwardly Mobile, Morph, 2:39 TRACK 15: Respire, Spyder, 2:56 TRACK 16: Atlantic Shores, The REW, 2:41 TRACK 17: The Rainy Road, Cybelius, 2:05 TRACK 18: Respirator, Zodiak, 3:03 TRACK 19: All I Feel Is Hate, Jason Brotherton & Kristen Brandeburg, 3:28 TRACK 20: Night of Dreams, Krystall & Cynthia, 4:51 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOTAL TIME: 71 mins 51 secs -------------------------------------------------------------------------- INSTITUTIONALIZED Here I am, a year after ESCAPE doing another CD. Pretty crazy huh. When people I know, unrelated to the scene, hear about the time/money I've invested ($6000+ and 8 months) they think I'm nuts. "Make some money," they say even though I tell them I can't because of what I am selling. Yes, I guess you have to be a little insane to tackle a project like this and invest as much money/time as I have. Now for what you have all been waiting for... The price for the FREEDOM CD was derived from the following COSTS: DESCRIPTION | COST ================================================= Software--Quark Express (Upgrade) 3.3 | $ 30 Postage/Shipping cost for letter/etc. | $ 125 2 DAT Tapes | $ 19 Four stickers (250 each for 1000) | $ 94 1 GIG SCSI HD (Which I hope to donate) | $ 407 Telephone Calls (some estimation) | $ 69 Printing (1100 inserts)--RIDDLE PRESS | $ 722 DAT to CD-R--Digital Editing & Mastering | $ 178 HD to CD-R--David Hughes (2 CDs created) | $ 67 Address Labels | $ 11 800x2 CDs pressed--3M | $4071 Mailers, tape, boxes, etc (estimated) | $ 160 ================================================ Total COST $5953 Using this figure of $5953 I then divided by 700 as 100 CDs will be given away to helpers/etc. This gave me a figure of $8.50 which is my "at cost" CD price. It cost approximately $1.50 to ship in the US and $3.00 to ship to Europe. To be fair to everyone I decided to charge $12 regardless of location. In actuality the people in the US/Canada are paying a little more to subsidizing my losses of mailing overseas. DOLL PARTS A lot of equipment, music, stuff was used in the creation of the two CDs that make up FREEDOM. To create the AUDIO DAT master John Eccles, our studio "apartment" engineer utilized the following equipment: PC: Magitronic 75Mhz Pentium 8 Megs RAM GUS Sony 17sf Monitor 1.44 floppy Audio Equipment: Alesis Quadaverb Signal Processor Garrard GEQ-330 Graphic EQ Sony STR-D1090 Receiver Sony DTC-790 DAT Digital Tape Deck Sony CDP-315 CD Player Aiwa AD-F770U Analog Cassette Deck Sony MDR-V200 Headphones POC-15A Optical Cable Assorted Sony Stereo Cables ;) Mastering on TDK DAT Tapes 120VAC Intermittently Supplied by Florida Power & Light Noteworthy Assistance by: Massive amounts of Diet Coke and Marlboro Lights! In the creation of the DATA CD, art, and etc. I utilized the following equipment (some of which was used/borrowed from my place of employment): PC: SuperMicro Intel Triton motherboad, P90 processor, and 16 megs of RAM ADI 3G 14" monitor Supra 14.4 internal Modem Gravis Ultrasound w/ 1meg DRAM SB16 SCSI II Plextor 4 Plex w/ 1meg cache Diamond Stealth Video VRAM (2megs VRAM) 1.44 Floppy drive IOMEGA 100meg ZIP drive (backup) Trakker 250 QIC HP IV (600 dpi printer) Panasonic 2123 (24 pin) Western Digital 250/550 meg Hard Drives Fujitsu FJ1606S 1080MB SCSI Hard Drive American Power Conversion surge protector Generic Telephone line surge protector Software: Utils: Pkzip, pkunzip, lha, arj, munpack, binhex, uudecode, xxdecode Win 95 beta running Word Perfect 6.0 for mostly printing and spell checking Windows 3.11 Quark Express 3.3 for Windows (all art layout) Photoshop 2.5.1 (CMYK conversions and collage layout) Qmodem 4.31 WinFax Lite Corel Draw 4 Other misc equipment: Denon Receiver (DRA-325R) Denon CD Player (DCD-620) Denon Cassette Deck (DRM-500) Thorens Turntable (TD280MkII) AKG 240 Monitor Headphones Klipsch Kg2 Speakers DAK Stereo Power Controller The music that kept me going during the tough times: LizardKing's Physiology album, Rollins Band, Suicidal Tendencies, The Cure, Operation Ivy, The Sundays, Stereolab, P.J. Harvey, Hole, Depeche Mode, Cocteau Twins, New Order, The Prodigy, Bjork, Pizzicato Five, Black Flag, The Cranberries, Edie Brickell, Madonna, Juliana Hatfield, Future Sounds of London, Black Sabbath, David Lantz, David Arkenstone, The Smiths, Men at Work, Dead Kennedys, Til Tuesday, The Art of Noise, FTZ, The Best of the Amiga Scene, Escape, Orbital, Spoke, The Cannanes, The Meatmen, and lots of assorted SKA. And my drinks of choice: Snapple Lemon flavored ICE TEA Gatorade (any flavor) DISAPPOINTMENT As many of you know this CD is being released about a month later than was originally anticipated. Looking back I probably should not have even mentioned that "mid September" released. However, setting goals and deadlines can be good. If I had left the date open I would probably have been more apathetic and you may not have even seen the CD. Not everything comes up roses in a project like this--delays like the completion of MC3 and when the art will be completed are often unpredictable. Finding people willing to contribute, getting permissions, and keeping things running smoothly took up the majority of my time and often left me frustrated. I'm glad the CD is finished and hope no one feels disappointed. HIGH EXPECTATION Can you top this? That was my intentions with this CD. To top the "Escape" CD produced last year. With a lot of peoples help I have succeeded. You will find the printing, sound, and production better than last years CD. This has been a DIY (Do It Yourself) project which I hope will be a growing trend in the future of the scene. WORLD In a big project like this there exist a large amount of people who deserve credit for helping. Below is everyone I which to greet and say thanks to. Christopher Mann (r3cgm@dax.cc.uakron.edu): - Christopher is the creator of the Music Contest (MC) and now the maintainer of the "hornet" demo site. With out him there would have been no incentive to do Escape or Freedom. [USA] Primal (hbcsc386@huey.csun.edu): - Primal (or Quang) was the jack of all trades for this CD. He helped with coding of the demo book, art, music, sticker creation, ascii, permissions, and web site among other things. [USA] George Nowik (norg@cyberspace.com): - George helped in the organizing of MC3. Without him to collect all the entry forms and spread the word we probably wound not have gotten as many entries as we did. [USA] PL (no E-mail): - PL (or Pascal) is the artist for Imphobia who did the front cover and jail corridor used in the collage. [Belgium] ToneDef (kon@metropolis.petech.ac.za): - ToneDef (or Kon Wilms) is a member of ICE whom I contacted a bit late about doing some art for the CD after other potential artist were not responding to my E-mail. He delivered an amazing back cover. [South Africa] Xten (christen@winnie.fit.edu): - Xten (or Rob) is another member of ICE who created a sticker and did the tray card art. His font/logo artistic abilities shine. [USA] Stony (p.vanmun0@hsbos.nl): - Stony (or Pim van Mun) created the CD label art for Escape and Freedom. He also contributed the inside booklet collage. All I can say is weird wild stuff. [The Netherlands] Dana Dominiak (dominiak@athens.dis.anl.gov): - Dana created the front cover for Escape and contributed a sticker design for Freedom. She is a great artist who also runs Webfoot Technologies which is helping distribute this CD. [USA] The DON (no E-mail): - The DON submitted a lot of little art pieces for the CD. I ended up using a jap anime picture I liked for the collage. [South Africa] Puppet Head (puppet@netcom.com): - A great artist I had high hopes for with Escape and Freedom. He created the diskmag "acid in wonderland" some of you may have seen. Unfortunately he only sent me one picture. I put it in the collage :) [USA] Visigoth (visigoth@cris.com): - Visigoth (or Steve Stiles) has been creating a lot of art for demo parties around the globe. I used one of the pictures he entered in a compo for the collage. [USA] Ryan Cramer (rcramer1@osf1.gmu.edu / rcramer@www2.idsonline.com): - Ryan collected the majority of the Music/Data on the data CD. We were able to get most of the mpoli archives before the site went down. Ryan also as a great tune (from MC3) on the audio CD. [USA] Grinner (riley@mighty.riv.edu): - Grinner (or Chris Graves) and his friend Joe Miragliuolo created the Eruption sticker for the CD. Grinner also convinced me to have the graphics directory on this CD and gathered most of the pics. [USA] Tumblin (tumblin@mi.net) - Tumblin helped out with permissions, the code directory, and gave me tips on what stuff I should include on the data CD. [CANADA] Music on CD (in order of Track #): 1 Jase (jlchong@tartarus.uwa.edu.au) [Australia] 2 Necros (asega@libws4.ic.sunysb.edu) [USA] 3 Nemesis (nemesis@crl.com) [USA] 4 Leviathan (d2@mcs.com) [USA] 5 Big Jim (james_storer@hp-unitedkingdom-om1.om.hp.com) [United Kingdom] 6 Markell Moss (mpmoss@freenet.calgary.ab.ca) [Canada] 7 Shikando (dax007@anon.penet.fi) [Finland] 8 Ryan Cramer (rcramer1@osf1.gmu.edu) [USA] 9 Roberto Barabino (dusty@disi.unige.it) [Italy] 10 Firelight (hero@suburbia.apana.org.au) [Australia] 11 Esper Division (debriefr@drm.ca) [Canada] 12 Future Assassin (ar482@freenet.carleton.ca) [Canada] 13 Mayhem (mayhem@io.org) [Canada] 14 Morph (mdm@grfn.org) [Scotland] 15 Spyder (kdostale@indiana.edu) [USA] 16 The REW (therew@ns.intermedia.nl) [The Netherlands] 17 Cybelius (hoplite@triplex.fipnet.fi) [Finland] 18 Zodiak (zodiak@kuai.se) [Sweden] 19 Jason & Kristen (brothert@cps.msu.edu) [USA] 20 Krystall & Cynthia (krystall@qbc.clic.net) [Canada] - The first 15 songs are the top 12 veteran and top 3 rookie MC3 entries respectively. The final 5 songs were contributed by a few people I asked and a few people who wanted to contribute. John Eccles (johne@alpha.acast.nova.edu): - John owns a DAT player and the necessary equipment to master the audio portion of the CD. If you like or don't like the sound of the audio CD John is person to contact. Personally I feel he did a great job. [USA] Johnathan Vail (vail@harlie.pps.com): - Johnathan, whose name I screwed up in the credits page (sorry), created all the films for Escape and the films for the CD label art for Freedom. He also answered questions and helped me out in the layout area. [USA] Pete Menchetti (mench@cs.unr.edu): - Pete ran off the 1000 vinyl stickers for the FREEDOM CD. Cost me $94 and it took about 2 months. They look good and smell good. [USA] Frank Green (digmas@aol.com) - Frank runs a Digital Editing and Mastering company that will put your DAT onto CD-R for $175 plus shipping. He faded out some of our endings and normalized the volume for the audio CD. [USA] David A. Hughes (no E-mail): - David created the CD-R for both Escape and Freedom. We had to create two CD-Rs for both projects because of mistakes. David allowed things to run smoothly and delivered quickly. Darkness (jeff.van.audenhove@infoboard.be): - Darkness (or Jeff) was my connection to PL who did the front cover art. He is also the editor of the great Imphobia magazine. [Belgium] Kneebiter (tz26+@andrew.cmu.edu): - Kneebiter (or Todd Zimnoch) created the intro so I can deliver you more massive text files like this. [USA] I would also like to thank: Grave Digger, Trixter, Jeff Molofee (NeHe), David Foley, Popcorn, Daredevil, C.C. Catch, Pascal Pochol, Krister, A.C., Matt Heck, Jester, Meriadoc, Hoplite, Clement Poon, Iron Feather, Lord Sloth, Snibble, Weis, White Noise, Leinad, Ryan K., Ynos, all those people/groups who allowed me to include their productions, everyone who had faith in me, anyone I may have forgotten, those two guys who gave me a ride to the airport at Naid, and God. BLUEBEARD It is time to inform you about the little contest this intro contains. Each of the sub-titles within this text file (IN ALL CAPS) correspond to a SONG NAME and/or ALBUM TITLE. There are 10 of these SUBTITLES and "description" is not one of them. The GROUPS who composed the songs/albums are listed within the intro in order with respect to these clues: 1) I need to know the certain phrase repeated many times. 2) I want to know what doesn't work out. 3) "...Disconnect _________" Fill in blank. 4) "Some day you will..." Fill in the rest of the sentence. 5) "Are you the right man for me...or are you _________ for me." Fill blank. 6) Most of the songs on this album are sung in what language? 7) "Sun, Planet, the Universe, and _______." Fill in the blank. 8) "...And it won't get any _________." Fill in the blank. 9) "That's the price of ______." Fill in the blank. 10) Why celebrate? Your object is to match the GROUP with the SONG NAME/ALBUM TITLE and answer my questions. (i.e. Group: MADONNA Song/Album: HOLIDAY Answer to Question: "Holiday, __CELEBRATE__") Of course I did not make it that easy or did not try to make it that easy. Thus, Males have to answer 7 out of 10 and Females have to answer 6 out of 10. The prize is a FREE CD for the top 3 winners. If you get all 10 I will send you a video tape (copy) of a movie like Slackers, Natural Born Killers, or anything cool I have or can copy (Course this is only valid for people using the NTSC TV standard). If I do not get 3 winners/entries after a month (i.e. 7 correct for Males, 6 correct for Females) I will pick the three highest entries so long as at least 4 responses are correct. Why the hell would I have such a strange contest? To get you to LISTEN to different music and to get you to LISTEN to the music. BLACK CELEBRATION Thanks for coming on down and reading most/all of the text I have written within. It did take quite a bit of time to compose and edit even though it may not seem that way. I've tried to keep the mistakes and arrogance to a minimum this time. Be sure to check out the intro if you have not done so already and remember what MC Hammer use to say...Can't Touch This! Different Strokes for Different Folks, Dan Wright / Pallbearer I can be reached at: (954) 370-1373 (Nights 8pm-11pm) E-mail: dmw@gate.net Dan Wright 1320 N.W. 76th Avenue Plantation, FL 33322-4740 USA
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