Skyhigh 21 Profiles - The Silent Stars

Profiles-The Silent Stars

Welcome,dear audience, once again it's time for me to
introduce a new chapter to you, that I am intending
to release each issue from now on, if possible ac-
companied by an interview, in this issue's case with
Glenn/Shape.

This series of chapters is called Profiles and will
deal with several personals within the scene being
described under a special group, this time as the
silent stars. Sequels will probably be Troublemakers
Living Legends and lotsa others....

Well, for this time it's the Silent Stars we're dealing
with. Now, how to define a Silent Star?

A Silent Star in my point of view is somebody doing a
superb job in this scene without making a big fuss a-
bout it and getting famous, rocketing the charts and
generally being in everybody's notes...

Just let's continue with the first example and you'll
surely find out sooner or later what I mean...

*Glenn Rune Gallefoss/Shape/Blues Muz'*

Well, Glenn, former being Shark/Regina is one of the
outstanding musicians these days, as, apart from
producing superb conversions, he composes most of
his tunes himself without falling in the ever so com-
mon boom-boom techno-esque style. Furthermore he
is quite a good tool/demo coder and surprises his
contacts with own-produced noters showing a lot of
design and fun to look at, I just remember the mas-
turbation noter, other contacts also requested...
It's amazing,that a musician with his skills and ideas
yet is rather unknown and does not get the credit,
that should be due to his attempts while other musi-
cians composing rather poor tunes out of a sudden
get lots of respect and votes just because they do
10 tunes a week, being rather hearalikes. Just try
to get some of his tunes and make your own view...

*Deekay/Crest*

For the graphical side, meeting Deekay/Crest was a
real shock to me. This guy, being friendly and open
though being in one of the best,not to say legendary
demogroup, is rather absent in the normal scene-biz,
as he does not swap, but once in a while check on
the net and some boards, if I recover correctly.
Before meeting him, I only saw his logo for the last
News Press by Rebels and the one in the Onslaught
Intro together with mine. Now, he is one of the few
remaining graphicians, that do their logos simply by
pixeling them rather than copying, moving and modi-
fying the shapes to get new characters. He seems to
have some troubles getting his logos released, as he
still has most of his finished masterpieces in stock,
including his Talent-Bitmap Logo, that I would des-
cribe as one of the best I ever saw. If only he would
be a bit more active, or let's say if only his works
would have a regular release, as he does a lot for
stocking only, he would surely kick some butt within
the charts. With Crossbow, the coding mastermind
backing up with lots of weird, but superb editors,
this guy could move a lot, so watch out guys...

*Commander/Role*

Now,how about a real workaholic without much reac-
tion? Here you have Commander of Role, doing a real
hell of a job trying to keep Rock'N Role alive, with
lacking back-up and inactive groupmates. When this
guy called me for aboiut 3/4 of an hour we chatted
a lot about old times and the scene in general and
there I got a lot more insight into his activity. For
example he collected all flicks he got from sceners
from the past 7 years and is currently calling all
of his contacts to ask them wether he could use
their phonenumber for assembling a scene-phone-
book or not, and that's a lot of effort being put into
the scene, don't you agree? So, please justify his
efforts by giving him a helping hand with news,tunes
and moreover, logos for his mag, the Rock'n Role...

*Moonchild/Fairlight*

Well,let's go to Poland, and visit one of the few sce-
ners, that are around for a somewhat longer time,
than the usuals. Moonchild, being one of my older
contacts and my first in Poland always was a plea-
sure to wait for, as he shows a healthy attitude to-
wards the scene, and not the normal exaggurated
polish attitude. He has some time-problems, as his
studies keep him busy, but when he starts doing a
crack, he does such a hell of an effort to make it
perfect, that I was truly amazed. Well,being in AVT,
I'm more or less used to shocking cracks by J.A.,but
Moonchild's +12 release of Wonky Worms surely made
me wonder, how the fuck this is possible! So, if you
want to get some real quality cracking, and don't
mind about the release-date, Moonchild is the   adress
to wait for. Furthermore, he improved/coded a lot of
cool tools, especially usefull for crackers,   like IfFL
squeezers, Loaders, Level-packers and alikes. Just
try to catch him on the net or leave him an e-mail,
you surely would find a nice guy to talk to...



Well, this concludes it for this time, I hope you like
this concept a bit and enjoyed reading... Until next
time, yours

Cup!d/Avantgarde