Addybook 10 About A-Man
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hello there welcome to the first inter-
view done with A-MAN /arcade!!!!
the following signs standing for:
? = scrapper /blaze
! = a-man /arcade
so move now your joy to read this cool
interview to get more informations about
him!!!
? hello a-man, please give our readers
some facts and info about yourself and
your family!
! yeah, my real name is steven diemer
and i have one brother which is
29 years old. my parents are diforced
and i live at my mother's home. i wear
glasses and a beard. i'm 1,86 m tall
? yo, when did you enter the c64 scene;
which groups have you been in and
which group are you in now?
! i got my c128 in december '89. i lamed
around till january '90, coz then i
built up my own cracking-group 'the
cracker devils (tcd)'. i had ca. 20
contaxts and we were ca. 5 members in
tcd. we mostly cracked magig disc shit
or buyed from gp some hot originals...
in may/june 1990 i joined the group
tropic which exists today again with 2
old real members... in tropic i com-
posed with future composer some nice
musix which i had spreaded in a tropic
music-shower! that was the beginning
of being famous... in some mags i en-
tered on place 10... after tropic
died i got an offer from the group
acid. i joined and one month later
acid died! at this timepoint i told to
me that i won't join such a fuckin'
lame group again... so i met airwolf
from action at the crypt+dark angels
pardey in hildesheim. there i spreaded
my latest musix and airwolf liked'em.
so he gave my phonenumber to spitfire
and after some calls i had joined
action. that was in november 1990.
i stayed over one year in action.
i was swapper and musician in this
group. but as action died in november
1991 i left the scene, coz every other
group was nothin'... so i had done a
half year break!
after the half year tyree called me up
he ask me to join arcade. an i did!
that is my current group!
? what a big answer to this question!!
but now to another question. whats
your job in your current group?
! my job is doing hot musix for arcade
and swappin'! soon i'll be on the
boards...
? please tell me what are your future
plans on the c64 and in real life?
! my future plans are:
i try to improve my musix so that i
have soon the standart sounds like
jeroen tel's rubicon music...
and i try to do more musix for games!
my future plans in real life are:
- next year i begin working in a big
bank...
- perhabs you had heard that i'm a hip
hopper! i'm the principal in the hip-
hop crew 'literal punishment'! so i
creat the musix... we're 3 members
(a.b.raise (that's me!), m.c.sane (he
is da rapper and texter) + d.j.trail)
soon we get 2 dancers for our shows!
in autumn we'll release our first
album! but before that we have a gig
at the hannover's rap-contest! i hope
that we'll made it... so my future
plans are that we let the band grow up
- i have a second band! this band do a
mixture of hip-hop and house music!
we try to do some cool oldschool stuff
that are my plans...
? which group would you join if your
group would die? and why?
i wouldn't join another group! i hate
joining other groups! that do only
lamer a real scener stay in one or two
groups... i would build up my own
group!
? tell me what's/who's your favourite...
! demo-group: babygang and beyond force
cracker-group: legend
musician: jeroen tel, o'neill (msk)
magazine: shock
music artist/band: my own crews, def
jef, beastie boys,cypress hill, young
black teenagers and more...
? what do you like/dislike in the scene?
! i hate that the c64 has too less ori-
ginals!
? are you in other scenes too?
! yeah, i'm in the hip-hop scene of han-
nover... my name is: A(rtificial)
B(reath) raise in my second band i do
also rappin'
? do you like demos?
! yeah but only high quality! such shit
like a hype d.y.s.p. is so uninteres-
ting! real cool demo coders try cewl
new ideas... i like such ones!
? what kind of hardware do you use?
! a color monitor (sound is on my hi-fi
deck!), c128 with action replay c.
a 1541 ii, a 2400 baud modem and a mps
1200 printer.
? who are your best friends in the c64
scene?
! tyree and all other arcade members,
spitfire was one, jay-ski/tropic,
airwolf/gp, bravestar/tropic, brego/
arcade, einstein/wow and some game
coders...
? i guess you don't spend all spare-time
you have in front of your c64, so
please tell us what you do besides the
c64!
! i do much music for my rap crew 'lit-
eral punishment'! when i don't do that
then i'm in hannover at my posse or
i'm at some pardeyz in my near.
anoter favour from me is watching
video-movies.
? have you ever been in trouble with the
authorities?
! yo, yo! the fuckin' shithead 'graven-
reuth' had catched me some time ago...
so i must paid some money... fuck him!
(he is a scene buster!)
? do you know any peverts?
! yo, there are one in my posse.
? what do you think about 'the new kids
on the block'?
! they're the motherfuckin' shitband
that i know! only loser hear that
'music'!!
? do you have a girlfriend?
! at the moment not!
? do you have bad habits?
! sumtimes i smoke (too much)...
? if you would win one million english
pounds, what would you do with it?
! i would built my own studio with all
music equipment i can get...
and i would travel to america for some
weex...
? are there any guys in the scene who
you definitely wouldn't invite to your
birthday party?
! yeah! loser...
? by the way, when were you born?
! i'm 17 years old (i'm born at 08/05/
1975)!
? if you'd like to give our readers some
final wordsthen please do...
! i want thank everybody who has voted
for me in the charts! go on with that.
? i thank you for this interview and
leave you some space to do some greets
! i greet everybody which is/was in
contact with me! special greets to all
arcade membs... is there anyone who
needs some music for his game? contact
me at: xxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
GERMANY