Corruption 08 ch03 Interview
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welcome......to the interview-
chapter.today the interview
patrner is JENS CHRISTIAN HUUS
(jch) of the VIBRANTS.we have
to excuse us for the fact that e
we are not the first to do this
interview.anyway,enjoy it !!!
??? : tell our curious readers
some facts about yourself
JCH : look in mamba #10 or so
for 'em.no,ok,i'll behave
now,i'm 1.80 tall or so,
and i have a quite normal
haircut-said differently,
do not take the special
chart in "remark" too
seriously !
??? : when did you get your 64,
in which groups have you
been and when did you
start composing ???
JCH : i got it in 1983 - lamed
around for a few years in
basic and all that,then i
started composing on
amiga's "aeros sonix" in
1987. as i converted some
of the tunes to the 64, i
got attacked to the 64's
sid chip...i've been in
new mem,galaxy,jewels,
dominators,chanel 42
(mostly were pure cracker
groups).
??? : what do you feel when you
see yourself high-ranked
in the charts ?
JCH : i begin to wonder why.at
least 5 people are better
than me...perhaps they
like the fact that i tend
to make my music more
"chorus" - like the other
musicans ? also,i never
boast around.....
??? : do you think you deserve
this place ?
JCH : you got it ! tim follin,
jeroen tell,johannes
bjeregard,laxity - all
damn good musicans. a
pity i only know two of
them.but there are more -
today,where the 64 is
going downhills,there are
more musicans than ever
before..can't say i miss
some competition ! still,
the public domain music-
editors are very sparse
in quality,so there might
be more guys yet !
??? : wanna give some personal
friendly greetings ?
JCH : hi mum,dad,sister,brother
,grand ma,....erm....oh
i'm sorry ! of'coz i'll
greet the rest in
vibrants.and all my
contax.also all musicans
worthy of being mentioned
...and to all the guys i'
ve met and talked to on
show's and party's like..
bonzai,oneway,panoramic
designs,prosonix,mozicart
,20cc,maniacs of noise,
dragne & co,genesis (esp-
ecially bizzmo & deek),
ikari,class and a hell of
a lot of other guys and
groups.i better stop the
list.can't have this mag
taking two disks,can we ?
??? : did you ever worked with
digitized fx ? do you
like it ?
JCH : i hate it. i have never
tried,but the fact that
it takes a lot of memory,
combined with the process
time and the fact that i
won't work on some 64's
instanty puts me off.
??? : how many tunes did you
all in all ?
JCH : that's gonna be a wild
guess...erm...around 100-
200 i think.but drax done
more !!!!
??? : what is your best own-
composed tune in your
eyes,you ever did for a
game ???
JCH : i think i did a good job
with 'batman',yes,because
it's easy to hun.i also
did a good job in the
level-tuner of orcus a
shoot'em up game soon to
be released by electronic
zoo.
??? : what's your hardware ?
JCH : 2 c-64's,1 c-128,1mps 803
printer(don't buy it guys
it sucks),1 greenmonitor,
1 telly,2 colour-monitors
2100 c-64 discs(!),4-500
amiga-discs,1 amiga,extra
dave ,3 1541 drives,2
synthezisers,an arcade
machine...and a hell of a
lot more equipment !!!
??? : if anyone wants to have
an exclusive tune for his
own product,what should
he do and what are the
conditions ?
JCH : first of all let me point
out that i don't produce
demo-tunes anymore.drax
still does a demo-tune
here and there,but link
and i have more or less
stopped that.anybody who
wants to try can write to
me.i'd like you to either
have a deal with a s/w
house already or have
some experience in
selling games before.
??? : what do you think about
the 64-scene nowadays,
compared to former times?
may be you can mention
some favourite groups ?
JCH : the 64 is going downhills
i know a lot of you is
shouting now,but better
shout at the software
houses coz if they stop
producing games,the 64
will be dead.i liked the
scene most in 1987/88-boy
i sure wish i could go
back till then,with all
the things i can do today
i used to like bones and
upfront a lot-but now
they ran to the amiga.
maybe i just should give
up and go to the amiga,
too !
??? : do you like disc-mags or
papermags ??
JCH : i really enjoy reading a
good disc-mag.that's one
of the good things about
the scene today - remark,
mamba,corruption are my
favourites ... i never
get any paper-mags,so i
can't comment them,i'm
afraid !
??? : what are your hobbies be-
side computing,do you
have a job ?
JCH : i work as postman,i get
up at 5.50 in the morning
and work untill 11-12 o'
clock.it is paid reasona-
bly without spending too
much of my time.my
hobbies are sparse apart
from computing.i don't
have a sport as a hobby.
??? : tell us your future plans
maybe taking over to the
(l) amiga ?
JCH : i suppose the 'l' infront
of the amiga stands for
'lighter'?i used to dis-
like it,but now where jo
(an amiga guy called
grafictive) and i are
working on a music-
editor project i might
change my mind after all.
i'd also like to do some
more game-music for some
real published games !!!
??? : last question (no hard
feelings) ! what's your
opinion about video game-
systems,like the pc-
engine for example ?
JCH : i've looked lighty on all
systems untill now and i'
ve always found something
bad to criticise untill.
even pc engine has its
faults.untill i saw the
neo-geo ! boy,that's fab!
it's even got a 280a
processor for the sound
alone and several
different sound-chips !
drool,drool...
??? : that's it.thanx a lot for
this one,jens !!!
JCH : all right then.actually i
didn't want to give out
yet another interview,but
i wasn't in the mood to
compose now anyway so
'what the heck' i thought
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now to our second interview for
today,it's with UTE WELTY the
presentator of the german tv
computer show HIGHSCORE.
-------------------------------
??? : hi ute,tell our readers
outside germahy,who don't
know you,something about
your person !
UTE : i'm 26 years old,born in
the sign of capricorn,
178cm tall,shoe-size 40
and in the moment i have
red-coloured hair,but
this may change again
soon.
??? : tell us your favourite
musicsgroups,singers,
movie,meal,book...
UTE : musicgroups : jeremy days
stoppok
earth,wind&
fire
eurythmics
singers : prince
david bowie
julee cruise
movies : wild at heart
the big easy
tampopo
meal : fish,delicious
sauces,artichokes
books : 'der nebel von
avalon'
all books from
stephen king and
criminal stories
??? : what do you prefer to do
in your spare-time ?
UTE : i like reading trashy
literature,sleeping,
eating in small good-
natured restaurants,
skiing,going for a walk,
rummaging.
??? : is there any place,where
you'd like to live or to
spend your holidays ?
UTE : it doesn't matter where,
important is that it is
once 4 weeks on and on.
??? : which living or already
died person would you
like to meet (or have
met) ?
UTE : alive : david bowie,
prince,
peter glaser
dead : the father of my
boy-friend
??? : what do you think of
computer-games ?
UTE : shall i write a novel
here,or what ? no,
seriously:i like computer
games as much or less as
common games.but as i
ain't the biggest game-
fan,i don't like playing
cards or draughts ; my
family always wanted me
to play 'doppelkopf'
(horrible!).i see this a
bit critical anyway.to
add is the technical
aspect.how will it be in
the future,how dangerous
can it become ? i think
computer-games attract
especially people,who are
less comunicative,more
introvertive,this can-but
need not-mean that these
people will get serious
problems later.in my
opinion it is for sure
that the computer doesn't
improve the community.
but i also think that it
is typical for the
middle-europeans to see
everything sceptic.
??? : tell us something about
your career and your aims
for the future !
UTE : in 1983 i began to study
in bochum(germany) the
subjects :theater,science
of art,science of film
and tv.
in 1986 i made my practic
at the german tv magazine
'gong' in munich.after-
wards i made my first
expieriencces with the
radio-buisness at 'radio
gong 2000'.
in 1988 i began to
present tv and radio-
shows.
my further aims are that
i can improve myself !!!
??? : how long do you usually
work on one of these
highscore-shows ?
UTE : that's very different;
the redaction works
nearly continously for
high-score because some
certain themes need a lot
of work to finish the
reports.my work for high-
score begins one week be-
fore the show.first talks
to peter helling,we have
to agree about the themes
we want to talk about in
our show,we have to watch
films,prepare the inter-
views,talk to the guests,
write our texts.
then the managemant also
comes.together with peter
ristau we talk about how
we can present our show.
on the day of the show
most of our staff has to
begin to work at 12.00pm,
but a lot of them come
earlier.the guys who are
responsible for the stage
,for example,appear at 7
o'clock in the morning.
??? : what's your job if you're
not infront of the camera
and are producing high-
score ?
UTE : i try,here and then,to
study.on the other hand i
still do a lot of radio
shows,mainly for radio
dortmund,there the people
on the music-department
are the loveliest i know.
i do reports and inter-
views for a show for
teenagers called 'tralla-
fitti' and i present on
saturdays a culture
magazine called 'funkbude
am samstag'.here and
there i also present some
'free production',like
for example the 'how to
use an amiga' video with
the name 'megabrain' or i
lead some discussions.
??? : thanx for answering the
question,ute !
