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<p><b>New page</b></p><div><pre>About Nastiness Inc. of Angry<br />
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Interview for Skyhigh: Nastiness,Inc.<br />
Conducted November 9th 1995 by The Mistress.<br />
<br />
S= Skyhigh<br />
N= Nastiness,Inc./Angry<br />
<br />
<br />
S: Hello Barry, welcome to Skyhigh. Tell the readers<br />
something about yourself.<br />
<br />
N: Well my real name is Barry Pypers, 23 years old,<br />
originally from England but living in Holland for years.<br />
I started on this computer in 1986 with some tapes<br />
and in 1988 I started some pirate business with disks<br />
and tapes. Much later I really got into the scene out<br />
here and apart from my self-built groups I have been<br />
in The Ancient Temple, Genetix, Entropy &amp; Avantgarde<br />
and now I am in Angry, also a self-built group.<br />
My scene jobs are editing The Tribune, leading Angry,<br />
composing and swapping.<br />
I am 1m75 tall, weigh about 2 kgs (Hm what's this, bk!)<br />
and do a lot to stay in shape. I am currently unem-<br />
ployed as I used to be a courier and my motorbike got<br />
stolen, but soon I hope to break through as a profes<br />
sional writer as I have been writing many novels,<br />
fantasy of late.<br />
I'm single but sort of a widower as my fiancee died at<br />
19. I am living in the Netherlands now in the great city<br />
of Rotterdam but I might go back to the UK soon.<br />
<br />
S: How did you end up in this scene and how did you<br />
build "The Tribune"?<br />
<br />
N: Well "TT" used to be a commercial magazine for<br />
people who bought my pirated disks and my late fian-<br />
cee joined our little group WTG and she had about 80<br />
contacts, among them Derbyshire Ram, she showed me<br />
much about the scene.<br />
So "TT" became a mag orientated more on the scene<br />
rather than the games which were going down anyway.<br />
My former group Entropy also did a lot to make "TT"<br />
work better, with a real outfit rather than some<br />
compiled pieces of code which made every chapter a<br />
runnable file with a load back the menu option. as our<br />
scene experience grew, so did The Tribune, and these<br />
days we can say we are one of the biggest mail scene<br />
based magazines today and ever, always active, big<br />
and ready to go a bit deeper.<br />
<br />
S: Some people believe that you have not released 54<br />
issues of your magazine and that you are making up<br />
the number. What can you say about that?<br />
<br />
N: It sickens me. Years ago, Jerry/Triad came with<br />
this question and he asked me for all the back issues.<br />
Call The Studio and ask him. I miss a few copies but I<br />
can give you most back issues if you send me the disx<br />
I have always been straightforward with my readers,<br />
then why should I lie and risk the loss of the fun I<br />
have in this scene over a reputation? The Tribune is<br />
old, and we still go on. Anybody who doubts that and<br />
doesn't want to find the truth should get a life, pre-<br />
ferably one of their own.<br />
<br />
S: In "TT", you have always put up the strong profile<br />
of someone who has a big mouth and a strong opin-<br />
ion, making you many "enemies". How do you feel<br />
about that?<br />
<br />
N: I don't feel threatened by any socalled enemy, and<br />
there are some weak people around who moan about<br />
me simply because I caught their words. Most of the<br />
time nowadays it's other mageditors I caught with<br />
something and they nag about me just to be nagging<br />
because they know just like I know what I am talking<br />
about, most of the time, and some people think they<br />
are perfect. They feel their egoes hurt when I point<br />
out they aren't and so they attack me on every word i<br />
say. I'm beyond pity, if they want to ruin their own<br />
fun, that's not my problem. I'm here to have fun like<br />
most other sceners and from issue #1 of The Tribune<br />
I have edited "Nasty and mean" to right the wrongs in<br />
the scene so why would I stop that after six years?<br />
Let people moan all they want, I do what I do and no-<br />
body can stop me. After all, I'm having fun!<br />
<br />
S: One of the people you got involved with is Duke.<br />
How did this all happen?<br />
<br />
N: Old stuff, buh. well like most of us in Entropy I did<br />
not like Duke's texts, all this stuff about The Pulse<br />
being the only mag that was good for the scene, the<br />
perfect mag (that's a quote!) and so on so I criticized<br />
it like I always do. Some under-stamped disk came to<br />
me with a big mouth from the Dukester that he wanted<br />
apologies and that nobody should write about the<br />
almighty Pulse and the god Duke and so on.. I give him<br />
a big middle finger and considered the matter inte-<br />
resting enough to print Duke's note in my mag, just to<br />
show the readers what kind of an arsehole he was.<br />
Then came the other stuff, the war-call and silly<br />
stuff like that, and then came the wellknown addy<br />
matter, where it came out the pulse ripped addies to<br />
"right" a wrong claim made to me. Duke claimed he had<br />
twice as many addies as we did, I counted my textfile<br />
and saw to my big surprise we even had more, 84 to<br />
107 if I recall correctly. next month the pulse had<br />
232. Now the amount of addies is not a prestige-<br />
object to me but then came some contacts of mine<br />
who said they saw their addy in The Pulse while they<br />
never asked for that, and so things got on a roll and<br />
shortly afterward Duke quit the scene, because he<br />
wanted to train more for his football. Yeah, right.<br />
He came back, but for me the matter is done and his-<br />
tory and from Duke's words I take it the same goes<br />
for him. He has a few good editors behind him and I<br />
wish him all the luck, even though his attitude never<br />
changed.<br />
<br />
S: What are your experiences with the board scene?<br />
<br />
N: Nihil. I just called our Dutch board "Satellite" un-<br />
til the sys-op went PC and double-crossed me later.<br />
I am a pure mail-scener and I enjoy that. people in<br />
The boardscene have a different kind of fun and that<br />
is one I don't like much. There is more friendship in<br />
the mail scene so I hang around there.<br />
<br />
S: Some rumours go around about your stay in Avant-<br />
garde, some say you went and some say you've been<br />
kicked. What can you tell about that?<br />
<br />
N: The Truth. You must know I wasn't a very good mem<br />
ber of Avt, a group I still regard highly and where I<br />
have some good friends. I joined through some words<br />
with Deff and Derbyshire Ram and I was supposed to<br />
get them spreading and some originals. The latter<br />
failed, as my game supplying contacts delayed, and<br />
as a mageditor I jumped the gun on a private issue. I<br />
heard Avt and F4cg were to go into co-op in January<br />
1995 and releasing my #49 at Herning I thought it<br />
wouldn't harm if I took the snoop and Deff didn't send<br />
in that time when I'd asked him if it was ok. After re-<br />
leasing in Herning I met Intruder and Jack Alien and<br />
they told me the co-op was off. Deff was mighty pis-<br />
sed at me, but shit happens. In January 1995 the<br />
active members of Entropy decided to spin off and I<br />
became the co-founder and leader of Angry, and be-<br />
cause I feel a group leader cannot have a second<br />
group I called Deff to tell him I left Avt. Just before<br />
that I heard from Spectator/Scs*Trc, who lives near<br />
by, that I would be kicked. Well when I called Deff he<br />
assured me this was not true. after all deff is Avt's<br />
organiser. Maybe some wanted me out but hey, guess<br />
my timing wasn't bad.<br />
I still swap with three Avt members and I count them<br />
among my best friends. I spent only a brief time in the<br />
group so I didn't know half the members.<br />
<br />
S: And few knew you as an Extacy member<br />
<br />
N: Right, because I worked under the handle "Nike".<br />
Neccy wanted to get the mag Extacy Land back on its<br />
feet after Darkman had quit and I offered him help<br />
and he didn't need Nasty text so I had to hide behind<br />
a friendly fake handle. Well, Neccy was lazier than<br />
hell and so I left Extacy after a few months.<br />
<br />
S: Beside editing The Tribune, you have also helped<br />
out some more mags.<br />
<br />
N: That's right, I co-edited Xtc land as I said above,<br />
and I also was a co-editor of Ingenious Brain that<br />
became Shout!<br />
I believe in magazines, and if they need help from a<br />
veteran like myself I'm willing to help. unfortunately,<br />
both mags mentioned fell into inactivity, and being<br />
used to deadlines, I had to quit the mags. But if any<br />
mag would like my assistance I would help them any<br />
way I possibly can. With restrictions, ofcourse, be-<br />
cause "TT" eats more time every issue.<br />
<br />
S: You have probably written more text than anybody<br />
else in this scene. How did you manage to hang in<br />
so long?<br />
<br />
N: I like writing. I started writing novels in 1984, when<br />
I was only 11, I made cartoons before that. I've writ-<br />
ten about- 30 novels both in dutch and english. Most<br />
of my contacts get very long notes. I like to express<br />
myself, it's a great outlet for common pressure.<br />
<br />
S: Though you are not in the charts, you are also<br />
making music. How does this go and do you have any<br />
plans?<br />
<br />
N: Apart from helping out the commercial and profes-<br />
sional Amiga hardcore label Space Seed, I have a nice<br />
past in music. I have been singing since i was fifteen,<br />
playing in a small commercial band that did Cliff and<br />
Elvis, then went to rock and metal. On the c64, how-<br />
ever, I didn't do much music. a music ripper named<br />
Warrior taught me how to remix some notes and I did<br />
two remixes in Voicetracker. I messed a bit with digi's<br />
and then learned how to make notes in an editor by a<br />
software costumer. So I did some technotunes in Dmc<br />
first 1.2 and through 3.0 to 4. Recently I discovered<br />
Dmc4 pro in quadro mode and this brought me great<br />
possibilities so I started concentrating on music a bit<br />
more.<br />
Maybe I'll do some octa-work in the future, right now<br />
I think my tunes are good enough to compete and who<br />
knows, maybe I will once hit the musician charts if my<br />
tunes get spread enough. But that's for hardcore<br />
techno-fans only because that's what I make. A guy<br />
from Space Seed couldn't believe this was actually<br />
done on a C64, you know, they work with an amiga and<br />
us$8,000 worth of equipment to get digital recordings.<br />
I also own an amiga 500, but mixing samples doesn't<br />
give me the same kick.<br />
<br />
S: You also edit fantasy books, along with your group<br />
mate Otaku. How is this going?<br />
<br />
N: It's going well, very well. In 1996 my first publish-<br />
ed novel called "The nasty one" should be on the<br />
shelves and I have a very good contract for that<br />
one. From an earlier novel: "War of the forgotten<br />
heroes" an animated movie is coming out on cd-rom<br />
and right now we're working on an arcade/adventure<br />
game based on this same novel.<br />
That's also why I plan to write for living. Currently I<br />
am working on two dark fantasy novels and one Dutch<br />
novel, though the latter is just for fun.<br />
<br />
S: What would your perfect group look like if you<br />
could pick anybody from the scene?<br />
<br />
N: That's not very tough, I would take all current<br />
Angry members as they are great friends, and I would<br />
add my best friends outside the scene. Avt would be<br />
raided as I would take Derbyshire Ram, Jack Alien,<br />
Intruder and Cupid and with Shuze we would have a<br />
solid cracking department with much spreading. Add<br />
an active Mr. Warp to code the ultimate outfit for the<br />
Tribune, and well, as an extra editor I might add some<br />
chubby Dane for good measure. (Erhm, god knows who<br />
he is talking about, he he - bk!)<br />
<br />
S: Today's talk is all about the Internet, what are<br />
your experiences on the net?<br />
<br />
N: Small. Sometimes I go to the Rotterdam university<br />
where I can have access on the net but I don't do<br />
much as people tend to find out I am not a student.<br />
But soon I might buy a pentium and then i'll go on the<br />
net. It has so many advantages, there is no way to<br />
stop it.<br />
<br />
S: How have you been active on other computers?<br />
What ones have you had?<br />
<br />
N: Well I started on the tv-tennis game when they<br />
first came out, then had the miraculous Philips Video<br />
pac G7000, a C16 and an Msx-1, then I got my first<br />
C64 and after that I got an Amiga 500 who broke down<br />
and I bought another one after that. I also have a<br />
small laptop PC, but that's just a 286. I use my Amiga<br />
for playing games and the PC for writing my books. I<br />
have never been interested in those other scenes.<br />
<br />
S: What are your favourites?<br />
<br />
N:<br />
Cracking group: Alphaflight 1970<br />
<br />
Cracker: Derbyshire Ram<br />
<br />
Demo group: Byterapers<br />
<br />
Coder: Mr. Warp<br />
<br />
Magazine: This one<br />
<br />
Graphician: Whw Design, Mirage<br />
<br />
Musician: Jeroen Tel, Compod<br />
<br />
Swapper: D'ram, Shuze, Intruder<br />
<br />
Colour: Red and Black<br />
<br />
Motorcycle: Intruder (hi Stefan!)<br />
<br />
Girl: Erika, my Lithuanian girl<br />
<br />
Scene Country : Poland. activity rules!<br />
<br />
Cover Designer: FX, Zapotek<br />
<br />
<br />
S: Hey, why didn't you name The Mistress as your<br />
favourite girl?<br />
<br />
N: Erika doesn't turn my hair white and never gives me<br />
a headache. I know many people seem to think Tms<br />
and I are involved but we're just colleagues, we've<br />
been through too much together to seriously be in-<br />
volved. She swaps using my mailbox and we sometimes<br />
share a bed but that is really all there is.<br />
<br />
S: Do you have a funny story for us?<br />
<br />
N: Well I will tell you about this small little lamer<br />
who still wants to buy some pirated disks from me. I<br />
can always use some more cash, so why not. But this<br />
guy thinks he's some sort of a wiz-kid and he seems<br />
to be very lonely. Not strange with that attitude, I<br />
assure you. So he checks every sector on the disk<br />
and almost hits the ceiling when he finds a red sector,<br />
and then he calls me every day around 6 p.m. and<br />
starts talking, talking, talking. this guy is 15 years<br />
old! He would hang on for an hour a day if I wouldn't<br />
cut him off! One time he came for disks at 7 p.m. But I<br />
was working late and the disks were ready, so I left<br />
it to my grandparents to catch him and when I was<br />
finished at 8 p.m. I went out for a beer without coming<br />
home as I could use some beer after a 12-hour shift<br />
on the bike. I came home at eleven and there I saw<br />
lights burning. Then my grandmother told me this la-<br />
mer had just left fifteen minutes ago! He'd occupied<br />
my grandparents, who don't know much about the com<br />
puter, for three and a half hours! Duh, long live Bud-<br />
weiser!<br />
<br />
S: What are your other hobbies except the c64?<br />
<br />
N: I like to go to the pub and play billiards, cards,<br />
darts and snooker. I also train a lot on my physical<br />
condition with much running and more exercise. being<br />
a 3rd dan jiu-jitsu sensei I must stay in shape though i<br />
I look less in shape than I am. I've done much power<br />
training until I strained both biceps and had to stop<br />
lifting weights, and suddenly a belly appeared and<br />
never really went.<br />
I have also done some wrestling and taek won do,<br />
just for fun. I have also taught jiu-jitsu for a couple<br />
of years, with The Mistress among my pupils. At night<br />
time I write my books, as I have the most inspiration<br />
way after midnight.<br />
<br />
S: A lot has been said about satanism, and you are<br />
known as a sanatist. What do you think about what<br />
the people say?<br />
<br />
N: The people who have been talking about satanism<br />
in various magazine are people who don't know what<br />
they are talking about, they have seen too many mo-<br />
vies. They yell when satanist extemists burn a church<br />
or kill babies but they don't say that christian fana-<br />
tics also cut open babies or drown them because they<br />
fear they are possessed by the satan or a demon.<br />
I burned the bible, but that does not make me a mur-<br />
derer. I don't fight people because they're christians,<br />
as that is their fucking own business. and some crazy<br />
people say satanism is just as bad as nazism but they<br />
can't see the difference between religion and politics<br />
and that shows how dumb they are. I'm a satanist but<br />
I don't tell you to worship the satan or die, unlike<br />
the Jehovah's witnesses and other kinds of religious<br />
terrorists. I leave people in their own value and wish<br />
they could do the same.<br />
<br />
S: You have been on the other side of the interviewing<br />
desk a vast number of times, who are best to inter-<br />
view are who are the worst?<br />
<br />
N: That depends on the person, but in general mag-<br />
editors &amp; swappers are the best people to interview<br />
as they talk the most, coders and musicians on the<br />
other hand don't say much. But even when the inter-<br />
viewed one is a swapper or an editor, it still doesn't<br />
guarantee a good interview. Many people make the<br />
mistake of not asking on, they just send the questions<br />
by mail and print the answers while some answers call<br />
for more questions. a good example of a good inter-<br />
viewer was Sgt. Pepper, he knew just what to ask.<br />
When I read interviews in some magazines I just shake<br />
my head and wonder why they didn't ask this and that.<br />
<br />
S: You say you live for magazines, Then why are you<br />
so critical about them?<br />
<br />
N: Probably because I have read more magazines than<br />
anybody else and because I have written so much my<br />
self that I really read the texts instead of just<br />
glancing over them, joystick held in the scrolling di-<br />
rection. It is not meant as an offense, it's just point<br />
ing out some small details, maybe it can help.<br />
<br />
S: Recently the matter came up again with your quar-<br />
rel with Cat/Excess, and in Nitro #19 we could read<br />
Cat's side of the story. how does yours sound?<br />
<br />
N: That is a matter of the past. Cat co-edited a fake<br />
Brutal Recall and insulted my late girl-friend in a<br />
tactless manner and I sent him an angry letter be-<br />
cause he rudely laughed because I was mourning the<br />
death of somebody I have loved for six years, much<br />
later he said he never intended to. Instead he got<br />
pissed with me for intending to break his bones and<br />
again he showed that he doesn't know what it is like<br />
to lose a dear friend. He thought it was strange we<br />
still gave text to her memory one year after her<br />
death. Well small surprise maybe but I mourn her loss<br />
still, three years later. In the mentioned article Cat<br />
apologized though it didn't exactly come from the<br />
heart and for me the matter is history. I just hope<br />
he learned, for if he had written equal pranks about<br />
another great scener who died last year people would<br />
have had his head by now.<br />
<br />
S: Think before you speak, that is the motto. Do you<br />
always stand behind your own texts?<br />
<br />
N: Most of the time of course, but if I see I made a<br />
mistake I have never been too proud to make a proper<br />
apology. Some people think however that they can be<br />
the only ones who are right and then they can shake<br />
it and screw themselves and I stand behind my text.<br />
and in Angry we have a group of friends so whoever<br />
touches one Angry member touches the group. Not as<br />
fanatic as the late Awt, and not as lame, but you get<br />
the point.<br />
<br />
S: So, do you have any final words before shutting<br />
down this interview?<br />
<br />
N: I guess I have. greetings to my great friends in<br />
Angry, Derbyshire Ram, Logan, Calypso, Intruder, The<br />
entire Skyhigh staff, Syntax, Madrom, Diverse, Cha$h,<br />
Deff, Jack Alien, Suicide, Spectator, Nightshade, Jer-<br />
ry, Acidchild, Fuben, Zapotek, Sonor, The Unlimited<br />
Gang, Case, Whw Design, Nasty Boy, Tpl, Space Seed,<br />
the rest of the dutch Scene (see you at X-'96 dudes!),<br />
Stan, Danzig, Vile Creeper, Lonely Spirit, Geggin and<br />
all the other partydudes I will hopefully see or hear<br />
from soon again.<br />
Let's all have some great fun in this eternal scene,<br />
C64 lives forever!<br />
<br />
signed: Nastiness,Inc./Angry</pre></div>Ymgve