I've been an avid listener of electronic music since I first heard KMFDM, soon after, I picked up other Industrial artists, FLA, front242, skinny puppy. I wanted a more distilled electronic sound. Now, I was a kid, thus, i was poor, and CDs were expensive, MP3s were too large for my 28.8 modem. I discovered impulse tracks while searching for MP3s one day, thrax.astalavista.com, or something, a sub-domain off a cracking/warez site; I recalled that it was a large repository of electronic music. Anyway, I discovered that in the time it took to download a single mp3, (i mistakenly believed they were mp3s) I managed to download about 20 tracks. I ran them in winamp and they sounded tremendous. I still remember, and can still get, the tracks, as they're available at scene.org, they were by a demogroup called "blacktron", and the 'albums' are referred to as "music discs". This was about 15 years ago. During that time, I discovered all of the genres (drum n' bass, trance, house), and some exclusive to tracking, demostyle and chip. One artist that composed demostyle was a guy named Necros, in the demozine, Hugi, he was oft revered as "the best tracker", he frequented #trax on irc.efnet.net.
In the last six years I've reaquainted myself with industrial music. This has been progressively more electronic. Anyway, one auspicious group in this genre is "Iris". I've seen them live, etc. They're okay, they have particularly good production. Anyway, as it turned out, the composer (basically, futurepop groups are typically a duo: vocalist/composer) is Necros himself. A lesser known artist that falls under industrial is "the alpha conspiracy" which is really Necros' 'exposed' solo project, which is tremendous, sorta falls under the category of "nu-school breaks'.
With that knowledge, I've going to be more attentive to Iris. Furthermore, it really explains a lot, such as the synthesized guitars (which are certainly deceptive), the tempo, the sorta way the tracks "lull". It's nice to see a tracker becoming a professional musician. Another artist is Virt, who now writes videogame music.
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