good, you've made it.

so what's this all about...
let me tell you:
a new musicgroup has be created, codename 'advance' (adv).

Before we start releasing like madmen, I figured it might be a good idea
to inform you on who we are and what we're going to do.

first of all a tiny background story on 'how it all began' .. :)

...
There's alot of GOOD music being released in the scene. Many people will
claim that this statement is actually bullshit because there's much better
music in the reallife world. Well, WRONG. There IS great music released in
the scene, equally good (maybe even better) as the reallife world!
It's just a question of 'knowing the right groups & people'.

Now, many people DON'T know the right groups & people. Often you see that
several groups are damn good, but somehow nobody knows them...

Over the years that I spend in the musicscene, I kinda got to know who are
worth listening to and who aren't. 

Everything cool and stuff, but there is just one problem:

Each group has its good and less good members, meaning that if you download
for example a musicdisk by some group, there will be good and less good
tracks.
Often when I leech a musicdisk or ep by a group there's like 2-3 really
great tracks but the rest ist just average/not-worth-keeping-on-your-hdd.
What this means is that you're often downloading for hours, whereas only
about 10% of what you're downloading is actually the thing you want !
A waste of time AND money ...

So...
A couple of months ago (beginning '97) I had the idea of 'uniting' all the
good musicians of the best groups, so that there would finally be one label
which really only released great music (where 100% of what you're downloading
is actually worth it =] ..).

I started asking around if some people would be interested in doing this
'project'. And to my suprise actually quite many people found the idea
of this new 'super'group a good idea !

It started out with with Kenzu (trip) and Cosmic (radical rhythms). They
seemed to be quite interested in helping me out with this group ...
From one thing came the other and before I knew I was asking several good
musicians to join the new group. One joined after the other and soon enough
we had a strong underground music-team ready for action.

We didn't have a name for the new group though. Everybody was asked for
suggestions and it was finally Vivid (radical rhythms) who came up with
the most original name: advance (a step further in music)

a new group was born.

So..
After some organizing we were able to get an infofile ansi by Blackknight
(thanx to Modem for organizing this), a file_id.diz by Dirtbag and an
info-reader (exe) by Genoz. Thanx guys...

The memberlist got steady after some time also (some members left eventually
due to lack of time), resulting in the following musicians to be full
advance member:

music-team (alphabetical order) :

name:           'homegroup':

assign          radical rhythms
bandido         blacktron music productions
caliban         blacktron music productions
cosmic          radical rhythms
deepflow        blacktron music productions
duffy duck      push
dupont          twist, blacktron music productions
keith303        radical rhythms
kenzu           trip
knuddel         push, blacktron music productions
kom'ah          explizit
lemon           advanced rhythm technologies
martyn          dr3amsource, fusion
maverick        blacktron music productions
nyarlothotep    trip
sikos           onyx, trip
solaris         nearly gods
spiritseeker    dr3amsource, fusion
tose            advanced rhythm technologies
vildauget       chill productions

(read ADVANCE.EXE for the full memberlist + more info)


In the meanwhile we had started working on our debut musicdisk, called
'dreamscape 1 ("the dark side of the moon"' ..
After many weeks of hard labouring we've finally made it, and dreamscape 1
will be released right after this infofile.
(be shure to check the disk out. it's absolutely great! 14 amazing trax..)

No, we won't be releasing singles. So no advance release every day/week.
We will be releasing group musicdisks (dreamscapes) and smaller ep's from
time to time.

The style of music we make is mainly trance-alike. Thiz basicly goes from
goa/psychedelic trance to drum&bass to trance to house to acid ...
No happy rave or anything like that. strictly underground...

For the moment we haven't got a main www page YET. but we're working on
that at this very moment. Our main ftp site for the moment is SDC, so:
ftp://sdc.wtm.tudelft.nl/pub/music/groups/advance

In the future we will also be releasing our work on cd and/or vinyl.
The first cd ('Project Alpha') is already in the making, containing 11
tracks by several members of advance. more info bout this soon...

Finally a group with the best underground musicians united. Hope you will
enjoy our releases !


okay, hope I said everything I wanted to say...
check you later then ...

                                                maverick

and be sure to leech adv_ds1*.zip on SDC (dreamscape 1) ...

btw: sysops -> we can need all the support which we can get, so apply now
               as HQ or SITE !! ;] thank you...



                     over and out

