I joined ENERGY  for more than  one
                                        year.  Before  that  I was  in a crew
                   with Malcom/Energy   called Assix (now Abyss, I think, but
                        By STYLE/VEGA   who cares).  My  functions are sprea-
                                        ding,  swapping,  doing sum packs and
                                        sum Gfx.
  ENERGY... one  of the most  popular   
trainer group,  is now interviewed by   - Do you have good  relationship with
the only cool disk mag (!?!)... Free-     the  others   Energy  members?   Is
dom  Crack!  Thanks  a lot  to Malcom     friendship important in your group?
for these funny answer!                 
                                          The relationship is quite good. But
- Hi Malcom! Please...introduce your-   it's impossible to have one with each
  self...we  want to know  more about   member after  being in NRY for such a
  you!                                  short time. But it's growing fast and
                                        it will never stop!!
  Well, my real name is David and I'm     Talking  about Friendship in NRY is
19  years old and I live in  Austria.   total useless, coz if there would ha-
Still  going to  school (an  electro-   ve  been no Friendship,  I would have
technical  one!! Burp!!).  I  like to   left  NRY the same day I joined!!  In
listen  to  Techno and all the  other   other words, Friendship is one of the
sub-styles of it. But I prefer liste-   most important things in NRY. This is
ning to THE WHO, THE KINKS... all the   not just a slogan,  it's simply true.
music that  a  MOD,  like  I  am,  is   Believe it or not !!!
listening to, aswell.                                                        



- Tell us something about your future   ve,  but  all I can say is:  wait for
  projects...  do you want to stay at   our  200% comeback.  We will beat you
  the  top of  the trainers group? Do   all!!!
  you have the intention to produce a     Due  to the reason,  that we are no
  demo?                                 Demo crew, we released few demos. But
                                        I  think that there are sum  projects
  Glad  you  asked  thiz. In the last   running. Just wait and see.
months  we  released  few of our well   
known Trainers,  coz Jason  (the  one   - Tell  us something  about the story
behind NRY) and sum other members ha-     of Energy in the scene...
ve troubles with their modems. But we   
got a  new Trainermaker called G-Tro-     Hard question, because I'm a pretty
nic,  and  he is  doing his job quite   young  Energy-member. But as far as I
good  (he  trained  Speedball II with   know  Energy  was  founded in 1988 by
more than 280 options.  Beat thiz all   DON  and QUATERBACK.  But these foun-
you so-called  Trainermakers!!!!)  So   ders  quit  their  activities in  the
watch out for thiz new powerful guy!!   scene. We are known for our Trainers,
As soon as Jason gets his modem again   but we also released  cracks,  demos,
the  Legend  in  the  Trainerscene...   intros,  music  disks, packs,  tools.
Stranger ... will be also active aga-   The rest is history.
in.  So  watch out for our  Trainers,     As you can  see we are in the scene
Cracks, Intros, Packs ......            now for nearly five years and we will
  To  stay  at the top of the trainer   stay there  till the sun is unable to
groups? ... Hmmmm ... silly question.   rise!!!  Sorry, Style, for this short
We have been a little bit unproducti-   answer but if ya wanna hear more feel



free to  ask Jason or any other vete-   all your contacts. Friendship is sum-
ran.                                    thing  that must  grow from letter to
                                        letter.  But  that doesn't mean  that
- Okay... what do you think about the   you must write standard letters. It's
  'war' between friendship & business   fucking  lame  if you get a  standard
                                        one with a message below that says...
  I think that everybody has to deci-   Friendship rulez ... AAArrgh  I could
de  what he should do.  It depends on   kill these guys. If you are forced to
how  you define these two words. It's   write  short  letters,  try to  write
okay,  if you sell games to sum LOCAL   them in a personal way!!! I  can only
lamers, who don't  know  how to spell   handle an amount of about 30 contacts
s c e n e,  to  get  money  for  your   to  who I  write long letters  and to
stamps  and phone bills.  But the im-   50% of these  I write very long  let-
portant thing is that business should   ters. After a little break I've star-
never take  over  your  life!!!  Just   ted to  make Friendship  packs  again
getting  more  and more money by sel-   coz  it's real phun doing them.  It's
ling more and more abos, no way!!! If   bad   that  the  Friendship  movement
you  sell  sum games it  doesn't mean   died.  Sum last words to thiz  topic:
that  you are unable to make  Friend-   DON'T TALK ABOUT FRIENDSHIP, MAKE IT!
ship. Everybody  should make  friend-   
ship  as  well he is able to.  I hate   - What's  your  opinion  about  modem
those  guys  out  there who tell that     trading?  Do you prefer to have hot
you must  write  long letters  to all     warez,  or   to   got   cool'n'long
your  contacts to be a Friendshipper.     letters from a contact?
It's impossible to write long ones to                                        



  Hmmmm...  personally  I  think that   Coder:        I like the style of
the  modem-scene  has  destroyed  the                 Darkcave/Addonic.
swapper-scene. But  it's  the  way of   Graphician:   Rack/Majic 12 and UNO,
life  how  everything has  developed.                 J.O.E (... Feel his
You can't  stop the modem-scene. It's                 AUSTRIAN Power!!)
pretty  usefull when you have a local   Musician:     Uncle Tom, Jesper K.
modem-warez  supplier  in  your home-   Scene friend: Nearly all of my con-
town.  So you  mustn't swap like hell                 tacts are friends
to get  the latest  and with the help                 (NRY-members, Wild
of  the  modems the releases of  your                 Rage, LOD, Daddy
crew  are  spread  much better  as by                 Freddy, Bootlegger,
mail.  But  what happend to the phun?                 Style, Megadeth...
Sum  contacts  of  mine used to trade                 just to mention sum.)
with modem only,  but they missed the                 It's real hard to an-
personal  contact  to  their contacts                 swer this one coz eve-
(sounds phunny!!),  so  they wrote to                 rybody you know in the
sum mail-traders!!  I think that each                 scene is a kind of
scene has itz future.                                 friend to ya!!!!
  Personally  I like very,  very long   Real friend:  Papst Johannes Paul II
letters  (No Joke),  but when I get a   Demo:         Pacman demo by Blood-
long  letter  with cool stuff I'm the                 suckers (old but cool)
happiest guy ya can imagine.            Drink:        Hirter Beer (nearly all
                                                      kind of alcohol)
- What are your favourite...            Food:         Italian food is the
                                                      Best                   



- Tell us  something about your rela-   nally.  That's one of the best things
  tion with girls! Do you have a girl   ya can  imagine.  But  it's  real sad
  friend?                               that there are too less 100% Austrian
                                        teams.  I  mean crews who are firstly
  Girls, girls, girls ... I just love   build  up  from  Austrians freax like
each  good  looking girl.  So you can   Subway. But  all of these legends are
find  me on  nearly every party  held   too  lazy so  I think that NRY is the
near  my  hometown.  Hunting chickens   only ACTIVE Austrian crew.Of coz the-
(or getting hunted) is the best sport   re are lots  of active divisions from
in  the  world  and  you can have sum   foreign  crews  here,  but  no one of
phun too. Hehehehehe!!! I had several   these is really 100% MADE IN AUSTRIA.
girl-friends,  but  each relationship   Call me patriotic,  but this is my o-
broke  down coz  I missed having phun   pinion about the scene here.
with  my friends, going  to  parties,   
hunting, boozing,...I just missed the   - Tell us your opinion about the sce-
feeling .. BEING FREE!!! So, I'm sin-     ne of 'today'....
gle  right now,  and all I can say is   
LOVE THE GIRLS OR LEAVE THEM TO ME!!!     I think  that  the scene 'today' is
                                        totally   overcrowded.  Too many guys
- What's your opinion about the scene   try to enter the scene. There are too
  in your country?                      less real elite crews  like  Anarchy,
                                        Phn.....Everyone calls himself elite,
  Austria  is  a small country with a   that's bad.  Too  many  lame  intros,
very  small scene,  so it's no wonder   mags,  games,..  Today  only  Quality
if you  know nearly  each crew perso-   counts. What's the point of producing



hundreds  of lame packs,  intros.  It   cked up in  the scene are the charts.
would  be  better to release only in-   Everyone wants  to be in every chart.
tros  which are well designed. That's   I  don't care about any chart. Every-
the main point why everyone fucks the   body should have itz own chart.
intros. Crews are releasing their in-     The  scene is too professional, too
tros just  to show their names again.   fast, too arrogant, too expensive. It
I  hate intros, which have been coded   seems  that all the PHUN  has gone to
in  sum hours.  Another thing are the   be  part of the scene.  Sumtimes I've
total useless  scrollers. In the good   thought of leaving thiz kind of scene
old days  scrollwriting  was sum kind   to enter the real life. Probably I'll
of ART.  But  if ya watch at an intro   do it, but the only thing that's hol-
today, ya can only read the asalways-   ding me  back  are the few real Scene
incompletegreetingslist,  the  boards   friends, like ya.
numbers, contact-addy and the member-   
list.  There  is  nearly no phun left   - Okay,  Malcom! Here's some place to
reading a scroller. Everyone talks a-     greetz  some friends (greetings, a-
bout  Friendship, Lamers,  Police ...     gain!)  or to  tell  us the  'final
Hey, we  are in the scene to have sum     word'...
phun  during  our stay there.  Once I   
read  the  following  very  important     Techno  rulez!!!!   MODS will never
sentence... The Scene Is Something Ya   die!! Enjoy life as long as posible!!
Wont  Do  For Your Whole Life So Make   Make love not lame releases!!!!
The Best Out Of It ... Cool sentence,   Greets  must go to:  Wild Rage, Mega-
ehhh?                                   deth,  LOD,  Lord  Zero,  Bootlegger,
  Another  thing that is totally  fu-   Daddy  Freddy, Maverick,  Protoplasm,



Parson,  Undead,  Charly,  and,  and,
and, ...and special hellos to: Jason,
Antibyte, Stranger,  Greili, G-Tronic
and to   S T Y L E  !!!!!!!
  It  takes  a  nation to hold ENERGY
back!!!  And the  last  bullshit ....
Energy-Members   do  it   BETTER!!!!!
(Hehehehehe!!!)

- Thanks for this mega cool interview
  David!