TAR Interview - page 1
By: Mc Deal&Charly/D-TECT
This interview was hold on the AmiEXPO'
90 in Cologne  by Mc Deal and Charly of
D-TECT.

H-M: Hi Kali and Torsten (without 'h').
     Please introduce yourself and tell
     us  something  about the  hardware
     you use(d)...
TAR: Hi!  I'm  Torsten Burock.  I'm  20
     years old. The first contact  with
     computers I had as I was  12 years
     old. I had  a ZX81.  Afterwards  I
     got a C 64. But now  I'm using  an
     AMIGA.
     Hi! This is Karl-Heinz Binder. I'm
     19 years old and my first computer
     was the good old C 64. But now I'm
     certainly using an AMIGA.
H-M: How did  you  get in contact  with
     the Amiga (music-) scene?
TAR: First we used Dynamic Drums.  Then
     one day I got the Soundtracker and
     started to do some musics. At that
     time we were in Victory.  By that,
     we meet the Top Boys. With them we
     made our first  muzak-disk.  After
     our first release we meet Mr.Magic
     of  Prophet's AG  on a  copy-party
     and  decided to become  members of
     the Prophet's AG. In this group we
     made our second muzak-disk. Muzak-
     disk 3+4 were  released as  Public
     Domain because Prophet's AG  died.
     The code  however was  made by Mr.
     Magic  (also   known  as   Michael
     Cremer) and Armin Sander. Together
     with Armin we're trying to improve
     the Oktalyzer.
H-M: Do you  already have done  profes-
     sional muzaks?
TAR: Yes. We've done  the sound for the
     Disk-Mon-Professional.
H-M: I have  heared that you  had plans
     to do something  with/for Thalion.
TAR: Yes, you're  right. But we failed
     as we tried to applied to  Thalion



TAR Interview - page 2
By: Mc Deal&Charly/D-TECT
     for a job. But  said  that we're a
     great team together with Armin.
H-M: What was the reason?
TAR: We think it  is very hard to enter
     the  professional   scene  without
     having good contacts in this busi-
     ness.  Another reason was  that we
     weren't so famous because our pro-
     ductions weren't spread very good!
H-M: For  which  productions  have you
     done sounds?
TAR: We made sounds for:  Supreme,  CJ,
     Crazy Comix, HACK-MAG, Fusco Slide
     Show, Threat
H-M: Can  you  imagine  to live out  of
     music?
TAR: Yes, but  only  as  employee  like
     Jochen Hippel or  Chris  Hülsbeck.
     Yes we would do it!
H-M: What  are  your  projects for  the
     future?
TAR: First  we  wanna  finish  the Okt-
     alyzer  UpDate (we do the  testing
     and give  Armin new  ideas). After
     this we do some songs for  Simplex
     (that's the name of the game  from
     Armin and Michael). This game will
     come out together with TAR #5.
H-M: How much  time do  you  need to do
     an average song?
TAR: That  depends of  the inspriation.
     The song for the last HACK-MAG for
     example  was 3  months old  and we
     finished it in one evening. But we
     are able to make a  song in one or
     two days  like e.g. Future  Melody
     from the last TAR tuneshow.
H-M: Are you able to make  short songs,
     too? That's the biggest problem of
     most musicians.
TAR: Yes, we are.  It is very important
     to be in the position to do  this,
     because  e.g. in a  game  there is
     not much free memory!
H-M: Please give us some comments about
     the following programs:



TAR Interview - page 3
By: Mc Deal&Charly/D-TECT
TAR: Face  the  Music: Rubbish! Because
     it is nearly impossible to use the
     songs in own productions 'cause of
     the silly replay.
     Soundtracker: ST was very  good at
     the  beginning  but  this  time is
     over.
     Sidmon: No comment.
     TFMX: Hm,  you must be Hülsbeck to
     understand it!
     Future Composer: It's OK.
     Oktalyzer:  That  is  the  prefect
     sound-program  because  everything
     you need is in it and we have  the
     possibility  to change  it  to our
     needs.
H-M: What is your  favourite  amount  of
     channels?
TAR: We prefer 6 channels.  That's  the
     best  combination between possibi-
     ties in doing sounds and the sound
     quality.
H-M: Do you have a contact  address?
TAR: Yes, if you want to contact us for
     songs then call:
                09401/4718 (Karl-Heinz)
                09401/1850 (Torsten)
     But only professional contacts. We
     won't  become members of  a group!
     And nothing illegal!
H-M: OK. Thanx for this  little  inter-
     view. Have fun at the fair! Caio!