Inteview with Majic Mushroom
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I N T E R V I E W W I T H MAJIC MUSHROOM OF QUARTZ By Pazza in September 1992 Q: Please introduce yourself and give your function in Quartz and group history. A: Hello there. I am Majic Mushroom, a Swapper/PackDiskMaker and Coder (Hum...) in Quartz. I am 18 years old, into Hardcore Rave/Techno and can regularly be spotted trying to entice 8 year old girls into my car! Ok, that last bit was a joke! (Honest Officer!) Group history eh? Well, I first entered the scene back in January 1990. At that time I formed my own group called Liquid Gold, which also consisted of Bronx Warrior (Now in Doom) and Agent X (who is The Caffeine Kid of Doom!). That lasted for about 10 months. At my first party, The Magnetic Fields Revenge (Oct '90), I was asked to join Pussy UK. I said yes, but promptly left 4 days later because it was poo and joined Crack UK! I left them, along with Paradroid in March 1991 to form Flash Production UK! We lasted a few months, died, reformed and then joined Razor 1911. This was poo so I left just after the Digital Party. I then joined Plague, but they died in February and I stayed indi. For a while before joining Quartz at the very beginning of April '92! OY! Wake up! Q: Why did you have your recent name change from "Magic" to "Majic" Mushroom? A: At my 18th birthday piss up, everyone was well ratassed and started saying my name with a J instead of a G which gave a sort of french feel to it, and as its European year (or whatever) I thought, "Hey, that sounds good, I'll keep it!" Q: What hardware do you have? A: Usual Amiga setup really, Amiga A500, External Drive, Half Meg Upgrade, Bog standard mouse, joysticks, Commodore Monitor, MiniAmp, and Action Replay Mk II. (Plus tons of disks) Q: Are your plans to buy a modem ever going to happen, or are you staying on the mail scene? A: At the moment, I am just sticking to the mail scene. The modem scene looks far too unfriendly for me, as you can get into a war without even knowing it! MailScene Rules! (NOT! ha ha!) I am on an ok wage now as my YT course has ended and I have been taken on full-time, so I might get round to it eventually, but its not the most important thing on my mind! Q: What machines did you own before your Amiga? A: Before Amiga came along, I started my computer life with a Commodore Vic-20! Yeah, what a smart machine! After a long while I bought a Spectrum Plus and a couple of months later I upgraded this to a Plus2. I sold that in October '89 and didn't have a computer until Chrimbo when I got my Miggy! Q: Your Quartz party demo was very good, especially as a "first attempt" what up-coming projects do you have? A: Thank you! I'm glad you liked it, cheques in the mail! Seriously though, i'm glad. I have just released a quick intro called "Intro For All" and I'm kind of working on a Trackmo called "Flashback"! Thing is, I started coding F.B and then Delphine released the preview of the follow up to Another World and guess what the bastard is called, yeah, you got it... "FlashBack!", but stuff 'em cos I ain't changing it now! Q: Do you have any hobbies other than your computer? A: Other hobbies include, Raving, Smoking strange tobacco(!), going drinking, going driving (NOT after drinking!), keeping my tropical fish and the usual stuff that a sexually active lad my age gets up to! (Gets up! That's a clue for ya!) Q: Which question would you HATE to be asked by me, and what`s your answer (he he he)? A: "Why do you call yourself Majic Mushroom", the answer I hate this question is because people kinda ask me this a lot, they all think I'm this big drug takin' psychopath! I am not a big psychopath! (he he!) Q: Compare the scene 2 years ago (when you started) to how it is now, how has it changed, was it better then or now? A: The scene has changed a hell of a lot since I started two years back. The scene was far more friendlier then so it was easier to get started swapping and the like. I liked it better then but I was not a good swapper as I didn't have that many contacts. Now, I have a lot of contacts but the scene is not as inspirational as it used to be. The dream scene for me would be the friendliness and the actual scene of two years ago mixed with the high quality releases of '92. Q: What do you think will happen to the Amiga scene in the future? A: The Amiga scene will continue for a hell of a long time. Whilst some people are quitting and buying pc's there are always new people buying Amiga's. As long as people in groups are enjoying themselves then they won't quit. Why quit when your having fun? You don't leave a nightclub if your totally pissed and a sexy stripper comes on do ya! (Unless your gay!) Q: Have you ever been bothered by any legal bodies such as FAST? A: That's a hard one actually, see my article in this issue about strange letters called BE CAREFUL! Q: Would you say piracy has helped Commodore sell the Amiga? A: It sure has! Little kids are buying Amiga's because they can get copies of games for nothing. Actually, I'll admit it: I bought my Amiga because I knew where I could get games from for free! Of course, now I am not really interested in just games, I hardly play games and I only have a few. I prefer demos and now i'm coding! Q: If you could rob any place and get away with it, where would it be? A: A Southern Comfort Distillery! (Yum Yum Burrrp!) Q: Which famous person would you like to share a shower with? A: Majic Mushroom! ha ha! Hmm, I think (I know!) it would be a sexy blonde like Michelle Pfeiffer or Patsy Kensit, think for yaself! Q: Who would you like most to beat the death with a baseball bat (or similar blunt instrument)? A: Torch! ha ha! Only kidding mate. Errrrm, that's a tough one. Probably Mungo! Q: If you wasn`t in Quartz which group would you (like to) be in? A: Another hard one. Can't really answer that in detail because I'm very happy in Quartz and have never thought about leaving and joining someone else! Q: Who do you respect on the scene currently and why? CODERS: 1 - The Spy/Crionics (Silents?) 2 - Performer/Melon Dezign (Nice style and nice ideas!) 3 - Paradroid/Anarchy (Cool but lazy!) 4 - Dan/Anarchy (Very productive and that's great for a coder!) 5 - Spook/Digital (I've seen him go from strength to strength, great coder.) MUSICIANS: 1 - Nuke/Anarchy (Very cool style) 2 - Audiomonster/Melon or Silents (Very cool, what else!) 3 - Moby/Dreamdealers (This guy is brilliant!) 4 - Heatbeat/Carillion (Great tunes) 5 - Snare/Quartz (Not biased but I love his toons!) GRAPHICIANS: 1 - Facet/Anarchy (Simply the best?) 2 - R.W.O/Kefrens (Very very nice..) 3 - Flame/Digital (Nice graphics, well presented) 4 - Zoon/Anarchy (Phew! Lovely! Milky Milky!) 5 - ????/Sanity (Sorry, can't remember your name!) GROUPS: 1 - Silents (Great group, they know what they are doin'!) 2 - Rebels (Great guys, another legend!) 3 - Anarchy (Hmmpf, obvious reasons why I like em! V.Cooool) 3 (joint) - Melon Dezign (Whether its an intro or a demo its always cool!) 4 - Phenomena (Many great releases from the past...) 5 - Mahoney and Kaktus (I wish these guys would come back!) Q: Your Magic Packs are very good, do you feel, like I do now, that you should only pack good quality demos etc, or should you pack anything and everything you get. Should we distribute poor or average quality demos on our packs? A: I try to pack only good things. I never rip demos or intros from other peoples packs, but I know they rip mine! Lamers! Sometimes, I will pack something by a group not considered to be one of the best e.g Doom! I do this because they give me the rights to pack their stuff and I am always the first to pack it. I am proud for it to have taken me nearly two years to reach my 100th pack. This just goes to show, that I am not ripping other peoples comps just to make mine. If it takes two years of hard packing to reach 100 honest packs then so be it. Although, there's nothing wrong with packing shite stuff!! When it comes to party packs, I will pack everything I get whether it be an intro, dentro or demo, just so others can see what was released. Q: If you could write your own epitaph, what would it be? A: "Here lies Majic Mushroom - What a guy!" or how about "Here lies the bones of The Mushy Dude, FUCK WANK BOLLOX ooh that's rude!" Q: How can people contact you? A: Its not hard to contact me! Hmm didn't you say that on the Digital Party Video? Well, you can look in the adverts section in this cool magazine for more than one advert! Q: Any last words? A: Erm... Rifle, hairnet, fishpaste, intermediate, Marzipan. Are they Ok? Or how about Finish, End, Fini, They are last words. Just some quick greets to some cool guys I know: Pazza - Thanks for this interview, The Pride/Sanity, Meta/Bass, Torch/LSD and the rest! Thanks! Now some questions from me to PazzA: Q: Why is Natwest such a crap bank? A: Dunno! Q: If gays cant reproduce, how come there's so many of 'em? A; Dunno! Q: How come Prisoner Cell Block H is a fine programme and has to end? A: Its not, its crap! Q: Why is this the last question? A: dunno! end.