An interview with Sane/Scorpio

      Written By Cloud 9/Vicious

Please  introduce yourself to our dear
readers...

My  real  name  is  Pieter and I am 17
years  old.   My function is being the
leader  of Scorpio, further on I was a
fulltime-swapper,  but  I  had  to cut
down  my contacts a bit because I have
to  spend  a lot more time on my final
exams,  because  that  wasn't going so
smoothly..   Further  on  I spend some
more money in real life and I begin to
have a money-problem!  That means some
contacts have to leave!!  (Not many!!)
My  hobbies  are Tae-kwon-do, cycling,
Frisbee,  Fitness  (and maybe American
football  in  the  near  future).  I'm
attending  a  local  school called the
RSG  and  I'm  doing  the 6th and last
year,   which  means  exams....aaargg!
The  only  hardware I have is an Amiga
500  and a monitor, I wanted to buy an
external   diskdrive  and  some  other
stuff   but   due   to   the  problems
mentioned   above  I  won't  buy  them
anymore, I've sold my printer (which I
never  used  ..)  and  I  was thinking
about  selling  my  Amiga too.  (Dunno
yet!)

How and when did you managed it to get
into the scene?

A  few  years  ago (I think it was the
end  of  '89) I came in contact with a
guy  from Denmark called Jan.He was in
a  group  called Shock, because of his
influence I started to swap (only with
two  guys,  Faith/Atlas  and  El  Loco
who's  now  in  Paragon).A  few  weeks
later  a  friend of mine called Yorick
(Jay  One)  said  he wanted to start a
group and asked me to join.  We called
the  group  :   Paragon and we had two
(!!)  members (NO coders) We got a new
member   called  Knightram  and  later
another  new  member called Weirdo, in
the meantime we changed the group name
to  Falon. I started to code a little,
but  it  looked  like  shit so we were
happy  when Dr.  Poison/Eurix asked us
to  form  a whole new group.  Two days
later  TSM of the Lunatics asked us to
join  Lunatics  and  we did ...  There
were  some   problems,  which  I  wont
mention in this interview , so I  left
Lunatics together  with  the  best  of
Lunatics Holland to form Scorpio!!!!!!
(This was in August 1992)

Are  the  members of Scorpio also your
friends or are they just members?

That  is a difficult question, what is
a  friend in the scene??  Weirdo(Olav)
is  a real good friend in real life, I
visit  him  often and I go to a bar or
disco  with  him.Joe  and The Cube are
older  friends  as  the  rest  so they
visit  me  more often as the rest.  Of
course  Quazar,  Radium,  Array  and D
Icelord  are friends of me too, but it
is   different   as  with  Weirdo  for
example.   I have chosen the formation
of  Scorpio  myself,  so  it is not so
hard to under- stand that I don't have
any enemies in Scorpio.

You'd  recently  left the Lunatics and
formed Scorpio, why?

Because of some internal problems, TSM
promessed  me  a  diskmag and a lot of
good   trackmos  but  Lunatics  didn't
produce  anything.  Also the divisions
became too huge.  The distance was too
great  too!   Imagine this :  a member
of  Lunatics  living  25000 kilometres
away   from   my  place!!   (Woody  in
Australia!!)

NOTE  :  Aztec, Hollywood, Subculture,
TSM,  Lunatics  Austria  and  Lunatics
Australia   (Hi   Woody!!    My  great
pal!!!)  are still my friends.  (But I
doubt  it  if  Lunatics is still alive
when you read this!?!)

Do  you  have any future plans for the
scene?

No  real plans, the only thing I wanna
do  is  producing good stuff and enjoy
the part of the scene I still like.

What is your opinion about.....

Diskmags ?

-  I always wanted to have my own mag,
but   now  I  don't  want  it  anymore
because  it  takes  a  lot of time and
money  (stamps  etc.) A diskmag has to
be very good if it wants to survive in
the  scene  of today because there are
too  many good diskmags.  I am also an
editor  of  Magbox,  the diskmag of my
good friends in Balance (Hi Wolfman!!)
this  is, according to me, a great mag
so  I  have  enough  to do in the Mag-
scene!

The Silents ?

-  Better  than Anarchy, I didn't like
Static  Chaos  but  all the other pro-
ductions   are   usually   very  good.
Silents Holland was pure shit.

Facet/Anarchy ?

-  One  of  the  best  graphicians  in
Holland,  together  with Jay One/Free-
style  and  Sec 4/Jetset, not the best
of Europe because Rack is the best.

Mantronix & Tip ?

-  I don't like their music very much,
although  what they do IS good, I just
don't like their style that's all.

The Dutch Scene ?

-  Pure  shit,  there  are only 4 or 5
real  demo groups which have proved to
be   good.    Most  of  the  so-called
'Elite'  guys  in  the Dutch scene are
lame and the guys who ARE cool are not
with many ....

Swapping ?

-  It takes a lot of time, and since I
have  been busted (Hi Cloud 9, Jay One
&  Weirdo!!  You too, eh?!!) I have to
pay  all my stamps !  Anyway, although
it  costs a lot, I like it because you
get  some  pure  friendship!   Hi,  Mc
Green,  Flame,  Flash, Woody, Leebold,
Rebel MC and all the others I know!!!

There  has  been  a  lot  of shit-talk
about  you  by  TSM/Lunatics.   Do you
want  to  put  certain things straight
and do you have a message to TSM ?

Yes, TSM and I got a terrible fight at
the time when I left Lunatics.  Anyway
he was wrong and I was wrong too!  TSM
acted  very  brave  when  he sent me a
letter  in  which  he  told  me he was
sorry!    Everything   is   ok  now!My
excuses  too,  TSM!  (Simon:  write me
again!!)

The  Lunatics  had a lot of divisions,
but  in  Scorpio you decided to stay a
Dutch  group  without divisions.  Why?
Was it too difficult to organise it in
the Lunatics with so much divisions?

We  don't  need  divisions  because we
have  the  qualified  people  we need,
further   on   we   think  it  is  too
difficult  to  talk and arrange things
when  you  live 25 000 kilometres away
from each other.

Do   you   only  send  disks  to  your
contacts   or   other  crap  too  like
posters, stickers, and tapes etc.?

I  always send posters and stickers to
my  real friends like Leebold/Trident/
Dual  crew,  Rebel  Mc/Desire  and  El
Loco/Paragon  (and a lot of others) to
the  real  swap-aholics  I  just  sent
disks (and a letter).

Would you like to have a modem?

No,  I  (my  parents)  already  have a
phonebill  which  is  far too high.  I
don't want to waste money on a modem.

What kind of real music do you like?

All  kinds  of  music  like  :  House,
Rock, Hardrock (some), Pop, etcetera.

Well, I'm out of questions now, thanks
for  this interview and good luck with
your  crew!  Now you've got some space
to   write   some   messages  to  your
contacts and friends.

Hi  to  :  Everyone I know!  (the list
is  too  big, check out our container-
pack if you want to see the greets!But
special  thanks to all in Scorpio, for
forming a helluva group!  Also special
thanks to Jay One/Freestyle, for being
my  great  friend for ever !!  (See ya
Yorick!     Keep    up    the   superb
painting!!)   That's  all!!   (Oh,  of
course  to all in Vicious!  I wish you
luck  with  MEGAZIN!   And  to all out
there:Support   this   disk  mag!   It
depends on your contribution!