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Interview with Wolfman
A n I n t e r v i e w w i t h
Wolfman/Balance
by Curt Cool/Depth
Curt cool: Hi Wolfie!
Wolfman: Hello!
Curt Cool: First let us get over the standards..present yourself (real
name/age/family etc.)
Wolfman: Hello everyone! My real name is William Henrik Olesen, I'm 20
years old and I am the only child of my parents.. I live in the
suburbs of Denmark's capital, Copenhagen. A comfortable 15 minute
drive on bike to be in the centre this wonderful city...
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Curt Cool: What are your favourite demos/gfx'er/coder/musician etc.?:
Wolfman: Demos - Nexus 7 from Andromeda
Graphician - Eeeer... Ra perhaps? Dunno really!
Coder - I guess Jekyll & Hyde are quite cool, but Chaos is
unavoidable!
Editor etc - Macno, the god
Curt Cool: And now for the scene questions...
Curt Cool: You are the editor of the famous mag Upstream, and have been in
the editors' hot seat for a long time now; why not tell the readers
about Upstream, how it is made, how Upstream got where it is today,
your views on journalism etc.
Wolfman: Yes why not? Well, as you rightfully stated I've been the editor
of Upstream for a long time, perhaps a bit too long by now. There
was a time I just didn't understand the great delays all the bigger
mags had (at the time I was running Magbox) and why the main eds
weren't motivated...
{
Wolfman cont'd:
I must say that I fully understand a guy like Helmet who has
released 7 more or less brilliant issues of R.A.W... He has other
things to do now. Not a lot of friends in the scene which means he
really doesn't get the neccesary inputs you need as a main
editor...
Anyway, I feel I've been in a period of some kind of scene-
depression. Nothing about the scene has really interested me,
for no particular reason, but anyway to get to the question
you really asked me... How Upstream is made? To cut it short,
Mount and I get inputs (ideas) we write articles, some editors
write articles, we put the mag together...
Curt Cool: And what do you think of standard articles like AMIGA vs. PC, we
do/don't need swappers, racism in the scene etc.?
Wolfman: These kind of articles or the subjects are brilliant examples of a
pretty boring part of the mag-scene.
{
Wolfman cont'd:
With a huge amount of articles about these subjects where a lot
of people discuss about all kinds of topics, especially the
mentioned, it's no big deal for mag-editors with no self-respect
to put together a mag, or should we perhaps call it a mailbox.
I'm bored to death with these topics, but mostly because of the way
the topics are being treated. Nobody seems to be able to find new
angles on these stories and some people pretending to be editors
simply writes on and on about their opinion... I think/he is/but I
am/so fuck that/I don't care etc.
The worst subject of them all must be the Amiga vs. PC topic which
I find so utterly foolish... The Amiga might be a better computer
than the PC (or so it was once, things are changing...), but the
programs available for the PC are MILES ahead of the Amiga. You
know why? Because our own favourite Commodore people FUCKED UP BIG
TIME!!!!! Let's hope that some wiser people can take over this
truly screwed company and make something of it.
{
Curt Cool: Even though you are respected as a kind of an inventor of new areas
that the scene can discuss, you have sometimes been accused of
using quite cheap journalistic methods. Defend yourself!
Wolfman: Cheap journalistic methods... Interesting term used by a scene
hardly knowing the meaning of the word... How many mags in today's
scene are actually treating things journalistic? Two or three at
the most... The term "cheap journalistic methods" is a word which
would probably lead most peoples minds to the infamous "Heatbeat -
A racist!" Article in Upstream #7. This article was based on a
piece of information which I never actually managed to have
verified in time (Heatbeat is not an easy person to reach).
However, in an amazing article in R.A.W #7, Heatbeat really showed
his opinions and at the same time gave me fuckings and kindly
informed me that he was a racist which was none of my fucking
business.
Okay, fine! Perhaps it ain't. Actually it's not really the scenes
business if the dear Heatbeat is racist, but the line goes like
this in the journalistic business "If you don't want to be in the
paper, don't pull down your pants!". {
Wolfman cont'd:
Basically that means that if Heatbeat didn't think that him being a
racist was the scenes business he should have kept quiet, instead
of calling a closer friend of mine a "Jewish pig" during a chat via
modem.
In addition to this whole affair which lately saw the light of day
in R.A.W #7, I would like to say that I greatly respect Heatbeat as
person with great musical intelligence. As for the rest of his
personality.... Cough, splutter, aaargh!!!
To get back to the term "cheap journalistic methods", I would like
to make my own definition of the term. Today many journalists,
particularly in the tabloid-press, tend to deliberately misquote
people in order to make a given story more interesting. THAT is
what I would call cheap journalistic methods, and I would like to
point out that I've never done ANYTHING like THAT!
Curt Cool: What is your view of the scene today compared to the one in e.g.
1990 where you started?
{
Wolfman: I didn't really start as early as in 1990... Well, late 1990
perhaps Sigh! This is really an impossible question to answer... My
position back then was just a little kid doing his own music-
collections which was mega-spread to as much as 10 persons in the
local computer-club... Today, the name Wolfman is perhaps a bit
more known to the public, so in that way the scene has changed a
lot for me...
Otherwise just the natural things. Demos have got better, parties
have got better, but of course a lot of people thinks that the
scene itself has got worse. Might be, but it's most likely peoples
attitude which have changed to the worse. All the newcomers saying
that the scene is not so good is just following the trend.
Curt Cool: What do you think will happen to the AMIGA-scene with the
Commodore/Escom situation these days??? Is there a future on the
PC (suxx!)???
{
Wolfman: I have NO idea of what's going to happen with Commodore, the Amiga
or whatever... With no Amigas being sold there's no-one to take
over the scene for the next generation and the scene will simply
get smaller and smaller... Probably there is a future on the PC
'cause it's much less dependant on a bunch of fools with no idea
of how to sell a brilliant computer like the Amiga....
Curt Cool: Would you buy a PC, if you had the cash?
Wolfman: Yes, definitely!
Curt Cool: What do you think of the following mags???
RAW/ROM/Buzz/Grapevine/The Charts/Disc/Abnormalia/Deadlock
Wolfman: Raw revolutionized the mag scene, but issue 7 was just like any
other average mag... Let's see what Astro can do.
Rom seems to be quite pro about their work, but they still miss
something...
Buzz..Well, it's there.{
Wolfman cont'd:
Grapevine..Haven't had the time read it...
The Charts..Nice with creative forces on the chart-front... Their
mag-part is getting better and better!
Disc..It's there as well. With a lot of articles saying a lot
about a lot of less interesting things.... Simply average.
Abnormalia..YES!!!! Abnormalia is simply THE mag which have dared
to do things entirely differently. I LOVE IT!
Deadlock..Eeer, can't say I remember to much of it. But the stuff
I've seen of it seems okay. (Outspan - Good Answer!)
Curt Cool: What are your comments to these scene celebrities (or not
celebrities):
Wolfman: Mop/Essence..Great language creativity! But needs to limit himself
a bit if he wants people to read his articles to the end...
{
Wolfman cont'd:
Chaos/Sanity..Great coder, great manipulator. Says what he feels
like and doesn't really give a DAMN!
Dr. Skull/Virtual Dreams..He codes what can't be coded!
Steffen/Speedy..Hello!
Norby/TRSI..Eager beaver, hehe! I wish I had the same enthusiasm
which he is possession of, great guy!
Di33y/CNCD..This guy knows a lot of things about music
(understatement)
Heatbeat/CNCD..This guy known a lot about music, but his
personality seems to belong in the stone-age! Ugh ugh!
Lizardking/Razor 1911..VERY long hair... Easy recognisable music,
but is brilliant with melodies and harmonies...
Jugi/Complex.."I burned my throat!"... My favourite Fin... He's
groovy!{
Wolfman cont'd:
Facet/Spaceballs..Groooooovy!
Lord Helmet/Spaceballs..A guy which I certainly enjoy meeting.
He's one of the few editors I've met who really understands the
"diskmag-game".
Colorbird/Razor 1911..Hour-long chats on parties have made me
quite acquainted with this sympathetic Swede.
Curmudgeon/Depth..Blegfede kaffer! My very best friend!
Airwalk/Polka Brothers..Knows how to make the best of his
abilities... I wish there were more coders of his kind..
ME..Interesting guy! Has the amazing capability to make more noise
than an entire rock-concert!
Ye average scene-dude..Get a life! (Outspan - Hmm)
{
Curt Cool: Have you got any ideas why the parties (The Party IV, Gathering
'95) haven't been quite the successes they could have been?
Wolfman: I find your opinion about The Party IV very interesting. Just
because your module wasn't included in the competition doesn't mean
that the party was any worse (perhaps it made it better...;-)...
Anyway, as for the Gathering'94 I'm not quite able to point out
anything special which made the party become a bit of a flop. The
business about the tent could have happened to anyone bumping into
a bunch of dishonest hall-owners.
I can't blame the organizers for that, they could do NOTHING to
prevent it. I took the tent- sleeping as an experience... The
prizes in the competition bother me a lot more.. Simply ridiculous.
I don't understand how the organizers would dare to give such lousy
prizes.
{
Wolfman cont'd:
The organizers of the bigger parties have been on the wagon for
some time now, and a lot of them (The organizers of TG '94/'95)
have lost touch with the scene and are often not quite aware of
what people really wants.
And will Balance release any new productions soon? (Upstream could
do with some new code:)
Wolfman: No Comment here ???
T h e p e r s o n a l p a r t o f t h e i n t e r v i e w :
Curt Cool: Is your room messy?
Wolfman: Yes and no! I will give you an interesting description of the area
around my bed. On the bed-table I have my Marantz CD-43 CD-player
the newest edition of Newsweek.... On the wall a poster of a cute
Cindy Crawford, two more posters from Hennes & Mauritz and in the
ceiling a "Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales" banner. {
Wolfman cont'd:
When I have cleaned my roomed it's not messy... Two days after it
looks like Oklahoma.
Curt Cool: Some "rumours" has been going round that you like smoking grass,
could there be any truth in this??? And if "yes", with who??? (Do
not say the readers do not get any inside knowledge about scene
celebrities)
Wolfman: Rumours!? I thought this was just average knowledge to the common
scener!
Oh well, it's been some time since by now, 2 months ago actually...
Been taking a break to see how I feel not being stoned... I think
I'll get stoned again soon enough...
Curt Cool: Why not get drunk instead?
Wolfman: I do that too, been doing it a bit more often for the past two
months, it's really a laugh!
{
Curt Cool: And how was your trip to (or should I write "at") The Party IV?
Wolfman: I don't quite recall... Huhuhu! Oh well, it was simply GREAT! I
was really amazed to see what a stoned scene we've actually got. I
was smoking in a tunnel together with Curmudgeon and every time we
were there, we met people who smoked hash as well. We even met a
guy who sold hash and who had brought quite a deal. CHRIST, that
was wild! Greetings to all the stoned guys of The Party 4.
Curt Cool: Who would you most like to be, if you were not you???
Wolfman: Bill Clinton.. He might not have the most attractive wife (She's
damn smart though), but just imagine to be the president of The
United States! So much POWER! I could probably get a kick out of
that...
Curt Cool: What books do you read?
Wolfman: When it comes to fiction I mostly read Tom Clancy (Author behind:
Hunt For Red October, Patriot Games and Clear & Present Danger),
but of course there's Stephen King. {
Wolfman cont'd:
I also read poems to a certain extend, mostly Danish (Michael
Strunge) stuff though. I also enjoy reading philosophy and
psychology, especially Freud. I believe a lot of sceners would get
a kick out of reading his sexual theories, heavy stuff.
Curt Cool: Hmmm... Any women in your life you would like to tell the public
you are madly in love with?
Wolfman: KARINA!!!!!! In love with her freakin' plumer!!!!!!
Curt Cool: If you answered "yes" to the opposite, please explain your
favourite sexual position! (If "no", well... Pity!)
Wolfman: I would like to those lips of hers treating my "dearest friend"
with great care... While staring deep in her big blue eyes... (Sob
Sob)
Curt Cool: And if you could not get THAT particular woman, who then???
Wolfman: Aaarh... I guess Claudia Schiffer would do....
{
Curt Cool: If there are some people, who after reading this interview, are
completely keen to meet you, where can they reach you??? And where
will you be demo-partying next???
Wolfman: Address: William H. Olesen
Brønshøjvej 64
2700 Brønshøj
Denmark
(I am a LAZY guy, but do TRY)
If you live in the area of Copenhagen, I regularly go to Sam's Bar
or "Det Elektriske Hjørne"... Mostly Saturday night (And I mean
NIGHT) Find i øvrigt Rasmus og mig i nærheden af Østerport Station,
ved vores varmerist. Lige over for Nyboder!
Demopartying next? Hopefully at The south Sealand Demoparty 95...
No guarantees!
Curt Cool: Anyone you would like to greet?
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Wolfman: Yep! Hej Rasmus and all the people I've ever met in the scene, have
a good one!
Curt Cool: Any last words?
Wolfman: Eeeer... Last word in my German dictionary: Zynisch, meaning
cynical. I think that pretty much describes what I'm training
myself to be!
}