Inteview with Jesper Kyd
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Kyd/Balle Productions Interview Done by Head/Alcatraz via mail Short explanation: Jesper Kyd and Mikael Balle are members of Silents. They made the famous `Hardwired` and `CAT` demo in co-op with Crionics. They are also the producers of the video `Global Trash II`. So let`s start this interview... MD: Hi Kyd/Balle! I think everybody know you, so we can skip a big introducing part. And here we go with the first question for you. It seems that you do everything for a demo or video together, so the name Kyd/Balle. Could you explain this to our reader, please? KB: We do everything together because we are very alike, regarding the music, gfx and videoproductions. We have the same kind of taste and we know what we like and dislike. MD: How is your personal relationship? Are you close friends, or do you just work on the computer together? KB: Yes, we are close friends. Actually, we live together with The Spy, Deftronic and Murphy of ex-Crionics in a big appartment in Copgenhagen. MD: How do you spend your free-time besides working on computers? Are you party-animales? KB: We like Hardcore Tecno-raves!!! And there are a lot of these in Copenhagen, so I guess we like to party (party-animales?). But we use computers a lot, because they are involved in alomst everything we do, wether it's video productions or music. MD: Again to your demos. Do you think that a cool design and timing is very important for a demo? Compare your productions with e.g. Cube-O-Matic. KB: The design is very important!!! If a demo has good music, people sometimes load it just to hear the music, and that's very positive. It's also important that the music fits the gfx and code. Because we live together, we are influenced by each other and therefore it all fits together. (Hardwired) We don't like "coder" demoes at all. There has to be something else in a demo besides good coding. MD: Do you plan to make more for commercialin in the future, or are you going to produce any new demos? KB: There will be new productions from us, just wait and see, you'll be surprised. MD: `Hardwired` and the `CAT` demo were mainly coded by The Spy/Crionics. It seems that you three are a very good team. Please tell our reader how you create a demo and how long it took to produce a demo like `Hardwired`. KB: First of all, Hardwired took about 2 month to create. In this period we mainly lived at the Spy's place. We believe that one of the most important factores when making a good demo, is that you have close contact to each other, and after the success with Hardwired, we decided to move together with the 3 main coders of ex-Crionics. MD: Did you ever have problems while producting `Hardwired` or `CAT`? Was it a hard thing to time everything in these demos? KB: Hardwired: Yes we had some minor problems at The Party in Denmark. There is also a couple of errors we didn`t have time to correct (the loading sound is cuted much to early and so on). In the Cat-Demo we had some problems with the memory capacity, it had to run on a normal 512kb Amiga. MD: From where do you get your ideas and inspirations for a cool demo-design? KB: We get our inspiration from our daily lives. I mean, we get it from everywhere. Movies help us create certain moodes though. We also get a lot of inspiration from the Amiga scene, even though we don't like the scene at all, Everybody is doing the same kind of pop demoes, and we find that very boring. We therefore mutate all the popular demo styles, and make something different. But we don't only make demoes in order to provoke the demo scene, we also make them, because we want to get rid of all our ideas, which grow in our twisted minds. MD: What`s your opinion about the Budbrain and Melon Dezign style? Compare them with your design. KB: Hm, we thought the Budbrain style was funny the first time we saw it, but we are getting tired of looking at these kind of demoes. We find the coding just as important as the music and grafix, and when our co-op with ex-Crionics turned out to be a successfull combination, we think we have a very strong force here: Gfx, Music and Hardcore-Code mixed together. MD: Is it true that MTV bought your `Global Trash II` video to show it on MTV. If so, was it a success? KB: No, MTV has not bought our video, but we are in contact whith them, and we hope they (one way or another) will broadcast it soon. Anyway, they have showed some of it in a losy quality (a black and white copy from spain). MD: Do you think it was correct that Odyssey won the first prize on The Party? Can you imagine why Odyssey won and not your demo, even if the code is much better than Odyssey? KB: We have no problems with this, since Hardwired is no.1 at all the charts, we belive it is the puplic opinion that it should have won at The Party. MD: Did you get offers from different companies to work for them? If so, please give us some more informations. KB: We are talking with an American software company. No further comments!!!! MD: Recently more and more guys joined Silents (Germany, France etc). Are you pleased by this fact, or do you prefer a smaller group? KB: No! We think of Silents Dk, as one small group. We designed the first Silents Dk demo way back. We made that together with Mr Perfect or Defect or whatever he called himself??? The devisions help each other. If we are working on a demo, the other devisions release new TSL demos, and when we release ours, another devision could be working on a new production. This way we can release a lot of cool demoes. MD: What is your opinion about cracking and other illegal activities? Is it true that Silents will start to crack or/and train? KB: I don't know about the cracking in other devisions, but TSL Dk will not start cracking that's for sure. Denmark has been "cleaned up" recently, and therefore we do not want to take part in any illegal activities. MD: Please list your favourite... Coders: Murphy, Deftronic,The Spy. Musicans: Chris Huelsbeck, Rob Hubbard, Martin Galway. Graphicans: Sionic Designers: ? Diskmags: Zine Groups: ? Demos: Red Sector Cebit Demo MD: I`ll now give you some expressions, please give me your short statement. The Party COOL!!! Cracks Cracking is only destroying the demo-sceen. The police thought we were doing illegal activities on the Amiga, because we were (are) part of the Amiga scene. Odyssey Great slideshow!!! Zine The best mag. around Hardwired We can't think of a better demo, until we have made our next one? Mantronix/TIP Good musicians, but thier style is not our cup of tea (tecno rules). Uno Nice gfx, but again: Tim White Kyd/Balle We don't wanna write anything about ourselves. Phenomena Cool group. MD: Please give us your contact address, if companies etc are interested in contacting you. KB: Kyd / Balle Productions Skovlyvaenget 17 2970 Horsholm Denmark MD: Thanks for answering all these questions, now you`ve got some free bytes to write some messages or whatever you want. KB: News News News News: -------------------- Static of Rebels joined Silents DK Crionics is dead, future productions will be released through Silents DK. Bye Bye!