The Kosmic Free Music Foundation (a.k.a. Kosmic, or KFMF) was a worldwide group of computer musicians, artists, and coders focused on the PCdemoscene. Most members were from the United States, Canada, and Australia. They created music—mostly techno, trance, and ambient—with tracker software. They also created some artwork and demos. All their productions were available to download without charge from BBSes and the internet. In the 1990s, they were known for having many of the tracking scene's top musicians as members. Their early presence on the Internet made them one of the first netlabels. The leader of Kosmic was Dan Nicholson, who went by the alias Maelcum.
The group was founded in 1991, under the name Kosmic Loader Foundation (KLF, unrelated to the British music group The KLF). The original purpose of the group was to create BBS intros and ANSI art.
In 1992, Maelcum began releasing MOD music files under the group's name, and soon KLF became music oriented. Inspekdah Deck (then using the name Venom, not affiliated with the Wu-Tang Clan member, Inspectah Deck) ran a BBS at his home in New Jersey called Trancentral II which became the homebase for the group to communicate and release their music ("Trancentral" being the recording studio and "spiritual home" for The KLF).
In 1994, the group quickly embraced the Internet, and created an FTP site and web site. Having only a few active members, they quickly grew by recruiting new members through the IRC channel #trax. By this time, many musicians in KLF started using Renaissance's MultiTracker program to create MTM files instead of MODs, thus allowing the use of 32 simultaneous instruments rather than 4.
In 1995, the group changed their name to Kosmic Free Music Foundation, to emphasize their focus on music rather than demos or intros. However, after recruiting a coder named GooRoo, they presented their first full-length demo, "Flight[1]", at the NAID party in Quebec, and ranked third place in competition. Kosmic members Maelcum & IQ placed second in the music competition with "Hitchhiking Reticulan". It was later released on the FTZ CD "Nothing Is True", produced by Maelcum on his own label, Area 51 Records. More demos and musicdisks followed, although single music releases were still the mainstay.
In 1997, Kosmic released their first archive CD-ROM for sale, containing all their music releases through 1996 plus a few new audio tracks. Some members started releasing their music in the new MP3 format instead of tracker formats. Most members from the original #trax rush had since retired or left for independent projects. The group continued and released two more archive CD sets, but by early 2000 had faded into inactivity.
During its active years KFMF was one of the largest music groups, if not the largest, in the tracker/demoscene community.
List of membersedit
Organizersedit
Maelcum fka ModDan (Dan Nicholson): President 1991-present
Inspekdah Deck fka Venom (Andre Cardadeiro): Vice president 1992-1995
Phoenix (Andrew Voss): Vice president 1995-1996
Draggy (Nicolas St. Pierre): Vice president 1996-2000
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mostly techno trance and ambient with tracker software They also created some artwork and demos All their productions were available to download without charge from BBSes and the internet In the 1990s they were known for having many of the tracking scene s top musicians as members Their early presence on the Internet made them one of the first netlabels The leader of Kosmic was Dan Nicholson who went by the alias Maelcum Contents 1 Group history 2 List of members 2 1 Organizers 2 2 Coders 2 3 Artists 2 4 Musicians 2 5 Support 3 Significant releases 4 Notes 5 External linksGroup history editThe group was founded in 1991 under the name Kosmic Loader Foundation KLF unrelated to the British music group The KLF The original purpose of the group was to create BBS intros and ANSI art In 1992 Maelcum began releasing MOD music files under the group s name and soon KLF became music oriented Inspekdah Deck then using the name Venom not affiliated with the Wu Tang Clan member Inspectah Deck ran a BBS at his home in New Jersey called Trancentral II which became the homebase for the group to communicate and release their music Trancentral being the recording studio and spiritual home for The KLF In 1994 the group quickly embraced the Internet and created an FTP site and web site Having only a few active members they quickly grew by recruiting new members through the IRC channel trax By this time many musicians in KLF started using Renaissance s MultiTracker program to create MTM files instead of MODs thus allowing the use of 32 simultaneous instruments rather than 4 In 1995 the group changed their name to Kosmic Free Music Foundation to emphasize their focus on music rather than demos or intros However after recruiting a coder named GooRoo they presented their first full length demo Flight 1 at the NAID party in Quebec and ranked third place in competition Kosmic members Maelcum amp IQ placed second in the music competition with Hitchhiking Reticulan It was later released on the FTZ CD Nothing Is True produced by Maelcum on his own label Area 51 Records More demos and musicdisks followed although single music releases were still the mainstay In 1997 Kosmic released their first archive CD ROM for sale containing all their music releases through 1996 plus a few new audio tracks Some members started releasing their music in the new MP3 format instead of tracker formats Most members from the original trax rush had since retired or left for independent projects The group continued and released two more archive CD sets but by early 2000 had faded into inactivity During its active years KFMF was one of the largest music groups if not the largest in the tracker demoscene community List of members editOrganizers edit Maelcum fka ModDan Dan Nicholson President 1991 present Inspekdah Deck fka Venom Andre Cardadeiro Vice president 1992 1995 Phoenix Andrew Voss Vice president 1995 1996 Draggy Nicolas St Pierre Vice president 1996 2000Coders edit BarryE Barry Egerter 1995 Berky 1994 1995 GooRoo Chris Egerter 1994 2000 jmX Jon Mayfield 1996 2000 Statix Kim Davies 1994 1995 Wonko the Sane 1993 1994 Zab Zach Brown 1995 1996Artists edit AphidTwix Greg Ipp 1997 Binky the Almighty 1994 Carrot Gavin Cowie 1996 1997 Hawk Jakob Hoegh 1998 2000 HFaze Matt Perkins 1995 1996 Hros 1993 1994 Ink John Cathcart 1995 2000 Inner Vision Gene Sumter 1996 2000 Light Jeff Harris 1995 1997 Lurch 1992 1994 Messiah ANSI 1995 Parsec Roland Wunderlich 1995 1996 Sophisto Stephen Loomis 1995 The Kind King ANSI 1992 1993 Young 1995Musicians edit Aahz Dave Fitches 1999 2000 Amino Acid Amin Fadaifard 1998 2000 Andreas Andreas Viklund 1998 2000 Andromeda Morgan Norrestam 1997 2000 Ara aka Epeius Ara Pehlivanian 1996 1997 Astrid Astrid Fauchon 1996 1997 Balrog Samuel Cote 1994 1996 Basehead Dan Gardopee aka Grandpre 1994 1995 Bert D R Vandervelden 1996 2000 B00MER Jared Blalock 1994 2000 cd Brian Wickman 1996 1997 Chuck Biscuits Andrew Fort 1994 1998 CJtrack Chris Jarvis 1996 1997 Cue 1993 1994 Cullyn Rori Steel 1997 Cyberactiv 1993 1994 Daedalus Brian Bennetts 1996 2000 Djamm Reynald Deliens 1998 2000 djzip aka Zipp Jacob Herbst 1998 2000 Floss George Nowik 1994 1998 Genosha Ganesh K Viswanathan 1998 2000 GooRoo Chris Egerter 1995 1996 Grubwerm James Jock 1998 2000 Hollywood Simon Carless 1995 1996 Inner Vision Gene Sumter 1996 1997 Inspekdah Deck fka Venom Andre Cardadeiro 1992 1998 I Q Riku Nuottajarvi 1994 1996 Jazztiz Pavel Zolin 1997 2000 jrook Juhani Gurney 1997 2000 Karl Bogdan Raczynski 1995 1996 Khyron Paul Schultz 1994 1998 Krystall Patrick Matte 1994 1996 Legend Liam Widdowson 1997 2000 Leviathan Andy Carlson 1994 1997 Liam the Lemming Liam Hesse 1996 2000 Lord Pegasus Zachary Smith 1994 1998 Lurch 1992 1995 Maelcum fka ModDan Dan Nicholson 1991 present Maral 1994 1995 Mellow D Jaakko Manninen 1995 Mental Floss Andrew McCallum 1994 2000 Mercure 1998 2000 MickRip Mick Rippon 1996 Mistah Kurtz Stephen Hill 1996 Necros Andrew Sega 1994 1995 Nemesis Andrew Wise 1994 1996 Norfair Carl Aborg 1999 2000 Oblivion 1998 1999 Oona Matti Frondelius 1997 2000 Ozone Andre Pang 1996 1997 Perisoft David Wiernicki 1998 PGM P Greg Marczyk 1997 2000 Phoenix Andrew Voss 1994 1997 Piromaniak 1994 1995 Placid Tuomas Mettanen 1997 2000 Quarex Drew Hunt 1995 1998 Ranger Rick Ben Reed 1999 2000 Ringlord Chris Nauroth 1996 2000 Screamager Mehran Khalili 1997 2000 Sinbad 1993 1994 Siren aka Sandman Alexander Brandon 1996 1997 Sophisto Stephen Loomis 1995 Stinger Harri Manninen 1996 1997 Technoid 1992 theHacker Krisjanis Gale 1994 2000 Tristan Eyal Ben or 1998 2000 Vivid Simon Jarosch 1995 2000 Wayfinder Sebastian Grillmaier 1998 2000 Xenon 1997 1999 Zake Olli Leino 1995 1997 Zinc Justin Ray 1997 1999Support edit Berky PR design 1994 1995 Capone Courier info services 1992 1994 Diablo Ben Shelton PR 1994 1995 Draggy Nicolas St Pierre Internet 1995 1996 Electel PR 1996 IOR Jesse Rothenberg Travel 1995 Klepto Maniac Courier 1993 1994 Ogre Courier 1992 Silver Dragon Alek Benedict PR 1996 1998 Taz Site coordinator 1995 Warchild Courier 1992Significant releases editExceedingly Great Grooves EGG musicdisk 1994 Exceedingly Great Grooves 2 musicdisk 1995 Exceedingly Great Grooves 3 musicdisk 1995 Flight demo 1995 Little Green Men demo 1995 Dreams demo 1997 Trip demo 1998 KFMF Archives Volumes 1 3 1997 1999 data and audio CDs Kosmic Y2K Collection six audio CDsNotes edit Flight by Kosmic Free Music Foundation External links editKosmic Free Music Foundation KFMF official website at the Wayback Machine archived March 4 2000 KFMF productions indexed on Pouet Kosmic Archives mirrored on Textfiles com Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Kosmic Free Music Foundation amp oldid 1157876248, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
