|welcome to
|c o u n t d o w n
|nineteen ninety-nine

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|introduction
|members
|songs
|greetings
|closing


|introduction
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Welcome! to Shunt's first, and hopefully not last music disk!
We're sorry the disk has been delayed, we were hoping to
have it out by Feb' 99 but most of us have been rather
busy. Shunt isn't (and may never be) a demo group, we're
just a liddle tracking group, currently existing of four
members, they are:

|M e m b e r s
|----------------------

Jahya
alias/name: Jahya / Marc D. North-Coombes
what'd do?: music, founder 
email: jahya@traxinspace.com 
comments:
`I'm just happy we finally got it all sorted and released this
thing. It's been quite a long time coming and we could of
spent a lot more time making it even better but the time
came for us to just put everything together and release it
After all this is our first release and definitely
not our last...'

deadpoet / JCW
alias/name: (see above) / Jonathan C. Watridge 
what'd do?: music, gfx, organizing us pigs! :p 
email: jonathan@goth.co.za 
homepage: www.netgoth.co.za/countj 
comments:  
`wheee! our first production! My first real anything in the SA
Demoscene! i've been interested in demos, tracking and such
since i was about 14, it's always fascinated me and now,
to be able to contribute, to a dying scene,
is a dream come true! :)

chuK
alias/name: chuK / Darren J. Wood
what'd do?: music
email: chuk@netheads.co.za
comments: 
`This is my first tracking group, and there for my first
music disk. It all came quite suddenly.  I'm new to the
tracking scene, but I feel that in a few years time, you'll
be seeing a lot more of my stuff. Thanx Jonathan for
all the tracking help!'

Chrome
alias/name: Chrome / Peter Mares
what'd do?: music / html
email: peterm@mmscapes.co.za
comments:
`Well, I guess I've just sifted through the ranks as the
scene has matured. Finally I end up with Shunt, doing what I
do and love best - Tracking. A fond memory of Inner
Fear, SandStorm, Zone Trippers and AlphaVille will always be
with me, but for now and for as far as I can predict....'

|oOo

And now folks... Hello! Still alive? Right.. well if you're still
listening, and wondering why the menu music sounds so dull,
Then I s'pose you'd fancy browsing the songs for something
that gets you wet..

|S o n g s
|---------------

Oh, before I forget, you probably want to know how to select
a song right, just move yer "ugly-designed-cursor (tm)" o'er
the song title and hammer the left mouse button once..

Electric Space Travellerܱ by chuK
style: drum 'n bass

This is probably the most intence drum n bass track I've
writen. It's 5 minutes of break beat and bass lines that'll flip
your top! (Headphones recomended!!)
Thanx to Tom Morrelow for the fuct sample.

Tea for Two, Late Sunday Afternoonݱ by JCW
style: jazz

Picture a sunny, sunday afternoon, at 4pm, the sun has almost set 
and you're sitting on the porch cuddled up aginst
your love. ..Tea for two, as the song says.

The Initiationޱ by Chrome
style: gothic/industrial?

I've always been a believer of exploring new avenues of
music. This is one that I've never been down before, but will
probably pay many a happy visit to in the future. It has
been dubbed dark-electro-goth, but whatever it is, it has
character. Being the first song that I release under the
Shunt label (Aswell as for the musicdisk), I thought
that the title was quaint :)

Whats with Today?߱ by chuK
style: drum 'n bass

This is a weird track inspired by a line from a movie:
'Whats with you today?   Whats with today, today?'
Be sure to pump up the bass on your equalizer, and use
FTII or ModPlug Player to play back.

Hollow Vibes by Jahya
style: drum 'n bass
I wasn't totally satisfied with this tune I didn't have much
time to put it together and in the end the overall sound
of the song suffered, but it came out alright and I put
together some nice samples for future use.

It isn't exactly a straight forward dn'b tune, it's on a
mellow tip and I guess I got some of my inspiration from
the the artcore compilations on react records, which btw is a
shit label but what are we poor music deprived south africans
supposed to do, i aslo sampled some sounds off artcore3
namely the main break from `The Spirit - Solar Glide'  that
mellow organ from `Bliss `n' Tumble - The Journey' and the
old skool jungle break from some tune by DJ-SS or
someone off a formation records limited edition boxset my
other samples are from various sample CDs and such...

Eden Hath Fallen by JCW
style: new-age/atmospheric

This track i'm using as the introduction for my upcoming
and first album - Disorientated - Hope you enjoy!

|oOo

And now ladies and transvestite-wannabe-males !! Its time for
the greetings section, is your name here?  We hope so,
because if it is! You stand to win an all expenses paid trip
to JCW's room! Yes, you too can enjoy the carnal
pleasures of his perfect body, his sweet musky breath, his
charming voice, his..his.. long 20 meter tongue just waiting
to slurp toxic goo all over your limp corpse! yess!!
(i deny of just saying that)..
yes.. *ahem*.. and now for the greets:

|Greetings
|-----------

We'd like to greet everyone we know and don't know in the SA
Demoscene. Big word up to RawHed for coding this musicdisk
for us! *kiss* :p

|chuK would like to greet:
|-----------------------
|Deadpoet, Jayha, DLT,
|T-fire (you inspired me in such a big way)
|AKA (The best samples on the net!)
|oona, Brad, Remi, FlAvOuR
|And all those who will listen to my music and
|decide to mail me and tell me what they think...
|Oh and also all those ppl I forgot!

|Jahya would like to greet:
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|shunt members
|sensory overload members - rawhed, saurax etc.
|serenity members - viper, mav, etc.
|all other SA scene groups!

|Distortion and the rest of Cold Response
|Master Zoon/Eyes of Blood
|all of the TraxinSpace old skool
|Zola, Mysterium, Cloakboy
|Anders Akerheden, Vince Lorez
|Solo

|JCW would like to greet:
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|Alice : you're my Frankenstein! :) i don't know
|what the future might bring, but i know who i'd
|like to share it with..
|Sarah Mallory: now quick! look, there's Robert Smith!
|he's driving his Mint Car, oh damn you missed 'm,
|go run after him quick!! He's driving down
|Fascination Street... aww.. damn... heheh
|my eternal love and thanks for always being
|a true friend.
|Leanne : same as above, just not as well said :p
|Mandy : my love to you and Tyrone
|Lonzelle : we all feed the machine
|Michal & Michelle : Lovecats of note ! :)
|Colin, Darren, Andrew, Marc, Taryn
|Judy, Rob.. #gothik & #i.am.mad.. etc; etc;

|Chrome would like to greet:
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|Elemental (I miss ya bud)
|RawNerve (we started tracking together at school)
|Deadpoet (Silly goth nigga <grin>)
|Jahya (Thanx for the many chats and laughs)
|Chuk (Only met you once, but what the hell)
|Viper (Definitive demo scener)
|Maverick(Your words are more powerful than swords<smile>)
|And to my ever present, ever loving girlfriend,
|who just smiles and restrains hysterical laughter
|when she hears my creations :) and she probably
|didn't deserve it..

|Rawhed would like to greet:
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|Saurax, Rawnerve
|All the active sceners out there
|Anybody who knows the joys of ASM coding
|All my friends
|You

|T H E   E N D
