ALiVE 3-94 NFo File By Mass Delusion Senior Staff Yet another month yet another pack To Inquire About ALiVE Art Productions Call Packaged Rebellion - 916 246 7165 Hullo! This is Mass Delusion senior staff of alive writing this info file so you guys can get what s going down in alive here after our second release First I d like to extend congrats to our new members who should give us solid performance and a better name! Greetz shouted out to Ragtop - S Cardura Art Dude Cool Guy From Kansas and a pain in the ass to recruit grin Hellion - Co-S ENiGMA Got him through Ryunosuke s constant blabbermouthing to us about everything heh j k Ryu! Demize - An old friend whether he knows it or not whose art REALLY improved and now we re glad to have him on the staff - thanks to Thee 3rd for finding him Mr Sinister - S The Necropolis Not the TRiBE guy This one is outta 716 (Upstate NY) and does some REALLY hot looking VGA s Two of his ALiVE Logos pics are in the pack Welcome aboard - finally ) Defluxio The Beholder - Identity crisis kid went by Defluxio on some rips and The Beholder on others however it s the same talented rip guy that we picked up and used well in our second pack Check out his stuff For this pack we only have a couple of major things to write about First would be the old RIOT merger deal About one week after we released ALI-0194 ZIP I wanted to apply for a RIOT site so I called up Megatrons board and he asked to see the pack I u led it and within two days receieved a voice call from him He wanted alive to merge into RIOT Along with this deal came a senior staff spot for me because at the time he thought I ran alive Well we stalled and finally decided not to do it because we are trying to make something out of our own label and days later RIOT collapsed *WHEW* We re glad we waited that out and didn t run to merge Best of luck to megatron and the rest of the RIOT crew wherever they call home now Still on the topics of mergers we are negotiating a deal with UNiSoN (who since changed their name to CRiSiS because of UNiON confusion) and if we have any finalized results we ll throw a text file in the pack at the last second CRiSiS is a small but strong group of laid-back artists who do a good job on their work We ve been talking to them for awhile now and since the name-change fiasco Sludge has been more willing to talk grin This is definitely a top priority for us as merging with a talented group like crisis would strongly enhance our quality and up our output No hard feelings to the crisis crew for whatever comes of these talks Please note that these ARE talks and ONLY talks I just feel it better to TELL people what s going on instead of having rumors fly NOTHING is final yet I know I m going to get a rep for writing long info files Also this month a startling event happened to Variation (co-founder senior staff) We picked up a distribution site awhile back called The Eleventh Hour RedmaN of ACiD co-ops the board and when Variation did Grifter an ansi for the board RedmaN talked to Rad Man of ACiD and they called up Variation and told him that he was welcome in ACiD holy shit Let s start off by saying that after *ONE* release we were hoping to be known not having our founders invited to acid Well back when alive started VR and I had long talks about man if *I* got invited to acid! and what we d do VR said he was die-hard ALiVE and while he wanted to join(No matter what he says ) he decided to hold his position as ALiVE Senior Staff Artist and to continue raising the excellence of his work and the quality of alive! Thanks go to Variation - for the model member of the month award He showed great loyalty and it s been a morale booster here! To ACiD Thanks! Tryin and stealin one of our founder d00ds! grin As a last side note I want to comment about small groups and the ansi scene People constantly yak about how small groups should stop forming and how they never last and this and that I ll tell you one reason they don t last if they have ANY talent bigger groups view them as either a threat or a treasure If it s the former they try to merge if it s the latter they try to merge And if the group refuses oftentimes bad feelings fly and we have an extradited group The politics of the scene are very touchy and for small groups with little clout it is hard to hold ground Hopefully people agree with me if you are in a senior spot on a small group s staff think about it It only takes three things to last in this vicious scene - Talent Dedication Balls #3 is for standing up to the big shots and creating your own path off the beaten trail Let s hope the scene becomes more accepting of small groups since we re all artists right Alright fore you delete this file I ll wrap it up with just some k-rad sig and greetzZz action - Mass Delusion ALiVE Senior Staff CoRoSioN Member Some classic Ace Ventura allllllRIGHTy then! s go out to - Variation - d00d you stayed! Thouroughly impressed - thanks! Thee 3rd - good work keep the talent rolling in Acension - HERE IS A GREET GET OFF YOUR ASS AND CODE Demize Hellion RagTop Mr Sinister The Beholder - Welcome Aboard! Ragtop Again- It s about time - DEEEEEEEK ByteMan - Astounding and i m in debt ALRIGHT! ! ) The Gaurdian - Good enough to join up Returning your greet too! Screaming Demon - hey man thanks for the MRi app! Ryunosuke - BLARG! whoop MRi KiCKS whoop El (ex-alive courier) - where the FUCK are you ! Schitzo (Current alive courier) - thanks man keep up the spreading No Carrier UNiON SS - Hey man wassup you canadian hoser Glenn Danzig - Reflections is too long for ansis grin Sushi X - Changing yer number on us eh Why we oughta ) CRiSiS - I think th merge at you guys s merge hould con merge sider merging ACiD iCE GOTHiC TRiBE - Consistently the finest art good role models! UNiON REM ETE and the other medium sized - Good job guys - Keep it up in 94