TekLordZ ProductionZ 1995 PHreSh iNSpiRaTiON by MCA iCE Funky Ph0nT StYLe by Smooth TL News! Hello folks ts here writing the Teklordz news column this month A few things have happened since the 0795 pack July was a good month for Teklordz After a month of reorganizing the group and purging the dead weight on the member- list after the somewhat shitty May Artiphaks we bounced back in July and re- leased a fairly decent pack More reorganization followed and I decided to add a new subdivision to TL-- the Teklordz trial I am not sure of what the real difference between trial members and regular members is in other groups but my main intention in creating this subdivision was to help artists who have the potential but whose works need lots of work The main difference between the trial artists and the regular artists is pretty clear-cut Regular artists get to more or less determine themselves which of their works is fit to be released in the monthly Artiphaks whereas trial members works have not only quality control performed on them by either Smooth or me but if the work is not released they will get constructive feed- back on their work in the hope that the advice will help them to improve I have moved a few of our current artists into this category-- Anselmo and Wolverine (with apologies to Anselmo i would have liked to explain this to you but unfortunately i have not seen you on IRC in awhile so send me some mail =) We have also picked up two new artists Shroom and Youthanasia both of which are in our new Teklordz Trial division This month Knight*time returned from the dead and submitted a kickass set of ansis A new artist Seize has joined our ranks this month as well Thanks to Bad Sector for bringing this guy in =) (tho by the time this pack is released i think Knight*time left us for another group BIG doh folks Come back to us we miss yoooo ) Speaking of Bad Sector the senior staff has decided to trash the ascii division temporarily Currently with all the new ascii groups popping up we realized that there was probably no one left that did quality ascii that wasn t in any other groups Sorry Bad Sector but looks like the ascii thing is dead for now In case you Teklordz members haven t been reading your mail (which you should because it is currently our best way to reach ya folks) i decided to step down from being overall Member Coordinator because it was a bit too much for me to handle However I will continue on as Art Coordinator =D I ll prolly be emailing more info to you Teklordz folks later on this so check them mailboxes ) Anyway for you Teklordz artists feel free to e-mail your unfinished stuff to either me or any other Teklordz artist if you want some tips on how to finish it up I will gladly oblige Anywho a bit of other Teklordz news Teklordz is currently working on a music- disk We are accumulating quite a bit of songs from various artists-- KxMode Choo Choo Jell0 Inner Vision (yeah the acid guy whee =) and Qyv So far we have quite a number of songs but we need to contact our coders to see if they can come up with a music disk player with either an ansi vga interface So Grath Stimpy or Vyking if you dudes know how to code s3ms mods vgas give Smoothio a call so ya folks can toss round some ideas =) shit i almost forgot Tranx! sorry! =) If you re looking to pick up a net check out the iFXnet application generator iFXnet is the support net for Teklordz In addition it has pretty good mail- flow and overall spiffy people on check it out if this interests you =D Well I thought I d also explain a little about Teklordz A few people have been bugging me on IRC of late asking me to kick out a few of our artists they deem as shitty My response to them was that everyone should be given a chance and perhaps the reason that they have been lousy for so long is because no one has given them that chance and just called them LAME It s not as if these artists do not show potential-- all of them in my opinion show that the talent is there but perhaps it needs a bit more coaxing to bring out the brighter side of themselves If you think its bullshit check out Mojo s art this month In my opinion it is some pretty kickass stuff and when you think about how long he s been doing this it is FUCKING INCREDIBLE Just a couple months ago I found Mojo on IRC offering the first Pulse pack in #ansi Most of the #ansi types flamed him on the spot calling the group lame and shit so I took a look myself Ok ok so the first Pulse pack did indeed suck but instead of just dismissing Mojo as the wannabe artist lamer I gave him some tips on how to improve his art and wham a few weeks later he shows me an ansi he did (it was in 0795) that was kickass as hell We could I suppose get good artists that have been in 10 million different big art groups previously but if they ve been in so many groups why should I think they ll stay in Teklordz and not use it as a stepping stone to get to another group Anyway I like to think that the stuff i m doing as art coord and not running off to join a big art group will incline our members to stay D I think I ll cut this short I wanna go watch Beauty and the Beast Smooth still needs to give me a call I still have to compile the pack and Soul Train is on in two hours man that show has THE hottest asian chicks around (fuck the Grind)-- but shit i think i m digressing a bit too much ) Well toodaloo folkses =D --ts --Teklordz Art Coordinator type guy bah enuff of this guy s ranting and raving go home cook rice