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. 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. 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! 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! whoopwhoop. 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.. Sushi X - Changing yer number on us eh? Why we oughta... :) CRiSiS - I think that you guys should consider 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.