ÛÜÛÜÛßßßÜÜ ((ÛßÛ ßÛÜÛ Û ÜßÛÜßßÜßÛ Üß ÜÛÛÛÛÛÛÜ ÛÜßÜ ÜÛÜÛ ßÜ ÛÛÜß Û Üß ßÛß ÞÛÛÛßÛßÛÛÝ ÛÛ Û ÜÛßÛÜ Û ßÜ ÛÛÛ ÞÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÝÛÜß ÛÜ ÜÛß ßÛÜ ÛÜÜÜßßßßßÜ Û ÛÛÜ ßÛÜßßßÜÛÛÛ ÛßÛÜÛß ßÛ ÛßÜÛß ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÜÛÛÜ ÛÜßÛß Û ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÜ ÛÜ Û ßÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛßß Û Û ßßßßß ÛÛ²²±±°° ÛÛ²²±±° ÛÛ²²±±°° ÛÛ²²± ° ÛÛ²²±±°° ÛÛ²²±±° ÛÛ²²±± Û²²±±° ÛÛ²²±±° ÛÛ²²±±° ÛÛ²²±±°° ÛÛ²²±±° Û²²±±° ÛÛ²²±±° ÛÛ²²±±°° ÛÛ²²±±° ÛÛ²²±± Û²²±±° ÛÛ²²±±° ÛÛ²²±±°° ÛÛ²²±±° ÛÛ²²±± Û²²±±° ÛÛ²²±±° Û²²±±°° ktÛÛ²²±±° ÛÛ²²±±° Û²²±±° ÛÛ²²±±° ÛÛ²²±±°° ÛÛßßÜÜ Ûß ÜßÜ ÜßÜ ÛÛßßÜÜ ÛßÜ ÜßßÜ Û Üß Û Û Û Û Û Üß Û Û ßÜ ÛÜÜßßÜ ÛÜ Û Û Û ÛÜÜßßÜ Û Û ßÜ Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û ÛÜ ßÜß ßÜß Û Û ÛÜß ßÜÜß  It's hard to know where to even begin with Happy Fetus Records. It was almost more of a social club than a group, hence the later "Spice" imprint with a bigger focus on making and distributing music and less on hanging around Denny's restaurants in the middle of the night. But I get ahead of myself. The first BBS on which I was ever a "regular", circa 1992, was a PD board selected on the basis of its name: "Realm of Absurdity" (RoA). From there, after some message base drama I got to watch unfold in slow-motion at 1200 baud, I followed the cool kid "Lord Doctor Who" to a gold standard PD BBS, a two-noder and echomail hub (of its own network, NeuralNet): Double Exposure. There we wrote strange stories about the message board denizens, all endowed with honourary membership in an imaginary organization known as "TOASTERS(tm)". This is all going somewhere, bear with me. The first big modem meet I attended was a big party at the house of Double Exposure's SysOp, "Spaceman Spiff". There, out in a distant suburb, a small group of friends had inaccessible fun while alienated lusers, my group included (Nitty immediately pegged it for Not His Speed of party and I irritated him by insisting on remaining on the scene) milled around the periphery wondering how to start a conversation with people you'd interacted with but never met. I stuck around for two reasons: I needed to be seen chugging down my bottle of J0lt Cola, conspicuous shibboleth of my new identity, and also -- I needed to meet DJ Moses Risin', Spiff's close associate, Op of The Pelvis of Elvis BBS, professional soundman for Masterplan Productions (hey, Masterplan does sound for our high school dances! Maybe we can hire Moses to... nope!), and head of Happy Fetus Records... whatever that was! We waited for quite some time, with occasional Beckett-esque updates regarding Moses' itinerary trickling down to party patrons, and eventually he hit the scene and almost immediately disappeared into a private room where the older, more tight-knit lads of this crew were partying in a more exclusive fashion. Well, that was a bust! Following its salad days '92-'93, TPOE was on hiatus, so online updates regarding HFR activities were sporadic; periodically .ZIP files of their modules would wash up at Double Exposure, and after downloading enough of them, I even figured out how to play them! Gradually I gleaned that the HFR crew met at midnight Monday nights at a local Denny's, and resolved to insinuate myself somehow into their cadre. The only problem was the inconvenient reality of my Tuesday morning high school classes. After a few months, a conveniently-situated statutory holiday gave me the opening I needed in order to realize my plan, and I learned of a pre-get-together at Moses' apartment... and plotted a course. Moses lived a single block away from Slartibartfast, the friend who had first introduced me to modem use (from where it was wildly disseminated to my entire cohort, so as to better dominate rounds of TradeWars), but following his schizophrenic episode poor Slarty had put the brakes on meeting new people under strange circumstances... whereas I doubled down. I buzzed in at the intercom and entered the inner sanctum, whereupon I was confronted with... a room full of dudes lounging in a bedroom while Moses looped and looped and tweaked and endlessly relooped a 4-second-long Sarah Mclachlan sample in FastTracker 2, a work-in-progress I would someday hear in completion (and which you now can as well!) as Ice Cream Trance. The dudes weighed in with their idle speculation regarding whether Mclachlan's record label, Nettwerk (who weren't entirely online-clueless, hosting an online chat with Sarah at one point in which she greeted TABNet!), would authorize use of the loop, weighing its brief length with its overall use in repetition through the entire length of the new song. As the groove undulated and looped, Moses kept picking in variations of minimalist tweaks live, ending up with a pile of grooves that always somehow managed to avoid maturing into a complete song. Surely this was some DJ's trick, of building a stack of loops to mix and match on the fly, as the spirit moved him. This student of classical piano really didn't have a very complete understanding. Then it was off to the Denny's; the strange crew split up into their respective vehicles and Spiff put the sanctity of my underwear to the test by winning their regular drag race to their destination in a nearby neighbourhood in about 90 seconds. There this motley crew discussed all the splendors of their carefree 20s, specifically the ones contained under the skirt of the SysOp of Creative Visions BBS, and when I was called upon to commiserate nudge nudge wink wink I shocked the group by conceding to having no experience in the realm, being only a young lad of 15. My full lumberjack beard (which I would never have expected to become fashionable) had implied otherwise, and the conversation continued in a far more inhibited fashion once these cyber weirdos realised that their newest cohort was only half as old (and likely three times as innocent) as they had believed. I was starting a BBS with Nitnatsnoc, The Screaming Tomato, and I didn't really know if this computer artscene business, introverted in its obsession with privacy, security and eliteness, had any legs to it. But I did know that the appeal of music was an eternal one, and my mission was to line up affiliations for TST with the local .MOD-makers. (Darkforce's ad for us in the 0994 Union pack baldly lies, listing all the affiliations we sought, none of which we succeeded in achieving, and capping it off with the line "604's Finest Music Oriented Board". Well yes, in some parallel universe...) Attendance at this bizarre function in the middle of the night was part of my campaign to impress upon the computer musicians that we thought they were on the edge of something big and we wanted to be a part of it. (Look, I drew an ANSI celebrating them! It's the one on the top of this infofile! But it didn't hold a candle to Moses' surreal blinking and animated exercises in textmode... two or three of which were revived from Mist pack file separators to punctuate this release with.) Well, they were big in the sense that they were prolific: due to the tragicomedy of data loss, I have retained a tape backup catalogue of all the Happy Fetus Records songs I had downloaded, so I can understand the precise dimensions of just how much has been lost forever. Cross-checking it against an internal document tabulating their official releases that has somehow survived through the ages, I can see just how much we don't have anymore. (And yet I can deliver an impromptu performance of "Moses is Sleeping" from heart!) (v1.1 note: Within a week of releasing the initial HFR collection, DJ Moses emerged from retirement to fill many of the blanks on the list, in which context the previous paragraph may not make a lot of sense: turns out, not all that much WAS lost forever! But what do you want me to do, rewrite the whole infofile?) But even if we have proportionally lost a lot, numerically we have saved a great deal. I could continue tabulating a bizarre haze of early modem memories or I could get down to presenting this material. There's so much more I could say, about how TPOE straddled the realms of the PD and the underground without belonging to either, being such an anarchic font of creativity (I think "anarchic creativity" is about the kindest spin you can put on that ANSImation, a true kindred spirit to Bukowski's celebrated "beer shit") -- during its rare and sporadic bouts of being up at all -- that it played host to no fewer than three music groups at the same time! (Those being: Happy Fetus Records (the unruly gang of variously-talented friends), the rarefied Spice that was skimmed off its top (and perhaps bolstered with remote #trax submissions?), and Radiance -- no, not the Fire music division whose pack we recently reissued -- whose founder lives down the block from me but cannot shed any further light on its life and times.) It was such a ground floor hub for the local .MOD tracking community (and beyond, host of the electronic music specialty echomail network DJNet) that it was hard to know precisely which files were officially HFR-affiliated and which ones were by outsiders, tossed on the mound willy-nilly while everything was flying fast and furious! Consequently, some of the files contained within this archive may not be from actual full-status members of Happy Fetus Records, just fellow travellers who also saw fit to distribute their compositions at The Pelvis of Elvis. At this distance, it's impossible to unravel who was affiliated how at a given moment in time. (Also: unimportant and academic, since none of their actual songs have survived the passage of time to muddy the waters 8) Ironically HFR got on the Internet with a strong start, beating us out of the gate due to strong ties to a local ISP at Mortimer.com... but when that bubble popped, all traces of their ever having existed, even in the Internet Archive, were virtually wiped from the historical record. In the closing days of Spice, they were well represented among the Trax Weekly community, but as we have seen that only ensured that the review of their works went down in history, leaving the actual works out in the cold. Well, here they are -- hot or cold, we're serving it up on a silver platter: highlighted works are included in this archive (many brought to light for the first time in decades, supplemented by a paltry handful mined from existing computer music archives), while plain Jane grey ones are lost forever, alas! (Note: not so much plain Jane? A couple of days after release, Moses came out of his cave and endowed me with a mountain of historical files, in one fell swoop tripling the number of songs contained in this collection. A grand triumph for history!) - Cthulu / Mistigris .ùù. ø ;Music released by HFR : November, 1995 [Updated: May, 2015.] ù `ù............... . . . Dj Moses - Leader of the pack, I'm a tracking freak, much like Speedraver. :) ASTHMA.ZIP"Asthma Attack" COKEFIT.ZIP"CokeFit" FUCKDAT.ZIP"FuckDat" Cover originally by Sagat. FUCKMACH.ZIP "Fuck Machine" elements of Reservoir Dogs. HFR-ICS.ZIP"The ICS Song" HFRCHICK.ZIP "Chicken train" REMIX 94 HFRCOKE2.ZIP "I want her Coke" HFRDIFF.ZIP"Something Different" HFRFLUTE.ZIP "Kill the flute!" HFRFUCKU.ZIP "Overkill of Lance" HFRHELLO.ZIP "Hello Spaceman" HFRHUSLA.ZIP "Da Husla" HFRKISS.ZIP"Kiss the penis" HFRMPLOY.ZIP "Disgruntled Employee" HFRPISSD.ZIP "Pissed / Bitchy Mood" HFRSPOON.ZIP "The Tired Spoonman / Harsh Tire Syndrome" HFRTEMPO.ZIP The fast one HFRTEXAS.ZIP "Texas Cowboy" cover originally by The Grid HFRTOES.ZIP"Choppin Toenails" HFRTRAIL.ZIP "The Love Trail" HFRTRIBE.ZIP "Tribal Fetus" HFRTRIP.ZIPThe First Trip HFRTRIP2.ZIP The Second Trip - "Trip Or Treatment" HFRWICKD.ZIP "I'm Wicked" HFRXTSY.ZIP"xtasy relydo" HFR_MOOD.ZIP  "Crummy mood" HFR_USA.ZIP"Proud American" HFR_USA2.ZIP "Proud American Remix" HOLYSHIT.ZIP "The Speed / Holy shit" JUNGLE.ZIP"Depressed Jungle" MOODY.ZIP"The bike ride" MOSES.ZIP"Mosesmix" MOSES1.ZIP"What's the meaning" - One of my first sampling efforts in xm format. Yeah, that's my real voice. :) MOSES2.ZIP"Sex Trance" - Mazurka was the inspiration for this vibe. Listened to theirs, then made my own from the leftovers. MOSES3.ZIP"Ice Cream Trance" - When I released this one locally, it tripped everyone out. Contains elements of all creative styles of trance. MOSES4.ZIP"Heavy Mind State" - With some nice tricks I learned from RAiN, I was able to tweak out a nice 303 and add it to an already trippy vibe. MOSES5.ZIP"Dem Funky Chicks" - Applesauce and I had a little friendly competition with some samples that we snagged off some unaware funky friends. MOSES6.ZIP"Boring Friday" - A nice little track done up on a rainy Vancouver weekend. MOSES7.ZIP"Secret Bingo Machine" - Straight out weird. I made this track and I don't know how many Cokes I had in me, but it definitely shows. MOSES8.ZIP"Detention Level" - This track I made for my pal The Scottish Prick who loves Star Wars. I made it for him in about 2 hours and it shows. MOSES9.ZIP"Trance Mission" - It took me about 2 weeks total to complete this track. I change the intro/chorus/bridge and other elements of this track at least 3 times. This is the finished product and I'm still not happy. MOSES-95.ZIP 1st Moosik disk containing Moses 1-9 MOSES10.ZIP"Josh Wink Saves the Ducks" - Available on the Delerious Disk Quack quack quack... coming back from a wicked rave I did this track in the final hours of a sweet trip. It was also the firsttrack that I released on a music disk. Oooohh.... MOSES11.ZIP"The Awesome 303 (Flyby mix)" Quick little ditty I did up in late 95 for a music disk from a group that I truly respect, Radiance. MOSES12.ZIP"The Spice Must Flow (tribal electric mix)" - Guest release track for Radiance's 2nd disk named simply Radioactivity. Dune influence is present... I love that flick. MOSES13.ZIP"Palette Change" MOSES14.ZIP"Proberami" - Thanks to Brain Dr. for the samples and impulse to create this very odd track SOUTHVAN.ZIP "South Vancouver" SUBTLE.ZIP"Subtle Mood" THABITCH.ZIP "The Bitch is Gone" THESOUND.ZIP "The Sound" WAPBAM.ZIP"Wap-Bam Boogie" WELCOME.ZIP   "The Welcome" HFRBUDDY.ZIP "Trippin on Buddy" EDMONTON.XM"e-town vibe" EXPERHI.XM"experimental high" FUCKIN.XM"fuckin'" HIVOLUME.XM"hi volume" IAN-MOE.XM"Ian" MINDKILL.XM"Fear Is The Mind-Killer" MYBAG.XM"My Bag Returns" Spaceman Spiff - Our resident pianist. CHUMP.ZIP"The Chump" HFRBURN.ZIP"Burning in my Gut" HFRDIPER.ZIP"The Stinky Diaper" HFRWEEDS.ZIP"Mean, Lean Weedeating Machine" SPIFFY.MOD "Spiff, Mark 1" SPIFFY.ZIP"Spiff, Mark 2" SPITTLE.ZIP"The Spittle-drool not included" SS_CLPSE.ZIP"Collapse" SS_CRANM.ZIP"Cranial Meanderings" SS_CRANX.ZIP"Cranial Meanderings" Update SS_CYCLE.ZIP"Cyclic Redundance" SS_PIANO.ZIP"That Fucking Piano" SS_SPANK.ZIP"Spank" SS_SPOOG.ZIP"Spoogmobile" HFRDARK.ZIP?? Applesauce - Previously Waldo - Our alternative source. ASWINTER.ZIP"Winter" AS_BEN.ZIP "Ben's Reality" AS_BLEPT.ZIP"Bleep and Tweet" AS_NONAM.ZIP"noname" AS_PICKL.ZIP"Pickle" AS_SLEEP.ZIP"Moses is sleeping" AS_SLUMB.ZIP"slumber" AS_TRICK.ZIP"Trickle" A-TNYBRD.ZIP"Tiny Bird Remix" Originally by LDW JOUBELLE.ZIP"Joubelle" SAUCEHAC.ZIP"Hot Asian Chicks" W_CHOPBR.ZIP"Chopp'n Brocolli" W_DOCSND.ZIP"Document of Sound" W_FLOORP.ZIP"Floor Pie" W_FUTNOT.ZIP"FootNotes" W_STARVE.ZIP"Starving" W_TV.ZIP"Latenite TV" AS_SSMIK.ZIP"Shopping Sunday Morning for lingere at Kmart" Sonic collage of guitars and synth. It's been 6 months, find out why... The Judge - Our resident heavy metal artist. SYNTHMDS.ZIP"Synth Moods" His first release HELLISH.ZIP   "Hell On Earth" LIV-DEAD.ZIP   "Living Dead" MARSBARS.ZIP   "Destination Unknown" MOTORBTH.ZIP"Motor Breath" RACIST.ZIP   "Racist Motherfucker" REFUSE.ZIP"REFUSE/RESIST" SADSOULS.ZIP"Souls of despair" SLOWDETH.ZIP"Slow death" WITH-YOU.ZIP"With you.." SUBWAY.ZIP"Subway" THE-JAM.ZIP"Jamm'n with Troy" THE-ONE.ZIP"The One" WEEZER.ZIP"Buddy Holly" Cover originally by Weezer. WEEZER2.ZIP"No one else" Cover originally by Weezer. WHATFUNK.ZIP"What The funk?" WILDLIFE.ZIP"Wildlife" Lord Doctor Who (our newest member). PROJ_X1.ZIP"Tiny bird" .ùù. ø ø ú SPiCE Releases ùú øùúø SPiCE was just formed this month [Nov '95], so the list is short. :) AF-CLAV.ZIP "Clav" by Acidfrog L-DENTIS.ZIP "Sadistic Dentist" by Loki ZOLOFT.ZIP "Zoloft" by Loki MOSES15.ZIP "Kool-Aid or Milk" by DJ Moses - One of the first tracks released under SPICE a small rave division of the mighty HFR.. hehehe. Featuring our first female HFR member Swamp in her vocal debut. MS-IHTB.ZIP "It has to be" by Magik Spyce SR-ATTCK.ZIP "Attack" by Speedraver SR-ETRTY.ZIP "(e)ternity" by Speedraver DELRI-1.ZIP The introduction Delerious Pack of Trance/Rave/Industrial DELRI-2.ZIP With guest releases from Daedalus, (G)eorge and The Pope BEEGLE.XM"Beegle" by Acidfrog WISHBONE.S3M "Wish Bone" by Loki BALLFIRE.XM "Ball of Fire" by Acidfrog XMAS1996.XM "Merry Xmas '96" by Acidfrog 20MC10SP.S3M "20mc10sp" by Loki MS-BIGUP ZIP "Big Up" by Magik Spyce AF-DIYL.XM "Drowning in your Love" by Acidfrog [Maybe not an HFR or Spice release, who knows, but included   on account of being one of my favorite tracks of all time!] MOSES16.ZIP   "Acid Wash" - Finished this track after a sweet rave in Victoria. I love being creative after experiencing that kind of event. It's a must attend for everyone who reads this... not just in Victoria.. but it would be suggested. wOnkO tHe sAnE: (Affiliation unknown, but definitely ran in NeuralNet circles) WM01FUNK.ZIP WM02EURO.ZIP WM03BACH.ZIP WM04NILE.ZIP WM05NIRV.ZIP WM06TRIB.ZIP WM10WTHM.ZIP WM11DOOM.ZIP Hero Bob: (Later known under a different handle...) HB-CRACK.ZIP "Crack" HB-JUXT.ZIP "Juxtaposition" HB-MTCL.ZIP ?? HB-NUMB.ZIP "Numb" remix HB-SQUID.ZIP "March of the Squid" NinjaDude:(Later to create an enormous quantity of tracked music, much of which we've already unleashed this month. 2HAPPYYY.MOD "Toooo happeeeeeee" FEAROTH.MOD "Fear of the Harmless" FREEKIN.MOD "Freekin" IDIOSYNC.ZIP "Idioosyncracy" MRVAIN.ZIP "Mr. Vain" remix DEFENCE.MOD "On the defensive" DARKNESS.MOD "Undercoverofdarkness" Miscellaneous / Artist unknown (but look at that prefix, definitely HFR!): HFRTAMED.ZIP DJ Swooop's "Untamed World" HFRHATE.ZIP?? HFRYKNOW.ZIP ?? HFR-DIST.ZIP ?? .ùù ø ø ú HFR Members / SPiCE Members øùúø = Happy Fetus Records = November 1995 Moses RisinThe Scottish Prick Spaceman Spiff Lord Doctor Who ApplesauceDead Fish DarklockThe Judge = SPiCE = November 1995 Acidfrog Defex Dj Moses Loki Magik Spyce Speed Raver .ùù ø ø ú Contacting HFR øùúø Internet: - catch dj_moses, sauce, tsp or acidfrog on IRC #TRAX - stop by our Webpage at HTTP://WWW.MORTIMER.COM/HFR - email Moses at mykes@mortimer.com or moses@mortimer.com - all email accounts are accessible through the webpage. Bulletin Board Systems: - World HeadQuarters - The Pelvis of Elvis - (604) 732-8763 - 9600+ ANSI-DOS Based Bulletin Board System - Distribution Site - Creative Images - (604) 596-1475 - 9600+ ANSI-DOS Based Bulletin Board System ú ú úùúùù--ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ---ùùúùú ú ú Thanks again to ZiNC of.... 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