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May Day, May Day!

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Save Our Songs

There’s the idea that once you release your work out into the online world, it stays there in some way, shape or form.  The existence of archives dedicated to preserving computer artwork furthers this notion, though sadly a lot slips between the cracks.  Specifically, computer music most often got overlooked.

In October of 1997, we released a three-part celebration of our creative achievements, split (for various reasons) into three disks: disk A, the lowrez art; disk B, the hirez art; and disk C, the music.  Disks A and B made it into posterity; disk C only survived as a corrupt fragment someone aborted while uploading to an FTP site… until now.

During the leadup to our 20-year reunion pack MIST1014, Platinum and Beatle helped to apply modern data recovery tools to the corrupted specimen of MIST3YRC.ZIP which had become the sole remaining representative of the release, allowing successful extraction of a pathetic 5 songs of its intended 23.  We’re thrilled to put the full music disk back into circulation, allowing all the songs to be heard in their entirety for possibly the first time since their host BBSes went down for the count circa 1998.

It can be downloaded with all its files (and a substantially updated infofile) at bit.ly/mist3yrc , but more excitingly we are proud to announce its exclusive hosting at pc.textmod.es , where the songs can be heard playing right through your web browser, functionality not currently offered at any of the other artscene archive websites.  (There’s another exciting trick in the eaves, but we’ll start with that one.)

But this is just the start.  For the first ten days (at least!) of May 2015, May Mistigris Music Madness will be in effect: we will be re-releasing “lost” collections of computer music daily, most of which never made it out of the circle of area code 604’s tracker-music BBSes, and none of which anybody has been able to listen to in this century.  Some of them will be past Mistgris productions, but we will also be offering up substantial quantities of recently-recovered music from fellow traveller groups and artists whose names you may have seen guesting or being greeted in our infofiles: we always stood in solidarity with our area code, and ensuring that their creations gain representation in the wider historical record is one way of furthering this.

Day 1: MIST3YRC.ZIP, reconstructed.