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As part of Mistigris May Music Madness and Merry Mayhem: Day 5, we continued re-releasing the complete works of local (to our area code of 604) music group SONiC EQUiNOX, fellow travellers whose work we also featured and vice versa, with a closer eye toward demoscene endeavours and game development.  The next collection up on the block was SE_D0896, so here are the visuals from that archive.  (My apologies: using photographs to document a music disk is a bit backwards and wrong-headed, but I believe the alternative would be blogging a single song at a time, which would be approaching the matter with a bit more fine-toothed of an approach than I had in mind.  You should be able to enjoy the musicdisk’s audio tracks in-browser over at http://pc.textmod.es/pack/se_d0896/ , so that’s something.)

The infofile is again encoded into an executable using Eto’s exclusive BIN2EXE mojo (and illustrated with his distinctive and notable outsider ANSI stylings, so stark considering his ultimate custodianship of modern ANSI creation with the ongoing development of the PabloDraw application), with the new additional complexity of playing a music track at the same time!  (Its stereo visualizer accounts for the red stripes you see running down the infodump.)  This pack didn’t represent a huge sea change for the group, with notes and updates regarding other projects in the works, but one point of distinction is that this release sees the inclusion of Sonic Equinox Player v0.2B, its debut, which will play the included .S3M songs and even provide oscilloscope visualization of sorts.

Noted in the infofile in passing is the release of the 604 Music Disk, an epic undertaking underwritten by Sonic Equinox leader Eto and “released” at the 1996 instalment of the NAiD demoparty in Montreal.  The 604 music disk got its own turn on the Mistigris May Music Madness stage, but you will just have to wait for it 8)  A major production bringing (nearly) all the 604′s music groups to the table, giving it the casual mention here is really the tail wagging the dog.

Also noted is Sonic Equinox’s own BBS echomail network, the Sonic Link, which … is of course just so much background radiation now.  It included message bases for play of Onyx’s homebrewed AIRS (Adventures in Infinite Realities System) tabletop RPG system, which had a ruleset released in Mistigris’ 3rd anniversary artpack, another artscene first!  But I digress.  Next up, Sonic Equinox ventures forth into the bold new year of 1997!