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Mistigris May Music Madness: Day 7 brought us to the final SONiC EQUiNOX music disk release, SE_D0897 – audible and executable in-browser at pc.textmod.es!  With our bloating assistance left to a minimum, it weighs in as a slim volume containing 6 songs by 4 composers (Onyx, Esquire, Freaq, and Quip guesting from Mist), plus a regrettably upskirty picture and a sweet little loader by Melkor… and also the standard application generator and executable infofile (including a text dump of its contents, allowing me to sample more generously here.)

There’s nothing here telegraphing the fact that This Is The End For Sonic Equinox; the releases followed a bit of a boom and bust in regards to how packed their archives were, but even at this slim end of the spectrum they still make a respectable showing.

More telling, perhaps, is that over half of the pack’s contents comes from an individual artist – a sign of personal virtuosity, to be sure, but not necessarily a promising indicator for the team.  Onyx was the one seemingly propping things up with his bottomless creativity, but despite his prolific talents, they didn’t provide a compelling reason for a group to remain assembled around the eternal fountain.  Like Cthulu and Mist, Onyx continued creating at full tilt after Sonic Equinox and, yea, the whole computer artscene dissolved around him, these solo efforts amounting to nothing more than one instrument continuing to sound a note after the orchestra has stopped playing.

Settling down as a family man, he was presented with an ultimatum to focus on a single one of his creative outlets rather than dickering around with this and that, so today though his visual and sonic creations have been shelved, you can catch him self-publishing ebooks.

This, their final infofile, seems unaware of the grand occasion, but here’s what things looked like before the lights went out:

           What’s new in SE land? Well, this being my second time around as
 cheiftan, I still haven’t a clue what’s going on. With summer upon us, I
 find that our _active_ memberlist is a finite thing, so I’m now on the
 lookout for new members. Hey, we all appreciate the help from mist, but SE can’t sustain itself on life support forever.

           Whazzat? Hey! look who’s back! Zinc is in the house! I don’t know
 about the rest of you, but I’m looking forward to some of that trance he’s
 known for.

           Okay, punks, think ya gots talent? Prove it! I told ya I’m looking
 for new members, and YOU might be one of them! Music? Code? VGA? Anything else that would look good in this pack? SE’s goal is to provide a forum for enthusiastic nerds- er, creative people to get their stuff seen. Seen? Seen by WHOM, you might ask? Glad you asked. As well as being able to extend your sig by one affil, you K-radder, you can brag about your nerdsome glory to all your friends! Muhahaha! Who else is watching? Well, for one, Delphic oracle is watching. Ok, you ask, who the heck is DO? DO makes games. DO has just sent out their first game with Spectrum Pacific publishing, and now begins on an even larger project. Of course, while that is still hush-hush, but an eye is always open for someone with the skills and dedication to put some decent work on a large-scale game. What’s needed most right now is VGA, but ANYONE who can make a large enough contribution will be considered.

 In the pack— – -  -   -   -      -              -

  Good vibrations from-
     Esquire
        esq-atmq.xm  -Atomique
     Freaq
        frq-heav.s3m -Find my Heaven
     Onyx
        onx_mars.s3m  -Mars Invades (no inspiration from mars attacks..)
        onx_outl.s3m  -Outlash
        onx_wowi.s3m  -World Wishers
        onx_thrm.s3m  -Therm (imbedded in SE-WAVE.EXE)
        onx-lftl.s3m  -Lullabye for the Lost (playing now, in the exe..)
        onx-blst.pcx  -Generic anime type scene.. classy!

  Vibes imported from Mist-
     Neophyte
        yt-trg18.it   Tradgedy 18.
                      (Neo’s changing his name to Quip! get used to it!)
  Toy!-
     Melkor
        SE-WAVE.EXE, SE-WAVE.TXT, SE.DAT
  The usual-
     ETO
        SEP.BAT, SEPLAY.EXE: Sonic Player
        SE_NFO.EXE: the thing running THIS text thingie!
        SE_APP.EXE, SE_APP.DAT: application generator
     Bits & peices
        FILE_ID.DIZ: thanks to quip!
        SE_NFO.TXT: This text in a file.

 Getting a hold of us— – - —  -    -   -         -                -
  SONIC LINK MEMBERS            NUMBER        SYSOP
     Entrance to Obscurity      604-555-5555  ETO
     Crimson Helm               604-465-4247  Onyx (crippled at 2400!*)
     Daemon’s Gate              604-948-0363  Mavrik
     Fuzzy Doorknob             604-943-4626  Sylphid
     Paradoxious                604-931-6984  Tzykaar
     Dark Domains               604-469-5851  Raven
     DoDEL                      604-299-5191  Etana
     Sonic Equinox Homepage     www.in2nett.com/ETO/SE/index.htm
     Mistigris Homepage         www.geocities.com/Athens/1758/mist.html 
   (*psst! got a 14.4 external?)

This concludes our look into the musicdisk releases of our friends in 604 would-be demogroup SONiC EQUiNOX, but at a new “lost” release every day for a week, the Mistigris May Music Madness was just getting started, with several further releases ahead of music collections which had been genuinely lost and unavailable (and not merely filed away forever in a very dark and dusty corner of the Hornet archive, as with these SE packs.)  Stay tuned for more!