Instagram photo by Cthulu • Sep 20, 2016 at 6:03am UTC

Today on Mistigram, a curious piece of abstract ANSI art we used as the header to our infofile in January of 1995. This piece, by 604 artscene elder Tzeentch, was clearly something very special – but just throwing it in the pack as a complete work, a couple of circles and lines fending for itself at only 13 lines long, wouldn’t have played to its strong suit. Prior to this work, he was renowned as a fontist and typographer; contemporary to this period, he released further works of abstraction, including one you’ve seen here before – his “Sunrise in Cyberspace”, released in the same artpack, which we eventually used to illustrate the release of the song “1995 - A Rave”.

The evocative caption: “circles - the ascent to power, the rise of the people.” What does it all mean? Go figure.

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Sep 20, 2016 at 6:03am UTC

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Jun 21, 2016 at 11:28am UTC

All caught up now, today’s slice of Mist Classic history comes from the infofile of our very first artpack, an ANSI art logo by oldschooler Tzeentch used in the infofiles hidden deep within the electronic magazine, Kithe e-mag, which was included in MIST1094.

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Jun 21, 2016 at 11:28am UTC

Happy New Year’s Eve!  We made it through Christmas 2014 serving up literally hundreds of downloads for the re-release of our long-thought-lost December 1994 music disk The Bells of Yule, and as we approach the end of this year’s winter holiday season (12 Days of Christmas nonwithstanding) it’s apropos to draw things to a close with “1995 - A Rave”, a song released the month after (01/95) the original launch of the Bells of Yule music disk – before it was lost.

The song found itself remastered as part of Melodia’s push to release, well, the “Skeletons In My Closet” we already told you about in an earlier post, and as it was used back in 1995 to welcome the arrival of a New Year, we will be using it today for much the same purpose.

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(Pictured: “Sunrise in Cyberspace” by Tzeentch, representing a different kind of new beginning, included in the same archive as the song, MIST0195.ZIP)