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Balance (BLC, 1991-)

Members

DEN 
  • Ayotte (Thøger Wessel, music, ex Chrome, old handle Blue Fox, 12/92-95)
  • Chyle
  • Connor (Jakob Steffensen, gfx, 07/92-04/94)
  • Mad Smiley (code, 06/96)
  • Motion (Anders Lundholm, gfx raytrace music, 07/92-12/93)
  • R.W.O (Rene Wessel Olsen, gfx, ex Kefrens, new late94-12/94)
  • Scope
  • Split (Niels Chr. Kvaavik, swap, 12/92-10/93)
  • Unique (gfx, 12/94)
  • Wolfman (William Henrik Olesen, org swap, 07/92-95)
NOR 
  • Blaze Øystein Kristoffersen, swap, ex Frogs, 10/93)
  • Cantona (Einar Vestheim, swap, new 06/96)
  • Chagall (gfx, ex Frogs, 10-12/93)
  • Cola (ascii swap, old handle Dizzy, doublememb Lingo, 10/93-94)
  • D'Fence (10/93)
  • Kefir (music, ex Legend)
  • Razorblade (Geir Vestheim, swap trade, ex Majic 12, 05/95)
  • Ranx (Dag Erlandsen, code, re-Stone Arts, ex Frogs, 10/93)
  • Terminal Silence (music ascii, 12/93)
SWE 
FIN 
  • Xendi (Mikko Alasaarela, gfx swap, ex Deadline, new 10/93)
  • Dionysos (code, ex Deadline)
  • Bad Karma (Jari Lahteinen, music, ex Deadline)
  • Nutcase (Sami Saarnio, music, ex Deadline)
  • Roland (Otto Vara, BBS, ex Deadline)
  • Dean (?)
  • Lohi (?)
  • Dr.Fruid (?)
  • Xarium (?)
ENG 
HUN 
ITA 
ISR 

Cyber Bug (swap, ex Frogs, 10/93)

N-L 
  • Infant (Rene van deer Steen, code, ex Subspace, new late97)
FRA 
  • Geist (gfx, ex Gods doublememb, late96)
USA 
  • Starcam (sysop 'WORLDS OF WONDER', ex Defekt)
 ??? 
  • Magic (editor, doublememb?/ex? Nah-Kolor)
  • Pixel
  • Smartass (swe? music, 05/96-12/96)

Group History

Balance was formed in Denmark by Wolfman, TNT, Split, Eddie and Spib in june of 1991. Some musicpacks were the first releases from the group. The next members to join were graphicians Connor and Idefix. Eventually yet another graphician joined, Trade (later handle Motion). The group still lacked a real coder though, and their search ended after they recruited Wreko from Divine. Their first real productions were the "Necessary Drugs" packs. Wreko helped recruit another musician, Mazzachre, and soon after also a second coder joined, called Scope. Spib then left because of lazyness, and coder IC3 joined. They got their first board ('SUFFOCATION') when Ramirez joined. Now it was time for their first trackmo, "Software Failure" [91]. Their next release was a bbs intro, and then IC3 got kicked again due to lameness. Their second trackmo, "Deepcore" [07/92], is released.

The turning point in BLC's career surely came with the release of the first issue of their diskmag "Magbox" [07/92]. This mag announced both new musician Chyle as well as Mazzachre's leaving for Focus Design. The group was still 100% danish.

Balance is a demo group based in Denmark. Originally, Balance released the diskmag 'MagBox'. However, when the fusion with the Norwegian group Frogs was decided, they brought with them THEIR diskmag 'Upstream'. Ofcourse there were some discussion as to what mag to continue publishing, and the result was a compromise; the mag retained the name Upstream, but used the old MagBox code and continued the numbering from MagBox. The previous editors of the two mags, Wolfman (magbox) and Cesium (upstream) were coeditors of the new mag.

Coca and Cola formed the ascii-group Lingo while they were still in Balance, so in effect they were doublemembers. Ranx started working at Funcom late 1993, but would remain an (inactive) Balancer. Graphician Chagall also got an offer from Funcom, but decided to go to England to study art instead, so his further scene career is uncertain. Balance were also coeditors of the danish chart "Dansktoppen" with Parasite from the beginning, but the chart was later taken over by Polka Brothers.

1993 
The Finnish section was formed mid 93 by ex-members of Deadline (Dionysos, Bad Karma, Nutcase, Xendi) and Alcatraz. Finnish Lohi (ex Diffusion) left for the PC scene, and coder Xarium joined Parasite mid 93.
1994 
Norwegian swapper Messiah (Banana Dezign doublemember) joined Spaceballs late 94.
1995 
Finnish musician Nutcase (code gfx music, ex Deadline, new 06/93-mid95) moved over to the pc section of Balance mid 95. Coder Fizban decided to leave the scene late 95.
  • Danish musician Subject (ex Chrome, old handle Chyle, 07/92-01/97) changed handle to Prophet and joined Scoopex 01/97. He was a doublemember of Passion for a while, from late 94, but later terminated this double membership.
  • Danish graphician and musician Cyboman joined Ambrosia late95.
  • Finnish sysop Roland left.
  • Danish coder Scope (07/92-01/95) joined Passion. Scope worked on demos like "Deepcore" [07/92], "Lost World" [12/92] and "Syndrome" [12/94] as well as the MagBox/Upstream code.
  • Finnish musician Dr.Fruid (ex Frogs) left the Amiga scene.
  • German coder Bailey (ex Frogs, 04-10/93) joined Lego. Bailey coded "Newstro" [04/93] before leaving.
  • Norwegian coder Coca (old handle Broth, 10-12/93) joined Cesium's new group Session.
  • Norwegian musician Vegard! (ex-doublemember) left to be a member of Scoopex only, but after a while he left them too and joined Melon Dezign.
  • Nik joined Desire (UPS10).
  • Danish musician Tricktrax (ex Chrome, 12/92) and hungarian graphician Nexus 6 (ex Frogs, 10/93) were kicked. Tricktrax is now in Puzzle.
  • Danish coder Wreko (Jesper, 07/92-12/93) left for the PC scene - more specifically Diffusion PC.
  • Norwegian organizer and previous 'Upstream' editor Cesium (ex Frogs) left the scene for a while. As a consequence, his board 'OMAHA THUNDER' (opened 03/94) was also closed (12/94). Some time later, he reentered the scene with his own group, called Session, and reopened the board there.
  • Finnish members James (old handle Bad Karma), Dionysos (both ex Deadline, new 06-10/93) and Dean left to join Decnite.
  • Danes Eddie (Frederik Esbensen, music swap, 12/91-07/92), Immortal, TNT (raytrace, 07/92) and Idefix (gfx, 07/92) all got kicked.
  • Danish swapper and sysop Ramirez ('SUFFOCATION') joined Majic 12 (RAW4).
  • Growl (ex Chrome, 12/92) joined Orient.

Releases

See Balance/Reviews for personal reviews for these releases.

Software Failure (1991, ECS Trackmo)

Info 
Holding down the firebutton when booting activates a secret part.

Deepcore (1992, 07.07, ECS Trackmo)

Credits 
  • code: Scope, Wreko
  • gfx: Connor, Scope, Motion
  • music: Chyle

Magbox #1 (1992, 20.07, ECS Filemag)

Credits 
  • code: Scope
  • gfx: Motion (title, background) Scope (background, font), Connor
  • music: "Iceman-Theme" by Chyle (ProTracker MOD format)
  • editors: Wolfman, Eddie, Split

Magbox #2 (1992, 03.09, ECS Filemag)

Credits 
  • code: Scope
  • gfx: Connor (title, fonts ++)
  • music: Chyle, editor: Wolfman (main), Split, Scope

Magbox #3 (1992, .11, ECS Filemag)

Credits 
  • code: Scope
  • gfx: Connor, Motion
  • music: Sound Division

Lost World (1992, 28.12, ECS Trackmo)

Credits 
  • code: Scope
  • gfx: Connor
  • music: "Dirty-Mary2-bf" by Blue Fox
Info 
14th in The Party 92 demo competition.

MagBox issue #4 (1993, ECS Filemag)

Credits 
  • code: n/a
  • gfx: n/a
  • music: "Personal Problems" by Subject

MagBox issue #5 (ECS Filemag)

Info 
This was the last issue released under the 'MagBox' name. The next issue was "Upstream #6".

Reality has no Meaning (1993, 07.04, ECS 40k Intro)

Credits 
  • code: Wreko
  • gfx: Motion, Wreko
  • music: Subject
Info 
4th in The Gathering 93 40k intro competition.

Newstro (1993, 07.04, ECS Intro)

Credits 
  • code: Bailey
  • gfx: Rattle/PMC
  • music: Dr. Fruid
Info 
Released at The Gathering 93.

Sound Barrier (1993, .04, ECS Musicdisk, 2 disks)

Credits 
  • code: Wreko
  • gfx: Chagall, Connor
  • music: Subject, Blue Fox
Info 
Propaganda #4 brougt the news that Subject, Blue Fox, Connor, Unique, Kata and Wreko were working on SB2, which was to be one of the first AGA musicdisks. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that project was never released...

Upstream issue #6 (1993, 30.07, ECS Filemag)

Credits 
  • code: Scope
  • gfx: n/a
  • music: "Upstream#6" by Subject/Balance (ProRunner 1.0 format)
  • editors: Wolfman, Cesium
Info 
UPS6 was the first release after the merger of Upstream and MagBox; it adopted the Upstream name and the MagBox code and release number :)
Released at Rendezvous 93 and at Assembly 93.

Meetro '93 (1993, 30.07, ECS File)

Credits 
  • code: Cola
  • gfx: Chagall
  • music: Travolta/Spaceballs
Info 
Released at Rendezvous 93 and Assembly 93.

Gale Intro (1993, 30.07, AGA Intro)

Credits 
  • code/gfx: Wreko
  • music: "Sulphuric Ash" by Nutcase
Info 
Released at Galemands Gilde.

Zoom Parallax Demo (1993, 07.08, ECS Multifile)

Credits 
  • code: Panoramix
  • gfx: Tetsuo, Spiri
  • music: n/a
Info 
Released at Assembly 93.

Smalltalk (1993, 20.10, AGA 22k Intro)

Credits 
  • code/gfx: Scope
  • music: "22k" by Subject
Info 
Released at the Melon Birthday Party.

Upstream #7 (1993, 30.11, ECS Multifile Diskmag)

Credits 
  • code: Scope
  • gfx: Connor (main), Chagall (title), Scope (fonts, back)
  • music: "Foundations" by Subject, editors: Cesium, Wolfman

The Party 3 Intro (1993, 28.12, ECS 40k Intro)

Credits 
  • code: Coca
  • gfx: Chagall, Coca, Cola
  • music: Terminal Silence

Cutting Edge (1993, 28.12, AGA 40k Intro)

Credits 
  • code: Scope
  • gfx: Unique
  • music: Subject
Info 
9th in The Party 93 40k intro competition.

H.A.S.H. (1993, 28.12, 40k Intro)

Credits 
  • code: Wreko
  • gfx: Connor
  • music: Slide/Parasite
Info 
13th in The Party 93 40k intro competition.

MrsKingTro (1994, Intro)

Credits 
  • code: Mr.King
  • gfx: n/a
  • music: Subject
Info 
This intro is FAKE. This was revealed in Upstream #10, neither Mr.King nor Subject had anything to do with it.

Upstream issue #8 (1994, 02.04, ECS Multifile Diskmag)

INT Credits 
  • code: Kata
  • gfx: Connor
  • music: "Juggernaut Jam" by Subject
MAG Credits 
  • code: Scope
  • gfx: Connor (panel), Scope (fonts, background), Fairfax/Andromeda (intropic)
  • music: "Water Below" by Lizardking/Razor 1911
  • editors: Wolfman, Cesium, Mount/Polka Brothers
Info 
Released at The Gathering 94.

Orgasmatron (1994, 02.04, AGA 40k Intro)

Credits 
  • code: Coca
  • gfx: Buzz Fuzz, Kefir, Coca
  • music: Kefir
Info 
12th in The Gathering 94 40k intro competition.

Upstream issue #9 (1994, Diskmag)

INT Credits 
  • code: Scope
  • gfx: Unique
  • music: "D0dstekkno" by Subject
MAG Credits 
  • code: Scope
  • gfx: Devilstar / Virtual Dreams, Connor, Scope
  • music: "Nightline's Colors" by Nutcase

Syndrome (1994, 28.12, AGA File)

Credits 
  • code: Scope, Kata (additional)
  • gfx: R.W.O, Unique
  • music: "Culture Shock" by Subject
Info 
14th in The Party 4 demo competition.

Plantarium (1994, 28.12, Wild)

Info 
6th in The Party 4 wild demo competiton.
Presented on an A4000.

South Sealand 95 Party Invitation Intro (1995, ECS)

Credits 
  • code: Scope
  • gfx: Connor, RWO
  • music: Nutcase

Upstream issue #10 (1995, v.early, ECS/AGA File Diskmag)

Credits 
  • code: Scope
  • gfx: Connor (panel), R.W.O (intropic), Scope (fonts, backgrounds)
  • music: "Off Piste.bf" by Blue Fox

Embryo (1995, 12.08, AGA HD Multifile)

Credits 
  • code: Confidence
  • gfx: Grid
  • music: Atheist & Deelite
Info 
8th in the Assembly 95 demo competition.

Freak (1996, 26.05, AGA 4MB File)

Credits 
  • code: Confidence
  • gfx: Grid, Gorg
  • music: Smartass
Info 
3rd in the Icing 96 demo competition.

Endolymfa (1996, 28.12, AGA File)

Credits 
  • code: Confidence
  • gfx: Gorg
  • music: Smartass
Info 
3rd in The Party 6 demo competition.

External Links

http://hem.passagen.se/excelblc/

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