Red Sector Inc.

Group History

1985

Red Sector was born in the spring of 1985, when Bill Best, Kangol Kid and Greg decide to join forces under this label. At this time, the group's members were spread over America and Canada. Towards the end of 1985 Irata and Mr.Zeropage formed the European section. Irata became the group's main trader. Red Sector ran the first ever Canadian bulletin board. All this was on the C64.

1986

When the Amiga 1000 appeared in 1986, PBA, MZP, Bill Best, Irata and ECA all bought one.

1987

The first Red Sector intro on the Amiga was released in early 1987, and was coded by HQC. Twilight coded the second RSI intro, with music by the father of SoundTracker, Karsten Obarski. In 1987, RSI entered into their first cooperation, with Def Jam. It was not only their first cooperation, but the first ever cooperation on the Amiga! However, it didn't last too long.

1988

The C64 section was officially disbanded in 1988, and everyone moved over to the Amiga. Years later, it was restarted by Mr.President, Irata and Mr.Cursor, but that's another story. 1988 was also the year of the first big busts. Irata was, for example, visited by the police in the morning of the 24th of October, but they found only five disks. RSI had hard times, and started to look at other venues for their activities. They recruited TCC as their demo division. Danish musician S.L.L (87) joined Bamiga Sector One.

1989

9 months after TCC joined their baby was born: the Red Sector Megademo! This demo took them to the undisputable top of the demoscene, and made legends of its makers.

1990

As a demo group, you can perhaps talk of RSI pre- and post- "Megademo". 1990 started well, with the successful releases of the mag "Criminal" in February and the demo CeBIT '90 in March. Onyx left Vision Factory since he was frustrated with the internal organizing of the group, and joined in February. Swedish sysop Istvan ('MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE', ex Empire, 09/90) joined Fairlight. Later in the year they would enter into a cooperation with Tristar, the result of which we all know: TRSI was born. German musician Bit Arts (02/90) joined Sanity. He did some of the best tunes for RSI's "Megademo", and is probably best remembered for that. German Beatmaster joined End of Century 1999.

Big thanks to an article about TRSI in ROM #4 for massive amounts of source material for this precise history! Please excuse us if this seems like a straight rewrite of your article, Mop. If it's too close to the original text, consider it a tribute rather than a ripoff :) I really couldn't word it better than you.

If Dr.C's real name, Holger Kruse, seems familiar it's probably because he's the author of one of the most-used utilities for Amiga InterNet users these days, the TCP/IP stack utility "Miami".

Members

Germany

Dark (gfx, 02/90)

Delta (Florian Schroecker, code gfx, 09/89-03/90)

Dr.Beat (code, 09/89)

Dr.C (Holger Kruse, code gfx, 09/89-03/90)

Evil (swap, 09/89)

Mr.Zeropage (code crack)

Romeo Knight (music, 09/89-02/90)

SCS (music, 09/89)

TCC (Darius Moharreg-Khiabani, code gfx, 09/89-02/90)

Denmark

Caucasian (ex Technobob)

Metal Force (ex Technobob)

Pendec (ex Technobob)

France

Doctor Soft (11/88-02/90)

England

Hawk (spread, 10/89-02/90)

USA

The Phantom (sysop 'THE PHANTOM GUILDE', 02/90)

Unknown

Chainsaw Hacker (imports fixes, 02/90)

Commie Hunter (02/90), Dag (new 87-02/90)

Dennis (02/90)

Exec (Germany? code crack, 06/88-09/89)

General Zoff (02/90)

John Player (02/90)

Marc (02/90)

Mr.Cursor (02/90)

Negative Polarity (02/90)

Onyx (Germany? code, ex Vision Factory, new 02/90)

PBA (new 87-02/90)

Skull (02/90)

Target (new ca 07/90)

Traxx (02/90)

Zenith (02/90)

Releases

See Red Sector Inc./Reviews for personal reviews for these releases.

Something (ECS Intro)

Credits

code

n/a

gfx

n/a

music

"Mournful" by Chris K.

News On Tour (1989, .08, ECS Filemag)

Megademo (1989, 09.09, ECS Megademo, 2 disks)

Info

Winner of the Tristar Party demo competition!

Intro

Credits

code

n/a

gfx

Dark/Black Monks, Dr.C, Delta

music

Dr.C (sampling)

Loader

Credits

code

Dr.Beat, Delta (additional)

gfx

Rat Sign (eddie), Delta

music

Mark II/Quadlite

Part 1, Heads

Credits

code

Dr.Beat, Delta

gfx

Dr.C (heads), Delta (chars)

music

"RSI Rise Up" by Romeo Knight

Part 2, Vector

Credits

code

Delta, Dr.Beat (additional)

gfx

Delta (chars)

music

"RSI-Hard" by Romeo Knight

Part 3, Worm

Credits

code

Delta

gfx

Dr.C (worm)

music

Dr.C (sample)

Part 4, Fireworks

Credits

code

Delta, Dr.Beat (additional)

gfx

Scum (chars)

music

"ba1" by Bit Arts

Change disk

Credits

code

n/a

gfx

n/a

music

Sample from Barbarian 2

Part 5, Circle

Credits

code

Delta

gfx

Delta

music

"Disco-Groove" by SCS

Part 6, Vector Balls

Credits

code

Delta

gfx

Delta

music

"Wasteland" by Bit Arts

Part 7, Credits

Credits

code

Dr.Beat, Delta

gfx

Dark/Black Monks (chars)

music

"Japanese Rock" by SCS

Part 8, Endpart

code

Dr.Beat, Delta

gfx

Delta (logo)

Music

Bit Arts

Follow Me (1990, early, ECS Demo)

Credits

code

n/a

gfx

n/a

music

Romeo Knight

Criminal No.1 (1990, .02, ECS Filemag)

Intro

Credits

code

Onyx

music

"Telephone" by n/a (SoundTracker format)

Magazine

Credits

code

Zeronine/Quadlite

gfx

Dennis

music

Psygnosis (ripped)

editors

Irata (main, aka The Editor), John Player, Xymox, Dr.Soft

Cebit '90: Revenge of Babbnaasen (1990, .03, ECS File)

Credits

code

Delta

gfx

Dr.C (logo, little font), Dark (titlepic, logo, scrollfont)

music

"Cream of the Earth" by Romeo Knight

Info

Released at the CeBIT '90 exposition.

BBS's

XEROMAX BBS (USA, 02/90)

WESTPOINT (Germany, 09/90)

Music in the UnExoticA collection

The following demos in the UnExoticA collection were created by Red Sector Inc..

Demo	Year	Party
CeBIT'90	1990	CeBIT '90
Follow Me	1990
Mindblasting Vectorballs	1989
Red Sector Megademo	1989	Tristar Party