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Red Sector Inc. (RSI, 1985-1990)

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
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