Topaz Beerline
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Topaz Beerline (TPZ)
FIN> Scapegoat (Sami Ilmonen, code gfx, 92-01/93), Slayer (swap, early91). SWE> Rebel (09/91). GER> Amarok (Markus Wasserberg, swap, 08-09/93), Benno (Frank Bendiek, code music swap, ex Trance, new 06/93). HOL> Calypso (gfx, ex F4CG, also in Amnesia, 01-05/93). ???> Addict (music), AMJ (fin? music, 01/93), Anvil (music, 01/93), D'Arc (fin? code gfx, 01/93), Death (gfx, 01/93), HTD (fin? gfx), HTL (music, 01/93), Realpointdesign (gfx, 01/93), Silver (ex Hitmen, new 93). Topaz are a mostly Finnish demo group. Scapegoat has coded lots of tools, including Deadline Writer, CharZipper and Assembly Converter. D'Arc is the author of the AFLI Editor 2.0. 1991 - Early part of the year (february?) brought a tragedy for Topaz, when their finnish member Coax (Mikko Paronen, music) was killed in a train accident. A memorial demo was reportedly planned by the finnish scene, but we have no information on if it was ever released. 1992 - In may, the two danes Caprix (code) and Kirk (gfx, also in Plasma Design) left the group for Oxyron. 1993 - Dutch Calypso (gfx) joined from F4CG in january, while maintaining his double membership in Amnesia. German coder and musician Benno joined from Trance around june. Amarok ended his double membership in Oxyron in august, to be in Topaz only. A Blind Marathon (Demo). A Token From The Hell (Demo). Dark Ages (Demo). Deaf Beat (Demo). Golden Music Collection (Demo). Le Graffix (Demo). Our Board (Demo). Party Hole 2 (Demo). Partylamez (Demo). Warming Up (Demo). Heating (1990, 17.12, Demo). Graveyard Blues (1991, Demo). Party Hole (1991, Demo). Graveyard Blues (1992, 03.01, Demo). Beer+Funkee (1992, 21.02, Demo). Problemchild - He Knows Me (1993, 14.01, Demo). code: D'Arc, Scapegoat, gfx: Death, D'Arc, Scapegoat, Realpointdesign, music: AMJ, Anvil, HTL. info: Received a rave review in Fairlight's "Reformation #1" [04/93]. Graveyard Blues 3 (1993, 30.05, Demo). code: D'Arc, Scapegoat, gfx: Death, music: Htd, Amj, Anvil. 6th in The Computer Crossroads 93 demo competition.