#freddy43

Mistigram: our early revival flagbearer @Freddy43 cooked up an idea for an #ASCIIart logo printer we needed to prototype. Unable to scrape together new imagery for the demonstration, we cannibalized a '90s piece by our own Dead Soul and included this animation in the MIST1117 artpack collection released six years ago this month.

Mistigram: I gather that he wasn't quite around the first time in the '90s, but when we first crossed paths with @4x3freddy circa 2015 he professed interest in "keygen music" and the visual aesthetic of the digital underground - as fascinatingly demonstrated by his animated #ASCIIart visuals for this track, Ofbeat/Ofniet by his OJAJOH project, from the 2010 album "Format MC". We included links to this video clip in our 21st anniversary MIST1015 artpack collection (so as to keep the 200 meg filesize down), but probably it was not seen by many at that time, so in the spirit of a later anniversary we've recently been celebrating, here it is again!

Bas de Vries vindt de cadans van de muziek is terug in de ruimtelijke cadans van de architectuur in de Vinex-wijk Leidsche Rijn.

Also, hats off to Freddy43! Upon learning, the night before the submission cutoff, that the Deadline demoparty in Berlin was accepting remote entries, he spent an hour throwing together this little aalib greetro, and took home 3rd place (admittedly of only three entrants, but the point spread wasn't so very dramatically against him!) Sometime I will have to write a longer post about Mistigris' demoparty history, since a look at our Demozoo activity log indicates the hilariously long gap in activity -- dipping our toes in the water in 1996 and 1997, I then headed off to Assembly and Evoke in the summer of 1999 with some fresh tracks and bearing with me the hazy memory of Mistigris... and then the conspicuous silence of the permanently stilled, until our name begins popping back up on the historical record in 2015. Maybe we'll be able to take it a little further this time around! In the meantime, Freddy43 (and Creonix, another subject for a later post) have given us a great start for our second chance.