Sanity (demogroup)
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Sanity was an all-german demo group, born in march of 1990 by Panther (code) and Hawk (code), who quickly took in Vindicator (music) and Cruiser (gfx) as well. Their first production (presumably) was the musicdisk "Best Game Music Monthly #1", which announced the birth of the group.
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[edit] Members
- Panther (code) 1990-
- Hawk (code) 1990-
- Vindicator (music) 1990-
- Cruiser (graphics) 1990-
- The Fog (Rip) 1990-
- Jester (music) 1990-1995
- Chaos (code)
- Diddle (swapping)
- Zaphod (swapping)
- 16 Beat (music)
- Cthulu (graphics)
- Bit Arts (music)
- Flosoft (code)
- Mr. Pet (code)
- Moby (music) 1993- (later known as Elmobo)
- Ra (graphics) 1993-
- The Pride (swapping) 1992-1993
- Kr'33 (swapping) 1992-1993
- Tron (code) 1993
- Virgill (music) 1991-1993
[edit] Awards
| 1991 | 3rd place at Amiga Summit Convention for Elysium |
| 1992 | 2nd place at World of Commodore for World of Commodore |
| 1993 | 3rd place at The Party for Arte |
| 1993 | 3rd place at CeBIT Demo Competition for Terminal Fuckup |
| 1995 | 2nd place at Black Box Symposium for Roots 2.0 |
[edit] History
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1990 - German musician Jester joined the group in November, after a short stay in Red Sector Inc. The demo "Dee Groove" (1990) by Panther was released at the Dexion Convention in December.
1991 - Probably early in the year, the group released Jester's musicdisk "Fool's Gold" (1991), followed by the group's breakthrough demo, "Elysium" (1991) which came 3rd in the Amiga Convention Summit demo competition! The Fog joined Bit Arts in the middle of the year.
When the group eventually died, its members were scattered. The biggest group of members, including Chaos (code, ex The Undertakers), Diddle (swap, ex Treacl), Zaphod (swap, ex Amaze), 16 Beat (music), Jester (music, ex Proton, new 10/90), Cthulu (gfx), Hawk (founder code), Cruiser (gfx), Vindicator (code^music) and Panther (founder code) left to form a new section of Rebels. They released the demo "Sanity Is Dead" under the Rebels label to announce this. Their stay in Rebels would be a short one, however, and soon most of these guys had formed the NEW Sanity, which also included several ex-members of the original Sanity, like musician Bit Arts (ex-Red Sector Inc.) and coders Flosoft and Mr. Pet.
Sanity was rebuilt in 1992 by several of the original members, most of whom were in Rebels in the meantime.
The French members, musician Moby (Frederic Motte) and graphician Ra (Oliver, both ex-Dreamdealers, 08-12/93) ventured into professional careers. Moby secured a job at Mindscape in America, and Ra opened a comic shop in his home town in France. They both remained active on the PC scene for a while, in the group Nooon.
1992 - Jester contributed music to the Anarchy demo "Flower Power" (1992), Winner of the Digital Symposium 1992 demo competition!
1993 - Danish swapper The Pride (ex-Brainstorm, new ca 01/92) and Dutch swapper Kr'33 (ex-Axis, swap pack "Femur Bundle" from Axis, new 09/92) both joined Lemon. in January.
1994 - German coder Tron (ex-Anarchy, 03/93-) left the group in early December to be independent. He later reconsidered his independence, and joined Artwork in the early days of 95. The end of December came and Chaos released "Roots" [12/94] for The Party demo competition (with some parts by Tron) to a disappointing 8th position.
1995 - German musician Jester sent shockwaves through the scene when he left for the primarily Finnish group Pygmy Projects, whom he'd contributed the tune "Cyberride" for their Assembly 93-winning demo "Extension" [08/93]! After releasing their final demo in 1995, the group fell apart. Many of the best members left for other groups, and the few remaining ones grew inactive. It is uncertain whether the group technically died in 1995 or 1996, my conclusion is a guess.
1996 - An interesting production surfaced in the pc demo competition at The Party 96, where Free Electronic Band (FEB) won with their demo "Alto Knallo". The demo was coded by former Sanity members Chaos (Dierk Ohlerich) and Mr. Pet (Peter Cukierski).
German graphician Cougar (08/93-96) first joined Artwork as a doublemember, but when Sanity died he became a fulltime member. He was responsible for many of the greatest graphics in Sanity demos, and won the graphics competition at The Party 93 with his fabulous "Dragonsun" picture. German coder Zap (ex Coma, new RAW2) left to join Masque. German musician Virgill (ex Surprise!Productions) joined TRSI. German coder and musician Microforce (Joerg Simon, ex Coma) left the scene. German supercoder McDeal (Karsten Weiss, ex-D-Tect) only participated in one demo for Sanity ("Arte") before deciding to leave the scene altogether in late 94. German megaswapper Exumer (Thomas Kopfmueller, ex Nuance) left the scene in late 94. Editors Disney (Martin, Austria, ex Alcatraz) and TFG (Niels, Denmark, ex Majic 12) both joined to work on Sanity's planned diskmag, but when those plans fell through they were both unceremoniously kicked (UPS10). The French section 'is now Ozone', according to EuroChart 15. German musician Bit Arts (ex Sanity old) joined Complex (SLH11). Alex, sysop of 'BASE LINE' joined Zenith (RAW4). German coder Flosoft (Florian Stuemann) left the scene together with graphician Cthulhu (RAW4). Cthulu later returned, a.o. contributing pictures to the two "Roots" demos. German coder Cosmos joined TRSI. German swapper and one of the founders, Zaphod (Niels), was kicked. German swapper and one of the founders, Diddle (Marc Vasters) left the scene.
