 MAD VISION STORY
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  By Def KLF of Mad Vision


 Here is the 1st article of what should
be a long series. Stories of bands told
by themselves.
  If you are interested in writting the
story of your band.Come on,out with it!

   As I'm the founder of Mad vision,I'm
going to narrate you our long story...


]         Christmas 1988 to August 1989:

  The band is not really formed.Def KLF
under  the  names  of  ACID ECSTAZY  or
ACIDUO ( I choose the name before  Acid
house movement. I  was  one of the rare
people knowing what XTC pills are ... )
has   been  in  different  lame  little
french  bands   releasing   some  games
menus ( Ghostbusters ,Ghost house... ).

   I asked  to  Alexis and  Fantasia my
2 best friends at school to join me.
  We decided to nammed us :  MAD VISION
probably  under  the  influences of the
skate clothes  STREET VISION  , and the
american comic mag MAD.It did something
very hard to understand what  it  could
mean...

[   We liked this name because each time
[we try to give a significance to Mad V.
[ours  poor  brains  failed. The meaning
[may be the  view others  people have of
[Mad Vision's members => Wacky guys.  It
[can also define our cynic, nihilist and
[detached vision of life. Or just be our
[definition of an hallucination  due  to
[XTC pills or any illicit substances.

]                     August 89 to 1990:

  We planed to do a megademo called the
MEGABLAST , but  it failed because of a
lack of motivation,whereas BMT,ACF,FIRE
CRACKERS ( now AVG ) , FASHION and many
other did screens for us...    We  have
lost too much time  and  energy on this
demo...  We have worked on for about 10
months !

   We left the Ghostbusters for Genesis
a band  we found with SPY 3 and MAXI of
SPYJACK company. But  because  of  many
internal problems we left the band  and
created a new one: The intruders.
 About Genesis that is the same band as
the one that did a screen in the trans-
beauce 2 ( It is but an exemple ).

    With  the Intruders  we coded a few
intros and MAXI  released a few cracks,
the  Overlanders  ripped  a few one off
too.
   But DOM asked Maxi to join the REPS,
so the band split up.

  Fed up by all those bands,we couldn't
control everything.We (I,Alex,Fantasia)
decided to be a 'self-governing' band.
   Our 1st production under the name of
Mad Vision  has been an intro menus. As
many  people wrote us  to tell us  they
enjoyed it,we released 3 other menus.
 During this period we also coded  some
intros for the Reps.(We were still good
friends with  MAXI  after his departure
for the REPLICANTS.)

  004  who did background work for  the
famous french band S.T.C.S of the Blade
Runners joined us. Because  his friends
Ratboy,Banzai and Jabberwoocky left the
ST scene for different reasons.

   He  has been  the  fourth  to  be  a
member of the team.So he nammed himself
004. Few days later  SPY 3  joined us ,
because  we  were friend  for a so long
time , it  was stupid, not to  let  him
join MAD VISION.

    Our swapping activities began to be
very important & we begin winning fame.

 In June 1990, MAXX-OUT joined us after
his travel to the I.C.C 1 with the REPS
because  he  was a  very good friend of
SPY 3 and MAXI , because  he  owned  an
autograph of Nick/T.C.B on his Joystick
and because he was  definitively a cool
guy.


]                                  1991:

  We begin to release game menus,and if
people blamed us  for  our beeing proud
of ourselves in the scrolltext, it came
only from  jealous bands , because with
less than 4 menus we had been famous.
 Whereas as we said in the texts of our
intros, "our aim is not to compete with
F.O.F , P.P. , TMB or BBC but to spread
faster than  light  Replicants'cracks ,
some  of the games  may not work but we
don't mind.That's the menus of the mega
consumers !"
  But  because  of  a lack  of time  we
stopped our menus. Many bands copied us
and  release now  file version menus  ,
doing nearly nothing except having the
latest news.One of my regret is to have
stopped just when Awesome began,I would
want to check  which of us  will be the
fastest.

   We also opened a UK section with HAL
and the Highlander.
]                                  1992:

 The MASSIVE ATTACK is finally released
ST is almost dead(?),Amazine issue 1 is
there, some professional menus are done
by  Gangster  of  Mad Vision UK  (a new
active  member ).    And  we  did  some
background work with/for Factory.


]   As a conclusion,I want to stress two
]facts:

]   - Mad Vision  has always tried to be
]a band where friendship ruled.

]   - Our policy  has  always  been  and
]still is...   NO COMPROMISE !
  It means,that we have ALWAYS said all
that we really think. And  did all that
we wanted to.  Some of you may think we
are stupid assholes, but they can't say
we are hyprocrits and opportunists.

 Some people think we are proud because
we often  slag people off , but  if  we
sometime say  somebody  does  something
lame,we have never said like many bands
do,that we are the best,and if you take
a  closer look  to  our  scrolltext you
will perceive the tone is that of irony
and humour.

 I hope you didn't get bored of reading
this,if you did... Tell us the story of
your band...   The  story   of  Quartex
or  Hotline  must be  more  interesting
because full of rapes ,sodomies & other
interesting habits between members. I'm
sorry but we don't usualy practise such
things between members in MAD VISION...


[MAD VISION is about to die...


      We  have  decided  to  stop  ours
HACKtivities on atari ST:


[  WHY ?

- Too much troubles with  french  soft-
ware companies.

- ST scene is dying...

- Coding on ST is hard,boring & limited

- ST is lame,isn't it ?



 Mad Vision's members are still friends
and  we  really hope to make a new band
together  in  a  near future on  a  new
atari machine ( FALCON ? ).

    But  we  really hope to release  an
other issue of AMAZine with a real code
in language machine and a smooth scroll
in July 92.
                  SO SEND US ARTICLES !
