Threaz: Good afternoon gentlemen

Dipswitch: yo hi threaz ! nice to see you back in biz ! why you made such a long pause? is it because of the dms - dc troubles or what ?
(Editor: War between the groups Damones versus Digital Corruption)

Threaz: No, actually that dms - dc thing didn't affect me much.. Actually it didn't affect at all to anyone in damones.. just gave us good laugh how ppl can be so small minded.

Dipswitch: you brought out a short, but great collection under twisted yesterday... a start of a comeback or just a lifesign ?

Threaz: Anyways, I haven't been "away" from biz, just took some time to release this sucker hmmm, i have never declared I'm off, so it was absolutely a life sign. I have never released more than two collections per year, so this is just typical me

Dipswitch: hehe everybody has his own release policy... but tell me about yourself ! when you started to do THE artform ? in which groups have you been ?

Threaz: Anyways, thanks for calling it great.. I had so two kind of thoughts about that colly I got my first computer, Atari ST on 87 and got my first swapmates on 88 so been in the scene kinda long.. I did some gfx, but first ascii pictures I did on 92 on my fathers PC. I did first logos which were used in boards on 93 I guess when my friend malibu opened his board

Dipswitch: you started with ascii on pc, in that early time ? thasts interesting... was that pc char ascii or that amiga / stuff ?

Threaz: It was pc characters .. first time i tried amiga stylish asciis was in the end of 93. Those logos were used on boards running on pc so no-one in amiga scene never saw my early logos

Dipswitch: And have you bought yourself an amiga then or you drow the whole time till now with pc ?

Threaz: I actually never bought myself amiga, but I've been having several amigas on my table

Dipswitch: hehe... amiga stealing sTZ-style or what ? =)

Threaz: Not stealing, just lending for a long time

Dipswitch: hehe... yeah "getting by lending" - "durch leihen erworben", like we call that =) ... Well, and when you joined head ? were you somewhere else before head ?

Threaz: I did kinda long intependently.. I had several offers from Azkiness, U'Race and some others, but I did on my way.. The reason I joined so lately was, that I had no opportunity to irc. And, I joined to Head, cos Punk wrote me a letter

Dipswitch: ah... well, head was one of the last big germany-based groups... were you in head till the end ?

Threaz: I wasn't in Head till the end.. I met relief and hotwire from Twisted and we had a idea, that perhaps I could join in.. The Head had already went kinda idle, and then punk kinda "disappered".. to

Dipswitch: while being in head, you had also some troubles with wOOBER, who's now in arcade... you occused him to rip you, as i remember ?

Threaz: Well, that thing is sorted out long time ago, so no need to talk about that thing anymore.. Anyways, thanks for reminding me about that =)ip b

Dipswitch: do you have contact to him now ? has the relationship between both of you got better ?

Threaz: Actually we never had any kind of relationship. we have been chatting in irc few years ago about something else than ascii art I guess we both just forgot the whole episode.. at least I did it was just about ascii anyways, not raping my wife or something

Dipswitch: mhm... well.. what do you think about ascii scene in last time ? you know, the revival of aerosol, the founding of dream theatre, the whole east-european invasion =)

Threaz: As I said before the interview that I have no idea about current situation of ascii.. perhaps I'm a bit disappointed that all the cool groups disappeared.

Dipswitch: yeah that's true - many groups disappeared...

Threaz: Like some ppl may remember, aerosol never was really highly rated in the old days perhaps I'm living in the past, but I still think that not much decent has come from poland It's nice to have collys from great artists like crusader and nup, but those two can't save the scene, even if they would release once a month.

Dipswitch: "save the scene" ? so you think the scene is in danger ?

Threaz: Not anymore.. the ascii scene I knew went down long ago. but, there are good days in the scene nowadays sometimes. I don't mean it died, it just changed to worse, sadly..

Dipswitch: and what are your plans for the future ? lean back and relax ? can people still request from you ?

Threaz: Of course people can request from me.. I just don't make logos for everybody or every use.. that's the policy I always had.

Dipswitch: you mean, nothing like "fame-style" and these whole bbs packs where everybody can use the logos ?

Threaz: I may release in the future.. that's much about, does neat collections appear that make me to show my best. nonono, my logos are usually personal and I want to know they will be used before i spend time, cos sometimes one logo may take an hour or two.. that may sound something like science fiction, but I just want to do my best

Dipswitch: really ? an hour for a logo ? not bad... that must be quality heheh...

Threaz: The quality thing can readers decide

Dipswitch: most people i know spend perhaps 15 mins for a logo...

Threaz: Remember I said sometimes .. but usually logo takes more than half an hour

Dipswitch: welll .... i think we must come to an end ... thanx for the interesting interview ! wanna say some final words or greets ?

Threaz: My greetings can be found from the -t-dishr.txt so i don't wanna type the list now.. My final words are: before you release or do something, just spend a moment thinking does ppl want to see what you're putting together.. is it worth of their time. ok? thank you, let's rotten together on 2k..watch.

Dipswitch: aiiight ! thank you ! and watch out for the TAC- 2000 issue coming on 1.3. ! cu !

Threaz: Cheers mate, always a pleasure

Interview performed by Dipswitch