BACKGROUND STORY: CHROMAG
by s7ing/Alcatraz
abrigdements of an infofile by Chromag

Chromag being part of the scene for many years now. And he is still one of the great muscians which is still around. We are happy at Mudia Art to introduce you one of the famous muscicans of the scene.

But did he really need an introduction ?

Chromag has been in so many groups right now, so just some of them should be mentioned here like Dual Crew and Shining, Essence, Fairlight, Haujobb, Lego, Platin, Polka Brothers, Rebels, Tristar and Red Sector Inc., Talent and so on... 

So is it a wonder that he has also been contributing to Humphy an Parasite, Static Bytes, Alcatraz & Dual Crew - Shining
Cooperation demonstration ?  So, being a half imprisoned of Alcatraz :)
 
You see Chromag is a scener who came around and made many of us happy with a lot of his great sounds. Here you can find a list of some of the Music Competitions in which he took part
(As far as we know):

- 3rd at sun and fun conference 1993 (??)
- 2nd at the commodore music 
   competition cebit/hannover 1993
- 11th at the party 3 in denmark 1993
- 3rd at the party 4 in denmark 1994
- 2nd at the blackbox symposium 1995
- 2nd at the 68x concention 1995
- 6th at the mekka symposium 1996
- winner of the convention music competition 
   in norway 1999
- winner of the mp3 compo at the mekka 
   symposium 2000
- 2nd (and 4th) at the tracker competition at the mekka 
   symposium 2000
- winner of the tracker compo at takeover 2001 in Holland
- second of the mp3 compo at takeover 2001 in Holland

But when and how did this all start? In 1987 as little Chromag was 13 year old, he got his first Amiga 500 at Christmas. Who doesn't remember that sweet day when we received our beloved Amiga ?
Only one year later Chromag started already his scene-career. First as mailswapper, but he already knew at that day, that his passion is Music ! Since he played piano for quite a time, about 8 years. 

Thanks for choosing this way Chromag, instead of being a swapper. We would have missed a lot of your great work ;) In the past, one of his first handles was Animalogic and he founded his own group called Ecstasy. I can`t really rembember them sadly, but they released some dos-compilations with old demos and a dos-musicdisk with ripped music.

Later on in that year, he got in contact with Ucom of the legendary Spreadpoint, truly one of the best demogroups in these times. Although there were many other groups around, which I honestly respect and that also inspired my personal scene life, but that is another story:)

So coming back to Chromag's first steps into scene life. Ucom says to him that Animalogic sounds lame, so he thinks of a cooler name again. He remembers a group he used to buy stuff from the Cromag Crew.

"Hmm, Cromag sounds cool... I'll just take that one", he thought, and so Animalogic turned into Cromag. Something's wrong you might think... Yes, here's the story of how "Cromag" turned into "Chromag". One of the coolest days in Cromag's career was when Spreadpoint greeted him in one of their intros. But what the heck, they couldn't spell Cromag correctly and turned it into Chromag by adding an "h".

Cromag truly thought that he became famous by being greeted in an intro and immediately changed his name into Chromag, so that everyone could see he was respected by Spreadpoint...

In 1990 Chromag starts his muscial career by releasing a tune in Exult's megademo II. Damn that is now over 16 years ago. Time is going that fast... The tune was a kind of a  sample rip-off of a walkman tune but nobody realized... Can`t remember it really, but maybe you will find this production anywhere around.

In the early nineties Chromag changes groups like shoes, relases some bad four-channel tunes (which can be found on the aminet). He gets in contact with Cybersonik and Mount, two great scene-personalities at The Party II.

Cybersonik was a member of Alcatraz at that time (also responsible for many great articles like in Mc Disk). Funny how small the scene world is :) Good 15 years later Alcatraz is going to write an article about Chromag. The hit would be that Cybersonik would have written this article, but I hope that I could reach a good article like he would have done. Mount later founded Parasite, even later a group called Polka Brothers. 

At that time, Chromag becomes a double-member of both Dual Crew and Polka Brothers. In 1993 at The Party III, Chromag gets 11th at the music-competition which was a great success for him. 

Nobody else except Moby raised his head, when Chromag's "rage against the machine" track called fuck the norm is played to the audience. Moby won the competition :)

Next step in 1994 another release of the legendary chart- topping musicdisk Chromagic. Followed up by more fabulous demonstration like Switchback by Rebels (Competition-winning demo), 4ko, (winner of the party IV intro-competition) in which one Chromag was involved. At the music-competition, 
Chromag wins the 3rd price. Truly the most successful year for his scene-career.

Chromag is one of the most famous Amiga-musicians. at the party IV, Rebels releases the whammer slammer demo, voted 5th on the competition.

1995 was a year where many sceners changed in different ways. I can remember that many of my scene friends have quit the scene in this year or went to other opportunities. 

Also Chromag... At the end of 1995 he cuts down his scene-career and got to know his girlfriend. Real life begins.

In the next five years he made his first experiences with multi-channel tracks. And like many others he rearranges contact with the scene. In the era of internet an easy duty, although finding old Amiga scener sometimes neverthless is still a little bit difficult.


He got a lot of offers to join groups, loads of new contacts. Up to now in the year 2007, he is again part of the good old Rebels. Some legends seems never to die :)

Hopefully there are many years to come, so that we can see and hear more of the great tunes made by Chromag. All the best wishes to Timm and his further plans in the future.

It`s a kind of Chromagic !










  