S u r r o u n d e r s

Black Beast     Sebastien St-Laurent    Coder
Le Barman       Jean-Claude Dumas       Musician
Mat             David Sirois            Musician, Artist
Matryx          Sylvain Martel          Coder
Integris        James Platt             Musician
Parallax        Olivier Masse           Musician, Organizer
Warpery         Eric Barbier            Musician

Founded in late 1993, the Surrounders is a canadian demo group based
in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Our releases consisted of songs until NAID 1995 where
we presented our first demo. Most of the original members of the group are
still with us.

We have aquired a reputation as being mysterious. This is somewhat
true; at NAID 1995, we've been confined to our headquarters all week-end
long to finish Dark Purpose and there was a huge barrier preventing some
of us from communicating: the language. With the exception of Integris, we
are all pure french canadians, so our native tongue is obviously not english.

We do not release a lot of stuff anymore. Thus, it is almost 100%
certain that our NAID 1996 demo has been our last one. Most of us have
finished our studies and, frankly, working full time on a computer *can* be
lucrative if you're coding in Delphi or SQL rather than in assembler. You
must understand what I mean. Demo coding is a hobby which costs way too much
time (and coffee) nowadays and I think that it's about time we retire from
demos, unless of course we find some fresh new souls to replace us with the
coding - which I doubt.

Demo groups used to form themselves on bulletin boards. This is how
it worked for us. The problem is that boards are now obsolete: the net is
suddenly the one and only cool place around. Therefore, I notice that demo
groups are starting to have members all around the world and I just can't
imagine all the trouble it must be to design and code a demo when you're not
able to meet the other members. It has been done, but at what cost?

Enough of this crap, read on.

- Parallax

O U R   R E L E A S E S

D E M O S

EMERG.ZIP    1706922 06/96  Emergency - 7th place at NAID 1996
Recommended: 486DX4-100 and a GUS

DARKP.ZIP     423631 05/95  Dark Purpose - Presented at NAID 1995
Recommended: 486DX/33 and a GUS

G A M E S

MINDST.ZIP    243621 02/95  MindStorm - Small strategy game which
used the basic sound and graphics engine
of Dark Purpose. 386 and GUS required.

M U S I C

NAID 1996 Releases
SR-CRIME.ZIP         06/96  Crime Scene 1996    Chiptune  S3M  Parallax
SR-SMALL.ZIP         06/96  Small Nut           Chiptune   IT  Le Barman

September '95 Releases
SR-VGN&F.ZIP         09/95  Vengeance & Freedom Techno    MOD  Parallax
SR-WSWES.ZIP         09/95  West South-West     New Age   S3M  Parallax
SR-FRERE.ZIP         09/95  Frere.J.2           Happy     S3M  Mat / LB
SR-INMOT.ZIP         09/95  In Motion           New Age   MTM  Warpery
SR-ELECT.ZIP         09/95  Eletric James       Techno    MTM  Warpery
SR-REACH.ZIP         09/95  Reach               New Age   S3M  Styves
SR-ECLYP.ZIP         09/95  Eclypsia            New Age   S3M  Styves
SR-TWILT.ZIP         09/95  Piano Twilight      New Age   S3M  Music Man

NAID 1995 Releases - SR-NAID.ZIP
SR-INHER.ZIP  237581 04/95  Inherent            New Age   ULT  Parallax
SR-NIGHT.ZIP  277205 04/95  Night Adventure     Dance     MTM  Warpery
SR-622.ZIP     50415 04/95  622                 Rock      S3M  Mat
SR-ULTIM.ZIP   52959 04/95  Ultima              Rock      S3M  Le Barman
SR-MIDSU.ZIP  122260 04/95  Mid-Summer Night    New Age   S3M  Music Man

Februrary '95 Releases - SR-FEB95.ZIP
SR-REVOL.ZIP   61083 02/95  Revolution          Rock      S3M  LB / Par.
SR-NVISI.ZIP  184094 02/95  Night Vision        New Age   S3M  Parallax
SR-MOVIN.ZIP  113834 02/95  Moving In The Night Dance     MTM  Warpery
SR-THROU.ZIP   87058 02/95  Through The Life    Ambience  MTM  Warpery
SR-OCEAN.ZIP  129383 02/95  Sounds Of Ocean     New Age   S3M  Music Man

December '94 Releases - SR-DEC94.ZIP
SR-RWOK!.ZIP   54771 12/94  Rwok!               Rock      S3M  Le Barman
SR-AGGRE.ZIP   65737 12/94  Aggression          Hardcore  S3M  Le Barman
SR-BORNI.ZIP   86113 12/94  Born In The Night   New Age   MTM  Warpery
SR-PIPES.ZIP  109066 12/94  Pipes               SoundTrk  MOD  Parallax
SR-BLOOD.ZIP    6638 12/94  Blood Tears         New Age   MID  Parallax
SR-CROIS.ZIP   38585 12/94  La Croisade         Medieval  S3M  Mat
SR-AMAZI.ZIP    6720 12/94  Amazing Grace       Christmas MID  Parallax

October '94 Releases - SR-OCT94.ZIP
SR-DET.ZIP     63387 10/94  Det                 Rock?     S3M  Le Barman
SR-NEWBA.ZIP  147388 10/94  New Bass            Techno    MTM  Warpery
SR-PANG.ZIP    88833 10/94  Pangai              Ambience  MTM  Warpery
SR-SAMP1.ZIP   98851 10/94  Sample Set 1        Samples   SND  Parallax

Older '94 Releases - Find them if you can
EFLORAL.ZIP    95303 09/94  Efloral             Techno    MTM  Warpery
I_WIN.ZIP     222365 09/94  Will I Ever Win     New Age   ULT  Parallax
DMTUNE1.ZIP     7681 08/94  Doom Tune 1         Rock      MID  Parallax
BADMOVES.ARJ  171271 08/94  Bad Moves           Techno    ULT  Parallax
PUMPUP.ARJ     63654 08/94  Pump Up             Techno    MTM  Warpery
GLIMIT.ZIP    325274 07/94  The G Limit         Techno    ULT  Parallax
HOTDOGS.ZIP    62748 06/94  Hot Dogs            Rock      S3M  Le Barman
SITUCOM.ZIP    14531 06/94  Si Tu Comprends     Remix     S3M  Le Barman
BEGGING.ZIP   113746 05/94  Begging             Techno    MTM  Warpery
BEHOLD.ZIP      3089 05/94  Behold              New Age   MID  Parallax
CONTRAST.ZIP   92957 05/94  Contrast            Slow      ULT  Parallax
FADODO.ZIP     87868 05/94  Fadodo              Rock      S3M  Mat / LB
IZONE.ZIP      57342 05/94  Interzone           Rock      S3M  Le Barman
MAT4.ZIP       30171 05/94  Mat Four            Slow      S3M  Mat
MQT.ZIP        54632 05/94  ¿ M.Q.T ?           Rock      S3M  Mat
SAILOR.ZIP      2927 05/94  The Sailor's Path   New Age   MID  Parallax
SECONDCH.ZIP   74271 05/94  Second Chance       Techno    MTM  Warpery
SURREND.ZIP   204271 05/94  Surrender Yourself  Techno    ULT  Parallax

O U R   R E L E A S E S

InterNet FTP
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/demos

InterNet WWW
http://www.interlinx.qc.ca/~parallax

We do not endorse official bulletin board systems anymore due to the
impossibility to monitor them.

I N F O R M A T I O N

E-Mail:
parallax@interlinx.qc.ca
Web:
http://www.interlinx.qc.ca/~parallax
IRC:
Our members are sometimes (rather rarely) on #trax and #coders.

Snail Mail:
You can also send us postcards of your city, flowers, love letters,
your family album or any other traditionnal mail to:

The Surrounders
P.O. Box 57
Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley
Québec, CANADA
J0B 1W0

Ad Hoc Inc. - Denis Bois - Otto Chrons - Pierre Dumont - Erik Harris - Hornet
HyperShell Software Inc. - InterLinx Inc. - Med - Mr. Khan - Paul Malcom
Populus - John Smith - Struk - The Veritech Knight - Xyster

Every release of The Surrounders (including music, sources and
programs) are copyrighted and all the rights concerning these
productions are owned by the group itself. Our productions are
released 'as is' and you are not permitted to modify any of
them except for your private use.

Permission is granted to include our releases on promotionnal
or commercial CDs as long as these products do not have a
retail price of above 30$ US and contain at least four hundred
(400) megabytes of software. Adding our productions on CDs made
by and for the demo scene are of course encouraged. You MUST
send us e-mail or snail mail to tell us you are adding our
creations to your CD. If you are creating a CD that will be
carrying a price higher than the one mentionned above, you need
our permission to include our productions in it.

The samples included in our songs can be ripped and used
freely. Most of ours are already ripped anyway. Original songs
made by our musicians should not be copied or remixed with the
intent of making money in any manner. They can be broadcasted
freely (yeah, right) on non profit radio stations and such
(student radios, etc), but a mention of these broadcasts would
be appreciated.

We release our stuff freely for you to enjoy, so please do not
violate these basic rights.

v2.1
(C) Copyright 1993-1996 by The Surrounders.
Text by Parallax. Surrounders logo design by Mat.