Julian of The C-men posted a little history of The C-men in time for their 10th anniversary show.
An excerpt:
Well, seems 10 years have gone by fast.
Me and a guy called Sjors Trimbach started veejaying 11 years ago, somewhere in november. We did our first gig in the back of an old american musclecar, having 2 amigas on the backseat, projector set up outside on the deserted area of a waste disposal factory.
We both met in artschool, at the media art department in Enschede and we had a nice stack there of amiga 4000 computers. Since I owned an amiga 1200, I taught Sjors about deluxepaint ( the animation program by electronic arts), and we did art installation stuff together (including some daft live pong installation in 98 : P )
Sjors had a background in comics, and this was his opportunity to use his experience with that to do proper animation.
At some point, some vj’s from Amsterdam gave a lecture at our school, and they showed their home made program mnu, which was written specially for the amiga.
At the time I was making intricate animation stuff, and was frustrated about the fact that it couldn’t be altered once it was made, so I gave the program a go. And before we knew it, we got into veejaying.
Read the rest at 8bc.org
The C-Men, one of the longest standing legends of the chipmusic scene.
I wish I could be there for their anniversary party, the lineup is MASSIVE, probably, the most interesting event in Europe this year, specially at the ATAK venue which I had the pleasure to see, hear and experience live in its preview day, last year at the Gogbot festival.