talking with martz, founder of degeneration65 (and numerous groups)..

Session Start: Sat Jan 25 00:36:02 1997

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<martz> w00p

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<martz> AHAHAHAHA
<martz> STINK BADLY!

Dangermouse:
Now, everyone's complaining that acheron doesn't cater for the ascii scene enough, and well, heres an interview with ab #ascii pimp, martz..

Lets go matee

Martz:
w00p

Dangermouse:
first question, who is the real MARTZ? the man behind the mask?

Martz:
I'm a pimp, not related to #ascii. huh? what do you mean? I don't wear a mask, my face is naturaly twisted ;)

Dangermouse:
What the hell is your real name and all that shit? jeeze, got to give to ascii artists in black and white don't you

Martz:
ohh, well, my real name is Ohad, which is an israeli name, and errr, I live in israel ;)

Dangermouse:
obivously

Martz:
haha

Dangermouse:
age? sex?

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Martz:
errr I'm 17, and twice a week, preferable.

Dangermouse:
sarcastic

Martz:
male ;)

Dangermouse:
oh whatever

Martz:
wh0a

Dangermouse:
Have you by any chance removed two of your lower ribs?

Martz:
nope, I have all my body parts intact.

Dangermouse:
ahh, the reason i ask is, well, hmm.. its apparently easier to blow yourself this way.. anyways, on with the questions..

How did you get involved with the scene?

Martz:
dude, go on. hahahahaha

I can't blow my self, I've been circumsized, my dick is cut in half ;)

Dangermouse:
YOU TOO! I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE! THERE ARE OTYHER HELMETS! MY GOD

Martz:
Well, I was a local since 1992, drawing ascii, along wif 3 or 4 other artists. Then got my internet account, in about 1995/1996, and got on the net.

Dangermouse:
ahh

Ok, I was looking for a more comprehensive overview there, but since your an ascii artist, i guess I'll have to make allowances..

Martz:
hahahahahaha

Dangermouse:
Lemme put it another way, who got you involved, what were your first groups, and more importantly, what do you remember of those days?

Dangermouse:
are u there?

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Session Start: Sat Jan 25 00:48:27 1997

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Dangermouse:
Lemme put it another way, who got you involved, what were your first groups, and more importantly, what do you remember of those days?

Martz:
Ohh, haha, well, when i got involved in the world scene, we all had passion to draw, we loved to draw, being the best didn't matter as it matters now.

my first group was grill, a group ran by kaz and myself. we had many new artists in it, and a couple of old ones.

I loved those days, all my friends from the local scene were there wif me, and we tried to make an impact on the ascii scene.

Dangermouse:
Well, that was the thing, everyone wanted to make an impact, start a group, and i dunno, 'be somebody'?

Martz:
yeah, that was it, except we did make an impact. in those days, we were group #3, after remorse and noname. We had artists like absent spinsister, meatpod, mso, and so artists who made the scene what it is afterwards. People applied like madmen ;)

Dangermouse:
What have been your lastest groups/efforts?

Martz:
My last group? or all the groups i've ever been in?

Dangermouse:
Yeah, your last few, or any u haven't mentioned..

Martz:
heh, well since grill, we were running good, then mjay quit noname and started simple!ascii. I joined, and we went on another month. then this guy called Sargon popped up, and offered us to merge Grill, Simple, Polyester and his group (later we learned that there was no group) called Intrepid.

...and so, these groups merged into what you know as serial!ascii.

then we had some internal problems, and me and mjay split serial, and formed aphro!ascii wif d2mac&roman

Dangermouse:
Forgive me for my ascii ignorance, is serial!ascii still alive?

Martz:
nope, heh, serial is dead ;)

aphro!ascii was the most contriversial ascii group of all times. everybody hated it.

Dangermouse:
why?

So one day i went to a school trip, and when I came back, aphro was dead ;)

well, we pissed off everyone, and sargon and meatpod, the remaining leaders of serial, kept dissing us. There was a real war going on ;)

Dangermouse:
Did meatpod give the ever present finger?

Martz:
yes, countless times ;)

so anywayz, aphro died, and I joined fuel, lead the ascii devision. then I quit fuel, and joined the revived legendary basic, which was the greatest group i've ever been in.

Dangermouse:
I mean, what was it about aphro that everyone hated tho?

Martz:
they hated our attitude.

a couple of no-one's , saying everyone else sucks, and we own the scene ;) and serial hated us coz we split and took 50% of their members or so.

ok, so i was in basic yeah? Then blindman and Mjay killed basic, and I was lonely again ;)

Dangermouse:
Haha, yeha, you've forgotten haven't you, 'i don't belieeevvveee it'..

my dad put fertilizer on te gardens today, now the entire house smells like shit

Martz:
no wait ;)

Dangermouse:
sooo? u aint forgotten..

Martz:
hahahahahaha

Dangermouse:
or u think im lying about the shit?

Martz:
It'll come back to me ;)

Dangermouse:
trust me, u should smell it, its like a fucking barnyard here, its like theres this horse with its ass up to my window

Martz:
hahahahahahaha

Dangermouse:
with a cow at the other, farting the words to that stupid farm song..

u there, or has the putrid smell gotten to u?

Martz:
then 3 months passed, i was guesting in some groups i guess, and then I decided it was time for another group. So I formed Spies.

Spies was a kickass group , I killed it after 3 packs because i was sick of the scene, the scene didn't move, the scene is degenerated.

Dangermouse:
yeah

Martz:
So off went spies, and Me and a couple of my best scene-related friends formed a label, a non-ascii-related group called Degeneration65

shuddup ;)

Dangermouse:
yeah

oh, yeah ok..

Martz:
hahahahaha

Now ask me: Tell us more about Degeneration65

Dangermouse:
Tell me more about Degeneration65.. (like what the hell the 65 is for)?

Martz:
come on, ask

Dangermouse:
i have u bitch

Martz:
hahahahahaha

Dangermouse:
what are you blind or some shit?

Martz:
hahahahaha

dude, YOU'RE INTERVIEWING ME

Dangermouse:
u use a brail keyboard or some fancy shit..

I AM!? IM INTERVIEWING U!?!? NO SHIT!@? I THOUGHT U RAN THE PAGE... OHOHO

I'm such as silly shit, anyway, yeh, answer.. come on, im loading pron man :)

Martz:
ASK ME QUESTIONS

* martz cries

Dangermouse:
i am u idiot

Tell me more about Degeneration65.. (like what the hell the 65 is for)?

Tell me more about Degeneration65.. (like what the hell the 65 is for)?

Tell me more about Degeneration65.. (like what the hell the 65 is for)?

Tell me more about Degeneration65.. (like what the hell the 65 is for)?

Martz:
ASK ME QUESTIONS! ASK ME QUESTIONS! bah, damn..

Dangermouse:
U asked for it, remember that

Martz:
Now ask me: Tell us more about Degeneration65

ok!

Degeneration65 was brought up to encourage some attitude into the scene. We're here to bring attitude into the scene, we piss everyone off, and we own them at everything ;)

Shout outs to the Deg65 members- Gravedancer, Midnight Judge, Kresile, Kaz, Spook, D2mac and myself.

65 represents nothing, absolutely nothing, but we love it anyways ;) PLUS, here's a big scoop for you. a degeneration65 homepage will be up soon, and it rules bigtime.

Dangermouse:
umm, What do you think of the ascii scene today, or for the matter, the state of the scene in general?

Martz:
well, the scene is fucked. there's no competition, and it's full of losers.. Well, they're all just giving up on competition.

Dangermouse:
Just wondering, it seems to be a topical discussion at the moment, like, 'how to save the scene'

Martz:
Everyone's into dissing remorse, and doing nothing else besdies that, and the little groups are dead, there are like 1 or 2 left.

There's always been a nostalgic aspect of the scene, but now it's really fucked.

Saturday War - an ascii compo, held in #satwar, every saturday at 3pm , is one of the things I'm doing to revive it. Black jack and me run it.

#satwar, ever saturday, 3pm EST

Dangermouse:
yeah i've heard about that

well anyways, i think we've covered enough.. any greets?

Martz:
Well, I wanna greet remorse, the group i'm in now, and all the members.

Dangermouse:
im getting tired

Martz:
I wanna greet Degeneration65, my crew, rock on.

Dangermouse:
This has taken 1 hour and something, jeeze

Martz:
and I wanna greet Odelay and ruckus, and kwest. that's it ;)

Dangermouse:
cya l8r

Martz:
I'm gone

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Session Close: Sat Jan 25 01:40:39 1997