Kosmic Free Music Foundation - Definition

The Kosmic Free Music Foundation (KFMF; formerly Kosmic Loader Foundation [KLF]) was a worldwide group of computer musicians, artists, and coders focused on the PC demoscene. They produced music, and less frequently, artwork and demos. A majority of members came from the United States, Canada, and Australia. In the early 1990s, they were known for having many of the tracking scene's top musicians as members. Kosmic's members were frequently users of IRC; congregating on the channel #trax.

The leader of Kosmic was New Jersey resident Dan Nicholson, who went by the alias Maelcum.

List of members, circa 1996

kosmic executive staff

• Maelcum (Pres.) (Dan Nicholson)
• Draggy (V. Pres.) (Nicolas St. Pierre)

kosmic coding division

• jmX (Jon Mayfield)

kosmic art division

• Ink (John Cathcart)
• Light (Jeff Harris)

kosmic music division

• Ara (Ara Pehlivanian)
• Astrid (Astrid Fauchon)
• Bert (D. R. Vandervelden)
• B00MER (Jared Blalock)
• cd (Brian Wickman)
• Chuck Biscuits (Andrew Fort)
• CJtrack (Chris Jarvis)
• Daedalus (Brian Bennetts)
• Floss (George Nowik)
• Inner Vision (Gene Sumter)
• Inspekdah Deck (Andre Cardadeiro)
• GooRoo (Chris Egerter)
• h0llywood (Simon Carless)
• Karl (Bogdan Raczynski)
• Khyron (Paul Schultz)
• Leviathan (Andy Carlson)
• Liam the Lemming (Liam Hesse)
• Lord Pegasus (Zack Smith)
• Mental Floss (Andrew McCallum)
• MickRip (Mick Rippon)
• Mistah Kurtz (Stephen Hill)
• Ozone (Andre Pang)
• Phoenix (Andrew Voss)
• Quarex (Drew Hunt)
• Ringlord (Chris Nauroth)
• Siren (Alexander Brandon)
• Stinger (Harri Manninen)
• theHacker (Krisjanis Gale)
• Vivid (Simon Jarosch)
• Zake (Olli Leino)

kosmic support division

• Silver Dragon(PR) (Alek Benedict)

List of major releases

• Exceedingly Great Grooves - musicdisk (1994)
• Exceedingly Great Grooves 2 - musicdisk (1995)
• Little Green Men - demo (1995)

External link

• Kosmic.org website (http://www.kosmic.org/)

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