For those of you that don’t know, this SysOp also runs a HumourList, the material being gathered – sometimes sorted into collages – and then emailed in bulk as individual attempts at humour on a rather irregular basis. The material is generally the best of what comes my way…
If you’d like me to include you (or others!) on the HMVHumourList, please feel free to drop me a line.
For those few of you that remain and remain interested, BBSs are long and surely dead in this country, thanks to Windows95+ and the internet. Evidence can be viewed in the current list of South African BBSs.
The HMVH Corporation BBS is sure to befall a similar fate but will – for the time being – remain online only to maintain its relatively huge FileBase which shall sometime be converted to some or other WWW-format, even if only as an FTP site. Online we shall remain!
Enjoy the speed while it lasts!
Whereas sibling and numerical predecessor “The Radio Mixes” featured primarily radio-friendly material, the poorly subtitled “The HardCore Material” was the real catalyst into an electronic mindset consisting of hard, thumping monotony — played at such repetitious rates to result in headaches and involuntary visits to Cyberia that it often wasn’t possible to differentiate between the real world and this new, largely unexplored domain. At times it became more real than reality itself, and somehow — for reasons that made no sense at all — it felt better. It felt good. It felt right.
What was real? What actually existed, and what was imagination, fiction, or pretence?
Blurb: “‘Cyberia (The HardCore Material)’ constitutes the second half of a double entrance into what will invariably become a series of the best club mixes this CJ (Computer Jockey) can get his paws onto.
Originally written March 31st, 1999. First online version posted April 2003. Revised and updated March 2015. See background story here.
Out of the ashes of primitive and crude prototypes obtained and sourced through outright extortion; in the midst of a near-lycanthropic lifestyle dominated by personal and professional chaos, social hecticism, emotional upheaval, and insomnia tending towards self-destruction and professional burnout, the invention of the Cyberia compilations attempted to capture and absorb that kiss of fresh air that had appeared to have re-awakened the slumbering dance music scene.
Not unlike Cher, Kylie and Madonna, it was the time to explore a re-birth and the re-invention of one’s self and one’s musical direction. It was a time of maturity and age, a time of wisdom steering us into a new beginning and a new frame of mind racing towards the uncertainty of the next millennium.
If you heard this album your life could be better.
Blurb: “‘Cyberia (The Radio Mixes)’ represents the first in what we expect to be a series of scorching mixes, featuring the best club music doing its rounds at the time of its compilation. This album is complemented by ‘Version 2.01’, a collection of the more hardcore stuff…”
Originally written March 31st, 1999. First online version posted April 2003. Revised and updated March 2015. See background story here.
In case anybody is wondering, the BBS is not running on AutoPilot, there is still a living SysOp behind it… he’s just busy with other projects and things.
See ya!
Herewith we’d like to announce two new file areas:
#28 “Message Mates” and #44 “Applications: Compact Disc”.
It’s obvious what we’ve been keeping ourselves busy with lately…
Enjoy!
It’s been four years.
Considering the amount of business and the effect that the WWW has had on the old-fashioned on-line community, the HMVH Corporation BBS is nearing the end of its practically useful lifespan. There is, however, one promise I make: The name and values (Values? Yeah, right) will live on, in some form or another, via another medium – invariably the WWW!
BTW, the “Seductive Schoolgirls” CD-ROM is online again.
For those of you into poking fun at the lesser-fortunate and for those with a warped sense of humour, please note the availability of File Areas 776 to 780… a host, and certainly wide selection, of assorted Cartoon-, Humour-, Satire-, and Parody-related image files. Area 779, in particular, contains cartoons made during my own younger years.
Laugh!
