TRSI

TRSI is an acronym for Tristar and Red Sector, Incorporated. Founded by a supplier from Germany who went under the pseudonym Irata [1], TRSI began in 1990 as a cooperative Commodore 64 demo coding and cracking group. The alliance between Tristar and Red Sector, Inc. was formed after different group members met up at KewL Party in Denmark.

TRSI naturally migrated from the C64 release platform to the Amiga and IBM-PC, and even branched off into the console gaming scene. In the mid 1990s they created an independent record label, TRSI Records.

Not all members from Tristar and Red Sector partook in the cooperative movement that became TRSI. For example, some of the original Tristar members never officially recognized this merger and continue to work solely and exclusively under the Tristar label. Members who operated solely under the Tristar-only name make use of a similarly abbreviated name, TRS, not to be confused with the TRSI acronym.

History

TRSI was born June 29, 1990, when Tristar and Red Sector Inc decided to join forces on the Red Sector and The Silents Summer Conference 1990. In 1992, TRSI spun off a separate demo organization called Masque, responsible for the great WICKED SENSATION demo. By 1993, Masque had become tired of being merely the demo subsidiary of TRSI and so they split apart, taking all the "legal" (non-warez) members with them. This dealt a harsh blow to TRSI, but members like Warhead and TSM stuck with TRSI and helped rebuild the group. At The Party 93, most of the Polish section teamed up - with XTD and Norby at the helm. In 1994, TRSI released several noteworthy demos such as CUBIC DREAM, ARTIFICE and VIKTORIA.

German musician Virgill joined Complex according to Propaganda #4, but Virgill later made music for the TRSI demo "Twin Peaks" [12/96]... I believe the truth is closer to a double membership.

1990 - German sysop The Seeker ('HOLY TOWER') decided to leave the scene towards the end of the year for personal problems. Germans The Master and TCM (Martin, trade, new 08-11/90) were also kicked late this year. German musician Jester joined from Proton in october, but moved on to Sanity the following month, without having produced anything for the group.

1992 - In December Swedish musician Emax joined, and immediately contributed tunes for TRSI cracktros and demos.

1994 - 2Fast left to form Avantgarde in the middle of august.

1995 - Three main organizers now, Control, Warhead and Uyanik! German graphician Navy (ex BASF, 12/93) was kicked early in the year, for unknown reasons. German musician Blackthorne (93) joined Essence around the middle of 1995; his joining was announced in their mag ROM #5 [95]. Nah Kolor was originally formed in the middle of 1995 by the Polish section of TRSI - Dreamer (ex Surprise! Productions, 12/94), Norby (new 12/93), Bald Horse, Lazur (ex TPDL), Elis (code, 94), and QBA - to serve as their demosection, like Surprise! Productions and Masque had in the past. However, the plans had not been correctly cleared with the leaders of TRSI, and at The Party 5, Nah Kolor was given the choice of being real TRSI members or leaving in favour of this new group. The result was that Norby and Bald Horse decided to stay in TRSI, and that the rest continued as Nah Kolor. The rest of the Polish section was dismissed, and these people are no longer official members; Python (swap, early 95), Reset (swap, early 95), Trash Head (swap, early 95) and XTD (music, new 12/93-12/94). At least Trash Head and XTD joined Mystic. German graphician Fiver2 (ex Acrid, old handle Fiver, 12/93-95) joined Artwork sometime this year, after the release of his slideshow "Honeycomb" [95] for TRSI.

1996 - Graphician Scar joined Session late 96.

1997 - The Finnish group Mellow Chips joined as a subgroup, to serve as the TRSI demomachinery.

1998 - At The Gathering in april, the Mellow Chips pay off - they win the demo competition with "Rise"!

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