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by RIMR 413 days ago
To be fair, a lot of those groups aren't any of the same people today.

Fairlight was pretty problematic back in the 90's politically, they even did a fairly controversial nazi-themed demo. Definitely not the vibe they give off today.
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miek 413 days ago
Article for reference [0]. It's amazing how far people's baggage will follow them (though the impact here is probably minimal). Wild that a former Fairlight member became San Diego Republican Party Chairman.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20240406015231/https://www.latim...

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xorcist 411 days ago
It wasn't always that clear who the members were. Demos and cracks across several machine types were handled by separate people who didn't always know each other.

Especially Fairlight was a pretty loose group which many people were sort of affiliated with, and sometimes would release stuff under that name, and nobody really knew if they were officially members or not. There was a bit of drama as everyone didn't always get along.

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