123 (123)

Trip's Swedish solopack-with-friends series, started March 2000 with 123-01 and the tagline "vi kanske inte är bäst, men 2'a — 3'a är vi nog" ("maybe we're not the best, but we're at least 2nd or 3rd"), a piece of self-deprecation that captured the whole project. The series ran for six years with abstrakt designing the NFO and the core crew of shrimp/absent/spinsister/tripulogic/ansichrist/abstrakt on credits. The 2008 "#19" promised in the 2006 NFO never landed. 123 is the Swedish ASCII scene's least-pretentious through-line and a Stockholm-area solopack series that quietly outlasted half the bigger groups, kept its tagline, and never tried to be more than it was.

first/last release: 2000/03 - 2004/11
years active: 2000 (8), 2001 (1), 2002 (3), 2003 (4), 2004 (1), 2006 (1)
(sub)packs released: 18
smallest/largest pack: 123-01/12317
lifetime artworks: 221
lifetime lines: 6 896

average # of lines per artwork: 35
average # of artworks per pack: 12
longest serving member(s): absent spinsister (2000/03-2004/11), tripulogic (2000/03-2004/11)
most productive member: absent spinsister (69)
extensions: ASC (70), ANS (121), ORG (1), NFO (1), DIZ (1), JPG (1), RMX (4)

links: demozoo