What was the original impetus behind creating a magazine?
Matt Massive: Well, the precursor to Massive was a zine called Ministry Of Truth. The first “issue” of MOT was a one-sided, xeroxed sheet of paper handed out to students at Mayville High School where I was a junior. What prompted its creation was my being wrongfully expelled from school. [Laughs.] I realized that I needed to get my side of the story out, so I went down to a Ben Franklin and churned out 25 copies. AVC: How did that mutate into Massive? MM: Over the next few years, I built up quite a collection of rave zines from around the country. I thought it would be cool to compile a number of them into one “massive” zine and hand it out at a Halloween party thrown by Drop Bass. It all went over very well; Kurt [Eckes, co-founder of Drop Bass Network] was planning to throw the first of his annual New Year’s parties and decided to call it “Massive.” We finished a second issue in time for that party, though this time we actually had it printed as opposed to ripping off Kinko’s again.
