Adam Hyde
Adam Hyde was a member of Mudpeople, The Waldos, Fluke and the Emersons, the music editor for Nexus in 1992, and manager of Contact 89FM from 1993 to 1996. In 1991 he produced the music fanzine Garbage, the focus of which was almost exclusively Hamilton music. He initiated and hosted the show Urban Jangle on Contact 89FM, which ran from August 1993 to late 1996, that played 100% Hamilton music. He wrote a series of important articles on the history of Contact 89FM for Nexus in 1992, titled Making Contact.
Hyde relocated to South Australia in the late 1990s. In 1998 he founded "Radioqualia" with Honor Harger, initially as an art collabortation, which became a net broadcaster. Moving to Amsterdam in 1999, Hyde co-founded HelpB92 and Open Channels for Kosovo, which assisted independent media in the former Yugoslavia. He has been working as a software artist and musician under the name "eset". H performed under this name at the 1998/1999 The Gathering New Years concert.
