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🎙 Flashback, tracks from the past
We have covered the demo scene since 2020, and play all the great chip tune music as well. Join us to hear tracked music combined with commentary from the geek-of-all-trades: DJ Daemon. He was once known as Daemon in the Amigaworld, and brings you stories about Amiga, retrocomputing, C64, demos, the demo scene and all things nerdy in the retro world.
We play tracker music composed on Protracker, Screamtracker, Fasttracker and Impulsetracker. It's music composed on Amiga and the retro-PC. Genres such as Chiptune, Synthwave and Retro electro.
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86. Chillout!
Another chill episode! We had one last autumn, and another one here and now. Modarchive.org delivers the smoothest, softest and calmest tracks you can wish for. And DJ Daemon talks about the artists, the comments and the music.
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85. Revision 2022, The right stuff
Revision Demoparty 2022 was last week, and now DJ Daemon has caught up! Here’s an hour with all the songs from the tracked music competition and two entries from the other compos. All narrated by DJ Daemon who loves some and… eh… Thinks less of some.Roll up! Roll up! A good time is guarranteed for all.
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84. XYCE-ing through the music
Two guys in front of their own trackers, collaborating over the Internet and eventually moving to the same town in the Netherlands. They are Xylo (Tom Offringa) and Cerror (Roel Heerspink). Together they have created a number of albums under the name #Xyce, with VUE being the latest. Today, DJ Daemon, goes through three of the previous albums, Classeur, Pop and Mosaik.Listen to music created on various computers such as Amiga, Atari and PC and enjoy the stories about XYCE from DJ Daemon.And if you like it, buy their albums here:https://xyce.bandcamp.com/
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83. The world according to GERP
GERP 2022 was held in Skövde in Sweden and presented most of what you want of from a demoparty when it comes to music. You got chiptunes and modtunes off course. But also Virgills new "AmigaKlang" was used for some of the executable tunes. Great music, with many fit for platform games that never were.DJ Daemon wryly talks about the different tunes and what he thinks about them.
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82. Toppermost of the poppermost
Today's tracked music genre is ... Drumroll .... Popmusic. It's the music that is easily seen as nondescript and generic. But actually, the collection in ModArchive, is quite good. And it's an hour with soft and nice tunes from talented artists as presented by DJ Daemon.
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81. Oh no! More top lists.
Coreus compiled a list of suggested tunes and this just had to become a sequel to the episode called “a toplist of our own”. So we did and DJ Daemon talks about the tunes and plays them.Links:Cyber Jeffs “Popbuster”, available on Bandcamp:https://cyborgjeff.bandcamp.com/album/popbusterSceneSat volume 4 with Chronberg:https://music.scenesat.com/album/the-sound-of-scenesat-volume-4I paid $5 per album. They’re awesome, I recommed you do to!
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80. An evening with an electric DJ Daemon
Tired due to a heavy work weekend and in a need for some silly fun! So, that’s what’s up for dinner on this show. We only eat the dessert today. Pointless, comical and really enjoyable songs like pirate shanties, parodies and sample heaven (hell?).DJ Daemon is on fire and gives you the tracked music scenes most silly, but really cool stuff like bananas that are tasty, cartoon sampling and piratey goodness worthy of Monkey island.
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79. Dance to the disco inferno
Burn, baby, burn – it’s the disco inferno. DJ Daemon puts you on the dance floor! Bell bottoms and mustaches are in! The 70s and early 80s are back in a way. Let’s play the disco music (muzak?) and laugh at 70s porn (Oh, yeah!) and crazy hinjinks on the dance floor. The tracked music community delivers as always.
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78. Track and roll
Tonight we're rocking it! An hour with music that fills the tracks with heavy gitar sounds and a pumping rhythm. Set your volume control to 11 and get ready to practise your world-famous air guitarr in front of the mirror.DJ Daemon spins the diskettes.
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77. Party till the cows come home
Last week it was classic music. And today DJ Daemon lets his hair down. What little he has left, that is. It’s time for a party at the barn. It will go on until the cows come home, if anyone is still standing, that is. Today, we play bluegrass and country and western, as envisioned by the scene’s tracked artists.Note: today marks the 27th anniversary of DJ Daemon entering the airwaves on a regular basis. This is worth celebrating as well.
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76. Concert for music trackers in D major
We did a jazz-episode last summer, so inspired from that, we now look into the big collection of classic tunes and classic sounding tunes made on all kinds of trackers on PCs and Amigas. It’s soft piano concerts and big symphonies. DJ Daemon talks a bit about the tunes and reads comments from users on Modarchive.So sit down, sip some red wine and feel a little more sophisticated in front of your radio.
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75. Cheesy listening
Yesterday "Cheesy Listening" hit the retro world like a bombshell. A brand new music disk with Virgill rocking it with lots of new chip tunes. Today DJ Daemon gives you the best of a that music disk AND the previous projekt of Virgill, Chipo Django. Which is the better music collection for the Commodore Amiga. One rocking mouse goes up against a raven looking back at him.
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74. Just another turn
"Just one more turn" has been the bane of students, people with work in the morning and anyone looking for some sleep. DJ Daemon tells you the story of Sid Meiers Civilization 1 and the stories of a brutal and violent Gandhi, how the game seemed hard to learn for the first seconds and then was impossible to stop playing and exactly where the famous slogan comes from.Correction: the game was released in 1991, not 1990.
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73. Treasure hunting the comments
All tracked tunes has instrument list, used to name the samples. These are often used to instead write comments and greeting by the artist and some are quite creative and sometimes insane. DJ Daemon reads some of the instrument lists and comments on ModArchive and discusses them briefly. This puts an extra dimension to the tracked tunes. Maybe not the most legendary comments ever made, but some a quite interesting and amusing.Here is the file talked about in the episode:https://ericade.radio/files/true_devotion_ii club_trance_rearrangement.mod
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72. 8!ghtBM on every chart
For this weeks' episode, we look into the creative works of elusive artist E!ghtBM, which we don't know so much about, really. But his music speaks volumes of his talent. DJ Daemon delves into the most popular among his compositions and comments on them as well.
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71. It's a long way to DiHalt
Get your boots! We’re marching on Nizhny Novgorod in Russia for this years DiHalt. The music from the east dominates this episode totally and it’s by artists you generally don’t hear on this podcast. You also get to enjoy the best from the ZX Spectrum scene in a separate top list. An all over great collection of the best tracker music right now!
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70. Cautious optimism
Careful! The Covid19 is still lingering. But 2022 is here as well and we’re cautiously optimistic about it. New demoparties coming up, AmigaOS 3.2.1 is here and Hyperion helps all of us that lost our serial keys, The request feature is delayed and DJ Daemon talks about some upcoming demoparties.