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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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69. A new year - 2022, second hour
So long, 2021! DJ Daemon broadcast this show live on 2021-12-31 at 9 PM CET as per usual. And this is mostly the music and some commentary on selected tunes by some of the other tracker artists on Modarchive. All read loud by an amused DJ Daemon. No need to sum up 2021, we did that a few weeks ago. Instead, enjoy the music and some words at the end by me. This is the second hour out of three.
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68. Four channels to the wind - first hour
Today, about 55 percent of all tunes on Ericade.radio are Amiga 4 tracker modules and the percentage keeps dropping. Since Amiga is the starting point of it all, I wanted to go back to the roots of tracker music and this station. So, here are two hours jampacked with great tunes that graced the Amiga during the early 90s that you never heard on Ericade.radio before today!
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67. XMAS at ground zero (shortened version)
It's christmas at ground zero and DJ Daemon briefly pops his head up above the surface to get his beloved Glögg and Punsch before the shops close. Home in his bunker after dodging all the Omikronparticles, he gives you all the tracked christmas tunes worth playing.
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66. That was the year it was
It’s not really time to sum the year of 2021 up yet… But I couldn’t wait, so I told the stories of some of the retro events of the year that it was.– The upcoming Amiga500 mini.– The newest Vampire V4 (Icedrake and Firebird)– The death of sir Clive Sinclair and the 2017(!) ZX “reboot”.– I incorrectly stated that the A500 mini will come out 2021-03-31. Pretty obviously it’s 2022-03-31. Also, it’s A500mini, not Amiga 500mini.– Forndata XMAS “2021 hANGOUT” is coming next week.– The news are collected from sources such as GenerationAmiga, Eurogamer, Amitopia and Facebook.
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65. Mafiaboy vs the world
In 2019, IT-säkerhetspodden, another podcast I participate in met with legendary hacker “Mafiaboy”. I and Mattias Jadesköld got to speak with Michael Calce, which is his real name. His misdeeds are now so old, they’re now properly into retro territory. In this hour we tell the story of him and how he brought down Amazon, CNN and eBay. All mixed in with great tracker music.
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64. They come from the land down under
Syntax Party 2021 went live on the 27th of November and closed its doors on the 28th. DJ Daemon gives you a great lineup of the tracked music compo entries from Australia’s premier demo party that runs annually. Since the winner had not yet been announced, we give you our own lineup, setup to give you a great mix through the different genres and tempos. Sit down, take a sip of some warm beverage and enjoy great tracked music. The last 20 minutes are tunes from Dr. Awesome previously unheard on the regular station broadcasts.
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63. The November grave yard shift
Where in the world is DJ Daemon? Answer: in Stockholm’s northern grave yard, putting out the heavy tracked tunes for the undead, dead and living. In this outdoor broadcast, that was cut short due to battery issues rather than Zombies, you get some banter but mostly the greatest tracked music.
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62. On a wing and a prayer
Epic space battle warfare and music is what this hour is all about! More specifically: Wing Commander 1 and tracked music with ONLY epic symphonies. Nothing sounds thin today as we dig into the first installment of the Wing Commander series and try to see if the game stands up to today’s standards. So sit down in your chair, pour something to drink and get ready to deal with a race of evil cats that want you out of the Enyo-sector.
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61. A top list of our own
I have long wanted to create an episode with my favourite tracks and when Coreus from Discord suggested a number of his own tracks he wanted on the station and played, it was clear that this just had to happen. So today is his requests and then the tunes I really like. So sit back and enjoy some brand new tracks on the station mixed with some of the best of the oldies. Here’s a special episode that was broadcast live on a sunday in November.
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60. Among saints and sinners
Halloween was last weekend here in Sweden and today it is All Saints day. So the episode is about both the silly and “safe” scares and horrors of Halloween and the somber feelings of the Saints day and remembrance of relatives and friends that are nolonger with us. The show zig-zags between the funny and the dark. As it should.
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59. Numerology
On today’s episode we go deep into the hard facts and questions about the music, the station and everything around it. Who’s the most popular artist, the the most hated tune and which countries bring the listeners? And is the Amiga still king of this station? DJ Daemon tells you like it is!Corrections: “Vintage Vinyl” is by Roz, not Saga musix.
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58. By the modem light's red glare part 3
And this is where our story of the Swedish BBS-era must end: with the story of the wander in the desert and how the boards made a small come back when we were all old enough to become nostalgic. I also want to thank Fabian Norlin, Sysop for “Fabbes BBS” for giving me statistics and a cool story to tell. It’s all in the show, and let’s get that started then!
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57. Deadline 2021, Germany calling
Deadline 2021 was held in Germany between the 8th and 10th of October 2021. We run you through 13 tracked tunes and 8 old school ones. 75 minutes of retro artistery and some dry humour from DJ Daemon.
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56. By the modem light's red glare part 2
This is the second out of three episodes, talking about the BBS era in Sweden. We’ve hit the 90s and lead you towards the sunset of the BBS scene and the Internet taking over. But this journey is an hour, so we will cover who the typical BBS-user might have been, why the some hated how easy it had become to start a BBS and quality of some of the discussions on a board like mine.The term “Board” and “BBS” mean the same thing here, just so you know.
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55. An electrifying evening with mr demon
Presenting Mr Electric Demon – an old hand on tracked music. In this session, we will give you an hour of some of his best work. Both sampled and chip-tunes along with his own story and demo scene career as told by DJ Daemon.
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54. Failure is the interesting option
Today, it’s a another walk down memory lane of some stupid mistakes done by me and others when working with old computers. What about shorting out a poor C64, backing up all non-important stuff instead of the needed files, running DCopy 4.1 and nuking the disk and making the power lead fit.. upside down.
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53. The creation of a station
One year on the AIR! Celebration is in order. DJ Daemon tells you the story of a station that loves the demo scene and the tracked tunes.
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52. Flashpoint Argentina
From Finland, to… Argentina. It was time for Flashparty 2021 coming to your sofa from Buenes Airos. In this episode you get 14 streamed contestants and 4 tracked tunes in two compos than ran on that demo party.Note: I’ve cut some of the songs down, due to not fitting the station and podcast format.
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51. God help me, it's Jumalauta 2021!
Jumalauta 2021 is over and brought 15 contestants to the tracked music demo scene. All parties have their style and Jumalauta had a rather informal feel to the music. Some is seriously crafted with nice chords and heavy beats, whereas others are just joking around. The winner really took some liberties with the concept of jazz and one entry featured a tire pump. So, it’s not like any demo party. But it is jumalauta!
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50. By the modem light's red glare part 1
This is the first episode in a two episode story about the Bulletin Board System (BBS) era seen from a Swedish perspective. Follow DJ Daemon through the late 70s, through the Wechselmann-indictment to the discussion about Anita Bondestam and her weird moped analogy. It covers the era between 1978 to the early 1990s.
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49. Between Arok and a hard place
Arok Party 2021 is over and the autumn season is now inaugurated. A strong line up with 15 awesome remixes and 5 great C64 tracked tunes, coming directly from the compos. This has been great and DJ Daemon goes through the list that contains a weird Thriller-esque remix, someone trying to start his car and some real sweet soft tracks.
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48. that other Awesome tracker dude
It’s not Dr. Awesome! Today we play almost entirely Victor Vergara’s tracker music. Mr Vergara called himself “Awesome” back in the day and is still active under the name “Awezoom”. In this hour, DJ Daemon, sheds a little light on who he is, his involvement in the demo scene and who he dedicates all his love ballads to.
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47. The basics of the home computer revolution
In the early 1980s, the people of Sweden had to be taught to program! This was the next step. In many ways, this ended up bearing fruit and the 8-bit computers taught a generation to become developers, demo creators and it-architects. But it didn’t happen the way everyone expected: through the joys of Basic.
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46. Do you grok the lingo?
All hobbies and fields create their own slang. The retro world has a gigantic library of words for the skilled, the unskilled and various computers and programs. DJ Daemon digs through words and the cool explanations that really makes you understand the attitude of true hackers. Not the kind that breaks into stuff, but the hackers that builds, programs and creates. Sit down and take a guess what hackerwasser is, why the net isn’t dead yet and why Amiga users feel persecuted (no, we don’t! Or do we?)
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45. The fallout connection
Fallout, how I love thee! Let me count the ways 1,2,Tactics,3,New Vegas,4… Let’s just end there…DJ Daemon was inspired by Fallout to create his own voice acted radio station, but wisely choose to create this one instead. It’s sad if you voice act some old man screaming in the radio from a bunker, and no one will get that it isn’t you for real. I mean, that’s a ruined reputation right there. Really dodged a bullet, there…Corrections: Fallout 1 was released in 1997, not 1995 as stated in the intro.
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44. The fly-over part of summer
The fly-over states in the USA are those that the planes flying above will just pass, on their way to bigger cities in more populated areas. And the latter part of July and the first weeks of August are like that. Vacation, less stuff going on… But that does not mean less to do! In this show DJ Daemon talks about the demo parties we have had this year, the upcoming ones, wonders if Workbench is becoming too bloaty for his taste, reports great news for everyone loving a certain game this show has stolen its title from and celebrates the Amiga 1000…
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43. Edison party 2021, a bright idea indeed
It took some time, but now, the podcast episode that covers Edison Party 2021. It ran from the 9th until the 11th of July 2021 and DJ Daemon was there in person, broadcasting live. This episode will give you the whole tracked music compo from the last position to the winner, with a short note about each artist. As you come to expect by now.
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42. Quite a country for old men
GubbData 2021 is still running as I write this, but the demo compo was yesterday and gave six artists a change to really show their Amiga tracker talents. In this show I play them all and also comment on GubbData and the compo.UPDATE: This final results are now in:First place – Slaze – Temporal AnomalySecond place – Vintrospective – An answering moodThird place – Caramel of Proxima – JargonautSlaze – Stringfellow Hawke, played in this episode, won 2nd place in the Airwolf compo.
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41. Postcards from summers past
I had no idea what I was doing when I started this episode. I called it “Happy summer days” and started sourcing the tunes. When I recorded the intro it was meant to be about a specific summer, but I quickly expanded the scope and ended up thinking about a personal story with something about retro computers or retro technology from my favourite summers in the 90s and 00s. I left the intro as it was, as I think it’s kinda fun how the story takes a life of its own and veers off on a different course during the show. I talk Amigas, Commodore, PC, MAC, Internet, BBSes and off course some tidbits from my life.
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40. It feels good to be bad
So Tina Turner may not need another hero, but we need more villains! A proper villain has to have a reason to be who he or she is or we don’t want them. So meet the villains of this episode:Andrew “I’m right – damn the consequences” Ryan - Bioshock 1.Donkey “But Mario is the evil one” Kong – The Donkey Kong series.Sarah “I will bathe in your blood, but I’m the victim here” Kerrigan – Starcraft 1 and 2.Robo “He’s just like Hitler” Hitler – Castle Wolfestein.Wallace “Long, intellectual rant on why all is perfect and you suck” Breen – Halflife 1 and 2.Shodan “I’m god, now you curl up and die” – System Shock 1 and 2.(Ghost/Zombie/Whatever) Pirate “The incel of piracy” LeChuck – The Monkey Island series.