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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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116. The Spirit of Retro and Xmas Part 2
Part two of Coreus christmas top list. It's time again to get into that christmassy retro mood. DJ Daemon is behind the microphone.
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115. The Spirit of Retro and Xmas Part 1
Coreus from the Retro spirit has outdone himself! He selected the best "xmas feeling"-music and created a mix out it. This is the first of two episodes. DJ Daemon is in front of the mike.
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114. Mixing up the demo scene
Syntax 2022 in Australia and Mysdata 2022 are on the agenda for this demo party episode. But no toplist - we're just selecting the best or most interesting ones for this show.DJ Daemon just hope Disney wont go crazy over a lot of Yoda-samplings in one song. :)
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113. Just listening to the radio
Nothing special today, just enjoying the songs coming into the station. We focus on Mick Rippon, an artist we never have heard on ericade.radio. We also add two tunes from Slash_atd. Not to forget the artist Tangerine.
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112. Inércia demo party 2022
Inércia demo party is over and delivered chiptunish goodness and heavy techno. Alas, no tracked modules participated in the demo party. But after the toplist, you get a set of such tunes suggested by our Discord listeners. DJ Daemon presides over this meeting of the tracked music minds
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111. Impulsetracker
Impulsetracker produces the most advanced tracked music compared to Protracker, Fasttracker and the others. So they often feature a large number of instruments that makes up to 64 channels of musical goodness.This episode feature correspondent Some1NameNate, with the story of that one technology that sets Impulsetracker apart from the competition.Correction: I've been informered that Impulsetracker-music cannot be played on an Atari Falcon. My appologies for not checking this up. The story was told to me by a listener last year.
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110. Another toplist of our own
It's the third time we let the listeners make the toplist. DJ Daemon sent out a request to various Discord forums and got a few suggestions of great tunes that you don't always hear. And from that comes another toplist by and for the listeners.
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109. Deadline demo party 2022
A bit tired and with a stuffy nose, DJ Daemon gives you a belated episode with the demo music from the Deadline demo party 2022. Tracked and streamed music for your enjoyment.
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108. Chillaxing while waiting
Deadline and Flashparty are still underway, and while waiting, lets chillax (=chill and relax) and just enjoy the music. Not much speech, but still some news:On the show:– Deadline and Flash party are soon over and next week we’ll have the music.– Will the ericade.radio-music become a hit among cyberpunks?– We sound even better now. (Not me, come on, the music!)– A better website is coming.
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107. Catching up on the demoscene
We’re back with three new demo party toplists. It’s from Nordlicht, Xenium and Function 2022. It’s a bit of a catchup of all the important demo parties with tracked music we missed during the last 30 days.DJ Daemon blasts through them at a brisk tempo and skips some of the less interesting entries to give you the highlights. Not a boring moment.
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106. Two years in the bunker
Two years on the air! They said it wasn’t possible – it couldn’t be done. And I proved them… Actually, no one said any of that. But the station is on and broadcasting 24/7. It’s been quite a year and let me, DJ Daemon tell you about all the stuff we’ve been through together.One hour of the newest additions to the station of tracked music.00:00 ericade.radio – Good evening, here is another hour of tracked music00:06 DJ Daemon: Two years! On the 13th of September 2020, we started broadcasting. And we’re still on. We’ve talked about the creation of the station on a previous episode. So this hour is just a look back at all the mayhem, chaos, broken songs and also some the bad stuff that have happen.
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105. In the spotlight
Every week, ModArchive.org spotlight a bunch of noteworthy modules and DJ Daemon has selected some of those as the highlights of the spotlights so to speak. You will get some really cool songs by artists seldom heard on the station like DJ Ail and Thwy.
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104. Dancing in September
Autumn is here and the leaves are falling of the trees. So, time to slow down and enjoy some good musical styles from the 90s through the trackers running on Amigas, Ataris and PC. DJ Daemon is the voice in the night, leading you through upbeat tunes and melodious niceness.So enjoy an hour of great tracked music and your favourite beverage.
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103. The last enthusiasts from up north
Svenska Commodoreklubben (SCK) held a great retro-event in Täby in northern Stockholm in Sweden between the 26 - 28th of August 2022. It held a fantastic museum, a repair shop, a quiz held by Frida Katarina, the online meeting "Sen kväll med Commodoreklubben" and ericade.radio did a live broadcast.Huge thanks to Hravnkel, Björn A, Bjonte, PataG, Hedgewizard, Per G, Frida Katarina and all the other people making the retro-scene the place to be!We did a live broadcast during the most of the Friday, but had to cut it short on Saturday due health-issues on my part. But still, we got a lot of stuff to talk about. And the music is a fresh addition to the station and mostly very soft and mellow as it feels right. Enjoy!The link: commodore.se/about-us/ (Mostly in Swedish)ErrataI said that the Amiga 500 came out in 1997. I misspoke. It was in 1987. My bad.
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102. 40 years of Commmodore 64
What a computer! The legendary C64. In August of 2022, it celebrates 40 years of being the one computer we all remember fondly. That’s right, Commodore launched it in August of 1982. The same year as the war in the Falklands and Michael Jackson’s thriller.DJ Daemon talks about the C64. The music is mostly fantastic remakes of old C64 game tunes.
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101. Some Assembly required
Assembly is a famous Finnish demo party that started 30 years ago. That's SGT Peppers lonely hearts club band and then ten more years.DJ Daemon gives you the tracked music and the highest rated entries of the "listening competition". So, put on your headphones and listen to brand new tracked music.A few songs that are not up to our standard, have been cut to just a short "sample".
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100. Synth oddity
Episode 100! From December 2020 until today, it's been quite a ride. But no need to get all misty eyed about it. DJ Daemon instead spends this hour exploring two tracker music oddities: the AHX and HVL formats.So expect more chiptunes today, as both those formats were born to excel in that way.
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99. Welcome to the jungle (Edison Demo party 2022)
Edison Party 2022 has left the building in Eggebygård in Stockholm, Sweden after three days of the sceners battling it out with trackers, compilers and drawing programs. We got the tracked music toplist and four of the best streamed tunes from the party.DJ Daemon delivers commentary and all the music for your listening pleasure!
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98. Tale of two sysops
In the middle of the hot summer of 2022, two sysops met over the Internet and started talking retrocomputing, the Amiga, the demo scene and the horrors of overheating modems and why you valued what you downloaded more back in the day. In this episode, DJ Daemon and Hravnkel also selects their favorite Amigatunes from the 90s and talk about why they like them so much.Hravnkel is an old ascii artist whose first BBS lasted two hours. But he started a new, modern one called "This old cabin" in 2017.DJ Daemon used to be part of the demo group Eternal in 1994-97 as a sysop.Both are fans of Commodore, the Amiga and the C64.
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97. Another summer fly-over
The middle of July until early August is what I call the "fly-over" territories of the summer. You just pass through them while enjoying your life. I go back to work tomorrow but hope for some more vacation in a few weeks.So relax a few more days, when the weather is great and there are few things going on.
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96. Gubbdata and Arok 2022
Talk about a scheduling conflict! Gubbdata in Sweden and Arok in Hungary both ran on the 1st to 3rd of July 2022. DJ Daemon solved it by waiting for the songs to arrive, so now we have 17 competing tracks from both demo parties.It's gonna be a great hour of six Amiga tunes, eight remixes and three C64 pure SIDs.
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95. Happy Happy Happy
Vacation is here and everything is warmer and life goes slower for a while. So settle down and listen to music with a “happy”-theme. Because we’re all happy to have some free time.DJ Daemon gives you an hour of nice tunes and also two brand new ones by Slaze, just released!
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94. Summer in the city
Left in the trenches of the baking city of Solna is DJ Daemon hiding deep in his bunker, and keeping anyone within the reach of the broadcast with a good supply of tracked summer music from the golden retro days of computing.Last year it was storytelling. Now, it’s music and some stories.In the show:– What’s on the horizon for the next week in the demo scene?– A get-well greeting to Slaygon and Ziona from that other scene station in Sweden that actually has any listeners. Covid19 is still at large, but SlayRadio stands undeterred.– DJ Daemon remembers the summer of love 1967, 8 years before being born.– Want a good drink? Non-alcoholic and perfect for the summer. https://ericade.radio/drink/
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93. Shadow party 2022
Shadow party 2022 ended last Sunday and brings a rather meager list of tunes. But we get three great streamed ones and two tracked that, alas, are not up to standard for this station. But DJ Daemon gives you the streamed compo and then switches to a modarchive curated playlist with soft melodious tune and some heavy rocking ones.
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92. As featured on the radio
While waiting for the Shadow party tunes (will be next week's episode), we're playing the latest highlighted tunes of ModArchive. DJ Daemon talks about them and gives you two nice medleys of shorter ones. Turn up the volume, here comes the good stuff to your speakers.
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91. Forndata Summer 2022
Forndata Summer 2022 started at 6 pm and went on until midnight. It was scaled back due to few people wanting to attend in person. But it went live on Twitch instead and was everything we come to expect from it. DJ Daemon plays the two contestant song and then talks about the interviews and the future for Forndata.This show was broadcast before the demoparty ended and thus we cannot talk about every part of it.We now have the toplist places:1. 106 pts Mirakelkur – krdn / defiance2. 73 pts st-svarup jedi 2 – adkd / artstateNote: I wrongly say that ADKD is part of Defiance. That’s incorrect, he is part of Artstate.
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90. Modarchive, hit me one more time!
Modarchive.org has a small, but active community that makes sure tracked music is saved for posterity. It has all the superb, awesome, great, good, mediocre, dismal and horrible music that the scene has composed. Or at least a lot of it. How do you know what good and what is not? Stars! The community awards points between 1-10 to everything they can.Today, DJ Daemon does another show based on the last weeks highest rated song sand talks about them and the comments. The songs can be made on any computer and be old or brand new.
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89. In loving memory of Vangelis
Vangelis. The man behind Chariots of fire, Conquest of Paradise and the music in Bladerunner has left us. On the 17th of May, he concluded his work leaving it to posterity. DJ Daemon celebrates the man by simply playing songs from tracked music artists that clearly must have been inspired by him.An apologyThis podcast differs from the original broadcast in that the tune "Syndrom land" by MAF has been removed. Some listeners took offence as it was out of place in a remembrance program. I apologize for this lapse in judgement and this part of the program has now been remade.
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88. Love is in the air and the ratings
Love is in the air and we're nowhere near Valentine's day. But this hour, let's note all the tracks on Modarchive.org getting the love in form of high ratings and generous comments right at this moment. DJ Daemon plays the music the sceners are talking about right now. The tunes themselves are all new, old or somewhere in between.
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87. 88 keys to heaven
A typical piano has 88 keys spanning seven octaves. It has an almost magic versatility and is hard to get sounding right when sampling it. Today’s tracked music artists tackle this huge task with great results most of the time. DJ Daemon showcases some of the best ever made and talks about them.