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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.
Flashback episodes dedicated to the demoscene — the community of programmers, artists and musicians behind demos, intros and other real-time audiovisual art.
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159. An eventful Saturday afternoon at Revision 2026
Saturday and this is when it happens! All the cool competitions will soon be running and people are getting ready for them. Follow DJ Daemon and Coreus coming to you from a table in the venue, behind a scary wolf head and loads of old computers.
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157. Warming up for Revision 2026
Here is the first hour of four live broadcasts from Revision 2026. DJ Daemon and Coreus meets up in the lobby of a hotel near the Revision venue. Here we talk about the upcoming Revision and meet up with fellow scener Spacie who just happened to be a few chairs behind us. And off course we play all the cool chiptune music.
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136. Revision 2025
Revision is back again and the year is 2025. Here is the list of tunes for the tracked music competition on Revision 2025. DJ Daemon is back to present the tunes.
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125. Edison in retrospect
It's been a few months since Edison 2023 ran. But DJ Daemon remembers the tunes and the competition. You'll get the tracked and streamed music contestants. And, with the help of Coreus and the Baron of Dubstep, also an interview with Weyland (the leader of Edison)
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119. Outline 2023
Another demo party! This episode is all about Outline 2023. DJ Daemons spins the harddisks with the hottest demo music right now.
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118. QBParty 23
QBParty is next up in Flashback's coverage of the demo parties. DJ Daemon keeps you company in through the whole playlist.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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36. Forndata 2021 gets medieval on your arse
Forndata 2021 Summer is over and brought a lot of joy to the demoworld from Visby in Sweden. It was off course online only, but presented demo-, C64- and tracked music compos as you’d expect from a true demo party. The start was on time and there were few problems until the OctaMed-tune from heck just would play and was disqualified. The line up was good and the tunes were all up to the standard you’d expect from them. The interviews were quite unique with Swedish minister of digitilization, Anders Ygeman and legendary Commodore techs Bil Herd and Dave Haynie. We also got a really nice live interview with Chris Huelsbeck, the tracked music god of sorts.
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34. Liberty, equality and tracker music
From France comes the Shadow party 2021 and between 2021-05-21 and 2021-05-23 the virtual doors opened for a brand new demo party. We jumped at the chance to broadcast the tunes the same day they competed, so we did not know who had won. But we know now:The winners:1) TDTTDHAD – The Demo Track That Didn’t Have A Demo – CS-Jay / Desire ^ Persuasive Music & Slide / Polka Brothers2) Evolution / Ma2e and Aceman3) Brightstar – Mystra / Brainstorm & Nectarine (Amiga 4-channels)
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29. A Revision best enjoyed on a sofa near you
Revision 2021 online is over and people from all over Europe and elsewhere assembled to show the world that the retro computer scene still matters! On Saturday third of April 2021, 15 entries fought in the tracker competition. And in this podcast, we will play them all! Be advised, there will be some swearing, so please don’t listen if it offends you.DJ Daemon walks you through the contenders and gives you the winners!
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4. Demos and groups
Sunday is here and today I talk demos, why EVACUE failed and the disqualified entry at the Gathering 1994 plus why Cannon Fodder does not glorify war.Correction: Evacue’s last demo was in august 1994 and not 1995 as I stated.