Podcast episode profile for 82. Toppermost of the poppermost
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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 once a 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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82. Toppermost of the poppermost
Flashback, tracks from the past
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- 00:00 ericade.radio - Time for another episode of Flashback - Tracks from the past
- 00:06 DJ Daemon speaks: Our fight to bring you the best tracked music in different genres have brought us to the popmusic stage. Lets explore the “The Toppermost of the Poppermost” of the ModArchive together. It's softer and more mellow than usual. Somewhere in this program, there will be a "Rob Hubbard" song hidden in one of the tracks. See if you can catch it!
- 00:32 Anders Akerheden - April Snow
- 04:04 DJ Daemon speaks: So, it's pop music today. Most genres as presented by the tracked music scene is pretty clearcut. But today's music does not really stick out as an example of something unique. But it is great and has earned it's reputation. What you just heard was Anders Akerheden with April snow. Pretty fitting as it was the 1st of April yesterday - and yes, it did in fact snow here in Sweden. Let's go on with today medley's - you only get one today - it's monster with Autumn, The Music man with Always will love you and Andreas Karlsson with 3 foot high.
- 04:50 Laamaa - Boogie beach
- 06:18 Monster - Autumn
- 07:32 The Musicman - Always will love you
- 09:36 Andreas Karlsson - 3 foot high
- 11:51 DJ Daemon speaks: Yup, it's mostly softer tunes today. It feels right. Tracked music seldom feature vocals and if they do, it's mostly short samplings with screams and effecs. The GreaFox actually sings on the next song called Syndrome. It seems to be about pain and struggles. Raveolution wrote on Modarchive in 2021 while rating it 9 out 10: LOL this song is crazy. I've had some episodes of serious aches and pains and can't walk can't sleep moments in my life so I feel this guy's pain. This song never ceases to get my attention. Life ain't always perfect folks. Be glad for your good health, I sure am glad for mine!
- 12:44 The GreatFox - Syndrome
- 18:00 DJ Daemon speaks: Great, let's up the tempo a bit. We need that too! Next up is Cyborg Jeff with Nectarinization: la revenge. This tune was added to the station a few days ago, and comes from Cyborg Jeff's album called Popbuster released in 2005. We played "Email to Elise" from it in last episode. He hails from Belgium and may one day get a special episode on this podcast.
- 18:37 Cyborg Jeff - Nectarinization : la revenge
- 21:50 DJ Daemon speaks: Fast, and … hmmmm… Vindictive. Or something like that. So, yes, I'm still counting the days until Revision, that opens on April the 15th and runs the whole weekend. But a few weeks still remain. Next up is the artist "The professor" and I shall spoil the challenge a bit for you. See if you catch it. What Rob Hubbard song is hidden in this tune?
- 22:22 Professor Chaos - Holidays
- 30:00 DJ Daemon speaks: Oh, you will have to wait until the end of the show before I reveal the answer. Let's try som moody guitarplay from MC Dreamer and "I don't know why". Comments from ModArchive: Pip Malt wrote in 2007, rating it 7 / 10. Nice acoustic guitar tune by MC Dreamer. Smart use of guitar squeaks to make it sound like the guitar player is shifting from note to note. The only other instruments are drums and bass, so it gets pretty repetitive towards the end. It's almost 6 minutes long. I would like more variation. Unknown commenter in 2000, rating it 9 / 10. This is simply GREAT!!! I'm just thinking about a desolated broken heart... the feeling when hearing this song is incredible... :'( Damn, it's a good sad song The guitar samples are great! And I notice the fingers passing over the strings... wow. (…)
- 31:09 MC Dreamer - I don't know why 1997
- 36:59 DJ Daemon speaks. 54s
- 37:49 Flyguy - Emotional hero
- 40:54 DJ Daemon speaks. 54s
- 41:44 The Genius - Increasing sorrow
- 46:50 DJ Daemon speaks. 47s
- 47:32 Robric - Baby Dreams
- 51:40 DJ Daemon speaks. 47s
- 52:22 Vitz - A journey of sorts
- 56:43 Robric - Pyramid
🎤 Production Notes
Colophon:The Beatles, the world's most legendary popgroup, used to say that the aimed to be the "Toppermost of the poppermost". And, yeah, they acheived that ... No doubt about it.Pretty fast episode to put together and a pretty fun one too.
📝 Transcript
Our fight to bring you the best tracked music in different genres, it has brought us together to the pop music stage. So let's explore the topper most of the popper most of the mod archive. It's softer and more mellow than usual. And somewhere in this program there will be a Rob Hubbard songand it's hidden in one of the tracks. See if you can catch it.
So it's pop music today. Most genres as presented by the tracked music scene, they are pretty clear cut. But today's music really doesn't stick out as an example of something unique. But it's great and has earned its reputation. What you just heard was Anders Åkerheden with April Snow.Pretty fitting as it was the 1st of April yesterday and yes, it did in fact snow here in Sweden. Let's go on with today's medley, you only get one today. It's Monster with Autumn, The Music Man with Always Will Love You and Andreas Karlsson with Free Foot High.
Yep, it's mostly softy tunes today. It feels right. Tracked music seldom features vocals, and if they do, it's mostly short samplings with screams and effects. The Great Fox actually sings on the next song called Syndrome. It seems to be about pain and suffering and struggles. Revolution wrote on ModArchive in 2021 while rating it 9 out of 10.LOL, this song is crazy. I had some episode of serious aches and pains and I can't walk, can't sleep moments in my life, so I feel this guy's pain. This song never ceases to get my attention. Life ain't always perfect folks. Be glad for your good health. I sure am glad for mine.
Wait, let's up the tempo a bit. We need that too. Next up is Cyborg Jeff with Nectarization – La Revenge. This tune was added to the station a few days ago and comes from Cyborg Jeff's album called Popbuster. It was released in 2005. We played email to Elise from this album last episode of this podcast. Jeff then.Cyborg Jeff hails from Belgium and may one day get a special episode on this podcast.
Fast and vindictive or something like that. So yes, I'm still counting the days until revision. You know, the devil party that opens on April the 15th and runs the whole weekend. But a few weeks still remain. Next up is the artist, the professor, and I shall spoil the challenge a bit for you. See if you can catch it and...What Rob Hubbard song is hidden in this tune?
So you will have to wait until the end of the show before I reveal the answer. Well, let's try some moody guitar play from MC Dreamer and I don't know why. Comments from ModArchive. Pip Malt wrote in 27, rating it 7 out of 10. Nice acoustic guitar tune by MC Dreamer. Smart use of guitar squeaks.to make it sound like the guitar player is shifting from note to note. The only other instruments are drums and bass, so it gets pretty repetitive towards the end. It's almost 6 minutes long. I would have liked more variation. An unknown commenter in 2000 rating it 9 out of 10 writes, This is simply great. I'm just thinking about a desolated broken heart.The feeling when hearing this song is incredible. Damn, it's a good sad song. The guitar samples are great and I notice the fingers passing over the strings. Wow!
That is some serious nice softness. Next up is a song by Fly Guy and emotional hero. And in 1999 an unknown commenter wrote, rating it 7 out of 10. This song is slow, but I guess you were expecting something like that, right? It's interesting enough to listen to and it's quite original. But beyond that, there is nothing else.The way the samples were used in this tune actually made parts of it sound like an epic megagames tune. I'm sure that was not intention either. They all sound very nice to summarize. And it is from 1994 by the way. The guy who calls himself Fly Guy is from Oslo in Norway.
If you're not a very humble person, maybe you will call yourself the genius. The genius calls himself that. And he is the next artist. The song is called Increasing Sorrow and it was written in 1995. His real name is Johan Kjellasson. And commenters? Yeah, we got two of them. DMath, he wrote in 2013, rating it 10 out of 10. Yeah, this is the only mud.I can call it true perfection, it's beauty at its best. An unknown commenter wrote in 1998, rating it 9 out of 10. You might listen to this as a normal listener and think bleh. I'm gonna leave it there because he can't really spell. The grammar is atrocious, but I think he likes it.
You're tuned to flashback tracks from the past and if I said tune I'd be lying because we don't have any frequency. You know as an old DJ that's kind of things you learn to say and you can't unlearn them right? Okay. But if you want to listen to the real station so to speak we have two streams or two stations what you want to call it. Go to Ericade.radio and dial it in. Yeah that's another thing we used to say back in the day.Here is Rubrik and Baby Dreams. I think he has a lot of great tunes. If you search on the mod archive you can find a plethora of his stuff. Most of it is great.
So let's not forget my promise to you. Which song by Rob Hubbard was it? It was actually Skate or Die, the title theme. It's hard to hear, but you can hear it 4 minutes and 55 seconds into the song called Holidays by Professor Chaos. And leading you into that good night, that would be Wits and a Journey of sorts. Wits who comes from Australia in Melbourne.And lost out will be rubric pyramid in one week from now you get another episode and another podcast episode and that's great. Here's me DJ Demon signing off.
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"Flashback, tracks from the past" is the current name of the podcast. Now with tracked music from nearly all platforms (including Amiga, Atari, PC). We also speak about the retro past, present the artists, talk about old games and review demo parties.
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He got his Commodore 64 in 1989 and his first Amiga in 1990. A huge fan of tracker music and have had a long standing dream to create a radio show playing that kind of music. In 2020, that dream came true and in december Amiga Flashback started as a podcast. It was later renamed Flashback, tracks from the past and here we are.
He is also an orga for Swedish demo party Edison and a total retro nerd.
He was actually a listener from the time of the first ericade-station in the 00s. He came back as a listener in 2020, when the station restarted. Later he voluntered to build the new website of the station and also joined as a cohost of the podcast. He runs his own site called the Retro spirit.
Fellow retro geek and creator of great music on his daw.
He describes himself like this: "Pure 8-bit chiptunes! All Tekmann music are solely made on Gameboy units modded to perfection... No computer producing just pure chiptune bliss ;)".
A true retro geek and sysop from the 90s. He lives with his family in Sweden and enjoys sharing his passion for retro computing and music. He is sysop for Swedish BBS "This old cabin".
Created a report about Impulsetracker for us in 2022. Also voiced our messages for christmas 2022 in co-operation with the Retro spirit.
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