Podcast episode profile for 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 music 00:06 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.
ericade.radio knows the chiptune and demoscene! We're the radio station playing all the best tunes from the most prominent, promising or trending artists in the scene. We also know about the artists and songs as well.
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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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ColophonA bit of a joke about the initial idea of making the station voice-acted from a "bunker" in northern Stockholm. This thankfully never happened.An obligatory anniversary episode.
Transcript
ericade.radio – Good evening, here is another hour of tracked music
Time for Flashback, tracks from the past. With your host, DJ Daemon. Two years. Yeah. On the 13th of September 2020, we started broadcasting, and we're still on. We talked about the creation of this station on a previous episode. So this hour is just a look back at all the mayhem, all the chaos, broken songs, and also some bad stuff that have happened.It's been a wondrous ride. Thanks for being with us.
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.
Malmen – Flirt talk
DJ Daemon: better audio and why not a bit of recognition. Jono Woodward's voice had replaced Nicole's and the first version of the music database was already online. And it all was looking up.
Malmen - Flirt talk. Green across the board, as we anticipated more of everything as we passed the one year anniversary. Songs, listeners, podcasts, demo parties, better audio, and why not, some recognition. Jono Woodward's voice had replaced Nicole's as the first version of the music database was already online. And it was all looking up.But a backlog of stuff that was not perfect. It was huge. Amiga Tunes with its weird stereo stuff, and no solution for that. The getting a request function was just a dream. Yeah. And the listening wasn't great either. It was time to step up the game.
Darkhalo – Nights
DJ Daemon: Our show and podcast, Flashback – tracks from the past, ran every week with few exceptions.
DarkHalo - Nights. Our show and podcast Flashback, tracks from the Past. You're listening to it by the way. It ran every week with few exceptions. We had started covering demo parties, and the autumn of twenty twenty one was hectic, with a deadline and syntax, and we had just covered Jurmalauta and Arok. This was sometimes a backbreaking weekly project of I kid you not.ten to eleven hours with all the preparations needed to create a mere hour of show. Much time was trying to handle the weird formats. A demo party could produce music requiring a C64, a Nintendo, or some weird retrocomputer to run. I struggled with emulators and audio issues.
Coretex – Ascention
DJ Daemon: Getting the best sound was quite a challenge. I had already automated importing the tracker tunes, so they all had the same sound levels and track information. I also put a lot of effort in tuning the broadcast processor running the whole station. This almost got out of hand with…
Cortex Ascension Getting the best sound was quite a challenge. I had already automated the importing of the tracker tunes, so they all had the same sound levels and track information. I also put a huge effort into tuning the broadcast compressor running the whole station. This almost got out of hand with countless of evenings testing, trimming and measuring.And it made me appreciate the blinkly lights and the flickering mirrors.Swim and blue, some blue.
DNA-Groove – SDXB – #5
DJ Daemon: I decided to create an emergency playlist-generator in order to handle outages. It didn't really end where I thought it would. Instead of a mere playlist generator, it became a station in its own right. It ran all the old shows and had news from Feature Story News every hour. Getting all…
DNA-groove and the song is called SDXB number five. I decided to create an emergency playlist generator, and that was in order to handle outages. It really didn't end up where I thought it would. Instead of a mere playlist generator, it became a station in its own right. It ran all the old shows and had news from feature story news every hour. Getting all that to work was quite an undertaking.It also forced me to think more about how to make the shows. Three minutes of news and a station ID that push the podcast rear on ahead. So at fifty six minutes and forty seconds I was not allowed to speak as it would cut off at that point. In short, more work. Not that I was lacking in things to do.
Tnk – Distant heavens
DJ Daemon: As I was no longer broadcasting live after August 2021, focus shifted towards developing the website and the database. I built the dashboards showing the operation of the station. It looked like the NASA space center in my 3 square meter work room. Screens, panels and cables everywhere.
TNK - Distant Heavens As I was no longer broadcasting live after 2021 in August, focus shifted towards developing the website and the database. I built the dashboards showing the operation of the station. It looked like NASA's Space Center in Houston in my three square meter workroom. Screens, panels and cables everywhere.And if I closed the door it was like a finished sauna. Yeah, well, three minutes after I closed the door.
Kerni – I am Tim Follin
DJ Daemon speaks: We're celebrating two years a on the air.
I am Tim Follin. This is Flashback Tracks from the Past, and I'm DJ Daemon. A few days ago we celebrated two years as a radio station. That's what we are celebrating.
Psirius – The Big Data
DJ Daemon: How would I know if the songs I play choose were unpopular? With the database I could rank the worst offenders by checking what was playing when people disconnected. But I decided to ask the listeners. And so was done by adding a Star-system, allowing users rate what was playing. It…
Psirius - The Big Data How would I know if the songs I play were unpopular? With the database I could rank the worst offenders by checking what was playing when the people disconnected. But I decided instead to ask the listeners, and so was done by adding a star system, allowing the users to rate that that was playing. It worked perfectly.With the website keeping track of the tunes, the artists, the ratings and the information about the artists, I had a new idea. I wanted all this information to be shown on YouTube, Twitch and the website. This was slowly introduced during the autumn.
Tnk – Journey to Micronesia
DJ Daemon: There's no way you can make our broadcast software, PlayIt live, to accept listener requests. This I was told. That was my “challenge accepted – hold my beer”-moment. Given the data we had, I built a Rube Golberg-esque machine that made the users able to search for songs. It made quite a…
TNK - Journey to Micronesia. There is no way you can make your broadcast software play it live accept listener requests. This I was told. That was my challenge accepted hold my beer moment. Given the data we had, I built a Rube Goldberg-esque machine that made all the users able to search for songs and request them. It made quite a splash on the Facebook group.with other PlayIT Live broadcasters. I even got two offers to sell the solution to them. But I had no time to support such a product, so I had to decline. In the summer of twenty twenty two, I added Discord support for all the features on the site, so you could request, you could set stars and everything on the site and on Discord.
Melcolm – Night Air
DJ Daemon: During 2022, the show started focusing on the music and the demo parties over stortytelling. I created a series of episodes showcasing different genres of music. I also improved audio quality and threw out all Amiga-tunes twice to remaster them with better sound. They're all now pretty…
Melcolm - Night Air During twenty twenty two, the show this one that is, it started focusing on the music and the demo parties over storytelling. I created a series of episodes showcasing different genres of music. I also improved audio quality and threw out all the Amiga Tunes twice to remaster them with bare sound. They're all now pretty darn well sounding and in mono.Problem finally solved. The impulse tracker tunes, they were remastered after some complaints, and I switched from XMP to OpenMPT to import all the tunes.
MpjV – Banger (temporary name)
DJ Daemon speaks presents today's only medley.
MPJV - Banger. It was a temporary name that stuck. What do you say? Do we have time for a medley? Yeah we do. Here is one, the only one you get today. It's Ida with a disco, Virgil with Atari Klang, 4K, maybe it should be like Atari Klang, it's German. And finally Vito and Pride.
Ida – Disco
Virgill – Atariklang 4k
Wito – Pride
DJ Daemon thanks you for listening. Leading you into that good night is…
This is Flashback, Tracks from the Past. And I'm DJ Daemon. Thanks for listening. This has been a joy. Two years, and we are still broadcasting in a week another episode of this podcast, this show, what do you want to call it? And leading you into that good night is a series of songs. First off is Oleg Dunaev, Wind from Wild Places. And then it's Pant European Into a Dream.And finally, Malmen and Xaimus - Moonlit Memory.
Oleg Dunaev – Wind From Wild Places
ericade.radio – Coming to you taped from a bunker in northern Stockholm
The Ericade Radio Network, coming to you, taped from a bunker in northern Stockholm. Don't forget us, we are on Ericade.Radio.
DJ Daemon we're on ericade.radio.
Panter of Peon – Into A Dream
Malmen and Xaimus – Moonlit memory
Equipment
Neumann U87
UAD, "LN + Precision limited"
Thimeo StereoTool
-14 dB LUFS
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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.
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