Podcast episode profile for 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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This profile was last updated on: 2026-10-06 22:00:05
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🎙 About the podcast
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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🎤 Production Notes
Colophon:A jokeful take on "Commodore is keeping up with you".
Transcript
ericade.radio – Time for Flashback, tracks from the past – today with another demo party top list
Time for flashback! Tracks from the past! Today, with another demo party top list! Free top lists even! Yes, it's Nordlicht, Zenium and Function 2022. We don't have time for all the songs, but the best you will get Flashback! Tracks from the past! Let the top list begin! From late August, here is Zenium 2022. 9th place!It's elder state and fragmented. 119 points.
DJ Daemon: THREE toplists even: Nordlicht, Xenium and Function 2022.Demoparty toplist: Xenium 2022.
ericade.radio – Flashback, track from the past – let the toplist begin
DJ Daemon speaks: from late August – here is Xenium 2022.
ericade.radio – Ninth place
DJ Daemon talks about the first song of the day.
Alterstate – Fragmented astate
ericade.radio – Eighth place
You heard it before because it's on the station already. That good, right? Yeah, it's message of Surabi and it's ADKD, 122 points.
DJ Daemon speaks.
ADKD – Message of Surabhi
ericade.radio – Seventh place
Here's an artist I haven't heard from for quite a while. Yes, Polish artist ATBM is back with the Summer Memories of SESKA. 143 points.
DJ Daemon speaks.
E!ghtbm – The summer memories of Saska
ericade.radio – Fourth place
DJ Daemon speaks.
Skipping ahead. Sixth place which is TCX over Roughness with Soul Exchange and Voicer of Nekolor with Starlight. Well, sorry, we don't have time for them. But here's the other fourth place. It's Dan Damage and Peace of the Past. 172 points.
Dan Damage – Piece of the past
ericade.radio – Third place – Bronze medal
Third place, bronze medal! A mile a minute, we are really really speeding things up. 12 minutes into the program and we're already at bronze position. It's Aceman who says get busy living and 178 points.
DJ Daemon speaks.
AceMan of Resistance, Agenda – Get Busy Living
ericade.radio – First place – The Gold! – The Winner
Displace the gold. The winner.Wait, where did the silver go? Well, we don't have time for Jackim and Corny with a song that I cannot even pronounce. So we're going to the winner and that's Exceed of Elter and Floppy. Outburst! 201 points!
DJ Daemon speaks.
X-Ceed of Altair, Floppy – Outburst
Demoparty toplist: Nordlicht 2000
DJ Daemon speaks.
This is Flashback, Trex from the past and I'm DJ Daemon and we are speeding ahead as we have three demo parties to catch up on. And we are switching to Nordlicht that went on the 15th of September. So you know, it's a bit old. First place, the gold, the winner. Okay, that ended as soon as it started. Two entries and we're skipping Trashcore by Raccoon Violet. So first place done.Johnny Deep by Saga Music. How many points? I don't know. Listen to the song and enjoy it.
ericade.radio – First place – The Gold! – The Winner
DJ Daemon speaks.
Saga Musix of Nuance, SVatG, HUP – Johnny Deep
Demoparty toplist: Function 2022
DJ Daemon speaks.
We're switching to the third out of three demo parties and now we're just winging it as we're playing just the songs I like to play. It's from Function 2022 that went on the 9th of September in Budapest. And first out is place 18. It's BNA and Rise of Metal Butterfly.
Bna – Rise of Metal Butterfly
DJ Daemon speaks.
Very nice song bar some weirdness that seems to be loops that are skipping or something. I don't know. Doesn't really bother me. We are going on with place 17. It's Meenmark with August.
Mean Mark – August
DJ Daemon wonders about the floppy drive mechanism in the last song.
A much heavier sound than you are used to on this station, but why not? And it seems like he, they have created it with a floppy drive mechanism. It sounds like that anyway. We are going on with place 16. It's Zone Plus and the artist ADSR of Lorraine Productions.
ADSR/Lorraine Productions – Zone Plus
DJ Daemon is in a hurry.
Time is of the essence in this business, so we are going ahead to place 13, the lucky 13. It's Dave Farrell and Black Tulip.
Dave Ferol – The black tulip
DJ Daemon the best of Function 2022 – the streaming competition.
Best and the coolest from Function 2022, according to yours truly. This is the streaming demo party competition. And place 10, it's Brian with the oddly specific 7th of September.
Brian – 7th of September
We are almost at the end of the list as we take a leap to place 5. But stay a while because we got some really cool stuff from Hoffman and Nighthawk. But ok, let's talk about place 5. The only thing I can say is that it's higher than with Light Me Up and Function Again.
DJ Daemon taking a leap into the music.
Higher (than) – Light me up (and Function again!)
Now when you first bought your Commodore 64, you may have bought some programs to go with it. That's pre-written programs.
to write your own programs, to get the machine to do what you want it to do. You'll have to learn a programming license.
We need to look at the relationship between the keys on the keyboard, what goes into our program, and what appears on our screens. Run, stop.
Alright, we are ready for the first place and the winner of that nice demo party that's Function 2022. And that would be Vincenzo with Liquid Venus.
DJ Daemon – we're ready for the first place.
Laszlo Vincze (vincenzo) ; StrayBoom Music – Liquid Venus
DJ Daemon talks about the music he's about to play, suggested ny Some1NamedNate.
Leaving the whole demo party thing. Because we got 3 last songs that were suggested by someone named Nate. And yeah, that's his handle, not that I don't know his name. First out is Nighthawk and Jetlag.
Nighthawk – Jet Lag
DJ Daemon talks about the music leading you into that good night. 31s
We're ending this show with some heavy beats and dance music. It's the second and third songs that have been suggested by someone named Nate. I'm DJ Daemon and dancing into the night, or maybe leading you into that night, is Hoffman and the Day Tripper with Professional Tracker. And finally Hoffman, Reclamation. Listen to us on Ericade.radio.
H0ffman and Daytripper – Professionaltracker
We that Amiga vision Better bring your homework boy, cause this is revision Professional track hard, progressive pattern hacker 31 samples, 31 subject matter We got that Amiga vision Better bring your homework boy, cause this is revision
Walking all night to that patterned sky Digging deep in the sample bank Can't leave nothing blank Tried for the tracks like a battle tank Old tracking in our sleep like androids counting 64 electric sheets You can find us in the demo scene, crowd and war Surrounded by amigas and 64s 1 bit, 2 bit, 3 bit more 7 bit, 8 bit, no more We be making a play with AV projects at a 64k Made in to win the day, bitch off it Head boating, rag em up, never stopping Try to smash a noise, cash and get a beat, it One more fitThis is a post-sacres
Professional Track Car, Progressive Pattern Hacker 31 samples, 30 subject matter We got that Amiga vision Better bring your homework boy, cause this is revision Professional Track Car, Progressive Pattern Hacker 31 samples, 30 subject matter We got that Amiga vision Better bring your homework boy, cause this is revision
Oppmann breaking up the tracks to a day trip and filling in the gaps Listen up, here's a flax The demo scene ain't it, it's just you can't read the codes Better get it in your head before the deadlines roll Text the form, the facts of the matter is you were stopped day before you were born So listen up before you go crackers The answer to the hackers, graffiti's a whole trackers
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H0ffman – Wrecklamation
DJ Daemon: we need to cool down a bit.
Whoa! We got time for one more. It's Sirius and the Dwarf Princess. We need to cool down a little bit. Bye bye for now. See you in a week.
Psirius – The dwarf princess
Equipment
Neumann U87
UAD, "LN + Limiter"
Thimeo StereoTool
Target LUFS: -14 dB
🏷 Demo scene episodes
Flashback episodes dedicated to the demoscene — the community of programmers, artists and musicians behind demos, intros and other real-time audiovisual art.
🏷 Demo scene top lists
Top list episodes from our podcast plays the whole list of competitiors from one or more demo parties with some commentary in between the songs.
🏷 Xenium
Xenium is a demoparty held in Poland.
Play History
- 🕘 2026-10-01 22:00:03
- 🕘 2026-09-25 07:00:05
- 🕘 2026-09-20 16:00:06
About the artist Flashback View all tracks ›
"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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