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This is a monthly show, but today DJ Daemon felt like making a new show anyways, so here you go. This time it's the best set of tunes from Modarchive's "Spotlit" category of tunes. Stuff that's great and selected from the tunes that you may not always see. In short, many are diamonds in the rough.


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140. In the spotlight again

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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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AboutThis is a monthly show, but today DJ Daemon felt like making a new show anyways, so here you go. This time it's the best set of tunes from Modarchive's "Spotlit" category of tunes. Stuff that's great and selected from the tunes that you may not always see. In short, many are diamonds in the rough.
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Just a "spur of the moment" decision to make a new podcast episode before the usual release window.

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ericade.radio - Time for Flashback, tracks from the past - with your host DJ Daemon

DJ Daemon Time for flashback. Tracks from the past. With your host, DJ Daemon. I know, I know, this is a monthly show. So you're supposed to be waiting for December's edition. But I felt like I want to make another episode just today at Monday. So you're getting one hour of the best from ModArchive. The things that have been spotlight. We're starting up with Ether audio and Soft Eyes Planet.

DJ Daemon welcomes you to another "unexpected" show.

Ether audio - Soft Ice Planet

DJ Daemon the first medley of today.

DJ Daemon Sweet song really, isn't it? I think it is. This is Flashback, tracks from the past and I'm Didier Demond. Time for today's first medley. Well, what do we have for you, Wigget? You may not do that and Black Coffee Cat. C512W with My Birthday and finally Hyper Unknown and Goat Fiction.

Youmaynotdothat - Black Coffee Cat

C512w - My Birthday!

Hyperunknown - Goat fiction

DJ Daemon notes that you get another medley in a few minutes.

Colidace - The Red Alliance

DJ Daemon talks about the upcoming christmas show.

DJ Daemon This podcast is now a monthly one. That means you have to wait until December until the next episode. And I got some good news for you. I spoke into Coreus and he wants to create another of those Christmas episodes. We did one last year and it was me, Coreus and the Baron of Dubstep talking about all kinds of retro game history and playing some good music. We're gonna do that again. So yeah, stand by and you get it. Anyway.Time for some more music, it's Platonist and Enchanter.Well, seem to like the Platonist so much that the next one is gonna be him as well. It's gonna be blinding light, but first a short story. I spoke to a senior a few days ago and she told me that a lot of the most famous sites on the scene have been historically hacked. Latest number of attacks I heard about was against Bitjam and I hope they come back one day, but they are shut down right now as a result of it. Really sad.It goes to tell that you have to be very careful when connecting anything you built yourself into the internet. And even if you didn't build it yourself, you had to patch it and keep it secure. So I have spent the last two to three weeks on Ericad.radio and the backend, trying to tighten it up, fixing all kinds of vulnerabilities. I would recommend a site called Sneak. S-N-Y-K. You can go there and for free if you're a private entity, or sorry, a...known commercial entity, you can use their service to scan your github repository and find vulnerabilities in the code. Really useful. Anyway, back to the show. We are as I said going on with Platonist and Blinding Light.

Platonist - Enchanter

DJ Daemon speaks about hacked demo scene sites including Bitjam.

Platonist - Blinding light

DJ Daemon about sourcing new songs from the demo scene.

DJ Daemon A few days ago I went to a Discord server and asked people there to suggest good songs or good track music that has been created and released on any demo party in 2025. I'm still waiting for some good suggestions but I'm gonna have to come back on that. Anyway, we are going on with some music. It's Platinist again and final day.

Platonist - Final day

DJ Daemon presents another Platonist tune.

DJ Daemon This is Flashback, tracks from the past and I'm DJ Daemon. Going on with Platonist and Main Tune 6.

Platonist - Maintune6

DJ Daemon Presents the second medley of today.

DJ Daemon Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for the second medley of today. That's three songs that are short enough to fit together just great. We are going on with Carlos Del Alamo and Ego Wings Menyo. T, H, W, Y and Aftertest. And finally, it's Hyper Unknown and Goat Hurting.

Carlos "Estrayk" del Alamo - Ego wings menu

Thwy - After test

Hyperunknown - Goatherding

DJ Daemon presents the next song.

DJ Daemon That's a nice medley you got right there. We are going on with the next song and that would be Bit Bear and I Feel You.

Bitbear - I Feel You

DJ Daemon talks about Hyperunknown and his "goatsongs".

DJ Daemon Just a short note about Hyper Unknown of Noise, a singer who loves to put goats in his titles. Very many of his songs, if not all of them, have some kind of goat name. The last one was Goat Hurling. And there's always a nice coverage there of great chip tunes, really. He is awesome. If you want to listen to more of him, go to ericade.radio and search for Hyper Unknown and you shall be given nice tunes.going on with hyper based and orb spoofing.

Hyperbased - Arpspoofing

DJ Daemon thanks you for listning and leading you into that good night is the next song.

DJ Daemon This is Flashback, tracks from the past, and I am per usual DJ Daemon. It's time to say goodbye, and leading you into that great night, or good night, is, well, next song that would be Anders Hamre and the wrath of Aphrodite. EroKaded.Radio is your source for good track music. Just go there when we're not broadcasting and listen 24-7, the greatest tunes from the track scene.

Anders Hamre - Wrath of aphrodite

Ether audio - Not Scared

Carlos "Estrayk" del Alamo - Else we get mad 2

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Neumann U87
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Thimeo Stereo tool
Target LUFS: -14.

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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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