Podcast episode profile for 169. Fresh tracker music from the Mod Archive
DJ Daemon has looked through latest additions on the Mod Archive and they are rocking it! In this episode we also showcase the work of scener and artist Metalzone80, who mixes soft chords with heavy riffs. He has been making Impulsetracker tunes since the late 90s gets his own medley. Also in this episode: a famous Atari site shuts down, citing anger with all the AI in the demo scene, we also talk about how to get better artist information and not to forget: an interview that will come next week. Enjoy your autumn podcast listening with some really good tracker music.
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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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🎤 Production Notes
This one took longer time to get done than I had hoped. The reason was a heavy workload with a lot of projects. But here we are with a set of tracked tunes in a mix that will brighten your day.Errata: I put Masternama's Happy side! in the Metalzone80 medley, without realising it. I did play the song that was supposed to be there later, so nothing was last. Sorry.
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ericade.radio - Time for Flashback, tracks from the past - with your host DJ Daemon
Time for Flashback. Tracks from the past. With your host, DJ Daemon.
DJ Daemon welcomes you to the show and tells you about the artists Vogue and Metalzone80 that will be heard a lot this hour.
Welcome back. It's the autumn of 2026, and it's time to talk about some artists that you may not have heard on the station that much. We are bringing you Vogue and Metalzone80, and something new from Beyond. Some music and some banter. Let's start off with a really cool one from StereoMan, and it's called August Nights.
StereoMan - August nights
Flashback, tracks from the past - here is a medley of nice tunes
Flashback, tracks from the past. Here's a medley of nice tunes.
DJ Daemon gives you a Metalzone80 medley, with Masternama's Happy side!
I think this is some kind of record. This is the first time ever we played five songs in a row, and with the same artist. This is one person we haven't played that much of, but he has himself come forth and asked us to play his stuff. He is called Metalzone80, a Finnish scener and artist, active since the '90s, mostly in Impulse Tracker. And here comes the hard-rocking metal sound of Metalzone80, starting off with Grow, then Happy Side. Then it's, uh, Mukikous and Jake, and finally, The Impossible.
Metalzone80 - Grow.
Masternama - Happy side!
Metalzone80 - Mukikous
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Flashback, tracks from the past with your host, DJ Daemon.
Metalzone80 - Jake
Metalzone80 - The impossible
DJ Daemon wonders why there aren't more rock and metal-song in the tracker scene.
Tracker music or track music often does, yeah, well, things like Euro techno, regular techno, trance, Goa, and stuff. Metal isn't exceptionally, well, common when it comes to tracker music, so it's very much a, uh, nice thing that we had Metal Zone 80 rectifying that problem. But we have to go on and, uh, well, SysPhonez have something, uh, nice. Too cool for school? I don't know, but it's called Good Schooler.
Sysfins - Good skooler
DJ Daemon tells you the sad news that Fandal has stopped updating his demo scene website citing AI-generated content and falling traffic.
Bad news coming in from the news service. That would be scene.org demo scene news service.
And the heading reads, "Fandal giving up his website." It comes from Atari scene.org, or S-C-N-E.org. Fandal has been known for two decades as the guy maintaining a website generally known as Fandal's website, and it has been dedicated to the collection, curation, metadata, provision, and promotion of all kinds of demos and games for the Atari XL and XE systems. So unfortunately, he came to the conclusion that he has to stop his activities due to the exuberant wave of AI-generated content flooding the retro computing sphere. He writes, "All right, that's it. My retro hobby is being eaten alive by AI at an ever-faster pace, and I definitely don't want to reach a point where the news section is nothing more than a list of things generated by a prompt." Well, we're gonna talk a little bit bo- more about AI, but, uh, well, bad news and, uh, sad to see that site go.
So, let's, uh, talk about music then, and that, uh, we will play it, Vogue and Unwheel Introduction.
Vogue - Unwheel introduction
DJ Daemon tells you to continue "scening" even when AI prods get more and more common. Keep creating demos and music no matter what.
Well, a little bit of a punditry here, if I may. You know, opinions basically trying to masquerade as if they were facts. Sorry about that. But seriously, I wanna say something. If you are worried about the demo scene being overrun by AI, my opinion is, please don't give up. If you have some sort of site or service, you make tracker music, you make demos, you make coding, you make whatever, well, this is the time for the demo scene to define itself pretty much as the pinnacle of human invention. Well, I know it's controversial with the idea that we should allow demo scene productions being made by AI, and I don't think we can stop it, to be honest with you. I just wish that people understood that prompting a demo is not the demo scene spirit. It's not what we do here. We're trying to excel in human ways. Not that I hate on the idea of using AI for stuff, quite opposite, but music, such as it is, demo prods and stuff, really shouldn't, that's my opinion, be made by AI. I think we can do far better that way. Save AI for, you know, making websites, web- making scripts, making some sort of logic templating and stuff instead of the creativity work itself.
So, Beyond has something coming up here. It's called Horizon, and it's the usual fare from Beyond.
Beyond - Horizon
DJ Daemon gives KMetalzone80 another play on the station.
This is Flashback Tracks from the Past. I'm DJ Daemon, and it's time to rock it again. Yes, Metalzone80 gets another play on the station, so to speak. This one is called Winter Snow, and it is indeed rocking it.
Metalzone80 - Winter snow
DJ Daemon mentions an upcoming interview that will be on the podcast in a few weeks.
A nice slow start, but then it really, really picked up the tempo. That's the last thing we have from Metal Zone 80, but we have another artist just recently putting their stuff up. That would be Vogue, and the song is called Nolle-sång. But first, I want to tell you something. Today, as I'm recording this one, I have an interview ongoing with a very, very famous scener. So next week, I hope you will hear from him, and he will talk about one of the most important sites on the internet for the demo scene and how he works with that. Anyway, more music.
Vogue - Nolle-song
DJ Daemon is happy Flashparty is coming in a week.
Ah, yes. Flashparty 2026 is something we really, really look forward to every year. And it's autumn 2026, and we are getting close there. Next week, on the 31st of October, that's where it's on. And it's in Argentina. Really a good one. And yeah, we will be covering the music coming from there. Well, music, we are covering the ones we're playing today, I guess. And this one is called TMOJ. That's the artist, by the way. And the song is called Stanley 2K.
T.m.o.j - Stanley 2k
DJ Daemon recommends you to get your news from news.scene.org.
If you've been on the scene a while, you know... Oh, yeah, that had to happen. If you've been on the scene a while, you know that there is something called Scene.org Demoscene News Service. I related to it a few minutes ago. But I should absolutely recommend you to go there. It's news.scene.org, and there you can get the latest news from all sources. Basically, everything that goes on. Oh, yeah, yeah, of course, you can go and listen to PSEnough, uh, uh, of course. That's also a good idea. So, let's listen to Void.a engineering, and the song is called e-43KK.
Void.a engineering - e-4-3kk
DJ Daemon wants you to speak back. Send your opinions to radio@ericade.net
Well, dear listener, thanks for listening to Flashback Tracks from the Past. Maybe you have an idea of what you want more or less of on this station and the podcast. If so, send me an email, radio@ericade.net, radio@ericade.net, and talk back. Also, we have a Discord forum, ericade.radio/discord. And yeah, that's a good idea if you wanna go there. Vivid is next with Overdose.
Vivid - Overdose
DJ Daemon is amuzed how protecting a screen has him taking regular breaks. This is probably a blessing in disguise.
I'm sitting in front of a really big screen. Yeah, I bought a new monitor for my recording desk, for my workstation, so to speak. Super good, fine graphics and all, but annoying. It has a burn-in problem, so if you show the same picture all the time, it burns in. The protection circuit tells me every four hours to, yeah, turn off the screen and do some kind of pixel refresh for 10 minutes. I didn't like that at first, but then I figured out, this is great. I have a reason to take a break. This is like super good thing because then I'm not sitting here hour in and hour out without any rest. That's always something. Cannibals may not be the best of humans, but Cannibal is a great artist. And here is the song Peace, the Revolutional Remix even.
Cannibal - Peace (Revolutional Remix)
DJ Daemon talks about the infamous "Trackerartist", and how fix that problem.
Yeah, peace out, as Ringo used to say. So yeah, well, I gotta say something here. We have a very, very famous tracker artist by the name of Trackerartist. That's actually what the station calls any artist we have no idea who it is. But we are now working in data quality management, and we're trying to sort that out. We have something around
160 artists that yet we don't know who they are. Yeah, if you know something, again, send an email, radio@ericade.net, and maybe you should tell me that that artist, we have no idea who it is, is actually, and then, yeah, a name. That's good. Tracker Artist is next. Yeah, we have no idea who this is. Maybe you do. Uh, it's... The song is called PH-Hugi.
Trackerartist - Ph-hugi
DJ Daemon leads you into that good night with the next song.
I'm loving me some really blippity-blopity niceness. This is Flashback, tracks from the Past. I'm DJ Daemon, and leading you into that good night is Lunari, which is the last song here, and the song is called Goagnostic. Go to ericade.radio to listen to the station, and ericade.radio/discord, yes, to talk back. Thank you for listening.
Lunari - Goagnostic
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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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Amiga demo tunes, chiptunes and dreamy synth pieces from ProTracker, FastTracker 2, Impulse Tracker and the trackers that came after. Streaming around the clock, with live broadcasts from the demoparties. Made by sceners, for the demoscene.
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