38. Smokerings from heaven

Welcome to another episode of Flashback, Tracks from the Past. Hello there, music lovers. Tonight we got something special for you.Jazz, Swing, Sweet and Dixieland signed true greats like Wolters, Cyborg Jeff, Jackin and Joss. In this hour's jazz session, the tracked music artists takes on your grandpa's music.

Arrgh! And ballistic smoke rings. So today we are remembering jazz but through the lens of tracked music artists. That is something really cool. It will not sound exactly like jazz blues Sweet and Swing did back in the day but hey it's a good interpretation if you ask me. And we talk a little bit about smoke rings, favorite radio program and yeahsome retro notices as well.

Alright, that puts a smile on my face. It's Walter's Alice in Dixieland.And the first song you heard in this episode was called Smoke Rings, as you probably remember. And that's a reference to a guy known as Leif Andersson. He's no longer with us, but for many years he ran a radio program called Smoke Rings that was legendary. I haven't heard it until...2017 and I fell in love with the music and he had a very growly voice because he had some kind of damage to his larynx and that's what I'm trying to imitate in the beginning of the program. I don't think I did a good job, but it's fun to sound like him. So yeah, I wonder how he would have found this, you know, module tracked music version of jazz.

And that was vocal of rebels, Sweet Lorraine. And I must say it sounds perfect, it has a very very jazz style to it. So about Smoke Rings, the program and the radio DJ so to speak. He was kinda in love with earlier jazz music, like Sweet and Swing and probably Dixieland.He did not like the modern jazz of the 50s and onwards. We're gonna play some of that but he called it my grade music and he was heavily controversial because when he wrote in magazines about jazz he really lambasted it as yeah,

Kuma Pan and Link's Tales. When we were kids, we were sitting in our rooms, playing C64 games, Amiga games, Atari games and sometimes Nintendo games. Yeah, my brother had a Nintendo Entertainment System, the classic one, and I had an Amiga. And before that, it was a C64. Great, really. But back in the 50s, had computers like that.didn't exist. There were no one who had them. instead my mother and her brother were sitting in their room and playing vinyl records, jazz music. It was kind of the same thing. They were tuning into radio stations in Luxembourg. Yeah, Radio Luxembourg did exist back then, but it's pretty much the same thing. And it bred a culture of its own.

downtown groove I hope you have the same kind of sitting in your sofa with a whiskey feeling that I do well I don't have whiskey obviously I shouldn't broadcast when I'm however radio was a thing even in the 80s when it came to computingI had a little program called Basic Code and I know I talked about this earlier on this show. What you could do was tune in medium wave broadcast from Europe and download, yes download computer games and programs this way. And Basic Code translated it because what was broadcasting on those airwaves didn't work for a specific computer. They could run pretty much any 8-bit computer that had Basic installed. And the C64 Basic Code programwhatever you got from the air, decoded it and converted it so that it would work with what was specific for the C64. Really fantastic thing. That is as close as we got to Esperanto in computing I guess.

rim of lemon ride and jazz with a four instead of an a and of course a question mark is it yes it sounds like that if you ask me well here in sweden we also broadcast radio programs that were about and included software in a news article in tech world from 2014 they actually talk about thatProgram 1 here in Sweden, which is Swedish broadcasting. It's the official public radio. They had something called the Computers World and at night they actually broadcast data signals that listeners could record with tape recorders and also community broadcasting or NAD audio as we call it had this.A guy called Per Jerriksson in Motormännen's community broadcast studio was doing this already in 1983. Now that is such a cool story.

Yeah, that's Walters Dixieland DixielandBack to smoke rings, the man that is. Leif Andersson had a very, very weird dialect. He spoke Skånska, like in southern Sweden, and mixed with an American dialect because he spoke in both Swedish and English. And he talked about the United States, the home of jazz. He spoke about the 30s, the 20s, the 40s and the 50s, but he had never been there. In 1989,For the first time he went to New York and he had a friend along. They were recording the whole thing. I listened to the show and he was disappointed because if you come to New York in 1989, okay, and you were waiting for those 30s jazz clubs to still be there. Well, they weren't and that part of the history is gone, far gone. And this is kind of what we feel sometimes when we look into our retro computing thing.

EAD, Camille in my heart. Now I don't know much about techno, Euro-techno, trance and acid and all those kind of music styles that were popular in the 90s. But if you listen to mods, that is modules, Amiga modules or other tracker tunes, they're often one of those genres because yeah, they were popular as well. And often I can't play this here.Sometimes they take a lot of the songs so much that you could get a copyright strike for it and sometimes they just They are too heavy too much beat too high and many BPMs and things like that. So I Don't know.

aims and mood swing for the next tune I'm going to dedicate it to my father Janis it's called beer belly to remix and it's by Bert my father is pretty fit today but back in the day he had quite a beer belly and call himself that on the internet and earlier on it was when we were sitting with our modems and stuff he had that as a name for pretty much everything I think that was funErik Zalitis

Yes, I said that was the Beerbelly 2 remix. So next up is Cybellus and swinging the swing. And you know swing music and sweet and all this. That's an old jazz before the 50s. Yeah, I spoke about what smoke rings thought about the newer versions.But that was all about a big band, was all about very very talented musicians with a lot of weird rules that still build music that sounded like they had no plan really. That's amazing to listen to today. Sometimes I wonder if Amiga artists are more inspired by jazz artists than they truly understand.

It's called Sweet and if you didn't know, is also a jazz style so to speak. This sounds kinda like that but they have, that is Fifth Note has taken some creative liberties with the whole genre and that's all for the bearer if you ask me.

Cyborg Jeff jam to a funky dream Well, I must say the idea for this show this today's episode which airs on a Wednesday for weird reasons it was when I found out that Amiga module archive has a list of jazz music that is Tracker tunes that are jazz of different kinds. I thought I have to do this show. Also, there's another thing coming up I will talk about it in the end of the show, butAnyway, that's why you get an extra flashback tracks from the past.

Jacky and Galatea. Actually, I want to talk about something. To this day, we are very close to nine months since the station started. And on September, I think it's the 13th or something like that. I should check that up really. Well, it will be one year since we started. All I want to say right here right now is thank you for giving me the inspiration to keep this station going and thank you.for making sure that I could restart the station, you know? We did before and we can do it again And we will do it again We've got a heck of a job to do But you can bet it will see it through We did before and we can do it again And we will do it again We're one for all and we're all for one,

Jaws and the song, well, I'm gonna read it out like one Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi, black Mississippi. The last, that's the name.Okay, sorry. As I said, this is a middle of the week edition of flashback tracks from the past. And that's because I felt like it. So you get another one on Saturday. Exactly what's that gonna be about? I don't know. We'll see. We'll see. But you can go to our Discord channel. Discord.io slash T-E-R-N. actually, sound off. What do you wanna hear?

Junkie of Larix and Monkey Island version 1. I'm not sure exactly where this song comes from. It's not the intro pretty obviously, but it may have been some of the songs that were playing in the game. I absolutely love the very thematic music that they had in all four of the games actually. Really nice.

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