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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 once a 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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53. The creation of a station
Flashback, tracks from the past
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- 00:00 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past
- 00:06 DJ Daemon speaks: On the 13th of September 2020, in the year of Covid19, I returned to the radio business after being off the air since 2006. And one year later, the station is still on and still rocking the boat. In this episode, I’ll share the challenges of giving retromusic a new home.
- 00:30 Trackerartist – rt_woman
- 01:59 DJ Daemon speaks: What possesses a person to create a radio station when everyone already has podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube? Radio has been a passion for me for ages and I have been in community broadcasting in Sweden for many years. So, I knew the craft. I previously told you that the stations connected to the Fallout gaming universe and being bored working from home sparked the flame. It was YouTube station “Old world radio” that put the idea in my head. I wanted my own YouTube channel to make weekly shows about old Amiga-music. This was the creation of a station.
- 02:51 Barry Leitch – Utopia tune
- 109:46 DJ Daemon speaks: This is the intro for the game Utopia, an old Amiga game where you create a nation on a foreign planet and wage war against the insects that own it. So, back to the station. I made a few test-shows that aired on Facebook and YouTube. A few friends listened and they were supportive. The huge problem was that I needed software to play the Amiga-tunes. I settled for VLC, and it was cumbersome. So, I needed a software to generate a playlist and act as a cart wall for sound effects. Googling on the matter gave me a link to PlayIt software and the program PlayIt live. It worked, but I soon realized the software was meant for radio broadcasters, and I was hooked. This was now a radio-project, not a mere show.
- 10:44 Argh – All night alone
- 13:01 DJ Daemon speaks: But to get the station to run I just needed the webpage, software, hardware, a lot of music, scripting, knowledge of the demo scene and a lot of support. I started nearly at zero. I had some equipment but had to set it all up piece by piece. There was no return, this had to happen. One afternoon I was sitting on the local train station in Enköping setting up the home page while waiting for the train, I had a portable access point and extra power banks to keep me connected to the Internet. Hours became days and days weeks as I used all spare time to get all things ready.
- 13:50 Drozerix – Chica-pop!
- 16:49 DJ Daemon speaks: It was decided that the station would start on the 14th of September, and I had just received the voice overs. They were made by talented voice actress Nicole Carino. I cheated a bit and started the station 11 PM Swedish time on Sunday the 13th. So it was time, and I had a lot of technical stuff that didn’t work and the sweat was running as I tried to get everything started. This is what you heard on midnight. I noted that everything came online as predicted, except the listeners.
- 17:54 cTrix – Lemon Funk
- 20:38 DJ Daemon speaks: The first painful lesson was that listeners on a music station with mostly music, expect mostly music. As soon as I spoke more than 40 seconds, they disconnected swiftly. I quickly learned to keep my speeches short and sweet. I had expected to voice track or prerecord the upcoming week every Sunday on the afternoon. It would take 3-4 hours I thought. Now that I know, it takes 45 minutes to voice track a whole workday. So, it was a dumb calculation and I had to rethink the whole thing. But I recorded weekly station updates on YouTube.
- 21:30 Emissary – Alaska
- 24:22 DJ Daemon speaks: The music took enormous time to process and add to the station, but I all became much easier when I automated the process and wrote a program to fix the tracked music into mp3-files for the station. This was easy now. But time consuming. The technical challenges were much harder. I have never filed to so many bugs report in my life. Every week I bombarded Streamlabs, PlayIT software and other companies with problems. I found a hefty number of obscure ones, that I needed to explain with a flow chart. But, hey, it sure was interesting.
- 25:08 TRiGGER – A.L.O.N.E.*DualVocalRMX!
- 28:09 DJ Daemon speaks: Discord is like an old Internet Relay chat, and I thought it would have lots of retronerds hanging around. I was right. As soon as I created a server there, people came on board. And the station now had a discussion forum where they could request songs and suggest ideas. I always had to do stuff myself, but could now get some help. The community came up with ideas and sometimes even helped me creating artwork or reviewing improvements to the station. I added more station Ids and ended up commisioning Nicole no less than six times to get her to give the station i’s voice.
- 29:05 Groo – Menu
- 32:38 DJ Daemon speaks: It was one of our Discord users that suggested I start a podcast and “Amiga Flashback” was started in December 2020 and is still running. In the spring the station was slowly changing. It started as an Amiga only radio station, but more and more PC-made music was added and I decided to switch to allowing all kinds of tracked msuic. In May, the station changed to become the “Last true tracked music broadcaster” instead of “Amiga music broadcaster”. This also made it possible for me to really push the format and make the station have a very uniform sound. It was all good.
- 33:30 Falcon of SKP – Lazy Dayz
- 36:58 DJ Daemon speaks: The podcast has also covered some grounds. I didn’t intend to cover demo parties, but did a special episode of Amiga Flashback for Revision 2021. And it became a thing. The podcast is now called Flashback, tracks from the past. And I have covered Revision, Shadow party, Forndata, Edison, Gubbdata, Arok, Jurmalauta and Flashparty. I also made a few show cases of artists such as Dr Awesome, Victor Vergara, Tekmann and Allister Brimble. The podcast is still small, with few listeners but the demo scene has been mostly supportive of it. And I have made other episodes about computer pirates, copy protections, BBS:es, gaming villains of the past and the IT-world of the 80s.
- 38:02 FearofDark – Influenza
- 42:00 DJ Daemon speaks: In July I started building a complex system to create a database with all artists, songs and information. This was then made available to all listeners and is slowly being improved. When done it will feature rating stars, a “request a song”-feature and information about all artists. It’s quite a challenge, but made possible through a lot of integrations with PlayIt live.
- 42:33 Kbx128 of Calypso – Blue carrier
- 45:38 DJ Daemon speaks: Finally, the station Ids where replaced with brand new ones created by Brittish radio DJ and Producer Jono Woodward. They were tested in August, but were fully rolled out a few days before the one year anniversary. I made a live show on Monday the 13 so I was live when the exact hour of the anniversary occured.
- 46:13 Leon Du Star – Full circle
- 49:24 DJ Daemon speaks: So, Finally, I must say I learned so much from this. I made two Live broadcasts on location at Edision Party 2021 and also voicetracked a DJ presence during a lot of the spring and summer of 2021. Some stuff was badly thought out, like my messages that ran two times per hour with the same cheesy Amiga-styled jokes and later sarcastic life advice. They will not be missed by anyone. But the station is no entering its second year and is ready to give you the best Amiga, PC and Atari music. Stay tuned and online!
- 50:20 Trackerartist – A Cyberspace Oddessey
- 53:31 DJ Daemon speaks: Thanks for listening.
- 54:09 Psirius – Artificial
- 57:34 DJ Daemon: Leading you into the good night…
- 57:52 ericade.radio – Keeps track of the past
- 57:57 TRiGGER – *Emotion, Devotion*M72
🎤 Production Notes
This episode was very clearly something that just had to happen. It was played the same week the station hit its one year anniversary.ColophonThis should be easy. It's a take on the slogan for the computer game "Utopia": "Creation of a nation". The game is referenced, albeit slightly modified, in the episode artwork. And the intro tune is in the episode itself.
📝 Transcript
Time for another episode of Flashback. Tracks from the past. On the 14th of September 2020, in the year of Covid-19, I returned to the radio business after being off the air since 2006. And one year later, the station is still on and still rocking the boat. In this episode, I'll share the challenges of giving retro music a new home.
An unknown artist with RT women. What possesses a person to create a radio station when everyone already has podcasts? Spotify and YouTube. Radio has been a passion for me for ages and I have been into community broadcasting in Sweden for many years. So I knew the craft.I previously told you that the station is connected to the all Fallout gaming universe and being bored while working from home sparked the flame. It was the YouTube station Old World Radio that put the idea in my head. I wanted my own YouTube channel to make weekly shows about all Amiga music. This was the creation of a station.
Light, Utopia Tune 1. This is the intro for the game Utopia, an old Amiga game where you create a nation on a foreign planet and wage war against the insects that own it. So back to the station, I made a few test shows that aired on Facebook and YouTube. A few friends listened and they were very supportive. The huge problem was that I needed software to play Amiga tunes.I settled for VLC, but it was cumbersome. So I needed software to generate a playlist and act as a cart wall for sound effects. Googling on the matter gave me a link to PlayIt Software and the program PlayIt Live. It worked, but I soon realized the software was meant for radio broadcasters and I was hooked. This was now a radio project, not a mere show.
all night alone. But to get the station to run I just needed a webpage, software, hardware, a lot of music, scripting, knowledge of the demo scene and a lot of support. I had none. I started nearly at zero. I had some equipment but had to set it all up piece by piece. There was no return. This had to happen.One afternoon I was sitting on the local train station in Ianköping setting up the homepage while waiting for the train. I had a portable access point and extra power banks to keep me connected to the internet. Hours became days and days weeks as I used all the spare time to get all things ready.
The Rosaryx, check it out! I really don't invent the names, but they're funny. It was decided that the station would start on the 14th of September and I had just received the voiceovers. They were made by talented voice actress Nicole Carino. I cheated a bit and started the station 11 PM Swedish time on Sunday the 13th. So it was time...and I had a lot of technical stuff that didn't work and the sweat was running as I tried to get everything started. This is what you heard on midnight. So this is what it has come to. A new station in a world where everyone is broadcasting and no one is listening. Actually no. I believe this has all the possibility in the world to get its own shared amount of listeners.Yes, that was one year ago. I noted that everything came online as predicted. Except the listeners.
Eccetrics and Lemon Funk. So the first painful lesson was that listeners on a music station with mostly music expect, well, mostly music. As soon as I spoke more than 40 seconds they disconnected swiftly. I quickly learned to keep my speeches short and sweet. I had expected a voice track or as we say pre-record the upcoming week every Sundaythe afternoon. It would take 3-4 hours, I thought so at least. Now that I know, it actually takes 45 minutes to voice track one whole workday. So it was a dumb calculation and I had to rethink the whole thing. But I did record weekly station updates on YouTube and yes, of course I voice tracked as well.
Emissary and Alaska. The music, yeah, it took enormous time to process and to add to the station, but it all became much easier when I automated the process and wrote a program to fix tracked music into MP3 files for the station. This was easy now, but time consuming. The technical challenges were much harder. I have never filed so many bug reports in my life.Every week I bombarded streamlabs, playit software and other companies with problems. I found a hefty number of obscure ones that I needed to explain with a flowchart, but hey, it was interesting.
Trigger and Alone, the dual vocal remix. It's not the one we already have on the station. It's a... well, for this station at least, new one. Discord is like an old internet relay chat, and I thought it would have lots of retro nerds hanging around. I was right. As soon as I created a server there, people came on board, and the station now had a discussion forum.where they could request songs and suggest ideas. I always had to do stuff myself, but now I could get some help. The community came up with ideas and sometimes even helped me creating artwork or reviewing improvements to the station. I added more station ideas and ended up commissioning Nicole no less than six times to get her to give the station its voice.
True and menu. It was actually one of our Discord users that suggested I start a podcast. An Amiga Flashback was started in December 2020. It's still running. In the spring the station was slowly changing. It started as an Amiga only radio station, but more and more PC made music was added and I decided to switch to allowing all kinds of track music.In May, the station changed to become the last true tracked music broadcaster instead of the last Amiga music broadcaster. This also made it possible for me to really push the format and made the station very, very uniform. It was all good.
Falcon of SKP and Lazy Days. The podcast also covered some ground. I didn't really intend to cover demo parties, but did a special episode of Amiga Flashback for Revision 2021. And it became a thing. The podcast is now called Flashback, Tracks from the Past, and I have covered Revision, Shadowparty, Fondata.Eddison, Gubbdata, A-Rock, Jurmalauta and Flashparty. I also made a few showcases of artists such as Dr. Awesome, Victor Vergara, Techman and Alistair Brimble. The podcast is still small with few listeners, but the demo scene has been mostly supportive of it. And I also made other episodes about computer pirates, copy protections, BBSs,gaming villains of the past and the IT world of the 80s.
Fear of Dark Influenza In July I started building a complex system to create a database with artists, songs and information. This was then made available to all listeners and is slowly being improved. When it's done, it will feature rating stars, a request, a song feature and information about all artists.It's quite a challenge but made possible through a lot of integrations with Play-It Live.
KBX 128 of Calypso Blue Carrier. Finally, the station IDs were replaced with brand new ones created by British radio DJ and producer Jono Woodward. They were tested in August but were fully rolled out a few days before the one year anniversary. I made a live show on Monday the 13thSo I was live when the exact hour of the anniversary occurred.
LDS or Leon Do Star, full circle. So finally, I must say I learned so much from this. I made two live broadcasts. They were made on location at Edison Party 2021. I also voice tracked a DJ presence during a lot of the spring and summer times of 2021.Some stuff was badly thought out, like my messages that ran 2 times per hour with the same cheesy Amiga-styly jokes and later sarcastic life advice. They will not be missed by anyone. But the station is now entering its second year and is ready to give you the best Amiga, PC and Atari tracked music. Stay tuned and stay online.
The is unknown, but the song is called Cyberspace Odyssey. This is the Arikade Radio Network and flashback tracks from the past. Here's me, DJ Demon, saying bye bye and leaving the studio. Some more music coming on here. And remember that this podcast has a lot of cool stuff coming up in the following weeks. We will have more interviews, some demo party coverage.and also the stories from a retro past. Going on with Sirius and Artificial.
This is the end my friend. See you in a week with a new episode of Flashback, tracks from the past. Leading you into the good night is Trigger, yeah he's back again. This time new song Emotion Devotion.
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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.
He was actually a listener from the time of the first ericade-station in the 00s. He came back as a listener in 2020, when the station restarted. Later he voluntered to build the new website of the station and also joined as a cohost of the podcast. He runs his own site called the Retro spirit.
Fellow retro geek and creator of great music on his daw.
He describes himself like this: "Pure 8-bit chiptunes! All Tekmann music are solely made on Gameboy units modded to perfection... No computer producing just pure chiptune bliss ;)".
A true retro geek and sysop from the 90s. He lives with his family in Sweden and enjoys sharing his passion for retro computing and music. He is sysop for Swedish BBS "This old cabin".
Created a report about Impulsetracker for us in 2022. Also voiced our messages for christmas 2022 in co-operation with the Retro spirit.
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