Podcast episode profile for 48. that other Awesome tracker dude
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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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48. that other Awesome tracker dude
Flashback, tracks from the past
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- 00:00 Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past
- 00:10 DJ Daemon: Introduces the show and mentions Awesome/Victor Vergara and the Arok Demo party that’s ongoing.
- 00:32 Awesome – Breath of Fire
- 06:02 DJ Daemon explains how he found the songs on Amiga Module Archive and noted that they were all excellent.
- 06:36 Awesome – Forever Friends
- 11:03 DJ Daemon talks about covers of tracked music and then presents the next song.
- 11:26 Bazeforce – Aryx
- 200815:44 DJ Daemon plays a mystery tune and ask you to identify it.
- 16:07 “Mr B” – AmigaFormat
- 21:22 DJ Daemon tells you the artists real name and explains the origin of the song.
- 22:02 Awesome – Surprise Attack
- 23:41 DJ Daemon tells you the story of Victor Vergara/Awezoom/Awesome.
- 24:27 Awesome – Hard to believe
- 28:24 DJ Daemon tells you what Awesome is doing today.
- 28:53 Awesome – Reality Soul
- 33:32 DJ Daemon talks about Awesome’s demo productions and his entry on Demozoo.
- 34:05 Awesome – Inside a Dream
- 39:00 DJ Daemon explains that you can hear his stuff on Soundcloud and support him with donations on Paypal.
- 39:37 Awesome – Bolero”by Fanc
- 42:58 DJ Daemon talks about a qoute that may come from mr Vergara.
- 43:29 Awesome – Dreams of despair
- 49:27 DJ Daemon reminds you about tomorrow’s podcast episode about Arok party 2021.
- 50:07 Awesome – Dreams of Hope
- 255:55 DJ Daemon thanks you for listening and leads you into “the good night”.
- 56:35 Awesome – Future dreams
🎤 Production Notes
I was sourcing music for the next episode of Flashback and I came across a collection of great tunes by a "Awesome". I quickly realised that it was not "Dr. Awesome" and decided to make an episode around mostly his songs. This inspired me to create more artist portraits in the future.ColophoneThe title just points out that we're NOT talking about "DR. Awesome". The artist in this episode called himself "Awesome" and later renamed himself to "Awezoom".
📝 Transcript
Time for another episode of Flashback. Tracks from the past. The Ericade Radio Network. And it's time to meet an awesome artist. No, not Dr. Awesome. We are talking about a guy calling himself Just Awesome. His real name is Viktor Vergara. And also, tomorrow you will get another podcast because we have the A-Rocks demo party ongoing.But today, just the music.
awesome breath of fire well as i was searching for songs i found all his best songs in a row so to speak it was like 10 or 15 entries and i selected the best of those and they're all awesome really fits this station perfectly fine and yeah i'm gonna say it again he's not related to dr awesome in any way well except the name that's not a surname you knowAnyway, we're going on with his next song which is Forever Friend a little bit softer.
Smooth piano ending, really really nice. Okay, you probably know this, but covers are not unheard of in the tracked community so to speak. And we have a song called Eryx and it's actually a cover, a remix in itself, it's called Dictatory Remix. And here is another one, it's Eryx 2008 by Bass Force.
Really nice there if you ask me. All I can say is this, that we have something special for you right now. Yeah, we really do. Okay, I wonder if you can figure out what the real name of this song is. It's called Amiga Format and I have actually obscured the artist's name. Just to see if you can figure it out, okay?
Amiga Format and Mr. B. Yeah, okay, I gotta admit that I actually put that incorrect name in there to kinda throw you off. That's actually Alistair Brimble. And why is it called Amiga Format? Well, that was a newspaper for Amiga fans or a magazine, maybe more like it. And in one of the issues, you got a diskette with that tune and a robot on it. Later on, and here comes what?The real name of the song is Now. Yeah, later on actually Mr. Bribble renamed it to Sexy Robot. And now you know exactly what tune we're talking about.
awesome surprise attack So let's talk about him then shall we his real name as I stated earlier is Victor Vergara and He was born in Valencia in Spain in 1978 He writes on his blog that my family has always been really poor But during a couple of years my parents got some extra money and were able to get me a computer He learned the basicstracking with mod editor, 669 composer and the scream tracker free but it was fast tracker 2
Awesome hard to believe So what is mr. Vergara doing today? According to his blog he married his sweetheart when they were both 16 and now have a child called Alex together Yes, and he is still doing a lot of creative works and he states that Aurora his wife is actually The theme of all his ballads now,
Awesome, Reality Soul. If you take a look at Demo Zoo, you will actually see his works there. He has done a number of demos. He's both a very good artist when it comes to tracked music and also a graphics artist of some renown. He's been a member of the group's chanka, Exolobize, Inside and Out.wild bits and has quite a portfolio if you want to. Just take a look.
Awesome inside a dream as you probably figured out he is not calling himself awesome anymore. He's awesome That's a we see OOM and if you go to Soundcloud calm you can actually Yeah, well search for awesome and find a lot of his stuff They're really good and he actually gives most of it away for free. But if you like what he's doing here, soPayPal thing on his blogs you can give him some money because we need to support guys like that don't we?
Awesome Bolero as I was searching on Google for mr. Vergara I came across a quote Which I believe is his but the Google isn't really helpful when you try to search stuff on Facebook The quote anyway is nobody cares about the platform the music was made onIf a good song was written in Amiga, it's still a great song. I at least wish to believe that's him. Anyway, going on here.
Awesome dreams of despair I Need to state one thing here. Mr. Vergara's songs here on the station We played so far have all been done on a PC not an Amiga. Okay, just pointing that out and Also, I need to repeat myself here a little bit a rock the demo party is going on and willbe done with tomorrow and then you will get a direct competition top list and yeah that's Sunday that's tomorrow at 9 p.m.
Dreams of Hope 2. Yeah, it's still awesome. Everything barred two songs have been by him. And we are leading you out in the good night with awesome and future dreams. So dreams seems to be a thing going on here. And soon maybe time to sleep and dream something. This is DJ D-1 here thanking you for listening. And remember that tomorrow another episode and then every Saturday9pm Swedish time, central European time. Well, another nice episode. Yes, this is the Ericade Radio Network or Arikade Radio.
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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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🎙 The people behind the podcast
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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