Podcast episode profile for 34. Liberty, equality and tracker music
From France comes the Shadow party 2021 and between 2021-05-21 and 2021-05-23 the virtual doors opened for a brand new demo party. We jumped at the chance to broadcast the tunes the same day they competed, so we did not know who had won. But we know now:The winners:1) TDTTDHAD – The Demo Track That Didn't Have A Demo – CS-Jay / Desire ^ Persuasive Music & Slide / Polka Brothers2) Evolution / Ma2e and Aceman3) Brightstar – Mystra / Brainstorm & Nectarine (Amiga 4-channels)
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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
One of those demo parties I had running on the big screen in my living room, while recording and monitoring it from my workdesk. I avoid using streamcopy and always work hard to source the tracked tunes. But sometimes I can't get all of them and then stream copy is then really nice to have.Colophone:It's the national motto of France that I've changed a bit. Trackermusic was certainly not part of it. The original motto reads: "liberty, equality, fraternity".
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Amiga Flashback – show intro
listening to the Ericade Radio Network. Time for another episode of Amiga Flashback. Try as it might, COVID-19 has been unable to break the demo scene. Coming to a screen near you, the online Shadow Party 2021 sends its signal from France in Europe. Today, on the 22nd of May 2021, seven contestants battled it out in the Old School Tracker Competition.As we don't have the results yet, I will play them in my own order. First out is 8BM from Poland and all my circuits. Yep, it's a Futurama reference.
DJ Daemon speaks: Try as it might, Covid19 has been unable to break the demo scene. Coming to a screen near you, the online Shadow party 2021 sends its signal from France in Europe. Today, on the 22nd of May 2021, seven contestants battled it out in the old school tracker competition. As we don't…
e!ghtbm – All my circuits
Let's rock!
DJ Daemon speaks: Time to take a deep breath, because the next entry is called TDTTDHAD – The Demo Track That Didn't Have A Demo – CS-Jay of Desire and Persuasive Music and Slide of Polka Brothers. CS-Jay used to be known as Jazz and has a long career making music for the game industry and also got…
Time to take a deep breath because the next entry is called TDT TDH-AD, the demo track that didn't have a demo. It's by CS-Jay of Desire and Persuasive Music and Slide of Polka Brothers. CS-Jay used to be known as Jazz and has a long career making music for the game industry. He also got a record deal in 2000.Slide is a Danish artist with many tunes to his name.
CS-Jay of Desire and Persuasive Music and Slide of Polka Brothers – The Demo Track That Didn't Have A Demo (tdttdhad)
DJ Daemon speaks: Making music on an Amstrad CPC? Sure, it's not a problem for Glafouk who really knows how to push three tracks to the max. The tune is called SontagBeat and Glafouk hails from France.
Music on an Amstrad CPC? Yeah sure, it's not a problem from Glaufuck who really knows how to push free tracks to the max. The tune is called Sontag Beat and Glaufuck hails from France.
Glafouk – SontagBeat
DJ Daemon speaks: Picture yourself on a boat in a river and for some reason Einstein sits by your side. That's what Bird may have been thinking when he created Row with Einstein. Bird comes from Corsica which is part of France.
picture yourself on a boat in a river and for some reason Einstein sits by your side. Yep, that may be what Bird have been thinking when he created Ro with Einstein. Bird comes from Corsica, which is part of France.
Bird of Syntex – Row with Einstein
DJ Daemon speaks: Polish artist AceMan often stands for the weird of the tracker scene with crazy but great tunes like “Wonka Honk” and “Vintage groove”. Now he's back together with mAZE and the tune Evolution. mAZE is Norwegian by the way.
Polish artist Aceman often stands for the weird side of the track recine, with crazy but great tunes like Wonka Honk and Vintage Grove. Now he's back together with Maze and the tune is called Evolution. Maze is Norwegian by the way.
Ma2e and Aceman – Evolution
DJ Daemon speaks: Amiga four channels deliver the goods again, as provided by Mystra from Brainstorm and Nectarine. Mystras real name is Kjell Pedersen and he's from Norway. Should we even plug the competition? Sure, why not, the group Nectarine was started by the retro tracker music radio station…
Another great tune from the tracker competition. Alright, next up. Amiga 4 channels delivered the goods again, as provided by Mestra from Brainstorm and Nectarine. Mestra's real name is Kjell Pedersen and he is from Norway. Should we really even plug the competition? Sure, why not.The group Nectarine was started by the Retro Tracker Music radio station with the same name.
Mystra of Brainstorm and Nectarine – Brightstar
DJ Daemon speaks: Last in the line up of the Shadow party contestants is Synesthesia with “Voices in the wall”. Is it about madness or does it refer to noisy neighbours. It's unknown at this time, but we know Synestesia comes from Great Britain.
So, last in the line-up of the shadow party contestants is... ...Synesthesia. And the song is called Voices in the Wall. Is it about madness or does it refer to noisy neighbors? It's unknown at this time, but we do know that Synesthesia comes from Great Britain.
Synesthesia – Voices in the walls
DJ Daemon speaks: And that's all of the seven contestants. We will get to know who wins tommorrow and I will update the podcast notes with the proper results later. So what about the Shadow party – really happy I went or maybe I should say connected to it! Let's play some music and then over to a…
And that's all of the 7 contestants. We will get to know who wins tomorrow and I will update the podcast notes with the proper results later. So what about the shadow party? I'm really happy I went or should I say connected to it. Let's play some music and then over to a review of the party.
AceMan – Dirty Tricks
DJ Daemon speaks: AceMan is back already as we're out of tunes from the competition.
Aisman and Dirty Tricks and he is back already as we are out of tunes from the competition. So you know, most of the demo parties since Covid 19 sunk its claws into all of us had to be online or be cancelled. The online presence is a challenge as it requires a lot of preparations just for the technology to work.This is the first time for them and thus there were many breaks, lost segments and events starting too late or too early. But still, it was fun and well worth watching.
Jeroen Tel – TinTin on the Moon
DJ Daemon speaks: On friday, the Shaders demo pit a number of very talented programmers against each other, trying to in real time come up with the best graphical representation of the music playing.
Jeroen Tel, Tin Tin on the moon. Let's talk about what happened yesterday. It was Friday and the shaders demo put a number of very talented programmers up against each other trying to in real time come up with the best graphical representation of the music playing in the background. You got to see the graphics change as they changed their programming code in real time. Yes.I must say that Sorg was my favorite. He started up with a very little cube rotating around its own axis. And when he was done with it, it was an explosion of colors and neon light and number of cubes rotating like an electron cluster around some sort of atom. It was fantastic. And there were many other really, really good examples of graphicExpertise if I may say so.
AceMan – Teletubbies
DJ Daemon speaks: The tracker competiton was great but I was a bit perplexed when it suddenly ended as all the entries had been played. I did expect more than just seven of them. But they were great as you just heard. The streaming competion was next and was nice but it's not the kind of music we…
That would be Aisman and of course, you know, he brings the crazy. That song is called Teletubbies and yes, it does feature samples from the TV series. The tracker competition was great, but I was a bit perplexed when it suddenly ended as all entries had been played. I actually did expect more than just seven of them, but they were great as you just heard.The streaming competition was next and it was nice, but it's not the kind of music we play here.
Cube – Get on with it!
DJ Daemon speaks: The evening of today held a very complex and advanced seminar on FPGA-technology. While amazing, it was well above my skill-level to grasp. And as I'm writing this, the demo compos are running. and doing amazing things on very limited hardware.
Chee-yub, get on with it! Yeah, let's! The evening of today held a very complex and advanced seminar on FPGA technology. While amazing, it was too much above my skill level to grasp. And as I'm writing this, the demo competitions are running and doing amazing things with very limited hardware.
Drax – Tears of Christmas
DJ Daemon speaks: Second reality done for augmented reality! That is something special and I just saw it. Not on my bucket list, but should have been.
The Racks and Tears of Christmas. Do you remember Second Reality? Yeah, it was a magic demo. And now they done it for Augmented Reality. Yes, I just saw it. It's something special. And it ran on the demo competition here on Shadow Party. It's not on my bucket list, but it should have been.
AceMan – Sugar Rush
Another A-man? Yeah of course, I love his music, I really do. This is the last one, it's called Sugar Rush. And as we are leaving Shadow Party, tomorrow on Sunday is the last day. What can we look forward to? A whole lot actually. Next up, what I know at least, is Fondata, which is on the 5th of June, a few weeks from now.and it's in Sweden but don't worry it's online you can join it it is www.fondata.org you should go I really think so it's Hravnkel and his team bringing some really good C64, Amiga, Atari whatever what have you it's gonna be retro as you want and it's gonna be great
Laamaa – Aryx (diktaattori remix)
DJ Daemon speaks: Hyperions Workbench 3.2 is here!
Lamar and Eric's Dictatory remix. Okay, Dictator remix I guess. Hey, I don't know if you heard about it, but WB 3.2 is here. Yes, Hyperion has delivered or started selling that is the newest kickstart 3.2 with a ship and the WB that's the workbench diskettes and a CD and stuff. I actually ordered it.I am not going to endorse it as I haven't tried it and I definitely do not get paid for saying this, but I think it is a cool thing and I'm gonna try it out and maybe say something if it's worth the upgrade or not. I'm just giving you a little bit of a heads up there. Well, anyway, more music.
mattYTPMV – Buy mode 1
DJ Daemon speaks: Few tunes put a smile on my face like this one. It's from EAs the SIMS that came out in the early 2000s.
Mr Sandman, it sounds like that. No, it's called By Mode One and it's by Matt YTPMV. And few songs of the tracker variety puts a bigger smile on my face than this one. If you're old enough, you should know that this is one of the songs from The Sims, the original game from 2000 somewhere. I don't know exactly when it was released.But it's fantastic, and the game, I absolutely loved The Sims. It's retro by today's standard, but I cannot talk about it right now, because it's a little bit out of the scope of this discussion. Thanks for
Zero Prophet – Mach Five -(Chip)-
Zero Prophet, Mac 5, a ship tune of really nice stripe. So we're gonna lead you into the good night with Purple Motion of Future Crew, the second reality jazz. It's an old song, but given the fact that I spoke about the augmented reality version of it, how can I not play it? Anyway, this is DJ Daemon saying bye bye now and in one week...I think we will be talking about something completely different. Remember that radio dot Eric a dot net is the website for this podcast and the radio station.
Purple Motion of Future Crew – The 2ND Reality
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Started in december 2020, Amiga Flashback was the first name of "Flashback, tracks from the past". It features nice midnight DJ banter from DJ Daemon, interviews, discussions about retro-stuff and lots of tracked music. Most of it is Amiga tracked tunes. In May 2021, it was renamed and started allowing all kinds of tracked tunes instead of mostly Amiga ones.
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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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