Podcast episode profile for 67. XMAS at ground zero (shortened version)
It's christmas at ground zero and DJ Daemon briefly pops his head up above the surface to get his beloved Glögg and Punsch before the shops close. Home in his bunker after dodging all the Omikronparticles, he gives you all the tracked christmas tunes worth playing.
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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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This show was originally meant to be four hours, but was shrunk down to close to two hours. This was because I tried to broadcast from my living room and there were many technical problems to overcome before it could be done.Colophon:"Xmas at ground zero" is a song by Weird Al Yanovic.
Transcript
Announcement - Time for a live show with DJ Daemon
This is the Ericade Radio Network. Time for a live show with DJ Daemon. Hello there, Nicole. And hello there, everyone else. It's DJ Daemon here. And it's time for a special flashback tracks from the past. Two or three, depending on my mood, hours of great music, some stories, and we're celebrating Christmas, you and I.Time for another episode of Flashback. Tracks from the past. Yes, it's time to start up with a really nice remix.
DJ Daemon introduces the show.
ericade.radio - Time for another episode of Flashback - Tracks from the past
Trackerartist - Xmasmix
ericade.radio - Commodore was limited, but the Amiga is eternal
The Ericade Radio Network. Commodore is limited, but the Amiga is eternal. Mmm, remember that one? It was actually a slogan from our old demo group, Eternal. It wasn't eternal, but the Amiga in our memory will always be. If you wonder what's going on here in the background, it's Phone Data Christmas Hangout. I'm gonna talk a little bit more about that later on. But first, well...We must continue with Jogger lilledån and Christmas!
DJ Daemon: talks about Eternal, Forndata XMAS hangout and the eternity of Amiga.
Jogeir Liljedahl - Christmas
DJ Daemon: Jogeir is amazing.
As I said, Joggeir Liljedal, amazing artist, Norwegian by the way, and Christmas is in the air, or on the air, or whatever. Let's go on with Jester Year's Christmas Celebration Song. It's from our broadcast one year ago, Cyborg Jeff and Christmas.
cyborgjeff-xmas
DJ Daemon: recommends Forndata XMAS Hangout.
Yeah, that was great! Look, if you wanna go and celebrate Christmas elsewhere, now I don't wanna get rid of you, but you should know that Fondata has a live broadcast right now. If you go to twitch.tv slash Fondata, you can watch Björn and his friend Patrik, I think it is, keeping the Amiga C64 and the demo scene alive.You're showing all the demos basically really really nice nice. I recommend it
Bassie of Image - Gradually unfold....
DJ Daemon: we need to play some non-xmas tunes every now and then.
Pessy of image gradually unfolds. Yeah, I know, we need to play some non-Christmas music every now and then. Yeah, but we're going back to Christmas feeling here with Alexander Brandon and Freeze. And can you guess from which game it is? I tell you in a while.
Alexander Brandon - Freeze
Alright, was it hard for you? Haha, it's from Jazz Jack Rabbit. And it's so good, you get another one right here.
DJ Daemon: it's Jazz Jackrabbit. So good, you get another right here!
Alexander Brandon - Winter Hare
DJ Daemon: Presents next song.
Okay, that's it for now. Going on with the bourrée and the Swedish song Jul Tomton Myser. Well, after that I will talk about glögg.
Boray - Jultomten myser
Recording duration talk about "Glögg". It's like Glühwein.
Jultomten Myser, name of this song, yeah it means that Jultomtan, is Santa, is feeling really cozy. Great! So do I. I have in front of me a glass of something called glögg, that's a hot beverage, that is basically very sweet wine. If you're German you probably know about it as Glywine, but it's not exactly the same thing. Really nice.And there isn't a... There's no alcohol left in it because yeah, you know, you heat it up, the alcohol goes away. Which is good because I don't want to broadcast drunk.
Dippy - Afternoon Groovin'
DJ Daemon speaks about "Amiga Flashback" and reprises the next song
Nice, it's dippy and afternoon-growing here on Flashback, tracks from the past. One year ago, we were called Amiga Flashback. That's probably where you remember Nicole's intro from. If you heard it from the start, that is. Yes, definitely. And from that broadcast, I'm reprising Annie Maximus. Annie Maximus? Annie Christmas? I don't know how to pronounce that, but here it goes.
Amixmas
DJ Daemon remember the last time he played this tune.
said Mr. Schwarzenegger and last year I joked about it by saying no Mr. Schwarzenegger I expect you to die. Now I actually don't want anything of that. I'm a pretty peaceful person have never killed anyone and hmm what should I say?Well, we're going on with something really cool. It's from a game, a Worms game that never were released. And if you think about Worms and music, it's always about Björn Lynne or Dr. Awesome, you never heard this one on this station before.
Bjørn Lynne - Winterland Fun (from a never released Worms-game)
DJ Daemon wonder if there is such a thing as "too many worms games".
I wonder why this game was not released. I guess there is such a thing as too many Worms games. If you just look at the back catalog of Mr. Awesome or Dr. Awesome, you can see there are like seven or eight Worms games or something like that that he made music for. So I guess there is some kind of saturation limit there. not another of those. I have not reached that limit yet. We're going on with Butch and Winter Night.
ericade.radio - Time for another episode of Flashback - Tracks from the past
Time for another episode of Flashback! Tracks from the past! So it's time for the real broadcast hour of Flashback, Tracks from the past, but I'm still here. So if you just tune in, I'm sorry you missed the first hour. Don't worry, it will be out on a podcast player in a few hours from now. So this hour starts up with Phoenix of DHP, and Merry Christmas everyone, how fitting!
DJ Daemon presents the next hour
Phoenix of Dhp - Merry Xmas everyone!
So, should we go back to our respective bunkers? I don't really like the idea of that, but you know Omicron is doing another bloody round. It's like... That COVID thing is still here and we're not getting rid of it any day soon. Let's not talk about that. Let's listen to some more nice music. It's all techno-ish and all soft and sweet.
SpectralDJ - Space of Presence
DJ Daemon Mentions Fegolhuzz and translates the name of the next song.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know what you're thinking. That wasn't soft, nor was it sweet, but for being techno, I would say it totally was. It was Spectral DJ with space of presence. And I found something really cool here, a Swedish Christmas tune. It's by Feggol Haas, if you remember him from Gubbdata. He's a part of Kake Monsters Klubben, according to the liner notes. And the song, it's about...Well, jule koks bakning, simply means Christmas cake baking.
Fegolhuzz of Kakmonsterklubben - Julkaks-bakning
DJ Daemon talks about the tune
This is a bit weird. This song is actually made in Fasttracker, but you would think it's a SID chiptune or something. They're probably not using the sampler that much here. But it's a great song. I really like stuff like that. We are going on with Eljato Protocol and Christmas Card 95, but don't worry, I got some more stories to tell, so it's not just about music here.
Elliott of PrOtoCoL - X-mas card '95
DJ Daemon talks about Silent Service and how to make XMAS light give you a perfect submarine feeling.
Time for some Christmas stories then. I think that's just right to do right now, right here. When I was a kid I had a C64, I told you so before. And I loved Silent Service, a really good submarine simulator. You are a submarine captain in the Pacific, somewhere in the 42nd World War. And I found some red Christmas lights. I...put them up in my room and when I played the game I had them on so you had this kind of red submarine feeling you know when the whole room is just bathing in light
CoS - Christmas is here
DJ Daemon talks about tracker instrument list and "love between two robots"
Sweet and nice. We are going on with Malcolm and a mechanical love song. But here's an advice for you. Sometimes take a look on the tracker music comment fields. That is the tracker instrumentalists and stuff. Yeah. This one has a nice one telling you that the song, mechanical love song, is about love between two robots. I don't really know why.But I guess Bender would approve.
Alright, so that was a love story between two robots. We also have a sexy robot with Alastor Brimble, yeah the song is called that. Really good one. We are going on with Yomaro Kasuga and his insanely beautiful Christmas Sonata.
Yeah, okay. As I said previously, it's a good thing to just check through the instrumentalists sometimes. Some really nice stories they appear. One of my favorite ones is the butterfly with the most atrocious English ever. Next song is a more sad story. It's called Juliet is Tearing. I guess it's more like crying, but English is not.Like you know, the native language of most people doing tracker music, right? So yeah, he writes in the instrumentalist that he is sad about his girlfriend being his ex-girlfriend and hope she comes back.
Melcom - Mechanical Love Song
DJ Daemon mentions Allister Brimbles "sexy robot"
Yomaru Kasuga - Christmas Sonata
DJ Daemon talk sad loveletter in the module instrument lists.
Paco of Dinasty - Juliet is tearing
DJ Daemon talks about Swedish alcoholic beverage "Punsch"
About an hour ago we spoke about glögg, this glöivine thing that we have here in Sweden. But we have more weird stuff you have never ever tried. A few years ago I know that honey whiskey was the great stuff that everyone wanted and my favorite is actually something called Jack Daniels honey. And it tastes a bit like a Swedish speciality that we call punch.I don't know, don't think you should translate it to punch or something, but it has that sweet, very like, know, dessert taste to it. And it's awesome really, really nice. I know students in universities here in Sweden love that. It's a part of their tradition. I just think it tastes good in small dosages.
TRiGGER - Julia Roberts
DJ Daemon talks about Julia Roberts
Trigger and Julia Roberts. I think Trigger is in love with her or something. I don't know really. She was very beautiful in the 90s, haven't heard so much about her in the 2000s and onwards. Anyway, we are sitting here remembering all Christmas stuff and some weird beverages and traditions here in Sweden. So why not have some more cool stories coming up? But we are going on.some more Christmas, but not exactly when you expect it.
Galgox - Christmas in July
DJ Daemon remember old christmas playing Civilization 1.
Galgax Christmas in July And I remember my old time Christmas feelings from the times when I was a kid one Christmas I got the brand new George Harrison Record the vinyl record it was back then called cloud nine and one year I got my Amiga 500 it was 1990 and a few years later, I remember sitting in front of the Amigaplaying Civilization. My first memory from that, that wasn't Christmas, it was some year when I got it and I said, this is too hard, I don't understand how this works. And about 10 hours later, it's like, my God, I need to invent the pyramids before they do. You know, that game sucks you in and bleeds you dry. Just one more term is the official motto of the game series. Yeah, so you know, yeah, they trademarked it.
MrGamer - Jul Remixar ;)
DJ Daemon talks about the Swedish word "Jul".
Mr. Gamer, julremixar. In Swedish, jul means Christmas. No surprise there. That's...why you say Jule Tide sometimes. It's a very Germanic word if I remember correctly. Anyway, we are going on with more Christmas tunes, but I gotta have to say that we are running dry air, so I will stop in a few minutes. It will be two hours of broadcast. I hope that's been enough. Well, more Christmas.
hC/IMAGO - Xmas HeyHo .hC.
Witness and how about this wham thing going on if you remember last Christmas? Yes. Yes, I said that We were all very very worried about should we be able to survive that is to say last Christmas then song by Wham if you hear it on the radio It's game over then you lost the competition. So the trick is simply at the first of December untilWell, Christmas Day, you must not ever hear that song. And I lost until somewhere around this time actually, 18 days and then on a demo party. Of course they had to do that. Damn. And today, actually when I think about it, yesterday I was working with my friend in a joint project we are doing together. yes, and the radio was on and lo and behold,
DJ Daemon remember "Last XMAS" and the Wham! challenge.
The Nightstalker - Christmas Love
DJ Daemon promises NEVER to play "Last XMAS".
Were you worried I would play the song? The intro kinda sounded like it. No, no, no, that will never happen. First of all, we cannot play tunes that are copyrighted. Sorry about that. That was the Night Stalker, Christmas love. And this is me, DJ Daemon, we're packing up our stuff. We're ready to go out here into the good night with the Drax and Christmas memories.Next Saturday I hopefully have some sort of episode for you, but as you know, we're into Christmas laziness right now, so maybe not the most advanced episodes. So I hope you will enjoy it though. And this is Erikade.radio and flashback tracks from the past.
Drax - Christmas Memories
DJ Daemon: Merry XMAS and Happy New Year!
Well, thank you for the Christmas Memories Directs. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from DJDemon and Ericade.Radio. This has been another episode of Flashback, but you knew that already. The last two songs going into the airwaves. That's Knitzer and Christmas Spirit and Epidion Music Productions in Christmas 2001.
Nitzer - X-mas Spirit
Epinicion music productions - Christmas 2001
Equipment
Microphone: Rode K2
Steinberg UR22C, no mike processing.
Station processor: Thimeo StereoTool.
Target LUFS: -14 dB
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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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