71. It's a long way to DiHalt

🎧 00:00 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past

🎧 00:07 DJ Daemon: It’s 2022, a new year, and Russia invades! But this is an attack of tracked music, cool demos and old school graphics. DJ Daemon here donning my helmet and broadcasting one hour of demo music from the DiHalt 2022 demo party that ran last weekend Nizhny Novgorod, on the 7-9 of January.

Erik Zalitis 00:07.082 It's 2022, a new year and Russia invades. But this is an attack of tracker music, cool demos and old school graphics. DJ Demon here, donning my helmet and broadcasting one hour of demo music from the D-Halt 2022 demo party.It ran on the last weekend from Nijsne in Novgorod on the 7th to 9th of January.

🎧 00:35 EA – No Time For Music

🎧 01:02 DJ Daemon: No time for rest – let’s jump into the DiHalt HiEnd Tracker Music competition. And it has eight entries. On place eight, Krotan from Russia is bringing up the rear with Marten run. It’s a rather cute chip-tunish song that is all over the place.

Erik Zalitis 01:02.542 No time for rest, let's jump into the D-Halt High-End Tracker Music Competition and hit us 8 entries. On place 8, Kroton from Russia is bringing up the rear with Martin Run. It's a rather cute chiptune-ish song that's all over the place.

🎧 01:24 8. Rozantsev – Marten Run

🎧 04:03 DJ Daemon: Place 7 holds the tune Shaft and it’s from litchh, an artist whose first demo entries are from 2019. Soft piano-chords accompany you through sneaky journey in dark-lit alleys with an unknown danger looming in the background.

Erik Zalitis 04:03.496 Play 7 holds the tune Shaft and it's from Lich, an artist whose first demo entries are from 2019. Soft piano chords accompany you through a sneaky journey in dark lit alleys with an unknown danger looming in the background.

🎧 04:23 7. litchh – SHAFT

🎧 07:38 DJ Daemon: It seems like Ukrainian artist Noob from Kiev hasn’t bothered finding a name for his creation. He pulls an old, classic trick, but calling it “untitled track”. It’s another journey over the keys of the piano, but this time it flies through brightly lit skies and lands a mere minute later…

Erik Zalitis 07:38.326 It seems like Ukrainian artist Noob from Kiev hasn't bothered finding a name for his creation. He pulls an old classic trick by calling it Untitled Track. It's another journey of the keys of the piano, but this time it flies through brightly lit skies and lands a mere minute later at place 6.

🎧 08:02 6. Noob – Untitled track

🎧 09:07 DJ Daemon: Russia is back in the game with “Moonwalker’s 10 minutes trash” by Scalesmann. But there are two things wrong here, it’s not 10 minutes and definitely not trash. Pretty classic style of 2000s tracked music with nice chords mixed up with some funkiness. A bit repetitive sometimes and it ge…

Erik Zalitis 09:07.884 Russia is back in the game with Moonwalker's 10 minutes trash. It's by Scalesman. But there are two things wrong here. It's not 10 minutes and it's definitely not trash. Pretty classic style of 2000's tracked music with nice chords mixed up with some funkiness. A bit repetitive sometimes and it gets place 5.

🎧 09:35 5. Unregistered – Moonwalker’s 10 minutes trash

🎧 11:21 DJ Daemon: Noob’s real name is Jaroslav Diachenko and his first tunes in modarchive are from around 2019. According to demo scene, this is his first participation in the demo scene. The tune is called Midnight travel and sounds like music from a mid-90s computer game. Really love the airy strings. P…

Erik Zalitis 11:21.762 Noob's real name is Jaroslav Dyachenko and his first tunes in the mod archive, are from around 2019. According to DemoZoo, this is his first participation in the demo scene. The tune is called Midnight Travel and it sounds like music from a mid-90s computer game. Love the Airy Strings, place 4.

🎧 11:50 4. Noob – Midnight travel

🎧 13:09 DJ Daemon: e!ghtbm and Magnetic-Fox from Poland teams together and this leads them right into bronze position with cool, mellow, but jumpy tune called winter melonide. I hope that isn’t a typo. Place 3 as you understand.

Erik Zalitis 13:09.71 8PM and Magnetic Fox. They are from Poland and teaming together. This leads them right into bronze position with a cool mellow but jumpy tune called Winter Melonide. I really hope that isn't a typo. Place free as you understand.

🎧 13:29 3. E!ghtbm and Magnetic-Fox – Winter melonide

🎧 16:53 DJ Daemon: Silver position and here we find Fatalsnipe from Belarus. The tune, Salvanage has a pretty techno style which would have made a big success on the dance floors during the 90s.

Erik Zalitis 16:54.552 Silver position and here we find Fatal Snipe from Belarus. The tune, Salvinage, has a pretty techno style which would have made a big success on the dancefloors during the 90s.

🎧 17:10 2. Fatalsnipe – Salvanage

🎧 20:12 DJ Daemon: Winner! And it’s Slash delivers Mood’s satellite from the country that launched the first of them into space. Spoiler alert, it was Russia. Congratulations.

Erik Zalitis 20:13.804 Winner! Yes, it's Slash that delivers Mood's Satellite from the country that launched the first of them into space. Congratulations! Well, spoiler alert, it's Russia!

🎧 20:29 1. Podolskiy Denis aka Slash_AtD – Mood’s satellitE

🎧 23:09 ericade.radio – With the greatest tracked tunes from the demo scene

Erik Zalitis 23:09.774 We're leaving the sampled tracks, as the top list is over. Next destination, Sedek's Spectrum. The AY-YM music. It's more blip-di-blop variety. AY and YM refers to two of the most famous ships powering old Spectrums.Onto the top list, the new one. 9 contestant tunes, 1 winner and here is the lowest position. Number 9 – Gifts of the Magi by Casacoma. This song brings me good feelings as retro stuff always do.

🎧 23:15 DJ Daemon: We’re leaving the sampled tracks as the top list is over.. Next destination: ZX Spectrum AY/YM music. It’s the more blippety-blop variety. AY and YM refers to the two of the most famous chips powering old Spectrums. Onto the top list. 9 contestant tunes, 1 winner and here is the lowest po…

🎧 23:58 9. Роман Русских (Casecoma) – The Gifts of the Magi

🎧 25:18 DJ Daemon: Place 8 and here we find Hazard of Phantasy from who is sort of a compatriot for me. He’s Latvian and so are my relatives on the paternal side. The tune is called Kerb. It would be perfect in a platform game from the 80s.

Erik Zalitis 25:18.798 Place 8 and here we find a hazard of fantasy who is sort of a compatriot for me. He's Latvian and so are my relatives on the paternal side. The tune is called Curb and it would be perfect in a platform game from the 80s.

🎧 25:37 8. Hazard of Phantasy – Kerb

🎧 29:38 DJ Daemon: Scalesmann and his Marching cats are back again with the tune “Nearly there”. A sweet song that crisscrosses through nice bass loops. It’s great, but short. Place 7 and it’s a cover of Jochen Himpels tune that Jogeir Liljedahls covered in the demo “Full moon endpart”. More on that story i…

Erik Zalitis 29:38.414 Scalesman and his marching cats are back again, with the tune Nearly There, a sweet song that crisscrosses through nice bass loops. It's great, but short. Play 7 and it's a cover of Jochen Himpels tune that Joggeir Liljedahl covered in the demo Full Moon Endpart. More on that story in a few minutes.

🎧 30:06 7. Scalesmann of March[ing]_cats – Nearly there [lil recombination]

🎧 31:32 DJ Daemon: Place 6 and it’s a rather eclectic, but nice tune by Groove and it’s called Polytechnology univ. Guess it’s university.

Erik Zalitis 31:32.558 Play 6 and it's a rather eclectic but nice tune by Gru. It's called Polytechnology Univ. I guess it's university.

🎧 31:44 6. Groove – JS – TNL. Polytechnology Univ.

🎧 33:28 DJ Daemon: The zombies are coming! You have barricaded yourself and your friends in a small shack in the middle of nowhere. There is a knock on the door. As you walk towards it, artist Lampovyi Ninja screams “Don’t open that freaking door”. The tune places itself at place 5 and wakes up some lawyers…

Erik Zalitis 33:28.814 The zombies are coming! You have barricaded yourself and your friends in a small shack in the middle of nowhere. There's a knock on the door. As you walk towards it, artist Lampuy Ninja screams, don't open that freaking door! The tune places itself at place five and wakes up some lawyers from Nintendo.

🎧 33:55 5. Lampovyi Ninja – Do not open that foking door

🎧 35:33 DJ Daemon: Another artist I have problems finding info about. It’s jump error of Team Moritz and the tune is called Alien Slaphead. Poor aliens. That’s what we do to them… On the other side, watch any Hollywood movie, and as you can see it’s hardly unprovoked. Place 4.

Erik Zalitis 35:33.812 Now time for another artist I have problems finding info about. It's Jump Error of Team Moritz and the tune is called Alien Slaphead. poor aliens, that's what we do to them. On the other hand, watch any Hollywood movie and you can see it's hardly unprovoked. Place four.

🎧 35:58 4. Jumperror ^ Team Moritz – Alien Slaphead

🎧 38:03 DJ Daemon: Ilya Abrosimov, or EA, is from Russia and has a “2 channels experience” he would like to share with us. It’s a bronze medal winner in the eyes of the judges and pushes up the tempo.

Erik Zalitis 38:04.066 Leah Abrosimo or EA is from Russia and has a two channels experience he would like to share with us. It's our bronze medal winner and it is that in the eyes of the judges. Also it pushes up the tempo.

🎧 38:23 3. EA – In 2 channels experience

🎧 40:10 DJ Daemon: I don’t know about Tipperary, but EA gets the silver medal with “Long way to DiHalt”. It’s like the last tune, also by EA, so you can probably fuse them together.

Erik Zalitis 40:11.022 But EA gets the silver medal with long way to de-halt. It's like the Lost Tune, also by EA, so you can probably fuse them together.

🎧 40:24 2. EA – Long way to DiHalt

🎧 43:26 DJ Daemon: One podcast episode and already one winner. Ok. That’s something. KUVO, from, no surprise: Russia with the tune “Not yet star”. Kuvo sends his greetings to DiHalt: “Happy New Year and new DiHalt to all demoscene lovers! Kindness and warmth!”.

Erik Zalitis 43:26.228 One podcast episode and we already have two winners. Okay, that's something. And now it's KUVO from, no surprise here, Russia. With the tune Not Yet Star, KUVO sends his greetings to DHALT. Happy New Year and a new DHALT to all Democene lovers. Kindness and warmth.

🎧 43:52 1. KUVO of CSI – Not yet sтaр (6ch)

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🎧 46:20 DJ Daemon: And we’re through. I have to really step up my work here as the demo parties are coming in on my radar and next up I will try to cover “LoveByte 2022”. Now, we’re going back to the normal rail of things with a marathon of three Alex Menchi tunes.

Erik Zalitis 46:20.042 And we are through this now. I have to really step up my work here, as the demo parties are coming in on my radar. Next up, I will try to cover Lovebite 2022. Now, we're going back to the normal rail of things, with a marathon of free Alex Menke tunes.Yeah!

🎧 46:44 Alex Menchi – Karamoon’s Path

🎧 51:51 DJ Daemon: In 1990, a group of Atari ST programmers and artists known as The Lost Boys released a game called “A Prehistoric Tale” on both the Atari ST and Amiga. Atari ST musician Jochen Hippel (Mad Max) ported the game to the Amiga and also created the music for it. In 1993, Virtual Dreams and Fai…

YouErik Zalitis 51:51.17 Alex Mencki, Karamun's Path. Time for a story you heard nearly there by Scalesman. But that's a cover, let's talk about the original. In 1990, a group of Atari ST programmers and artists, they were known as the Lost Boys. They released a game called A Prehistoric Tale. It was released both on Atari ST and Amiga.Atari ST musician, Jockal Hippel, also known as Mad Max, he ported the game to the Amiga and also created the music for it. In 1993, Virtual Dreams and Fairlight, they released an Amiga demo called Full Moon, containing a pro-tracker module called Nearly There by Jogheer Liljedahl. The tune is an almost exact copyof Johan Hippel's tunes. If you want to know more, go to Codetapper.com. Where we got this story?

🎧 52:56 Alex Menchi – Savage Cat

🎧 57:40 DJ Daemon: See you next week.

Erik Zalitis 57:40.558 Alex Menke Savage Cat, number 2 out of 3 in this marathon. And leading you into the good night, that would be Alex Menke and Speeder Van Light. I am DJ Demon and I want to thank you for listening. You can go to Ericade.radio to learn all the news of the station and the podcast. Bye bye now!

🎧 58:07 Alex Menchi – speeder than light

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