Flashback, tracks from the past – ERICADE.RADIO

Deadline and Flashparty are still underway, and while waiting, lets chillax (=chill and relax) and just enjoy the music. Not much speech, but still some news:

On the show:

– Deadline and Flash party are soon over and next week we’ll have the music.

– Will the ericade.radio-music become a hit among cyberpunks?

– We sound even better now. (Not me, come on, the music!)

– A better website is coming.

00:00 ericade.radio – Time for Flashback, tracks from the past – with your host DJ Daemon

00:06 DJ Daemon speaks. 20s

00:21 Jo Po Productions – Sex Reality

06:02 DJ Daemon presents today’s first medley.

06:28 Kenet and Nagz – z0uz0u

08:08 Jerry – Finding myself

09:59 Groo – Like this and so on

11:25 DJ Daemon talks about how the songs sound better with OpenMPT. 29s

11:49 Falcon of Pulse, Tdr – Tasting Malibu

15:20 DJ Daemon talks about some of the music from station may appear in a fanmod for Cyberpunk 2077. 37s

15:53 K00kai – Soul color

18:52 DJ Daemon shouldn’t look in the mirror. 21s

19:10 Advance Rhythm Technologies – Essence of love

25:40 DJ Daemon speaks. 20s

25:56 Warhawk – Melodic angel

29:36 DJ Daemon speaks. 29s

30:01 GrooveStation – Together 4 Ever

33:43 DJ Daemon speaks. 21s

34:02 Buzzer Of Zenon – Leivos

37:54 DJ Daemon presents today’s second medley

38:27 Wiklund and Xylo – Pharaoh Que

39:56 Mpxvm – FUMIX 204 Chill

42:13 XTD – X-selector 2

43:59 DJ Daemon reminds you that we are on Discord. (discord.io/tern). 33s

44:26 MaDeRa – Angel Eyes by MaDeRa

50:19 DJ Daemon speaks. 31s

50:47 aRTy – Fiction

54:40 ericade.radio – Celebrating over 30 years of tracked music

54:47 DJ Daemon speaks. 07s

54:48 Siren – Repression

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Deadline and Flashparty are still underway, and while waiting, lets chillax (=chill and relax) and just enjoy the music. Not much speech, but still some news:On the show:– Deadline and Flash party are soon over and next week we'll have the music.– Will the ericade.radio-music become a hit among cyberpunks?– We sound even better now. (Not me, come on, the music!)– A better website is coming.

We're back with three new demo party toplists. It's from Nordlicht, Xenium and Function 2022. It's a bit of a catchup of all the important demo parties with tracked music we missed during the last 30 days.DJ Daemon blasts through them at a brisk tempo and skips some of the less interesting entries to give you the highlights. Not a boring moment.

Two years on the air! They said it wasn't possible – it couldn't be done. And I proved them… Actually, no one said any of that. But the station is on and broadcasting 24/7. It's been quite a year and let me, DJ Daemon tell you about all the stuff we've been through together. One hour of the newest additions to the station of tracked music. 00:00 ericade.radio – Good evening, here is another hour of tracked music 00:06 DJ Daemon: Two years! On the 13th of September 2020, we started broadcasting. And we're still on. We've talked about the creation of the station on a previous episode. So this hour is just a look back at all the mayhem, chaos, broken songs and also some the bad stuff that have happen.

Every week, ModArchive.org spotlight a bunch of noteworthy modules and DJ Daemon has selected some of those as the highlights of the spotlights so to speak. You will get some really cool songs by artists seldom heard on the station like DJ Ail and Thwy.

Autumn is here and the leaves are falling of the trees. So, time to slow down and enjoy some good musical styles from the 90s through the trackers running on Amigas, Ataris and PC. DJ Daemon is the voice in the night, leading you through upbeat tunes and melodious niceness.So enjoy an hour of great tracked music and your favourite beverage.

Svenska Commodoreklubben (SCK) held a great retro-event in Täby in northern Stockholm in Sweden between the 26 - 28th of August 2022. It held a fantastic museum, a repair shop, a quiz held by Frida Katarina, the online meeting "Sen kväll med Commodoreklubben" and ericade.radio did a live broadcast.Huge thanks to Hravnkel, Björn A, Bjonte, PataG, Hedgewizard, Per G, Frida Katarina and all the other people making the retro-scene the place to be!We did a live broadcast during the most of the Friday, but had to cut it short on Saturday due health-issues on my part. But still, we got a lot of stuff to talk about. And the music is a fresh addition to the station and mostly very soft and mellow as it feels right. Enjoy!The link: commodore.se/about-us/ (Mostly in Swedish)ErrataI said that the Amiga 500 came out in 1997. I misspoke. It was in 1987. My bad.

What a computer! The legendary C64. In August of 2022, it celebrates 40 years of being the one computer we all remember fondly. That’s right, Commodore launched it in August of 1982. The same year as the war in the Falklands and Michael Jackson’s thriller.

DJ Daemon talks about the C64. The music is mostly fantastic remakes of old C64 game tunes.

The show:

00:00 ericade.radio – Time for Flashback, tracks from the past – today with another demo party top list

00:08 DJ Daemon speaks.

00:43 Liam the Lemming – Auf Wiedersehen Monty theme

07:04 DJ Daemon speaks: I got my C64 late in the game. The year was 1989 and I had a busload of cool games for it. But, those stories, we talked about. So let’s pick the machine apart without becoming too technical about it. But first, the history. 1982, the market was dominated by BBC Micro, Sinclair Spectrum ZX1 and the Dragon 32. Commodore had the fairly successful VIC-20. IBM rode high on the first PC, the IBM 5150. August 1982, Commodore launch the C64. The market would never look the same.

08:04 Galaxy of Amaze – Zamzara

13:31 DJ Daemon speaks: The brains of the C64 was the 6502 microprocessor. It was created by Commodore’s own chip company, MOS Technology. Clocked around 1 MHz, it may not have shone too bright compared to the competition. But it was efficient. So much, that in certain scenarios, it would be able to do the same work with less clock cycles than later competitors like Motorola. And Basic. It was just Basic, but still good enough to give you an included language to program the C64 – up front. Not unusual, but helpful.

14:18 Mark’t.d.k’knight – Spellbound

18:10 DJ Daemon speaks: A funny little note from a book about the C64, it noted that the names SID and VIC sounded like they belong to some gangsters from the 30s. SID was the sound chip and VIC handled all the graphics. About the graphics: you got 16 preset colors and resolutions up to 320 times 200. The memory was limited, so, it was not possible to map a color to every pixel in multicolor mode. I don’t have time to get technical, but the limitations where a challenge to the developers. One they knew how to master. So the graphics was stellar due to the inspired design of the VIC chip.

19:10 Ajax lemon – Monty on the run (Highgscore)

22:32 DJ Daemon speaks: Good CPU and nice graphics. What about the sound? Ok, this was 1982, so you could not record audio. Actually later on, the C64 could be taught to play 4 bit samples. But for intents and purposes, it was a true ADSR generator. Three voices could bring different preset waveforms like triangle, sawtooth and pulse and white noise. But one major thing set it apart: it could also switch waveforms on any and all channels on the fly. This is the big magic power of the SID chip. It made it play in its own division.

23:29 2t2m The M – Turbo Outrun 2018

26:17 DJ Daemon speaks: Commodore’s big success among many mistakes. But Commodore almost lost the game, because they only thought the C64 would be for businesses and companies. When the later C-model came out in 1986, the marketing was different. And I remember the Swedish ads that had gaming themes and relied on Epyx Summer, Winter, World and California games. But Commodore had launched the Amiga in 1985 and in 1987 the new Amiga 500 stole the show. At this time, the 8bit computer era was over.

27:12 Alex Menchi – Loopz Remix Credits

30:42 DJ Daemon speaks: This old classic computer, with its peculiar boxy design, which is the one we all remember. Yeah, it was meant to be shape the world. And it did! The demo scene sprung to life around it, to show the world what it could do. A good C64 demo must make you think “no, this can’t be. This is not possible to do on a C64”. The C64 composers,

What a computer! The legendary C64. In August of 2022, it celebrates 40 years of being the one computer we all remember fondly. That's right, Commodore launched it in August of 1982. The same year as the war in the Falklands and Michael Jackson's thriller.DJ Daemon talks about the C64. The music is mostly fantastic remakes of old C64 game tunes.

Assembly is a famous Finnish demo party that started 30 years ago. That’s SGT Peppers lonely hearts club band and then ten more years.

DJ Daemon gives you the tracked music and the highest rated entries of the “listening competition”. So, put on your headphones and listen to brand new tracked music.

A few songs that are not up to our standard, have been cut to just a short “sample”.

00:00 ericade.radio – Time for Flashback, tracks from the past – today with another demo party top list

00:07 DJ Daemon speaks. Assembly summer party 2022 ended a few days ago. They’re a grand tradition and now celebrate 30 years of being a demo party. It may even be THE demo party. One of the most venerated meetings of the artistic minds. Two toplists today, the first is the tracked music. 16 contestants, and place 16 goes to Surina by Anacron. 297 points and here it is.

00:25 ericade.radio – Flashback, track from the past – let the toplist begin

00:45 Anacron – Surina

01:08 DJ Daemon speaks: Place 15 has Tarzan doing some monkeying around. It’s called delay music and gets 320 points.

01:23 tArzAn – delaymusic

01:46 DJ Daemon speaks: Time flies when you attend a demo party, so it’s no joke that Deetsay calls his tune “Flying through time”. Place 14, 338 points and an upbeat tempo.

02:08 Deetsay – Flying Through Time

05:04 DJ Daemon speaks: Getting closer to the in crowd of place 10. But La Mettrie has to accept the lucky place 13 with Resilar generation and 339 points I’m getting some weird 8bit game vibes here.

05:20 Resilar Generation – La Mettrie

08:10 DJ Daemon speaks: We continue down the 8bit memory lane with Beathawk and Assy19 tai ehka 22. Place 12 and 354 points.

08:25 Beathawk – Assy19 tai ehka 22

12:15 DJ Daemon speaks: Impulsetracker as used by Signal gives you that all right retro feeling. A mix between new and old and it’s a Comfy ride on place 11 with 355 points.

12:31 Signal – Comfy Trip

15:20 ericade.radio – Tenth place

15:22 DJ Daemon speaks: Yes, the real top list is here! It’s held by Jaffa of Static and Dekadance. 360 points leads the way into the first step of the stairway to tracker heaven.

15:36 Jaffa of Static, Dekadence – JunoLinn

18:09 ericade.radio – Ninth place

18:11 DJ Daemon speaks: What do we want more than bass? Netflix and bass? Nooo… Try NES and Bass by Jask1e. 368 points.

18:24 Jarsk1e – NES and Bass

18:45 ericade.radio – Eighth place

18:47 DJ Daemon speaks: Giana Sister is a legendary game on the Amiga, but have you ever heard about the “Jolly Crack Sisters”. Me neither, but it seems to be a game created in the weird mind of Laurikka. 379 points and a call from social services await.

19:05 Laurikka – The Jolly Crack Sisters

21:12 ericade.radio – Seventh place

21:14 DJ Daemon speaks: Getting down the list and it’s time for Forcing Contraints by Juippi of Faemiyah. 430 points for a nice Impulsetracker tune with a mellow feeling to it.

21:27 Juippi of Faemiyah – Forcing Constraints

23:54 ericade.radio – Sixth place

23:56 DJ Daemon speaks: Next up are some soft beats and technofeeling from Yzi. The song is called Sanity complex and gets 479 points.

24:12 Yzi – Sanity Complex

26:18 ericade.radio – Fifth place

26:38 Outrun – Age Is Just a Hexadecimal

29:19 ericade.radio – Fourth place

29:22 DJ Daemon speaks: I need a drink right now. Good news, RawArgon is serving up a Blueberry Plasma Smoothie. It’s yours for 558 points.

29:38 RawArgon – Blueberry Plasma Smoothie

32:19ericade.radio – Third place – Bronze medal