Flashback, tracks from the past – ERICADE.RADIO

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".

Episode 100! From December 2020 until today, it’s been quite a ride. But no need to get all misty eyed about it. DJ Daemon instead spends this hour exploring two tracker music oddities: the AHX and HVL formats.

So expect more chiptunes today, as both those formats were born to excel in that way.

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

00:06 DJ Daemon: 100 episodes! I did not know we would get there. But we did. No time for celebration. Today, we give you songs from two tracked formats we generally don’t play: HivelyTracker Audio and Symponie. I will explain, but first, let’s hear what HivelyTracker can do! 26s

00:27 Charles Ingalls of Genesis Project – Highscore musiikkia saunassa

01:58 DJ Daemon speaks: According to the Kodi wiki: “Hively Tracker is a tracker program based upon the AHX format created in the mid ’90s by Dexter and Pink of Abyss. The format was relatively popular, and many songs were created and used in scene productions and games. AHX was designed to create a very SID-like sound on the Amiga.” So, meant for chiptune sounds, then. Let’s talk AHX, but first, some music. 51s

02:43 Larph – All fuses blown

08:02 DJ Daemon speaks: So Hively tracker is an improved AHX format. This asks the obvious question: what is AHX? According to their website: “AHX is a protracker-like music editor that was designed especially to create C64-like synthetic tunes. There is no support for sampled instruments as chip tunes are made to be as small in size as possible.” It’s a rather odd format, and we only have a few of these on the station. Five are added today, by the way as you will hear. 51s

08:43 Alex Man – Ocean

12:44 DJ Daemon wants to up the tempo a bit with the next song. 25s

13:04 Ctriz – Gmz

16:53 DJ Daemon notes that we have to play the formats we talk about. So here are two AHX-tunes. 24s

17:09 Jazzcat of Ghostown – Jaded lights

19:54 DJ Daemon: if you like what you’re listening to, go to ericade.radio for more. 11s

19:59 Jazzcat – New ghost in town

23:04 DJ Daemon gives you some more AHX-tunes. 20s

23:18 Jerry of Desire – Smooth Talker

26:54 DJ Daemon mentions the just ended demo parties Assembly, Evoke and Atwoods summer open air. They will hopefully be covered on an upcoming episode. 32s

27:20 Josss – Sunny soul

30:39 DJ Daemon talks about “Demo scene report” from PSEnough and recommds people watching it. 35s

31:08 M of Useless – Sunday

33:43 DJ Daemon speaks explains that he is in northern Sweden right now. 37s

34:13 Varthall of Up Rough – Szabo Tours 1.1

37:26 DJ Daemon talks about this being episode 100. 39s

37:58 Manwe of SandS – Waiting for Julia

43:07 DJ Daemon: let’s go on with another Hively tracker tune. 22s

43:23 Trackerartist – Galactic emeralds

46:00 DJ Daemon talks about the retro wave on Youtube (again). 35s

46:28 Yelm of Zymosis – Fake

48:33 DJ Daemon:Yelm gets another chance. 20s

48:47 Yelm of Zymosis – Huulis2

50:54 DJ Daemon asks you to send suggestions for people to interview. 38s

51:26 Vhiiula – Destin: La Lune

54:09 DJ Daemon thanks you for listening and leading you into that good night is… 29s

54:32 ASIKWUSpulse – The Door Game

56:50 ericade.radio – With Swedish host and Retro-geek-quite-ordinaire Daemon behind the mike

56:59 DJ Daemon: “Go to ericade.radio”. 13s

57:07 Maran project – Piano in flames

Links:

About #AHX (“Abyss Highest Experience):

http://www.abyss-online.de/static/www.amigascne.org/abyss/ahx/

Kodi on #HVL:

https://kodi.

Episode 100! From December 2020 until today, it's been quite a ride. But no need to get all misty eyed about it. DJ Daemon instead spends this hour exploring two tracker music oddities: the AHX and HVL formats.So expect more chiptunes today, as both those formats were born to excel in that way.

Edison Party 2022 has left the building in Eggebygård in Stockholm, Sweden after three days of the sceners battling it out with trackers, compilers and drawing programs. We got the tracked music toplist and four of the best streamed tunes from the party.

DJ Daemon delivers commentary and all the music for your listening pleasure!

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

00:07 DJ Daemon: Edison demo party ended last week and we got stuff to play for you!

DJ Daemon here, coming out of the jungle with 14 tracks freshly caught in Stockholm, Sweden. Among the participants is one person I never expected to hear a new tune from. A true legend. 24s

00:25 Proper disco – Good Enough

03:39 DJ Daemon presents the show. 12s

03:45 ericade.radio – Flashback, track from the past – let the toplist begin

03:51 DJ Daemon: Let’s get it rolling! The first tune of this list gets place 15 and 70 points. DuckLight has a method he is proud of. It’s called “30sec Without listening”. That’s how he made the song, what it’s called and how it sounds. 22s

04:10 Ducklight – 30sec without listening

04:36 DJ Daemon: Here is some truth in advertisement!. Place 14 is a tune called “Unimpressive 2channel Piece of Crap” and it’s by M0onLight. 86 points. 28s

04:48 M0onLight – Unimpressive 2channel Piece of Crap

06:11 DJ Daemon: Third Fasttracker tune in the list. This is place 13 and “Sad song” by Trumpet-trespass. It gently weeps for not making the top 10 part of the list. 98 points. 20s

06:24 Trumpetrespas – Sad Song

08:38 DJ Daemon: You want simple and effective old style Nintendo-ish music? I know I do. And “Welcome 2 the Bungle” by Vilcans of Five Finger Punch delivers! 133 points. 24s

08:55 Vilcans of Five Finger Punch – Welcome to 2 bungle

11:39 DJ Daemon: Emily R Davey tells a cute story that sets the record straight on Atari users. Hyperunknown of Noice mixes bed room storytelling with soft techno. Amuzing tune that hits place 11 at 145 points. 24s

11:57 Hyperunknown of Noice – Goatnight Story

15:12 ericade.radio – Tenth place

15:15 DJ Daemon: If you heard the promotions for Edison demoparty on this station, you have heard Jor-El’s voice. Now time to hear his music. The tune is called “Growing up” and gets 152 points. 41s

15:34 Jor-el – Edison 2022

17:39 ericade.radio – Ninth place

17:41 DJ Daemon: We all need to remember how the tunes used to sound in the mid 90s. Wasp of Pacific and Powerline provides a great example. Brand new, but sounding the part. It’s Pegasi 51. 22s

17:58 Wasp of PACiF!C and Powerline – Pegasi 51 (1996)

20:02 ericade.radio – Eighth place

20:04 DJ Daemon: Bach would not have approved of what has been done to his tunes. But I do! Amiga 4-channels. It’s techno meets classic and hilarity ensues! Amiga junglism of Up rough gets 156 point of “Bach to basics”. 42s

20:24 Amiga Junglism of Up Rough – Bach to basics

24:49 ericade.radio – Seventh place

24:51 DJ Daemon: 90s reigns supreme in the next tune. Vocals, techno and samplings. 156 points to Krdn of Defiance and “Get down, behave”. 19s

25:02 Krdn – Get down, behave

27:50 ericade.radio – Fifth place

27:52 DJ Daemon: nother voice heard on this station. It’s one of the orgas, fsFreak with “Concrete skeletons”. 164 points to a tune with nice choirs and soft techno. It’s a shared place 5, no error there. 20s

28:08 Fsfreak – Concrete Skeletons

30:57 ericade.radio – Fifth place

30:59 DJ Daemon: “Jungle attack” from Qlint of FCK sounds like ...

Edison Party 2022 has left the building in Eggebygård in Stockholm, Sweden after three days of the sceners battling it out with trackers, compilers and drawing programs. We got the tracked music toplist and four of the best streamed tunes from the party.DJ Daemon delivers commentary and all the music for your listening pleasure!

In the middle of the hot summer of 2022, two sysops met over the Internet and started talking retrocomputing, the Amiga, the demo scene and the horrors of overheating modems and why you valued what you downloaded more back in the day. In this episode, DJ Daemon and Hravnkel also selects their favorite Amigatunes from the 90s and talk about why they like them so much.

Hravnkel is an old ascii artist whose first BBS lasted two hours. But he started a new, modern one called “This old cabin” in 2017.

DJ Daemon used to be part of the demo group Eternal in 1994-97 as a sysop.

Both are fans of Commodore, the Amiga and the C64.

00:00 Program starts

00:06 DJ Daemon starts the broadcast

00:30 Hravnkel gives you a Gotland weather report.

01:00 DJ Daemon: Why did you start this old cabin in 2017?

02:03 DJ Daemon: You were not a BBS sysop back in the 90s then? (The story about the burnt modem)

03:47 Hravnkel: We had acceex modems. They were crap that overheated.

04:45 Hravnkel: They’re were the “Roll Royce” of modems (Powerbit)

06:21 DJ Daemon: you could never get 56k anyway.

06:42 Hravnkel talks about the typical BBS-user in the 90s.

10:52 Hvrankel speaks about the “nice fantasy tune”.

11:42 Horrace Wimp: Hymn to aurora (Amiga 4 channel tracker tune)

16:04 DJ Daemon and Hravnkel talks about the trading/3l1t3 (elite) boards.

17:41 “Everyone hated telia … and Microsoft”. Hravnkel admits to have created fake credit card to reach CompuServe telnet.

Correction: DJ Daemon means “Statuatory limits” when he says “Prescription time”.

19:40 – “We calculated speed in characters per second”. – “When you downloaded a picture, you looked at it” (I took a lot of time to download anything back in the day)

21:06 “I didn’t like the elite dewds. Arses, the lot of them”. (Is DJ Daemon rude?)

22:36 “0days then, versus 0days today”. (Different meanings)

23:32 “What about all this illegal stuff on the boards, that media talked about all the time”. (Has anyone seen any of it? We certainly haven’t. Except the anarchist handbook)

24:50 DJ Daemon loves to here the next tune.

25:03 Mantronix and Tip – Overload.

32:16 “Brilliant tune”

32:25 Hvranel remember the Amiga versus the Atari wars. “We hated the Atari”.

32:56 “It was obligatory to hate the Atari… they hated us back”. (And now we love all home computers, including the Atari)

34:14 “The last warriors of the Amiga”. “That’s was crazy, wasn’t it??”

35:02 “The BBS:es were the pinnacle of all Amiga hope”.

36:02 “Got my first PC in 1996. That’s when the BBS:es stopped being popular”.

36:28 We remember Eric W. Schwarz and his “Survivor art”.

37:45 “The demo scene was connected to the boards – how ?”

41:48 Hvrankel presents the next tune, from a legendary A1200 demo called Tint.

42:35 Azazel – Fractured (Amiga 4 channel tracker tune)

46:51 Hravnkel tells the story of the tune. “It made it to the local dance floors in northern Sweden”.

47:35 “The scene was very harsh and had a bullying attitude”.

49:18 “Do you know about the Maj Wechselman affair here in Sweden?”

50:40 “DMZ – Datormagazin – the bible for us lamers”.

52:09 “The BBS scene remerged in 2015”.

54:54 Nikom the premier Swedish kom-board. “At first I hated it”.

56:03 DJ Daemon notes that he liked to listen to the next tune in Protracker 2.3b.

56:20 Nuke of Anarchy – Velo Matrix

In the middle of the hot summer of 2022, two sysops met over the Internet and started talking retrocomputing, the Amiga, the demo scene and the horrors of overheating modems and why you valued what you downloaded more back in the day. In this episode, DJ Daemon and Hravnkel also selects their favorite Amigatunes from the 90s and talk about why they like them so much.Hravnkel is an old ascii artist whose first BBS lasted two hours. But he started a new, modern one called "This old cabin" in 2017.DJ Daemon used to be part of the demo group Eternal in 1994-97 as a sysop.Both are fans of Commodore, the Amiga and the C64.

The middle of July until early August is what I call the “fly-over” territories of the summer. You just pass through them while enjoying your life. I go back to work tomorrow but hope for some more vacation in a few weeks.

So relax a few more days, when the weather is great and there are few things going on.

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

00:06 DJ Daemon introduces the show a presents a brand new tune, composed about a week ago by Josss. 21s

00:20 Josss – Churrasco

03:15 DJ Daemon remembers he has to work next week, but hope for a slow start. 25s

03:34 Darkman007 – Sad Song

06:42 DJ Daemon gives you the first medley. 27s

07:04 Ninja – Neon lights in rain

08:24 Kabcorp – Chat Tout Sec =J

09:23 Michal Wilczynski – A strange encounter

12:06 DJ Daemon talks about an upcoming episode where he will talk with another old sysop. 41s

12:43 Drax – Burning bridges

15:39 DJ Daemon from Danish to Swedish. 14s

15:50 Joule and Malmen – Tease or please

18:48 DJ Daemon the music makes me dream about my Amiga days. 13s

18:57 James of Nuance – Chemical-Emotion

22:31 DJ Daemon: samplerd tunes = ransom notes in music form. 24s

22:51 Nighthawk – Playing with death

27:46 DJ Daemon compares the next song with “Peaceful journey”. 27s

28:08 Nighthawk and Norfair – Rainbow Runner

31:25 DJ Daemon mentions Edison demo party. 32s

31:53 Lluvia – Himalaya

34:17 DJ Daemon talks about DiHalt summer party 2022 and that Edison is on location. 43s

34:55 Necros – Mysticism

38:50 DJ Daemon plays the second medley – The Ninja medley! 25s

39:12 Ninja – Saddam

41:19 Ninja – Listopad

43:37 Ninja – Oldschool mam we krwi

46:15 DJ Daemon mentions “Chipwave, chiptune, retro electroc and synthwave”… But it’s all tracked music to me. 32s

46:42 Radix – A shogun named Paul

51:53 DJ Daemon talks about Assembly 2022 and thanks you for listening. 32s

52:20 Purple motion – Asm 94-invitation

55:41 DJ Daemon speaks … Last up, music from two old games from the past. 24s

56:00 Dr. Awesome – Spin Jam – In-Game 2

59:53 Dr. Awesome – Siege of Avalon – Track 3 (A Lifetime of Moments)

Attributions

(Impulsetracker) By Jeffrey Lim – users.on.net/~jtlim/ImpulseTracker/, BSD, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47678198

(Old plane) Image by blende12 from Pixabay

The middle of July until early August is what I call the "fly-over" territories of the summer. You just pass through them while enjoying your life. I go back to work tomorrow but hope for some more vacation in a few weeks.So relax a few more days, when the weather is great and there are few things going on.

Talk about a scheduling conflict! Gubbdata in Sweden and Arok in Hungary both ran on the 1st to 3rd of July 2022. DJ Daemon solved it by waiting for the songs to arrive, so now we have 17 competing tracks from both demo parties.It's gonna be a great hour of six Amiga tunes, eight remixes and three C64 pure SIDs.