Flashback, tracks from the past – ERICADE.RADIO

Presenting Mr Electric Demon – an old hand on tracked music. In this session, we will give you an hour of some of his best work. Both sampled and chip-tunes along with his own story and demo scene career as told by DJ Daemon.

Today, it's a another walk down memory lane of some stupid mistakes done by me and others when working with old computers. What about shorting out a poor C64, backing up all non-important stuff instead of the needed files, running DCopy 4.1 and nuking the disk and making the power lead fit.. upside down.

One year on the AIR! Celebration is in order. DJ Daemon tells you the story of a station that loves the demo scene and the tracked tunes.

From Finland, to… Argentina. It was time for Flashparty 2021 coming to your sofa from Buenes Airos. In this episode you get 14 streamed contestants and 4 tracked tunes in two compos than ran on that demo party.

Note: I’ve cut some of the songs down, due to not fitting the station and podcast format.

The song text for Bom, bom, bom:

https://ericade.radio/notes/LosPatMoritas.txt

Corrections:

I incorrectly call “Eren” “Fren” in the beginning of the show. Need new glasses.

The show:

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

00:07 DJ Daemon speaks: If you like demo parties, it’s a great time to be into retro computing, music and artistery. This time it’s Latin America checking in! Flashparty 2021 was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was held on the 3rd to the 5th of September 2021. So today, it’s a top list with 14 streamed tunes and then 4 old school. Place 14 is Fren and Fired friends with 66 points.

00:42 Eren – 14 – Fired Friends

02:25 DJ Daemon speaks: That was soft and smooth, and we move onto position 13 with Ray N. and Minus getting 83 points. This one join retro sounds and experimental vibes with a brutal bone cracking bass.

02:43 Ray N. – 13 – Minus

03:43 DJ Daemon speaks: Place 12 and Kamson or Ind gives us “Dreams we lost”. It is a tune getting lost here in the backside of the chart with 85 points. But it’s dreamy, airy and a soft.

03:58 Kamson – 12 – Dreams We Lost

07:12 DJ Daemon speaks: Left behind at place 11, “Qué hacé loco” by Fer is not really up to the task of impressing the voters. And maybe, it’s because there’s almost no song there. After my unfortunate encounter with the tire pumping Fins last week, I could need a break.

07:34 Fer (Alto Speech) – 11 – Qué hacé Loco

07:53 DJ Daemon speaks: I cut that short, as I want you to continue to listen. There’s nothing to that tune anyway. Place 10 has Javier Bilatz and Pista 98955. It gets 91 point and me wondering if I need to cut that one down as well.

08:14 Javier Bilatz – 10 – Pista 98995

08:18 DJ Daemon speaks: Ok, I put a kibosh on that one. Next up, let’s try music instead. Place 9 has another more ethereal tune called Electron by LIV. 103 points awarded.

08:48 LIV – 09 – Electron

11:11 DJ Daemon speaks: Let’s try some vocals that I cannot understand and that gives me some weird 90s vibes. Interesting. The name is De Comienzos and it’s by Checo. Place 8 and 105 points.

11:30 Checo – 08 – De Comienzos

14:37 DJ Daemon speaks: This one, Transistor Dance by Rytone belongs on the dance floor. 106 points and seventh place, get ready to cut a rug!

14:57 Rytone – 07 – Transistor Dance

17:48 DJ Daemon speaks: Did I just use 50s slang? Yes. I’m old (not that old). Now let’s spin Djames on the old vinyl player. Yes, I’m old (really that old) and the tune is called “It’s not synthwave”.

18:12 DJames – 06 – It’s Not A Synthwave

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20:34 DJ Daemon speaks: Time to slow down. Sure, why not. Uctumi grabs place 5 and 115 points with “Lost in the bitstorm”.

20:52 Uctumi – 05 – Lost in the bitstorm (party version)

24:04 DJ Daemon speaks: We have almost reached the medal position. But we must pass fourth place and listen to Reivens Tesseract. 120 points.

24:27 Reiven – 04 – Tesseract

29:28 DJ Daemon speaks: Just reached bronze position and it’s Cransky telling us not to @ him. The song is called just “Don’t @ me”. Not sure what that is,

From Finland, to… Argentina. It was time for Flashparty 2021 coming to your sofa from Buenes Airos. In this episode you get 14 streamed contestants and 4 tracked tunes in two compos than ran on that demo party.Note: I've cut some of the songs down, due to not fitting the station and podcast format.

Jumalauta 2021 is over and brought 15 contestants to the tracked music demo scene. All parties have their style and Jumalauta had a rather informal feel to the music. Some is seriously crafted with nice chords and heavy beats, whereas others are just joking around. The winner really took some liberties with the concept of jazz and one entry featured a tire pump. So, it’s not like any demo party. But it is jumalauta!

00:00 Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past

00:06 DJ Daemon speaks: God help me, the Finnish are coming! Can we hope to meet in person again this fall? Finnish demo party Jumalauta 21 sure thought so. It ran between the 27th and 29th of September 2021 and allowed people to join in person and over the Internet. So, it’s a toplist episode again – Yay! Just kick back, relax, and it will start in a moment.

00:35 M.O.T. of Jml – Yahamaa

01:41 DJ Daemon speaks: Let’s get it started then. 15 contestants fought it out, and we’ll give them all to you, beginning with the last place. BE warned I’m guarranted to mispronounce all names and titles. Listener beware! Galactic Nightmares captures position 15 with 32 points and the tune is called Spectral 2nd. It has a nice 90s techno feeling to it, making me feel vibes from my first days as a DJ back then.

02:21 Galactic Nightmares – Spectral 2nd

06:46 DJ Daemon speaks: Rolling towards position 14 with 32 points and the tune Fourth dimension. Rafał Lipinski gives us a spacey journey with an ethereal feeling to it.

06:59 LIV Rafał Lipinski l, Retrowibracje.pl – Fourth dimention

11:01 DJ Daemon speaks: 13 may be a unlucky number for Puoluehallitus, who can’t go no further. But it’s a nice and heavy feeling with some funky thrown in for good measure. The song is called Räpujuhlat and gets 36 points.

11:19 Puoluehallitu – Räpujuhlat

18:00 DJ Daemon speaks: On place 12, we get a weird start of a song, feeling they just let the recorder run and forgot the actually create a song. You do get a weird pumping sound, as if they were trying to inflate a tire. How this got 36 points is totally beyond me. And the song never starts but should be known as Patjalanda and its by Kaunis Espanjalaien Tyttoe. Please stay until its done – it gets better later in the program. I’m sorry for this.

18:33 Kaunis Espanjalaien Tyttoe – Patjalandia

18:38 DJ Daemon speaks: Can we get something that’s not experimental music? Yes, Tom of Riihimäki has a nice and soft blippety-bloppety tune called Lasimuseo. It gets 37 points; 11th place and our hopes up.

18:55 Tom of Riihimäki – Lasimuseo

22:44 DJ Daemon speaks: The true top list starts on place 10 with the tune Tuurilla mukaan by Defilus. It gets 37 points. Aaaaand, there’s nothing wrong with your radio, it’s meant to sound like a classic “oumpapa”-song cut to ribbons by a mad and possible drunk sound engineer. I’m innocent here!

23:08 Defilus – Tuurilla mukaan

25:52 DJ Daemon speaks: Number 9, number 9, number 9…. That is place 9 goes to Karpostaseuraava with Bagatelli Aulangon Aamunkoitto and it gets 41 points. No, I have no idea what’s going on here, but I like it!

26:10 Karpostaseuraava – Bagatelli Aulangon AAmunkoitto

29:07 DJ Daemon speaks: Place 8 and another Tom of Finland, this time Tom of Lahti. The tune is soft and bit lacking in instrumentation, it’s called Liipolan Betoni and racks up 42 points.

29:21 Tom of Lahti – Liipolan Betoni

32:49 DJ Daemon speaks: It’s getting closer to the winner, but we have some miles left to go. At place 7, Ylvaes gives us Workshop. And it sounds like one! You can hear the chords sounding like a saw and the drums go at it like heavy machinery. Whatever is built here is really something. Sadly,

Jumalauta 2021 is over and brought 15 contestants to the tracked music demo scene. All parties have their style and Jumalauta had a rather informal feel to the music. Some is seriously crafted with nice chords and heavy beats, whereas others are just joking around. The winner really took some liberties with the concept of jazz and one entry featured a tire pump. So, it's not like any demo party. But it is jumalauta!

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