Flashback, tracks from the past – ERICADE.RADIO

The ERICADE Radio Network is now officially a true tracker music broadcaster and not limited to just Amiga modules. With this change, it's time to look back at what tracker music is and delve into its rich history. From Karsten Obarski and the Ultimate Soundtracker on the Amiga and to today's Fast Tracker multi channel magic – it's been quite a ride. Like Emmet Brown in back to the future, we ask ourselves “My god, has it been this long?”. Yes! Yes it has.… and we've got a really nice set of songs from Swedish artist Slaze as well, so that's the latter half of the show. It's also up on the station now. Both some of his old stuff and a number of much newer tunes. Enjoy!

The future of the station? Is it so bright we have to wear shades. Maybe not, but there are a number of interesting things going on:The door is open for ALL kind of tracker music, ever if it's strictly not said Amiga. Impulsetracker modules with 64 channels will not run on the Amiga, but it's still a tracker tune. We're venerating the Amiga in spirit. Still, the large majority of all tunes on this station is still Amiga.More features to the web site coming.More jingles in the near future.A little know clip on our YouTube-channel got a life of its own.More interviews!

So, it was not meant to be… Most that compete, fail. That's the rule of most games. Jack Tramiel named his company “Commodore” (a navy rank) as he throught the computer business was a war. Today we commemorate the failures, because they weren't often not bad, just unsuccessful. From the ilfated Amiga 600 to the Texas Instruments TI 99/4A. DJ Daemon remembers the days of infighting between hordes of different computers that were by and large incompatible with each other.

“Retro feeling” is what I call everything that feels retro without being just that and the “Retro spirit” is keeping the retrostuff alive as in new Amiga demos and tracker mods. Covered:Thimbleweed parkDust – an Elysian tailStranger thingsWhy are most retrogeeks guys?Swedish radio show HassanHow the 2020s is to the 1990s the same way as the 1950s was to the 1920s

Revision 2021 online is over and people from all over Europe and elsewhere assembled to show the world that the retro computer scene still matters! On Saturday third of April 2021, 15 entries fought in the tracker competition. And in this podcast, we will play them all! Be advised, there will be some swearing, so please don't listen if it offends you.DJ Daemon walks you through the contenders and gives you the winners!

The whole Saturday was one big fight against compressors, limiters, scripts, virtual machines and all the other “tech gods” out there. But the station sounds better than ever and I'm too tired to create a big show. Instead you get some banter and the newest music to enter the station. A really super mix of the smoothest and the coolest beats the Amiga mod scene can muster.The Revision Demo scene episode tracker competition episode is postponed until next week, but it will be done!

Viruses are no fun, but we have had to contend with them since the 70s. The Amiga had its share of them like SCA, Bytebandit, Saddam Hussein, Lamer exterminator and some others. Some just wrote cute messages, whereas others deliberately or by mistake destroyed your data. Let DJ Daemon take you back to the 80s and guide you through the less popular parts of Amiga history.

00:00  Amiga Flashback – show intro

00:13 DJ Daemon – introduces the episode

00:35 Firage – Buns and Guns

02:40 DJ Daemon – speaks about Amiga computer viruses

03:32 Radix – * CoLoUrS *

08:45 DJ Daemon – speaks about the SCA virus

10:06 Reed Richards – Devoted

14:56 DJ Daemon – speaks about the ByteBandit virus

15:58 CRD – Chordian remix

17:51 DJ Daemon – speaks about the Saddam virus

19:20 Finwave – Just Do It (F/U)

23:47 DJ Daemon – concludes by saying it’s not an Amiga-thing

25:10 FearofDark – SurfingOnASineWave

30:01 DJ Daemon – discusses viruses destroying hardware

31:42 Elwood – After Hours

35:07 DJ Daemon speaks 29

35:36 Maikel Yeremy – The Wayfarers Arrive

38:34 DJ Daemon speaks 34

39:07 JaseChong – Kingdom Skies

43:41 DJ Daemon speaks 37

44:17 Maikel Yeremy – Teller 1

46:30 DJ Daemon speaks 39

47:09 Nescio – Dreaming of you

49:36 DJ Daemon speaks 33

50:08 AceMan – Vintage Groove

53:57 DJ Daemon speaks 28

54:24 Velvet of Amb and Tdr – Sternzeit

56:41 DJ Daemon speaks 11

Links

https://www.vht-dk.dk/amiga/desc/txt/saddam_boot.htm

Viruses are no fun, but we have had to contend with them since the 70s. The Amiga had its share of them like SCA, Bytebandit, Saddam Hussein, Lamer exterminator and some others. Some just wrote cute messages, whereas others deliberately or by mistake destroyed your data. Let DJ Daemon take you back to the 80s and guide you through the less popular parts of Amiga history.

Two months before Amiga Flashback came to be, this show went on the air and due to technical problems it was lost for the ages. Like a digital Indiana Jones, DJ Daemon went into the dangerous ruins of the old server and dug the treasures out of the maw of oblivion. The show that went on the air 2020-10-12 at 6 pm is now back, restored and the broken elements carefully repaired. This is the inaugural show that celebrated Dr Awesome's arrival on the station as an artist.

Last year, we had a weekly station update. Not anymore. So here is a nice summarization of all that's going on. And… Some soft and nice Amiga music for your pleasure. We even try three artists' take on the song “Jamboree”, all pretty different… And very cool…