Flashback, tracks from the past – ERICADE.RADIO

Forndata 2021 Summer is over and brought a lot of joy to the demoworld from Visby in Sweden. It was off course online only, but presented demo-, C64- and tracked music compos as you'd expect from a true demo party. The start was on time and there were few problems until the OctaMed-tune from heck just would play and was disqualified. The line up was good and the tunes were all up to the standard you'd expect from them. The interviews were quite unique with Swedish minister of digitilization, Anders Ygeman and legendary Commodore techs Bil Herd and Dave Haynie. We also got a really nice live interview with Chris Huelsbeck, the tracked music god of sorts.

On wednesday, a major part of the station failed mid-broadcast. The station was back an hour later, but left the recording desk inoperable. DJ Daemon has fixed up enough of it to allow the podcast to be made. But no time for cool stories. It's about the music and some upcoming features.

Tonight, we go to the big Jazz club in the sky ... Or maybe it's the cloud where all the great Amiga, Atari and PC jazz-tracks can be found. DJ Daemon remembers one of Swedish radio's best: Leif "Smokerings" Andersson and pays tribute to him. Are our parents that played records on vinyl and listened to the radio in the 50s any different than us, who played games and listened to computer music in the 80s?

Ok, we covered the pirates. Now let's talk DRM or Digital Rights Management. It's the manual lookups, the code wheels, the servers that cannot validate your game and the bloody dongles...

So Tina Turner may not need another hero, but we need more villains! A proper villain has to have a reason to be who he or she is or we don't want them. So meet the villains of this episode:Andrew "I'm right - damn the consequences" Ryan - Bioshock 1.Donkey "But Mario is the evil one" Kong - The Donkey Kong series.Sarah "I will bathe in your blood, but I'm the victim here" Kerrigan - Starcraft 1 and 2.Robo "He's just like Hitler" Hitler - Castle Wolfestein.Wallace "Long, intellectual rant on why all is perfect and you suck" Breen - Halflife 1 and 2.Shodan "I'm god, now you curl up and die" - System Shock 1 and 2.(Ghost/Zombie/Whatever) Pirate "The incel of piracy" LeChuck - The Monkey Island series.

I had no idea what I was doing when I started this episode. I called it "Happy summer days" and started sourcing the tunes. When I recorded the intro it was meant to be about a specific summer, but I quickly expanded the scope and ended up thinking about a personal story with something about retro computers or retro technology from my favourite summers in the 90s and 00s. I left the intro as it was, as I think it's kinda fun how the story takes a life of its own and veers off on a different course during the show. I talk Amigas, Commodore, PC, MAC, Internet, BBSes and off course some tidbits from my life.

GubbData 2021 is still running as I write this, but the demo compo was yesterday and gave six artists a change to really show their Amiga tracker talents. In this show I play them all and also comment on GubbData and the compo.UPDATE: This final results are now in:First place - Slaze - Temporal AnomalySecond place - Vintrospective - An answering moodThird place - Caramel of Proxima - JargonautSlaze - Stringfellow Hawke, played in this episode, won 2nd place in the Airwolf compo.

It took some time, but now, the podcast episode that covers Edison Party 2021. It ran from the 9th until the 11th of July 2021 and DJ Daemon was there in person, broadcasting live. This episode will give you the whole tracked music compo from the last position to the winner, with a short note about each artist. As you come to expect by now.

The fly-over states in the USA are those that the planes flying above will just pass, on their way to bigger cities in more populated areas. And the latter part of July and the first weeks of August are like that. Vacation, less stuff going on... But that does not mean less to do! In this show DJ Daemon talks about the demo parties we have had this year, the upcoming ones, wonders if Workbench is becoming too bloaty for his taste, reports great news for everyone loving a certain game this show has stolen its title from and celebrates the Amiga 1000...

Fallout, how I love thee! Let me count the ways 1,2,Tactics,3,New Vegas,4... Let's just end there...DJ Daemon was inspired by Fallout to create his own voice acted radio station, but wisely choose to create this one instead. It's sad if you voice act some old man screaming in the radio from a bunker, and no one will get that it isn't you for real. I mean, that's a ruined reputation right there. Really dodged a bullet, there...Corrections: Fallout 1 was released in 1997, not 1995 as stated in the intro.