From France comes the Shadow party 2021 and between 2021-05-21 and 2021-05-23 the virtual doors opened for a brand new demo party. We jumped at the chance to broadcast the tunes the same day they competed, so we did not know who had won. But we know now:

The winners:

1) TDTTDHAD – The Demo Track That Didn’t Have A Demo – CS-Jay / Desire ^ Persuasive Music & Slide / Polka Brothers

2) Evolution / Ma2e and Aceman

3) Brightstar – Mystra / Brainstorm & Nectarine (Amiga 4-channels)

So all the entries will be played and the artists presented to you. DJ Daemon also reviews the demo party and is generally very happy about it.

The broadcast:

00:00 Amiga Flashback – show intro

00:10 DJ Daemon speaks: Try as it might, Covid19 has been unable to break the demo scene. Coming to a screen near you, the online Shadow party 2021 sends its signal from France in Europe. Today, on the 22nd of May 2021, seven contestants battled it out in the old school tracker competition. As we don’t have the results yet, I will play them i my own order. First out is e!ghtbm from Poland and “All my circuits”. Yes, it’s a Futurama reference.

00:09 Speech duration: 00:42

00:47 e!ghtbm – All my circuits

04:14 DJ Daemon speaks: Time to take a deep breath, because the next entry is called TDTTDHAD – The Demo Track That Didn’t Have A Demo – CS-Jay of Desire and Persuasive Music and Slide of Polka Brothers. CS-Jay used to be known as Jazz and has a long career making music for the game industry and also got a record deal in 2000. Slide is a Danish artist with many tunes to his name.

04:14 Speech duration: 00:40

04:48 CS-Jay of Desire and Persuasive Music and Slide of Polka Brothers – The Demo Track That Didn’t Have A Demo (tdttdhad)

08:41 DJ Daemon speaks: Making music on an Amstrad CPC? Sure, it’s not a problem for Glafouk who really knows how to push three tracks to the max. The tune is called SontagBeat and Glafouk hails from France.

08:41 Speech duration: 00:23

08:56 Glafouk – SontagBeat

12:13 DJ Daemon speaks: Picture yourself on a boat in a river and for some reason Einstein sits by your side. That’s what Bird may have been thinking when he created Row with Einstein. Bird comes from Corsica which is part of France.

12:13 Speech duration: 00:22

12:30 Bird of Syntex – Row with Einstein

14:50 DJ Daemon speaks: Polish artist AceMan often stands for the weird of the tracker scene with crazy but great tunes like “Wonka Honk” and “Vintage groove”. Now he’s back together with mAZE and the tune Evolution. mAZE is Norwegian by the way.

14:51 Speech duration: 00:25

15:10 Ma2e and Aceman – Evolution

19:15 DJ Daemon speaks: Amiga four channels deliver the goods again, as provided by Mystra from Brainstorm and Nectarine. Mystras real name is Kjell Pedersen and he’s from Norway. Should we even plug the competition? Sure, why not, the group Nectarine was started by the retro tracker music radio station with the same name.

19:15 Speech duration: 00:13

19:22 Speech duration: 00:33

19:49 Mystra of Brainstorm and Nectarine – Brightstar

22:30 DJ Daemon speaks: Last in the line up of the Shadow party contestants is Synesthesia with “Voices in the wall”. Is it about madness or does it refer to noisy neighbours. It’s unknown at this time, but we know Synestesia comes from Great Britain.

22:31 Speech duration: 00:27

22:52 Synesthesia – Voices in the walls

26:09 DJ Daemon speaks: And that’s all of the seven contestants. We will get to know who wins tommorrow and I will update the podcast notes with the proper results later. So what about the Shadow party – really happy I went or maybe I should say connected ...