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[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 81. Oh no! More top lists.

Coreus compiled a list of suggested tunes and this just had to become a sequel to the episode called “a toplist of our own”. So we did and DJ Daemon talks about the tunes and plays them.Links:Cyber Jeffs “Popbuster”, available on Bandcamp:https://cyborgjeff.bandcamp.com/album/popbusterSceneSat volume 4 with Chronberg:https://music.scenesat.com/album/the-sound-of-scenesat-volume-4I paid $5 per album. They’re awesome, I recommed you do to!

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past
00:06 DJ Daemon speaks: In November 2021, I gave you a toplist of tunes as requested by our listeners. And the most prolific contributor was Coreus from Norway. And now, he’s back with an even larger batch of requests. Songs never played here before and all of them suggested by him. Let’s go!
00:27 Phyio – Tintin On The Moon (Phyio Remix)
04:18 DJ Daemon speaks: 48s
05:01 LHS – Reloaded Installer 1
06:23 LHS – Reloaded Installer 2
08:05 LHS – RLD Installer #10
10:07 Maktone – Class11 time flies
10:48 DJ Daemon speaks: 46s
11:30 Firefox and Tip of phenomena – Musiklinjen (Hyperbased)
17:04 DJ Daemon speaks: 48s
17:49 Arachno of Coolphat – Down the rabbithole
19:48 DJ Daemon speaks: 48s
20:30 Cyborg Jeff – eMail 2 Elise (Valentine’s skull edit)
24:58 DJ Daemon speaks: 41s
25:33 Jason Page (NoOtherMedicine) – First
32:03 DJ Daemon speaks: 47s
32:46 Chronberg – Fuchs Cluster and the Hunt for Dr Ivel (SoS4 Edit)
36:22 DJ Daemon speaks: 59s
37:20 Jester – Solaris
40:41 Evills from Germany hacks the show by requesting a tune during it. Well played!
44:36 DJ Daemon speaks: 34s
45:05 4-mat – Chapter 2
46:46 DJ Daemon speaks: 43s
47:23 Anonymous – White Silhouette
48:44 Eagle – Mr Phanfan
50:25 Sacio – Relax08
51:45 Arachno of Sidbillies – Sasja’s teddy
54:03 DJ Daemon speaks: and commends Evills for his hack. 75s
54:49 Alpha C – Bright star
57:52 DJ Daemon speaks: 46s
58:34 Pip Malt and Jakim – Capsaicin Blues
01:01:19 DJ Daemon speaks: 28s
01:01:42 Maktone – Wheel of fortune
01:04:15 ericade.radio – With all the best music composed on Protracker, Noisetracker, Impulse tracker and Fast tracker

Production notes:
Colophon:
The title alludes to the game "Oh no! More Lemmings!". My intro speech ends with "Let's go", also from Lemmings.

The hack was simply me having not stopped the request system from running during live shows... This made me laugh. And I left it in when I created the podcast.

Tags: Top lists, Host: DJ Daemon, 2022

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 80. An evening with an electric DJ Daemon

Tired due to a heavy work weekend and in a need for some silly fun! So, that’s what’s up for dinner on this show. We only eat the dessert today. Pointless, comical and really enjoyable songs like pirate shanties, parodies and sample heaven (hell?).DJ Daemon is on fire and gives you the tracked music scenes most silly, but really cool stuff like bananas that are tasty, cartoon sampling and piratey goodness worthy of Monkey island.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio - Time for another episode of Flashback - Tracks from the past
00:06 DJ Daemon speaks: So much to do, that this episode airs on a Sunday, not a Saturday. Right now, it's a few hours until a webbapplication created by me and a friend goes into testing, so I'm quite tired right now. And I need to some silly fun, and I guess you do too. Today, it's the silly tunes with the funny samples and the weird humour that counts. If you don't get this, I gotta ask you one question: Why so serious?
00:36 Dizzy of Cncd - Suomalainen kaupunki
03:23 DJ Daemon speaks: 60s
04:24 Balrog of Creation - How to make a cake!
05:05 Bartman - Pierdolec
05:32 Roni - Joy!
06:44 Calle Skoog - Cutie pie
08:22 DJ Daemon speaks: 40s
08:56 Grant Campbell - Cartoon Land
13:28 DJ Daemon speaks: 71s
14:27 Cynmusic - 3 Founders
16:38 DJ Daemon speaks: 36s
17:10 La mettrie - Very serious problems
20:05 DJ Daemon speaks: 42s
20:43 Volvo Liljedahl of Keso - Banan 'e gott!
22:58 DJ Daemon speaks: 31s
23:24 Cynmusic - RPG-Pirate
26:07 DJ Daemon speaks: 29s
26:31 Gammis - Nude
27:28 Slammy - The joys of burnt CD's
29:18 Maf - Jardin illusion
30:42 DJ Daemon speaks about skippy CDs. 42s
31:21 Electropizza - Artificial Sun
36:38 DJ Daemon speaks: 17s
36:50 Marty Pickering - Mouth music II
39:51 DJ Daemon speaks: 23s
40:09 Trackerartist - Popeye
43:59 DJ Daemon speaks: 21s
44:14 Trackerartist - Mors lille Ole 2
48:32 DJ Daemon speaks: 40s
49:07 Trackerartist - Brosseur Koach Mix
51:42 DJ Daemon speaks: 29s
52:06 Trackerartist - Kids / Vampiria
54:35 ericade.radio - Celebrating over 30 years of tracked music
54:40 HyoChan - Medusa's Fatal Error
57:59 DJ Daemon speaks: 31
58:26 Skaven - Catch that goblin!!Picture (man with banana) by Ryan McGuire from Pixabay

Production notes:
Colophon:
It's take on the "an electrical evening with mr Demon", an episode celebrating the artist "Mr Electric Demon".

This one almost ended in disaster. I added a tune with some mild stupid speeches from a guy called Ove. The tune was made to poke fun at an old man, obviously out of his mind. But before airing it, I listened more carefully and to my shock heard it had some really bad racist stuff in it. I removed it and recorded some of my speeeches.

Tags: Host: DJ Daemon, 2022

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 79. Dance to the disco inferno

Burn, baby, burn – it’s the disco inferno. DJ Daemon puts you on the dance floor! Bell bottoms and mustaches are in! The 70s and early 80s are back in a way. Let’s play the disco music (muzak?) and laugh at 70s porn (Oh, yeah!) and crazy hinjinks on the dance floor. The tracked music community delivers as always.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio - Time for another episode of Flashback - Tracks from the past
00:06 DJ Daemo: We're still in a holding pattern, waiting for the next great demo party, Revision. But, lets forget about that for an hour and just cut loose on the dance floor. It's disco night and we're in funky mood. The tracked music artists take us back to the time of disco, bell bottom jeans and the age of funk. Oh, yeeeeahhhhhh!
00:30 Reed Richards - Funkacider
04:04 DJ Daemon speaks: 64s
04:55 Alastor of Cybertech - Your Smiling Face
09:59 DJ Daemon speaks: 68s
10:57 M00G - 70's Porn
13:25 DJ Daemon speaks about the disco medley coming right up! 28s
13:53 Doh - La disco de jclaude
15:22 George - Funky Town
17:00 Trackerartist - Dave goes dancing
18:51 Yomaru Kasuga - Mister Q&A
20:14 DJ Daemon speaks: 61s
21:03 Dick Tracer - Kungens man (the kings man)
23:09 DJ Daemon speaks: 14s
23:19 Creonix - The killers return
27:11 DJ Daemon speaks: 26s
27:33 Led Zargus - Disco Reindeer
31:09 DJ Daemon speaks: 48s
31:53 Lepra and Marwin - Rebirth of the lamer
34:46 DJ Daemon speaks: 33s
35:16 Per Almered - 03b
37:02 DJ Daemon speaks: 41s
37:39 Reed Richards - 118 in 64 and 194
40:52 DJ Daemon speaks: 50s
41:37 Reed Richards - Kings of evoke
44:32 DJ Daemon speaks: 31s
44:59 Scavy - Dancing samba
48:34 DJ Daemon speaks: 41s
49:13 Robric - A-C-C-A-D-E-M-I-C
53:23 DJ Daemon speaks: 39s
53:59 Robric - Scarafaggio
58:03 DJ Daemon speaks: 28s
58:28 ericade.radio - With all the best music composed on Protracker, Noisetracker, Impulse tracker and Fast tracker
58:38 Robric - T.A.S.K.A.M

Production notes:
Colophon:
"Disco Inferno" is a song by American disco band the Trammps.

Just another tune while we're waiting for the Revision demo party.

Tags: Music genres, Host: DJ Daemon, Disco, 2022

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 78. Track and roll

Tonight we're rocking it! An hour with music that fills the tracks with heavy gitar sounds and a pumping rhythm. Set your volume control to 11 and get ready to practise your world-famous air guitarr in front of the mirror.DJ Daemon spins the diskettes.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio - Time for another episode of Flashback - Tracks from the past
00:06 DJ Daemon: tonight, we're rocking it! One hour with just R-O-C-K. They tracked it, we broadcast it, you rock it! To those about to rock - we salute you!
00:18 BadliZ - Produced to AE~ II
04:55 DJ Daemon speaks. 53s
05:42 Cybelius - Fix it later
07:17 Cybelius of Orange - A week ago
08:38 Cybelius of Orange - Bok goes east
10:01 DJ Daemon speaks. 40s
10:24 Cybelius of Sonique - A million dollars
12:03 DJ Daemon speaks. 35s
12:34 Gammis of Lemonride - Firetruck
14:59 DJ Daemon speaks. 38s
15:32 Cyborg Jeff - Cpt Blood in the Alien ship
18:27 DJ Daemon speaks. 132s
19:43 DavidN - Be More Than Just a Number
25:08 DJ Daemon speaks. 76s
25:55 DavidN - Welcome to the Machine
35:23 DJ Daemon speaks. 46s
36:05 Elijah - Haydee
41:11 DJ Daemon speaks. 42s
41:50 Em022000 - Aroma of spite
45:18 DJ Daemon speaks. 66s
46:13 Gargoyle - Echo
51:10 DJ Daemon speaks. 37s
51:41 Ivanhoe - Harley D. Warrior
56:03 Meanall - High blood-pressure
57:33 DJ Daemon speaks. 9s
57:39 Quasian - Damask rose
01:03:25 ericade.radio - With Swedish host and Retro-geek-quite-ordinaire Daemon behind the mike

Production notes:
Colophone:
No special meaning behind the title. It's "Rock and roll" and "Tracker music" in one word.

Those episodes are the result of people complaining that I don't talk so much about the music itself. And I have noted that using the ModArchive comments is an easy way to give the listeners an expert commentary, as many of the commenters are tracker music artists themselves.

Tags: Music genres, Host: DJ Daemon, Rock and roll, 2022

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 77. Party till the cows come home

Last week it was classic music. And today DJ Daemon lets his hair down. What little he has left, that is. It’s time for a party at the barn. It will go on until the cows come home, if anyone is still standing, that is. Today, we play bluegrass and country and western, as envisioned by the scene’s tracked artists.Note: today marks the 27th anniversary of DJ Daemon entering the airwaves on a regular basis. This is worth celebrating as well.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio - Time for Flashback, tracks from the past - with your host DJ Daemon
00:06 DJ Daemon welcomes you to the show.
00:32 Dreamer – Party sux
02:28 DJ Daemon speaks.
03:13 Brainbug – Shinin’ ol’ boots
04:37 DJ Daemon speaks.
05:42 Choice of RambriX – Kursiv
08:57 DJ Daemon speaks.
09:20 Damien Blond – Eternal Battle
11:43 DJ Daemon speaks.
12:34 DJ ZJack – Country
14:21 DJ Daemon speaks.
15:17 Cam Smith – Enchanted Tales of a Banjo
17:57 DJ Daemon speaks.
18:36 HyoChan – Leif-Ragnars Dansorkester
21:41 DJ Daemon speaks.
22:49 Jerry – Western Comfort
25:16 DJ Daemon speaks.
25:49 Marty of Vanity – Tanya
28:51 DJ Daemon speaks.
29:50 Mefis OF Funk – gREY
32:41 DJ Daemon speaks.
33:07 Psirius – Bad people
37:30 DJ Daemon speaks.
38:06 Radix – Tilbury fair
40:05 DJ Daemon speaks.
40:28 Robric – A-R-E-A-N-O-V-A
46:59 DJ Daemon speaks.
47:14 Robric – Il mio cuore
53:55 DJ Daemon speaks.
54:18 Robric – La nostra terra
57:33 DJ Daemon speaks.
57:55 Robric – Piccola gita

Production notes:
Colophon:
The phrase "until the cows come home" means "a very long time". But it relates to the cows being away during the night, coming home in the morning. This meant, the barn was empty, except for the horses. So a long and very boozy party was off course possible and so... Yeah... You know!


Tags: Music genres, Host: DJ Daemon, 2022

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 76. Concert for music trackers in D major

We did a jazz-episode last summer, so inspired from that, we now look into the big collection of classic tunes and classic sounding tunes made on all kinds of trackers on PCs and Amigas. It’s soft piano concerts and big symphonies. DJ Daemon talks a bit about the tunes and reads comments from users on Modarchive.So sit down, sip some red wine and feel a little more sophisticated in front of your radio.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past
00:06 DJ Daemon speaks. 24s
00:27 Trackerartist – Sugar Plum Fairy
02:08 DJ Daemon speaks. 44s
02:47 Elijah – Angel Tears
08:02 DJ Daemon speaks. 44s
08:42 Maniac of Razor1911 – Morgenstemning
10:53 DJ Daemon speaks. 30s
11:19 Fred – Bawal
15:37 DJ Daemon speaks. 39s
16:13 Gopher – Journeyman’s Quest
23:09 DJ Daemon speaks. 54s
23:58 Gopher – The Hordes Amassed
28:38 DJ Daemon speaks. 26s
28:59 Jakim – Facing The Madness
32:02 DJ Daemon speaks. 25s
32:21 Madbrain – Storybook
34:23 DJ Daemon speaks. 47s
35:05 Magnum force – Dark castle part 1
40:47 DJ Daemon speaks. 17s
41:00 Mrvegas – Priam and Achilles
42:50 DJ Daemon speaks. 43s
43:29 NaBo of Fatal Rage and UsE – On The Night
45:57 DJ Daemon speaks. 42s
46:34 Trackerartist – Toccata
52:09 DJ Daemon speaks. 35s
52:39 Mad God – “Opus 58” Final

Production notes:
People have asked me to talk more about the songs, so this is it. I present it a bit like the presenters at Swedish Broadcasting Program 2 here in Sweden.

Colophon:
Many compositions can have names like "Concert for piano in D-minor" or something like that. Just joking around with that.


Tags: Music genres, Host: DJ Daemon, Classic music, 2022

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 75. Cheesy listening

Yesterday "Cheesy Listening" hit the retro world like a bombshell. A brand new music disk with Virgill rocking it with lots of new chip tunes. Today DJ Daemon gives you the best of a that music disk AND the previous projekt of Virgill, Chipo Django. Which is the better music collection for the Commodore Amiga. One rocking mouse goes up against a raven looking back at him.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past
00:07 Every week this show plays all the new songs getting into the station. But this week, most are totally fresh! The music disk Cheesy listening was released yesterday. Today it will go up against the four-month-old music disk Chipo Django. And you get ar eview in the end of the show. First out is Cheesy listening with Lords of the chords,
00:33 Cheesy listening – Lords of the chords
03:19 Ok, first off: what’s a music disk? I like to think of it as a demo that plays a playlist of music. Spotify on a diskette if I may say so. Both music disks we play in this hour can be loaded in your Amiga and will then show some cool graphics and then let you play the tracker music from a menu. As I said earlier, all music today comes from the music disks Cheesy listening and Chipo Django. And from Cheesy listening, we take another track called: Game over, man. It’s the first of the tunes on the list and shows just how versatile Virgill is as an artist.
04:03 Cheesy listening – Game over man
06:25 Cheesy listening is a true gem of a music disk that runs on any Amiga and all music here was recorded from my Amiga 1200 yesterday. This ensure it will be playing without any emulation problem. … Well, onto the other music disk we play today, Chipo Django. It has artist Virgill as an artist and organizer. And yes, it’s same Virgill that’s behind Cheesy Listening. But Chipo Django has a wider range of other artists for its collection of tunes. We’re going for Slash and the tune Paws and claws from Chipo Django.
07:08 Slash – Paws and claws
10:12 So Cheesy listening was released yesterday, on the 11th of February 2022 while Chipo Django was release on the 9th of October. It won 2nd prize in the Deadline 2021 wild competition. It may seem a bit strange we didn’t cover it, but we only cover the tracked music competition, not the wild ones.
10:42 Cheesy listening – Korolev
13:39 Chipo Django boots from the floppy or Gotek and then starts a very typical demo interface with the Raubenauge logo and then a music selector that has color scheme that is made up of deeply blue shades. It has several great selections of music, and I really enjoy Triace’s “Paula at the disco”. You should know, but Paula is the legendary 8bit chip that makes all sounds and music possible on the Amiga. A magic device in the age before we had sound cards in all our computers.
14:21 Triace – Paula at the disco
17:42 Cheesy music chooses a more funny and far more polished intro where the graphics in the intro follows the music. The theme is a mouse playing an Amiga 500 as a guitar and the menu of selectable music is well-created and allows you to see remaining time of the track playing and has the classic four channel VU-meters you expect on the Amiga. If you leave the computer alone, it even has a mouse-themed screensaver and that makes it even more awesome. In a true “Travelling Wilburys”-manner, the artists have invented fake names for themselves. And that’s funny because their real names are handles as well. Virgill calls himself “Cheddar”, Critikill is known as “Raclette”, and Nosferatu goes by the name “Gruyere”. And those are names of cheese by the way.
18:42 Cheesy listening – Dreamcatcher
21:47 The music on Chipo Django has a greater variety, whereas all the tunes on Cheesy listening have a theme or sorts. They sound similar. Also, all music is by Virgill. The artists on Chipo Django are Curt cool, Dalezy, Maze, Okeanos, Trace, Slash, Vedder and off course Virgill. Let’s get Curt Cool a chance and it’s from Chipo Django. The tune is called Quickshot dramaking.
22:24 Curt Cool – Quickshot dramaking
25:30 So, which is the better music disk? In my opinion, they’re both great, but Chipo Django has a variety that Cheesy listening lacks. But when it comes to presentation, Cheesy is really well-produced in a funny and compelling way, so it wins there. I give Chipo Django five out of five and Cheesy listening four out of five. Onwards with Gimme Lemonade from Cheesy listening
26:01 Cheesy listening – Gimme Lemonade
28:58 You’re listening to Flashback, tracks from the past with your host DJ Daemon. That’s me. The best tune on Chipo Django, according to your truly, has to be Juice and “Switching lanes”. Everything in those two music disks are chip tunes and they deliver all the best chip tunes can be.
29:23 Juice – Switching Lanes
33:01 What’s a chip tune anyway, you might ask? It’s easy: it’s a tune with samples trying to sound like it was made on a computer that couldn’t play them. It was once almost a derogatary term for tracked music trying to sound like it was meant to play on an Atari, C64 or NES. But it turned out to become a very successful style of tracked music in its own right.
33:34 Cheesy listening – Dorfdisko
35:09 DJ Daemon speaks.
35:48 Virgill – Amiga Funeral
39:47 DJ Daemon speaks.
40:14 Cheesy listening – 4kasm
41:38 DJ Daemon speaks.
42:29 Okeanos – Red Drop
45:53 DJ Daemon talks about old computer magazines, Slaze, Svenska Commodoreklubben and music disks.
46:45 Cheesy listening – Crispy cheese
49:27 DJ Daemon speaks about the demo scene and "Ski or death".
50:27 Okeanos – Suncopated groove
53:23 DJ Daemon presents Hvrankel and the Hack and Slash competition on This Old Cabin BBS.
54:24 Cheesy listening – Galvanize
57:46 DJ Daemon thanks you for listening.
58:20 ericade.radio – Commodore was limited, but the Amiga is eternal
58:28 Virgill – Bratgrumbeere

Production notes:
I saw the released disk on Facebook, and downloaded it. I loved it and also pulled down Rabenauge's Chipo Django. This episode was meant to be. No more crappy valentines days episodes.

Colophon:
It's just the name of the music disk.


Tags: Cheesy listening, Host: DJ Daemon, 2022

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 74. Just another turn

"Just one more turn" has been the bane of students, people with work in the morning and anyone looking for some sleep. DJ Daemon tells you the story of Sid Meiers Civilization 1 and the stories of a brutal and violent Gandhi, how the game seemed hard to learn for the first seconds and then was impossible to stop playing and exactly where the famous slogan comes from.Correction: the game was released in 1991, not 1990.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio - Time for another episode of Flashback - Tracks from the past
00:06 DJ Daemon: Nearly didn't have time to create this show as the Babylonians keep stealing my wonders and Gandhi tries to nuke me all the time. Heck, the Americans are better at research and now Napoleon and the French are eyeing my capital. Right, just one more turn, and I will get back to telling you the story of Civilization 1 - the most influential game ever made in my opinion.
00:33 Blasa - Tropical Infestation
05:40 DJ Daemon: Released in 1990, Sid Meier's legendary nation builder may be one of the most famous game series ever made. And weirdly enough, it came from Microprose, a company mostly making flight simulators. The genre is called 4X, as in "Explore - Expand - Exploit - Exterminate". You start as one of up to seven other Civilization vying for the same humble goals: gobbling everything up, ruling the world and the finally launching a ship to the stars. You know, basic stuff. But we all start out small: in 4000 BCE, you're just a small tribe of men and women looking for a place to call home. And then you go from there.
06:40 Gammis - Beneath the sun
12:15 DJ Daemon: "I have no idea how any of this works". That was my first words as I loaded my pirate copy of Civilization I for the Amiga. Many hours later, my chief concern was how to not be forced by my father to bed. I just had to play one more turn of this magnificent game! Yeah, about the term. The game creator himself, Sid Meier, got this from the first feedback the development team got from the players: they couldn't stop playing. "Just one more turn" means, more like "It's 3 am and I need to get to work in the morning. Oh no! But I need to fix this in the game first."
13:05 Epoch - Secret of the stone
15:26 DJ Daemon: The first game came out, as I said, in 1990. And to this day, the most recent game in the series is "Civilization 6". But let’s talk about the first game and more specifically, the Amiga version. It came on four diskettes and had all the bells and whistles of the PC-game. But the intro was horrible slow and had to be watched every time you started the game. It went on for several dreary minutes. It showed how earth was formed and, in the end, there were us. This is a bit weird, as it's well known that if earth's whole existence was compressed to just one day, humans would have come along the last two seconds.
16:16 Gammis - Golden garden
19:17 DJ Daemon: The game is played with a few important tasks to consider: · Building your empire. · Defending or attacking. · Researching science. · Directing your cities. Among the other Civilizations you must deal with are the English, the French, the Americans, Chinese, the Babylonians, and the Indians. You can trade with them, fight and even exterminate them and you must beat them in scientific research. You see, the goal is to either crush all the other civilizations or to launch an expedition to Alpha Centaury before anyone else does. They have different levels of agendas, modus operandi, and aggression levels. When we speak of aggression levels and Gandhi, I have a funny story for you.
20:16 Qumran - Camel Ride
25:07 DJ Daemon: Gandhi is the kindest and most peaceful opponent, if I even should call him that, the game has to offer. Always choosing the nice way out, except when he goes totally ballistic and nukes everyone else for no apparent reason. This is the game's most famous bug. All civilizations have an aggression counter that goes from 0 to 255, where 255 is a total war monger maniac and 0 is pacifist to the core. Gandhi's India is pegged at 1 and is sugar and spice and everything nice. At a about the same time nukes come available most civilizations switch to democracy. This subtracts 2 from the aggression level of that civilization. India is at 1 and you subtract 2. Does not compute! The game then mistakenly interprets that as 255 and so Gandhi basically becomes the lovechild between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un.
26:21 Psirius - On the cliff
31:37 DJ Daemon: I got to admit something here: the Gandhi story is true, but vastly overblown. You may be forgiven for never seeing Gandhi at all as India will only be available if you select 6 other opponents. Also, democracies cannot start wars, meaning Gandhi will be ok to deal with if you didn't start a war with him before Indian became a democracy. Oh, and India’s passive stance on war often gets them wiped out before the nuclear age. But still, it's a good story!
32:15 K. Jose - Sit Back
34:18 DJ Daemon: Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley, who is a board game designer played around with the idea that would later become Civilization. The inspiration were games as "Empire", "Railroad Tycoon" and "Sim City". They wondered what would be bigger as a concept than Sid’s earlier game "Railroad Tycoon". The answer was Civilization, and it was an instant success coming first to the PC for MS Dos. When the Amiga-version came out in 1992, the Swedish computer Magazine "Datormagazin" reviewed it and gave it among the highest scores that they ever awarded: 99% and reviewer Johan Buren took off his hat for the game. It was called "The best game ever" by them.
35:16 LittleElk - Vivid Imagination
40:35 DJ Daemon: Graphics, sound, and music were good but not spectacular. Everything was up to the magic game play. You tried to manage the economy, setting up goals for your research, building the wonders of the world, keeping tabs on the opponents, and beefing up your military. All at the same time. Later games become more policy driven and put in planning as a central part of the game. One of the most interesting parts of the game is how it always require you to pay attention. But if you start winning so much that you are superior to the other, it can become a bit tedious. Thankfully the difficulty of the game can be adjuster.
41:25 Ivory - Horizon
46:53 DJ Daemon: Just to sum it up: the game series has become a staple of strategy gaming and later games did massive improvements and fixed many of Civilization 1s shortcoming. My father loves the council you have in Civilization II, which was when Full Motion Video was all the rage. The ministers shout, bicker with each other, complains and makes cheesy Elvis Presley references. The later games added religions, culture pressure, spy craft, better diplomacy, and several different new victory conditions. My favorite later date Civilization is the fifth installment. I don't really like Civilization VI, for reasons I'm not entirely clear of.
47:51 Eagle - A Moment Together
50:16 DJ Daemon thanks you for listening.
50:48 Bottlehead of 7ynivf - Japan 2140ad
54:48 DJ Daemon leads you into the good night.
55:22 5pr1n6 - China Earrape
58:07 ericade.radio - stuck in our mother's basement since the 80s
58:14 Greg Szydlowski and Proboscis - 1st Noel (Tribal Love Mix)

Production notes:
I noted that I hadn't created anything about gaming for quite a while. And this had to be rectified.

Colophon:
"Just on more turn" is the official (and tradmarked) slogan for Sid Meier's Civilization.

Tags: Host: DJ Daemon, Civilization 1, 2022, Retro gaming

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 73. Treasure hunting the comments

All tracked tunes has instrument list, used to name the samples. These are often used to instead write comments and greeting by the artist and some are quite creative and sometimes insane. DJ Daemon reads some of the instrument lists and comments on ModArchive and discusses them briefly. This puts an extra dimension to the tracked tunes. Maybe not the most legendary comments ever made, but some a quite interesting and amusing.Here is the file talked about in the episode:https://ericade.radio/files/true_devotion_ii club_trance_rearrangement.mod

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past
00:06 DJ Daemon speaks – 19s
00:23 Alpa of Insane – True devotion II
04:25 DJ Daemon speaks – 59s
05:20 Malmen of Brainstorm – Devotion shuttle
08:57 DJ Daemon speaks – 25s
09:18 DrJacKo – General chaos
14:09 DJ Daemon speaks – 53
14:57 Esau – Randolph Foxelk
17:44 DJ Daemon speaks – 42s
18:16 Filippetto of Zenith – Stormy and clever
20:17 DJ Daemon speaks – 32s
20:45 FireLight – Virtuous Reason
24:02 DJ Daemon speaks – 42s
24:40 Galgox – Mechanical Energy
27:31 DJ Daemon speaks – 23s
27:50 Galgox – Fairy Crusaders ]I[
29:49 DJ Daemon speaks – 38s
30:21 Jcole – A twinkle
33:35 DJ Daemon speaks – 53s
34:24 Ko0x – Hobbes adventure
38:05 DJ Daemon speaks – 38s
38:38 Ipi – Deinterlacing
41:17 DJ Daemon speaks – 45s
41:58 Mystra of Brainstorm – Chop Suey
44:27 DJ Daemon speaks – 26s
44:49 K. Jose – Enemy Forces v2
47:25 DJ Daemon speaks – 60s
48:20 Psirius – RadioMorphosis
52:15 DJ Daemon speaks – 24s
52:35 Mellow D – Pilot
57:21 DJ Daemon speaks – 38s
57:55 ericade.radio – With all the best music composed on Protracker, Noisetracker, Impulse tracker and Fast tracker
58:07 Malmen – Tomorrow land

Production notes:
Colophon:
No special thoughts about the titles.

Tags: Host: DJ Daemon, 2022

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 72. 8!ghtBM on every chart

For this weeks' episode, we look into the creative works of elusive artist E!ghtBM, which we don't know so much about, really. But his music speaks volumes of his talent. DJ Daemon delves into the most popular among his compositions and comments on them as well.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio - Time for another episode of Flashback - Tracks from the past
00:06 DJ Daemon: I've covered many demo parties during the last year, and one thing that always instills me with hope is when I see the name E!ghtBM in the list of competitors. Today, we give you a whole hour of his music, most of the songs unheard on this station. Let's roll. E!ghtBM - Hey santa! squeeze your fat white ass down that chimney tonight
00:28 E!ghtBM - Hey santa! squeeze your fat white ass down that chimney tonight
02:24 DJ Daemon: Christmas is over, but this had to be the first song any way, as it's a cool tune and done as a four track Amiga-tune. Released on the 19th december and its got 3rd place in the Forndata 2020 competition. We will talk about the artist in a few minutes, but we must go on with the next tune. Andromeda survivors, a soft tune that picks up tempo. It may only have reached place 9 in the Outline 2021 competition, but still show case his skills and acumen. I totally missed this one, but it has now been rectified. Nice use of Fasttracker.
03:15 E!ghtBM - Andromeda survivors
08:01 DJ Daemon: So, what do we know about the artist? He is Polish and his real surname or givenname is most likely Marcin. He is credited with 35 releases by DemoZoo and seems to have become active in the scene during 2019. Next up is Blackcurrant magic. It hit place 7 on the 28th of September in the Flash party 2019 tracked music competition. The title sounds like the name of an eastern European brand of really horrible alcohol, but it's instead a very jumpy tune with a serious chip-tune quality to it.
08:51 E!ghtBM - Blackcurrant magic
11:34 DJ Daemon: Last song was done with FastTracker, and so is the next one. It's called Beyond the sunshine and got to fifth place in the DEMOSPLASH 2019 freestyle audio competition. It was released on the 9th of November that year. A driven tune with a slow start that builds up speed. Kinda what we expect from many of his tunes.
11:59 E!ghtBM - Beyond the sunshine
15:54 DJ Daemon: We need to get back to the more jumpy cuteness of a really good Amiga four channel tracker mod, and this is done with Tove Jansson's groove. Here E!ghtBM references Finnish/Swedish childrens book author Tove Jansson, most famous for her stories about the Moomin-trolls. It got to second place in the Gubbdata 2019 competition and was released on the 29th of June that year.
16:26 E!ghtBM - Tove Jansson's groove
18:33 DJ Daemon: Let's slow the tempo down quite a bit, and it's easily done with E!ghtBM's "Sunday room full of stars". It was released on the 22nd of February in the Chaos constructions 2020 winter invitation music competition and landed on 2nd place with it's Fasttracker goodness.
18:57 E!ghtBM - Sunday room full of stars
21:46 DJ Daemon: Time to dance in front of your radio or computer? Sure, why not? Polarstern brutalism give you heavy beats and soft chord and is not really what you may expect from him. But is executed well and makes good use of Fasttracker.
22:06 E!ghtBM - Polarstern Brutalism
26:01 DJ Daemon: Ok, now we must go for a little bit more funky feeling with The university of the 90s (8bits party version) hat has E!ghtBM exploring a cooler style of tracker music. 2nd place in the Outline 2019 oldschool music competiton. It shows what the not so humble Amiga mod-format can do and was released on the 1st of June.
26:32 E!ghtBM - The university of the 90s (8bits party version)
28:06 DJ Daemon: Can we get enough of the cool, funky style? Nooooo! Not happening. Here is Stay cool, Daddy-O. Fasttracker off course and it got 2nd place in the Assembly 2020 winter tracked music competition. Released on the 22nd of February.
28:27 E!ghtBM - Stay cool, Daddy-O
30:55 DJ Daemon: Take to the skies with Lilienthal's Aparatum, which probably is a reference Otto Lilienthal, an early inventor in the history of aviation. It's a tune sounding very E!ghtBM with his signature style of composition. It's the murder weapon that killed its way to the 8th place in the Syntax 2020 tracked music competition as it was released on the 28th of November that year. Upbeat, a bit heavy and with a perky shimmer to it. Dance to it, I dare you!
31:33 E!ghtBM - Lilienthals aparatum
34:10 DJ Daemon: Same, same, but different. Next up is System Override, where E!ghtBM keeps the tempo going in a track released on the 9th of June in the Flashback 2019 tracked competition. Now you should know that his tool of choice is Fasttracker.
34:32 E!ghtBM - System override
36:53 DJ Daemon: This one is a bit on the weird side as it has vocals and is a classic Amiga 4 channels module. Summertime with Kimberly is well spent time and a pretty heavy construct that crashed into place 7 in the Flash party 2019 music competition on the 28th of September. No surprise here: it starts slowly and then builds up tempo. I love hearing this being done for everyone favourite girl friend, the Amiga.
37:27 E!ghtBM - Summer with Kimberly
41:16 DJ Daemon: The last of our new tunes for this station brutally enters the stage: Transformata 137. It's a techno style tune with a very crushing style and driven tempo. It may be the road less travelled for E!ghtBM, but he moves down that road with style and precision. It was a well deserved first place in the Xenium tracked msx competiton and was released on the 31st of August. Warning for explicit language in this Fasttracker tune.
41:53 E!ghtBM - Transformata 137
45:02 DJ Daemon: For the rest of the hour: E!ghtBMs tunes already on this station. So, what do I think of the artist? Here presented in bullet points: E!ghtBM, according to me:• Deserves to be at the top of the chart in the compos.• In the places he gets to, receives a bit of an undeserved under-appreciation. • Is consistently great and varies his style a bit. • A Fasttracker-expert which makes Amiga modules sound great again. • Seems to be in it for the compos and that's all right with me. • Likes punny titles and pop-culture references in his titles.
45:41 E!ghtbm - Ephidrena memories
49:02 DJ Daemon: This tune and the next one is from his participation in demo parties during 2021. I covered both in the Flashback-series of podcasts previously.
49:17 e!ghtbm - All my circuits
52:44 DJ Daemon presents the last tunes.
53:30 e!ghtbm - Retrosuperfuture-87
57:14 DJ Daemon says farewell.
57:41 ericade.radio - With the greatest tracked tunes from the demo scene
57:47 E!ghtbm - Rainbow Crash 80s

Production notes:
Just an idea that popped into my head as I was thinking about what to do. E!ghtBM is a staple at each and every demoparty. I had to make a special show about him.

Colophon:
The title has no pun or referential meaning. I struggled to find one, and gave up. Try yourself coming up with a pun on "E!ghtBM". :)

Tags: Artist presentations, Host: DJ Daemon, 8%21ghtBM, 2022

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 71. It's a long way to DiHalt

Get your boots! We’re marching on Nizhny Novgorod in Russia for this years DiHalt. The music from the east dominates this episode totally and it’s by artists you generally don’t hear on this podcast. You also get to enjoy the best from the ZX Spectrum scene in a separate top list. An all over great collection of the best tracker music right now!

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past
00:07 DJ Daemon: It’s 2022, a new year, and Russia invades! But this is an attack of tracked music, cool demos and old school graphics. DJ Daemon here donning my helmet and broadcasting one hour of demo music from the DiHalt 2022 demo party that ran last weekend Nizhny Novgorod, on the 7-9 of January.
00:35 EA – No Time For Music
01:02 DJ Daemon: No time for rest – let’s jump into the DiHalt HiEnd Tracker Music competition. And it has eight entries. On place eight, Krotan from Russia is bringing up the rear with Marten run. It’s a rather cute chip-tunish song that is all over the place.
01:24 8. Rozantsev – Marten Run
04:03 DJ Daemon: Place 7 holds the tune Shaft and it’s from litchh, an artist whose first demo entries are from 2019. Soft piano-chords accompany you through sneaky journey in dark-lit alleys with an unknown danger looming in the background.
04:23 7. litchh – SHAFT
07:38 DJ Daemon: It seems like Ukrainian artist Noob from Kiev hasn’t bothered finding a name for his creation. He pulls an old, classic trick, but calling it “untitled track”. It’s another journey over the keys of the piano, but this time it flies through brightly lit skies and lands a mere minute later at place six.
08:02 6. Noob – Untitled track
09:07 DJ Daemon: Russia is back in the game with “Moonwalker’s 10 minutes trash” by Scalesmann. But there are two things wrong here, it’s not 10 minutes and definitely not trash. Pretty classic style of 2000s tracked music with nice chords mixed up with some funkiness. A bit repetitive sometimes and it gets place 5.
09:35 5. Unregistered – Moonwalker’s 10 minutes trash
11:21 DJ Daemon: Noob’s real name is Jaroslav Diachenko and his first tunes in modarchive are from around 2019. According to demo scene, this is his first participation in the demo scene. The tune is called Midnight travel and sounds like music from a mid-90s computer game. Really love the airy strings. Place 4.
11:50 4. Noob – Midnight travel
13:09 DJ Daemon: e!ghtbm and Magnetic-Fox from Poland teams together and this leads them right into bronze position with cool, mellow, but jumpy tune called winter melonide. I hope that isn’t a typo. Place 3 as you understand.
13:29 3. E!ghtbm and Magnetic-Fox – Winter melonide
16:53 DJ Daemon: Silver position and here we find Fatalsnipe from Belarus. The tune, Salvanage has a pretty techno style which would have made a big success on the dance floors during the 90s.
17:10 2. Fatalsnipe – Salvanage
20:12 DJ Daemon: Winner! And it’s Slash delivers Mood’s satellite from the country that launched the first of them into space. Spoiler alert, it was Russia. Congratulations.
20:29 1. Podolskiy Denis aka Slash_AtD – Mood’s satellitE
23:09 ericade.radio – With the greatest tracked tunes from the demo scene
23:15 DJ Daemon: We’re leaving the sampled tracks as the top list is over.. Next destination: ZX Spectrum AY/YM music. It’s the more blippety-blop variety. AY and YM refers to the two of the most famous chips powering old Spectrums. Onto the top list. 9 contestant tunes, 1 winner and here is the lowest position, number 9. Gifts of the magi by Casecoma. The song brings me good feelings as retro stuff always does.
23:58 9. Роман Русских (Casecoma) – The Gifts of the Magi
25:18 DJ Daemon: Place 8 and here we find Hazard of Phantasy from who is sort of a compatriot for me. He’s Latvian and so are my relatives on the paternal side. The tune is called Kerb. It would be perfect in a platform game from the 80s.
25:37 8. Hazard of Phantasy – Kerb
29:38 DJ Daemon: Scalesmann and his Marching cats are back again with the tune “Nearly there”. A sweet song that crisscrosses through nice bass loops. It’s great, but short. Place 7 and it’s a cover of Jochen Himpels tune that Jogeir Liljedahls covered in the demo “Full moon endpart”. More on that story in a few minutes.
30:06 7. Scalesmann of March[ing]_cats – Nearly there [lil recombination]
31:32 DJ Daemon: Place 6 and it’s a rather eclectic, but nice tune by Groove and it’s called Polytechnology univ. Guess it’s university.
31:44 6. Groove – JS – TNL. Polytechnology Univ.
33:28 DJ Daemon: The zombies are coming! You have barricaded yourself and your friends in a small shack in the middle of nowhere. There is a knock on the door. As you walk towards it, artist Lampovyi Ninja screams “Don’t open that freaking door”. The tune places itself at place 5 and wakes up some lawyers from Nintendo.
33:55 5. Lampovyi Ninja – Do not open that foking door
35:33 DJ Daemon: Another artist I have problems finding info about. It’s jump error of Team Moritz and the tune is called Alien Slaphead. Poor aliens. That’s what we do to them… On the other side, watch any Hollywood movie, and as you can see it’s hardly unprovoked. Place 4.
35:58 4. Jumperror ^ Team Moritz – Alien Slaphead
38:03 DJ Daemon: Ilya Abrosimov, or EA, is from Russia and has a “2 channels experience” he would like to share with us. It’s a bronze medal winner in the eyes of the judges and pushes up the tempo.
38:23 3. EA – In 2 channels experience
40:10 DJ Daemon: I don’t know about Tipperary, but EA gets the silver medal with “Long way to DiHalt”. It’s like the last tune, also by EA, so you can probably fuse them together.
40:24 2. EA – Long way to DiHalt
43:26 DJ Daemon: One podcast episode and already one winner. Ok. That’s something. KUVO, from, no surprise: Russia with the tune “Not yet star”. Kuvo sends his greetings to DiHalt: “Happy New Year and new DiHalt to all demoscene lovers! Kindness and warmth!”.
43:52 1. KUVO of CSI – Not yet sтaр (6ch)
46:15 ericade.radio – We love the demo scene
46:20 DJ Daemon: And we’re through. I have to really step up my work here as the demo parties are coming in on my radar and next up I will try to cover “LoveByte 2022”. Now, we’re going back to the normal rail of things with a marathon of three Alex Menchi tunes.
46:44 Alex Menchi – Karamoon’s Path
51:51 DJ Daemon: In 1990, a group of Atari ST programmers and artists known as The Lost Boys released a game called “A Prehistoric Tale” on both the Atari ST and Amiga. Atari ST musician Jochen Hippel (Mad Max) ported the game to the Amiga and also created the music for it. In 1993, Virtual Dreams and Fairlight released the Amiga demo Full Moon containing a Protracker module called “Nearly There” by Jogeir Liljedahl. The tune is an almost exact copy of Jochen Hippel’s tunes. Information comes from Codetapper.com.
52:56 Alex Menchi – Savage Cat
57:40 DJ Daemon: See you next week.
58:07 Alex Menchi – speeder than light
01:01:09 Jingle – We love the demo scene

Production notes:
The first demo party episode of 2022!

Colophon:
The title is a reference to EA's tune "Long way to Dihal". And implicitly a reference to the anti-war-tune "It's a long way to Tipperary".

Tags: Dihalt, Demo scene episodes, Demo scene top lists, Host: DJ Daemon, 2022

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 70. Cautious optimism

Careful! The Covid19 is still lingering. But 2022 is here as well and we’re cautiously optimistic about it. New demoparties coming up, AmigaOS 3.2.1 is here and Hyperion helps all of us that lost our serial keys, The request feature is delayed and DJ Daemon talks about some upcoming demoparties.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past
00:06 DJ Daemon introduces the show and mentions that today is about Amiga and demo parties.
00:22 Asikwp and anton – Please insert credit
02:48 DJ Daemon lists the stories for today’s show.
03:28 Chris Jarvis of Analogue – Blue Flame
09:54 DJ Daemon notes that AmigaOs 3.2.1 has just arrived.
10:57 Galgox – Tiny Beats
12:57 DJ Daemon talks about the serial key from Hyperion and Dihalt 2022.
14:02 Bacter vs Saga musix – Makes Some Sense
18:14 DJ Daemon dedicates this tune to the Discord residents.
18:53 Fby – The last ninja palace garden concerto
22:08 DJ Daemon comments on “Commodore-träffen 2022”.
22:48 Beyond – Lowpass
26:37 DJ Daemon speaks about the demo parties in February 2022.
27:54 Kleeder – Talking about drugs
31:00 DJ Daemon speaks about the one demo party in March 2022.
31:38 Jeffrey Lim – Drifting Onwards
34:01 DJ Daemon speaks about one of the demo parties in March 2022.
34:43 Ko0x – Teddy Issues
39:04 DJ Daemon mentions the delayed request-feature.
39:31 JK – Laughing Matter
42:58 DJ Daemon asks you to the send email if you have any suggestions.
42:23 MpjV – Lucid Nightmare
45:34 DJ Daemon explains why playing SID-tunes is unlikely to happen soon.
46:15 Naif – Me, luscious superstar
48:22 DJ Daemon thanks you for listening.
48:54 Mpjv and Argarak – Ultimate Jazz Chillo
53:04 DJ Daemon leads you into the good night, with….
53:34 NaRCo – UNhappy
56:52 ericade.radio – With Swedish host and Retro-geek-quite-ordinaire Daemon behind the mike
57:02 Nihilism – Come to Light

Production notes:
This episode aired on a Sunday due to heavy workload. It was completed in three hours.

Colophon:
No special meaning to this title.

Tags: Host: DJ Daemon, 2022

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 69. A new year - 2022, second hour

So long, 2021! DJ Daemon broadcast this show live on 2021-12-31 at 9 PM CET as per usual. And this is mostly the music and some commentary on selected tunes by some of the other tracker artists on Modarchive. All read loud by an amused DJ Daemon. No need to sum up 2021, we did that a few weeks ago. Instead, enjoy the music and some words at the end by me. This is the second hour out of three.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past
00:06 DJ Daemon speaks. 23s
00:20 Area 51 DNA – The melody of happiness
04:41 DJ Daemon speaks. 38s
05:09 Arachno – Electronic Dreams
08:33 DJ Daemon speaks. 25s
08:48 Big Jim – (Dreaming of) Foreign Skys
11:36 DJ Daemon speaks. 43s
12:08 Maniacs of Noise – Firing Up!
34:51 DJ Daemon speaks. 55s
35:39 Decibelter – The Squirrel’s Nuts
39:13 DJ Daemon speaks. 38s
39:40 Arachno of sidbillies – Wings over dunwyn
41:36 DJ Daemon speaks. 41s
42:07 Cthulhu – Dream In A Cell
46:06 DJ Daemon speaks. 34s
46:28 Quasian of Chipztream – My cup of tea
49:48 DJ Daemon speaks. 60s
50:34 Blue orian – Costa rica blue
54:50 DJ Daemon speaks. 35s
55:12 Arachno and Dtrax – Summer memories 2
57:47 ericade.radio – We take requests whenever DJ Daemon is live. Just go to discord
57:58 BtMe – Islands DnBmix
01:02:33 ericade.radio – We’re now going live from a remote location
01:02:41 DJ Daemon speaks. 35s
01:03:04 Bureau 13 – Through the looking glass
01:05:36 DJ Daemon speaks. 50s
01:06:14 Crack – eNeRGy (c) 2002
01:08:55 DJ Daemon speaks. 55s
01:09:37 cTrix – Thanks Roy
01:13:00 DJ Daemon speaks. 36s
01:13:23 DreaMSectioN – A falling star
01:17:40 DJ Daemon speaks. 34s
01:18:02 Skaven252 – Revenge of the Cats
01:22:50 DJ Daemon speaks. 86s
01:24:04 Radix – Emelie
01:27:32 DJ Daemon speaks. 22s
01:27:42 Martin Iveson – JAGUAR XJ220
01:30:33 DJ Daemon speaks. 61s
01:31:22 Dtrax and Arachno – Endless dreams
01:32:26 DJ Daemon speaks. 39
01:32:55 Sleipner – Last Ninja 2 Street
01:43:43 DJ Daemon speaks. 55s
01:44:26 Electric city – Pic Saint Loup
01:48:23 DJ Daemon speaks. 28s
01:48:39 Elwood – Shooting star
01:51:54 DJ Daemon speaks. 73s
01:52:56 Esoteric – 2 Be With You
01:56:19 DJ Daemon speaks. 33s
01:56:39 HyoChan – Livet är en kebabtallrik
01:58:49 DJ Daemon speaks. 29s
01:59:09 Iasombra – Tombe Ange
02:03:52 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past
02:03:59 DJ Daemon speaks. 29s
02:04:17 Jakim of StageMagician – Rainforest
02:08:14 DJ Daemon speaks. 33s
02:08:34 Jogeir Liljedahl – Moonlit
02:13:32 DJ Daemon speaks. 61s
02:14:20 Joule – Littlewe kladdcakes
02:16:26 DJ Daemon speaks. 55s
02:17:14 Midnight in Arabia – Mystical of Purple
02:20:23 DJ Daemon speaks. 60s
02:21:12 Nebularia – It Begins After Silence
02:26:29 DJ Daemon speaks. 63s
02:27:23 Necros of FM – The Grey Note
02:31:44 DJ Daemon speaks. 65s
02:32:37 Nightbeat – Flight of the Kingfisher
02:35:34 ericade.radio – The leader in tracked music
02:35:40 Quadro of Flash Inc. – Another worlds
02:40:27 DJ Daemon speaks. 37s
02:40:53 Radix – La blue girl
02:43:56 DJ Daemon speaks. 32s
02:44:17 Radix, Xylo, Xyce – Rainbow Dash
02:47:41 DJ Daemon speaks. 46s
02:48:17 Saga Musix – Discovery
02:52:12 DJ Daemon speaks. 41s
02:52:41 Sphenx – Ballade Medievale
02:57:10 DJ Daemon speaks. 28s
02:57:26 Saga musix – Late-Night Compo
03:00:00 ericade.radio – time for a special bulletin
03:00:10 DJ Daemon’s live greeting to you all.
03:01:50 ericade.radio – We’re controlling transmission

Production notes:
This is one of those traditions, that are just neeeded. One XMAS and one New Years podcast. And I quickly decided on not doing any summaries of 2021. We had already done some of that in episode 66.


Colophon:
None. Just a straight title.

Tags: New year, Host: DJ Daemon, 2021

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 68. Four channels to the wind - first hour

Today, about 55 percent of all tunes on Ericade.radio are Amiga 4 tracker modules and the percentage keeps dropping. Since Amiga is the starting point of it all, I wanted to go back to the roots of tracker music and this station. So, here are two hours jampacked with great tunes that graced the Amiga during the early 90s that you never heard on Ericade.radio before today!

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past
00:07 DJ Daemon introduces the show and says: it’s all Amiga today!
00:24 Trackerartist – Sampleja
02:52 DJ Daemon note that he hasn’t been able to track the tune down.
03:15 Cap’n Weasel – Seadog medley
06:53 DJ Daemon does the obligatory “Arr, matey” comment.
07:10 Mr. Dice – Sorrow of Deamon
10:44 DJ Daemon explains why the “Deamon” actually is sad.
11:01 Trackerartist – Sarcoremix
17:17 DJ Daemon happily proclaims that “Best of ERICADE.radio” has now left beta is now 100% in production.
17:46 ericade.radio – Celebrating over 30 years of tracked music
17:52 Moby – Sea of love
21:28 DJ Daemon thinks we need softer tunes sometimes, but then some more up-tempo.
21:43 Perro of Frantic – Something
23:50 DJ Daemon speaks about the tune and makes too many Beatles jokes.
24:18 Trackerartist – Seeing 2
29:06 DJ Daemon explains why all new Amiga tracks are now in mono.
29:38 Kyrre Kaaby – Serenity
31:43 DJ Daemon speaks complains about the tune needing to say its name all the time.
32:13 Leinad of Avalanche – Vote4me
33:51 DJ Daemon speaks about Leinad and his trick to win the heart of the judges.
34:31 Iron cat of Zenith – Sacred temple
37:23 DJ Daemon speaks about why the next song is taking a risk.
37:50 David Whittaker – Xenon II
41:17 DJ Daemon about sampling and copyright infrigements.
42:03 Trackerartist – savage1
45:30 DJ Daemon speaks notes how the previous song is bonkers and that we infact DO want you.
45:55 Deejay Jones – We don’t want you
47:50 DJ Daemon tells you where he is a the time. (Not Stockholm!)
48:34 Jason of Crusaders – Wanna buy a helmet!
51:39 DJ Daemon clearly states that he’s clearly not in the market for a new helmet.
52:18 Blackstar and Trixal of of Cryptoburners – Nice wet and mean
59:57 Trackerartist – Showtune
01:08:49 DJ Daemon mentions the Simpsons.
01:09:23 Lukas of Focus design – Song for a pig
01:13:32 DJ Daemon explains the “Homer Simpson connection”.
01:13:55 Trackerartist – sp_pt315
01:16:14 DJ Daemon mentions our plans for the podcast in 2022.
01:16:51 Tonedeaf of Extreme – Sounds Of War
01:20:28 DJ Daemon lists what will disappear from this station in 2022.
01:21:21 Jason of Kefrens – Sound of winter
01:23:11 DJ Daemon points you to discord.io/tern.
01:23:36 Mr Real of Craze – Sceptic!
01:26:34 DJ Daemon Ericade.radio is now 100% done and works with both stations.
01:27:08 Lizardking of Silents – Whack-bonk
01:32:34 DJ Daemon wonders if tracker musicians are insane (and likes that)
01:33:14 Jason of Kefrens – Nitroglycerin
01:34.40 DJ Daemon thinks we don’t need fireworks. He has a screen saver!
01:35:15 Trackerartist – Waffle
01:37:58 DJ Daemon wonder if this is by AceMan (It most likely is not) and then talks about Omicron strain of Covid19.
01:38:53 The Weasel – Wanderlust
01:41:38 ericade.radio – With Swedish host and Retro-geek-quite-ordinaire Daemon behind the mike
01:41:47 DJ Daemon speaks about wanderlust and getting eaten by a bear.
01:42:12 Quicksilver – Vertical horizon
01:45:02 DJ Daemon goes off on a rant about the impossibility of a vertical horizon.
01:45:21 Fleshbrain – Sauron
01:50:02 DJ Daemon says goodbye of starts packing up his stuff.
01:50:39 Alpmar – Warm night and stars
01:53:32 ericade.radio – The leader in tracked music
01:53.40 Trackerartist – Shore
01:56:04 Trackerartist – Satanic
01:58:10 DJ Daemon leads you inte the good night.
01:58.26 ericade.radio – Point your browser to ericade.radio for more information
01:58:33 Jam master – While we’re waiting
01:59:58 ericade.radio – The leader in tracked music

Production notes:
Colophon:
To be "Four sheets to the wind" means to be drunk like a skunk, barely able to stand upright.

Tags: Amiga only, Just playing the music, Host: DJ Daemon, 2021

[ Conspiracy ] Blast To The Past

Aside from making intros, we sometimes do the occasional odd venture around the scene: Check out the The Diskmag Onlinification Project, a little restoration / archeology undertaking of some of our formative media from the olden days.

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 67. XMAS at ground zero (shortened version)

It's christmas at ground zero and DJ Daemon briefly pops his head up above the surface to get his beloved Glögg and Punsch before the shops close. Home in his bunker after dodging all the Omikronparticles, he gives you all the tracked christmas tunes worth playing.

Playlist:
00:00 Announcement - Time for a live show with DJ Daemon
00:09 DJ Daemon introduces the show.
00:30 ericade.radio - Time for another episode of Flashback - Tracks from the past
00:36 Trackerartist - Xmasmix
05:46 ericade.radio - Commodore was limited, but the Amiga is eternal
05:55 DJ Daemon: talks about Eternal, Forndata XMAS hangout and the eternity of Amiga.
06:20 Jogeir Liljedahl - Christmas
09:11 DJ Daemon: Jogeir is amazing.
09:31 cyborgjeff-xmas
12:19 DJ Daemon: recommends Forndata XMAS Hangout.
12:52 Bassie of Image - Gradually unfold....
19:44 DJ Daemon: we need to play some non-xmas tunes every now and then.
20:04 Alexander Brandon - Freeze
21:15 DJ Daemon: it's Jazz Jackrabbit. So good, you get another right here!
21:23 Alexander Brandon - Winter Hare
23:36 DJ Daemon: Presents next song.
23:43 Boray - Jultomten myser
30:28 Recording duration talk about "Glögg". It's like Glühwein.
31:07 Dippy - Afternoon Groovin'
37:08 DJ Daemon speaks about "Amiga Flashback" and reprises the next song
37:38 Amixmas
41:49 DJ Daemon remember the last time he played this tune.
42:22 Bjørn Lynne - Winterland Fun (from a never released Worms-game)
45:55 DJ Daemon wonder if there is such a thing as "too many worms games".
49:56 ericade.radio - Time for another episode of Flashback - Tracks from the past
50:03 DJ Daemon presents the next hour
50:24 Phoenix of Dhp - Merry Xmas everyone!
51:56 SpectralDJ - Space of Presence
01:00:26 DJ Daemon Mentions Fegolhuzz and translates the name of the next song.
01:01:01 Fegolhuzz of Kakmonsterklubben - Julkaks-bakning
01:03:06 DJ Daemon talks about the tune
01:03:32 Elliott of PrOtoCoL - X-mas card '95
01:05:42 DJ Daemon talks about Silent Service and how to make XMAS light give you a perfect submarine feeling.
01:06:22 CoS - Christmas is here
01:11:57 DJ Daemon talks about tracker instrument list and "love between two robots"
01:22:27 Melcom - Mechanical Love Song
01:17:33 DJ Daemon mentions Allister Brimbles "sexy robot"
01:17:50 Yomaru Kasuga - Christmas Sonata
01:22:21 DJ Daemon talk sad loveletter in the module instrument lists.
01:23:02 Paco of Dinasty - Juliet is tearing
01:26:13 DJ Daemon talks about Swedish alcoholic beverage "Punsch"
01:27:04 TRiGGER - Julia Roberts
01:29:32 DJ Daemon talks about Julia Roberts
01:30:06 Galgox - Christmas in July
01:31:29 DJ Daemon remember old christmas playing Civilization 1.
01:32:27 MrGamer - Jul Remixar ;)
01:35:45 DJ Daemon talks about the Swedish word "Jul".
01:36:18 hC/IMAGO - Xmas HeyHo .hC.
01:38:05 DJ Daemon remember "Last XMAS" and the Wham! challenge.
01:39:03 The Nightstalker - Christmas Love
01:42:36 DJ Daemon promises NEVER to play "Last XMAS".
01:43:27 Drax - Christmas Memories
01:46:05 DJ Daemon: Merry XMAS and Happy New Year!
01:46:31 Nitzer - X-mas Spirit
01:49:03 Epinicion music productions - Christmas 2001

Production notes:
This show was originally meant to be four hours, but was shrunk down to close to two hours. This was because I tried to broadcast from my living room and there were many technical problems to overcome before it could be done.

Colophon:
"Xmas at ground zero" is a song by Weird Al Yanovic.

Tags: Christmas, Host: DJ Daemon, 2021

[ Demoscene Research ] Polish UNESCO application approved!

One more success for the Art of Coding project: the Polish UNESCO application was just accepted! There’s not much info yet in English, but here’s the project page with the news. Congratulations to everybody who was involved with the Polish application and let’s see who’s next!

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 66. That was the year it was

It’s not really time to sum the year of 2021 up yet… But I couldn’t wait, so I told the stories of some of the retro events of the year that it was.– The upcoming Amiga500 mini.– The newest Vampire V4 (Icedrake and Firebird)– The death of sir Clive Sinclair and the 2017(!) ZX “reboot”.– I incorrectly stated that the A500 mini will come out 2021-03-31. Pretty obviously it’s 2022-03-31. Also, it’s A500mini, not Amiga 500mini.– Forndata XMAS “2021 hANGOUT” is coming next week.– The news are collected from sources such as GenerationAmiga, Eurogamer, Amitopia and Facebook.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past
00:06 DJ Daemon speaks:
00:04 Ilmarque of Tympanic – Airshow
02:37 DJ Daemon speaks:
02:34 Defilus – Lemon moon
07:15 DJ Daemon speaks:
07:11 E!ghtbm – Minnetronix
11:25 DJ Daemon speaks:
11:21 DNA-Groove – Questing a Fairy
18:07 DJ Daemon speaks:
18:00 ASIKWUSpulse – smooth jazz?… heck no!
23:04 DJ Daemon speaks:
23:01 Cdnalsi – Home (Single Edit)
27:10 DJ Daemon speaks:
27:06 DNA-Groove – Needless Sacrifice
32:29 DJ Daemon speaks:
32:25 Da Phuture Kemist of Astral – Winter Dream
37:01 DJ Daemon speaks:
36:57 Cdnalsi – The Queen of Goth’arde
43:44 goth
44:22 Cybelius of Sonic pc – Every way i turn
46:45 Syb
47:10 DNA.Groove of Embryo – Kiss the Horizon
51:29 DJ Daemon speaks:
51:25 DNA-groove – Marbles Deluxe
55:14 DJ Daemon speaks:
55:09 Dragonfly – Mindlessly Drifting
59:03 ericade.radio – With all the best music composed on Protracker, Noisetracker, Impulse tracker and Fast tracker
59:13 E!ghtbm – Colour spectrum
01:02:37 TNK – Mission Andromeda

Production notes:
The program was recorded and ready in the afternoon, but PlayIt live destroyed the whole playlist. This forced me to reassemble the whole program to put it in working order and the show went on the air one hour too late.


Colophon
The title is a reference to Tom Lehrer's album with the same name. Mr. Lehrer played his sarcastic tunes sitting by a grand piano. Hence the cat and the scratched up sofa.

Tags: Host: DJ Daemon, 2021

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 65. Mafiaboy vs the world

In 2019, IT-säkerhetspodden, another podcast I participate in met with legendary hacker “Mafiaboy”. I and Mattias Jadesköld got to speak with Michael Calce, which is his real name. His misdeeds are now so old, they’re now properly into retro territory. In this hour we tell the story of him and how he brought down Amazon, CNN and eBay. All mixed in with great tracker music.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past
00:06 DJ Daemon: In the 80s and 90s we had modems, games, cool computers and it was the golden age of the demo scene. But we had no concept of IT-security. It simply did not exist. In the year of 2000, a Canadian teenager brought big parts of the Internet to a halt… He was 15.
00:29 Van Damme – Brotherhood
03:20 DJ Daemon: In the fall of 2019, Swedish podcast IT-säkerhetspodden, run by me and collaborator Mattias Jadesköld met with Michael Calce, who is forever known to the world as Mafiaboy. On the 7th of February 2000, in the tails end of what we today note as the retro era, he took down eBay, CNN and Amazon. But the story starts much earlier.
04:35 Atekuro – A New Generation
08:33 DJ Daemon: It’s a sure thing that any computer geek remember his or her first computer. Michael Calce has fond memories what became the start of his journey into computing.
09:16 Gargaj of .mla.t design – !a(drill)
12:26 DJ Daemon: We all have different experiences on the net. But Michael heard the siren call of the dark side early on. DJ Daemon: Ok, laugh at his prounounciation of warez all you want. But he’s Canadian, what aboot that, eh?
13:43 Butch of UnLimit – Autumn secrets
17:41 DJ Daemon: Technical challenges are interesting, but social engineering, the craft of making people do your bidding was something he learned at the age of 9. His first target was AmericaOnline, formerly QuantumLink.
19:12 Darkhalo – Liquid light
23:16 DJ Daemon: Eventually he decided to become a true hacker and joined one of the many Russian hackergroups out there.
24:22 Ko0x – Time Flies
28:22 DJ Daemon: It was in this hacker group, Michael Calce, known as “Mafiaboy” learned a new tool of destruction.
29:31 Extreme – ‘Lostlove’ ver 3.5
33:13 DJ Daemon: By this time, he was already far into black hat territory and knew how to install malware on other’s computers.
34:14 Gemini of Rebels – Bleeps and bloops
37:21 DJ Daemon: So the targets then. He really hit the big ones.
38:41 Firage – Space Justice Wolf
41:28 DJ Daemon: Imagine turning on the TV and seing the world in panic over something you did. And if you think Mr Calce didn’t figure this was his doing, think again…
42:29 Keen – Back to yesterday
46:02 DJ Daemon: It was then time to face the consequences.
47:13 Megus of Brainwave Tracks – Bilbo’s road song
50:28 DJ Daemon: Whatever came out of this? According to Wikipedia: “The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police first noticed Calce when he started claiming in IRC chatrooms that he was responsible for the attacks. He became the chief suspect when he claimed to have brought down Dell’s website.” “Calce initially denied responsibility but later pleaded guilty to most of the charges brought against him. His lawyer insisted the child had only run unsupervised tests to help design an improved firewall, whereas trial records indicated the youth showed no remorse and had expressed a desire to move to Italy for its lax computer crime laws. The Montreal Youth Court sentenced him on September 12, 2001 to eight months of “open custody,” one year of probation, restricted use of the Internet, and a small fine.”
51:48 MelonadeM – Through the gates of Lucifer
55:22 DJ Daemon: So, the question that we must ask ourselves, has Michael learned anything. DJ Daemon thanks you for listening.
56:05 Sphenx – BioCore System

Production notes:
In 2019, me and Mattias conducted an interview with Mr. Calce. HP wanted us, as IT-security podcasters, to cover a seminar they had in Stockholm. Michael Calce had then come on board as a security advisor for them. We asked HP if we could interview him, and they agreed. Mr Calce had a grim look on his face, so we almost were afraid to talk to him, but he opened up as soon as the record button had been pushed. The interview is very good, as Mr. Calce has a natrural affinity for story-telling and show manship. This just had to be made into an episode of Flashback, tracks from the past.

Colophon:
"X vs the world" is pretty common way of constructing a title to give a bit of Drama. And Mafiaboy was Michael Calce's handle back in the day.

Tags: Storytelling, Hackers, Michael Calce, Host: DJ Daemon, 2021, Mafiaboy

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 64. They come from the land down under

Syntax Party 2021 went live on the 27th of November and closed its doors on the 28th. DJ Daemon gives you a great lineup of the tracked music compo entries from Australia’s premier demo party that runs annually. Since the winner had not yet been announced, we give you our own lineup, setup to give you a great mix through the different genres and tempos. Sit down, take a sip of some warm beverage and enjoy great tracked music. The last 20 minutes are tunes from Dr. Awesome previously unheard on the regular station broadcasts.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past
00:06 DJ Daemon speaks.
00:37 DJ Queso – 6. Cold cut house 2
02:22 DJ Daemon speaks.
02:51 ADKD – 4. Blue sky diving
06:00 DJ Daemon speaks.
06:17 Alpharisc – 10. Syntax Handsome
09:59 DJ Daemon speaks.
10:10 cTrix – 3. 25k House
12:59 DJ Daemon speaks.
13:30 Keygenism Noxw – 11. Baba is [REDACTED]
17:09 DJ Daemon speaks:
17:37 KRDN of Defiance – 8. Rebel, flavour
20:33 DJ Daemon speaks.
20:48 Mr. Roboto – 5. Spare Change
24:21 DJ Daemon speaks.
24:41 Mutetus of Onslaugh – 2. Liverbox and Sourmilk
27:37 DJ Daemon speaks.
28:01 Powergold1 – 1. Mechanicus
31:29 DJ Daemon speaks.
31:46 Pselodux – 07. Fractured Opus
35:42 DJ Daemon speaks.
36:09 Sc0rpion – 09. Turbogabber
38:40 DJ Daemon speaks.
39:15 Dr. Awesome – The Mist
41:45 DJ Daemon speaks.
42:32 Dr. Awesome – Stale Socks
47:19 DJ Daemon speaks.
47:50 Dr. Awesome – Squish!
52:00 DJ Daemon speaks.
52:51 Dr. Awesome – Skinny Dipping
56:06 DJ Daemon speaks.
56:36 ericade.radio – We love the demo scene
56:41 Dr. Awesome – Mekanix

Production notes:
I was worried I couldn't make this show air on time, but I was able to get it properly fixed and ready in time. The orgas were helpful and made the tracks available to me.

Colophone:
You should know this one: it's "Men at work" and their old hit "They come from the land down under". Yes, it's a song about Australia and yes, that is where the show took place.

Tags: Syntax, Demo scene top lists, Demo scene episodes, Host: DJ Daemon, 2021

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 63. The November grave yard shift

Where in the world is DJ Daemon? Answer: in Stockholm’s northern grave yard, putting out the heavy tracked tunes for the undead, dead and living. In this outdoor broadcast, that was cut short due to battery issues rather than Zombies, you get some banter but mostly the greatest tracked music.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past
00:06 DJ Daemon: Introduction of the show.
00:36 Xyce – Je suis baguette
03:19 DJ Daemon: Why doing a LIVE broadcast?
04:24 Dark halo – Under Water Voyage part 2
10:46 DJ Daemon: explains “Blåbärssoppa” and the greyness of November and complains there are no good demo parties on the horizon.
12:01 Weevil – Tribal Toaster
15:12 DJ Daemon: Also not many new cool hardware devices right now. Amiga Future, Amiga Addict and Datormagazin Retro is coming up.
16:30 TAP – Egyptian battles
21:55 DJ Daemon: Why do I do all those experimental stuff on the station? And alas, there are no new features on the it right now.
23:13 Uctumi – Contradictory life
26:22 DJ Daemon: Poweroutage in Stockholm two days ago… It could happen to you! Start prepping!
27:49 Purple Motion – Fast-D
31:04 DJ Daemon: remember the new station, “The best of ericade.radio”.
32:12 Tenfour – When Northern light go down
35:33 DJ Daemon: explains the 10-system used by the police in the United States many years ago.
36:27 Efenstor – Water of Oasis
41:18 DJ Daemon: The powerbank is down to one out of four light. The Rodecaster Pro is running on empty.
41:53 Uctumi – Last minute drama
45:04 DJ Daemon: Really not much power left now… We’ll see for how long we can go on.
45:49 TemezO – WouldU come with me?
49:11 DJ Daemon: Have to go home now as it’s basically no power left in the power bank.
49:32 Uctumi – Blissfull confusion
52:44 DJ Daemon: (Back in Solna): Actually there is one demo party coming up: Syntax demoparty (Australia), next Saturday.
53:33 Yomaru Kasuga – Dahil Sa’yo
56:56 DJ Daemon: Outro.
57:25 Nookie – White aura

Tags: Storytelling, Host: DJ Daemon, 2021

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 62. On a wing and a prayer

Epic space battle warfare and music is what this hour is all about! More specifically: Wing Commander 1 and tracked music with ONLY epic symphonies. Nothing sounds thin today as we dig into the first installment of the Wing Commander series and try to see if the game stands up to today’s standards. So sit down in your chair, pour something to drink and get ready to deal with a race of evil cats that want you out of the Enyo-sector.

Playlist:
00:00 Origin – Intro
00:06 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past
00:16 DJ Daemon: “In a distant future, mankind is locked in a deadly war…” with cats. Yeah, I know, it’s been like that since we took them into our homes, but in “Wing commander 1”, it’s not about domestic house cats, rather and bunch of unkempt hairballs with murderous tendencies. No, I don’t really see the difference either. “Wing commander 1” is a legendary space flight simulator that immersed you into a world of space battle, military tactics and racial stereotypes that may not have aged perfectly.
00:54 Eiyofuryo – Lamia
04:49 DJ Daemon: I got Wing commander for my Amiga 500 half a year after it was released, and it was already in the bargain bin. But what a bargain! I played through it and enjoyed the inspired storytelling and the cinematic scenes that take you, a green space pilot, through battle against those big cats. You are part of a team of pilots that accompany you in the fights. I will talk about the different aspects of the game and exactly were it shone and where it did not. Suffice to say, it was a success and spawned a number of sequels. None of them for the Amiga.
05:36 Acumen – One of a kind
09:54 DJ Daemon: First, the storytelling The game starts with you losing a space battle. “Game over, man”. But, it’s just an arcade machine this time. Phew! You are Christoffer Blair, if you choose to keep that name, a brand-new recruit on the Tigersclaw. The claw is a big human built battleship that just entered the Enyo-system. This part of the galaxy is cat territory, so you’re going to see some serious action soon. You immediately get to know the space pilots Paladin and Angel that you will later have as your wingmen. Ok, the game starts in a pub, but they’re not THAT kinda wingmen. You soon sit in you first space fighter and meet with the Drahlti fighters. The cat people, or Kilrathi, don’t seem to take you as serious threat as those ships are easy to defeat. But it gets worse.
11:10 Austin Smith – Forever Revealing
14:04 DJ Daemon: At this time we must delve into your wingmen and women. They’re at best characters to like, but at worse pretty dated racial or typical trope stereotypes. Paladin is so Scottish; you might wonder if Star Trek didn’t teach them a warning as to not make characters comedy relief. Maniac is a total …. tactless… buffoon. Unsure where he comes from. Angel is Belgian, but really is super French so you wonder if she drinks red wine and eats baguettes will hunting the baddies. But weirdly enough, I got kinda attached to them. They can die during battle, and that loss is permanent. So, I found myself often replaying missions where they died, in order not to lose them.
15:10 BadliZ – Beastmaster’s tale
20:45 DJ Daemon: The game play – you know the meat of the whole game – is fun. It plays a bit like Elite but is polished and has a number of fast paced tactical features. You see the cockpit from a first-person perspective with your legs, the control column, the panels and you also see out the front window. The game shows the enemies as bitmapped objects, that look good far away, but pretty pixelated when up close. You chase after them, trying to flank them or attack them where they’re weak. All Kilrathi ships have vulnerable points. You also have to sustain attacks from them, so managing your shields is necessary. The game is sluggish on an Amiga 500 but runs smoothly on a decent Amiga 1200.
21:47 Llageran – Flying Through Time
25:19 DJ Daemon: Music and SFX are often overlooked in games, but Wing Commander 1 has put a lot of effort into it. When you start, the music is calm, but when hell breaks loose, the music follows suit and ramps up the tempo. The scenes when you rush to your ship in the hangar has a very adrenalin-rushing tempo and when you win, the music is upbeat and epic in a true cinematic way. The transitions between the different tunes are abrupt, but it still works. This was a trend back then, to let movie elements and ideas into computer games. And Wing Commander 1 did it well for its time. It’s not much today, but have aged pretty ok in my book.
26:54 Elysis – Classe
29:16 DJ Daemon: The graphics and animations are exceptionally well done. While not the best there ever were, they create an atmosphere of beaty and danger. And all aspects of the game are animated, even your death. The facial animations are the least impressive part of it. And my favorite part is how the ship looks after battle. If you took little damage, it looks fine, but get progressively more beat-up as the cats score hits on it. The ship is repaired back to its full beauty before every new battle. The save game system is a room with bunks, and the sleeping pilots are the save game slots. This is where you meet and talk missions past and the current state of the battle with your wingmen and “Shotglass”, the retired pilot and current bartender.
30:17 BadliZ – War Cries
35:59 DJ Daemon: The storytelling has a way to keep you motivated. You see, it will let you lose some of the missions and still proceed. But a number of times, you get a cut-scene telling stories from other part of the star system. If you won all the missions since the last cutscene or the beginning of the game, the stories are happy. The scientists were unarmed but could beat the Kilrathi-attackers with their cunning or in another scene, the military base had hidden anti-air defenses that destroyed the attackers. If you lose missions, the cutscenes always end in a bad way. The finest scientific minds of the system are lost, and the base is destroyed. This makes no important difference in the game but is a motivator to keep winning or replaying the missions until you do. It did work for me at least.
37:03 Blue Max – Eden 8
40:59 DJ Daemon: “Wing Commander 1” stands out as one of the finest games ever for the Amiga. It was off course available for your PC as well and probably other platforms. A remastered version was created for the CD32 and after the Amiga era ended, the series continued the PC. One of the later episodes feature Mark Hamill, you know “Luke Skywalker” from “Star Wars”, in a role. But by then, I kinda though the games had become stale and uninteresting. “Wing commander 1” for the Amiga 500, comes on four diskettes if I remember correctly. Still it has so much graphics and sound and nice stories to tell. For me, it’s a true epic story fit for inclusion in annals of gaming history… And… Oh, stop laughing, what are you, five? Ehhmmm… Anyway, I wish to say: it’s a great game … A great retro game.
42:10 Nightbeat of Prometheus – Dawn of Pendragon
48:35 DJ Daemon: About my handle.
49:09 Butch – Winter night
52:45 ericade.radio – Keeps track of the past
52:51 Ceekayed – Battle beyond the dark
56:10 DJ Daemon: Goodbye for now and see you in a week.
56:57 Ceekayed – Broken Lands
01:00:04 Dario – Alchemy Of 1999

Production notes:
Colophon
The title alludes to the old saying "on a wing and a prayer", meaning "we barely made it". It was probably coined by the B17 crews in the second world war, limping home with most of the plane shot to pieces, praying they would get home at all.

Tags: Storytelling, Host: DJ Daemon, Wing commander 1, 2021, Retro gaming

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 61. A top list of our own

I have long wanted to create an episode with my favourite tracks and when Coreus from Discord suggested a number of his own tracks he wanted on the station and played, it was clear that this just had to happen. So today is his requests and then the tunes I really like. So sit back and enjoy some brand new tracks on the station mixed with some of the best of the oldies. Here’s a special episode that was broadcast live on a sunday in November.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio – Here’s a tune requested by one of our Internet users
00:05 DJ Daemon speaks.
00:15 ericade.radio – DJ Daemon has just entered the studio and is ready to tell you like it is
00:25 DJ Daemon speaks.
00:34 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past
00:40 DJ Daemon speaks.
01:07 4-mat – Eternity
04:00 DJ Daemon speaks.
04:26 Solaris – Ostigt skit
05:28 DJ Daemon speaks.
05:48 Vinnie of Spaceballs – Spasmic spasmo sperms
08:13 ericade.radio – Here is a brand new tune on the station
08:18 DJ Daemon speaks.
08:42 Jason Page – Snow Xmas
10:59 DJ Daemon speaks.
11:11 Chromag – Ullyses
13:32 DJ Daemon speaks.
13:52 Riku Nuottajarvi – Hyperspace (From star control)
16:55 DJ Daemon speaks.
17:10 CRD – Chordian remix
19:04 DJ Daemon speaks.
19:30 Elwood – Sweet dreams
22:25 DJ Daemon speaks.
22:39 Orb – Musiklinjen remix
31:17 DJ Daemon speaks.
31:38 Jester of Sanity – Elysium
35:18 DJ Daemon speaks.
35:39 Horace wimp – Hymn to aurora
39:51 DJ Daemon speaks.
40:14 Yannis Brown – Tres Dilettantes
42:45 DJ Daemon speaks.
43:05 Mahna Mahna – Subway Art pt 2
46:12 DJ Daemon speaks.
46:37 Skaven252 – The Goblin Returns
49:35 DJ Daemon speaks.
49:58 Uctumi – Flimbo’s Quest Medley
53:51 DJ Daemon speaks.
54:11 Arpegiator of Chryseis – My wolf 2
59:50 DJ Daemon speaks.
01:00:19 Firage – Buns and Guns
01:02:24 ericade.radio – With Swedish host and Retro-geek-quite-ordinaire Daemon behind the mike
01:02:33 DJ Daemon speaks.

Production notes:
I got an email from Coreus asking me to play some of his favourite tracks on the station and then some he had found on the Internet. It was too good to pass up. I added some more commonly requested track on this station and my own favorites.

Colophon
The title is a homage to an old web comic (long gone) called "a doemain of our own".

Tags: Host: DJ Daemon, Top lists, 2021

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 60. Among saints and sinners

Halloween was last weekend here in Sweden and today it is All Saints day. So the episode is about both the silly and “safe” scares and horrors of Halloween and the somber feelings of the Saints day and remembrance of relatives and friends that are nolonger with us. The show zig-zags between the funny and the dark. As it should.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio - Time for another episode of Flashback - Tracks from the past
00:06 DJ Daemon: Introduction of the show.
00:29 Firage - Reaper Blows the Horn
02:52 DJ Daemon: difference between Halloween and All Saints day.
03:37 Arcturus - Ghoulies and Ghosties
07:02 DJ Daemon: Elvira, mistress of the dark - sultry and sexy horrors from the retro gaming era.
07:56 Lemonade and Maxuser6000 - Canon pour deux
11:16 DJ Daemon: My grandfather's empty diskettes.
12:17 Big Jim - (Dreaming of) Foreign Skys
15:04 DJ Daemon: Walking on the cemetary during the Covid19 pandemic
16:03 Captain - Space debris
20:58 DJ Daemon: The death of Commodore.
21:57 Cube of DEE - Philosophy
24:35 DJ Daemon: Death in computer games.
25:40 Karsten Koch - Leaving All Behind
31:56 DJ Daemon: The suicide of a fellow student.
32:44 Dj Dark - Relaxed
38:44 DJ Daemon: Let's leave the darkness.
39:17 Darkhalo - Kirby's dreamland
44:33 DJ Daemon: Blood in games - more droll than scary. Also it didn't turn my generation to monsters.
45:29 Suspect of Artima - Saint valentine
49:09 DJ Daemon: How many saints can you name?
49:45 Purple Motion of Future Crew - UnreaL ][ / PM
55:50 DJ Daemon: Another old tune is back on the station.
56:34 DJ TheCroWn of Cellblock 4 - The Summer Planet
01:01:15 DJ Daemon: See you next week.
01:01:44 Skaven - Amazonas

Production notes:
I am not religious, but have always respected "All saints"/"all souls day" here in Sweden. It gives me the chance to remember and think about people long gone and what lives the may have lived.

Halloween is a mere novelty to me, hence the silly introsong. And I love Cassandra Petersen ("Elvira"). She is hot in so many ways.

Colophon
The title just "came to me". It is not a reference to anything, but a nice line. It is possible there is some movie, book or something like that called that. But I did not really think of that.

Tags: Storytelling, Host: DJ Daemon, 2021

[ Ericade.radio news & podcasts ] [Podcast] 59. Numerology

On today’s episode we go deep into the hard facts and questions about the music, the station and everything around it. Who’s the most popular artist, the the most hated tune and which countries bring the listeners? And is the Amiga still king of this station? DJ Daemon tells you like it is!Corrections: “Vintage Vinyl” is by Roz, not Saga musix.

Playlist:
00:00 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past
00:06 DJ Daemon: As we’re about to enter November, let’s get caught up on all questions you have asked and really dig deep into the facts about the music and the artists you probably did not know. Like, what tunes do you really hate, how much of an Amiga station is this really and if you put all the songs in a row, would it reach to the moon?
00:32 Galgox – New world newcomer
04:57 DJ Daemon: There are no stupid questions, they say. Maybe not, but there are a lot of them that’s hard to answer. And I get them verbally, by Discord, email, or other means of communication. And I have a craving for cool statistics. The how much, when, and why of it all. So, let’s delve into the most popular artists, hated songs and where people are listening.
05:30 HyoChan – Snowflakes
10:18 DJ Daemon: Numbers are fun. So, let’s talk about the statistics. The tunes are the nuts and bolts of the whole operation and we have more than 83 hours of tracked music right now. 20 new tunes come in weekly and adds about 1 and a half hour of play time. Right now, the whole list contains 1611 tracks, and a track must wait at least 64 hours before it will be played again. Allister Brimble and Dr. Awesome have special permits and their tracks occur more often. The podcast always plays tracks never heard before on this station to show case the latest to you every week and the lists are published on our Discord channel.10
11:11 GameOver – Level56 -eXtended version
15:22 DJ Daemon: Tracked music comes in many forms. From the original Amiga 4-channel modules to modern fast tracker and impulse tracker ones. The station only played Amiga tunes until spring this year and now accepts every kind of tracked format. Today, earlier 8bit SID and other older formats are not played with some notable exceptions. The classic Amiga modules constitute 63 % of the whole playlist. Next is Fasttracker with 24 %, followed by Impulsetracker at 10%. The different Med-formats make up the last 3%. The numbers are rounded off course.
16:09 Roz – Vintage Vinyl
19:46 DJ Daemon: So, who is listening then? We only have proper statistics since the last two months, but some parts of the world are more prolific than others. Here are the countries where people stay by their radios for a long time and frequently as well: Greece Sweden China Germany Kazakhstan Norway They’re not listed in any order, mind you, but says something: Europe is where it’s at, but China begs to differ. Next up: the songs we hate.
20:35 Ghidorah – Dreaming of you 2
24:02 DJ Daemon: I record the tune playing when people disconnect the stream, while also filtering out very short listening times and other misinformation. And here are the tunes that sticks out and make people turn off: Falcon-Nicolette Dr. Awesome – Cosmos Dr. Awesome-Bridge to the Univer… Amiga-Variations. Gopher-Of Myth and Legend. Amiga-Our Memories Amiga-nanopower Amiga-junglehunter. Not a complete list, but if we try to understand possible reasons, two things stick out: · They’re too long. A tune of 8-10 minutes or longer deters us. They sound bad. We like chords, synthy loops and nice melodies. Thrashy sounding instruments or a thin instrumentation is not to our liking.
25:06 Falcon of Pulse – inmost sympathy
31:10 DJ Daemon: We favor only Dr. Awesome and Allister Brimble. All other artists get equal time. But good artists have more tracks on the station and that ranks them higher when it comes to number of plays. Here are the top 10 most popular artists except the ones I just mentioned: 1. Drax 2. Jogeir Liljedahl 3. Lizardking 4. Moby 5. Roz 6. Xtd 7. Slaze 8. Elwood 9. Banana 10. The Master E1ghtbm
32:06 Mr Gamer of SoF – Mystic morning
37:18 DJ Daemon: That’s all the statistics I got for you right now. So, let’s switch to the questions: · What’s up with my wolf 2? Arpegiator’s “My wolf 2” was played by me at 3 am one time as I noted we called the hour between 3-4 in the morning “The Wolf’s hour”. This is because of it being connected with failures, fatigue, death, and the Chernobyl disaster. But the song is awesome and so are real wolves. It later became a joke and a sure indicator that I would broadcast later that day. Will Nicole come back? Unsure. She still speaks during breaks in the service and is the alert voice in the control room. But that’s not much, as I’m seldom work from home anymore. Nicole Carino has been great, and it’s possible I will call on her in the future to make great statements. Today it’s Jono Woodward who is the station voice, as I told you in an earlier episode of this podcast.
38:35 Beathoven – Dreaming of You
42:26 DJ Daemon: More questions? Sure! Why do some tracks suddenly stop? · And oldie, but a goldie! Right here and now I will proudly say: they don’t! I’ve gone through all the songs and fixed the CUE Outs, which is the correct name for the point at where a song will stop or begin to fade out. It’s taken quite a while, but all tracks added after august 2020 are now checked, normalized, and properly named with artists and track data where this has been possible to get this information. · Only 240 tracks are still not fully checked, as they originate from the first station. But they should be ok and will be validated as soon as possible.
43:21 Trackerartist – Joyride
47:10 DJ Daemon: When can I request a song? · Any time you want. Just go to discord.io/tern or drop me an email on radio@ericade.net. In a few weeks, you will be able to do so on our website and get the station to play them automatically. You can also point me to a tracked tune, and I will check it out. If it’s good enough, it will be added!4
47:45 Angelo Badalamenti – Into the night
51:03 DJ Daemon: Time for the last question: I’m an artist, can you make a special program about me? · That’s likely a yes. You need to remember that I like to present good, tracked music artists on this podcast. · But I need you to be a tracked music artist. I will not consider remixes or music that is not tracked. · Also, you need a catalog of representative tunes that I can use. · They may not be copyrighted or illegal to broadcast. · I decide if you fit the station and podcast. · Also, the best of your songs will be put on the station if they fit.
51:50 TRiGGER – X-Pansion
55:42 DJ Daemon: Thanks for listening.
56:22 Mempheria of Starfusion – Into the stars
01:00:03 Awesome – NEwS-a-TRonIC
01:03:11 ericade.radio – Twentyfourserven non-stop tracked music

Tags: Storytelling, Host: DJ Daemon, 2021