Flashback, tracks from the past – ERICADE.RADIO: Recent Episodes
Erik Zalitis
The hot weather is over and the evenings grow darker: it's autumn. So fill up a cup of your favorite beverage and lean back in your chair. It's time for another episode of Flashback, tracks from the past... with DJ Daemon.
The sun is back on the sky and it's summer! DJ Daemon is back behind the mike with a large set of tracker music fit for the beach. Enjoy the show!
Back in the 90s, we had the famous "mix tape". It was generally a cassette tape with all our favorite music on. And we played this music on our Walkmans, while strolling around in the city. Today is a great modern time mix tape with some classic tracked music and more modern variants. DJ Daemon talks briefly and plays the best tracked music for an hour.
So the temperature is slowly rising here in Sweden. A faint feeling of spring is in and on the air, as DJ Daemon loads up some of the best tracker music there is. Join him on the journey through the music.
"Another 'chill music'-episode" you say? Yes, it is and I do. Enjoy one hour of music with some banter from DJ Daemon.
Ah, Paula. The chip that gave the Amiga its voice. This is an informal continuation of the episode "Four channels to the Wind". Just like then, we only play Amiga module tracks, and just like then it's a great collection of tunes never heard on the station before.
It's been a few months since Edison 2023 ran. But DJ Daemon remembers the tunes and the competition. You'll get the tracked and streamed music contestants. And, with the help of Coreus and the Baron of Dubstep, also an interview with Weyland (the leader of Edison)
Fall is here and leaves are turning yellow. Flashback is back again after a few months of hiatus. Enjoy an hour of great tracked music. Today's spotlit artists are Elwood and Dedanis.
There is much going on in the world. But if you just want to relax for an hour with great tracked music, then this program is for you. DJ Daemon talks a little and gives you a lot of good music.[…]
Us Scandinavian people have a midsummer festivity to care for. In Sweden, it will be this Friday. Maybe we can't provide you with music for this occasion, but there are plenty of other days where you can celebrate retro-nerd-geekishness. This podcast delivers exactly the right music to tinker with your Amigas, old PCs and Ataris. DJ Daemon is in full nerdmode.[…]
The sun warms the frozen hearts of all Swedes. DJ Daemon celebrates by playing sunny and summery (newly invented word) tracked songs.[…]
Summer is finally here and DJ Daemon thought you needed some tracked tunes for relaxation in the sun. You get a mix of soft trance, vivid techno and happy tunes. And some speech between the them. Enjoy![…]
Another demo party! This episode is all about Outline 2023. DJ Daemons spins the harddisks with the hottest demo music right now.
QBParty is next up in Flashback's coverage of the demo parties. DJ Daemon keeps you company in through the whole playlist.
After nearly half a year - Flashback is back and today we're playing great tunes and talk a bit about Edison 2023.
Part two of Coreus christmas top list. It's time again to get into that christmassy retro mood. DJ Daemon is behind the microphone.
Coreus from the Retro spirit has outdone himself! He selected the best "xmas feeling"-music and created a mix out it. This is the first of two episodes. DJ Daemon is in front of the mike.
Syntax 2022 in Australia and Mysdata 2022 are on the agenda for this demo party episode. But no toplist - we're just selecting the best or most interesting ones for this show.DJ Daemon just hope Disney wont got crazy over a lot of Yoda-samplings.
Nothing special today, just enjoying the songs coming into the station. We focus on Mick Rippon, an artist we never have heard on ericade.radio. We also add two tunes from Slash_atd. Not to forget the artist Tangerine.[…]
Ineércia demo party is over and delivered chiptunish goodness and heavy techno. Alas, no tracked modules participated in the demo party. But after the toplist, you get a set of such tunes suggested by our Discord listeners. DJ Daemon presides over this meeting of the tracked music minds[…]
Impulsetracker produces the most advanced tracked music compared to Protracker, Fasttracker and the others. So they often feature a large number of instruments that makes up to 64 channels of musical goodness.This episode feature correspondent Some1NameNate, with the story of that one technology that sets Impulsetracker apart from the competition.Correction: I've been informered that Impulsetracker-music cannot be played on an Atari Falcon. My appologies for not checking this up. The story was told to me by a listener last year.[…]
It's the third time we let the listeners make the toplist. DJ Daemon sent out a request to various Discord forums and got a few suggestions of great tunes that you don't always hear. And from that comes another toplist by and for the listeners.[…]
A bit tired and with a stuffy nose, DJ Daemon gives you a belated episode with the demo music from the Deadline demo party 2022. Tracked and streamed music for your enjoyment.[…]
Deadline and Flashparty are still underway, and while waiting, lets chillax (=chill and relax) and just enjoy the music. Not much speech, but still some news:On the show:- Deadline and Flash party are soon over and next week we'll have the music.- Will the ericade.radio-music become a hit among cyberpunks?- We sound even better now. (Not me, come on, the music!)- A better website is coming.[…]
We’re back with three new demo party toplists. It’s from Nordlicht, Xenium and Function 2022. It’s a bit of a catchup of all the important demo parties with tracked music we missed during the last 30 days. DJ Daemon blasts through them at a brisk tempo and skips some of the less interesting entries to […]
Two years on the air! They said it wasn’t possible – it couldn’t be done. And I proved them… Actually, no one said any of that. But the station is on and broadcasting 24/7. It’s been quite a year and let me, DJ Daemon tell you about all the stuff we’ve been through together. One […]
Every week, ModArchive.org spotlight a bunch of noteworthy modules and DJ Daemon has selected some of those as the highlights of the spotlights so to speak. You will get some really cool songs by artists seldom heard on the station like DJ Ail and Thwy. The music: 00:00 ericade.radio – Time for Flashback, tracks from […]
Autumn is here and the leaves are falling of the trees. So, time to slow down and enjoy some good musical styles from the 90s through the trackers running on Amigas, Ataris and PC. DJ Daemon is the voice in the night, leading you through upbeat tunes and melodious niceness. So enjoy an hour of […]
Svenska Commodoreklubben (SCK) held a great retro-event in Täby in northern Stockholm in Sweden between the 26 – 28th of August 2022. It held a fantastic museum, a repair shop, a quiz held by Frida Katarina, the online meeting “Sen kväll med Commodoreklubben” and ericade.radio did a live broadcast. Huge thanks to Hravnkel, Björn A, […]
What a computer! The legendary C64. In August of 2022, it celebrates 40 years of being the one computer we all remember fondly. That’s right, Commodore launched it in August of 1982. The same year as the war in the Falklands and Michael Jackson’s thriller. DJ Daemon talks about the C64. The music is mostly […]
Assembly is a famous Finnish demo party that started 30 years ago. That’s SGT Peppers lonely hearts club band and then ten more years. DJ Daemon gives you the tracked music and the highest rated entries of the “listening competition”. So, put on your headphones and listen to brand new tracked music. A few songs […]
Episode 100! From December 2020 until today, it’s been quite a ride. But no need to get all misty eyed about it. DJ Daemon instead spends this hour exploring two tracker music oddities: the AHX and HVL formats. So expect more chiptunes today, as both those formats were born to excel in that way. 00:00 […]
Edison Party 2022 has left the building in Eggebygård in Stockholm, Sweden after three days of the sceners battling it out with trackers, compilers and drawing programs. We got the tracked music toplist and four of the best streamed tunes from the party. DJ Daemon delivers commentary and all the music for your listening pleasure! […]
In the middle of the hot summer of 2022, two sysops met over the Internet and started talking retrocomputing, the Amiga, the demo scene and the horrors of overheating modems and why you valued what you downloaded more back in the day. In this episode, DJ Daemon and Hravnkel also selects their favorite Amigatunes from […]
The middle of July until early August is what I call the “fly-over” territories of the summer. You just pass through them while enjoying your life. I go back to work tomorrow but hope for some more vacation in a few weeks. So relax a few more days, when the weather is great and there […]
Talk about a scheduling conflict! Gubbdata in Sweden and Arok in Hungary both ran on the 1st to 3rd of July 2022. DJ Daemon solved it by waiting for the songs to arrive, so now we have 17 competing tracks from both demo parties. It’s gonna be a great hour of six Amiga tunes, eight […]
Vacation is here and everything is warmer and life goes slower for a while. So settle down and listen to music with a “happy”-theme. Because we’re all happy to have some free time. DJ Daemon gives you an hour of nice tunes and also two brand new ones by Slaze, just released! 00:00 ericade.radio – […]
Left in the trenches of the baking city of Solna is DJ Daemon hiding deep in his bunker, and keeping anyone within the reach of the broadcast with a good supply of tracked summer music from the golden retro days of computing. Last year it was storytelling. Now, it’s music and some stories. In the […]
Shadow party 2022 ended last Sunday and brings a rather meager list of tunes. But we get three great streamed ones and two tracked that, alas, are not up to standard for this station. But DJ Daemon gives you the streamed compo and then switches to a modarchive curated playlist with soft melodious tune and […]
While waiting for the Shadow party tunes (will be next week’s episode), we’re playing the latest highlighted tunes of ModArchive. DJ Daemon talks about them and gives you two nice medleys of shorter ones. Turn up the volume, here comes the good stuff to your speakers. 00:00 ericade.radio – Time for Flashback, tracks from the […]
Forndata Summer 2022 started at 6 pm and went on until midnight. It was scaled back due to few people wanting to attend in person. But it went live on Twitch instead and was everything we come to expect from it. DJ Daemon plays the two contestant song and then talks about the interviews and […]
Modarchive.org has a small, but active community that makes sure tracked music is saved for posterity. It has all the superb, awesome, great, good, mediocre, dismal and horrible music that the scene has composed. Or at least a lot of it. How do you know what good and what is not? Stars! The community awards […]
Vangelis. The man behind Chariots of fire, Conquest of Paradise and the music in Bladerunner has left us. On the 17th of May, he concluded his work leaving it to posterity. DJ Daemon celebrates the man by simply playing songs from tracked music artists that clearly must have been inspired by him. An apology This […]
Love is in the air and we’re nowhere near Valentine’s day. But this hour, let’s note all the tracks on Modarchive.org getting the love in form of high ratings and generous comments right at this moment. DJ Daemon plays the music the sceners are talking about right now. The tunes themselves are all new, old […]
A typical piano has 88 keys spanning seven octaves. It has an almost magic versatility and is hard to get sounding right when sampling it. Today’s tracked music artists tackle this huge task with great results most of the time. DJ Daemon showcases some of the best ever made and talks about them. 00:00 ericade.radio […]
Another chill episode! We had one last autumn, and another one here and now. Modarchive.org delivers the smoothest, softest and calmest tracks you can wish for. And DJ Daemon talks about the artists, the comments and the music. 00:00 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past 00:06 DJ Daemon […]
Revision Demoparty 2022 was last week, and now DJ Daemon has caught up! Here’s an hour with all the songs from the tracked music competition and two entries from the other compos. All narrated by DJ Daemon who loves some and… eh… Thinks less of some. Roll up! Roll up! A good time is guarranteed […]
Two guys in front of their own trackers, collaborating over the Internet and eventually moving to the same town in the Netherlands. They are Xylo (Tom Offringa) and Cerror (Roel Heerspink). Together they have created a number of albums under the name #Xyce, with VUE being the latest. Today, DJ Daemon, goes through three of […]
GERP 2022 was held in Skövde in Sweden and presented most of what you want of from a demoparty when it comes to music. You got chiptunes and modtunes off course. But also Virgills new “AmigaKlang” was used for some of the executable tunes. Great music, with many fit for platform games that never were. […]
Today’s tracked music genre is … Drumroll …. Popmusic. It’s the music that is easily seen as nondescript and generic. But actually, the collection in ModArchive, is quite good. And it’s an hour with soft and nice tunes from talented artists as presented by DJ Daemon. 00:00 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback […]
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/popbuster SceneSat volume 4 with Chronberg: https://music.scenesat.com/album/the-sound-of-scenesat-volume-4 I paid $5 per […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. Links: “Everyone else has had more sex than me” (SFW) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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. 00:00 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback […]
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 […]
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. 00:00 ericade.radio – Time for […]
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 […]
Today, about 55% 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 […]
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. 00:00 Announcement – Time for a live show with […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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. Links: https://syntaxparty.org/ – Demos from […]
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 […]
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 […]
Halloween was last weekend here in Sweden and today it’s All Saints’ day. So the episode is about both the silly and “safe” scares and horrors of Halloween and the somber feelings of the Saint’s day and remembrance of relatives and friends that are nolonger with us. The show zig-zags between the funny and the […]
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 […]
And this is where our story of the Swedish BBS-era must end: with the story of the wander in the desert and how the boards made a small come back when we were all old enough to become nostalgic. I also want to thank Fabian Norlin, Sysop for “Fabbes BBS” for giving me statistics and […]
Deadline 2021 was held in Germany between the 8th and 10th of October 2021. We run you through 13 tracked tunes and 8 old school ones. 75 minutes of retro artistery and some dry humour from DJ Daemon. The show 00:00 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past 00:06 […]
This is the second out of three episodes, talking about the BBS era in Sweden. We’ve hit the 90s and lead you towards the sunset of the BBS scene and the Internet taking over. But this journey is an hour, so we will cover who the typical BBS-user might have been, why the some hated […]
Presenting Mr Electric Demon – an old hand on tracked music. In this session, we will give you an hour of some of his best work. Both sampled and chip-tunes along with his own story and demo scene career as told by DJ Daemon. Links Listen to his music directly here: https://med.planet-d.net About the man […]
Today, it’s a another walk down memory lane of some stupid mistakes done by me and others when working with old computers. What about shorting out a poor C64, backing up all non-important stuff instead of the needed files, running DCopy 4.1 and nuking the disk and making the power lead fit.. upside down. 00:00 […]
One year on the AIR! Celebration is in order. DJ Daemon tells you the story of a station that loves the demo scene and the tracked tunes. 00:00 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past 00:06 DJ Daemon speaks: On the 13th of September 2020, in the year of […]
From Finland, to… Argentina. It was time for Flashparty 2021 coming to your sofa from Buenes Airos. In this episode you get 14 streamed contestants and 4 tracked tunes in two compos than ran on that demo party. Note: I’ve cut some of the songs down, due to not fitting the station and podcast format. […]
Jumalauta 2021 is over and brought 15 contestants to the tracked music demo scene. All parties have their style and Jumalauta had a rather informal feel to the music. Some is seriously crafted with nice chords and heavy beats, whereas others are just joking around. The winner really took some liberties with the concept of […]
This is the first episode in a two episode story about the Bulletin Board System (BBS) era seen from a Swedish perspective. Follow DJ Daemon through the late 70s, through the Wechselmann-indictment to the discussion about Anita Bondestam and her weird moped analogy. It covers the era between 1978 to the early 1990s. 00:00 LIVE […]
Arok Party 2021 is over and the autumn season is now inaugurated. A strong line up with 15 awesome remixes and 5 great C64 tracked tunes, coming directly from the compos. This has been great and DJ Daemon goes through the list that contains a weird Thriller-esque remix, someone trying to start his car and […]
It’s not Dr. Awesome! Today we play almost entirely Victor Vergara’s tracker music. Mr Vergara called himself “Awesome” back in the day and is still active under the name “Awezoom”. In this hour, DJ Daemon, sheds a little light on who he is, his involvement in the demo scene and who he dedicates all his […]
In the early 1980s, the people of Sweden had to be taught to program! This was the next step. In many ways, this ended up bearing fruit and the 8-bit computers taught a generation to become developers, demo creators and it-architects. But it didn’t happen the way everyone expected: through the joys of Basic. DJ […]
All hobbies and fields create their own slang. The retro world has a gigantic library of words for the skilled, the unskilled and various computers and programs. DJ Daemon digs through words and the cool explanations that really makes you understand the attitude of true hackers. Not the kind that breaks into stuff, but the […]
Fallout, how I love thee! Let me count the ways 1,2,Tactics,3,New Vegas,4… Let’s just end there… DJ Daemon was inspired by Fallout to create his own voice acted radio station, but wisely choose to create this one instead. It’s sad if you voice act some old man screaming in the radio from a bunker, and […]
The fly-over states in the USA are those that the planes flying above will just pass, on their way to bigger cities in more populated areas. And the latter part of July and the first weeks of August are like that. Vacation, less stuff going on… But that does not mean less to do! In […]
It took some time, but now, the podcast episode that covers Edison Party 2021. It ran from the 9th until the 11th of July 2021 and DJ Daemon was there in person, broadcasting live. This episode will give you the whole tracked music compo from the last position to the winner, with a short note […]
GubbData 2021 is still running as I write this, but the demo compo was yesterday and gave six artists a change to really show their Amiga tracker talents. In this show I play them all and also comment on GubbData and the compo. UPDATE: This final results are now in: First place – Slaze – […]
I had no idea what I was doing when I started this episode. I called it “Happy summer days” and started sourcing the tunes. When I recorded the intro it was meant to be about a specific summer, but I quickly expanded the scope and ended up thinking about a personal story with something about […]
So Tina Turner may not need another hero, but we need more villains! Interesting villains, and the retro games sometimes deliver the goods. Who wants another mustache twirling bozo who just wants to tie your wife to the railroad tracks? A proper villain has to have a reason to be who he or she is […]
Ok, we covered the pirates. Now let’s talk DRM or Digital Rights Management. It’s the manual lookups, the code wheels, the servers that cannot validate your game and the bloody dongles… The show: 00:00 Flashback – track from the past – show intro 00:08 DJ Daemon speaks: A few weeks ago it was all about […]
Tonight, we go to the big Jazz club in the sky … Or maybe it’s the cloud where all the great Amiga, Atari and PC jazz-tracks can be found. DJ Daemon remembers one of Swedish radio’s best: Leif “Smokerings” Andersson and pays tribute to him. Are our parents that played records on vinyl and listened […]
On wednesday, a major part of the station failed mid-broadcast. The station was back an hour later, but left the recording desk inoperable. DJ Daemon has fixed up enough of it to allow the podcast to be made. But no time for cool stories. It’s about the music and some upcoming features. Covered: – New […]
Forndata 2021 Summer is over and brought a lot of joy to the demoworld from Visby in Sweden. It was off course online only, but presented demo-, C64- and tracked music compos as you’d expect from a true demo party. The start was on time and there were few problems until the OctaMed-tune from heck […]
Today we talk about the pirates! Not the Errol Flynn type, but rather the community of Warez Doodz and crackers are under scrutiny here. DJ Daemon delves into this from a Swedish perspective. I know I may seem negative to the warez community, but that’s mostly the warez BBSes which used to have a mentality […]
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 […]
The ERICADE Radio Network is now officially a true tracker music broadcaster and not limited to just Amiga modules. With this change, it’s time to look back at what tracker music is and delve into its rich history. From Karsten Obarsky and the Ultimate Soundtracker on the Amiga and to todays Fast Tracker multi channel […]
The future of the station? Is it so bright we have to wear shades. Maybe not, but there are a number of interesting things going on: The door is open for ALL kind of tracker music, ever if it’s strictly not said Amiga. Impulsetracker modules with 64 channels will not run on the Amiga, but […]
So, it was not meant to be… Most that compete, fail. That’s the rule of most games. Jack Tramiel named his company “Commodore” (a navy rank) as he throught the computer business was a war. Today we commemorate the failures, because they weren’t often not bad, just unsuccessful. From the ilfated Amiga 600 to the […]
“Retro feeling” is what I call everything that feels retro without being just that and the “Retro spirit” is keeping the retrostuff alive as in new Amiga demos and tracker mods. Today it’s only about the “Retro feeling”, that is the inspiration we got from the retro stuff. Covered: Thimbleweed park Dust – an Elysian […]
Revision 2021 online is over and people from all over Europe and elsewhere assembled to show the world that the retro computer scene still matters! On Saturday third of April 2021, 15 entries fought in the tracker competition. And in this podcast, we will play them all! Be advised, there will be some swearing, so […]
The whole Saturday was one big fight against compressors, limiters, scripts, virtual machines and all the other “tech gods” out there. But the station sounds better than ever and I’m too tired to create a big show. Instead you get some banter and the newest music to enter the station. A really super mix of […]
Viruses are no fun, but we have had to contend with them since the 70s. The Amiga had its share of them like SCA, Bytebandit, Saddam Hussein, Lamer exterminator and some others. Some just wrote cute messages, whereas others deliberately or by mistake destroyed your data. Let DJ Daemon take you back to the 80s […]
Two months before Amiga Flashback came to be, this show went on the air and due to technical problems it was lost for the ages. Like a digital Indiana Jones, DJ Daemon went into the dangerous ruins of the old server and dug the treasures out of the maw of oblivion. The show that went […]
Last year, we had a weekly station update. Not anymore. So here is a nice summarization of all that’s going on. And… Some soft and nice Amiga music for your pleasure. We even try three artists’ take on the song “Jamboree”, all pretty different… And very cool… In the news: What’s an Amiga tracker module […]
Allister Brimble composed a lot of the most famous Amiga-tracks in the early 90s and was frequently contracted by Team17. DJ Daemon has licensed the 2014 remixes of the old songs and plays them here for you and also talks a little about the games themselves. Errata: None, but just wait for it! Music played […]
This time, we play a list of selected tunes rated 8 / 10 on the Amiga Modules Archive. DJ Daemon speaks about games such as Silent Service and Utopia. Mentions how he impressed his brother with an Actiion Replay II on the Amiga and notes that the demo scene in Sweden is still not up […]
Due to a heavy work load, the Saturday episode of Amiga Flashback had to be broadcast on a Sunday. This time DJ Daemon focuses on the music and selects a set of more chill tunes. The bpm various between brisk and calm, but it’s more beautiful vibes and nice synth chords than heavy beat today. […]
Hackers are mythical creatures that just get in everywhere. Hacking is alas used as ersatz magic in many games and Hollywood movies. DJ Daemon tires of this and tries to find some games and movies that does this in a reasonly correct way. He uses a very generous definition of “correct”. But the suspence of […]
It’s almost Valentines day and love may be in the air. DJ Daemon doesn’t care too much about that and instead plays everloving Amiga-tunes and remembers when he fell in love with C64 basic (perhaps not something he wants to admit…), the demo scene and everything else around Commodore geekdom. He also overuses the word […]
Nerds and geeks are peaceful right? Nope! We battle as much as anyone else, but seldom in a fisticuffs fight. You know, it’s all about words and feeling superior because we have an HP 48 calculator, an Amiga instead of an Atari or because our favorite demo group just won in the great demo party. […]
Time to dish out some random stuff over the virtual airwaves. DJ Daemon has picked up a slew of songs of high quality never heard before on this station and struggles to pronounce the French and German names. Don’t laugh! Try to do it better, yourself 🙂 In the news: New Protracker for the PC […]
The 80s ended more than 30 years ago, but it was an interesting time in the eye of an impressionable youth such as me. I was 5 when it started and 15 when it was over. In between we had the closing chapter in the cold war, a battle between home computers, a combat where […]
Another doin’ nothin’ show. I did one a month ago, and I’m not done with that yet. New music (for this station) is promised and delivered as you expect. I also read a bad poem with so much horrible grammar it makes it all worth listening by itself. Some notes: About the intro: I don’t […]
Chiptunes are back in style in the retro scene. On of the people keeping this classic 80s and 90s computer music alive is Tekmann, who does his music on two Gameboys. He avoids doing to much post-work on the tunes he composes and instead prefers letting the real hardware doing the heavy lifting. It’s as […]
20 minutes before the show would “Air”, I knew it could be done. My plan was to record it later. But as my previous engagements fell throutgh, I sprung into action and got all things good from Amiga Modules Archive with a rating of 9 out of 10. Hence the cheezy reference to the old […]
Storytelling is key in some games but pretty optional in others. IF it needs a story it often ends up making or breaking the whole game itself. DJ Daemon sorts out four major storytelling mechanisms that are commonly found in the business: Textual stories (Infocom comes to mind) Talking to people – learning the story […]
Being wrong is no fun, but it’s soo easy. This episode jokes around about the incorrect stuff I said during the fall of 2020 and even puts the very idea of calling it “Errata” on a podcast in question. So it’s time to question our correctness and sanity. Maybe being wrong is ok, but what […]
Mixing it up by combining the New years eve and New years day broadcasts in a totally seamless podcast. DJ Daemon goes through the Amiga year of 2020 without mentioning the war (which war?), the American election OR too much about the Corona. Relax and enjoy music never heard on the station from the Amiga […]
Dr Awesome is a staple here, but today’s podcast plays the remixes that you don’t get to hear on the station otherwise. For one hour we reimagine his old Amiga modules with modern synthesizers and the effects to match. Not much to say, but a lot to experience. Best heard on high volume or with […]
Tropes! The way we put game mechanics into tiny little boxes and the love or hate them. So, what’s a Trope? – “a significant or recurrent theme; a motif.” Example: “A movie is often built around the “Hero’s journey” The tropes discussed in this episode are: “Making the short route taxing” The game may be […]
Xmas time! This is the three hour long show that we’ve been waiting for. Broadcast during the Forndata-event, it features some commentaries from me finally losing the battle to Whamming, the cool weirdness that was the demos released and a lot of discussions about the CDTV and the CD32. Those two ultimately failing Commodore projects […]
Today we’re just lounging and remember the first times. It was magical the first time you felt her in your hand. … What are you thinking about?? I mean the Amiga and the C64! DJ Daemon speaks about the first time seeing a module played on Noisetracker and when he directed Seagreen BBS users to […]
You fought the good fight! The baddies are dead and blown to smithereens and the fair maiden is by your side throwing ever loving glances at you. And then? “Conga-rats a winner is you. The princess is in another castell”. The message drives you to the wall. “I fought 30 hours for this!!! WTF!!!!”.” This […]
Nuthin’ special iN here. Just the N-series of Nice and Not Naughty SoNgs. Every Note iN here comes from the modules with N in the title or artist. So you Numbskulls can eNjoy good music. Errata: Amiga Flashback airs on Saturdays, Not SuNdays…
Sunday is here and today I talk demos, why EVACUE failed and the disqualified entry at the Gathering 1994 plus why Cannon Fodder does not glorify war. Correction: Evacue’s last demo was in august 1994 and not 1995 as I stated.
Setting the stage for the show with a nice Swedish potpourri, searching for the lost module and discussing why Overload has nothing to do with porn! Errata: The “unknown/lost” song was found by our listener Bittin_: it’s called “I Thought It Over” and was created by “The Master”. More about it here: https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=151960
Today, the history of everything ERICADE is on the menu. Daemon delves into the worst mistake in his life that he almost did, why there was nothing wrong with the listening counters and why the Corona built this station.
The “pilot” or pre-sequel-whatever. The show that started the wild idea of having another podcast. Because we need one… Or do we? I did not know it would really become a podcast later, so it had no name really. Just felt like making a voicetracked show for no apparent reason . Coreus from Retro Spirit […]