Flashback, tracks from the past – 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 show:– What’s on the horizon for the next week in the demo scene?– A get-well greeting to Slaygon and...

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 some heavy rocking ones. Playlist: 00:00 ericade.radio – Time for Flashback, tracks from the...

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. Playlist: 00:00 ericade.radio - Time for Flashback, tracks from the past - with your host DJ Daemon 00:06 DJ Daemon: We're waiting...

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 the future for Forndata. This show was broadcast before the demoparty ended and thus we cannot talk about ev...

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 points between 1-10 to everything they can. Today, DJ Daemon does another show based on the...

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 apologyThis podcast differs from the original broadcast in that the tune "Syndrom land" by MAF has...

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 or somewhere in between. Playlist: 00:00 ericade.radio - Time for Flashback, tracks from the...

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. Playlist: 00:00 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past 00:06 DJ D...

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. Playlist: 00:00 ericade.radio - Time for another episode of Flashback - Tracks from the past 00:06 DJ Daemon speaks. 28s 00:31 Reactor Grits - Bossa nova 04:11 DJ Daemon sp...

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 for all. Playlist: 00:00 ericade.radio – Time for another episode of Flashback – Tracks from the past 00...

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 the previous albums, Classeur, Pop and Mosaik. Listen to music created on v...

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. DJ Daemon wryly talks about the different tunes and what he thinks about them. Playlist: 00:00 er...

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. Playlist: 00:00 ericade.radio - Time for another episode of Flashback - Tracks from the past 00:06 DJ Daemon speaks: Our fight t...

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 alb...

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...

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 t...

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...

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 regula...

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...

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.r...

"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 relea...

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...

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 part...

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 epi...

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 D...