Flashback, tracks from the past – ERICADE.RADIO

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

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. Tags: Host: DJ Daemon, 2021

Forndata 2021 Summer is over and brought a lot of joy to the demoworld from Visby in Sweden. It was off course online only, but presented demo-, C64- and tracked music compos as you’d expect from a true demo party. The start was on time and there were few problems until the OctaMed-tune from heck just would play and was disqualified. The line up was good and the tunes were all up to the standard y...

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 of superiority that struck me as rather unappealing. I’m kinda amazed by the tecnhological p...

From France comes the Shadow party 2021 and between 2021-05-21 and 2021-05-23 the virtual doors opened for a brand new demo party. We jumped at the chance to broadcast the tunes the same day they competed, so we did not know who had won. But we know now:The winners:1) TDTTDHAD – The Demo Track That Didn’t Have A Demo – CS-Jay / Desire Persuasive Music Slide / Polka Brothers2) Evolution / Ma2e and...

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 magic – it’s been quite a ride. Like Emmet Brown in back to the future, we ask o...

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 it’s still a tracker tune. We’re venerating the Amiga in spirit. Still, the large majority of all tunes on this...

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 Texas Instruments TI 99/4A. DJ Daemon remembers the days of infighting between hordes o...

“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. Covered:Thimbleweed parkDust – an Elysian tailStranger thingsWhy are most retrogeeks guys? Swedish radio show HassanHow the 2020s is to the 1990s the same way as the 1950s was to the 1920s Playlist: 00:00 Amiga Flashback –...

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 please don’t listen if it offends you. DJ Daemon walks you through the contenders and...

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 the smoothest and the coolest beats the Amiga mod scene can muster. The Revision Demo scene...

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 and guide you through the less popular parts of Amiga history. Playlist: 00:00 Amiga Flas...

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 on the air 2020-10-12 at 6 pm is now back, restored and the broken elements carefully repaired. This is the inaugur...

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… Playlist: 00:00 Amiga Flashback – show intro 00:08 DJ Daemon speaks 23s 00:30 A-lin – Through the border 03:45 DJ Daemon speaks 76s 05:01 Ya...

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. Playlist: 00:00 Amiga Flashback – show intro 00:08 DJ Daemon talks about the song. 00:38 Allister Brimble – Superfrog Title 02:47 DJ Daemon t...

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 to much right now… Darn this Covid19. Playlist: 00:00 Amiga Flashback – show intro 00:08 DJ Daemon introduces the sh...

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 varies between brisk and calm, but it’s more beautiful vibes and nice synth chords than heavy beat today. Errata:17:57 : The SSI-intro is actually a commercial demo for some upcoming SSI-games. Thanks to Bittin_ f...

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 disbelief is a strong force of nature. So let’s just accept this as a proper hacker story. P...

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 “Love” in a way that even the Beatles would have found a bit too much. Playlist:...

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. DJ Daemon dives into why we need to form groups or “cliques” where we feel elevated and enlighted as op...

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. :) Playlist: 00:00 Jingle – Top of the hour – Good evening 00:05 DJ Daemon introduces the show. 00:24 Amiga – Under The Sea 03:11 DJ Daemon speaks...

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 silence met the truth of an incident in a village near Kiev and off course the monumental clash between east and west as the bord...

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 know what DAE means either. Maybe some weird connection with area 51, so dae. I know how l33t-speak work. I just ac...

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 real as it gets! Today we meet him in an interview where he talks about his creative approach,...

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 sci-fi turkey created by Ed Wood. Then I voice tracked at a warp 10 speed and barely got it out in time. Playlist: 00...