Flashback, tracks from the past – ERICADE.RADIO

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...

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. Playlist: 00:00 Jingle - Top of the hour - Good evening 00:05 DJ Daemon speaks. 00:28 Amiga - BOPFLOP 06:55 DJ Daemon speaks. 10:47 Amiga - bergsmtaren_lever 11...

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 if you let a crazy mad scientist style cryptographer doing it on a IT-security podcast? Daemon shudders when he...

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 module-scene and a few stories about:Ibrowse 2.5.3.Vampire V4 stand aloneThe war between Cloa...

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 a decent set of head phones at a comfortable level (don’t damage your hearing!!).The remixes are by the g...

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" Playlist: 00:00 Jingle - Top of the hour - Good evening 00:05 DJ Daemon speaks. 00:32 Amiga - CONVENTI 02:25 DJ Daemon speaks. 03:34 Amiga - super mario land 05:47 DJ Daemon speaks. 07:4...

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 with vastly different starting points. Why did they fail and wha...

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 his BBS. And then, the question is how you shouldn’t really wear a mask in Corona times. Obviously it’s j...

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!!!!”.” Playlist: 00:00 Jingle - Top of the hour - Good evening 00:05 DJ Daemon speaks. 00:38 Amiga - CALL_D...

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… Playlist: 00:00 Jingle - Top of the hour - Good evening 00:05 DJ Daemon speaks. 36 00:40 Amiga - NASSUM 04:25 DJ Daemon speaks. 29 04:53 Amiga - NICOLE 07:24...

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. Playlist: 00:00 Jingle - Top of the hour - Good evening 00:05 DJ Daemon speaks. 00:30 Amiga - on the jazz wave 03:35 DJ Daemon speaks. 04:52 Amiga - 1993 10:31 Jingle - Comm...

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. Playlist: 00:00 Jingle - Top of the hour - Good evening 00:05 DJ Daemon speaks. 00:24 Amiga - originaldub 04:41 DJ Daemon speaks. 05:44 Amiga - velo matrix 08:21 DJ Daemon speaks....

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”. Playlist: 00:00 Jingle - Top of the hour - Good evening 00:05 DJ Daemon speaks. 26 00:28 Amiga - silence of whisper 05:...

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 suggested I started a Podcast, so I did… All later episodes correctly bear the name “Amiga Flashb...