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 you’d expect from them. The interviews were quite unique with Swedish minister of digitilization, Anders Ygeman and legendary Commodore techs Bil Herd and Dave Haynie. We also got a really nice live interview with Chris Huelsbeck, the tracked music god of sorts.
Playlist:
00:00 Flashback – track from the past – show intro
00:08 Today it’s the sixth of June and Sweden’s National Day. It’s all about yesterday’s demo party Forndata that went live over Twitch from Visby in Sweden. Forndata can be translated to AncientData and gets it’s name from Visby’s medieval past. The tracked music compo had seven entries, with one disqualified for not working. As usual we run the from last position to the first. Starting with "The new republic cafe" by e1ghtbm thats get 61 point and captures position number 6.
00:52 E!ghtbm – The New Republic Cafe
03:06 DJ Daemon speaks: As you know e!ghtbm comes from Poland. The next contestant, landing the fifth place in the Forndata 2021 competition is ADKD who was known previously as Kefir. He is from Norway and the song is called “Absalon junction”
03:27 Adkd – Absalon Junction
06:00 DJ Daemon speaks: Next up is No9 who gets 83 points and grabs position number 4 with a lesson on how to drop Potatoes. Not sure why that’s so important, but he is also known as Grogon och Gorgon and hails from Poland. Hope he knows AceMan.
06:01 Recording duration: 27
06:22 No9 – How to drop potatoes
09:35 DJ Daemon speaks: All right, we need some Swedish skills and thankfully, Slaze from Defiance is here to set the score. So he does and gets 85 points which leads him and his song “Neuroflute” to the bronze position and third place.
09:54 Slaze – Neuroflute
13:18 DJ Daemon speaks: Time for the first loser… That is the second position and the silver medal. Defiance gangs up on the competition with KRDN scoring 89 points with Oldskool groove.
13:37 Krdn of Defiance – Oldskool Groove
16:19 DJ Daemon speaks: Wait a minute, Hvrankel! What the… Are the same people allowed to compete with different tunes and help each other to win? Obviously… That’s how ended up with the winner.. The gold… The owner of the chicken dinner … Polychromatic fever by Grogon and e!ghtbm. They get 91 points.
16:43 Grogon and E!ghtbm – Polychromatic Fever
19:43 DJ Daemon speaks: So that’s the story of the competition. The disqualified tune is made with Octamed by ThyPyroo and is called Forklift data. What it sounds like? No idea, I can’t make anything play it at all. We don’t play pre-tracker age music. But for another contestant on Forndata, in the C64 Music compo, I must make an execption. It’s actually made for a VIC-20 and is called Fäbod. Zapac made it happen.
20:22 Zapac – Fäbod
22:24 DJ Daemon speaks: So, I cannot stop myself now. The winner in the open demo comp was Subway Art by Mahna Mahna. A magic piece opening with… Can you guess it?
22:40 Mahna Mahna – Subway Art pt 1
23:17 DJ Daemon speaks: … And it gets better, going from a hand painting grafiti to a ghettoblaster playing the opening tune of the muppet show… My childhood memories are back.
23:30 Mahna Mahna – Subway Art pt 2
26:57 Midori – Conundrum
29:52 Jazz Jackrabbit – Menu song (Jazz Jackrabbit Intro)
32:03 TRiGGER – A.L.O.N.E.*RMX_2
35:37 Abyss of Delight – Sleeping Waste
39:05 Evelred of TLOTB – Midnight run
44:11 Speedhead – MEGADEMOZAK
48:39 ModMaker – Loosing Everything
52:11 Abyss of Delight – Sleeping Waste
55:16 Michiel van den Bos – Love will find a way
Tags: Forndata, Demo scene episodes, Demo scene top lists
