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 – Temporal AnomalySecond place – Vintrospective – An answering moodThird place – Caramel of Proxima – JargonautSlaze – Stringfellow Hawke, played in this episode, won 2nd place in the Airwolf compo.
Playlist:
00:00 Flashback – tracks from the past – Show intro
00:08 DJ Daemon speaks: The summer’s delivering a lot of demo parties. And as I’m recording this, GubbData is in full swing. Gubbe means “old man” in Swedish and it’s quite fitting given the age of the hosts and of us, the visitors. And, we have six entries competing in the tracked music competition. The winner has not yet been announced, so we play them in order of appearance. First out is Norwegian scener, Caramel of Proxima with Jargonaut.
00:42 Caramel of Proxima – Jargonaut
02:53 DJ Daemon speaks: Our neighbors to the east are respected sceners with a lot of good tracker musicians, coders and graphics artists. The next tune, “I wanna hold you” was created by Finnish scener Juzdie of Artline Designs.
03:10 Juzdie of Ald – “I wanna hold you”
06:30 DJ Daemon speaks: KRDN or Cordon is next up and the third entry in the competition. As you may remember from previous episodes of this podcast, he is from Sweden. And this time he hits us with “Feels like 1992”, a classic Amiga sounding tracker tune.
06:50 KRDN – Feels like 1992
09:29 DJ Daemon speaks: Scandinavia dominates this compo! You see, Ma2e of Triace is back and he, like Caramel, is Norwegian. The song is called Sweet-o-cutiepie.
09:43 Ma2e of Triace – Sweet-o-cutiepie
11:35 DJ Daemon speaks: Slaze of Defiance comes from Sweden and tells me that he is spending many hours of his spare time composing tunes right now. And it shows, he has been hitting the demo compo charts at Forndata 2021 and earlier Revision 2021. Rumour is that he is aiming for Edison Party 2021 as well. We’ll see. The tune is called Temporal Anomaly.
12:02 Slaze – Temporal Anomaly
15:37 DJ Daemon speaks: Final entry is Vintrospective with the tune “An Answering Mood”. I have to admit I draw a blank when trying to find anything about him or her. But it will probably become clear later on and then I will update the description of the episode. But please enjoy the soft and nice song that really sets the mood.
16:02 Vintrospective – An answering mood
20:09 DJ Daemon speaks: And that’s all of them. So, my opinion? I personally like them all, but I think Slaze, Vintrospective and KRDN should be the contenders for the gold medal. My favorite is Vintrospective’s “Answering mood”, as I’m a sucker for calm tunes with nice loops. KRDNs tune, like its title implies, sounds like it was made in 1992, and I like that.. Slaze’s Temporal anomaly takes some listening to in order to fully enjoy. Heavier than you’d expect and all the better for it.
20:48 Fearofdark – My Spectrum’s On Fire
24:35 DJ Daemon speaks: Right now, it’s Saturday evening and the party is still running. We’ve had lots of nice demos, legendary Mahoney talking about coding on the C64, LFT repurposing an ancient telephone and Mibri bringing you the blippety-blopety beats as a true retro DJ should. The brains behind the whole party is the Gubbs themselves, hedning and Phreedh.
25:13 Slaze – Stringfellow Hawke
28:08 DJ Daemon speaks: I’m not advertising things, as this station isn’t earning any money. But this endorsement is free. Assembly64, created by Hedning, is a marvellous program for Windows allowing you to sync all C64 programs, tunes, demos and games you can think of.
29:02 Ronny of Farbrausch and _Rohformat (bmp) – Diese augenblicke werden nie vergehen
32:14 DJ Daemon speaks: Coreus on our Discord channel seems to like Farbrausch, so this is for him. Also a shoutout to all the others on the channel.
32:55 DreaMSectioN – One Last Hope
37:17 DJ Daemon speaks: So next week is Edison Party 2021. Some people will be there physically while most will enjoy it from their sofa with a beer in their hand. Either way, don’t miss it! We will cover it on next weeks podcast and give you the contestants. www.edisonparty.com
37:47 Cyborg Jeff – Smiling ready’s square
40:36 DJ Daemon speaks: My vacation is coming up, so the podcast will have to be recorded before or from another place.
41:04 Warder – Moors of Ireland
46:06 DJ Daemon speaks: Are you doing some cool retrostuff like tracked tunes, podcasts or things like that? Then contact me if you want it featured on this station.
46:42 GuY of Charlie Brown Records – Elven Blood
52:10 DJ Daemon speaks: And this is the end of this episode. Gubbdata will be back, that’s a pretty safe bet. And I’ll be back as well next Saturday at 9 PM. This is DJ Daemon signing off and leading you out into the good night with….
52:43 Nagz – Mood Gallery
56:38 DJ Daemon speaks.
56:45 Elwood – Unknown Phuture
Production notes:
This one was tough, as none of the orgas ever responded, forcing me to get creative. The podcast mostly uses stream copy, and I later replaced the tunes that made it to the station with the proper tracked tunes that I mastered myself. While getting in the touch with orgas can be tough on most demo parties, as they're often quite busy, the Gubbdata arrangers were uncooperative and ignored me on the chat.
Colophon:
The movie "No country for old men" is the inspiration for the title. Gubbdata gets its name from the Swedish term "Gubbe", which means "old man".
Tags: Gubbdata, Demo scene episodes, Demo scene top lists, Host: DJ Daemon, 2021
