Fallout, how I love thee! Let me count the ways 1,2,Tactics,3,New Vegas,4… Let’s just end there…DJ Daemon was inspired by Fallout to create his own voice acted radio station, but wisely choose to create this one instead. It’s sad if you voice act some old man screaming in the radio from a bunker, and no one will get that it isn’t you for real. I mean, that’s a ruined reputation right there. Really dodged a bullet, there…Corrections: Fallout 1 was released in 1997, not 1995 as stated in the intro.
Playlist:
00:00 Flashback – tracks from the past – Show intro
00:13 DJ Daemon speaks: I’ve been a fan of legendary game series Fallout that began in 1997 and when Fallout 3 came out I was skeptical to the whole “radiostation in the wasteland”-thing. But Threedog and President Eden made a convert out of me and I just had to create a radio station that went live from a bunker, myself. Well, didn’t really work out the way I expected. Here’s my story.
00:41 Crimson – Compulsive march
03:12 DJ Daemon speaks: In the 20th centuary, war was waged over the will of and love from the people, with the hope of ensured victory in the elections, wars and public opinion. Only this time, the spoils of war were also its weapons: newspaper and radio. For control of these resources, Hitler invaded Poland and took control over the Gleiwitz transmitter and Stalin seized the press in Russia. In 2008, the storm of world war had come again. Bethesda released the computer game Fallout 3 and most of the fan base dissolved into quarreling, bickering groups on forums, bent on sharing their hurt feelings. Some of us playing the game enjoyed hearing the voices from the two radio hosts that still were on the air in the destroyed city of Washington DC. I was one of them… … My life was about to change.
04:16 Travolta – Mannen bak skuret
05:09 DJ Daemon speaks: I have loved ingame radio since I played Grand Theft Auto 3 in the naughties. I pulled out the audio files of the stations and listened to them in the bathtub at my home. Right, I was not a fan of radio stations in Fallout 3, thinking “what the hell, they barely have power to begin with”. But we had the enigmatic president Eden and his USA revival-schtick. ….Aaaaaaaand Threedog, the larger than life shock-jock sending his snarky comments on your progress. Both, an enjoyable experience.
05:56 Phorte of FTS, Winter – Airborne v2
08:55 DJ Daemon speaks: With Fallout Vegas coming out in 2010, radio stations were still a thing in the wasteland. But since then, the fan made stations really have became a popular. Remarkably well done. Some with playable situations where you can meet the DJs and do quests for them. I have a large collections of those stations. They often even surpass the ones you get with the game. And after you install them, you can enjoy listening to music and banter as you walk through the desert. Radio – Radio never changes.
09:38 Spindizzy and Warder – Forrest Hymn
13:21 DJ Daemon speaks: All the best Fallout DJs have been really excentric in their own way. The fan created ones even more so. Esaia Pendergrass of Cadillac Jack’s Radio Schack get’s more hammered over time. You know, I’ve been in community broadcasting for eleven years here in Sweden, and we had people like that for real. In Repconn radio, captain Cosmos is in a constant dispute with his evolved moon monkey, Jangles. The latter is so snarky, he puts all the other DJs to shame. Gopnik radio has a Russian guy telling you survival advice and to drink much alcohol. There’s little wholesomeness in the desert, let me tell you that much.
14:17 TRiGGER – Moonchild M72
18:19 DJ Daemon speaks: My “Fallout style radio station” was supposed to have a 40-year old man living in his mother’s basement, which he has made into a bunker. From my description: “Like a soldier living in the jungle, Daemon has yet to receieve the news that the war is over. Vaguely aware of the times around him, but still nurturing a feud with the other now non-existant Atari-users, he can’t understand why this “Internet”-thing is so popular. He frequents the last remaining BBS-eses in the world and refuses to trade the terminal window for some new-fangled stuff like “Windoze” crap.” Yup. I intended to voice act this station. Thankfully I was wise enough not to….
19:15 Aurini – Aerobic Workout ’79
22:21 DJ Daemon speaks: So why no voice acting? Easy: how would you know that it was just a show when you have no context? Most people would have written me off as “crazy”. I’m not saying I’m not, but it’s better not to make painfully obvious. So it never came to be. And all for the better, as listeners stop listening for any little mistake. You know: 5 seconds of silence? Bye-bye… You said something snarky? I’m never coming back! That song sucked. Let’s call the authorities… Nah, too lazy, let’s change the station instead. I don’t like your voice! I only do Spotify playlists from here on. Human voices bore me.
23:17 Swallow – Bambi
26:28 DJ Daemon speaks: As we’re getting closer to one year on the air, it’s been quite a ride. I thought I knew radio. I did not. I still don’t, but I’m at least getting there. A huge thanks to all of you sticking with me though power failures, crashes, mistakes and weird tunes that shouldn’t have been put on the air to begin with. I going to play the greatest tunes – no matter how much it hurts… Nah, wait, maybe I shouldn’t paraphrase Threedog with that logic… Anyways…
27:09 Converse – April
30:26 DJ Daemon speaks.
31:01 Psirius – A pretty bad dream
35:05 DJ Daemon speaks.
35:49 Jeroen Tel of WAVE – Burned beyond
39:32 DJ Daemon speaks.
40:19 Malmen and Goluigi – Summertime roses
43:41 DJ Daemon speaks.
44:17 Jeroen Tel of WAVE – Flexible feelings
48:06 DJ Daemon speaks.
49:00 DJ Uno and Headbanger – Freezed_Fantasies
52:21 DJ Daemon speaks.
53:11 Reissecup – Night Speaks to a Woman
56:43 DJ Daemon speaks.
57:25 Mel o’dee of Shadow – Disc trip
61:11 NeoBlaze – Vision of Space
Tags: Storytelling, Host: DJ Daemon, 2021, Retro gaming
