Party Review for The Party 1992
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Diskmagazine | LSD 8-Ball - AKI - Adam Egest - ... | a2/93 |
T H E P A R T Y ' 9 2 R E P O R T By Milamber/Independent The Party in Aars Denmark was on the 27-29th of December 1992. On Boxing day I got up at 5 and nearly cancelled the whole damn thing, all the boring shit happens, Parrallax comes round and my dad gives us a lift to Heathrow airport for our plane to Denmark. We arrive in Denmark after a rather crap breakfast on the plane (although I did manage to "acquire" a few useful things) and try to go through the Red channel and declare my nice external disk-drive, a bored looking guard looks at me as if I am mad and basically doesn't give a toss (I like this place already!) The sign I had stuck on my rucksack managed to attract a couple of guys from PMC France who we travelled to Aars with. Arrive at Aars the night before and crash out rather rapidly in the cold sleeping hall. After queuing for 2 hours in the morning we are finally registered and can start to enjoy ourselves properly, settle down with some guys who have PC's (sorry all you PC haters, I have one to) but fortunately some guys arrive with Amiga's so I can get back to doing REAL computing (hello Laars, Morten etc...) start to explore the place. There were 3 halls where the party was based; Hall 1 - Amiga's only (like hell!) Hall 2 - PC's and 64's (and Amiga's, Archimedes etc...) Hall 3 - Dead bodies (sorry sleeping hall) This place was fucking huge, we are talking MASSIVE, (See the photos!) Hall 1 Had all the interesting groups in, Alcatraz, Scoopex, Anarchy etc... and a large 6x4 metre screen (with real 6x4 metre pictures too) which mainly had MTV on. Hall 2 was about the same size as Hall 1 (just not as long) and was really empty to begin with but by the evening it was packed full of people and the atmosphere was really getting cool. We decided to eat so ventured into the canteen, shit I never knew Denmark was going to be soooo cheap, £2 for a bottle of Pepsi, £3 for a Pizza, god I can really afford that like fuck. Jeezus I didn't eat for most of the 3 days! Anyway interesting things going round, Turbo Raketti - everybody was playing this, imagine Thrust with two players and various types of guns and you have Turbo Raketti (unfortunately Turbo Raketti also had Saddam but we won't go into that!) you couldn't walk round any of the halls without seeing this damned Finish game everywhere. TRSI trackmo, god knows what it was called but the music by Romeo Knight was excellent, 3 million different versions of Xcopy and Dcopy! Anyway at 1 O'clock Jesper Kyd, Mikael Balle and Sionic (I think) did a really cool concert for about 1 and a half hours with video backing and everything. The music was very cool Jean M Jarre'ish and I think that there is a video of it floating around (Denmark at least) After this I was totally knackerd and got my stuff to go to sleep in the sleeping hall but unfortunately it was packed full of comatose sods so I slept under a table in Hall 2 (really!) Woke up to the subtle sound of Nirvana coming from next door and tried to get myself together. After more Pepsi and other natural things it was about time to go look around again. Video pirates were out in force (one group with 11 video recorders, 1 plays, 10 copy!) so Italian porn movies were flying round the hall faster then Hardwired 5 would (Seen a copy of Hellraiser 3 as well). Static Bytes still had not finished the Eurochart so I just started talking to people (hello Lite of Firegroup). Most people came from Denmark (Surprise surprise) and a lot from Sweden. 16 yes SIXTEEN people from the UK, big turn out guys (Hello The Rat of Addict, Dan of Anarchy, Colin of Delicious, Mr. Mister of Trance, Paradroid of Anarchy, Ozone and Dave of Abandon, Bon Jogi of Mania Ent., Eddie of Presence, EXT of Acrid, Magic Mushroom of Quartz, Gaston of Magical, Splatt of Fairlight and Ronin of Undercover) The second night I just watched Waynes World and Basic Instinct in the Lazer Disc room (You just had to hear some of the comments about Basic Instinct!) Got a place in the sleeping hall that night too. Next day demo competition, Xcopy or Dcopy on hundreds of screens. For the results see the separate results article. The Melon Tetris intro was fucking awesome, really folks that is no animation. The party started to end about this point, we stayed behind so that we could sleep somewhere for another night before coming home so we had to help clear up ("Help" may be over- stressing the point!) Greetz to the cool guys from Spaceballs whom I met that night when we pissed about with organisers computers and got lots of cool stuff. (We really did help clear up didn't we Yoghurt!) Anyway that was it, THE final, never to be repeated if you missed it, well shit bad luck (Best £200 I spent for quite a while, 'cept for the old hard-drive!) Thanks to Crystal/Silents/Anarchy for organising two excellent parties, some may take the piss, some may never know, but those who went will. The FULL guest list for the party is available from me or Axl (who's address is undoubtedly in the adverts bit!), its over 170kb and far too big to print here! Milamber 33 Henrietta Road, Thame, Oxon. OX9 3TJ England Include a stamp and I guarantee return of disk (Only Legal things please). C R Y S T A L - S I L E N T S - A N A R C H Y T H E P A R T Y - T H E R E S U L T S By Spads of Alpha Flight A M I G A D E M O S 1 Spaceballs.....................585 2 Anarchy........................354 3 TRSI...........................182 4 PMC............................181 5 Shining........................158 6 Virtual Dreams.................151 7 Cult...........................116 8 Paradise Productions...........108 9 Digital.........................92 10 Future Mirror...................81 11 Aurora..........................75 12 Gunnar Farvebio.................75 13 Triangle 3532...................72 14 Balance.........................70 15 Dominators......................57 16 Parasite........................52 17 Trash...........................41 18 Noice...........................41 19 Adict...........................36 10 Overkill........................29 21 KGB.............................27 22 Abyss...........................25 23 Deus and Mechaniac..............23 24 Profecy.........................18 A M I G A G R A P H I C S 1 WomSnake[32LO].................345 2 -ENCOUNTER-....................254 3 Attack.iff.....................174 4 Competition by Facet...........174 5 pamaopa.rHaH...................167 6 Krabber_Overalt................156 7 -Splash-II-ScUBa...............116 8 LYDIE INSPIRATION Mack-MELON..110 9 (D)DayFall-preview.............104 10 -INFERNO- BY NAVY...............93 11 Obnoxious.SLASH.................88 12 BISLEY'S HoRsY5.................56 13 Aliens.FashionD.-PLS............53 14 Dick-On-A-Mission...............50 15 grogniaaaasse...................47 16 SUNY_ANARCHY_DRAGON.............40 17 PI.Murayama.....................37 18 Babes...........................36 19 TRIUMPH OF STEEL................35 20 MorbusLove......................27 21 The_BeAuty_Of_DeAth.IFF.........27 22 DRAGON..........................27 23 Discovering.....................27 24 IFF.JOE_COCKER..................25 25 MetalGirl.......................24 26 DeadlyFantasies.................24 27 Imbalance_Marvel.iff............24 28 embrace.final!!!................23 29 kaneda.pic......................22 30 CONCORDE.Manta X-TRADE..........20 31 ZeroGravity.Coma_of_Trash.......20 32 NYMPH IN PARADISE...............20 33 B...............................18 34 BLACK AND WHITE.................18 35 The Death Of Sturm..............17 36 Cygnus Buccinator...............16 A M I G A G R A P H I C S C O N T I N U E D 37 broken edison by tin_brs........13 38 Dize of Starion.................13 39 Sand_Drake.iff..................12 40 Jucy Lucy........................9 41 indiana2.HAM.....................8 42 PROBOTECTOR by TITAN of (A)......8 43 MULTI MEGA FIX 4.................7 44 mercedes-190SL...................5 45 Vengeance!.......................5 46 lim x->93........................5 47 sunset.pic.......................4 48 splash-end.......................4 49 From Dark Ages...................3 50 Ozelot...........................3 51 pic.SilverSurfer.................3 52 PARANOIA.preview.................2 53 The Castle II.iff................0 A M I G A M U S I C There was more than 250 modules of music! HERE ARE the best of them. 1 Substance II The tune/Moby/DRD.250 2 Hi-Tension/Gurra & Alf/Virtual.188 3 Desessart Nicolas/Doh/Delight..142 4 Time's the Remedy/Mr.Man/Andro.137 5 Nicole/Fabian/Desire...........128 6 Elimination/Lizardleing/Alcatr.120 7 Oberheim Power / Emax/TRSI.....115 8 Technology / Axel/Brainstorm....93 9 Riviera / Dean/Cyberiad.........89 10 Jimi Hendrix / Hein/Vision......87 11 Sidewinder / Vinnie/Spaceballs..82 12 Under the Surface/Gin/Dual Cre..78 13 Big Bang / Dr. Mirios/Noxious...74 14 Ne-Groove/HitHansen/Funky Budd..73 15 Partygrooving/Wardsequencer/Re..69 16 The War/Audiomonster/Melon Dez..66 17 Rain / Lizard/Andromeda.........65 18 A New Jack Thing/Koo Kai/Liqui..63 19 Stop The Press/Jason/Crusaders..57 20 Kefrens / Maestro/Kefrens.......57 21 Flower-Power-Module/Rockbiter+..46 22 Nativedance / Mazon/Equinox.....45 23 Croma division / Mental Cube....44 24 Haunted / Spacebrain/Upfront....35 25 Spacetekopening / Joker/BMB.....33 26 Last Execution/Bjørn Sketch Ah..31 27 Real Motivation/Mic Dair/Compl..26 28 Psychodelic Blast/Zytar/Quartc..25 29 Real Jordan Jazz / 911/Rebels...21 30 Metal Horn / Big Baer/Taurus(D).20 31 The Triumph of Loon/Loonstar/T..19 32 Earection / Ash/Vixen...........19 33 ??? / Maggot/Legacy.............17 34 The Club-M(a)dley-Remix/Rokdaz...7 A M I G A I N T R O 1 Melon Dezign..........213 2 Shining/Tizzy.........121 3 Silents................90 4 Scoopex................87 5 Skandal................79 6 Rebels.................50 7 Shining/Zeus...........42 8 Babcat.................38 9 T.E.K..................35 10 Carillon...............27 11 U.D.O..................25 12 Complex/Judi...........19 13 D-Tect.................17 14 Reflex.................16 15 Union..................14 16 Fungus.................13 17 Compact................12 18 Alcatraz...............12 19 Legend.................11 20 Complex/Crash...........8 21 Infect..................7 22 Dash....................6 23 Implosion...............4 24 Oxygen..................4 25 T.L.H...................3