- Slipstream - Party Report
     by MIKE + JESTER / QUARTEX

  Our  journey  to the party starts in
Leicester  where Mike Quartex meets up
with  ADS  &  Dax  of Inner City, they
leave  at  7:30  pm,  five hours later
they  arrive  at  my house; but before
they  get here they have many problems
to overcome, firstly they arrive in my
road  but  knock  at  the wrong house,
luckily  a  gorgeous woman in a skimpy
dressing gown answers, next they drive
to Speedy Dennis's, he was out, in the
meantime they try to call me, but they
had  the  wrong  number.  Finally they
get here, we start calling some boards
and   download  the  many  new  cracks
available.   After  no  sleep and much
tiredness   we  decide  to  leave  for
Bournemouth.  As the party is not far,
we  arrive within 45minutes of leaving
my place.
  We   park   the   car,  see  a  sign
'SLIPSTREAM   CONFERENCE'  Cool!.   We
walk  down  the  side of the hotel and
find  the conference hall, it was well




furnished,    it    even    had    air
conditioning,  reluctantly we paid our
entrance  fees(4  pound  is alot for a
copy party).  We'd arrived at 11:30 am
at  this  time there was only about 50
people  present;  adjoining  the  main
room were two small rooms, we occupied
one  and  set  up  the  modem.  In the
other  room  videos  were  being shown
(Teenage  Mutant Ninja Turtles,Back to
the  Future 3) but the highlight was a
porno  movie  where  the 'star' turned
into a green alien!
  By  14:00  many more guys had turned
up,  most  of  the  English groups had
made   an  appearance,  by  17:00  the
kickoff  tournament  had started.  The
winner  was  a  Slipstream member aged
15, his prize:  2 porno movies!!
  At   18:00   the   demo  competition
started,  Dan  of Slipstream collected
all the  demos,Slipstream,Anarchy,THR,
Magnetic Fields & share and enjoy
entered demos.  The judges were to be
 Mike / QUARTEX, Havoc / ECSTACY
Alchemist / Crack uk, myself plus two
guys.




 After  our first review, we'd THR,SAE
and Slipstream all tied for 1st place,
so we decided to judge the 3 remaining
demos   on   GFX,MUSIC,TECHNICAL   and
LASTABILITY.
  The  outcome was:  of a possible 240
points,   in   third  place  came  The
Hacking   Relation   with  94  points,
second  place  went to Slipstream with
139,  and  the  overall winner was the
amazing  tunes  2  intro from SAE with
154 pts.

  The  judges  felt  that the SAE demo
was  better  than  the  Slipstream one
because  all the ideas in the SAE demo
were  their  own, whereas the music in
the  Slipstream  demo sounded too much
like   Romeo  Knight/RSI.   Of  course
Andi/Slipstream  was furious and tried
to make us change our minds, a case of
a bad looser maybe!
  Anyways  T.I.W received the prize on
behalf  of Comrade J (A Naksha Mouse).
Then  all the demos were compiled onto
2 disks, by 20:00 we had all left.




  Our  next  journey took us to L.F of
Slipstream's  (now  Reaktor) house, of
course they left too quickly so we had
to  buy  a  map  and  try and find the
place   .We  got  there  really  easy.
Again  the Green Alien porno movie was
showing (cult viewing by all).  We set
up  the  modem (AGAIN!) and called the
U.S  boards took down a shitty demo by
Paradox,   but   no  more  new  wares.
  At  around  23:00  we  left  Kevin's
house  and travelled to Gandalf of the
Druids,   we  stayed  there  overnight
before returning home in the morning.

CONCLUSION:    A   cool   party,  good
settings in sunny Bournemouth, lots of
groups.It  was  well  organised  (well
done  Dan and Kevin),and I'm sure that
Slipstream  (now  Reaktor)  will  hold
another  conference.   Of  the  groups
that  attended  here is a list of some
of   them:   Slipstream  (Yo  Dan  and
Kevin),Quartex, Anarchy (Hi Mr. Big ),
Ecstacy(ChillSteve(Havoc)),Silents  UK
(Burp!  Dave),Cryptic,Crack UK, T.H.R.
(I   hope   they   got  their  mummy's
permission  to  come),SAE (Russ, Dream 
 Warrior);  to  name but a few.