THE SOUTHERN PARTY REPORT

Report from The Southern Party

Written by Warlord / Impulse

First  of  all,  I must explain that if
you  have  read  something  about  this
party,  you  must  think  that it was a
very  little  party, and in fact it was
so  ...   but  I think that it was very
different of the rest of the parties.

Arrangers: TIC-JAM/IMPULSE/DARKNESS
Place: San Fernando, Spain.        
Date:  24-25 July 1993.            

To  do  a  party  in  Spain is no easy.
Since the Amiga appeared in Spain, only
one party has been held ...  it was the
last   year,   organized  by  the  best
spanish  groups: Fifth  Generation  and
Darkness ...  and only 34 guys appeared
at  the  party  place  ...   not  a big
party, eh?

In  this  party  we  tried  to do a big
party,  but  to  do  this  in a country
where the scene is so little is in fact
impossible.  We  have a lot of problems
with  the money, because we expected to
collect  about 150.000 pts (about 1.000
us dollars) and this was a real problem
if  you  think  that only the giant RGB
monitor  costed us about 550 dollars or
the   power   installation  100$.   The
responsibles of  the caffeteria said us
the  day  before  the party that he was
not  interested  in  opening the bar if
only 50-60 guys come to the party.  The
shirts were a problem to and finally we
only  made  100  shirts  ...   and like
these,  we  had  a  lot of problems the
week before the party.

Finally the party was held.  There were
exactly  267  guys  at  the party...  a
total  record  in  Spain!.   The groups
present at the party were:

Tic-Jam,  Balance  (Not  the REAL ones!
-Cs),   Fifth  Generation,  Artifizial,
Software    Failure, Darkness  Impulse,
Batman   Group,   Intense,  Art  Regia,
Lloret  Free  Byte,  Digimed ...  and a
lot of independent guys.

As  I said before, it wasnt a big party
but   the   local  was  big  enough  to
everyone,  there  were  no problem with
the  power  supply, nothing (NOTHING!!)
was stolen and everybody left the party
happy  and  satisfied  ...  and I think
that  if  the  people are happy then it
was a good party.

The quality of the releases were really
high, above all, in the gfx competition
...    the   quality   of  the  spanish
graphicians  is  one of the best of the
scene,  in  spite  of they are not know
outside Spain

The results were:

DEMO COMPETITION:

1 .... Troglobyte / Darkness        
2 .... Gurumaster / Fifth Generation
3 .... Rhino / Batman Group         




INTRO COMPETITION:

1 ...  Oriol / Darkness      
2 ...  007 / Fifth Generation
3 ...  Kustom / Darkness     

MUSIC COMPETITION:

1 ...  Dolby / Darkness          
2 ...  Estrayk / Darkness        
3 ...  Evelred / Fifth Generation

GFX COMPETITION:

1 ...  Reliant / Necropolis (F.G.)
2 ...  God / LLoret Free Byte     
3 ...  Warlock / Darkness         







And  that's  all.   We hope that others
groups will arrange a new party here in
Spain,  and the Spanish scene will grow
soon...  and don't forget to give Spain
a chance!
                              - Warlord