Party Review for TRSI Easter Conference 1992

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       T R S I
 Easter-Conference
 

It`s  Party  Time.   This year`s South
European    Easter    Conference   was
organized by Red Sector and Tristar in
Leuven/Belgium on the 18./19.04.92.

 
All  started on Saturday the 18th.  We
began this weekend  with a 4 hour trip
from  Osnabrueck  to  the Party Place.
As  we  arrived, about 100 people were
already  present.  The Party place was
the   cellar  of  a  lokal  restaurant
called  "Thierbrauehof".  The room was
not  very  big,  in fact it was hardly
enough for the 150-200 guys who showed
up.

The  promised  pretty  girls were only
used  to  take the 15DM enterance fee.
But  who cares about girls...  So some
hours  of  usual party-action started.
I  met some quite funny guys.  In fact
almost  the  whole  french  elite  was
present   (e.g.   Moby,  Audiomonster,
Conquest,  Daryl, Performer, Walt...).
Also many german guys showed up, so we
were not bored...

The  equimpent was just standart.  But
the  middle-sized Video-Screen was big
enough  to  give  all  present  guys a
possibility to see it.

Nothing  special  happened  on  day 1.
Later  the  so  called  `Techno-Party`
started,  but  as  most of the present
guys were not in the mood to party and
were  only nerved by the techno-sound,
it  failed totally.  Although TRSI got
a professional Techno-DJ...

Late  at  night  we  finaly decided to
head  for the promised sleeping place.
It   was   a   gymnastic   hall   some
kilometres  away  from the party.  For
all  guys without a car they organized
a very good bus service.  Nice idea in
fact.   The  hall offered enough place
for  all the guys who wanted to sleep.
But  some  idiots causing trouble made
sleeping  hardly  possible.  In fact I
got  only about 2 hours.  Not too much
if you have to drive back next day...

 
On  Sunday  morning we returned to the
party   place.   After  some  time  of
chatting   finaly   the  long  awaited
competitions were started.

The    first    was    the   graphics-
competition.   The quality of the pics
was  really  good,  but  for  sure not
compareable   to   the   comp  at  the
XMas-Party   in   Aars.   The  pic  by
HOF/SILENTS  got  the  first  price of
500DM.

Next  was  the sound-competition.  The
quality   of  the  sounds  was  a  bit
disapointing.   No really superb sound
participated.  Finaly Fabian of DESIRE
managed  to  win.   In  my opinion the
audience just didn`t want Audiomonster
to  win, who presented the only really
high-quality  tune.   So  he made only
the second and Fabian got the price of
500DM.

The  demo-competition showed again the
low  standart  of  the  actual  scene.
Only  one demo really derserved to win
a    price.     Melon   Dezign/CRYSTAL
presented  a  very  good designed demo
called    Humantarget.     Coded    by
Performer.   Walt  was responsible for
the  graphics  and Static composed the
tune.   All  in  all a very nice demo.
They got 1000DM for their work.

After  the  competitions more and more
guys  left  the party so we decided to
leave,  too.  All in all the party was
a bit disapointing.  Some parts of the
organisation   failed   and  only  200
poeple  showed up.  But anyway I had a
nice time there...


                           Mad Butcher

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      T R S I
 Easter Conference
                Report


             Party-Place

The  party was held in a little cellar
of a restaurant in Leuven/Belgium.
It  was  dark and filled with smoke of
cigarettes  and  the  smell  of  beer.
There  was  a  bar and a little screen
where   some  movies  and  demos  were
shown.


             Party-people

When  we  arrived  at 10:00 am and the
doors    were    opened,   the   first
impression   was  'Just  another  lame
party'.   After  some  hours  more and
more  people  arrived.  At the evening
almost     all    elite-groups    were
present.
The  groups that were on the party (as
far  as  I  can  remember):  Alcatraz,
Panic and Agnostic Front, Black Monks,
Quartex,   Desire,  Silents,  Anarchy,
Melon  Dezign,  Origin,  Axis,  Relay,
Ozone,   Skid  Row,  Fusion,  Genesis,
Mirage,    Vision,   Vision   Factory,
Suprise  Productions,  Rebels, Sanity,
Dominators,  Tech,  Supplex,  Delight,
TEK,  The  Lost  Boys  and  of  course
Noxious.   Sorry  but I forgot a whole
lot  of  guys that showed up because I
haven't  made  a  list and it's 2 days
after the party.
There   were   no  troubles  with  the
organizers  because  of  drunk  people
which  doesn't mean that there weren't
any  drunk  people  because there were
some    very    drunk   Germans   like
Funky/Paf.


             House-Party

At  23:00 pm the so called house-party
began.    Well  how  can  you  give  a
house-party  in the same room were all
computers are standing?  Well this was
the first failure of the organisation.
They  invited a Belgian DJ to turn the
tables.   I  agree it was a quite good
one  but  if  even  I think it was too
loud, it has to be!


            Sleeping-Place

The   sleeping-place  was  a  gym-room
about  2  miles  from the party-place.
At  about 3:00 am everybody got kicked
out  of  the  party-place and the last
bus  to the sleeping-place left.  Well
when you arrived at the sleeping-place
you could hardly sleep because of some
idiots  yelling, burping etc.  At 6:00
am  almost  everybody  was awake again
after  a  night  of  about  1  hour of
sleep.   Around  8:00  am  the bus was
leaving  to  the party-place again for
the second day of partying.

 
                Police

The  police  was  said  to  invade the
party  for  illegal  stuff  etc.   The
police  dropped  in just ones and that
was because some guys sprayed graffiti
at the circus and the cafetaria at the
other side of the party-place.


             Competitions

At  12:00  am the competitions started
with  the  graphics-competition.   The
pictures  were shown on a video-screen
and  you could vote for your favourite
by  yelling  and  screaming,  which is
what  I  and probably a lot other guys
think  is a stupid way of voting.  The
proof  of  this statement was when the
picture  of  Hof/Silents was shown and
all  Silents-members began to yell and
scream as loud as they could so it was
a  simple  decision for the organizers
to    let   that   picture   win   the
competition.   After all pictures were
shown  and  Hof  got his money another
video was shown.

The  voting  for the music-competition
was   the   same   as   the  graphics-
competition.   A lot of Agnostic Front
guys  couldn't stand that Audiomonster
of  Silents  was  the  one  to win the
competition  so  they  screamed  their
heads   of   when   the   music   from
Fabian/Desire   was   playing.    Well
Audiomonster really deserved the first
price  but  that's  what stupid voting
can do.

Well    another    video   later   the
Demo-competition  started.  There were
a  lot  of  high  quality  demos in it
which  I  hadn't  expected.  Everybody
agreed  that  Humantarget  from  Melon
Dezign was the real winner.  The first
price of the demo-competition was 1000
DM, not much for such a party!


              Conclusion

It  was  a  great  party I think.  But
there  were  some  things that were in
the invitation that weren't there, for
example the waitresses.  There weren't
any   waitresses   at  all!   And  the
security wasn't so well organized too!
But  that are only two things.  I hope
there's  gonna  be  such a party again
soon.


                          Cone/Noxious