SATURNE PARTY REPORT

Saturne Party report

Written by Napoleon

It  was probably the last party in this
summer   '93,   and   the   first  such
important  in  France...  You know what
happened  to  the  Beach  Party  in the
summer  '92 and since the Iris party in
December  '91,  the  whole French scene
was  awaiting a big party.  The Saturne
Party was announced around 8 months ago
by  the Saturne Group, this group was a
bit  unknown  on  the  scene  (as White
Label in Holland) but they made it !!!

A beautifull place...
So  on  the  Saturday 4 september 93, I
went  to  the  Party near Paris...  The
place  was  quite  beautiful, there was
room  for  around 1000 people as stated
in  the invitation.  A little cafeteria
sold sandwiches, drinks and pizzas at a
very  low  price  !!!   For  example  a
sandwich  costed 10FF (=2$ or 10Kr...).
Only  366  guys were here, but all best
French   groups   were  represented  as
Sanity,  Dreamdealers,  Digital,  Majic
12,  Iris,  Intense,  Movement, Syntex,
Analog,  Angels, Cryptoburners, Trance,
Stellar,  Mentasm, TSB, Ozone and a lot
of others...

The competitions
The first competition was ping-pong, on
the  afternoon  of  Saturday.  And then
the Sensible Soccer compo.  The serious
competition  started  some  hours after
the  deadline  (midnight  on Saturday).
First one was the music, the organizers
choose  12  guys  to select the 10 best
modules,  but  as the 12 guys seemed to
understand nothing in music, all the 10
modules  played  were  quite  bad, some
dudes   were   a   bit   angry  on  the
organization       as       Baby/Union,
Killerman/M12,       Doh/Cryptoburners,
Clawz/Digital   because  their  modules
wasn't played...  Some minutes later it
was the gfx compo on A500, a high level
competition  as you know there is a lot
of   great   graphicians in  France  as
Ra/Sanity,               Suny/Movement,
Alex/Movement,    Walt/Melon    Dezign,
Hof/TSL,   Mack/Melon  Dezign  ...   42
pictures  were  shown and there were at
least  10  great  pictures,  there were
also a lot of japanese pictures...  For
the first time there was a gfx
competition  on A1200 (YES!  -ed.), but
only  10 pictures were given, some were
quite  stunning  but  we  have  to wait
several   months   to   see  great  AGA
pictures...

The   most   interesting   competitions
started,   first  with  intros...   The
maximal  lenght  authorized was 64ko, 8
intros were in competition.  But only 2
were     great    from    Angels    and
Cryptoburners surely...  So there can't
be  any  doubt  about the results.  The
AGA  demo  competition  was  a bit poor
with only 3 contributions from Intense,
Arkham  and  Movement,  thanks  to this
group  for  AGA  support  !!!   In this
compo too, there wasn't any doubt about
the  results,  the  Movement  demo  was
greater...   The  last competition, the
demo compo, the level was very low, on
10 contributions there were only 2 good
(I  didn't  write  great!) demos:   The
Syntex  one and Nova...  And that's all
!!!   We  were  a bit disappointed that
there    weren't    contributions  from
Dreamdealers,  Melon Dezign, Digital or
Majic 12...

But all the competitions were finnished
at 5:00Am on sunday, so we have to wait
more  than  10  hours before the end of
the  party !!!  The reason was that the
organizers  couldn't use the big screen
during the day due to the light, so all
competitions   were   made  during  the
night...   It  was  probably  the  most
important fault in the organization but
they  promised  me  that  next  time it
won't be the same !!!

So we had enough time to get all stuff,
to  make some packs...  and to wait for
the  results.   At 12:30 they delivered
all   the   prizes  and  gave  all  the
results,  some  people  began to go and
others    stayed   to   have   a   chat
together...   Then  in  the  middle  of
afternoon, everybody went...

Some conclusions about this party:
Well,    the   first   prize   in   the
democompetition   on  A500  was  around
1000$,  I  think it's no so bad, but if
we  were  more than 360 guys, the prize
would  be  higher, so remember for next
year !!!  Because there wasn't a lot of
good productions.

Results from the Saturne Party
(4 & 5 September 93)
Chelles (FRANCE)



Music: (49 modules in compo)

-1- Jazz/Experience          
-2- Monty/Analog             
-3- Psynomix/Intense         

Gfx on A1200: (9 pictures in compo)

-1- Troyan                   
-2- KSS/The End              
-3- Elf/Intense              

Gfx on A500: (42 pictures in compo)

-1- Suny/Movement            
-2- Ra/Sanity                
-3- Elf/Intense              
-4- Bad/Arkham               
-5- Walt/Melon Dezign        




Intro on A500: (8 intros in compo)

-1- Angels - 'Destroy Fascim'
-2- Cryptoburners - 'Flan'   
-3- Intense                  

Demo on A1200: (3 demos in compo)

-1- Oops/Movement - 'Kid'    

Demo on A500: (10 demos in compo)

-1- Nova                     
-2- Syntex - 'Aluminium'     
-3- Intense