Party Review for The Party 1991
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Diskmagazine | LSD AMB - Ajazz - Andy - ... | a2/92 |
CRYSTAL - SILENTS - ANARCHY THE PARTY '91 - REPORT By Cesium of FROGS It sure was The party of a lifetime wich it was said in the invitation! Approximately 1250 people were gathered in a huge conference hall in the small town of Aars, Denmark. All the elite crews were represented and a lot of high quality stuff were released. For me and my two team members of Frogs- GS and BYE the travel to Aars started in Stavanger, Norway. We took the train to Kristiansand and the ferry over to Hirtshals. From there we took two trains to get to Aalborg where we had to wait for about one hour together with lots of other computerfreaks until the bus arrived. The bus was OK, but where was the promised TV and the video? After 45 mins of driving, we arrived at the partyplace. After a quick check-in, we got to our reserved places (well done by the organizers!), got up our gear and looked around. The place was as made for arranging a party. It had one big hall so that all the people could be at one place, a nice cafeteria with fair prices and a big seperate sleeping hall for those who wanted to sleep away the fun (which I almost didn't) and a big screen wich they showed MTV with infos and movies. They actually had a TV- transmitter so that everybody who had brought their TV could tune into the movie channel or MTV n' info. GS and I had brought a videocamera because we were going to make a TV- program for our local TV-station "TV- Vest" so we started filming the partyplace and the people that had showed up. During the first day, most of the people were present. The next day started with an announcement: -Because of the firealarm going off this night, we might cancel the democompetition. We want everybody to stop getting drunk and behave properly. They said that they had to pay 20.000 DEK (about $2800) because of the fire corps arriving. Well, that was not nice to do against somebody trying so hard to make it a party to be remembered, but fortunately the compos went on as planned (they only skipped some surprise compos). GS and I went on with our filming and we interviewed one coder (Alta/Rebels), a musician (HeadX/Andromeda) and a graphician (Slash/Anarchy) wich were going to compete in the competition. Too bad that none of them were among the three most voted entries. Later on the time was set for showing the latest Silents video-demo. Boy it was great! It was like a music video with lots of stunning effects made on the Amiga and a great sound by Jesper Kyd. You just gotta get a copy of this one! When it was over, it got a standing ovation, which was certainly deserved. Next day rumours said that the police had shown up to calm down some troublemakers, but neither I nor anybody I talked to had seen anything so I can't tell if it was true or false. On the big screen some strange movies started to appear. First they just showed some regular porn movies, but when that wasn't enough, they sent some disgusting animal-sex movies. Well I don't turn on when a girl is doing it with a horse, but computerfreaks are said to be strange, so... Time for the competitions: First out was the GFX compo. It had some great entries and the winner was Iridon/Shinida with a great fantasy like picture. But weren't the blond girl a bit too much "inspired" by the pic Mithrandir drew for I.C.E? Anyway, the rankings were: 1. Iridon/Shinida 2. Cougar/Sanity 3. R.W.O/Kefrens The music competition were a bit disappointing, I think. I mean, it was good, what can you expect when the whole elite musicians competes, but there were so little originality in the tunes. 1. Mantronix (and TIP)/Phenomena 2. Static/Rebels 3. Nightlight Results of the democomp: Alcatraz just had to win this one with their absolutely brilliant (but a bit boring to watch several times) 5 disks demo Odyssey. The runner-ups were: 2. Hardwired - Silents/Crionics 3. Razor 1911 4. Horizon 5. Anarchy After the competitions, everybody (including me) went around to copy the released products. Too bad was that neither Crystal Symphonies II nor Sound of Silents II was finished in time for the party. I met some of my contacts like Photon/Vixen (hi M8!) and we had a good time together, and I had lotsa fun during the three days the party was held. So if you weren't there.... You should regret for the rest of your life! End.