³¼Iris NYC 92 Party¼


¹On  27th  and  28  th  of December 1991
there  was  a  party  held in Nesles la
Vallee, by Iris.

We  decided  to  go  there for having a
great  time  with  all other alcoholics
that  we  know from there or from hell.
We  took  the  train  at  7.00  am  and
started a 8 hours train travel.  What a
pity  to live so far from Paris.  As we
arrived  in  Paris we had to travel one
more  hour  by train to reach the party
place  (please  Chris of Iris next time
organize it in a bigger town).  When we
arrived  in  Nesles  we  phoned  to the
party place for a car to take us there.
We  went  around for a few minutes as a
car  came.  What a nice surprise it was
a.....   girl  who  went to take us up.
After  driving  for  15 minutes we even
reached  the  place.  We entered is (of
course we were there for it or not) and
had   a  little  chat  with  Chris  the
organizer.

There  were 2 halls.  The small one was
there  for a professionnal expo and for
some  freaks  who wanted to participate
to  the Gfx competition.  We decided to
enter  the  big  hall and there we just
discovered   about  300  guys  smashing
there keyboards like fools.  We, as the
organizers were surprised by the number
of  people  who  showed up.  In fact at
2.32  in  the morning we were 401 Amiga
freaks  at  this place.  We went around
trying  to  find  some contacts but you
will have guessed it, it wasn't so easy
due to this crowd.

After  a few minutes we finally managed
to  find  some.   But we were not there
for  chating  because Captain Jewels of
Devils and I (Brainwasher of Eremation)
wanted to make a challenge.  Cpt Jewels
wanted to beat my wodka drinking record
(1  liter  in  15 minutes, nice no!!!).
So  we  had  to  go  out  and find some
alcohol in this town or should I say in
this  village  (there  was perhaps more
people   at  the  pardey  then  in  the
village),  we finally managed to find a
shop  and bought some whiskey.  Back to
the  pardey  some  freaks joined us for
this subpardey (it was ours).  The guys
who   joined   us  were:   Conquest  of
Anarchy,  Merlin/Devils,  Agony/Spirit,
Rhah/Devils.   But  as  I  was  ill  (I
didn't  drink  too much I just caught a
flew)  I  couldn't  drink.  Whiskey had
the same taste for me as cat piss.  Cpt
Jewels  thought  I  was feared to drink
(Hey  guy  I  was born with a bottle of
wodka  in  my  mouth).   We  decided to
enter  the  party place again.  But Cpt
Jewels  soon told me he wanted to sleep
(he was ill too), and so he did.

Walking  around  I found some cool guys
and  groups.   Of  course there was the
well  known  bunch  of lamers but there
were  some  great  groups as:  Anarchy,
Tsb,  Lsd,  Devils,  Symbiosis, Syntex,
Quartz,  Dreamdealers,  Analog,  Rebels
(france),  Eoc  1999  and  many  others
which  I  can't  remember.   I  counted
something  like  71  groups  which were
present.   Time  passed,  and  as I was
staying with the organizers to get some
news and rumours about the people which
was  present,  it finally happened, the
incident.   As  every  sounder  had  to
bring his module, Iris guys checked the
modules  to put them in a random order,
in  a  meaning  to  avoid the others to
cheat  they  discovered  that  Moby/DRD
made  a  201Kb  long  module,  and  the
organizers  only  wanted 200Kb modules.
So  they  decided  not to accept Moby's
module.   Moby  got  angry  and told he
wanted  to  quit  the  party place, but
after some minutes he decided he didn't
want  to  enter  Iris'  game and he cut
down  the  module  to  199Kb.  It was a
nice  idea  because  he finished at the
second    place.    But   before   that
incident,  the police came, because the
organizers  called  them  up  to afraid
some  party  freaks, which were getting
on their nerves.  Good try, but I think
both  policemen and party freak, didn't
give  a  fuck  to it, but it brought us
something to deal some rumours about.

Later, at 6 o'clock in the morning, the
competitions  started.   We went in the
hall  to  hear  to  the  modules.   The
problem  is  that,  much  of  us didn't
sleep during the night and it was quite
difficult  to  listen to 34 modules but
some   of   us   succeeded.    And  the
competition was won by Audiomonster, as
Moby ranked at the second place.

I  must  say  that  I found the modules
were  very  good  except  one  or  two.
There  was  a high sounders level.  And
the Gfx were good too.  The subject was
The  ancient  Egypt,  and the graphists
had  6  hours  to draw.  At this little
game     Elmer/Symbiosis     won    the
competition with a superb pharaon head.
Nice  work  guy.  But anyway only 8 Gfx
were showed.

Now time was to democompetition.  There
were  shown 20 demos.  Some were pretty
cool,   but  most  of  them  were  just
average.    Some  of  the  demos  would
probably  have  been  hits 3 or 4 years
ago.   Inspiration was none for much of
those  demos.   Anyway Dreamdealers won
the first price, followed Devils with a
nice trackmo but with a too long ending
fractal  rendering.  Syntex finished at
the third place with an Amos demo.  Due
to the fact I speak of Amos, you should
notice   that   Phenomena  (france????)
presented  an  Amos  demo,  with a some
good  sequencies  but which is far away
from   what   we   could   expect  from
Phenomena  (even  the  french  section.
It's   hard  to  believe  they  have  a
foreign  section,  as  they wanted only
swedes, or is that simply a joke?  Wait
and see.  But if it's not a joke I hope
Phenomena will forgive me to have had a
doubt).    The   demo  competition  was
closed  and  the  party  was over at 12
o'clock.

But  during  the  afternoon there was a
professionnal  show  to which everybody
could  stay.  Some new freaks came just
for  it.   I  can't tell you much about
the  prizes  won  as  we left the party
before  the  results.   The  party  was
pretty  cool, most told it was the best
french    party,    even   though   the
organization  was  perhaps  not perfect
this  was  probably  the  coolest party
which  I  visited.   Before ending this
report  we  of Eremation must apologize
to  Iris  for making them become mad of
anger  (we  know  you  liked our way to
act,  therefore  will  do it again next
year.   Why  didn't  we win the special
price???  just kidding guys).

Party was over, we had to go back home,
and the way home was so fucking tiring,
because we travelled 9 hours because of
the  train  beeing late.  We went there
for  fun  and  we  had it so let me say
hello  to  all  the  guys we met at the
party  and  who  enjoyed  it as we did.
Hey  Captain  Jewels, next time try not
to  sleep,  I ensure you could have had
more  fun  if  you  just  woke  up.  In
conclusion and because you are tired of
reading it:  a party worth visiting.


³             Brainwasher of EREMATION.