CeBit `92 Party 
 
      Chaos in the Youth Center

 
As  on every german exhibition a Party
was also organized after the CeBit `92
in  Hannover.  The Party took place on
the  14.03.92 directly after the doors
of  the CeBit were closed.  So most of
the  freaks  who  were  present on the
exhibition met on this party.

A great chance to get the whole german
scene  together  for a cool party, but
as always this chance was destroyed by
the organization... 
This  time  CULT  had  the  luck to be
responsible   for   the  event.   They
offered a Youth Center as party-place.
Not  the best place for hundret freaks
to  meet,  because  the  visitors were
spread  all  over  the house causing a
total  chaos.   The  rooms  were quite
small,  hardly  enough  place  for  20
people.   All  in all a place absoluty
not suitable for a party.

As  usual  CULT spread the invitations
on  the CeBit.  As Commodore seemed to
be  interested  in this event of their
customers,   they   even   made   some
advertising  for  it.   They  read  it
using  their Hifi-equipment, so almost
every freak got to know about it.

The  party-place was already absolutly
overcrowded as we arrived.  But at the
enterance we got our first shock.  The
enterance fee was changed from 5DM (as
stated  on  the  invitations) to 10DM.
So we waited some moments and wondered
if  this  party  was  really worth the
money.
 
During  this  time  I heard one of the
organizers  talking  to  a Sysop about
the  visitors of the party.  From this
dialog  I got the impression that this
guys`s  opinion  about  their visitors
was  not  very  good.   They said that
they  didn`t care about them as far as
they   were   absolutly  unfamous  and
unimportant.   It  was  only important
that  they  paid  for the party.  (For
germans:   Es  fielen  Ausdruecke  wie
`Fussfolk`   und    `Hauptsache    sie
zahlen`.)
 
The  high enterance fee was, as stated
by  CULT, absolutly neccesary, because
the  costs  of  the  party  were about
8000-10000  DM.   I think that there`s
one  0  too much.  800-1000 DM is more
realistic.

Finaly  we decided to enter (,at least
to get infos for this report).  As the
Party  place was really chaotic it was
quite hard to find some guys we wanted
to  talk  to.   But  I  had a few nice
chats   with  some  of  my  friends...
About  100 guys were present.  Some of
the  groups  I  happened to meet were:
Sanity,  Razor,  TSB, Design, Pirates,
Treacl, Interactive...

Nothing  of  importance  happened till
the  sound-competition.   The comp was
held  in  a  room offering only enough
space  for  1/4  of  all  the  present
people.   So I had no chance to get an
own  impression  of the sounds.  But I
think  the  quality was not very high.
16Beat/Razor 1911 won this comp with a
tune  he  composed the night before in
1 1/2  hours.  The  second  place  got
BTH/Jackbox and Jester/Sanity made the
third one.

The graphics- and demo-competition was
held  in  something  you  might call a
very small cinema.
Flagman/Divina won the GFX-comp with a
pic used in their trackmo Technofright
released  about  half a year ago.  The
second   and   the   third  place  got
Navy/Vanish. 
The  demo-comp  showed  again  the low
standart  of  the  german  scene.  The
only   acceptable  demo  was  done  by
Dreamer/TRSI.   So  this  one made the
first  place.  The rest didn`t deserve
to  be  called a demo.  They were just
intros  of  more or less quality.  The
second  place made a intro by Amnesia.
The third price got Cyborgs.

One  of  the  main attractions was the
guy  from  Commodore  who  had already
read  the  invitation on the CeBit and
was  now really present  on the Party.
He held again a short speech about the
relationship between Commodore and the
scene.   After  the  Comp  he tried to
copy  some of the demos.  He said he`d
show  them  on the CeBit the next day.
I   don`t   know   if   he   kept  his
promise...
But  it`s obvious that Commodore tries
to build up a good relationship to the
scene.   I  hope  they keep up this in
future...

 
All  in  all  the  Party was a typical
exhibition   party.    The  organizers
failed  to hold a nice meeting for the
whole  german  scene.   They  missed a
chance to improve their reputation.  I
can  only look forward to the Expo `92
Party  in Cologne.  I hope that a more
skilled    group    will    take   the
responsibility  for  the  party  there
(What  about  Sanity,  D-TECT,  Cytax,
Spreadpoint,  Razor...).  I think that
it  is  possible  to  organize a great
party  after  an  exhibition,  but the
reputation of this style of parties is
going more and more down.  So act now!


                  Mad Butcher/ALCATRAZ