Southern Party II Report
                         by Barman of Sepultura
§004,004,126,019§

















Think  twice,  what  do you know about
the  Spanish Scene?  Are there groups?
Yes!   So  they  must do partys, don't
they?   Let's  get  a trip in the last
Spanish Party, the Southern Party...


           A BIT OF HISTORY
     ---------------------------

   The  Southern Party II is the third
Party  made  in Spain.  The first one,
was   made  by  Fifth  Generation  and
Darkness,  and it was held in Valencia
in  1992.  Only 34 guys got there, but
they  were  enough  to  start  a chain
reaction,  making  new groups born and
old ones grow.

   A  year  after,  Impulse, Tic Jam's
Crew and Darkness made the second one,
the  so called "Southern Party".  This
was  biggest  than the first, 228 guys
got   there.    It  was  held  in  San
Fernando,  one  of the cities in Spain
with  more  Amiga owners.  Sun, beach,
good  looking  girls...   the  perfect
place  to  make  a  Party,  so...  Why
don't do the second one this year?

   Said  and made!  The Southern Party
II was made this year, and the history
goes on...



           MISC INFORMATION
     ---------------------------

The  Party was held in San Fernando, a
small city 13 km far from Cadiz.  Many
groups   arrived  there,  like  Batman
Group,  Compumax,  Darkness,  Digimed,
Future  Brain,  Goreboy, Isch Crew Sp,
Intense  Sp,  Llfb,  Metro,  Nivel  7,
Ozone, Parabellum, Sepultura, Software
Failure,  and  many  independent guys.
In total, we were about 300.

The   days  were  thought  to  be  the
23-24-25th of July, but the real party
was  the  24th  because all the people
were  too busy copying demos and other
stuff  to  make  something like games,
disk throwing competitions, etc...


           THE PARTY PLACE
      --------------------------

The  party  place  was a public school
with  two flats.  In the first one, we
put  the  computers and in the second,
we   slept   (except   many  guys  who
decided,  as  Double R/Intense, to put
their sleeping bags in their heads and
run around the playground...).  It was
big  enough  to  get  three  times the
people   who  got  there!   It  was  a
school, so there was enough tables and
seats for all of us.

There  was  an 24 hours bar with cheap
drinks   too,   which  we  practically
atacked,  because  the  days  were too
sunny and we were very thirsty.

         THE MODS COMPETITION
    -----------------------------

The  Sunday,  at about 4 p.m., started
the  mods competition.  25 modules got
in  competition  and  they were played
for  4  minutes  each one.  It was too
hard to select the three winning ones.
Many  modules  were  played,  but  one
stood  out  from  the  rest, the "Guru
meditation"  made  by Goreboy/Software
Failure.   When  the  module was about
its first minute, the musician made an
filter  change,  so  it  looked like a
guru,  and the man who was playing the
module,   was   about   to  reset  the
computer!


       THE GRAPHICS COMPETITION
   -------------------------------

A few graphics were presented, most of
them  manga  ones, but here, I had the
biggest surprise on the Party.  We all
got stoned when the graphic from Magic
Touch/Metro   appeared   in   the  big
screen.   It  was  the face of a black
girl  with  some kind of light effect.
Somebody  will  think  that I'm crazy,
but   I  think  that  graphic  can  be
compared to the Facet and Cougar ones.
Of course, it won the competition.


         THE DEMO COMPETITION
    -----------------------------

This   section   is   were  the  party
crashed.    Only   three   demos  were
presented:  One from Ozone, other from
Darkness  and  other  from  my  group,
Sepultura.   The  one  from Ozone, had
good design but the code was a bit old
and the graphics were only aceptables,
but  it was the nearest to a demo from
all  the  competitors.   The  one from
Darkness was good, but it was an intro
with only two or three effects, a good
one  of letters morphing to flames and
a  rotation.   The  demo from my group
was  all  code,  because  the graphics
were almost nonexistents and the music
was  good, but with no sincronization.
In  our defense, I can say that we did
the demo there, in the party place, in
real time.


             RARE EVENTS
       ------------------------

I  must  talk  about  a demo made by a
group  called  Goreboy.   It needed 15
megs of hard disk and 6 megs of ram to
work  and  was  made  with Real 3d and
Amos (I think), but it was very funny.
It  was  about  an A500 who is walking
his way and met a 286, a 386, a 486, a
Pentium  and a Power Pc, and challenge
them to do things like jumps, flys and
so on...  Of course, the A500 wins and
laughs  all  the  time (with digitized
voices).

Another  event  was the cancelation of
the   third   Party  day  because  two
members  of a group tried to enter the
party  place  in  the night (the Party
place  was  closed  from  3 a.m.  to 8
a.m.),  and  made  the neighbours call
the   police   with   the   consequent
problems from the organizers.

The  rarest thing in this party (in my
opinnion),  was  the  classifications,
because  there  are quite rare things.
Maybe  the  error  was in take as jury
some  persons  who seemed to have a Pc
or  to have never saw an Amiga before.
This was made due to the imparciality,
and  it's  a good system, but I dind't
like  too much.  In my opinnion, there
must   be   musicians   to   vote  for
musicians, graphicians for graphicians
and  coders  for demos, but this time,
the  jury had no idea of what a vector
was.   The  only  acceptable result is
the  one  in  the graphics competition
because the others were things that we
all  had  already  listened  to or saw
before.


Anyway, it was a quite good party, and
I'm  looking forward to go to the next
one.

                      Barman/Sepultura




 SOUTHERN PARTY II

             - RESULTS -

DEMO COMPETITION:

1. -------------
2. Scared! by Ozone
3. -------------


GRAPHICS COMPETITION:

1. Magic Touch/Metro
2. Tomas/Tic Jam's Crew
3. ?


MUSIC COMPETITION:

1. Got's in time by Estrayk/Darkness
2. Infologia by Flovious/Future Brain
3. Sentimientos by Fermix/Intense Sp


Note:    This  information  was  taken
directly  from  the  main organizer of
the Party.


 Interview with Flovious/Future Brain
         By Barman/Sepultura


  Flovious/Future Brain was the winner
of  the  second  prize  in  the  music
competition and has made the music for
the  Ozone  demo, placed second in the
demo  competition.  So let's start the
interview...

-  Tell  us  something about yourself:
name, age, function...

  My name is Fernando, and I'm 20.  In
my group I'm the only musician.

-  What's  your  opinion   about   the
winner demo in the Party?

  Well,  I  haven't  saw  it  yet.   I
couldn't  go  to the Party because I'm
now  passing a holydays in the militar
service,  and so, I couldn't afford to
go, but I have heared that it's better
than  the  other ones presented in the
Party.

-  Did  you  took  much time to do the
music from the Party competition?

  I've  took  about  3 days, because I
don't  like  to  spend  too  much time
making  music while I'm in the militar
service.

-  Tell us something about your group:
members, productions...

  The actual members are:

      Defcorp   -   Swapper
      Dragon    -   Coder, graphician
      Nuku-Nuku -   Graphician
      Flovious  -   Musician

  We all like the manga, you know, the
Japanese  comics,  and our productions
go around it.  We are in the Scene for
over  a year, and we are now releasing
a  manga-mag  programed  in  Amos (you
don't  need  assembler to make a mag).
It's  called  Digital Fanzine and it's
all  in  Spanish.   It  has  digitized
pictures and voices taken from the Tv,
which are played while you are reading
the articles.

  We  are  working  on an intro, which
will   be  released  in  September  (I
hope).

-  What's   your  opinion   about  the
Spanish Scene?

  I  think  that  there  are  a lot of
groups  but  only  a  few productions.
You   only have  to take a look to the
last Party and you can see of what I'm
talking  about.   There  were about 20
groups present but only 3 demos.

-  Well,  the  interview  is over.  Do
you want to greet somebody?

  I'd  like  to  congratulate that few
groups  which do productions and greet
everyone who support our mag. Thanks.