Party Review for The Party 1993

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         THE PARTY III REPORT

         by Diesel/Razor 1911


Propaganda   #3  was  supposed  to  be
released  at  The Party III, but since
we  didn't  have the time to finish it
on place, we had to go home to make it
ready.   Here  is  a party report from
the absolutely party best ever!


                PLACE

The  place was Herning Messecenter, in
the  middle of Jylland in Denmark.  It
was  a  very  neat and tidy place with
halls that could fit far more than the
4000 guys that decided to show up this
time.   1  big  and 2 small halls were
used  for  active  freaking,  but  the
rest(3  big  halls) were opened too so
that  you  could sleep without feeling
like a chicken on a farm.

The  big  hall  was  VERY big, I think
that it was equal with the whole party
II!   A good thing was that there were
no  walls  like  the ones on party II,
because  you could see your friends no
matter  where  in  the  hall you where
standing.

The  two  smaller halls were connected
with   the   big  hall  with  a  short
corridor  and  since  the  halls  were
sound-isolated  you  just  had to make
one  step  out in the corridor and the
noise  disappeared totally.  Very good
indeed.

The main entrance was connected to the
corridor,  so  you  didn't  have to go
through  the  small halls to reach the
big  one(or  vice  versa).  The active
organizers    were   placed   in   the
information  at the entrance, and they
answered all questions very kindly.


                 FOOD

There  was  one  cafeteria  opened  24
hours  a  day,  where  you  could  buy
coffee,  sandwiches, tea and so on for
prices  that were NOT human.  A can of
coffee  cost  60 Dk and a small packet
of  juice  10 Dkr.  One good thing was
that  the  cafeteria was soundisolated
and  had  quite many tables, so it was
never   full  and  never  noisy.   The
sandwiches tasted great, by the way!

If  you went up the stairs just beside
the   cafeteria,   you   entered   the
restaurant  that  was opened from 9 AM
to  9  PM.  There you could buy pasta,
hamburgers,  pizza and so on for quite
nice  prices.   A  BIG  plus  for  the
professional restaurant!

There  were  also a kiosk just outside
the  entrance and one in the corridor,
so  where  ever you went you could buy
cola, icecream or sandwiches.  One bad
thing   was   that  you  couldn't  buy
anything  else  than  cola or juice if
you  were  thirsty,  so you easily got
bored.  Then you had to walk about one
kilometre  to  reach  a  Shell-station
where  you  could  buy  beer, milk and
cheaper juice.  There was also a Grill
just beside the station.


         HYGIEN and SLEEPING

This  was  the  very BEST party so far
when  it  comes  to the hygien.  There
were  20 showers(even though they just
had  warm  water the first day...) and
the  toilets were well spread all over
the  place.  There were also some kind
of  toilet deluxe outside the entrance
one floor below.  Both the showers and
the  toilets  were  cleaned  daily and
very  nice  indeed.  There were always
toilet paper available and even soap!!
When   it   comes   to  sleeping,  the
facilities  were  very  good too.  The
sleeping halls were really big and the
temperature was not too low.


            PARTY-FEELING

Almost  4000  people showed up(I'm not
sure  about  the  figure,  but that is
what one organizer told me.  Some said
lower,  2800,  and some said 5000(!)).
These   people   included   all  known
'elite'-guys  so if you wanted to talk
with  your  idols(if any) this was the
right  place.   But  even  though  the
presence  of  people,  the whole party
felt  a  little  bit  'calm'  with  an
ambience  that could have been better.
But that's maybe imagination.
Alcohol  was  not  allowed  inside the
party,  and  all beers discovered were
confiscated.   That didn't stop people
from getting drunk, not at all, but it
kept   the   most   irritating  people
outside  and  that's  a perfect thing.
The  only  teams that lightened up and
really had a nice time without alcohol
were  Razor  and Essence.  Maybe there
were  others too, but I didn't notice.
Okay,  both  Razor  and  Essence  were
drunk some hours, but that didn't show
because  they were totally flipped out
even  wihout  it.   A  big  thanks  to
½WOTW/Essence  and ½Some1/Razor 1911 for
making  this  party  a little bit more
fun!
  

           SCREEN and SOUND

There  were actually two screens.  The
big  screen was placed in the big hall
and   had   an  amazing  quality.   It
couldn't   have   been   better.   The
smaller screen, that was placed in one
of  the smaller halls, was bigger than
most  other  parties  and had slightly
lower quality but very good anyway.
The  sound  was  not  as  good  as the
screen;  if they played loud the sound
had  a  very  low quality, and if they
played    low,   you   couldn't   hear
anything.


             COMPETITIONS

Competitions  are  really important on
parties,  and  a good musiccompetition
is  a sign of a good organising-staff.
That's  why  I  and  most of the other
party-attenders  got  surprised by the
lousy       handling      of      this
musiccompetition,  since  the  general
organising  otherwise was really good.
The  jury  received 350 contributions,
and  rumours say that they didn't even
listen  at all of them.  I have a hard
time  believing  it, but the choice of
played  songs were really strange.  30
songs  were  played,  and  the general
opinion is that only 5 or 6 were good.
At  least  20 were techno, 5 were hard
rock  and  5  funk.   That is really a
pity, because musicians like Jogeir of
Virtual  Dreams,  Lizardking  of Razor
1911,  Strobo of Stellar and Vinnie of
Spaceballs  were  not  played  at all!
Read the special article!
A very good thing was that they didn't
print  who  had  made  the song on the
screen;  I  think  that  that's a fair
thing to do!
A bad thing about the musiccompetition
was  that  the volume was changed from
song  to  song;  sometimes  you  could
hardly here anything at all, sometimes
you'd to protect your ears!
Worth  to  be noticed is that Heatbeat
competed with 8 modules even if he was
not present.
The  graphics-competition was the best
ever.    Many   pictures   were   just
amazing!   Even though at least 6 or 7
held  a  superb class, two of them got
almost  twice  as  much  votes  as the
others.      I    feel    sorry    for
Suny/Movement   that  missed  the  top
position by 4(!!) points!
The  40Kb intro-competition was easily
won  by Tsunami/Virtual Dreams who had
made  an  amazing  intro with a 160 Kb
song,   fullscreen  rotating,  fractal
zoom  and  so  on.  I slept during the
competition, so I'm sorry that I can't
give you any more details.

The  democompetition,  then.  Well, it
was kind of a disappointent, like last
years  compo.   There  were  very  few
trackmos  and there were only 4 really
good.    There   were   far  too  many
unserious  intros  and file-demos that
could  as  well  have  been deleted as
shown on the screen.  A golden example
was  the  melon-demo  that didn't even
contain a joke.  Crap!

The 4 good demos were made by Complex,
Virtual Dreams, Sanity and Spaceballs,
and  they  were  really  nice  indeed.
Complex'  demo  was the only that gave
you    an   'aha'-feeling,   and   the
texture-mapping   was   really   nice.
Spaceballs  competed with '9 fingers',
i.e.  State of the Art 2.  It was just
State  of the art but with 3d graphics
instead  of  2d.   Really nice, but it
just reached the 4:th place this time.
They  got  3000  Dk(300  Gbp)  for it,
which  is a very nice prize for such a
place.   Genghis/Complex  won  and got
50% of 3500$ and an A4000.  I think he
was quite happy when going home...
Worth  noticing  is  that  most of the
demos   were   AGA,   which   is   not
surpising.    A1200   is   coming   on
strong(but  Razor 1911 will keep doing
A500 demos!)
The   'fast'  competitions  were  held
during    the    second    day.    The
competitors  had  4 hours to make what
they   should   do  in  the  different
compos.    There   were  a  Fast-intro
compo,  a fast 'remix' compo(where you
should remix a song) and a fast 'clip'
compo.   The  D.C.S.   intro was quite
nice  considering  the short time, and
it  deserved the first spot.  The fast
'remix'  compo  only had 3 competitors
so I left that one out.








         Graphics competition
       (50 contributions shown)

1. Cougar/Sanity(AGA) 624 pts
   "Dragonsun"
2. Suny/Movement 620 pts
   "Estelle.Pic"
3. Devilstar/Silents  536 pts
   "Not a copy"

          Music Competition
      (30 contributions played)

1. Moby/Sanity 1284 pts
   "Elektrik funk"
2. Sid & Chorus/Razor 1911   632 pts
   "Hideaway blues"
3. Feyd & Arios/Delight   392 pts
   "Blow up" 

           Demo competition
          (28 contributions)

1. Complex(AGA)  2340 pts
  "Origin"
2. Virtual Dreams(AGA) 1860 pts
  "Full moon"
3. Sanity      1592 pts  
  "Arte"
4. Spaceballs 
  "9 Fingers"  1512 pts

          Intro Competition
          (20 contributions)
1.Virtual Dreams  2832 pts
 "Chaos land"
2.Essence  712 pts
 "D"
3.Dreamdealers 692 pts
 "Toyzareus"
              Fast intro
          (4 contributions)

1.D.C.S. 1160
 "True stress 2"
2.TRSI/COMPLEX  772
 "???"
3.Raccoon 584 pts
 "The happy ones"


              Fast clip
          (6 contributions)

1.Tukan 296 pts
2.Coffein 268 pts
3.TBM/Limited Edition 112 pts



              ORGANIZING

Generally,   it   was   a  hell  of  a
organizing-team.   They  acted quickly
and  dared throwing people out.  There
were always organizers when you needed
them  and  the  cleaning-people  did a
splendid job.  The only BIG thing they
missed  was  the  musiccompetition.  I
really  don't  know  WHO organized it,
because  I  don't  think  any  of  the
LEMON/SPACEBALLS/SILENTS teams did...


               OVERALL

This  was the best party ever, with no
doubt.    Everyone   was   there,  and
everyone    was    happy(except    the
forgotten     musicians     in     the
musiccompo!).  There were NO racism on
banners   or  in  intros.   You  could
shower(in  ice..)  whenever you liked,
you  could  visit  the  toilet without
being  afraid of a nasty disease.  You
could  eat real food and if you didn't
want  to,  you could eat fake food too
in form of sandwiches and so on.

So  if you missed this party, you have
missed a real hit!  I don't think that
ANY  party  will be this big again, if
not Party IV becomes reality.

Party grade(1-10): 10