Party Review for Gerp 2016

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 GERP party report                                             by Malmix/Nature

Here's a small report  from the Amiga centric demo party  GERP 2016 held between
the 2nd and the 4th of September.

The  party was  held at  'Kulturhuset Valhall'  (culture center)  in Skovde  and
arranged by  the groups Traktor and  Nature, both having their  headquarter's in
this   otherwise    frequently   rated    as   Sweden's   most    boring   town.

Around  80 people showed  up  to the  event.  A  majority of  the visitors  were
Swedes, but some international guests also  showed up. Among them were Bifat/TEK
who by his presence became the first non-nordic visitor in the close to 15 years
old history of GREP/Gerp parties!

The demo group  Insane was represented with around ten  members and scooped nice
party ranks  and prices in all  Amiga-related competitions. Among  the visitors,
there were also members from groups  such as Tulou, Ephidrena, Loonies, Pacif!c,
UpRough, Planet  Jazz, Focus Design, Scoopex,  The Gang and Nukleus.  The Friday
offered social  cozy'ing and creative  fiddles on  products. The day  ended with
"fast music"-compo where the  goal was to compose a 4-channel  module with a set
of premade samples during one hour.

The  result   widely  spread  with  quality   and  funny  entries.   Winner  was
Corpsicle/Insane   (who  got   a   free  beer   for   his  nice   contribution).

The Saturday  started off  with breakfast  for those  who hadn't  already filled
their stomachs  with hotel breakfast. Chucky/The  Gang repaired hardware  with a
glowing and glueing passion so the capacitors  rained all over the place. One or
two beers were consumed and the nice party atmosphere of course reached its peak
during the  evening when  it was time  for music- ,  graphics- and  demo compos.
Focus Design defended their Amiga-demo  title well deserved with "Aulun Baulund"
and for  the third time  got their name  carved (dymo-printed) into  the trophy.
Bitflipper from Insane and Rebels won graphic compo with a magnificent Amiga 500
picture.  The music  compo  were  dominated by  a  handful  of musicians  namely
Wasp/Pacif!c, Obbe/Traktor,  Mygg/Insane, Tecon/Planet Jazz  and Alpaidus/Insane
who all achieved good ranks in at least two categories. Most successful was Wasp
winning chip music compo and also winning the 4-channel compo in coop with Obbe.

Two modern demos  (even if released on  30 years old hardware)  were released in
the "other  platform" compo. Panda  Design won  with their c64-demo  with social
media as  topic and Five  Finger Punch snatched the  second best with  a Spectra
video-demo with Pokemon Go topic.



The Sunday  morning also  started off with  a small  breakfast before  the prize
cermony. After that it was time to go home.  All in all it was a great party and
it   is   pretty  likely   that   it   will   take   place  again   next   year.

See you then, all demo-maniacs!

Malmix