³     ¼The Party 91¼

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The party 1991 held by Anarchy, Crystal
and Silents.  This party must be one of
the  most  disgussed parties ever held.
Party info was spread about half a year
before it took place.  A lot of changes
about  who  were  actually  the  groups
behind  this  party.   Was it really as
great as it was pronounced to be???

  Well,  we  (I photon, and the rest of
Vixen)  arrived  at  the  partyplace at
1400  hours  thursday  26/12  after  an
almost 5 hours long bustrip from Odense
DK.   When  we got in (after paying 100
Dkr) the first thing that stroke me was
professionalism.   The  partyplace  was
one  big hall and a sleepingroom of the
same  size!   In the middle of the hall
was  a  fake  wall with tables sticking
our to both sides, and tables from each
wall  too.   So  every freak sat in the
same  room, Cool!  The arrangers of the
party had made one big mistake from the
start;  they had allowed boozing inside
the  place, and several freaks couldn't
handle the freedom of booze, and in the
middle  of  the  night between thursday
and  friday, it all ended up with a guy
(I  think  he  was  swedish) smashing a
stereorack  into the floor splitting it
into   A  LOT  of  tiny  pieces.   Also
someone  called the firedept.  and told
them  a  fire  had  broken  out, so the
firedept.    came.   Saw  no  fire  was
raging   the   place,   and   gave  the
arrangers  a  bill on 20000 Dkr.  for a
false  alarm.   The  one who did it was
never  found  I  think,  but whoever it
was, he/she was a f**king lamer because
it  was  pronounced that there would be
no graphics or musiccompetition because
of this.  Somehow the freaks started to
realise   that  what  they'd  done  was
really  some  shit,  and then the party
turned  into  a "normal" party with not
much  boozing and MUCH phreaking!  2 or
3  hours  later  the staff said though,
that  all  competitions (except for the
surprise  competitions)  still would be
on if people could behave themselves!

  The  party had a lot of visitors.  At
one time the total amount of people was
1300  people.  The most famous guys who
showed   up   was   Anarchy,   Silents,
Crystal, Phenomena, Scoopex, Brainwave,
Brainstorm,  Cytax,  Sanity,  Crionics,
Crusaders,  Rebels,  Alcatraz, Kefrens,
Static Bytes, TRSI, Triad and many many
more!   The  party  was  a little quiet
concerning    releases    before    the
competitions.    Only   a   couple   of
BBS-intros and similar stuff stuff were
released      (apart      from      the
competitionstuff!),  but  I  think that
very many games was circulating there.

  The graphicscompetition was the first
one  to  take place.  A lot of pictures
were shown, and many were really great,
and  it  was  hard  to decide which one
should  be  the  winner, but finally it
was   pronounced...    1.    Iridon  of
Shining  (Maximum  Overscan) 2.  Cougar
of  Sanity (Dog) 3.  R.W.O.  of Kefrens
(Hardcoremonster)  This decision wasn't
bad at all.

  Next   on  was  the  musiccompetition
which  was  very  badly  organized.   I
think  that  80  pieces  of  music  was
delivered  to  the  staff  who chose 32
pieces  I think which was played on the
big  stereo.  This was actually the big
problem.  When the music was played you
couldn't    hear    a    thing.     The
backgroundnoise of 600 monitors playing
a  different  tune  simply was too much
for  the  big rack, and I found it very
hard  to  pick  the  three  best  tunes
because  in my case you could only vote
for  the ones whose names you had heard
between  the  tunes.   This wasn't very
good, and I chose not to vote becuse it
wouldn't  be  fair.   Anyway,  a lot of
people  DID vote, and the result was as
follow...   1.   Tip  and  Mantronix of
Phenomena   (Overload)  2.   Static  of
Rebels    (Hardcore)   3.    Nightlight
(Backtracking)

  Listening  to these tunes afterwards,
I guess that the disicion wasn't so bad
here  either  (I  guess that all freaks
who  showed  up,  have a good taste!  -
but  ofcourse I have nothing to compare
the  three  tune  with, because I never
heard  more that a couple of notes from
each song!)

  The    final,    and   most   awaited
competition     was     ofcourse    the
democompetition    that    took   place
saturday    morning.     Many    groups
participated,   like  Rebels,  Kefrens,
Silents&Crionics,     Aero,    Upfront,
Brainstorm,  Anarchy,  Dual Crew, Razor
1911  and  many  more.   There was many
nice  and new effetcts in a lot of cool
demos, but unfortunately there was also
a  lot  of  fake crapdemos (U.L.I.  and
some   more)   containing  a  bunch  of
realtime  bugs!   There was no doubt on
how the result would be.  Everyone knew
which  three  demos would win, but what
would  the  lineup look like!  Well, it
got  to  look like this...  1.  Odyssey
by  Alcatraz  (Taking  up  5  disks) 2.
Hardwired   by   Silents  and  Crionics
(Taking up 2 disks) 3.  Voyage by Razor
(Taking up 1 disk) 4.  ?  by Horizon 5.
3D demo by Anarchy (Sunjohn)

  All in all I think that these results
from  the  competitions  was  generally
fair  enough,  but  for  the  democompo
there  was very hard competition on who
would  win.   The demos could be parted
in  two  categories.  One where all the
serious  demos  were  in, and one where
all  the  funny  demos were in like The
Julekalendtro, U.L.I.  a.s.o.

  Now to something else.  The food!  In
the invitation it said that there would
be a cafeteria open 24 hrs/day, but all
there  was  between 7 pm and 7 am was a
little shop in the most far away corner
where they sold sodas for Dkr.  10!  If
you were a little bright, you visited a
local  supermarket  where  they sold 1l
soda  for  Dkr.  10.  But generally the
service here was OK too!

  The   powersupply  during  the  party
worked  very  good,  but  there was one
powercut   which  proved  fatal  to  us
anyway.

  If  I had to point out the best thing
about  the  party,  it  was  when  they
announced  that  they  would  show  the
latest  Kyd/Balle production on the big
screen.   It  turned  out  to be Global
Trash  II  -  a  video  animation where
Jesper  Kyd and Mikael Balle of Silents
showed  their  superiority  once again!
The  worst thing I guess was the prices
in the shop between 7 pm and 7 am - way
to expensive.

  My  conclusion  must  be though, that
The  Party  1991  was  one  of the best
parties  ever  held,  and  it  will  be
difficult to repeat such a party again.
Nice   going   Anarchy,   Crystal   and
Silents!                   ³Photon/Vixen.