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report from the aars party 1992 <br />
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text and music by pri/tia/oxyron. <br />
<br />
the party took place in aars, denmark, <br />
a small town near alborg, from sunday 27<br />
to tuesday 29 in december 1992. the lo-<br />
cation was the same as last year, namely<br />
the'messecenter' with three large halls.<br />
the organizers were: camelot on c64, <br />
crystal, silents and anarchy on amiga,<br />
and danish elite on pc. in this report i<br />
will mostly restrict to c64 matters, as<br />
there will be loads of party reports on<br />
the other systems as well. <br />
in comparison to last year, when only <br />
one hall was used for partying and one<br />
for sleeping, now all three halls were<br />
used; the first one for amiga, the se-<br />
cond one for c64 and pc (although you<br />
could find quite a bit of amigas there,<br />
too), and the third one for sleeping. <br />
in the first hall there was a big <br />
screen with really superb sound equip-<br />
ment, furthermore three tv channels (one<br />
info and two movie channels) as well as<br />
one radio channel, which broadcasted al-<br />
most during the whole party, except for<br />
one period of time when there was a pro-<br />
blem with the transmitter. <br />
like last year there were a small shop <br />
and a cafeteria (this time with lower<br />
prices) where you could buy the food you<br />
needed, furthermore a stand from a local<br />
computer store where disks and the like<br />
could be purchased. another stand sold<br />
magazines and videos among which were of<br />
course pornos, which some people immedi-<br />
ately bought and showed on their tv's,<br />
and all the lamers who came by gathered<br />
round them with popping eyes ! <br />
there also was a lazer disc room which <br />
was supposed to show movies 24 hours a<br />
day. however, after some time it was<br />
closed, because too many people who went<br />
there used it for sleeping, but some<br />
hours later it was opened again. <br />
anyway, i really don't understand why <br />
people were not allowed to sleep in hall<br />
one and two. especially the second day<br />
the organizers often did calls saying<br />
that people should wake up, once even<br />
threatening to throw them out. but i do<br />
not understand why it is a bad thing<br />
when you e.g. are sleeping on your chair<br />
in front of your computer - perhaps you<br />
just fell asleep by accident. many peop-<br />
le also sleep under the tables because<br />
they do not want to leave their equip-<br />
ment alone. here, this was of course not<br />
possible. but despite this fact 'only'<br />
one amiga was registered as stolen. <br />
now some more details about the run of <br />
the party... <br />
at 8.00 o'clock on sunday which was <br />
set to be the opening time, there alrea-<br />
dy were hundreds of people queued up in<br />
the first hall. we (graham, kirk, slide,<br />
tts and me) had to wait for almost two<br />
hours (!!) until we could check in. eve-<br />
ryone received a paper containing infos<br />
and the party program, as well as a disk<br />
on which the votes should be given, how-<br />
ever, this voting system later turned<br />
out to be not that perfect after all<br />
(more about that later). <br />
people started to build up their equip<br />
ment and to walk around in the halls. as<br />
the day went on, more and more people<br />
arrived, and the atmosphere became real<br />
great. the only event of the first day<br />
was a'show of ancient demos' in the eve-<br />
ning. regrettably i could attend neither<br />
this show nor the techno concert which<br />
began at midnight (and justified the re-<br />
latively high entrance fee of 120 dkr)<br />
because i had to work on my tune for the<br />
musiccompetition whose deadline was set<br />
already to 9.00 o'clock on tuesday. <br />
after i had made it to deliver my tune<br />
in time, i did not go to sleep but star-<br />
ted to do another one. this was of cour-<br />
se only possible because we had brought<br />
our own coffeemachine with us - what<br />
would we bee without coffee ?! (in dem<br />
der loeffel steht!) tts was finishing<br />
his tv-vectorcube-part while graham and<br />
slide (who obviously had drunk too less<br />
coffee) were asleep. <br />
regrettably many people were still <br />
sleeping when the musics were presented<br />
at 11.30 . curiously enough, the 'real<br />
big heroes' like drax, jeroen tel, scor-<br />
tia, danko, moon etc. did not contribute<br />
with a tune, partly they were not even<br />
present at the party. but nevertheless<br />
there were some nice tunes by guys like<br />
steel/scs/origo , devilock/x-rated and<br />
the syndrom/tia/padua, also some normal<br />
and some less good ones (bah...). <br />
the sound came across really cool. only <br />
the tune by ratpoison/noice did not <br />
seem to be working. so the organizers<br />
told him to get a working version within<br />
two minutes.after already thirty seconds<br />
(hae?) they said they would skip it, but<br />
then played it though, but only for a<br />
few seconds. then they stopped it,i won-<br />
der why ? <br />
in the afternoon some of us went into <br />
town to go shopping a little. i got my-<br />
self the cult-food: polser , polsebrod<br />
and remoulade ! yeah, schlonz... <br />
finally, after having been awake for <br />
about 60 hours, i went to sleep into the<br />
back hall in the evening. i woke up just<br />
in time for the graphics presentation<br />
where 22 pictures were shown among which<br />
were some really excellent pieces of<br />
work. by the way, it were only 14 people<br />
who had participated in the musiccompo.<br />
finally, at 5.00 hours on tuesday mor-<br />
ning, came the biggest event for c64:<br />
the demo presentation ! and here again,<br />
not many 'big' groups took part although<br />
they were present, e.g. light, flash...<br />
<br />
the participating groups were (if i re-<br />
member rightly): <br />
smash designs, warriors of the wasteland<br />
trance, oxyron, noice, fairlight, stari-<br />
on and visual reality. <br />
<br />
fairlight's contribution was no real de-<br />
mo but only a board intro, so they just<br />
took this opportunity to advertise for<br />
their board. well, no comment on that...<br />
after the c64 demo presentation, the<br />
amiga demos were shown which took four<br />
hours (with a break of half an hour in<br />
between). the demo by spaceballs was the<br />
real burner of the day. it contained<br />
vectorized digis of a dancing girl and<br />
cool complex filled vectors as well as<br />
a superb techno soundtrack. you really<br />
had the impression as if you were watch-<br />
ing a music video (perhaps it was a bit<br />
similar to 'don't you want me' by felix<br />
(by the way, i definitely hate this aw-<br />
fully boring song!)). <br />
after the amiga demo show was over at <br />
midday, the first people started to lea-<br />
ve, and when finally the results of all<br />
the competitions were announced at the<br />
end of the party at 15.00 hours, only a<br />
few hundered people were left. but be-<br />
fore i come to the results i'd like to<br />
lose a few words about the voting sys-<br />
tem: <br />
everybody had been supposed to get a <br />
3.5 disk, on which he could give his<br />
votes, on his arrival. but many people<br />
didn't get a disk at all (including my-<br />
self), or sometimes disks didn't work<br />
properly. but, in order to avoid chea-<br />
ing, you of course weren't allowed to<br />
get a second disk, so at the end several<br />
people could not vote at all because of<br />
this. there also had been supposed to be<br />
a 'live counting' of the votes which in <br />
fact did not happen; some of the organi-<br />
zers just came to the stage and announ-<br />
ced the results, which were as follows:<br />
<br />
demo----+ music-----------+ graphic----+<br />
1.oxyron 1.red devil/flt 1.wave/vsn <br />
2.starion 2.steel/scs/origo 2.ivan/sds <br />
3.noice 3.zyron/antic 3.ans/spirit<br />
+-------+ +---------------+ +----------+<br />
in my opinion - and in many other peop-<br />
le's, too - the results of the musiccom-<br />
petition were a big joke, and this is no<br />
personal offence but just matter-of-fact<br />
criticism: red devil only impressed the<br />
audience by using some digis, the rest<br />
of the tune sounded not bad, but just<br />
normal. the 2. place of steel's tune was<br />
really ok, but not because it was shown<br />
using the jch player but because it was<br />
qualitatively good. but to plac e the<br />
tune by zyron/antic on 3rd is one of the<br />
strangest decisions i've ever heard of.<br />
there was absolutely nothing special a-<br />
bout this tune, quite simple and not ve-<br />
ry original. in my opinion steel, me and<br />
devilock/x-rated should have got the 3<br />
first places, and this is also what many<br />
other people said. if you compare all<br />
the tunes and analyse them correctly,<br />
you will surely agree that these three<br />
tunes have the best structure, the best<br />
melodies, have some changes and do not<br />
sound always the same like many other<br />
ones. probabky the audience lacked the<br />
knowledge of judging music... but any-<br />
way, i think i got a bit caught up in<br />
this, sorry for that. <br />
so let's continue with the rest of the <br />
facts... on the invitation the prizes<br />
for the competitions were listed as fol-<br />
lows: demo music graphic <br />
1.2500 dkr 1.800 dkr 1.800 dkr <br />
2.1000 dkr 2.500 dkr 2.500 dkr <br />
3.500 dkr 3.200 dkr 3.200 dkr <br />
however, the prize money for the demo- <br />
compo was lowered,so that e.g.we in oxy-<br />
ron received only 1500 dkr for the first<br />
place. the reason the organizers gave<br />
was that too less c64 guys had come. but<br />
anyway, i don't want to complain, cash<br />
is not so important, fame is what it's<br />
all about ! <br />
i have no official informations, but <br />
judging by the eye i would say that the<br />
party had over 1500 visitors with many<br />
hundred amigas and about 50 to 60 c64's<br />
and pc's each. but yet there were a few<br />
hundred c64 guys around, so the atmos-<br />
phere was quite good. <br />
as usual, alcohol was strictly forbidden<br />
in the party place. the only important <br />
thing to mention in that direction is <br />
that one guy (probably amiga) was <br />
carried out by two ambulancers. people<br />
said he had taken too much extasy, well<br />
i don't know if that's true, maybe he<br />
only was extremely drunk. <br />
apart from this, i didn't see anything <br />
else special happen, at least nothing so<br />
important as to be mentioned here. <br />
so i will now try and give a list of <br />
all groups who were present at the par-<br />
ty. probably there will be some missing,<br />
perhaps my tired eyes even have seen a<br />
name which was not there at all, so ple-<br />
ase forgive me if there should be a mis-<br />
take in the list... <br />
<br />
c64 groups present at aars'92 (no order)<br />
<br />
varsity, fairlight, blaze, bronx, noice,<br />
trance, smash designs, antic, creatures,<br />
light, success, origo , sunrise, acrise,<br />
visual reality, lower level, warriors of<br />
the wasteland, flash , padua, sprit, red<br />
sector, topaz, talent , maniax, x-rated,<br />
vision, collision ,legend , genesis pro-<br />
gect, t'pau, oxyron + of course camelot.<br />
<br />
all in all you can say that this party <br />
fulfilled the expectations set in it. it<br />
was well organized, and almost every-<br />
thing - for nobody's perfect - worked<br />
fine. you could meet a whole lot of cool<br />
people there, see some really excellent<br />
productions and have a lot of fun. <br />
so hopefully there will be another <br />
aars party in 1993 ! <br />
pri/tia/oxyron<br />
ps. a very big hello hereby must go to<br />
kirk/oxyron who fell ill at the par-<br />
ty and had to leave before the demo<br />
competition. however, when we visi-<br />
ted him after the party he luckily<br />
was well again. but i bet the messa-<br />
ge of our victory in the democompo<br />
would have cured him anyway ! <br />
<br />
keep yourself vertical, tommy !! <br />
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