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As a sidetrack I'd like to also ask a few opinions about level of volume. Shall parties be loud or somewhat silent?

I noticed lately that parties in Sweden are getting more and more silent and the few parties that aren't silent gets divided into two rooms, where one room is silent.

YES! YES! YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAH!!!

I don't care.

I don't have a problem with load parties, but there should be a law against playing the same stuff over and over again.

i'm all for. live gigs rock. i'd like to see more gigs of sceners livesetting their own music though, i've a feeling the focus is often either on redoing the oldschool in a funny way (gameboybritney, a band playing the 2nd reality tune, an idiot singing in spanish over a chiptune, etc) or just sceners who happen to also be a dj (sortof unrelated, really) don't get me wrong - these things kick major butt too, but a *scener* rocking the crowd with his *own* stuff beats it five times, imo.

on volume, siderooms are a perfect solution imo. especially if they form the connection to 'where it all happens' like on bcnparty (fake meadow) or breakpoint (where the sideroom was way too small, sadly) if no sideroom available, good planning works too.

i insist on skrebbel doing a live-gig at SE.

For big parties, I'd rather see DJ's in places that wasn't the main hall so that people who wanted to dance could go there, and those who wanted to be nerdy with their machines could sit without "being disturbed" by random music/sounds (unless you are sitting behind/in front of/besides Metalvotze).

Livegigs, on the other hand, like BASS and Ultrasound should be welcome on the main stage though, since such bands are directly scene related and plays scene music.

you sure you wanna take the risk of BASS playing own songs? :D

actually, i've never been to a demo party with live music / DJ's , and I always kind of miss the phenomenon. I'd be happy to see something similar once.

kelsey: you've been to ONE party so far and it had a live act during friday night...

erm... don't remember? :) i think i missed them, then.

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rasmus, i'm sad to report that i will not attend SE, for i will be on a holiday then (dressed up sortof like during my live on se03).

however, not all hope is lost, for i heard that Stream MEGA! might feature at least one stunning live performance!

honestly? yes. if you guys'd actually try that, i think the results could be very interesting. i think you'd invent a totally new genre (for a standard rock band setup at least) right away, without even thinking twice about it.

Its a party, why wouldn't you have a band playing? We try to make it scene related if possible. I'd love to find someone who can perform on a theremin.

skrebbel: i doubt "thrash metal" is a new genre ;D

sparcus, heh... i remember also some raves in denmark - trying to get some sleep at tp7 in the last party hall was nearly impossible while the raves were on.

i'm all for extra program like gigs, dj / vj sets and so on. this may be even a way to evoke interest among normal mundanes to demoscene - like with the evoke netlabel night last year. it may be a good idea to have sets in a separate place or hall so that there's at least some more peaceful place left for those who don't feel like partying - but then again the ones who are coming to a demoparty and expecting it to be all nice and peaceful should really ... <sensored rumbling and mumbling>

talking about noise and trying to get to sleep: at the last tum I first tried to sleep in the quiet sleeping hall, but some guy was snoring like hell and it annoyed me so much that I went back into the party hall and started sleeping below in table... within less than a minute.

Nothing makes you sleep better than some good old fashioned party noise :-)

i think i 'slept' close to that very same dude at BP04 :P

hmm, so it must have been some guy who went to both parties...

I bet it was Okkie :-)

My bet: 100 Euios on Scythoior and additional 20 Euros on Bombe.


D * H * B * B * say it!

Not only DHBB was in my opinion the bestest band at Breakpoint, they even had dope!!!! I liked the other bads as well since they made some nice live music containing scene music (Ultrabasssound) or at least 8 bit and pornography (Pornophonique).

Covering the topic: Since I haven't heard Desert Dream, Northern Sky, Past & Present, Living in the Past, enigma, Lizardking's theme, 303, Demo Song Nr2, Love, Crack or Die!, ... live yet. Oh and: There aren't enough live versions of the fr-025 and the Second Reality soundtrack (like there aren't enough versions of Axel F. and Popcorn). ;)

if someone get us a way to be there, we will be there!!!

signed,

jeenio from Ultrasound

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ofcourse on superior countries, the higher level of culture causes random live jams to surface at demoparties.

ok, maybe it also happens on not so superior countries: