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• demo Windows Fermion by Kewlers [web]
• Solid production, classic Kewlers style :). It does feel like I've seen it before but it's a great effort so I don't really mind. The soundtrack is really great and I did enjoy the Mayday iconography in combination with the hoover sounds :D. Lovely to hear the music slowly creep into retro mode like that ;D. Overall, not a game-changer but enjoyable nevertheless.
• rulezadded on the 2011-08-15 22:57:06
• 64k Windows uncovering static by Fairlight [web] & Alcatraz [web]
• Quote:

  Music, visual, size, rulez.
  It's a great shame for his ranking at ASM.

  
  
  Yep, this was certainly a more technically interesting demo than the winner. But the winner was a more traditional choice, so it's not that strange really.
  
  Then again, who the fuck pits 64k intros against full-size demos ;D?
• isokadded on the 2011-08-11 00:29:50
• 64k Windows uncovering static by Fairlight [web] & Alcatraz [web]
• Btw, one of the more interesting demo prod discussions in a while. Great read :).
• isokadded on the 2011-08-11 00:25:57
• 64k Windows uncovering static by Fairlight [web] & Alcatraz [web]
• From a technological standpoint this is pure excellence. Fairlight demos never seem to disappoint :). However, it's not very aesthetically pleasing. Sure, it's pretty and all and the environments are kinda evocative but it's not close to "Agenda..." and "Ceasefire..." and I ... aaaaand that's about when I realized this is a 64k ;D. Jaw dropped. Sorry about that. I'll go get my coat ;D.
  
  Yeah, this is just brilliant. I'll leave it to that.
  
  Though, I can understand that people might take issue with the soundtrack. All I can do is to agree with psonice on this one. This 64k synth sounds enough like crappy "high-end" synths to spawn such reactions. But after all, this is a 64k synth. And taking that into account, those piano and string sounds really sound amazing. I've been waiting for something like this for quite a while now (every time in the past when I heard a string instrument modeller based on delay lines or some other physical modelling technique in a 4k soundtrack I shined up, just counting the days for a soundtrack just like this one to come along :)). Not that the tune is mind-blowing or anything - it's nice and everything - no, what I really like is the use of physical modelling. Now, the next milestone that I'm waiting for is a demo soundtrack that is basically rendered entirely in real-time and sounds pretty much like its counterparts based on soft synths in Ableton Live or any other VST host :). That would be so sweet. Screw mp3. Let's go real-time software synthesis all the way. That's what most people are doing anyway, it's just that they're dumping the soft synths to mp3. Really, what a waste ;).
  
  Anyway, thank you so much for this demo.
• rulezadded on the 2011-08-11 00:15:36
• demo Windows Spin by Andromeda Software Development [web]
• Besides for the vocals being a bit goofy (like being in a way too low register for that vocalist to handle) I can't see anything profoundly wrong with them. The overall mixing impression is at least better than for "Butterfly..." but that might be because the composition for that prod is very clean which makes every mixing mistake very easy to spot. It's ok as far as I'm concerned. Although, I reckon you could probably increase the volume of the vocals and cut some mid to improve things. Not that I would know anything about that, but still ;D.
• isokadded on the 2011-08-10 01:37:09
• demo Windows Spin by Andromeda Software Development [web]
• Quote:

  Tetsuo Vega: "You know what they call industrial music in Germany?"
  Jules Win-Chen: "Don't they just call it industrial?"
  Tetsuo Vega: "No, they got a whole different subculture. They don't know what 'industrial' is."
  Jules Win-Chen: "Then what do they call it?"
  Tetsuo Vega: "They call it Electro Body Music."
  Jules Win-Chen: "Electro Body Music?!"
  Tetsuo Vega: "That's right."
  Jules Win-Chen: "Then what do they call techno?"
  Tetsuo Vega: "Techno's techno. They just call it 'Le Techno'. You know what they put on drums in Belgium instead of reverb? Flange."

  
  
  *LOL* That's some funny shit right there ;D.
• isokadded on the 2011-08-10 01:04:14
• demo Windows Spin by Andromeda Software Development [web]
• Navis: Great technical write-up. Thanks a lot :).
• isokadded on the 2011-08-10 00:58:20
• demo Windows Spin by Andromeda Software Development [web]
• *LOL* Some kind of... I dunno... futurepop soundtrack ;D. Oh, well... Very nice-looking visuals as usual, nice effects but I felt that the pacing was dragging. The demo felt too long and some scenes could certainly have been cut down or cut entirely.
• rulezadded on the 2011-08-10 00:53:41
• demo Commodore 64 Storebror by Mahoney [web]
• Fuckin brilliant :D. Love the attitude and Mahoney manages to impress once again :).
• rulezadded on the 2011-08-09 19:28:25
• demo Windows MacGyver DEMO by The Gang [web]
• AWESUM :D.
• rulezadded on the 2011-08-05 19:09:24