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• cdc #1: Industrial Breakdown by Booze Design

• demo Commodore 64 Postcards from stockholm by Fairlight [web]
• Oswald, of course you didn't get it, you're not from Sweden.
• isokadded on the 2004-08-02 16:46:42
• demo Commodore 64 Postcards from stockholm by Fairlight [web]
• This one's up there with Pretending to See the Light and Manhood II. Rock solid, and some of the parts made me laugh out loud the first time I saw them.
  
  No thumb, as I'm (slightly) involved, but it sure deserves a big thumb up!
• isokadded on the 2004-08-02 14:36:45
• demo Commodore 64 Borderline by Triad [web]
• If you don't like this demo the first time you watch it, try again later, after smoking a fat joint.
  
  The visuals are awesome, but the music (at least some of the tunes) destroys the mood for me.
• rulezadded on the 2004-08-02 14:32:06
• demo Commodore 64 Hammarkullen by Afrika
• Fake demo with some really fast chunky effects and a bit of the old Afrika attitude.
  
  Unfortunately HCL's loader doesn't work on any of my drives this time, so I had to watch it in an emulator, where it didn't look quite as awesome as it did on the party.
• rulezadded on the 2004-08-02 14:29:10
• demo Commodore 64 Hellfork by Active [web]
• Not exactly pretty, but the idea is kamikaze stupid, so thumbs up from me.
• rulezadded on the 2004-07-18 11:25:05
• demo Commodore 64 Plastic Kiss by Resource [web]
• Although we all seem to be one happy family now, I think I should clarify some of my views a bit. First of all, aggressive-sounding comments give more interesting reactions, so I like them, regardless of who writes them.
  
  The "half-assed scene poetry" comment reflects a nagging suspicion of mine, that some people might use what looks like concept demos the "dishonest" way nightlord describes it. But well, I'm not sure if there's anything negative about that anyway... The problem isn't so much that they're bad concept demos, but that they're a very special type of concept demos, almost as if they were made according to a recipe. I guess what the inner circle might want in a case like this is more originality. I can't speak for them, of course, but to me it's pretty simple: I want something that feels fresh in some way, which is why eg. Nivussieni by DKD, Criminal by Civitas, Cologne by Centric, BITLive4Demo by Mahoney and Brief Bursts of Happiness by Creators have found a permanent home in my diskbox, while eg. Plastic Kiss hasn't.
  
  And as for constructive criticism, I just don't agree. Right, there's no reason to be overly mean in general (just like there's no reason to be more nice than the work in question deserves), but I don't agree that the main point of criticism is to assist the creator in improving his/her future works. With 15 or 20 different commenting on a release, there's no reason for everyone to mention all the positive and negative points.
• isokadded on the 2004-06-10 15:41:43
• demo Commodore 64 Plastic Kiss by Resource [web]
• Jailbird: I'm sure Oswald has a lot to say, but he can't express it in a way that I can appreciate, which gives exactly the same result, me shaking my head and writing negative comments.
  
  As for the "higher power" and stuff, I can't quite follow that, sorry.
  
  And yes, people have different opinions, but that doesn't mean you can't talk about it. As for "blaming" people, let's say your first post sounded a bit more aggressive than you intended it.
  
  Nightlord: What's dishonest about trying to make a good demo? I'm not saying Oswald is trying to fool us, I'm saying he was trying to use other means of making a good demo than his usual ones, and failed. Concept doesn't imply personal stuff, you can make "concept demos" about Batman, Spice Girls or zombies.
  
  
• isokadded on the 2004-06-10 11:33:17
• demo Commodore 64 Plastic Kiss by Resource [web]
• Nah, my turn to jump in. I just wonder about a few of the details in what you've written...
  
  First of all, what's "a demo like this one"? Did you know in advance what it was going to be like? To me, this is another one of those "let's make a concept demo although we don't have anything to say, so we'll just whip up some half-assed scene poetry" demos. Was that what you meant? In that case I guess I could have predicted what some people would say too.
  
  As for appreciating the hard work, I'll have to draw the old Metallica analogy again: Lars Ulrich spent 6 months getting the drum sound right when they were recording the black album. Well, the album still sucks. Does the hard work make it better? IMHO: nope-diddely-dope.
• isokadded on the 2004-06-09 23:22:01
• slideshow Commodore 64 Koaladisk by WsW [web]
• I really don't see the point of adding these old releases here. Judging by the number of comments, no one cares anyway.
• isokadded on the 2004-06-04 19:37:52
• musicdisk Commodore 64 Microloops by Cybernetic Mechanical Person [web]
• Better than the average music collection.
• isokadded on the 2004-06-02 11:06:48