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assembly '93
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The party hall
The party hall
The party hall (after
the party)
A party room
Future Crew in
Gravis T-shirts
Sonic PC
An after party group
photo
I need a shower
Word started spreading out: there was a great
party in Finland during the summer. On the
evolving PC scene Future Crew started to get
fame and naturally everybody waited for
cometition between Future Crew, Silents PC
and the rest of rapidly growing PC demo
scene.
If ASM'92 attracted more people than was
expected then the 1500 dudes at a school in
Kerava was certainly something of a great
reward to the organizers. For the very first time
there was a feeling of an international party as
people came from Belgium, the Netherlands,
Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. So
the guys from all the big PC demo scene
countries were there. Let's not forget that
ASM'93 was the only occasion when Tran and
most of the Renaissance crew where there.
In fact Tran, White Shadow / Renaissance and
Arjan Brussee (formerly of Ultraforce) started
working on PC demo at the party place but
unfortunately didn't finish the production.
While ASSEMBLY '93 was a lot more
professionally organized than the previous
party there was a lot of improve. For example
the PA system was high-end Dolby Surround
system. Unfortunately the system didn't have
nearly as much power as the ghetto blasters
some guys from Germany had with them, so
we decided to loan theirs for the compos =).
Some might remember the toilets =), absolute
horror.
As for the compos, PC guys still had to look
up at the Amiga scene. I could only cry when I
saw the PC graphics compo pictures: most of
them looked like they were drawn by 5 year
old kids toying around with crayons. PC music
compo was though a lot better in quality. With
the Scream Tracker and other new trackers
the PC musicians were equal to Amiga
musicians with 4 channel trackers. So there
was still a long way to go.
Speaking of demo music, there was one thing
that marked a new age of PC demo music and
PC demos in general. The PC demo compo
was better than ever before. The people got to
see the competition between the top PC demo
groups and the productions have been
remembered since: Second Reality, Optic
Nerve and so on. This year there was no need
to feel ashamed in front of the Amiga scene.
Back then there was heavy competition
between ASSEMBLY and The Computer
Crossroads (in Sweden) for the title of "THE
summer party". TCC's pc compos were
equally great as ASMs: Triton released their
classic Crystal Dreams II there.
This year the credits for organizing go out to
Pehu, Moku, Meegosh, Gore and of course all
the people from Movement and Future Crew.
But a real respect goes out to Pehu and Moku
who had to clear after the whole thing was
finished. The party place was so filthy that it
took them two weeks to get the school back in
to order. Some say it would have been better
to demolish the whole place =).