MOTOROLA INSIDE 2 - partyreport
by Arcane
Motorola Inside was held for the second year now. And again it managed to be
the best party in 1998. That can be said already, even if the Assembly'98 is
still coming! This party was something so different from any other party.
First of all, there was boozing allowed! People got drunk and had fun,
organanizers seemed to take a bit too. I myself saw the other dj taking
koskenkorva in the middle of their playing :)
The part started on friday at 18:00 and the couple of hours were pretty
busy, standing in line waiting for a ticket. And then the worst
part...dragging your Amiga from parkinglot inside and set it up. This year
the organizers were wise, they let the lights be on so most of the people
got their Amigas set up in good lighting...something I have missed in every
other party.
The party hall wasn't very big, but everybody fitted perfectly. There were a
bigscreen and a videocannon, LOTS of loudspeakers and a set of discolights
which created atmosphere while playing livesets. Talking about livesets, the
first thing in schedule was a live performance from The Hooligan/DCS and
Weirdo/Network (also known as Reaper Records as I found out later). They
played all kinds of music ranging from hardcore to goa and jungle. They used
a couple of synthesizers and two Miggy 1200's and I must say it sounded
fucking great! They also had a nice rendered Reaper logo spinning plus some
nice pictures in the spirit of techno.
Nothing more happened on friday everybody was doing their own things and
finalising their compoproductions. And naturally some were boozing outside as
it was quite nice weather outside.
The first thing in saturday for a soccer competition which I sadly missed as
I was preparing my module for music-compo. I don't remember who won but
check out the results somewhere...
Saturday night continued with c64-music compo which was actually better than
the Amiga music-compo. There was some very good tunes even if it hurt my
ears a little bit as I was preeetty close to the other bigger loudspeaker :)
Later on scehedule was THX compo which was...well...a bit dull as all songs
were conversions of Popcorn. There were 6 or 7 entries and all but one were
very good ones. Nice idead of having THX compos...too bad there was so
little amount of entries.
Graphics compo was pretty good. I especially liked the bird picture by
Sivu/Byterapers. People shouted funny lines during the competition like
'scanned!', 'a photograph!'. When the last piocture was on screen which
happened tyo be a very small picture of a dog, The Hooligan shouted 'a
stamp!' and got some applause from teh audience. All in all the atmosphere
was relaxed and very different to let's say, Assembly or Abduction.
Then the music-compo was supposed to be started, but it got delayed because
of some problems with Delfina soundcard. Delfina delayed the music-compo
also last year so I don't think the organziers will use it next year :)
All in all it was very bad compo...not to mention I forgot to deliver my module
to the compo :)
All songs were sad goa/acid copies except for two songs which I found very
good, and was amazed to see that they didn't do any better. I mean songs by
Pekka Pou/Jormas and Weirdo/Network. These two songs differed so much from
the others and really I wonder why they didn't do any better.
Intro compo was a disappointment apart from the winnerintro by Phase Truce.
It looked awesome on a bigscreen when ran on a A4000/060, but on my
030/50mhz it's not so goodlooking.
The others were quickly made crap with no real competition to the Phase
Truces effort.
Then the main event started, the demo compo. Last years demo compo really
wasn't anything worth watching so I expected similar production this year
two. Man how you can be wrong! From the first production by Jormas you knew
this years compo is going to be different. The second demo wasn't anything
but a joke, a couple of dudes singing about makign of the demo. Apparently
it was coded completely at the party. Next one was an unknown groups Sulpu.
They had only one effect a sort of dotroutine which changed shape nwo and
then. But then the audience got what they came to look for. Embassys demo
'Bangcock' was a real killer, with lot's of effects, nice looking graphics
and very complicated routines. Once again it ran silky smooth on a 060 but
crawled on a 030. The fifth demo didn't quite work but there was some guy
poking a womans pussy...I quess it was mpeg or something...
Spedes (or should I say sPEDES :) has once again a production to show.
Normally very funny if somewhat primitive routines. Now they had made a demo
about the 80's called 'Boogienights' which had some very nice design in the
beginning but got worse and worse closing end. I heard it was released
unfinished so I quess there'll be a final version soon.
Sensible's demo was very short and didn't have a chance in the compo.
The last demo was also from an unknown group called 'Army of Lamers' and
they had a pretty decent demo with soem stunning designs and ideas.
Especially the breaking of picture in the beginning and the DPaint-part
caused some whoo-aa's in the audience.
All in all it was a very good democompo, I must say that I'm not so happy
with the results...the AOL's demo should have been in pronze and the Snus's
demo shouldn't be even in the results but then again, everybody voted only
for the first two demos so at least the two best demos were ranked
correctly.
The voting was something other partyorganizers should also consider.
Everybody was given a votedisk which contained a votetool, schedules and
some bonus stuff. It took me 1 minute to vote for all categories, and less
than five seconds to transfer the votes to the organizers machine! Now
that's what I call a well thought voting! Well done!
The atmosphere was so much different than any other parties. There was no
pc's in the area and the people seemed to know each other very well. One
thing I noticed was that normally visitors slack the organizers for bad
organizing. In MI98 the announcer called visitors woodcocks, idiots,
assholes and so on :) Nothing was stolen and nothing was broken. The
toilets were in very good shape, even on sundaymorning you could go to
take a leak and still remain consciouness. Definetely the best party ever, I
am 100% I'll be here also next year!
Arcane