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۲  ۲ ۲   ۲-d-e-c-a-y-۲ ۲  ۲                                
۲  ۲ ۲   ۲    ۲  ۲  pioneer - music, art, pr, code
۱  ۱ ۱  ۱ ۱  ۱ ۱  ۱   ۲  epox    - music, art, pr      
۱  ۱ ۱  ۱ ۱  ۱ ۱  ۱ ۱  ۱  stoker  - sysoping, art, pr   
۰  ۰ ۰  ۰ ۰  ۰ ۰  ۰ ۱  ۱  ray     - music, code         
       ۰  ۰  slide   - couriering          
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                    sHORT rEPORT fROM tHE bDN ]I[ pARTY                     
                            					             
                  hELD 14.12.-15.12.96 iN bERLIN/gERMANY                    
                                                                            
                         wRITTEN bY pIONEER/dECAY                           
                                                                            
									     
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   About two weeks before the party Epox, Stoker and me decided to attend   
   the Bizarre Demo Net Party III. Since we planned to take some computer   
   equipment with us, we decided to go by car.  My car was much too small   
   for that purpose  (Rover Mini),  Stoker does not  even have a driver's   
   license and our decision fell on Epox' Nissan.                           
   Epox promised to pick me up at my house at 13.3o, 'cos we wanted to be   
   at the party place at 15.oo.  When it was 14.oo I decided to call Epox   
   and ask, if he perhaps died, or something.  But that was  not the case   
   and he finally arrived at my house at 14.15. As we arrived at Stoker's   
   house,  Epox first noticed,  that he  forgot some  important pieces of   
   equipment.  We were lucky, that Stoker could take the parts missing in   
   Epox' gear from his computer cave.                                       
   When we arrived at the party place it started to get dark. After about   
   15 minutes of searching for a parking lot we found one.  I stepped out   
   of the car and into something soft. I thought, please let it be no dog   
   shit, but my prayer was not heard. It was dogshit. Looked like the dog   
   had had a good case of diarrhia :( When Epox started to pick his  com-   
   puter out of the car he was suddenly struck by the fact that he forgot   
   his power supply cable at home.  There was no other possibility,  than   
   to buy one. We went into 'Saturn am Alex' and found out, that we would   
   have to pay 17,95 DM for that crappy little cable. After having waited   
   at the cash register for 20 min and paid, it seemed like we had every-   
   thing we needed.                                                         
   But now it got really late and we were not able to find parking space.   
   After 45 min of desparate  search we found a parking lot in about 1 km   
   from the party place. Carrying all our equipment through  the coldness   
   sucked pretty bad. But at least we had arrived.                          
   The party room was crammed full of people.  There were no free tables,   
   and the organizers (thanx) built us a kind of provisional table out of   
   to little camping desks and a board.  It is still beyond my understan-   
   ding, that it did not break down a single time.                          
   The following compos were to be carried out: Intro/Demo-Compo, 4 Chan-   
   nel Chiptune-Compo, ANSI/ASCII-Fast-Compo, GFX-Compo, Remix-Compo  and   
   of course Multichannel-Compo.  Tuscon  (the organizers) wanted a wild-   
   compo, too, but since there were 0 entries they had to drop that idea.   
   A pity, if you ask me..                                                  
   Since Epox  and me planned to compete in Multichannel-Compo and Remix-   
   Compo the first thing we had to do, was to finish our entries for Mul-   
   ti-Channel-Compo.  It was 18.oo and the deadline  was at 22.oo, but we   
   had to hurry, because the Remix-Compo started at 2o.oo.    We finished   
   our songs right in time to start with da Remix-Compo. Well, in my opi-   
   nion the Remix-Compo sucked, simply because the original song was  un-   
   remixable.  Epox,  me and some other guests gave up after two hours of   
   trying (Hi, Axess!). Meanwhile there were several deadlines and people   
   gave  their works to da organizers.                                      
   The last deadline (Remix-Compo) was at 24.oo and we had absolutely no-   
   thing to do. We spent our time talking to some guys from bpr  and sac.   
   Sinus burned a scene-stuff '96 CD-ROM for us (thanx again dude), since   
   no one in dECAY has got a CD-Writer :(                                   
   I do not remember when exactly all the compo-entries were shown  (beer   
   rooolez!!), but I'm pretty sure it was around 3.oo.  When  we had seen   
   and heard everything it was 5.oo :) Though  there were  some technical   
   problems (f.e. one of the intros/demos didn't run)  I enjoyed it.  The   
   results were ready in about and our. With some frustration we  noticed   
   that people still prefer techno (boom-boom-boom) to more calm, melodic   
   songs. Since only the three best entries were announced I still  don't   
   know how our songs were voted.                                           
   After that we had some good games of dynablaster against some sac-guys   
   (Hi, Spoon!).  Since the party seemed to break up  (many were leaving,   
   even more were packing their equipment) we decided to leave, too.        
                                                                            
   Fazit: A good party in my opinion, maybe a little low on spontanity.     
                                                                            
   Things to be improved: Voting system!!                                   
                                                                            
   Greetings: all dECAY pOSSE, all bPR-cREW, especially 4tune and axess,    
              sinus (thx for the CD), the SAC-Guys we played dyna with,     
              and furthermore universe, dyma, speaker, butcher/demons,      
	       delight, tuscon and everybody else i forgot.                  
                                                                            
   Drifting to sleep...pioneer%decay                                        
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