Party report from Hurricane & Brutal Summer Party

Published in:	Stolen Data #09
Written by:	RockDaZone of Anarchy
Date:	August 1992

Interview

Yet again, it is RokDaZone (your very busy and hardworking, quite important but still modest STOLEN DATA-Editor). This time it is a special LIVE report from the... HURRICANE - PARTY '92 held in Samso/Denmark.

This report might appear a bit disappointing to some scenefreaks, because I do not want to compete in the collective hatred, but will try to be as objective as possible. Well, this first sentence may seem a bit astounding to those freaks, not present at this party. In fact, this party is not the promised mega-party with open lines, high competition and low food prizes. Indeed, we found closed lines, high food but no competition prizes and much free disappointment for all. But let us see...

We - Pinny/ANARCHY, General/BRAINBOMBS (C64) and me - arrived at the partyplace approx 17:40 after a promised and fullfilled ride in a free bus and found two quite large halls - one for AMIGA and the rest you may guess yourself. Still, the halls were not overcrowded, but the air (esp. in the AMIGA hall) was really hot and stinky so we soon decided to step outside again. At first seemingly no betterknown groups showed up, but after some walks, we finally discovered the VIP-rooms. So, the whole party was split up into three different parts. Not so well...

Just let me have a look around (this is live!) and see what groups my eyes will catch: Silents, Kefrens[/s], [g=35]Parasite, Static Bytes, S!P/Scoopex, Anarchy, Devils, P.M.C., Complex, Rebels, Dual Crew, Hurrilame (guessed that.), Mexx, Sonic, Trojans, Images, Sanity, Wise Guys, Bastards, Amaze, Equinox, Phenomena, Vixen, The Corporation, Wrath Design, 2000 A.D. and a lot more...

In the hall for the common Amiga-freaks one finds mainly unknown guys, often playing old to very old games. In fact thousands of games are flying around the hall. It is a legal party you know... A guy, trying to fix his VHS-system in order to sell videos does not manage to show his hardpornos without disturbing flickers and I think this says it all about the main part of the guys hanging around here. The most people here seem to be uninterested in nearly anything going around here and so everybody turns on his stereos to splatter Techno or heavy metall around.

Now, let me get to the organisation. Eh, this is weird, but it also makes the whole thing more interesting to write for me. First of all the positive points... No breakdowns at all. The power-supply was really good. The halls themself were quite big. Enough place for everyone. Although much fewer people as expected showed up, about 600(?) people were present. The taxi to the small village of Ballern (?) where a neat discotheque was located was quite cheap and also the club itself was fun. After some hours many visitors appeared to be real partyanimals (Read the boozed interview with Zob and C.H.A.R.D./S!P/Scoopex in this issue). In the same building were the AMIGA-hall was located, some girlies from Denmark spent their holiday vacation!!.

Here some of the negative points:

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No lines = no boards.

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Competition = one mess, because none of the organizers had any information.

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Cheating is very easy, because there are many voting sheets laying around.

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The promised videoscreen appeared to consist of some old sheets.

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The soundsystem consists of four mid-seized loudspeakers and the accoustic itself made it nearly impossible to get what the fool at microphone tried to grunt.

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Aircondition? How do you spell it...

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Prizes for food = Amazingly high, at least I can not afford it.

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The partyplace was told to be in the centre of a town. Centre? Maybe, but where is the town? Just one little 'supermarket' in approx 600 metres distance.

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The lack of information within the organizers caused confusions while enrolling for the single competitions ("Enrolling? -Well ask this guy over there.").

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During the graphics competition, the videosystem fucked up (moderator goes:"Oh, shit!").

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They switched the lights off in the afternoon and did not switch it on back again until the next morning. This causes quite lot problemes with your eyes when sitting around seven hours continously in front of your machine. Moreover, the chances to stumble and fall rised extremly. Does not have to be that way, does it?

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The PC-demo competition was a fake. In fact, it is just going on and I am able to see about 15 people standing around a small monitor, glancing at the productions.

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The guys of Hurrilame gave orders without telling why, e.g. VIP-rooms had to be left. Why? We do not know at all...

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The music competition was a big shit, although it was quite nice that all 53 tunes were played nearly full.

Their Protracker fucked up several times and cheating ruled it all... The behaviour of the organizers, concerning alcohol was also funny! People, trying to bring alcohol inside the rooms were told to leave immediately, while they themselves took huge amounts of alcohol inside to get pissed. You maybe can imagine that none liked those guys that much and therefore they soon were called Hurrilame and also several cooperative anti-demos (intros) have been released. The freaks gave it to the organizers without saying what it was like, but after about 20 seconds of video-displaying they finally managed to read "Hurrilame" in biiig letters and they promptly switched of, while the crowed got:"Yeah!" In this mood the visitors build a direct front against the organizers, who should better shut up now, if they do not want to get even more troubles.

THE COMPETITIONS

I have no clear results from any competition but the demo competition, because most people already left when the official results were given. Me
too. Also, the promised Top10 Music-competition between the 10 best out of the 53 songs, taking part was cancelled (as far as I do know).

Demo-compo:

1.
Kefrens 200 points

2.
Analog 161 points

3.
Silents 158 points

4.
Anarchy 149 points

The demo competition ran with no breakdowns, but it happened much too early in the morning, so the most visitors still were asleep. The Dominators demo was shown twice without any reason. The whole voting system was stupid and a competition without prizes is a fake anyway. Especially when the organizers promised to have the largest prizes ever. Officials stated that the prizes had to be cancelled because of a hole in their budget of 60.000DK. Well, I do not think so, because the sponsors seemingly did not pay that bad and also quite a lot visitors were present...

Ok. Now to partyfuzz, anecdotes and scandals (Do you like yellow press?)

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Denmark won the European Cup. This incident caused collective mass orgasm within the rows of the Danish guys.

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MightyMuz and Pinny had a little fight, but soon became friends again.

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The reborn EUROCHARTS by Static Bytes got out with more then one day of delay.

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The Andromeda-crew found themselves locked in their room on the saturday morning. Some guys (must have been the organizers) locked the door late that night, without asking if somebody was in. After some cries for help out of the window, the door got 'opened' by a guy of 2000 A.D. (I do not know his handle and if I knew I wouldn't tell it, anyway). In fact, this big guy simply kicked the door open and therefore totally wrecked it.

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Zob and C.H.A.R.D./S!P/Scoopex came out and admitted to be gay. Therefore they are the first official faggots in our scene (JUST KIDDING!!! Still, you should read my boozed interview with these guys.).

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Shayera/Parasite is working on a new tracker, called the PST-TRACKER. It features innovation in layout and style, for example: The VU-MTR is no longer displayed over the datafield, but besides it. He will publish a preversion at the party to introduce it to the crowd. It does not feature MIDI, but this is soon to be fixed in the last version. He asks all musicians to contribute by advising him what has to be improved.

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A 'FEDERATION AGAINST HURRILAME PARTIES' was founded to prevent them from doing it again...

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The guy winning the music-competition after the first run. ..cheated. He payed for the votes by giving beer to the voters. Very heroic deed! (Seemingly it is not wrong to do this because I was told that it is ok, as long one gets more than three beers for it.)

Ok. That is all to be reported in my opinion. Just one thing left: The party itself was not bad at all, because of the cool guys present there. So, here some special party greetings from me to some guys, making the even a remarkable one: Hydra/ANDROMEDA, Chrome/2000 A.D., Decker & C.h.a.r.d. & Zob/S!P/SCOOPEX, Overlord/ WISE GUYS and to all I have talked to while these days... For a real computerparty, however, it was quite shitty, because of the organizers who did not even try to do the best they could. I think, Hurricane will die soon (If there was ever a group of this name. I never met a real member there) and I would suggest that every single member should change his handle and his haircut, so they are not recognized at other parties at once. Maybe then, they might have a chance to get back into the scene...

-	No lines = no boards.
-	Competition = one mess, because none of the organizers had any information.
-	Cheating is very easy, because there are many voting sheets laying around.
-	The promised videoscreen appeared to consist of some old sheets.
-	The soundsystem consists of four mid-seized loudspeakers and the accoustic itself made it nearly impossible to get what the fool at microphone tried to grunt.
-	Aircondition? How do you spell it...
-	Prizes for food = Amazingly high, at least I can not afford it.
-	The partyplace was told to be in the centre of a town. Centre? Maybe, but where is the town? Just one little 'supermarket' in approx 600 metres distance.
-	The lack of information within the organizers caused confusions while enrolling for the single competitions ("Enrolling? -Well ask this guy over there.").
-	During the graphics competition, the videosystem fucked up (moderator goes:"Oh, shit!").
-	They switched the lights off in the afternoon and did not switch it on back again until the next morning. This causes quite lot problemes with your eyes when sitting around seven hours continously in front of your machine. Moreover, the chances to stumble and fall rised extremly. Does not have to be that way, does it?
-	The PC-demo competition was a fake. In fact, it is just going on and I am able to see about 15 people standing around a small monitor, glancing at the productions.
-	The guys of Hurrilame gave orders without telling why, e.g. VIP-rooms had to be left. Why? We do not know at all...
-	The music competition was a big shit, although it was quite nice that all 53 tunes were played nearly full.

1.	Kefrens 200 points
2.	Analog 161 points
3.	Silents 158 points
4.	Anarchy 149 points

-	Denmark won the European Cup. This incident caused collective mass orgasm within the rows of the Danish guys.
-	MightyMuz and Pinny had a little fight, but soon became friends again.
-	The reborn EUROCHARTS by Static Bytes got out with more then one day of delay.
-	The Andromeda-crew found themselves locked in their room on the saturday morning. Some guys (must have been the organizers) locked the door late that night, without asking if somebody was in. After some cries for help out of the window, the door got 'opened' by a guy of 2000 A.D. (I do not know his handle and if I knew I wouldn't tell it, anyway). In fact, this big guy simply kicked the door open and therefore totally wrecked it.
-	Zob and C.H.A.R.D./S!P/Scoopex came out and admitted to be gay. Therefore they are the first official faggots in our scene (JUST KIDDING!!! Still, you should read my boozed interview with these guys.).
-	Shayera/Parasite is working on a new tracker, called the PST-TRACKER. It features innovation in layout and style, for example: The VU-MTR is no longer displayed over the datafield, but besides it. He will publish a preversion at the party to introduce it to the crowd. It does not feature MIDI, but this is soon to be fixed in the last version. He asks all musicians to contribute by advising him what has to be improved.
-	A 'FEDERATION AGAINST HURRILAME PARTIES' was founded to prevent them from doing it again...
-	The guy winning the music-competition after the first run. ..cheated. He payed for the votes by giving beer to the voters. Very heroic deed! (Seemingly it is not wrong to do this because I was told that it is ok, as long one gets more than three beers for it.)