Trackers & Demoscene
The Last Ninja, the last ever Sundown party and the last word in 64KB demos
The Last Ninja was a groundbreaking series of games for various platforms beginning with the C64 all the way back in 1987. The games themselves have endured, and their music – by game music legends such as Ben Daglish – is particularly well loved. An effort to bring those old SID tunes to life as guitar-rock covers is taking shape as a £25,000 Kickstarter from the band
“The last Sundown demoparty ever will take place this year from 15-17 July”
FastLoaders, with all the rapid fretwork precision of a Mike Oldfield prog rock album. Check out Ninja Musicology and bag a concert ticket at bit.ly/KSninjamusicology.
In other news, the last Sundown demoparty ever will take place this year from 15-17 July. So if bivouacking down next to like-minded demo geeks in the coastal town of Budleigh Salterton in Devon sounds like your cup of tea, then look no further than sundowndemoparty.net.
Finally, if you slept through the scene in 2015, you can now grab all the year’s musical additions to the Mod Archive in one handy torrent file from modarchive.org.
DEMO OF THE MONTH Fermi Paradox
by Mercury The Revision demoparty, held over Easter in Saarbrücken, Germany, is the biggest sceneonly event in the world, so any demo crew hoping to triumph in the competitions better have something pretty special. Enter Mercury. Generated using only a 64KB compressed file, the prize-winning Fermi Paradox manages to reproduce cosmic scenes that would’ve humbled Carl Sagan himself. Red’s epic music complements the stunning visuals well, consisting largely of sweeping synthesised symphonic passages à la Tomita, but deviating part-way through to give us a brief dubstep beatdown. First-rate demo. bit.ly/MercuryFermi.