Polka Brothers

Polka Brothers (1993-)
Polka Brothers were originally born mostly as a Danish joke group with members doublejoining in from other groups. The original memberlist, as shown in POLKA BROTHER? demo, were Airwalk/Kefrens, Vention/Kefrens, Easley/Parasite, Twilight/Desire, Mount/Parasite and Dice/Kefrens. Of these, Twilight later left the scene to make game music for Craftgold. Polka Brothers will definitely live on in the annals of demo history as one of the crews that brought humour to demos in a big way. Together with the pioneers Budbrain and Melon., these are probably the FUNNIEST groups!

Danish coder Airwalk was totally gone from the scene for two years, from 1995 to 1997, but now seems to be doing a comeback of sorts! The reason for Airwalk's disappearance was that he had to serve in the army. Apparently, he liked it there and stayed for two years! He is now back, however, has picked up coding again, and will probably be releasing something for the Polka Brothers in the near future! Thanks to SCA for some information!

Members

 * Denmark:
 * Airwalk (Jesper Knudsen, founder code, ex Kefrens, new, 08/93-98)
 * Devilstar (gfx, doublemember of Virtual Dreams, '95)
 * Easley (gfx swap, ex Parasite)
 * Gargoyle (code, ex Parasite, 12/94)
 * Julius (music, ex Lemon., '95)
 * Merge (Anders E. Hansen, code, ex Kefrens, old handle Laxity, new 12/94-95)
 * Mount (Tage Majland, gfx, ex Parasite, 04/94-12/95)
 * Pixie (gfx, ex Parasite, 12/94-12/95)
 * SCA (Lasse Bodilsen, code, '95)
 * Slide (music, ex Parasite, 04/94-12/95)
 * Zinko (Jack Dandanell, swap, ex Kefrens, new 04/94-95)


 * Germany:
 * Argon (code, ex Complex, new 12/94-95)
 * Crash (Marco Schultz, code, ex Complex, later Farbrausch PC new 12/94-95)
 * Crazy Crack (Boris Fornefeld, code, ex Complex, new 12/94-12/95)
 * Chromag (Timm Albers, music, later Essence, 12/94-95)


 * Unknown:
 * Colin (gfx, 04-12/94)
 * Omar (music, '94)
 * Vandrup (gfx, 12/94-12/95)

Group History

 * 1994: At The Gathering in early April, the group released the demo "Friday At Eight" [04/94], which finished third in the competition. Additionally, danish coder SCA joined the group at this party. Danish coder Vention (ex Kefrens) left to work for FunCom in Norway this year, seemingly ending his scene career. He did briefly reappear around 1997-98, as a member of Scoopex. Four german ex-Complex members (Raw Style, Crash, Argon and Crazy Crack) teamed up in December, one of which promptly won The Party '94 intro competition for them!


 * 1995: German coder Raw Style (ex Complex, new 12/94) left early this year to join Lego. Danish musician Tivurr (ex Kefrens, old handle Dice) joined Movement. This seems unlikely, given that he worked on "No!" [12/95]... Perhaps he later rejoined?

Releases


Polka Brother? (1993, .08, AGA Intro)

 * Credits:
 * code:
 * Airwalk/Kefrens.
 * gfx:
 * Airwalk/Kefrens.
 * music:
 * Airwalk/Kefrens.


 * Info: Released at the Melon Dezign - The Birthday Party '93.

Friday At Eight (1994, 03.04, AGA File)

 * Credits:
 * code:
 * Airwalk
 * gfx:
 * Mount, Colin
 * music:
 * "Goy Stole Final re3" by Slide, n/a by Dice


 * Info: 3rd in The Gathering '94 demo competition.

Gevalia (1994, 25.06, Demo)

 * Credits:
 * code:
 * n/a
 * gfx:
 * n/a
 * music:
 * "Stave 2Kontrol Awk" by Slide


 * Info: 2nd in the South Sealand '94 demo competition.

Bobble Trouble (1994, 25.06, AGA File)

 * Credits:
 * code:
 * SCA
 * gfx:
 * Devilstar, Dize/The Silents
 * music:
 * "Courtsofchaos" by Omar/independent (Protracker MOD format)


 * Info: 6th in the South Sealand '94 demo competition

Noname (1994, 25.06, AGA File)

 * Credits:
 * code:
 * Vention, Laxity (additional)
 * gfx:
 * Devilstar, Pixie, TNT
 * music: "1" by Slide


 * Info: Released at South Sealand '94. Devilstar's indian picture is cool!

Blob (1994, late, Slideshow)

 * Credits:
 * Code:
 * Airwalk
 * Gfx:
 * Pixie
 * Music:
 * Tivurr, Slide

Alone (1994, late, File)

 * Credits:
 * Code:
 * Gargoyle
 * Gfx:
 * n/a
 * Music:
 * n/a

Love Me Daddy (1994, 13.11, Demo)

 * Info: 14th in the Gelloween '94 demo competition.

4k0 (1994, 28.12, 40k Intro)

 * Credits:
 * code:
 * Crash
 * gfx:
 * Mount
 * music:
 * Chromag


 * Info: Winner of The Party '94 40k intro competition!

The Prey (1994, 28.12, AGA Multifile, 2 disks)

 * Credits:
 * code:
 * Airwalk, Merge
 * gfx:
 * Colin, Pixie, Vandrup, Devilstar/Virtual Dreams
 * music:
 * Slide


 * Info: 6th in The Party '94 demo competition.

Twisted (1994, 28.12, AGA 2MB Trackmo, 4 disks)

 * Credits:
 * code:
 * Gargoyle
 * gfx:
 * Pixie, Slide, Colin, Vandrup
 * music:
 * Slide


 * Info: 2nd in The Party '94 Wild competition. Utilizes external disk drives.

BlackBox-Symposium Party Invitation (1995, early, AGA File)

 * Credits:
 * code:
 * Crash, Argon
 * gfx:
 * Gandalf/Phantasm
 * music:
 * Noodles/Phantasm


 * Info: Cooperation with Phantasm.

Herb! (1995, 09.07, AGA 64k Intro)

 * Credits:
 * code:
 * Crash, Argon
 * gfx:
 * none
 * music:
 * Tivurr/Movement (Art of Noise 4 channel format)


 * Info: Winner of the South Sealand '95 64k intro competition!

Creep (1995, 28.12, AGA? 40k Intro)

 * Info: Cooperation with Artwork, see there. Winner of The Party 5 40k Intro competition!

No! (1995, 28.12, AGA ?MB File)

 * Credits:
 * code:
 * Crazy Crack
 * gfx:
 * Crazy Crack, Pixie, Mount, Vandrup
 * music:
 * "Spritzstunden.5" (main) and "Nature And A Doll" (end) by Slide, Tivurr (both Trackerpacker 3 format)


 * Info: 9th in The Party 5 demo competition.

Music in the UnExoticA collection
The following demos in the UnExoticA collection were created by Polka Brothers.