Polka Brothers

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Polka Brothers (1993-)

Polka Brothers is a Amiga demo group.

DEN> Airwalk (Jesper Knudsen, founder code, ex Kefrens, new UPS10, 08/93-
     98), Devilstar (gfx, doublememb Virtual Dreams [details], 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).
GER> 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).
???> Colin (gfx, 04-12/94), Omar (music, 94), Vandrup (gfx, 12/94-12/95).

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 fro 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!
  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 4
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?

  Megademuuuh (1993, Demo).

  Polka Brother? (1993, .08, AGA Intro).
  code/gfx/music: Airwalk/Kefrens.
  Released at the Melon Dezign Birthday Party 93.
  review: This seems like a sort of first production, introducing the Polka
  Brothers to the world. There are some stuff inbetween the various text
  pages, like dots falling down on a spinning vector plate, but nothing to
  shout about. On the 030, the text pages switch so fast it's hard to read
  them though before it moves on to the next one. [glenn]
  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.

  Friday At Eight (1994, 03.04, AGA File).
  code: Airwalk, gfx: Mount, Colin, music: "Goy Stole Final re3" by Slide,
  n/a by Dice. 3rd in The Gathering 94 demo competition.

  Gevalia (1994, 25.06, Demo).
  code: n/a, gfx: n/a, music: "Stave 2Kontrol Awk" by Slide.
  2nd in the South Sealand 94 demo competition.

  Bobble Trouble (1994, 25.06, AGA File).
  code: Sca, gfx: Devilstar, Dize/TSL, music: "Courtsofchaos" by Omar/
  independent (ProTracker MOD format).
  6th in the South Sealand 94 demo competition.
  review: Typical early Polka production, with fast (mostly vector-based)
  effects in quick succession, this is sort-of FRIDAY AT EIGHT light.
  Some might find the 'spank my monkey' animation tasteless, but I guess
  that's all down to your sense of humour. This is not extraordinary in any
  way, I'm afraid. Not badly done, but failing to stand out from the crowd.
  Omar was not a Polka member, and only delivered the music for this demo.
  [glenn]
  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.

  Noname (1994, 25.06, AGA File).
  code: Vention, Laxity (additional), gfx: Devilstar, Pixie, TNT, music:
  "1" by Slide. Released at South Sealand 94.
  info: Devilstar's indian picture is cool!
  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.

  Blob (1994, late, Slideshow).
  Code: Airwalk, Gfx: Pixie, Music: Tivurr, Slide.

  Alone (1994, late, File).
  Code: Gargoyle, Gfx: n/a, Music: n/a.

  Love Me Daddy (1994, 13.11, Demo)
  14th in the Gelloween 94 demo competition.

  4k0 (1994, 28.12, 40k Intro).
  code: Crash, gfx: Mount, music: Chromag.
  Winner of The Party 4 40k intro competition!
  review: It never lets up for a second, but just keeps going from start
  to finish. Polished but rough, and with a great sense of design, the
  german Crash dominates the Party 4 intro competition! Another great
  factor in the success of this intro is the music by Chromag, which also
  helps the adrenalin-pumping. Best part: The fabulously fast voxel routine
  which actually looks like mountains! Fabulous. Excellent. Awesome! [glenn]
  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.

  The Prey (1994, 28.12, AGA Multifile, 2 disks).
  code: Airwalk, Merge, gfx: Colin, Pixie, Vandrup, Devilstar/Virtual
  Dreams, music: Slide. 6th in The Party 94 demo competition.
  review: Not bad early AGA demo, featuring ex-superstar Merge aka Laxity.
  This demo is most amusing as an 'early version of xxx effect' reference.
  Most routines in this demo have since been done a lot better. The music's
  the usual techno, tough not the worst tune I've ever heard. The two
  fullscreen pictures, Pixie's "Why?" and Devilstar's "Daddy Dearest", both
  competed in the graphics competition at The Party.
    The demo can be run from disk or harddisk according to your own
  personal preference. Average. [glenn]
  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.

  Twisted (1994, 28.12, AGA 2MB Trackmo, 4 disks).
  code: Gargoyle, gfx: Pixie, Slide, Colin, Vandrup, music: Slide.
  2nd in The Party 4 Wild competition. Utilizes external disk drives.

  BlackBox-Symposium Party Invitation (1995, early, AGA File).
  code: Crash, Argon, gfx: Gandalf/Phantasm, music: Noodles/Phantasm.
  Cooperation with Phantasm.
  review: Heavy Metal music and lots of effects highlight this slightly
  unusual invitation intro/demo. Actually this is more like a demo with
  constantly changing effects, only with some party info overlaid, than
  anything else. This was made by Crash and Argon using their own utility
  DemoManiac, and that's the only reason I'm allowing it. Using something
  made with your own utility means you've still coded it yourself.
  Not bad, but far from great. A plus for unusual music, though.
  Ironically, Noodles won the music competition at the party he helped make
  the invitation for! [glenn]
  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.

  Facts (1995, 26.05, File).

  Herb! (1995, 09.07, AGA 64k Intro).
  code: Crash, Argon, gfx: none, music: Tivurr/Movement (Art of Noise 4ch
  format). Winner of the South Sealand 95 64k intro competition!
  review: Flames and large, afterburned vector objects make up the fuzzy
  start of this intro. Next there's a grey phong torus before we finish up
  with the best routine in the intro; a goodlooking voxel terrain.
  Everything except the phong torus in "Herb!" is terribly blocky, which
  draws the overall impression down a bit... This is still a nice intro,
  but nothing of extraordinary interest. [glenn]
  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 16mb fast/3.0.

  Creep (1995, 28.12, AGA? 40k Intro).
  Cooperation with Artwork, see there.
  Winner of The Party 5 40k Intro competition!

  No! (1995, 28.12, AGA ?MB File).
  code: Crazy Crack, gfx: Crazy Crack, Pixie, Mount, Vandrup, music:
  "Spritzstunden.5" (main) and "Nature And A Doll" (end) by Slide, Tivurr
  (both Tracker Packer 3 format). 9th in The Party 5 demo competition.
  review: This small demo (NO, I'm not talking about its disksize!) seems
  rushed and thrown together. It's not bad, albeit at this size perhaps a
  little short... They could have saved themselves the endpart, with the
  landscape and the sheep. It's not that pretty, and probably eats a lot of
  memory and diskspace. Still, the few effects here are reasonably good,
  with the standout one being a vector object with different rotating
  bitmaps on each side. The main tune is good, thumping techno, while the
  endtune is a little too weird for my taste. There is NO (hehe) mention in
  the demo of who made what tune, making it a little difficult for me to
  place the modules :) There's also a few OK pics by Pixie and Mount.
    The file is 2.8mb in size (unpacked), so this probably won't work on
  2mb only machines... [glenn]
  GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
  ZIT tested A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast.

Music in the UnExoticA collection

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