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

See Polka Brothers/Reviews for personal reviews for these releases.

Megademuuuh (1993, Demo)

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.

Facts (1995, 26.05, File)

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.

Demo	Year	Party
Friday at Eight	1994	The Gathering '94
Gevalia	1994	South Sealand '94
No!	1995	The Party 5
Zinko	Unknown