The Electronic Knights/Reviews

Rampage (1994, 13.05, ECS 1MB Trackmo)

Review by Zito

This demo begins with slowly moving toothed wheels - which look so nice that I am still using them as background of my WB - and you are asked to wait while loading... Open your ears, watchers of this demo, because "Rampage" starts with such queel muzak by Banana that I would give him a big bonus point therefor if I could, while the group's name bumps up in wodden letters from the right side. Afterwards a "Rampage" of steel is to be build up by little pixels collecting themselves together followed by a simple spaceship taking its journey over a brown-colored voxelroutine. Then circling vector balls, rotating 4x4 textures, morphing dot-cubes, cool mirrored vectorobjects and vectorlines, some plasma and a dot-flag with the group's logo are shown up. Somewhere between you are forced to watch a really ugly girl (Beware! This could make you go gay ;-)) but that is the one & only bad point of this stylish production I still could watch ten times more. The trackmo ends with a really long endscoller shown by a very colorful font (even changing a bit the way the scroller goes) while the guys of TEK provide you a second musictune.
All in all a very good show with the right length to be watched twice or three times in a row without losing its interest...
tested A500 /000-7 /1mb chip, 1mb fast.
A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast.

E- (Electrons At Work) (1998, 12.04, ECS/AGA 1MB Trackmo)

Review by Zito

This production starts with a cool idea: a great animation of the demo's title, made by Cybin. Besides is running (again, as in all TEK demos) the cool but strange music composed by Banana featuring some very nice atmospheric parts. Then you can see the presentation of the group's name in an asia-styled logo followed by an ugly 2x2 or even 2x4 interlaced zoom of an rotating cube. Afterwards a little tunnel which looks lame at the start but is pretty nice at all, on what a smooth brown/lilac-colored voxel-landscape is to be seen. At the end you are able to read, as always in TEK demos, a cool long scroller with a nice one-colored font.
All in all some nice gfx and texts between the too few parts. Also too short, especially for a whole trackmo! Why so senseless old-skool in 1998??? Not to be compared with "Rampage".
tested A500 /000-7 /1mb chip, 1mb fast.
A1200/030-42/2mb chip, 8mb fast.