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- SYMPOSIUM-MEKKA'97 PARTY report
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- by lORD / iMPULSe^aBSOLUTe!^cRIMSOnJiHAd
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- Place: Fallingbostel/Germany Date: 28-31, march, 1997
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- We really disappointed in the biggest scene event in Tp5, with the friends
- we visited it together. Wanted a party just to do what it's meaning means
- and not to feel like in prison. Last year Symposium did it for us.
- It was the best foreign party i ever visited! Not because of the number
- of visitors (600 - this year a bit more perhaps), but i could felt that the
- organizers were sceners and not those typical money hungry sharks.
- This case there was no way for us to miss this year Symposium either.
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- The partyplace was a big hall in a small german village north of Hannover.
- Was easy to find it though first it seemed we won't be able to reach the
- place when our favoured russian wonder, LADA Samara got a puncture in a
- fucking ice-rain at 150 km/h speed on a german highway. Though I know, it'd
- had been nice death to die in way to the party, somehow we survived and
- arrived there.
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- The entrance fee (40 DM) didn't hit me that much (compared to the 65 DM TP6)
- though in Hungary you get 50! bottles of beer for it. We started bringing in
- our stuffs. My friend told to bring 2-3 bottles only first, just to be sure,
- but i didn't want to train my leg and jump out for a new bottle each hour,
- so rather risked and brought a whole bin of beer (12 litres) in. When we
- opened the entrance, I thought they'd kill me for the bottles. but what
- happened?! People at the entrance just wondered on the bottles (perhaps they
- never saw 1 liter homemade beerbottles yet), but didn't say anything (except
- a huuuuuuuh) or even didn't ask for any of our 'bread' as duty either.
- I knew that certain minute, the organizer staff didn't change to the last
- year, for sure.
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- The first day went very fast. Opening ceremony at 20h (of course all the
- speeches were spoken in English during the whole partytime, now - big
- advantage to the last year), a concert at midnight (there were concerts
- each nights! - 3 altogether - the best one was the one by NoiseDrift on
- sunday - even i could have listened to it - i hate tekkno like hell) and
- videos or something by night. At 2 o'clock the internet cafe closed down
- and all the party aslept (that suxx a bit).
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- All the compos were held from saturday evening-monday morning. It was a
- great idea to separate them and not crunching those into one infinite night.
- Big advantage also most of the compos were held in time (without usual major
- lame PC config fuckups), because the contributions were shown from video!
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- The party staff was the most friendly one i've ever met. They knew what
- partying means, didn't forbid us drinking, reacted positivily for everything,
- helped in everything (e.g we - Impulse - wanted to release an intro at the
- party, but there was a kind of mistake in the limit - was shown on the
- bigscreen 'ALL 64KB INTROS' and we told this size to the coder on irc -
- but the limit for Amiga was 40kb (and only the pc was 64kb) as we got knew
- later, and after we managed to get the intro from our coder through the
- internet - with the organizers help again! - and we couldn't reach our coder
- to modify it back to 40kb - take out the music or something - they didn't
- send us to hell, they allowed us to compete without music, because it
- would have fit to 40k without it. i don't think the organizers would have
- reacted the same e.g at tp6, too! - thx for you RawStyle and the others!)
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- The prizes for the compos were much higher then anybody expected i think.
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- E.g Amiga demo: 800 DM + CyberVision card (another 500 DM)
- Amiga intro:400 DM + Retina ? card (another ??? DM)
- C64 demo: 400 DM!!! + a power cartridge
- musics, graphics: 400 DM
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- I was really happy we didn't get at last a lame soundblaster/pc hardware or
- so for our Amiga intro (2nd place)
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- Facilities: Perhaps first time in the history of the parties i visited i was
- able to burst down the manure of my body each party-day without
- feeling like on the north-pole because there was not warm, but
- real HOT! water in the shower (24h)
- the toilettes were cleaned quite often and there was no
- trash-diving around the tables either.
- the sleeping-room was not that big, but i always managed to get
- place there (Doc.Martens shoes rule)
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- There were no major disadvantages except perhaps i expected different music
- styles on concerts (e.g i missed a real kicking metal/hard-rock band that
- would have activated the scene for headbanging and shouting)
- The floor was very cold to sleep even in sleeping-bags, too, though the
- sleeping-room was just its opposite.
- And it was not that good idea either, to hold the party exactly during the
- Easter days, because none of the pubs nor whorehouses were opened (if there
- was in such small village, anyway)
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- What shall i end with?!
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- Why we need The Parties, if there is SYMPOSIUM, too!!!
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- PS: don't miss the Scenest'97 either, in 4-6, april, 1997, in Budapest/Hungary
- That's also a party (by Astroidea-Impulse) made for YOU, SCENERS !!!
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