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                   assembly '93
 
                
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   The party hall

         



   The party hall

         



 The party hall (after
    the party)

         



   A party room

         



   Future Crew in
   Gravis T-shirts

         



    Sonic PC

         



 An after party group
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               I need a shower

               Word started spreading out: there was a great
               party in Finland during the summer. On the
               evolving PC scene Future Crew started to get
               fame and naturally everybody waited for
               cometition between Future Crew, Silents PC
               and the rest of rapidly growing PC demo
               scene. 

               If ASM'92 attracted more people than was
               expected then the 1500 dudes at a school in
               Kerava was certainly something of a great
               reward to the organizers. For the very first time
               there was a feeling of an international party as
               people came from Belgium, the Netherlands,
               Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. So
               the guys from all the big PC demo scene
               countries were there. Let's not forget that
               ASM'93 was the only occasion when Tran and
               most of the Renaissance crew where there.

               In fact Tran, White Shadow / Renaissance and
               Arjan Brussee (formerly of Ultraforce) started
               working on PC demo at the party place but
               unfortunately didn't finish the production.

               While ASSEMBLY '93 was a lot more
               professionally organized than the previous
               party there was a lot of improve. For example
               the PA system was high-end Dolby Surround
               system. Unfortunately the system didn't have
               nearly as much power as the ghetto blasters
               some guys from Germany had with them, so
               we decided to loan theirs for the compos =).
               Some might remember the toilets =), absolute
               horror.

               As for the compos, PC guys still had to look
               up at the Amiga scene. I could only cry when I
               saw the PC graphics compo pictures: most of
               them looked like they were drawn by 5 year
               old kids toying around with crayons. PC music
               compo was though a lot better in quality. With
               the Scream Tracker and other new trackers
               the PC musicians were equal to Amiga
               musicians with 4 channel trackers. So there
               was still a long way to go.

               Speaking of demo music, there was one thing
               that marked a new age of PC demo music and
               PC demos in general. The PC demo compo
               was better than ever before. The people got to
               see the competition between the top PC demo
               groups and the productions have been
               remembered since: Second Reality, Optic
               Nerve and so on. This year there was no need
               to feel ashamed in front of the Amiga scene.

               Back then there was heavy competition
               between ASSEMBLY and The Computer
               Crossroads (in Sweden) for the title of "THE
               summer party". TCC's pc compos were
               equally great as ASMs: Triton released their
               classic Crystal Dreams II there.

               This year the credits for organizing go out to
               Pehu, Moku, Meegosh, Gore and of course all
               the people from Movement and Future Crew.
               But a real respect goes out to Pehu and Moku
               who had to clear after the whole thing was
               finished. The party place was so filthy that it
               took them two weeks to get the school back in
               to order. Some say it would have been better
               to demolish the whole place =).