I had a discussion today with SaphirJD, a live streaming music DJ who's going to do a special at Radio PARALAX tomorrow night...or day, depending on where you are in the world (20:00 CET).  Even if you miss his show by the time you read this, keep an eye out for his future contributions to the retro computer music scene.

I asked him to provide some information about himself so that you C64 Walkabout readers (and podcast listeners) might have a better understanding of the music he's going to share.

He's 28 years old and lives in Austria, is a big Scenemusic/Demo Fan, as well as a SciFi and Fantasy Fan.  Although he never had the chance to get his hands on a Commodore 64 or Amiga, he appreciates the music and demos of those older computers.

His first contact with Scenemusic and Demos was during the 90's.  He got his hands on a Game CD where some Assembly Dos Demos were featured.  At the time he didn't knew the origins but was impressed about the sound and visuals.

On this Disc there were also some tracked tunes in the "mod" format.  He fell in love with the songs and got more from a friend soon after - a CD with dozens of songs in mod and other formats.  An expired shareware player closed the door on his enjoyment, and forgot about th music for a while.
 
Fast forward to 2002 -  he found that cd with those songs again, discovered Winamp (and plugins for chip tunes) and tried to get more songs and Demos.  He then stumbled onto "back2roots" - a big online collection of scene-related things.

Later he discovered Nectarine Demoscene Radio (now followed in spirit by Demovibes Demoscene Radio) and thanks to that he met Nuke from Surprise Productions who taught him some things.  Ever since he's been a big fan and collector of Scenemusic and Demos in General.

Since 2008, from time to time he does Netradio Shows for Radio-Paralax - http://www.radio-paralax.de/  the Tristar Demogroup - http://tristar-whq.org and on as site of his own - http://sjd.myftp.org

He tries to convey in his radio streams the "best" of Scenemusic and Netlabel Tunes from the 1990's up to today.

If you are interested, check out his show tomorrow night.  I've mentioned Radio-Paralax here before, but prepare yourself for some German language discussion mixed in with English, as the site is based in Germany.

"This Time I'll present a one and a half hour program with the best of the Music Competitions and the Amiga/PC Demos and Intros from the Breakpoint 2009 which was previous weekend. After that comes as usual the best of Scenemusic in general."

Or as written at Radio-Paralax:

RetroVision in double pack: After the "Breakpoint 2009" demo party last weekend in Bingen, we're presenting you the best demos from C64, Amiga, PC and some other fancy plattforms on sunday, the 19th of April starting already at 16:00 CET. Furthermore there will be the top 3 demos from "The Gathering 2009" which also take place at the same time in Hamar/Norway. Afterwards "SaphirJD" will present you 3 more hours with the best music of this event as well as some classic tunes; altogether 7 hours of Breakpoint & demoscene total.

Follow this LINK and use the many streaming options on the left hand side of the page.  With 3 hours of SaphirJD, I hope you can try to find some time to tune in.

Use the IRC chat at Radio-Paralax and join in the real time feedback!  (Type in a Nickname and click "Verbinden" - worked for me, and I don't speak any German (just Japanese here).

Enjoy the music!