digital warriors
                            armed with a single chip
                        they keep on spinning the wheels
                           and destroying the popshit

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                       "Spinning Wheels" by YM ROCKERZ
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system .... ST (?), STe, Falcon, TT, RGB (only?)

size ...... 138 KB

credits ... code - Tao
            grfx - Exocet
            musx - 5o5, Bodenständig 2ooo, DMA SC, Mad Max, MC Laser, Nemo, Tao

released .. o5/2oo2

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At last, after  about 1,5 years of  silence, the  YM ROCKERZ striked back with a
new and  stunning chip  musix collection. It was  announced since many weeks and
after a while I didn't believed to see it in the end, I checked the internet and
the YM ROCKERS page daily  but nothing happened  and so I was damn surprised and
also very happy as I checked this morning that TAO matched it to finish this new
music demo last night.

After some  problems while  downloading it (since  TAO didn't linked it right on
the page), in the end I had it on my Falcon, checking up that it refused to work
on VGA... no problem I thought and so I copied the demo to a disk, trying it out
on my STFM but he fucked up, again and again with things like that: empty folder
and  can't find that  application, TOS error 35  and so on... After several copy
sessions I gave up and connected my Falcon to the TV set and, finally I was able
to run the demo, lucky guy :)

I have to say it  right at first. It is a pure  music demo, based on the sources
of the last one, "just" with new musix and changed grafix.
At first comes a  small intro sequence  with a cool poem (you can find above) in
white letters on dark blue background  and a cool sid/chip music starts to play,
getting more and  more intensive. Than an intro picture followes, followed again
by the  main menu, showing a stilizised  record player on the left and the musix
menu on the right. The grafix are drawn by Exocet and quite nice again, but this
time without the Exo typical comic figures.

The menu reveales  the intro music as a track  by MAD MAX, previously unreleased
and maybe exclusively  done for this  compile? It is a  rather nice track called
"Faith" and would fit very well to a real demo. The tracklist followes...

o1 - DMA SC of Sector One - "Visitors From Dreams"
o2 - Tao of Cream - "Heftig"
o3 - Nemo - "2 Lifes Left"
o4 - Nemo - "Game Over"
o5 - MC Laser of .tSCc. - "Mourning"
o6 - 5o5 of Checkpoint - "Headaxe"
o7 - Bodenständig 2ooo - "Landflucht"
o8 - Mad Max of TEX - "Faith"



Landflucht....

You surely will have some question  signs in your eyes now, since you don't know
who NEMO and BODENSTÄNDIG 2ooo are. It is  really easy  to solve, NEMO is no one
else than MILHOUSE, using a new nickname now.
BODENSTÄNDIG 2ooo is  originally a  german "underground" freak band that has its
routs on  the Atari. So their  member DRAX is known to  the one or  other of you
because of  his TRACKCOM musix on the Falcon and  I remember an interview by him
in the german  magazine BODYSTYLER (R.I.P.) where he was talking about his routs
but to me it was a bit unknown that they did chip musix, too.

The rest of the team should  be wellknown since  it is nearly the  same staff as
for their other music demo, "Wave Upon Wave" (reviewed for UCM # 21).

The included music styles are very various  this time and  reaching from typical
happy-demo-soundtrack-a-like  (esp. MC LASER, NEMO, DMA SC and MAD MAX) over the
usual TAO typical buzzer stuff up to very strange noises by 5o5 who  is going to
check out when the YM chip should explode or even the real  outstanding BS tune,
using strange sample stuff and presenting some kind of chip-drum'n'bass... cool!

What to say more?! Let us bring the final words now...

"SPINNING WHEELS" is an  outstanding piece of new school  Atari chip musix demo,
blowing  fresh air into the  old soundchip  of our machines. The  quality of the
musix is again very high and with the mentioned BODENSTÄNDIG 2ooo tune some real
interesting thing popped up, breaking a lot of limits.
The style of the shell is nice but steps back behind the attacks onto your ears.

___ratings______________________________________________________________________

visuals.......  75 % - nice drawn grafix, doing the job well
audio......... 1oo % - chipmusix as its best! BODENSTÄNDIG rocks!
effects.......  1o % - a fading routine, a scroller :)
design........  65 % - well chosen grafix, fading, small intro sequence
originality...  7o % - a chip music demo, what else? original grafix and musix

___overall______64_%____________________________________________________________

Surely the final rating falls back a bit, but the 1oo % on the  audio should say
all I think :) After all I hope to volume 3 a bit faster now...

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