Mekka & Symposium 1998
Party Report
Submitted by CyberBrain (CyberBrain) on February 20 2002
Written by ned/Alpha Flight
from Relax #24
MEKKA & SYMPOSIUM 1998
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Fallingbostel/Germany
April 10 - 13, 1998
Welcome to another party-report. This time I am here to tell you all
the inside stories of THE scene-event in 1998. Mekka & Symposium was
definately the KICKER so far in my party-history. The organizers
definately topped themselves by far compared to last time. "BIGGER,
BETTER, MORE" should have been the slogan I bet.
Me and some friends already arrived on Friday very (!) early morning
at the party-place, like in the previous year, and we were quite
suprised not to see many people hanging or walking around. To top
this shock unfortunately KB was already in testing his cordless
microphone by singing stupid crap all the time! You can count this
as the worst event of the whole party! Before the opening of the
party we already got our hub to start networking in twisted pair!
Unbelievable... a WORKING network was quite a suprise for anybody
who has been at THE PARTY 1997.
Funnily also at the SymMek there where multiple power breakdowns and
no steady Internet conection, but who cares as it is about the real
(!) party-spirit what we care for. The party-place filled up pretty
fast on Friday afternoon with lotsa people from all kinds of scenes
and groups. Focusing the C64 I can just say that all important
groups were more or less present, for further details please see
list below, which has been created by Chaotic and converted into
Relax Text Format by RRR [thanx for that Jan and Timo!].
Eventhough I guarantee that there were more... but what the heck.
Taking a closer look at the activity at the party itself I must say
that the beloved "showmaster" Steeler wasn't in such a good mood for
the first 36hours but getting much better to the end. The
stage-activities where going from the simple guess-games up to a
SUPERB acapella SID-music competition. Sweet young men performing
old SID tunes live and acapella for the crowd and the contestants to
guess. Brilliant!
Also some very weird outdoor-competitons where just great fun.
Chained people where forced to grab a disk with their mouth out of a
water-pool. Well, nice idea.. but stupid people really doing that,
as it was kinda cold outside. Luckily they found enough wackos. To
make the event even sceduled better the time was filled with
activities by sceners which are normally not involved into the
planning, such as a "Most Phreaked Out Scener" hosted by someone
named SLIME (was real good action!). Or the every-year-mega-loved
live-performance by the APP... which was unfortunately stopped by
flying beercans! ;> The competitions related to C64 weren't a that
big suprise, but still the highlight of the whole event, as none
really cares about PC-64-KB or whatever! The real spirit still is a
thing that just belongs to C64.
Also suprisingly good was the food-supply. Not always the cheapest,
but atleast steady and tasty, having French fries (Pommes Frites)
and sausages outside and snacks and bread inside.
Now to something positive that ALL other parties should really try
to manage as good as the SymMek-organizers did! THE TOILETS!
Hell, it was the first time in my whole party-life that I wasn't
scared to go to the toilets! A damn great work by a few damn
good-looking girls, which weren't treated well enough all the time
in my eyes. I am ashamed of being a part of the scene when I see
some lame sceners treating them like idiots just because the clean
toilets.
I am also feeling ashamed to be a part of the scene when I recognize
that MANY sceners where staring at those girls such as if it was the
first time they saw them in real and not on the screen as a porn.
It is really questionable if sceners are a race that can survive for
long, as it seems they are not able to have a normal contact to
women. And in case they ever get they have to tell everybody... [are
we talking about a smashed fridge?]. But back to party! At the
SymMek there were somehow more girls then on any other scene-related
party before! Also I'd like to mention here that there were
toll-free showers right next to my table. Those were guarded while
the girls were showering and always clean.
A point that has been critisised on many parties before is the one
about the sleeping.
Also here the organizers had the perfect solution. During the night
the hall was kept quite silent, except if Tobi/APP was singing all
the time, which means you could sleep under/on the tables or even
behind the big screen. And in case you wanted the 100% silence you
had the great opportunity to sleep in seperate halls 5 meters away
from the party-place. Heated... mostly. ;)
Besides the pseudo-creativity of some DJs trying to perform live
with average scene music most people can be considered as very
friendly and suprisingly not having any types of so-called
elite-attitudes.
My advice for someone who wants to go to a scene-party for the first
time in his life is NOT to go there.... as you will be pissed about
ANY other party you go to. The Symposium & Mekka has grown to a
currently unstoppable scene-event which shouldn't be missed by
ANYONE.
If you do not go there you are just stupid. I'd really like to see
all of you there in 1999 and begg for a more enthusiastic Steeler
with stronger nerves!
The competition results are the following:
CBM 64 DEMO COMPETITION
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Pos. Points Production Author
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01. 274 Our Darkness Smash Designs
02. 170 Reanim8ed Hitmen
03. 162 Krestyron Oxyron
04. 118 Splish Splash Padua
05. 99 Payday Smash Designs
06. 98 Trip to Nepa(l) 2 Cascade
07. 75 Licence WOW
08. 46 Purpose of Life Whathas2BSaid
09. 45 Booze Metalvotze
10. 40 Oldstyle Willow
11. 22 Beerstation WOW
12. 14 Daehmon Shitmen & Hotst.
13. 11 Ficken im Zelt Seminar
CBM 64 4 KB COMPETITION
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Pos. Points Production Author
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01. 459 Smash AEG
02. 165 Double-Plasma Flip
03. 123 Just for fun Didi
04. 103 <4KB Leonardo
05. 72 Oldschool The Syndrom
06. 67 Style Iceman
07. 57 Ficken - T. S. R. Karlsquell Serwiss
08. 45 Ficken Bitbreaker
CBM 64 GRAPHIC COMPETITION
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Pos. Points Production Author
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01. 397 Du gem. Mörder Rayden
02. 206 Fantastica Wurst Hans
03. 165 I'll remember Hardsequencer
04. 118 Welcome to Telekom Raze
05. 105 Firestarter Sebaloz
06. 85 Chris Hülsbeck Zealot
07. 53 Tyrany AEG
08. 39 Monster Katon
09. 35 Knight Crayon
10. 25 Lurking Death Assassin
11. 23 Love Zeitgeist
12. 17 Dissector Brainsmasher
13. 16 Kentucky Flip
14. 14 Amazon Bleze
15. 11 Porträt d. P. K. T. Bugjam
16. 6 Emptyview Hogan
CBM 64 MUSIC COMPETITION
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Pos. Points Production Author
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01. 461 Living Black Taxim
02. 120 Stars Leo
03. 107 Compo-Tune BAX
04. 101 Going the distance.. Rayden
05. 95 Licence Alien
06. 87 Visions in Goa Q-Man
07. 67 Dark Entry Sonic
08. 65 Watery Fanta
09. 59 VHF0 The Syndrom
10. 39 To You 2 Top Secret
11. 39 Organic Brizz/Panic
12. 37 Melody Suxx Fantastic Zool
13. 36 Reformation Manex
14. 34 Till the end Lunatic
15. 30 Gavelion Fuben
16. 28 5h-Work Flip
17. 16 LULU Heinmück
18. 13 In your eyes Floyd
19. 2 VHD Greatrix
The guestlist looked like this:
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A-BOMP/Comic Pirates, ACIDCHILD/Triad, AEG/Smash ALIEN/WOW,
ANAKIN/TRS SEA, ANESTESIA/Crossline, ANIMALO/Laxity Nostalgia,
ANONYM/Padua, AXIS/Oxyron, BITBREAKER/Metalvotze, BLEZE/Willow & TUM
Laxity, BOMBE/Smash Designs, BRAINSTORM/ Commodore Connection Line,
BRIX/Plush, BRIZZ/Panic Ascraeus, BUD/WOW, BUGJAM/Role, CARLOS/Cas
cade, CHAOTIC/Smash Designs Hitmen, COUNT ZERO/ Success & TRC
Cyberpunx, CREB/Excess, CUPID/ Padua Hitmen, CURLIN/Hitmen, DAN
DEE/Laxity Nostalgia, DANO/Padua, DANZIG/Alpha Flight 1970,
DEEKAY/Crest Onslaught, DENNIS/Role, DIDI/Laxity Nostalgia, DOC OF
DESIRE/Willow Civitas, DODGER/Dytec, DONAR/Onslaught, DOSH/Centric,
DOW JONES/Plush, DRAGO MACKAYB/Metalvotze, DST/WOW EARTHQUAKE/Cosmic
Style, ECSIC/Excess Asc0re, EINSTEIN/WOW, FANTA/Bass/Oxyron,
FANTASTIC ZOOL/TUM & Willow/Smash Designs, FATMAN/Dytec Remember,
FLARE/Noname, FLIM FLAM/Comic Pirates, FLIP/Centric, FLOYD/Willow &
TUM Tempest Panic, FUBEN/Oxyron, GHOST/EXCESS, GODOT/The Obsessed
Maniacs, GRAHAM/Oxyron, GREATRIX/Cult, GROEPAZ/Hitmen, HEAVY
HEAD/Netphreakers/APP, HEINM CK/TUM & Willow Blutpopel, HLSP/Siesta,
HONK/Plush, HOGAN/Reflex, HOOGO/Padua, ICEMAN/ WOW, JACK
ALIEN/Remember, JIHAD/Hitmen, KB/The Obsessed Maniacs Smash Designs,
KBS/Laxity, LEONARDO/Padua, LUKE/The Obsessed Maniacs, LUNATIC/Cult,
LYBIS/WOW, MACGYVER/DMAgic, MAP/ Plush, MBB/TUM & Willow,
MEPHISTO/Metalvotze, MEGASTYLE/TTM, MR. LEE/Cascade, NED/APP AFL
1970 Hybrid Netphreakers, NEOTEC/F4CG, NINJA/ Dreams,
PEACEMAKER/Hitmen, PJ DYNAMIX/Comic PIRATES, PRINCE/The Obsessed
Maniacs, Q-MAN/ Willow, RAYDEN/Alpha Flight 1970, SAM/Cult, SCARE/
Active, SEBA/Plush, SEBALOZ/Lepsi De, SEVEN/Digital Excess,
{slave}FRIESE/APP/Omen, SONIC/SDS, SONY/Smash Designs, Sorex/Role
WOW, SPUTNICK/ Civitas Willow, SYNDROM/TIA/Crest, TECHNO/Therapy,
TERROR/Willow, TGI/Paralyze, TOP SECRET/Cult, TYRON/Hitmen,
UNLOCK/Albion, V.O./Plush, WARP 8/ Flash Inc./Cosmic Style and
ZEALOT/Out Of Order.
My personal rating of this party is 10/10.
ned@alphaflight.c64.org
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