DENSITY DESIGN WELCOMES YOU TO:  OBSIDIAN BEATS VOLUME .1   RELEASED AT THE AMIGA IRELAND MEETUP, HELD ON THE 19-20TH OF JANUARY 2018.  CODING BY MOTION.  MUSIC COMPOSED BY HEADHUNTER.  SCROLL FONT, LOADER AND SELECTOR PANEL GRAPHICS BY MOTION.  THE MAGNIFICENT DENSITY DESIGN LOGO WAS PIXELLED BY HEADHUNTER.  THIS RELEASE FINDS ITS WAY TO YOU FROM THE DISTANT SHORES OF NEW ZEALAND IN THE MIDST OF SUMMER.  I`M CODING BY THE LIGHT OF MY TRUSTY IKEA LAMP.  THE VERY SAME ONE THAT BATHED MY AMIGA A500 AND A1200 MANY YEARS AGO..... RANDOM FACTOID - THE FLUORESCENT BULB LASTED 17 YEARS!  SOME OF YOU WILL KNOW ME FROM MY COMMODORE 64 RELEASES UNDER THE GROUP NAME OF ARTSTATE OR PERHAPS FROM THE AMIGA IRELAND PODCAST EPISODE 10.1 (THANKS FOR THE INTERVIEW GUYS).  IT HAS BEEN 20 YEARS SINCE I`VE CODED ASSEMBLER ON THE AMIGA.  THIS RELEASE MARKS MY RETURN TO THE AMIGA DEMOSCENE .....AND IT`S GREAT TO BE BACK!  THE LAST TWO WEEKS HAVE BEEN AN INTERESTING TIME, TRYING TO REMEMBER HOW THINGS WORK.  THANKFULLY I`VE RETAINED QUITE A BIT AND IT HAS ALL FELT VERY FAMILIAR. THAT SAID, I HOPE THIS WORKS ON AGA HARDWARE (FINGERS CROSSED), OTHERWISE THIS WILL BE AN ECS RELEASE.  DENSITY DESIGN WAS MY FIRST AMIGA GROUP.  HEADHUNTER AND I MADE SOME PACK DISKS CONTAINING DEMOS AND MUSIC. I RECENTLY RECOVERED THESE OLD DISKS. BY THAT, I MEAN I HAD TO CLEAN THE ACTUAL MAGNETIC SURFACE BEFORE I COULD EVEN READ THEM ON MY AMIGA A500.  IT`S BEEN A GREAT ADVENTURE DISCOVERING LONG FORGOTTEN DATA MEMORIES.  OLD GRAPHICS, SOURCE CODES AND UNFINISHED PROJECTS.  SOME OF WHICH MAY SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY, AFTER SOME REDESIGN.  I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A GREAT IDEA TO MAKE MY AMIGA COMEBACK UNDER MY ORIGINAL GROUP NAME AND RELEASE OUR FIRST EVER DEMO (I RELEASED MY LAST AMIGA DEMOS WITH THE GROUP POWER HOUSE).   OK, TIME FOR A FEW GREETINGS.....  THE WELDER (I MISS THOSE OLD TIMES AND YOUR AMAZING CODING MIND .....AND YOUR BRILLIANT WIT!)  HOFFMAN (THANKS FOR ALL THE BRILLIANT TUNES OVER THE YEARS AND PUSHING THE AMIGA LIMITS!)  BEX-SLP (HORIZONS EDGE VISUALISATION COMING SOON)  NE7 (LOVE YOUR WORK ON OLD AND NEW PLATFORMS)  PHANTASM (THANKS FOR YOUR OFFER OF HELP AND LISTENING TO ME DETAIL MY PROGRESS AS I DEVELOPED THIS RELEASE).  STINGRAY (MORE MODULAR SOUNDS VERY SOON!)  ELKMOOSE (I THINK YOU MADE MORE DEMO PACKS THAN ANYBODY ELSE. GREAT WORK!)  SIDWAVE (I`M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU ON THE AMIGA. NEVER STOP COMPOSING!)  ALGORITHM (THE MASTER OF AUDIO AND GRAPHIC DATA COMPRESSION - YOUR RED SECTOR DEMO BLEW MY MIND!)  GRIP (GREAT PIXELS! LOOKING FORWARD TO MORE)  VEDOS AND VEGARD OF SVENONACID (LETS MAKE AN AMIGA PRODUCTION!)  ANDY + STU OF OVINE BY DESIGN (BRILLIANT GAMES GUYS - THANKS FOR ALL THE FUN!)  PHOTON OF SCOOPEX (YOU`RE A GREAT AMIGA SCENE AMBASSADOR AND YOUR DEMOS ARE ALWAYS FANTASTIC!)  DAN AND FACET OF LEMON. (SO COOL TO HAVE YOU GUYS BACK ON THE AMIGA)  JUDGE DROKK (WHAT`S WITH THE SPECTRUM? .....JUST PULLING YOUR LEG!)  SIR LUCAS (THANKS FOR YOUR MAIL SENDINGS AND BEING AN AWESOME GUY)  ADAM (I HAVEN`T FORGOTTEN YOU! MAKE ME SOME AHX TUNES DUDE!)  A FEW GROUP SHOUT OUTS TO:  COSINE, BOOZE DESIGN, DEKADENCE, DESIRE, DREAMWEB, FOCUS DESIGN, GENESIS PROJECT, GHOSTOWN, MOODS PLATEAU, ONSLAUGHT, PACIFIC, RED SECTOR, RIFT, SCARAB, SCOOPEX, SLIPSTREAM, SPACEBALLS, THE ELECTRONIC KNIGHTS, TITAN, UNSTABLE LABEL, UP ROUGH AND WANTED TEAM.  FINALLY A FEW GREETINGS TO MY FRIENDS:  AMIGA BILL, AMIGALOVE, MARK STREET, WILL WILLIAMS, MARK WILLIAMS, LAMBDA CALCULUS, MS MAD LEMON AND SANXION!     OK, THIS WRAPS UP THIS SCROLLTEXT.  I`M NOT SURE HOW I GOT HERE, BUT I`M GLAD I DID.......