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Farbrausch, or Farb-rausch, is a German group of demomakers who made themselves particularly famous in the demoscene in December 2000 with a 64kB intro called "fr-08: .the .product". "Farbrausch" literally translates to "rave of color", "color rush" or "color frenzy" in English.

Using techniques like procedural textures, scenes and animations together with a high-quality software synthesizer, ".the .product" is an 11-minute 3-D show featuring complex scenes which opened a new era in demo making, showing that CPU power and mass storage are not a substitute to the creative human brain. This is an achievement since most demos created in the 21st century tend to focus much more on the aesthetic rather than optimization skills and number crunching. Farbrausch introduced the idea that you can still do both in the modern computer age.

Their work has won numerous awards, and their name a good degree of fame. In 2004, a subdivision of farbrausch called ".theprodukkt" released a 96kB first-person shooter game named ".kkrieger", and an earlier version of the tool they currently use to produce some of their demos, named ".werkkzeug", or "Tool".

Farbrausch is known for giving all of their releases a "product code", in the format "fr-0#". The numbers do not specify the order of release — the members have stated that they allocate the numbers as they start working on the project, not when they finish it. They give "minus" numbers to their non-serious releases.

Since then they have periodically released ever-improving compositions such as "fr-019: Poem to a Horse", "fr-030: Candytron" or "fr-025: The.Popular.Demo". Both The.Popular.Demo and debris. are one of the most highly favored demos on the comprehensive demoscene index, Pouet. The.Popular.Demo is also the recipient of the "Public Choice Award" from the 2003 scene.org awards [1], and debris. won the 2007 scene.org award for best direction [2].

1 Members
2 Notable demo releases and awards
- 2.1 Selected screenshots
3 External links

Members

Benjamin "acryd" Bär, boozer/krieger/organiser
Benjamin "BeRo" Rosseaux, programmer/musician (home)
David "Bombe" Roden, programmer/rigger. (Livejournal, home)
Dierk "chaos" Ohlerich, programmer. (Livejournal, home)
Jan "chaotic" Winters, musician/artist.
Kai "cp" Pöthkow, artist.
Marco "crash" Schultz, programmer.
Dirk Oliver "doj" Jagdmann, programmer. (home)
Dennis "exoticorn" Ranke, programmer.
Frauke "fashion" Bönsch, artist (home)
Thomas "fiver2" Mahlke, artist (home)
Frank "franky" Baumgartner, programmer, musician (home)
Christoph "giZMo" Mütze, artist. (home)
Jan "jco" Obergfell, musician, artist. (home)
Tammo "kb" Hinrichs, programmer/musician. (Livejournal, home)
Matti "melwyn" Palosuo, musician (home)
Leonard "paniq" Ritter, musician/artist/programmer. (home)
Michael "rawstyle" Krause, programmer/musician. (home)
Fabian "ryg" Giesen, programmer/artist. (home)
Ronny "rp" Pries, musician/artist. (discography)
Nils "torus" Pipenbrinck, programmer.
Timo "visualice" Harju, artist (home)
Sebastian "wayfinder" Grillmaier, musician/artist. (home)
Felix "yoda" Bohmann, programmer/webmaster/design. (Livejournal, home)

Notable demo releases and awards

Title	Type	Awards
fr-05: Konsum	demo	2nd place at Evoke 2000
fr-06: Black 2000	demo	1st place at Dialogos 2000
fr-08: .the .product	64kB intro	1st place at The Party 2000
fr-010: Art (in cooperation with Scoopex)	64kB intro	1st place at Mekka & Symposium 2001
fr-011: ms2001 invitation	64kB demo	1st place at Mekka & Symposium 2001
fr-012: kapital	demo	4th at Mekka & Symposium 2001
fr-013: Flybye	invitation intro	for The Party 2001
fr-018: AGB	GBA demo	1st place at Woest 2002 (wild demo)
fr-019: Poem to a Horse	64kB intro	1st place at Mekka & Symposium 2002, scene.org award nominee - best intro & best effects of 2002; the first (and currently last) demoscene production to be shown at SIGGRAPH [3]
fr-020: In Control	demo	3rd place at Mekka & Symposium 2002
fr-022: Ein.Schlag	64kB intro	2nd place at Mekka & Symposium 2002
fr-024: Welcome to...	64kB intro	2nd place at 0a000h 2003
fr-025: The.Popular.Demo	demo	1st place at Breakpoint 2003, scene.org award winner - public's choice of 2003, nominee - best effects, best demo, & best soundtrack of 2003
fr-029: Dopplerdefekt	64kB intro	1st place at The Ultimate Meeting 2002, scene.org award nominee - most original concept of 2002
fr-030: Candytron	64kB intro	2nd place at Breakpoint 2003, scene.org award winner - best intro of 2003
fr-031: Faded Memories	demo	12th place at Assembly 2003, scene.org award nominee - best graphics of 2003
fr-034: Time Index (in cooperation with Haujobb)	64kB intro	2nd place at Simulaatio 2003, scene.org award nominee - best intro of 2003
fr-036: Zeitmaschine	demo	1st place at The Ultimate Meeting 2003
fr-037: The Code Inside (in cooperation with mfx)	invitation demo	for Breakpoint 2004
fr-038: Theta	demo	2nd place at The Ultimate Meeting 2004
fr-039: Collage Faction	wild demo	2nd place at Breakpoint 2004
fr-040	pc 4k	8th place at Breakpoint 2004
fr-041: debris.	demo	1st place at Breakpoint 2007, scene.org award winner - best direction of 2007, nominee - best demo, best effects, public choice of 2007
fr-044: Patient Zero	64kB intro	1st place at Simulaatio 2005
fr-045: Life After	demo	11th place at Breakpoint 2005
fr-046: Basso Continuo	demo	4th place at Evoke 2005
fr-048: Precision	64kB intro	4th place at Assembly 2006
fr-049: Of Spirits Taken	invitation demo	for Breakpoint 2006
fr-052: Platinum	64kB intro	1st place at The Ultimate Meeting 2006
fr-055: 828	demo	1st place at Icons 2007

Selected screenshots

fr-08: .the .product	fr-019: Poem to a Horse	fr-025: The Popular Demo	fr-029: Dopplerdefekt
fr-030: Candytron	fr-031: Faded Memories	fr-037: "The Code Inside"	fr-038: Theta