Remix News to Help You Vote
With the ROTY voting deadline less than 2 weeks away, it can be overwhelming to listen to everything released on RKO and AmigaRemix.com in 2024 - in fact, with over 200 C64 and Amiga releases, it's next to impossible. Worry no more - Remix News is here to help you! Each monthly episode of Remix News contains a short excerpt of everything released that month (plus a Spotlight track in full). The last few editions of 2024's Remix News will be released in the coming days, too, and thankfully SLAY Radio has a playlist full of them. So, go to the link below and check out the playlist - hopefully you'll find it useful to help you decide who to vote for!
BIT Live 2025 Announcement
The FastLoaders have just announced that BIT Live will be held on November 21-22, 2025 at the Grieghallen in Bergen, Norway. More info at the Facebook link below.
PPOT at BIT LIVE 2023
PRESS PLAY ON TAPE performed a live concert at BIT Live in Bergen, Norway on November 3rd, 2023. The band just made the entire concert available on YouTube both as a single video and as a playlist. ROC=K ON!
First Preview Track of Reformation 5
Although Matt Gray's Reformation 5 has been fully funded on Kickstarter over 2 years ago, for various reasons (including personal hardship) Matt has been slow with progress on this album. But today he posted a preview of a track from it on SoundCloud, which happens to be a reworking of the Last Ninja 2 Central Park In-Game Theme
, the original of which first appeared on his highly acclaimed Reformation - Last Ninja 2
album.
Encore64 v2 Release Party on SLAY Radio
Today marks the release of the latest C64 remix album, Encore64 Volume 2, available for free now on RKO! To celebrate the premiere, SLAY Radio hosted a release party and interview featuring several album musicians, including Barry Leitch, Jogeir Liljedahl, Bass Cadet, Teo, Turbo Knight, Tomas Danko, and Peter Clarke. Links to the 3 1/2 hour (!) long video and to the album itself are below.
Peeking Behind the Curtain - A Chat with the Encore Team
Leading up to the premiere of their third album, Encore64 Volume 2
, I had the privilege of being granted exclusive access to the creative team behind it for a casual online interview. Why did Barry choose to remix Tetris? How hard is it to play Warhawk on a Theremin? Find out by reading the interview at the link below!
FastLoaders and PPOT Concert Videos
Earlier today both the FastLoaders and Press Play On Tape released videos of their concerts: the recording of FastLoaders' concert at the 2022 BIT Live party is now available on YouTube, and so is the recording of PPOT's concert at the 2023 BIT Live party, which debuted as part of the online Transmission64 demo party. Links below!
Back in Time Live
by Various
Stuck in D'80s, Rob Hubbard, Press Play on Tape, Visa Röster, The C64 Mafia. Amazing live performances recorded at Brighton Centre (2003) and St. Luke's LSO (2004). Consists of DVD1 (St. Luke's concert), DVD2 (Rob Hubbard live at the Brighton Centre), and an audio CD of the best tracks from both. Now shipping! All disks playable on normal DVD players, PAL Region 0 DVD. Highlights include I'm a Pumpkin Man
Live, Visa Roster's International Karate complete with guest sprites, and Stuck in D'80s Spellbound, featuring the most amazing violin solo ever.
Arranged by Eivind Sommersten
Review by tim_forsyth
Arranged by Eivind Sommersten
Overall a tremendously good remix.
Love it.!
Review by PhunkyData
Turrican 10 Anniversary edition
Arranged by Tony Fluke73 Wiren
Review by pathfinder1985
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