New EPs from C64Audio.com on Bandcamp
Hi everyone! Welcome to the first of many album releases on Bandcamp, celebrating our Lord and Master, Sir Rob Hubbard. If anything has been a revelation during the 8-Bit Symphony project, it's just how good Rob is at realising his own tunes for orchestra. It's not only that he's great: but he's a visionary and really puts the sweat in. The words 'Labour of Love' don't cover it.
So, here's Rob's biggest hitters in a bite-size EP. We've broken the 8-Bit Symphony album into seven different EPs, so look out for them over the next couple of weeks.
In general, many of the albums from C64Audio.com that have an identity of their own will be left intact. But in the case of 8-Bit Symphony Pro, it was a bit of a hodgepodge so we're enjoying breaking the albums out into themes. The next one will be 'Knight Lyfe'!
Please spread the word: not only for C64Audio but this is Rob's passion project and it needs more love!
Chris
Arok Party 2025 Now Accepting Submissions
The annual 8-bit demoscene event Arok Party
will be held between July 18-20, 2025 in Ajka, Hungary. As is traditional with this party, they also have a remix compo, and they are accepting remote entries, too (although remote entries are not eligible for prizes). For more details on how to attend in person, how to submit remote entries, and for the compo rules (please, do read them!), visit their website.
Allister Brimble's "Beyond The Ice Palace II" Soundtrack Released
Allister Brimble's soundtrack for Beyond The Ice Palace II
is now available on Bandcamp. This release coincides with the sequel's launch to the classic 8-bit and Amiga game from Elite Systems on Steam and other platforms.
The soundtrack includes a remix of David Whittaker's original theme as announced by Allister Brimble.
Hi all, I'm pleased to announce the soundtrack release for Beyond The Ice Palace II, the sequel to the original 8 Bit & Amiga game from Elite systems., now available on Steam and other formats. We also came to an arrangement with David Whittaker, the original composer to remix his original and iconic track which you can hear on the album
You can head over to Allister Brimble's Bandcamp pageto listen to and purchase the "Beyond The Ice Palace II" soundtrack now.
ZZAP! Live 2025 - Videos
Video recordings from the ZZAP! Live 2025 event over the weekend are now available on YouTube and Twitch, courtesy SLAY Radio. There was a music Q&A panel led by Andrew Fisher (Merman) featuring Jogeir Liljedahl, Tomas Danko, Peter Clarke, Mike Clarke, Jason Page, and Mark Knight, and a SLAY Radio show recorded in front of a live audience for the first time ever! The recordings are a bit scattered around due to various technical difficulties, and the live SLAY Radio show has had audio and sync issues throughout, nevertheless, links to all of the videos are below.
Hacking attacks against remix64.com
Dear community, remix64.com was under heavy DDoS fire in the last couple of days. So bad that there were outages and other problems with it, and we had to enable cloudflare protection and relocate the forum to another URI. This might not be over so bear with us and fingers crossed…
End of an Era: C64Audio.com is Closing Down
Sadly, Chris Abbott has recently announced that C64Audio.com is closing down on June 30th, 2025. The site has been up and running since 1997 (!) - its importance in getting the Commodore (and general 8-bit) remix scene off the ground simply cannot be overstated.
Until then their online store is having a closing down sale with heavily discounted pricing. Most content of the site will also be slowly transitioning to its new page on Bandcamp in the coming years, so many of the albums produced by C64audio over the decades that had so much love and effort poured into them will eventually be available there.
Read the full announcement by Chris here.
Remix News, April 2025
The Remix News for April, 2025 is here! Interestingly enough, this also marks the 4th month in a row that we had exactly 19 remix releases (C64+Amiga). Hmm!… Enjoy the voiceover for this episode by Marcel - and I wonder whose track was picked as a spotlight for this month… 🤔😉
READY. Vocally too
by Visa Röster
Fresh from the Copenhagen Retro Concert, where they stunned the crowd with their razzamatazz and new material, here's the crowd-stunning second album from the Swedish masters of mouth music! Commando, Delta, Zoids, Formula 1, Bombjack, Wizball, Rambo.. it's like they stuck a straw into your head, extracted your favourite tunes and sang them!
Shadow Of The Beast 2 (Game Over)
Arranged by Dr Future
The pan flute repetition at 40s along with the acoustic guitar, birds and general atmosphere sets this in the SOTB universe.
Review by _steve_
Bitter Sweet (Encore64 V2)Arranged by Tomsk
Review by LaLa
Arranged by SIDwave
Review by Sada
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