ROTY 2025 Winners
The Remixer of the Year (ROTY) 2025 Awards were were handed out earlier today during a live SLAY Radio show. The big prize was won yet again by Eivind Sommersten for the second year in a row! Congrats, Eivind! To find out the winners of all the other categories, head over to the ROTY 2025 page linked below where you can also watch the entire awards show as it was broadcast live.
Our heartfelt congratulations to all the winners, to all the nominees - and also to all the listeners who took the time to vote for their favorites! Last, but not least, also a huge thank you to Slaygon, Ziona, and Boz over at SLAY Radio for the fantastic awards show!
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BIT Live is Back in 2026 - With a Surprise Date!
The FastLoaders have announced that Back In Time Live will be held again in 2026 in Bergen, Norway, and this time with a - <checks his notes again> - summer date!?! Yes, that's right, folks, for the first time ever, BIT Live will be held as a two-day event smack in the middle of SUMMER on July 31- August 1! Rumors were abound last year that Norway does actually have a summer season, so this might be a good opportunity to fact-check that in person. The event will be at a new venue, too, at the Ole Bull Scene, still in Bergen's city centre, not far from where all the other Norwegian BIT Live events were held in recent years. Tickets are already available for the event at the link below.
Rambo Loader Tune by Matt Gray
Matt posted this tune with the following words on his Reformation 5 Kickstarter page:
I've just put up the new R5 version on Bandcamp of one of my all time favourite SID tunes, the Loading Theme from Rambo First Blood Part 2. Link Below.
Mr Galway excelled himself with the music on that game, and for me the loading track is possibly the greatest C64 game track ever. So I've taken my time in doing my 2nd version of it (the first being on the original Reformation and made well over 10 years ago now) to try and do it justice. I'm very happy with the result and hopefully you will enjoy also.
Work on the LN1 album is progressing nicely and hopefully March will indeed finally see its digital release.
Thanks so much to everyone for all the great comments on the previous R5 track uploads. It's very reassuring to know so many of you are enjoying the new tracks as much as I have enjoyed making them.
Have a great rest of the week all.
Another Single from Reformation 5: The Palace Main Theme
Matt Gray has released another single from his upcoming Reformation 5
album: the main theme of The Palace
level from The Last Ninja. Although Matt has already tackled this tune on his Reformation 3
album, he has reworked it significantly. It's availabe now on Bandcamp.
Mastertronic C64 Remixes - Part 3
The third part in the series about remixes of C64 games released by Mastertronic has just been published. In this one Waz looks at remixes freely available on RKO, and these are all remixes of games that were re-released by Mastertronic, either via the Ricochet label, or later via MAD, Mastertronic Plus and so on. You can read it at the link below. And if you missed the first 2 parts in the series, there are links to those, too.
ROTY 2025 Awards Show on Feb 21!
We are happy to announce that the Remixer of the Year (ROTY) 2025 Awards show will be on Saturday, February 21 at 18:00 (CET, Europe)! The awards show will yet again be hosted by SLAY Radio. Join us to find out which remixes were voted the best of the best by you, the listeners, and who will win the coveted Remixer of the Year
award! Mark your calendars!
ROTY 2025 Awards Show
2026. February 21. Saturday
Hosted by SLAY Radio at:
- 18:00 (CET)
- 12:00 PM (US Eastern)
- 04:00 AM (Feb 22, Sun) (AEDT, Sydney, Australia)
Remix News 2025 Bloopers
You've seen the videos, you've heard our guest announcers - now peek behind the curtains and laugh with us as we show you that reading a script is not as easy as they made it look in 2025…
Turrican Soundtrack Anthology Vol. 2
by Chris Hülsbeck
Chris Huelsbeck presents: The »Turrican Soundtrack Anthology«, a comprehensive 4 volume collection of music from the Turrican series of games, faithfully recreated, arranged and updated with high end studio sounds. This volume covers Turrican 2.
credits
released November 26, 2013
Produced by Chris Huelsbeck
Co-Produced by Jan Zottmann & Thomas Böcker
Mastering: Hans-Jörg Maucksch (Pauler Acoustics)
TSA Logo: The Light Works
Liner Notes: Audun Sorlie
Booklet Layout: schech.net
license
all rights reserved
Arranged by Eivind Sommersten
Review by tim_forsyth
Tetris [Mariko's Tale] (Encore64 V2)
Arranged by Barry Leitch
That is the charm of remixes, they bring back not only the music, but the memories. And the answer to what the original composer might have heard when creating this, on whatever equipment or only the mind, before converting it into what the SID and skill allowed.
This remix has it all, the stomping drums, the original-sounding synth kicking in at just the right moment (at 3:00), the orchestral grandeur (starting with the middle part at minute 11, with a lead string that is a nod to Game of Thrones?) and lots of interesting choices, like the hand-pan sounds, the
door-bellintermezzo at 9:43 and finally the unexpected 90 second, dreamlike extro, which makes one want to start the track all over again, just like the original did, back in 1988.
Review by Hendrik74
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