Back In Time Live & Remix64 25th Anniversary Compo
Firefox birthday show!
Let's have a birthday party for Firefox, aka. Jimmy Fredriksson! One of the guys responsible for the music for the classic Phenomena Amiga Demo Enigma! Tonight at 21:30 (CEST) on the Retro Gaming Music YouTube channel.
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BIT Live 2026 Schedule
The schedule for the Commodore remix event of the year better known as BIT Live 2026 has been posted, and it's quite a doozy! There will be performances by Double Score Dungeon, NecroPolo, Jeroen Tel, Linus Åkesson (lft), and, of course, by FastLoaders! Ziona will also play a DJ set, there will be a C64 Café with SID music, and in-between SLAY Radio will be playing remixes on-site (they also plan to stream the entire event online). If you are still on the fence about attending, this lineup should convince you to buy your tickets now!
BIT Live & Remix64 Remix Compo - 3 Weeks Left!
This is a friendly reminder that the deadline to submit entries to the BIT Live & Remix64 25th Anniversary Remix Compo is only 3 weeks away: it's July 21! For detailed rules of the compo and to submit your entries, head over the to the compo's webpage. Have fun creating, everyone!
Matt Gray: Quedex Title Theme (R5 Version)
The next single from Matt Gray's upcoming Reformation 5 project is here, it's a remix of Matt's own Quedex Title Theme, available now on Bandcamp.
Matt Gray: The Final Battle Theme from LN2 (R5 Version)
Today Matt dropped another single from his upcoming Reformation 5
project, The Final Battle tune from Last Ninja 2. It's available on Bandcamp.
"Wings of Death" Kickstarter Fully Funded!
The crowdfunding campaign of Wings of Death - Reworked Anthology
, a project by the German Remix Group (GRG) has just ended - and we're glad to report it got fully funded! In fact, it far surpassed its original goal of €6,500, which means that there will be bonus remixes on the album by Tronimal, Nordischsound, Fabian Del Priore, Chris Hülsbeck, Barry Leitch, and Matt Gray, too! The support from the retro community has been fantastic, and the GRG is really grateful for it. Well done, fans, and congrats to the German Remix Group for the highly successful campaign!
Note: if for some reason you missed this campaign, you can still order digital downloads from the project.
Back In Time 6 - Throne of SIDs
by Various Artists
Performed and programmed by: Chris Abbott
Producers: Chris Abbott and Kenneth Slaygon
Mutka
Assistant Producers: Damian Manning, Russell F. Howard and Anna Black
Executive Producers: Steven Innell, Tero Kilkanen, Roland Fejes
Front cover by Ancellom, back cover by Trevor Storey
Track credits:
01. Defender of the Crown (Cuomo) arr. Abbott, orch. Pickering
02. Grouting (Marsh) arr. Abbott, orch. Pickering
03. Ghouls ‘n’ Ghosts (Follin/) arr. Pickering/Abbott, orch. Pickering
04. Forbidden Forest (Norman) arr. Abbott/Connelly, orch. Pickering/Tait
05. Kentilla (Hubbard) arr. Hubbard, orch. Hubbard/Pickering/Tait
06. Black Lamp (Follin) arr. Abbott/Pickering, orch. Pickering
07. Sidherazade (Hubbard) arr. Abbott, orch. Abbott
08. Knight Tyme (Hubbard) arr. Hubbard, orch. Hubbard
09. Master of Magic (Hubbard/Fast) arr. Hubbard, orch. Hubbard
10. Wizardry (Jarvis) arr. Abbott/Pickering, orch. Pickering
11. Spellbound (Hubbard) arr. Hubbard, orch. Hubbard
12. Nemesis the Warlock (Hubbard) arr. Hubbard, orch. Hubbard
13. Zoids (Hubbard/Fast) arr. Hubbard, orch. Hubbard
All tracks copyright High Technology Publishing Ltd. except Defender of the Crown (Cinemaware), Ghouls ‘n’ Ghosts (Capcom) and Wizardry (Graham Jarvis).
Kentilla is dedicated to Paul Cook
Thanks to all Kickstarter backers for their patience, and Rob Hubbard, Robin Tait, Alisdair J. Pickering and the Hull Philharmonic - vital, all!
Harlequin - TVee Wonderland (ingame tune 5)
Arranged by Rapture
This remix succeeds in absolutely every respect. Indeed, it's no exaggeration to say that it's one of my favourite pieces of music of any kind in the world ever.
Not only does it capture perfectly the electrifying mood of the original TVee Wonderland theme (somehow managing to be hair-raisingly eerie and playfully energetic at the same time), not only does it expand upon the original with exceptional verve and creativity (introducing an array of beautiful new harmonies, counter-melodies and other splendidly atmospheric flourishes), but it even manages to tell a story that fits in perfectly with the part of the game where this particular theme first turns up, via some positively spiffing sound design. The level of Harlequin that gives this track its name is one of the most original and gleefully sinister environments ever to appear in a platformer. The hero of the piece finds himself inside a gigantic, haunted television showroom where every single TV set is broken, and the player is tasked with guiding him past an array of electricity-themed enemies and traps. As such, the intro to this remix could scarcely be more perfect as we hear a television turn on by itself and start searching through the static for a clear transmission, eventually settling upon a channel where the MOD version of the tune can briefly be heard before the updated version zaps into life. (An especially pleasing touch – among the garbled snatches of other programmes we can clearly hear excerpts from the theme tunes of Gamesmaster and Bad! Influence, both of which first came to the screen in the year of Harlequin's release.) The various other crackles, sparks and fizzes that crop up throughout the rest of the track add greatly to the spookily mysterious vibe of the whole thing without ever being intrusive, and the conclusion as the static returns and the misfiring TV finally shuts itself off is the perfect coda to the whole experience.
I utterly, wholeheartedly love this remix. As you may possibly have gathered.
Review by Matt Smith
Arranged by CZ Tunes
Review by Sada
Cybernoid 2Arranged by Johan Andersson
Review by Yahtzee
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