Budapest Micro Vol.4 Announced
It was just announced that Budapest Micro Vol.4, an all-night celebration of 8-bit and video game music will take place on March 13, 2027 in the heart of Budapest at the Három Holló (Three Ravens) coffee house and event hall. The lineup includes names that should be very familiar to Commodore remix fans: Jeroen Tel (Maniacs of Noise), Sidrip Alliance (in their first concert in many-many years!), Sidnify, and Vincenzo & Visage. More info at the links below.
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FastLoaders Concert on Dec 5, 2026
FastLoaders will squeeze in yet another concert before the year is out, this time in London on December 6, 2026 at the Black Heart, presenting Amiga Rocks Harder. Get your tickets at the link below!
Matt Gray: LN2 (R5) Now Available for Pre-Order
In case you missed the Kickstarter, the Last Ninja 2 (Reformation 5)
album from Matt Gray is now available for pre-order at Bandcamp. Four tracks can be streamed today and the complete album is slated to be released on December 24, 2026.
Markus Siebold 1969-2026
We have just learned that Markus Siebold — musician, SID composer, and remixer — has recently passed away at the age of 57. He is best known for creating music for the game Turrican II: The Final Fight on the C64, alongside numerous other SID tunes throughout the late 80s and early 90s. Over the years, he shared his own remakes of that iconic soundtrack here on Remix64, along with several other remixes. We are deeply saddened by his loss and we extend our heartfelt sympathies to his family, to his friends, and to everyone touched by his life and his music.
Matt Gray: Green Beret Main Theme (R5 Version)
Another track from Matt Gray's Reformation 5 dropped today:
Matt Gray: This time it's one of the remakes for the main R5 album and an all time favourite C64 tune Green Beret Title/Main Theme by the maestro Martin Galway. I must have re started on this track half a dozen times over the last couple of years and I finally found a blend of SID elements and new parts that I really like.
I can still remember the Saturday afternoon in the summer of 1986 that I bought this game and rushed home to load it up and check out what Mr G had conjured up. The loading music was excellent but this title theme blew me away at the time.
Hopefully you all feel much the same when you hear this new version.
RetroGamingMusic + Linus LFT Åkesson Premiere!
Don't miss out the premiere on Friday, September 18 at 21:00 CET of one of the best C64 AMIGA NES Retro Concerts of 2026! This is the full mastered concert from the Video Game Festival in Stockholm! Better sound, camera angles, applause, and more!!!
(Please remove the previous news regarding the VideospelFestival)
Video Game Music Live In Åkersberga, Stockholm, September 12-13
Tony Fluke
Wiren (Retrogamingmusic) will perform live on stage (Saturday 16:00 CET) at the Videospel Festival in Stockholm. The full event will also be live streamed at RetroGamingMusics YouTube page.
Some of the other famous acts at this event will be the creator of the C64 Fairlight game Bo Jangeborn, Linus Åkesson (LFT), Christer Rindeblad (DatorMagazin), Jimmy Wilhelmsson AKA Spelpappan (Generation64, Fandrake), David Westerlund.
Full program (in Swedish) can be found here: videospelfestival.se
The Best of Rob Hubbard - 8-Bit Symphony EP
by Chris Abbott and Rob Hubbard
Let's celebrate the miracle that is Rob Hubbard! Not only is he a great chipmusic composer, but he's an amazing symphonic artist who's graciously given us the definitive orchestrations of some of his greatest SIDs, performed in Prague by the Czech Studio Orchestra.
These tracks are taken from the seminal 8-Bit Remix albums 8-Bit Symphony Pro: First Half
and 8-Bit Symphony Pro: Second Half
.
Uniquely, you can also download the conductor's score for each track! You can also get much more context on the tracks from 8-bit-symphony.com.
About Rob Hubbard
After leaving school in the 70s, Rob spent his formative years as a gigging musician in rock bands playing all over the UK and Europe.
After moving to Newcastle and finishing college, he met Steve Daggett (later of Lindisfarne), who shared his enthusiasm for musical collaboration and experimentation. This led Rob to the studio, electronic studio gear and music production.
He quickly expanded into home computers, and found the C64 and its legendary SID sound chip an essential purchase.
Keen to use it to earn some income, he started to write educational programmes. However, feedback was that the market wasn’t there: but writing Blue Danube
for the sound-chip was the start of a bright future.
In 1983/4, chance contacts led Rob to start working on a game for a local company (Razzmatazz by Ubik), but this was never released. Rob packaged up the music with other demos and sent disks around for freelance music programming.
The first two jobs for Mastertronic’s Action Biker
and Incentive’s Confuzion
were well reviewed. But it was Thing on a Spring
, an original composition full of bounce and percussion (and the occasional spring noise) that was simply mind-blowing. This was followed by Monty on the Run, initially inspired by Devil’s Galop
, which he was asked to copy, but took in a completely new direction. Manic violin playing, Simmonds drums and a rock guitar solo meant Rob became a rock star to certain impressionable youths.
Tiring of the freelance life, Rob joined Electronic Arts in 1989. At the time, EA was a new and vibrant US company and the chance to explore the outer limits of music interactivity on new gear was irresistible, and he was soon appearing on consoles and PCs before being moved to management in 1997.
In 1998, Rob was the linchpin of the first commercially released CD of C64 music remixed in studios: Back in Time
, from Chris Abbott’s C64Audio.com, which led to live performances and further album work.
Soon, he started to arrange his own tunes orchestrally, starting with his own arrangement of Kentilla. With US musician Steven Scherer he scored three of his tracks (W.A.R, a new version of Kentilla and Food Feud
), of which W.A.R appeared on Back in Time 3
.
Rob came back to the UK in 2001 and kept himself busy with gigs and music, even playing piano on the Hull to Rotterdam ferry! In 2005 he orchestrated International Karate for the Play concert at the 2005 Games Development Conference in Leipzig. It showcased a wide variety of orchestral colour and technique, further enhanced for this project.
In 2016 he was awarded an honorary degree by Abertay University, reflecting his wide-ranging contribution to video game music.
Besides being the producer of the 8-Bit Symphony Pro projects, in 2019 he was also the musical director of the 8-Bit Symphony concert in Hull.
He recently co-wrote Master of Magic
, a hardback book covering his game music work over a long and stellar career.
credits
released May 30, 2025
Conducted by Robin Tait
Performed by the Czech Studio Orchestra led by Radek Krizanovsky
Recordings produced at Smecky Studios by Vitek Kral & Mikel Toms
Orchestra managed and led by Radek Krizanovsky
Produced by Chris Abbott & Rob Hubbard
Executive Produced by Damian Manning & Russell F. Howard
Assisted majorly by Thomas Finnerup, Ian Flory & Anna Black
Score and parts preparation by Robin Tait
Mixing, mastering and surround sound mix by Allister Brimble
Editing by Chris Abbott
Illustrations by Steph Abbott (www.maplebutterstudios.com) and Mateo Durante (@cosmicphrog)
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