Remix News, December 2025
The last Remix News of 2025 is now available for your viewing and listening pleasure, covering the month of December. It has been quite a year with over 220 releases on remix.kwed.org and on AmigaRemix.com, not counting the 3 new remix albums and 3 compilation albums that were also released in 2025.
And don't forget that the ROTY voting closes in just a few days! Watching the Remix News episodes of 2025 is a good way to remind you what remixes were released this year. You can find a link to a YouTube playlist containing all those episodes below. After watching those - vote!
New Reformation 5 Track from Matt Gray
Matt Gray posted a new preview from his upcoming Reformation 5 album on Bandcamp: The Sewers Main Theme from Last Ninja 2. It's quite the remix clocking in at 10 minutes and 30 seconds!
Remix News, November 2025
The Remix News covering November 2025 is now available for your viewing - and listening - pleasure, guided by the soothing voice of Scarlett o'Interfacé. Sugar, there's enough music here to wallpaper a moon - whatever the f---k that means!
I promise, this will all become clear once you start watching this episode (maybe). Bottom line is, with 38 (!) releases on RKO and AmigaRemix in November there are plenty of new remixes to listen to!
Remixer of the Year (ROTY) 2025 Voting Closes Jan 18th
This is a friendly reminder that voting for the Remixer of the Year (ROTY) 2025 awards closes on Sunday, January 18, 2026. If you haven't done so, yet, you have until then to vote for your favorite remixes and remixers.
And if you can't remember all the wonderful remixes that were released in 2025, listen to snippets from each of them in the Remix News episodes that were released monthly. (November and December episodes are coming shortly, too.) That's roughly 3+ hours of music to get through, but much less than listening to all the releases in their entirety.
Remember to enter a vote for each of the remixes and remixers you want to nominate in a given category, not just one! Every single nomination will count towards the final totals.
Have fun voting!
Remix News, October 2025
The latest Remix News is now available on YouTube! We are up to October now, and for this episode we were fortunate enough to get Eivind to help us introduce all the remixes that were released that month. Come, take a look and have a listen!
Studio One Tour of Makke's Alloyrun Remix
Makke has just released a fantastic behind‑the‑scenes video on how he created Alloyrun, one of 2025’s standout remixes. You can watch it now on YouTube, or find it in the ever‑growing library on our How were they made?
page.
Mastertronic C64 Remixes - Part 2
A few months back, the Mastertronics Collectors Archive featured a fantastic article by Warren Pilkington (aka Waz), highlighting 10 freely available remixes of classic Mastertronic game soundtracks.
Now, Part 2 has just landed - this time Waz dives into 10 standout remixes taken from commercial remix albums.
You’ll find the new article at the link below, and if you missed Part 1, there’s a handy link to that as well.
Rainbows
by Chris Hülsbeck
Rainbows is the 5th Chris Huelsbeck Album. Originally released in 1994, it was concentrating on game soundtracks from his Rainbow Arts era.
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Released October 15, 1994
© 1994, 2013 Chris Huelsbeck Productions. Track 1, 3, 6-9 composed and arranged by Chris Huelsbeck; Track 2, 4 composed by Chris Huelsbeck, arranged by Juergen Frosch; Track 5 composed and arranged by Rudolf Stember; Track 10 composed by Chris Huelsbeck, Lyrics by Chris Huelsbeck & Dwayne Cevis, Vocals by Prinzess & D'Imperial, arranged by Pseudo D.; Track 11-15 composed by D. Laurent, arranged by Pseudo D. ; Track 12 Vocals by Raquel; Track 13 Rap & Lyrics by Eric Gould; Track 14 Vocals & Lyrics by Juana Terry; Track 15 composed and arranged by Joerg Schwiezer; Track 16-19 assembled by Chris Huelsbeck, D. Laurent & R. Stember. Tracks 16-19 are only meant for personal non-profit use! If you wish to use any samples in your commercial productions, you are required to obtain clearance by contacting Chris Huelsbeck Productions: www.huelsbeck.com/contact/
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ZoidsArranged by o2
Although I missed Zoids the Game, I was a huge C64 fan in the early 90's, ending up owning three, and the SID chip awed me from the beginning, and still does.
o2's remix of Zoids has the unerring ability to make me nostalgic for the 'good old days'. For the emotional quotient that this song has, I must rate it tops.
Thanks o2.
Review by snorbaard
Arranged by Marcel Donné
Second, I have to admit that for personal reasons I hold Sweet very close to my heart (one could say it hit my sweetspot, heh-heh). From the first time I've heard it I thought that it is one of the (if not THE) most emotional original tunes ever created on the C64. Many times when I was depressed or just sad, I listened to this tune with my eyes closed and by the time the tune was over I had tears on my face…
So, any cover of this tune has to pass my very high expectations. And I'm pleased to say that Marcel has done it.
The previous two remixes of Sweet that I heard were both lacking the emotion and the sadness of the original. Marcel delivers both thanks to the soul of the famed Yamaha CS-80, the same synth that provided that signature Vangelis sound up until the 90's (and Vangelis happens to be one of my favorite composers, too).
What do I like here:
- The opening arpeggios and the entire opening itself.
- The wonderfully emotional lead provided by the CS-80 (and Marcel's playing).
- The introduction of the drums at 0:37.
- The shadow lead starting at 1:17. What a nice touch!
- Those a la Zoolook Jarre-esque noise-effects at 1:48 instead of the original's sweeping double-noise. What a great enhancement over the original!
- The bridge being played on a guitar. (Or guitar-like sound.)
- The introduction of the very Vangelis-like bell-like pad at 2:26 - it really enhances the melody!
- The very cool ending.
- The fact that not only Marcel sticks to the original closely, but he also managed to enhance it!
What do I think could've been done better:
- The trills in the lead do not quite come through with the CS-80 brass, they seem to disappear into the rest of the tune. This is basically due to the limitation of the sound itself, but I wonder if it could've been enhanced somehow.
- The guitar could've used a lote more vibrato at 3:02, 3:10, 3:18 and 3:25 (i. e. on the low notes). In fact, short slides would've been better here than just a vibrato, because that's pretty much what the original SID does, too.
But these are the relatively minor gripes of an obsessive perfectionist. Plus look at it: 9 pluses versus 2 not-so-pluses. That ain't bad at all!
The bottom line is, I have a new tune to cry to…
Review by LaLa
Battle Squadron Genos 2 Edition
Arranged by Tony Fluke73 Wiren
Review by hal1973
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