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On Thursday, March 19, 2026 SLAY Radio will host a Release Party for the second edition of Encore500, a remix album chock full of brand new Amiga remixes. Special guests will include Jogeir Liljedahl, Barry Leitch, Tim Forsyth, Bass Cadet, Mantronix and perhaps Romeo Knight who will be joining Slaygon and ziona to chat about the album, their tracks, and hopefully share some insight into their process of creating them.

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There's a new remix album available by a Finnish duo called Nepawaganza. Their eponymous CD album is now available for order at their website. They also released a 5-track digital maxi of the album on Bandcamp where fans can preview what the full 11-track album is about.

Nepawaganza consists of Greippi on electric cello and Arttu Raami on electric bass. Their debut album also features German trumpeter Sobrasson on several tracks. Nepawaganza has been around for 6 years now, they've played at about 20 gigs, including demoscene events such as Zoo and Jumalauta. This is their first C64 remix album - check it out, and if you like what you hear, order their CD (and soon: cassette tape!) at their website.

The 4th and last part in the article series about Mastertronic C64 remixes is now available. In it Waz takes a look at tracks from commercially released albums that remixed tunes from games that were re-released by Mastertronic. If that all sounds a bit complicated, that's probably my fault - just go read the article (in which Waz also provided handy links where you can listen to the remixes he mentions), and it'll all be clear.

The latest album of FastLoaders Amiga Rocks Harder is now available for purchase on Bandcamp, too.

Today the FastLoaders have released their much anticipated second crowd-funded Amiga remix album, appropriately titled Amiga Rocks Harder. If you have backed their Kickstarter campaign check your inbox for the download links of the digital album.

The album contains well over 2 hours of brand new Amiga remixes spread over 3 discs and 39 tracks. Watch this space for release announcements on digital streaming services, including on Bandcamp - as soon as they are available, we'll let you know!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.