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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.

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)

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

Posted by Matt Gray today for his Kickstarter backers:

Some good news in this update as I have another finished Last Ninja 2 R5 track for you to hear and it's my new version of Central Park Loading Theme.

I've put it up on Bandcamp where you can listen or download and hopefully the rest of the LN2 R5 album won't be too far away.

- Jarle & Co. will be a guest on tonight's SLAY Radio show (8/20/2026 @ 20:00 CEST).

- The FastLoaders have announced an upcoming concert in Prague on Sept 26. For more details and for tickets check out the event's page on Facebook.

The BIT Live 2026 and Remix64.com 25th Anniversary Remix Compo is now over, all votes have been counted and the results are in! No spoilers here, but you can go to the compo results page and check out the winners yourself.

Congratulations to all winners, and a huge thank you to everybody who submitted a remix, and to all people who voted and played the Guess the Remixer game!

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.

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!

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!

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.