The Remixer Of The Year awards were presented for the 10th time in 2011, at the ROTY Awards show hosted by SceneSat staff and guests at the crowded SceneSat headquarters. The first part of the show presented a rundown of the year 2011, recaping scene happenings and playing top rated tracks of each month. The actual award show started at roughly 22:35.
The first award Best Newcomer 2011 was awarded to SID legend Peter Clarke by Mordi, who had won the award in 2008.
Hazel won Best Veteran 2011, which was personally handed over by Makke, who was 2006s best veteran.
Daxx and Gibs won Best Amiga Remix for their collaboration on Lotus 3.
The price for Best c64 Remix was awarded to Warhawk (Halcón de la guerra mix) by scene veteran N-JOY. The award was presented by Andreas Wallström of c64.com. It should be noted that Kate Z. would have actually won this category with her Tusker remix, if the votes for both versions (vocal / non vocal) had been combined.
Two Lifetime Achievement awards were awarded to Jan Lund Thomsen and Slaygon for their relentless service to the scene.
The prime price, Remixer Of The Year, was won by Rune-Bertil's and presented by none other than o2, who was Remix64's very first Remixer Of The Year, ten years ago in 2001.
Huge congratulations to all winners and everyone who made it onto the lists!
The guestlist at Ziphoid's once more crowded apartment was: Floaf, Mordi, Ceci, Andreas Wallström, o2, Arvid, Malmen, fnordpojk, Makke, Dafunk, Tron, a0d, BST, Gulrak, Herbaculum, Hazel, Uncle Tom, Sir Garbagetruck and Ziphoid.
Yes, on January 28th, the Remix64.com Remixer of the Year Awards 2011 will be aired. The show will be hosted by SceneSat Radio and simulcast on SLAY Radio and Radio 6581 and to most certainty also on BitJam and Nectarine Demoscene Radio.
It will feature a bunch of well-known remixers and scene profiles to give you an evening of fun and great music and there will also be a live videofeed to give you a peek into what's going on behind the microphones.
Oh, and for your convenience, we've extended the voting deadline with yet another week, making the deadline to the 15th of January.
Ho-ho-ho! Christmas comes a few days early this year. After passing my project manager exam on December 13th, I cleared the mountain of books and papers off my desk and started preparing this episode. In honour of this being the 50th show(!) here’s almost an hours worth of sonic delight – five remixes and five chiptunes, carefully selected for your enjoyment. And while the show doesn’t have a Christmas theme as such, the closing tune should be able to melt even the coldest of hearts and let the Commodore love flow freely. As usual mixed in with a brief recap of what’s been happening in the world of C64-related music. Enjoy!
General Conversation • Re: REMIXERS - Full of talent or left wanting?
When I first discovered RKO from Retro Gamer magazine I thought "Now thats cool. People are still entertained by the sid chip!" So from there I decided to have a go at remixing some tunes from my past. Its great fun and puts the gear you buy or get for free to good use. A nice side effect I found is that there is a ready made audience. If you create your own tunes, put them on sound cloud or what ever you need to promote the tracks very well to get anything heard. On RKO although the hits have gone down in recent years the amount of listerners far exceeds anything I'd do totally original otherwise.Statistics: Posted by Doddsy — 07/02/2012 - 23:23
General Conversation • Re: REMIXERS - Full of talent or left wanting?
Ok! Warning! submission from 'an old composer'......
On one level, (and I guess this is unique to myself, Reyn, Jonathan Dunn and any others who have submitted remixes), you are tinkering with your own history and, to a certain extent changing the original to 'How you would have made it sound' given the same level of technology and polyphony available now. So, in that sense, it is still a voyage of discovery, especially as far as the new parts you add are concerned. I guess that the composers also get an easier ride with regard to 'changing' things. "Hey! It's my tune so i'll remix it anyway I damn well please' without worrying about respecting the composer. (Woo! Is this getting too psychological? ).
But... Then again, we all worry about how the end product will be received. So, you still pay attention to what you're doing.
When it comes to remixing/re-arranging someone else's work, then I become just like everyone else. Respect for the original work is important but, (like Chris said), how you hear it in your own head, for me, that's what I'm after. It is challenging. Far more challenging than I thought and I have to say this.... The standard of the best remixes on this website is high. Like very H I G H ! ! ! Production values in some pieces are massive and perfectionism is a rife disease which is good for everyone. It delivers better sounding tunes for the listener, pushes the ceiling up and makes every remixer/musician strive that little bit harder.
Having played in bands for 30 years and used backtracks with click tracks for about 15 of those years, I've spent a lot of time trying to created a perfect clone of each and every pop and rock tune we've wanted to cover, before dropping out the guitar, bass and drums, (normally), which will get played live on stage. That! like this, is a skill that develops over months and years.
Overall, for me anyway, it's really, really good fun and, even now at 53 years of age, I learn more with each and every piece of music.Statistics: Posted by poke16384 — 07/02/2012 - 23:10
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Also get out and buy a copy of Computer Music issue 175. There's a free Addictive Drums-style rompler, T-racks audio restoration, synth bits and all kinds of samples taken from the everyday. If some of you don't want your software from a certain route then this will give you what you like.
I've got mine in and looking forward to enjoying everything. (I think it's even still got the C64 VSTi in its archive folders.)
It's another mid-week hump, so that means it's another BBB to have your requests played while some annoying Midlands bloke talks inane gibberish in between. All aboard the Train-Wreck, WOO WOOH!
Episode 18 of OMAHM is a SEGA Mega Drive (Genesis) Special! Join Kenz on a 1 hour musical journey through various classic Mega Drive tunes including Sonic the Hedgehog, Streets of Rage, Thunder Force IV, Comix Zone, Castlevania Bloodlines, Sword Of Vermilion and many more. The show also includes an exclusive track from the previously unreleased Psygnosis game Hardcore!
The 17th episode of OMAHM is devoted to Psytronik Software - the software label I originally set up in 1993. The show features music from the games that were released back in the 1990's by Psytronik along with tracks from the newer Psytronik releases from when the label was relaunched in 2008. The show features music recorded directly from the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and Commodore Plus/4 computers along with remixes of Psytronik game tunes.
To celebrate the release of the new TRON LEGACY movie this episode of OMAHM is devoted to the music from the TRON movies and videogames. The show contains snippets from the original TRON movie soundtrack, previews of new tracks from the TRON LEGACY soundtrack (by Daft Punk) along with music from Tron related games ...
Episode 15 of One Man And His Mic is devoted to the C64 musician PVCF of Reflex. The show features superb SID tunes recorded by PVCF from his very own SID chip, an incredible new song called 'I Am Back', a stunning new remix of his famous track 'My Number Is C64' along with examples of his music produced for other systems. The show also features an exclusive interview with PVCF!
Here we have the second part of the One Man And His Mic Sony PlayStation special! This part of the show features an exclusive interview with Tim Wright (aka CoLD SToRAGE). Tim is a PlayStation music pioneer and created soundtracks for various PlayStation games including Wipeout, Destruction Derby, Colony Wars and Krazy Ivan etc.
Ho-ho-ho! Christmas comes a few days early this year. After passing my project manager exam on December 13th, I cleared the mountain of books and papers off my desk and started preparing this episode. In honour of this being the 50th show(!) here’s almost an hours worth of sonic delight – five remixes and five chiptunes, carefully selected for your enjoyment. And while the show doesn’t have a Christmas theme as such, the closing tune should be able to melt even the coldest of hearts and let the Commodore love flow freely. As usual mixed in with a brief recap of what’s been happening in the world of C64-related music. Enjoy!
Download or listen to the show (57:05, 102 Mb, MP3)
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Also, if you’re on Xbox Live and feel up for some online multiplayer action, look up “Don Kwed“.
Unless otherwise stated tunes played on todays show are available for download from Remix.Kwed.Org , or from the HVSC recordings availble on the SOASC site. Leave feedback either by using the comment section at http://C64Takeaway.com , by e-mail to C64Takeaway [AT] gmail [DOT] com, or follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/C64Takeaway. And at the risk of repeating myself, please leave a review on iTunes.
Greetings programmes! After another massive delay caused by too much going on at work, causing me to relax (among other things) in front of the Xbox rather than sit down in front of the microphone every month or two, here’s the first episode of 2011(!). Hopefully making up for the radio silence with nine carefully selected tunes – including not one, but two classic remixes. As usual mixed in with a brief recap of what’s been happening in the world of C64-related music.
Download or listen to the show (45:27, 65,2 Mb, MP3)
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If you’re on Xbox Live and feel up for some online multiplayer action, look up “Don Kwed“.
Unless otherwise stated tunes played on todays show are available for download from Remix.Kwed.Org , or from the HVSC recordings availble on the SOASC site. Leave feedback either by using the comment section at http://C64Takeaway.com , by e-mail to C64Takeaway [AT] gmail [DOT] com, or follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/C64Takeaway. And at the risk of repeating myself, please leave a review on iTunes.
In return for your patience with my completely erratic publishing schedule here is a little something for your Christmas stocking. Sadly, the (huge) delay is partly caused by the podcast going back to its single-host roots, as Makke has had to cancel his co-host gig. That being said, here’s eight carefully selected tunes that should put a smile on your face – including one that’s become a regular fixture at this time of year. And a brief recap of what’s been happening in the world of C64-related music. Enjoy!
Download or listen to the show (46:52, 68 Mb, MP3)
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Unless otherwise stated tunes played on todays show are available for download from Remix.Kwed.Org , or from the HVSC recordings availble on the SOASC site. Leave feedback either by using the comment section at http://C64Takeaway.com , by e-mail to C64Takeaway [AT] gmail [DOT] com, or follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/C64Takeaway. And at the risk of repeating myself, please leave a review on iTunes.
As some of you might have seen on our twitter feed, Operation Fatherhood has forced Makke to shelve his co-hosting of the #C64 Take-away. I only learned this a week ago myself (not the fatherhood bit – that’s been out in the open for a while) – and the news was a bit of a shock, truth be told. Rest assured that there aren’t any complications or anything of the sort – it’s just eating up his spare time, which babies have a tendency to do.
While I have managed to create the bulk of the show on my own in the past, I believe that Makke’s contribution has become an integral part of the podcast format since he joined up back in early 2009. Which makes it harder to go back to the old single-host formula. Sure, I might be able to get another co-host (although right now I have no idea who that would be) and set up a double ended recording to compensate for us being in different locations. But there’s something about being in the same room as your co-host that comes across in the final product.
Long story short, this leaves the podcast in the state that the old K Foundation poster referred to as a “major rethink in progress“.
In the meantime, please let me know what you think – either in the comments, via twitter, or by e-mail to C64Takeaway ->at<- gmail ->dot<- com. Thank you.
Just in time for Christmas, Makke and Jan skip an obvious opportunity to pour themselves a generous helping of glühwein. Instead they get all serious (well, not really), and cook up a delicious Commodore 64 styled music burger for you: Two Christmas tunes make up the bun, a solitary SID chiptune provides the dressing, and between it a solid slab of meat mixed from shredded guitars, beatup drums, and pounded pianos. Also, to spice things up there’s C64-related “news”, feedback, and the usual banter on the side. And the “Classic Remix” segment takes us all the way back to 2001.
Download or listen to the MP3 here (56:54, 52 Mb)
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The Poke 20 album contains 21(!) remixes of Monty On The Run. And no mention of Rob Hubbard in the liner notes. And it violates its own Creative Commons license as well. Boo! Hiss!
The Chameleon 64 cartridge contains a metric tonne of goodies: 1541 Emulator, REU, RetroReplay, VGA output, PS/2 mouse port, and more. Expected to ship in 2010, pre-order now for 219 EUR.
Unless otherwise stated tunes played on todays show are available for download from Remix.Kwed.Org , or from the HVSC recordings availble on the SOASC site. Leave feedback either by using the comment section at http://C64Takeaway.com , by e-mail to C64Takeaway [AT] gmail [DOT] com, or follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/C64Takeaway.
Yep, it's official!
The SLAY Radio Gathering is going to happen again in 2012 and it will be on the first week in August!
SATURDAY AUGUST 4th is the main day, with a barbecue at Keillers Park (weather permitting) in the daytime and the get-together in the function room of Kville Biljard in the evening.
FRIDAY AUGUST 3rd will, of course, be the Unofficially Official Pre-Gathering Gathering in the evening in the main room of Kville Biljard.
More information will become available soon, but in the meantime you can look at the SLAY Radio Gathering Hotspots map on Google Maps:
http://g.co/maps/4kkr5
A Facebook event has been created <a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/338382769528067/" target="_new">here</a>.
See you there!
Best of Commodore 64 (C64 SID) remixes 2000 - 2011
Just in time for the Roty 2011 show here is the best of 2000-2011 torrent. Let's see if high votes also mean a place in the Roty!
Jarno Beumer did it again and collected the top 10-songs published on <a href="http://remix.kwed.org/">RKO</a> of every year and shared this compilation as a torrent so the best C64-remixes are just a few mouseclicks away for anyone.
As 2011 ended, I send a polite request wich went something like this: Hey Jarno, you lazy git it's time to wake up and update that there best of torrrent, he promptly updated his torrent 2000-2009 and added the top 10 songs of 2010-2011 as well. Not to mention he went above and beyond duty and rechecked the previous years also. You want the very best of remixed C64-songs as vote for on <a href="http://remix.kwed.org/">RKO</a> ? Go grab the Best of Commodore 64 (C64 SID) remixes 2000 - 2011.torrent <a href="http://tracker.slayradio.org/">here</a>
As usual get your latest remixes on <a href="http://remix.kwed.org/">RKO</a> and remember to keep seeding for a while after download.
Now something different LPChip requested a full rko torrent. Which is a bit to keep updated so I'm thinking of making a RKO First Decade and Second Decade torrent. First Decade is just the complete 2000 (since it has everything before that) Second decade will be 2001-2010. Thoughts, want it? leave a comment.
Misser
*edit
Ps. I place all my torrents in a sub dir called: "RKO C64" and then named after the torrent etc. This keeps it easy to make yearly torrents from quaterly etc. And also would make it easy to make a Second Decade torrent since that would be "RKO C64RKO-20XX Complete dirs"
Meanwhile I cleaned up the tracker a bit with input form LPCHip. Hide the quarterly torrents. They will be serviced untill absolete.
*edit 2
Thee-hi seems 2001-2010 is just to big to handle for Slacker. So no decade torrents in a while.
RKO Q4 and complete 2011 and some rumours. *Update*
As usual, get your latest remixes on RKO and go get the Q-4 2011 torrent <a href="http://tracker.slayradio.org/">here</a> and since it´s almost the end of the year, get the Complete 2011 <a href="http://tracker.slayradio.org/">here</a> also. Do remember to keep seeding for a while after download.
Enjoy
Hi all,
With the kind permission of NecroPolo, I have today added his album <a href="http://www.c64audio.com/productInfo.php?cat=NP01" target="_new">rakBIT</a> to the rotational.
Here's what c64audio.com says about this piece of retro goodness:
"NecroPolo has produced a stunning album which is built on a vintage prog-sound: from hard as nails to Rhodes-heaven, NecroPolo has got beneath the skin of the pieces and created something which is totally authentic to their spirit.
As if that wasn't enough, this album features the first ever C64-executable album cover, complete with classic scrolltext and the original SIDs that appear on the album, in one PRG!
And if THAT wasn't enough, this demo contains the first ever usage of a revolutionary new SID encoding format which enables any complexity of SID to be played back with minimal raster time, no matter how complex the player! Named SIDRIP, this routine was produced by Hermit specially for this demo, because pieces such as Scoll Machine or Rimrunner needed to feature in this demo, and their players were far too difficult to squeeze into a one-file demo."
Thanks NecroPolo!
Hi all,
As usual get your latest remixes on <a href="http://remix.kwed.org/">RKO</a> and go get the Q-1 2011 <a href="http://tracker.slayradio.org/">here</a> and remember to keep seeding for a while after download.
Enjoy
Misser
After a few years pause, Bleepstreet is back with a new relocated team and new releases. The label was originally founded in 1998 by Johan Kotlinski, most known for making the LSDj software for Gameboy.Apparently, a new batch of Bleepstreet releases are imminent, so if you are into "nu-chip" related music this is definitely the label to watch out for the next decade.Bleepstreet released among
In this video, Jeri Ellsworth explains the phase accumulators in the c64 SID sound chip. This technique was used in many early synthesizers and sound chips. Jeri Ellsworth is most known for creating the C64 DTV, the all in one joystick emulator in 2004. She is also responsible for designing the FPGA chip of the C-One, so I guess no more introduction is needed, enjoy this master lesson.Use an FPGA
Via littlescale comes a basic but handy C64 sample pack. The pack contains samples of every C and G note from C-2 to G 6 for the main basic waveforms of a Commodore 64 (8580 SID chip). The waveforms are triangle, sawtooth, pulse and noise. The duty cycle for the pulse wave was set to approximately 50%. The samples were recorded from C64 hardware directly using a custom designed interface.//
The Norwegian composer Geir Tjelta has introduced a new trick for the SID-chip: realtime delay. The output of the third channel of the SID can be recorded, and by delaying the playback of the sample on the “virtual” fourth channel, you get a subtle echo. This routine doesn’t use much CPU-time either. A nice and elegant trick. Get the exe and mp3 here. It needs to run on the old 6581 chip, since
A team of supertalented coders have managed to break the limits of C64 sound once again.The Human Coding Machine from Germany and SounDemoN from Finland, have managed to create a music routine that allows you to have:- 4 channels of 8-bit samplerate, digi playback- 2 channels of SID synth sound- You can filter both SID channels AND SAMPLES!- And you have enough rastertime to not being forced to
I'm stuck in a state of sever confusion. I don’t know what it is about this track, but I absolutely adore it. I’ve played it three times in a row so far. Normally, at this point, I would be twitching from intense boredom. But, for some reason, I can’t get over the urge to hit the play button again.
Technically is a good music, but... there's more beyond the muiscal theory. This music is good for starting a really good sleep. No more. Always the same background, always the same melody, no variations, no virtuosisms, it seems made with the copy & paste.
Artistically, maybe can be valid, but my stomach says No, no, no! so I must say (burp) no.
Nostalgia... oh yes, I had great nostalgy of the STOP button, but I have listened the music until the end.
Reyn Ouwehand once again sets new standards in C64 live performance. This CD concentrates on those small or overlooked tunes that once filled our hearts with joy, and produces the definitive versions of them. Once you've heard his rendition: your brain will always think of the tunes that way.
Performed live by Reyn and previewed extensively on Boz's Bit o' Bollocks Slay Radio show, this CD is further enhanced by Gilliam-esque artwork from the multi-talented Reyn and that Wizball and Sanxion-meister himself, Mark Hennessy-Barrett.
This CD will leave you with a big soppy grin on your face. Guaranteed!*
* Not a guarantee, but it's very likely.
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While I have managed to create the bulk of the show on my own in the past, I believe that Makke’s contribution has become an integral part of the podcast format since he joined up back in early 2009. Which makes it harder to go back to the old single-host formula. Sure, I might be able to get another co-host (although right now I have no idea who that would be) and set up a double ended recording to compensate for us being in different locations. But there’s something about being in the same room as your co-host that comes across in the final product.
Long story short, this leaves the podcast in the state that the old K Foundation poster referred to as a “
