Well, what a fascinating month we've had. Well it was for me anyway, many up's and ofcourse a few downs to go with that.

We finally released the basic version of The Review Database, which at wrting currently holds over 400 reviews, with 350 of them coming directly from Chris Abbott, A great way to get the ball rolling. Ofcourse i'd like as many people as possible to get involved with the new review system. It's a great way to give feedback, which should hopefully calm down the "Voting System is wrong" paranoia that seems to have been an issue over the last few months.

As announced on the news page at remix64, Bitlive germany will make a debut playing of many of the tracks from the CD, "Remix64 Emotions", this is three months before the official release, which is scheduled for a September 2003 release at Bitlive 4. I'm particularly pleased about that, as it would be great if Bitlive Germany would be as succesful as the british event, and i'm pleased to have been able to help raise the profile of it. There will be much more news on this event over the coming months with an article/interview on the event.

There's been a rethink over the forums at remix64 and at c64audio.com. I've always thought that two forums regarding the scene is not for the scenes best interest, i was not alone in thinking this. Chris Abbott at c64audio.com also was on a similar wavelength. Have a telephone conversation and a few exchanges of e-mails through our staffing list we have come to the conclusion that the most feasable conclusion is to host just one forum. At the moment we are just deciding on how this should be best approached with what topics should be used. We want to keep the forum as interesting as possible, so we are looking into ways of narrowing down the topics. One thing seems certain at this point is that a joint forum between r64 and c64audio.com is in the offing, with maybe something else there too. Keep an eye on the news pages at remix64 for further information.

At this point may i personally extend my best wishes to Jan at RKO, whose work at RKO has been fantastic since it's opening some 2 years ago. Jan has been intricate part of the scene for many years and a person who i admire for his honesty and great wisdom. So it's deeply upsetting when he announced that his relationship with his girlfriend had come to an end, and that rko has been put on halt indefinately. Best wishes, jan.

For those of you who're not on the Yahoo Amiga-remix mailinglist, there's been a discussion about forming a new site for remixes of good old Amiga tunes. A community site like remix64 and an RKO, remix.overclocked.org like archive for Amiga remixes only. A good idea since the Amiga holds a music treasure just as great as the C64.