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Goddess in my Hand
May be did you have ever heard about me, cyborgjeff, belgian musician I have made some remix of C64 and Amiga music some times ago. I've just finish a brand new album after 2 years of works ! And i invite you to freely download it, with happy euro-dance song mixed with kwel olschool sounds from your past micro-computers. This time no games remix, but if you like SID, you should find there sounds you like !
Submitted by cyborgjeff
AlbumTakenobu Mitsuyoshi to attend Symphonic Shades
On August 23, 2008, famous SEGA composer Takenobu Mitsuyoshi will attend both Symphonic Shadesconcerts in Germany.
It also has been announced that Takenobu Mitsuyoshi will arrange music from
Apidya IIfor the
Symphonic Shadesevents. Thanks to SEGA Germany and Merregnon Studios, the Japanese composer was invited to come to Cologne, Germany to join both concerts performed by the WDR Radio Orchestra at 8 PM and 11 PM.
More info can be found at the official website, SymphonicShades.com.
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Recommend8-Bits At The Movies!
The 10th One Man And His Mic retro music podcast is NOW ONLINE and is devoted to 8-Bit movie tie-in games! It features lots of great themes from classic 80s movies performed on the Commodore 64, Spectrum 128 and Amstrad CPC computers. The show includes tracks by Martin Galway, David Whittaker, Jonathan Dunn, Matthew Cannon, Charles Deenen + more heroes from the world of 8-bit music.This show also contains the first ever One Man & His Mic competition! All you have to do is listen to the montage of 40 C64 movie themes in the show and try to name as many of them as you can. The winner will receive a £40.00 gift voucher to spend in the Binary Zone Retro Store!
Submitted by kenz
Commodore bankrupcy rewound
From http://www.commodorecorp.com/:
April 29 2008, Baarn, Commodore International Corp.
(CIC) (OTC:CDRL) announced today that the court in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, has decided to rewind the bankruptcy of Commodore International BV, a subsidiary of Commodore International Corporation.
On April 15, 2008 the court declared bankruptcy of Commodore International BV based on procedural mistakes as earlier announced on April 21 2008. More details about this case were announced during the Special Shareholders Meeting held in Amsterdam on April 25, 2008.
As a result of today's court decision this case has been concluded successfully.
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C64 Podcasts first ever LIVE Broadcast!!!
Hey folks, tomorrow brings you the FIRST ever LIVE!! C64 Podcast show!! Airing on Wednesday 14th May at 11am - 1pm GMT. Tune in by typing in http://88.191.15.43:8064 into your browser then click on Listen, or copy the url into winamp OR visit the website and listen from there: http://www.dj.coatesy.co.uk/radio.htmlMany thanks to DJ Coatesy (also known as _Wizball_ in irc) for making this possible!
http://88.191.15.43:8064/listen.pls
Also, DJ Coatesy has made a rather snazzy toolbar for IE/Firefox with some brilliant C64 related features: it has RSS feeds for all the latest news from CSDb, Remix.Kwed.Org, SLAY Radio, Remix64 and Subzero's Podcasts, and a built in Radio Player for this station and SLAY Radio and you can added more stations if you need too. Theres more features, check it out at http://www.c64toolbar.ourtoolbar.com/
Submitted by Subzero
SceneSat Radio LIVE premiere, 2nd May 2008
SceneSat Radio is a new web radio station broadcasting live shows and a rotational playlist with a fine selection of music from the Commodore scene as well as from other scenes. It was founded by Hazel and Ziphoid.SceneSat Radio will be broadcasting a LIVE show from the Birdie LAN Party in Sweden on Friday, 2nd May at 20:00 CEST, so don't miss it!
Read more about it at the forum.
Submitted by LMan
Yuzo Koshiro to attend Symphonic Shades
Veteran video game music composer Yuzo Koshiro will attend both Symphonic Shades
concerts in Germany.
Recently it has been announced that Yuzo Koshiro will arrange music for Symphonic Shades
: the classic Jim Power in Mutant Planet
. Thanks to 4Players and Merregnon Studios, the Japanese composer was invited to come to Cologne. He will join both concerts, performed by the WDR Radio Orchestra on August 23, 2008.
THERMOSTATIC - New album 'Humanizer' out in May 2008!
Swedish Bit-Pop heroes THERMOSTATIC have announced their new album HUMANIZER has now been mastered and will be released in May 2008! The band has once again used the SID-Station to give each track that distinctive SID-chip sound! A video clip featuring a preview of the album can now be seen on the THERMOSTATIC website and you can also hear THREE complete tracks from the new album in the latest One Man & His Mic retro game music podcast from Kenz!
Submitted by kenz
Commodore once more close to bankrupcy
Apparently, several creditors have filed bankrupcy for the Dutch company that owns the brand.Read more at: Channel Register
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BITLive 2007 DVD: Rebuild is Complete
Finally, after weeks of PC crashing and data being lost, the DVD that Subzero originally wanted to make is complete. It has been completely revamped. New features are:- The footage quality is improved
- The sound quality is improved
- The menus have a more C64 feel to them
- There's MORE content than before!
- It all fits onto a single standard 4.7gb DVD-R (The original was a dual layer which not everyone can burn)
For more information on how to obtain the DVD please keep an eye on the topic in the message board (link below).
Contact: Subzero