Oh yes, once again PRESS PLAY ON TAPE is playing at The Rock in Copenhagen, March 21st 2009. This time together with Reyn Ouwehand who will be the supporting act. Usually the place is filled with C64 music enthusiasts so if you really want to go, get your tickets now.

Also, PRESS PLAY ON TAPE have released one of their intro videos, namely Retro Action. This one is with Claudia Romani in a video tribute to Benni Benassi's Satisfaction. Take a C64, a C2N, a 1541, tapes and disks, and a girl in a bikini and *tadaaa*

PRESS PLAY ON TAPE's website

PRESS PLAY ON TAPE's Retro Action

Reyn Ouwehand playing Green Beret

You may have heard of SceneSat Radio, the scene radio project started by Hazel, Ziphoid and a number of other scene folks last year. Our goal is to spread scene music to a wider audience and promote all the good music out there. After a long beta period (hey, if Google can do it, why can't we?) it is finally ready for takeoff.

So, nerds and nerdettes, mark February 7th, 20:00 CET in your calendar and get ready for a massive launch, including:

• Brand spanking new web page, with member area, forums, lots of scene info - oodles of stuff!
• Several scene personalities with us live at the launch show
• Scene-related contests with music- and scene-related schwag to win!
• And last but not least..

Today we announce the forthcoming scene compilation The Sound of SceneSat volume 1, consisting of new and exclusive works from some of the scene's finest musicians!

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After years of absence from the remixing scene, Instant Remedy is finally ready to give the fans a second injection of his all-healing dance beats, this time in the shape of a remix album concentrating on the Commodore Amiga: many of the popular and big titles from the 16-bit era will be included and of course rendered into booty-shaking, dance-friendly versions with that instantly recognizable IR trademark sound. The tracklisting of the CD is still a secret, but tunes like Project X or Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 are destined to be included - and what kind of Amiga album would possibly be complete without music by Hülsbeck and Hippel?

Instant Remedy began his remixing career a decade ago and quickly became known as a dance remix whiz when his takes on Commando, Last Ninja, or Comic Bakery were released. The enthusiastic feedback he received from listeners soon led to the production of a proper SID remix album published by C64Audio.com in 2002 (now sold out, but available as a digital download from www.c64audio.com).

Says Martin (aka Instant Remedy): I have thought about making Amiga remixes for quite a while, but was never able to get myself to begin. They are quite different from SID remixes since you have a second dimension to cover: the samples technology available on the 16-bit computer. Amiga tunes get their special sound and atmosphere by using samples on top of the melody to describe the music. My vision is to stay true to the original compositions but within the boundaries of a dance style remix. And it really feels good to be back…


It has also been revealed that a fourth (and possibly final) album in the acclaimed Immortal series is currently being worked on. Created by Portuguese Ruben Monteiro back in 1997, the idea behind the Immortal project is to have popular tunes from Commodore Amiga games arranged for CD by the original composers whenever possible. Artists like Allister Brimble, Chris Hülsbeck, Andrew Barnabas, Tim Wright, Jason Page or the late Richard Joseph have contributed exclusive studio versions of their game soundtracks in the past. The most recent volume was released in 2006 and featured over 150 minutes of music from 35 Amiga titles.

Says executive producer Jan Zottmann: I think I have been talking about the fourth album on a number of occasions already, but it was never announced properly. So here you finally have it… we’re working on it, and it is going to be a massive double CD set once again! The list of contributors includes a number of familiar faces, but also some composers who are new to the series, for instance Jean Baudlot, Mark Knight or Raymond Usher.

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The WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne and the WDR Radio Choir Cologne will present the Symphonic Fantasies concert on Saturday, September 12, 2009 at 8 PM. This highly anticipated concert will feature music from the video game soundtracks of Square Enix. The Japanese company Square Enix is rated as one of the world's best known producers of digital entertainment software.

Jonne Valtonen, the award-winning Finnish composer and arranger, has been hired to arrange the music for the Symphonic Fantasies concert in Cologne exclusively, using classics such as Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Kingdom Hearts and Secret of Mana. Though Valtonen has amazed fans and critics alike with his scores for video game concerts all over the world, Symphonic Fantasies just may be his biggest challenge to date. Grammy-winning artist Arnold Roth will conduct the 70 minutes long concert. Roth is a classical trained violinist, conductor and composer.

Tickets for Symphonic Fantasies are available now, ranging from EUR 6 to EUR 30. Pupils, students up to 35 years, trainees, severely handicapped persons, people who do military service or alternative service and holders of the Cologne Pass get a 50% discount on the regular ticket price by presenting a certificate.

The tickets are on sale at Kölnticket and Ticketonline.

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Coming Spring 2009 Sony Creative Software will be releasing a loop and sample library called, 8 Bit Weapon: A Chiptune Odyssey. The library covers Apple II, Commodore 64 (6581r4 & 8580), NES, Gameboy, and the Atari 2600. Each system library has everything from drums, bass and synth to special effects!Both ComputeHer and I have demos built into the collection too. The sound library works with ACID, Ableton Live, Cubase, Garage Band, Logic, Soundtrack, and more!

Thank you again for all your support!

 

PS-I didnt have any say on the cover artwork    

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Sunday, January 18th at 20:00 CET

Remixer Of The Year 2008 Awards Show

This year's show will be hosted by Boz and probably some surprise guests.
Don't miss this event, and vote for your favourite artists and songs if you haven't done so yet!

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Welcome to the New Year!

First off all the best wishes, joy and happiness to you and your beloved ones.

Another quarter has passed and so did the year 2008! Time to bring you the Q4-2008 and Complete 2008 RKO Torrent's then.
As usual get your latest remixes on RKO and go get the Q-4 2008 or the Complete 2008 torrent here and remember to keep seeding for a while after download.
Hope this nice new additions will smoothen the hangover / tiredness recovery from the festivities. Enjoy

Don't forget to vote for remixer of the year at Remix64

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From maz-sound.com:

Now on CD: On August 23rd, at the WDR-Funkhaus in Cologne, legendary video game music by Chris Huelsbeck was performed in an all-new shape, including classics of the C64- and Amiga-homecomputer era such as The Great Giana Sisters, R-Type and Turrican. The minimalist computer sounds of the original songs were rearranged for orchestra and choir by demoscene legend Jonne Valtonen (aka Purple Motion / Future Crew).

Tiny 8-bit samples or pulse width modulated square waves became violins, contrabasses, flutes, clarinettes, horns, trumpets and grand piano. Envelope controlled noise became drums, timpani, cymbals, triangles ... even pottery mugs. And the handful of simultaneously playable voices of the C64 and Amiga computers turned into arrangements for 120 musicians of orchestra and choir. The songs were performed by the musicians of the WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne and the FILMharmonic Choir Prague, conducted by Grammy-winning artist Arnold Roth.

In the first month after the release, the CD will be available in the shop of www.maz-sound.com exclusively. It can be ordered as of now at the price of 22,00 Euro, expected release date is December 17th.

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From C64Music! Blog:
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 turn off the screen, and can actually do something with it

Check out the demo track Fanta in Space. So far it seems that emulators are not able to handle the sound routine.

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