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The PC ACTION magazine has issued a special edition titled Classic Gaming. You can't miss it in the magazine shelves because the front cover shows the original Giana Sisters artwork. It contains articles about retro games, consoles and home computers.

There's a huge article about Giana Sisters, looking in detail at the original and the official Giana Sisters 2 for Nintendo DS. There are various interviews, for example with Armin Gessert, The Bitmap Brothers, and Chris Hülsbeck.

For bonus, there's a DVD with 6 retro PC games and a c64 emulator with 99 games.

The editorial states that there will be follow-up magazines, if the sales justify it. So go grab your copy if you can. 

Classic Gaming

Discussion

Yet another year of fantastic c64 and Amiga remixes is drawing to a close. That means we'll soon be announcing the Remixer Of The Year 2008 awards!

So ladies and gents, please begin voting!

ROTY voting

Dejan Subotin aka Dafunk is now on Vinyl with an original and totally hot track! If you've got a needle, buy now!!!

Dafunk was voted Remixer of the Year 2007 at the annual Remix64 awards.

Dejan Subotin - Another Reason Vinyl

Hello,

Our documentation about C64 musicians and remixer is available for download:

HQ versions:
Long Cut (approx. 40 mins,PAL,MPEG2,1.7 GB)
Short Cut (approx. 20 mins,PAL,MPEG2,1.0 GB)

LQ versions:
Long Cut (approx. 40 mins,WMV9,150 MB)
Short Cut (approx. 20 mins,WMV9,84 MB)

Torrent File (Long Cut only):
Long Cut

Thanks to all of you and enjoy this file little release.

Submitted by Konstantin

Shining Movie Vision

From the website:

A full 9 years after the release of his debut CD, The Wanderer, comes the next highly awaited album from Jogeir Liljedahl.

Aptly titled Out of Silence, the album is a melodic/electronic music feast from beginning till end, with uplifting melodies, sparkling chords, typical Jogeir style wonderful bass lines, and with additional guitar appearances by Øyvind Vik.

This album also features a guest appearance by Chris Hülsbeck who co-wrote the track Graveness & Romantics with Jogeir, and by Fabian del Priore who also took part in co-composing and arranging some of the tracks.

This album is released as a download only album. You can buy the full album in 256-kbps MP3 files, or in Lossless FLAC audio format, in the LynneMusic Download Shop. The purchase also includes full cover artwork (4-page booklet and Inlay tray) complete with plenty of text from Jogeir. This comes as a high resolution printable PDF file, so you can print it on a color printer and make yourself a real cover, if you want to. In his album cover text, Jogeir discusses the story behind each and every track on the album, as well other general ramblings.

Submitted by Dr Future

About the album

Buy the album

8 bit Weapon and Information Society LIVE! The Viper Room
8852 Sunset Blvd,
West Hollywood, CA 90069
09/27/08 @ 8pm Tickets $20 21+ 
8 Bit Weapon teams up with one of the greatest Elektro/Techo/Pop bands ever to grace the digital age, Information Society! Information society are uber nerd pop pioneers, known for their techo pop hits like What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy), Walking Away, Think, and my favorite Peace and Love Inc. They have come to melt your pocket protector(s) for one night only on September 27th!

Be there and be SQUARE!

-- Seth

Submitted by naughtyboy

Get tickets here

Information Society History

Venue Site

Venue History

Its been over two months since my last podcast but im back with another SID to Remix Special. And again all the remixes are done by one artist - This time its DJ Skitz.

I hope you enjoy the podcast as Skitz has remixed some of the best tunes to date and the ones in this podcast are no exception.

You can view the playlist here: http://www.c64podcasts.co.uk/skitzcatlist.html

Direct link to mp3 HERE

Submitted by Subzero

C64 podcasts website

Winfried Fechner, manager of the WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne, recently announced plans for an event with video game music in 2009 in an interview: Next year during the gamescom trade fair we will present a great concert at the philharmonic hall in Cologne.

More information to be announced soon.

VGM-Concerts

Interview (german)

This version of Confidential has even more SID packed tracks than ever before! The album not only has the original 12 songs but now includes 6 additional remixes!

8-Bit Weapon's trademark SID 'n Drums is here, for those who wish remixes had more of that powerful SID sound, and less faffing about :)

Seth Sternberger is an experienced live performer who's done Las Vegas and London, and is currently being marketed by Nokia: normally his sound is more eclectically 8-bit, but here he's targeted his favourite SIDs and put his imprint on them, to great effect.

The album is available as a digital album in FLAC and MP3 (note the whole album download), but 64 limited edition signed and numbered copies in a 5.25 disk sleeve are available too.

Highlights of the album include the trippy Acidgroove, and the epic Times of Lore main theme which apparently took two weeks just mastering!"-Chris Abbott, C64audio.com

Track Listing:
1. Times of Lore Intro (Remix)
2. Neuromancer Ending (Warhol Edit)
3. M.U.L.E. (Bitblaster Mix)
4. Inspector Gadget (GOGO Mix) *
5. Crazy Comets (Orbital Decay Mix)
6. Chimera (Miles Mix)
7. Spy vs Spy II (Drunk n' Basement Mix)
8. Bards Tale II - Sanctuary Score (Ybarras Mystic Mix)
9. Defender of the Crown (Royalty Remix)
10. Movie Monsters Game (Disco Terror Mix)
11. I.G.U.S.T.R.A. *
12. Commodore C64 (Bit Blitz Mix)
13. Boulder Dash (Dubby Dirt Mix) *
14. Acidgroove (Orchestral Mix)
15. Arkanoid (Bonham Beat Mix) *
16. Mars Saga (MrJetlands Slow Jam Mix)
17. Defender of the Crown (On the Romance Tip) *
18. Times of Lore Title (Epic Hendrix Mix)

* Previously Unreleased

Get you copy here:
http://c64audio.com/productInfo.php?cat=8BW1

C64Audio.com

8 Bit Weapon homepage

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Hello remixers and listeners!

In Holland there was this guy in the '80's and '90's called Ben Liebrand, who mixed all the hit songs from that year into a one hour long track. I loved those remixes, and I thought it would be nice to take new tracks from RKO and put them in one big long remix.

I took tracks from the first 4 months of the year and there are now 32 different tracks pressed into this first GrandMix which is 40 minutes long. If I would do all three Grandmixes this year every 4 months (to make the full year) in the end combining them would mean a 2 hour GrandMix 2008! Could be a fun beginning of next year!

I'm gonna broadcast the first remix next Thursday 28th of August at 20:00! Be on time!

And keep on remixing! I need the material! Let's make this a great Remix64 year!!

Cheers,

Reyn.