It's hard to believe but it is already 10 years since PRESS PLAY ON TAPE was formed. In order to celebrate this PPOT will be playing a concert on September 11th at their regular stage, namely The Rock in central Copenhagen. More info soon on their webpage.

Concert page

Demo, GFX and music competitions traditionally belong to 8-bit parties, and AROK party #12 is no exception. Usually, remixes are out of the game but for a while there is a C64  based (!) MP3 player, so the competition is extended for SID remixes, too!

If you wish to participate, spin up your music engines and send your remix to:

balazs.oszvald@gmail.com

Valid entry audio format: MP3 128KBPs, non-VBR

Deadline: 15th of July, 12:00 AM

Demos, C64 GFX and SID music files are also welcome. The party will be held on 16th, 17th and 18th of July at Ajkarendek, near from lake Balaton. For further info, please check the AROK #12 Party homapage.

If you have any questions, check the Remix64 forum thread.

Last but not least, there also will be a SIDremix scene related event on the second day: a live gig by SID tribute band SIDrip Alliance.

Submitted by NecroPolo

AROK party #12, 2010

LaLa has reviewed Necropolo's "RaKBIT" album, mind.in.a.box's "R.E.T.R.O" album, and "RUN 10" by the C64 Orchestra.

Many thanks for those, LaLa!

Check them out!

Review of "R.E.T.R.O"

Review of "RaKBIT"

Review of "RUN 10"

We're back! The Remix64 backend has been revamped to allow for multiple connections between your member account and your various remix projects. That means: you can manage the information for all your projects from your "My Remix64" section, it also means that all members of a group can manage their song and band infos from their individual member accounts.

To establish connections to your remix projects, log in to "My Remix64" and follow the instructions at the "My Connections" page.

The new structure is represented by new URLs. Here are a few examples:

The "Act" URL

It represents the name under which a person or a band has released remixes. It lists all the releases, and the members involved.

http://www.remix64.com/act/press_play_on_tape/

The "Member" URL
Here you'll find your new Remix64 member profile page. It now shows a list of all remix projects you have worked on, and a list of all your project's releases.
http://www.remix64.com/member/c64audio/

The "Track" URL
This is the good old remix info page.
http://www.remix64.com/track/ziphoid/comic_bakery/

The old URLs will still work and forward to the proper new location, so there's no immediate need to update your links.

We also have a revamped member directory.

Enjoy!

- LMan

Last saturday was the big night of the Remixer Of The Year 2009 award show. Presented by the SceneSat Radio staff, it was being broadcast by SceneSat Radio, SLAY Radio, Radio6581, BitJam and Nectarine Demoscene Radio simultaneously. The hosts were joined by a live crowd consisting of many surprise guests, among them former years ROTY winners and other scene VIPs, pushing Ziphoid's apartment space to its limits! The most entertaining 4 hour show did not only trace the musical highlights of 2009 and present the winners: with the joint broadcast it also opened up perspectives between the remixing community and the demo scene, both which are cloesly related, but have often been ignorant of the other in the past.

The Results

Mordi won 2009's big price, being the new Remixer Of The Year. Firestorm massively scored #1 in the categories "Most Innovative Mix" and "Best c64 Mix" with his version of "Commando", which was a surprise release in december. XxDUSTYxX won "Best Amiga Mix", while daXX managed to place a whopping 9 of his remixes in that category. Reyn Ouwehand managed to win "Best Veteran" for the third time in a row, followed up by Hazel. The award for "Best Newcomer" went to Heartek. In a surprise coup, the Lifetime Achievement Award 2009 was awarded to yours truly, LMan.

Congratulations to all winners and follow-ups, everyone, you've deserved it. As always: the ROTY lists contain only winners.

Full result lists

Missed the show? ReLive!

SceneSat Radio

SLAY Radio

Radio 6581

BitJam

Nectarine Demoscene Radio

Yet another year of amazing c64 and Amiga remixes is drawing to a close, which means we'll soon be announcing the Remixer Of The Year 2009 Awards!

So ladies and gents, please begin voting! You don't have that much time to go to help decide the results, so get going now!

The fourth album of electronic music duo mind.in.a.box will be an homage to the golden era of Commodore 64 music called "R.E.T.R.O". The album will be released in Europe on dependent records on February 26, 2010, and contains covers of famous C64 tunes as well as new mind.in.a.box songs. A release date for North America will be announced shortly. We hope you will enjoy this journey into the past as much as we did working on it!

The tracklist of mind.in.a.box / R.E.T.R.O is:

01 - Last Ninja 3
02 - Lightforce
03 - The Last V8
04 - Supremacy
05 - Shades
06 - 8 Bits
07 - Mindkiller
08 - The Last Ninja
09 - I Love 64
10 - We Cannot Go Back To The Past
11 - Whatever Mattered

You can get a glimpse of the album by listening to the first two tracks on remix.kwed.org.

Submitted by Stev

Official mind.in.a.box homepage

Dependent records

mind.in.a.box on last.fm