From PLAY! A Video Game Symphony:

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., November 21, 2006 - Jason Michael Paul Productions, Inc. announced today that PLAY!, a symphony concert world tour with music from a catalogue of blockbuster video game titles will come back to the city of Stockholm, Sweden with two concerts on Saturday, June 2, 2007. After the great success this year, PLAY! will return to Scandinavia with an all new show.

Highlights of the concerts include the world-premiere performance of the monumental FINAL FANTASY VI - DANCING MAD presented by full orchestra, choir, pipe organ and rock band. Video game titles CASTLEVANIA, THE ELDER SCROLLS IV: OBLIVION, SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS, THE REVENGE OF SHINOBI and THE DARKNESS by Swedish game developer Starbreeze will be a part of the shows as well.

As a special surprise for European fans PLAY! will feature two brand-new medleys of music from Commodore 64 and Commodore Amiga classics, supervised by game music experts Chris Abbott (BACK IN TIME album series) and Jan Zottmann (IMMORTAL album series). Details to be announced shortly.

The concerts in Stockholm, Sweden are taking place on Saturday, June 2, 2007 at 3 PM and 7:30 PM at the prestigious Stockholm Concert Hall and will be accompanied by the attendance of video games composers from all over the world. The music will be performed by the famous Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and a chorus conducted by Grammy Award-winning artist Arnie Roth. The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra will also treat the audience with some specially selected highlights from their traditional repertoire.

Says Jason Michael Paul, producer of PLAY!, "We are excited to return to Stockholm. We have added new visuals, and new orchestrations to be performed for the first time as part of PLAY!. A concert event and cultural phenomenon not to be missed!"

Says Stefan Forsberg, Executive and Artistic Director: "The PLAY!-show last June was a wonderful and unforgettable experience! The realization of PLAY! with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is an example showing that the Stockholm Concert Hall is working with new ideas, and steadily looking for new angels on the symphonic repertoire. The PLAY!-concert was a true success and it has affected the organization and the musicians in many ways. We are looking forward to a new adventure!"

Tickets will go on sale on Monday, November 27, 2006 at 11 AM and can be purchased through the Stockholm Concert Hall box office and online at Ticnet.se.

Additional PLAY! concert dates will be announced as they are confirmed. For more details, visit www.play-symphony.com.

Article URL is http://www.play-symphony.com/news.php?full=56.

Obviously making a name for himself by pooling enough money for 64 Bacardis on the Rocks at the recent SLAY Gathering in order to celebrate Romeo Knights most excellent Bionic Commandos remix isn't enough for all around nice guy and wacko extraordinarie, Mark "Misser" Visser. Now he's gone and set up an unofficial BitTorrent mirror for the entire set of files from RKO. The archive is current as of October 25th 2005, with updates 4 yearly updates being planned.

The brilliant thing about BitTorrent is that the more people that join in on a download, the better the network performs. So if you've got some spare upstream bandwidth and want to help spread the tunes, please seed the files for as long as you can.

Gentlemen, start your download-engines!

Yes, it's true: Finally we can announce a genuine upcoming public PRESS PLAY ON TAPE live performance in Denmark. On Saturday December 2nd (so that foreign people can attend too) we will headline a concert in Copenhagen's coolest rock venue The Rock located in central Copenhagen.



Support band is to be announced.

Spread the word, gather your friends, girlfriends, collegues, old demo group members, and come join us for a rocking trip down memory lane. We expect to see YOU there! After the concert the place will be turned into a night club so you can party through the night with us (oh yes, we'll be there!) ROC=K ON!

Important note: The few times we have played a public concert in Copenhagen either the tickets were sold out rapidly or doors closed because of too many people at the venue! So plan ahead, buy tickets sooner than later, and get your friends to do the same -- otherwise you might miss it Wink We do not make money on the amounts of tickets sold, we just want to have a fun night with as many people as possible.

Tickets will soon be, if not already, available at billetnet.dk and they sell internationally too. Price is 80 DKK + charges. See here:

http://www.billetnet.dk/

Visit our event page for details on tickets, supportbands, and more info.

Regards,

PRESS PLAY ON TAPE (looking forward to go crazy on stage!)

On SLAY Radio, Tuesday, October 17 at 20:00 CET, Andreas 'Morpheus' Wallström and his trusty sidekick John 'Ziphoid' Carehag will bring you a post-X2006 Fleming Show following the event in the Netherlands this last weekend.

The show will feature a party report and also lots of new SIDs from well-known composers such as Jeroen Tel, Drax, Hein and Chapelier and remixes of those SIDs by remixers such as Jeroen Breebaart, Makke, Hazel, Markus Schneider, Dafunk, Moog and Markus Holler.

The new SIDs have been especially made for the demo Let's Scroll it! released by C64.com, which also boasts with scrolltexts from over 70 people from the C64 world. Names such as Rob Hubbard, Ben Daglish, Jonathan Dunn, Richard Joseph and Markus Schneider appear amongst them, to name a few.

Renoise have just released a new Beta version, 1.8, for registered users! The top new features are:

• Mixer
• External Audio Recording
• Line-In Routing device
• Accurate BPM
• Full Undo/Redo support
• XRNS, a new and open file format based on XML
• Focusable GUI Components
• Enhanced VST support
• Quick-search functionality
• FLAC, OGG, MP3 and M4A (AAC) support
  

70 more "behind-the-scenes" updates have also been made.

Renoise is a "Tracker" style music composition application, Makke and Trace being just two of the glitterati that use it. A trial version is available to try it out - well worth it if you have an Amiga background and are used to the "tracker" way of composing music (where each column is a track and notes are entered "programmatically").

Finally, there's some action going on over at www.amigaremix.com and it shows by the release of a spanking new design.

Under the hood, some major reconstructions have been done as well, which will show a bit more in the near future.
The possibility to submit new remixes is still disabled but will be re-enabled within the upcoming week.

More info will follow shortly...

A small update to WinUAE (The Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator for Windows) has just been released. It fixes a couple of bugs and adds a few new features. More details:

• Debug window won't open automatically anymore
  
• HRTMon keyboard layout and WHDLoad commands fixed
  
  

New features:

• Mouse Up/Down and Left/Right input destinations supported simultaneously
  
• CD32 state save support (work in progress)
  
• A1000 Kickstart disk images can be used as a ROM image
  
  

WinUAE is the best all-round Amiga emulator out there (and the only one updated frequently). Great for people missing the old "Girlfriend"

The favoured open source c64 emulator VICE has been updated to version 1.2.

Changes in VICE 1.20

General

• New GP2X port.
• New AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, MorphOS and AROS (x86/ppc) ports.
• Mac OSX X11 port is included in the main distribution now.
• Fixed some unusual CPU opcodes.
  

C64 changes

• Fixed some longstanding RMW to IO area VIC-II DMA timing bug.
• Added Mikro Assembler, Dela EP7x8, Dela EP256 and Rex EP256 cart support.
• Fixed the KCS cart emulation.
• Added swiftlink and turbo232 support.
• Added +256k memory expansion support.
• Added I/O source read collision detection support, making simultanious use of multiple expansions possible, like on the real machine.
• Fixed the RR-net address decoding and REU compatibility.
• Fixed a problem with traps using the SX Kernal ROM.
• Some IDE64 ultimax bug has been fixed.
  

(click for full list...)

Today is a grand day for the c64 at the german version of Wikipedia: "Commodore 64" is "today's featured article". Click below...

AmigaRemix has risen from hibernation with a shocking release of over 20 new remixes. Asked about the final relaunch date and the revelation of his identy, the mystery guy simply stated: "Move along now. Nothing to see here. Yet."

The guy, who's identity is shrouded in legend and mystery, had taken over site management from Paul Vanukoff in early June.