Back In Time Live & Remix64 25th Anniversary Compo
"Wings of Death" Kickstarter Fully Funded!
The crowdfunding campaign of Wings of Death - Reworked Anthology
, a project by the German Remix Group (GRG) has just ended - and we're glad to report it got fully funded! In fact, it far surpassed its original goal of €6,500, which means that there will be bonus remixes on the album by Tronimal, Nordischsound, Fabian Del Priore, Chris Hülsbeck, Barry Leitch, and Matt Gray, too! The support from the retro community has been fantastic, and the GRG is really grateful for it. Well done, fans, and congrats to the German Remix Group for the highly successful campaign!
Note: if for some reason you missed this campaign, you can still order digital downloads from the project.
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25 Years Ago: The First "Back In Time Live!"
It was exactly 25 years ago on May 16, 2001 when the first Back In Time Live! event was held in a club in Birmingham. Back then many of us thought this might be our only chance to meet our heroes, the C64 musicians who enriched our lives in the 1980s, so we flocked to the place from all around the world. It was a euphoric event whose success luckily spawned many more meet-ups. So, let's get a bit teary eyed as we remember that milestone event…
Jeroen Tel Bithday Show
On Tuesday, May 19 RetroGamingMusic will have a special birthday show for Jeroen Tel who is responsible for many great compositions on the Commodore 64 like Cybernoid 1 & 2, Supremacy, Hawkeye, Turbo OutRun, Robocop 3, Golden Axe, and many-many more. Don't miss out on this special show, you will hear live performances and remixes of Jeroen Tel's work
Remix Compo!
Back In Time 2026 and Remix64.com are proud to join forces and together present the Remix64 25th Anniversary Remix Compo! Remix64.com turned 25 years old in April of this year, so what better way to celebrate that milestone than with a remix compo! This will be a live compo that will take place during BIT Live 2026 on July 31 - Aug 1, but entries can be submitted to the compo as of today. The theme of the compo is Make the Classic Your Own
. Deadline for the entries is July 21, 2026 (updated). For more details, head over the compo's webpage. This being an anniversary compo, there will be special prizes and a compo for the listeners, too. But for now, let the remixing begin (or continue, as it were)!
Happy Birthday Barry Leitch!!
On Monday, April 27 RetroGamingMusic will have a special birthday show for Barry Leitch who is responsible for many great compositions for video games like: Top Gear, Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, Hero Quest, Silkworm, Super Cars, Horizon Chase Turbo, and many-many more. Don't miss out on this special show, you will hear live performances and remixes of Barry Leitch's work!
Happy Birthday David Whittaker!
On Friday April 24 RetroGamingMusic will have a special birthday show for David Whittaker who is responsible for many great compositions on the Commodore 64 and the Amiga like: Shadow of the Beast, Lazy Jones, SpeedBall, Glider Rider, Armageddon Man and many many more. Don't miss out on this special show, you will hear live performances and remixes of David Whittakers work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xJqrmHtLaU
"Wings of Death - Reworked Anthology" Kickstarter Now Live
The Kickstarter campaign of Wings of Death - Reworked Anthology
by the German Remix Group is live as of today and is accepting pledges, with €1287 of the original €6500 goal already pledged with 29 days still to go. As a reminder, the finished product will be available not only as a digital download, but also on physical media: as a double CD, and as a limited-edition Best of
vinyl record, with additional stretch goals also available. The project is also approved and supported by the original author himself, Jochen Hippel. Check out the campaign's page below for more details!
Back In Time 6 - Throne of SIDs
by Various Artists
Performed and programmed by: Chris Abbott
Producers: Chris Abbott and Kenneth Slaygon
Mutka
Assistant Producers: Damian Manning, Russell F. Howard and Anna Black
Executive Producers: Steven Innell, Tero Kilkanen, Roland Fejes
Front cover by Ancellom, back cover by Trevor Storey
Track credits:
01. Defender of the Crown (Cuomo) arr. Abbott, orch. Pickering
02. Grouting (Marsh) arr. Abbott, orch. Pickering
03. Ghouls ‘n’ Ghosts (Follin/) arr. Pickering/Abbott, orch. Pickering
04. Forbidden Forest (Norman) arr. Abbott/Connelly, orch. Pickering/Tait
05. Kentilla (Hubbard) arr. Hubbard, orch. Hubbard/Pickering/Tait
06. Black Lamp (Follin) arr. Abbott/Pickering, orch. Pickering
07. Sidherazade (Hubbard) arr. Abbott, orch. Abbott
08. Knight Tyme (Hubbard) arr. Hubbard, orch. Hubbard
09. Master of Magic (Hubbard/Fast) arr. Hubbard, orch. Hubbard
10. Wizardry (Jarvis) arr. Abbott/Pickering, orch. Pickering
11. Spellbound (Hubbard) arr. Hubbard, orch. Hubbard
12. Nemesis the Warlock (Hubbard) arr. Hubbard, orch. Hubbard
13. Zoids (Hubbard/Fast) arr. Hubbard, orch. Hubbard
All tracks copyright High Technology Publishing Ltd. except Defender of the Crown (Cinemaware), Ghouls ‘n’ Ghosts (Capcom) and Wizardry (Graham Jarvis).
Kentilla is dedicated to Paul Cook
Thanks to all Kickstarter backers for their patience, and Rob Hubbard, Robin Tait, Alisdair J. Pickering and the Hull Philharmonic - vital, all!
Shadowfire (Encore64)Arranged by Romeo Knight
Review by LaLa
Arranged by Eivind Sommersten
Having taken a stab at the same beautiful tune before myself (not very successfully, I may add), I've listened to this with a more critical ear than probably most people.
- Wonderful piano intro! Love it.
- That warm bass (together with the subtle acoustic guitar) is just so comforting.
- Hmm, at 0:57 that chord cannot be right. It just doesn't sound right.
- Absolutely perfect choice of instrument for the lead - but I am missing the subtle portamentos and the trailing slides. I always thought those were what made this SID so touching.
- The short, stabby strings at 1:23 - again, a great choice.
- It seems to end a bit early. Sounds like you just wanted to finish it fast. I'm missing a crescendo and a climax from the arc of this tune.
All in all, great choices in instrumentation marred by a few questionable choices in arrangement.
Review by LaLa
Arranged by 7DD9
Review by Gurbz
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