ROTY 2025 Winners
The Remixer of the Year (ROTY) 2025 Awards were were handed out earlier today during a live SLAY Radio show. The big prize was won yet again by Eivind Sommersten for the second year in a row! Congrats, Eivind! To find out the winners of all the other categories, head over to the ROTY 2025 page linked below where you can also watch the entire awards show as it was broadcast live.
Our heartfelt congratulations to all the winners, to all the nominees - and also to all the listeners who took the time to vote for their favorites! Last, but not least, also a huge thank you to Slaygon, Ziona, and Boz over at SLAY Radio for the fantastic awards show!
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BIT Live is Back in 2026 - With a Surprise Date!
The FastLoaders have announced that Back In Time Live will be held again in 2026 in Bergen, Norway, and this time with a - <checks his notes again> - summer date!?! Yes, that's right, folks, for the first time ever, BIT Live will be held as a two-day event smack in the middle of SUMMER on July 31- August 1! Rumors were abound last year that Norway does actually have a summer season, so this might be a good opportunity to fact-check that in person. The event will be at a new venue, too, at the Ole Bull Scene, still in Bergen's city centre, not far from where all the other Norwegian BIT Live events were held in recent years. Tickets are already available for the event at the link below.
Rambo Loader Tune by Matt Gray
Matt posted this tune with the following words on his Reformation 5 Kickstarter page:
I've just put up the new R5 version on Bandcamp of one of my all time favourite SID tunes, the Loading Theme from Rambo First Blood Part 2. Link Below.
Mr Galway excelled himself with the music on that game, and for me the loading track is possibly the greatest C64 game track ever. So I've taken my time in doing my 2nd version of it (the first being on the original Reformation and made well over 10 years ago now) to try and do it justice. I'm very happy with the result and hopefully you will enjoy also.
Work on the LN1 album is progressing nicely and hopefully March will indeed finally see its digital release.
Thanks so much to everyone for all the great comments on the previous R5 track uploads. It's very reassuring to know so many of you are enjoying the new tracks as much as I have enjoyed making them.
Have a great rest of the week all.
Another Single from Reformation 5: The Palace Main Theme
Matt Gray has released another single from his upcoming Reformation 5
album: the main theme of The Palace
level from The Last Ninja. Although Matt has already tackled this tune on his Reformation 3
album, he has reworked it significantly. It's availabe now on Bandcamp.
Mastertronic C64 Remixes - Part 3
The third part in the series about remixes of C64 games released by Mastertronic has just been published. In this one Waz looks at remixes freely available on RKO, and these are all remixes of games that were re-released by Mastertronic, either via the Ricochet label, or later via MAD, Mastertronic Plus and so on. You can read it at the link below. And if you missed the first 2 parts in the series, there are links to those, too.
ROTY 2025 Awards Show on Feb 21!
We are happy to announce that the Remixer of the Year (ROTY) 2025 Awards show will be on Saturday, February 21 at 18:00 (CET, Europe)! The awards show will yet again be hosted by SLAY Radio. Join us to find out which remixes were voted the best of the best by you, the listeners, and who will win the coveted Remixer of the Year
award! Mark your calendars!
ROTY 2025 Awards Show
2026. February 21. Saturday
Hosted by SLAY Radio at:
- 18:00 (CET)
- 12:00 PM (US Eastern)
- 04:00 AM (Feb 22, Sun) (AEDT, Sydney, Australia)
Remix News 2025 Bloopers
You've seen the videos, you've heard our guest announcers - now peek behind the curtains and laugh with us as we show you that reading a script is not as easy as they made it look in 2025…
Last Ninja Musicology
by FastLoaders
Enjoy amazing Rock versions of the complete soundtracks for Last Ninja®, Last Ninja 2™ and Last Ninja 3™.
The release of System 3's The Last Ninja®
was a seminal moment in the lives of many game players in 1987, as were the releases of it's even-more-successful sequel Last Ninja 2™
and later Last Ninja 3™
.
All the tunes from the C64 trilogy are here, given their own disk, and done in an entirely consistent style.
If you're even a fan of just one of the games, you deserve this in your collection while it exists.
About this product: many players totally fell in love with the music for all of the games composed by Ben Daglish, Anthony Lees, Matt Gray and Reyn Ouwehand. One of these was Norwegian fan Jarle H. Olsen. Through his life, his love for these games carried. He carried the love through his life until he could finally grab some friends and record the whole amazing C64 trilogy in one amazing metal/rock tribute.
Space HarrierArranged by Peter Clarke
Review by LaLa
Judgment Day (2005)Arranged by XxDUSTYxX
I can understand why one might think the song lacks variation but quite possibly the original didn't have any more variation either, in which case I can't blame Dusty at all.
To sum it up a little I can't really seem to find anything wrong with this, I simply really like it a lot. 😊
Review by cyphax
Arranged by neriakX
Review by flaskhals
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