Back In Time Live & Remix64 25th Anniversary Compo
Matt Gray: The Final Battle Theme from LN2 (R5 Version)
Today Matt dropped another single from his upcoming Reformation 5
project, The Final Battle tune from Last Ninja 2. It's available on Bandcamp.
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"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.
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
Rob and the Bacon
by Uncle and the Bacon
SID big band style!
Rambo ReloadedArranged by Allister Brimble
Having said that, the devil is in the details. This orchestral remix is in dire need of more dynamics: the powerful sections are not powerful enough, the soft sections are not soft enough. I think it would help if the military march drums were silenced during the soft parts (e. g. 1:32-1:52). And they should be supported by big timpani or even by rock-band drums during the powerful parts. Those also need stronger brass and strings.
But I really like your arrangement variations on the original SID. What I do miss are those short little trills (e. g. at 1:09) that provide some nice ear-candy in the original.
Hair-splitting apart, it's definitely a keeper. I'm already looking forward to your next orchestral epic!
Review by LaLa
Arranged by Johan Andersson
Guitars are great.
The singed part is not my favourite part but it's ok.
Review by Touchfrench
Arranged by 7DD9
Review by Gurbz
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