Back In Time Live & Remix64 25th Anniversary Compo
BIT Live 2026 Schedule
The schedule for the Commodore remix event of the year better known as BIT Live 2026 has been posted, and it's quite a doozy! There will be performances by Double Score Dungeon, NecroPolo, Jeroen Tel, Linus Åkesson (lft), and, of course, by FastLoaders! Ziona will also play a DJ set, there will be a C64 Café with SID music, and in-between SLAY Radio will be playing remixes on-site (they also plan to stream the entire event online). If you are still on the fence about attending, this lineup should convince you to buy your tickets now!
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BIT Live & Remix64 Remix Compo - 3 Weeks Left!
This is a friendly reminder that the deadline to submit entries to the BIT Live & Remix64 25th Anniversary Remix Compo is only 3 weeks away: it's July 21! For detailed rules of the compo and to submit your entries, head over the to the compo's webpage. Have fun creating, everyone!
Matt Gray: Quedex Title Theme (R5 Version)
The next single from Matt Gray's upcoming Reformation 5 project is here, it's a remix of Matt's own Quedex Title Theme, available now on Bandcamp.
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.
"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
Back In Time 4 - Sidventure
by Chris Abbott
Welcome to Back in Time 4: Sidventure, part of the 8-Bit Symphony series of projects. It’s a series of symphonic tales, told with passion.
I planned Back in Time 4, 5 and 6 two decades ago to take over from where Back in Time 3 left off. It was always planned that they’d be largely symphonic, but it took a while (and many twists and turns) for reality to catch up.
This series of CDs contains computer-based performances of arrangements from the 8-Bit Symphony project. I used mostly VSTs from Orchestral Tools with additional libraries from Spitfire Audio, 8Dio, Impact Soundworks and Embertone. These were all integrated into Sibelius, and the scores were then marked up for realism (this is where the art comes in!). After that, they were output into Cubase where they were timing-corrected, enhanced with light reverb, mixed, and then rendered. The CD was co-produced by Kenneth Slaygon
Mutka who worked closely on this project since its inception, and without whom it wouldn’t exist. Many of the production ideas are his.
Arrangements were created by myself, Rob Hubbard, Gari Biasillo, Alisdair J. Pickering, Ben Daglish, Paul Norman, Peter Connelly, Julian Breeze, Alistair Boz
Bowness, Marcel Donné. They were orchestrated by Rob, Alisdair and 8-Bit Symphony conductor Robin Tate.
Big thanks to Back in Time Symphonic Collection
Kickstarter backers for their patience!
This project is of course dedicated to the memories of Ben Daglish and Richard Joseph. They would have got a kick out of all this.
Silent Service II Title RemixArranged by CZ Tunes
Review by neglesaks
Last Ninja Remix (Armakuni in New York)
Arranged by Yoshi
There is not much to write… it's a bit boring, like the original, it's a 1:1 cover that lacks of own inspiration. While the drums are set on the left and right edge of the stereo-panorama, the lead is set just beside the middle… very strange. The end of the song is a bit abrupt. Maybe a different choice of instruments would have helped the song to overcome the average rating.
Review by eliot
Arranged by Johan Andersson
Review by Yahtzee
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