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…
8BW Confidential 2.0 Limited Edition
by 8-Bit Weapon
8-Bit Weapon's trademark SID 'n Drums is here, for those who wish remixes had more of that powerful SID sound, and less faffing about 😊 Seth Sternberger is an experienced live performer who's done Las Vegas and London, and is currently being marketed by Nokia: normally his sound is more eclectically 8-bit, but here he's targeted his favourite SIDs and put his imprint on them, to great effect. The album is available as a digital album in FLAC and MP3 (note the whole album
download), but 64 limited edition signed and numbered copies in a 5.25 disk sleeve are available too. Highlights of the album include the trippy
Acidgroove", and the epic Times of Lore main theme which apparently took two weeks just mastering!
Parallax (Train to Parallax mix)
Arranged by Aki Kivela
This remix creates a very nice brooding atmosphere. I really like the arpeggios (or whatever that is called) in the 2nd and 3rd voice melody.
At 2:44 the main melody starts with a nice flute. The whole composition is so good it nearly brings tears to my eyes.
I especially like the way he uses the bassline and drums to make this song so powerful, when he weaves parts without bassline and drums and then at 4:39 the bass and drums kick in again. Very powerful and well done!
Review by guru512
Arranged by Kurrel the Raven
so does the instrumentals. a very organic and emotional remix at a very charming factor is this fine piece. the style suits very good to the melody part of parallax. but in the end i miss something: the music is too short. i would like to hear this tune like a 5 minute score. very well done mr. raven. thank you for the music.
Review by OJ Oscillation
Enigma Gun (Extended Mix)Arranged by neriakX
Review by flaskhals
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