BIT Live 2025 Artist Lineup
BIT Live is confirmed to have the following artists perform in November 2025:
- FastLoaders (duh!)
- Jeroen Tel
- Tony
Fluke73
Wirén - Karstein Djupdal
- Frida
- DJ jor-el from Syntax Error
- Glenn Rune Gallefoss (GRG)
- Ziona
And SLAY Radio will be the host throughout the weekend.
More info at backintime.no.
Platypus Reclayed
Platypus Reclayed is a follow-up to the original Platypus game published in 2002 and it is now available on several platforms. At this point you might ask, what does this have to do with Commodore remixes? Well, because the entire soundtrack of the game consists of nothing but C64 remixes, licensed mostly from the "Back In Time 2" (1999) album!
BIT Live 2025 Remix Compo
Together with the FastLoaders and SLAY Radio we're very happy announce the BIT Live 2025 Remix Compo! This year the theme of the compo celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Amiga, but C64 remixes are also very welcome as long as they conform to the compo rules. As usual, the compo will be anonymous. Deadline for the entries is November 16, 2025. For details, check out the compo's page. Can't wait to hear what you come up with!
C64Audio Re-releases on Bandcamp
Chris Abbott has started to upload the entire back catalog of C64Audio.com to Bandcamp. Fifteen albums are already available there, no doubt with more to come. Follow C64Audio on Bandcamp to be notified when more albums are made available there: c64audio.bandcamp.com/music
In addition, FastLoaders have made their albums available on their own Bandcamp page, too, check it out at fastloaders.bandcamp.com.
Additional FastLoaders concerts
If you can't wait until late November to see the FastLoaders in concert at BIT Live, you'll have two additional opportunities in the coming months to rock with them.
First, the FastLoaders will be on stage at Setpatch 2.0 - The Official Pre-Party for Amiga40 on Friday, October 17th, 2025 in Mönchengladbach. See the party's Facebook page for more details and for tickets.
Second, they will also be performing live at the 2Funky Complex in Leicester, UK on Saturday, November 8, 2025. For more info and for tickets to that concert, head over to the event's Facebook page.
Back in Time LIVE! 2025 Tickets Now Available
As announced late last year, the FastLoaders will yet again organize a BIT LIVE! party in 2025, this time as part of the Play! Festival
in Bergen, Norway. It will be hosted in the city's most prestigious venue, Grieghallen, in the heart of the city.
The full program is yet to be announced, but there will be live performances, remix competition, SID Dj's, and SLAY Radio will be there, too. The FastLoaders themselves will also perform on stage with a set of old and new renditions from their massive discography.
Tickets to the event are now available at Ticketmaster. For more updates and questions, follow the event at www.facebook.com/BackInTimeLive.
Jeroen Tel Interview by The Retro Hour
The Retro Hour just posted an interview with Jeroen Tel on their YouTube channel that was recorded in August, 2025 at the Retromessa in Norway. Click the link below to watch it.
Cinematic 64
by Slaygon
Slaygon: An attempt to create a cinematic soundscape that I would enjoy hearing on a somewhat dark type of movie. Perhaps that would tickle your ears too.
The title of the songs tells it, or rather wants you to imagine it, while the songs themselves explain the feeling in that part of the story I felt while imagining it. In short, this is the story I had in my head while making these:
ARRIVAL (Driller) - The arrival of them seemed grandiose and somewhat of a hopeful idea at first, but very soon there were doubts.
THE FIGHT (Rambo) - The obviously good things they claimed they came offering started cracking under any sort of scrutiny, but we are gullible people. The call for a fight against this tyranny begins here. Call to arms as it were. We have a few encounters with the Arrivals, most of which end badly. We are still united and will not stand for this.
AFTERMATH (Deliverance) - The first major attempts at rising up against the Arrivals has failed, and we have massive losses on a planetary scale. It all went so quick. No communication with other parts of the world. At most, your locals that have HAM radios. We thought they were here to save us, embraced them. How could we have let this happen? Our children are dead in the streets now. The pain screams through the night, while our haunted minds recall our loved ones.
THE DARK DAYS (Aztec Challenge) - We see how The Arrivals have devastated everything. We organize. We find pockets of resistance. We will fight with everything we have. We find our strength in the dark recesses of our minds. We organize and attack everything we can, as long as it makes them pay for our losses. Sometimes chaotic, every so often organized and devastating.
THE LOSS (Opus II) - We organized and attacked. We failed. We had everything going for us, yet were out manned, outgunned and then overrun. We lost so many. All now seems pointless and a lost cause. But because we are humans, we do not lose hope. We strive for hope. We fight. Forever. Even in the face of total devastation, our world falling apart, we go forward.
THE MANTRA (Mutants) - We have stopped imagining ourselves as anything other than entities taking revenge. We now live and breathe the mantra that is easily conveyed by simple ostinato's that translates to I will kill you
and I will take revenge
and variations thereof. There is a re-ignition of fighting spirit among the remaining populous after a horrendous act by the opposition.
THE CHASE (Knucklebusters) - The tables have now turned. WE FOUND YOU BASTARDS. We are coming for you with all we got. We throw everything in there, all be damned. We have had enough of all of this! We have now retaken control in most places! We are now at your tail, we will throw everything we have at you to make you go away!
Arranged by Tim Forsyth
Review by The_Blode
Cream of the Earth (Firefox Dirty Drummer Remake vs. Romeo Knight)
Arranged by Firefox
Review by lee.oades
The Great Giana Sisters Disco Party
Arranged by Steve Foster
Review by Divus
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