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The Fastloaders are back with their 5th studio album!

A review of the brand new Encore64 album. Spoiler alert: it's really good!

The good news: the C64 Rocks album by the FastLoaders has reached its funding goal on Kickstarter days before the end. The even better news: we can already enjoy Jarle's phenomenal rendition of Monty on the Run at the YouTube link below (of course, the tune will be featured on the album, too). Watch him rip through those impossible licks!

HVSC's Top 100 SIDs in the year 2000

For so many Commodore 64 owners, Zzap! 64 was the magazine of choice. It had a review system where multiple reviewers would play the game and agree a suitable set of scores, even if their opinions would differ depending on the game being played, a comprehensive tips section which was always a positive help for games proving challenging, and it was the first magazine to really touch upon to the way that the SID sound chip was being used to bring some quality game soundtracks to the masses, especially with the likes of their Musicians’ Ball interviews. In this Article Warren Pilikington revisits those charts and presents them in a statistical format.

In this look back at the history of the Commodore 64 remix and the origins of how far the scene has developed, Warren Pilkington (Waz) looks back at the 1980s, and how the synthesizer brought along the first commercially available remixes, along with the fact that Commodore 64 musicians themselves would often do a cover or a remix of a game theme or demo theme too, adding to the origins. Take it away Waz!

Warren Pilkington (Waz) has been involved with the c64 scene for decades in various ways. He's provided content for several magazines. He's a former member of HVSC and has ripped many c64 SID's for the cause. He's also an accomplished sid musician. Yet, he often goes under the radar due to his humbleness. In this Interview I've enlisted the help from well known contacts. LaLa, Dan Gilgrass, Barry Thompsn (Tomsk), Peter Clarke and myself fire away the questions in extraordinary in depth interview.

Key points of discussion are:

• Music on the Amiga
• Red Sector/TRSI
• Remixing c64 classics
• The use of real Instuments when remixing

Key points of discussion are:

• c64 composing

• Vibrants and his music editor

• DeepSid

• GameDeed

Key points of Discussion are:

• His composing days on the c64

• His time at Ocean Software

• His working relationship with Martin Galway

• His current work within the remix64 scene

• His own musicial works