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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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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…

Matt Gray has released a new single which is a remix of Hubbard's Sanxion Loader. Check it out at the link below!

Fusion Retro Books has just announced that ZZAP! Live 2026 will yet again be a two-day event on May 15 and 16, this time at a new venue at The Village Hotel in Coventry, UK. Of interest to C64 music fans is that Rob Hubbard and Matt Gray will be there in person. In addition, the CEO of Commodore International, Christian Simpson (aka. Perifractic) is also among the invited guests. For the full guest list, for tickets and for more details check out the link below.

The last Remix News of 2025 is now available for your viewing and listening pleasure, covering the month of December. It has been quite a year with over 220 releases on remix.kwed.org and on AmigaRemix.com, not counting the 3 new remix albums and 3 compilation albums that were also released in 2025.

And don't forget that the ROTY voting closes in just a few days! Watching the Remix News episodes of 2025 is a good way to remind you what remixes were released this year. You can find a link to a YouTube playlist containing all those episodes below. After watching those - vote!