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On sunday, 19th February 2017, the awards show started broadcasting at 20:00 CET from the SLAY Radio headquaters, hosted by Boz, Slaygon and Leonie. The show featured a run down of the last year's events and popular remixes of each months, with award announcements inbetween.

The Best Newcomer 2016 award was announced and went to Armandox.

The second award went to ROTY award regular daXX as Best Veteran 2016.

Best Amiga Remix 2016 was awarded to Rapture for his epic Pinball Prelude Medley.

Best c64 Remix 2016 went to Mordi for his updated version of Why Me.

The special honour of the Lifetime Achievement Award 2016 was given to Ziphoid for his myriad contributions to the scene, and also to Ben Daglish, who apart from being an original legendary composer of the 80s is still active and around in the scene.

Also SLAY Radio listener Maltus was awarded as Beer-deliverer of the Year as a personal award of the SLAY staff for his extraordinary support (like, you know, actually delivering beer from Germany to the SLAY hq). 😃

Finally, the big moment approached and it was time to award the main price, Remixer Of The Year 2016 and it went to MRT, second year in a row!

MASSIVE CONGRATS!

The time has come to celebrate and acknowledge the remixers' work in the C64 community by presenting the yearly ROTY Awards, as voted by the users at www.remix64.com. This year it's SLAY Radio's turn to give out the awards and give you a run-down of what happened in 2016.

As usual the show will be joint-broadcast on SLAY Radio and Scenesat Radio.

The show chat will be on EFNet #remix64

Don't miss it!!

As you might have noticed, Remix64 was down for a day due to a server switch. The deadline for last year's ROTY voting has been extended until sunday night, so cast your votes while there is time. 😊

Massive respects to the FastLoaders!

Remixing tunes from The Last Ninja is a tricky business - seemingly everybody remembers them differently. Remixing them in a hard rock style is even trickier - mostly because music from the Last Ninja series has been remixed over and over so many times on RKO already (well over 200 remixes and counting). Yet, the FastLoaders, a group of Last Ninja enthusiasts / rock-band from Norway have managed to do it better than most by treating the tunes with utmost care and respect, with faithful arrangements, and with impeccable mixing.

Finally, the Last Ninja Trilogy gets a full set of remixes!

The show kicked off on Satudary 6th February 2016 at 20:00CET, with a joint broadcast on scenesat.com and slayradio.org, for the first time hosted by Steph and Kevman from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As usual, the setting for the show was a rundown of the most successful remixes of each month, in the categories c64. Amiga and Scene Albums, spiced with Scene news of the year.

After 20 minutes, the first winners were announced for Best Newcomer 2015. The #1 price in that category went to Tim Wright aka CoLD SToRAGE, who had released 6 remixes in 2015.

During the show there was a surprise preview for Project: Sidologie with an awesome remix of Trap by Marcel Donné.

The next awards category was Best Amiga Remix, where daxx was once again able to score a top position, this time with two tracks at once: Stardust Memories and Mega-Lo-Mania Orchestra Medley.

Erwin "Tron" Beekveld was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award 2015 for his long time continuing support, contribution and friendship to the scene.

Up next, Best c64 remix went to Slaygon with his tribute to DJ Skitz, Never Die.

In the category Best Veteran Mordi was able to score the top position, closely followed by daXX.

Finally, the grand prix of the remixing scene, the Remixer Of The Year Award 2015 was won by MRT, with daXX and Mordi coming in a very close shared second place.

Congratulations everyone, you've all deserved it. And remember, you are all winners! Thank you for keeping the scene alive, and thank you Steph and Kevman for the awesome show!

The recent album ReLive by the SIDrip Alliance is now fully listed at Remix64. That means you can now go and listen to the tracks and leave your votes here at Remix64.com. This is a nice way to give something back to the artists, so head over to the album page.

The album is available as free download  on their homepage, and if you're still not convinced to grab your copy, read the review by LaLa.

During AROK Party 2015, SIDrip released a free remix album called ReLive. As the title tells it is a live-in-studio record. If you are into remixes played by real instruments, check this out.

Fans of video game music, chip music, SID music or C64 game music gotta check out:
Jeroen Tel - Tel Me More 

C64 video game music pioneer Jeroen Tel has launched this IndieGogo project with the aim
to release a C64 remake album featuring at least 12 of his best known classics.