The C64 Take-away podcast

Just in time for Christmas, Makke and Jan skip an obvious opportunity to pour themselves a generous helping of glühwein. Instead they get all serious (well, not really), and cook up a delicious Commodore 64 styled music burger for you: Two Christmas tunes make up the bun, a solitary SID chiptune provides the dressing, and between it a solid slab of meat mixed from shredded guitars, beatup drums, and pounded pianos. Also, to spice things up there’s C64-related “news”, feedback, and the usual banter on the side. And the “Classic Remix” segment takes us all the way back to 2001.

Download or listen to the MP3 here (56:54, 52 Mb)

Music played:

• 8 Bit Weapon & ComputeHer – Jingle Bells (From the It’s a chiptune holiday album)
• Alexander Rotzsch (Fanta) – Finetuning
• NecroPolo – RoboCop ingame (RobbSpotter mix)
• Mutherpluckin’ B – Deflektor (Deflektions of My Life) (also check out his NES remixes)
• Vincenzo – InCompleeto
• Classic remix: Jeroen Breebart – Special Agent 2001
• Martin Dodd – The Running Man (ICS Prime Time Remix)
• Markus Schneider – Golden Axe (Christmas Edition)

Stuff mentioned:

• Remix.Kwed.Org turned 9 years old on November 23rd 2009
• SOASC= got a new search engine and massive bandwidth upgrade.
• Commoradio plays chiptunes from the SOASC= and SOAMC.
• The Poke 20 album contains 21(!) remixes of Monty On The Run. And no mention of Rob Hubbard in the liner notes. And it violates its own Creative Commons license as well. Boo! Hiss!
• Interview with the composer of “Future Shock” and other C64 and NES tracks, Neil Baldwin (aka Demon)
• Necropolo’s “rakBIT” album released as a £4.50 digital download. You need to buy it! Now!
• Armin Gessert passed away on November 8th 2009 (in German)
• Giana Sisters is coming to the iPhone/iPod Touch (in German)
• The C64 Take-away has been nominated for a European #Podcast Award. Help us rock the vote!
• The Chameleon 64 cartridge contains a metric tonne of goodies: 1541 Emulator, REU, RetroReplay, VGA output, PS/2 mouse port, and more. Expected to ship in 2010, pre-order now for 219 EUR.
• The C64 App is back on the iTunes App Store.
• The free SID Player app should be on every iPhone/iPod Touch.
• Got a jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch? Install more games on the C64 app with @DNA64’s gamepack.

Unless otherwise stated tunes played on todays show are available for download from Remix.Kwed.Org , or from the HVSC recordings availble on the SOASC site. Leave feedback either by using the comment section at http://C64Takeaway.com , by e-mail to C64Takeaway [AT] gmail [DOT] com, or follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/C64Takeaway.

Just when you thought the C64 Take-away was back on a regular schedule, Makke and Jan go and mess it up again – this time blaming it on being extremely busy at work. To make things better, the lads provide you with the longest show so far, clocking in at just over an hours worth of C64 SIDs, remixes, and a couple of off-topic memories – including one about juggling floppies on the Amiga. Also, the “Classic Remix” is back by popular demand.

Download or listen to the MP3 here (1:01:39, 57 Mb)

Music played:

• Søren “Jeff” Lund – Crossbow
• LMan & Sunflower – Enigma Force
• Reyn Ouwehand – Flimbo’s Quest (Live at the Church)
• Hank – Yet Another Giana Sisters
• Rune-Bertil’s – Pandora’s Ficka (Ark Pandora)
• Wobbler – Max Headroom (research programme 9512 remix)
• Slaygon and Reyn – Troll (Felix Culpa)
• Monotron – Only You feat. Eliza Zoot (Downstairs @ Monty’s Mix) (From the Remix64 V3: Syntax Era album)

Stuff mentioned:

• Zero Punctuations review of Tales of Monkey Island
• The MSSIAH cart turns your C64 into a MIDI unit
• SIDPlay 4.1.3 for Mac released.
• Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore owns a SIDStation
• iPhone C64 emulator came and went
• Get your SID groove on courtesy of The Daily SID
• Homebrew remake of Warhawk for NDS includes C64 remixes by Press Play On Tape and Spacefractal.
• The top 10 tunes for each of the past 9 years of C64 remixing, packed into a handy torrent.
• Optigan organ + Reyn Ouwehand = brilliant live rendition of Flimbo’s Quest
• Droidsound plays SIDs on Android-powered phones

Unless otherwise stated tunes played on todays show are available for download from Remix.Kwed.Org , or from the HVSC recordings availble on the SOASC site. Leave feedback either by using the comment section at http://C64Takeaway.com , by e-mail to C64Takeaway [AT] gmail [DOT] com, or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/C64Takeaway.

Holy rapid release schedule, Batman! Another C64 Take-away already? Makke and Jan are back to entertain you with even more carefully selected C64 SIDs and remixes – including an 8-bit tribute to the man who came up with the moonwalk, and a trip back to the early days of remixing. Also, we talk about the BBC tuning into the chiptune/remix scene, and Apple not wanting people to run emulated 6510 assembly code on the iPhone.

Download or listen to the MP3 here (51:25 minutes, 47 Mb)

Music played:

• Charles Deenen – Smooth Criminal (From the "Smooth Criminal" demo by Ash+Dave, recorded from a 6581R4 SID)
• Sonic Wanderer – Druid II: Enlightenment (Turbo Edit)
• Branko Balsic – Airscape Ride
• André Müller (Crefelder) – Bomb Jack (Summer Radio Edit)
• Sonic Wanderer – Great Giana Sisters (Pedal To The Metal Distortion Remix)
• Hazel – Summer (Barbeque at Dafunks Beachhouse)
• The Dead Guys – Arkanoid (Dubanoid mix)
• Mixer – Alka

Stuff mentioned:

• Listener reviews of the SIDPlayer for iPhone/iPod Touch.
• Forthcoming firmware update for the 1541 Ultimate cartridge will include a SID player.
• Remix.Kwed.Org staff take the summer off. No new uploads accepted until August 24th 2009.
  
• The BBC’s "Digital Planet" featured a segment on chiptunes on their May 26th episode. No mention of the C64 SID/Remix scene, though.
• The BBC’s "Pods and Blogs " programme is also keeping up with C64 music news by following us on Twitter.
• C64 emulator rejected from the iTunes App store.
  
• SOASC= goes ‘Gold’ + Stone Oakvally retires. No MP3s of C64 recordings after HVSC 49.
  

Unless otherwise stated tunes played on todays show are available for download from Remix.Kwed.Org , or from the HVSC recordings availble on the SOASC site. Leave feedback either by using the comment section at http://C64Takeaway.com , by e-mail to C64Takeaway [AT] gmail [DOT] com, or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/C64Takeaway.

Makke is back for another co-hosted episode, coming at you from cloudy Malmö, Sweden. This time we bring you no less than three tunes from the new "Sounds of SceneSat" compilation, along with some other remixes, and a great SID tune by AMJ. Plus, we catch up on whats been happening in the world of C64-related music during the past six months. Also, Jan tries to stop talking about Twitter.

Download or listen to the MP3 here (55:29 minutes, 50.9 Mb)

Music played:

• AMJ – Pashaus (recorded from a 6581R2 SID. Check out the 6581R4 and 8580R5 versions on SOASC= or the HVSC for examples on how different SID revisions render the same tune)
• Novaload – Sanxion
• LMan – The Eidolon
• J Kraft – Fist 2 (Four Degrees Dub RMX) (From The Sounds of SceneSat Vol. 1 )
• Firestorm – Commando (From The Sounds of SceneSat Vol. 1 )
• Moog – Funk Off (From The Sounds of SceneSat Vol. 1 )
• Reyn Ouwehand – Ace II
• Martin Dodd – Milk Race (Wrapped In Plastic Mix)
• Kurrel the Raven – Parallax (Andes Ocarina mix)

Stuff mentioned:

• Makke’s band – The Devil In Little Lisa
• Jan bought an Xbox 360. Send friend-requests to "Don Kwed "
• Rob Hubbards "Thalamusic " (possibly the first remix that Jan ever listened to)
• The Sounds of Scenesat vol. 1
• SceneSat Radio
• HVSC update 50 released
• The ultimate jukebox: Stick the HVSC on an SD card, mount card in a MMC Replay or 1541 Ultimate cartridge (which Jan managed to refer to as "MMC64" and "1541-III Ultimate") and have instant access to the entire HVSC on your C64.
• SceneTone plays .SID files on your Symbian S60 mobile
• SIDPlayer for the iPod Touch/iPhone
• Remix64 vol. 3: Syntax Era and 8 Bit Weapon : Confidential 2.0 are now available on the iTunes Store and Amazon MP3s
• The C64 Take-away is on Twitter

Unless otherwise stated tunes played on todays show are available for download from Remix.Kwed.Org , or from the HVSC . Leave feedback either by using the comment section at http://C64Takeaway.com , by e-mail to C64Takeaway [AT] gmail [DOT] com, or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/C64Takeaway .

Okay, so you’ve waited patiently for a new episode to come out before. But never this long. Tune in to hear what could possibly distract me from producing an episode for over four months (hint: it involves lots of people, a church, and saying "I do!"). Plus news, feedback, and the usual funky fry up of SIDs and remixes.

Download or listen to the MP3 here (44:25 minutes, 40.7 Mb)

Music played:

• André Müller (Crefelder) – Shards
• Vincenzo – Swing ReRemixed
• 8 Bit Weapon – Chimera (Miles Mix) – from the Confidential 2.0 album
• Carsten Pedersen – Bruce Lee (CPU1970 mix)
• BeeZerk – Tintin On The Moon
• The Mighty Bogg – Shoe 2008
• Anthony Crowther – Zig Zag
• Trauma – Sanxoid
• The C64Mafia – Paperboy (So you don’t like rap music)

Stuff mentioned:

• Back In Time 2008 images and videos
• DSOrganise plays .SID files on the Nintendo DS
• "The 8-Bit Philosophy" documentary available for download
• Seth "8 Bit Weapon" Sternbergers "Confidential 2.0" album

Unless otherwise stated tunes played on todays show are available for download from Remix.Kwed.Org , and from the HVSC . Leave feedback either by using the comment section, or by e-mail to C64Takeaway [AT] gmail [DOT] com. You can also add your pushpin to the C64 Take-away frappr map (be sure to add a shout-out otherwise I won’t get notified).

Just when you thought it was safe to unsubscribe, the C64 Take-away is back to serve you another nutritious audio fry up. Once again I stumble my way through the English language, bringing you carefully selected Commodore 64 SID tunes and remixes, lovingly spiced with news on whats happening in the world of Commodore-related music.

Download or listen to the MP3 here (44:30 minutes, 41 Mb)

Music played:

• Peter W – I Love My 64 (Feat. Slaygon)
• Reyn Ouwehand – Cauldron II [live at The Church]
• Makke – Forbidden Forest (Spider Surfin’)
• Rob Hubbard – Master of Magic
• Chronberg – Great Gurianos (CyberJungle remix)
• PowerTrace – ACE 2 (feat. Kate Lesing)
• Tron – Loading Green Beret (Takes Too F**king Long RMX)

Stuff mentioned:

• Remixer of the Year 2007 results .
• Reyn Ouwehand’s fantastic one-man-band tunes .
• Press Play On Tape’s 80s medley on Youtube .
• Swedish NES cover band Powerplay .
• FrodoDS runs C64 games on your Nintendo DS, including my all-time favorite: Laser Squad .
• SIDPlay 4.0 for Mac OS X 10.5.
• High Voltage SID Collection update 48.
• Shredz64 – Hook a Guitar Hero controller up to your C64 and rock out.
• Syntax Era ships on CD (MP3/FLAC downloads also available). Also on MySpace . And don’t forget to spread the word about the album using one of the available banners .
• Back in Time Live Stockholm 2008 .
• SLAY Radio Gathering 2008 .
• Synergy’s Audion album.

Unless otherwise stated tunes played on todays show are available for download from Remix.Kwed.Org , and from the HVSC . Leave feedback either by using the comment section, or by e-mail to C64Takeaway [AT] gmail [DOT] com. You can also add your pushpin to the C64 Take-away frappr map (be sure to add a shout-out otherwise I won’t get notified) or even send me a voice message .

Told you the C64 Take-away would be back in February, didn’t I? The first show for 2008 features a bit of catch-up on what’s been happening in the world of C64 related music – including two new album releases, a hardware gizmo that will let you musician types use that sweet SID sound in your work, and a couple of upcoming live concerts. Plus of course, lots and lots of great tunes carefully selected for your listening pleasure.

Download or listen to the MP3 here (50:34 minutes, 46.4 Mb)

Music played:

• Thomas Detert – BMX Kidz (from the album Syntax Era)
• MarkG – Parallax Melody (alto sax)
• BeeZerk – Lets Fly (Skyhigh)
• Hank (Lukasz Drzewiecki) – Yet Another Giana Sister
• The C64 Orchestra – Delta High Score (from the album RUN 10)
• Reyn Ouwehand – Green Beret [live at The Church] (The video footage of Reyn’s performance is also a must-see)

Stuff mentioned:

• Syntax Era album available for preorder and instant MP3/FLAC download.
• RUN 10 album available on CD and on iTunes (DRM-free even)
• Preorder the HardSID 4U if you’re a musician looking for the authentic SID touch.
• Carry the entire High Voltage SID Collection around on your iPod (or other Rockbox compatible mp3 player) – also see this announcement.
• PRESS PLAY ON TAPE live at The Rock in Copenhagen/Denmark on April 19th. Tickets from BilletLugen.dk.
• Symphonic Shades – Chris Huelsbeck in Concert. Cologne/Germany, August 23rd.
• The Raven and the Blues podcast.

Unless otherwise stated tunes played on todays show are available for download from Remix.Kwed.Org, and from the HVSC. Leave feedback either by using the comment section, or by e-mail to C64Takeaway [AT] gmail [DOT] com. You can also add your pushpin to the C64 Take-away frappr map (be sure to add a shout-out otherwise I won’t get notified) or even send me a voice message.

This time bringing you a bunch of tunes that have nothing in common apart from the fact that the original SIDs were all composed between 1984 and 1986. Also, I talk about an upcoming album release, and mention a couple of videos that you need to watch.

Download or listen to the MP3 here (37:08 minutes, 34.1 Mb)

Please notice that I’ll be taking a three month break from the podcast starting November 1st. But fear not, the Take-away will be back in February 2008. Stay subcribed to the RSS feed or the mailing list to get an alert when the show’s back on the air.

Music played:

• David Hanlon – Druid
• J Rooney – Zorro (Small Ensemble)
• FTC – Comic Bakery (Electro) (from the album 01:04 Eternal)
• Allister Brimble – Green Beret Full Orch -
• Rauli – Spy vs Spy II (Late Nite Mellow)
• Terminal Storm – Glider Rider (Gliding into a Sunset mix)

Stuff mentioned:

• P.W. Fenton from Perfect Head and Digital Flotsam let me use the intro-jingle from Perfect Head #16. Thanks P-Dub.
• New video from Reyn Ouwehand
• Rob Hubbard – On the Golden days of computer game music
• On The Edge available from Amazon UK
• Andrew Fishers “The Commodore Book 1982-19xx”

Unless otherwise stated tunes played on todays show are available for download from Remix.Kwed.Org, and from the HVSC. Leave feedback either by using the comment section, or by e-mail to C64Takeaway [AT] gmail [DOT] com. You can also add your pushpin to the C64 Take-away frappr map (be sure to add a shout-out otherwise I won’t get notified) or even send me a voice message.

(Eek! I managed to mess up the volume level in post-production when I first put this one out. Here’s the fixed version for your enjoyment.)

Time for another irregularly scheduled dose of the best remixes out there. This time the show is produced and assembled on my laptop, using different recording gear and software from the stuff I’m used to, so apologies in advance if it’s not up to standard, sound quality wise.

Also included is another track from the new Reyn Ouwehand album, a look back at both the Back In Time Live 2007 and SLAY Radio Gathering 2007 events, as well as recent news and listener feedback.

Download or listen to the MP3 here (35:13 minutes, 32.3 Mb)

Music played:

• Jeroen Tel – Unnamed SID (Live from Utrecht, September 2006)
• Nada – Bossa ‘n Goblins
• The St. Albans Rob Hubbard Fan Club – Ace 2
• Reyn Ouwehand – Garfield (from the album The Blithe, the Blend and the Bizarre)
• Peter W – Paradroid
• M.J. Hibbett – Hey Hey 64K (demo, from the CD single The Lesson of the Smiths)

Stuff mentioned:

• Full unrestricted version of SID2MIDI
• HVSC update #47
• Warren Pilkingtons BITLive 2007 report
• Andrew Fishers BITLive 2007 report
• Photos from BITLive 2007
• BITLive 2007 DVD bittorrent download
• SLAY Radio Gathering 2007

Unless otherwise stated tunes played on todays show are available for download from Remix.Kwed.Org, and from the HVSC. Leave feedback either by using the comment section, or by e-mail to C64Takeaway [AT] gmail [DOT] com. You can also add your pushpin to the C64 Take-away frappr map (be sure to add a shout-out otherwise I won’t get notified) or even send me a voice message.

This time it’s the usual blend of classic SIDs and remixes. I also preview the new album from Reyn Ouwehand, talk about the upcoming Back In Time Live event, catch up on news and listener feedback, and play you a Nelly Futardo track[*] without getting in trouble with the RIAA.

Download the MP3 here (43:17 minutes, 39.7 Mb)

Music played:

• Martin Walker – Snare
• The St. Albans Rob Hubbard Fan Club – I-Ball
• Nada – Crimson Games
• Stanislaw Ostazewski – Resolution
• Reyn Ouwehand – Ghosts’n Goblins (from the upcoming album The Blith, The Blend & The Bizarre)
• Moog and Hazel – Acid Jazz (Grand Theft Audio)

Stuff mentioned:

• Stone Oakvalley’s Authentic SID Collection
• C64audio.com site relaunch
• Back In Time Live 2007
• Full two-hour video of Press Play On Tape’s Breakpoint ‘07 concert

Unless otherwise stated tunes played on todays show are available for download from Remix.Kwed.Org, and from the HVSC. Leave feedback either by using the comment section, or by e-mail to C64Takeaway [AT] gmail [DOT] com. You can also add your pushpin to the C64 Take-away frappr map (be sure to add a shout-out otherwise I won’t get notified) or even send me a voice message.

[*] The Nelly Futardo track in question ripped off a C64 track without asking for permission or even crediting the original composer/performer. The remix featured on todays episode is based on the same source material – but I’m giving full credit. In other words: back off, lawyers.