Year: 2011

Ho-ho-ho! Christmas comes a few days early this year. After passing my project manager exam on December 13th, I cleared the mountain of books and papers off my desk and started preparing this episode. In honour of this being the 50th show(!) here’s almost an hours worth of sonic delight – five remixes and five chiptunes, carefully selected for your enjoyment. And while the show doesn’t have a Christmas theme as such, the closing tune should be able to melt even the coldest of hearts and let the Commodore love flow freely. As usual mixed in with a brief recap of what’s been happening in the world of C64-related music. Enjoy!

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Download this episode: MP3 (57:05 minutes – 102 Mb)

Music played:

• moonove – Ace 2 – Main Theme (from Atari SID Remixes vol 2)
• Encore – Run (Theme from Canabalt)
• Rob Hubbard – Thing on a Spring
• N-JOY – Warhawk (Halcón de la guerra mix)
• Rob Hubbard – Thrust
• Rayza – Oldschool (Wax To Binary Mix)
• Jens-Christian Huus – Su-Sweet
• Wobbler – Mountie Mick’s Deathride (Basstrail remix)
• Jeroen Tel – Cybernoid II
• Markus Schneider – Golden Axe (Christmas Edition)

Stuff mentioned:

• C64 Take-away MySpace account closing at the end of 2011
• Eve plays tune from The Last Ninja on a (badly tuned) piano
• 18 classic SID tunes remastered and released on 2xLP (CD+download coming later)
• C64 remix podcast “Commoflage” podcast (RSS feed)
• Prince of Persia gets unofficial C64 port
• Canabalt unofficial port
• C64anabalt – official port
• Please leave a review on iTunes and help others discover these great tunes.
• Also, if you’re on Xbox Live and feel up for some online multiplayer action, look up “Don Kwed“.

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 C64Takeaway.com , by e-mail to C64Takeaway [AT] gmail [DOT] com, or follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/C64Takeaway. And at the risk of repeating myself, please leave a review on iTunes. 🙂

Greetings programmes! After another massive delay caused by too much going on at work, causing me to relax (among other things) in front of the Xbox rather than sit down in front of the microphone every month or two, here’s the first episode of 2011(!). Hopefully making up for the radio silence with nine carefully selected tunes – including not one, but two classic remixes. As usual mixed in with a brief recap of what’s been happening in the world of C64-related music.

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Download this episode: MP3 (45:27 minutes – 65.2 Mb)

Music played:

• Rob Rubbard – The Last V8
• David Filskov – Firelord
• Ziphoid: Back in the saddle
• Chris Abbott & Rob Hubbard – Comets 97 (From the 1998 CD “Back In Time“)
• Necropolo – Zak (McKrackenica edition)
• Necropolo – BC Bill (Dreadnought)
• Peter Clarke – Monty on the Run (Monty Gets Orchestrated 2011)
• LMan & Sunflower – Follow me (Progressive Sample III)
• DJ Skitz – MegaSweet

Stuff mentioned:

• Markus Behlau (aka “Soundsosound”) – “8 2 88: 8-bit computer game tunes performed on 88 piano keys”
• The new “Commodore 64”
• Julian “Zzap!64” Rignall is on Twitter
• C64 remixing in 2010 infographic
• More chipophone renditions from Linus Åkesson
• Videos from Linus’ gig at the LCP 2011 party
• The original “Back in Time” CD
• Remix64.com
• Remix64’s guide to digital audio mastering
• The “HybridSID” portable C64 chiptune jukebox
• Please leave a review on iTunes and help others discover these great tunes.
• If you’re on Xbox Live and feel up for some online multiplayer action, look up “Don Kwed“.

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 C64Takeaway.com , by e-mail to C64Takeaway [AT] gmail [DOT] com, or follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/C64Takeaway. And at the risk of repeating myself, please leave a review on iTunes. 🙂