Yerzmyey released a new album called Rave is illegal! All the music has been made on an AMIGA 500 (4 channels) with the use of OctaMED 4.0. Track list: Give it, Goddamn business, Have you ever loved?, I have come and It’s gonna take all night. Vocals: MusicRadar and Mandy Edge.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Shadow of the Beast - Underwater Level, Battle Squadron (Peace For My 64), Apidya (High speed mix), Infestation (Kal Solar Remix), Nuke's Groovy, Xenon - The Real ExaBlast (Remastered), Giana Sisters Intro Remix, Crystal Hammer (Mulperi Remix), Yo! Joe! (Level One), Audiophobe, Arcane, A Prehistoric Tale, Elvira Frozen Earth (melancholy "cold" tribute), Pump That Pussy Remix, Desert Dreams (Hidden part), Jim Power Level 1 and Projectyle - Vectors.

The CGSC (Compute's Gazette Sid Collection) has had an update. The COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer was a music system, created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt, for the Commodore 64. The aim of the Compute's Gazette Sid Collection is to preserve as many of those Sidplayer music files in one location as possible. The current collection contains 13532 MUS, 4026 STR and 4689 WDS files.

The French and British music combo Paula Powered is making music with the Amiga 1200. They make Low-Fi digital punk with the help of the Octamed Soundstudio tracker. You can listen to the music on YouTube.

Lunchbeat is a simple groove-machine with 8 step sequencer and four 1bit sounds. With this device with an Atmel Atmega328p microprocessor (16 MHz) you can make your own Commodore SID or Atari retro music. The functions are: Start/Stop, Setup, Edit, Sound Buttons and Mod Pots to tweak sound parameters in real time.

In this BitJam the collection of Machinae Spupremacy. You can listen to the following music: Arcade, Bouff, Cryosleep, Fanvacoolt, Gianna Sisters, Hero, Killer Instict, Kings of the Scene, Koala Squadron, March of the Undead 2, Multiball, Ninja, Player One, Retrospection, SIDology 1 - SID Evolution, Super Mission and Winterstorm. Total playing time: 1:10:22.

The CGSC (Compute's Gazette Sid Collection) has had an update. The COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer was a music system, created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt, for the Commodore 64. The aim of the Compute's Gazette Sid Collection is to preserve as many of those Sidplayer music files in one location as possible. The current collection contains 13481 MUS, 4019 STR and 4658 WDS files.

Igorski started a new project that is called WebSID. With a modern browser you can now play the SID on-line. This virtual Commodore 64 is equipped with twin double octave keyboards, but note that the upper one plays arpeggiated chords. This are the limitations of the original C64, which gave it that characteristic sound.

The latest music collection of World Music is now available. The SID's in this edition are: Alderaan's Atmosphere, Anesthesia, Autumn, Black & White 2, Butt Jumper 2 Intro, Hyper Viper Menu, Inna Amazing, Intro Song, Leviathan Remix, Mix POL, Molina, Ode to TLF, Pipe Pressure, Rise and Sine, Roughnight, Smashed Beats, SWO #18 (intro), SWO #21 (intro), Tranced Out and Under Arrest.

There is a update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more then 44.000 SIDs in the collection. In this update 825 new SIDs, 233 fixed/better rips, 910 SID credit fixes, 120 SID model/clock infos, 8 tunes identified and 67 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Seeing is Believing, Baal Title (Solar Mass Mix), Cannon Fodder (Amiga game intro) Reloaded, ball Illusions Remix 2012 remastered, Apidya, Scream Of The Earth, Amazing Fireworks and bris (Childhood memories).

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Jesus On E's - The Audio Remake, Battle Squadron (Syntax Error Stockholm Tribute), Harlequin - Coming To Chimerica, The Pawn (Twilight Remix), Turrican 2 - Freedom, Turrican 2 (Remix D3M0), Pat Strikes Back, Unit A F18 Interceptor Crack Tune, Shadow of the Beast III - On the run, Cybrenoid II - Epic RMX, Another World - Tribute Remix, Xenon 2 Megablast - Vintage Remix and The First Samurai - Echoes RMX.

C64TV made a SID quiz. He made a video with 236 audio samples from various Commodore 64 games. Your task is to try and guess all of the tunes. A few examples of the tunes are: Uridium, Skate or Die, Donald Duck's Playground, Paradroid, Kung Fu Master, Fighter Pilot and many more.

The music band Bedford Level Experiment made a song about retro computers. In the video you can see the classic computers such as the C64 (with Cynthcart) and the Commodore PET. The lyrics, music, guitars, bass and vocals: Robin. Drums and the Commodore 64: Rianna.

Debs & Errol released a new song about the Commodore C64. The song Commodore C64 is from the album CTRL + ALT + DUET. You can buy the song for 1 CAD or the whole album for 6 CAD. Debs & Errol is musical comedy duo from a Toronto, Canada and are preforming together since 2011.

In this BitJam podcast music from Jeroen Tel. You can listen to the following music: Cybernoid, A as Addiction, International Karate, Fanta in Space, Cybernoid II, Turrican II, Sanxion, Lazy Jones, ACE II, Turbo Outrun, Delta, Monty on the run, Arkanoid, Last Ninja, Plastic Pop, Unreal Superhero 3, Last Ninja 2, Commando, R-Type and Synth Sample. Total playing time: 1:30:19.

Boray made a music player for the Commodore VIC-20. If you have an SD2IEC card reader you can listen to about 60 minutes of digitized music. The audio is 4 bit 4kHz mono, so don't expect great sound quality. (~ old AM radio). You can read more about this player on Boray's web page.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Turrican II - Desert Rocks (metal version 1.1), Beyond The Ice Palace (metal version), Goldrunner (Maccie Pimp Me Up Remix), Aeromute (multi-platform-remix, Turrican II - Traps, Stardust Memories, Pirates - Retromix, Turrican - Freedom Titanic Remix, Logical Green, Apprentice Title Remix (Short Edit), Echoing remix, Turrican 2 - Level 1 remix, Turrican 2 - Traps (Turricano Dos - El Trapo), Elvira (The Frozen Earth), Bubble Bobble Title and Agony Medley.

Jürgen Wothke released the TinyJSid. This is an experimental JavaScript / HTML5 version of Tiny'R'Sid. You need a modern browser such as Chrome or Firefox to use this player. With the help of JavaScript and HTML5 the Commodore C64 is emulated , and plays an original *.sid file.

If you like Amiga tunes and Plus/4 demos, then you must listen to the Amiga Music Box. The demo contains two tunes by Spektro, that are converted from the Amiga to the Plus/4. Csabo made the software to play the tunes via the TED chip.

Jürgen Wothke release an update of the Tiny'R'Sid music player. With this player you can listen online to your favourite SID music. The SID emulation logic is based on the TinySid code by T. Hinrichs and R. Sinsch. The most recent version now has a Play list function.

Sauraen and Oikanys are working on the MIDIbox aSIDity project. This project will be the most powerful SID-based synthesizer in the world. At the moment the SIDFB boards are ready and work is started on the case. The number of control switches, LEDs and displays is enormous. You can follow the progress on the midi box forum.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: Pushover (Main Titlescreen Loop), Stardust Memories Dancemix, Elysium, De Die Hards, Golden Axe (Remix), Sidepanther (Childhood memories remix), Doodlebug Remix 2010 v3.0 and Cannon Fodder.

sID JAm is a "Battle of the Bands" style Commodore 64 music player. You can listen to two randomly chosen SID's and decide which tune is the winner. The current High Voltage Sid Collection has 43116 song so you can listen to the music and judge for a long time.

In this BitJam podcast music from Jeroen Tel. You can listen to the following music: Dr. Future feat. Aki Jaervinen - Cybernoid, Xenox - Closing In, Eiz - Hawkeye, Awesome-A - Battle Valley Dark Rises, CZ-Tunes - Intro, Amok - Alternative Fuel, Mitch Van Hayden - Rubicon (Elemental Mix), SunSpire - Agony Medley (Level 3 - Loading Sea - Level 2), Xenox - Invest Intro and Eiz - Supremacy. Total playing time: 44:56.

The CGSC (Compute's Gazette Sid Collection) has had an update. The COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer was a music system, created by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt, for the Commodore 64. The aim of the Compute's Gazette Sid Collection is to preserve as many of those Sidplayer music files in one location as possible. The current collection contains 12511 MUS, 3707 STR and 4480 WDS files.

There is a update available of the High Voltage SID Collection. There are now more then 43. 856 SIDs in the collection. In this update 747 new SIDs, 315 fixed/better rips, 629 SID credit fixes, 750 SID model/clock infos, 14 tunes identified and 42 tunes moved. You can download the update from the HVSC web page.

Wilfred Bos released an update of SID Known. This version is compatible with the latest HVSC (#59). SID Known is a tool which you can use to identify SID tunes from SID and PRG files. Changes in this version: For binary searches, you will now be notified when there are multiple matches found for the same hit percentage. Also you will now be notified when the match that is found might not be reliable.

Tognon Stefano (ice00) released a new version of XSidplay for Linux. XSidplay is a SID music player for Linux, initially developed by Michael Schwendt. Changes in this version: Libsidplayfp 1.0.2 with resid 1.0 emulation. Fix for the mileage and usage timing calculation and preliminary resid-fp emulation added.

Flummi's World Music is a music demo from Matthias and Sebastian from the group The Impirium Arts. In the menu you can choose the music from the game Fliummi's World: Intro, Title, End, Loading, Hi-Score, Get Ready, Game over and Ingame + Effects.

Flummi's World on YouTube.

Infernal Cycle is a new music program for the Commodore C64. The program is made by LDX#40. This program is a synthesizer noise generator and can be controlled with a joystick. LDX#40 used this program at Bended Realities Festival in Offenbach.

Bended Realities Festival (Offenbach).

SDI is a music tracker system for the Commodore 64 and is written by Geir Tjelta and Glenn Rune Gallefoss. The system has the following features: Sequencer, tracker and a sound editor. Load, save and dump menu. DOS commands. Vibrato, pulse, filter, arpeggio and tempo. A very comprehensive (English) manual is available.

Paula Agnus Denise is a compilation of the best music from Amiga and CD32 video games. The album contains 19 re-mastered tracks, a few examples are: Hired Guns, Turrican 3, Alien Breed, Pinball Dreams, Battle Squadron, Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, Project-X and Brutal Deluxe. The album is available as download or CD.

The HVTC or High Voltage TED Collection is an collection of music for the Commodore C16, 116 and the Plus/4. The files that are available, are the original programs that produce the music with the TED music chip. At the moment there are 330 files available in the database.

Wilfred Bos released a new version of ACID 64 Player Pro. Changes in this version: The property dialog (SID info) can now stay open. Folder / file refresh with F5. CTRL-A for all text search boxes. CTRL-H is now used for Author search. UNC paths are now handled correctly and other small improvements.

DefleMask is a Multi-System music tracker for producing music for many sound chips and old school systems. The system uses real-time emulation, it has an FM instruments editor, Envelopes editor and a Wavetable instruments editor. DefleMask can produce files for SEGA, Nintendo, NEC PC-Engine/TurboGrafx-16 and the Commodore 64.

Thomas Wenzel released an update of his music player for the Amiga. AmigaAMP is a GUI based MPEG audio. It can also play AIFF, WAV and FLAC files. Changes in this version: TuneNet Plugin support. AmigaAmp now uses faad.library instead of the built in AAC decoder. And the problem with automatic opening of the playlist is now solved.

You can now see the names of the authors of the SID's from the C64.sk Cover Compo #2. For all the SID's you can now download the original files and complete credits.

For the voting result and comment you can visit the CSDB website.

The web page Retro Asylum made a podcast about games for the Amiga. Swanny tells about music from Amiga games, including music from Dave Lowe, Jason Page, Barry Leitch, Jolyon Myers and others.

The web page Retro Asylum made a podcast about the Commodore C64 SID chip. Matt digs deeper into the sounds of the SID chip to give you tunes you might not have heard before along with some chat about the chip itself including some technical details.

This year Samar celebrates its 20th anniversary and they want to issue a music disc. And everybody can contribute to the music disc. The rules: No limitation in number of musics per musician. Music at: $1000 - $3000, 4x play tunes also accepted. No digi tunes.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: FlashBack (Options Remix, Monday (G3D Extended Remix), Onslaught (daXX Remix), GODS (ChillStep), Big Run (daXX Remix), Zillion-2 (Mankind's hope will rise again), Monday (Vroom crack intro), Ghouls'n'Ghosts (Your Hometown Burns In Hell), Test Drive II Remix, Odyssey Part I and Echoing (Steissbein Mix).

Wilfred Bos released a new version of ACID 64 Player Pro. Changes in this version: Emulation improvements. COMPUTE!'s Sidplayer support (MUS file, including stereo files). Improved speed of identifying players. STIL window state is now preserved. Added "search by this author/publisher/group" feature. Added triple click support on the search box to select all text. Second SID device settings for HardSID 4U and HardSID Quattro devices are now stored correctly.

The web page Retro Asylum made a podcast about games for the Commodore C64. Foggy tells about his personal top 10 of C64 games from the year 1983.

You can now watch the official video of welle: erdball - Computerklang. In the video you will see lots of Commodore equipment: the Commodore CBM 8032, a C128 motherboard with a very special text, the C2N Datassette, the 1541 and 8250 disk drive and the Commodore 64.

The web page of welle: erdball.

You can listen to the top 50 songs from the Crack Intro Music Competition 2013. The rules of this competition were: Maximum playtime 1:00 min and a maximum size: $1000 bytes. The Top 5: Retrospectful (DRAX), Introduction to Crack (DRAX), 3 Y-Lax-It (celticdesign), Don't Fuck With Stevie Wonder (Jammer) and Delusional (DRAX).

The results of the Crack Intro Music Competition 2013.

You can listen to new remixes on the AmigaRemix web page. In the last weeks they added the following Amiga music: 3D Galax 2013, Turrican Traps, Platoon (E/Rock 2013), Jumping Jackson, Hulk Hogan Hymne - Real American, Turrican 2 Title, RSI Megademo - Loader, Turrican title, Stormlord ingame, RSI Megademo, GODS Into the wonderfull, Stormlord (intro) and Battle Squadron ingame.

In this BitJam podcast music from the HVSC. You can listen to the following music: Ghosts ’n Goblins, The Great Giana Sisters, Auf Wiedersehen Monty, Crazy Comets, Arkanoid, Knucklebusters, Mutants, Last Ninja 2, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Last Ninja 3, Cybernoid, Monty On The Run, Delta, Cybernoid II, International Karate, Commando, Sanxion, The Last Ninja and Wizball. Total playing time: 1:45:37.

The web page Retro Asylum made a podcast about the advertising of the game computers in de eighties. Foggy takes us back to the age of the Atari VCS, Mattel Intelvision Commodore VIC-20 etc.

The web page C64.sk organises another SID cover competition. Your SID must be based on exciting music you can hear on the radio, or can buy in a shop. The SID will be available on the web page, but it will be anonymous. Later the voting will start.