Remixer of the Year Awards 2025 - Voting ends soon!

As you may have noticed, there is a big count-down clock at the top of the SLAY Radio home page. This is counting down to the deadline of voting for the Remixer of the Year 2025!

Please form an orderly queue and head over to https://remix64.com/roty-voting/ to cast your votes!

Voting will be available until Sunday, January 18, 2026

And as always - The more votes we can get for each category, the more fair the results will be!

BIT Live 2025 remix compo!

As per usual, there will be a remix competition at BIT Live!

Deadline for entries is November 16, so start your engines!


See full details for the competition here, as well as submission link: https://remix64.com/bit-live-2025-remix-compo/bit-live-2025-remix-compo.html

Back in Time Live 2025!

This year FastLoaders are back with a special edition of BiT LIVE Bergen. As a part of PLAY!Bergen we will have our own room, stage and bar in the venerable Grieghallen for all you great people to cozy up with a drink and some great SIDs. As a bonus you also get access to the main area of the PLAY! festival to peek at whatever gaming goodness is going on - and there will be a lot.

The full BiT program is yet to be decided, but there will be live concerts, remix and SID DJ's, SLAY Radio - and Fastloaders will perform as usual with a stellar set of old and new rearrangements!

Follow updates and post any questions you have at the event on the Fastloaders page here: fb.me/BackInTimeLive

The ticket validates entrance Friday and Saturday. Food or drinks are not included and have to be bought separately at the venue.

Get tickets here: https://www.ticketmaster.no/event/342506054

Only Amiga!

After more than 25 years of being a mostly c64 remix station, the time has come to expand things a little bit.

As a first step, we will now only focus on Amiga remixing. Our first Amiga-exclusive programming will be hosted by none other than iZero, starting at 8pm CET tonight (Tuesday), so make sure not to miss it!

There is still quite a lot to do to shift things over to this new Amiga-only track, as you can imagine, so please bear with us as we undertake the massive work to execute the transition from 8 to 16 bits!

More information to follow shortly!

Remixer of the Year Awards - Voting ends in two weeks!

Voting is closing soon for the Remixer of the Year Awards! Head over to https://www.remix64.com/roty.html to cast your votes!

Vote for the best of each category. The lists are unlimited, and they extend as you add entries. During the year you might stumble upon more and more candidates you think worthy for this list - you can return to this page to supplement/review your votes anytime. All entries receive equal scores, so the list order does not matter. This was different before 2015.

Entering text into the forms will drop-down a lookup list. This will help you find your desired mix or arranger promptly. Choosing your entry directly from the drop-down will also make sure that your entry is valid. Valid entries are marked 'ok', invalid entries are marked '?' and do not go into the results. Use the icons to delete an entry or to move it up and down in the list. Note that voting requires that you have JavaScript enabled.


Voting will be available until Sunday, 29th January 2023

HURRY! Remixer Of The Year Awards 2018 - Only one week to go!

If you have not yet, you should! Voting closes on January 21 2019, so please head over to Remix64 to do your ROTY voting!

Who was the most influential personality? Who did the best remix? Who was the best newcomer, the best veteran?

Vote, and ye shall find out!

Remixer Of The Year Awards 2018!

If you have not yet, you should! Voting closes on January 21 2019, so please head over to Remix64 to do your ROTY voting!

Who was the most influential personality? Who did the best remix? Who was the best newcomer, the best veteran?

Vote, and ye shall find out!

26 days to go!

If you have not yet, you should! Only 26 days left to go, so please head over to Remix64 to do your ROTY voting!
Who was the most influential personality? Who did the best remix? Who was the best newcomer, the best veteran?

Vote, and ye shall find out!

The Last SLAY Radio Gathering!

Friday August 4th to Sunday August 6th 2017 is the first weekend of August, which means it's the SLAY Radio Gathering! It is also the last of the Gatherings - the number of people coming along is slowly going down as more and more people say "I'll go next year instead." Well, this is both next AND final year!

The usual is happening - the Unofficially Official Pre-Gathering Gathering on Friday evening, the Barbecue and Main Event on Saturday and the farewells on Sunday!

A map is available here which shows all the main locations, airports, and train / bus / tram stops that are important. The hotel pin also has a handy link to find all nearest hotels in the area!

There is also a Facebook Event for those of you who use that particular behemoth of social media - for the main evening event anyway.
We hope to see you there at the last Gathering!

Remixer of the Year awards 2016 - Extended deadline!

Deadline for voting has been extended to Sunday the 22nd of January!

Just a few more days before voting closes for the Remixer of the Year awards, held annually by remix64.com.
Head over to Remix64 ROTY voting to cast your vote!

This year, SLAY Radio will host the ROTY show.
Exact date of broadcast will be announced at a later date.

Remixer of the Year awards 2016!

LAST DAY before voting closes for the Remixer of the Year awards, held annually by remix64.com.
Head over to Remix64 ROTY voting to cast your vote!

This year, SLAY Radio will host the ROTY show.
Exact date of broadcast will be announced at a later date.

SLAY Radio Gathering 2016

(Copied from the Facebook Event found here.)

Yes, it's happening again this year - it's the SLAY Radio Gathering!

SATURDAY AUGUST 6 is the main day, with a barbecue on Keillers Park in the afternoon (weather permitting) and the main event at Kville Biljard in the evening starting at 19:00 in the event room at the back!

FRIDAY AUGUST 5 is the "Unofficially Official Pre-Gathering Gathering", where it's not so much about SLAY but about meeting old friends, saying hello to new ones and generally having a laugh. This is also at Kville Biljard but we don't have the event room - just sit in the main room, or out on the balcony if it's nice weather.

More information to come, but this Google Map (https://goo.gl/jn4yh3) shows all the Places of Interest (Kville Biljard, Keillers Park, etc). It all happens on Hisingen in Gothenburg, Sweden!

Book a place to stay and come along to meet some of the broadcasters and fellow listeners!

Ninja Musicology

Just in case you have missed - The Ninja Musicology kickstarter is back.

And in case you have no idea what it is, the short version of it reads as follows:
"Triple tribute album with rock/metal covers of themes from The Last Ninja game series, a live concert and concert Blu-Ray."

The long version can be found at the Ninja Musicology kickstarter page.

Head over there give the guys some love!

Another ADSR Show Incoming!

Oh noes! The animals have been let out of the zoo again! on Saturday February 20th, join Marcel, Slaygon and Boz at the Church of Reyn for another night of mischief and mayhem. Usual start time of 20:00 USRT. Be there or be a dodecahedron.

Remixer Of The Year Award 2015!

LAST DAY before voting closes for the Remixer of the Year awards, held annually by remix64.com.
Head over to Remix64 ROTY voting to cast your vote!

This year, SceneSat will host the ROTY show.
Exact date of broadcast will be announced at a later date.

Symphonic Collection - Last few hours!

Last few hours before this kickstarter ends!

BLACK FRIDAY SALE!

It is now Friday, and it's black, so we're having a sale!

During this magnificent day, you will get all your TCP packets for FREE! Don't hesitate - Grab yours right here, right NOW!

Oh... wait...

Kickstarter: Symphonic Collection

As some of you may know, I am involved in this Kickstarter thing which has been running for a while now.
(if you didn't know - You do now!)

Less than 1 DAY TO GO before the kickstarter ends!

The 3 main disks will be all orchestral:
Throne of SIDs, Escape from SIDs Castle and SIDventure.

Then there are the stretch goals, which include various stuff, like my own "Cinematic 64" as well as "Sidphonie 64" by Chris Abbott, "Big Band Bacon" by Rune-Bertil's and "Progressive 64" by Fastloaders.

All in all, 8 albums if all stretch goals are hit!

So, if you have the possibility, please chip in and make this happen!


Cheerios (are not breakfast!)
/Slaygon

Hey, where are the listen-again shows?

Good question!

Here at SLAY Radio we had to upgrade some back-end stuff. Unfortunately it has broken the "download again" part of the website for now.

But fear not! All shows are recorded and sent over to SLAY Rated and you can pick them up from there! The most recent shows are simply titled "raw_" and then the date of the show, in the format YYYY-MM-DD, so you can work out what show it is by the weekday from that.

In the future we will try and fix the immediate problem; but for now, you have a consistent way of downloading the shows from another site :)

SLAY Radio Gathering 2015 - It's Official!

Yes, it's happening again this year - it's the SLAY Radio Gathering!

SATURDAY AUGUST 1 is the main day, with a barbecue on Keillers Park in the afternoon (weather permitting) and the main event at Kville Biljard in the evening starting at 19:00 in the event room at the back!

FRIDAY JULY 31 is the "Unofficially Official Pre-Gathering Gathering", where it's not so much about SLAY but about meeting old friends, saying hello to new ones and generally having a laugh. This is also at Kville Biljard but we don't have the event room - just sit in the main room, or out on the balcony if it's nice weather.

More information to come, but this Google Map shows all the Places of Interest (Kville Biljard, Keillers Park, etc). It all happens on Hisingen in Gothenburg, Sweden!

Book a place to stay and come along to meet some of the broadcasters and fellow listeners!

Project Sidologie - Last Day Thursday May 14!

Project Sidologie, the brainchild of Marcel Donné has done phenomenally well. So good, in fact, that there have been a number of Stretch Goals that have been passed.

We have a couple days left, May 14 being the last, and there is one last Stretch Goal to reach in this short time - where other remixers come along and add their own tunes to the library of CDs that Marcel is working on.

If you've pledged to the Kickstarter already - fantastic! If not, now's your chance to get the entire collection in your hands once it's finished - plus help get this last Stretch Goal reached!

Read all about it, what the CDs contain and what the Stretch Goals are, at www.sidologie.com!

ADSR Show, Saturday April 25!

Guess who's coming to dinner? And then staying around WELL past their welcome time? Yes, Alistair, Donné, Slaygon and Reyn, aka the ADSR Envelope, are here to bombard your ears with a deluge of sound. Some of that sound will be the sweet professional music-making of Reyn, Marcel and Slaygon. Some of it will be the monkey-antics of cowbell-bashing Boz. But it all adds up to... something... worth listening to anyway!

Come join Slaygon, Marcel and Boz as they journey over to the Church of Reyn who will play your requests live. It's the rare but in-demand ADSR Show, Saturday April 25 2015 at 20:00 USRT (18:00 UTC). Only on SLAY Radio.

Last Week of BIT Brighton Kickstarter

This week is the last week for the Back in Time Live: Brighton 2015 Kickstarter appeal, with March 8 (at 8pm UK time) being the last day!

We've still not reached the goal yet, though... if you've never been to a BIT Live, you're missing out! They are such great fun, with lots of fans and famous C64 coders and composers rubbing shoulders, and there's live music of your favourite C64 tunes played too! Slaygon and Boz will be going!

Even if you can't make it, please try and make the effort to donate to the cause, as you will also get some goodies, including a full interview with Ben Daglish, a free CD from c64audio.com thanks to Chris Abbott, and more!

http://www.bitbrighton.com - Go there now!

ROTY 2014

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.rexmi64.com.

This year it's SLAY Radio's turn to give out the awards and give you a run-down of what happened in 2014, so make sure to join Slaygon, Boz and guests on Saturday February 7th at 8pm CET!

One week of voting for ROTY left!

Only a week to go before the Remixer of the Year awards voting ends.

Head over to Remix64 ROTY voting to cast your vote!

This year, SLAY Radio will host the ROTY show, and we might have some guests in the studio too.
Exact date of broadcast will be announced at a later date.

Remixer of the Year 2014!

There is now about a month to go before voting closes for the Remixer of the Year awards, held annually by remix64.com.
Head over to Remix64 ROTY voting to cast your vote!

Like... Now'ish.

This year, SLAY Radio will host the ROTY show, and we will have some guests in the studio too.
Exact date of broadcast will be announced at a later date.

R.I.P. Misser

Hi all. On Friday, August 22, the scene lost one of its own - Mark Visser, also known as Misser.

Erwin 'Tron' Beekveld and John 'Ziphoid' Carehag has created an on-line book of condolence. Please visit and leave your comment on there:

http://beekveld.com/misser/

Erwin will print out everything and personally give it to the family, be it at the funeral which will probably be this week, or a few days after. I am sure it will be greatly appreciated and that it'll help them to understand what Misser meant to us as an international community.

SLAY Radio gathering 2014

The SLAY Radio Gathering has been a permanent fixture for a while now, and this year is no exception!

The first weekend in August sees another SLAY Radio Gathering, where our listeners and broadcasters mingle and talk about life, the C64 Scene and the Home of Commodore 64 Remixes - and we'd like to invite you!

The dates for the 2014 Gathering are as follows:

Friday August 1:

The Unofficially Official Pre-Gathering Gathering. The main day is Saturday, but it's become tradition now that non-Gothenburg people, particularly those flying in from other countries, get here the day before. Therefore, in the evening, we tend to go to Kville Biljard in the evening and catch up with life from the year before. The private room isn't booked for this night so, depending on weather, we hang around the restaurant area or out on the patio. Everyone is welcome!

Saturday August 2:

The main Gathering day. Depending on weather, we gather up at Keillers Park in the day time from around noon, with a grill and some food to cook on it. Bring your own (disposable) grills and food and whatever you want to drink! We enjoy the sun and barbecued food.

In the evening, we have the back room booked for the main Gathering evening. There's usually a Commodore 64 set up for you guys to play and all the pool tables in the room have been paid for, so you can just choose your favorite table. Try and catch Slaygon or Boz who will be happy to challenge you to a rack or two of 9-ball!

We begin around 19:00 and Kville Biljard closes at 01:00, so there's plenty of time to chat, drink, play games and, of course, the restaurant is open until "late" (depending on demand) and you can either eat a full meal in the restaurant section or grab a smaller dish to eat next to the table (no spilling please!).

More info about Kville Biljard (in Swedish, but Google Translate does a decent job):
http://www.kvillebiljard.com

Here's a Google Map with all of the important hotspots already set up so that you can see where they are in relation to each other. The map is "interactive" in that you can switch certain things on or off:
http://goo.gl/jn4yh3

TRANSPORT

BY AIR

Ryanair have cheap flights that go into Gothenburg City Airport (formally Säve Airport) which is ironically nearer to the Gathering than the International Airport is. Busses run on a regular schedule to and from the airport (see later).

More info (in English): http://www.goteborgcityairport.se/index.php?lang=en

All other (non-Ryanair) flights come in to Landvetter (Gothenburg International) Airport. The same bus company also have a regular schedule here. Taxis are available from both airports, of course, but they tend to be on the expensive side (ranging around the 500-600 Swedish Crown area), so if you're looking to save money, try the busses or group together to save.

More info (in English): http://www.swedavia.com/landvetter/

BY TRAIN / BUS

Gothenburg Central Station services many trains from all around Sweden, Denmark and Norway. Nils Ericson Terminal, next to the train station, is the destination for many national bus trips as well.

Flygbussarna (Flight Busses) is the company that handles transport to/from the two airports. They stop at several places but either Central Station or - nearer to the Gathering, Hjalmar Brantingsplatsen - are the nest destinations.

More info (in English): http://www.flygbussarna.se/en
(The two airports you're interested in are Göteborg city Airport and Göteborg Landvetter Airport.)

Depending on where you're staying, you may need to use public transport to get to the Gathering locations. From Central Station, for instance, there are many trams/trains that can get you to Hjalmar Brantigsplatsen or a delightfully-named stop which is nearer called "Vågmästareplatsen" which is two minutes from Kville Biljard.

The local services are provided by Västtrafik. More info (in English): http://www.vasttrafik.se/#!/en/1/
This info page will give you more information about the travel tickets you will need to get around.

HOTELS

There are many hotels in Gothenburg, of course. Most of them are on the mainland (The Gathering is on an island called Hisingen). The best bet is to find a hotel near to the Central Station (www.hotels.com is your friend here) and you can then grab a bus, tram or taxi over to the Gathering (journies from Central Station usually take around 10 minutes). There is one hotel just over the square from Kville Biljard; however, it's quite small so rooms are limited. Book early and/or share a larger room with fellow SLAYers!

More info on Kville Hotel (in English): http://www.kvillehotel.com/english.htm

QUESTIONS?

Obviously this is a summary - if you do need more specific information please do not hesitate to contact us at staff[at-sign-you-know-what-to-do]slayradio.org!

Site is back

Ellu! Yes, we're back. Kind-of at least.

There's still a LOT to do, but we are working hard to get it all up and running, while we iron out bugs. All reports on misbehavior is welcome!

Now... Back to coding!

RKO 2013-Q4 Torrent is here.

Bit late due to personal stuff,
Here is RKO Q4 at the usual place. Go get it here. Complete 2013 will follow after feedback since I hadn't much time to check Q4 so consider this a beta.
All checked and complete download also added have fun.

Do remember to keep seeding for a while after download.

New download site needed!

In about a weeks time download.slayradio.org (where all live show downloads are hosted) will be decomissioned. It has been hosted by IcePic for a number of years now.

So, SLAY Radio will be needing a new download site.
The site needs to run PHP of some version. Traffic-wise it uses some 2-3TB per month.

If anyone out there knows of a place where this could be hosted, please let us know. Write us!

Remixer of the Year Awards 2013!

Yes, we're getting closer to the yearly event that is the Remix64.com Remixer of the Year Awards.

This year, the Awards show will be hosted by SceneSat staff and guests and will be jointly broadcast on SLAY Radio (and possibly some other stations too).

Book the date: Saturday, January 25th at 20:00 CET.

During the show, you'll get a countdown of the best remixes and remixers of the past year as well as the chance to win nice prizes (TBA) by participating. However, you do need to have been voting, so make sure to do it ASAP!:-)

If you want to join the event as an on-site guest, which will be held at SceneSat Studio 1 in Stockholm, Sweden, contact Ziphoid and he'll give you the necessary details. The guest list will contain a lot of the usual suspects and a few surprises.:-)

Ripoffs continue...

... to this date. People taking credit for things they have not done was thought to be a thing of the past.
Seems this is not the case.

Latest iteration has just emerged. Dejan Subotin (a.k.a Dafunk) released a song on Audiojungle which promptly got stolen.
The song was ripped straight off by TheROOTmusicRecords, also known as "Mirrorball Music" on iTunes, Amazon etc.

Sad electro indeed.

Datastorm 2014

Last ever Datastorm will happen on the 14th of February 2014.
If you are hard-core c64 or Amiga, book your table and join the rest of us nerd-folks!

Datastorm information. Let's make this a memorable one!

RKO 2013-Q3 Torrent is here.

Without bla bla here we go with RKO Q3 at the usual place. Go get the RKO-2013 Q-3 torrent here. Do remember to keep seeding for a while after download.

Oops only September in torrent. Removed until I got time to fix it

Torrent fixed (it should be) added and online.

Late RKO Q2

Bleuuh bla and bla, I got distracted. Yeah for:
Peter Kofler send me the RKO Q2 Torrent. I've been busy and distracted, Peter shows his commitment/scene spirit. So here we go with Q2 at the usual place. Go get the RKO-2013 Q-2 here. Do remember to keep seeding for a while after download.

*edit*
Meanwhile I started downloading the stuff for Q3, thanks again Peter.

SLAY Radio Gathering 2013

It's back again - another SLAY Radio Gathering! Occurring on the first weekend of August, we have the main day on Saturday August 3 consisting of a barbecue at Keillers Park in the daytime and we have the private room at the back of Kville Biljard in the evening. We also have the Unofficially Official Pre-Gathering Gathering on Friday evening for the early birds :) Come join us for a bit of a get-together of SLAY Radio broadcasters and listeners!

For maps, hotel info and so forth, see the Gathering 2013 page!
We also have a Facebook Event.

RKO Q2013-Q1 Torrent

It's that RKO Torrent time again!
As usual, get your latest remixes on RKO and go get the RKO-2013 Q-1 here. Do remember to keep seeding for a while after download.
Enjoy

Firewall problems.

Hi all,

As it happens, the old firewall at SLAY HQ is getting tired and from the sound of it will most likely crash any day now. The hard drive sounds like it's doing its last rounds.
There is a new firewall in place but it is not yet fully active so there might be an unexpected drop-out at some point that will last longer than I would expect.

Anyhoo, Happy Easter everyone!

May the egg be with you. :)

Remixer of the Year Awards 2012 **NOTE CHANGE OF DATE**

Please note that the RotY Awards show (see earlier news item) has been RE-SCHEDULED to Saturday February 23, 2013 and starts at the earlier time of 18:00 USRT (CET). Unfortunately illness has struck the SLAY Radio staff and we want to be in tip-top condition for you!

We're very sorry for the short notice but hope you can wait a few more days for the awards ceremony!

Remixer Of The Year awards 2012

Dear owner of the eyeball(s) currently scanning these letters,

On Sunday the 17th of February, i.e. the end of this week, SLAY Radio will broadcast the Remixer Of The Year Awards, covering the best of the best out of 2012, as per your votes. Join us as we reveal your highest ranked songs coming out of R:K:O, AmigaRemix, c64audio and Remix64.com!

This wlll be broadcast on SceneSat aswell!

Bring the accompanying earballs to the party on Sunday, and let's have some fun!

Remixer Of The Year Awards 2012 - HURRY!

Hurry up and go vote for Remixer Of The Year Awards 2012!

Voting closes tonight!!!

Remixer Of The Year 2012

Hurry up and go vote for Remixer Of The Year Awards 2012!

Only one week to go before voting closes!

Healthiness for 2013 and torrent update.

Happy 2013!!
To kick things of I updated the RKO 2012-Q4 torrent and also uploaded the RKO-2012 Complete torrent to Slacker. As read in my previous news item (http://www.slayradio.org/home.php?news_item=165) I also added the 2005-2006 Show torrents made by HiSpeed. These are for review purpose at the moment, see if slacker handles them and also see if they are wanted. Questions about the torrents, missing shows, corrupt files should be directed to HiSpeed on irc.
M

*edit*
Added the mastering Swedish torrent also. It's still avaiable for download on the main download page but saves a few clicks :)

PS. HiSPeed # is not accepted by Slacker, so removed those :)

Show and torrents

Hmm CET time I should be asleep for hours it seems but I have some news. Ruud (IImmortal) is doing his 2nd live show The RetroToGO in about 14 hours. He's the latest DJ to join SLAY Radio and opted for the hard to fill time slot on Saturday.

Show Blur: Need some extra energy to get your Saturday evening started? Let me serve you a high protein mix of RetroTunes to kickstart your mind for a great Saturday night! <-- protein and kickstart? that at least makes me curious enough to listen in.

On the torrent side of things, I'm keeping up with q4 and complete 2012. Highspeed off for most IRC 'fame' has been working hard on quarterly show torrents. Downloading a few of them and checking them to see if Slacker can handle them. Meanwhile you can check out His personal SLAY Radio Shows torrents link which is his personal tracker.

Odd home page behaviour

You might have noticed that there is some odd behavior going on around the home page lately, like the fact that there's apparently a live show going on even though there is not, and other oddites.

Fear not - These are all (at least mostly) due to implementation of new code and technologies into the pages.

Most recently, memcached was introduced, and large parts of the back-end code interacting with the database was rewritten to make use of it.
There is also a layer of caching of static content going on. We're experimenting with nginx as a reverse proxy. The main purpose for this is to deliver static content quicker, but remaining dynamic enough.

Yes, there are glitches.

Hope you can bare with us through them!

(and sorry!)

Double Dutch Friday will return

First of all I might need to start a blog on my facebook again. Which I won't do :) I had my first cuppa c[_]~ just now and tought I needed to share that the DDF will return. I had a little chat with Tron about joining the Dutchies go Dutch show. He's about to get some mayor dental surgery today so won't join us. But he is planning for the next DDF. Owh and yes Dutchies go Dutch might return tonight. Searching for a webcam :)

Little poll

Does anyone actually read the news page? Or is the browser bookmarked to the shoutbox history like mine? Anyway I just send an email to the Dutchies to maybe revive the DDD (The Dutchies - Double Dutch) show or maybe go for a MMM (Misser's mischievous mayhem)
Yeah or Nah, let us know in the comment section.
M

RKO Q2-2012

It's here again the Q2 torrent from the RKO releases.
As usual, get your latest remixes on RKO and go get the RKO-2012 Q-2 here. Do remember to keep seeding for a while after download.
Enjoy

Watch this news item for an activated suprise Gathering link
Owh and while reading this you might check out 25 Years WGI Demo internally called a bit to late and also to soon C64 Demo.
Use the emulator you want.

Link active. Spoof? Or does the gathering do a hattrick? (we need sunshine........ this time!)

*edit. 3 files where corrupt from RKO 2011 Complete. Torrent has been replaced.

RKO-2012 Q1 Torrent available now.

As usual, get your latest remixes on RKO and go get the RKO-2012 Q-1 here. Do remember to keep seeding for a while after download.
Enjoy

*edit* Thanks for the 8 seeds, three were expected so hail to the other five.
18-04-12 One tune was truncated, updated the torrent with he correct version.

Gathering 2012 Dates Announced!

Yep, it's official!

The SLAY Radio Gathering is going to happen again in 2012 and it will be on the first week in August!

SATURDAY AUGUST 4th is the main day, with a barbecue at Keillers Park (weather permitting) in the daytime and the get-together in the function room of Kville Biljard in the evening.
FRIDAY AUGUST 3rd will, of course, be the Unofficially Official Pre-Gathering Gathering in the evening in the main room of Kville Biljard.

More information will become available soon, but in the meantime you can look at the SLAY Radio Gathering Hotspots map on Google Maps:
http://g.co/maps/4kkr5

A Facebook event has been created here.

See you there!

**EDIT**
Of COURSE we should have realized that there's something BIG happening in London around the same time - namely, the 2012 Olympics! This, unfortunately, is making airplane tickets to/from the UK rather expensive.

We understand that this may make travel for UK-based listeners difficult and we would like to apologize in advance. What we have decided for the moment, however, is that we are going to continue hosting the Gathering on the same date, to go with tradition. If the travel expenses are really too high this year, we're sorry, but rest assured that there will be another Gathering next year!


***EDIT 2***
Legal age for entrance to Kville Biljard (which counts as a pub) is 18 years, just so you know. Sorry to you younger listeners out there, but 18 is the minimum age to enjoy the full evening!

Best of Commodore 64 (C64 SID) remixes 2000 - 2011

Just in time for the Roty 2011 show here is the best of 2000-2011 torrent. Let's see if high votes also mean a place in the Roty!

Jarno Beumer did it again and collected the top 10-songs published on RKO of every year and shared this compilation as a torrent so the best C64-remixes are just a few mouseclicks away for anyone.

As 2011 ended, I send a polite request wich went something like this: Hey Jarno, you lazy git it's time to wake up and update that there best of torrrent, he promptly updated his torrent 2000-2009 and added the top 10 songs of 2010-2011 as well. Not to mention he went above and beyond duty and rechecked the previous years also. You want the very best of remixed C64-songs as vote for on RKO ? Go grab the Best of Commodore 64 (C64 SID) remixes 2000 - 2011.torrent here
As usual get your latest remixes on RKO and remember to keep seeding for a while after download.

Now something different LPChip requested a full rko torrent. Which is a bit to keep updated so I'm thinking of making a RKO First Decade and Second Decade torrent. First Decade is just the complete 2000 (since it has everything before that) Second decade will be 2001-2010. Thoughts, want it? leave a comment.
Misser

*edit
Ps. I place all my torrents in a sub dir called: "RKO C64" and then named after the torrent etc. This keeps it easy to make yearly torrents from quaterly etc. And also would make it easy to make a Second Decade torrent since that would be "RKO C64\RKO-20XX Complete dirs"
Meanwhile I cleaned up the tracker a bit with input form LPCHip. Hide the quarterly torrents. They will be serviced untill absolete.
*edit 2
Thee-hi seems 2001-2010 is just to big to handle for Slacker. So no decade torrents in a while.

HURRY!!! Remixer Of The Year Awards 2011

Howdy folks! As you may know, the voting is nearing its end for the yearly ROTY at Remix64.com.

Please hurry in with your votes before it's too late!

Go here to vote: Remixer Of The Year 2011

Also, did I mention time is almost up? Stop reading already, go! GO! NOW!

Happy New Year

Best wishes, love, smiles and healthyness for you and loved ones from all of us @SLAYRadio.

RKO Q4 and complete 2011 and some rumours. *Update*

As usual, get your latest remixes on RKO and go get the Q-4 2011 torrent here and since it´s almost the end of the year, get the Complete 2011 here also. Do remember to keep seeding for a while after download.
Enjoy

Downtime.

SLAY HQ is getting a remote energy reader installed, which means the main power line needs to get "tapped".
This in turn means there will be a few hours of downtime of the stream somewhere between 9.30 and 12.00 USRT.

Sorry for the inconvenience! We'll be back as soon as humanly possible!

Stream down

Ellu,

The streak of bad luck hits again - The stream is now down.
Will look into it in a couple of hours.

RKO Q3-2011 Updated

Hi all,
For your pleasure Q-3 2011 is here.

As usual get your latest remixes on RKO and go get the Q-3 2011 torrent here and remember to keep seeding for a while after download.
Enjoy
Misser
*Updated the torrent due two some corrupt songs, thanks for the headsup Christian

RKO Q2-2011

Hi all,
Somehow during the SLAY Radio Gathering, sounds came to me that the RKO Q2 torrent was missing. Surely I can't have that. So after getting home and doing a bit of a wind down with The Lex (actualy sleeping again now, wich is a good thing!) I now present you with the RKO Q2-2011 edition torrent.
Bla bla bla bla bla stuff why not posted etc. Those who know, they know and for the rest i’lI just quote ....

For your pleasure Q-2 2011 is here, bit late but enjoy;

As usual get your latest remixes on RKO and go get the Q-2 2011 here and remember to keep seeding for a while after download.
Enjoy
Misser (a.k.a. Mark / MarkieMark)

Gathering info for Saturday, today that is, if you must know

Good MorningDay fellow Gathererers!

As the ground most likely is quite damp from yesterday's raining, we will be collecting our collective selves over at Kville Biljard a little bit earlier than expected, and we will also be skipping the BBQ part this year due to this.
So, see you all at 3 over at Kville Biljard, where they kindly have agreed to open their doors 2 hours early, just for us!

[UPDATE: Resolved!] SLAY Radio DOWN Due to Relocation

* UPDATE: We are now streaming again, yay! Thanks for your patience, folks! [NOTE: Only 128kbps stream operational] *

Ello everyone,

We must apologise for the lack of news about this - it was mentioned briefly on the BBB towards the end of the show, but we forgot to post a news item as well!

You may have noticed that SLAY Radio has been down since Friday. This is because Slaygon has just moved house! (Congratulations to him, by the way.)

The bad news is that it means that the SLAY Radio Server was moved too - so the server has to be moved into place and the new internet connection has to be switched on by the provider.

Of course we are trying to get the stream back up ASAP, but because it involves some third-party participation, we can't give you a definite date or time just yet.

We'll let you know as soon as we have more info!

SLAY Radio Gathering 2011 is a GO!

Yep, it's happening again!

Saturday August 6 2011 marks another SLAY Radio Gathering. This is held in the home town of SLAY Radio - Gothenburg in Sweden. Weather permitting, it will consist of a barbecue on Keillers Park in the day time and then our privately booked room at Kville Biljard in the evening. And, as usual, there will be the Unofficially Official Pre-Gathering Gathering that has also become a custom on Friday night (August 5).

More info will be posted soon, but start thinking about booking those hotel rooms because they go quickly!

Ryanair flights take you to Gothenburg City Airport (Säve), all others to Landvetter Airport; both have bus services that take you into town. There are also bus and train services of course.

Here's the full info: http://www.slayradio.org/gathering.php :)

Hope to see you there!

There's also a Facebook event. Find it here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=131203540290298

RKO Q1 2011

Hi all,
As usual get your latest remixes on RKO and go get the Q-1 2011 here and remember to keep seeding for a while after download.
Enjoy
Misser

R.I.P. DJ Skitz

from Remix64 by Ffrenzy:
Wednesday night, after battling with a brain tumor for about 5 years, Paul Martin Hadrill, a.k.a. DJ Skitz, passed away in his sleep surrounded by family. My condolences to each and everyone of them and i think i speak for everyone on this board that he will be sorely missed.

DJskitz passed away.

I just read this news on RKO
Postby FFRenzy » 17/02/2011 - 20:19
Last night, after battling with a brain tumor for about 5 years, Paul Martin Hadrill, a.k.a. DJ Skitz, passed away in his sleep surrounded by family. My condolences to each and everyone of them and i think i speak for everyone on this board that he will be sorely missed.

Hail to Paul and condolences to his family

RKO Q4-2010 and Complete 2010 (Part Duex)

Hi all,
As I announced a few weeks back here they are even if a bit late. The RKO 2010-Q4 and complete 2010 torrents
As usual get your latest remixes on RKO and go get the Q-4 2010 Torrent and complete 2010 here and remember to keep seeding for a while after download.
Enjoy
Misser

Ps. I've done this for for the last 10 RKO years now so if anyone wants to take over this job in 2011 send an email to me at staff {@} slayradio.org (email is working again)

HURRY!

Less than a week to go!

Remixer Of The Year awards!

Go vote for your favourite remixers and songs right now!

(also; Happy New Year)

ROTY voting 2010

Much belated, this year's votings for Remixer Of The Year 2010 have begun. You can vote for your favourites in various categories, either at the ROTY tab in the voting box, or directly at the central ROTY voting page.

This year's ROTY show will be hosted by SLAY Radio.

Now, go vote!

RKO Q4-2010 and Complete 2010

*searching* for someone to take over the candle.
This quarter / year is the last time I'm collecting the tunes and make them available. I will help seeding but after 5 years and before collecting the other 5 years it’s time for someone else to take over.

Happy halloween

SLAY Radio downtime

You may have noticed it's very quiet on the SLAY Radio stream currently.

This is due to failing hardware at HQ. Two of the drives in the server decided to die at the same time, rendering the RAID5 useless. On this RAID, I had the MySQL tables, as well as the Mp3 archive.

Working on recovering from this crash, and expecting to get something up and running by tomorrow, if not earlier.

In the mean time, we do have a lovely archive of past shows you can enjoy.

Also, don't miss out on the roots, and "sister station", of SLAY Radio: The C64.COM SID Stream - Pure SID delight, recorded straight from real c64's!

UPDATE (2010-10-30): SQL database as well as Mp3 archive has been recovered from broken drives. We just might get up and running in a bit or 8 again.

One Man & His Mic PVCF Special

On October 14th 2010 you will be able to hear a brand new episode of the retro game music podcast 'One Man & His Mic' - hosted by the retro fiend
known as Kenz! For this show Kenz has teamed up with demoscene musician hero PVCF / Reflex and together they have produced an 80 minute PVCF special!

The show will feature classic PVCF C64 tunes (recorded from his very own SID chip), a stunning brand new remix of the scene mega-hit "My
Number is C64" and a brand new song from PVCF featuring C64 sounds called "I Am Back!"

As well as all these audio treats the show will also feature an exclusive interview with PVCF himself! So join Kenz & PVCF on October 14th 2010 at 8pm CET for the One Man & His Mic PVCF Special - and this is your chance to hear the show before it is officially released on the One Man & His Mic webpage!

Hush hush, just in from the forbidden forest. That there DD dutchies people might be back.

It seems some Dutchies are planning to take over the airwaves once again. Nothing is sollid and Skitz might finish his show (seems some DD people have a misplaced respect for Mr. Paul H.) Things are beeing worked out, for the moment 16-10-2010 @ ust 22:00 seems to be the sweet spot :P
K

This just in from the forbidden forest; The DD dutchies might be back.

It seems some Dutchies are planning to take over the airwaves once again. Nothing is sollid and Skitz might finish his show (seems some DD people have a misplaced respect for Mr. Paul H.) Things are beeing worked out, for the moment 16-10-2010 @ ust 22:00 seems to be the sweet spot :P
Meanwhile enjoy Sir SKitz and his 'lets get shit faced starting the weekend bit'
O
K!

*edit*
It was X-2010 and some drunken guys prompting the return of the mayhem and half the sanity that the DD seemed to be. We might have been clouded due to the intake of some free beer and some nice live performances. At least we have some time to do some shopping in between the shows!. (there might be a crap cam (tm) again but we might also go solo)

RKO Q4-2010 and Complete 2010 (Part Duex)

Hi all,
As I announced a few weeks back here they are even if a bit late. The RKO 2010-Q4 and complete 2010 torrents
As usual get your latest remixes on RKO and go get the Q-4 2010 Torrent and complete 2010 at here and remember to keep seeding for a while after download.
Enjoy
Misser

Ps. I've done this for 10 years now so if anyone wants to take over this job in 2011 send an email to me at staff {@} slayradio.org

SLAY Radio Hotline

So, the SLAY Radio Gathering is tantalisingly close now. If you log in to this site you will be taken to the updated Gathering web page which has an interactive Google Map with all the hot-spots on there. Also, there is news of an emergency line that you can call if you get lost or need to know where everyone is!

The direct link to the page is right here.

Hopefully see you there!

RKO Q2

Hi all,
A bit late again but having been fired from my daily job and NL playing for the world cup kept me distracted. Go get the RKO - Q2 torrent at the usual place, I think I didn't miss one off them.
As usual get your latest remixes on RKO and go get the Q-2 2010 Torrent here and remember to keep seeding for a while after download.
Enjoy
M

SLAY Radio Gathering 2010

Elluuuu! You may have heard rumors about this thing called the SLAY Radio Gathering - They are true! It will happen again, as usual.
We have taken the liberty to interpret the last weekend of July as the first weekend of August, because, technically, it actually is!

So, book your calendars and vacations to cover July 30 to August 1st, because that will be when we once again meet up and have a chin-wag!

And as usual, the Friday is dedicated to the pre-gathering pissup, while the Saturday is the main day. We try to be flexible weather-wise, so if it's sunny, we'll do the regular BBQ (or perhaps a BBB - Boz's Big BBQ?), otherwise we'll come up with something else.

In any case, I would like to ask you all to log in to these pages and vote on the Gathering poll. Just so we have a rough idea of how many people we are looking at.
(if you're logged in already, try this)
KTHX :)

See you in August! Err... July! Well, both!

RKO-2010 Q1 Torrent

Hi all,

Spring finally arrived and the sun is slowly showing it's rays over Europe. Even though this easter weekend it's pooring rain I hope the Q1 collection of RKO 2010 helps pass the time a bit.

As usual get your latest remixes on RKO and go get the Q-1 2010 Torrent here and remember to keep seeding for a while after download.

Enjoy

Free TCP packets, only today!

As you may be familiar with, SLAY Radio has been shuffling those packets in your general direction for yonks, and for free, but this will have an end shortly.

Today will be the last day to apply for a lifetime supply of free SLAY Radio TCP packets!

In the near future, we are forced to go under-ground. You saw the first signs of this last year around this time when the site went all dark (luckily that didn't last too long, and also gave the emo type people among you the opportunity to actually use the dark theme (as I do) if you wanted to!). Anyway, I digress...

Exactly what these changes entail is not yet entirely clear - Legal business is not second nature to me. What is clear, however, is that we have a limited number of listener slots to give away.

This prompts us to make this post, because it is here, on these pages, that you have your accounts and also where we can be absolutely sure the order in which replies are being made comes in. We chose this over email, since, unfortunately, we have absolutely zero tracking on the order they come in through there.

Was that unclear? Ok. I'll make it easier:

* Post reply to this saying you claim a listener slot
* Await further instructions

Easy, eh?

Testicles. That is all.

EDIT: Of course it was a April fools thing! Although, those of you who claimed a slot will receive something in their mailboxes! I think... yes... they will be Free TCP packets! :)

Remix64.com back online!

As many of you have noticed, remix64.com has been down a couple of days. It has now come back online after LMan has revamped the backend and added a few new features.

Read more about it at Remix64.com!

Welcome back R64!

mind.in.a.box - R.E.T.R.O

As some of you have noticed, mind.in.a.box is about to release a new album, which is called R.E.T.R.O and will be available on the 26th of February in Europe.
SLAY Radio will be adding one new song daily from the album to the rotational until we have arrived at the 26th.

Keep your eyes and ears on the rotational!

Big thanks to Stefan Poiss for sending the promo album over! We're loving it!

Best of Commodore 64 (C64 SID) remixes 2000 - 2009

For his holiday in october 2009, Jarno Beumer collected the top 10-songs published on http://remix.kwed.org of every year and shared this compilation as a torrent so the best C64-remixes are just a few mouseclicks away for anyone.

As 2009 ended, he updated this torrent and added the top 10 songs of 2009 as well. You want the very best of remixed C64-songs? Go grab the Best of Commodore 64 (C64 SID) remixes 2000 - 2009-torrent here
As usual get your latest remixes on RKO and remember to keep seeding for a while after download.

RKO 2009 Q4 and 2009 Complete Torrents

Best wishes, happiness and healthiness for you all in 2010.

Let's start the new year with some nice remixes. Have a go at 2009-Q4 or why not get 2009 Complete? As usual get your latest remixes on RKO and go get the Q-4 2009 and 2009 Complete Torrents here and remember to keep seeding for a while after download.

Enjoy

RKO 2009 Q3 Torrent

Hi all,

I've been busy lately but my I present you with the Q3-2009 RKO Torrent with 44 new and 1 fixed Q2 tunes to take away with you.
As usual get your latest remixes on RKO and go get the Q-3 2009 here and remember to keep seeding for a while after download.

Hopefully this nice new additions will make the autumn days more enjoyable.
Enjoy

SLAY Radio on Nokia N97

Hello tech freaks!

Thought you might be interested in playing SLAY Radio on your Nokia N97. If so, head over to Jamie Fuller's blog and pick his neat app up!

In the words of Jamie:
"Its still a very early version, it has little or no error checking, and you use at your own risk but... If you want to use it you can.

Please note this was written in Python and so requires the latest runtimes, tested successfully on 1.9.7."

Happy SLAYing!

SLAY Radio in Hive Rise

Hi all gamers!


Hive Rise is a high-speed realtime strategy game with fast action in between!
Compete for free against thousands of other players and decorate yourself with great trophies!

2023 - Since the wars between enemy nations were dying out at the beginning of the 21st century, someone had to ensure a fresh supply of senseless violence. The solution: Hive Rise! The TV-Show, in which bored millionaires, car tinkers and retired generals can do a live and uncensored arms race.

On a gigantic battleground somewhere in the desert sand opposing camps are neatly lined up. From here the teams are facing each other, using highly specialized mercenaries and the latest military equipment.
Be there when it`s time for everbody against everbody, you against all and all against YOU!

Since the release on August 3, SLAY Radio has been an ingame radio partner!

IMPORTANT REMINDER about the Gathering this weekend

The Gathering is this weekend (Friday 7th and Saturday 8th August), so if you need details on how to get there and so forth, remember to login to this site - the first page to appear when you've done that will show you the details!

Here's a quick reminder of the itinerary: Friday is the "Unofficially Official Pre-Gathering Gathering" (i.e. an excuse to catch up, gossip and drink) and starts in the evening at Kville Biljard.

Saturday evening is also at Kville Biljard, but in the private room at the back of the building. This starts at around 20:00 local time.

On Saturday daytime, the tradition has been to go to Keillers Park and eat some barbecued food. People typically take an "engångsgrill" (single-use barbecue) up there around midday-ish and hang out with the crowd. We've been lucky with the weather before, and the forecast so far says it should be sunny and warm with scattered clouds. If it decides to be typical Gothenburg weather, however, then you can either find a pizzeria or restaurant until the evening (or, Kville Biljard itself has an excellent menu).

KVILLE BILJARD website: www.kvillebiljard.com (in Swedish); Google Map for this is http://tinyurl.com/kvfskr.

KEILLERS PARK location on Google Maps: http://tinyurl.com/lcmht8

If you have more questions, the best thing to do is head for Kville Biljard; that's the main meeting point!

Thanks and hope to see you soon!

T-shirt creative design contest

Read in the comments: How about creating your own slayradio t-shirt at home and show it to everybody on the gathering's fashionshow :)

The winner's shirt might be adopted in the slayradio shop.

Fourth Immortal CD - and you're invited!

Ello!

Got some exciting news regarding a fourth "Immortal" CD in the making, full of Amiga remixes. It seems that one track could be arranged by YOU! I'll let Jan explain it himself:

Jan Zottmann, executive producer of the acclaimed "Immortal" series (http://www.amiga-immortal.com) of CDs featuring arranged music from games released for the Commodore Amiga, and composer Jolyon Myers are looking for a talented arranger to work on a CD version of the music from the Amiga version of "Final Fight". The game was more or less a direct conversion of Capcom's arcade classic, but it featured an entirely different score written by Myers. You can download this music from http://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Final_Fight or listen to it on Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQsVhlI3eH0).

Jan says: “This is your chance to become a member of the ‘Immortal’ team and publish your arrangement of ‘Final Fight’ on an album that features musicians such as Chris Huelsbeck, Andrew Barnabas, Allister Brimble, and many others”. Participating artists are free to choose the style of the arrangement on their own, the final track should have a running time of at least 4 minutes though. Demos should be submitted in mp3 format to jzottmann [AT] synsoniq.com no later than August 31. Jolyon Myers will personally select the best entry (and eventually give some input for the production of the final version which has to be submitted late September / early October 2009). Runner-ups will receive a credit in the CD booklet as well as a free copy of the “Immortal 4” album. There will also be an opportunity to present these arrangements on the AmigaRemix platform (http://www.amigaremix.com).

Jolyon says: “It's an honor that the Final Fight theme has been chosen for placement on the latest ’Immortal’ CD as Jan has always brought together really talented musicians to re-create fantastic blasts from the past in a new and innovative way. I can’t wait to hear what you guys do with this track and hopefully it will be you that gets your remix on the disc!”

So, if you're interested, get your favorite music composer out and go for it!

Regarding the matter of Paralax

[i]First of all - Very sorry for this lengthy post, but we feel it is necessary. It will be posted as a news item and as a forum post on remix64.com.[/i]

[b]Regarding the matter of Manuel Sehrbrock, a.k.a. Paralax, a.k.a owner of radio-paralax.de.[/b]

Spamming. Death threats. Generally hostile behaviour. For a number of years now Paralax has been pestering the scene, not only by being a general pain in the arse, but much worse - there are documented cases of him threatening people’s lives, calling them at their homes, sending threatening emails, handing out threats on IRC; You name it, he has done it.

For a long time we only considered this character an annoyance, but he has proven, time after time, that he is so much more than that. We have given him every chance possible to be a decent person - even helping him get his radio station online and promoting him.

This, however, was not enough for Paralax. He not only thinks that we are the "big evil" and out to get him, but that we are hindering him from growth. Nothing could be farther from the truth - we have done everything in our power to help this chap with his endevour, but nothing short of shutting our own sites down seem to be good enough for him.

Here are a few recent examples of the kind of communication skills Paralax has displayed. First a little tidbit that a number of scene people woke up to one morning on IRC:

"I wish you dearly that you will die a long and painfully death visited by the cholera or something like that. I will give a PARTY then and WE ALL will celebrate it!"

Isn't that cute? The sending IP address resolved to Paralax' home town.

But wait. There's more! Facebook invitations en masse and emails are not uncommon. Nor are mass subscriptions to our services with fake accounts, posing as known sceners, used for various methods of spamming on said services.

Here's just the latest batch, made recently on the SLAY Radio shoutbox:

2009-06-23 05:39.10 - the_sie_: Finally!!! Radio Paralax 4 ever! :)
2009-06-23 05:27.35 - subzero_: Indeed! Let's rock!!! :)
2009-06-23 05:25.25 - makke_: Good idea! I will tune in Paralax as well! :)
2009-06-23 05:22.55 - ffloaf: Well, there's the Chillout-Zone with DJ Micha on wednesday.
2009-06-23 05:17.18 - boz_: There are some more shows announced?
2009-06-23 05:14.55 - cpt_chaos_: Yeah! Let's rock on www.radio-paralax.de tonight. :D
2009-06-23 05:13.01 - dumper_: Sounds good! I will tune in today at 21:15 CET
2009-06-23 05:10.33 - fnordpojk_: Seems to be the Free Jump with DJ Apprentice.
2009-06-23 05:07.18 - slaygon1971: Wohoo! Let's see what our new partner radio-paralax has announce

The above shows 9 different fake accounts he was using on that day alone. To show a bit of statistics, out of 63,922 shouts to date, only 362 have had to be deleted - ALL of them made by Paralax.
The exact amount of his faked accounts, that we’ve had to delete over the years, we don’t really know, but a fair guess would be that the numbers are in the same region as deleted shoutbox posts.

We have tried ignoring him. That didn't work. We have tried communicating with him "behind the scenes". That didn't work. The option we are left with is full exposure. So here you are, Paralax. You’ve finally managed to tip everyone over the edge.

For historical reasons, we’ve unhidden the news post from back in July 2006 asking the community to ignore this guy (see "Selected further reading" below for reference). We actually removed that post on request from Paralax himself after having a long discussion with him regarding his behaviour. We see no reason to keep it removed any more.

Also, we’d like to encourage everyone to post their experience with this person as a reply to this post.

Thank you for your attention.

- The SLAY Radio Staff.


Selected further reading:

http://www.slayradio.org/archived_news.php?news_item=55
http://www.remix64.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6869
http://www.remix64.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=6893
http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=5376&page=1
http://scenesat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=151
http://scenesat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=286
http://ziphoid.com/parachat.php
http://zurl.se/para/

RKO 2009-Q2 Torrent

Another quarter has passed, summer is upon us. Time for vacation, relaxation and getting ready for The Gathering on 08-08-2009. Here is the Q2-2009 RKO Torrent with 86 new tunes to take away with you.

As usual get your latest remixes on RKO and go get the Q-2 2009 here and remember to keep seeding for a while after download.

Hope this nice new additions will make the sunny days even more enjoyable.

Enjoy

SLAY Radio goes Wifi

Hey folks,

Ever wanted to build your very own SLAY Radio Wifi box? MightyOhm has made an excellent tutorial on just how you can go about doing that!
Check out the video and the tutorial itself!

Great stuff, MightyOhm! =)

10th Anniversary SLAY Radio Gathering.

As you may be aware now, every year we hold the SLAY Radio Gathering on the first weekend of August. This year is no exception! However, it is going to be a rather special occasion, because this year SLAY Radio will have been running for ten whole years!

Because of this, we want to make this year's Gathering something special - and this is where you can help! We would like your suggestions - however big, small, sensible or downright silly - to make this an unforgettable event. Post any idea that comes to mind here. Please feel free to fill it with anything that comes to mind and we will collectively stroke our beards on how to fit it into the event.

Remember, any and all suggestions will be considered, so get typing!

UPDATE: DATE HAS CHANGED!!!
It would appear as if there's this small band, that you may have heard of, called U2 that have a gig in town the same date as the SLAY Radio Gathering was supposed to happen. This would normally be no problem, since we know U2 are major fans of the Commodore 64 and SLAY Radio, but apparently they had to drag the entire northen hemisphere with them to town. This, of course, means that not only are all hotels fully booked already, but you may even have a hard time finding a spot to put down that cardboard box for a good nights sleep!

And this, ladies and gents, means that we were forced to switch the date to the weekend after the intended one. If anyone already booked a flight, train or other type of transportation, please drop us an email at gathering at slayradio.org and we'll try to sort you out the best we can!

So. AUGUST 8. This is the date of the main event.

RKO Q1 Remixes

A quarter has passed, spring is finally showing its face so it's time to bring you the Q1-2009 RKO Torrent.

As usual get your latest remixes on RKO and go get the Q-1 2009 here and remember to keep seeding for a while after download.

Hope this nice new additions will smoothen the hopefully few rainy days ahead.

Enjoy

10 Year Anniversary - SLAY Radio Gathering

Hey folks!

As you know, the SLAY Radio Gathering has been held for a number of years now, and always on the first weekend of August. Log in to make your suggestion to what you would like to do to make this occation special! It is after all the 10 year anniversary of SLAY Radio!

A new year so it's time for the RKO Q4-2008 and complete 2008 collection.

Welcome to the New Year

First off all the best wishes, joy and happiness to you and your beloved ones.

Another quarter has passed and so did the year 2008! Time to bring you the Q4-2008 and Complete 2008 RKO Torrent's then.
As usual get your latest remixes on RKO and go get the Q-4 2008 or the Complete 2008 torrent here and remember to keep seeding for a while after download.
Hope this nice new additions will smoothen the hangover / tiredness recovery from the festivities. Enjoy

Don't forget to vote for remixer of the year at Remix64

*edit* want to help seed and you have q1-3 already. Just download the RKO 2008 Complete torrent and point the save spot to the root dir where you saved RKO-2008 Q1/Q2 and Q3. Mind you this will only work if you saved the previous torrents into the same directory.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to you all!

I hope Santa has been nice to you, and that you got all the presents you wished for!
However, if Santa failed, Reyn has been busy creating a few complimentary presents for you, which you can view over at youtube:

Wizball
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTSUR3RHh9M&fmt=18

Wizball highscore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7niD6i4020&fmt=18

See you all real soon!

Remixer of The Year Awards

Yet another year of fantastic c64 and Amiga remixes is drawing to a close. That means we'll soon be announcing the Remixer Of The Year 2008 awards!

So ladies and gents, please begin voting!

To do so, head over to the ROTY page at Remix64.

RKO 2008 Q3 Torrent

Evening on this rainy autumn day.

The Gathering came and went, BIT'08 Stockholm has passed and so has another quarter! Time to bring you the Q3 RKO Torrent then.
As usual get your latest remixes on RKO and go get the Q-3 2008 torrent here and remember to keep seeding after download.
Hope this keeps all of you happy until the first few days of the new year!

I'll be back!

Report: Network status

Hiya!

You may have noticed some major issues with the stream the past week or two. This is due to SLAY Radio running off of the backup connection since the primary connection has been down.

According to the primary ISP, this is the story - The gear in the station I am connected to has some messed up software on it that led to some odd behaviour. The first glitch was noticed two weeks ago when there was an unexpected service outage on the provider's end. After they restarted their gear, it still wouldn't work, so I had to leave work early to physically restart the modem. The restart helped, and everything was working nice and smooth.

But only for a while... Exactly one week (almost to the hour) the network suddenly died again. I hopped on the tram to get home to restart the modem. Got home, switched the modem off, waited, switched it on and... nothing. Um. Repeat above steps... Nothing... Called the ISP who said "oi! don't restart your modem, it will break!" ... Eh... So... GAH! WTF you ask me to do that for then?!

So, we are now stuck with the backup connection.

Lucky we got that, eh? So, why is the connection so shaky? I call my backup ISP up and explain the situation. They ask me to reboot windows.
Say what now?! I explain to them that the problem is -not- at my house, but further out in the network, in their gear. Dude on the other end says "Wow! How do you know that?" ... Ehm... "Heard of traceroute? Ping?" ... "Wut?". Oh, and they don't support linux. They don't support BSD. They support Windows. And Mac. I guess they don't support OSX since it's built on Darwin, which in turn is a BSD type system.

*sigh*

So, the situation is this;

Primary ISP at least know the problem is on their end and are trying to resolve it by making some changes to the station I'm hooked up to.
Secondary ISP plays pocket ping-pong while I try to solve -their- problem.

From the latest talk I had with the primary ISP, the word is that it should be sorted by Friday the latest. I REALLY hope it will be.


Shake it baby!


/Slaygon

[b]EDIT[/b]: Are you surprised? Friday has passed. It is now early Tuesday CEST time, and the situation remains. Latest word is Wednesday. Keep your fingers crossed, hold your thumbs or whatever you normally do to wish good on something!

Glitches

G'day all,
Seems there are some fishy things going on at SlayHQ. That means the home network is kinda down and won't be fixed untill after work hours. Just look at this message if it's gone the stream should be back on. We know it's twice in a short while but maybe a little unexpected show sometime this week might brighten things up. Just keep a eye out to the RSS feed or your email.

In the meantime it should be a good time to have a look/listen at the latest release on http://remix.kwed.org/

SLAY HQ down.

Hiya.

The SLAY HQ network went down at 10 to 2 CEST. It will be back at about 16:30 again. The Secret Service shall be postponed until the network is back up.

I have been bitching majorly at my ISP for this. It seems that when they have an unplanned outage, the bloody modem needs to be rebooted manually! GAH! Bloody hell!
Easy to do that from work!

Anyhoo, I shall quit work earlier to get home to sort this very soon!

Edit: Aaaand, we're back!

Internet connection upgrade at SLAY HQ on Thursday

Hiya!

SLAY HQ is upgrading the primary internet connection some time during Thursday the 28th. This means we will be using the backup connection from Thursday morning until the new primary is up and running. Hopefully this won't affect Reyn's broadcast on Thursday too much (which it shouldn't).

And no, the time for the upgrade is not decided by me. It is all up to the ISP.

Anyhoo, just thought you wanted to know. =)

Reyn's GrandMix 2008 [1st of three]

Hello listeners and remixers!

In Holland there was this guy in the '80's and '90's called Ben Liebrand, who mixed all the hit songs from that year into a one hour long track. I loved those remixes, and I thought it would be nice to take new tracks from RKO and put them in one big long remix.

I took tracks from the first 4 months of the year and there are now 32 different tracks pressed into this first GrandMix which is 40 minutes long. If I would do all three Grandmixes this year every 4 months (to make the full year) in the end combining them would mean a 2 hour GrandMix 2008! Could be a fun beginning of next year!

I'm gonna broadcast the first remix next Thursday 28th of August at 20:00! Be on time!

And keep on remixing! I need the material! Let's make this a great Remix64 year!!

Cheers,

Reyn.

Radio Stream Down

Just to keep you guys in the know that the Slay HQ network is down at the moment. Consequently, all radio relays are down too. Rumours are flying that Boz has tripped over the wire while running to the fridge to get a beer, but these have been unfounded and Boz swears he's nowhere near SlayHQ right now.

A bunch of Little Computer People are rushing back to SlayHQ to plug the funny-looking cable thingy into the odd-shaped hole (technical terms) as soon as possible - 17:30 CEST is the latest estimated time.

Gathering Weather Alert

[img]http://www.slayradio.org/images/slaypool.png[/img]

We've been keeping a close eye on the weather here at SlayHQ and, although we're having damned good weather at the moment, Fate shows us her crappy hand and it looks like we're faced with showers on Saturday daytime, when we're supposed to be out on Keillers Park, setting fires underneath chunks of dead meat. Proof that Earth is being run on Vista.

If we're given a stroke of luck -- which has happened on the past couple of Gatherings -- the weathermen have got it wrong and it will be a fine day with the grass all dried up, in which case we can continue with the plan. If, however, it's raining or considered too damp, then it's going to be Plan B.

Unfortunately there is no official Plan B because we at SLAY Radio refuse to believe that it can rain on a Gathering. One suggestion, however, is just to turn up at Kville Biljard early and select a dish from their menu. They've changed chefs - and the menu - recently, and the food is what can only be described as "scrummy". I believe the Swedes would say "Mums fille babba!"

If you want to keep your eye on the weather, you can use this link to have a look, provided by The Weather Channel.

Good luck everybody!

SLAY Radio Gathering drawing near!

[img]http://www.slayradio.org/images/slaypool.png[/img]

Yes! It is soon time for the SLAY Radio Gathering! Today, I was scouting the VIP area of Kville Biljard out. Sorting some sort of internet connection could be done, so it is not entirely impossible there will be some sort of broadcast from there!

Oh, and the pool tables in the VIP area will be free to use for everyone the entire evening!
I challenge you to a game. Yes, YOU!

See you folks soon!

Boz Adds: Västtrafik, in their infinite wisdom, have decided to perform repairs on the tramline over the bridge that the trams go over. This means that you won't be able to take the tram from Nordstan / Central Station to Kville. Instead, you can take busses 17, 21 and 25. They are also run by Västtrafik and cost the same price. More info on the Gathering page.

RKO 2008 Q2 Torrent

Hiya,
It's been a while and I almost forgot to add the torrent, not to mention to make it know last time. So here is me improving on two things with one 'download' and an announcement it is the Q2 RKO torrent of 2008.

As usual get your latest remixes on RKO and go get the Q-2 2008 torrent here and remember to keep seeding after download.

Seems almost being one month early Q1 I got confused :)

Networking problems

Hiya!

We seem to have a gli-gli-glitch in the system. The network at SLAY HQ went down earlier. I have just arrived at home so I can plug in the spare 10mbit connection to get things rolling again.
We have partial connection up and running now... Reporting back again soon.

Cheers!

[b]Update[/b]: We seem to have all functionality back now. Everything running on the spare connection until the situation with the ISP is resolved.

Slightly changed design.

Heya.

If you log in, you will notice a few design changes. If you have any sort of input (praise or otherwise), or bug reports regarding that, don't hesitate to get in contact with us!

Cheers!

SLAY Radio Gathering Here Again! (2nd August 2008)

This August sees us put on the fourth SLAY Radio Gathering! The previous three have been very successful, so we're going to hold it around the same date - the first weekend in August.

Friday 1st August will be the unofficial "pre-Gathering Gathering" where you can meet up for a few drinks and a chat at Kville Biljard in the evening. The main date is Saturday 2nd August, where we have a barbecue up on Keillers Park in the daytime, and then on to the private function room in Kville Biljard for the evening party.

More information can be found on this page, which includes directions, travel info and accomodation ideas. We also ask that you answer the poll at the top of that page, once you have a good idea of what you're doing, so we can have a rough estimate of numbers.

Hope to see you there!

Back in Time Live Stockholm 2008 (September 13th 2008)

Yes, it's a fact! Start chatting about expectations and such things over at www.remix64.com and keep your eyes fixed to www.backintimelive.com as we will fill that site with more information soon.

Also, don't miss the pre-show aired on SLAY Radio exactly 6 months before the actual event on March 13th at 20:00 CET!

Live show archive

After some time of testing, the integrated show archive is now opened.

As you can see on the left hand side here, the latest 5 shows are directly linked to an mp3 download. There is also the Download page with all shows available for download.

And of course there is an RSS feed for you! This one is podcast friendly and includes an enclosure link.

Live show archive

Enjoy!

Vote for new C64 tune to be played live by C64 Orchestra.

Just found this in my mail.

Dear C64 orchestra fan,
We hope you enjoyed the looks of RUN 10 as well as the tunes on the cd. As you will know this is only a small selection of the vast amount of tunes available! For the coming live shows we want to broaden our repertoire with new tunes and we are looking for your help with picking the nicest. To make life a little easier for us we asked Rob Hubbard and Jeroen Tel to nominate a couple of games.
C64 game tunes nominated by Jeroen Tel are:
1. Cybernoid 1
2. Poseidon: Planet Eleven (Title tune)
3. Rubicon (Title tune)
C64 game tunes nominated by Rob Hubbard are:
1. Spellbound
2. Nemesis the warlock
3. Rasputin
4. Kentilla
5. Dragons Lair
6. Auf Wiedersehen Monty
So help us by mailing your most favourite selection and please limit your choice to 3! We also want to know which C64 game tune of other composers we definitely have to play in the future. Feel free to forward this question to your friends and anyone who will have an opinion on this quest for the best C64 game music.
Send an email to C64orchestra@ONinternet.nl

So get voting and send an email to the above address even if you're not able to attend the show.

REYN vs COPARCK - Paradiso YouTube videos

For the people that missed the show last thursday, I put some videos online of the set I played in Paradiso Amsterdam!

For the after-show of Coparck's last concert of their ‘3rd ALBUM-TOUR (an album produced by yours truly), I played a special set with 10 'live remixes' made of Coparck songs... Should be making more sense if you knew the original Coparck tracks, but hopefully you guys and grrrls can still enjoy this!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbauopyYEzQ&feature=user
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azYAhFRLh7E&feature=user
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmPd4IorfM4&feature=user
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0hLhRm7U-8&feature=user
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRgcWVb9fsU&feature=user
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VacfLghIgrM&feature=user
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sflYXKeva3I&feature=user
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=966XMSIiPpk&feature=user
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH28IEcFL0c&feature=user
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0JiDJuE-Fw&feature=user

Enjoy! And see ya at the next Sunday Service on the 3rd of Februari!

Reyn.

www.coparck.com / www.reyn.net

REYN - Live in Paradiso!

REYN - Live in Paradiso!

On 17 January 2008 Reyn will be performing solo and live in Paradiso, Amsterdam. Coparck has invited Reyn to do a performance in the "Bovenzaal", and he will be joining Coparck on stage as well.

For ticket info and time table : www.paradiso.nl

http://www.reyn.net/coparck.jpg
www.reyn.net / www.coparck.com

RKO 2007 Q4 update and Complete year.

Hiya,

X-Mas has come and went so in preparation for the 2007-Q4 and 2007 Complete RKO Torrents which will be hitting this place somewhere around early Jan 2008 I did some long over due work and updated it with the RKO 2006 Complete upload year. This is just a combination of the previous torrents (RKO upload Year 2006 till 25-10-2006 and RKO 2006 Q4 Update) so if you have them and want to seed, just copy those 2 dirs into a new dir called RKO-2006 Complete and point the new torrent to it.

As usual get your latests remixes on RKO and go get the 2006 torrent here and remember to keep seeding after download.

Stay tuned for more in about a week.

[b]Update 01-01-2008 about 03:29 CET[/b]

First off all let me wish everyone an happy new year filled with love and most off all good health.

I just came home from a nice night and wasn't to tired so I uploaded the RKO 2007 Q4 and RKO 20007 Complete year torrents. As usual get your latests remixes on RKO and go get the torrents here and remember to keep seeding after download. *faster than expected eh L_P* ? :)

Merry Christmas!

Just a quick message to wish you all a Merry Christmas!

Hope you all have a nice and quiet one!

Article on CNN about the C64

Don't miss this new article on CNN about the C64: http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/12/07/c64/index.html, featuring interviews with author Brian Bagnall, Theo from Press Play on Tape, and... me. Our mission continues...

C64 orchestra- RUN 10 about to be released!

I just checked my email and found a little surprise in there. Needless to say I ordered my copy before posting this. I can't take the risk of losing such a special package :)

[quote=""]Dear c64 lovers!

The quest is almost done, today we are assembling the final parts of the cd RUN 10. The launch date is the 12th of November so we are almost there!

25 years after Commodore introduced the C64 computer, productiehuis ON asked Rob Hubbard to make orchestral arrangements of the music written by him and Jeroen Tel for some of the most popular C64 games. Check out this piece of art that the music of "C64 orchestra - Run 10" in combination with this unique packaging and a second disc with the original tunes and special features represents!

For more information or to order it now direct using pay pall [url=http://www.oninternet.nl/project.asp?projectId=40.]Look Here[/url][/quote]

*Edit*
I just had contact with the producer off RUN 10, SLAYRadio has confirmation to play them during live shows and put the tunes on the rotational . So expect them shortly. But do remember to visit the site and buy the album if you like it (the package is worth it imho). An Itunes download is planned and depending on the sales off the Special Edition album a cheaper 'jewel case' version is also an option.

Happy halloween!

Web server downtime

On Monday, 12th of November 2007, the web server will go down.
A drive has failed in the RAID, and needs replacing. The downtime will occur some time after 16:40 USRT.

Thanks to [b]jgb[/b] for kindly donating the new 160GB SATA drive and [b]fnordpojk[/b] for installation help!

[b]Note[/b]: The stream will not be affected by this.

[b]Edit[/b]: Disk replaced, RAID is resyncing, everything is fine.
[b]Edit[/b]: Sync done.

Song and live show discussions

[b]Hola amigos & amigas![/b]

I have added yet another feature to the pages: Song discussions.

Head over to this page to see the thing in action, and if you're logged in, be part of it too!

Or just use the "Discuss" links on the NOW PLAYING bit to the left here, or in the Request Song, Song History and Queue area. Which ever floats your boat!

And of course there's an RSS feed: Song discussions

Oh, almost forgot... There is a Discuss history page too, which shows the 50 latest entries.

I encourage all remixers to enter some information about their remixes to the discussion boards!
The more information, the funnier!


[b]Edit[/b]: Now you can discuss live shows too!


Cheers!

SID, Remix64, RKO and C64.COM info

Want to know more about the remix that is currently playing?

No problem! I have now added SID, Remix64 and RKO info where available to each song that plays on the rotational.

As usual, report any bugs to me. Thank you, and enjoy! :)

[b]Update 2007-11-13[/b]: I have now added links to C64.COM if there are games or demos using the particular SID. Thanks to Andreas, Ville and Andry for the work on the C64.COM end to make this happen!

New stream server

Ellu!

You hopefully didn't notice when the stream went down two days ago for an upgrade. The old dual P3-800 was shut down, and the new Dell Poweredge 1800 was brought in. All features that were in the old one are in this new one aswell, but there are some slight changes, such as upgrading the streaming software to run SAM v4 instead of v3.

If you notice anything weird in the setup, with requests or sound quality in particular, don't hesitate to tell me!

Cheerio!

Eurotrip

Yes,

Slaygon is on that Eurotrip thing again. If you want to follow his progress, head over to The Diary Page.
Episode 1 - "Hannanas"
Episode 2 - "The MAnnaria"
Episode 3 - "Romeo Late Knight"

Past: Hanna Kappelin, Makke - Malmö, Lagerfeldt - Copenhagen, Johannes Lindén - Kristianstad, Anna Black, Maria Pinero - London, Romeo Knight - Düsseldorf, meis - Alkmaar, Misser - Rotterdam, Reyn Ouwehand - Wijdenes, Mira (that there sister of mine) - Stockholm
Currently at: HOME!

SLAY Radio Gathering 2007

Oh, yes!

We are back with yet another Gathering! Same concept as last time - Get together, chat, throw some dead animal on the bbq (or chopped veggies - which ever you prefer), drink some beer, talk some more, have some more beer, talking... You get the picture, eh?

Get all the details right here.

See you there!
Or here. Err... Right...

Boz Needs Your Help!

Boz -- some bloke who utters random nonsense for SLAY Radio every Wednesday -- needs your help! In order to integrate and stay in Sweden, he needs a job. He specializes in the IT sector, although he's willing to entertain other branches too; preferably in Gothenburg.



If you think you can help in any way, please contact Boz at boz[at]slayradio.org. An online C.V. is also available from http://www.AlistairBowness.info .



Thank you for your time!

C64audio.com re-launch!

If you haven't noticed already, c64audio.com re-launched with a brand new site, loads of new features, free downloads and a couple new releases.

The site now also contains loads of bonus material to some of the CDs, which can be downloaded without any extra charge after purchase. Soon to be added are bonus material for Makke's It's Binary, Baby - containing instrumental versions, demos and tracks that didn't make the final cut for the actual album.

Don't miss out! Head over to c64audio.com now!

Tunes to download

Q1 2007 has come and went so it is time for an update of the remixes released on RKO the last three months. Go get the torrent here and remember to keep seeding after download.

On a side note it is April fools day today so let's have some fun teasing people.

*edit* 2007-07-01 00:51
Q2 2007 is now also available.

IPv6 support is here!

IcePic has gone and done it again!
First, he provides you lot with the relay on port 80, and now he is giving you our first IPv6 relay, so head off and be the nerd you always wanted and play around a bit. :)

To use it, tune in at http://relayipv6.slayradio.org:8000/

Lovely new music!

Thanks to the graciousness of Wonderland Records and Thermostatic, we now have permission to play Thermostatic's music on air!

For those of you who've missed the Gothenburg-based band, their music is a mixture of grooving SIDStation sounds and lovely female vocals.

Premiered on SLAY Radio on tonight's Saturday Night Warmup to rave reviews, their tracks will be showing up in the list of requestable tracks soon.

Enjoy!

[Edit 2007-03-11]: Five tracks have now been added as a teaser to whet your appetites. ;)
[Edit 2007-05-09]: The above tracks have been switched out for the rest of the album tracks!

Richard Joseph passed away.

The past Sunday, we received news that Richard Joseph had passed away after struggling against lung cancer for some time.

I had the opportunity to meet the man twice, and he was a genuinly good guy to talk to.

You will be sorely missed, Richard.


For a discussion, see the Remix 64 thread about this.

[Edit]: I just added a few of Richard Joseph's SID tunes to the rotational. Thank you Kenz for providing me with them and to Andreas Wallström for suggesting it!

The Fleming Show is back!

Every second Thursday starting February 15th at 20:00 CET, The Fleming Show is back on SLAY Radio. The show will be hosted by Andreas Wallström (a.k.a. Morpheus of Flash Incorporated) as usual. Apart from the usual mayhem that kind of is The Fleming Show signature, Andreas is going to make his listeners more active in the show by getting them live on air for a chat and request. People from the scene will pop by, celebrity interviews will be made, clothes will be ironed, exclusives will be played, arse-pineapples will fly about, but most importantly: the music will be strictly C64 SID's, C64 remixes, and C64 related music. Don't miss this one out!

Some improvements

Hi,

As you may have noticed, there has been some glitches in the Matrix... err... stream lately.
Most of these has been due to some new stuff being implemented. Here's a little list of what has happened:

On the server end the following has happened:
* Upgraded version of SAM Broadcaster on the server
* New version of the compressor/limiter/EQ software, courtesy of Liket Leif
* We're not using the built-in encoders in SAM anymore, but something called LeifCast instead. Also courtesy of above mentioned Leif (DUH!)
* DJs are now able to get on air all by themselves using the automation scripts I've written (sounds simple enough, but there was more to it than you might think)
* The 24kbps and 56kbps streams are now using aacPlus for encoding. The 56kbps stream now sounds almost identical to the 128kbps stream.

On the cosmetic side of things:
* These pages are now slowly moving toward the use of Ajax (dynamic updates of parts of pages and other fancy stuff). Most noticable on the new NOW PLAYING thingy doodah that updates without the rest of the page updating too, which means you can actually use the IRC page without getting logged off all the time.
* [Edit] New favicon.ico, courtesy of luegisdorf! Thanks a bunch!

Erm. Was there something else? If there was, I've forgotten it. ;)
There are new features in the works that I bet you guys will like.

Hope you like the new bits (teehee, see what I did there?)


Cheers!

Downtime for relay3/relay80

Relay3 will be down for a while (possibly even the rest of the day) for an upgrade. Or rather, the lot is moving to a new, faster machine.
This affects the relay80 server aswell, since they run on the same machine.

Hopefully this will be quick and painless!

[EDIT] Message from IcePic 2007-01-25 10:31: It's up again, go wild on relay80.

Mastering Remixing

Most of you guys know Reyn Ouwehand (also known for some as Reyoowwaah). He has made a brilliant video clip of himself recording his latest remix, namely Garfield. It is currently in the RKO queue, and on the SLAY Radio rotational.

Those of you interested, can see exactly how easily this man whips a remix to life right here: Garfield Live

Thank you for that clip Reyn! I really enjoyed it!

Internet connection at SLAY HQ down!

Hi,

There seems to be a bit of a problem with the internet connection over at SLAY HQ at the moment.

Stream will return as soon as the connection is back up.

Meanwhile, why don't you do all those things you always wanted to do, like ... I don't know... Feed the plants, water the gold fish or perhaps do that long overdue vacuuming? =)

Cheers!

[2007-01-10 09:00] Edit: Temporary streaming now online. Voting and such is still offline though.
[2007-01-10 10:27] Edit: We should now be back to normal. Thanks for your patience!

New voting system

After having numerous requests to implement a new voting system, seeing the downside of the previous, simplistic system and discussing this with the staff, I have now implemented a new 4 scale system instead of the old "good vs. bad" system.

Hopefully the new system will give more fair votes to the songs. You now have these to choose from:

- BAD song
- BELOW AVERAGE song
- ABOVE AVERAGE song
- GOOD song

So... Get busy voting on your favourite songs!

Cheers!

Listen through port 80!

Great news for some of you that has been lacking this feature, but now it's finally here! You can now listen to SLAY Radio through port 80 by pointing your listener client to this address: http://relay80.slayradio.org/ ...

Thanks to IcePic for providing this!

Have fun! =)

The Fleming Show @ Gameplayer.se

Gameplayer.se got their own TV-show on the net, and the new episode features Andreas 'Morpheus' Wallström and John 'Ziphoid' Carehag doing the X2006 special of the popular The Fleming Show on SLAY Radio. Click here to take a look (in Swedish only).

Post-X2006 Fleming Show with lots of new SIDs and remixes

On Tuesday, October 17 at 20:00 CET, Andreas 'Morpheus' Wallström and his trusty sidekick John 'Ziphoid' Carehag will bring you a post-X2006 Fleming Show following the event in the Netherlands this last weekend.

The show will feature a party report and also lots of new SIDs from well-known composers such as Jeroen Tel, Drax, Hein and Chapelier and remixes of those SIDs by remixers such as Jeroen Breebaart, Makke, Hazel, Markus Schneider, Dafunk, Moog and Markus Holler.

The new SIDs have been especially made for the demo Let's Scroll it! released by C64.com, which also boasts with scrolltexts from over 70 people from the C64 world. Names such as Rob Hubbard, Ben Daglish, Jonathan Dunn, Richard Joseph and Markus Schneider appear amongst them, to name a few.

Power outage at SLAY HQ

The entire part of the city where SLAY HQ is located is currently experiencing a power outage, which means the stream is down.

When the power returns, so will SLAY Radio. :)

Edit: The power and thus stream is now back. Go on, nothing to see here.. ;)

Visa Röster in concert

Pex 'Mahoney' Tufvesson would just want to mention that on the 23rd of September 2006 there will be a free concert in Stadshallen, Lund, Sweden at 19:00. The a cappella group Visa Röster will perform a concert with the theme "Commodore 64 vs. Swedish hymns" in the large concert hall with 400 seats.

The concert will last approx 40 minutes, and similar concerts has been held in London 2004 and in Copenhagen 2005.

If you want a glimpse of what it will look like, go here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAY_fJ4IHHE
or download the video yourself from:
http://www.livet.se/visa/video/Commodore_64_a_cappella.avi

More information about the concert and Visa Röster can be found at http://www.livet.se/visa

There's no way we have the means to get this message through to everyone that would like to know, so if you have the time, please tell those friends of yours that you think might be interested in coming to this concert! :D

Stream downtime.

The past summer has been really hot, and so have my hard drives too! This means the drive in the firewall has taken a bit of a beating, and is now a tired little thing which needs replacing.
I will start this process shortly, so when the stream goes down, you all know why!

Keep your fingers crossed, because here we go!

Update: We're back up... And guess what? It was a fucking Maxtor drive!
I threw it on the floor, and then put it on the loudspeaker, just to make sure it died properly! Bleh.

Voting-system is down...

Due to a diskspace outage on the stream server, the voting system system has stopped working.

This is because of a stop in the replaction of MySQL-data when the disk ran out of space. To get this working again, the stream server needs to be restarted and the replication needs to be run, which will result in a dip in the stream sometime after the weekend when Slaygon can sink his teeth in the problem.

It also means that the 'On Air'-indicator on this site won't be shown during Skitz' SNW tomorrow and for you IRC-users it also means that the !np-trigger won't work until the replication has been done.

Oh, and Slaygon says that he's sorry for not bringing this info to the public a bit sooner... ;)

EDIT: Oh, yeah, the queue-list is also non-functional atm, but your requests WILL be played. You just won't be able to know when. ;)
EDIT again: Voting system and queue list is now up and running again! /Slaygon

SLAY Radio & Visa Röster on National Swedish radio

Kenneth Mutka (Slaygon) from SLAY Radio and Pex Tufvesson from Visa Röster are guests in the upcoming program "Kulturriket" on Swedish national radio P4 this Sunday the 6th of August 14:00. The program will feature approximately 15 minutes of Commodore 64 related game music talk (in Swedish), together with some Rob Hubbard music, probably Delta, International Karate and a few more.

So, tune in and listen, those of you that have the means to do so!

Edit: If you missed the program, I have prepared a mp3 download for you. Get it here
The page for the program itself is here

Relay 2 Down

The server we use for Relay 2 is being re-installed by the guys that own it at the moment, which is why some of you may be experiencing connection problems.

While this is being sorted out, you can attempt to directly connect to a relay, by pointing your Stream Player to:

http://relay1.slayradio.org:8000
or
http://relay5.slayradio.org:8000

This is for "broadband" quality; replace the 8000 with 8100 for ISDN quality or 8200 for modem quality.

Sorry for the inconvenience; more news as and when.

Official Statement regarding DJ Paralax

After his banishment from the remix community, Paralax has started several actions against it. This includes spamming the forum, harrassment of individuals, and worst of all, spreading untruth about people. This goes as far as publishing forged ICQ logs to defame community members.

We are not going to counter those attacks, rather we'll ignore them. We suggest every community member do the same.

Just the FAQs ma'am, and Gatherings

One thing we've noticed here at SLAY HQ is that our listeners sometimes ask us questions, and a lot of them are along the same theme. So, what better way to answer all the questions that you may ask than to put them all in a FAQ. And that's exactly what we did!

Read the FAQ here.

The news is out for the SLAY HQ Gathering, too! We had one last year and it was a great success, so we'll be doing it once again! It's in Gothenburg and the main day is Saturday 5th August, where we will spend the day up at Keillers Park for a barbecue and a good old chin-wag; then in the evening we'll go to the Kville Biljard where we have a private function room to ourselves!

More information on this page.

And don't forget Ziphoid's Gathering in Stockholm, on Saturday 8th July -- more information on this page!

SLAY Radio plays at DreamHack

DreamHack, the biggest LAN party in the world, will be held in Jönköping on the 17-20th of June this summer, and SLAY Radio will be playing remixes for all the participants of the event (some 5000-7000 people).
The schedule for SLAY Radio for this event has not yet been set, but will be discussed with both our regular listeners (see the discussion at remix64.com) and with the DJs and Staff.

Thank you!

Thank you all who voted for the "President of the week" thing. Marc Mörén has now gone to the finals along with two other people. On Thursday we will know if he wins or not! If he does, we'll get a better pool playing area for SLAY HQ folks, so thank you!

Those of you who have no clue what I'm going on about, see the Archived news entry about it. =)