There is an update of JITT64 available, you can read the details on the JITT64 web page. Java Ice Team Tracker 64 is a java based music tracker (editor) for creating music for SID chip of Commodore 64. Instruments are totally based onto tables for full control of sound generation.

A new update of the High Voltage SID Collection is available. In this update: 678 New SIDs, 59 SIDs fixed, 482 SID credit fixes, 135 SID model/clock infos, 25 Tunes identified, 47 Tunes moved to the correct directories. You can download the update (4 MByte) or the whole collection (68 MByte)

A new track from Liquid Skies Records. The mp3 is called "Atmosphere Of Energy" and is made by Alex West. The music is in the drum 'n' base style. The cover is made by Flintstone.

PPOT will be performing at The Rock. The event is in Copenhagen, Denmark. The supporting act will be Reyn Ouwehand. Reyn is an internationally acclaimed performer and producer and the composer of famous tunes like Last Ninja 3 and Flimbo's Quest. Tickets are 110 Denmark Kroner or about 15 Euro's.

The musician LDX#40 did a live radio concert on Radio X. There is a mp3 recording (08.02.09) available for download. LDX#40 makes electronic music with a C64.

The web page AmigaRemix.com added new remixes to their collection. This month there were 20 new mp3 files added. A few examples are: Gummisnoppis, TURRICAN 2009 MetalMedley, Twilight Warp, Lotus 2 Level 2, Lost Patrol Remix and Spaceballs.

Java Ice Team Tracker 64 is a java based music tracker (editor) for creating music for SID chip of Commodore 64. Instruments are totally based onto tables for full control of sound generation. You can download JITT64 including instruction from the JITT64 web page.

The results are available of the SID Compo #8. And the winner is Eskimonika by Stellan Andersson (Dane). You can download all (22) SID's that were in the competition. Available formats are: SID, PRG, MP3.

This is an interface to the High Voltage SID Collection. You can search on Name, Author, Copyright, Year, Path, STIL or do a Quick Search. Quick Search searches all fields except the STIL and wraps search phrase in wildcards.

If you are a fan of SID remixes then visit this web page. Every month a dozen or more remixes are added. The remixes can be downloaded as mp3's including the original SID.

The web page c64.sk has a SID competition at the moment. You can still enter your own SID tune until November 28. You also can vote for your favourite tune.

Wilfred Bos released a new version of his ACID64. Changes in version 2.4: Emulation improvements. STIL info can now be retrieved for a SID file if it is not played from the default HVSC location. When HardSID 4U device is turned off while ACID 64 Player is running and turned on again, playback can continue after song restart. Opening SID files via Internet Explorer is now possible. This makes it possible to play SID tunes via the online SID search of www.hardsid.com.

You can download the latest High Voltage SID Collection. In edition 49 there are 1059 new SIDs. Also 54 fixed or better versions of SIDs. More than 400 credits are corrected. You can download the whole archive (71 MByte) or the update (4.3 MByte) from the web page. The total amount of SIDs is now 36,081 !

Scout made another podcast. This episode has a selection of SID-tunes which entered the music-competition or were used in demo's which competed in the demo-competition. Track-list: RaveGuru - Amplifire, RadiantX - Highway Pilot, Jeroen Tel - Listen Twice, Barracuda - Backspliff, V - Xdressing Bruce Lee Since 2008, Linus - Dragon Jam, Fanta - Fanta In Space, A-Man - Pearls For Pigs, Dane - Disgrace, Fanta - Natural Wonders 2, Mixer - Vicious SID. This almost 100 Mbyte podcast can be downloaded from Scout's web page.

ACID 64 is developed by Wilfred Bos and is a cycle based Commodore 64 music player designed for playing SID tunes on sound cards/devices that have a real SID chip (6581/6582/8580) on board.
In version 2.3 the following has been improved: SID reset. Numeric keypad can now be used for short cuts. Added features are: Voice 4 mute/undo mute short cut. Popup menu for selecting sub tunes. Fixed in this version are: Digi playback on ISA/PCI cards has no more timing problems. Window size and position startup option is now shown correctly.

The Stone Oakvalley's Amiga Music Collection is almost complete. After the amazing project of recording all HVSC music from a real C64 the next step was taken. Take an Amiga and record all available music to MP3. There are now more than 30.000 tracks available for download. It took over 200 days 24/7 to make this possible.

There is a new version available of the music tool ACID64. Improved response time for HardSID 4U. Improved playback on multi core CPU systems during background playback on ISA/PCI cards. Increased FIFO memory on Catweasel MK4 for better playback of digi tunes. Song length database is now loaded when HVSC location is updated in preferences dialog. Clock is now displayed correctly during HardSID 4U playback. Layout is now Vista compatible.

If you like the sound of SID than you like to listen to Radio 6581. Non-stop SID hits and live shows. You can make request or chat on the forum.

SIDTool is a SID Player or SID Emulator Frontend for Windows. A few of the many features are: WinVice, Sidplay2/w, TinySID, Hoxs64 and HardSID support. Easy access to the HVSC. Continuous or Shuffle play. Playlist support. Experimental sid2midi support. Advanced search function for filenames, STIL and SID-Header. You can download this tool from the web page.

In this English magazine (pdf, odt) for fans of the SID chip the following articles: Editorials. News. SID chip distortion simulation efforts. Polly Tracker v1.2+. X-SID v1.00. Goattracker stereo 2.59 / 2.6-2.67. CRD-Tracker64 Alpha. DMC Music Compo 2007. HVSC update 47/48. C64.sk SID Compo 7. Java SID Player Music Library V2. XSIDPLAY2. Rockbox C64.sk Music Cover Compo. HERMIT 3SID-TRACKER 2008. HardSID 4U. Mihály Horváth (Hermit) Interview! Tiny Sid 2 (part 3). Plaster 512b. Back To Basics.

Bleepstreet Records was created in 1998 by Johan Kotlinski. This company is about unpolished and groovy 8-bit music. Artist like Goto80, Role Model, Bakeka and Ewmyren released record with this company. And not only on a modern CD but also on original 7" vinyl. On the web page you can listen to samples of the music.

Wilfred Bos released a new version of his ACID 64 Player. It now supports the HardSID 4U USB device and the Catweasel MK4. Added new features and made lots of improvements. Take a look at the web page for detailed information and for downloading the new version.

The Scene group Liquid Skies released a new music piece. It is called Off-Line and was done by Maxus with Madtracker. The cover was made by DaFreak.

Another 900 tunes make their way into one of the biggest and surely the best chip tune collection on this planet. The total tune count is boosted to 35.030 tunes!

Nibbles is a new SID made by Fanta and Mitch. The SID reached the first place in the C64 Music Competition at the Oxyron Party 2008.

You can choose which C64 game the C64 orchestra has to play. 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. Nominated by Jeroen Tel are: Cybernoid 1, Poseidon: Planet Eleven, Rubicon. Nominated by Rob Hubbard are: Spellbound, Nemesis the warlock, Rasputin, Kentilla, Dragons Lair, Auf Wiedersehen Monty. Mail your choice , but if you have another great tune let us know.

The HardSID 4U is the most powerful SID synthesizer since the legendary C64! A few of the features are: Two CPUs and main memory. USB connection. VSTi interface. Superior sound quality. Supports 6581, 8580 and 6582. Updateable firmware over USB. Cycle-accurate playback of your favorite SID tunes. Take a look at the web page for more information.

Sid-Warrior is a new SID made by Kalachnikov. The SID reached the second place in the Mixed Music Competition at Main Party 2008.

Kenchis released a new version of the Java SID Player. This is a music player to play SID files of the Commodore 64 by emulation. It is also a re-implementation in Java of the sidplay2 project. Because it's written in Java it can be used on many systems.

A new CD from the C64 orchestra. The packaging is a very nice design. On this CD: Delta, Commando, Monty on the Run, One Man And His Droid, International Karate, Cybernoid II, Hawkeye, Myth and Supremacy. And the extras are: interviews with Rob Hubbard and Jeroen Tel and the C64 orchestra trailer.

Tony (Wizball) has made a web site where you can listen and download some of his 'c64-like' music. You'll need a javascript and java (1.5+) enabled browser to view it.

Is there life after forty? Jan Lund Thomsen brings you a bunch of tunes that have nothing in common apart from the fact that the original SID's were all composed between 1984 and 1986. Besides the music there is also news about the C64 music scene. You can download this MP3 on Jan's web page (34.1 Mbyte)

Phonolith is a software instrument, which plays sampled waveforms. It's usable with Horny and other CAMD based sequencers, or just a connected MIDI keyboard. There is a free lite version or you can buy a full version. Some features are: Downmixing to AIFF file. Receives MIDI notes through camd.librar. yMixer unit with non-linear volume/panning controls and peak meters. 16 different instruments at once, Look on the web page for more information.

The music group Comtron released their latest tune. The animated video was made by Sander of the C64 demo group Focus. The theme of the video clip is the computer and the colors that are used are from the color pallet of the Commodore C64. You can watch the video on YouTube.

Edition 47 is out now. After this update, the collection contains 34127 SID files! This update features 1127 new SIDs, 19 fixed/better rips, 773 SID credit fixes and 44 unknown game or demo tunes identified. You can download this 66 MByte archive from the web site.

The SOASC= project is an automated recording technique invented by Stone Oakvalley in order to mass record music from the legendary Commodore 64 and its SID chips (6581 and 8580). The entire HVSC is recorded in MP3 fromat. This means that there about 95.000 tunes available. If you want them all buy a big harddisk (400+ GB).

Scout made another podcast with great C64 tunes. On this episode the following tracks: Lou Gray - Yakki Da, Metal - Sayonara, Jeff - Commodore 64, Fanta - Desert Dream Part 2, Aleksi Eeben - One For Reed, Fred Gray - Mutants, Laxity - Laxace, Orcan - A Demo Bit, Jammer - Latex Sensations, Reyn Ouwehand - Dutch Breeze, Jeroen Tel - Sonic Soul. You can download this almost 80 MByte mp3 Podcast right now!

Søren Lund from the group Viruz released X-SID. This is a perfect tool to make your SID tunes. You can download the program.

The web site RKO (Remix.Kwed.Org) is already six years the collection of C64 remixes. The database has more than 1800 of remixes of C64 game music. They are made by more than 500 artists. You can download the remixes in the mp3 format and the original in sid format. There is a top ten of the Week, Month and of All Time.

Scout released a new podcast. In episode 11 a tribute to Richard Joseph. SIDs in this podcast are: Richard Joseph - The Sacred Armour of Antiriad, Rob Hubbard - Light Force, Dane - Arctic Circles, Jeff - 6581 Doped Cows, Oliver Kläwer - Emerald Mine, DRAX - Spunk, Richard Joseph - Rimrunner, Deek - Ostfriesland Games, Jens-Christian Huus - Super Oswald, CreamD - Critical Grid Voltage and Jeroen Tel - Iron Lord.

Richard Joseph was a computer game composer, musician and sound specialist. He has had a career spanning some 20 years starting in the early days of gaming on the C64 and the Amiga and onto succeeding formats through to the present day. After being diagnosed with lung cancer, he died on March 4, 2007. Some examples of Richard work are: Defender Of The Crown, Cannon Fodder and the BAFTA winning soundtrack of Theme Park World.

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 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. Most importantly: the music will be strictly C64 SID's, C64 remixes, and C64 related music.

In this issue of the English PDF magazine about the famous sound chip the SID the following articles. SIDPlayerDS, Goattracker, Ninjatracker, SID Factory, SIDId, XMPlay SID plugin, HARDshit, SOASC Collection, SID Compo, SidTool, HVSC, XMMS-SID, Laxity Interview!, Tiny Sid 2, BLOCK ACID DUB and more.

A new track from Liquid Skies Records. The mp3 track is called "Happy Flower" and is made by Maxus. The cover is from DaFreak.

This web site has many MP3s remixes of classic Amiga game tunes. Recently there were many new additions. There is also a forum, charts and a Remix64 section.

One of Those Days is a new SID for the Commodore C64. The music is composed by PSycHo8580 and the SID player was made by Raf.

The results of the SID competition are in. Stellan Andersson aka Dane has won with his entry: Arctic Circles.

Richard Bayliss has made a music collection called DMC album #6. He produced his music with the DMC program written by Brian of Graffity for the Commodore 64. There are 10 tracks on the disk to listen to.

The web site Plopbox is updated. This music archive/jukebox running with a java applet/ajax site which allows you to listen directly to any tunes and make your personal web radio. After a long work, we added the SID format, and the replay is very close to sidplay2.

On the web site C64.sk the annual SID competition is ready for the listeners. You can listen to 35 SID tunes. And in a short while you can vote on the best tune. The makers of the SIDs are anonymous.