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Reyn Ouwehand recently released a new album with arranged versions of C64 tunes. It's called The Blithe, The Blend, The Bizarre:
http://www.c64audio.com/productInfo.php?cat=PP004

Worth hearing for the tremendous art-rock masterpiece he made of "Mutants".

The Commodore 64 remix scene is very active, in fact there was a live C64 remix concert in London, UK last Saturday (Sept 11th), and a fantastic event it was too.

It was organised by a guy called Chris Abbott, and his company C64Audio.com now represents many of original 1980's C64 musicians and licenses their music. To date he's paid over £20,000 in royalites to the original musicians.

So the C64 scene shows you can have a vibrant remix community, whilst giving credit to the original composers and paying them royalties.

If SID nostalgia is your thing, also check out C64 Audio, a group (and sometimes consortium) of musicians (often the original composers/performers) that specialize in new arrangements of the classic C64 themes. I have bought several of their CDs, and the ordering process is very international-friendly (no VAT outside of the EU). Of special interest to me were the Forbidden Forest and Trap. Original material all the time is on C64 Remixes, including SID versions if you have an emulator.

Phew, thank $deity that this news item didn't appear too much sooner. Just last weekend I ordered three records from Chris's site. Lucky me, I have all the chances of actually getting what I wanted. I quite expect his stock to drop to zero after you mentioned c64audio.com in here.

The shopping cart system c64audio.com runs, uses some nasty IE-specific javascript tricks. It won't display correctly (or virtually at all) on Mozilla or Opera. Being a linux user, this was somewhat problematic. When I mailed about this, Chris was very responsive and helpful. He told me to disable javascript entirely and go directly to this page in order to see what his shop has to offer. After a little education about PGP and link-hunting, I was also able to send him my credit-card details and my order encrypted. Yes, GPG is all fine and good (I use it), but it still lacks a solid, out-of-the-box integration to w32 mail clients. As I understand it, Chris is a computer-literate person but not a techie.

Incidentally, if anyone happens to know a nice free software shopping-cart system that runs on IIS and can access and use Worldpay's brokerage system, Chris would love to know about it. I tried to find one, but it seems very few shopping cart packages actually interface with Worldpay. It would be so good to get c64audio.com usable and accessible to all users. As the situation stands at the moment, that functionality bug may cost Chris quite a many customers. Given the selection of retro spirited records there is rather impressive, it's a shame.

For anyone who's still interesting in those classic C64 tunes, Chris Abbott (and some other folks, I think) has remade a bunch of C64 tunes with modern equipment - I can strongly recommend his site

Or how about this version of the M.U.L.E. theme?

For more great game choon remixes, although from the world of Commodore 64, check out these two commonly known great sites:

http://Remix.Kwed.Org

http://www.c64audio.com

Also, quite recently I happened to hear probably the best C64 game remix ever. It's from the game "The Great Gianna Sisters", by a band Machinae Supremacy. Here's the direct link to the MP3 file at their site, and here's another for a mirror at MP3.com. Enjoy! (And may the Gaia forgive me for starting a /. flood on the band's page.. =))

• Videogame Music Archive (mostly MIDI)
• The Best Game Music in the World... EVER (slightly down but loads of files still accessible, mostly Amiga stuff).
• Kohina - old school game and demo music - streaming classic game music.
• C64audio.com - insane amounts of C64 game remixes.
• Remix.Kwed.Org - The ultimate guide to C64 remixes

If you love the old C64 music, You would want to go to C64 Audio.
Lots of ye olde music there(and some dance remixes of them)

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My especial recommendations, in no particular order, are:

• Last Ninja
• Synth Sample
• anything by Rob Hubbard (Kentilla, Delta, Flash Gordon/Captain Zapp, Gerry the Germ, Bump-Set-Spike, Warhawk...)
• anything by Martin Galway (Comic Bakery title, Parallax title, Short Circuit title, Green Beret/Rush 'n' Attack tape-loader and title, Rambo: First Blood Part Two tape-loader and title...)
• anything by Ben Daglish (Trap, Ark Pandora, Krakout, Bombo...)
• anything by Chris Huelsbeck (Great Giana Sisters, Turbo Outrun...)

Jeez, I'd better quit before I fill up the space, heh. Also check out http://www.c64audio.com/ for some quality remixes.