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Episodes

[Ch F] MAKRANA Soundtrack - feat. Matt Miller of Chronarian Games

Sunday Aug 10, 2025

Sunday Aug 10, 2025

Today's "F-isode" is the soundtrack to the upcoming indie game "MAKRANA" designed, developed, and scored by Matt Miller of Des Moines-based Chronarian Games. Matt sits in with St. John at Nerd Noise Studios for a Channel 2-style in-person conversation to discuss the soundtrack and various other matters of varying degrees of relevance. ;-)

All tracks from the game MAKRANA, an upcoming game by Chronarian Games for PS5, XBSX and probably other platforms as well. All tracks composed, arranged, and performed by Matt Miller.


Tracklist

A1) "Production Disclaimer" Earcatcher (St. John on the now NNR-customary $400 Shure SM7B Mic) - 00:00:00

A2) "Episode Opener" Earcatcher (St. John on the now long-deprecated $100 AudioTechnica AT2020 Mic which was the mic St. John used on NNR from 2017-2022) - 00:00:59

01) "ZENITH" (game and track titles all capitalized for stylistic purposes by developer)
 a) Music - 00:01:12
 b) Discussion and Top-of-Show Business (St. John and Matt sharing a single AT2020) - 00:04:50

02) "OBSERVE"
 a) Music - 00:29:39
 b) Discussion (all voice recordings from here on out using that same single AT2020) - 00:33:27

03) "REFLECT"
 a) Music - 00:47:59
 b) Discussion (our shortest conversation of the episode by far!) - 00:51:47

04) "QUADRANT"
 a) Music - 00:59:04
 b) Discussion - 01:03:21

05) "DEVIATE"
 a) Music - 01:28:28
 b) Discussion and End-of-Show Business - 01:33:51
 
B1) Outtakes - 02:04:08

Total Episode Runtime: 02:10:02


Matt and Chronarian Games can be found at www.chronariangames.com as well as on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky, Mastodon, YouTube, and X.

Special Thanks to Erin Miller, Nora Miller, and Jodee Wedgeworth (aka "St. Jodee") for making this recording session / episode possible. 

Produced in a mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Linux on a 2023-model Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 gaming laptop (docked in a "desktop" context) using the aforementioned mics, a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB audio interface, and in the case of the SM7B, a Cloudlifter in-line signal booster. No alcohol was involved in this recording - however, I do think sleep deprivation may have been a factor! ;-) :-D

Enjoy!!

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Nerd Noise Radio - Channel F: The Lucid 9 Soundtrack

Wednesday Jul 30, 2025

Wednesday Jul 30, 2025

Today's bonus broadcast is the soundtrack to Lucid 9, created by Fallen Snow Studios, and composed by Ultra Kitsune (10 of 36 tracks), Breezee (15 of 36 tracks), Ziassan (4 of 36 tracks), Blue Wolfie (6 of 36 tracks), and Haven235 (1 of 36 tracks) - listed in order of appearance! The first game I ever played on Steam.

Track list:

A1) Intro - 00:00:00
01) Urban Disturbance (by Ultra Kitsune) - 00:05:06
02) Usual Routine (by Breezee) - 00:08:50
03) Hustle & Bustle (by Breezee) - 00:10:08
04) Peaceful Days (by Ziassan) - 00:11:35
05) Consequences of a fool (by Blue Wolfie) - 00:13:52
06) Marvelous Masa (by Blue Wolfie) - 00:15:38
07) Gover Mecher (by Blue Wolfie) - 00:16:30
08) Victory in Sight (by Blue Wolfie) - 00:18:07
09) Adult talk (by Ultra Kitsune) - 00:20:23
10) Empty Eyes (by Blue Wolfie) - 00:22:17
11) Optimist in shining armor (by Breezee) - 00:24:52
12) Stardust (by Ultra Kitsune) - 00:25:56
13) Rationality (by Haven235) - 00:28:02
14) Vision from my soul (by Ultra Kitsune) - 00:29:53
15) Unpredictable Youth (by Breezee) - 00:30:54
16) Eccentric Detective (by Breezee) - 00:33:18
17) Process of Elimination (by Blue Wolfie) - 00:35:55
18) Instinctive Suspicion (by Breezee) - 00:38:07
19) Instinctive Suspicion - music box (by Breezee) - 00:40:07
20) Instinctive Suspicion - ominous (by Breezee) - 00:42:03
21) Equanimity (by Breezee) - 00:43:58
22) Anxiety (by Breezee) - 00:48:44
23) Tasteless (by Ziassan) - 00:50:11
24) Introspection (by Ziassan) - 00:52:29
25) Melancholy (by Breezee) - 00:58:00
26) Melancholy - heavy (by Breezee) - 01:00:16
27) Hollow (by Ultra Kitsune) - 01:03:06
28) Restless (by Ultra Kitsune) - 01:05:27
29) Asphyxia (by Breezee) - 01:08:19
30) Electrifying Tension (by Breezee) - 01:10:07
31) Melancholy - emotional (by Breezee) - 01:12:59
32) Warm Feeling (by Ultra Kitsune) - 01:16:04
33) Secrets of Isamu (by Ultra Kitsune) - 01:17:49
34) Depths (by Ziassan) - 01:19:44
35) Disturbed (by Ultra Kitsune) - 01:22:09
36) Urban Disturbance - dark edit (by Ultra Kisune) - 01:25:11

Soundtrack Runtime - 01:22:47 Total Runtime - 01:27:53

You can find Fallen Snow Studios here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWfMivU4sAY

https://vnchan.wordpress.com/

Background music for the introduction segment: Water Temple (Phase 1) from Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom on Nintendo Switch (and Switch 2) composed by Manaka Kataoka, Maasa Miyoshi, Masato Ohashi, and/or Tsukasa Usui

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[Ch 1] "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" - “C1E97: The Super Metroid Soundtrack (VGM Hall of Fame)”

Saturday Jul 26, 2025

Saturday Jul 26, 2025

Today’s broadcast is C1E97 for Soundtrack Saturday, July 26th, 2025. Today’s soundtrack is the Super Metroid soundtrack on the Super NES, composed by Kenji Yamamoto and Minako Hamano. This episode is Nerd Noise Radio's contribution to the VGM Hall of Fame ("HoF") project, created in collaboration with Alex "The Messenger" of "A VGM Journey" and Professor Tom from "Shujin Academy VGM Club" podcasts. Links to their programs will be found in the show notes! Stick around after the show for bonus content! 

 

Tracklist: 

  

Track# - Track - Timestamp 

  

A1) Intro - 00:00:00 

01) Title Theme - 00:05:16 

02) Prologue - 00:07:28 

03) Approaching the Space Colony - 00:10:01 

04) Ceres Space Colony - 00:10:11 

05) Ridley / Draygoon / Chozo Statue - 00:10:43 

06) Approaching Planet Zebes - 00:12:52 

07) Crateria (Surface Arrival) - 00:13:06 

08) Crateria (Underground) - 00:14:47 

09) Crateria (Space Pirates) - 00:16:25 

10) Mysterious Statue Chamber - 00:19:58 

11) Item Room - 00:21:48 

12) Brinstar (Overgrown Area) - 00:23:23 

13) Brinstar (Red Soil) - 00:27:00 

14) Spore Spawn / Botwoon - 00:29:12 

15) Tension - 00:31:27 

16) Kraid / Crocomire / Phantoon - 00:33:17 

17) Norfair (Fire of Zebes) - 00:35:07 

18) Theme of Samus Aran - 00:37:22 

19) Wrecked Ship (Deactivated) - 00:41:01 

20) Wrecked Ship (Activated) - 00:43:11 

21) Maridia (Drifting Sands) - 00:45:34 

22) Maridia (Underwater) - 00:49:30 

23) Norfair (Ancient Ruins) - 00:52:23 

24) Golden Four Statue - 00:57:00 

25) Tourian - 00:59:13 

26) Mother Brain - 01:03:03 

27) Escape - 01:05:21 

28) Finale - 01:07:33 

29) Continue - 01:10:51 

B1) Outro - 01:11:41 

B2) BONUS: Super Metroid Medley - performed on June 22nd 2025 by the Des Moines Gamer Symphony Orchestra (“DSMGSO”), and arranged by the DSMGSO’s very own Joseph Mullin! - 01:20:59 

  

Music Block Runtime: 01:06:27 / Bonus Music Runtime: 00:13:15 / Total Episode Runtime: 01:33:25 

  

Our intro and outro is Funky Radio from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by B.B. Rights 

  

You can find Alex’s show: “A VGM Journey” here: 

  

https://terraplayer.com/shows/a-vgm-journey 

  

And you can find Professor Tom’s “Shujin Academy VGM Club” here: 

  

https://terraplayer.com/shows/shujin-academy-vgm-club 

  

You can find the Des Moines Gamer Symphony Orchestra here: 

  

https://www.dsmgso.org/ 

https://youtube.com/@desmoinesgamersymphonyorch3631?si=hq8tUJYKOR0-ynjr 

  

You can find Valerie’s Flute Entertainment here: 

 

https://www.valwedgeworth.com/ 

 

Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Workstation Linux on an ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (2023) laptop. Recorded with a Shure SM7B XLR dynamic microphone on a RØDE PSA1+ boom arm through a Cloudlifter and a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB interface! 

 

You can also find all of our audio episodes on https://archive.org/details/@nerd_noise_radio as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and other content. 

 

We are now a member podcast as well. You can find us there at  https://terraplayer.com/shows/nerd-noise-radio. Also, check out their outstanding collection of other podcasts and radio stations at https://terraplayer.com/! From now on, when sharing episodes of Nerd Noise Radio, I will most likely use the Terra Player link rather than the Podbean link like I have been using. 

 

Our YouTube Channel, for the time being is in dormancy, but will be returning with content, hopefully, in 2022. Meanwhile, all the old stuff is still there, and can be found here:  

 

https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio 

 

Occasional blogs and sometimes expanded show notes can be found here: 

 

nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. 

 

Nerd Noise Radio is also a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at  

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/VGMPodcastFans/ 

 

We are also a member of Podcasters of Des Moines at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1782895868426870/ 

 

Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:  

 

Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ for sharing tracks, video game news, or just general videogame fandom. 

 

Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/ for going deep into video game sound hardware, composer info, and/or music theory. 

 

Or you can reach us by e-mail at nerd.noise.radio@gmail.com 

 

You can also follow us on Threads at https://www.threads.net/@nerdnoiseradio , Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nerdnoiseradio?igsh=MWF4NjBpdGVxazUxYw== , Mastodon at https://universeodon.com/@NerdNoiseRadio , and BlueSky at  And we are also now on TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Vurbl, Amazon Music and Audible!  

 

But frankly, probably the absolute best way you can connect with us is on our new Discord Channel: "Nerd Noise Radio – Channel D", which includes various sub-channels for all sorts of different types of connection and conversation:  
 
https://discord.gg/GUWdaXUw 

 

Thanks for listening! Join us again in August (or more likely, September) for C1E98 (Channel 1, Episode 98): Mishmash Monday – vol. 17 – our final ever Mishmash Monday on Channel 1, and our third-to-last [quote] "regular", "ordinary", "standard" episode of Channel 1, though certainly not our third-to-last all-time production of Nerd Noise Radio. Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N! 

 

Cheers! 

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[RERUN] [Ch 1] "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" - NERD NOISE CROSSOVERS: “C1E64: ThreeFer Thursday” (orig rel. 05/12/22)

Friday Jul 25, 2025

Friday Jul 25, 2025

2025 Rerun Notes: A very unique episode in show history, the only time we ever did a "ThreeFer". It's a bit of a long episode, and this was back when I was still using a cheaper mic and less sophisticated production techniques, but I still remain very proud of this episode from a content perspective. Original 2022 show notes below!

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Today’s broadcast is C1E64 for Nerd Noise Crossovers, Thursday, 05/12/2022. Today’s Crossover is "ThreeFer Thursday" - which is, among standard format Ch 1 episodes for "just ordinary occasions", our longest episode to date. So hunker down and buckle up for what is going to be quite the musical journey! Also the Ch 1 debut of the new mic, higher quality copies of the intro/outro background music, and my new production techniques. I'm exceptionally proud of this episode, and hope you will find it exceptionally enjoyable! 

 

Track Number / Game (Composer) / Track Names (Composers) / Time Stamp 

 

01) Intro – 00:00:00 

02) Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars – Multiplatform 

  1. A) Pursuing the Dragon (vocalvers) - Keiichi Okabe (vocal by Saki Nakai) - 00:06:16
  2. B) Midday Town – Oliver Good – 00:08:36
  3. C) Tears of the Black Witch – Shotaro Seo – 00:11:53

03) Twilight - X68000 - Ryu Umemoto, Ryu Takami, and/or Hiroaki Sano 

  1. A) AsVreaSa Merg La (Ending) - 00:15:28 
  2. B)Dimineate(Morning) – 00:18:03 
  3. C)BisericaNeagra (Opening) - 00:23:11 

04) Final Fantasy X – PS2 

  1. A) Fantasy (aka Phantoms) – Junya Nakano – 00:26:43
  2. B) The Travel Agency – MasashiHamauzu– 00:29:59 
  3. C) Moment of Truth – MasashiHamauzu– 00:32:53 

05)  DOOM Eternal - Multi  - Mick Gordon 

  1. A) Icon of Sin – 00:36:22
  2. B) Doom Eternal – 00:41:48
  3. C) Cultist Base – 00:46:43

06)  Cyberpunk 2077 - Multi 

  1. A)WushuuDolls – Marcin Przybylowicz – 00:52:14 
  2. B) Adam Smasher – Paul Leonard-Morgan – 00:54:27
  3. C) The Rebel Path – P.T. Adamczyk – 00:57:44

07) Super Mario Sunshine – GameCube - Kōji Kondō, and/or Shinobu Tanaka 

  1. A) Delfino Airstrip – 01:01:48
  2. B) Sirenna Beach – 01:04:02
  3. C) Secret Stage – 01:06:19

08) Tiny Death Star - iOS/Android - c: John Williams / a: GMLeto 

  1. A) Main Theme – 01:09:20
  2. B) Imperial Death March – 01:10:43
  3. C) Force Theme – 01:11:52

09) Sim Copter – PC 

  1. A) Jazz 1 – Jerry Martin – 01:12:25
  2. B) Jazz 5 – Marc Russo – 01:17:56
  3. C) Jazz 4 – Marc Russo – 01:22:44

10) Pebble Beach Golf Links - Genesis - Yumi Satake, Shigekazu Kamaki, and/or Yusaburo Shimojyo 

  1. A) Hole Overview – 01:27:40
  2. B) Main Menu – 01:29:43
  3. C) Tea Break – 01:33:33

11) Art of Balance – Multi - Martin Schjøler 

  1. A) Title Theme – 01:36:04
  2. B) World A – 01:38:04
  3. C) Challenge – 01:40:29

12) N++ - multi 

  1. A) Confined Spaces – ASC – 01:42:39
  2. B) Surrender – Sam KDC – 01:50:48
  3. C) Outlaw –VolorFlex – 01:56:48 

13)  Trickstyle – Dreamcast / PC – Richard Beddow 

  1. A) UK Race 2 – 02:02:06
  2. B) Japan Race 2 – 02:05:03
  3. C) USA Race 2 – 02:07:35

14) Doshin the Giant – GameCube - Tatsuhiko Asano 

  1. A) Time – 02:10:50
  2. B) Jungle Morning – 02:13:36
  3. C) Yellow Giant – 02:16:34

15) Magic The Gathering Shandalar - PC – Roland J. Rizzo 

  1. A) Track 8 - 02:19:07
  2. B) Track 10 - 02:20:50
  3. C) Track 19 - 02:22:28

 16) Reigns – iOS/Android - MAGO  

  1. A) Benevolent Deeds – 02:24:23
  2. B) William the Great – 02:26:54
  3. C) Dark Deeds – 02:30:38

17) Mega Man 2 – NES – Takashi Tateishi 

  1. A) Heat Man Stage – 02:33:36
  2. B) Quick Man Stage – 02:35:21
  3. C) Crash Man Stage – 02:37:20

18) Outro – 02:40:11 

 

Music Block Runtime: 02:34:02 /// Total Epsiode Runtime: 02:53:08 

 

Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights. 

 

Produced using Ardour 6 / Audacity 3 in Ubuntu Studio [Linux] 22.04 

 

You can also find all of our audio episodes on Archive.org as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and other content. 

 

Our YouTube Channel, for the time being is in dormancy, but will be returning with content, hopefully, in 2022. Meanwhile, all the old stuff is still there, and can be found here:  

 

https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio 

 

Our episodes (and occasionally, other content, including expanded show notes) can be found on our blog here: 

 

nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. 

 

Nerd Noise Radio is also available on The Retro Junkies Network at www.theretrojunkies.com, and is a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at  

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/VGMPodcastFans/ 

 

Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:  

 

Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ for sharing tracks, video game news, or just general videogame fandom. 

 

Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/ for going deep into video game sound hardware, composer info, and/or music theory. 

 

You can also follow us on Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio. And we are also now on Spotify, TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, and Vurbl. 

 

Thanks for listening! Join us again in June (dates TBD) for both Hugues' and I's separate "Best of 2020 / 2021" Channel 1 Retrospective episodes as well as Nerd Noise Radio's contribution (via Channel 2) to the great big VGM Podcast communities common theme group project initiaitve. 

 

Cheers! 

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[RERUN] C1E86: "The Celeste Soundtrack" [Masters of VGM] - orig rel. 06/15/2024 (see 2025 show note addendum!)

Wednesday Jul 16, 2025

Wednesday Jul 16, 2025

[2025 Addendum]


Our third and final rerun which we’re releasing for July, and third and final rerun celebrating the memory of Masters of VGM (“MoVGM”), and our third and final of my bids to drum up excitement for the “VGM Hall of Fame” (“HoF”)  series spearheaded by Alex “The Messenger” Messenger of “A VGM Journey” (https://terraplayer.com/shows/a-vgm-journey), Professor Tom from “Shujin Academy VGM Club” (https://terraplayer.com/shows/shujin-academy-vgm-club), and myself (as well as any other shows which have elected to join us in the time since my drafting this on July 2nd), we look, at last, to MoVGM’s final year: 2024.

The Theme of 2024’s MoVGM was a focus on female and LGBTQIA+ (particularly trans) composers. And Nerd Noise Radio’s contribution for this year was a Channel 1 featuring the soundtrack to the game Celeste, composed by the fabulous trans composer Lena Raine. The pride connection goes even deeper, though, as the game was written and designed by Maddie Thorson, who is also trans, and upon whom the [also also trans] protagonist, Madelaine is also based.

From a production standpoint, this is going to be pretty close to on par with a 2025 production as it is using all the same recording hardware, and most of the same production techniques, but may not quite match the current crop due to my using less sophisticated monitoring headphones resulting in a final mix which might be a tad on the “hot” side.

Either way, it’s a showcase of great people making great music to a great game with a great message. So, we are quite pleased to present C1E86: “The Celeste Soundtrack” (originally released 06/15/2024).

Enjoy

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Original Show Notes:

Today’s broadcast is C1E86 for Soundtrack Saturday, June 15th, 2024. Today’s episode is our contributions to the annual VGM podcast scene group project, Masters of VGM (https://www.mastersofvgm.com/). Today's broadcast is the soundtrack to the game Celeste (Mutliplatform) - composed by Lena Raine! 

 

Tracklist: Track# / Track / Timestamp 

 

A1) Intro - 00:00:00 

01) Prologue - 00:03:52 

02) First Steps - 00:04:57 

03) Resurrections - 00:08:31 

04) Awake - 00:18:09 

05) Postcard from Celeste Mountain - 00:20:34 

06) Checking In - 00:22:02 

07) Spirit of Hospitality - 00:29:05 

08) Scattered and Lost - 00:30:45 

09) Golden - 00:36:36 

10) Anxiety - 00:45:00 

11) Quiet and Falling - 00:46:50 

12) In the Mirror - 00:54:13 

13) Madeline and Theo - 01:03:43 

14) Starjump - 01:06:50 

15) Reflection - 01:08:59 

16) Confronting Myself - 01:14:48 

17) Little Goth - 01:18:50 

18) Reach for the Summit - 01:21:46 

19) Exhale - 01:32:48 

20) Heart of the Mountain - 01:35:08 

21) My Dearest Friends- 01:41:02 

B1) Outro - 01:43:10 

 

Music Block Runtime: 01:39:23, Total Episode Runtime: 01:49:48 

 

Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights. 

 

Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Linux on an ASUS ROG Zephyrus 14 (2023) laptop with perhaps a little support from a Dell Latitude 7480 (also running Fedora Linux) or the Steam Deck (running Steam OS). Recorded with a Shure SM7B XLR dynamic microphone on a RØDE PSA1+ boom arm through a Cloudlifter and a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB interface! 

 

You can also find all of our audio episodes on https://archive.org/details/@nerd_noise_radio as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and other content. 

 

Our YouTube Channel, for the time being is in dormancy, but will be returning with content, hopefully, in 2022. Meanwhile, all the old stuff is still there, and can be found here:  

 

https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio 

 

Occasional blogs and sometimes expanded show notes can be found here: 

 

nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. 

 

Nerd Noise Radio is also available on The Retro Junkies Network at www.theretrojunkies.com, and is a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at  

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/VGMPodcastFans/ 

 

We are also a member of Podcasters of Des Moines at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1782895868426870/ 

 

Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:  

 

Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ for sharing tracks, video game news, or just general videogame fandom. 

 

Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/ for going deep into video game sound hardware, composer info, and/or music theory. 

 

Or you can reach us by e-mail at nerd.noise.radio@gmail.com 

 

You can also follow us on X (Twitter) at https://twitter.com/NerdNoiseRadio , Threads at https://www.threads.net/@nerdnoiseradio , Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nerdnoiseradio?igsh=MWF4NjBpdGVxazUxYw== , Mastodon at https://universeodon.com/@NerdNoiseRadio , and BlueSky at  And we are also now on Spotify, TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Vurbl, Amazon Music and Audible! There is technically a Discord channel, but we may or may not ever take it public! 

 

Thanks for listening! Join us again in June (date TBD) for C2E18 (Channel 2, Episode 18) for a TBD-titled fous on music from Unreleased Games and in July for C1E87 (Channel 1, Episode 87): TwoFer Tuesday – vol. 10 – Tasty VGM and Talk on "Nerd n Noise Game Club", as well as Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N! 

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[RERUN] C2E13: "Songs of the Unsung" [Masters of VGM] - orig rel. 06/01/2023 (see 2025 show note addendum!)

Wednesday Jul 09, 2025

Wednesday Jul 09, 2025

[2025 Addendum….sorry for the long-winded]

Our second of three reruns which we’re releasing for July, and second of three reruns celebrating the memory of Masters of VGM (“MoVGM”), and the second of three of my bids to drum up excitement for the “VGM Hall of Fame” (“HoF”)  series spearheaded by Alex “The Messenger” Messenger of “A VGM Journey” (https://terraplayer.com/shows/a-vgm-journey), Professor Tom from “Shujin Academy VGM Club” (https://terraplayer.com/shows/shujin-academy-vgm-club), and myself (as well as any other shows which have elected to join us in the time since my drafting this on July 2nd) is just one of, this time, four contributions we made to the series that year. I’ll share links to the other three below, as well as two other bonus links which are acutely relevant to two of them (as well as to C1E96, our “fresh episode” from last month).

The Theme of 2023’s MoVGM was sort of the opposite of the year prior. 2022’s theme was a celebration of “big named composers”, like Yuzo Koshiro or Nobuo Uematsu, or The Follin Brothers and so on. Names that probably EVERYBODY already knows, 2023’s theme was “unsung and undersung composers”. Names that were not nearly as well-known as they should be. And so, our Channel 2 contribution followed the same format and design philosophy of our 2022, only with the opposite theme. It’s a little longer, though, because in addition to the same “four and four” as before, we added a ninth and final pair - tracks by unknown composers”.

Production notes on this episode relative to the 2022 rerun: by this time, two major changes had happened: 1) I had upgraded from the $100 RODE Podmic I had been using to the current $400 Shure SM7B that I use today, and 2) I had started actively editing out “Umm”s from our conversation. I can’t guarantee that I caught every single one of them. But they’ll certainly be much less present and much less invasive. It still won't rise to the level of a 2025 production (and sounds a little worse with the SM7B’s presence boost turned on at the time, which I’ve since turned off), but it comes appreciably closer than C2E8.

Links to the other 2023 Nerd Noise Radio MoVGM contributions:

C1E76: “The Big Sound of the Little Guy - vol. 2” (originally released 06/01/2023 - the episode which kicked off MoVGM 2023 at large):

https://terraplayer.com/shows/nerd-noise-radio/ch-1-noise-from-the-hearts-of-nerds-c1e76-the-big-sound-of-the-little-guy--vol-2

 

Ch F: “Highlights from ‘Stray’” (originally released 06/29/2023):

https://terraplayer.com/shows/nerd-noise-radio/channel-f-highlights-fromstray-masters-of-vgm

 

Ch F: Composer Mini-Focus: rayjkayj (originally released  07/26/2023 - also, this might’ve been the final MoVGM 2023 episode as well, meaning, I might’ve gotten to provide both “bookends” to that year’s celebration!)

https://terraplayer.com/shows/nerd-noise-radio/channel-f-composer-minifocus-rayjkayj-masters-of-vgm

 

Lastly, two bonus links which relate to the above:

1) C1E30: Big Sound of the Little Guy - vol. 1 (originally released 09/14/2018 - apologies for the atrocious production quality and anemic intro, but the music collection itself is GREAT!) - not only is this obviously relevant to C1E76 above, but it’s also relevant to last month’s C1E96, which was (unofficially, but for all intents and purposes) “Big Sound of the Little Guy vol 3”:


https://terraplayer.com/shows/nerd-noise-radio/nerd-noise-radio-channel-1-noise-from-the-hearts-of-nerds-podcast-c1e30-the-big-sounds-of-the-little-guy-vol-1

 

2) C1E73: “UNKAYJ THE RAYJ” (originally released ) - guest-hosted by rayjkayj himself, the above minifocus on rayjkayj was comprised of outtakes from this original episode:

https://terraplayer.com/shows/nerd-noise-radio/ch-1-noise-from-the-hearts-of-nerds-c1e73-unkayj-the-rayj


…and with that, I’ll leave you with C2E13: “Songs of the Unsung” (originally released 07/06/2023) - a title which I came up with, and if we’re being honest, I’m probably WAY too proud of!). :-D

Enjoy!

 

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Original Show Notes:

Today’s broadcast, for Theme Thursday, July 6th, 2023 is an episode of the Masters of VGM - season 2 (www.mastersofvgm.com) and is a focus on music from unsung and undersung composers - on an episode we’re calling “Songs of the Unsung”.

 

Tracklist:

 

01) John’s 1st composer (of 4): C418 (aka Daniel Rosenfeld)

 

  1. John’s Track: Dreiton - Minecraft - Multiplatform
    1. Earcatcher - 00:00:00
    2. Music - 00:00:07
    3. Introduction - 00:08:16
    4. Top of the Show pt 1 - 00:09:12
    5. Discussion - 00:12:00
    6. Top of the Show pt 2 - 00:14:19
  2. Hugues’ Track: Enforcer Brittanica - Catacomb Snatch - PC
    1. Music - 00:28:44
    2. Discussion - 00:32:23

 

02) Hugues’ 1st composer: Takahiko Abe

 

  1. Hugues’ Track: Templo del Sol - Asuteka II - PC88
    1. Music - 00:37:18:
    2. Discussion - 00:39:31
  2. John’s Track: Machi - Susanoou Densetsu - PC Engine
    1. Music - 00:46:36
    2. Discussion - 00:48:24

 

03) John’s 2nd composer: Soichi Terada

 

  1. John’s Track: Subspace 2 - Fantavision 202X - PC
    1. Music - 00:56:06
    2. Discussion - 00:59:27
  2. Hugues’ Track: TV Tower - Ape Escape on the Loose - PSP
    1. Music - 01:03:30
    2. Discussion - 01:06:54

 

04) Hugues’ 2nd composer: Katsumi Tanaka

 

  1. Hugues’ Track: Memories of Puyo Puyo - Puyo Puyo CD - PC Engine
    1. Music - 01:11:09
    2. Discussion - 01:13:25
  2. John’s Track: Black Hole Anomalies - Space Megaforce - SNES
    1. Music - 01:19:17
    2. Discussion - 01:21:41

 

05) John’s 3rd composer: Hikoshi Hashimoto

 

  1. John’s Track: Zena Lan (Heavily Armored) - Cosmic Carnage - 32X
    1. Music - 01:23:57
    2. Discussion - 01:25:50
  2. Hugues’ Track: Halftime - Pat Riley Basketball - Genesis
    1. Music - 01:31:15
    2. Discussion - 01:31:47

 

06) Hugues’ 3rd composer: Toshio Murai

 

  1. Hugues’ Track: Office  Theme - Wall Street Kid - NES
    1. Music - 01:37:29
    2. Discussion - 01:39:16
  2. John’s Track: Stage 6 - Cyber Core - PC Engine
    1. Music - 01:43:31
    2. Discussion - 01:45:01

 

07) John’s 4th composer: Joris de Man

 

  1. John’s Track: Eternal Conceit - Horizon Forbidden West - PS4 / PS5
    1. Music - 01:48:22
    2. Discussion - 01:53:09
  2. Hugues’ Track: Violet’s Theme - Black Belt Challenge - GBA
    1. Music - 02:02:56
    2. Discussion - 02:04:59

 

08) Hugues’ 4th composer: Yoshihiko Miyazaki

 

  1. Hugues’ Track: Search Break - JB Harold Murder Club - PC88
    1. Music - 02:10:56
    2. Discussion - 02:12:43
  2. John’s Track: Dream of the Murder - Manhattan Requiem - LaserActive
    1. Music - 02:18:37
    2. Discussion - 02:21:011

 

09) BONUS: “Unknown composers”!!!

 

  1. John’s Track: Login Screen - N/A (System Music) - PS5
    1. Music - 02:24:25
    2. Discussion - 02:27:28
    3. End of show discussion - 02:31:12
    4. Masters of VGM shout-out - 02:34:26
    5. Closing track Discussion - 02:36:13
    6. Sign-off - 02:39:39
  2. Hugues’ Track: Track 5 - Hyper Catalog - PC Engine
    1. Music - 02:39:48
    2. Masters of VGM earcatcher (feat. Ed Wilson of “The VGMbassy”) - 02:41:51
    3. Outtakes - 02:43:48

 

Total episode runtime: 02:51:22

 

Produced using a mix of Audacity and Ardour (various versions of each), primarily in KDE Neon (Linux) on St. John’s main laptop, and secondarily on St. John’s Gaming PC “Big Rig” running Garuda KDE Dr460nized Gaming Edition (also Linux).

 

Retro Game Club can be found here:

 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/retro-game-club/id1453018680

 

You can also follow Retro Game Club on Facebook and Instagram @retrogameclubpodcast and on Twitter @rgcpodcast.

 

Hugues’ blog can be found here: 

 

https://huguesjohnson.com/

 

The referenced Hugues articles can be found here: 

 

JB Harold Article: https://www.huguesjohnson.com/guides/jb/ 

 

Ultravox Article: https://huguesjohnson.com/features/ultrabox/

 

X-Files DVD Article: https://huguesjohnson.com/features/xfiles-dvd/

 

You can find Nerd Noise Radio on Facebook and on Twitter each @NerdNoiseRadio. There are also two Facebook Groups: Nerd Noise Radio “Easy Mode” where we just have general video game and nerd fun, or for the gearheads among you, Nerd Noise Radio “Expert Mode” where we deep dive sound hardware, composer info, and music theory. 

 

You can find the blog at www.nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. Where we sometimes share additional show notes, and inside info. You can also find Nerd Noise Radio on Archive.org, where we have remixes and super bonuses only available there (such as a music-only alternative version of today’s show).

 

Nerd Noise Radio is also a member of the Retro Junkies community, which can be found at www.theretrojunkies.com. And we are a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community on Facebook. St. John is also the admin of the Podcasters of Des Moines Facebook group, which features a number of other podcasters and great programs from the greater Des Moines area.

 

Thanks for listening! Join us again later this month for a Ch 1 on an unnamed soundtrack (and very likely featuring a guest), as well as another Channel F on the VGM compositions of a fellow VGM podcaster, collectively wrapping up our involvement in MoVGM 2! Delicious VGM on Noise from the Hearts of Nerds, and Try Before You Buy on Channel F! And wherever you are….Fly the N!



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[RERUN] C2E8: "Our Four Favorites" [Masters of VGM] - orig rel. 06/30/2022 (see 2025 show note addendum!)

Wednesday Jul 02, 2025

Wednesday Jul 02, 2025

[2025 Addendum….sorry for the ultra long-winded]

Normally, we only share one rerun a month at Nerd Noise Radio. But due to the confluence of a) our having missed the May rerun completely, b) our not getting a June rerun out until the very end of the month, and c) a very important thematic connection to an event currently happening in the VGM podcast scene this month, I’m releasing…..not one……not two……not four…..but THREE reruns in July!

From 2022 through 2024, the greater VGM podcast community participated in a glorious group experiment called “Masters of VGM” (or “MoVGM” for short - I think I might’ve even been the one to coin the shorthand…..maybe), where a master theme was decided upon by the community, and then every participating podcast would do an episode, or a handful of episodes in keeping with the crowdsourced theme. Nerd Noise Radio participated all three years - with a Channel 2 in 2022, a Channel 1 in 2024, and in 2023, with a whopping FOUR installments where we had a Channel 1, a Channel 2, and two Channel Fs. Channel F, for the new faces in the crowd is our mechanism for betas, and bonuses, and things which just don’t fit the mold for a regular episode. Channel F is “format agnostic” and does not have any sort of regular release cadence whatsoever. So, “F-isodes” as I call them (and am probably WAY too proud of myself for that), can be just whatever, and come out just whenever.

The people who devised and oversaw MoVGM have largely significantly reduced their presence in the podcast scene over the past couple years, and so had elected to not continue MoVGM into 2025. However, a handful of us, Alex “The Messenger” Messenger of “A VGM Journey” (https://terraplayer.com/shows/a-vgm-journey), Professor Tom from “Shujin Academy VGM Club” (https://terraplayer.com/shows/shujin-academy-vgm-club), and myself have decided that, while not formally reviving MoVGM, we were going to do something of our own, in that same spirit. While the name hasn’t been officially finalized as of this writing on July 2nd, and could still change, the “working title” (that will very likely become the final title), which was proposed by Professor Tom is “VGM Hall of Fame” I’ll go ahead and dub it “HoF” for short.

Naturally, we’re trying to also inspire other podcasters to join us so that it is not just we three, but at the very, very least, there will be an HoF episode from all of us on the theme of “a soundtrack that belongs in a theoretical “VGM Hall of Fame” (hence the name). Nerd Noise Radio’s contribution to this will be a Channel 1 featuring the Super Metroid soundtrack (C1E97). If I have the time, and the mental energy, I might also supplement this with an F-isode on a much more obscure soundtrack that begs to enjoy greater awareness and celebration (Lucid 9, if it ends up happening).

One other major difference between HoF and MoVGM is that MoVGM occurred in June (2023 was so big that it extended into July) where HoF will occur in July. We all wanted to do this in June, but we were all too deep into production of our respective June content at the time that we all agreed to just push it back to July instead.

Anyway, over the river and through the woods, to the point I *FINALLY* get: in a bid to not only help draw extra attention to HoF and hopefully drum up a little excitement for it, among both listeners as well as other podcasters, especially prospective participants, as well as to simply celebrate some of the glory that was this remarkable moment in time for a community, this month, I will rerun our 2022 MoVGM contribution, our 2023 Channel 2 contribution, which was a sort of “spiritual sequel” to our 2022 outing (with links to our other 2023 contributions in that rerun’s show notes), and finally, to our 2024 offering. And naturally, we’ll start with 2022.

The theme of 2022 was “which composers would you put on your ‘VGM Mount Rushmore’”? So everyone was to pick four composers. Since Ch 2 was Hugues and I, rather than picking just two, we each picked four for a grand total, of course, of eight, and then did a thing where we each picked one track from each of the eight composers (one each for our own composers, as well as one each for the other guys’ composers). With this being a 2022 production, all the usual caveats about production quality differences and deficiencies. Between a lesser mic and less fully developed production techniques, the sound quality will not be up to the standards of a 2025 episode (I also hadn’t started editing out the “umms” yet….apologies for that!). But it’s still pretty decent. Certainly decent enough that it doesn’t really feel like a barrier to enjoyment like, say, a 2018, or especially 2017 episode would be.

And so, without further ado: our first of three reruns this month, the first of three to celebrate the memory of MoVGM as well as hopefully whet people’s appetites for HoF: C2E8: “Our Four Favorites” - originally released 06/30/2022.

 

Enjoy!

 

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Original Show Notes:

Today’s Broadcast is C2E8 for Theme Thursday, June 30th, 2022. Today’s episode will be Nerd Noise Radio’s contribution to the greater VGM podcast scene massive group project “Masters of VGM” (https://mastersofvgm.com) and like all “MoVGM” episodes from all the participating podcasts, will be a focus on our four favorite composers (with a surprise “East meets West” twist) - on a program that we’re quite simply calling “Our Four Favorites”

 

01) Earcatcher: 00:00:00

02) Hugues’ Composer #4: Yoko Shimomura!

  1. Hugues’ Yoko track: Ken’s Theme - Street Fighter II - Arcade
    1. Music - 00:00:03
    2. Intro: 00:02:13
    3. Top of Show Business: 00:04:08
    4. Track (and composer) Discussion: 00:19:19
  2. John’s Yoko Track: Kairi 1 - Kingdom Hearts - PS2
    1. Music - 00:24:26
    2. Discussion - 00:26:09

03) John’s Composer #4: Martin Iveson!

  1. John’s Martin Track: Shop Theme - Jaguar XJ220 - Sega CD
    1. Music - 00:33:23
    2. Discussion - 00:34:48
  2. Hugues’ Martin Track: Country Select - Jaguar XJ220 - Sega CD
    1. Music - 00:38:24
    2. Discussion - 00:39:44
    3. BEGIN: Bad Audio for voice (backup copy - see note after track list) - 00:40:15

04) Hugues’ Composer #3: Yuzo Koshiro!

  1. Hugues’ Yuzo Track: Daiba Freezing Town - 7th Dragon 2020 - PSP
    1. Music - 00:42:38
    2. Discussion - 00:45:55
  2. John’s Yuzo Track: Undiscovered Realm (in-game symphonic vers) - Actraiser Renaissance - multiplatform
    1. Music - 00:50:21
    2. Discussion - 00:52:39

05) John’s Composer #3: Spencer Nilsen!

  1. John’s Spencer Track: Cathedral and Sewers - Batman Returns - Sega CD
    1. Music - 00:57:33
    2. Discussion - 01:00:44
    3. END: Bad Audio for voice (backup copy) - 01:06:09
  2. Hugues’ Spencer [maybe] Track: The Vents - Ecco the Dolphin - Genesis (possibly composed by Andras Magyari and/or Brian Coburn instead - or as well)
    1. Music - 01:06:25
    2. Discussion - 01:08:38

06) Hugues’ Composer #2: Nobuo Uematsu!

  1. Hugues’ Nobuo Track: The Oath - Final Fantasy VIII - PS1
    1. Music - 01:14:53
    2. Discussion - 01:18:09
  2. John’s Nobuo Track: Esto Gaza - Final Fantasy IX - PS1
    1. Music - 01:25:26
    2. Discussion - 01:29:05

07) John’s Composer #2: Matt Furniss!

  1. John’s Matt Track: The Red Woods - Puggsy - Genesis
    1. Music - 01:34:57
    2. Discussion - 01:37:59
  2. Hugues’ Matt Track: Title - Sega Chess - Mastersystem
    1. Music - 01:42:39
    2. Discussion - 01:44:46

08) Hugues’ Composer [TEAM] #1: Hayato Sonoda and/or Takahiro Unisuga

[Falcom Sound Team JDK]!

  1. Hugues’ Falcom Track: Blue Destination - Trails of Cold Steel II - Vita/PS3/PS4/PC
    1. Music - 01:51:41
    2. Discussion - 01:56:28
    3. BEGIN: More Backup voice audio - 02:01:07
    4. END: More Backup voice audio - 02:01:13
  2. John’s Falcom Track: Crystal Valley - Zwei II - PC [EDITOR’S NOTE: I missed my chance to point out that Zwei (pronounced “TsvI”)is the German word for “two”. So this game is basically called “Two Two”. :-D - St. John]
    1. Music - 02:07:38
    2. Discussion - 02:10:10

09) John’s Composer [TEAM] #1: The Super Follin Bros [Tim and/or Geoff Follin]

  1. John’s Follin Track: Gambit - Spider-Man / X-Men: Arcade’s Revenge - SNES
    1. Music - 02:13:51
    2. Discussion - 02:17:56
    3. End of Show Business (and FINALLY titling the episode!) - 02:23:47
    4. Our other Programs - 02:29:09
    5. Hugues’ Follin Track Discussion - 02:31:46
    6. Sign Off - 02:34:38
  2. Hugues’ Follin Track: Parking Garage - Target Renegade - NES - 02:35:33

10) Blooper Reel (contains both high and low quality voice audio - AND OUR CENSOR SOUND!!!) - 02:38:48

11) Bonus 1: The Oath - Distant Worlds Symphonic Concert Version - 02:46:29

12) Bonus 2: Rain Angel - AtJazz (post-VGM non-VGM works by Martin Iveson) - Lab Results (album) - c 2002 - 02:51:47

 

Total Episode Runtime: 02:58:04

 

NOTE ON BACKUP [bad] AUDIO - SHORT[ISH] VERSION: when Hugues and I meet, we have our Google Meet output recording, as well as each having higher quality Audacity recordings of just our own sides of the conversation. We keep the Meet recording in case there is an emergency with the Audacity recording, but otherwise don't use it in the final episode, and I just align and combine our high quality Audacity recordings. On this episode, however, (a first for Ch 2) we lost a portion of Hugues' Audacity recording, so we did have to use our fallback a little bit. At the very bottom of the show notes, I'll include a LONG[ISH] VERSION which explains more. I did everything I could to minimize the impact of the Google Meet recording in the final episode. But it is noticeable at points.

 
You can find Brian and Kristen Peterson's GoFundMe here: https://gofund.me/1ef0f855. Again, absolutely zero pressure to contribute, but anything you do would certainly be most appreciated!
 
You can find our "Introduction to Nerd Noise Radio - 2022" blog here: https://nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com/2022/06/nnr-blog-st-john-introduction-to-nerd.html

 

The Masters of VGM Website, once again, can be found at https://mastersofvgm.com/. You can also follow MoVGM on Twitter @MastersOfVGM! Please do check out some (or preferably, ALL) of the other shows’ episodes in the series!

 

Retro Game Club can be found here:

 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/retro-game-club/id1453018680

 

You can also follow Retro Game Club on Facebook and Instagram @retrogameclubpodcast and on Twitter @rgcpodcast.

 

Hugues’ blog (and his Sega Genesis demo) can be found here: 

 

https://huguesjohnson.com/

 

You can find Nerd Noise Radio on Facebook and on Twitter each @NerdNoiseRadio. There are also two Facebook Groups: Nerd Noise Radio “Easy Mode” where we just have general video game and nerd fun, or for the gearheads among you, Nerd Noise Radio “Expert Mode” where we deep dive sound hardware, composer info, and music theory. 

 

You can find the blog at www.nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. Where we sometimes share additional show notes, and inside info. You can also find Nerd Noise Radio on Archive.org, where we have remixes and super bonuses only available there (such as a music-only alternative version of today’s show).

 

Nerd Noise Radio is also a member of the Retro Junkies community, which can be found at www.theretrojunkies.com. And we are a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community on Facebook. St. John is also the admin of the Podcasters of Des Moines Facebook group, which features a number of other podcasters and great programs from the greater Des Moines area.

 

Thanks for listening! Join us again in July on Channel 1 for two separate retrospective episodes: C1E65a: “The Best of 2020 / 2021 - St. John’s picks” and C1E65b: “The Best of 2020 / 2021 - Hugues’ picks”. Then join us again in August on Ch 2 for C2E9: “Just Deserts”. And wherever you are….Fly the N!



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NNR Reruns! - C2E10: “Sega CD 30” (orig released 10/20/22 - with 2025 Terra Player Introduction)

Friday Jun 27, 2025

Friday Jun 27, 2025

2025 Addendum (original show notes below)

Today’s rerun includes a tacked on 2025 introduction directed primarily at listeners on Terra Player, and also references links to two other “made on Steam Deck” NNR episodes. See those links below:

C1E71: “The Wonder Years” [Channel 1]:

https://nerdnoiseradio.podbean.com/e/noise-from-the-hearts-of-nerds-c1e71-the-wonder-years/


C2R3: “Best of 2023” [Channel 2]:

https://nerdnoiseradio.podbean.com/e/ch-2-nerd-noise-game-club-c2r3-the-best-of-season-3/

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Original show notes (minus updated timestamps)

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Today’s Broadcast is C2E10 for Theme Thursday, October 20th, 2022. Today’s episode (our final “normal” episode of Season 2 [calendar 2022]) will be a focus on Sega CD music to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the system’s North American launch. Also, including an endearingly terrible improvised gag attempt at the very beginning! :-D

 

Track # / Track / Game [System, of course, will always be Sega CD, or at least Mega CD] / Composer (s) / Selected by

 

A1) 2025 “For The Terra Player Listeners” Addendum: 00:00:00 

01) False Intro (Gag!) - 00:09:30

02) Track 03 - Robo Aleste - Katsumi Tanaka, and/or Satoshi Shimazaki - Hugues

  1. Music - 00:11:50
  2. Introduction - 00:06:06
  3. Top of Show Business pt 1 - 00:15:36
  4. Opening Track  Discussion - 00:24:09
  5. Return of the Top of Show Business pt B - 00:28:20

02) West Side Andore Cage Battle - Final Fight CD - c: Harumi Fujita, Yasuaki Fujita, Manami Matsumae, Yoshihiro Sakaguchi, Yoko Shimomura, Hiromitsu Takaoka, and/or Junko Tamiya / a: T’s Music - St. John

  1. Music - 00:31:08
  2. Discussion - 00:34:23

03) Track 08 - Spider-Man vs The Kingpin - Spencer Nilsen and/or David Young - Hugues

  1. Music - 00:40:36
  2. Discussion - 00:43:52

04) Rolling Bad Guys - Lethal Enforcers - Kenichiro Fukui - St. John

  1. Music - 00:56:33
  2. Discussion - 01:01:37

05) Ice Berg - Popful Mail - c: Mieko Ishikawa / a: Hirofumi Matsuoka - Hugues

  1. Music - 01:10:31
  2. Discussion - 01:13:01

06) Wacky Workbench (past) - Sonic CD - Naofumi Hataya, and/or Masafumi Ogata - St. John

  1. Music - 01:16:27
  2. Discussion - 01:20:04

07) Ending - Earnest Evans - Motoi Sakuraba, and/or Hiroki Itou - Hugues

  1. Music - 01:26:54
  2. Discussion - 01:31:30

08) Track 7 - Keio Flying Squadron - Tsukasa Tawada - St. John

  1. Music - 01:36:12
  2. Discussion - 01:40:56

09) Overworld Theme - Vay - Shigeki Sako - Hugues

  1. Music - 01:49:13
  2. Discussion - 01:51:23

10) Ancient Temple - Wolfchild - Martin Iveson - St. John

  1. Music - 01:53:50
  2. Discussion - 01:59:05

11) Meribia - Lunar: The Silver Star - Noriyuki Iwadare - Hugues

  1. Music - 02:03:42
  2. Discussion - 02:06:14

12) The Undercaves - Ecco the Dolphin - Spencer Nilsen - St. John

  1. Music - 02:08:45
  2. Discussion - 02:01:56

13) Melee Island - The Secret of Monkey Island - Michael Z. Land, Barney Jones, Andy Newell, Patric Mundy - Hugues

  1. Music - 02:16:53
  2. Discussion - 02:19:06
  3. End of Show Business / Our Other Shows - 02:24:06
  4. Final Track Discussion - 02:31:41
  5. Sign-off - 02:35:16

14) Jamie's Theme - Snatcher - The Konami Kukeiha Club - St. John

  1. Music - 02:35:48
  2. Blooper Reel - 02:38:15

 

Total Episode Runtime: 02:47:09

 

Retro Game Club can be found here:

 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/retro-game-club/id1453018680

 

You can also follow Retro Game Club on Facebook and Instagram @retrogameclubpodcast and on Twitter @rgcpodcast.

 

Hugues’ blog (and his Sega Genesis demo) can be found here: 

 

https://huguesjohnson.com/

 

You can find Nerd Noise Radio on Facebook and on Twitter each @NerdNoiseRadio. There are also two Facebook Groups: Nerd Noise Radio “Easy Mode” where we just have general video game and nerd fun, or for the gearheads among you, Nerd Noise Radio “Expert Mode” where we deep dive sound hardware, composer info, and music theory. 

 

You can find the blog at www.nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. Where we sometimes share additional show notes, and inside info. You can also find Nerd Noise Radio on Archive.org, where we have remixes and super bonuses only available there (such as a music-only alternative version of today’s show).

 

Nerd Noise Radio is also a member of the Retro Junkies community, which can be found at www.theretrojunkies.com. And we are a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community on Facebook. St. John is also the admin of the Podcasters of Des Moines Facebook group, which features a number of other podcasters and great programs from the greater Des Moines area.

 

Thanks for listening! Join us again one week from today (Thurs, Oct 27th, 2022) for C1E68: “They’re Coming to Get You, Barbara” - spooky, dissonant, and unsettling music for the occasion of the Halloween season”. Delicious VGM on Noise from the Hearts of Nerds! And wherever you are….Fly the N!

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2025 Addendum 2: C1E68 was an incredible episode! One of the most sophisticated[ly sorted] mixtapes I’ve ever made! Here’s the link if you’re curious!

https://nerdnoiseradio.podbean.com/e/channel-1-noise-from-the-hearts-of-nerds-c1e68-they-re-coming-to-get-you-barbara/

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[Ch 1] "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" - “C1E96: Full Steam Ahead”

Thursday Jun 26, 2025

Thursday Jun 26, 2025

Today’s broadcast is C1E96 for Theme Thursday, June 26th, 2025 (happy 27th "dating" anniversary to my dear wife, St. Jodee). Today’s theme is a collection of music from games in my own personal Steam Library – planned, curated, produced, and distributed entirely on/from the Steam Deck (SteamOS desktop mode)! A collection dominated by music from indie games from the 2010's and 2020's and peppered with music from bigger-named games from the 1990's and 2000's and contains not one, but TWO chill zones, which collectively account for almost half of the mixtape runtime! Special thanks to Professor Tom from Shujin Acadamy VGM Club podcast for helping me settle on episode title. Other candidate titles I'd been considering included "Gimme Steam" (which was the working title), "Steam Punk", and "All Hands on Deck". Lastly, this is our debut episode on Terra Player! 

 

SKIP STRAIGHT TO THE MUSIC TIMESTAMP: 00:07:22 

  

Tracklist: 

  

Track# - Track - Game (System is always presumed to be PC for this episode) - Composer(s) - Timestamp 

  

A1) Intro - 00:00:00 

  

01) Main Theme - Mr. Run and Jump - Fat Bard and/or Andrew P. Masson - 00:07:22 

  

02) Blackout City - Bit Trip Runner - Petrified Productions - 00:09:24 

  

03) Solace Tomorrow - ExZodiac - Ben Hickling - 00:12:44 

  

04) Starry Sky - Toree 3D - Nash Music Library - 00:15:51 

  

05) Southisland 2 - Fantavision 202 X - Soichi Terada - 00:18:07 

  

06) Shame (aka “The Shameful Last Minute”) - EDGE - Romain Gauthier - 00:21:16 

  

07) Syreen Theme - Star Control III - Andrew M. Frazier - 00:24:23 

  

08) Analog Control Loop - Formula Retro Racing - John Williams - 00:27:14 

  

09) UFO 50 - UFO 50 - Eirik Suhrke - 00:29:17 

  

10) Hinterwald Dungeon Explore - Dungeons of Hinterberg - David Zahradnicek, and/or Markus Zahradnicek - 00:32:01 

  

11) Control - Cloundpunk - Harry Critchley - 00:35:18 

  

12) Blast Pit 1 - Black Mesa - Joel Nielsen - 00:37:29 

  

13) The Nomai - The Outer Wilds - Andrew Prahlow - 00:39:14 

  

14) Dream Town - Fallout 2 - Mark Morgan - 00:43:01 

  

15) Earth - Lords of Magic - Keith Zizza - 00:46:12 

  

16) grip - qomp - Britt Brady - 00:50:14 

  

17) Returning the Flavour - Olli Olli World - Potatohead People - 00:52:45 

  

18) Portabellahead - Crypt of the Necrodancer - Danny Baronowsky - 00:55:43 

  

19) Delirious Acting - Pseudoregalia - potatoTero - 00:58:29 

  

20) Relentless - Gunborg - Cato Hoeben - 01:00:27 

  

21) Kurodabushi - Koi Koi Japan Hanafuda - Unknown - 01:03:21 

  

22) Security Bridge - System Shock Classic - Greg LoPiccolo and/or Tim Ries - 01:04:50 

  

23) Battle - Caveblazers - Paul Zimmerman - 01:08:02 

  

24) Salt and Sepulcher - The Mummy Demastered - monomer - 01:09:55 

  

25) Main Theme - Blade Assault - Planetboom and/or Creative Factory - 01:12:10 

  

26) Main Theme - Fury Unleashed - Adam Skorupa and/or Krzysztof Wierzynkiewicz - 01:15:08 

  

27) Witness Prevention Program - Killing Floor - Zynthetic - 01:17:21 

  

28) The Audience Chamber - Elder Scrolls Arena - Eric Heberling - 01:20:08 

  

29) Trademeet - Baldur’s Gate II - Michael Hoenig - 01:21:46 

  

30) Wayward Dreamers - Dreams of Aether - flashy goodness - 01:22:39 

  

31) Save Room - Gato Roboto - Britt Brady - 01:25:30 

  

32) Equanimity - Lucid9 - Breezee - 01:27:14 

  

33) Pillar Gardens - In Other Waters - Amos Roddy - 01:31:40 

  

34) Completely Safe - Deliver Us Mars - Sander Van Zanten - 01:36:02 

  

35) Karst Pass - Even the Ocean - Melos Han-Tani - 01:39:34 

  

36) Title Screen - Cubot - Kevin MacLeod - 01:44:33 

  

37) Splash of Color - Flower - Vincent Diamante - 01:49:45 

  

38) Beast Road - Touhou Mystia’s Izakaya - Hannari and/or Can Shi - 01:58:56 

  

39) Pra Me Lembrar Amanha - Before I Forget - Dave Tucker - 02:02:31 

  

40) Candy Store Crush - Donut Dodo - Sean Bialo - 02:05:04 

  

41) Toastopia - Pikuniku - Calem Bowen - 02:07:22 

  

42) April Mountains - Lovely Planet 2: April Skies - Calem Bowen - 02:10:17 

  

43) Clouds - Nidhogg - Daedalus - 02:12:47 

  

44) Home - Retrowave - Resonance - 02:15:20 

  

45) Battle Theme - Void Invaders - kingdaro - 02:18:43 

  

B1) Outro - 02:21:58 

  

Music Block Runtime: 02:14:43 / Total Episode Runtime: 02:34:01 

 

Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights. 

 

Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in SteamOS desktop mode on the Steam Deck! Recorded with a Shure SM7B XLR dynamic microphone on a RØDE PSA1+ boom arm through a Cloudlifter and a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB interface! 

 

If you aren't already a listener of Shujin Acadamy VGM Club, please go show the good professor some love, and tell him St. John sent ya! You can find Shujin Acadamy on Terra Player, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, Facebook, Mastodon, Podbean, or on your podcatcher of choice. Here's a link to his show on Terra Player and on Podbean: 

 

https://terraplayer.com/shows/shujin-academy-vgm-club 

 
https://shujinacademyvgmclub.podbean.com/ 

 
Speaking of Terra Player, we are now a member podcast as well. You can find us there at  https://terraplayer.com/shows/nerd-noise-radio. Also, check out their outstanding collection of other podcasts and radio stations at https://terraplayer.com/! From now on, when sharing episodes of Nerd Noise Radio, I will most likely use the Terra Player link rather than the Podbean link like I have been using. 

 

You can also find all of our audio episodes on https://archive.org/details/@nerd_noise_radio as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and other content. 

 

Our YouTube Channel, for the time being is in dormancy, but will be returning with content, hopefully, in 2022. Meanwhile, all the old stuff is still there, and can be found here:  

 

https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio 

 

Occasional blogs and sometimes expanded show notes can be found here: 

 

nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. 

 

Nerd Noise Radio is also a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at  

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/VGMPodcastFans/ 

 

We are also a member of Podcasters of Des Moines at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1782895868426870/ 

 

Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:  

 

Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ for sharing tracks, video game news, or just general videogame fandom. 

 

Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/ for going deep into video game sound hardware, composer info, and/or music theory. 

 

Or you can reach us by e-mail at nerd.noise.radio@gmail.com 

 

You can also follow us on Threads at https://www.threads.net/@nerdnoiseradio , Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nerdnoiseradio?igsh=MWF4NjBpdGVxazUxYw== , Mastodon at https://universeodon.com/@NerdNoiseRadio , and BlueSky at  And we are also now on TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Vurbl, Amazon Music and Audible!  

 

But frankly, probably the absolute best way you can connect with us is on our new Discord Channel: "Nerd Noise Radio – Channel D", which includes various sub-channels for all sorts of different types of connection and conversation:  
 
https://discord.gg/GUWdaXUw 

 

Thanks for listening! Join us again in July for C1E97 (Channel 1, Episode 97): the Super Metroid soundtrack, part of a collaboration with Shujin Academy VGM Club, The Messenger Presents: A VGM Journey, and any other shows which wish to join us in lieu of an official Masters of VGM event this year - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N! 

 

Cheers! 

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[Ch 1] "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" - “C1E95: VibeOff Vrijdag”

Friday May 09, 2025

Friday May 09, 2025

Today’s broadcast is C1E95 for VibeOff Vrijdag, May 9th, 2025. Today’s broadcast will be a one-time-only special twist on a FaceOff Friday, where, instead of comparing different versions of the same track against each other, we're comparing pairs (and occasionally trios) of different songs against each other which either have similar movements, or melodies, or instrumentation, or simply just vibes and asking you, the listener to not only tell us which one you like better, but whether or not the comparisons are even valid, and how strongly or weakly if so. So, in lieu of an 8th and final FaceOff Friday episode, Nerd Noise Radio is pleased to present: VibeOff Vrijdag (Vrijdag = the Dutch word for Friday). See the show notes for a link to a document which will allow you to grade me on these comparisons if you so choose! 

 

Tracklist: Vibe-Off# - Timestamps 

Track# - Track - Game - System(s) - Composer - Timestamp 

  

Intro - 00:00:00 

VIBE-OFF A: 00:06:25 - 00:14:12 

1) Mission 2 – Double Dragon II – Mega Drive – c: Kazunaka Yamane / a: Hitoshi Sakimoto – 00:06:25 

2) The Mall - Skate or Die 2 – NES – Rob Hubbard – 00:08:52 

3) Surface of SR388 - Metroid 2 – Game Boy - Ryōji Yoshitomi – 00:12:00 

VIBE-OFF B: 00:14:12 – 00:17:23 

1) Springfield Butte - The Simpsons – Arcade – Norio Hanzawa – 00:14:12 

2) Evil Dante - Cratermaze – TG16 – c: Kenji Yoshida and/or Hiroshi Funaba / a: Toshiaki Takimoto, Katsunori Takahashi, Takayuki Iwabuchi, and/or Keita Hoshi – 00:15:44 

VIBE-OFF C: 00:17:23 – 00:20:56 

1) BGM 2 – Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf – Genesis - Tokuhiko Uwabo – 00:17:23 

2) Results Parade – Check Mii Out Channel – Wii – Kazumi Totaka – 00:18:53 

VIBE-OFF D: 00:20:56 – 00:25:47 

1) Boss – Black Belt – Master System – Katsuhiro Hayashi – 00:20:56 

2) Wily's Castle 1 – Mega Man 2 – NES – Takashi Tateishi – 00:23:16 

VIBE-OFF E: 00:25:47 – 00:28:08 

1) Promoted Attack – Shining Force II – Genesis - Motoaki Takenouchi – 00:25:47 

2) Course Select – Star Fox – SNES - Hajime Hirasawa – 00:26:58 

VIBE-OFF F: 00:28:05 – 00:33:12 

1) Stage 5-2 – Rocket Knight Adventures – Genesis - Masanori Ohuchi, Aki Hata, Masanori Adachi, Hiroshi Kobayashi, and/or Michiru Yamane – 00:28:05 

2) Mellow Groove – ToeJam & Earl: Panic on Funkotron – Genesis – John Baker – 00:31:26 

VIBE-OFF G: 00:33:12 – 00:39:19 

1) Dilapidated Town – Streets of Rage – Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro – 00:33:12 

2) Blue Blue Moon – Super Adventure Island – SNES – Yuzo Koshiro – 00:36:37 

VIBE-OFF H: 00:39:19 – 00:46:41 

1) Aqua and Trees – Tobal No. 1 – PS1 - Masashi Hamauzu, Junya Nakano, Yasuhiro Kawakami, Kenji Ito, and/or Ryuji Sasai – 00:39:19 

2) Rikuo – Night Warriors – Darkstalkers' Revenge – Multiplatform  - Takayuki Iwai, Hideki Okugawa, and/or Akari Kaida – 00:42:24 

3) Gong Shun Sheng – Dark Legend – Saturn – c: Shogo Sakai, Taihei Sato, Hiroaki Yoshida, and/or Tatsuya Kiuchi / a: Seiichi Hamada – 00:44:07 

VIBE-OFF I: 00:46:41 – 00:50:02 

1) Tetramix A – Tetris (SEGA) - Arcade – Yasuhiro Kawakami and/or Katsumi Tojo – 00:46:41 

2) Stage 1-4 – Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine – Genesis - Masanori Hikichi, and/or Masayuki Nagao – 00:48:26 

VIBE-OFF J: 00:50:02 – 00:53:49 

1) Float Islands – Kirby Super Star – SNES - Jun Ishikawa,  and/or Dan Miyakawa – 00:50:02 

2) Frappe Snowland / Sherbet Land – Mario Kart 64 – N64 - Kenta Nagata – 00:51:32 

VIBE-OFF K: 00:53:49 – 00:59:02 

1) Main Theme – Space Harrier – Master System – c: Hiroshi Kawaguchi / a: Tokuhiko Uwabo  - 00:53:49 

2) Elec Man – Mega Man – NES - Manami Matsumae and/or Yoshihiro Sakaguchi – 00:56:57 

VIBE-OFF L: 00:59:02 – 01:01:59 

1) Battle Through a Living Starship – Uncanny X-Men – NES - Kinuyo Yamashita and/or Satoe Terashima – 00:59:02 

2) Stage Theme 2 – Wrath of the Black Manta – NES - Yoki Shinjyuku – 01:00:49 

VIBE-OFF M: 01:01:59 – 01:05:52 

1) Temple – Spellcaster – Master System - Sachio Ogawa – 01:01:59 

2) Gemini Man – Mega Man 3 – NES – Yasuaki Fujita – 01:03:54 

VIBE-OFF N: 01:05:52 – 01:09:45 

1) Siberia (generic) - X-Men 2 – Genesis – Kurt Harland – 01:05:52 

2) Do The Right Thing – X-Men – Arcade - Yuji Takenouchi – 01:07:44 

VIBE-OFF O: 01:09:45 – 01:13:50 

1) Deamon Stage – Cosmic Carnage – 32X – Hikoshi Hashimoto – 01:09:45 

2) Expander – Streets of Rage 2 – Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima – 01:11:26 

VIBE-OFF P: 01:13:50 – 01:18:52 

1) Bulldozer – Streets of Rage 3 – Genesis – Motohiro Kawashima and/or Yuzo Koshiro – 01:13:50 

2) Loud Music – Stray – Multiplatform – Jan van der Cruyssen – 01:16:17 

VIBE-OFF Q: 01:18:52 – 01:31:47 

1) Outlaw – n++ - Multiplatform – Volor Flex – 01:18:52 

2) UK Race 2 – Trickstyle – Dreamcast / PC – Richard Beddow – 01:24:10 

3) Japanese Four Star – Forza 3 – XB360 – Lance Hayes – 01:27:04 

VIBE-OFF R: 01:31:47 – 01:37:27 

1) Buy Mode 1 – The Sims – PC – Jerry Martin and/or Marc Russo – 01:31:47 

2) Cobleston: Nestled in the Hills – Octopath Traveller – Multiplatform - Yasunori Nishiki – 01:34:26 

VIBE-OFF S: 01:37:27 – 01:44:27 

1) The Hunter's Repose – Moryou Senki Madara 2 – Super Famicom - Tappi Iwase, Miki Higashino, Hirofumi Taniguchi, and/or Aki Hata – 01:37:27 

2) Fishing for Seema – Tsuri Tarou – Super Famicom - Katsuhiro Hayashi – 01:39:45 

3) Milky Lake – Wave Race 64 – N64 – Kazumi Totaka – 01:41:58 

Outro - 01:44:27 

  

Music Block Runtime: 01:38:03 / Total Episode Runtime: 01:58:24 

 

Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights. 

 

NOTE: Here is the link to the document that you can use to "grade me" on the quality of these contests:  
 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vCVpihaTDXeXOHd3ox44Vn7oW_q7_bX1mNFso0CzqMA/edit?usp=sharing 

 

Also, Bonus: PROOF that Van Halen is actually pronounced "Fon Hollan": a 1990 Dutch language interview with the Van Halen brothers, which includes, among other things, them all making fun of us for pronouncing it "Van Haylen": 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze7gMsBNp8Q 

 

Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Workstation Linux on an ASUS ROG Zephyrus 14 (2023) laptop with perhaps a little support from a Dell Latitude 7480 (running Fedora COSMIC Linux), a 2017-spec DIY gaming PC (running Bazzite Linux) or the Steam Deck (running Steam OS Linux). Recorded with a Shure SM7B XLR dynamic microphone on a RØDE PSA1+ boom arm through a Cloudlifter and a Focusrite 4i4 XLR-to-USB interface! 

 

You can also find all of our audio episodes on https://archive.org/details/@nerd_noise_radio as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and other content. 

 

Our YouTube Channel, for the time being is in dormancy, but will be returning with content, hopefully, in 2022. Meanwhile, all the old stuff is still there, and can be found here:  

 

https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio 

 

Occasional blogs and sometimes expanded show notes can be found here: 

 

nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. 

 

Nerd Noise Radio is also a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at  

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/VGMPodcastFans/ 

 

We are also a member of Podcasters of Des Moines at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1782895868426870/ 

 

Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:  

 

Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ for sharing tracks, video game news, or just general videogame fandom. 

 

Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/ for going deep into video game sound hardware, composer info, and/or music theory. 

 

Or you can reach us by e-mail at nerd.noise.radio@gmail.com 

 

You can also follow us on Threads at https://www.threads.net/@nerdnoiseradio , Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nerdnoiseradio?igsh=MWF4NjBpdGVxazUxYw== , Mastodon at https://universeodon.com/@NerdNoiseRadio , and BlueSky at  And we are also now on TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Vurbl, Amazon Music and Audible!  

 

But frankly, probably the absolute best way you can connect with us is on our new Discord Channel: "Nerd Noise Radio – Channel D", which includes various sub-channels for all sorts of different types of connection and conversation:  
 
https://discord.gg/GUWdaXUw 

 

Thanks for listening! Join us again in June for C1E96 (Channel 1, Episode 96): Subject TBD - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N! 

 

Cheers! 

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