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[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”:
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)
- John’s Track: Dreiton - Minecraft - Multiplatform
- Earcatcher - 00:00:00
- Music - 00:00:07
- Introduction - 00:08:16
- Top of the Show pt 1 - 00:09:12
- Discussion - 00:12:00
- Top of the Show pt 2 - 00:14:19
- Hugues’ Track: Enforcer Brittanica - Catacomb Snatch - PC
- Music - 00:28:44
- Discussion - 00:32:23
02) Hugues’ 1st composer: Takahiko Abe
- Hugues’ Track: Templo del Sol - Asuteka II - PC88
- Music - 00:37:18:
- Discussion - 00:39:31
- John’s Track: Machi - Susanoou Densetsu - PC Engine
- Music - 00:46:36
- Discussion - 00:48:24
03) John’s 2nd composer: Soichi Terada
- John’s Track: Subspace 2 - Fantavision 202X - PC
- Music - 00:56:06
- Discussion - 00:59:27
- Hugues’ Track: TV Tower - Ape Escape on the Loose - PSP
- Music - 01:03:30
- Discussion - 01:06:54
04) Hugues’ 2nd composer: Katsumi Tanaka
- Hugues’ Track: Memories of Puyo Puyo - Puyo Puyo CD - PC Engine
- Music - 01:11:09
- Discussion - 01:13:25
- John’s Track: Black Hole Anomalies - Space Megaforce - SNES
- Music - 01:19:17
- Discussion - 01:21:41
05) John’s 3rd composer: Hikoshi Hashimoto
- John’s Track: Zena Lan (Heavily Armored) - Cosmic Carnage - 32X
- Music - 01:23:57
- Discussion - 01:25:50
- Hugues’ Track: Halftime - Pat Riley Basketball - Genesis
- Music - 01:31:15
- Discussion - 01:31:47
06) Hugues’ 3rd composer: Toshio Murai
- Hugues’ Track: Office Theme - Wall Street Kid - NES
- Music - 01:37:29
- Discussion - 01:39:16
- John’s Track: Stage 6 - Cyber Core - PC Engine
- Music - 01:43:31
- Discussion - 01:45:01
07) John’s 4th composer: Joris de Man
- John’s Track: Eternal Conceit - Horizon Forbidden West - PS4 / PS5
- Music - 01:48:22
- Discussion - 01:53:09
- Hugues’ Track: Violet’s Theme - Black Belt Challenge - GBA
- Music - 02:02:56
- Discussion - 02:04:59
08) Hugues’ 4th composer: Yoshihiko Miyazaki
- Hugues’ Track: Search Break - JB Harold Murder Club - PC88
- Music - 02:10:56
- Discussion - 02:12:43
- John’s Track: Dream of the Murder - Manhattan Requiem - LaserActive
- Music - 02:18:37
- Discussion - 02:21:011
09) BONUS: “Unknown composers”!!!
- John’s Track: Login Screen - N/A (System Music) - PS5
- Music - 02:24:25
- Discussion - 02:27:28
- End of show discussion - 02:31:12
- Masters of VGM shout-out - 02:34:26
- Closing track Discussion - 02:36:13
- Sign-off - 02:39:39
- Hugues’ Track: Track 5 - Hyper Catalog - PC Engine
- Music - 02:39:48
- Masters of VGM earcatcher (feat. Ed Wilson of “The VGMbassy”) - 02:41:51
- 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:
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!
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!
- Hugues’ Yoko track: Ken’s Theme - Street Fighter II - Arcade
- Music - 00:00:03
- Intro: 00:02:13
- Top of Show Business: 00:04:08
- Track (and composer) Discussion: 00:19:19
- John’s Yoko Track: Kairi 1 - Kingdom Hearts - PS2
- Music - 00:24:26
- Discussion - 00:26:09
03) John’s Composer #4: Martin Iveson!
- John’s Martin Track: Shop Theme - Jaguar XJ220 - Sega CD
- Music - 00:33:23
- Discussion - 00:34:48
- Hugues’ Martin Track: Country Select - Jaguar XJ220 - Sega CD
- Music - 00:38:24
- Discussion - 00:39:44
- BEGIN: Bad Audio for voice (backup copy - see note after track list) - 00:40:15
04) Hugues’ Composer #3: Yuzo Koshiro!
- Hugues’ Yuzo Track: Daiba Freezing Town - 7th Dragon 2020 - PSP
- Music - 00:42:38
- Discussion - 00:45:55
- John’s Yuzo Track: Undiscovered Realm (in-game symphonic vers) - Actraiser Renaissance - multiplatform
- Music - 00:50:21
- Discussion - 00:52:39
05) John’s Composer #3: Spencer Nilsen!
- John’s Spencer Track: Cathedral and Sewers - Batman Returns - Sega CD
- Music - 00:57:33
- Discussion - 01:00:44
- END: Bad Audio for voice (backup copy) - 01:06:09
- Hugues’ Spencer [maybe] Track: The Vents - Ecco the Dolphin - Genesis (possibly composed by Andras Magyari and/or Brian Coburn instead - or as well)
- Music - 01:06:25
- Discussion - 01:08:38
06) Hugues’ Composer #2: Nobuo Uematsu!
- Hugues’ Nobuo Track: The Oath - Final Fantasy VIII - PS1
- Music - 01:14:53
- Discussion - 01:18:09
- John’s Nobuo Track: Esto Gaza - Final Fantasy IX - PS1
- Music - 01:25:26
- Discussion - 01:29:05
07) John’s Composer #2: Matt Furniss!
- John’s Matt Track: The Red Woods - Puggsy - Genesis
- Music - 01:34:57
- Discussion - 01:37:59
- Hugues’ Matt Track: Title - Sega Chess - Mastersystem
- Music - 01:42:39
- Discussion - 01:44:46
08) Hugues’ Composer [TEAM] #1: Hayato Sonoda and/or Takahiro Unisuga
[Falcom Sound Team JDK]!
- Hugues’ Falcom Track: Blue Destination - Trails of Cold Steel II - Vita/PS3/PS4/PC
- Music - 01:51:41
- Discussion - 01:56:28
- BEGIN: More Backup voice audio - 02:01:07
- END: More Backup voice audio - 02:01:13
- 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]
- Music - 02:07:38
- Discussion - 02:10:10
09) John’s Composer [TEAM] #1: The Super Follin Bros [Tim and/or Geoff Follin]
- John’s Follin Track: Gambit - Spider-Man / X-Men: Arcade’s Revenge - SNES
- Music - 02:13:51
- Discussion - 02:17:56
- End of Show Business (and FINALLY titling the episode!) - 02:23:47
- Our other Programs - 02:29:09
- Hugues’ Follin Track Discussion - 02:31:46
- Sign Off - 02:34:38
- 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.
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:
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!
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
- Music - 00:11:50
- Introduction - 00:06:06
- Top of Show Business pt 1 - 00:15:36
- Opening Track Discussion - 00:24:09
- 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
- Music - 00:31:08
- Discussion - 00:34:23
03) Track 08 - Spider-Man vs The Kingpin - Spencer Nilsen and/or David Young - Hugues
- Music - 00:40:36
- Discussion - 00:43:52
04) Rolling Bad Guys - Lethal Enforcers - Kenichiro Fukui - St. John
- Music - 00:56:33
- Discussion - 01:01:37
05) Ice Berg - Popful Mail - c: Mieko Ishikawa / a: Hirofumi Matsuoka - Hugues
- Music - 01:10:31
- Discussion - 01:13:01
06) Wacky Workbench (past) - Sonic CD - Naofumi Hataya, and/or Masafumi Ogata - St. John
- Music - 01:16:27
- Discussion - 01:20:04
07) Ending - Earnest Evans - Motoi Sakuraba, and/or Hiroki Itou - Hugues
- Music - 01:26:54
- Discussion - 01:31:30
08) Track 7 - Keio Flying Squadron - Tsukasa Tawada - St. John
- Music - 01:36:12
- Discussion - 01:40:56
09) Overworld Theme - Vay - Shigeki Sako - Hugues
- Music - 01:49:13
- Discussion - 01:51:23
10) Ancient Temple - Wolfchild - Martin Iveson - St. John
- Music - 01:53:50
- Discussion - 01:59:05
11) Meribia - Lunar: The Silver Star - Noriyuki Iwadare - Hugues
- Music - 02:03:42
- Discussion - 02:06:14
12) The Undercaves - Ecco the Dolphin - Spencer Nilsen - St. John
- Music - 02:08:45
- Discussion - 02:01:56
13) Melee Island - The Secret of Monkey Island - Michael Z. Land, Barney Jones, Andy Newell, Patric Mundy - Hugues
- Music - 02:16:53
- Discussion - 02:19:06
- End of Show Business / Our Other Shows - 02:24:06
- Final Track Discussion - 02:31:41
- Sign-off - 02:35:16
14) Jamie's Theme - Snatcher - The Konami Kukeiha Club - St. John
- Music - 02:35:48
- 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:
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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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:
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!
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:
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!
Wednesday Apr 30, 2025
Wednesday Apr 30, 2025
2025 Show Notes Amendment:
I love the setup we have here where on the first day of the month, we released our final ever TwoFer Tuesday, and now, here at the last day of the month, we re-release our first ever TwoFer Tuesday! It feels like a wonder twist on "bookends".
As always when re-running early episodes, please excuse the atrocious production quality. One of my favorite things looking back on the early episodes of the show is how "different, yet the same" they are. From a sound quality perspective, the differences are night and day in every aspect. But in terms of show format and events, other than missing the now customary summary introduction, and the fact that they've gradually gotten longer over the years, it's the same darned show that it's always been. And what the early episodes lack in polish and finesse and technique and maturity, they somewhat make up for in youthful exuberance and wide-eyed optimism, and a simply innocent fun. You've heard the latest and greatest of TwoFer Tuesday this month, now hear the awkward first baby steps!....different....yet the same....
Lastly, I had toyed with the idea of doing three reruns this month - today's rerun, as well as the two highlighted April Fool's episodes: 2020's "Backtracks" (where all the tracks played in reverse), and 2024's "Parallels" (where all the tracks played over top of each other all at once). But I had procrastinated, and now it's the last day of the month, and it would simply obscene of me to upload three reruns in one day. So the compromise that I settled on was to include links to them here in the show notes, in case you wanted to revisit them (or perhaps experience them for the first time). So, here are the links, Backtracks first, then Parallels. In terms of production value, Backtracks is dramatically better than today's rerun, but also dramatically lesser than our current works, whereas Parallels is very close to our current level of production :
https://nerdnoiseradio.podbean.com/e/noise-from-the-hearts-of-nerds-c1e52-backtracks/
https://nerdnoiseradio.podbean.com/e/ch-1-noise-from-the-hearts-of-nerds-c1e83-parallels/
And now, the [otherwise unmodified] original episode shownotes! Enjoy!
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Today’s broadcast is Episode 4 for TwoFer Tuesday, February 21st, 2017 on a program we’re calling “TwoFer Tuesday, Vol. 1”
Tracklist - Track#, Game, System, Composer, Track Names, Timestamp:
01: Intro - 00:00:00
02: ChipChan-Kick - PCFX - Yoshio Furakawa, Masahara Iwata, and Hitoshi Sakamoto
a) Stage 1 - 00:01:46
b) Stage 4 - 00:05:00
03: Trickstyle - Dreamcast - Richard Beddow
a) USA Race 1 - 00:07:04
b) USA Race 4 - 00:10:54
04: Alien 3 - SNES - Steve Collett
a) Destroy the Eggs - 00:14:04
b) Collect Deliver and Steal - 00:15:11
05: Super Smash Bros Brawl - Wii
a) Tunnel (X) - composed) Kazumi Totaka / arranged) Yusuke Takahama - 00:17:10
b) Marionation Gear - composed and arranged) Masafumi Takada - 00:20:08
06: LED Storm - C64 - Tim Follin
a) Music 3 - 00:22:43
b) Name Entry - 00:25:13
07: Final Fantasy X - PS2 - Nobuo Uematsu, Masashi Hamauzo, Junya Nakano
a) Challenge - 00:27:58
b) People of the Far North - 00:30:45
08: Dick Tracy - Genesis - Takayuki Nakamura
a) Train Yard - 00:32:55
b) Warehouse - 00:34:25
09: Ninja Gaiden 2 - NES - Ryuichi Nitta, Mayuko Okamura
a) Stage 2-2 - 00:36:24
b) Stage 5-2 - 00:37:39
10: Lovely Planet - Multi Platform - Calum Bowen
a) Lovely City - 00:38:58
b) Lovely Village - 00:41:32
11: Magician Lord - NEO GEO - Hiroyuki Shimizu, Yuka Watanabe, Hideki Yamamoto
a) Stage 2 - 00:44:18
b) Stage 4 - 00:46:43
12: Zelda Twilight Princess - GC/Wii - Toru Minegishi, Asuka Ota
a) Twilight Palace (outside) - 00:48:29
b) After the Battle - 00:51:24
13: Psychosis - TG16 - Atsuhiro Motoyama
a) 1st Cause - 00:53:40
b) 4th Cause - 00:54:58
14: Outlaws of the Lost Dynasty (Dark Legend) - Multi - Seiichi Hamada
a) Gong Shun Sheng - 00:56:46
b) Ruan Xian Wu - 00:59:18
15: Cosmic Carnage - 32X - Hikoshi Hashimoto
a) Cylic (Heavy Armor) - 01:01:26
b) Zena Lan (Heavy Armor) - 01:03:34
16: Sims - PC - Jerry Martin
a) Buying Lumber (Build 2) - 01:05:18
b) Martinis for Two (Latin 2) - 01:10:17
17: Outro - 01:16:42
Music Block Runtime: 01:14:58, Total Episode Runtime: 01:23:09
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio - Dreamcast - BB Rights
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NOTE: This episode had to be trimmed for the “Channel 1” feed to make it and Episode 3 both fit within the two hour limit for the month. The shortened version is called “Episode 4a” (C1E4a), where the full-length version is simply called “Episode 4” (C1E4).
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http://nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com/2017/02/nerd-noise-radio-channel-1-podcast_21.html
As always, your feedback and input is DEEPLY appreciated, so we cheerfully invite you to "blow up the comments section", or you can always reach us by e-mail at nerdnoiseradio@gmail.com as well as all the aforementioned social media outlets.
Hope you enjoy the episode! Join us again in two weeks for C1E5 (Channel 1, Episode 5), and wherever you are - Fly the N!
Cheers!
Wednesday Apr 23, 2025
Wednesday Apr 23, 2025
Today’s broadcast is C1E94 for Theme Thursday, April 24th, 2025 (Switch 2 pre-order day.....take 2......we hope!). Today’s broadcast is a celebration of the music from the various mainline installments of the Jackbox Party Pack – the greatest "social lubricant" in the history of video games - and the longest run-time [quote] "ordinary" Channel 1 episode in Nerd Noise Radio history, So, buckle up for nearly 2 ½ hours of the sweet sweet sounds which have made family gatherings and other social events so survivable!
Tracklist!
Track # / Party Pack # / Track Name / Minigame / Composer(s) / Timestamp
B1) Intro - 00:00:00
01) PP04 - Lobby - Monster Seeking Monster - Andy Poland - 00:05:16
02) PP01 - Theme - You Don’t Know Jack 2015 - Andy Poland - 00:08:13
03) PP07 - Presentation 3 - Talking Points - Brian Chard - 00:10:15
04) PP04 - Final Round Reveal - Survive the Internet - Brian Chard - 00:12:37
05) PP03 - Artwork Creation - Tee K.O. - Brian Chard - 00:14:16
06) PP04 - Gameplay Music 1 - Bracketeering - Brian Chard - 00:16:32
07) PP10 - Are We Not Birds? - Dodo Re Mi - Nate Sandberg - 00:20:28
08) PP01 - Background Loop - Drawful - Andy Poland - 00:22:55
09) PP02 - Lobby - Earwax - Andy Poland - 00:24:43
10) PP02 - Draw Music A - Bidiots - Randy Sly - 00:28:22
11) PP03 - List of the Dead Songs - Trivia Murder Party - Randy Sly - 00:29:26
12) PP08 - Draw - Weapons Drawn - Elise Wattman - 00:31:19
13) PP04 - Round 1 Draw 1 - Civic Doodle - Andy Poland - 00:33:55
14) PP01 - Main Theme - Drawful - Andy Poland - 00:37:02
15) PP03 - Timer Music 2 - Fakin’ It - Andy Poland - 00:38:46
16) PP07 - Write - Talking Points - Brian Chard - 00:41:16
17) PP03 - Slogan Creation - Tee K.O. - Brian Chard - 00:43:27
18) PP04 - Final Round Twist - Survive the Internet - Brian Chard - 00:45:47
19) PP05 - Rap Loop 14 - Mad Verse City - Andy Poland - 00:47:48
20) PP05 - Rap Loop 15 - Mad Verse City - Andy Poland - 00:48:49
21) PP06 - Background 1 - Joke Boat - Andy Poland - 00:49:48
22) PP08 - Deliberation 7 - The Poll Mine - Brian Chard - 00:54:19
23) PP08 - Vote 2 - Drawful Animate - Andy Poland - 00:56:06
24) PP05 - Gameplay 6 - Zeeple Dome - Brian Chard - 00:58:11
25) PP03 - Theme - Tee K.O. - Brian Chard - 01:00:41
26) PP07 - Emergency - The Devils and the Details - Brian Chard - 01:03:53
27) PP04 - Question Music 1 - Fibbage 3 - Andy Poland - 01:04:27
28) PP05 - Write Loop 1 - Mad Verse City - Andy Poland - 01:05:20
29) PP10 - Serious Business Chat - Fixy Text - Kelly Shuda - 01:08:20
30) PP06 - Background 2 - Joke Boat - Andy Poland - 01:10:25
31) PP09 - Final Round - Fibbage 4 - Andy Poland - 01:12:25
32) PP04 - Final Round Write - Survive the Internet - Brian Chard - 01:15:33
33) PP02 - Choose Music B - Earwax - Andy Poland - 01:16:59
34) PP06 - Deliberation Room - Push the Button - Andy Poland - 01:18:40
35) PP05 - Rap Loop 11 - Mad Verse City - Andy Poland - 01:21:17
36) PP01 - Background Loop 1 - Word Spud - Andy Poland - 01:21:46
37) PP01 - Background Loop 4 - Lie Swatter - Andy Poland - 01:22:19
38) PP01 - Background Loop 5 - Lie Swatter - Andy Poland - 01:23:45
39) PP01 - Background Loop 2 - Word Spud - Andy Poland - 01:25:11
40) PP05 - Lobby - Split the Room - Brian Chard - 01:26:17
41) PP02 - Draw Music B - Bidiots - Randy Sly - 01:29:02
42) PP08 - Question Series 1 - The Wheel of Enormous Proportions - Andy Poland - 01:30:29
43) PP10 - Lobby 2 - Dodo Re Mi - Nate Sandberg - 01:34:12
44) PP05 - Final Round - Split the Room - Brian Chard - 01:36:05
45) PP03 - Round 3 Write - Quiplash 2 - Andy Poland - 01:38:17
46) PP07 - Friday - The Devils and the Details - Brian Chard - 01:42:16
47) PP05 - Draw Final - Patently Stupid - Andy Poland - 01:44:28
48) PP01 - Lobby Theme - Lie Swatter - Andy Poland - 01:46:22
49) PP02 - Bid Loop B - Bidiots - Randy Sly - 01:48:02
50) PP01 - Main Question - Fibbage XL - Andy Poland - 01:50:02
51) PP05 - Write Loop 2 - Mad Verse City - Andy Poland - 01:50:46
52) PP06 - Slotting 2 - Role Models - Brian Chard - 01:51:45
53) PP09 - Write 1 - Roomerang - Brian Chard - 01:54:33
54) PP04 - Chat Music 2 - Monster Seeking Monster - Andy Poland - 01:56:35
55) PP05 - Credits (feat. Simeon Norfleet Sr.) - Mad Verse City - Andy Poland - 01:58:05
56) PP04 - Choose Music 1 - Fibbage 3 - Andy Poland - 02:00:10
57) PP08 - Draw 2 - Drawful Animate - Andy Poland - 02:00:50
58) PP05 - Write Loop 3 - Mad Verse City - Andy Poland - 02:03:57
59) PP08 - Composition 3 - Job Job - Brian Chard - 02:06:50
60) PP01 - Choose Music - Drawful - Andy Poland - 02:08:22
61) PP10 - Main Question 3 - Timejinx - Elise Wattman - 02:10:26
62) PP02 - Background B - Bomb Corp - Andy Poland - 02:13:07
63) PP10 - Flirty Write 1 - Fixy Text - Kelly Shuda - 02:15:03
64) PP10 - Main Question 1 - Timejinx - Elise Wattman - 02:16:06
65) PP09 - Round 2 Scoreboard 2 - Quixort - Nate Sandberg - 02:18:54
66) PP08 - Unused Idea 2 - The Wheel of Enormous Proportions - Andy Poland - 02:19:45
67) PP09 - Appraisal Reveal - Junktopia - Elise Wattman - 02:22:14
68) PP07 - Lobby - The Devils and the Details - Brian Chard - 02:24:08
69) PP04 - Credits - Fibbage 3 - Andy Poland - 02:27:18
B1) Outro - 02:29:54
Music Block Runtime: 02:24:40 / Total Episode Runtime: 02:40:16
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The promised basic nerdy stats:
Tracks by Party Pack:
PP01 - 10
PP02 - 6
PP03 - 6
PP04 - 10
PP05 - 11
PP06 - 4
PP07 - 5
PP08 - 7
PP09 - 4
PP10 - 6
Tracks by Composer:
Andy Poland - 38
Brian Chard - 18
Randy Sly - 4
Elise Wattman - 4
Nate Sandberg - 3
Kelly Shuda - 2
Simeon Norfleet Sr (feat) - 1
JBPP Minigames NOT featured in this episode:
PP02 - Quiplash XL - Andy Poland
PP03 - Guesspionage - Brian Chard
PP05 - YDKJ: Full Stream - Andy Poland
PP06 - Trivia Murder Party 2 - Andy Poland
PP06 - Dictionarium - Brian Chard (w/ Andy Poland)
PP07 - Quiplash 3 - Andy Poland
PP07 - Blather ‘Round - Randy Sly and Andy Poland
PP09 - Nonsensory - Andy Poland
PP10 - Hypnotorious - Andy Poland
PP10 - Tee K.O. 2 - Brian Chard
(Note: I wish I’d made it a requirement on myself to feature at least one track from each minigame….alas. But hey, if that’s 10 minigames excluded, the simple math is that means that’s 40 minigames INCLUDED - why am I hearing echoes of the old “four out of five dentists recommend trident gum” commercials?)
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 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:
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.
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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:
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Thanks for listening! Join us again in May for C1E95 (Channel 1, Episode 95): Subject TBD - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Cheers!
Tuesday Apr 01, 2025
Tuesday Apr 01, 2025
Today’s broadcast is C1E93 for TwoFer Tuesday, very conspicuously releasing on April 1st, 2025. Today’s "can you find the hidden gag" broadcast will be TwoFer Tuesday – vol. 11 – our final ever installment of the TwoFer Tuesday series, and though technically the second-to-last planned April Fool's episode, our last April Fool's episode to present a novel idea (since 2026's installment is slated to just be a sequel to 2020's reverse-playing "Backtracks").
Tracklist:
Game# / Game / System(s) / Composer(s) / Tracks / Time Stamp
A1) Intro - 00:00:00
01) Power Stone - Dreamcast - Tetsuya Shibata
- A) Day of the Manches – 00:06:04
- B)GunrockEnding – 00:10:36
02) The Ninja Warriors Once Again - Multiplatform - Hiroyuki Iwatsuki
- A) Subway / Shopping Mall - 00:11:20
- B) 3 Androids (Character Select) - 00:13:46
03) ThunderBlade - Arcade - Koichi Namiki
- A) Type 2 - 00:15:51
- B)ThunderBlade- 00:18:54
04) Future Dimensions - DOS (MIDI) – Mathias Ruch
- A) Eternity – 00:22:40
- B) Space War – 00:26:22
05) Brutal Paws of Fury - Sega CD - c: “ppdix”, Doug Brandon, Robin Heifitz and/or Neil Baldwin - a: “ppdix”
- A) Tokyo Ghetto - 00:31:01
- B) Jammin w Akira - 00:33:14
06) Cool World - SNES - Dean Evans, and/or Keith Tinman
- A) Slash Club - 00:35:24
- B) You've Been Notified - 00:37:29
07) LoZ: Echoes of Wisdom - Switch - Masato Ohashi, Manaka Kataoka, Chisaki Hosaka, Reika Nakai, Yuri Goto, Ryotaro Yagi, and/or Azusa Kato
- A)BalomDungeon - 00:39:04
- B) Still World - 00:42:09
08) Blue Reflection: Second Light – Multiplatform – Hayato Asano
- A) Non-Linear Reliance - 00:44:33
- B) Transparent Shelter - 00:48:38
09) Minecraft - Multiplatform - Kumi Tanioka
- A) Comforting Memories - 00:51:09
- B)Komorebi- 00:55:29
10) Ultros - Multiplatform - Ratvader
- A) Darker Light of Sleep - 01:00:06
- B) Blessed be She - 01:02:35
11) The Talos Principle - Multiplatform - Damjan Mravunac
- A) When in Rome - 01:10:28
- B) Welcome to Heaven - 01:12:47
12) Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone - Arcade - Akira Inoue, and/or Takaro Nozaki
- A) Shop (Japan) - 01:14:59
- B) To the World - 01:16:29
13) Battle of Olympus - NES - Kazuo Sawa
- A) Mountains ofPhthia- 01:17:12
- B) Peloponnesus Forest - 01:19:26
14) Chew Man Fu - TG16 - N. Ide (aka “Joyful Ide”)
- A) Stage 1 - 01:21:25
- B) Unknown BGM - 01:23:17
15) The Light Corridor - DOS (OPL2) – Frederic Mentzen
- A) Opening – 01:23:58
- B) Title – 01:26:05
16) Sega Rally Championship - Saturn - c: Takenobu Mitsuyoshi / a: Takayuki Hijikata
- A) Getting Muddy - 01:28:41
- B) Desert Land - 01:33:20
17) Dark Legend (Suiko Enbu) – Saturn - c: Shogo Sakai, Taihei Sato, Hiroaki Yoshida, and/or Tatsuya Kiuchi / a: Seiichi Hamada
- A) Theme of Lin Chong - 01:37:45
- B) Final A - 01:40:42
B1) Outro: 01:42:50
Music Block Runtime: 01:36:48 / Total Episode Runtime: 01:57:42
Our Intro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights. Our Outro Music is Malo Mart, from Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess on GameCube, Wii, and WiiU, composed by Tōru Minegishi, Asuka Hayazaki, and/or Kōji Kondō.
Produced using a nearly equal mix of Audacity and Ardour in Fedora Linux on an ASUS ROG Zephyrus 14 (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.
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:
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 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 on TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Vurbl, Amazon Music and Audible! Lastly, now introducing.....the discord channel! The magnificently named "Nerd Noise Radio – Channel D"!! Here's the link: https://discord.gg/52jRmYE6
Thanks for listening! And thanks for joining us for our fond farewell to the TwoFer Tuesday franchise – as well as, for all real intents and purposes, our April Fool's series. Join us again later this month for C1E94 (Channel 1, Episode 94): "Jackbox Jukebox" - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N! Also, enjoy tomorrow's Nintendo Direct about the Switch 2, and all the best luck in securing one of your own!
Cheers!
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Wednesday Mar 05, 2025
Wednesday Mar 05, 2025
2025 re-run bonus notes:
This episode is the third in a trilogy of music blocks (parts 1 and 2 were our January and February reruns). Long time listeners may already know what this trilogy is all about, but for those who don't and have been following the reruns, the introduction to this episode finally explains what the trilogy is all about.
So, the fun [for me] question: of the three music blocks in the trilogy, which did you like best (and why), which did you like least (and why), and do you or do you not think I made the right decision bumping "music block A" for "music block B" in C1E41? Let me know at nerd.noise.radio@gmail.com, or by any social media outlet on which we exist. I will genuinely be curious to know what you think. Even to this day in 2025, I *STILL* don't know what to think, personally!
DISCLAIMER: the production value was worse in 2022 when the intro and outro were produced, and substantially worse in 2018 when the music block was produced. So if this is your first time hearing Nerd Noise Radio, please keep in mind that our production values have much improved in the time since.
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Original (2022) Show Notes
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Today’s broadcast is C1E69 for Mishmash Monday, November 7th, 2022. Today’s Episode will be "Mishmash Monday - vol. 12, the long-lost "original C1E41", a 2018 Lost Level originally intended for 2019.
Track# / Track / Game / System / Composer(s) / Timestamp
01) Earcatcher - 00:00:00
02) Intro - 00:00:12
03) Flight - Panzer Dragoon - Saturn – c: Yoshitaka Azuma a: Tomoyuki Hayashi - 00:06:33
04) New Beginning pt. 1 - LA Noire - multi - Andrew Hale and Simon Hale - 00:10:15
05) This is Your Story - Final Fantasy X - PS2 – Masashi Hamauzu, Junya Nakano, and/or Nobuo Uematsu - 00:11:18
06) Track 06 - Colony Wars - PS1 – Tim Wright aka CoLD SToRAGE - 00:13:30
07) The Flatfields - Quizzes and Dragons - Arcade – Isao Abe - 00:14:03
08) Midnight Chaser / Breakthrough - Wolf Fang - Kuhga 2001 - Arcade - Hiroaki Yoshida / Akira Taemoto - 00:15:38
09) Let’s Go on an Adventure - Landstalker - Genesis – Motoaki Takenouchi - 00:18:57
10) Track 7 - Mutant Rampage: Bodyslam - CD-I – Tony Trippi - 00:20:18
11) BGM #57 - Quiz Daisousasen Pt 2 - Neo Geo - Yoshihiko Kitamura, Yasuo Yamate, Yoko Osaka, Hiroaki Shimizu, Toshikazu Tanaka - 00:22:10
12) BGM 4 (Stage 3-2) - Shadow Dancer - Genesis - Keisuke Tsukahara - 00:25:03
13) Rendezvous Theme - Golgo 13 - NES – Michiharu Hasuya - 00:27:05
14) Areas 41-50 - Slap Fight - Arcade - Masahiro Yuge - 00:28:12
15) Unknown Track 22 - Team Innocent - PCFX – Kenji Kawai - 00:29:16
16) Fonction - N++ - multi – Broca - 00:31:52
17) Jus’ Dance (Sole Channel Mix) - GT Sport - PS4 - Mr.V - 00:38:37
18) Just Hiss - WipEout HD - PS3 – Spector - 00:46:21
19) Rhythm Shift - Ridge Racer - Arcade / PS1 – Etsuo Ishii, Yuri Misumi, Keiichi Okabe, Shinji Hosoe, Ayoko Sasoh, Nobuyoshi Sano - 00:51:02
20) Fury - Rocket League - multi – Rogue - 00:53:00
21) Alien - Galactic Pinball - Virtual Boy – Kenji Yamamoto, Masaru Tajima and/or Minako Hamano - 00:56:58
22) Dungeon / Waterfall - Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest - SNES – Yasuhiro Kawakami and/or Ruiji Sasai - 00:59:50
23) Mysterious Ghost Ship - TMNT: Hyperstone Heist - Genesis – Masahiro Ikariko, Yuichi Takamine, Kaori Kinouchi, and/or Hideto Inoue - 01:02:06
24) Mystic Woods (Forest 2) - Grounseed - PC98 (OPN vers) - Daisuke Takahashi - 01:04:32
25) Meridian (Night) - Horizon Zero Dawn - PS4 - Joris de Man, The Flight, Niels van der Leest, and/or Jonathan Williams - 01:08:05
26) Title Theme - AD&D Slayer - 3DO – Billy Wolfe - 01:11:48
27) Cobbleston, Nestled in the Hills - Octopath Traveller - SWITCH! - Yasunori Nishiki - 01:12:58
28) Sealed Temple - LoZ: Skyward Sword - Wii – Hajime Wakai, Shiho Fujii, Mahito Yakota, Takeshi Hama, Koji Kondo - 01:15:58
29) Globe at Night - Wii Forecast Channel - Wii – Kazumi Totaka - 01:19:06
30) Island of Memory - Doshin the Giant - GameCube - Tatsuhiko Asano - 01:21:38
31) The Cliff that Time Forgot - Earthbound - SNES – Hirokazu Tanaka - 01:25:40
32) Oblivious Past - Alien Soldier - Mega Drive - Kazuo Hanzawa - 01:26:56
33) Outro - 01:32:11
34) Exit Earcatcher - 01:43:21
Music Block Runtime: 01:25:40 / Total Episode Runtime: 01:43:57
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.
Intro / Outro / Final Production produced using Ardour 6 / Audacity 3 in Ubuntu Studio [Linux] 22.04 09/08/2022. Music Block produced in GarageBand in macOS 10/19/2018.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The tools and techniques I used back in 2018 in producing the music block were NOT up to my current standards – including featuring less sophisticated fades, more imprecise volume level balancing, less developed track run-order sorting, and even my having used MP3s rather than WAVs in the source production, resulting in a lower-fidelity final product, and further limiting my ability to touch it up after the fact. As such, the production value of this episode will NOT be to par with our current "fresh episodes". But production values aside, the quality of the CONTENT itself, otherwise, I feel, is excellent, and well worth digging up to share with you.....I hope that you'll agree! :-)
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:
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 December (all dates TBD) for C2R2: Channel 2's Season 2 retrospective, as well as not one, but TWO Channel 1s: The Best of 2022, Hugues' picks and St. John's picks - Tasty VGM and Talk on "Nerd Noise Game Club", as well as Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Cheers!
Saturday Feb 15, 2025
Saturday Feb 15, 2025
Today’s broadcast is C1E92 for Soundtrack Saturday, February 15th, 2025. Today’s broadcast will be the soundtrack to the game Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore, on multiple platforms (St. John played it on Steam Deck), composed by Button Masther aka Jake Silverman – an episode originally intended to release in June 2024, and then again in October 2024 before being bumped both times.
Tracklist!
All tracks from Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore on multiple platforms, composed by Button Masher (aka Jake Silverman)!
Track# / Track / Timestamp
A1) Intro - 00:00:00
01) World Map - 00:05:14
02) Tutorial - 00:07:22
03) Faramore Town - 00:09:13
04) Faramore Town [B-Side] - 00:11:32
05) Durridin Forest - 00:13:26
06) Durridin Forest [B-Side] - 00:15:17
07) Boss - 00:16:51
08) Bonus - 00:18:41
09) Cogwyn Caves - 00:20:42
10) Anju Desert - 00:22:30
11) Anju Desert [B-Side] - 00:24:19
12) Creece Canyon - 00:26:00
13) Norrin Swamp - 00:28:02
14) Norrin Swamp [B-Side] - 00:30:08
15) Chillax Peaks - 00:31:46
16) Boanjale Crypts - 00:33:34
17) Boanjale Crypts [B-Side] - 00:35:18
18) Sprigum Volcano - 00:36:54
19) Badonc Beach - 00:38:59
20) Badonc Beach [B-Side] - 00:40:59
21) Ryha River - 00:42:46
22) Ryha River [B-Side] - 00:45:03
23) Lichen Hills - 00:46:41
24) Lichen Hills [B-Side] - 00:49:13
25) Fort Findula - 00:51:03
26) Fort Findula [B-Side] - 00:53:00
27) Denny’s Castle - 00:54:42
28) Daimur’s Lair - 00:57:19
29) Final Boss - 00:59:49
30) Credits - 01:01:59
31) Victory - 01:04:06
B1) Outro - 01:06:11
Music Block Runtime: 01:00:59 / Total Episode Runtime: 01:12:02
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:
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 March for C1E93 (Channel 1, Episode 93): Subject TBD - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Cheers!