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

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: 

 

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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!