NNR Reruns: C1E2: ”Twisted Sine” (orig released 01/19/2017)

For our second rerun of the month, and our second rerun in total since the shut down of our separate, dedicated reruns feed over on Buzzsprout, I thought it would be great to share our second ever episode of the show: C1E2: "Twisted Sine" (a focus on FM synthesis-based VGM, comprised of tracks from several FM based systems, with roughly half being Sega Genesis or 32X music (YM2612), roughly a quarter being Arcade or X68000 music (YM2151), and the remaining quarter or so being a hodgepodge of several of the other very important FM chips of the era (YM2603, YM2608, YM3812, YM2413, and so on) - all interspersed and intermixed together, of course! We even got to include a VRC7 track in the lineup!

Despite this episode having all the same production ugliness of C1E1 (detailed in the show notes of that rerun), I would still easily put it somewhere in the top twenty of all of our Channel 1 episodes to date, despite it being so early, and so jacked-up production-wise. Frankly, it's INCREDIBLE! Easily one of my all-time favorites! I hope you'll agree!

-----AND----- unlike the C1E1 rerun, which released 5 days later than intended, and missed its milestone anniversary, this one releases on 01/19/2022.....PRECISELY 5yrs TO THE DAY after it originally premiered in 2017!

Our next release will not be a rerun, but will be C1E61, the first episode of calendar 2022's "Season 5", and will mark the return of an episode type that even I was not sure would ever be making a comeback - a "Soundtrack Saturday". And featuring a soundtrack from a somewhat obscure system which might possibly make it the first time in all of VGM podcast history that an entire soundtrack from this particular system has ever been featured on a show!

You'll just have to wait to find out the rest! Meanwhile, if you've never heard C1E2, I hope you'll enjoy! And if you have....I hope you'll enjoy....again! :-)

Cheers!

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From the original show notes:

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Today’s broadcast is Episode 2 for Theme Thursday, January 19th, 2017. Today’s Theme is FM synthesis-based music on a program we’re calling “Twisted Sine”. 

 

Tracklist - Track#, Track Name, Game, System, Composer, FM Chip, Timestamp: 

 

01: Intro - 00:00:00 

02: Statts - Sword of Vermilion - Genesis - Hiroshi Kawaguchi - YM2612 (OPN2) - 00:01:45 

03: The Hard Corps - Contra Hard Corps - Genesis - Aki Hata, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Michiru Yamane - YM2612 - 00:03:52 

04: Grass Land - Burning Force - Genesis - Yoshinori Kawamoto / unknown - YM2612 (OPN2) - 00:06:53 

05: Silent Alarm - Lagrange Point - Famicom - Akio Dobashi, Noriyuki Takahashi - Konami VRC7 - 00:08:50 

06: Trap of Relics - Genocide 2 - X68k - Hideyuki Shimono, Naoyuki Kimora - YM2151 (OPM) - 00:10:58 

07: Mission Briefing - Time Trax - Genesis - Tim Follin - YM2612 (OPN2) - 00:13:04 

08: Cycle 1 - Streets of Rage 3 - Genesis - Motohiro Kawashima w Yuzo Koshiro - YM2612 (OPN2) - 00:16:51 

09: Nice Day - Spindizzy II - X68k - Toshiya Yamanaka - YM2151 (OPM) - 00:20:01 

10: Invasion - Yu-No - PC98 - Ryuu Umemoto - YM2608 (OPNA) - 00:23:36 

11: Space Boss - Adventures of Batman & Robin - Genesis - Jesper Kyd - YM2612 (OPN2) - 00:25:47 

12: Sentinel Core Battle - X-Men 2 - Genesis - Kurt Harland -  YM2612 (OPN2) - 00:30:11 

13: Stage Theme 4 - Shinobi - Arcade - Yasuhiro Kamakawi -  YM2151 (OPM) - 00:31:19 

14: Options - Bram Stoker’s Dracula - Genesis - Matt Furniss - YM2612 (OPN2) - 00:32:45 

15: Betrayal - Grounseed - PC98 - Masahiro Kajihara - YM2203 (OPN) - 00:33:53 

16: Tachy Touch - Knuckles Chaotix - 32X - Junko Shiratsu, Mariko Nanba - YM2612 (OPN2) - 00:36:27 

17: Traveller's Tales - Knight Arms - X68k - Toshiya Yamanaka - YM2151 (OPM) - 00:38:16 

18: Track 11 - Illusion Blaze - DOS - D.A.C. - YM3812 (OPL2) - 00:40:29 

19: Main Theme - Youkai Douchuuki - Arcade - Main Theme - Hiroyuki Kawada - YM2151 (OPM) - 00:43:01 

20: Redwoods - Puggsy - Genesis - Redwoods - Matt Furniss - YM2612 (OPN2) - 00:45:56 

21: Team Select - Super Side Kicks - Neo Geo - Jojoha Kitapy, Yoko - YM2610 (OPNB) - 00:48:50 

22: Casey Jones - TMNTTF - Genesis - Miki Higashino - YM2612 (OPN2) - 00:50:08 

23: Stages 4, 7 -Sly Spy - Arcade - Azusa Hara, Hiroaki Yoshida - YM3812 (OPL2) & YM2203 (OPN) - 00:52:32 

24: Stage 2-3 - Mega Turrican - Genesis - Chris Hülsbeck - YM2612 (OPN2) - 00:53:58 

25: Load BGM - Akumajou Dracula - X68k - Konami Kukeiha Club - YM2151 (OPM) - 00:56:07 

26: Outro - 00:58:20 

 

Music Block Runtime: 56:37, Total Episode Runtime: 01:05:41 

 

Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio - Dreamcast - BB Rights