”Noise from the Hearts of Nerds” - “C1E66: ”I Know Kung Fu”

Today’s broadcast is  C1E66 for Scene Sunday, August 13th, 2022. Today’s broadcast is "I Know Kung Fu" - a collection of original chiptunes from Battle of the Bits, Sampler Pack Contest, Trippy Compo, and Super Famicompo – curated entirely by special guest, chiptune artist, SNESmusic.org maintainer, and NNR alumnus, KungFuFurby 

 

Track# - Track Name - Sound Hardware* - Composer - Community - Source - Timestamp 

  

* = what video game sound system the track was designed around (aka, "what system this would've been were it an actual videogame) - "Wildchip" indicates N/A, unknown, or a combination of multiple systems. 

  

01) Intro - 00:00:00 

02) Super Anthropomorphic Space Turismo - SPC (SNES / SFC) - Velathnos - Battle of the Bits - Winter Chip VII - 00:05:39 

03) Blitz Lunar Zone 1 - SPC (SNES / SFC) - Architekulort (a team up of Kulor and Architect1) - Battle of the Bits - Summer Chip I - 00:07:53 

04) Zygonic K.K. (Aircheck) - Wildchip (Unspecified) - KungFuFurby - VGMusic Discord - Sample Pack Contest XII - 00:10:07 

05) tarkus 2 - Wildchip (Impulse Tracker) - mad - Trippy Compo - Trippy Compo 3 - 00:11:32 

06) noidea.xm - Wildchip (S3XMODIT) - Chip Champion - Battle of the Bits - Super Pseudo-SNES Compo - 00:14:05 

07) saturdayswirls - Wildchip (Impulse Tracker) - distance - Trippy Compo - Trippy Compo 6 - 00:16:08 

08) The Falling Sickness - Wildchip (Unspecified) - IRH - Battle of the Bits - Drill and Bass - 00:21:38 

09) Mean no Harm - 2A03 + VRC6 (NES+) - kfaraday - Battle of the Bits - Winter Chip IX - 00:27:56 

10) Amino Harm (cover of "Mean no Harm") - ZX Spectrum Beeper - brightentayle - Battle of the Bits - BotB's Decadent Decade - 00:32:23 

11) bend.it - Wildchip (S3XMODIT) - ant1 - Battle of the Bits - Disco Samplepack Compo - 00:36:20 

12) Technology Abuse 1 - Wildchip (Unspecified) - General Blobular - Battle of the Bits - Amen Sin IV - 00:39:22 

13) Alleyway in Chinatown - Wildchip (Unspecified) - wiseman - Sample Pack Contest - Sample Pack Contest VII - 00:42:16 

14) Zygonic K.K. (Live) - Wildchip (Unspecified) - KungFuFurby - VGMusic Discord - Sample Pack Contest XII - 00:44:44 

15) Strange Paranormal Curse - Wildchip (Unspecified) - KungFuFurby - VGMusic Discord - Sample Pack Contest IX - 00:48:06 

16) Resurrecting Ritualism Recollection - Wildchip (Unspecified) - KungFuFurby - VGMusic Discord - Sample Pack Contest XIII - 01:05:59 

17) May Dust Settle - SPC (SNES / SFC) - Exodustx0 - Super Famicompo - Challenge - 01:20:20 

18) LSD - Wildchip (Unspecified) - Dream Machine - Battle of the Bits - Fairlight CMI - 01:23:36 

19) Smooth Yet Slightly out of Tune - Wildchip (S3XMODIT) - Slimeball - Battle of the Bits - Super Psuedo-SNES Compo - 01:25:40 

20) Radix Malorum Est Cupiditas - Wildchip (Unspecified) - zenkusa - VGMusic Discord - Sample Pack Contest XII - 01:26:38 

21) Outro - 01:32:53 

22) Blooper - 01:44:09 

  

Music Block Runtime: 01:27:19 Total Episode Runtime: 01:44:52 

 

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 Music block produced 07/26/22. Intro / Outro / Complete episode produced 08/13/22. 

 

NOTE: During production, to make for more consistent listening volumes throughout, I used applied a little compression to the music files. KungFuFurby wishes me to also share the uncompressed originals for those who'd wish to hear them. You can find the uncompressed originals here: 

 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gLXHj7kTTrxIRsLOlCx9mYBnFQJHU6R7?usp=sharing 

 

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