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"Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" - “C1E50a: The Golden Episode - part 1”

An extended play, very non-standard format, very talk-heavy retrospective of the first 49 episodes and three years of the show - in the style of an old W.A.R.T. Radio episode meets The Diad Presents meets Sound Test Roulette meets VGM Jukebox – multiple short micro-music-blocks with talking between.

 

Part 1 is "popular picks" - picks that I thought would be picks likely to be chosen by the listeners (a "John's Best Guess on Listener Picks" episode) - 1 track from each previous episode (minus best-of episodes), tracks chosen by either John or the listeners in any "Best of 20XX" installment are ineligible for The Golden Episode (and if a track that appeared in say, Episode 2, was chosen, but it also appears in Episode 17, 36, and 48, it is stricken from the eligible pool all the same. Each track must be totally unique to a "Wayback Wednesday" episode of NNR, which narrows the playing field, both in terms of tracks I can pick for the listeners, as well as tracks I can pick for myself (part 2)).

 

Each micro-music-block will be five tracks long, and each will represent the episode which it comes from. Rather than the usual NNR practice of focusing on the music block creating a logical, pleasing "flow", the Golden Episode (both parts one and two) will focus  instead on playing the tracks in episode order. So they won't flow nearly as well (unless by happy accident). But they will run in the order in which they appeared in the history of the show. Differing priorities this time. A typical NNR episode is all about a "journey through sound", and of course, this episode is that as well to some extent, but the real priority here is not about being a "journey through sound", but instead, is about being a "journey through time".

 

Here are the tracklists for the micro-music blocks for part 1, the "popular picks" installment:

 

Show Intro Music: Rapmaster Rocket Racket (episode 40) - 00:00:00

 

Block 1 – Episodes 1-5 (2017 – part 1)

 

BGM for intro to Block 1 Music: Super Mario World Theme (Episode 1)

 

Spoken Introduction - 00:07:29

 

01) Title – Double Dragon – NES – Kazunaka Yamane - 00:20:57

02) Stage 4 – Shinobi – Arcade – Yasuhiro Kawakami - 00:22:36

03) Bloodpool – Actraiser – SNES – Yuzo Koshiro - 00:24:12

04) Castle of Devils (Stage 4) – Magician Lord – Neo Geo MVS/AES - Hiroyuki Shimizu, Yuka Watanabe and/or Hideki Yamamoto - 00:25:33

05) Zanzibar Breeze – Metal Gear 2 – MSX (SCC) - The Konami Kukeiha Club - 00:27:20

 

Block 2 – Episodes 6-10 (2017 – part 2)

 

BGM for intro to Block 2 Music: The Pancake Department (ep 8)

 

Spoken Introduction - 00:30:10

 

06) Shop - N/A (System Music) - Wii – Kazumi Totaka - 00:39:10

07) Title Theme – Sword of Vermilion – Genesis – Hiroshi Kawaguchi - 00:41:05

08) Double Jump Moon Casino (feat Jredd) - N/A (Battle of the Bits) - N/A (on Genesis hardware) - DYA - 00:41:54

09) Imperial Death March – Empire Strikes Back – NES – c: John Williams a: Paul Webb - 00:44:21

10) Forest Funk – Super Meat Boy – Multi – Danny Baronowsky - 00:44:56

 

Block 3 – Episodes 11-15 (2017 – part 3)

 

BGM for intro to Block 3 Music: Sega CD Model 1 BIOS (ep 15)

 

Spoken Introduction - 00:47:41

 

11) Opening 1 – Hisou Kihei X-Serd – PC Engine – Masaya Sound Team - 00:59:46

12) The Neverglades – Bubble and Squeak – Genesis – Matt Furniss - 01:01:32

13) Naruto (Light Armor) - Cosmic Carnage – 32X – Hikoshi Hashimoto - 01:04:48

14) Bad Dudes (Stage 2 cover – feat Rudy Escobar) - N/A (Neon Dreams album) - N/A - DYA - 01:06:33

15) Swing Time – Spider-Man vs The Kingpin – Sega CD – Mr. Big - 01:08:34

 

Block 4 – Episodes 16-20 (2017 – part 4)

 

BGM for intro to Block 4 Music: OneUps Mario Kart Title (episode 19)

 

Spoken Introduction - 01:12:33

 

16) Title Theme – ARMS – SWITCH – Atsuko Asahi - 01:17:10

17) Opening Theme – Bram Stoker's Dracula – Genesis – Matt Furniss -  01:19:58

18) Game Theme 1 – Spider-Man vs the Sinister Six – NES – David Whittaker - 01:21:56

19) Aquatic Ambience - N/A (Vol. 1) - N/A - c: David Wise a: The OneUps - 01:25:19

20) Anything but Tangerines – Earthworm Jim 2 – SNES – Tommy Tallarico - 01:29:34

 

Block 5 – Episodes 21-26a (2018 – part 1)

 

BGM for intro to Block 5 Music: Did you See the Ocean? (episode 21)

 

Spoken Introduction - 01:33:35

 

21) Meridian Dance – Secret of Mana – SNES – Hiroki Kikuta - 01:45:28

22) Titan's Realm – DOOM (2016) - Multi – Mick Gordon - 01:47:37

23) Van Air – Forza 3 – XB360 – Lance Hayes - 01:56:04

24) Alone in Love – Jewelmaster – Genesis – Motoaki Takenouchi - 02:01:08

26a) Fly Me to the Moon - N/A - N/A - c: Frank Sinatra a: Stuffy DJ - 02:03:18

 

Block 6 – Episodes 26-30 (2018 – part 2)

 

BGM for intro to Block 6 Music: Sigma Stage 1 (episode 26)

 

Spoken Introduction - 02:05:45

 

26) Title – Mega Man X – SNES - Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takehara, and/or Toshihiko Horiyama - 02:15:04

27) Mystic Cave Zone (2 player) - Sonic 2 – Genesis – Masato Nakamura - 02:15:28

28) Stage 1 - N/A (Golden Axe) - N/A - c: You Takada a: David KBD - 02:17:17

29) Ending - N/A (Metroid) - N/A - c: Hirokazu (Hip) Tanaka - 02:20:10

30) Daisuke – Hotline Miami – Multi – El Huervo (aka Shelby Cinca) - 02:22:23

 

Block 7 – Episodes 31-35 (2018 – part 3)

 

BGM for intro to Block 7 Music: stage 1 super c (episode 34)

 

Spoken Introduction - 02:24:46

 

31) S.O.R. Super Mix (Stage Vers) - Streets of Rage 2 – Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima - 02:30:18

32) Main Theme – RC Pro-AM – NES – David Wise - 02:35:49

33) Title Theme – Street Fighter II – SNES – Yoko Shimomura - 02:36:22

34) Jungle – Contra – NES – c: Kazuki Muaoka a: Hidenori Maezawa and/or Kiyohiro Sada - 02:36:50

35) At Doom's Gate – DOOM – PC (Midi) - Bobby Prince - 02:38:35

 

Block 8 – Episodes 36-40 (2018 – part 4)

 

BGM for intro to Block 8 Music: stage 1 astyanax (episode 38)

 

Spoken Introduction - 02:41:47

 

36) BFG Division - DOOM (2016) - Multi - Mick Gordon - 02:54:15

37) Bloody Tears (Stage A) - Super Castlevania IV – SNES – Masanori Idachi and/or Taro Kudo - 03:03:04

38) Vortex – Vortex - SNES –  Justin Sharvona - 03:04:57

39) Title – Cyber Knight – SFC – Michiharu Hasuya, Osamu Kasai and/or Junko Yokoyama - 03:08:37

40) Lifelight (English Vocals) - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – SWITCH! - Hideki Sakamoto - 03:09:53

 

Block 9 – Episodes 41-46 (2019 – part 1)

 

BGM for intro to Block 9 Music: solitary (episode 42)

 

Spoken Introduction - 03:13:34

 

41) Studiopolis Zone – Sonic Mania – Multi – Tee Lopes - 03:28:13

42) Whirlwind – Shinobi 3 – Genesis – Masayuki Nagao, Hirofumi Murasaki, and Morihiko Akiyama - 03:30:41

43) Subtune 1 – International Karate – C64 – Rob Hubbard - 03:32:39

44) King of Speed – Daytona USA – Saturn – Takenobu Mitsuyoshi and/or David Leytze -  03:43:16

46) Area 1 – Blaster Master – NES – Naoki Kodaka - 03:48:00

 

Block 10 – Episodes 47a-49 (2019 – part 2)

 

BGM for intro to Block 10 Music: guile sf2 arcade (episode 49)

 

Spoken Introduction - 03:50:10

 

47a) Bloodlines – Castlevania: Rondo of Blood – PC Engine – ikio Saitou, Akiropito, Kinuyo Yamashita, and/or Satoe   - 03:58:54

47b) Max Power – After Burner II – PC Engine – Hiroshi Kawaguchi and/or Shigeharu Isoda - 04:02:06

47c) Stage 1 – Dragon Spirit – Turbografx16 – Shinji Hosoe - 04:02:55

48) Another Adventure -- Part 1 - N/A (Battle of the Bits) - N/A (SNES) - Mega9man -  04:08:03

49) Stickerbush Symphony – DKC 2: Diddy Kong's Quest – SNES – David Wise - 04:12:33

 

Show Outro Music: Shower Fresh (episode 48) - 04:14:49

 

Total Episode Runtime: 04:21:49

 

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You can also find all of our audio episodes on Archive.org

 

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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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Lastly, you can also follow us on Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio.

 

Thanks for listening! Join us again later this month [edit: UPDATE: 12/30/2019] for C1E50b (Channel 1, Episode 50b): The Golden Episode pt 2 - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!

 

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"Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" - “C1E49: Mishmash Monday - vol. 8” (w/ Special Guest)

Today’s broadcast is C1E49 for Mishmash Monday, November 11th, 2019. Today’s Episode will be "Mishmash Monday - vol. 8" - guest hosted, guest curated, and guest vetted by Mario Mendez of the excellent Grown-Up Pixels podcast!

 

Track# - Track - Game - System - Composer - TimeStamp:

 

01) Intro - 00:00:00

02) Toxic Caves - Sonic Spinball - Genesis - Brian Coburn, Barry Blum and/or Howard Drossin - 00:02:36

03) The Palace that was Found - Sonic and the Secret Rings - Wii - Kenichi Tokoi - 00:05:13

04) Cody's Theme - Super Street Fighter IV - multi - Hideyuki Fukasawa - 00:08:31

05) Elena Stage - Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike - multi - Hideki Okugawa - 00:11:50

06) This is True Love Makin' - Capcom vs SNK 2 - multi - Satoshi Ise - 00:15:04

07) Planet Wisp Zone, Act 2 - Sonic Generations - multi - Jun Senoue and/or Tatsuya Kozaki - 00:18:18

08) What U Need - Sonic Rush - DS - Hideki Naganuma and/or Teruhiko Nakagawa - 00:26:45

09) Grand Metropolis - Sonic Heroes - multi - Jun Senoue - 00:25:48

10) Gravity Beetbood Stage - Mega Man X3 - PS1 - Kinuyo Yamashita - 00:28:13

11) VS Rival Battle - Tekken 2 - PS1 - Hideyuki Fukasawa - 00:30:06

12) Bonus Game 1 - Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike - multi - Hideki Okugawa - 00:32:48

13) Your Sunset - Tekken Tag Tournament - multi - Taku Inoue - 00:33:45

14) Quartz Quadrant Good Future - Sonic CD (JP) - Mega CD - Naofumi Hataya and/or Masafumi Ogata - 00:38:36

15) Main Theme - LoZ: BotW - 3DS / SWITCH!! - Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata and/or Hajime Wakai - 00:39:48

16) The Scars of Time (Opening) - Chrono Cross - PS1 - Yasunori Mitsuda - 00:41:37

17) Marble Zone - Sonic the Hedgehog - Genesis - Masato Nakamura - 00:43:58

18) Guile - Street Fighter 2 - Arcade - Yoko Shimomura - 00:46:00

19) Eternity - Dead or Alive 3 - XBox - Makoto Hosoi, Takafumi Inamori and/or Ryo Koike - 00:48:20

20) Hot Head Bop - DKC 2: Diddy's Kong Quest - SNES - David Wise - 00:51:40

21) Ryu Stage - Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix - multi - c: Yoko Shimomura a: Stephen Malcolm-Howell - 00:53:40

22) World 3-2 (Beach) - Super Mario 3D Land - 3DS - Takeshi Hama, Mahito Yokota, Asuka Hayazaki and/or Shigetoshi Gohara - 00:55:28

23) Lake Lamode 1 (8-bit) - Super Mario Odyssey - SWITCH!! - Naota Kubo, Shiho Fujii and/or Koji Kondo - 00:57:21

24) Stickerbush Symphony - DKC 2: Diddy's Kong Quest - SNES - David Wise - 01:00:20

25) Hateno Village (Night) - LoZ: BotW - 3DS / SWITCH!! - Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata and/or Hajime Wakai - 01:01:02:35

26) Home Aruni Village - Chrono Cross - PS1 - Yasunori Mitsuda - 01:07:04

27) Growing Wings - NIGHTS: Journey of Dreams - Wii - Tomoko Sasaki and/or Naofumi Hataya - 01:01:10:16

28) Invincibility - Sonic 3 - Genesis - Sachio Ogawa - 01:01:12:40

29) Good Ending - Knuckles Chaotix - 32X - Junko Shiratsu and/or Mariko Nanba - 01:13:15

30) Cheap Shop - Scott Pilgrim vs The World - PS3 / XB360 - James DeVito - 01:16:16

31) Outro - 01:17:47

 

Music Block Runtime: 01:15:14, Total Episode Runtime: 01:28:15

 

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

 

The Grown-Up Pixels podcast can be found at https://grownuppixels.com, on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and wherever podcasts are sold! Mario will also be found hanging around the VGM Podcast Fans group on Facebook (link below).

 

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Please give his show a look and give him some love! :-)

 

The "Nerd Noise Radio - RERUNS!" channel can be found here:

 

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You can also find all of our audio episodes on Archive.org

 

Our YouTube Channel can be found here:

 

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

 

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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

 

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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.

 

Lastly, you can also follow us on Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio.

 

Thanks for listening! Join us again in December for C1E50a (Channel 1, Episode 50a): "The Golden Episode - part 1", which will be a Nerd Noise Radio experience unlike anything we've ever done before - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!

 

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"Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" - “C1E48: Battle of the Bits - vol. 2”

Today’s broadcast is C1E48 for Scene Sunday, October 13th, 2019. Today’s episode is a return visit to the wonderful sounds of the spectacular internet chiptune artist collective "Battle of the Bits". Each and every "chipist" to have appeared in spring 2017's "Battle of the Bits - vol 1" reappears here, and is joined by a legion of faces, names, and sounds which are all new to the program!

 

Track# - Track Name – System Sound Hardware – Composer – BotB Event - Timestamp

 

01 – Intro - 00:00:00

02 – Electric Starbounce – C64 - Kulor – Winter Chip VI - 00:02:25

03 – Evil Bug Judgment Squad – Wild Chip – Diagamblic – Summer Chip VI - 00:05:07

04 – Ice Queen – C64 – Mibri – Winter Chip XIV - 00:08:03

05 – Strawberry Jam – TG16 –Tristendo – Summer Chip VII - 00:11:45

06 – Sunset Machine – Genesis – null1024 – Winter Chip VIII - 00:14:18

07– Velvet Fog – Genesis – Warlord – Winter Chip VII - 00:15:29

08 – Redrum Ave – Genesis – kfaraday – Summer Chip III - 00:16:49

09 – Bliss – C64 – linde – Winter Chip III - 00:18:00

10– Fuse Gymnast – NES+ - kandyfan – Summer Chip III - 00:19:17

11 – Junebug – NES - gyrouh – Winter Chip X - 00:21:34

12 – Mint Choco Mint – TQ-Jam – Winter Chip X - 00:25:14

13 – The Singular Hilarity – NES – Mootbooxle – "they're not even privileges, it's an absurd workar" - 00:27:33

14 – Well Beefington – AY-3-8910 – DoctorGentleman – Winter Chip X - 00:29:14

15 – 7 Trillion GHz – Genesis – Strobe – Summer Chip III - 00:36:46

16 – Circuit Angel 3 – Amiga – Strobe  – Winter Chip VIII - 00:40:01

17 – A Mega Drive Down the Genesis Highway – Genesis – KungFuFurby – Summer Chip III - 00:42:35

18 – SPC Lover – SNES – Mibri – Winter Chip XIV - 00:45:10

19 – Coda-Cola Zone – Genesis – Jredd – Summer Chip VII - 00:46:34

20 – RAD__ASS – AdLib - Baron Knoxburry – Summer Chip V - 00:48:25

21 – Battle Rush – TG16 – Diagamblic – Spring Tracks V - 00:49:54

22 - Radiant Overlord – SNES – Strobe – Summer Chip III - 00:52:00

23 – Genesis Does What Nintendonk – Genesis - Zlew – Summer Chip V - 00:54:29

24 – Hotline Milan – Amiga – Mibri – Winter Chip XIV - 00:56:11

25 – VIC-Xinity – VIC20 – pigdevil2010 – Summer Chip VII - 00:57:43

26 – Tech No No – Atari 2600 - Chip Champion – Winter Chip X - 01:00:54

27 – Krungeon Creeper – Channel F - Irrlicht project – Winter Chip VI - 01:03:26

28 – Tocsik Waiste – TG16 – SexyElf – Summer Chip III - 01:04:28

29 – Internal Destroyer – TG16 – RatShack – Summer Chip V - 01:06:15

30 – Spirit Dough – TG16 – Beard – Winter Chip X - 01:09:12

31 – An Audience With the King – TG16 - Slimeball – Summer Chip II  - 01:11:05

32 – Lost in a Forest – POKEY - FearofDark – Winter Chip VII - 01:11:19

33 – I Came I Saw – SNES – KungFuFurby – Summer Chip VIII - 01:14:43

34 – Music for 32 Partials – MT-32 – Sintel – Spring Tracks VII - 01:20:14

35 – Facing Your Formidable Fate – MIDI – kgb525 – Spring Tracks VII - 01:25:18

36 – Another Adventure: Part 1 – SNES – mega9man – Summer Chip V - 01:27:21

37 - 森嫁語り (Mori Yome Katari) - NES+ - Melon – Summer Chip VII - 01:31:50

38 – Masked Byte – TG16 - RazerBlue6 – Summer Chip VII - 01:36:23

39 – Shower Fresh – Genesis – Diagamblic – Winter Chip XIII - 01:42:43

40 – Outro - 01:46:10

 

Music Block Runtime: 01:43:48, Total Episode Runtime: 01:56:20

 

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

 

The "Nerd Noise Radio - RERUNS!" channel can be found here:

 

https://www.buzzsprout.com/77944/

 

or here

 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nerd-noise-radios-podcast/id1191400767

 

You can also find all of our audio episodes on Archive.org

 

Our YouTube Channel can be found here:

 

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

 

Our episodes (and occasionally, other content) 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.

 

Lastly, you can also follow us on Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio.

 

Thanks for listening! Join us again in November for C1E49 (Channel 1, Episode 49): "Mishmash Monday - vol. 8" - guest hosted, guest vetted, and guest curated by a special guest who is a very beloved member of the VGM podcast community - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!

 

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"Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" - “C1E47c: Tidal Wavetable - aka 'The Continuing Adventures of Buzz Lightyear'”

Today’s broadcast is  C1E47c for Theme Thursday, September 26th, 2019. Today is part 3 of 3 in our first ever mini-series. The theme of our miniseries is music from the Turbografx16 / PC Engine - co-created with Bryce Dumond of the TG16 Game by Game podcast, "Turbotastic". Today's installment is called "Tidal Wavetable - aka 'The Continuing Adventures of Buzz Lightyear'".

 

01 - Intro - 00:00:00

02 - RyuuKyuu – Title Screen - Yasushi Kawasaki, and/or Hiroto Saitoh - 00:03:06

03 - Cross Wiber – Story Out - Hiroto Saitoh - 00:03:28

04 - Air Zonk – Opening - Daisuke Morshima and/or Hisashi Matsushita - 00:05:31

05 - Startling Odyssey II – Hamil's Lodge - Kenji Ikeda - 00:07:20

06 - Dungeon Explorer – Town - Tsukasa Masuko - 00:08:56

07 - Dragon Spirit – Stage 1 - Shinji Hosoe - 00:10:48

08 - Shockman - BGM 1 - Koji Hayama - 00:15:55

09 - Doraemon - Boss Battle - Maki Watanabe, Yoko Motoshuku, and/or Eiji Hasegawa - 00:19:05

10 - Metal Stoker – Floating Fortress (Stage 7) - Hiroto Saitoh - 00:20:48

11 - Dungeon Explorer – Dungeon 2 - Tsukasa Masuko - 00:22:49

12 - Psychosis – Stage 3 - Daisuke Morishima and/or Hisashi Matsushita - 00:24:38

13 - Jigoku Meguri – Stage 3 - Hisayoshi Ogura and/or Yasuhisa Watanabe - 00:25:51

14 - Vigilante – Level 2 - c: Masato Ishizaki / a: Unknown - 00:27:16

15 - Military Madness – Enemy's Victory - Jun Chikuma and/or Toshiaki Takimoto - 00:29:11

16 - Shockman – BGM 3 - Koji Hayama - 00:39:20

17 - Vigilante – Level 4 - c: Masato Ishizaki / a: Unknown - 00:33:04

18 - Legendary Axe II – Stage 6 - Tsukasa Masuko - 00:34:52

19 - Devil's Crush – Bonus 2, 5 - Toshiaki Sakoda and/or Masanobu Tsukamoto - 00:38:51

20 - Snatcher – The Entrance to Hell - Konami Kukeiha Club - 00:40:59

21 - Jigoku Meguri – Stage 4 - Hisayoshi Ogura and/or Yasuhisa Watanabe - 00:43:19

22 - Bomberman - Track 10 - Jun Chikuma and/or Keita Hoshi - 00:44:48

23 - Metal Stoker – Big Molecular (Boss 2) - Hiroto Saitoh - 00:46:24

24 - Magical Chase – Final Stage - Hitoshi Sakimoto and/or Masaharu Iwata - 00:48:19

25 - Military Madness – Opening - Jun Chikuma and/or Toshiaki Takimoto - 00:51:54

26 - Barunba – Stage 1 - M. Itoh, H. Nishikawa - 00:52:46

27 - Air Zonk – Friend Select - Daisuke Morshima and/or Hisashi Matsushita - 00:54:17

28 - Street Fighter 2CE – Balrog - Yoko Shimomura - 00:55:13

29 - Battle Royale – Spitfire Spike Win - Kyle Johnson - 00:57:04

30 - Hisou Kihei X-Serd – Opening 1 - Koji Hayama - 00:59:19

31 - Tatsujin – Unknown (Stage 5) - Masahiro Yuge - 01:02:03

32 - Dragon Spirit – Stage 4 - Shinji Hosoi - 01:04:18

33 - Obocchama Kun - Stage 1 - Junya Kozakai and/or Ako Matsudaira - 01:07:24

34 - Bomberman - Invincibility - Jun Chikuma and/or Keita Hoshi - 01:09:15

35 - 1552 Tenka Dairan – Get in Get Out - Masao Asakawa - 01:10:37

36 - Super Daisenraku – Track 4 - c: M. Asatomi / a:  Unknown - 01:14:51

37 - Takeda Shingen – Boss - Unknown - 01:16:53

38 - Tengai Makyou 2 – Lightweight Vehicle - Joe Hisaishi, Hirohiko Fukada, and/or Keita Hoshi - 01:18:16

39 - Coryoon – Sound Test - Daisuke Morishima and/or Hisashi Matsushita - 01:19:49

40 - Alien Crush – Bonus 2 - Toshiaki Sakoda - 01:21:40

41 - Neutopia II – Cave 2 - Toshiaki Takamoto - 01:23:22

42 - Street Fighter 2CE – Chun Li - Yoko Shimomura - 01:25:11

43 - Takeda Shingen – Stage 4 - Unknown - 01:27:03

44 - Tengai Makyou: Fuun Kabuki Den – Reminiscence: Daimonkyou - Kohei Tanaka and/or Keita Hoshi - 01:28:51

45 - Yawara! 2 – Track 13 - Hisanori Oushiro - 01:30:52

46 - Tengai Makyou 2 - Goodnight - Joe Hisaishi, Hirhiko Fukada, and/or Keita Hoshi - 01:32:51

47 - Bomberman 93 – Password - Jun Chikuma and/or Keita Hoshi - 01:34:53

48 - Youkai Douchuuki – Main Theme - Hiroyuki Kawada - 01:36:13

49 - Tenchi Muyou Ryououki – Track 23 - Natsuko Karedou, Kayoko Maeda, and/or Shiori Ueno - 01:41:24

50 - Lady Sword: Ryakudatsu Sareta 10 Nin no Otome – Track 5 - Unknown - 01:43:30

51 - Magical Chase – Ending (Raka Raka Mode) - Hitoshi Sakimoto and/or Masaharu Iwata - 01:44:18

52 - Outro - 01:46:56

53 - Blooper Reel - 01:58:28

 

Music Block Runtime: 01:43:53, Total Episode Runtime: 02:10:45

 

Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights. Composer and track info vetted by "Pidge".

 

You can find the Turbotastic Podcast at:

 

turbotasticpodcast.libsyn.com, or on Stitcher, Spotify, iTunes, as well as on Facebook and Twitter at:

 

FB: @TurbotasticPodcast

TW: @TheTurbotastic

 

The "Nerd Noise Radio - RERUNS!" channel can be found here:

 

https://www.buzzsprout.com/77944/

 

or here

 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nerd-noise-radios-podcast/id1191400767

 

You can also find all of our audio episodes on Archive.org

 

Our YouTube Channel can be found here:

 

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

 

Our episodes (and occasionally, other content) 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.

 

Lastly, you can also follow us on Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio.

 

Thanks for listening! Join us again in October for C1E48 (Channel 1, Episode 48): Battle of the Bits - vol. 2 - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!

 

Cheers!

"Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" - “C1E47b: The Little Engine that Could”

Today’s broadcast is  C1E47b for Theme Thursday, September 19th, 2019. Today is part 2 of 3 in our first ever mini-series. The theme of our miniseries is music from the Turbografx16 / PC Engine - co-created with Bryce Dumond of the TG16 Game by Game podcast, "Turbotastic". Today's installment is called "The Little Engine that Could."

 

Legend:

 

(BC) = Bryce's Picks – CD Audio

(BH) = Bryce's Picks – HuC6280

(JC) = John's Picks – CD Audio

(JH) = John's Picks – HuC6280

 

 

01 - Intro - 00:00:00

02 - (BH) Salamander – Power of Anger - Miki Higashino, Yoshiaki Hatano, and/or Kazuki Muraoka - 00:03:05

03 - (JH) Energy – Opening - Koji Hayama - 00:04:33

04 - (JH) Moto Roader – Shout in the Dark - Koji Hayama - 00:07:29

05 - (JH) Blood Gear – Ruined Base - Shinichi Sakamoto, and/or Jin W. - 00:09:46

06 - (JC) Ai Chou Aniki – Stage 3-3 - Iwasaki Taku - 00:12:21

07 - (JC) Strider Hiryuu – Third Moon Depths  - c: Junko Tamiya / a: KM Brothers - 00:15:40

08 - (JC) Dungeon Explorer 2 – Ancient Ruins of Hyvoris - Masaaki Inoue, Akihiro Honma - 00:18:07

09 - (BH) Ys 1 & 2 – Fountain of Love - c: Yuzo Koshiro / a: Mieko Ishikawa - 00:20:09

10 - (JH) Cyber Dodge – Garden - Einosuke Nagao - 00:21:30

11 - (JH) Cratermaze – Evil Dante - Jun Chikuma, Keita Hoshi, Toshiaki Takimoto, Masaru Takahashi, and/or Takayuki Iwabuchi - 00:24:05

12 - (JH) JJ & Jeff – Field 3 - Takeaki Kunimoto - 00:26:19

13 - (JH) City Hunter – Gone with the Beauty - Tatsumi Yano - 00:28:59

14 - (JH) Cross Wiber – Chapter 2 - Hiroto Saito - 00:31:52

15 - (BH) Afterburner II – Maximum Power - Hiroshi Kawaguchi, and/or Shigeharu Isoda - 00:34:42

16 - (BC) Ys 1 & 2 – To Make the End of Battle - c: Yuzo Koshiro / a: Mieko Ishikawa - 00:35:31

17 - (BC) Lords of Thunder – Boss 2 - Satoshi Miyashita - 00:37:24

18 - (BC) Ys 1 & 2 – Final Battle - c: Yuzo Koshiro / a: Mieko Ishikawa - 00:40:19

19 - (JC) Cotton – Boss 3 - Kenichi Hirata - 00:41:52

20 - (BH) Legendary Axe – Level 5 - Atsumi Chikuma and/or Toshiaki Takimoto - 00:44:53

21 - (JH) Military Madness – Player's Victory - Jun Chikuma and/or Toshiaki Takimoto - 00:47:34

22 - (JC) Ai Chou Aniki – Stage 2-1 - Iwasaki Taku - 00:50:08

23 - (JH) 1552 Tenka Dairan – Fine Day - Masao Asakawa - 00:52:30

24 - (JH) Doukyusuei – Miho Suzuki's Theme - Manabu Kunieda, Noriuki Iwadare, and/or Isao Mizoguchi - 00:55:24

25 - (JH) Kuusou Kagaku Sekai Gulliver Boy – Marseille City - Kouhei Tanaka, and/or Kazuhio Sawada - 00:57:32

26 - (JH) Bomberman 93 – Map - Jun Chikuma and/or Keita Hoshi - 01:00:54

27 - (JH) Neutopia II – Cave 3 - Toshiaki Takamoto - 01:02:26

28 - (BH) Legendary Axe - Level 2 - Atsumi Chikuma and/or Toshiaki Takimoto - 01:04:48

29 - (JC) Shadow of the Beast – In Dark Passages  - c: David Whittaker / a: Unknown - 01:06:50

30 - (BC) Castlevania: Rondo of Blood - Vampire Killer - Mikio Saitou, Akiropito, Kinuyo Yamashita, and/or Satoe Terashima - 01:13:18

31 - (BC) Castlevania: Rondo of Blood – Beginning - Mikio Saitou, Akiropito, Kinuyo Yamashita, and/or Satoe Terashima -  01:14:59

32 - (JC) Legend of Xanadu – The Successor - Mieko Ishikawa, Atsushi Shirakawa, Naoki Kaneda, Takahiro Tsunashima, Masaru Nakajima, and/or Hirofumi Matsuoka - 01:17:22

33 - (JC) Ai Chou Aniki – Stage 2-2 - Iwasaki Taku - 01:19:45

34 - (JC) Dungeon Explorer 2 – Outside Ref, the Pyramid of Ice - Masaaki Inoue, Akihiro Honma - 01:22:32

35 - (JH) Tengai Makyou: Fuun Kabuki Den – Parting Theme - Kohei Tanaka, Keiti Hoshi - 01:24:36

36 - (JH) Yawara! – Title - Mori Hideaki - 01:27:17

37 - (JH) Sekigahara – Music 3 - Koji Hayama - 01:29:47

38 - (JH) Bonk's Revenge – Ice Land - Hirohiko Takayama - 01:34:39

39 - (BH) Bonk's Adventure – Title - Tsukasa Masuko and/or Hirohiko Takayama - 01:36:33

40 - (JH) Shinobi – Level Theme 1 - c: Yasuhiro Kawakami / a: Unknown - 01:38:22

41 - (JC) Gain Ground SX – Europe in the Midde Ages - c: You Takada and/or Katsuhiro Hayashi / a: Unknown - 01:40:04

42 - Outro - 01:44:17

 

Music Block Runtime: 01:41:20, Total Episode Runtime: 01:56:45

 

Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights. Composer and track info vetted by "Pidge".

 

You can find the Turbotastic Podcast at:

 

turbotasticpodcast.libsyn.com, or on Stitcher, Spotify, iTunes, as well as on Facebook and Twitter at:

 

FB: @TurbotasticPodcast

TW: @TheTurbotastic

 

The "Nerd Noise Radio - RERUNS!" channel can be found here:

 

https://www.buzzsprout.com/77944/

 

or here

 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nerd-noise-radios-podcast/id1191400767

 

You can also find all of our audio episodes on Archive.org

 

Our YouTube Channel can be found here:

 

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

 

Our episodes (and occasionally, other content) 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.

 

Lastly, you can also follow us on Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio.

 

Thanks for listening! Join us again this time next week for part 3 of 3 in our TG16/PCE minisieries - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!

 

Cheers!

"Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" - “C1E47a: Turbotastic”

Today’s broadcast is  C1E47a for Theme Thursday, September 12th, 2019. Today is part 1 of 3 in our first ever mini-series. The theme of our miniseries is music from the Turbografx16 / PC Engine - co-created with Bryce Dumond of the TG16 Game by Game podcast, "Turbotastic". Today's installment is called "Turbotastic.

 

Legend:

 

(BC) = Bryce's Picks – CD Audio

(BH) = Bryce's Picks – HuC6280

(JC) = John's Picks – CD Audio

(JH) = John's Picks – HuC6280

(JA) = John's Picks – HuC & ADPCM

 

 

01 - Intro - 00:00:00

02 - (BH) Blazing Lazers – Intro - Masatom Miyamoto, JTS, Masanobu Tsukamoto, Sydon Inoue, Keiji Takeuchi and/or Ozono - 00:03:10

03 - (BH) Raiden – Gallantry - Akira Sato - 00:05:09

04 - (JA) Cyber City Oedo 808 – Music S00 - Keiichi Yamamoto, Atsuhiro Motoyama, Miyuki Takagi, and/or Atsushi Yamaji - 00:07:37

05 - (BH) Salamander – Burn the Wind - Miki Higashino, Yoshiaki Hatano, and/or Kazuki Muraoka - 00:10:42

06 - (BC) Lords of Thunder – Auzal Stage - Satoshi Miyashita - 00:12:19

07 - (BH) Afterburner II – Final Take Off - Hiroshi Kawaguchi, and/or Shigeharu Isoda - 00:16:43

08 - (BC) Ys 1 & 2 – Palace of Destruction - c: Yuzo Koshiro / a: Mieko Ishikawa - 00:20:42

09 - (JH) Street Fighter 2CE – Character Select - Yoko Shimomura - 00:22:45

10 - (BC) Lords of Thunder – Llamarada Stage - Satoshi Miyashita - 00:23:49

11 - (BH) Bloody Wolf – Level 1 - Azusa Hara, Hiroaki Yoshida, Tatsuya Kiuchi, Hitomi Komatsu, Shuuji Segawa, Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Yuji Suzuki, and/or Yusuke Takahama - 00:28:14

12 - (JH) Dead Moon – Moon - Mamoru Ishimoda, and/or Yoko Sonoda - 00:30:12

13 - (JH) Metal Stoker – Computer System (Stage 6) - Hiroto Saitoh - 00:32:33

14 - (BH) Raiden – Fighting Thunder - Akiro Sato - 00:34:48

15 - (BH) Afterburner II – Afterburner - Hiroshi Kawaguchi, and/or Shigeharu Isoda - 00:38:01

16 - (BC) Ys 1 & 2 – Holders of Power - c: Yuzo Koshiro / a: Mieko Ishikawa - 00:42:59

17 - (BH) Blazing Lazers – Area 9 - Masatom Miyamoto, JTS, Masanobu Tsukamoto, Sydon Inoue, Keiji Takeuchi and/or Ozono - 00:44:37

18 - (BC) Lords of Thunder – Cielom Stage - Satoshi Miyashita - 00:46:51

19 - (BC) Castelvania: Rondo of Blood – Bloodlines - Mikio Saitou, Akiropito, Kinuyo Yamashita, and/or Satoe Terashima -  00:51:16

20 - (JC) Double Dragon 2 – Stage 5 - Togo Hiroyuki - 00:54:24

21 - (BC) Ys 1 & 2 – First Step Towards War - c: Yuzo Koshiro / a: Mieko Ishikawa - 00:57:11

22 - (JH) Magical Chase – Stage 3 - Hitoshi Sakimoto and/or Masaharu Iwata - 0:59:12

23 - (BH) Ninja Ryukeden – Level 1 - Keiji Yamagishi, BB, Hasake, and/or Makiko Tanifuji - 01:02:20

24 - (BH) Legendary Axe – Level 3 - Atsumi Chikuma and/or Toshiaki Takimoto - 01:04:12

25 - (BH) Salamander – Starfield - Miki Higashino, Yoshiaki Hatano, and/or Kazuki Muraoka - 01:06:31

26 - (BH) Salamander – Boss - Miki Higashino, Yoshiaki Hatano, and/or Kazuki Muraoka - 01:08:25

27 - (BH) Legendary Axe – Level 1 - Atsumi Chikuma and/or Toshiaki Takimoto - 01:09:04

28 - (BH) Bonk's Adventure – Boss - Tsukasa Masuko and/or Hirohiko Takayama - 01:11:10

29 - (BH) Ninja Spirit – Kessen - M. Ishida - 01:12:21

30 - (JC) Shubibinman 3 – Stage 2-2: Airship Interior - Koji Hayama - 01:14:35

31 - (JC) Ai Chou Aniki – Stage 1-3 - Iwasaki Taku - 01:16:37

32 - (JC) Fatal Fury Special – Duck Dub Dub - Shinsekai Gakkyoku - 01:20:12

33 - (JH) Batman – Stage 2 - Naoki Kodaka - 01:24:11

34 - (JH) Kaizu Chounin Shubibbinman – In-Game 3 - Koji Hayama - 01:26:23

35 - (BC) Castlevania: Rondo of Blood - Bloody Tears - Mikio Saitou, Akiropito, Kinuyo Yamashita, and/or Satoe Terashima -  01:29:08

36 - (JH) Metal Stoker – Metal Elephant (Boss 6) - Hiroto Saitoh - 01:30:46

37 - (JH) Air Zonk – Bubble Marine - Daisuke Morshima and/or Hisashi Matsushita - 01:32:58

38 - (BH) Bonk's Adventure – Level One - Tsukasa Masuko and/or Hirohiko Takayama - 01:36:12

39 - (BH) Outrun – Magical Sound Shower - Hiroshi Kawaguchi and/or Shigeharu Isoda - 01:37:18

40 - (BH) Yo Bro – I get Around - c: The Beach Boys / a: Unknown - 01:42:25

41 - (BH) Yo Bro – Help Me Rhonda - c: The Beach Boys / a: Unknown - 01:44:53

42 - Outro - 01:48:03

 

Music Block Runtime: 01:44:57, Total Episode Runtime: 01:59:33

 

Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights. Composer and track info vetted by "Pidge".

 

You can find the Turbotastic Podcast at:

 

turbotasticpodcast.libsyn.com, or on Stitcher, Spotify, iTunes, as well as on Facebook and Twitter at:

 

FB: @TurbotasticPodcast

TW: @TheTurbotastic

 

The "Nerd Noise Radio - RERUNS!" channel can be found here:

 

https://www.buzzsprout.com/77944/

 

or here

 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nerd-noise-radios-podcast/id1191400767

 

You can also find all of our audio episodes on Archive.org

 

Our YouTube Channel can be found here:

 

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

 

Our episodes (and occasionally, other content) 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.

 

Lastly, you can also follow us on Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio.

 

Thanks for listening! Join us again this time next week for part 2 of 3 in our TG16/PCE minisieries - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!

 

Cheers!

"Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" - “C1E46: FaceOff Friday - vol 3.”

Today’s broadcast is  C1E46 for FaceOff Friday, August 9th, 2019. Today’s episode will be FaceOff Friday - vol 3 - guest hosted, guest curated, and guest vetted by Electric Boogaloo!

 

01) Intro - 00:00:00

02) Ogre Battle - Overture - Hitoshi Sakimoto

1. a) SNES [March of the Black Queen] - 00:02:45
2. b) GBA [Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis] - 00:03:44
3. c) N64 [Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber] - 00:04:43
4. d) PS1/PSP [Tactics Ogre: Let us Cling Together] - 00:05:45

03) Blaster Master - Area 1 - c: Naoki Kodaka

1. a) NES - 00:07:02
2. b) GBC [Blaster Master: Enemy Below] (a: Akira Suda) - 00:09:20
3. c) Wii [Blaster Master Overdrive] (a: Unknown) - 00:11:40
4. d) 3DS/SWITCH! [Blaster Master Zero] (a: Haruhisa "Hally" Tanaka and/or Ryo Kawakami) - 00:14:01
5. e) PS1 [Blaster Master: Blasting Again] (a: Satoshi Asano) - 00:16:03

04) Lethal Enforcers - Thank You, And See You Again - Kenichiro Fukui

1. a) Arcade - 00:18:10
2. b) SNES (a: Harumi Ueko) - 00:19:07
3. c) Genesis (a: Atsushi Fujio, and/or Osamu Kasai) - 00:20:01
4. d) Sega CD (Tappi Iwase) - 00:20:56

05) Super Chase: Criminal Termination - Dandy Lady - Yasuhisa Watanabe

1. a) Arcade - 00:24:26
2. b) SNES [Super Chase HQ] - 00:28:01

06) Night Striker - Trance Parlent in Blue - Masahiko Takaki

1. a) Arcade - 00:30:12
2. b) Mega CD (a: Shuichiro Nakazawa) - 00:33:41

07) Final Fight - Metro City Subway - Junko Tamiya

1. a) Arcade - 00:37:00
2. b) SNES (a: Toshio Kajino) - 00:38:55
3. c) Sega CD (a: T's Music) - 00:40:45
4. d) GBA [Final Fight 1] (a: Toshio Kajino and/or Seiko Kobuchi) - 00:42:49
5. e) PS3/XB360 [Final Fight Double Impact] (a: Simon Viklund) - 00:44:52

08) The House of the Dead - The First Chapter: Tragedy - Tetsuya Kawauchi

1. a) Arcade - 00:47:05
2. b) Saturn / PC - 00:51:50

09) Smash TV - Game Start: Circuit 1 - c: Jon Hey

1. a) Arcade - 00:56:53
2. b) NES (a: Marshall Parker) - 01:00:10
3. c) Mastersystem (a: Matt Furniss) - 01:00:55
4. d) SNES (a: Marshall Parker) - 01:02:21
5. e) Genesis (a: Matt Furniss) - 01:05:02
6. f) ZX Spectrum [Title Screen Music] (a: Tony Williams) - 01:07:24
7. g) Amstrad CPC [Title Screen Music] (a: Tony Williams) - 01:09:50

10) Bonk's Revenge - Round 1 - Hirohiko Takayama

1. a) TG16 - 01:12:04
2. b) GameBoy [Bonk's Adventure] - 01:13:45

11) Fantasy Zone II: The Tears of Opa-Opa - Sacrand - c: Tokuhiko Uwabo

1. a) Mastersystem PSG - 01:15:21
2. b) Mastersystem FM - 01:17:11
3. c) NES (a: Unknown) - 01:18:59
4. d) Arcade [System 16] / PS2 / 3DS - "Opa Marimba" (a: Manabu Namiki) - 01:20:03

12) Galaxy Force II - Beyond the Galaxy - c: Koichi Namiki

1. a) Arcade - 01:21:51
2. b) Genesis (a: Yoshinori Sunahara) - 01:24:45
3. c) Mastersystem FM (arranged by Keisuke Tsukahara) - 01:27:29
4. d) Mastersystem PSG (arranged by Keisuke Tsukahara) - 01:30:18
5. e) PS2 [Special Extended Edition] (a: Takenobu Mtsuyoshi) - 01:32:53
6. f) FM Towns (a: Hiroshi Matsui) - 01:37:01

13) Tekken 3 - King -Nobuyoshi Sano

1. a) Arcade - 01:40:50
2. b) PS1 - 01:43:24

14) Outro - 01:46:45

 

Music Block Runtime:  01:44:07, Total Episode Runtime: 02:01:00

 

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

 

The "Nerd Noise Radio - RERUNS!" channel can be found here:

 

https://www.buzzsprout.com/77944/

 

or here

 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nerd-noise-radios-podcast/id1191400767

 

You can also find all of our audio episodes on Archive.org

 

Our YouTube Channel can be found here:

 

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

 

Our episodes (and occasionally, other content) 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.

 

Lastly, you can also follow us on Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio.

 

Thanks for listening! Join us again in September for our first ever Channel 1 mini-series on a top secret subject - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!

 

Cheers!

Nerd Noise Radio Reruns presents: "Chandlerfest"!

Buried somewhere around the middle of this 2hr, 22min long, profoundly bittersweet, and deeply emotional tribute to my dear friend Chris Chandler on the occasion of what would've been his 40th birthday is a complete, and unmodified rerun of Nerd Noise Radio C1E10 (originally broadcast 05/22/2017) - which itself was originally intended as a tribute to Chris. The music block portion of C1E10 was produced on the day of his passing, 12/28/2016.

 

Technically, today's production is categorized as a rerun. But only 47 minutes of this 2hrs, 22mins are actually the rerun itself. The rest is a fresh production, brand new, and all dedicated to Chris. Come, hear his music, hear his story, and hear our hearts. Get acquainted with the man who meant so much to all of us, and whose passing still reverberates through our lives these more than 2 1/2 years later. Welcome one and all…..to Chandlerfest!

 

Greeting (Mark Chandler) - 00:00:00

 

Opener

 

Song - Artist - Album

 

Still Your Fool - Chris Chandler - Manifesto - 00:00:11

 

Chris Story pt. 1 - 00:03:26

 

Early Music Block 1

 

Song – Composer - Album

 

Waltz - Chris Chandler - Chris Chandler: 1979-2009 - 00:08:55

For the Moment - Chris Chandler - Ephemera - 00:13:19

Drag Me Down - Chris Chandler - Chris Chandler: 1979-2009 - 00:16:27

 

Chris Story pt. 2 / Mark Story -  00:19:51

 

(Mark Story - 00:27:14)

 

Early Music Block 2

 

Song – Composer - Album

 

The Ache - Chris Chandler - Under the Weather - 00:34:31

Effigy - Chris Chandler - Quod Sum Eris - 00:38:12

Eagle + Serpent - Chris Chandler - Ephemera - 00:41:37

 

Preface to Rerun - 00:45:34

 

C1E10 complete episode Rerun

 

C1E10 Tracklist

 

01: Intro - 00:56:21

02: Shinobi 3 - Genesis - Japonesque - Hirofumi Murasaki, Masayuki Nagao, Morihiko Akiyama - 00:58:16

03: Final Fantasy XIII - PS3 - The Vile Peaks - Masashi Hamauzu - 01:00:32

04: Trip World - Game Boy - Stage 2-2 - “Phase Out” - 01:03:19

05: Ninja Warriors - SNES - City - Hiroyuki Iwatsuki - 01:05:03

06: Quake 2 - PC - Quad Machine - Sonic Mayhem - 01:07:10

07: X-Men - Arcade - Ethnic Cave and Flame - The Konami Kukeiha Club - 01:10:42

08: Jumping Flash 2 - PS1 - Stage 1-2 - Takeo Miratsu - 01:13:16

09: Fushigi no Umi no Nadia - PCE - HES 12 - Shiro Sagisu - 01:14:54

10: Sim City - SNES - Capital - Soyo Oka - 01:16:52

11: Castlevania III - NES - Riddle - Konami Kukeiha Club - 01:19:14

12: Ai Chou Aniki - PC Engine - Stage 4-3 - Iwasaki Taku - 01:20:15

13: Star Wars: SOTE - N64 - Menu - Joel McNeely - 01:21:53

14: Super Meat Boy - PC/360 - Forest Funk - Danny Baronowsky - 01:22:54

15: Metroid Prime - GameCube - Metroid Prime Battle - Kenji Yamamoto and/or Kouichi Kyuma -  01:25:42

16: James Bond 007 - Genesis - Space Hop - Matt Furniss -  01:28:18

17: Tiny Toon Adventures: BBL - SNES - Space Opera -  Kazuhiko Uehara and/or Yukie Morimoto -  01:30:23

18: Chester Cheetah: TCTF - Genesis - To the Exit - Kaneko Sound Team - 01:33:06

19: Salamander - PC Engine - Crystal Forever - Konami Kukeiha Club - 01:36:02

20: Outro - 01:36:29

 

Debrief (St. John) - 01:42:57

 

Post Rerun Music Block

 

Song - Artist - Album

 

Etude Blanc - Chris Chandler - Ephemera - 01:45:44

Instrumental - Chris Chandler - Ephemera - 01:49:02

The Gathering Dark - Chris Chandler - Quod Sum Eris - 01:51:12

Nuns of Steel - Chris Chandler - Quod Sum Eris - 01:53:49

Cloud to Ground - Chris Chandler - Ephemera - 01:59:25

Ineffectual - Chris Chandler - Chris Chandler: 1979-2009 - 02:04:15

 

Gag Tracks Primer - 02:09:26

 

Song - Artist - Album

 

Hidden Track - Chris Chandler - Monochrome Dream - 02:10:25

 

Wrap-up - 02:12:48

 

Closer / Sign-off

 

End Credits - Ai Chou Aniki - PC Engine - Iwasaki Taku - 02:17:49

 

Mark Sign-off - 02:21:31

 

Incidental Music for Chris Story 1 - Sadness - Unlimited Saga - PS2 - Masashi Hamauzu - 00:03:26

Incidental Music for Chris Story 2 / Mark's Story - Zora's Domain: Day - LoZ: BotW - WiiU / Switch - c: Koji Kondo a: Yasuaki Iwata - 00:19:51

Incidental Music for Preface to Rerun - Build 4 - The Sims - PC - Jerry Martin and/or Marc Russo - 00:45:34

Incidental Music for Debrief - Perils of the Coral Reef - Ecco The Dolphin: Defender of the Future - Dreamcast - Tim Follin - 01:42:57

Incidental Music for Wrap Up - Whisper and Mantra - Secret of Mana - SNES - Hiroki Kikuta - 02:09:26

Incidental Music for Closer / Sign-off - To the Stars - Prune - iOS/Android/Windows - Kyle Preston - 02:12:48

 

See the corresponding Blogspot post at nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com for expanded show notes.

"Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" - “C1E45 [PART 2]: The Best of 2018 - pt 2: St. John's Picks (ULTRA MEGA KING KONG SIZED)”

Today’s broadcast is C1E45 [PART 2] for Wayback Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019. Today’s Episode is "The Best of 2018 pt 2 - St. John's Picks (an ULTRA MEGA KING KONG-sized episode)

 

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

 

(NOTE: Tracks in bold and italics were backup tracks I pulled to fill in the gaps left by the tracks on my list that the listeners claimed for their episode. I may get the last word…but they get the first….and first dibs on any tracks).

 

01) Intro - 00:00:00

02) A Strange New World – Papa y Yo – multi – Brian D'Oliveira - C1E30 - 00:00:59

03) Mirage – Gran Turismo 5 – PS3 – Kimmei - C1E27 - 00:03:18

04) Track 2 - Operation Wolf – FM Towns (CD) - Unknown - C1E35 - 00:07:25

05) Reckless Running - Sega Rally Championship – Saturn – Naofumi Hataya - C1E24 - 00:11:26

06) Japanese Four Star - Forza 3 – XB360 – Lance Hayes - C1E23 - 00:15:30

07) Colour - N/A ("OM Lounge 6") - N/A (Music CD c 2004) - c: Soulstice a: Atjazz- C1E28 - 00:20:09

08) Main Menu – Sonic Mania – multi – Tee Lopes - C1E36 - 00:26:23

09) Beach – Plok – SNES – Tim and/or Geoff Follin - C1E27 - 00:27:54

10) Beach - N/A - Genesis – c: Tim and/or Geoff Follin a: Savaged Regime - C1E28 - 00:32:50

11) Milky Lake – Wave Race 64 – N64 – Kazumi Totaka - C1E24 - 00:37:54

12) Smog City Sewers - Spark the Electric Jester – PC – Michael Staple – C1E40 (originally contributed to C1E40 by The Diad) - 00:40:04

13) Jazz 3 – Sim Copter – PC (CD) - Jerry Martin - C1E35 - 00:44:09

14) Adult Talk – Lucid 9 - PC/Mac/Linux - Ultra Kitsune - C1E30 - 00:49:11

15) Bulberry Hill – Zool 2 – Amiga – Neil Biggin - C1E24 - 00:51:02

16) Too Deep - Streets of Rage 2 - Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima - C1E31 - 00:53:58

17) Level 1-2 – Turrican 3 – C64 – Soren Lund - C1E35 - 00:57:28

18) Terminal Technicality – Ultrartron – multi – Allicorn - C1E30 - 01:01:00

19) Spin on the Bridge – Streets of Rage 2 - Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima - C1E31 - 01:05:35

20) Dialed-In – Forza 3 – XB360 – Lance Hayes - C1E23 - 01:09:55

21) Dual Moon – Metal Black – Arcade – Yasuhisa Watanabe – C1E40 (originally contributed to C1E40 by Electric Boogaloo) - 01:15:30

22) Prophet Fire – Salamander – MSX (SCC) - Konami Kukeiha Club - C1E35 - 01:18:09

23) The Rotating Dungeon (4-2) - Super Castlevania IV – SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - C1E37 - 01:19:31

24) Unit - N/A ("Logic") - N/A (Music CD c 1981) - Logic System - C1E28 - 01:20:53

25) Level 4 – Wolfchild – Amiga – Martin Iveson - C1E35 - 01:25:38

26) Visual Installation – Forza 3 – XB360 – Lance Hayes - C1E23 - 01:28:38

27) Process of Elimination – Lucid 9 - PC/Mac/Linux - Blue Wolfie - C1E27 - 01:34:11

28) Arkham Asylum – Batman Forever – Genesis – c: Tim and/or Geoff Follin a: Unknown - C1E33 - 01:38:08

29) The Room of Close Associates – Super Castlevania IV – SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - C1E37 - 01:42:21

30) Mystic Invasion - Secret of Mana - SNES – Hiroki Kikuta - C1E21 - 01:44:56

31) Bases 1 & 2 – Contra – NES – c: Kazuki Muaoka a: Hidenori Maezawa and/or Kiyohiro Sada - C1E34 - 01:46:06

32) Aisuru Hito Yo - N/A ("Ai Ga Nakucha Ne") - N/A  (Music CD c 1982) - Akiko Yano - C1E28 - 01:47:40

33) City of Flickering Destruction – Legend of Mana – PS1 – Yoko Shimomura – C1E40 (originally contributed to C1E40 by Amber Peary) - 01:52:05

34) Razor Girl – Downwell – multi – Eirik Suhrke - C1E30 - 01:55:21

35) A Wish - Secret of Mana - SNES – Hiroki Kikuta - C1E21 - 02:00:47

36) Level 0 – Tetris – CD-I – Jim Andron - C1E32 - 02:01:43

37) Dark Forest 1 – So Many Me – multi – Christopher Gechan and/or Daniel Byrne-McCullough - C1E24 - 02:03:59

38) Norfair – N/A - N/A - c: Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka a: Luminist - C1E29 - 02:08:37

39) The Tundra Beast – Chakan – Genesis - Mark Steven Miller and/or Jason Scher - C1E38  - 02:09:59

40) Final Mission – Cyber Knight – PC Engine – Michiharu Hasuya, Osamu Kasai, and/or Junko Yokoyama – C1E39 - 02:11:32

41) Kraid's Lair - N/A - N/A - c: Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka a: Luminist - C1E29 - 02:12:27

42) Rikuo – Night Warriors: Darkstalker's Revenge – multi – Takayuki Iwai, Akari Kaida, and/or Hideki Okugawa - C1E27 - 02:14:18

43) Stage 2 – Double Dragon 2 – Mega Drive – Kazunaka Yamane - C1E33 - 02:16:08

44) The Mall - Skate or Die 2 – NES – Rob Hubbard - C1E22 - 02:18:36

45) BGM# 20 – Ginga Ojousama Densetsu Yuna FX: Kanashimi no Siren – PCFX – Takanori Arisawa and/or Aya Tanaka – C1E40 (originally contributed to C1E40 by KeyGlyph) - 02:21:41

46) Copacabana '93 – N/A - SNES – c: Barry Manilow a: Machine Gaming - C1E26a - 02:23:08

47) Pleadians – N/A - Amiga – Beek - C1E28 - 02:27:09

48) Believe in Motivation – Advanced Power Dolls 2 – PC98 (OPN) - Hiroto Saitoh - C1E35 - 02:29:14

49) Little Money Ave – Streets of Rage 2 - Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima - C1E31 - 02:31:39

50) Bearhattan Transfur – Fist of Awesome – multi – Brendan Ratliff - C1E30 - 02:34:35

51) Segadore Genesid 64 - N/A - Genesis – Mr Sonic699 - C1E28 - 02:38:00

52) Squash - N/A - Famicom (w/ VRC7 + N163) - TQ_Jam - C1E28 - 02:40:03

53) Dreamer - Streets of Rage 2 - Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima - C1E31 - 02:43:05

54) Chill Penguin – Mega Man X – SNES – Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takhara and/or Toshihiko Horiyama - C1E26 - 02:45:09

55) Elapsed Time – Forza 3 – XB360 – Lance Hayes - C1E23 - 02:46:36

56) Uranus – Spindizzy II – X68000 – Toshiya Yamanaka - C1E35 - 02:51:53

57) I Cannot Trust Any of Them – Star Cruiser II – PC98 (OPN) - Kenichi Yaguhi - C1E35 - 02:53:48

58) Federal Patrol Office – Star Cruiser – Mega Drive – Toshiya Yamanaka - C1E24 - 02:55:53

59) Level 3 – Tetris – CD-I – Jim Andron - C1E36 - 02:57:06

60) Old Man's Prayer – Ogre Battle – SNES – Masahru Iwata, Hiroshi Sakimoto, Hayato Matsuo - C1E22 - 02:59:33

61) Phantom and a Rose – Secret of Mana - SNES – Hiroki Kikuta - C1E21 - 03:00:48

62) Chrono Castle - So Many Me – multi – Christopher Gechan and/or Daniel Byrne-McCullough - C1E24 - 03:02:11

63) Main Theme – Microsoft Interactive Sampler 1996 – Windows 95 - Unknown - C1E28 - 03:06:18

64) That Bit of Hope – Prune – iOS/Android/Windows - Kyle Preston - C1E30 - 03:07:19

65) Macalania Woods – Final Fantasy  X – PS2 – Masashi Hamauzu - C1E36 - 03:10:06

66) Northwall - N/A ("Symphonic Actraiser") - N/A (Music CD c 1991) - c: Yuzo Koshiro a: Tokyo Symphony Orchestra - C1E28 - 03:12:40

67) The Descent – Monument Valley - iOS/Android - Stafford Bawler - C1E30 - 03:15:43

68) Ceremony – Secret of Mana - SNES – Hiroki Kikuta - C1E21 - 03:18:34

69) Different World 1 – Yu-No – PC98 (OPNA) - Ryu Umemoto - C1E35 - 03:19:54

70) Unknown City – Doxa (Unreleased) - PS4 – Daniel Capo – C1E22 - 03:25:07

71) Hanging Waters – Ecco: Defender of the Future – Dreamcast – Tim Follin – C1E40 (originally contributed to C1E40 by Electric Boogaloo) - 03:26:15

72) Outskirts – So Many Me – multi – Christopher Gechan and/or Daniel Byrne McCullough - C1E30 - 03:28:41

73) Lullaby - N/A - Genesis – Freezedream - C1E28 - 03:34:29

74) Menu 2 – Shenmue – Dreamcast – Ryuiji Iuchi, Yuzo Koshiro, Takenobu Mitsutoshi, Osamu Murata, and/or Takeshi Yanagawa - C1E38 - 03:36:39

75) Ending – Super Castlevania IV – SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - C1E37 - 03:38:03

76) One More Dash – One More Dash - iOS/Android/Windows -  Batterie - C1E30 - 03:42:15

77) Outro - 03:45:46

 

Music Block Runtime: 03:45:00, Total Episode Runtime: 03:46:28

 

SPECIAL NOTES ABOUT THIS "THE BEST OF 2018" PROJECT (this is a near exact repeat of the notes from part 1 if you read those): This is a once-a-year project that appears in two parts: a listener-picked part 1, which is more or less a standard episode, other than that the tracks are all pulled from episodes we released in the previous calendar year, and that those tracks were selected by the listeners, rather than myself. You heard that episode last week. This one, part 2, is all my picks, and is a MONSTER! 75 tracks, 3hr 45min! There are several reasons that we only resort to that kind of length just once a year. In part, to make it special and an event when it does happen, in part to not overwhelm the listeners and chase them off with it, and lastly…because it's a TON of work! :-D

 

One thing I like about the format of this once-a-year project is that it favors both the listeners and your host in differing ways. The listeners get the first word, with their episode releasing first. The listeners also get first dibs on any tracks, so if we both want the same track(s), they get them, and I don't. In this case, that happened with 16 tracks. In all those ways, this project favors the listeners. But then, where I come out on top is that I get the last word. Whereas the listeners only get 30-50 tracks to split amongst however many contributors we have (in this case, five), I come along afterwards, with an unreasonably gigantic allowance of 75 tracks….that I get all to myself.

 

Also, while the regular episodes are me trying to balance tracks I love with tracks that I think the listeners will like (which admittedly has something of a me-centric slant already), this 75 track outing is my one and only time a year where I don't have to worry about that balance at all, but is my lone shot of the year for complete, wanton, reckless hedonism. This one is all about me, baby! It's Papa's birthday! :-D But, if you ever wanted to get the clearest possible glance at where your intrepid host's own personal musical heartbeat lies…the 7X track John's Picks Best of 20XX episodes will be the best place to look, as all the filters are off…

 

...well, save one: I make it a personal rule to include at least one track from every episode in my collection, even if that episode didn't have anything that would've otherwise made the list. Taris Apartments from C1E9 likely wouldn't have made my Best of 2017 outing last year, and neither Copacabana '93 from the April Fool's Episode (C1E26a), or maybe even Chill Penguin from C1E26, or Base 1 & 2 from C1E34 would've been likely to make my list this year either had it not been for my hard and fast rule to include at least one track from every episode. On the other hand, Taris Apartments, Copacabana '93, Chill Penguin, and Base 1 & 2 are all at least my actual favorite tracks from their given episodes.

 

Before I ever even approach any of the listeners for tracks, I already have a list of my own made up with a shorter auxiliary list of backups, and even a third list of backups to the backups, so that even if every single track the listeners pick is on my list, I still have enough in reserve to make my full 75. I get my 75 no matter what, but I can also stay completely out of the listener's way in picking tracks, and let them have everything they want. A win win for the both of us!

 

One last note about the Best of 20XX series (and this is true of both installments):

 

While it’s totally a labor of love, not only for myself, but also for the contributing listeners, it is also quite an undertaking for me - and in ways deeper than simply putting 105-125 tracks together! What it amounts to, metaphorically speaking, is my lining up all the statues I’ve sculpted over the previous year, and slicing little chunks out of them to use as building blocks to create an all new statue with the goal of making the new statues resemble the previous statues as little as possible.

 

A good song flow is more important than any of the following rules (and so any of the following are breakable – and were all broken at points – to make the flow work), but what else is going on besides simple song flow management is that I’m also trying to avoid placing tracks from the same episode too close together, or placing too many of the tracks in the same relative vicinity within the new music block as they were in their old music blocks, and even things like trying (in part 1) to limit the number of times where I feature tracks from the same listener back to back (though this rule was my lowest priority, and was the first to go out the window when there was a conflict).

 

I’m trying to use pieces of music that already have relational connotations in my mind to other pieces of music by way of the earlier episodes to create all new connotations with them. I will tell you that that’s much harder than it sounds. It adds a lot of cognitive "weight" to the processing load, because it creates reflexes with each piece that you now have to work against, more or less. In fact, each of our music blocks saw one or two scrapped iterations before I finally arrived at a track order that worked. And as is the case with part 2, when you’re staring at a list of 75 tracks, and asking yourself “what the hell am I supposed to do with these?”, it really makes you want to just curl into the fetal position on the floor!

 

But it’s also a lot of fun, and most of all, it gives me a chance to create all new art from existing art, and all new journeys and experiences from existing journeys and experiences. And so, at the end of the day, it’s all joy for me. I hope it will be for you as well, as the listener, and most of all, I hope that the contributing listeners will feel like I did their picks justice. Each of their contributions, from Jeshua’s three tracks all the way to Purnell’s twenty all mean the world to me. These episodes – both theirs and mine, are my love letter back.

 

As a bonus, for the curious, here is the list of backup tracks from my list that were not picked, and appear in neither episode (some of them I REALLY wanted, though):

 

Track, Game, System, Composer, Episode (spaces placed between episodes to better highlight)

 

1) Whisper and Mantra – Secret of Mana – SNES – Hiroki Kikuta - C1E21

2) Take Back – Fighting Run – PCE – Unknown -  C1E22

3) Aqua and Trees – Tobal No. 1 – PS1 - Yoko Shimomura - C1E22

4) Vs Mode – Fantavision (US) - PS2 – Ashif Hakik - C1E22

5) Superleggera – Forza 3 - XB360 - Lance Hayes - C1E23

6) Van Air – Forza 3 – XB360 – Lance Hayes - C1E23

7) Inside Vah Naboris – LoZ: BotW - WiiU/SWITCH - Manaka Kataoka and/or Yasuaki Iwata C1E24

8) Copacabana - N/A - NES – c: Frank Sinatra a: NES Music - C1E26a

9) Music to Watch Girls By - N/A - NES – c: Andy Williams a: RushJet1 - C1E26a

10) It's Not Unusual - N/A - N/A - c: Tom Jones a: Lullabyte - C1E26a

11) My Way - N/A - N/A - Frank Sinatra a: JackyBoy - C1E26a

12) Sigma Stage 4 – Mega Man X – SNES - Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takhara and/or Toshihiko Horiyama - C1E26

13) Password - Mega Man X – SNES - Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takhara and/or Toshihiko Horiyama - C1E26

14) Vile - Mega Man X – SNES - Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takhara and/or Toshihiko Horiyama - C1E26

15) Challenge – Chu Chu Rocket - Dreamcast – Tomoya Ohtani - C1E27

16) Ice Pyramid – Final Fantasy Mystic Quest – SNES – Ryuji Sasai and/or Yasuhiro Kawakami - C1E27

17) Brinstar -  N/A (Metroid Album) - N/A - c: Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka a: Luminist - C1E29

18) Ridley's Lair - N/A (Metroid Album) - N/A - c: Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka a: Luminist - C1E29

19) Ending - N/A (Metroid Album) - N/A - c: Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka a: Luminist - C1E29

20) Sodden Hollow – Binding of Isaac: Rebirth - Multi  Matthias Bossi and/or Jon Evans - C1E30

21) Hypertension – Super Meat Boy - PS4/Vita (these versions specifically) - Scattle - C1E30

22) Meteor – StarFox - SNES – Hajime Hirasawa - C1E32

23) Load BGM - Wolfchild – Sega CD - Martin Iveson - C1E33

24) Slammin' Sea – Bomberman '94 – PC Engine – Jun Chikuma - C1E33

25) Seaside Front – Aero Blaster – PC Engine – Kunio Komatsu and/or Tsutomu Okuma – C1E33

26) Game Over – Juouuki – PC Engine – Tohru Nakabayashi

27) Under the Feet – Super C – NES – c: Kazuki Muaoka and/or Motoaki Furukawa a: Hidenori Maezawa - C1E34

28) Steel Spider - Super C – NES – c: Kazuki Muaoka and/or Motoaki Furukawa a: Hidenori Maezawa - C1E34

29) Mechanic Factory - Super C – NES – c: Kazuki Muaoka and/or Motoaki Furukawa a: Hidenori Maezawa - C1E34

30) Military Fortress - Super C – NES – c: Kazuki Muaoka and/or Motoaki Furukawa a: Hidenori Maezawa - C1E34

31) Jungle – Contra – NES – c: Kazuki Muaoka a: Hidenori Maezawa and/or Kiyohiro Sada

32) Surface of SR388 – Metroid: Samus Returns – 3DS – c: Ryoji Yoshitomi a: Daisuke Matsuoka - C1E36

33) Faron Woods – Loz: TP - GameCube/Wii - Toru Minegishi and/or Asuka Ohta - C1E36

34) New Donk City – Super Mario Odyssey – SWITCH – Naoto Kubo, Shiho Fujii, and/or Koji Kondo - C1E36

35) The Cave - Super Castlevania IV – SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - C1E37

36) The Library - Super Castlevania IV – SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - C1E37

37) Prologue - Super Castlevania IV – SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - C1E37

38) Menu - Vortex – SNES – Justin Sharvona - C1E38

39) Chapter 5 – Cross Wiber – PC Engine – Hiroto Saitou

40) Chapter 12 – Cross Wiber – PC Engine – Hiroto Saitou

41) Vortex – Vortex – SNES – Justin Sharvona - C1E38

42) Red Road – Astyanax – NES – Kiyoshi Yokoyama - C1E38

43) Space Battle - Cyber Knight – PC Engine – Michiharu Hasuya, Osamu Kasai, and.or Junko Yokoyama - C1E39

44) Planet 3 – Cyber Knight – PC Engine - Michiharu Hasuya, Osamu Kasai, and.or Junko Yokoyama - C1E39

45) Mentana – Cyber Knight – Super Famicom -Michiharu Hasuya, Osamu Kasai, and.or Junko Yokoyama - C1E39

46) Ending 2 – Cyber Knight - PC Engine - Michiharu Hasuya, Osamu Kasai, and.or Junko Yokoyama - C1E39

47) Berserker's Base – Cyber Knight – Super Famicom - Michiharu Hasuya, Osamu Kasai, and.or Junko Yokoyama - C1E39

48) Dead Sea/Ruined Tower – Chrono Cross - PS1 - Yasunori Mitsuda – C1E40 (originally contributed to C1E40 by Amber Peary)

 

…..alright, and now, for all the regular "housekeeping" stuff. :-)

 

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"Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" - “C1E45 [PART 1]: The Best of 2018 - pt 1: Listener Picks”

It's the most wonderful time of the year….for Nerd Noise Radio! :-) Today’s broadcast is C1E45 [PART 1] for Wayback Wednesday, June 26th, 2019. Today’s Episode is "The Best of 2018 pt 1 - Listener Picks"

 

Track# - Track – Game – System – Composer(s) - Episode(s) - Listener(s) - Timestamp

 

(NOTE: Tracks in bold and italics were tracks that I had on my list for my episode (part 2) that the listeners claimed for theirs. I may get the last word…but they get the first….and first dibs on any tracks).

 

01) Intro - 00:00:00

02) Go Straight - Streets of Rage 2 - Genesis - Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima - C1E31 - Rebecca - 00:02:26

03) Central Park - Last Ninja 2 - C64 - Matt Gray - C1E35 - Rebecca - 00:05:28

04) Prairie - Devilish - Genesis - Hitoshi Sakimoto - C1E36 - Phillip & Purnell - 00:10:58

05) Sting Chameleon - Mega Man X - SNES - Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takhara and/or Toshihiko Horiyama - C1E26 - Purnell - 00:13:44

06) Metal Crusher - Undertale - Multi - Toby Fox - C1E40 - Jeshua & Rebecca (originally contributed to C1E40 by Jeshua Lack) - 00:14:56

07) Simon's Theme - Super Castlevania IV - SNES - Masanori Idachi and/or Taro Kudo - C1E37 - Hugues - 00:17:00

08) Strike the Earth - Shovel Knight - Multi - Jake Kaufmann - C1E30 - Phillip & Purnell - 00:20:02

09) Flame Mammoth - Mega Man X – SNES - Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takhara and/or Toshihiko Horiyama - C1E26 - Purnell - 00:23:40

10) Wily's Castle 1 - Mega Man 2 - Takashi Tateishi - NES - C1E32 - Jeshua & Phillip - 00:25:37

11) Energy Zone - Contra - NES - c: Kazuki Muaoka a: Hidenori Maezawa and/or Kiyohiro Sada - C1E34 - Purnell - 00:28:14

12) Do or Die - Retro City Rampage - Multi - Norrin Radd - C1E30 - Hugues - 00:29:22

13) Stage Select (Mavericks) - Mega Man X - Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takhara and/or Toshihiko Horiyama - C1E26 - Phillip - 00:30:08

14) The Tunnel - Metroid Metal - N/A - c: Ryoji Yoshitomi a: Stemage - C1E28 - Phillip - 00:31:07

15) Surface of SR388 - Metroid 2 - GameBoy - Ryoji Yoshitomi - C1E32 - Purnell - 00:35:13

16) Wicked Child - Castlevania - NES - Kinuyo Yamashita, and/or Satoe Terashima - C1E33 - Purnell- 00:37:23

17) Into the Thick of It - Secret of Mana - SNES - Hiroki Kikuta - C1E21 - Hugues - 00:40:13

18) Map Screen - Wolfchild - SNES - Martin Iveson - C1E27/C1E33 - Rebecca - 00:42:02

19) People of the Far North - Final Fantasy X - PS2 - Masashi Hamauzu, Junya Nakano, and/or Nobuo Uematsu - C1E32 - Hugues - 00:43:44

20) Title Theme - N/A (Metroid Album) - N/A - c: Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka a: Luminist - C1E29 - Phillip - 00:45:56

21) Action Screen - Spellcaster - Mastersystem - Sachio Ogawa - C1E27 - Hugues - 00:48:19

22) Shadow Man - Mega Man 3 - NES - Yasuaki Fujita - C1E22 - Phillip- 00:51:11

23) Woods Test - Whomp 'Em - NES - Tsukasa Tawada - C1E24 - Purnell - 00:53:16

24) Castle Lololo - Kirby's Dreamland - GameBoy - Jun Ishikawa - C1E40 - Purnell (originally contributed to C1E40 by Brian Peterson) - 00:55:20

25) Black Mage Village - Final Fantasy IX - PS1 - Nobuo Uematsu - C1E32 - Hugues - 00:57:17

26) Onett - Earthbound - SNES - Keiichi Suzuki and/or Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka - C1E40 - Purnell & Hugues (originally contributed to C1E40 by Phillip Vaughn)- 01:00:31

27) A Curious Tale - Secret of Mana - SNES - Hiroki Kikuta - C1E21 - Purnell - 01:02:52

28) Elm Street - Nightmare on Elm Street - NES - David Wise - C1E27 - Purnell - 01:04:16

29) Underhalls - DOOM II - PC (Midi) - Bobby Prince - C1E27 - Hugues - 01:07:09

30) Resurrections - Celeste - multi - Lena Raine - C1E40 - Rebecca (originally contributed to C1E40 by Chris Murray) - 01:11:55

31) Stage 4-3 - Bram Stoker's Dracula - Genesis - Matt Furniss - C1E32 - Rebecca - 01:21:28

32) Dance of the Pales - Castlevania: SOTN - PS1 - Michiru Yamane - C1E36 - Phillip - 01:24:19

33) The Chandeliers - Super Castlevania IV - SNES - Masanori Idachi and/or Taro Kudo - C1E37 - Phillip - 01:26:52

34) Riddle - Castlevania III - NES - Konami Kukeiha Club - C1E40 - Purnell (originally contributed to C1E40 by Valerie Wedgeworth) - 01:29:27

35) Boss 1 - So Many Me - multi - Christopher Gechan and/or Daniel Byrne McCullough - C1E38 - Phillip - 01:30:30

36) Back to the Industry - Streets of Rage 2 - Genesis - Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima -C1E31 - Purnell - 01:32:53

37) Spirit of Night - Secret of Mana - SNES - Hiroki Kikuta - C1E21 - Phillip - 01:36:29

38) Race Results (Track 4) - Jaguar XJ220 - Sega CD - Martin Iveson - C1E24 - Hugues - 01:38:07

39) Current of the Times - Gran Turismo 5 - PS3 - Yudai Satoh - C1E22 - Rebecca - 01:40:53

40) In the Bar - Streets of Rage 2 - Genesis - Yuzo Koshiro and/or Motohiro Kawashima - C1E31 - Purnell & Hugues - 01:46:00

41) Submerged City - Super Castlevania IV - SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - C1E37 - Purnell - 01:47:50

42) Dire Dire Docks - Super Mario 64 - N64 - Koji Kondo - C1E32 - Purnell - 01:52:15

43) End Credits - Resident Evil - PS1 - Makoto Tomozawa, Akira Kaida, and/or Masami Ueda - C1E40 - Jeshua (originally contributed to C1E40 by John Jekel) - 01:55:16

44) Outro - 01:58:16

 

Music Block Runtime: 01:55:52, Total Episode Runtime: 02:15:10

 

Meet the contributors and support their projects:

 

Contributing Listeners (listed in order of first to last to submit tracks):

 

1. Rebecca Gruber (aka Zinn) - Jinxed Thoughts (blog) – Sweden
2. Phillip Vaughn - Phoxmonkey ("Let's Play" and Artwork livestream on Mixer) - USA (Sylva, NC)
3. Jeshua Lack - USA (Des Moines, IA)
4. Pernell [Thrillho] Vaughn - Rhythm and Pixels (VGM podcast) - USA (Willmington, DE)
5. Hugues Johnson - Retro Game Club  (VG podcast) [and former co-host of The Retro League (VG podcast)] - USA (Chicago, IL)

 

Jinxed Thoughts: http://jinxedthought.blogspot.com/ and on Twitter @JinxedThoughts

 

Phoxmonkey: https://mixer.com/Phoxmonkey Also, a HUGE special thanks to Phil for having now appeared in EVERY SINGLE listener-based NNR outing to date! He's the only one to have that distinction!

 

Rhythm and Pixels: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rhythm-and-pixels-video-game-music-podcast/id1061486328, on Twitter @Rhythm_n_Pixels and on Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/rhythmandpixels/

 

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

 

Also, should you ever find yourself in Des Moines on the last Wednesday of the month, join Jeshua and I for board game night at the Des Moines Social Club (Adam Huisman from C1E40 can be found there as well)!

 

https://www.facebook.com/desmoinessocialclub/

 

https://www.facebook.com/events/216681785791722/

 

 

SPECIAL NOTES ABOUT THIS "THE BEST OF 2018" PROJECT (these will also be repeated near-verbatim in the show notes for part 2): This is a once-a-year project that appears in two parts: today's installment, a listener-picked part 1, is more or less a standard episode, other than that the tracks are all pulled from episodes we released in the previous calendar year, and that those tracks were selected by the listeners, rather than myself. Next week, you will hear part 2, which is all my picks, and is a MONSTER! 75 tracks, 3hr 45min! There are several reasons that we only resort to that kind of length just once a year. In part, to make it special and an event when it does happen, in part to not overwhelm the listeners and chase them off with it, and lastly…because it's a TON of work! :-D

 

One thing I like about the format of this once-a-year project is that it favors both the listeners and your host in differing ways. The listeners get the first word, with their episode releasing first. The listeners also get first dibs on any tracks, so if we both want the same track(s), they get them, and I don't. In this case, that happened with 16 tracks. In all those ways, this project favors the listeners. But then, where I come out on top is that I get the last word. Whereas the listeners only get 30-50 tracks to split amongst however many contributors we have (in this case, five), I come along afterwards, with an unreasonably gigantic allowance of 75 tracks….that I get all to myself.

 

Also, while the regular episodes are me trying to balance tracks I love with tracks that I think the listeners will like (which admittedly has something of a me-centric slant already), this 75 track outing is my one and only time a year where I don't have to worry about that balance at all, but is my lone shot of the year for complete, wanton, reckless hedonism. This one is all about me, baby! It's Papa's birthday! :-D But, if you ever wanted to get the clearest possible glance at where your intrepid host's own personal musical heartbeat lies…the 7X track John's Picks Best of 20XX episodes will be the best place to look, as all the filters are off…

 

...well, save one: I make it a personal rule to include at least one track from every episode in my collection, even if that episode didn't have anything that would've otherwise made the list. Taris Apartments from C1E9 likely wouldn't have made my Best of 2017 outing last year, and neither Copacabana '93 from the April Fool's Episode (C1E26a), or maybe even Chill Penguin from C1E26, or Base 1 & 2 from C1E34 would've been likely to make my list this year either had it not been for my hard and fast rule to include at least one track from every episode. On the other hand, Taris Apartments, Copacabana '93, Chill Penguin, and Base 1 & 2 are all at least my actual favorite tracks from their given episodes.

 

Before I ever even approach any of the listeners for tracks, I already have a list of my own made up with a shorter auxiliary list of backups, and even a third list of "backups to the backups", so that even if every single track the listeners pick is on my list, I still have enough in reserve to make my full 75. I get my 75 no matter what, but I can also stay completely out of the listener's way in picking tracks, and let them have everything they want. A win win for the both of us!

 

One last note about the Best of 20XX series (and this is true of both installments):

 

While it’s totally a labor of love, not only for myself, but also for the contributing listeners, it is also quite an undertaking for me - and in ways deeper than simply putting 105-125 tracks together! What it amounts to, metaphorically speaking, is my lining up all the statues I’ve sculpted over the previous year, and slicing little chunks out of them to use as building blocks to create an all new statue with the goal of making the new statues resemble the previous statues as little as possible.

 

A good song flow is more important than any of the following rules (and so any of the following are breakable – and were all broken at points – to make the flow work), but what else is going on besides simple song flow management is that I’m also trying to avoid placing tracks from the same episode too close together, or placing too many of the tracks in the same relative vicinity within the new music block as they were in their old music blocks, and even things like trying (in part 1) to limit the number of times where I feature tracks from the same listener back to back (though this rule was my lowest priority, and was the first to go out the window when there was a conflict).

 

I’m trying to use pieces of music that already have relational connotations in my mind to other pieces of music by way of the earlier episodes to create all new connotations with them. I will tell you that that’s much harder than it sounds. It adds a lot of cognitive "weight" to the processing load, because it creates reflexes with each piece that you now have to work against, more or less. In fact, each of our music blocks saw one or two scrapped iterations before I finally arrived at a track order that worked. And as is the case with part 2, when you’re staring at a list of 75 tracks, and asking yourself “what the hell am I supposed to do with these?”, it really makes you want to just curl into the fetal position on the floor!

 

But it’s also a lot of fun, and most of all, it gives me a chance to create all new art from existing art, and all new journeys and experiences from existing journeys and experiences. And so, at the end of the day, it’s all joy for me. I hope it will be for you as well, as the listener, and most of all, I hope that the contributing listeners will feel like I did their picks justice. Each of their contributions, from Jeshua’s three tracks all the way to Purnell’s twenty all mean the world to me. These episodes – both theirs and mine, are my love letter back.

 

…..alright, and now, for all the regular "housekeeping" stuff. :-)

 

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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.

 

Lastly, you can also follow us on Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio.

 

Thanks for listening! Join us again this same bat time next week for C1E45 [PART 2] (Channel 1, Episode 45 [PART 2]): The Best of 2018 - pt 2: St. John's Picks (ULTRA MEGA KING KONG SIZED)” - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!

 

Cheers!