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Friday May 12, 2023
Friday May 12, 2023
Today's broadcast is C1E75, for FaceOff Friday, May 12th, 2023. Today's broadcast will be "FaceOff Friday – vol 5". Be sure to let us know which versions of which tracks you prefer – and WHY!
A1) Intro – 00:00:00
01) Battletoads Double Dragon - Stage 1 - David Wise
SNES – 00:05:46
Genesis (a: Unknown) - 00:08:25
02) Streets of Rage 2 - In the Bar - Yuzo Koshiro
Genesis – 00:11:04
Mastersystem – 00:12:52
03) Tatsujin (Truxton) - Stage 1 - Shotaro
Arcade – 00:14:40
Genesis – 00:16:36
PC Engine – 00:18:42
04) Rastan - Stage 1 - Naoto Yagishita, and/or Masahiko Takaki
Mastersystem PSG – 00:20:45
Mastersystem FM – 00:22:23
Arcade – 00:24:00
05) Maximum Carnage - Boss 1 - Chris Jojo and/or Green Jelly
SNES – 00:25:38
Genesis (a: Tony Williams and/or Paul Tonge) - 00:27:48
06) Vigilante - Stage 2 - Masato Ishizaki
Arcade – 00:30:12
TG16 – 00:31:54
Mastersystem PSG – 00:33:37
Mastersystem FM – 00:35:09
07) Utopia - Stage 3 - Barry Leitch
SNES – 00:36:51
Amiga – 00:42:47
08) DOOM - I Sawed the Demons - Bobby Prince
PC Midi – 00:48:35
PC AdLib – 00:51:03
GBA – 00:53:36
Jaguar [Stats 2] - 00:57:32
3DO (a: Bryan Celano and/or Randy Scott) - 00:59:19
09) Cruis'n USA - House Special - Vince Pontarelli
Arcade – 01:01:43
N64 – 01:04:13
10) Virtua Cop - Gang Headquarters - Kentaro Koyama
Arcade – 01:07:18
Saturn – 01:09:52
11) TMNT: Turtles in Time - Manhattan 3pm - Mutsuhiko Izumi
Arcade – 01:12:32
SNES – 01:14:36
Genesis [TMNT: Hyperstone Heist] - 01:16:45
12) Strider - Siberian Tunnel - Junko Tamiya
Genesis – 01:18:56
Arcade – 01:19:35
13) Caesar's Palace - In-Game Music - Tommy Tallarico
Genesis – 01:20:25
SNES [Super Caeser's Palace] - 01:22:02
Game Gear [Attract Mode Music] (a: Matt Furniss) - 01:23:44
14) Spy vs Spy - Main Theme - Nick Scarim
C64 – 01:24:38
NES (a: Hiroyuki Masuno) - 01:25:42
15) LoZ: Title Screen - Koji Kondo
NES – 01:26:51
FDS – 01:29:31
16) Bomberman 93 - Disrupted Planets (Map) - Jun Chikuma
PC Engine – 01:32:22
SNES [Super Bomberman 3] (a: Keita Hoshi) - 01:34:30
17) Liquid Kids - Waltz of Water and Bubble (Stage 2) - Kazuko Umino and/or Hisayoshi Ogura
Arcade – 01:38:43
PC Engine [Mizubaku Daibouken] - 01:40:41
18) Virtua Racing - Name Entry - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi
Saturn [Game Over] (a: Doug Brandon, Michael Stevens and/or Earl Vickers) - 01:42:43
Arcade – 01:43:03
Genesis (a: Tōru Nakabayashi, and/or Tomoyuki Kawamura) - 01:43:31
32X [Virtua Racing Deluxe] (a: Naofumi Hataya) - 01:43:58
B1) Outro – 01:45:51
B2) Outtakes – 01:56:00
Music Block Runtime: 01:40:09 Total Episode Runtime: 01:59:04
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.
Produced [for the first time in almost three years, and so far as I can tell, the last time ever] using GarageBand in macOS (with a teeny, tiny assist from Audacity) using the Audio Technica AT2020 XLR condenser mic and the M-Audio MobilePre XLR-to-USB interface, and deliberately using circa 2019-caliber production techniques.
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
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 Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio. And we are also now on Spotify, TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, and Vurbl. Amazon and Audible coming soon! Also, be on the lookout for a Discord channel!
Thanks for listening! Join us again in June (details withheld) for our [this time multiple] contributions to the [as yet still unnamed] VGM podcaster community group-project "sequel" to last year's "Masters of VGM". And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Cheers!
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Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
Today’s episode is C2E12, for Theme Thursday, April 27th, 2023. Today’s theme is music from Houses and/or Towns and/or Town Locations, on a program we’re calling “House Music” - episode theme and title both selected by Hugues!
Track# - Track - Game - System(s) - Composer(s) - Selected By
01) Training - Luigi’s Mansion - GameCube - Kazumi Totaka, and/or Shinobu Tanaka
- Earcatcher - 00:00:00
- Music - 00:00:03
- Introduction - 00:02:32
- Top of show business - 00:03:15
- Discussion - 00:15:30
02) Itchy and Scratchy - The Simpsons: Bart’s Nightmare - Genesis - Dean Morrell, Mark Ganus and/or H. Kinsley Thurber - St. John
- Music - 00:20:39
- Discussion - 00:22:25
03) The Ominous Mansion - Crisis Core: FFVII - Multiplatform - Takeharu Ishimoto - Hugues
- Music - 00:28:36
- Discussion - 00:32:02
04) Alone in the Town - Silent Hill 2 - PS2 - Akira Yamaoka - St. John
- Music - 00:37:16
- Discussion - 00:39:39
05) A Quiet Moment - Ys III - TG16 - c: Mieko Ishikawa (Falcom Sound Team J.D.K.) / a: Keita Hoshi - Hugues
- Music - 00:46:32
- Discussion - 00:48:37
06) Statts - Sword of Vermilion - Genesis - Hiroshi Kawaguchi - St. John
- Music - 00:57:19
- Discussion - 00:59:31
07) Shenhua’s House (Day) - Shenmue II - Dreamcast / XBox - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Yuzo Koshiro, Ryuji Iuchi, Takeshi Yanagawa, Satoshi Miyashita, Koji Sakurai, Masataka Nitta, Shinji Otsuka, Fumio Ito, Megumi Takano, Osamu Murata, and/or Shinichi Goto - Hugues
- Music - 01:04:58
- Discussion - 01:08:43
08) Build Mode 4 - The Sims - PC - Jerry Martin and/or Marc Russo - St. John
- Music - 01:16:41
- Discussion - 01:20:27
09) My Quiet Forest Home - Octopath Traveller - Multiplatform - Yasunori Nishiki - Hugues
- Music - 01:27:00
- Discussion - 01:30:24
10) Hometown - Last Bible III - Super Famicom - Hiroyuki Yanada - St. John
- Music - 01:35:52
- Discussion - 01:38:47
11) Dezolis Town 2 - Phantasy Star IV - Genesis - Izuho Numata, and/or Masaki Nakagaki - Hugues
- Music - 01:46:19
- Discussion - 01:48:03
12) House Theme - LoZ: Breath of the Wild - WiiU / Switch - c: Koji Kondo / a: Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata, and/or Hajime Wakai - St. John
- Music - 01:51:02
- Discussion - 01:54:07
13) Agitha’s Castle - LoZ: Twilight Princess - GameCube / Wii / WiiU - Toru Minegishi, Asuka Ota, and/or Koji Kondo - Hugues
- Music - 01:57:07
- Discussion - 01:59:10
- End of Show business - 02:02:19
- Our other shows pt 1 - 02:05:18
- [INTERLUDE] A funny May 4th Story - 02:06:37
- Our other shows pt 2 - 02:08:28
- Final Track Discussion - 02:10:00
- Sign-off - 02:11:33
14) Town #2 - RPG Maker VX Ace - PC - Unknown - St. John
- Music - 02:11:43
- Outtakes (general) - 02:14:36
- Outtakes (bonus 1 - We interrupt this program) - 02:25:38
- Outtakes (bonus - John’s crazy little sound experiment which got COMPLETELY out of hand!) - 02:26:21
Total Episode Runtime: 02:28:56
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).
PRODUCTION NOTE: Sword of Vermilion enemy death sound was reused in Shinobi III, and was much more accessible there, so that’s actually where my sound file for the episode came from!
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:
BGM for “John’s crazy little sound experiment”: “Momentary Visions - composed by Afro-Mystik (non-VGM) on OM Records 2004 release “OM Lounge 8”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrvSCfNFvfg
“NNR Reruns presents - ‘Chandlerfest!’” can be found here:
Link for Spotify users (best):
Link for non-Spotify users (open to all):
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 May 12 for C1E75: “FaceOff Friday - vol. 5” - featuring the first return to GarageBand in macOS in over three years, and so far as I can anticipate and predict, VERY likely the last time EVER! A resurrected Lost Level from 2020 made in the style of a 2019 episode, using the full complement of 2019-era hardware and software for the occasion. Delicious VGM on Noise from the Hearts of Nerds! And wherever you are….Fly the N!
Saturday Apr 01, 2023
Saturday Apr 01, 2023
Today’s broadcast is C1E74 for Soundtrack Saturday, April 1st, 2023. Today’s soundtrack is Yar's Revenge, on the Atari 2600 – composed by Howard Scott Warshaw
A1) Intro – 00:
01) Fly on the Wall (title screen) - 00:03:12
02) They Started It! (Intro story sequence 1) - 00:04:03
03) Lord of the Flies (Intro story sequence 2) - 00:05:05
04) Options Menu – 00:06:44
05) Strike Aggressively (stage 1) - 00:07:15
06) Watch my Flyswatter Hurt You (boss) - 00:08:00
07) Look out for my big hammer (stage 2) - 00:08:23
08) My Mistress don't take no kikimetane – 00:08:55
09) Agree to disagree – 00:09:13
10) Down with the Magistrate! - 00:09:15
11) That's Intergalactic Dancing! - 00:10:00
12) Shop Theme – 00:10:35
13) Mega Cannons - FIRE!! [aka, "Get Equipped with Item 2"] - 00:10:59
14) The Spinny Wheel of Doom – 00:11:40
15) The Satellite of Doom – 00:12:01
16) The big comfy couch...of Doom – 00:12:41
17) We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty – 00:13:13
18) 英語は話せません - 00:13:55
19) Intermission – 00:14:02
20) Time bonus – 00:14:03
21) The Mutara Nebula – 00:14:48
22) Hey! That's my sandwich, you creep! [ Japanese vocal vers] - 00:16:03
23) Decisive Battle – 00:16:28
24) Venus Fly Trap (Mars stage) - 00:16:58
25) Jilted Lovers – 00:17:20
26) Mt. Manure (Bonus Stage) – 00:17:40
27) The massacre at Candyland – 00:18:05
28) Bouncy Jazz [Death Metal Remix] – 00:18:12
29) Track 29 – 00:18:20
30) Abobo (final boss) - 00:18:57
31) Grandma – I guess she'll die (bad ending) - 00:19:22
32) Across the universe (good ending) - 00:19:82
33) Fly like a fly [Japanese vocal vers] (end credits) - 00:20:17
34) Fly in Amber (high scores) - 00:20:23
35) Unceremonious Death (game over) - 00:21:51
B1) Outro – 00:26:28
Music Block Runtime: 00:23:17 Total Episode Runtime: 00:32:07
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 LoZ: Twilight Princess on the GameCube and Wii, composed by Toru Minegishi and
Produced using Ardour 7.x / Audacity 3.x in Linux (either Ubuntu Studio, KDE Neon, Manjaro, Fedora, or SteamOS on any combination of the Gaming PC "Big Rig", the Steam Deck, or one of three Linux laptops). 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 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
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 Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio. And we are also now on Spotify, TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, and Vurbl. Amazon and Audible coming soon! Also, be on the lookout for a Discord channel!
Thanks for listening! Join us again later this month for C2E12 (subject TBD), and in May (date TBD) for C1E75 - "FaceOff Friday – vol. 5". And wherever you are....FLY THE N!!!
Cheers!
Sunday Mar 26, 2023
Sunday Mar 26, 2023
Today’s broadcast is C1E73 for Scene Sunday, March 26th 2023. Today’s episode is a focus on the original chiptunes and cover works of Chipist and VGMporium podcast host rayjkayj on a program we're calling "UNKAYJ THE RAYJ"!
Tracklist: Track# (total / "chapter") - Track Name – System (approximated) - Production Source – Compo / Event (or N/A) - Timestamp (all tracks were composed by rayjkayj except for covers where original composer will be listed)
A1) Earcatcher: 00:00:00
A2) Intro – 00:00:21
"Chapter 1": 2011 – 2018: All tracks made in VGM Music Maker (VGMMM), which emulate the YM2612 FM chip of the Sega Genesis and the SN7689 PSG chip of the Genesis and Master System. For the purposes of considering these "of a certain system", think of the PSG-only tracks as Master System and the rest as Genesis. None of these were made for any compos or events.
01 / 01) Chill Stroll – 00:03:48
02 / 02) Messman – 00:06:06
:
03 / 03) Messman (Stage Select) - 00:07:44
04 / 04) Elephant Land – 00:08:41
05 / 05) Schizo Mania Syndrome – 00:09:22
06 / 06) Title [cover – originally from Chronos - originally on ZX Spectrum – originally
composed by Tim Follin] - 00:10:18
07 / 07) Sprite Theme – 00:13:10
08 / 08) Swingin Bartime – 00:14:40
09 / 09) western warez – 00:15:47
10 / 10) Wave Master – 00:16:46
11 / 11) A Mini Game – 00:18:01
12 / 12) Operation! [cover – originally from Mega Man Battle Network – originally on GBA – originally composed by Akari Kaida] - 00:19:03
13 / 13) Tin Roof Rattle – 00:20:57
14 / 14) Shortune3 – 00:22:12
15 / 15) PSG Battery – 00:24:45
16 / 16) JaHamitUp – 00:25:30
17 / 17) On to Grasstown [cover – originally from Cave Story – originally on multiple platforms – originally composed by Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya] - 00:26:31
18 / 18) Enemy Battle [cover – originally from Golden Sun – originally on GBA – originally composed by Motoi Sakuraba] - 00:29:36
"Chapter 2": 2018 – Present
19 / 01) Snake Man [cover – originally from Mega Man 3 – originally on NES – originally composed by Yasuaki Fujita] - C64 – Deflemask – N/A - 00:32:20
20 / 02) Credit Roll – PC Engine – Deflemask - 21 Days of VGM April 2022 [Day 3] - 00:34:35
21 / 03) That One Crazy Mini Boss – Sega Arcade – Deflemask - 21 Days of VGM April 2020 [Day 5] - 00:36:27
22 / 04) Cedar Sanctuary (rainy day) - Wildchip - Sunvox - 21 days of VGM April 2020 [Day 6]- 00:38:01
23 / 05) Lounge de Capybara - Genesis - Deflmask - 21 Days of VGM April 2020 {DAY 11} - 00:40:25
24 / 06) Weird Workshop (upgrading gear) - SNES - Sunvox - 21 Days of VGM April 2020 {DAY?} - 00:42:53
25 / 07) Battle Theme (Iito Style) - SNES – Sunvox - 21 Days of VGM April 2020 [Day 17] - 00:44:11
26 / 08) Shmup (PSG) - Master System PSG – Deflemask - 21 Days of VGM April 2020 {DAY?} - 00:46:14
27 / 09) Shmup (FM) - Master System FM – Deflemask - 21 Days of VGM April 2020 {DAY?} – 00:48:11
28 / 10) Match End [cover – originally from Namachuke 68 originally on Sharp X68000 – originally composed by Yuji Takenouchi] - Master System FM – Sunvox – NA – 00:50:03
29 / 11) Beach Side Obstacle Course – SNES - Ableton Live - 21 Days of VGM Summer 2020 [Day 7] - 00:51:36
30 / 12) Overgrown Corporate Building – SNES – Ableton Live - 21 Days of VGM Summer 2020 [Day 10] - 00:53:14
31 / 13) Sky Buster Stage 1 – Genesis – Deflemask - 21 Days of VGM Summer 2020 [Day 11] - 00:56:05
32 / 14) Puzzle Shop in Cheeky Town – PC Engine – Deflmask - 21 Days of VGM Summer 2020 [Day 14] - 00:57:59
33 / 15) Hyperdude: Hella Dude Stage – NES - Deflmask – 21 Days of VGM Summer 2020 {DAY 6} - 01:00:50
34 / 16) Wily Tower 4 [cover – original from Mega Man: The Wily Wars – originally on Mega Drive – originally composed by Kinuyo Yamashita] - PC98 (using the Neo Geo module) - Deflemask – N/A - 01:02:51
35 / 17) Select Your Bowler – Genesis – Deflemask – N/A - 01:05:19
36 / 18) Cwunch Phase – Master System (PSG) - Deflmask – N/A - 01:06:21
37 / 19) Chord Breaks – PC Engine – Deflmask – N/A - 01:08:57
38 / 20) MS Shifter – Genesis – Deflmask – N/A - 01:11:04
39 / 21) Treasure Castle [cover – originally from Socket – originally on Genesis – originally composed by Fumito Tamayama, Yoko Suzuki, and/or Shigenori Masuko] - NES – Deflmask – N/A - 01:12:24
40 / 22) Guhlitch-A-b00ngi – PC98 (using Neo Geo Module) - Deflemask - Battle of the Bits: Glitch.98 Battle – 01:14:14
41 / 23) Blazing Hero Unleashed – Sega Arcade – Deflemask – 7 days of VGM Sept 2022: Giant Robots [Day 7] - 01:14:58
42 / 24) Renzoku Wa – Genesis – Deflmask – N/A - 01:16:30
43 / 25) Mega Trive Tun – Genesis – Deflmask - Aug4th Tri-Tone Tag – 01:20:45
44 / 26) Young Executive Forum [cover – NON-VGM – from music album "Fansub Last Words – originally by Ventla] - Genesis – Deflemask – N/A - 01:21:49
45 / 27) Jookbi – Master System (FM + PSG) - Deflemask – N/A - 01:22:56
B1) Outro – 01:25:40
B2) Outtakes – 01:40:28
Music Block Runtime: 01:21:59, Total Episode Runtime: 01:40:57
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.
And please check out rayjkayj's own podcast, VGMPorium on Spotify or wherever podcasts are sold!
Link for Spotify users:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4dmLZz58rXVtsnw7spiqBE?si=47361552fc244844
Link for non-Spotify users:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vgmporium-video-game-music-and-more/id1599013627
Produced using Ardour / Audacity in Linux (either KDE Neon, Garuda KDE Dr460nized, openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE, Elementary)S 7, Manjaro Xfce, Fedora 37, or SteamOS 3 on any combination of the Gaming PC "Big Rig", the Steam Deck, Living Room desktop, Mac Mini or one of three Linux laptops – Neon on Laptop or Garuda on Big Rig the most likely and most common). 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 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
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 Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio. And we are also now on Spotify, TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, and Vurbl. Amazon and Audible coming soon! Also, be on the lookout for a Discord channel!
Thanks for listening! Join us again April 1st for C1E74 (Channel 1, Episode 74): A very special soundtrack that no one ever seems to talk about, and again late April (or early May) for C2E12: House Music - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds", as well as Tasty VGM and Talk on "Nerd Noise Game Club"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Cheers!
Thursday Mar 02, 2023
Thursday Mar 02, 2023
Today’s Broadcast is C2E11 for Theme Thursday, March, 2nd, 2023 - the inaugural episode of Channel 2’s “Season 3!”. Today’s theme is music from space games and space biomes on a program we’re calling “It’s SPACE TIME!”
Tracklist
Track# - Track - Game - System - Composer(s) - Selected By
A1) Earcatcher - 00:00:00
01) Snow on the Moon - Fantavision (NA) - PS2 - Ashif Hakik - St. John
- Music - 00:00:06
- Intro - 00:05:11
- Top of Show Business / Banter (including “[yet another] new mic, who dis?”) - 00:05:53
- Discussion - 00:14:36
02) Moon’s Surface - Dig Dug Arrangement - Multiplatform - c: Yuriko Keino / a: Unknown - Hugues
- Music - 00:19:05
- Discussion - 00:21:15
03) Terran Theme 3 - Starcraft - PC - Glenn Stafford, Jason Hayes, Derek Duke, Big Tuna, and/or Tracy W. Bush - St. John
- Music - 00:26:58
- Discussion - 00:31:27
04) Track 4 - Alien 3 - Game Gear - Matt Furniss - Hugues
- Music - 00:37:57
- Discussion - 00:41:21
05) Track 3 - Colony Wars - PS1 - Tim Wright (aka CoLD SToRAGE) - St. John
- Music - 00:47:18
- Discussion - 00:51:07
06) The Moon - Duck Tales Remastered - Multiplatform - c: Hiroshige Tonomura / a: Jake Kaufman - Hugues
- Music - 00:56:22
- Discussion - 00:59:15
07) The Sun Station - The Outer Wilds - Multiplatform - Andrew Prahlow - St. John
- Music - 01:05:33
- Discussion - 01:08:18
08) Asteroid Core - The Dig - PC - Michael Z. Land - Hugues
- Music - 01:11:53
- Discussion - 01:14:11
09) Spatial Lullaby - Stellaris - Multiplatform - Gustav Landerholm - St. John
- Music - 01:20:13
- Discussion - 01:25:02
10) Eline’s Theme - JESUS: Kyoufu no Bio Monster - Famicom - Koichi Sugiyama - Hugues
- Music - 01:29:45
- Discussion - 01:31:28
11) Space BGM 5 - No Man’s Sky - Multiplatform - 65daysofstatic, Earcom, and/or Paul Weir - St. John
- Music - 01:36:49
- Discussion - 01:37:29
12) Outer Rings - Kirby’s Epic Yarn - Wii / 3DS - Tomoya Tomita - Hugues
- Music - 01:43:23
- Discussion - 01:45:17
13) Space - Yoshi’s Crafted World - Switch - Kazufumi Umeda - St. John
- Music - 01:49:56
- Discussion - 01:53:07
- A special shout-out to a fellow VGM caster and family - 01:55:22
- End of Show Business - pt 1 - 01:58:23
- DID YOU KNOW?: St. John is -TECHNICALLY- a VGM Composer - 02:01:43
- End of Show Business - pt 2 - 02:04:11
- Final Track Discussion - 02:07:29
- Sign-off - 02:09:29
14) Rounds 1, 9 - Space Invaders ‘91 - Mega Drive - Noriyuki Iwadare - Hugues
- Music - 02:09:34
B1) Outtakes - 02:12:04
B2) Bonus: the noise reduction “residue” from my first [aborted] attempt at finessing “The Dig” - 02:20:47
Total Episode Runtime: 02:24:54
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:
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 (date TBD) for C1E73: featuring a special guest podcaster from the VGM scene. Delicious non-VGM on Noise from the Hearts of Nerds. And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Monday Feb 13, 2023
Monday Feb 13, 2023
Today’s broadcast is C1E72 for Mishmash Monday, February 13th, 2023. Today’s episode will be Mishmash Monday – vol 13. Dedicated to my friend Harrison Frost, who celebrates his 44th birthday today, and with whom I only very recently reconnected after a nearly 20yr hiatus.
A1 – Intro – 00:00:00
01 - Wrecking Crew - NES - Stage Theme – Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka – 00:04:00
02 - 3D Pinball Space Cadet - PC - Table - Mat Ridgeway – 00:05:57
03 - The Simpsons – Arcade – Springfield Butte - Norio Hanzawa – 00:08:04
04 - Sonic 3D Blast – Saturn – Rusty Ruin Zone: Act 2 – Richard Jacques – 00:10:11
05 - Aoi Blink – PC Engine - Stage Theme 2 - Shinichi Sakamoto and/or Souichirou Harada – 00:13:32
06 - Pebble Beach Golf Links - 3DO - Main Menu - Yumi Kinoshita – 00:16:48
07 - Manhattan Requiem – LaserActive (LD-Rom2) - Blue Soul –
Daisuke Oda – 00:19:30
08 - Tetris – Arcade (Sega) - Tetremix A – Esco Boueki Sound Team - 00:22:21
09 - Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine – Genesis – Level 1-4 – Masanori Hikichi and/or Masayuki Nagao – 00:24:13
10 - N++ - multi - Ghost Coil – Avatism – 00:25:57
11 - Super Smash Bros. Brawl – Wii – Norfair – c: Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka / a: Yuzo Koshiro – 00:28:37
12 - Waverace: Blue Storm - GameCube - Arctic Bay (Sunny) - Lawrence Schwedler and/or James Phillipsen – 00:31:12
13 - Comix Zone - Genesis - Episode 1, Page 1-1 - Howard Drossin – 00:34:39
14 - Ultra Vortek - Atari Jaguar - Mockery – Dale Meier – 00:38:37
15 - Body Blows Galactic – Amiga – Menu – Allister Brimble – 00:41:31
16 - Mega Turrican - Genesis - Stage 3-1 – Chris Hülsbeck - 00:43:32
17 - The Ninja – Mastersystem – Grassy Field – Unknown – 00:45:22
18 - Tintin in Tibet – GameBoy Color - Swimming – Alberto Jose Gonzales – 00:47:11
19 - Cybernoid2 - C64 - Title - Jeroen Tel – 00:49:01
20 - LoZ: Link's Awakening – SWITCH – Boss Room Calm – Ryo Nagamatsu – 00:51:17
21 - Fantavision (US) - PS2 - Into Space – Ashif Hakik – 00:52:35
22 - Diver's Dream - PS1 – Air! - Takayuki Ishikawa and Shinya Watanabe – 00:57:33
23 - Burn: Cycle – CD-I – Kris VR – Simon Boswell – 00:59:31
24 - Final Fantasy XII - PS2 - Eruyt Village - Hiroshi Sakimoto – 01:03:52
25 - No Man's Sky – Multi – Pacify – 65daysofstatic, Earcom, and/or Paul Weir – 01:07:58
26 - Doshin the Giant - GameCube - Barthes Island - Tatsuhiko Asano – 01:12:09
27 - Light Plane - Pilot wings – SNES – Soya Oka and/or Kōji Kondō - 01:15:30
28 - Makai Hakken Den Shada – PC Engine – Title – Shogo Sakai, Masaaki Iwasaki, Takafumi Miura, Seiichi Hamada, Yuji Suzuki, and/or Yusuki Takahama – 01:17:20
29 - Mappy - Arcade - Main Theme - Nobuyuki Oonogi – 01:18:19
30 - Motocross Maniacs - Gameboy - Courses 3 / 7 - Michiru Yamane – 01:21:16
31 - Metroid Prime - GameCube - Phendrana Drifts Depths – Kenji Yamamoto – 01:23:10
B1 – Outro – 01:26:50
B2 – Outtakes – 01:38:54
Music Block Runtime: 01:23:00, Total Episode Runtime: 01:40:44
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.
Produced using Ardour 7.x / Audacity 3.x in Linux (either Ubuntu Studio, KDE Neon, Manjaro, Fedora, or SteamOS on any combination of the Gaming PC "Big Rig", the Steam Deck, or one of three Linux laptops). 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 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
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 Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio. And we are also now on Spotify, TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, and Vurbl. Amazon and Audible coming soon! Also, be on the lookout for a Discord channel!
Thanks for listening! Join us again Feb 23rd, 2023 for C2E11 (Channel 2, Episode 11): "It's Space Time", and again in March for C1E73 (Channel 1, Episode 73) - featuring a special guest – 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!
Thursday Jan 26, 2023
Thursday Jan 26, 2023
Today’s broadcast is C1E71 for Theme Thursday, January 26th, 2023. Today marks the precise 10yr anniversary of the launch of Nerd Noise Radio as a social media VGM aggregator service (podcast came along four years later), and to celebrate the occasion, today's episode features music we shared on social media and YouTube prior to the launch of the show, which had until now never appeared on the show – on a program we're calling "The Wonder Years"
Tracklist:
Track# / Game / System / Track / Composer(s) / Timestamp
A1) Season 6 Earcatcher – 00:00:00
A2) Intro – 00:00:03
01) Ninja Gaiden – NES – Intro - Keiji Yamagishi, Ryuichi Nitta, and/or Ichiro Nakagawa – 00:05:29
02) Alisia Dragoon – Genesis – Stage 1-1 - Mecano Associates – 00:05:48
03) Thunder Force IV – Space Walk - Toshiharu Yamanishi, Takeshi Yoshida, and/or Naosuke Arai – 00:08:15
04) TMNT: Turtles in Time – SNES – Technodrome: Let's Kick Shell – c: Mutsuhiko Izumi / a: Kazuhiko Uehara and/or Harumi Ueko – 00:11:09
05) Metal Slug – Neo Geo – Ridge 256 (Mission 4) - Takushi Hiyamuta – 00:12:57
06) Batman – TG16 – HES 5 - Nobuyuki Hara – 00:16:00
07) Super Street Fighter II – 3DO [/ FM Towns] – Ryu's Theme Street – c: Yoko Shimomura / a: Eurocom Sound Team – 00:18:40
08) Ristar - Genesis - Busy Flare – Tomoko Sasaki – 00:20:39
09) Bomberman 93 – TG16 – Intro – Jun Chikuma – 00:23:19
10) Rayman Origins – Multi – Jibberish Jungle: The Darktoon Chase - Christophe Héral, and/or Billy Martin – 00:24:32
11) Rockman and Forte – Super Famicom – Tengu Man – Kirikiri-chan, Naoshi Mizuta, and/or Akari Kaida – 00:27:19
12) Super Mario 3D World – Wii U / Switch – Double Cherry Pass - Mahito Yokota, Toru Minegishi, Koji Kondo, and/or Yasuaki Iwata – 00:29:00
13) Super Bonk – SNES – Blue Sky - Masaaki Nishizawa, Keiji Ueki, and/or Kennosuke Suemura – 00:31:15
14) Kirby's Dreamland 3 – SNES – Sand Canyon 1 – Jun Ishikawa – 00:33:08
15) Magical Chase - TG16 – It's Not Ice (Stage 4) - Hitoshi Sakimoto and/or Masaharu Iwata – 00:33:58
16) Bonk's Revenge – TG16 – Piranha River - Hirohiko Takayama – 00:38:44
17) Dick Tracy – Genesis – Car Chase – STI Sound Team – 00:40:48
18) ESWAT – Genesis – BGM 3 - Yō Takada, and/or Takayuki Nakamura – 00:42:40
19) Mortal Kombat – PC DOS (AdLib) - Palace Gates – c: Dan Forden / a: Allister Brimble and/or Dan Forden – 00:44:34
20) Space Harrier II – Genesis – Mind Quake – Tokuhiko Uwabo – 00:47:17
21) Snake's Revenge – NES – Forest Area - Tsutomu Ogura – 00:49:13
22) Soldier Blade – PC Engine – Operation 3 - Keita Hoshi and/or Makiko Tanifuji – 00:50:54
23) Target Earth – Genesis – Main Theme - Takayuki Suzuki – 00:53:10
24) Corvette – GameBoy Advance – Car Selection / Gallery – Shin'en Sound Team – 00:55:10
25) Gunstar Heroes – Genesis – Empire Spacecraft – Norio Hanzawa – 00:55:48
26) Skate or Die – NES – Skate Shop – Rob Hubbard and/or Kyle Granger – 00:58:12
27) Pat Riley Basketball - Genesis - Team Select – Hikoshi Hashimoto – 00:59:44
28) NCAA Basketball – SNES – Coach's Menu - H. Kingsley Thurber, Paul Webb, and/or Mark Ganus – 01:00:59
29) Maerchen Maze – PC Engine – Unknown Track 5 – c: Satoshi Kabayashi / a: Norihiko Togashi, and/or Kaeru Taniguchi – 01:02:42
30) Super Valis IV – SNES – Castle Vanity – Junta – 01:04:44
31) Jaki Crush – Super Famicom – Title - Masanobu Tsukamoto – 01:07:58
32) Galaxy Force II – Arcade – Defeat – Katsuhiro Hayashi and/or Koichi Namiki – 01:08:59
33) Akumajou Densetsu – Famicom (VRC6) - Rising – Konami Kukeiha Club – 01:11:44
34) Soul Star – Sega CD – Track 06 – Nathan McCree – 01:13:24
35) Sonic CD (NA) - Sega CD – Palmtree Panic Zone Bad Future – Spencer Nilssen, David Young, and Pastiche – 01:16:53
36) Moryou Senki Madara 2 - SFC - The Hunter's Repose – Konami Kukeiha Club – 01:19:47
37) Clue: Murder at Boddy Mansion – PC – Track 4 – Unknown – 01:22:04
38) Last Resort – Neo Geo AES/MVS - The Sunset Sky – Toshio Shimizu, and/or Yasuo Yamate – 01:25:50
39) Military Madness – TG16 – Ending – Jun Chikuma – 01:27:46
40) Super Street Fighter II HD Remix – PS3 - True Ending – c: Yoko Shimomura / a: Another Soundscape [OCRemix] - 01:30:08
B1) Outro – 01:31:49
B2) Outtakes – 01:47:11
Music Block Runtime: 01:26:22 Total Episode Runtime: 01:51:08
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.
Produced using Ardour 7.x / Audacity 3.x in Linux (either Ubuntu Studio, KDE Neon, Manjaro, Fedora, or SteamOS on any combination of the Gaming PC "Big Rig", the Steam Deck, or one of three Linux laptops) - and in the case of today's episode: in SteamOS 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!
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
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 Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio. And we are also now on Spotify, TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, and Vurbl. Amazon and Audible coming soon! Also, be on the lookout for a Discord channel!
Link to the promised collection of "anonymous 'Exhibit A' vs 'Exhibit B'" mic comparisons between the Podmic and the SM7B (or vice versa):
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vdokkXFmxnkpULRWYVp3YQyrcagr2-um?usp=share_link
Thanks for listening! Join us again February 13th for C1E72 (Channel 1, Episode 72): "Mishmash Monday – vol 13, and again February 23rd for C2E11 (Channel 2, Episode 11) for "It's Space Time!" - Tasty VGM and Talk on Nerd Noise Game Club (Ch 2) as well as Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" (Ch 1)! And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Cheers!
Wednesday Dec 28, 2022
Wednesday Dec 28, 2022
Today’s broadcast is C1E70B for Wayback Wednesday, December 28th, 2022. Today’s episode (our final release of 2022) will be "The Best of 2022 – pt. 2: Hugues' Picks"
01) Intro – 00:00:00
02) Space Harrier Theme – N/A (JP Main System BIOS) - Master System [FM + PSG] - Hiyoshi Miyauchi – C1E62 – St. John – 00:01:46
03) Stand Up Against Myself – Lightening Force – Genesis - Toshiaru Yamanishi, Takeish Yoshida, and/or Tomomi Ootani – C2E6 – St. John – 00:05:49
04) Kyoto Japan – Tekken – PS1 - c: Yoshie Takayanagi, Yoshie Arakawa, and/or Kazuhiro Nakamura / a: Shinji Hosoe – C1E62 – St. John – 00:07:32
05) Bonus Table 4 – Devil's Crush – TG16 – Toshiaki Sakoda – C2E6 – St. John – 00:10:06
06) Fight vers. 1 – Grandia II – Dreamcast / PS2 – Noriyuki Iwadare – C2E6 – Hugues Johnson – 00:12:13
07) Track 03 – Robo Aleste – Sega CD – Katsumi Tanaka and/or Satoshi Shimazaki – C2E10 – Hugues Johnson – 00:15:52
08) Like a Wind – Revenge of Shinobi – Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro – C2E6 – Hugues Johnson – 00:19:07
09) Ken's Theme – Street Figthter II – Arcade (CPS1) - Yoko Shimomura – C2E8 – Hugues Johnson – 00:21:07
10) Midnight's Stage – Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side – Sega CD – Tristan des Prés - C2E6 – Hugues Johnson – 00:23:13
11) Theme of Chester – Ys III – X68000 – Masaki Kawai – C2E6 – Hugues Johnson – 00:24:51
12) Chrono Trigger – N/A (Volume 2) [originally Chrono Trigger] - N/A [originally SNES] - c: Yasunori Mitsuda / a: The OneUps – C1E63 – St. John – 00:27:31
13) The Danger Zone – Wonder Boy – The Dragon's Trap – Multiplatform – c: Shinichi Sakamoto / a: Michael Geyre – C1E67 – St. John – 00:32:25
14) Clothes Make the Man – Shakedown Hawaii – Multiplatform – Matt Creamer – C2E7 – Hugues Johnson – 00:24:58
15) Heat Man – Mega Man 2 – NES – Takashi Tateishi – C1E64 – St. John – 00:36:34
16) Mt. Fuji – Pomping World – PC Engine - c: Tamayo Kawamoto / a: Yoko Shimomura, Yasuaki Fujita, Buau, and/or Gibusu-Papa – C1E67 – Electric Boogaloo – 00:38:23
17) Stage 1 – Chip Chan Kick – PCFX – Hitoshi sakimoto and/or Masaharu Iwata – C2E7 – St. John – 00:40:38
18) Tiese Shopping District – Gurumin – Multiplatform – Hayato Sonoda – C2E7 – Hugues Johnson – 00:43:44
19) Katamaritaino – N/A (Volume 1) [originally Katamari Damacy] - N/A [originally PS2] - c: Hideki Tobeta / a: The OneUps – C1E63 – St. John – 00:45:25
20) Stage Theme 1 – Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle – NES – Hiroyuki Masuno – C1E62 – St. John – 00:50:05
21) Roulette – Casino Kid – NES – Kenji Eno and/or Michiya Hirasawa – C2E9 – Hugues Johnson – 00:52:01
22) Sky High – Daytona USA – Saturn – Takenobu Mitsuyoshi and/or David Leytze – C1E67 – Electric Boogaloo – 00:54:14
23) Boss 3 – Legendary Axe – TG16 – Atsumi Chikuma and/or Toshiaki Takimoto – C1E68 – St. John – 00:58:49
24) Wacky Workbench (past) - Sonic CD – Sega CD – Minoru Kanari and/or Makoto Oshitani – C2E10 – St. John – 01:00:38
25) Sirena Beach – Super Mario Sunshine – GameCube / Switch - Kōji Kondō, and/or Shinobu Tanaka – C1E64 – St. John – 01:04:15
26) Naja – Cosmic Carnage –32X – Hikoshi Hashimoto – C1E68 – St. John – 01:06:23
27) Flight – Panzer Dragoon – Saturn – c: Yoshitaka Azuma / a: Tomoyuki Hayashi – C1E69 – 01:08:33
28) Country Select – Jaguar XJ220 – Sega CD – Martin Iveson – C2E8 – Hugues Johnson – 01:12:13
29) The Travel Agency – Final Fantasy X – PS2 – Masashi Hamauzu – C1E64 – St. John – 01:14:32
30) Dream Street – The Simpsons: Bart's Nightmare – SNES – Mark Ganus, H. Kinsley Thurber, and/or Dean Morrell – C1E67 – St. John – 01:17:25
31) Let's Go on an Adventure – Landstalker – Genesis – Motoaki Takenouchi – C1E69 – St. John – 01:19:18
32) Phantasy – Phantasy Star II – Genesis – Tokuhiko Uwabo – C1E62 – St. John – 01:20:53
33) Cobbleston, Nestled in the Hills – Octopath Traveler – Multiplatform – Yasunori Nishiki – C1E69 – St. John – 01:23:29
34) New Beginning pt. 1 – L.A. Noire – Multiplatform – Andrew and/or Simon Hale – C1E69 – St. John – 01:26:18
35) This is your Story – Final Fantasy X – PS2 – Masashi Hamauzu – C1E69 – St. John – 01:27:18
36) Sealed Temple – LoZ: Skyward Sword – Wii - Hajime Wakai, Shiho Fujii, Mahito Yakota, Taeshi Hama, and/or Kōji Kondō - C1E69 – St. John – 01:29:31
37) Bell~Air – 3D Museum – LaserActive – Haruomi Hosono – C1E61 – St. John – 01:32:10
38) Swamp – LoZ: Majora's Mask – N64 - Kōji Kondō and/or Toru Minegishi – C1E68 – St. John – 01:33:41
39) Ridley's Lair – Metroid –NES – Hirokazu ("Hip") Tanaka – C1E68 – St. John – 01:36:32
40) Cabin – Friday the 13th - NES – Hirohiko Takayama – C1E68 – St. John – 01:38:24
41) Crystal Valley – Zwei 2 – PC – Hayato Sonoda and/or Takahiro Unisuga – C2E8 – St. John – 01:39:53
42) Meribia – Lunar: The Silver Star – Sega CD – Noriyuki Iwadare – C2E10 – Hugues Johnson – 01:42:32
43) The Cursed Oasis – Sorcerian – PC88 – Yuzo Koshiro – C2E9 – Hugues Johnson – 01:43:46
44) The Oath – Final Fantasy VIII – PS1 – Nobuo Uematsu – C2E8 – Hugues Johnson – 01:46:07
45) Mii Channel – N/A (Volume 2) [originally Mii Channel] - N/A [originally Wii] - c: Kazumi Totaka / a: The OneUps – C1E63 – St. John – 01:49:21
46) Dune Variation – Dune – PC [AdLib] - Stephane Picq – C2E9 – St. John – 01:51:41
47) Message from Nightopia – NiGHTS into Dreams – Multiplatform – Naofumi Hataya – C2E7 – St. John – 01:54:38
48) Aquatic Ambience – Donkey Kong Country – SNES – David Wise and/or Evelyn Fisher – C1E62 – St. John – 01:57:20
49) Esto Gaza – Final Fantasy IX – PS1 – Nobuo Uematsu – C2E8 – St. John – 02:00:31
50) Globe at Night – Wii Forecast Channel – Wii – Kazumi Totaka – C1E69 – St. John – 02:04:08
51) Son Bionocle – 3D Museum – LaserActive – Miharu Koshi – C1E61 – St. Jon – 02:06:54
52) Outro – 02:08:11
Music Block Runtime: 02:06:34, Total Episode Runtime: 02:11:01
Our Intro and Outro music are both from Popful Mail on the Sega CD, composed by Mieko Ishikawa and/or Atsushi Shirakawa and arranged by Hirofumi Matsuoka. Our intro music is "Opening" and our outro music is "Ending" (aka "Somebody Loves You")
"Division of Labor"
Music Selection: Hugues
Track Order: Hugues
Music Block Production: St. John (according to Hugues' specifications)
Intro and Outro Production: Hugues
Final Episode Production: Hugues
Show Notes and Timestamps: St. John
Episode Upload: St. John
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:
https://huguesjohnson.com/
Also, his latest article on destroying a Windows 98 virtual machine with late 90's / early 2000's X-Mas sampler CDs (a really fun article) can be found here: https://huguesjohnson.com/random/xmas-vm/
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 January (Date TBD) for C1E71 (Channel 1, Episode 71): Title TBD [looking at life on NNR before the launch of the podcast]- Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Happy New Year, everyone!!! :-D
Sunday Dec 25, 2022
Sunday Dec 25, 2022
Happy Holidays, everybody!
As the tile suggests, I hadn't planned on doing this re-run. But when the realization dawned that the events which occurred in the story told in this broadcast (originally intended as the debut for Nerd Noise Radio - Channel F) occurred precisely 30yrs ago today - indeed, give or take 30 minutes, they were occurring 30yrs ago RIGHT NOW [as of the time I'm uploading this].
Apologies for the poor production quality, and especially the atrocious production quality in the tack-on at the end, which tells an even earlier Christmas story, and was actually the first ever audio production from Nerd Noise Radio, predating even C1E1. But I do hope that you will enjoy the stories told here, enjoy that the main one was happening right about now all those years ago, and enjoy witnessing the birth of what has serves as an occasional, but persistent fixture of the program!
Merry Christmas, and/or whatever other holidays you celebrate, and I hope today is filled with joy, peace, happiness, and goodies! And if you have the means to play one, get in a little Super Nintendo for my brother and I today! I sure know that I will!!
Cheers!
-St. John
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
Today’s broadcast is C1E70A for Wayback Wednesday, December 21st, 2022. Today’s episode is "The Best of 2022 – St. John's Picks" - a look back on John's favorite tracks of calendar 2022 on Nerd Noise Radio (includes tracks from Channel 1 and from Channel 2)
Track# - Track – Game – System – Composer(s) - Originally from – Originally selected by - Timestamp
01) Earcatcher – 00:00:00
02) Intro – 00:00:07
03) We Interrupt this program – 00:03:48
04) Intro (continued) - 00:04:38
05) Radix Malorum Est Cupidatas – N/A (VGMusic Discord: Sample Pack Contest XII) - N/A (Widlchip) - zenkusa – C1E66 – KungFuFurby – 00:20:40
06) Gambit – Spider-Man / X-Men: Arcade's Revenge – SNES – Tim and/or Geoff Follin – C2E8 – St. John – 00:26:54
07) BGM 4 (Stage 3-2) - Shadow Dancer – Genesis – Keiisuke Tsukahara – C1E69 – St. John – 00:30:53
08) Area C (aka "Darkness") – Puyo Puyo Tsuu – Arcade / Mega Drive - Tsuyoshi Matsushima, Einosuke Nagao, Nobuaki Yamasaki, and/or Tomoo Minami – C1E67 – St. John – 00:32:53
09) Track 7 – Keio Flying Squardon – Sega CD – Tsukasa Tawada – C2E10 – St. John – 00:34:54
10) Flight – Panzer Dragoon – Saturn – c: Yoshitaka Azuma / a: Tomoyuki Hayashi – C1E69 – St. John – 00:39:17
11) Tunnel – X – Gameboy – Hirokazu ("Hip") Tanaka and/or Kazumi Totaka – C1E67 – St. John – 00:42:59
12) Shop – Phantasy Star – Master System (PSG) - Tokuhiko Uwabo – C1E67 – St. John – 00:44:20
13) Jus' Dance (Sole Channel Mix) - Gran Turismo Sport – PS4 – Mr. V – C1E69 – St. John – 00:45:11
14) Confined Spaces – n++ - Multiplatform – ASC – C1E64 – St. John – 00:52:46
15) noidea.xm - N/A (Battle of the Bits: Super Pseudo-SNES Compo) - N/A (Wildchip – S3XMODIT) - Chip Champion – C1E66 – KungFuFurby – 01:00:46
16) Unknown Track 22 – Team Innocent – PCFX (HuC) - Kenji Kawai – C1E69 – St. John – 01:02:43
17) Battle – LaPlace no Ma – PC Engine – Unknown – C1E68 – St. John – 01:04:29
18) Sirena Beach – Super Mario Sunshine – GameCube / Switch - Kōji Kondō, and/or Shinobu Tanaka – C1E64 – St. John – 01:06:36
19) Nocturne – 3D Museum – LaserActive – Goh Hotoda – C1E61 – St. John – 01:08:45
20) Fantasy – Final Fantasy X – PS2 – Junya Nakano – C1E64 – St. John – 01:10:54
21) Benevolent Deeds – Reigns – iOS / Android – MAGO – C1E64 – St. John – 01:14:18
22) Goddess of Love – Immortals: Fenyx Rising – Multiplatform – Gareth Coker – C1E62 – St. John – 01:16:45
23) Dry Desert Sky – Two Dots – iOS / Android – Upright T-Rex – C2E9 – St. John – 01:20:17
24) New Beginning pt. 1 – L.A. Noire – Multiplatform – Andrew and/or Simon Hale – C1E69 – St. John – 01:22:18
25) Twilight – LoZ: Twilight Princess – GameCube / Wii – Toru Minegishi and/or Asuko Ohta – C1E68 – St. John – 01:23:17
26) Freak you Out – Vay – Sega CD – Shigeki Sako – C1E68 – St. John – 01:26:24
27) Inside Deep Darkness – Lagrange Point – Famicom (VRC7) - Akio Dobashi, Noriyuki Takahashi, Katsuhiro Suzuki, and/or Atsushi Fujio – C1E68 – St. John – 01:28:22
28) Cabin – Friday the 13th - NES – Hirohiko Takayama – C1E68 – St. John – 01:30:34
29) Password Screen – Castlevania Bloodlines –Genesis – Michiru Yamane – C1E68 – St. John – 01:32:03
30) The Icon of Sin – DOOM Eternal – Multiplatform – Mick Gordon – C1E64 – St. John – 01:33:56
31) Challenge – Final Fantasy X – PS3 – Masashi Hamausu – C1E68 – St. John – 01:39:15
32) Metroid Prime Battle – Metroid Prime – GameCube – Kenji Yamamoto and/or Kouichi Kyuma – C1E68 – St. John – 01:41:57
33) Kao Kao Kao (Face Face Face) - Midnight Resistance – Gensis - Azusa Hara, Hiroaki Yoshida, Fuse, Tatsuya Kinichi, and/or Hitomi Komatsu – C1E67 – St. John – 01:44:36
34) Hurry! - Final Fantasy X – PS2 – Masashi Hamauzu – C1E68 – St. John – 01:47:23
35) Boss 3 – Legendary Axe – TG16 – Atsumi Chikuma and/or Toshiaki Takimoto – C1E68 – St. John – 01:49:53
36) Ghost Valley – N/A (Super Mario Kart [album] - originally Super Mario Kart [game] - N/A [originally SNES] - c: Soya Oka / a: The OneUps – C1E63 – St. John – 01:51:36
37) This is Your Story – Final Fantasy X – PS2 – Masashi Hamauzu – C1E69 – St. John – 01:54:45
38) The Lunarians – Final Fantasy IV (FFII US) - SNES – Nobuo Uematsu – C1E62 – St. John – 01:56:58
39) Sealed Temple – LoZ: Skyward Sword – Wii / Switch - Hajime Wakai, Shiho Fujii, Mahito Yakota, Taeshi Hama, and/or Kōji Kondō - C1E69 – St. John – 01:59:02
40) Building Mode 5 – The Sims – PC – Jerry Martin and/or Marc Russo – C1E62 – St. John – 02:01:44
41) The Thunder Plains – Final Fantasy X – PS2 – Nobuo Uematsu – C1E62 – St. John – 02:08:04
42) Moth and Cortisone – 3D Museum – LaserActive – Yasuaki Shimizu – C1E61 – St. John – 02:11:41
43) OST 08 – Magic the Gatherirng: Shandalar – PC – Roland J.Rizzo -C1E64 – St. John – 02:15:53
44) Cobbleston, Nestled in the Hills – Octopath Traveller – Multiplaform – Yasunori Nishiki – C1E69 – St. John – 02:17:36
45) The Travel Agency – Final Fantasy X – PS2 – Masashi Hamauzu – C1E64 – St. John – 02:20:36
46) USA Race 2 – Trickstyle – Dreamcast / PC – Richard Beddow – C1E64 – St. John – 02:23:29
47) World A – Art of Balance – Multiplatform - Martin Schjøler - C1E64 – St. John – 02:26:44
48) La sons et Perfume (Pacific Mix) - 3D Museum – LaserActive – Goh Hotoda – C1E61 –St. John – 02:29:08
49) Message from Nightopia – NiGHTS into Dreams – Multiplatform – Naofumi Hataya – C2E7 – St. John – 02:30:46
50) Island of Memory – Doshin the Giant – GameCube – Tatsuhiko Asano – C1E69 – St. John – 02:33:26
51) Shadow Man – N/A (Volume 2) [Originally Mega Man 3] - N/A [originally NES] - c: Yasuaki Fujita / a: The OneUps – C1E63 – St. John – 02:37:28
52) The Flatfields – Quizzes and Dragons – Arcade – Isao Abe – C1E69 – St. John – 02:43:10
53) Title Theme – Art of Balance – Multiplatform - Martin Schjøler - C1E64 – St. John – 02:44:51
54) Surrender – n++ - Multiplatform – Sam KDC – C1E64 – St. John – 02:46:50
55) Outro – 02:52:51
Music Block Runtime: 02:32:18, Total Episode Runtime: 03:12:01
Our Intro Music is "Record of Samus" (aka "Results Theme") from Metroid Prime on the GameCube and Wii, composed by Kenji Yamamoto. Our Outro Music is "Results Parade" from the Check Mii Out Channel on the Wii, composed by Kazumi Totaka.
You can find Phoxmonkey on Twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/phoxmonkey
You can find Secure Point Solutions here:
Website: https://www.secureps.net/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SecurePointIA
And here is the YouTube video that James Bierly of Secure Point had wished me to share: Secure Point Solutions Presentation at the InnoVenture Iowa and Bunker Labs event.
Link to the full list of every track featured on Nerd Noise Radio in calendar 2022 in case you wanted to submit tracks for a potential future "Best of 2022 – Listener Picks" - REMEMBER: to unlock Listener Picks, we need a minimum of 20 unique tracks form a minimum of 5 unique contributors:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uZn4WX9uhY7xXbDzRJxovxVZXyQxZGvOwpuChi-JxcM/edit?usp=sharing
I have mentioned repeatedly how Channel 1 is inspired by NPR's Hearts of Space, so I figured that I'd finally share a link to their website so you can hear the template and inspiration for yourself: https://v4.hos.com/home
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Thanks for listening! Join us again one week from today (12/28/2022) for C1E70B: "The Best of 2022 – Hugues' Picks". Delicious VGM on Noise from the Hearts of Nerds....and wherever you are....Fly the N!!!
Cheers!