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Saturday Nov 19, 2022
Saturday Nov 19, 2022
It’s almost time again for our end-of-year “Best of Season 2” (C2R2), on Channel 2, where Hugues and I will pick a combined 22 tracks from the 72 total which we featured across all of Season 2 in calendar 2022. Like last year, we’ll each pick 2 tracks per episode (one per episode per host from each of the two hosts), as well as each picking one wildcard track to serve as our episode opener and closer tracks.
To build a little excitement for that episode, as well as to give you a handy refresher of everything we did this year, we have put together a music-only recap of the entire season’s output (links will be included to each of the “full episodes” with Hugues and I’s dialog included).
Of the 72, we already know which 22 we’re going to feature as “Best of”s, but as there’ll be no spoilers on it, you’ll have to just guess and wait and see and hope your personal favorites make our cut! ;-)
You can also email us at nerd.noise.radio@gmail.com, or reach out to us on social media telling us what your top 11 would be (one track per host per episode, plus one wildcard), and if we get some submissions before recording time, we can mention them in the episode (or if we get enough of them, perhaps we can even make an Archive SUPER BONUS release out of them).
Cheers!
-St. John
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Tracklist (by episode):
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C2E6: “Fast Music for Slow Times” (A hard / heavy / heavy-adjacent music-themed episode).
Original [FULL] Episode Release Date: 02/03/2022 (St. John’s 42nd Birthday!)
Link to original [full] episode (Spotify Users ONLY):
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1HXUb8F2hFbIa4IFz0Ngt9?si=615eb104eaf64352
Link to original [full] episode (Non-Spotify Users - works for everybody):
Link to Music-Only SUPER BONUS (Archive):
https://archive.org/details/c-2-e-6-music-only
Theme Decision: Collaborative (Hugues with final vote).
Episode title chosen by: St. John
Episode Music Block Runtime: 00:42:55
Episode Music Block Timestamps: 00:00:00 - 00:42:55
Special Notes: The final episode BEFORE St. John’s mic/equipment/production techniques upgrade.
Track# (total) / Track# (episode) / Track / Game / System / Composers / Selected By / Timestamp:
01 / 01) Like a Wind - Revenge of Shinobi - Genesis - Yuzu Koshiro - Hugues - 00:00:00
02 / 02) Swing Time - Spider-Man vs the Kingpin - Sega CD - Mr. Big and/or Spencer Nilsen - St. John - 00:02:03
03 / 03) Wildon - Lords of Thunder - Sega CD - c: Satoshi Miyashita / a: Unknown - Hugues - 00:06:08
04 / 04) Quad Machine - Quake II - PC / PS1 - Sonic Mayhem - St. John - 00:10:35
05 / 05) Conflict - Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII - Takeharu Ishimoto - Hugues - 00:14:08
06 / 06) The Super Gore Nest - DOOM Eternal - Multiplatform - Mick Gordon - St. John - 00:16:26
07 / 07) Midnight’s Stage - Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side - Sega CD - Tristan des Prés - Hugues - 00:25:19
08 / 08) Title - Spider-Man / X-Men: Arcade’s Revenge - SNES - Tim and/or Geoff Follin - St. John - 00:27:01
09 / 09) The Cage - Shadowrun - SNES - Marshall Parker - Hugues - 00:27:59
10 / 10) Bonus Table 4 - Devil’s Crush - TG16 - Toshiaki Sakoda - St. John - 00:30:08
11 / 11) Theme of Chester - Ys III - X68000 - Masaaki Kawai - Hugues - 00:32:19
12 / 12) Run Through the Speed Highway - Sonic Adventure - Dreamcast - St. John - 00:35:02
13 / 13) Fight ver. 1 - Grandia II - Dreamcast / PS2 - Noriyuki Iwadare - Hugues - 00:37:00
14 / 14) Stand Up Against Myself - Lightening Force - Genesis - Composer: Toshiharu Yamanishi, Takeishi Yoshida, and/or Tomomi Ootani - St. John - 00:40:45
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C2E7: “All Night Super Kawaii Dance Party” (A cutesy, dancy, joyous music-themed episode).
Original [FULL] Episode Release Date: 04/28/2022
Link to original [full] episode (Spotify Users ONLY):
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3m7eT455ixzkYBgCDWfFiL?si=d1f368f3bc98404d
Link to original [full] episode (Non-Spotify Users - works for everybody):
Link to Music-Only SUPER BONUS (Archive):
https://archive.org/details/c-2-e-7-music-only
Theme Decision: St. John.
Episode title chosen by: Hugues
Episode Music Block Runtime: 00:38:33
Episode Music Block Timestamps: 00:42:55 - 01:21:27
Special Notes: The first episode AFTER St. John’s mic/equipment/production techniques upgrade. Also, the first Ch 2 episode that Hugues named.
Track# (total) / Track# (episode) / Track / Game / System / Composers / Selected By / Timestamp:
15 / 01) Lovely City - Lovely Planet - Multiplatform - Calem Bowen - St. John - 00:42:55
16 / 02) Kimi wa HoeHoe Musume (Ending / Staff Roll) - Idol Hakkenden - Famicom - Kiyohiro Sada, Tomoo Misato - Hugues - 00:45:28
17 / 03) Evil Dante - Cratermaze - TG16 - Toshiaki Takimoto, Katsunori Takahashi, Takayuki Iwabuchi, Keita Hoshi - St. John - 00:48:34
18 / 04) Tiese Shopping District Theme - Gurumin - Multiplatform - Falcom Sound Team JDK (prob. Hayato Sonoda) - Hugues - 00:50:14
19 / 05) Stage 1-2 - Jumping Flash 2 - PS1 - Takeo Miratsu - St. John - 00:51:55
20 / 06) After School - Persona 3 Portable - PSP - Shoji Meguro - Hugues - 00:53:33
21 / 07) Nice Day - Spindizzy II - X68000 - Toshiya Yamanaka and/or Tetsuya Nakano - St. John - 00:55:41
22 / 08) Dreams of Love and Literature - Doki Doki Literature Club - Multiplatform - Dan Salvato - Hugues - 00:59:09
23 / 09) Crystal Breeze Springs - Lovely Planet Remix - PC - Satsuma Audio - St. John - 01:03:09
24 / 10) Electoria - Sonic Crackers (unreleased) - Genesis - Junko Shiratsu, Masato Nakamura - Hugues - 01:07:22
25 / 11) Stage 1 - Chip Chan Kick - PCFX - Hitoshi Sakimoto and/or Masaharu Iwata - St. John - 01:10:03
— Brief pause between tracks so weird opening note in next track can be appreciated —
26 / 12) Clothes Make The Man - Shakedown Hawaii - Multiplatform - Hugues - 01:14:31
27 / 13) Message from Nightopia - Nights into Dreams - Multiplatform - Naofumi Hataya - St. John - 01:16:11
28 / 14) Track 9 (ending probably) - Graduation II - PC Engine - Isao Mizoguchi (likely) - Hugues - 01:18:56
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C2E8: “Our Four Favorites” (A non-binding survey of each of our four favorite composers).
Original [FULL] Episode Release Date: 06/30/2022
Link to original [full] episode (Spotify Users ONLY):
https://open.spotify.com/episode/11dEaC6IMIrVuoYpats4nH?si=e29ca375dd2243ec
Link to original [full] episode (Non-Spotify Users - works for everybody):
Link to Music-Only SUPER BONUS (Archive):
https://archive.org/details/c-2-e-8-music-only-candidate-1
Theme Decision: Collaborative (Hugues with final vote).
Episode title chosen by: Hugues
Episode Music Block Runtime: 00:46:53
Episode Music Block Timestamps: 01:21:29 - 02:08:20
Special Notes: Nerd Noise Radio’s contribution to the greater “Masters of VGM” VGM community group project [www.mastersofvgm.com]. Also, this track has two more tracks than a typical episode of Ch 2 (16 instead of 14). Lastly, ever so slightly non-standard format (instead of H / J / H / J / H / J etc, it’s H / J / J / H / H / J / J / H / H etc - which will make more sense when you see the tracklist), and because of the weird formatting, Hugues also had the rare opportunity to get BOTH the opening AND the closing track!
Track# (total) / Track# (episode) / Track / Game / System / Composers / Selected By / Timestamp (brief pauses between all composer blocks):
Hugues’ Composer #4: Yoko Shimomura!
29 / 01) Hugues’s Yoko Track: Ken - Street Fighter II - Arcade - 01:21:29
30 / 02) John’s Yoko Track: Kairi 1 - Kingdom Hearts - PS2 - 01:23:36
St John’s Composer #4: Martin Iveson!
31 / 03) John’s Martin Track: Shop Theme - Jaguar XJ220 - Sega CD - 01:25:55
32 / 04) Hugues’ Martin Track: Country Select - Jaguar XJ220 - Sega CD - 01:28:50
Hugues’ Composer #3: Yuzo Koshiro!
33 / 05) Hugues’ Yuzo Track: Daiba Freezing Town - 7th Dragon 2020 - PSP - 01:31:26
34 / 06) John’s Yuzo Track: Undiscovered Realm - Actraiser Renaissance - Multi - 01:34:48
John’s Composer #3: Spencer Nilsen!
35 / 07) John’s Spencer Track: Cathedral and Sewers - Batman Returns - Sega CD - 01:37:15
36 / 08) Hugues’ [maybe]* Spencer Track: The Vents - Ecco the Dolphin - Genesis - 01:40:20
*= Instead of Spencer (or at least, in addition to Spencer), it is possible that this track is an Andras Magyari and/or Brian Coburn composition.
Hugues’ Composer #2: Nobuo Uematsu!
37 / 09) Hugues’ Nobuo Track: The Oath - Final Fantasy VIII - PS1 - 01:42:33
38 / 10) John’s Nobuo Track: Esto Gaza - Final Fantasy IX - PS1 - 01:45:51
John’s Composer #2: Matt Furniss!
39 / 11) John’s Matt Track: The Red Woods - Puggsy - Genesis - 01:49:40
40 / 12) Hugues’ Matt Track: Title - Sega Chess - Mastersystem - 01:52:41
Hugues’ Composer [TEAM] #1: Hayato Sonoda and/or Takahiro Unisuga [Falcom Sound Team JDK]!
41 / 13) Hugues’ Falcom Track: Blue Destination - Trails of Cold Steel II - Vita/PS3/PS4/PC - 01:53:38
42 / 14) John’s Falcom Track: Crystal Valley - Zwei II - PC - 01:58:02
John’s Composer [TEAM] #1: The Super Follin Bros. (Tim and/or Geoff Follin)!
43 / 15) John’s Follin Track: Gambit - Spider-Man / X-Men: Arcade’s Revenge - SNES - 02:00:49
44 / 16) Hugues’ Follin Track: Parking Garage - Target Renegade - NES - 02:04:52
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C2E9: “Just Deserts” (Desert Biome Music to while away the dog days of summer).
Original [FULL] Episode Release Date: 08/25/2022
Link to original [full] episode (Spotify Users ONLY):
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0yfkhlsOxd7XXTmfqO3PpM?si=e3c567d1f35640b7
Link to original [full] episode (Non-Spotify Users - works for everybody):
Link to Music-Only SUPER BONUS (Archive):
https://archive.org/details/super-bonus-c-2-e-9-music-only
Theme Decision: St. John
Episode title chosen by: St. John
Episode Music Block Runtime: 00:43:03
Episode Music Block Timestamps: 02:08:22 - 02:51:25
Special Notes: N/A
Track# (total) / Track# (episode) / Track / Game / System / Composers / Selected By / Timestamp:
45 / 01) Dry Desert Sky - Two Dots - iOS / Android - Upright T-Rex - St. John -02:08:22
46 / 02) Oasis Town - Atalier Iris: Eternal Mana 2 - PS2 - 81 Produce Inc (possibly Yuko Kaneko - Hugues - 02:10:24
47 / 03) An Endless Desert - Alto's Odyssey - iOS / Android - Todd Baker - St. John - 02:12:46
48 / 04) Atlantis of the Sands - Uncharted 3 - PS3 / PS4 / PC - Greg Edmonson, Azam Ali, JD Mayer, and/or Clint Bajakian - Hugues - 02:18:21
49 / 05) Dune Variation - Dune - PC (AdLib) - Stephane Picq - St. John - 02:20:49
50 / 06) Motavia - Phantasy Star - Master System - Tokuhiko Uwabo - Hugues - 02:23:49
51 / 07) Level 3 - Tetris - CD-i - Jim Andron - St. John - 02:25:41
52 / 08) The Cursed Oasis / Desert - Sorcerian - PC-88 - Yuzo Koshiro - Hugues - 02:30:05
53 / 09) Third Confluence - Journey - Multiplatform - Austin Wintory - St. John - 02:32:27
54 / 10) Gerudo Desert - LoZ: Twilight Princess - GameCube / Wii / WiiU - Tōru Minegishi, Asuka Hayazaki, and/or Kōji Kondō - Hugues - 02:33:59
55 / 11) Deserted: Lunar Discourse - Tetris Effect: Connected - Multiplatform - Hydelic - St. John - 02:37:04
56 / 12) Deadwood Ride - Cruis'n USA - N64 - Vince Pontarelli - Hugues - 02:42:39
57 / 13) The Burning Sands - Final Fantasy X - PS2 - Masashi Hamauzu - St. John - 02:45:32
58 / 14) Roulette - Casino Kid 2 - NES - Kenji Eno, and/or Michiya Hirasawa - Hugues - 02:49:06
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C2E10: “Sega CD 30” (An episode celebrating the Sega CD on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of its North American launch)).
Original [FULL] Episode Release Date: 10/20/2022
Link to original [full] episode (Spotify Users ONLY):
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5WaLXTxglHBdnRvcO64EMP?si=00e39ec155064e55
Link to original [full] episode (Non-Spotify Users - works for everybody):
Link to Music-Only SUPER BONUS (Archive):
https://archive.org/details/super-bonus-c-2-e-10-music-only
Theme Decision: Collaborative (Hugues with final vote)
Episode title chosen by: Collaborative (Hugues with final vote)
Episode Music Block Runtime: 00:46:54
Episode Music Block Timestamps: 02:51:25 - 03:38:17
Special Notes: The final production of the original [main] episode was produced entirely on the Steam Deck (a first for the show). The various bits and pieces that comprised the show were made here and there across four different devices. The Steam Deck WAS one of them, but not the main one. The music block for the music-only version included in today’s episode (as well as today’s full episode) were NOT produced on the Steam Deck. I am committed to doing at least one episode where every single bit and piece of the production is performed ENTIRELY on the Steam Deck. This episode was not that, but was a FANTASTIC first [giant] step towards it, and as such, still very important in these regards!
Track# (total) / Track# (episode) / Track / Game / System / Composers / Selected By / Timestamp:
59 / 01) Track 03 - Robo Aleste - Katsumi Tanaka, and/or Satoshi Shimazaki - Hugues - 02:51:25
60 / 02) West Side Andore Cage Battle - Final Fight CD - c: Harumi Fujita, Yasuaki Fujita, Manami Matsumae, Yoshihiro Sakaguchi, Yoko Shimomura, Hiromitsu Takaoka, and/or Junko Tamiya / a: T’s Music - St. John - 02:54:54
61 / 03) Track 08 - Spider-Man vs The Kingpin - Spencer Nilsen and/or David Young - Hugues - 02:58:03
62 / 04) Rolling Bad Guys - Lethal Enforcers - Kenichiro Fukui - St. John - 03:01:02
63/ 05) Ice Berg - Popful Mail - c: Mieko Ishikawa / a: Hirofumi Matsuoka - Hugues - 03:05:56
64 / 06) Wacky Workbench (past) - Sonic CD - Naofumi Hataya, and/or Masafumi Ogata - St. John - 03:08:25
65 / 07) Ending - Earnest Evans - Motoi Sakuraba, and/or Hiroki Itou - Hugues - 03:12:02
66 / 08) Track 7 - Keio Flying Squadron - Tsukasa Tawada - St. John - 03:16:19
67 / 09) Overworld Theme - Vay - Shigeki Sako - Hugues - 03:20:41
68 / 10) Ancient Temple - Wolfchild - Martin Iveson - St. John - 03:22:38
69 / 11) Meribia - Lunar: The Silver Star - Noriyuki Iwadare - Hugues - 03:27:29
70 / 12) The Undercaves - Ecco the Dolphin - Spencer Nilsen - St. John - 03:28:43
71 / 13) Melee Island - The Secret of Monkey Island - Michael Z. Land, Barney Jones, Andy Newell, Patric Mundy - Hugues - 03:34:01
72 / 14) Jamie's Theme - Snatcher - The Konami Kukeiha Club - St. John - 03:36:05
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Total Episode Runtime: 03:38:17
Wednesday Nov 16, 2022
Wednesday Nov 16, 2022
Today’s broadcast is C1E41 for Mishmash Monday, February 4th, 2019. Today’s Episode is Mishmash Monday, vol. 7 - the inaugural episode of 2019's "Season 3".
01 - Intro - 00:00:00
02 - Fantavision (US) - PS2 - intro - Soichi Terada - 00:02:08
03 - Sonic Mania - multi - Studiopolis Zone Act 2 - Tee Lopes - 00:02:40
04 - Ernest Evans - Genesis - Stage 2 - Motoi Sakuraba - 00: 05:09
05 - Sim City Classic - PC (SC-88) - Theme - Steve Hales / Will Wright - 00:07:50
06 - Traffic Rush - iOS/Android - In Game 1 - Donut Games - 00:09:56
07 - Super Thunderblade - Genesis - High Scores - Sochio Ogawa - 00:11:02
08 - Phase 10 - iOS/Android - In-Game Music - Kenneth R. Johnson - 00:12:33
09 - Waterworld - SNES - Map - Dean Evans - 00:14:04
10 - N++ - multi - Coco Myalore -Station - 00:15:56
11 - Fez - multi - Glitch - disasterpeace - 00:19:34
12 - Viewpoint - Neo Geo - Not All There - Shizura Okamura - 00:22:58
13 - McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure - Genesis - Magical Moon - Katsuhiko Suzuki and/or Satoshi Murata - 00:25:23
14 - Rocket Knight Adventures - Genesis - Traps - Konami Kukeiha Club - 00:27:56
15 - Bio-Hazard Battle - Genesis - Stages 2 & 6 - Shigehasu Isoda - 00:31:09
16 - The Legend of Heroes: Sora No Kiseki the 3rd - PC / PSP - Overdosing Heavenly Bliss - Hayato Sonoda, Takahiro Unisuga and/or Yukihiro Jindo - 00:33:33
17 - Mario Paint - SNES - Data Robot - Hirokazu (Hip Tanaka), Ryoji Yoshitomi and/or Kazumi Totaka - 00:35:41
18 - Electrocop - Atari Lynx - In-Game - Bob Vieira and/or Alex Rudis - 00:36:52
19 - The Adventures of Rad Gravity - NES - Title - David Warhol - 00:38:29
20 - Jurassic Park - Sega CD - Track 3 - David Javelosa, Barry Blum, Brian Coburn, Tom Miley, and/or Spencer Nilsen - 00:39:30
21 - Magic Sword - SNES - Impending Danger - Manami Matsumae - 00:41:47
22 - Out of This World - 3DO - Cold Cave - Andrew Dimitroff - 00:43:27
23 - Myth - Amiga - Title Theme - Don Howard - 00:44:58
24 - GT Sport - PS4 - Process Control -Yasuhisa Inoue - 00:48:20
25 - Super Mario Odyssey - SWITCH - Tostarena: Night - Mahito Yokota, Koji Kondo, Shiho Fuji, and/or Naoto Kubo - 00:51:47
26 - LoZ: Ocarina of Time - N64/3DS - Ice Cave - Koji Kondo - 00:55:09
27 - N++ - multi - Withdrawal - Skv18 - 00:56:25
28 - Link: The Faces of Evil - CD-I - World Map Theme - Tony Trippi - 01:04:18
29 - Lovely Planet - multi - Lovely Forest - Calum Bowen - 01:07:20
30 - We Love Katamari - PS2 - Heaven's Rain - Yuu Miyake, Hiroshi Okubo, Hideki Tobeta, Akitaka Tohyama, Yuri Misumi, Katsuro Tajima, Yoshihito Yano, and/or Masashi Sugiyama - 01:09:53
31 - Intellivision Lives - multi - My Intellivision - Michael Schwartz and/or Tom Kahelin - 01:16:58
32 - Outro - 01:21:29
Music Block Runtime: 01:19:24, Total Episode Runtime: 01:32:10
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 Quinn Partridge - aka "Pidge".
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Thanks for listening! Join us again in March for C1E42 (Channel 1, Episode 42): The Shinobi 3 Soundtrack - Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!
Cheers!
Monday Nov 07, 2022
Monday Nov 07, 2022
Today’s broadcast is C1E69 for Mishmash Monday, November 7th, 2022. Today’s Episode will be "Mishmash Monday - vol. 12, the long-lost "original C1E41", a 2018 Lost Level originally intended for 2019.
Track# / Track / Game / System / Composer(s) / Timestamp
01) Earcatcher - 00:00:00
02) Intro - 00:00:12
03) Flight - Panzer Dragoon - Saturn – c: Yoshitaka Azuma a: Tomoyuki Hayashi - 00:06:33
04) New Beginning pt. 1 - LA Noire - multi - Andrew Hale and Simon Hale - 00:10:15
05) This is Your Story - Final Fantasy X - PS2 – Masashi Hamauzu, Junya Nakano, and/or Nobuo Uematsu - 00:11:18
06) Track 06 - Colony Wars - PS1 – Tim Wright aka CoLD SToRAGE - 00:13:30
07) The Flatfields - Quizzes and Dragons - Arcade – Isao Abe - 00:14:03
08) Midnight Chaser / Breakthrough - Wolf Fang - Kuhga 2001 - Arcade - Hiroaki Yoshida / Akira Taemoto - 00:15:38
09) Let’s Go on an Adventure - Landstalker - Genesis – Motoaki Takenouchi - 00:18:57
10) Track 7 - Mutant Rampage: Bodyslam - CD-I – Tony Trippi - 00:20:18
11) BGM #57 - Quiz Daisousasen Pt 2 - Neo Geo - Yoshihiko Kitamura, Yasuo Yamate, Yoko Osaka, Hiroaki Shimizu, Toshikazu Tanaka - 00:22:10
12) BGM 4 (Stage 3-2) - Shadow Dancer - Genesis - Keisuke Tsukahara - 00:25:03
13) Rendezvous Theme - Golgo 13 - NES – Michiharu Hasuya - 00:27:05
14) Areas 41-50 - Slap Fight - Arcade - Masahiro Yuge - 00:28:12
15) Unknown Track 22 - Team Innocent - PCFX – Kenji Kawai - 00:29:16
16) Fonction - N++ - multi – Broca - 00:31:52
17) Jus’ Dance (Sole Channel Mix) - GT Sport - PS4 - Mr.V - 00:38:37
18) Just Hiss - WipEout HD - PS3 – Spector - 00:46:21
19) Rhythm Shift - Ridge Racer - Arcade / PS1 – Etsuo Ishii, Yuri Misumi, Keiichi Okabe, Shinji Hosoe, Ayoko Sasoh, Nobuyoshi Sano - 00:51:02
20) Fury - Rocket League - multi – Rogue - 00:53:00
21) Alien - Galactic Pinball - Virtual Boy – Kenji Yamamoto, Masaru Tajima and/or Minako Hamano - 00:56:58
22) Dungeon / Waterfall - Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest - SNES – Yasuhiro Kawakami and/or Ruiji Sasai - 00:59:50
23) Mysterious Ghost Ship - TMNT: Hyperstone Heist - Genesis – Masahiro Ikariko, Yuichi Takamine, Kaori Kinouchi, and/or Hideto Inoue - 01:02:06
24) Mystic Woods (Forest 2) - Grounseed - PC98 (OPN vers) - Daisuke Takahashi - 01:04:32
25) Meridian (Night) - Horizon Zero Dawn - PS4 - Joris de Man, The Flight, Niels van der Leest, and/or Jonathan Williams - 01:08:05
26) Title Theme - AD&D Slayer - 3DO – Billy Wolfe - 01:11:48
27) Cobbleston, Nestled in the Hills - Octopath Traveller - SWITCH! - Yasunori Nishiki - 01:12:58
28) Sealed Temple - LoZ: Skyward Sword - Wii – Hajime Wakai, Shiho Fujii, Mahito Yakota, Takeshi Hama, Koji Kondo - 01:15:58
29) Globe at Night - Wii Forecast Channel - Wii – Kazumi Totaka - 01:19:06
30) Island of Memory - Doshin the Giant - GameCube - Tatsuhiko Asano - 01:21:38
31) The Cliff that Time Forgot - Earthbound - SNES – Hirokazu Tanaka - 01:25:40
32) Oblivious Past - Alien Soldier - Mega Drive - Kazuo Hanzawa - 01:26:56
33) Outro - 01:32:11
34) Exit Earcatcher - 01:43:21
Music Block Runtime: 01:25:40 / Total Episode Runtime: 01:43:57
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.
Intro / Outro / Final Production produced using Ardour 6 / Audacity 3 in Ubuntu Studio [Linux] 22.04 09/08/2022. Music Block produced in GarageBand in macOS 10/19/2018.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The tools and techniques I used back in 2018 in producing the music block were NOT up to my current standards – including featuring less sophisticated fades, more imprecise volume level balancing, less developed track run-order sorting, and even my having used MP3s rather than WAVs in the source production, resulting in a lower-fidelity final product, and further limiting my ability to touch it up after the fact. As such, the production value of this episode will NOT be to par with our current "fresh episodes". But production values aside, the quality of the CONTENT itself, otherwise, I feel, is excellent, and well worth digging up to share with you.....I hope that you'll agree! :-)
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.
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Our episodes (and occasionally, other content, including expanded show notes) can be found on our blog here:
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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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Thursday Oct 27, 2022
Thursday Oct 27, 2022
Today's Broadcast is C1E68 for Theme Thursday, October 27th, 2022. Today's theme is a collection of spooky, dissonant, jarring music for the occasion of Halloween, on a program we're calling "They're Coming to Get You, Barbara" - a "Lost Level", originally intended for C1E37: Halloween 2018, then bumped to C1E48: Halloween 2019, before being bumped indefinitely, and lost to the sands of time....UNTIL NOW! Featuring a music block produced all the way back in July of 2018, making today's broadcast "THE KING OF LOST LEVELS"! And even though the "production quality" of a music block this old is far inferior to our current fresh productions, the "design philosophy" behind this block remains to this day the most sophisticated thing I've ever done. I'll let the intro tell the story!
Track# - Track - Game - System - Composer - Timestamp
01) Intro - 00:00:00
02) Freak you Out - Vay - Sega CD - Shigeki Sako - 00:04:59
03) Kadaver's Base - Skeleton Krew - Genesis - Nathan McCree - 00:06:56
04) Title - Mystix: World of Horror - Atari 8-bit - Falk Büttner - 00:09:36
05) Elm Street - Nightmare on Elm Street - NES - David Wise - 00:11:09
06) Inside Deep Darkness - Lagrange Point - Famicom (VRC7) - Akio Dobashi, Noriyuki Takahashi, Katsuhiro Suzuki, and/or Atsushi Fujio - 00:13:55
07) Twilight - LoZ: Twilight Princess - GameCube / Wii - Toru Minegishi and/or Asuka Ohta - 00:16:11
08) Section F Suspense - Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus - multi - Mick Gordon - 00:19:32
09) Dark Sanctuary Fortress - Metroid Prime 2 - Game Cube - Kenji Yamamoto - 00:21:41
10) Earth Elemental - Chakan: The Forever Man - Genesis - Mark Miller and/or Jason Scher - 00:23:49
11) Options - Bram Stoker's Dracula - Genesis - Matt Furniss - 00:27:01
12) Gravity Unusual - Strider - Genesis - Junko Tamiya - 00:28:07
13) Triangle - Thumper - PS4 / SWITCH - Brian Gibson - 00:28:54
14) Metroid Prime Battle - Metroid Prime - GameCube - Kenji Yamamoto and/or Kouichi Kyuma - 00:32:40
15) Gore Nest - DOOM (2016) - multi - Mick Gordon - 00:36:25
16) Boss 3 - Legendary Axe - TG16 - Atsumi Chikuma and/or Toshiaki Takimoto - 00:40:14
17) Ghost Valley - Super Mario Kart - SNES - Soyo Oka - 00:41:38
18) Mojo's Future Crush - X-Men - Genesis - Fletcher Beasley - 00:42:53
19) Bloodpuppets Battle - Splatterhouse 2 - Genesis - Eiko Kaneda - 00:45:53
20) Battle - LaPlace no Ma - PC Engine - Unknown - 00:47:46
21) Endless Pursuer - Snatcher - Sega CD -Konami Kukeiha Club - 00:49:20
22) Crisis - Final Fantasy X - PS2 - Masahashi Hamauzu, Junya Nakano and/or Nobuo Uematsu - 00:51:12
23) Shadow Beast - LoZ: Twilight Princess - GameCube / Wii - Toru Minegishi and/or Asuka Ohta - 00:54:58
24) Beelzebub - Ghouls and Ghosts - Genesis - Tamayo Kawamoto - 00:56:06
25) Naja - Cosmic Carnage - 32X - Hikoshi Hashimoto - 00:57:29
26) Inside a Leviathan Seed - Metroid Prime 3 - Kenji Yamamoto, Minako Hamano, and/or Masaru Tajiima - 00:59:33
27) Agahnim - LoZ: LttP - SNES - Koji Kondo - 01:03:15
28) Spook Mansion - Tiny Toon Adventures - SNES - Kazuhiko Uehara, and/or Yukie Morimoto - 01:04:17
29) Undead - Conker's Bad Fur Day - N64 - Robin Beanland - 01:05:51
30) Maze Music 3 - Kether - CD-I - Santiago J. Roux - 01:08:57
31) Dead Babies - Outlast 2 - multi - Samuel Laflamme - 01:11:19
32) Last Boss - Psychosis - TG16 - Atsuhiro Motoyama - 01:12:12
33) Shudder - Castlevania 64 - N64 - Masahiko Kimura, Motoaki Furukawa, and/or Mariko Egawa - 01:13:59
34) Hurry - Final Fantasy X - PS2 - Masahashi Hamauzu, Junya Nakano and/or Nobuo Uematsu - 01:15:06
35) Dracula's Theme - Super Castlevania IV - SNES - Masanori Adachi and/or Taro Kudo - 01:17:37
36) Satan - Actraiser - SNES - Yuzo Koshiro - 01:20:36
37) Mother Brain Theme - Super Metroid - SNES - Kenji Yamamoto and/or Minako Hamano - 01:22:13
38) Challenge - Final Fantasy X - PS2 - Masahashi Hamauzu, Junya Nakano and/or Nobuo Uematsu - 01:24:29
39) Swamp - LoZ: Majora's Mask - N64 / 3DS - Koji Kondo and/or Toru Minegishi - 01:27:18
40) Ridley's Lair - Metroid - NES - Hirokazu (Hip) Tanaka - 01:30:07
41) Castle Theme - Super Mario 3 - NES - Koji Kondo - 01:31:24
42) Cabin - Friday the 13th - NES - Hirohiko Takayma - 01:32:18
43) Nightmare - Akumajou Densetsu - Famicom (VRC6) - Konami Kukeiha Club - 01:33:54
44) Last Boss 2 - Dead Moon - TG16 - Mamoru Ishimoda and/or Youko Sonada - 01:35:27
45) Password Screen - Castlevania Bloodlines - Genesis - Michiru Yamane - 01:36:42
46) Long Title - Escape from Monster Manor - 3DO - Bob Viera - 01:37:38
47) Outro – 01:43:36
48) BONUS: Mock Disclaimer (C1E37 Callback) - 01:55:40
Music Block Runtime: 01:38:39 / Total Episode Runtime: 01:56:15
Our intro music is a modified version of Malo Mart, from LoZ: Twilight Princess, on the GameCube and Wii, slowed WAY down, and uploaded to YouTube by YouTuber “lovesims26”. Original version composed by Tōru Minegishi, Asuka Hayazaki, and/or Kōji Kondō. The howling wind effect was complement of YouTuber "AndreeaRR
". Our outro music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio, on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by B.B. Rights.
Intro / Outro / Final Production produced using Ardour 6 / Audacity 3 in Ubuntu Studio [Linux] 22.04 09/05/2022. Music Block produced in GarageBand in macOS 07/23/2018.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The tools and techniques I used back in 2018 in producing the music block were NOT up to my current standards – including featuring less sophisticated fades, more imprecise volume level balancing, less developed track run-order sorting, and even my having used MP3s rather than WAVs in the source production, resulting in a lower-fidelity final product, and further limiting my ability to touch it up after the fact. As such, the production value of this episode will NOT be to par with our current "fresh episodes". But production values aside, the quality of the CONTENT itself, otherwise, I feel, is excellent, and well worth digging up to share with you.....I hope that you'll agree! :-)
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Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Today’s Broadcast is C2E10 for Theme Thursday, October 20th, 2022. Today’s episode (our final “normal” episode of Season 2 [calendar 2022]) will be a focus on Sega CD music to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the system’s North American launch. Also, including an endearingly terrible improvised gag attempt at the very beginning! :-D
Track # / Track / Game [System, of course, will always be Sega CD, or at least Mega CD] / Composer (s) / Selected by
01) False Intro (Gag!) - 00:00:00
02) Track 03 - Robo Aleste - Katsumi Tanaka, and/or Satoshi Shimazaki - Hugues
- Music - 00:02:20
- Introduction - 00:06:06
- Top of Show Business pt 1 - 00:06:31
- Opening Track Discussion - 00:14:39
- Return of the Top of Show Business pt B - 00:18:50
02) West Side Andore Cage Battle - Final Fight CD - c: Harumi Fujita, Yasuaki Fujita, Manami Matsumae, Yoshihiro Sakaguchi, Yoko Shimomura, Hiromitsu Takaoka, and/or Junko Tamiya / a: T’s Music - St. John
- Music - 00:21:38
- Discussion - 00:24:53
03) Track 08 - Spider-Man vs The Kingpin - Spencer Nilsen and/or David Young - Hugues
- Music - 00:31:06
- Discussion - 00:34:22
04) Rolling Bad Guys - Lethal Enforcers - Kenichiro Fukui - St. John
- Music - 00:47:03
- Discussion - 00:52:07
05) Ice Berg - Popful Mail - c: Mieko Ishikawa / a: Hirofumi Matsuoka - Hugues
- Music - 01:01:01
- Discussion - 01:03:31
06) Wacky Workbench (past) - Sonic CD - Naofumi Hataya, and/or Masafumi Ogata - St. John
- Music - 01:06:57
- Discussion - 01:10:34
07) Ending - Earnest Evans - Motoi Sakuraba, and/or Hiroki Itou - Hugues
- Music - 01:17:24
- Discussion - 01:22:00
08) Track 7 - Keio Flying Squadron - Tsukasa Tawada - St. John
- Music - 01:26:42
- Discussion - 01:31:26
09) Overworld Theme - Vay - Shigeki Sako - Hugues
- Music - 01:39:43
- Discussion - 01:41:53
10) Ancient Temple - Wolfchild - Martin Iveson - St. John
- Music - 01:44:20
- Discussion - 01:19:35
11) Meribia - Lunar: The Silver Star - Noriyuki Iwadare - Hugues
- Music - 01:54:12
- Discussion - 01:56:44
12) The Undercaves - Ecco the Dolphin - Spencer Nilsen - St. John
- Music - 01:59:15
- Discussion - 02:01:56
13) Melee Island - The Secret of Monkey Island - Michael Z. Land, Barney Jones, Andy Newell, Patric Mundy - Hugues
- Music - 02:27:23
- Discussion - 02:09:36
- End of Show Business / Our Other Shows - 02:14:36
- Final Track Discussion - 02:22:11
- Sign-off - 02:25:46
14) Jamie's Theme - Snatcher - The Konami Kukeiha Club - St. John
- Music - 02:26:18
- Blooper Reel - 02:28:45
Total Episode Runtime: 02:37:22
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Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
Happy Halloween! Today’s broadcast is Episode 37 for Soundtrack Saturday, October 27th, 2018. Today’s soundtrack is the Super Castlevania IV soundtrack on the SNES, composed by Masanori Adachi and Taro Kudo.
Note: While producing the video, I noticed (and corrected) a few mistakes in the show notes that I did not notice when recording the audio for the outro. So the spoken track list in the outro will have those mistakes. Sorry. :-(
Track Number / Track Name / Time stamp
01: Intro - 00:00:00
02: Opening - 00:03:30
03: Prologue - 00:04:10
04: Password - 00:06:36
05: The Courtyard (stage 1-1) - 00:07:22
06: Simon's Theme (stage 1-2) - 00:07:49
07: Boss 1 - 00:10:56
08: Stage Clear - 00:12:27
09: Map A - 00:12:31
10: The Forest of Monsters (stage 2) - 00:12:48
11: The Cave (stage 3-1) - 00:16:08
12: The Waterfall (stage 3-2) - 00:18:05
13: The Submerged City (stage 3-3) - 00:20:53
14: Clockwork Mansion (stage 4-1) - 00:25:23
15: The Rotating Dungeon (stage 4-2) - 00:28:51
16: The Courtyard (stage 5-1) - 00:30:18
17: The Castle Door (Stage 5-2) - 00:32:45
18: Map B -00:33:36
19: The Entrance Hall (Stage 6-1) - 00:33:49
20: The Chandeliers (stage 6-2) - 00:35:20
21: Boss 2 - 00:38:00
22: The Library (stage 7) - 00:39:39
23: The Torture Chamber (stage 8) - 00:42:45
24: The Treasury Room (stage 9) - 00:46:52
25: Map C - 00:52:14
26: Bloody Tears (stage A) - 00:52:32
27: Map D - 00:54:31
28: Vampire Killer (Stage B-1) - 00:54:45
29: Beginning (Stage B-2) - 00:55:51
30: Room of Close Associates (Stage B-3) - 00:57:42
31: Dracula Battle - 01:00:21
32: Dracula's Death - 01:04:02
33: Ending - 01:04:33
34: Player Miss - 01:08:49
35: Game Over - 01:08:54
36: Secret Room - 01:09:02
37: Outro - 01:11:08
Music Block Runtime: 01:07:41, Total Episode Runtime: 01:17:24
Our Outro Music is Funky Radio - Jet Grind Radio - Dreamcast - BB Rights. Our Intro Music….is a surprise - a surprise that will be revealed in the outro. The haunted house image used is by DaakSM on DeviantArt
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Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
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
- a) SNES [March of the Black Queen] - 00:02:45
- b) GBA [Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis] - 00:03:44
- c) N64 [Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber] - 00:04:43
- d) PS1/PSP [Tactics Ogre: Let us Cling Together] - 00:05:45
03) Blaster Master - Area 1 - c: Naoki Kodaka
- a) NES - 00:07:02
- b) GBC [Blaster Master: Enemy Below] (a: Akira Suda) - 00:09:20
- c) Wii [Blaster Master Overdrive] (a: Unknown) - 00:11:40
- d) 3DS/SWITCH! [Blaster Master Zero] (a: Haruhisa "Hally" Tanaka and/or Ryo Kawakami) - 00:14:01
- e) PS1 [Blaster Master: Blasting Again] (a: Satoshi Asano) - 00:16:03
04) Lethal Enforcers - Thank You, And See You Again - Kenichiro Fukui
- a) Arcade - 00:18:10
- b) SNES (a: Harumi Ueko) - 00:19:07
- c) Genesis (a: Atsushi Fujio, and/or Osamu Kasai) - 00:20:01
- d) Sega CD (Tappi Iwase) - 00:20:56
05) Super Chase: Criminal Termination - Dandy Lady - Yasuhisa Watanabe
- a) Arcade - 00:24:26
- b) SNES [Super Chase HQ] - 00:28:01
06) Night Striker - Trance Parlent in Blue - Masahiko Takaki
- a) Arcade - 00:30:12
- b) Mega CD (a: Shuichiro Nakazawa) - 00:33:41
07) Final Fight - Metro City Subway - Junko Tamiya
- a) Arcade - 00:37:00
- b) SNES (a: Toshio Kajino) - 00:38:55
- c) Sega CD (a: T's Music) - 00:40:45
- d) GBA [Final Fight 1] (a: Toshio Kajino and/or Seiko Kobuchi) - 00:42:49
- 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
- a) Arcade - 00:47:05
- b) Saturn / PC - 00:51:50
09) Smash TV - Game Start: Circuit 1 - c: Jon Hey
- a) Arcade - 00:56:53
- b) NES (a: Marshall Parker) - 01:00:10
- c) Mastersystem (a: Matt Furniss) - 01:00:55
- d) SNES (a: Marshall Parker) - 01:02:21
- e) Genesis (a: Matt Furniss) - 01:05:02
- f) ZX Spectrum [Title Screen Music] (a: Tony Williams) - 01:07:24
- g) Amstrad CPC [Title Screen Music] (a: Tony Williams) - 01:09:50
10) Bonk's Revenge - Round 1 - Hirohiko Takayama
- a) TG16 - 01:12:04
- b) GameBoy [Bonk's Adventure] - 01:13:45
11) Fantasy Zone II: The Tears of Opa-Opa - Sacrand - c: Tokuhiko Uwabo
- a) Mastersystem PSG - 01:15:21
- b) Mastersystem FM - 01:17:11
- c) NES (a: Unknown) - 01:18:59
- d) Arcade [System 16] / PS2 / 3DS - "Opa Marimba" (a: Manabu Namiki) - 01:20:03
12) Galaxy Force II - Beyond the Galaxy - c: Koichi Namiki
- a) Arcade - 01:21:51
- b) Genesis (a: Yoshinori Sunahara) - 01:24:45
- c) Mastersystem FM (arranged by Keisuke Tsukahara) - 01:27:29
- d) Mastersystem PSG (arranged by Keisuke Tsukahara) - 01:30:18
- e) PS2 [Special Extended Edition] (a: Takenobu Mtsuyoshi) - 01:32:53
- f) FM Towns (a: Hiroshi Matsui) - 01:37:01
13) Tekken 3 - King -Nobuyoshi Sano
- a) Arcade - 01:40:50
- b) PS1 - 01:43:24
14) Outro - 01:46:45
Music Block Runtime: 01:44:07, Total Episode Runtime: 02:01:00
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Friday Sep 16, 2022
Friday Sep 16, 2022
Today’s broadcast is C1E67 for FaceOff Friday, September 16th, 2022. Today’s episode will be FaceOff Friday – vol. 4 – a 2019 Lost Level, originally intended for release in 2020!
01) Intro – 00:00:00
02) Simpsons: Bart's Nightmare - Dream Street
- a) SNES - composed or arranged by Mark Ganus and/or H. Kinsley Thurber – 00:04:47
- b) Genesis - composed or arranged by Dean Morrell – 00:06:40
03) Bomberman - Stage 2 theme - c: Jun Chikuma
- a) SNES (SuperBomberman) - a: Tomoyuki Hamada – 00:08:40
- b) TG16 - a: Keita Hoshi – 00:10:06
04) Booby Kids (Kid no Hore Hore Daisukusen) - Evil Dante - Hiroshi Funaba, and/or Kenji Yoshida
- a) Arcade - 00:11:29
- b) NES - 00:12:26
- c) TG16 [Cratermaze] - a: Jun Chikuma, Keita Hoshi, Masaru Takahashi, Takayuki Iwabuchi, and/or Toshiaki Takimoto – 00:13:29
05) Hit the Ice - Character Select – Hiroshige Tonomura
- a) Arcade – 00:14:36
- b) TG16 – 00:15:40
- c) SNES – 00:16:45
- d) Genesis – 00:17:49
- e) NES – 00:18:48
06) X - Tunnel - Hirokazu ("Hip") Tanaka and/or Kazumi Totaka
- a)GameBoy– 00:19:54
- b) Wii [Super Smash Bros Brawl] - a: YusukeTakahama– 00:21:12
07) Midnight Resistance - Kao Kao Kao (Face Face Face) - Azusa Hara, Hiroaki Yoshida, Fuse, Tatsuya Kiuchi, and/or Hitomi Komatsu
- a) Genesis – 00:24:10
- b) Arcade – 00:26:48
08) Bram Stoker’s Dracula - Misty Catacombs - c: Matt Furniss
- a) SNES (a: Andy Brock) – 00:29:37
- b) Genesis (Stage 4-3) – 00:31:40
09) Devil’s Crush - Main Table – Toshiaki Sakoda
- a) TG16 – 00:34:18
- b) Genesis [Dragon's Fury] - a: Toshiharu Yamanishi, Takeishi Yoshida, and/or Naosuke Arai – 00:37:36
10) Puyo Puyo Tsuu - Area C – Tsuyoshi Matsushima, Einosuke Nagao, Nobuaki Yamasaki, and/or Tomonori Minami
- a) Mega Drive/ Arcade – 00:41:02
- b) SuperFamicom[Super Puyo Puyo Tsuu] – 00:43:02
- c) Saturn – 00:45:03
- d) PS1 [PuyoPuyoTsuu Kettaiban] – 00:46:04
- e) PC Engine [PuyoPuyoCD 2 – 00:48:02
11) Mega Man 4 - Bright Man - Minae Fujii and/or Yasuaki Fujita
- a) NES – 00:50:00
- b) Game Gear [Mega Man] - a: US Gold – 00:51:42
12) Phantasy Star - Mastersystem - Shop - Tokuhiko Uwabo
- a) PSG – 00:53:30
- b) FM – 00:54:22
13) Wonderboy: The Dragon's Trap - The Danger Zone - Shinichi Sakamoto
- a)MastersystemFM – 00:55:18
- b)MastersystemPSG – 00:57:49
- c) Remastered – a: Michael Geyre – 01:00:10
14) Earthworm Jim 2 - Flyin’ King / Level Ate – Tommy Tallarico
- a) Genesis – 01:02:35
- b) SNES – 01:05:06
- c) Saturn / PS1 / PC – 01:07:57
15) Pomping World / Pang / Buster Bros. - Mt. Fuji - c: Tamayo Kawamoto (C1E46 OUTTAKE: Recommended by Electric Boogaloo) -
- a) Arcade – 01:10:18
- b) Amiga (a: Pierre-Eric Loriaux) – 01:11:37
- c) PCE (arranged by Yoko Shimomura, Yasuaki Fujita,Buau, and/orGibusu-Papa) – 01:12:54
- d) PS1 [Buster Bros. Collection] – 01:14:47
16) Chester Cheetah: Too Cool to Fool - To the Exit - Kaneko Sound Team (Dedicated to "Pieness64" - aka Dierdre Porter) ;-)
- a) SNES – 01:16:19
- b) Genesis – 01:18:37
17) Daytona USA - Sky High - Takenobu Mitsuyoshi and/or David Leytze (C1E46 OUTTAKE: Recommended by Electric Boogaloo) -
- a) Arcade – 01:21:29
- b) Saturn – 01:25:24
- c) Saturn [Championship Circuit Edition] (a: Tomonori Sawada) – 01:30:00
- d) Dreamcast [Daytona USA 2001] – 01:35:06
- e) Dreamcast (Mirror Version) [Daytona USA 2001] – 01:39:17
18) Outro – 01:43:22
19) Outtakes – 01:54:27
Music Block Runtime: 01:38:39, Total Episode Runtime: 01:55:33
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.
Intro / Outro / Final Production produced using Ardour 6 / Audacity 3 in Ubuntu Studio [Linux] 22.04 08/28/2022. Music Block produced in GarageBand in macOS 05/29/2019.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The tools and techniques I used back in 2019 in producing the music block were NOT up to my current standards – including featuring less sophisticated fades, more imprecise volume level balancing, less developed track run-order sorting, and even my having used MP3s rather than WAVs in the source production, resulting in a lower-fidelity final product, and further limiting my ability to touch it up after the fact. As such, the production value of this episode will NOT be to par with our current "fresh episodes". But production values aside, the quality of the CONTENT itself, otherwise, I feel, is excellent, and well worth digging up to share with you.....I hope that you'll agree! :-)
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Thanks for listening! Join us again in October (Date TBD) for C2E10, our final standard Ch 2 epiosde of Season 2 – a focus on Sega CD music, for the occasion of the system's 30th anniversary, and again October 27th, for C1E68 - "They're Coming to Get You, Barbara" - a collection of spooky, disonant, and eerie music for the occasion of Halloween. A 2018 Lost Level! Tasty VGM and Talk on Nerd Noise Game Club, as well as Delicious......well......at least, "Flavorful" VGM on Noise from the Hearts of Nerds....and wherever you are....Fly the N!!!
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Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
Wednesday Sep 07, 2022
Today’s broadcast is Episode 33 for Face Off Friday, August 10th, 2018. Today's program will be "Face Off Friday - vol. 2"
Play along with us! Let us know in the comments section, or on our social media sites, or by e-mail which versions of which tracks you like better - and why! Let's cuss it, and discuss it!
Track Number / Game Name / Track Name / Composers / Versions List / Timestamp
01: Intro - 00:00:00
02: Street Fighter II - Title Screen - Yoko Shimomura
- SNES - 00:02:05
- Arcade (CPS1) - 00:02:33
- PC Engine - 00:02:59
- Genesis - 00:03:25
03: Double Dragon 2 - Stage 2 - Kazunaka Yamane
- Arcade - 00:03:51
- Genesis - 00:06:06
04: Air Buster (aka Aero Blaster) - Seaside Front - Kunio Komatsu, and/or Tsutomu Okuma
- PC Engine - 00:08:34
- Genesis - 00:11:07
- Arcade - 00:13:37
05: Wolfchild - Map (Load Screen) - Martin Iveson
- SNES - 00:16:08
- Sega CD - 00:17:43
06: Vampire Killer (aka Castlevania) - Wicked Child - Kinuyo Yamashita and/or Satoe Terashima
- MSX - 00:19:43
- NES - 00:21:23
07: Cyborg Hunter - Areas A and D - Nav and Key
- Mastersystem PSG - 00:24:16
- Mastersystem FM - 00:26:56
08: Batman Forever - Arkham Asylum - Tim and/or Geoff Follin
- SNES - 00:29:44
- Genesis - 00:33:39
09: Shinobi - Stage Theme 3/4 - Yasuhiro Kawakami
- Arcade - 00:37:54
- PC Engine - 00:39:24
10: UN Squadron - Weapon Selection - Manami Matsumae
- SNES - 00:41:59
- Arcade - 00:42:26
11: Ballblazer - Theme of the Grid (PAL) - Peter Langston and “Riffology”
- C64 - 00:42:54
- Atari 8-bit - 00:47:45
12: Street Fighter (aka Fighting Street) - Bonus 2 - Yuukichans Papa
- Street Fighter - Arcade - 00:52:44
- Fighting Street - Turbografx16 CD - 00:54:15
13: Mega Bomberman (aka Bomberman '94) Slammin' Sea- Jun Chikuma
- Mega Bomberman - Genesis - 00:56:18
- Bomberman '94 - PC Engine - 00:58:56
14: Gain Ground - Europe in the Middle Ages - You Takada and/or Katsuhiro Hayashi
- Genesis - 01:02:00
- Arcade - 01:04:35
15: Altered Beast (aka Juouuki) - Game Over - Tohru Nakabayashi
- Amiga (Title Screen) - 01:07:06
- Arcade - 01:08:28
- Genesis - 01:09:06
- PC Engine - 01:10:23
16: Outro - 01:12:15
Music Block Runtime: 01:10:14, Total Episode Runtime: 01:19:41
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio - Jet Grind Radio - Dreamcast - BB Rights
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Monday Aug 29, 2022
Monday Aug 29, 2022
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.
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