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Saturday Apr 23, 2022
Saturday Apr 23, 2022
Today’s rerun is C1E8, originally released Scene Sunday, April 23rd, 2017 [aka 5yrs ago TODAY]. Today’s rerun was a focus on Chip Tunes from the "Battle of the Bits" Chip Tune community on a program we called "Battle of the Bits - vol. 1". Amended 02/06/22 to include an all call for tracks for our upcoming "Best of 2020 / 2021" feature. The track list below has been amended to include updated timestamps and track numbers that account for the addition of the 2022 add-on.
Note: I apologize for the poor audio quality on my voice in the 2022 earcactcher. I didn't have access to the studio and "the good mic" at the time, so I just did the best I could with my built-in laptop mic.
This Episode is dedicated to the memory of Chris Chandler.
Tracklist - Track#, Composer, Track Name, System (Chip(s)), BotB Event, Timestamp:
01) Best of 2020 / 2021 Earcatcher: 00:00:00
02) Intro – 00:01:34
03) FearOfDark - Pancake Department - NES - WinterChip 7 – 00:03:29
04) Strobe - Citizens of Luala - Turbografx16 - SummerChip 3 – 00:07:16
05) Diagamblic (DYA) - The Upside Down - PCE - SummerChip 6 – 00:10:17
06) TristEndo - Take One For Teh Team - Genesis - WinterChip 8 – 00:14:03
07) Baron Knoxbury - Smeakny - YM2149/AY - WinterChip 8 – 00:16:48
08) TQ-Jam - Amanats - 2A03+N106 - SummerChip 3 – 00:17:26
09) Warlord - Space Boogie - AmigaMOD - WinterChip VI – 00:19:59
10) FearOfDark The Day the Sun Exploded - SAPx2 - SumCh3 – 00:21:54
11) MootBooxle - A Change of Pace - OPL2+voc+drum - WinCh8 – 00:24:03
12) Kulor - The Sawblade Factory - SNES - SummerChip 7 – 00:28:46
13) Jredd (feat DYA) - Rise from the Ashes - Gen - SumCh7 – 00:31:23
14) Diagamblic (f Jredd) - Double Jump Moon Casino - Gen - SC7 – 00:34:03
15) Kfaraday - Diamondilium - SID - WinterChip 8 – 00:36:29
16) Chip Champion - Ice Fields - SMS - WinterChip 8 – 00:38:56
17) Baron Knoxburry - Azure Ascension - SNES - SummerChip3 – 00:41:20
18) Strobe - The Current System - Genesis - WinterChip8 – 00:43:27
19) FearOfDark - Fun With Laser Guns - FDS - WinterChip8 – 00:46:12
20) Outro – 00:49:43
Music Block Runtime: 00:46:20, Original Total Episode Runtime: 00:54:40, 2022 Amended Total Episode Runtime: 00:56:11
Link to to the eligible tracklist for our upcoming Listener-selected "Best of 2020 / 2021" Episode. Notes at the top of the file explain everything! :-)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NdwSzNDnoFoho7TzDHkA1Pkfe1O5WMgqEd4Bx2sSoG4/edit?usp=sharing
Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Today’s rerun is C1E28, originally released Scene Sunday, May 6th, 2018. Today’s Episode was a free play of elements found throughout the space just outside of video game music, covers, remixes, chiptunes, karaoke, and so much more, on a program we called "Sense of the Scene - vol. 1" Amended 02/06/22 to include an all call for tracks for our upcoming "Best of 2020 / 2021" feature. The track list below has been amended to include updated timestamps and track numbers that account for the addition of the 2022 add-on.
Note: I apologize for the poor audio quality on my voice in the 2022 earcactcher. I didn't have access to the studio and "the good mic" at the time, so I just did the best I could with my built-in laptop mic.
Tracklist - provided in various formats depending on "scene subgenre":
01) Best of 2020 / 2021 Earcatcher: 00:00:00
02) Intro - 00:01:34
03) ["Real Instruments" VGM Cover]: Stemage - Metroid Metal - The Tunnel (orig. comp: Ryoji Yoshitomi) - 00:03:57
04) [Original Chiptune]: Kulor - My First LSDJ - Gameboy - 00:08:05
05) [Non-VGM by VGM composer - Ryuichi Sakamoto]: Akiko Yano - Aisuru Hito Yo - Ai Ga Nakucha Ne (1982) - 00:10:13
06) [Original Chiptune]: Mr Sonic699 - Segadore Genesid 64 - Genesis - 00:14:39
07) [Chip Cover of Non-VGM music]: Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out - Gameboy (MicroD) - 00:16:44
08) ["Real Instruments" VGM Cover]: SST Band - Defeat - Galaxy Force 2- (orig. comp: Koichi Namiki) - 00:20:18
09) [Non-VGM by VGM Composer - Martin Iveson]: Soulstice - Colour (AtJazz Remix) - 00:24:45
10) [Original Chiptune]: Freezedream - Lullaby - 00:31:00
11) [Doujin Music]: Summer Style '96 (PC98) - FMP Music Disk Vol.4 - Ryu Umemoto - 00:33:11
12) ["System X" Chip Cover of "System Y" VGM]: Savaged Regime - Beach - Plok (Sega Genesis cover) (orig. comp: Tim and/or Geoff Follin / orig. sys: SNES) - 00:36:37
13) [Original Chiptune]: TQ_Jam - Squash (2A03 + VRC7 + N163) - 00:41:45
14) [Non-VGM that presaged VGM]: Logic System - Unit - Logic (1981) - 00:44:45
15) ["Real Instruments" VGM Cover]: Super Soul Bros. Hydrocity (orig. comp: Sonic 3 Sound Team) - 00:49:30
16) ["System X" Chip Cover of "System Y" VGM]: Thunder Force IV - Fighting Back (PC Engine) - by Michirin9801 (orig comp: Toshiharu Yamanishi / orig sys: Genesis) - 00:53:06
17) ["Real Instruments" VGM Cover]: Symphonic Actraiser - Northwall (orig. comp: Yuzo Koshiro) - 00:55:50
18) [Non-Video Game computer program music]: Microsoft Interactive Sampler 1996 - Main Theme - Unknown - 00:58:53
19) [Chip Cover of non-VGM - Mario Paint]: Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Mario Paint - by: YouTuber "oShockwave" (orig. comp: Lennon-McCartney) - 00:59:54
20) [Original Chiptune - Tracker Music]: Beek - Pleadians (Amiga) - 01:01:53
21) [Non-VGM inspired by VGM]: Hiatus Kaiyote - Atari - Choose Your Weapon (2015) - 01:04:02
22) [Original Chiptune]: Commandycan - Ice Boat - NES - 01:10:10
23) ["System X" Chip Cover of "System Y" VGM]: C64 cover of Chronos - Main Theme - by YouTuber "MovieMovies1" (orig. comp: Tim Follin / orig sys: ZX Spectrum PC Speaker) - 01:10:56
24) [Floppy Drive Matrix cover of VGM]: The Floppotron - At Doom's Gate - Pawel Zadrozniak (orig. comp: Bobby Prince) - 01:14:00
25) [Original Chiptune]: Goluigi - Popping Corners (SNES) - BotB Winterchip X - 01:15:33
26) ["Real Instruments" VGM Cover]: David KBD - Golden Axe - Stage 1 (orig. comp: You Takada) - 01:18:20
27) ["VGM Karaoke" (original lyrics and vocals over VGM never intended for lyrics or vocals)]: Pieness 64 - Coldman (Rockman and Fortissimo) (orig. comp: Toshihiko Horiyama, Naoshi Mizuta, and/or Akari Kaida) - 01:21:14
28) [Original Chiptune]: DYA - Homecoming (Chiptunes = Win) - PC Engine and C64 Duet - 01:23:24
29) [Non-VGM by VGM Composer - Daniel Capo]: Daniel Capo - A Stroll Through Dreamland - 01:27:03
30) Outro - 01:29:02
Music Block Runtime: 01:25:09, Original Total Episode Runtime: 01:35:01, 2022 Amended Total Episode Runtime: 01:36:34
Link to to the eligible tracklist for our upcoming Listener-selected "Best of 2020 / 2021" Episode. Notes at the top of the file explain everything! :-)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NdwSzNDnoFoho7TzDHkA1Pkfe1O5WMgqEd4Bx2sSoG4/edit?usp=sharing
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
Today’s broadcast is C1E63 for Scene Sunday, March 13th, 2022. Today’s episode will be a return focus to the works of my favorite VGM cover bands, TheOneUps, on a program we're calling "Keeping up with TheOneUps – vol. 2:
Track Number / Track [Originally from Game / Originally from System / Original Composer] / From OneUps Album / Timestamp
01) Intro – 00:00:00
02) Intro [Metroid – NES – Hirokazu ("Hip") Tanaka] – Volume 2 – 00:03:15
03) Silence (Silences is Golden, Snitches Get Stitches) [F-Zero – SNES – Yumiko Kanki] – Prt Seven – 00:05:43
04) Intro (Space Warrior Sound Machine) [Super Metroid – SNES – Kenji Yamamoto] – Intergalactic Redux – 00:09:35
05) City Lights [Axeley – SNES – Taro Kudo] – Volume 1 – 00:16:11
06) Ghost Valley [Super Mario Kart – SNES – Soya Oka] – Super Mario Kart – 00:20:16
07) Tristram und Isolde [Diablo – PC – Matt Uelemen] – Songs for the Recently Deceased – 00:23:28
08) Dance-Off at Silent Hill [Silent Hill – PS1 – Akira Yamaoka] – Songs for the Recently Deceased – 00:27:30
09) Main Theme (Birds, Stars, Pigs, and Quasars) [ Angry Birds – iOS / Android – Ari Pulkiknen] – Intergalactic Continuum – 00:31:35
10) Into the Thick of It [Secret of Mana – SNES – Hiroaki Kikuta] – Volume 2 – 00:35:14
11) Mii Channel [Mii Channel – Wii – Kazumi Totaka] – Volume 2 – 00:38:18
12) Koopa Beach (Something About Koopa Beach) [Super Mario Kart – SNES – Soya Oka] – Super Mario Kart – 00:40:41
13) Katamaritaino [Katamary Damacy – PS2 – Hideki Tobeta] – Volume 1 – 00:45:01
14) ToeJam Jammin' [ToeJam & Earl – Genesis – Jon Baker] – Volume 1 – 00:49:46
15) Mission 2 (Double D's) [Double Dragon – Arcade – Kazunaka Yamane] – Part Seven – 00:53:47
16) Dungeon Medley [LoZ: Link to the Past – SNES – Kōji Kondō] – Volume 2 – 00:57:34
17) Beginning (Curse of the Funk) [Castlevania III – NES – Yukie Morimoto] – Intergalactic Redux – 01:02:51
18) Bedtime is Deadtime [Nightmare on Elm Street – NES – David Wise] – Songs for the Rcently Deceased – 01:07:47
19) Death Mountain (Mountain Fort1:ress Delta VII) [LoZ: Link to the Past – SNES – Kōji Kondō] – Intergalactic Redux – 01:12:41
20) Title Theme (Two Dragons, One Cup...of Funk) [Double Dragon – Arcade – Kazunaka Yamane] – Intergalactic Continuum – 01:18:28
21) Overworld (I do it for the Fairies) [Legend of Zelda – NES – Kōji Kondō] – Intergalactic Continuum – 01:22:22
22) Shadow Man [Mega Man III – NES – Yasuaki Fujita] – Volume 2 – 01:26:14
23) Chrono Trigger [Chrono Trigger – SNES – Yasunori Mitsuda] – Volume 2 – 01:31:57
24) Choco Island [Super Mario Kart – SNES – Soya Oka] – Super Mario Kart – 01:36:51
25) Ice Cave Chant (Ice, Ice Cavey) [Donkey Kong Country – SNES – David Wise] – Part Seven – 01:39:48
26: Outro – 01:43:51
Music Block Runtime: 01:40:42, Total Episode Runtime: 01:54:59
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.
Final episode production produced using Ardour 6 / Audacity 2.42 in Ubuntu Studio [Linux] 21.10 02/05/2022. Music block originally produced 05/12/2019 using GarageBand in macOS
Link to to the eligible tracklist for our upcoming Listener-selected "Best of 2020 / 2021" Episode. Notes at the top of the file explain everything! :-)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NdwSzNDnoFoho7TzDHkA1Pkfe1O5WMgqEd4Bx2sSoG4/edit?usp=sharing
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 Friday, April, 1st 2022 for a very special FaceOff “F-isode” featuring friend of the show and previous collaborator, Electric Boogaloo! A smorgasbord of sounds and good and bad ideas, on Channel F. And wherever you are….fly the N!
Cheers!
Wednesday Mar 09, 2022
Wednesday Mar 09, 2022
selections from the Video Game cover band, the One Ups on a program we called "Keeping up with The OneUps - vol. 1". Amended 02/06/22 to include an all call for tracks for our upcoming "Best of 2020 / 2021" feature. The track list below has been updated to include amended timestamps and track numbers that account for the addition of the 2022 add-on.
Note: I apologize for the poor audio quality on my voice in the 2022 earcactcher. I didn't have access to the studio and "the good mic" at the time, so I just did the best I could with my built-in laptop mic.
Track Number / Original Track Name (OneUps-specific track name - where applicable) / OneUps Album / Original Version Composer / Timestamp
01) Best of 2020 / 2021 Earcatcher: 00:00:00
02) Intro 00:01:34
03) Super Mario Kart - Title Theme - Super Mario Kart Album - Soya Oka – 00:03:27
04) Sonic the Hedgehog - Green Hill Zone - Volume 2 - Masato Nakamura – 00:05:10
05) Tetris - Theme A - Korobeinki (Space Bloq Soviet Fun Time Puzzle Song) - Intergalactic Redux - (trad) Nikolay Nekrasov – 00:09:17
06) Mario Paint - Monkeys - Volume 1 - Hirokazu (Hip) Tanaka – 00:13:31
07) Legend of Zelda - Dungeon (λαβύρινθος - Labyrinthos) - Songs for the Recently Deceased - Koji Kondo – 00:16:26
08) Super Mario 2 - Underground BGM - Volume 2 - Koji Kondo – 00:20:28
09) Contra - Stage 1 (Bill and Lance - Soldier Trance) - Intergalactic Redux - Kazuki Muraoka – 00:24:13
10) Donkey Kong Country - Aquatic Ambience - Volume 1 - David Wise – 00:29:54
11) LoZ: LttP - Time of the Falling Rain (Intro) - Volume 2 - Koji Kondo – 00:34:12
12) F-Zero - Port Town (Port Authority) - Part Seven - Yumiko Kanki – 00:39:17
13) TMNT II: The Arcade Game - Stage 3 (Super Solar Sewer System) - Intergalactic Continuum - Kozo Nakamura – 00:43:55
14) Super Mario Kart - Rainbow Road - Super Mario Kart Album - Soya Oka - 00:48:44
15) Outro 00:54:13
Music Block Runtime: 00:50:54, Original Total Episode Runtime: 00:59:09, 2022 Amended Total Episode Runtime: 01:00:40
Link to to the eligible tracklist for our upcoming Listener-selected "Best of 2020 / 2021" Episode. Notes at the top of the file explain everything! :-)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NdwSzNDnoFoho7TzDHkA1Pkfe1O5WMgqEd4Bx2sSoG4/edit?usp=sharing
Monday Feb 21, 2022
Monday Feb 21, 2022
Today’s broadcast is C1E62 for Mishmash Monday, February 21st, 2022. Today’s episode will be "Mishmash Monday – vol. 11"
Track Number – Track – Game – System – Composer(s) - Timestamp
01) Intro – 00:00:00
02) Space Harrier Theme – N/A (JP Main BIOS) - Mastersystem – Hiroshi Miyauchi – 01:02:56
03) Phantasy – Phantasy Star II – Genesis – Tokuhiko Uwabo – 00:06:05
04) Title Theme – Strider Returns – Genesis – c: Mark Tait / a: Unknown – 00:08:41
05) Mission 1 – Super Double Dragon – SNES – Kazunaka Yamane – 00:10:36
06) Dam – GoldenEye 007 – N64 – Graeme Norgate and/or Grant Kirkhope – 00:12:18
07) Title Theme – Rampage – Atari 7800 – c: Michael Bartlow / a: Bill Hawkins and/or Clay Turner – 00:14:54
08) TMAXX – Bricklayer – PC – Peter Wagner – 00:15:14
09) Way of the Exploding Back Left Tire – Horizon Chase Turbo – Multiplatform – Barry Leitch – 00:17:36
10) The Shinobi – Revenge of Shinobi – Genesis – Yuzo Koshiro – 00:21:06
11) Shadowplay (Cave) - 198X – Multiplatform – Yuzo Koshiro – 00:22:53
12) Gairyu Isle (Ukyo Theme) - Samurai Showdown – Neo Geo AES / MVS – Yasuo Yamate, and/or Masahiko Hataya – 00:24:53
13) Kabuki Master – The Simpson – Arcade – Norio Hanzawa – 00:28:04
14) Kyoto Japan – Tekken – PS1 – c: Yoshie Takayanagi, Yoshie Arakawa, and/or Kazuhiro Nakamura / a: Shinji Hosoe – 00:29:21
15) In-Game Theme – Adventures of Microman – PC – Brian L. Goble – 00:31:44
16) Volver a Comenzar – Little Big Planet – PS3 / PSP - Café Tacuba – 00:34:29
17) Blow Up – Elevator Action Returns – Saturn – Yasuhisa Watanabe – 00:42:08
18) Star System Theme – Star Control II – 3DO - Burke Trieschmann, Dan Nicholson, Riku Nuottajärvi, Eric Berge, Erol Otus, Marc Brown, Aaron J. Grier, Kevin Palivec, and/or Tommy V. Dunbar – 00:44:49
19) The Old Map – Golden Axe – Arcade - Tōru Nakabayashi – 00:47:42
20) Oceansphere Surface – Xardion – SNES – Kohei Tanaka – 00:49:00
21) The Vents – Ecco the Dolphin – Sega CD – Spencer Nilsen – 00:51:13
22) Aquatic Ambience – Donkey Kong Country – SNES – David Wise and/or Evelyn Fisher – 00:56:45
23) The Lunarians – Final Fantasy IV – SNES – Nobuo Uematsu – 00:59:56
24) Goddess of Love – Immortals: Fenyx Rising – Multiplatform – Gareth Coker – 01:02:01
25) The Thunder Plains – Final Fantasy X – PS2 – Nobuo Uematsu – 01:05:34
26) Building Mode 5 – The Sims – PC – Jerry Martin and/or Marc Russo – 01:09:15
27) Level 4 – Tetris – CD-i – Jim Andron – 01:15:37
28) Magnet Man – Mega Man 3 – NES – Yasuaki Fujita – 01:19:55
29) Level Theme – Rampage – Mastersystem – c: Michael Barlow / a: Unknown – 01:21:45
30) Hi-Fi Performance – Tempo – 32X – Masayoshi Ishi – 01:24:07
31) Bonus Stage – Rampage – NES – c: Michael Barlow / a: Shogo Sakai, and/or Takafumi Miura – 01:25:09
32) Stage Theme 1 – Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle – NES – Hiroyuki Masuno – 01:26:17
33) Config – Waverace 64 – N64 – Kazumi Totaka – 01:27:38
34) Outro – 01:30:04
Music Block Runtime: 01:27:18, Total Episode Runtime: 01:40:15
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.
Produced using Ardour 6 / Audacity 2.42 in Ubuntu Studio [Linux] 21.10
Link to to the eligible tracklist for our upcoming Listener-selected "Best of 2020 / 2021" Episode. Notes at the top of the file explain everything! 😊
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NdwSzNDnoFoho7TzDHkA1Pkfe1O5WMgqEd4Bx2sSoG4/edit?usp=sharing
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 Sunday, March 13th, 2022 for “Keeping Up with The OneUps – vol 2. Delicious VGM [covers], on Noise from the Hearts of Nerds. And wherever you are….fly the N!
Cheers!
Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
Today’s rerun is C1E27, originally released Mishmash Monday, April 23rd, 2018, and was a program we callied "Mishmash Monday - vol. 4". Amended 02/06/22 to include an all call for tracks for our upcoming "Best of 2020 / 2021" feature. The track list below has been amended to include updated timestamps and track numbers that account for the addition of the 2022 add-on.
Note: I apologize for the poor audio quality on my voice in the 2022 earcactcher. I didn't have access to the studio and "the good mic" at the time, so I just did the best I could with my built-in laptop mic.
Track#, Game, System, Track Name, Composer, Timestamp:
01) Best of 2020 / 2021 Earcatcher: 00:00:00
02) Intro – 00:01:34
03) Chu Chu Rocket - Dreamcast - Challenge - Tomoya Ohtani – 00:03:40
04) Wolfchild - SNES - Map Screen - Martin Iveson – 00:06:33
05) Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge - multi - Rikuo - Takayuki Iwai, Akari Kaida and/or Hideki Okugawa – 00:08:15
06) Spellcaster - Mastersystem - Action Screen - Sachio Ogawa – 00:10:04
07) Nightmare on Elm Street - NES - Elm Street - David Wise – 00:12:58
08) Doom II - PC (Midi - Yamaha DB50XG) - Underhalls - Bobby Prince – 00:15:54
09) So Many Me - multi - Volcano - Christopher Gechan and/or Daniel Byrne-McCullough – 00:20:41
10) SouhouBlue Phoenix - X68000 - Stage 4 - Shinoda Nobuhisa – 00:24:40
11) Nin2 Jump - XB1 - Autumn - Ryu Umemoto – 00:27:59
12) Lucid 9 - PC/Mac - Process of Elimination - Blue Wolfie – 00:30:23
13) Final Fantasy Mystic Quest - SNES - Ice Pyramid - Ryuji Sasai, and/or Yasuhiro Kawakami – 00:34:22
14) Sonic 2 - Genesis - Mystic Cave Zone 2-player - Masato Nakamura – 00:37:20
15) Plok - SNES - Beach - Tim and/or Geoff Follin – 00:39:09
16) Gran Turismo 5 - PS3 - Mirage - Kimmei – 00:44:16
17) Miitopia - 3DS - In That Holiday Mood (Vacation) - Toshiyuki Sudo, Shinki Ushiroda, Yumi Takahashi, and/or Megumi Inoue – 00:48:24
18) Outro – 00:50:37
Music Block Runtime: 00:47:02, Original Total Episode Runtime: 00:54:40, 2022 Amended Total Episode Runtime: 00:56:13
Link to to the eligible tracklist for our upcoming Listener-selected "Best of 2020 / 2021" Episode. Notes at the top of the file explain everything! :-)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NdwSzNDnoFoho7TzDHkA1Pkfe1O5WMgqEd4Bx2sSoG4/edit?usp=sharing
Thursday Feb 03, 2022
Thursday Feb 03, 2022
Today’s Broadcast is C2E6 for Theme Thursday, February 3rd, 2022 (St. John’s 42nd Birthday!). Today’s focus will be a rare look into hard rock, heavy metal, and adjacent music on a program we’re calling “Fast Music for Slow Times” (a loving and playful inversion on Hearts of Space’s slogan “Slow Music for Fast Times”)
Tracklist:
Track# - Track - Game - System - Composer - Selected By
01) Earcatcher - 00:00
02) Like a Wind - Revenge of Shinobi - Genesis - Yuzu Koshiro - Hugues
- Music - 00:00:03
- Introduction - 00:02:11
- Discussion - 00:06:35
03) Swing Time - Spider-Man vs the Kingpin - Sega CD - Mr. Big and/or Spencer Nilsen - St. John
- Music - 00:12:15
- Discussion - 00:16:34
04) Wildon - Lords of Thunder - Sega CD - c: Satoshi Miyashita / a: Unknown - Hugues
- Music - 00:22:55
- Discussion - 00:27:36
- “Top of the Show Business” (late again….like usual) - 00:31:00
05) Quad Machine - Quake II - PC / PS1 - Sonic Mayhem - St. John
- Music - 00:38:15
- Discussion - 00:41:58
06) Conflict - Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII - Takeharu Ishimoto - Hugues
- Music - 00:45:51
- Discussion - 00:48:18
07) The Super Gore Nest - DOOM Eternal - Multiplatform - Mick Gordon - St. John
- Music - 00:53:27
- Discussion - 01:02:36
08) Midnight’s Stage - Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side - Sega CD - Tristan des Prés - Hugues
- Music - 01:07:56
- Discussion - 01:11:35
09) Title - Spider-Man / X-Men: Arcade’s Revenge - SNES - Tim and/or Geoff Follin - St. John
- Music - 01:16:21
- Discussion - 01:17:33
10) The Cage - Shadowrun - SNES - Marshall Parker - Hugues
- Music - 01:26:02
- Discussion - 01:28:21
11) Bonus Table 4 - Devil’s Crush - TG16 - Toshiaki Sakoda - St. John
- Music - 01:31:39
- Discussion - 01:33:46
12) Theme of Chester - Ys III - X68000 - Masaaki Kawai - Hugues
- Music - 01:37:27
- Discussion - 01:40:12
13) Run Through the Speed Highway - Sonic Adventure - Dreamcast - St. John
- Music - 01:44:05
- Discussion - 01:46:01
14) Fight ver. 1 - Grandia II - Dreamcast / PS2 - Noriyuki Iwadare - Hugues
- Music - 01:48:50
- Discussion - 01:52:53
- Housekeeping - 01:56:37
- New Beginnings (aka “a false Farewell”) - 02:01:22
- Final Track Discusssion - 02:02:13
- “The Actual Farewell” - 02:05:21
15) Stand Up Against Myself - Lightening Force - Genesis - Composer: Toshiharu Yamanishi, Takeishi Yoshida, and/or Tomomi Ootani - St. John
- Music - 02:06:36
16) Blooper Reel - 02:08:41
Total Episode Runtime - 02:10:56
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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.
Link to the “Best of 2020 / 2021 eligible tracklist (READ THE NOTES AT THE TOP OF IT!):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NdwSzNDnoFoho7TzDHkA1Pkfe1O5WMgqEd4Bx2sSoG4/edit?usp=sharing
Thanks for listening! Join us again February 21st for C1E62: “Mishmash Monday - vol. 11” and again on March 13th for C1E63: “Keeping up with The OneUps - vol. 2” and wherever you are…..Fly the N!!
Saturday Jan 29, 2022
Saturday Jan 29, 2022
Today’s broadcast is C1E61 for Soundtrack Saturday, January 29th, 2022. Today’s soundtrack is the 3D Museum soundtrack, on the Pioneer LaserActive! Sound files provided by the LaserActive Preservation Project. Track list info provided by YouTuber "sleepy avery".
Track# - Track Name – Composer – Timestamp
01) Season 5 Earcatcher 1 – 00:00:00
02) Intro – 00:00:02
SIDE A:
03) Aurora (Unlisted) - Unknown – 00:04:17
04) La sons et Perfume (Pacific Mix) - Goh Hotoda – 00:05:28
05) Trico – Goh Hotoda – 00:07:09
06) Inner Movement – Eiko Nonaka – 00:09:44
07) Nocturne – Goh Hotoda – 00:10:39
08) Shuffle – Haruomi Hosono – 00:12:54
09) Loopy Numeric – Eiki Nonaka – 00:13:45
10) Samadi – Eiki Nonaka – 00:14:17
11) Hindi Tune – Haruomi Hosono – 00:16:06
12) Bell~Air – Haruomi Hosono – 00:18:21
13) Ringer's Ring – Eiki Nonaka – 00:19:40
14) Son Bionocle – Miharu Koshi – 00:21:01
15) Zooming Zone – Eiki Nonaka – 00:22:24
16) Balinese – Haruomi Hosono – 00:23:28
17) La sons et Perfume – 00:25:44
SIDE B (separated from SIDE A by a couple seconds of silence):
18) Gong with the Wind – Eiki Nonaka – 00:26:55
19) Rendezvous~Nubian Nights – Yasuaki Shimizu – 00:31:20
20) Akatombo – Marco Bosco – 00:35:39
21) Fragment – Wong Wing Tsan – 00:39:55
22) Villageoises~Rustique – Miharu Koshi – 00:41:17
23) For the Dogs Beyond – Wong Wing Tsan – 00:42:!4
24) The Other Side of the Lake – Marco Bosco – 00:43:13
25) Villigeoises~Coda – Miharu Koshi – 00:44:43
26) Bahia Calling – Marco Bosco – 00:45:45
27) Moth and Cortisone – Yasuaki Shimizu – 00:46:39
28) Transparent Garden – Wong Wing Tsan – 00:50:51:
29) Cancao do Sol – Marco Bosco – 00:54:25
30) Outro – 00:57:16
31) Season 5 Earcatcher 2 – 01:07:28
32) Wyatt "Fly the N" Session: 01:08:03
Music Block Runtime: 00:53:03, Total Episode Runtime: 01:09:22
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.
You can find the LaserActive Preservation Project at https://laseractive.wordpress.com/ . Please go show them and sleepy avery some love....and tell them Nerd Noise Radio sent you!
Produced using Ardour 6 / Audacity in Ubuntu Studio 21.10
Link to to the eligible tracklist for our upcoming Listener-selected "Best of 2020 / 2021" Episode. Notes at the top of the file explain everything! :-)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NdwSzNDnoFoho7TzDHkA1Pkfe1O5WMgqEd4Bx2sSoG4/edit?usp=sharing
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:
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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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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 Feb 3rd for – C2E6 (“Channel 2, Episode 6”): “Fast Music for Slow Times”. Tasty VGM and Talk, on Nerd Noise Game Club. And wherever you are….fly the N!
Cheers!
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
For our second rerun of the month, and our second rerun in total since the shut down of our separate, dedicated reruns feed over on Buzzsprout, I thought it would be great to share our second ever episode of the show: C1E2: "Twisted Sine" (a focus on FM synthesis-based VGM, comprised of tracks from several FM based systems, with roughly half being Sega Genesis or 32X music (YM2612), roughly a quarter being Arcade or X68000 music (YM2151), and the remaining quarter or so being a hodgepodge of several of the other very important FM chips of the era (YM2603, YM2608, YM3812, YM2413, and so on) - all interspersed and intermixed together, of course! We even got to include a VRC7 track in the lineup!
Despite this episode having all the same production ugliness of C1E1 (detailed in the show notes of that rerun), I would still easily put it somewhere in the top twenty of all of our Channel 1 episodes to date, despite it being so early, and so jacked-up production-wise. Frankly, it's INCREDIBLE! Easily one of my all-time favorites! I hope you'll agree!
-----AND----- unlike the C1E1 rerun, which released 5 days later than intended, and missed its milestone anniversary, this one releases on 01/19/2022.....PRECISELY 5yrs TO THE DAY after it originally premiered in 2017!
Our next release will not be a rerun, but will be C1E61, the first episode of calendar 2022's "Season 5", and will mark the return of an episode type that even I was not sure would ever be making a comeback - a "Soundtrack Saturday". And featuring a soundtrack from a somewhat obscure system which might possibly make it the first time in all of VGM podcast history that an entire soundtrack from this particular system has ever been featured on a show!
You'll just have to wait to find out the rest! Meanwhile, if you've never heard C1E2, I hope you'll enjoy! And if you have....I hope you'll enjoy....again! :-)
Cheers!
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From the original show notes:
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Today’s broadcast is Episode 2 for Theme Thursday, January 19th, 2017. Today’s Theme is FM synthesis-based music on a program we’re calling “Twisted Sine”.
Tracklist - Track#, Track Name, Game, System, Composer, FM Chip, Timestamp:
01: Intro - 00:00:00
02: Statts - Sword of Vermilion - Genesis - Hiroshi Kawaguchi - YM2612 (OPN2) - 00:01:45
03: The Hard Corps - Contra Hard Corps - Genesis - Aki Hata, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Michiru Yamane - YM2612 - 00:03:52
04: Grass Land - Burning Force - Genesis - Yoshinori Kawamoto / unknown - YM2612 (OPN2) - 00:06:53
05: Silent Alarm - Lagrange Point - Famicom - Akio Dobashi, Noriyuki Takahashi - Konami VRC7 - 00:08:50
06: Trap of Relics - Genocide 2 - X68k - Hideyuki Shimono, Naoyuki Kimora - YM2151 (OPM) - 00:10:58
07: Mission Briefing - Time Trax - Genesis - Tim Follin - YM2612 (OPN2) - 00:13:04
08: Cycle 1 - Streets of Rage 3 - Genesis - Motohiro Kawashima w Yuzo Koshiro - YM2612 (OPN2) - 00:16:51
09: Nice Day - Spindizzy II - X68k - Toshiya Yamanaka - YM2151 (OPM) - 00:20:01
10: Invasion - Yu-No - PC98 - Ryuu Umemoto - YM2608 (OPNA) - 00:23:36
11: Space Boss - Adventures of Batman & Robin - Genesis - Jesper Kyd - YM2612 (OPN2) - 00:25:47
12: Sentinel Core Battle - X-Men 2 - Genesis - Kurt Harland - YM2612 (OPN2) - 00:30:11
13: Stage Theme 4 - Shinobi - Arcade - Yasuhiro Kamakawi - YM2151 (OPM) - 00:31:19
14: Options - Bram Stoker’s Dracula - Genesis - Matt Furniss - YM2612 (OPN2) - 00:32:45
15: Betrayal - Grounseed - PC98 - Masahiro Kajihara - YM2203 (OPN) - 00:33:53
16: Tachy Touch - Knuckles Chaotix - 32X - Junko Shiratsu, Mariko Nanba - YM2612 (OPN2) - 00:36:27
17: Traveller's Tales - Knight Arms - X68k - Toshiya Yamanaka - YM2151 (OPM) - 00:38:16
18: Track 11 - Illusion Blaze - DOS - D.A.C. - YM3812 (OPL2) - 00:40:29
19: Main Theme - Youkai Douchuuki - Arcade - Main Theme - Hiroyuki Kawada - YM2151 (OPM) - 00:43:01
20: Redwoods - Puggsy - Genesis - Redwoods - Matt Furniss - YM2612 (OPN2) - 00:45:56
21: Team Select - Super Side Kicks - Neo Geo - Jojoha Kitapy, Yoko - YM2610 (OPNB) - 00:48:50
22: Casey Jones - TMNTTF - Genesis - Miki Higashino - YM2612 (OPN2) - 00:50:08
23: Stages 4, 7 -Sly Spy - Arcade - Azusa Hara, Hiroaki Yoshida - YM3812 (OPL2) & YM2203 (OPN) - 00:52:32
24: Stage 2-3 - Mega Turrican - Genesis - Chris Hülsbeck - YM2612 (OPN2) - 00:53:58
25: Load BGM - Akumajou Dracula - X68k - Konami Kukeiha Club - YM2151 (OPM) - 00:56:07
26: Outro - 00:58:20
Music Block Runtime: 56:37, Total Episode Runtime: 01:05:41
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio - Dreamcast - BB Rights
Monday Jan 10, 2022
Monday Jan 10, 2022
So, I had meant to get this released on Jan 5th, so that our first rerun after the shutdown of the dedicated reruns feed on Buzzsprout, and the first gross output of the planned "second half" of Nerd Noise Radio's intended lifespan could release PRECISELY five years to the day after it originally premiered....but, you know....life. :-(
Anyway, please accept it re-releasing instead on the "five-year, five-day anniversary" now! :-)
Also, since this is the start of life on Nerd Noise Radio without a separate, dedicated reruns feed, let's go ahead and "start reruns all over again", and make our [so-called] "first rerun" be....our first episode!
Yes, today's rerun is where it all started, everybody! C1E1 - "Press Start", an aptly themed focus on intro and/or title screen music to coincide with the launch the program, which, of course, originally released on 01/05/2017 - five years [and five days] ago!
A couple quick notes of reflection on this episode from the perspective of a half-decade of reflection: 1) BEWARE: the production quality, particularly as it concerns the intro and outro is TERRIBLE! The music block itself, though, is certainly passable or better. But the intro and outro are.....CRINGE! Speaking of the music block: 2) due to a mistake on my part during capture, it was in mono (just like Episode 2 - an issue I had fixed by Episode 3). Also, 3) the fades are not quite as good, and the run order decisions are quite a bit more rudimentary, opening strongly, closing strongly, but mostly moving in circles in-between, only concerned with how well the tracks jive with their immediate neighbor tracks, and all but oblivious to the overall arch. But 4) otherwise, the music block itself is a fairly decent production, and chock full of the energy and joy and enthusiasm of new beginnings, buoyed upon the optimism and excitement thereof! 5) I made a mistake in track selection on one track in this collection: everything was supposed to be title screen and/or or intro sequence music, and yet "At DOOM's Gate" from DOOM 2016 is neither of those things. But I'm not gonna go back and change history by editing it out five years later. And it does at least sound good in the episode. So, it can stay. 6) Beyond the production value of the intro and outro being just ATROCIOUS, the scripting was far less developed than it has since become, albeit is less verbose as a result. 7) The most remarkable thing of all to me listening to C1E1 and, let's say, any of the first ten episodes is this: the early episodes are remarkably different in a hundred ways in micro.....but in macro, it's incredible just how little the show has changed, and just how close to "fully formed" the show ultimately was from its very beginning! I'm really proud of that! Way less polished, to be sure...but in essence, still the same show then as it is now!
So, please! If you have not already heard C1E1, and heard where it all began, warts, and glory, and enthusiasm and all, and just how very "different yet the same" it was compared to what Channel 1 has since become.....then, please, listen, and marvel, and enjoy!
Oh, p.s: our other rerun this month (since there will be two), will be C1E2, its immediate successor episode. And despite it being subject to all the same complaints about the HORRIBLE intro and outro, mono audio music block, and the circular meandering of the track order, it still remains one of the best episodes we've ever done! Definitely the best of the first 10, in my opinion, and if I were to try to create a "top twenty episodes" list from our so-far 60 episodes, C1E2 would certainly be somewhere on that list! So, please don't miss it! Also, unlike today, I'll make sure to schedule the C1E2 rerun to release on the EXACT 5yr anniversary - 01/19/2022! :-)
Cheers!
-St. John
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From the original show notes:
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The moment has finally come - the Channel 1 podcast is HERE!
Today's broadcast is Episode 1 for ThemeThursday, January 5th, 2017. Today's Theme is title screen music on a program we’re calling “Press Start”.
Tracklist - Track#, Game, System, Composer, Timestamp:
01: Intro - 00:00
02: Sonic 3 - Genesis - Tomonori Sawada - 01:50
03: Double Dragon - NES - Kazunaka Yamane - 02:05
04: Metroid - FDS - Hirokazu ("Hip") Tanaka - 03:44
05: Crash Bandicoot - PS1 - Josh Mancell - 05:17
06: SpiderMan/X-Men - SNES - Tim and Geoff Follin - 06:51
07: Halo - Xbox - Martin O’Donnell - 07:48
08: Ballblazer - Atari 8-bit - Peter Langston and “Riffology” - 10:35
09: Doom 2016 - Multiplat - Mick Gordon - 12:59
10: Street Fighter 2 - Arcade - Yoko Shimomura - 15:20
11: SomerAssault - TG16 - Hidehito Aoki and Katsuyuki Inose - 15:46
12: Zelda II - FDS - Akito Nakatsuka - 18:29
13: LED Storm - ZX Spectrum - Tim Follin - 20:56
14: Streets of Rage - Genesis - Yuzo Koshiro - 23:38
15: Mega Man 2 - NES - Takashi Tateishi - 25:05
16: Shovel Knight - Multi - Jake Kaufman - 26:48
17: Ocarina of Time - N64 - Koji Kondo - 27:40
18: Revenge of Shinobi - PC88 - Yuzo Koshiro - 30:03
19: Golden Axe - C64 - comp: You Takada / arr: Jeroen Tel - 30:22
20: Final Fantasy VII - PS1 - Nobuo Uematsu - 33:05
21: Bonk’s Revenge - TG16 - Hirohiko Takayama - 35:52
22: Wolfchild - Amiga - Martin Iveson - 36:10
23: Kirby’s Dreamland - Gameboy - Jun Ishikawa - 39:47
24: X-Men - Arcade - Junya Nakano - 40:24
25: Mortal Kombat - Genesis - Matt Furniss - 40:59
26: Black Belt - Mastersystem - Katsuhiro Hayashi - 42:01
27: Xybots - Arcade - Hal Canon, Brad Fuller, and/or Earl Vickers - 42:11
28: Super Mario World - SNES - Koji Kondo - 42:31
29: Outro - 44:03
Music Block Runtime: 42:14, Total Episode Runtime: 50:31
Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio - Dreamcast - BB Rights