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Today’s Broadcast is C2E17 for Theme Thursday, April 11th 2024. Today’s broadcast is a focus on pre-turn of the century music from computer systems (as opposed to consoles) - on a program we’re calling “20th Century Floppies”.   Tracklist   Track Number / Track / Game / System(s) / Composer(s) / Selected by   01) Bootup Sequence - N/A (System Music) - FM Towns Marty - Unknown - St. John a) Earcatcher - 00:00:00 b) Music - 00:00:02 c) Intro - 00:01:35 d) Opening Track Discussion - 00:02:30 e) Top of Show Business - 00:06:04 02) Meadow's Edge 2 - Apidya - Amiga - Chris Hulsbeck - Hugues a) Music - 00:18:30 b) Discussion - 00:21:16 03) Traveller's Tales (Stage 4-2) - Knight Arms - X68000 - Toshiya Yamanaka - St. John a) Music - 00:25:34 b) Discussion - 00:28:03 04) Title - Jaguar XJ220 - Amiga - Martin Iveson - Hugues a) Music - 00:32:47 b) Discussion - 00:35:32 05) Music #3 - LED Storm - C64 - Tim Follin - St. John a) Music - 00:40:07 b) Discussion - 00:42:41 06) High Score - Hawkeye - C64 - Jeroen Tel - Hugues

Today’s broadcast is C1E83 for Mishmash Monday, April 1st, 2024. Today’s episode helps all of us who struggle so mightily with multitasking to enjoy an entire 27 track music block and an entire intro and outro without feeling like it, and without the guilt of tying up the time and resources so many of us generally require as serial monotaskers – on a program called "Parallels". Nerd Noise Radio is always here to help!    Tracklist!    Track# / Track / Game / System(s) / Composer(s)    01) Kraft und Licht - n++ - Mutliplatform - Len Faki     02) Planet Talon IV - Metroid Prime - GameCube / Wii / Switch - Kenji Yamamoto    03) Jazz 2 - Sim Copter - PC - Jerry Martin    04) World B - Art of Balance - Multiplatform - Martin Schjoler    05) Silly Science A - Snipperclips - Switch - Calem Bowen    06) Never 4ever - Hover - Multiplatform - Hideki Nagamuma    07) Spatial Lullaby - Stellaris - Multiplatform - Andreas Waldertoft    08) Portal - Futuri no Fantatvision - PS2 - Soichi Terada    09) Track 4 - Fantavision (

Today’s broadcast is C1E82 for Theme Thursday, March 21st, 2024. Today’s theme is music from Run and Gun games (as best as I can define them), on a program we're quite hedgingly calling "Run and/or Gun"!      Tracklist!    Track# - Track Name – Game – System(s) - Composer(s) - Timestamp    A1) Intro – 00:00:00    01) Dice Dance Days – Gunstar Heroes – Genesis – Norio Hanzawa – 00:03:45    02) Garden – Die Hard – PC Engine – Kenji Yoshida – 00:05:55    03) Stage Theme 1 – Rush'n Attack – NES – Kiyohiro Sada – 00:07:51    04) Bad Fairy – Rolling Thunder 3 – Genesis – Masakatsu Maekawa – 00:09:58    05) The Hard Corps Blues – Contra: Hard Corps – Genesis - Hiroshi Kobayashi, Akira Sōji, Kenji Miyaoka, Michiru Yamane, Akira Yamaoka, and/or Hirofumi Taniguchi – 00:13:06    06) River – Bloody Wolf – TG16 - Shogo Sakai, Takafumi Miura, Yuji Suzuki, and/or Yusuke Takahama – 00:15:17    07) Level 4-1 – Blazing Chrome – Multiplatform - Dominic Ninmark, Tiago Santos, and/or Kristine – 00:16:16:47    08) Hoodlum Dolls – 

Today’s Broadcast is C2E16 for Theme Thursday, March 7th, 2024. Today’s theme is vocal music from video games, on a program we’re calling “Songs with Words”. BE SURE TO CATCH OUR SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT TOWARDS THE END OF THE EPISODE!! (It’s highlighted in the show notes!)   Tracklist   Track# / Track Name / Game / System(s) / Composer(s) / Vocalist / Selected by   01) Shenhua (Vocal Version) - Shenmue - Dreamcast - c: Ryuji Iuichi (music) and Yumi Asada (lyrics) / a: Hayato Matsuo (orchestration) - Ioli - Hugues   a) Earcatcher - 00:00:00 b) Music - 00:00:08 c) Introduction - 00:04:12 d) Top of Show Business - 00:04:39 e) Discussion - 00:14:56   02) Connected (Yours Forever) - Tetris Effect: Connected - Multiplatform - Hydelic - Kate Brady - St. John   a) Music - 00:18:28 b) Discussion - 00:24:03   03) Melodies of Life (English Version) - Final Fantasy IX - PS1 - Nobuo Uematsu (music) and Hioyuki Ito (lyrics) / a: Shiro Hamaguchi - Emiko Shiratori - Hugues   a) Music - 00:28:34 b) Discussion - 00:34:30   04) Sk

Today’s broadcast is  C1E81 for Mishmash Monday, . Today’s episode is Mishmash Monday – vol 15, and the inaugural episode of 2024's "Season 7" (and the start of St. John's 8th year in podcasting).    Tracklist: Track Number - Track - Game - System(s) - Composer(s) - Timestamp    A1 Season 7 Earcatcher - 00:00:00  A2) Intro - 00:00:03  01) Spirit Hymn - Dinosaur - FM Towns (YM2612) - Masaki Kawai - 00:03:04  02) White Summit Probe Naberius - Phantasy Star Online 2 - Multiplatform - Hideaki Kobayashi, Mitsuharu Fukuyama, Kenichi Tokoi, Tadashi Kinukawa, and/or Chihiro Aoki - 00:05:38  03) The Hanging Edge - Final Fantasy XIII - PS3 / XB360 - Masashi Hamauzu - 00:13:03  04) Down the Rabbit Hole - Deathloop - Multiplatform - Tom Salta - 00:16:21  05) Streets of Bronx - Three Dirty Dwarves - Saturn - Attila Héger, and/or Attila Dobos - 00:19:33  06) Title Theme - Two Crude Dudes - Genesis - Azusa Hara, Hiroaki Yoshida, and or Tatsuya Kiuichi - 00:22:52  07) As Vrea - Twilight - X68000 - Ryu Umemoto, and/or Hiroaki

JUMP STRAIGHT TO THE MUSIC TIMESTAMP: 00:08:52    Today’s broadcast is  C1R6a for Wayback Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024. Today’s episode is our first of two Channel 1 retrospectives of Calendar 2023. Taking a page from Channel 2's retrospective scheme, today's episode is numbered "C1R6a" (Channel 1 – Retrospective 6a), and will be titled, simply, "The Best of 2023 – pt. 1: St John's picks". Be on the lookout for a second retrospective from Hugues!    Tracklist!     Track Number / Track Name / Game / System(s) / Composer(s) / Originally From [Episode] / Originally Selected By / Timestamp     A1) Earcatcher - 00:00:00     A2) Intro - 00:00:30     01) Inside the Wall - Stray - Multiplatform - Yann Van der Cruyssen - Ch F: Highlights from Stray - St. John - 00:08:52     02) Space Walk - Lightening Force - Genesis - Toshiharu Yamanishi, Takeshi Yoshida, and/or Naosuke Arai - C1E71 - St. John - 00:12:05     03) Intro - Shadow Squadron - 32X - Teruhiko Nakagawa and/or Masaru Stsumaru - C1E77 - St. John - 00:15:02    

Today's Broadcast is C2R3 for Wayback Wednesday, December 20th, 2023. Today's episode is our highlights from Season 3 of Nerd Noise Game Club (Channel 2) - our look back at calendar 2023. If you listened to the Channel F which shared every single track featured on Channel 2 this year, and started making some guesses / wishes on what we'd pick, you'll have to let us know how close or far off you were! :-D Tracklist:  Track number / Track Name / Game Name / System(s) / Composer(s) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Episode Opener! Hugues' "Wild Card" track - from C2E12: "House Music" (originally selected by Hugues) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------             01) My Quiet Forest Home - Octopath Traveller - Switch / PC - Yasunori Nishiki                      a) Earcatcher: 00:00:00                   b) Music - 00:00:03                   c) Intro - 00:03:26                   d) Top of Show Bus

Today's Broadcast is the entire collection of every single track featured on Nerd Noise Radio - Channel 2 during Calendar 2023 (Season 3). All the conversation and dialog have been scrapped, so these are music-only. 5 little mini-blocks, kinda like 5 little "mini Ch 1s with no intros or outros", all shared back to back....to back, to back, to back. C2R3 (our best of year in review episode - as in "Channel 2 Retrospective 3") is coming very soon, and today's MEGA MIX collection is meant to induce a little excitement for that! Do you think you can suss out which tracks will be chosen by each host? C2R3 will feature four tracks from each episode (one track of each host....by each host - a la HH HJ JH JJ) plus one "wildcard" track apiece - which are used as the episode bookends. NOTE 1: The tracks will be presented here in the same order in which they appeared in the original episodes, which in the case of C2E11, C2E12, C2E14, and C2E15 should all flow pretty naturally, as we do strive for at least some solid

Today’s “F-isode” is a look at the fabulous chip-tribute Album, “Time and Place”, written by Adam Frazier and Elijah Moore - on a program we’re calling “A Time and Place for Time and Place” - recorded on-location at the Iowa State University campus radio studio!   Tracklist   01) Blimp Earcatcher - 00:00:00 Music - 00:00:21 Introduction - 00:02:00 Discussion - 00:06:50 02) Clear Sky Music - 00:09:43 Discussion - 00:11:54 03) Sand Castle Music - 00:16:06 Discussion - 00:18:40 04) Odyssey Music - 00:24:49 Discussion - 00:26:40 05) Wrath Music - 00:30:03 Discussion - 00:32:09 06) Magma Music - 00:38:52 Discussion - 00:40:59 07) Valor Music - 00:44:38 Discussion - 00:48:24 08) Pixels Music - 00:58:52 Discussion - 01:00:40 09) Puddle Music - 01:06:49 Discussion - 01:09:39 10) Waiting… Music - 01:12:34 Discussion - 01:14:10 11) Clouds Music - 01:22:40 Discussion - 01:25:01 12) Icicle Music - 01:31:24 Discussion - 01:34:19 13) Orbit Music - 01:40:14 Discussion - 01:42:46 14) Party Hat Music - 01:47:03 Discussion - 0

Today’s broadcast is C2E15, for Theme Thursday, November 23rd, 2023 - Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! But whether you have a certain animal roasting in the oven or not, here are some great animal tunes and talk to keep you company!   Tracklist: Track# - Track - Game - System(s) - Composer(s) - Selected by which host   01) Spring Yard Zone - Sonic the Hedgehog - Genesis - Masato Nakamura - St. John Earcatcher -  00:00:00 Music - 00:00:06 Introduction - 00:02:13 Top of the Show Business - 00:06:36 An Update on St. John’s Autism / ADHD (AuDHD) Journey - 00:11:39 Now Introducing: “Oddie HD” - 00:14:17 More AuDHD content shout-outs: 00:15:30 Opening Track Discussion - 00:18:44 02) Carnival of the Penguins - Thin Ice - Intellivision - George Sanger - Hugues Music - 00:24:22 Discussion - 00:25:12 03) Woody Land 1 & 2 - Mr. Nutz - Genesis - Matt Furniss - St. John Music - 00:32:17 Discussion - 00:36:20 04) Gator Alley - Chester Cheetah: Too Cool to Fool - Kaneko Sound Team - Hugues Music - 00:40:05 Dis

In light of the recent turn of events involving Spotify, and its impact to Nerd Noise Radio in particular, the VGM podcast scene more broadly, and even music podcasts of all types, I wanted to get a special announcement up right away about what's going on, and how Nerd Noise Radio is responding. This announcement is most directly applicable to our Spotify listeners, but applicable more broadly to all listeners of Nerd Noise Radio, and even to non-listeners in the VGM podcast scene - particularly to our fellow podcasters, be they NNR listeners or not. -St. John

Today’s Broadcast is C1E80, for Scene Sunday, October 15th, 2023. Today’s episode (our final non-retrospective Ch 1 episode of calendar 2023’s “Season 6”) is a focus on remixes of VGM from various sources, with an emphasis on the OC Remix community, on a program we’re quite simply calling “The Remix Episode”. Today’s episode curated, hosted, and produced ENTIRELY by Hugues - of Nerd Noise Radio - Channel 2 fame! [show notes (including timestamps and tracklist formatting), podcast feed (and Archive) upload, and .wav-to-.mp3 conversion by St. John – literally everything else by Hugues!!]     Tracklist!!     Track #) Remix Track Name - Original Track Name (or "(Medley)") - Originally from Game (*=Game) - Originally from System (**=System) Original Composer(s) - Arranger(s) - Remix Source - Timestamp     A1) Intro - 00:00:00     01) Apidya - Meadow's Edge - Apidya - Amiga - Chris Huelsbeck - Volkor X - Project Paula – 00:01:46     02) Super Mega Ultra Pipe House - Super Pipe House - Super Mario RPG - SNES - c: Ko

[SEE IMPORTANT EDITOR’S NOTE BELOW THE TRACKLIST!]   Today’s Broadcast is C2E14 for Theme Thursday, October 12th, 2023. Today’s Theme is escape themed music, on a program called “Escape Artists” - theme and title (and track run order by Hugues)! Also, a bit of big news and a bit of small news from St. John - neither of which will probably be a surprise to anybody! Lastly, apologies for this episode being so late. This was actually SUPPOSED TO BE the August episode!!! :-O   Tracklist: Track# / Track / Game / System / Composer(s) / Selected By 01) The Last Dungeon - Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap - Master System - Shinichi Sakamoto - Hugues a) Earcatcher - 00:00:00 b) Music - 00:00:03 c) Intro - 00:01:48 d) Top of Show Business - 00:03:58 e) St. John's "Small News" (Linux Geekery Updates) - 00:08:27 f) Discussion - 00:10:45 02) Act 2 Part 1 - Ninja Gaiden - NES - Keiji Yamagishi, Ryuichi Nitta, and/or Ichiro Nakagawa - St. John a) Music - 00:14:57 b) Discussion - 00:17:01 03) Dance with Traps -

[EDITOR'S NOTE: In addition to being a really special episode for me already in that it features one of my all-time best personal friends, and also includes a really fun, really touching extended conversation between us at the end of the episode (which we're somewhat euphemistically calling an "interview"), or even for the episode featuring an "SM7B vs Podmic" mic comparison by way of the intro / outro [SM7B] vs "interview" [Podmic], which is the kinda stuff that I really geek (even if very few others do), perhaps most special of all for me is that this episode will also go down in history as being the very last episode of NNR ever to be produced by a non-confirmed autistic person. Though this episode is releasing AFTER my diagnosis, it was recorded and produced PRIOR, and therefore, all the both scripted and unscripted dialog was had from the perspective of someone who only THOUGHT he was autistic, as opposed to the person who now KNOWS he is. Both my side of the conversation, and my friend's side were each

Today’s broadcast is C1E78 for TwoFer Tuesday, August 15th, 2023. Today’s Episode will be TwoFer Tuesday – vol 8.    A1) Intro – 00:00:00  01) EDGE – Multi – Richard Malot  A) Quiet – 00:04:29 B) Pad – 00:06:58 02) Tetris Party Deluxe – Wii - Brian DiLucente  A) King Street – 00:09:56 B) Main Menu – 00:12:19 03) Hover Racing - PS1 - Tooru Kawakami and/or Hiroaki Ohmori  A) Drop to the Sky – 00:14:28 B) Laser Wind – 00:17:40 04) Burn-Cycle - CD-i – Simon Boswell  A) System Software – 00:20:30 B) Karmic Church – 00:26:59 05) Gran Turismo 5 - PS3  A) 4 Chords -Annayamada– 00:30:37  B) Park Side Café - Daisuke Kawai – 00:33:16 06) Art of Balance – Multi – Martin Schjoler  A) World G – 00:37:04 B) World H – 00:40:50 07) Jumping Flash - PS1 - Takeo Miratsu  A) Stage 4-1 – 00:44:31 B) Stage 1-2 – 00:47:25 08) Contra: The Hard Corps - Genesis - Hiroshi Kobayashi, Akira Sōji, Kenji Miyaoka, Michiru Yamane, Akira Yamaoka, and/or Hirofumi Taniguchi  A) Alien Den – 00:50:36 B) Jurassic Dope – 00:53:17 09) n++ - Multi – B

Today’s broadcast is  C1E77 for Mishmash Monday, July 31st, 2023. Today’s episode will be Mishmash Monday – vol 14.    A1– Intro – 00:00:00:  01 - Practice Race - Marble Madness - FM Towns – c: Hal Canon and/or Brad Fuller / a: Unknown – 00:05:28  02 – R.E.D. - Illumination LASER - X68000 - I.C. Kaze – 00:07:18  03 – Intro - Shadow Squadron - 32X – Teruhiko Nakagawa, and/or Masaru Setsumaru – 00:11:06  04 – Gambit - Spider-Man / X-Men - SNES – Tim  Tim and/or Geoff Follin – 00:15:14  05 – Firestarter (Instrumental) - WipEout XL - PS1 - Prodigy – 00:19:09  06 – Gran Prix Ending - F-Zero X - N64 – Tarō Bandō, and/or Hajime Wakai – 00:23:48  07 – Poison Ivy - The Adventures of Batman And Robin - Sega CD – Burke Trieschmann – 00:24:57  08 – Stage Theme - Battlemorph - Jaguar CD – Will Davis – 00:27:46  09– Chozo Ruins - Metroid Prime - GameCube – Kenji Yamamoto – 00:31:26  10 – Jungle Theme - Metal Gear - NES – Kazuki Muraoka – 00:36:09  11 – Vanilla Dome - Super Mario World - SNES – Koji Kondo – 00:38:15  12 – M

Today’s F-isode features video game music works from chipist and fellow VGM Podcaster, AJ Reyes, better known as “rayjkayj” of the VGM podcast VGMporium, and is our final contribution (of four) to MoVGM - season 2. A fifth was planned, but “man plans and COVID laughs”. Apologies also for a few “production shortcuts” used here due to the last minute nature of the production, as delayed by said interloper. Lastly, these tracks were all outtakes from C1E73 - UNKAYJ THE RAYJ!   All tracks composed and arranged by rayjkayj using VGMusicMaker, Deflemask and Sunvox. Since some of these games were unreleased, the tracklist will not list what system they released for, but which retro game sound hardware the tracks were designed around in the following format: “chip name(s) [major system(s) that used said chip]”.   TRACKLIST:   Intro - 00:00:00   Game 1: Bunny Kicker - YM2612 / SN76489 [Sega Genesis] AJ’s notes - 00:05:25 Carrot Crunchin’ Critters (Opening and Title Theme) - 00:07:00 See ya later Cotton Tail - 00:08:00

Today’s broadcast, for Theme Thursday, July 6th, 2023 is an episode of the Masters of VGM - season 2 (www.mastersofvgm.com) and is a focus on music from unsung and undersung composers - on an episode we’re calling “Songs of the Unsung”.   Tracklist:   01) John’s 1st composer (of 4): C418 (aka Daniel Rosenfeld)   John’s Track: Dreiton - Minecraft - MultiplatformEarcatcher - 00:00:00 Music - 00:00:07 Introduction - 00:08:16 Top of the Show pt 1 - 00:09:12 Discussion - 00:12:00 Top of the Show pt 2 - 00:14:19 Hugues’ Track: Enforcer Brittanica - Catacomb Snatch - PCMusic - 00:28:44 Discussion - 00:32:23   02) Hugues’ 1st composer: Takahiko Abe   Hugues’ Track: Templo del Sol - Asuteka II - PC88Music - 00:37:18: Discussion - 00:39:31 John’s Track: Machi - Susanoou Densetsu - PC EngineMusic - 00:46:36 Discussion - 00:48:24   03) John’s 2nd composer: Soichi Terada   John’s Track: Subspace 2 - Fantavision 202X - PCMusic - 00:56:06 Discussion - 00:59:27 Hugues’ Track: TV Tower - Ape Escape on the Loose - PSPMusi

Today’s Channel F (which in the parlance of Nerd Noise Radio are “bonuses and betas” episodes) features highlights from the soundtrack to Stray, for multiple platforms, composed by Yann Van der Cruyssen, also known as Morusque. This program will follow the standard format of neither a Ch 1 nor a Ch 2. I hope you enjoy the unique journey for NNR!   [all tracks composed by Yann Van Der Cruyssen, and all tracks are from Stray on multiple platforms]   SuitcaseEarcatcher - 00:00:00 Music - 00:00:10 Top of Show business - 00:02:21 Discussion - 00:15:47 Inside the WallMusic - 00:16:54 Discussion - 00:20:30 Mini-block 1: Extradiegetic MusicTown Square - 00:25:56 The Notebooks - 00:31:53 Courtyard - 00:35:33 Rikonium - 00:37:59 Clean City - 00:41:10 Discussion - 00:44:33 Baby DownloadMusic - 00:48:01 Discussion - 00:51:36 Mini-block 2: Funky MusicComputational Song - 00:54:00 Radio Edit (radio edit) - 00:56:07 Error-22 - 00:57:26 Discussion - 00:59:44 Mini-block 3: Happy MusicStep on my Shard - 01:01:34 Sterilize

["Skip straight to the music" timestamp: 00:09:09]    Today’s broadcast is C1E76 for Theme Thursday, June 1st, 2023. Today’s theme is music from unsung and undersung composers, on a program we're calling "The Big Sound of the Little Guy – vol. 2" - an episode (and likely the debut episode) of the fabulous VGM podcast community's massive group project "Masters of VGM" - season 2! Masters of VGM can be found at www.mastersofvgm.com, or on Twitter or Discord.    Track# - Track - Game - System(s) - Composer(s) - Timestamp    A1) Masters of VGM Promo (feat. Ed from VGMbassy) - 00:00:00    A2) NNR MoVGM Earcatcher – 00:01:557    A3) Intro – 00:02:01    01) Enter the Gungeon – Enter the Gungeon - Multiplatform - Adam Drucker – 00:09:09    02) Lovely Planet – Lovely Planet - Multiplatform – Calem Bowen – 00:13:23    03) The Beginning - Vampire Survivors – Multiplatform - William Davies, elrond504, PlayOnLoop, Daniela Zandara, Filippo Vicarelli, and/or Lorenzo Floro – 00:15:12    04) P-Lump - Doomsday Warrior – SNES -