Thursday, June 24, 2021

"C2E4" - Summer Jams

 Episode can be found here: https://nerdnoiseradio.podbean.com/e/c2e2-summerjams


Today’s Broadcast is C2E4, for Theme Thursday, June 24th, 2021. Today’s theme will be summery and seasonal music on a program we’re calling “Summer Jams”. Today’s panelists are Hugues and St. John.


Tracklist:


Track# - Track - Game - System - Composer - Selected by:


01) The Only Song in the Game - T&C Surf Designs - NES - Tsukasa Masuko - Hugues

    Episode Greeting - 00:00:00

    Music - 00:00:03

    Episode Introduction - 00:02:07

    Discussion - 00:02:13

02) Passing Breeze - Outrun 2006: Coast to Coast - Multiplatform - c: Hiroshi Kawaguchi a: Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Yasuhiro Takagi, and/or Fumio Ito - St. John

    Music - 00:10:44

    Discussion - 00:16:30

03) Costa Del Sol - Final Fantasy VII - PS1 - Nobuo Uematsu - Hugues

    Music - 00:21:18

    Discussion - 00:23:42

04) Sirena Beach - Super Mario Sunshine - GameCube - Koji Kondo and/or Shinobu Tanaka - St. John

    Music - 00:28:22

    Discussion - 00:30:38

05) DK Isle - Donkey Kong 64 - N64 - Grant Kirkhope - Hugues

    Music - 00:38:13

    Discussion - 00:42:03

06) Ayane - Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 - PS4 / Vita - Masayoshi Sasaki, Mari Yoshida, and/or Kosuke Mizukami - St. John

    Music - 00:46:26

    Discussion - 00:50:26

07) Outset Island - Legend of Zelda: Windwaker - GameCube - Kenta Nagata, Hajime Wakai, Toru Minegishi, and/or Koji Kondo - Hugues

    Music - 00:53:12

    Discussion - 00:57:06

08) In-Game Theme - Pink - iOS / Android - Bart Bonte - St. John

    Music - 01:02:34

    Discussion - 01:06:21

09) Mishelam Wonderland - Ao no Kiseki - PSP - Falcom Sound Team JDK (probably Saki Momiyama) - Hugues

    Music - 01:09:58

    Discussion - 01:13:30

10) Snif City - Paper Mario: The Origami King - Switch - Shoh Murakami, Yoshiaki Kimura, Hiroki Morshita, and/or Fumihiro Isobe - St. John

    Music - 01:18:14

    Discussion - 01:21:02

11) Side Crawler’s Dance (Beach) - Wonder Boy III: The Dragon’s Trap - Mastersystem (PSG) - Shinchi Sakamoto - Hugues

    Music - 01:24:37

    Discussion - 01:27:01

12) Door into Summer - Knuckles Chaotix - 32X - Junko Shiratsu and/or Mariko Nanba - St. John

    Music - 01:31:27

    Discussion - 01:33:55

13) School’s Out - Bully - Multiplatform - Shawn Lee - Hugues

    Music - 01:38:23

    Discussion - 01:41:17

    “Our Other Projects” / Housekeeping Discussion - 01:46:10

    Closing Track Discussion - 01:53:09

    Wrap-Up / Episode Sign-off - 01:55:20

14)  Castle City - Waverace 64 - N64 - Kazumi Totaka - St. John

    Music - 01:55:49

    Blooper - 01:57:58


Total Episode Runtime: 01:59:26


Retro Game Club can be found here:


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


You can also follow Retro Game Club on Facebook @retrogameclubpodcast and on Twitter @rgcpodcast.


Hugues’ blog can be found here: 


https://huguesjohnson.com/


You can find Nerd Noise Radio on Facebook and on Twitter each @NerdNoiseRadio. There are also two Facebook Groups: Nerd Noise Radio “Easy Mode” where we just have general video game and nerd fun, or for the gearheads among you, Nerd Noise Radio “Expert Mode” where we deep dive sound hardware, composer info, and music theory. 


You can find the blog at www.nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com. Where we sometimes share additional show notes, and inside info. You can also find Nerd Noise Radio on Archive.org, where we have remixes and super bonuses only available there (such as a music-only alternative version of today’s show).


Nerd Noise Radio is also a member of the Retro Junkies community, which can be found at www.theretrojunkies.com. And we are a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community on Facebook. St. John is also the admin of the Podcasters of Des Moines Facebook group, which features a number of other podcasters and great programs from the greater Des Moines area.


Thanks for listening! Join us again sometime between July and October for a very special, guest-hosted episode of Channel 1 with an incredible theme... and wherever you are…..Fly the N!!

 

Cheers!


Tuesday, June 8, 2021

"Noise from the Hearts of Nerds" - C1E58 - TwoFer Tuesday vol. 7

 Episode can be found here:

https://nerdnoiseradio.podbean.com/e/noise-from-the-hearts-of-nerds-c1e58-twofer-tuesday-%e2%80%93-vol-7/ 


Today’s broadcast is  C1E58 for TwoFer Tuesday, June 8th, 2021. Today’s broadcast will be TwoFer Tuesday – vol 7, and a very special 40th birthday celebration of / collaboration with a listener and someone very special to me – my brother, Jesse. 


Tracklist: 


Game #, Game Name, System, Composer(s), track info, Timestamp 


01) Intro - 00:00:00 

02) Zelda II - NES - Akito Nakatsuka 

Overworld Theme - 00:04:11 

Battle Theme - 00:06:21 

03) LoZ: Link to the Past - SNES - Koji Kondo 

Seal of the Seven Maidens - 00:08:21 

Lost Ancient Ruins - 00:10:13 

04) Super Metroid - SNES - Kenji Yamamoto and/or Minako Hamano 

Brinstar Red Soil - 00:12:08 

Norfair Ancient Ruins - 00:16:05 

05) Castlevania - NES - Kinuyo Yamashita, Satoe Terashima, and/or Hidenori Maezawa 

Poison Mind - 00:18:27 

Nothing to Lose - 00:19:08 

06) Castlevania II - NES - Satoe Terashima 

Bloody Tears - 00:20:54 

Monster Dance - 00:22:23 

07) Castlevania III - NES - Yoshinori Sasaki, Jun Funahashi, Yukie Morimoto and/or Hidenori Maezawa 

Epitaph - 00:24:22 

Demon Seed - 00:25:52 

08) Super Castlevania IV - SNES - Masanori Adachi, Akira Soji, and/or Taro Kudo 

Simon’s Theme - 00:27:13 

The Rotating Dungeon pt 2 - 00:30:23 

09) Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - PS1 / Saturn - Michiru Yamane 

Dance of the Pales - 00:31:47 

Lost Paintings - 00:36:26 

10) Shin Megami Tensei IV - 3DS - Ryota Koduka, Kenichi Tsuyicha and/or Toshiki Konishi 

Distress - 00:39:37 

Ashurai-Kai Authorized Shop - 00:41:44 

11) Mega Man II - NES - Takashi Tateishi, Manami Matsumae and/or Yoshihiro Sakaguchi 

Flash Man - 00:44:46 

Ending 1 - 00:46:05 

12) Mega Man III - NES - Yasuaki Fujita 

Select Screen - 00:47:09 

Gemini Man - 00:47:48 

13) Final Fantasy IV - SNES - Nobuo Uematsu 

Prelude - 00:49:38 

Illusionary World - 00:51:42 

14) Final Fantasy VI - SNES - Nobuo Uematsu 

The Phantom Forest - 00:53:48 

Celes - 00:56:57 

15) Final Fantasy VII - PS1 - Nobuo Uematsu 

Anxious Heart - 00:59:45 

If you Open Your Heart - 01:03:29 

16) Final Fantasy IX - PS1 - Nobuo Uemtasu 

The Place I’ll Return to Someday - 01:06:16 

Terra - 01:08:07 

17) Final Fantasy XII - PS2 - Hitoshi Sakimoto, Hayato Matsuo, and/or Masaharu Iwata 

The Streets of Rabanastre - 01:11:50 

Cerobi Steppe - 01:14:33 

18) Ninja Gaiden II - NES - Ryuichi Nitta and/or Mayuko Okamura 

Act II Part 2 - 01:17:48 

Act V - 01:19:30 

19) Actraiser - SNES - Yuzo Koshiro 

Filmore - 01:21:28 

Bloodpool - 01:23:06 

20) Persona IV - PS2 / PS3 - Kenichi Tsuchiya, Atsushi Kitajoh and/or Ryota Koduka 

Poem for Everyone’s Souls - 01:25:03 

I’ll Face Myself (Special Version) - 01:27:41 

21) Eternal Sonata - PS3 / XB360 - Motoi Sakuraba 

The Boundary Between Snow and Ice - 01:30:58 

A Light - 01:33:53 

22) Outro - 01:37:25 

23) BONUS: “All Eight Takes” - 01:53:57 

 

Music Block Runtime: 01:33:20, Total Episode Runtime: 01:55:19 


 - Customary Intro / Outro Music - Funky Radio - Jet Grind Radio - Dreamcast - BB Rights 

 - Special Intro Music - Happy Birthday - Gimmick - Famicom - Masashi Kageyama 

 - Special Outro Music - Neighborhood 2 - The Sims - PC - Jerry Martin and/or Marc Russo 


Links to items referenced in the episode: 


The full 100: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15MfbNGaMA6mfBSBgjw-fFsdqKBb8FdWcbC6m78qYYzM/edit?usp=sharing 


The Comparative List: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1h9z6u1QkeQT5oyQqLqRQP8evDjqEolkLrpOSuAwWgZ8/edit?usp=sharing 


The Amusing Word Online Predictive Text fail: https://photos.app.goo.gl/NwZYAPdPeWfamHRM7 


C1E51: "Mishmash Monday – vol. 9" - My own 40th birthday episode (Feb 3, 2020): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/noise-from-hearts-nerds-c1e51-mishmash-monday-vol-9/id1191401173?i=1000464455857 


Produced using Ardour 6.6.0 / Audacity 2.4.2 in Ubuntu Studio 21.04 


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or here 


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NOTICE: The "Nerd Noise Radio - RERUNS!" feed will be going away after December of 2021, and consolidating its output with the main feed. However, in the meanwhile, it will remain active with rerun content, and can be found here:  


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or here 


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Our YouTube Channel, for the time being is in dormancy, but will be returning with content, hopefully, in 2021. Meanwhile, all the old stuff is still there, and can be found here:  


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Nerd Noise Radio is also available on The Retro Junkies Network at www.theretrojunkies.com, and is a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at  


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Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:  


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Thanks for listening! Join us again on the 24th of this month for C2E4 (Channel 2, Episode 4): "Summer Jams" - Tasty VGM and Talk on "Nerd Noise Radio"! And wherever you are - Fly the N! 


Cheers!