Nerd Noise Radio

Today's Broadcast of Nerd Noise Game Club (Nerd Noise Radio - Channel 2), for Theme Thursday, August 25th, 2022 (recorded Aug 14th), aptly timed for our current slog through the dog days of Summer, with unprecedented (or barely precedented) heat waves racking so much of the world is a focus on music from desert biome areas - on a program we're calling "Just Deserts" Track# - Track - Game - System...

Today’s broadcast is  C1E66 for Scene Sunday, August 13th, 2022. Today’s broadcast is "I Know Kung Fu" - a collection of original chiptunes from Battle of the Bits, Sampler Pack Contest, Trippy Compo, and Super Famicompo – curated entirely by special guest, chiptune artist, SNESmusic.org maintainer, and NNR alumnus, KungFuFurby    Track# - Track Name - Sound Hardware* - Composer - Community - Sour...

Today’s broadcast is C1E65B for Wayback Wednesday, July 27th, 2022. Today’s episode is "The Best of 2020 / 2021 pt 2: Hugues' Picks" - hosted by Hugues himself! :-)    Track# / Track / Game / System / Composer(s) / Original Episode / Selected By / Timestamp    01) Intro – 00:00:00  02) Time's Scar – Chrono Cross – PS1 – Yasunori Mitsuda – C1E60 – Jeshua Lack – 00:01:51  03) Track 4 – Starsky and H...

Today’s broadcast is  C1E65A for Wayback Wednesday, July 13th, 2022 Today’s episode is part one of two in our "Best of 2020 / 2021" celebration – featuring St. John's picks, and unimaginitavely called "The Best of 2020 / 2021 – part 1: St. John's picks".    Track# - Track – Game – System – Composer(s) - Original Episode – Originally selected by    01) Intro – 00:00:00  02) Funky Radio [In-Game ver...

Today’s Broadcast is C2E8 for Theme Thursday, June 30th, 2022. Today’s episode will be Nerd Noise Radio’s contribution to the greater VGM podcast scene massive group project “Masters of VGM” ( https://mastersofvgm.com ) and like all “MoVGM” episodes from all the participating podcasts, will be a focus on our four favorite composers (with a surprise “East meets West” twist) - on a program that we’r...

Today’s rerun is C1E30 originally released Theme Thursday, June 14th, 2018. Today’s theme was music from indie games, on a program we called "The Big Sound of the Little Guy – 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...

For each episode of Channel 2, there are two separate Google Meet sessions between Hugues and I. The second one, where we meet to actually record the episode - an edited form of this second call is what ends up being the conversation portions of a Ch 2 episode. The first one, though, where we meet to establish run order for the tracks for the episode, you never get to hear because we never record...

Today’s broadcast is C1E64 for Nerd Noise Crossovers, Thursday, 05/12/2022. Today’s Crossover is "ThreeFer Thursday" - which is, among standard format Ch 1 episodes for "just ordinary occasions", our longest episode to date. So hunker down and buckle up for what is going to be quite the musical journey! Also the Ch 1 debut of the new mic, higher quality copies of the intro/outro background music,...

May the Fourth be with you, Listeners! I -ALMOST- reran C1E9 "May the Fourth be With You" instead, which was our Star Wars game music focus. But this one was so much more relevant to imminently incoming new episodes, so I went with it instead. At the bottom of the comments, I'll include a link to C1E9, you'll get an informal "twofer" here. :-) Today’s rerun is C1E44, originally released TwoFer Tue...

Today’s Broadcast is C2E7 for Theme Thursday, April 28th, 2022. Today’s focus will be a collection of cutesy, dancy, feel-good tracks, on a program Hugues named for us: “All Night Super Kawaii Dance Party”!   Track # / Track / Game / System / Composer (s) / Selected by   01) Lovely City - Lovely Planet - Multiplatform - Calem Bowen - St. John Earcatcher - 00:00:00 Music - 00:00:09 Introduction - 0...

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 time...

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...

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 – Hi...

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...

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...

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...

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) Ea...

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 (Unl...

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 quar...

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-yea...

Today’s broadcast is C2R1 [Channel 2 Retrospective 1] for Wayback Wednesday, December 29th, 2021 -  a momentous occasion for Channel 2: our first retrospective - a look back at the non-standard 1.25yr long “Season 1”, as well as a look back to our at-that-time “one off” bonus in December 2019 that would go on to become the general template of Channel 2 and would retroactively become its unofficial...

Today’s Broadcast is C1E60, for Theme Thursday, December 23rd, 2021 - our final episode of our very non-standard two-year long “Season 4”. So it is fitting that we’d end such a wildly non-standard season - filled with primarily wildly non-standard content already - with such a dramatically non-standard Channel 1 episode. Today’s episode abandons the customary Channel 1 “great big music block” mixt...

Today’s “F-isode” is the complete collection of all music from season 1 of Nerd Noise Radio - Channel 2 (Sept 2020 - Sept 2021) ***PLUS***, the music from Hugues and I’s December 2019 Channel F “one-off” that would go on to retroactively become the template, and “unofficial ‘beta’” for Channel 2. Though much longer, and a bit more clunky and unpolished, it is otherwise identical in format and fund...

SPECIAL NOTE: I may or may not be choosing this episode as November’s rerun because it may or may not directly relate to December’s special episode of Channel 1 (I can neither confirm nor deny such rumors!) ;-) :-P   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Today’s broadcast is Episode 40 for Th...

Today’s broadcast is C1E59, for Theme Thursday, Oct 14th, 2021. Today’s Theme is a focus on music from games by Falcom, on a program we’re simply calling “The Falcom Episode”.    SPECIAL UP-FRONT NOTE 1: This episode is EXTRA SPECIAL for three reasons: 1) it is curated and hosted (and produced) by Hugues Johnson of Nerd Noise Radio Channel 2, and Retro Game Club, 2) it is the first episode in the...