Nerd Noise Radio

Today’s Broadcast is C2E5, for Theme Thursday, September 23rd, 2021. Today’s Theme is music from games only available in Japan, on a program we’re calling “Nihon Dake De” (loosely translated: “Only in Japan”)!   Track Number - Track - Game - System - Composer - Selected by - Timestamp   01) Greeting - 00:00:00 02) Saturn - Star Cruizer - Sharp X68000 - Toshiya Yamanaka - St. John Music - 00:00:03...

Today's rerun was a VERY special occasion that I'm very excited to get to share anew. It was a Channel F "F-isode", originally broadcast December 19th, 2019 that at the time was intended to be nothing more than just a fun "one off" between two friends and fellow podcasters. And yet, it ended up becoming something so much more than that. Though not intended to be at the time, and though it will pro...

Today’s rerun is C1E53 for TwoFer Tuesday, originally broadcast August 4th, 2020. Today’s episode will be TwoFerTuesday – volume 6.    01 – Earcatcher – 00:00:00  02 - Intro – 00:01:43  03 - Mystic Defender - Genesis - Chikako Kamtani  Scene 1 – 00:03:53  Scene 3 – 00:05:35  04 – Spiderman vs the Kingpin - Genesis - Mark Miller, John Karr and/or David Javelosa  Warehouse – 00:06:50  Peter Parker's...

Today’s rerun is C1E43 for Theme Thursday, originally broadcast April 10th, 2019. Today’s theme is a focus on those wonderful Commodore 64 pieces (generally title and loader screens) that are just too long for most other formats, on a program we're calling Commodore 64 Epics - guest hosted, guest curated, and guest vetted by Henrik Andersson of the C64 music and remix podcast "Commoflage".     Tra...

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 Ep...

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 Th...

Today’s rerun is C1E48, originally broadcast Scene Sunday, October 13th, 2019. Today’s episode is a [return to 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...

Editor's Note: There's a very special reason why chose today's episode for this month's rerun. And it's not just because it originally released one year ago today....   ....it's that because of a technical glitch on the podcast feed....you never got to hear it in its entirety.   Here's the story: originally a Channel F "F-isode", and originally released 04/28/2020, it was meant to supplement C1E52...

Today’s broadcast is C1E57 for Theme Thursday, April 1st, 2021. Today’s theme is a focus on slow and downtempo music, on a program we're calling "Slow Jams". In the spirit of Backtracks, the track list will be temporarily withheld. Details in the outro on when and how to find the track information. Anonymous timestamps will be provided, though.    Track# - Track – Game – System – Composer – Timest...

Today’s rerun is Episode 28 originally released Scene Sunday, May 6th, 2018. Today’s Episode is 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're calling "Sense of the Scene - vol. 1"      Tracklist - provided in various formats depending on "scene subgenre":    01: Intro - 00:00:00  02: ["...

Today’s Broadcast is C2E3, for Mishmash Monday, March 15th, 2021. Today’s episode will “Mishmash Monday - vol. 1” - Not to be confused with Channel 1’s C1E10 “Mishmash Monday - vol. 1” from May of 2017. Today’s panelists are Hugues and St. John.   Tracklist:   Track# - Track - Game - System - Composer - Selected by:   01) Track 4 - Starsky and Hutch - Multiplatform - Tim Follin - St. John Episode...

Today’s broadcast is C1E56 for Mishmash Monday, February 22nd, 2021. Today’s episode will be Mishmash Monday, vol 10 – the inaugural episode of calendar 2021, and of our very non-standard "Season 4 – part 2".    Track# – Track – Game – System – Composer(s) – Timestamp    01) Season 4 [pt. 2] Earcatcher – 00:00:00   02) Intro – 00:00:03   03) Drawing Game –  Pictionary – NES – Tim Follin – 00:02:11...

Today's Rerun is C1E15:  "Welcome to the Disc Level Disc Level" - our first ever "Super Sized Episode" back before they all were, AND our first ever "Nerd Noise Cross Over" marrying the concepts of a "Theme Thursday" (Sega CD Music) with a "TwoFer Tuesday" (two pieces per game) - only I totally cheated with Sonic CD at the end, treating JP/EU-only, NA-only, and universal musics as separate "twofer...

Today’s Broadcast is C2E2, for Theme Thursday, Christmas Eve, 2020. Today’s theme is Christmas, and Holiday, and Wintery music, on a program we’re calling “Deck the Halls”. Your panelists today are Hugues and St. John   Tracklist:   Track# - Track - Game - System - Composer - Selected by:   01) Intro + Menu - Hyper Catalog 4 - PC Engine - Unknown - Hugues Episode Greeting - 00:00:00 Music (Intro)...

Today’s broadcast is C1E55b for Wayback Wednesday, December 9th, 2020. Today’s episode will be "Best of 2019 pt.2 - St. John's Picks" - a 75 ULTRA-MEGA KING-KONG jumbo-sized episode so long that we only do these kinds of shows just once a year (and forego the usual intro /outro). All tracks in this retrospective selected by St. John, and pulled from episodes featured in our calendar 2019 "Season 3...

Today’s broadcast is C1E55a for Wayback Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020. Today’s episode will be "Best of 2019 pt.1 - Listener Picks" - a 50 track collection culled from 79 total, and 61 unique submissions between nine distinct contributors, all from episodes featured in our calendar 2019 "Season 3".     Track# – Track – Game – System – Composer(s) - Original Episode – Selected for this collection b...

Today’s broadcast is C1E54 for Theme Thursday, November 19th, 2020. Today’s theme is one of the most special we've ever had on the show – a celebration of 35 years of the most famous, iconic, and ubiquitous franchise in all of video game history – Super Mario Bros. To commemorate the occasion, we present you with a 35-track collection of music from Mario and extended universe games – including wha...

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 out...

It’s the Dawning of a new Era! You are Tuned to Nerd Noise Radio – Channel 2! Today’s inaugural installment is C2E1, for Theme Thursday, Sept 17th, 2020. Today’s theme is “Songs of the Pandemic”.     Track# - Track – Game – System – Composer(s) - Selected By – Timestamp    01: The Runaway (City on the Horizon – Instrumental) - 198X – Multi – Daniel Rosenqvist and/or Anton Dromberg (UFD?) - St. Joh...

Today's Rerun is C1E27: "Mishmash Monday - vol 4", originally released April 23rd, 2018.   Please note that due to the attached ear catcher at the beginning regarding Best of 2019, the time stamps in the track list will be off by a minute, minute and a half. Up against a deadline to put this down for a couple months, I did not have time to update the time stamps accordingly. They're still reasonab...

Today’s broadcast is C1E53 for TwoFer Tuesday, August 4th, 2020. Today’s episode will be TwoFerTuesday – volume 6.    01 – Earcatcher – 00:00:00  02 - Intro – 00:01:43  03 - Mystic Defender - Genesis - Chikako Kamtani  Scene 1 – 00:03:53  Scene 3 – 00:05:35  04 – Spiderman vs the Kingpin - Genesis - Mark Miller, John Karr and/or David Javelosa  Warehouse – 00:06:50  Peter Parker's Room – 00:09:50 ...

Today's Rerun is C1E35: "The Floppy Show", originally released Sept 20th, 2018, it was our focus on music from games from Computer systems (as opposed to conventional game consoles). The episode was named after a local Des Moines-area kid's show from the 1950s-1980s, and features clips of the show in both the intro and the outro (as well as a little Kraftwerk and Sonic CD).   Please note that due...

In delayed celebration of the delayed release of the Turbografx16 mini / PC Engine mini / CoreGrafx mini, our rerun this month will not be one episode, but three - each part of our three part mini-series on the TG16 / PC Engine from September of last year, which was made in conjunction with Bryce Dumond of the Turbotastic Podcast (a fantastic TG16/PCE "game by game" pod). The only difference being...

In delayed celebration of the delayed release of the Turbografx16 mini / PC Engine mini / CoreGrafx mini, our rerun this month will not be one episode, but three - each part of our three part mini-series on the TG16 / PC Engine from September of last year, which was made in conjunction with Bryce Dumond of the Turbotastic Podcast (a fantastic TG16/PCE "game by game" pod). The only difference being...

In delayed celebration of the delayed release of the Turbografx16 mini / PC Engine mini / CoreGrafx mini, our rerun this month will not be one episode, but three - each part of our three part mini-series on the TG16 / PC Engine from September of last year, which was made in conjunction with Bryce Dumond of the Turbotastic Podcast (a fantastic TG16/PCE "game by game" pod). The only difference being...