Today’s broadcast is C2R2 for Wayback Wednesday, December 14th, 2022. Today’s focus is a look back on Season 2 (calendar 2022)! And maybe we also lose ourselves in a little bit of Mastodon talk towards the end of the episode! ;-) “Selected by Legend” (use this for reference in the tracklist) JJ - selected in both the original episode as well as today’s episode by St. John HH - selected in both the original episode as well as today’s episode by Hugues HJ - selected in the original episode by Hugu...
Dec 14, 2022•2 hr 45 min•Ep. 105
Truncated Show notes for "length-limit exceeded" reasons! See Full-Length show notes here: https://archive.org/details/nnr-c-2-r-1-complete ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Let’s open with a Wildcard….. 01) Birdman - Pilotwings 64 -N64 - Dan Hess - Hugues - Hugues (originally from C2E3) Earcatcher - 00:00:00 Music - 00:00:03 Introduction - 00:03:42 Top of Show / Catching up - 00:04:45 How this episode is going to go - 00:11:01 -------------------------...
Dec 06, 2022•3 hr 6 min•Ep. 105
Today’s broadcast is C1E51 for Mishmash Monday, February 3rd, 2020. Today’s broadcast is Mishmash Monday - vol 9. The inaugural episode of Season 40, and a special celebration of St. John's 40th birthday, guest hosted by various members of his family. 01 - Ear Catcher - 00:00:00 02 - Intro - 00:00:12 03 - Sonic CD - Sega CD - Stardust Speedway Zone (Past) - Naofumi Hataya and/or Masafumi Ogata - 00:02:10 04 - FIFA 20 - Multi - Vámano - Buscabulla - 00:04:33 05 - Prey - multi - Everything's gonna...
Nov 30, 2022•2 hr 46 min•Ep. 100
It’s almost time again for our end-of-year “Best of Season 2” (C2R2), on Channel 2, where Hugues and I will pick a combined 22 tracks from the 72 total which we featured across all of Season 2 in calendar 2022. Like last year, we’ll each pick 2 tracks per episode (one per episode per host from each of the two hosts), as well as each picking one wildcard track to serve as our episode opener and closer tracks. To build a little excitement for that episode, as well as to give you a handy refresher ...
Nov 19, 2022•3 hr 38 min•Ep. 104
Today’s broadcast is C1E41 for Mishmash Monday, February 4th, 2019. Today’s Episode is Mishmash Monday, vol. 7 - the inaugural episode of 2019's "Season 3". 01 - Intro - 00:00:00 02 - Fantavision (US) - PS2 - intro - Soichi Terada - 00:02:08 03 - Sonic Mania - multi - Studiopolis Zone Act 2 - Tee Lopes - 00:02:40 04 - Ernest Evans - Genesis - Stage 2 - Motoi Sakuraba - 00: 05:09 05 - Sim City Classic - PC (SC-88) - Theme - Steve Hales / Will Wright - 00:07:50 06 - Traffic Rush - iOS/Android - In...
Nov 16, 2022•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 100
Today’s broadcast is C1E69 for Mishmash Monday, November 7th, 2022. Today’s Episode will be "Mishmash Monday - vol. 12, the long-lost "original C1E41", a 2018 Lost Level originally intended for 2019. Track# / Track / Game / System / Composer(s) / Timestamp 01) Earcatcher - 00:00:00 02) Intro - 00:00:12 03) Flight - Panzer Dragoon - Saturn – c: Yoshitaka Azuma a: Tomoyuki Hayashi - 00:06:33 04) New Beginning pt. 1 - LA Noire - multi - Andrew Hale and Simon Hale - 00:10:15 05) This is Your Story -...
Nov 07, 2022•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 102
Today's Broadcast is C1E68 for Theme Thursday, October 27th, 2022. Today's theme is a collection of spooky, dissonant, jarring music for the occasion of Halloween, on a program we're calling "They're Coming to Get You, Barbara" - a "Lost Level", originally intended for C1E37: Halloween 2018, then bumped to C1E48: Halloween 2019, before being bumped indefinitely, and lost to the sands of time....UNTIL NOW! Featuring a music block produced all the way back in July of 2018, making today's broadcast...
Oct 27, 2022•1 hr 56 min•Ep. 101
Today’s Broadcast is C2E10 for Theme Thursday, October 20th, 2022. Today’s episode (our final “normal” episode of Season 2 [calendar 2022]) will be a focus on Sega CD music to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the system’s North American launch. Also, including an endearingly terrible improvised gag attempt at the very beginning! :-D Track # / Track / Game [System, of course, will always be Sega CD, or at least Mega CD] / Composer (s) / Selected by 01) False Intro (Gag!) - 00:00:00 02) Track 03 ...
Oct 20, 2022•2 hr 38 min•Ep. 103
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 outro will have those mistakes. Sorry. :-( Track Number / Track Name / Time stamp 01: Intro - 00:00:00 02:...
Oct 12, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 100
Today’s broadcast is C1E46 for FaceOff Friday, August 9th, 2019. Today’s episode will be FaceOff Friday - vol 3 - guest hosted, guest curated, and guest vetted by Electric Boogaloo! 01) Intro - 00:00:00 02) Ogre Battle - Overture - Hitoshi Sakimoto a) SNES [March of the Black Queen] - 00:02:45 b) GBA [Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis] - 00:03:44 c) N64 [Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber] - 00:04:43 d) PS1/PSP [Tactics Ogre: Let us Cling Together] - 00:05:45 03) Blaster Master - Area 1 - c: N...
Sep 28, 2022•2 hr 1 min•Ep. 100
Today’s broadcast is C1E67 for FaceOff Friday, September 16th, 2022. Today’s episode will be FaceOff Friday – vol. 4 – a 2019 Lost Level, originally intended for release in 2020! 01) Intro – 00:00:00 02) Simpsons: Bart's Nightmare - Dream Street a) SNES - composed or arranged by Mark Ganus and/or H. Kinsley Thurber – 00:04:47 b) Genesis - composed or arranged by Dean Morrell – 00:06:40 03) Bomberman - Stage 2 theme - c: Jun Chikuma a) SNES (SuperBomberman) - a: Tomoyuki Hamada – 00:08:40 b) TG16...
Sep 16, 2022•1 hr 56 min•Ep. 100
Today’s broadcast is Episode 33 for Face Off Friday, August 10th, 2018. Today's program will be "Face Off Friday - vol. 2" Play along with us! Let us know in the comments section, or on our social media sites, or by e-mail which versions of which tracks you like better - and why! Let's cuss it, and discuss it! Track Number / Game Name / Track Name / Composers / Versions List / Timestamp 01: Intro - 00:00:00 02: Street Fighter II - Title Screen - Yoko Shimomura SNES - 00:02:05 Arcade (CPS1) - 00:...
Sep 07, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 100
Today’s broadcast is C1E48 for Scene Sunday, October 13th, 2019. Today’s episode is 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 new to the program! Track# - Track Name – System Sound Hardware – Composer – BotB Event - Timestamp 01 – Intro - 00:00:00 02 – E...
Aug 30, 2022•1 hr 56 min•Ep. 100
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 - Composer(s) - Selected By 01) Earcatcher - 00:00:00 02) Dry Desert Sky - Two Dots - iOS / Android ...
Aug 25, 2022•2 hr 41 min•Ep. 99
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 - Source - Timestamp * = what video game sound system the track was designed around (aka, "what system this wo...
Aug 14, 2022•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 98
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 Hutch – Multiplatform – Tim Follin – C2E3 – St. John – 00:04:12 04) I'll Introduce – Yu Yu Hakusho: Makyou To...
Jul 27, 2022•2 hr 18 min•Ep. 97
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 vers] - Jet Grind Radio – Dreamcast – B.B. Rights – C1E51 – St. John – 00:09:44 03) Title – TMNT – NES – Jun Fu...
Jul 13, 2022•3 hr 18 min•Ep. 96
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’re quite simply calling “Our Four Favorites” 01) Earcatcher: 00:00:00 02) Hugues’ Composer #4: Yoko S...
Jun 30, 2022•2 hr 58 min•Ep. 95
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 of the 2022 add-on. Note: I apologize for the poor audio quality on my voice in the 2022 earcactcher...
May 25, 2022•1 hr 51 min•Ep. 91
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 it. Well, this time, we did. And the reason why we did was so that I could have something to listen ...
May 16, 2022•34 min•Ep. 94
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, and my new production techniques. I'm exceptionally proud of this episode, and hope you will find it...
May 12, 2022•2 hr 53 min•Ep. 93
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 Tuesday, May 7th, 2019. Today’s Episode was TwoFer Tuesday - vol. 5. Amended 02/06/22 to include an all...
May 04, 2022•1 hr 51 min•Ep. 91
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 - 00:02:57 Discussion - 00:06:16 Top of Show Business - 00:09:08 02) Kimi wa HoeHoe Musume (Ending / Staff ...
Apr 28, 2022•2 hr 5 min•Ep. 92
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...
Apr 23, 2022•56 min•Ep. 91
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...
Mar 23, 2022•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 91
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-Zer...
Mar 13, 2022•1 hr 55 min•Ep. 91
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,...
Mar 09, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 91
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 – Kazunak...
Feb 21, 2022•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 91
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 goo...
Feb 16, 2022•56 min•Ep. 91
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 In...
Feb 03, 2022•2 hr 13 min•Ep. 90
