It's an all new episode of Shujin Academy VGM Club! I'm spotlighting some great new and/or overlooked composers for #mastersofvgm! Check it out! https://www.podbean.com/ea/pb-6fh6c-1441fa6
I've got links in the show notes for the artists' Spotify, YouTube, and Bandcamp pages in the show notes! Check out their stuff!
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It's June, and that means Masters of VGM! Our 2023 theme is "Unsung and Up-and-Coming", and I’m honoring six composers in this episode that are making great VGM, even if they’re not household names yet. Listen to learn about honorees Ben Prunty, Megan McDuffee, Garoad, Andrew Jeremy, Hiroyuki Yanada, and Victoria Dominowski. Special thanks for this episode goes out to: Fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing cover art. You can and should find barSILENCE wherever you download podcasts, and check out his website at barSILENCE.com. BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart. Links for all of this episode’s featured composers are as follows: Megan McDuffeeOfficial website: https://meganmcduffee.com/ Bandcamp: https://meganmcduffee.bandcamp.com/ Instagram: @megmcduffee Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4n34M10wtYMrhh5tNsKwnn Twitter: @MeganMcDuffee YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/meganmcduffeecomposer GaroadOfficial website: https://www.garoadmusic.com/ Bandcamp: https://garoad.bandcamp.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/garoadmusic/ Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/garoadmusic Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1oMOdABcJgXgiplesecR1U Twitter: @garoadmusic YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@garoad Andrew JeremyOfficial website: https://smarturl.it/BackToLife-AJ Bandcamp: https://togeproductions.bandcamp.com/ Instagram: @ndrujeremyac Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4L0yarQL5bASSvIX8BIX1U Twitter: @ndrujeremy YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAmdJtCfpFggKhTEtB9vZLA Interview with Kotaku: https://kotaku.com/best-cozy-games-lofi-hiphop-beats-coffee-talk-2-switch-1850491993 Ben PruntyOfficial Website: https://www.benpruntymusic.com/ Bandcamp: https://benprunty.bandcamp.com/ Instagram: @benprunty Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/546MXGKJRNfO5to1oqkfqe?si=-wfj-HsYTm-Oobd9ovlhiQ&nd=1 Twitter: @benprunty YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdUA2v3b9XkQx3oujVP0ioQ Victoria DominowskiOfficial website: https://toridominowski.wixsite.com/portfolio Bandcamp: https://secretlittlehaven.bandcamp.com/ Twitter: @QuestForTori YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@QuestForTori Secret Little Haven on Itch.io: https://ristar.itch.io/secret-little-haven If you want to reach me, you can find me on Mastodon at @[email protected] or on Discord as ProfessorTom. I’m also on both Tumblr and Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. You can email me at [email protected]. Episodes of the show are posted on my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw6CIUs81aap58U1EuaaFdA. All my links to everything are available on my LinkTree at https://linktr.ee/shujinacademy. Please leave me a five star rating on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you’re finding this episode. Look for new episodes on Thursdays whenever I get them done, which is typically once or twice a month. Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:06 - FTL: Faster Than Light - Space Cruise (Title) (composer: Ben Prunty, Honorable Mention 1) 04:03 - Talk Segment 1: Introduction / Megan McDuffee Discussion 07:33 - Yars Recharged (multiplatform) - An Army of One (composer: Megan McDuffee) 09:41 - River City Girls (multiplatform) - The Hunt (composer: Megan McDuffee) 13:47 - River City Girls 2 (multiplatform) - Feel the Heat (featuring Matthew Lister) (composer: Megan McDuffee) 17:59 - River City Girls 2 (multiplatform) - River City Girls Too (opening) (featuring Christina Vee and RichaadEB) (composer: Megan McDuffee) 20:03 - Talk Segment 2: Garoad (aka Michael Kelly) 22:55 - Bushiden (multiplatform)- Fire in the Sky (composer: Garoad) 25:50 - Bushiden (multiplatform) - Sinister Science (Act I) (composer: Garoad) 29:10 - Yuppie Psycho (PC) - Tooth and Nail (composer: Garoad) 31:04 - Yuppie Psycho (PC) - Sintranet (composer: Garoad) 34:54 - VA-11 Hall-A (multiplatform) - Shine Spark (from VA-11 HALL-A EX - Bonus Tracks Collection) (composer: Garoad) 39:53 - Talk Segment 3 - Andrew Jeremy 41:58 - Coffee Talk (multiplatform) - A Day With Coffee (composer: Andrew Jeremy) 45:30 - Coffee Talk (multiplatform) - Hot On Cold (composer: Andrew Jeremy) 48:49 - Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly (multiplatform) - Sweetheart Latte (composer: Andrew Jeremy) 52:50 - Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly (multiplatform) - Night Road (composer: Andrew Jeremy) 55:55 - Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly (multiplatform) - Yours Truly (composer: Andrew Jeremy) 57:51 - Talk Segment 4: Hiroyuki Yanada (a.k.a. Yanda) 1:00:32 - Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible II (Game Boy) - BGM 18 (composer: Hiroyuki Yanada w/Iwao Mitsunaga) 1:01:51 - Jack Bros (Virtual Boy) - Temple of Nightmare [Level 3] (composer: Hiroyuki Yanada) 1:03:53 - Jack Bros (Virtual Boy) - Mecha Fortress [Level 5] (composer: Hiroyuki Yanada) 1:05:55 - Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible III (Super Famicom) - Garfy Service (composer: Hiroyuki Yanada) 1:08:00 - Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible III (Super Famicom) - Val Ship (composer: Hiroyuki Yanada) 1:11:08 - Outro Talk Segment 1:13:16 - Secret Little Haven (PC) - Welcome to Sanctuary OS (composer: Victoria Dominowski, honorable mention 2) 1:15:31 - Secret Little Haven (PC) - Sunset on the CRT (composer: Victoria Dominowski, honorable mention 2)
Hold on to your tie dye, because it's a super groovy new episode of Shujin Academy VGM Club! Every song here is a Professor Tom-certified, grade A jam! Check it out now on Podbean or wherever your podcasts are sold!
https://www.podbean.com/ea/pb-gdkie-13e7c7d
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It’s a groovy VGM party with all these hip swinging songs that have a feel-good rhythm! Special thanks for this episode goes out to: Fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing cover art. You can and should find barSILENCE wherever you download podcasts, and check out his website at barSILENCE.com. BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart. If you want to reach me, you can find me on Mastodon at @[email protected] or on Discord as ProfessorTom#7512. I’m also on both Tumblr and Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. You can email me at [email protected]. Episodes of the show are posted on my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw6CIUs81aap58U1EuaaFdA, and all of my links can be found on my Linktree site at https://linktr.ee/shujinacademy. Please leave me a five star rating on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you’re finding this episode. Look for new episodes on Thursdays whenever I get them done, which is typically once or twice a month. I had a guest appearance on last week’s episode of fellow game music podcast VGMporium, where host RayjKayj and I talked all about music from games about investigations. You know, detectives, mysteries, stuff like that. If you’ve got a hankerin’ for more Professor Tom, head over to https://vgmporium.wordpress.com/2023/04/13/episode-68/ to check it out. If you liked this episode, you should go back and check out episode 25: Cool Glasses, Cool Glasses! It’s a cousin to this one, with a similar musical hangout type of vibe. You can hear it at https://shujinacademyvgmclub.podbean.com/e/episode-25-cool-glasses-cool-glasses/ Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:05 - Shin Megami Tensei: If - School (composer: Tsukasa Masuko) 00:35 - Talk Segment 1 02:53 - Planet Puzzle League - Neon Isotope (composer: Masanobu Matsunaga) 06:17 - Pictionary (NES) - Drawing Game (composer: Tim Follin) 09:01 - Arcus Odyssey (Super Famicom) - Castomira - Defeated (composer: Motoi Sakuraba) 12:03 - The House of the Dead 2 (Dreamcast) - Training Mode (composers: Tetsuya Kawauchi and Haruyoshi Tomita) 13:19 - Legend of Mana (PlayStation) - To the Sea (composer: Yoko Shimomura) 16:02 - Brain Lord (SNES) - Town of Arcs (composer: Masanao Akahori) 18:14 - Talk Segment 2 21:13 - Galactic Pinball (Virtual Boy) - Moonman Fandango (composers: Kenji Yamamoto and Masaru Tajima) 23:48 - Persona 5 - Wicked Plan (composer: Shoji Meguro) 26:10 - Pokemon Trading Card Game - Battle Center (composer: Ichiro Shimakura) 27:44 - Metal Max Returns (Super Famicom) - Let’s Meet Dr. Minchi! (composer: Satoshi Kadokura) 28:49 - Pictionary (NES) - Mini-Game Theme 2 (composer: Tim Follin) 31:26 - The Flintstones (SNES) - Unused Song 1 (composers: Keith Tinman and Jonathan Dunn) 34:53 - Talk Segment 3 (includes excerpt from “Strip Club” from Hunie Pop 2, composed by Jonathan Wandag) 38:48 - Persona Q 2 - Blind City (composer: Atsushi Kitajoh) 45:33 - The Flintstones (SNES) - Password Screen (composers: Keith Tinman and Jonathan Dunn) 48:08 - Pokemon Crystal - Goldenrod Game Corner (composers: Junichi Masuda, Go Ichinose, and Morikazu Aoki) 51:06 - YuYu Hakusho Makyou Touitsusen: Imbalanced Kiss (aka Unbalanced Kiss) (composers: Hiro Takahashi, Aki Hata, Matsuko Mawatari, T.K.O.) 54:01 - Crusader of Centy - Water Lily (composer: Motokazu Shinoda) 56:22 - Outro Talk Segment 58:49 - Shin Megami Tensei - Kichijoji (composer: Tsukasa Masuko)
Check out my new episode of laid back, chill VGM for relaxing or focusing! It's Chilly McFreeze IV: Hollywood Blond, now available wherever you get your podcasts or at the link below!
https://www.podbean.com/ea/pb-h9cvp-13c3659
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It’s a whole bunch of laid-back VGM to help you relax and focus. Don’t worry if you haven’t listened to the first three episodes in the Chilly McFreeze series; you’ll still be able to follow the plot here. Because there is no plot; it’s all relaxing, calm VGM. Special thanks for this episode goes out to: Fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing cover art. You can and should find barSILENCE wherever you download podcasts, and check out his website at barSILENCE.com. Pixel artist BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart. If you want to reach me, you can find me on Mastodon at @[email protected] or on Discord as ProfessorTom#7512. I’m also on both Tumblr and Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. You can email me at [email protected]. Episodes of the show are posted on my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw6CIUs81aap58U1EuaaFdA. Please leave me a five star rating on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you’re finding this episode. Look for new episodes on Thursdays whenever I get them done, which is typically once or twice a month. On the show, I mentioned fellow VGM podcast KVGM The Last Wave, and you can find it at https://www.kvgmradio.com/ or on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGs1_2EV2ySmEb6NgbMU7Q. Also during the show, I mentioned an episode of the Super Marcato Bros. podcast that was all about Yoko Kanno’s game music work. You can find it at http://www.supermarcatobros.com/podcast/2017/12/10/episode-297-yoko-kanno. Also also during the show, I mentioned the episode of VGMporium about the Genesis version of Super Hydlide contrasted against its original release for the PC-98. You can find it at https://vgmporium.wordpress.com/2022/11/17/episode-45-hydlide-2-for-1/. Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:05 - Secret of Evermore - Menu (composer: Jeremy Soule) 01:15 - Talk Segment 1 04:15 - Albert Odyssey (Super Famicom) - Lovely Faeries (composer: Naoki Kodaka) 05:49 - Shining Force (Genesis) - Simone’s Theme (composer: Masahiko Yoshimura) 07:05 - SaGa Frontier (PlayStation) - Sunset Town (composer: Kenji Ito) 09:11 - Final Fantasy VI (Super NES) - The Mines of Narshe (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 12:00 - Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GP (Genesis) - The Heat Waves (composer: Tokuhiko Uwabo) 14:14 - Metal Max Returns (Super Famicom) - Pastoral Nomads (composer: Satoshi Kadokura) 15:12 - New 3D Golf Simulation: Waialae no Kiseki (Mega Drive) - Menu (composer: Yumi Kinoshita, Shigekazu Kamaki, Yusaburo Shimojyo, Shunsuke Minomiya, Hiroshi Morita, and Akira Tamada) 16:38 - Minnesota Fats: Pool Legend (Genesis) - Set Me Free (composer: Masaaki Iwasaki, Taihei Sato, Seiji Momoi, and Shogo Sakai) 20:54 - Talk Segment 2 22:26 - Final Fantasy VI (Super NES) - Kids Run Through the City (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 25:17 - Romancing SaGa (Super Famicom) - Sailing the Ocean (composer: Kenji Ito) 26:59 - Live A Live (Super Famicom) - Select-A-Live (composer: Yoko Shimomura) 28:58 - Mario Paint (Super NES) - Monkey Song (composer: Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka) 31:56 - The Flintstones (Super NES) - Unused Song 2 (composers: Keith Tinman and Jonathan Dunn) 38:19 - Aerobiz (Super NES) - Asia) (composer: Koei Sound Team) 39:54 - Talk Segment 3 (includes segment from “Town” from Shining Force (Genesis), composed by Masahiko Yoshimura) 42:43 - Seiken Densetsu 3 (aka Trials of Mana) (Super Famicom) - Little Sweet Cafe (composer: Hiroki Kikuta) 45:46 - Uncharted Waters: New Horizons (Super NES) - Mast in the Mist (composer: Yoko Kanno) 47:38 - Pokemon Black and White (DS) - Game Sync (composer: Shota Kageyama) 48:53 - Waterworld (Super NES) - Shop (composer: Dean Evans) 51:07 - Aerobiz Supersonic (Super NES) - Managing Scenario 3 (composer: Koei Sound Team) 52:06 - Side Pocket (Genesis) - Play’n It Cool! (composer: Emi Shimizu) 55:08 - Final Fantasy VII (PlayStation) - Shut in by Snow (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 59:59 - Show Outro 1:01:54 - Super Hydlide - OMISE (composer: Shigeru Tomita)