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An episode featuring music by Takahiro Yonemura aka Chemool. He was a founding member of the doujin circle ‘Firecracker’, and one of the main contributors to their series of music discs released on PC88/98 throughout the 1990s. Very proficient with both FM and MIDI hardware, he also had a fairly lengthy career in the gaming industry, composing and arranging soundtracks for publishers like Tenshindo, Giga, or TGL.

Download Episode #37: Chemool (70 MB, mp3) here

Track announcements provided by Ed Wilson of PixelTunes Radio

Playlist:

01 “Development” – Waver: The Seeker 2 (1996, PC-9801) by CHEMOOL

Carl Lewis is a former track and field athlete who won nine Olympic gold medals and is one of only three Olympic athletes who won a gold medal in the same event in four consecutive Olympic Games. This is all awesome, but did he ever spend an entire afternoon listening to MDX files? Does he know who Chris Hülsbeck is, or how different revision 3 and 4 of the SID chip can sound like? Well, I don’t know to be honest, but what I do know is that I wouldn’t trade nine gold medals for this stuff.

Download Episode #36: Carl Lewis Unplugged (68 MB, mp3) here

Track announcements provided by Ed Wilson of PixelTunes Radio

Playlist:

01 “Title Screen” – The Carl Lewis Challenge (1992, Amiga) by Chris Hülsbeck

Codemasters were one of the UK’s biggest publishers of budget games, and one of the few companies to still develop original 8-bit computer titles when most publishers had already abandoned that market in the early 90s. While most of their games originated on the ZX Spectrum, it was usually the C64 and Amiga ports that featured the most impressive soundtracks, supplied by a stellar line-up of composers like Allister Brimble, David Whittaker, Steve Barret, or Matt Gray.

Download Episode #35: Codemasters (73 MB, mp3) here

Track announcements provided by Ed Wilson of PixelTunes Radio

Playlist:

01 “Title Screen” – Tarzan Goes Ape! (1991, C64) by Steve Barrett

Manabu Saito was a Japanese musical prodigy, who started his career at System Sacom when he was just 18 years old. His music, often a blend of classical and jazz influences with a great sense of melody, were an important component of System Sacom’s genre-defining Novel Ware games. During his time with the company he also composed the first Japanese soundtrack with MT-32 support, 38 Man Kilo no Kokuu, and was an early adopter of CD audio on the FM Towns. Sadly, he passed away from kidney failure in 1992 at the age of 22.

Download Episode #34: Manabu Saito (71 MB, mp3) here

Track announcements provided by Ed Wilson of PixelTunes Radio

Playlist:

01 “Opening 2” – Chatty (1988, PC-8801) by Manabu Saito

Like elsewhere in Europe, the late 1980s saw the rise of the Danish demo scene, a vibrant (lol) environment that created some of the most well-known computer musicians of that era. This podcast features a collection of tracks from games and demos ‘Made in Denmark’ on various 8 and 16 bit systems.

Download Episode #33: Danish Delights (71 MB, mp3) here

Track announcements provided by Ed Wilson of PixelTunes Radio

Playlist:

01 “Title Screen” – Georg Glaxo (1993, Amiga) by Jesper Olsen (JO)