Another year, another MAGWest, the West Coast Music and Gaming Festival (MAGFest) in Santa Clara, California (August 10-12, 2018). MAGWest brings it - with the bands, games and an awesome community of VGM fans!

This time we're joined by a whole slew of performers from this year and last year as they talk about their childhood gaming experiences and some of the ways that gaming and VGM shaped their lives as performers.

The audio quality isn't perfect (far from it - especially in the beginning. Sorry Michaela!) but everyone in the panel had a lot of fun!

Episode Track List:

Intro

0:00:00 "Mii Channel" - Wii System Menu

Kazumi Totaka

Tetrimino

0:10:13 "8PM" - Animal Crossing (GC) - Michaela

Kenta Nagata

0:17:23 "Pirate Lagoon" - Diddy Kong Racing (N64) - Kris

David Wise

LEX the Lexicon Artist

0:22:07 "Title" - Crazy Arcade (PC) - Lex

0:26:32 "Cemetery" - Crazy Arcade (PC) - Lex

Duong Duc Anh

B/I/R/T/H/D/A/Y

0:28:50 "Pkunk theme" - Star Control II (PC) - Nick

Eric Berge

0:34:54 "In the Wind" - Gradius III (SNES) - Ian

Kazuki Muraoka, Kazuhiko Uehara, Harumi Ueko, Yukie Morimoto

Vector Hold

0:39:29 "Final Takeoff" - Afterburner II (ARC) - Pete

Hiroshi Kawaguchi

E.N.Cowell

0:48:08 "Evil Preist" - Alisia Dragoon (GEN) - Evan

Mecano Associates, led by Fumihito Kasatani

Runaway Four

0:55:29 "Weapon's Factory" - Super Mario RPG (SNES) - Josh

Yoko Shimomura

1:01:48 "LBA's theme" - Little Big Adventure (PC) - Chris

Philippe Vachey

Outro

1:20:38 "Wii Shop Channel" - Wii System Menu

Kazumi Totaka

 

BAND LINKS

Tetrimino

MAGWest 2018 Performance

SoundCloud | YouTube | Facebook | Michaela's site (Mklachu)

 

LEX the Lexicon Artist

MAGWest 2018 Performance

Bandcamp | Spotify | Twitter | Facebook | Website

 

B/I/R/T/H/D/A/Y

MAGWest 2018 Performance

Bandcamp | Twitter | Facebook | Website

 

Vector Hold

MAGWest 2017 Performance

Bandcamp | SoundCloud | YouTube | Twitter | Facebook

 

E.N.Cowell

MAGWest 2018 Performance

Bandcamp | SoundCloud | Twitter | Facebook | Tumblr | Website

 

Runaway Four

MAGWest 2018 Performance

Bandcamp | YouTube | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram |  Website