The Legacy Music Hour Video Game Music Podcast

On this month's episode, Rob is out sick, but not to worry - Brent is joined by special guest co-host Jake Kaufman aka virt.  Jake Kaufman is a prolific video game music composer, responsible for the soundtracks to games such as Shovel Knight, Contra 4, DuckTales: Remastered, and Double Dragon Neon.  Also, the Legacy Music Hour Christmas Carolers perform some VGM Karaoke with lyrics

The Mega Man compilation needs no introduction.  Get equipped with mixtape twelve and enjoy!

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Instant new favorite:  Mega Man 3 - Shadow Man

Brewed new favorite:  Mega Man 7 - Shade Man

This song needs lyrics:  Mega Man X3 - Credits

This song HAS lyrics:  Mega Man 3 - Magnet Man*

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Known alternatively as the "Lost Level," episode eleven had initially disappeared into the tides of time due to technical difficulties.  When it was restored from the archives a few months later, however, the users were treated to some important firsts: the first Mame that Chune segment, and the first inklings of what can happen when Rob stays up too late.

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The boizz are back after a year long hiatus!  Hosts Brent Weinbach and Rob F. Switch's long awaited return kicks off with a Free Play, and the tracks they pick, many of which are new game titles to the podcast, range from pretty bonk to very bonk.  Full track

listing below.

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Game - Composer - Song - Company - Console - Year (North American release unless

With all the tracks the boizz were sifting through on a regular basis, it came as no surprise that they'd been building up a considerable list of B-sides that had never quite fit into any regular episodes. The solution to getting these tunes some airtime? Setting the podcast to free play: no selective focus, no restrictive theme -- just choice jams, period.

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Episode 9 was a survey of Disney's contributions to classic gaming, featuring tunes from titles that either starred the company's flagship characters or were based on their feature films and TV shows.  Many users most likely anticipated the set list's final track, which closed things out on a perfect note.

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Episode 8 brought us LMH's second composer focus, this time on Mari Yamaguchi.  Yamaguchi was equally talented at crafting tight, catchy tunes for the NES as she was at composing sweeping symphonic pieces for the SNES.  If you don't already find yourself wishing that more orchestras in the world would perform video game music, this mixtape will change that.

NOTE TO THE DETAIL-ORIENTED:

From the LMH pocket dictionary:

el·e·va·tor mu·sic (n.):  1. Tunes with a certain synthy-sounding, jazzy aesthetic, described by some as "cheesy" or "bad." 2. The kind of music you'd hear if you were on hold for the doctor's office. 3. Anything that sounds like, or is, "The Girl from Ipanema." 4. The jam.

NOTE: If it wasn't addressed in any subsequent episodes, Rob made an error by playing

The Legacy Music Hour presents Rob F. Switch's third installment of continuous dance party music comprised of only 8-bit and 16-bit era video game music.  No remixes, no covers, no adaptations of non-video game music -just pure, original, dancy music from the Nintendo, Super Nintendo, and Sega Genesis!

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With musical styles that ranged from pop to march, metal to orchestral, the Flying and Shooting episode was a wonderful demonstration of retro VGM variety.  KeyGlyph's commendations list gets a little crazy for this installment, and she sincerely hopes yours does too!

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Instant new favorite:  Herzog Zwei -