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This Week in VGM #002: 01/31/10
Recorded: 02/05/10
Released: 02/06/10
Show Notes at: genoboost.gamemusic4all.com/2010/02/this-week-in-vgm-002-013110/

Welcome to the second episode of This Week in VGM, a weekly podcast of news and music from the video game inspired music community. This episode I talk about the True Chip Till Death awards, MAGFest’s The Smash Brothers Performance, as well as the recently announced dates for Nerdapalooza 2010. We also hear new music from little-scale, The Smash Brothers, and Dual Core.

Topic Links
True Chip Till Death awards – truechiptilldeath.com/awards/aw09/
The Tank – thetanknyc.org
Hally – last.fm/music/Hally
The J. Arthur Keenes Band – iimusic.net/catalog/2009/10/the-j-arthur-keenes-band-pamplemousse
Handheld Heroes – givedaddytheknife.com/HHH

Song
little-scale – Wake Up, Space Cadet! – Nothing Has Been Left Unspoken – little-scale.com

MAGFest – magfest.org

Song
The Smash Brothers – Onett/Earthbound – Bacon EP – thesmashbrothers.com

Nerdapalooza – nerdapalooza.org

Song
Dual Core – Painting Pictures – Next Level – dualcoremusic.com

Background Music
Ville Wannabe – Sunburn (Muse cover) – Muse: An 8 Bit Tribute – Volume 2 – 8bitcollective.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=17070
Zelda Reorchestrated – Kakariko Village Orchestra Version – Ocarina of Time – Complete – zreomusic.com
Doug Leinen – Another Space Song – Songs to Sing in Space – gamemusic4all.com/dougleinen

If you would like to get in touch with news, questions, or perhaps to be a guest host alongside me in a future episode, you can email me at gamemusic4all@gmail.com

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NOTE: After releasing this episode I realized at 9:22 into the show I say “Nerdapalooza 2009 saw their fourth release in just as many years.” but meant to say “Dual Core saw their fourth release in just as many years.” Sorry for the confusion!

NOTE: This pilot episode is a little over a month out of date at the time of release, as it is just a test run and I will see how things go from here.

This Week in VGM #000 Pilot Episode
Recorded: 12/22/09
Released: 12/27/09
Show Notes available at: genoboost.gamemusic4all.com/2010/02/this-week-in-vgm-001-pilot-episode/

Welcome to the pilot episode of This Week in VGM. I hope to make this a weekly podcast of news and music from the video game inspired music community. This episode I talk about the just passed Blip Festival, and the upcoming MAGFest which takes place December 31st through January 4th.

Topic Links
GM4A Records – gamemusic4all.com/gm4arecords

Comptroller – Heavy Crab – Challenge! – gamemusic4all.com/comptroller

Blip Festival 2009 – blipfestival.org/2009
8bitpeoples – 8bitpeoples.com
Gaijin/Robotube Battle of the Brands – robotubegames.com, gaijingames.com

Minusbaby – A Few Years Later – Left – minusbaby.com

MAGFest – magfest.org
Pause Netlabel – iimusic.net

EvilWezil – Singularity Falls – Chronophobe – myspace.com/evilwezil

Background Music
The J. Arthur Keenes Band – Stoic – Sea of Ice – iimusic.net/catalog/2009/02/sea-of-ice
disasterPEACE – Gobber Grove – Neutralite – disasterpeace.com
The OneUps – Summers – Bound Together – theoneups.com

If you would like to get in touch with news, questions, or perhaps to be a guest host alongside me in a future episode, you can email me at gamemusic4all@gmail.com

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But not because I haven’t been busy! Well okay I haven’t been busy, at least not until the past week or so. Allow me to explain. The day after Christmas I unfortunately broke my old computer. So sadly I was left sans computing power for several weeks until I gathered enough spare change to head down to Fry’s and grab myself a new one. I accomplished that feet about two weeks ago, give or take. And since then it has been a slow trek to getting things back in order. I think I have done well for myself in that respect thus far.

I have been able to get This Week in VGIM back on track. Started releasing new episodes of Ballad of the Wind Fish once again. Not to mention GM4A’s upcoming concert.

Another thing I am proud of is the slow but steady success of the GM4A Records netlabel that has started up merely two months ago. Since then we have been lucky enough to have two great album releases in Comptroller and Doug Leinen. Also several exciting upcoming projects which I hope will see the light of day as well.

Now to change things up a little.

That there is a simple astronaut man I drew in tribute to the Comptroller track Galactic Hero, which I have gone on record as saying highly visualizes the moments building down to a heroic launch into space. That also leads me to another artistic endeavor I am undertaking, although I don’t want to reveal what that is just yet. I am not sure exactly when it will be popping up, but I have been putting a ton of thought and some bit of work into it, and hope that it comes to fruition soon because I am very excited about it.

One more thing, before I was sadly ripped away from my former computer last year, I was working on another new thing, which explains that blank post below this one. Though it has not seen life just yet, I am happy to be resurrecting it very soon. That should be exciting as well!

Winter’s cityside
Crystal bits of snowflakes
All around my head and in the wind
I had no illusions
That I’d ever find a glimpse
Of summer’s heatwaves in your eyes

test post.

http://gamemusic4all.com

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It has been raining most of the day today, which seems to have ratcheted up my productivity a notch. I got a good chunk of writing done, listened in to KyleJCrb’s new radio show, and have now finished up a bit more of that World game map I have been working on. Still no new dungeons, but did work on some transition pieces. Check it out.

Here we see the northern river going from ice into a free flowing river. I don’t think I made the transition as smooth as I would like, But I still think it looks pretty good. This is of course the Northern part of the map,  and just east of where the snow dungeon resides.

And to the East the gentle grass slowly turns into a harsh magma filled hellscape. This will be the location of the fifth dungeon as well. Though I am still not sure exactly what my plan is for that dungeon. Perhaps it will come to me in a dream?

Also big plans for a very special Ballad of The Wind Fish tomorrow! On that note I should mention that the last weeks episodes are available to listen to on the appropriate GM4A page. I look forward to tomorrow afternoon’s show, so with that I am off!

Oh yeah, before I go, we also have a cool contest announcement coming up soon on GM4A, keep an eye out for that one!

So what if we like to do what we do?
It’s not like we’re gonna stop any time soon.

First thing is first, brand new article on The Start Screen! Check it out!

Hey! Listen! The Megas Get Equipped

The article was admittedly a rush job, but when talking about a great band like The Megas, it’s not hard to find things to say. I am thinking my next article will cover Doctor Octoroc’s 8 Bit Jesus album, as a bit of thanks for the work he is doing for me lately. Not to mention more Christmas posts are necessary all around.

No new dungeons to report today, I know all one of you were looking forward to it but oh well. I did name the water dungeon “Phreatic Caverns” after a bit of looking at synonyms of water. I like the sound of it, plus it’s all science-ish. Everyone wins! I have been thinking about how I should set up the names of landmarks and stuff. Hopefully I can come up with science names for the dungeon. It would be awesome though to use plays on names from VG inspired music things (albums, band names, songs names, etc.) for landmarks, items, and weapons. Just a thought, but I am liking the idea more and more. Perhaps a temporary defense spell called Temp Shield Solution?

It should be noted, that as an inside joke I was going to call this post “Stinkpot” but lord knows what kind of attention that might get me.

Well I have written a good bit, and even squeezed some scribblenauts into the day. I would say it was a success. Now to wait for my next paycheck so I can rock that new Zelda DS game. Color me excited!

Zelda
Is such a happy game
But Link really looks
A lot like my groin, you know