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Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 159. Your weekly dose of retro gaming

and technology news with me, Dan Wood. And me, Ravi Abbott. I like it when we're recording the evenings, because this week we're doing this at like 8 o'clock at night. And I've actually been quite excited to come in and do this week's show. Yeah, we've been doing lots of mornings with the Australian ones recently, haven't we? And the fact that I've been at home wallpapering all day as well, which actually gets me out of doing that for an hour or two, which is quite nice. And you've been messing around with mini-disc players. I've been messing around with mini-displayers, indeed. After the last week, I purchased a kind of minidisc separate unit, and then somebody messaged me instantly on Discord and said, oh I've got a spare mini display I was like oh god so now I've got another one arriving so I'm going to try and get rid of that

if anybody wants instantly on Discord and said, oh, I've got a spare mini display. I was like, oh, God. So now I've got another one arriving, so I'm going to try and get rid of that.

If anybody wants a mini-display, contact me. Ravi's got them coming out of his ears. I mean, I love it when stuff like that happens, because we did do like a chat about mini-dis last week, and then you jumped straight out on eBay and bought one. I often do that when we're chatting about subjects on the show.

I'm like, I've got some look on Amazon.

Then I got all these surprised parcels turn up in the wake

and I'm like, I don't remember ordering that. I'm like, ah, yeah. I did need to stand for my PlayStation too. Well, I've got it set up at the moment recording tracks at home. But today, I mean, interestingly talking about minidisc, if you thought that was an obscure format in 2019, I've got to tell you about this techno DJ from Germany, who's released a new album on possibly the coolest, and today quite an obscure platform that not many people are bringing out albums for. Could be a bit of a first, actually. Because today is actually quite an audio episode, isn't it? We're going to be talking a lot about music today.

Oh, totally.

We've got Frank Hplakian, and he's like one of the best video game composers in history.

I just love his stuff.

When I was a kid, his stuff totally changed.

And it changed gaming at the time that the technology was changing. the sound card was coming in your sound blaster

you had your CD-ROM you could actually get like hardcore bass lines on there and frank was a fan

of nine inch nails all the metal stuff so he was the main video game composer for westwood so he did

the doon two soundtrack and then blade. So he did the Doon 2 soundtrack and then...

Blade Runner. Yeah, he did Blade Runner. And then of course, Command and Conquer, which was just

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