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content tier. This week on retronauts, we are not GMO free. Welcome to a particularly music focused episode of Retronauts. I'm your host

Kevin Bunch. We're not going to be discussing a specific game soundtracks. I know usually that's what Jeremy does when he has these more musical themed episodes, but in this case we're delving into a very specific type of covers of video game music,

specifically covers from the house vans that these video game companies would put out into the world to

you know promote and record their own music. Before we delve too deep into that I

want to go around the room and introduce the folks I have with me.

So let's start with our Japan correspondent.

Please, please, daddy Moak is my father. My name is Diamond milk.

No, Diamond Fight, sorry.

Incredible.

And who do we have over in the Midwest?

Hello, I'm Brian Clark from 1 million power and I am here to shred.

We are definitely going to be getting into some real shred heavy music out here. So yeah, we're talking about

house bands and I guess first we should probably identify what is a house band in

the context of these game companies. So generally speaking a house band

it's a band that plays at a specific company or a recording studio and

establishment like a bar that sort of thing.

In this case for video game companies these usually but not always consisted of

their game music composing staff.

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