Retronauts Episode 379: Retronauts Radio Summer Preview

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy puts on his "public radio symphony host" voice for a trip through five recent and upcoming classic game (and game-adjacent) soundtracks: Actraiser, Blaster Master Zero, Cowboy Bebop, Halo Remastered, and Klonoa.

The full episode is exclusive to Retronauts patrons, who can enjoy the full 90-minute production in CD-quality stereo. Retronauts is made possible by listener support through Patreon! Support the show to enjoy ad-free early access, better audio quality, and great exclusive content. Learn more at http://www.patreon.com/retronauts

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0:00.0	Everyone, Jeremy Parish here, to let you know that our latest patron exclusive episode of RetroNots
0:05.2	is another episode of RetroNots Radio, where I pretend to be a public radio disc jockey
0:10.2	and sedately walk you through some of the greatest video game soundtrack retro reissues
0:15.6	to have arrived on vinyl over the past few months. This episode, I look at Blaster Master Zero,
0:21.7	the Actraiser Symphonic Sweet Reissue, a loot demastered, a technically non-video game soundtrack with
0:28.1	cowboy bebop, and finally, Ship Deshors' Fantastic Clone O-A sound track. It's an hour and a half
0:35.6	of me talking about music, but mostly me playing music. And it's exclusively to our RetroNots patrons
0:41.7	who support the show for $5 a month or more. Along with this episode, you'll also gain access
0:46.8	to the past year and a half's worth of bi-weekly patron exclusive episodes, patron exclusive weekend
0:53.2	columns and mini podcasts by Diamond Fight, and more. So to check out this overview of some of
0:59.4	the latest and greatest retro game soundtrack reissues and to help support the show, head over to
1:04.8	patreon.com slash RetroNots and sign up at the $5 a month or more level. I'm not going to do a
1:11.6	hard sell here, instead I'm just going to let the podcast and the music speak for itself with this brief preview.
1:26.2	Like a lot of the elements that show up in the window song show up in mind of light. It takes
1:45.6	the elements and moves them into more of an atmospheric ambiance. It's a quieter piece,
1:51.3	shorter, there's not as much to it, but it's got great atmosphere and it's so well integrated
1:57.2	into the original cave into the original game that when you play the music, if you've played the
2:02.8	game, this will immediately evoke imagery of walking into a darkened cave that's lit by glowing
2:08.2	crystals as enemies flutter away in the foreground when you run past them. It just, I don't know, just
2:14.8	really perfectly mirrors the game itself.
2:22.2	The next notable track is Gaudius' theme, which uses unlike the music that's come before it,
2:45.6	which has been very light, acoustic, very natural feeling, very happy. Gaudius' theme uses a
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