Shujin Academy VGM Club

Twenty years ago, Professor Tom was denied tenure for his unethical experiments in sadistic torture. He set fire to the university medical lab for revenge, and everyone thinks that's how he died. Nowadays, the lab on Cauchemar Hill is just a place where delinquents go to smoke drugs and make out. But this Halloween, 20 innocent VGM tracks will get a lesson in TERROR! (It's a Halloween episode.) Special thanks for this episode goes out to: Fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing creeptastic cover art. You can and should find barSILENCE wherever you download podcasts, and check out his website at barSILENCE.com. And his recent Halloween episode is significantly more atmospheric than this one, so check it out! All the fine, hardworking people who’ve ripped these tracks out of various video games.  BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  If you want to reach me, I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. You can also find me on Threads, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. Other links are on my LinkTree at https://linktr.ee/shujinacademy. Please leave me a five star rating on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you’re finding this episode. New episodes are released once or twice a month depending on how often I get them done, and they premiere on Thursday mornings on your favorite podcatcher and on Terra Player, the cool app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content. I also occasionally voice esports reporter Samson Escapades on audio drama podcast How Much in Bison Dollars?, which you can find on FGC Radio, Patreon, and most podcatchers. If you’re listening on Spotify, please be aware that they’ve pulled a few of my episodes before. There’s a non-zero chance they’ll eventually pull my entire podcast, as they’ve done with a few other game music podcasts, so I’d strongly suggest you subscribe elsewhere to be sure you can get all of the Professor Tom goodness you crave. Generative AI is not used to make this podcast. While I think it has some valid uses, they’re far more limited than tech company marketing would have you believe, and the technology should absolutely not be used for writing, music making, or image generation.  Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:07 - Fester’s Quest (NES) - Title Screen, Ending (The Addams Family Theme) (composer: Vic Mizzy; arranger: Naoki Kodaka) 00:48 - Talk Segment: Trapped in the Insane Laboratory of Professor Tom! 03:55 - Rusty (PC-98) - Queen in the Dark Night (composers: Masahiro Kajihara, Kenichi Arakawa, and Ryu Takami) 07:50 - Doki Doki Literature Club (PC) - Just Monika (composer: Dan Salvato) 09:55 - Shin Megami Tensei NINE (Xbox) - Akihabara (composer: Takahiro Ogata) 11:37 - Startropics (NES) - Graveyard (composer: Yoshio Hirai) 12:53 - Jack Bros (Virtual Boy) - Crystal Palace [level 6] (composer: Yanda) 15:17 - Phantasy Star IV (Genesis)  - The End of the Millenium (composer: Izuho Numata) 17:08 - Talk Segment II: Torment in the Insane Laboratory of Professor Tom! 19:42 - Castlevania: Bloodlines (Genesis) - A Vision of Dark Secrets (opening theme) (composer: Michiru Yamane) 20:45 - Super Mario World (SNES) - Haunted House (composer: Koji Kondo) 23:40 - Growlancer III: The Dual Darkness (PS2) - Despair (composer: Hiroshi Fujioka) 25:33 - Tokimeki Memorial (PC Engine CD) - Banquet of the Ghosts [Ghost House] (composers: Mikio Saito, Seiya Murai, Miki Higashino, and Hiro Noguchi) 27:32 - Secret of Mana (SNES) - Oracle / Battle with Thanatos (composer: Hiroki Kikuta) 29:18 - Resident Evil: Deadly Silence (DS) - Save Room (composers: Makoto Tomozawa, Akari Kaida, and Masami Ueda) 30:31 - Talk Segment III: Revenge in the Insane Laboratory of Professor Tom! 34:53 - Ghouls ‘n Ghosts (arcade) - Stage 5: Lucifer’s Castle (composer: Tamayo Kawamoto) 37:11 - Shovel Knight (multiplatform) - The Donor’s Despair (Hall of Champions) (composer: Jake Kaufman) 40:30 - Vampire: Master of Darkness (Game Gear) - In the Wake of Dracula (composers: Takashi Horiguchi, Yoko Wada) 42:36 - Racing Lagoon (PSX) - Nightmare (composers: Noriko Matsueda and Takahito Eguchi) 44:02 - Night Striker (Arcade) - ma-gu-ri-vu (composer: Masahiko Takaki) 45:24 - Bubble Bobble (Arcade) - Secret Room (composer: Tadashi Kimijima) 45:59 - Outro Talk Segment 48:36 - Vampire Savior (arcade) - Tower of Arrogance (composer: Takayuki Iwai)

We’re deep down the rabbit hole of VGM on this episode, exclusively listening to songs from games on Japanese computer platforms that never saw a North American release. Every song is from the MSX, the PC-98, or the Sharp x68000! You’re gonna hear something you’ve never heard before! Special thanks for this episode goes out to: Fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing cover art. You can and should find barSILENCE wherever you download podcasts, and check out his website at barSILENCE.com.  BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  Cartoonist Stan Kelly from The Onion, the original source of the Sickos meme. Find his work on The Onion or by visiting https://linktr.ee/stankelly. All Elite Wrestling president Tony Khan, who introduced me to the “For the Sickos” phrase that I’ve blatantly stolen here today.  If you want to reach me, I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. You can also find me on Threads, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. Other links are on my LinkTree at https://linktr.ee/shujinacademy. Please leave me a five star rating on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you’re finding this episode. New episodes are released once or twice a month depending on how often I get them done, and they premiere on Thursday mornings on your favorite podcatcher and on Terra Player, the cool app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content. I also occasionally voice esports reporter Samson Escapades on audio drama podcast How Much in Bison Dollars?, which you can find on FGC Radio, Patreon, and most podcatchers. If you’re listening on Spotify, please be aware that they’ve pulled a few of my episodes before. There’s a non-zero chance they’ll eventually pull my entire podcast, as they’ve done with a few other game music podcasts, so I’d strongly suggest you subscribe elsewhere to be sure you can get all of the Professor Tom goodness you crave. Generative AI is not used to make this podcast. While I think it has some valid uses, they’re far more limited than tech company marketing would have you believe, and the technology should absolutely not be used for writing, music making, or image generation.  Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:06 - Final Fantasy (MSX) - Opening Theme (composer: Nobuo Uematsu; arranger: Tadahiro Nitta) 01:28 - Talk Segment: Intro / MSX 05:56 - Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (MSX) - Frequency 140.85 (Alert Mode Level 1 Part 1, alternate) (composers: Masahiro Ikariko, Mutsuhiko Izumi, Yuko Kurahashi, Tomoya Tomita, Kazuhiko Uehara, Yuji Takenouchi, Tsuyoshi Sekito, and Mr. Inoue) 07:29 - Space Manbow (MSX) - Aquarium (3st.BGM) (composer: Yuko Kurahashi) 09:07 - Fire Hawk - Thexder the Second Contact (MSX) - Mission 7 (composer: Masakuni Mitsuhashi, Hiromi Ohba, Masahiko Yoshimura, and/or Mecano Associates) 11:33 - Feedback (MSX) - Stage-5 (composer: Naosuke Arai) 13:51 - F1 Douchuuki (MSX) - Setting (composer: unknown) 15:38 - Undeadline (MSX) - Cemetery (composer: Kazunori Hasegawa) 17:16 - Talk Segment: PC-98 23:30 - Harlem Blade: The Greatest of All Time (PC-98) - Maplease Genesis (Genesis) (composer: unknown) 25:53 - Marionette Mind (PC-98) - Rio Vs GUKUTSU (composer: Takeshi Abo) 27:29 - Night Slave (PC-98) - Assignment (STANDARD2) (composer: Izuho Yoshitani) 28:45 - Kono Yo no Hate de Koi wo Utau Shoujo YU-NO (PC-98) - Solution (composer: Ryu Umemoto) 31:04 - Princess Maker 2 (PC-98) - Opening 2 (composer: Masahiro Kajihara) 33:56 - Touhou Kaikidan ~ Mystic Square (PC-98) - Peaceful Romancer (composer: ZUN) 35:36 - Rusty (PC-98) - I'll Destroy Your Mind [Boss 1] (composers: Masahiro Kajihara, Kenichi Arakawa, and Ryu Takami) 38:05 - Talk Segment: Sharp x68000 44:45 - Bosconian (x68000) - Blast Power! (composer: Yuzo Koshiro) 48:07 - Cho Ren Sha 68k (x68000) - Infinity (composer: Ruzarin “Loser” Kashiwagi) 51:22 - Viper V-6 Turbo (x68000) - Back Beat (composer: Kenichi Arakawa) 52:51 - Over Driver (x68000) - Bazz-Saw (Boss 1) (composer: unknown) 54:44 - Geograph Seal (x68000) - Stage 4 (composer: Hiroyuki Saegusa) 57:27 - Can Can Bunny Superior (x68000) - Opening, Building (composers: SUGAR, Ryu Takami, and Masami Yitsuse) 59:17 - Outro Talk Segment 1:02:22 - Aliens: Alien 2 (MSX) - Ending (composer: Nobuo Uematsu)

It’s a day for deals with JRPG Two for Tuesday, where you’ll get TWO songs for the price of one from a bunch of JRPGs! Supplies are limited, so LISTEN NOW!  Special thanks for this episode goes out to: Fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing over-the-top cover art. You can and should find barSILENCE wherever you download podcasts, and check out his website at barSILENCE.com.  BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  If you want to reach me, I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. You can also find me on Threads, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. Other links are on my LinkTree at https://linktr.ee/shujinacademy. Please leave me a five star rating on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you’re finding this episode. New episodes are released once or twice a month depending on how often I get them done, and they premiere on Thursday mornings on your favorite podcatcher and on Terra Player, the cool app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content. I also occasionally voice esports reporter Samson Escapades on audio drama podcast How Much in Bison Dollars?, which you can find on FGC Radio, Patreon, and most podcatchers. If you’re listening on Spotify, please be aware that they’ve pulled a few of my episodes before. There’s a non-zero chance they’ll eventually pull my entire podcast, as they’ve done with a few other game music podcasts, so I’d strongly suggest you subscribe elsewhere to be sure you can get all of the Professor Tom goodness you crave. Generative AI is not knowingly used to make this podcast. While I think it has some valid uses, they’re far more limited than tech company marketing would have you believe, and the technology should not be used for writing, music making, or image generation.  Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:07 - Octopath Traveler II - Partitio, the Merchant (composer: Yasunori Nishiki) 03:33 - Talk Segment: Intro / Dungeon Explorer 05:21 - Dungeon Explorer (TG16) - Dungeon 7 (composer: Tsukasa Masuko) 06:58 - Dungeon Explorer (TG16) - Dungeon 8 (composer: Tsukasa Masuko) 08:55 - Talk Segment: Ruin Arm 09:45 - Ruin Arm (Super Famicom) - Arf Village (composer: unknown) 11:18 - Ruin Arm (Super Famicom) - Overworld (composer: unknown) 15:30 - Talk Segment: Persona 2: Eternal Punishment 16:17 - Persona 2: Eternal Punishment (PSP) - Kasugayama High School (composer: Toshiko Tasaki; arrangers: Toshiki Konishi and Atsushi Kitajoh) 20:04 - Persona 2: Eternal Punishment (PSP) - Mt. Katatsumuri (composer: Toshiko Tasaki; arrangers: Toshiki Konishi and Atsushi Kitajoh) 22:39 - Talk Segment: Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millenium 23:36 - Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millenium (Genesis) - Behind the Circuit (composer: Izuho Takeuchi) 25:20 - Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millenium (Genesis) - Organic Beat (composer: Izuho Takeuchi) 28:26 - Talk Segment - Golden Sun: The Lost Age 30:29 - Golden Sun: The Lost Age (GBA) - City Theme (composer: Motoi Sakuraba) 33:09 - Golden Sun: The Lost Age (GBA) - Champa (composer: Motoi Sakuraba) 34:50 - Talk Segment: Tales of Phantasia 35:29 - Tales of Phantasia (Super Famicom) - Lake on Ymir (composers: Motoi Sakuraba and Shinji Tamura) 38:55 - Tales of Phantasia (Super Famicom) - Forest of the Treant (composers: Motoi Sakuraba and Shinji Tamura) 42:35 - Talk Segment: Romancing SaGa 43:26 - Romancing SaGa (Super Famicom) - Shop Around the Town! (composer: Kenji Ito) 45:12 - Romancing SaGa (Super Famicom) - Theme of Aisha (composer: Kenji Ito) 47:10 - Talk Segment: Bravely Default 47:54 - Bravely Default (3DS) - The Fascinating Flower Country (composer: Revo) 51:35 - Bravely Default (3DS) - The Desert and the Huge Clock Country (composer: Revo) 55:14 - Outro Talk Segment 57:07 - Octopath Traveler II (multiplatform) - Victory Fanfare

After cheating death for the third time in a week, Rando just wants to hide out at the Seedy Eye, his favorite watering hole hidden on a little asteroid in the middle of nowhere. But when a mysterious beauty called the Silver Shadow walks through the door, Rando’s weakness for a lovely lady leads him into his most dangerous adventure yet! Will these 20 grab bag tracks be enough to save him? Listen and find out! Special thanks for this episode goes out to: Fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing cover art. You can and should find barSILENCE wherever you download podcasts, and check out his website at barSILENCE.com.  The authors of webcomic Penny Arcade, who coined the name Rando Calrissian a very long time ago and from whom I’ve shamelessly stolen it. BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  The first music block featured a song from Defender 2000, a soundtrack I discovered through fellow VGM podcast barSILENCE. In addition to doing cover art for my show, Jameson also did an excellent deep dive into this soundtrack on his show, and you can listen to it at https://barsilence.com/episode/57d0fd9e/defender-2000. And if you liked the Einhander track I played in the second block, there’s also a barSILENCE deep dive into that soundtrack you can hear at https://barsilence.com/episode/9cfe2ef1/einhander-after-image. If you want to reach me, I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. You can also find me on Threads and Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. All episodes of the show are posted to my YouTube channel, which you can find by searching for Shujin Academy VGM Club. You can email me at [email protected]. Links to everything are available on my LinkTree at https://linktr.ee/shujinacademy. Please leave me a five star rating on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you’re finding this episode. New episodes are released once or twice a month depending on how often I get them done, and they premiere on Thursday mornings on your favorite podcatcher and on 8beats.co, the internet's number one game music radio station. My show is also featured on Terra Player, the cool app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there. Finally, if you just can’t get enough of me, I’m also voicing esports reporter Samson Escapades on audio drama podcast How Much in Bison Dollars?, which you can find on FGC Radio, Patreon, and most podcatchers. If you’re listening on Spotify, please be aware that they’ve pulled a few of my episodes before. There’s a non-zero chance that they’ll eventually pull my entire podcast, as they’ve done with a few other game music podcasts, so I’d strongly suggest you subscribe elsewhere to be sure you can get all of the Professor Tom goodness you crave. Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:06 - Interstate ‘76 (PC) - Interstate ‘76 Theme (composer: Arion Salazar; performed by Bullmark) 01:06 - Talk Segment 1 04:59 - Darius II (Arcade) - Olga Breeze (composer: Hisayoshi Ogura) 09:43 - Ninja Five-O (GBA) - Select Menu (composers: Aya Tanaka and Hiroyuki Tsuboguchi) 11:25 - Gundam Wing: Endless Duel (Super Famicom) - City (composers: Hiroyuki Iwatsuki and Haruo Ohashi) 13:53 - Defender 2000 (Jaguar) - Level 5 (It’s a Dream) (composer: Alistair Lindsay) 19:49 - Ehrgeiz (Arcade) - Those Who Fight (composer: Nobuo Uematsu; arranger: Takayuki Nakamura) 21:18 - Talk Segment 2 24:21 - Hard Dunk (Arcade) - Round 6 (composer: Hideaki Miyamoto) 26:41 - Lord of Arcana (PSP) - Collection (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 30:05 - Nemo (Arcade) - Unused 2 (composer: Yoko Shimomura) 31:56 - Einhander (PSX) - Factory (composer: Kenichiro Fukui) 35:10 - Persona 5 (multiplatform) - What’s Going On (composer: Shoji Meguro) 37:13 - Grandia II (Dreamcast) - Commercial Town Liligue - Apparent Prosperity (composer: Noriyuki Iwadare) 39:58 - Talk Segment 3 43:53 - Zoda’s Revenge - StarTropics II (NES) - Ice Age World Map (composers: Takashi Kumegawa and Yoshio Hirai) 47:21 - SimCity (NES) - Megalopolis (composer: Soyo Oka) 49:42 - Legendary Wings (NES) - Palace (composers: Tamayo Kawamoto, Manami Matsumae, and Yoshihiro Sakaguchi) 51:09 - Xerd no Densetsu 2 (Game Boy) - Track 28 (composer: unknown)  55:22 - Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari (PC Engine CD) - River City High School (composer: Kazuo Sawa) 58:41 - Zero4 Champ RR (Super Famicom) - Function (composer: Katsuhiro Hayashi) 1:00:06 - Egg Monster Hero (DS) - Area 4 Map (composer: Nobuo Uematsu) 1:02:10 - Outro Talk Segment 1:04:49 - Hot Rod (C64) - BGM 1 (composer: Jeroen Tel)

Since 1999, OverClocked ReMix (https://ocremix.org/) has been a part of the video game music community. It began as a showcase of game music from fans, and it’s grown into a library with years of history and game remixes. The community began releasing themed albums full of songs in 2003, and several of those albums have covered various Final Fantasy games. This is the second of two episodes featuring those albums, and this one focuses on the OCRemix albums for the PlayStation era Final Fantasy games. Special thanks for this episode goes out to: Fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing cover art. You can and should find barSILENCE wherever you download podcasts, and check out his website at barSILENCE.com.  All the various musicians, remixers, and arrangers on these OCRemix albums. Links to their websites are below.  If you want to reach me, I’m most active on Bluesky as @shujinacademy.bsky.social. You can also find me on Threads and Instagram as ShujinAcademyVGMClub. All episodes of the show are posted to my YouTube channel, which you can find by searching for Shujin Academy VGM Club. You can email me at [email protected]. Links to everything are available on my LinkTree at https://linktr.ee/shujinacademy. Please leave me a five star rating on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you’re finding this episode. New episodes are released once or twice a month depending on how often I get them done, and they premiere on Thursday mornings on your favorite podcatcher and on 8beats.co, the internet's number one game music radio station. My show is also featured on Terra Player, the cool app that’s a destination for gaming podcasts and other content, so you can check me out there. Finally, if you just can’t get enough of me, I’m also voicing esports reporter Samson Escapades on audio drama podcast How Much in Bison Dollars?, which you can find on FGC Radio, Patreon, and most podcatchers. If you’re listening on Spotify, please be aware that they’ve pulled a few of my episodes before. There’s a non-zero chance that they’ll eventually pull my entire podcast, as they’ve done with a few other game music podcasts, so I’d strongly suggest you subscribe elsewhere to be sure you can get all of the Professor Tom goodness you crave. You can hear my latest appearance on CRT Soundsystem at  https://rss.com/podcasts/crtsoundsystem/2854437/, where I talk all about the soundtracks for the Street Fighter Alpha games with hosts Tom and Reese for a few hours.  If you liked these remixes, and want more awesome songs like these, here are links for the projects and artists featured on this episode. Some artists appear more than once; for those artists, only the first entry includes their links. All songs were originally composed by Nobuo Uematsu. OverClocked Remix (https://ocremix.org/) - All songs featured today are pulled from this website and this community. OCRemix is also home to dozens of other VGM arrangement albums and thousands of tracks.  Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream credits: The full album can be downloaded at https://ocremix.org/album/1/final-fantasy-vii-voices-of-the-lifestream The show opened with “Serenity”, from VGM arrangement legend Mustin. His website is https://mustinenterprises.com/, and he’s got so many links that each one gets a sub-point.  YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/c/MustinEnterprises SoundCloud : https://soundcloud.com/mustin Bandcamp : https://mustinenterprises.bandcamp.com/ Apple Music : https://music.apple.com/us/artist/mustin/372553927 Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/artist/1N06cI80aTy36Z6CWotkoR)      The first song in the first block is “No Such Thing As the Promised Land”, arranged by sephire and SGX.  sephire is the alias of Dan Floyd, who’s active on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/c/newframeplus and https://www.youtube.com/c/playframeplus.  SGX’s SoundCloud page can be found at https://soundcloud.com/sgxmusic, and there’s a YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@sgxmusic/.   The second song in the block is “The Crossroads (Cid's Theme)”, arranged and performed by Jovette Rivera. His webpage can be found at https://www.royalkingdommusic.com/, and his YouTube is at https://www.youtube.com/@Jovette456.  The third song in the block is “Hydrophone Breakdown”, arranged by JigginJonT, who’s better known as Jon Titterington and who’s currently a member of Father John Misty’s band. You can find his SoundCloud page at https://soundcloud.com/jtitterington and you can find his work on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/artist/1WJ6BzhRIR4Bfd0rcfzaOK.   Final Fantasy VIII: SeeDs of Pandora credits: The full album can be downloaded at https://ocremix.org/album/100/final-fantasy-viii-seeds-of-pandora  The first featured song was “Night Shift”, arranged by DJ Orange featuring Gamer of the Winds DJ Orange has chosen to keep the details of their identity a secret, with minimal internet presence, which is a decision that I can respect. Gamer of the Winds is a woodwind player; you can follow him on Bluesky at @gamerofthewinds.bsky.social and on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@GameroftheWinds. He’s also done work on a few game soundtracks as a session musician; you can find the list at https://www.mobygames.com/person/1274921/gregory-orosz/  The second featured song was “Longing for the Horizon”, arranged by ZackParrish with contributions from Ian Martyn, KestrelGirl, and E. Jesús Chic Acevedo.  ZackParrish’s SoundCloud can be found at https://soundcloud.com/zack-parrish. He’s also got a YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/CBlockDis, and he’s done soundtrack work for several games, which you can find at https://www.mobygames.com/person/1055258/zackary-parrish/credits/    Ian Martyn’s full list of links can be found at https://linktr.ee/IanMartyn, including a Soundcloud at https://soundcloud.com/ian-martyn and a Bandcamp page at https://ianmartyn.bandcamp.com/, along with YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/MooglePower and a presence on Bluesky as @ianmartyn.bsky.social. He’s also co-head of operations for GameGrooves, which puts out a lot of game music remixes at https://gamegrooves.com/. KestrelGirl’s game music covers can be found on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@OrKestrelGirl, on AppleMusic at https://music.apple.com/us/artist/kestrelgirl/1564548824, and on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/artist/2lTvP4hsaNi7QATxymXGR5. E. Jesús Chic Acevedo can be found on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/CairdeanFolk  The third featured song was “A Wounded Spy”, arranged by Vylent. Vylent’s work can be found on their SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/silent-ice and on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@Vylent_.  This episode’s promo segment used “Proposition and Clamor”, arranged by APZX. You can find his work on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/apzx  Final Fantasy IX: Worlds Apart credits: The full album can be downloaded at https://ocremix.org/album/66/final-fantasy-ix-worlds-apart  The block’s first song was “Moguo's Knife Party”, arranged by Ben Briggs. Ben Briggs and his music can be found on Bandcamp at https://benbriggs.bandcamp.com/ and on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/user/bbriggsmusic, and you can follow him on Bluesky at @downbaddad.bsky.social. The block’s second song was “Vamo alla Django”, arranged by AndyP and Fishy, featuring Dan Bryant AndyP and Dan Bryant both don’t have much of a web presence outside of their work on OCRemix. Fishy can be found on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/cainmccormack and on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/Fishy1618, and you can follow them on Bluesky at @fishy-vgm.bsky.social.   The block’s third song was “Bibliotheca ~ Dreamer in the Library”, arranged by katethegreat19 and Chaeley. katethegreat19 can be found on Bandcamp at https://erutan.bandcamp.com/ and on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/katethegreat19. Chaeley is credited with lyrics for this track, and their web presence is minimal. Final Fantasy: Random Encounter credits: The full album can be downloaded at  https://ocremix.org/album/39/final-fantasy-random-encounter  This block starts with “The Beginning of a Legacy” from The Dual Dragons featuring Brandon Strader. The Dual Dragons are Norwegian brothers Dan and Frank Johansen, and you can find them on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/FrankDanJohansen, https://www.youtube.com/@danjohansenmusic, and https://www.youtube.com/@FrankTheDoomriderJohansen.   This block’s middle is “The Crumbling Facade”, arranged by Brandon Strader featuring halc.  Brandon Strader’s website can be found at https://bstrader.net/. You can also find his work on SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/brandon-strader) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@bstrader). His work is also available to stream on Spotify.  halc’s work can be found on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/halc, on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/halc9bit, and on Bandcamp at https://halc.bandcamp.com.  This block’s ending is “If I Could Sail the World”, arranged by TheoConfidor featuring Eric Golub. I cannot find a definitive web presence for either individual credited here. Audio Engineering: A Tribute to Cid credits: The full album can be downloaded at https://ocremix.org/album/54/audio-engineering-a-tribute-to-cid  The show closes with “Al Bhed Ec Faent”, an arrangement of “Oui Are Al Bhed” from Final Fantasy X, arranged by Theory of N. He’s also known by the name Dustin Lagaly, and he’s got a SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/theoryofn I mentioned the Simpsons episode where they go to Branson Missouri and see dual marquees: “Andy Williams Presents Glen Campbell! Glen Campbell Presents Andy Williams!” You can experience that for yourself at https://youtu.be/vgFgaV_-KfA, and I can testify that Branson Missouri was really like that in the late 1990’s. There were a lot of celebrities who retired to Branson to get away from touring, and nowadays, the only one remaining is Yako