Author Archives: Gene Dreyband

30 Years of VGM with Jeff van Dyck – PA163

We’re joined today by another amazing and prolific guest; composer Jeff van Dyck. Instead of focusing on a specific game we take a tour through Jeff’s entire career from Skitchin’ all the way to recent games like Unpacking. Jeff began his career in 1992 with EA (Electronic Arts), working on games like the FIFA, NHL… Read More »

LIVE: VGMTogether – Preserving Game Audio – PA162

We had a great time at VGMTogether presenting our talk on game audio logging and the dedicated communities around the world that have spent years archiving music as accurately as possible. It’s a commonly overlooked topic that nevertheless supports a lot of activities in the game music scene. You may have heard it referred to… Read More »

Roadkill – PA161

Today we’re joined be returning guest Jesse Bishop aka Street Cleaner to talk about Roadkill! It’s an Amiga and Amiga CD-32 top down combat racing game released around early 1995, developed by Vision Software and published by Acid Software, both New Zealand based studios. The game’s music was written by Blair Zuppicich, a composer and… Read More »

The 8-Bit Big Band with Charlie Rosen – PA160

The 8-Bit Big Band is a 30-65 member Jazz/Pops orchestra (led by Charlie Rosen) that formed to celebrate and realize some of the best musical themes written from various video games. The members of the 8-Bit Big Band come from all around the world, but most reside primarily in New York City, and are some… Read More »

Expansion Pack XXVIII – PA159

Six more tracks that we love but didn’t quite fit anywhere else. As always we hope you enjoy! http://media.blubrry.com/pixelatedaudio/ia601503.us.archive.org/21/items/pixelatedaudio159/PixelatedAudio159.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 45:50 — 63.0MB)Subscribe: Spotify | RSS

Pilotwings 64 with Dan Hess – PA158

We’ve got a great show today with Dan Hess, the composer behind Pilotwings 64! It was released as a launch title for the N64 in 1996 by Paradigm Simulation and is the second in the series (Pilotwings, Pilotwings 64, Pilotwings Resort). Pilotwings 64 continues the tradition of a lightweight flight sim where you use a… Read More »