Mind the Gap!

Yeah, as a heads up, I've been a bit behind on posting the last few shows. Don't worry though, I'll get them up soonish, as soon as exam season ceases to be. Still alive though!

Episode 11: The Spice Must Flow!

Track List

1. Lesson 6: The Lecture - Jurassic 5
2. Insane - The Arkhams
3. Set Sail and Conquer - Alestorm
4. Daydream Warrior - Lutin
5. Re: Your Brains - Jonathan Coulton
6. Council of Loathing - MC Frontalot
7. Tentacles! -  He Who (for legal reasons) Must Not Be Named
8. A Matter of Honour - bryface
9. Friday Four-Gate - AKAmazingness
10. Prevenge - They Might Be Giants
11. The Elements - Tom Lehrer
12. Snake Eater - Cynthia Harrell
13. Requiem for a Dream - Matt Fuzz

 Artist Links

•  Jurassic 5 drop some neat beats, so check em out.
•  The Arkhams are a psychobilly group with a Lovecraftian bent.
•  Alestorm make Scottish Pirate Metal, and it works out pretty well.
•  Here's Lutin's 8bc profile if you want more of his work. 
•  How many more times will I link to JoCo? Probably many more. 
•  MC Frontalot, and his mad nerdcore flow, resides here. 
•  Here's more info on the musical "A Shoggoth on the Roof"
•  bryface also has an 8bc profile, go check it out.
•  TMBG makes excellent geek rock. 
•  Tom Lehrer was both an excellent satirist and an extremely intelligent guy all around.
•  Here's Cynthia Harrell's last.fm if you want to hear more of her wonderful singing voice.
•  More 8bc profile goodness, here's Matt Fuzz.

 Show Notes
 This week I played a bit of chiptune, nerdcore, metal, and lovecraftian themed music. I had my good friend Colin on the show, and we talked about flagrant abuse of Tabletop RPG rules, Council of Loathing, and other various sorts of free-association. Here's the full show for available for download.

Episode 10: A sudden but inevitable betrayal!

Track List

1. Canned Heat - Jamiroquoi
2. Sting Operation - Anamanaguchi
3. Chemical Beats - Chemical Brothers
4. Yakety Sax! - Boots Randolph
5. Deadly Sinners - 3 Inches of Blood
6. The Innsmouth Look - The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
7. Party Party Party - Andrew W.K.
8. Harden the Duck Up! - Norg
9. Snake Eyes - David Holmes
10. Ariel Assault - Producer Snafu
11. Vampire Slayer - Y2lhen
12. The Secret Life of Doctor Calgori - Abney Park
13. School's Out - Rolf

Artist Links

• Jamiroquoi makes a cool neo-disco sort of sound, check him out.
• Anamanaguchi make some of the best chiprock around. Here's their website.
• The Chemical Brothers make pretty good electronica, and have been featured in some cool video games.
• Boots Randolph did Yakety Sax! along with other less famous country-type saxophone stuff.
• Here's 3 Inches of Blood's website. Canadian power/thrash metal from Vancouver!
• The Thickets' website again, in case you went insane and forgot.
• Andrew WK is having a party at his website, and you're invited!
• Here's Norg's OC Remix profile with a link to the song I played for free download.
• David Holmes has produced music for all sorts of cool movies.
• Producer Snafu's MySpace, pretty cool dubstep/chiptune inside.
• Y2lhen's 8bitcollective profile where you can download all sorts of good chiptunes.
• Abney Park are steampunk skyship pirates. Go check out their website.
• Here's Rolf's 8bitcollective profile. Go get some more chiptunes!

Show Notes
This week, I played a mix of electronica, chiptune, metal, and other miscellaneous music types. I talked about reddit/digg, making stuff funnier with the addition of Yakety Sax, Brutal Legend, and all sorts of fun stuff. Here's the link to the website that adds Yakety Sax to any youtube video. (It makes said videos funnier no matter what.) Last but not least, here's the full episode for downloading.

Episode 9: Additional Pylons

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Track List

1. Time to Start - Blue Man Group
2. Game Over - Eloquence
3. That Spells DNA - Jonathan Coulton
4. Aquaman's Lament - Mark Aaron James
5. BOSS BATTLE!! - Eloquence
6. Rick and Mario- I Fight Dragons
7. Star Power - Eloquence
8. I Feel Fantastic - Jonathan Coulton
9. The Native - Eloquence
10. I'm Han Solo - MC Chris
11. What is Rock - Blue Man Group
12. Fight Town - bryface
13. Hipster Girl - MC Lars

Artist Links

• Blue Man Group does cool improvised percussion rock and such. They are also blue.
• Here's Eloquence's Bandcamp site where you can download all the songs by them I played for free.
• Jon.a.than. Coul.ton.
• Here's Mark Aaron James' place.
• I Fight Dragons makes pretty good geek rock.
• MC Chris raps about star wars and needs you to help him fight cystic fibrosis.
• bryface does awesome chiptune music, and here's the album the track this week is off of.
• MC Lars - Nerdcore rapper to the max.

Show Notes
This week I played a mix of geek rock, some nerdcore rap, and some ambient video game type music. Here's the whole episode for download, before I forget. I talked about the hidden SecuROM DRM in the PC version of Dragon Age 2, but EA has since come forward saying that they really aren't using it. Here's the Ars Technica story on it with the update that went up the day after the show aired. I mentioned that there would be a Starcraft 2 tournament at queens last Saturday, but I got the date wrong. Said tournament is actually this Saturday (March 19th), so here's the Facebook link to the event. Come on by and crush/get crushed by me, it'll be fun, I swear.

Episodes 7 & 8: Temporal Distortion

Episode 8

Track List

1. The Grid - Daft Punk
2. Subterranean - bryface
3. Why Does The Sun Shine? - They Might Be Giants
4. Ice Colony - bryface
5. Throw Them Overboard - Abney Park
6. Baba Yetu (Civilization 4 Menu Theme) - Chistopher Tin
7. The Future is Bright - bryface
8. Destroy The Orcs - 3 Inches of Blood
9. Team Fortress 2 Theme - Valve Studio Orchestra
10. At The Speed Of Neurons - bryface
11. Black Market Nanotech - Matecha
12. Fallout 3 Main Theme - Inon Zur
13. The Planet Plan - United Future Organization
14. Chocolate Rain - Tay Zonday
15. Drunken Pipe Bomb - Valve Studio Orchestra
16. Gold Saucer - Team Teamwork

Artist Links

• Daft Punk. You've probably heard of them. If not, welcome to some of the best techno robot DJs around
• Bryface - Neat chiptune from Vancouver. Here's his 8bc profile.
• TMBG - Geek rockers extraordinaire.
• Steampunk goth rockers Abney Park. Also, they are sky pirates.
• Christopher Tin. He won a grammy for Baba Yetu, and here's his website.
• 3 Inches of Blood are a pretty brutal power metal band from Vancouver.
• Here's The Valve Studio Orchestra's Last.fm profile.
• Matecha's 8bc profile. More chiptune coolness from Vancouver.
• Inon Zur's website. He scores all sorts of cool video games and such.
• United Future Organization. They make cool music to relax to.
• Tay Zonday. He made more than just chocolate rain. Here's his website if you're interested.
• Team Teamwork's blog with a bunch of free music.

Show Notes
This week I played a lot of videogame type music, from actual songs from games to chiptune music that sounds like it should be in a video game. I talked about nanotech, steampunk aesthetics, Steam Sales, and other cool stuff. If you want the whole episode, you can grab it here.




Episode 7
*This episode and the associated post got stuck in a time loop, and it took me about a week to retrieve it, so it's part of ep 8's post.
Track List

1. Calgary SW - Bit_Rat
2. The Poetry of Reality - The Symphony of Science
3. Still Alive - Jonathan Coulton
4. Commander Shepard - Miracle of Sound
5. Grand Experiment - No More Kings
6. Ultramarine (Free) - Bit_Rat
7. Beethoven's 5th - Trans-Siberian Orchestra
8. Gimmick - Bit_Rat
9. Your Friend Wil - MC Frontalot
10. Fette's Vette - MC Chris
11. Ride The Dragon - Manowar
12. Monday Somewhere Else - Bit_Rat
13. The USS Make Shit Up - Voltaire
14. The Derelict - Abney Park

Artist Links

•  Bit_Rat's 8bc profile is here if you want more chiptune goodness.
• The Symphony of Science does a great job making music out of the words of advocates of science
• More video game themed music can by Miracle of Sound can be bought here ate his bandcamp
• No More Kings makes some pretty good geek rock
• The Trans-Siberian Orchestra does a great job of transforming classics into hard rock
• MC Frontalot produces some fine nerdcore rap, and so does MC Chris 
• Manowar makes awesome cheesy power fantasy metal.
• Goth musician Voltaire has some good nerdy music at his website here.
• Steampunk goth rockers Abney Park can be found here.

Show Notes
This week I played a good mix of nerdcore rap, cheesy power metal, chiptune, and geek rock. I talked a bit about this year's upcoming games to look out for, as well as the importance of scientific literacy, among other topics. If you want the whole episode, you can get it here.

Episode 6: Tactical Genius

Track List

1.  Live to Win - Paul Stanley
2. Particle Man - They Might Be Giants
3. Robots - Flight of the Conchords
4. Brains! - Voltaire
5. Hey There Ophelia - MC Lars
6. Head Shot - DEADBEATBLAST
7. Final Boss - MC Frontalot
8. Thundershock - DEADBEATBLAST
9. Creepy Doll - Jonathan Coulton
10. I Want You To (Weezer cover) - PDF Format
11. Dragostea Din Tei - O-Zone
12. Slash Dot Dash - Fatboy Slim
13. This Is What It Means To Feel (System Override) - PDF Format

Artist Links

• Paul Stanley's website, for rocking and stuff about KISS
• They Might Be Giants, and their website might be here.
• More Flight of the Conchords info/music here.
• Voltaire's gothy sounds on the internets are here.
• MC Lars' nerdy rap-rock and related infos.
• DEADBEATBLAST's website and 8 bit collective profile.
• More Nerdcore rap? MC Frontalot is ahppy to oblige.
• Want more Jonathan Coulton? You probably want to go here.
• PDF Format's 8 bit collective profile. Sweet chiptunes inside.
• O-Zone's myspace be here.
• Hey look, Fatboy Slim has a website too. Check it out.

Show Notes
It was a good show this week, with a good varied playlist. It had a good mix of Chiptune, Nerdcore rap, Geek Rock and songs the internet made famous. If you had issues getting to 8bc.com the last two weeks, that is because it was down for some reason, so it wasn't just you. Fortunately it went up in time to find good Canadian Chiptune artists DEADBEATBLAST and PDF Format in time for the show. Here's the clip that accompanied the Paul Stanley song. You might need to find it elsewhere outside the USA unfortunately, or convince the website you are browsing from an American IP address. Of course, Numa Numa wouldn't be the same without this video. Lastly, here's the full show for download and whatnot. I switched file hosts by the way. This one should be more stable.

Episode 4: Co-Op Mode

Track List

1.  Over the Seas - Alestorm
2.  Yog-Sothoth - The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
3. Symphony of Science - A Glorious Dawn
4. No Heaven -  DJ Champion
5. Skullcrusher Mountain - Jonathan Coulton
6. The Picard Song - DarkMateria
7. Little Green Bag - The George Baker Selection
8. Beethoven Zerg Mix - BanYa
9. Black Beard's Treasure - Captain Dan and the Scurvy Crew
10. 300 This Is Sparta (Fun Times Mix) - Funtastic Power
11. Imperial March - John Williams
12. The Bidding - Tally Hall
13. The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny

Artist Links

• Arrrrrr, here be Alestorm's pirate metal port upon the worldwide web.
• The Thickets' website if you've missed it before
• Here's the wonderful Symphon of Science's website, with more awesome tracks
• DJ Champion's place in the webbernets, pay it a visit.
• I keep telling you guys, go to Jonathan Coulton's website. Go.
• The Picard Song was made by these guys, they're pretty good.
• Here's some history on the George Baker Selection.
• BanYa did the non-starcraft bits of the Beethoven Zerg Mix, here's their Last.fm site.
• More piracy, but rap oriented. Captain Dan and the Scurvy Crew.
• The guy behind Funtastic Power, keatonkeaton999's website is here.
• John Williams composed lots of great orchestral pieces for movies like Star Wars.
• Tally Hall is a pretty nice geek rock group, check em out.
• Here's Lemon Demon's website. Includes: geeky music, awesomeness.

Show Notes
This week, I had my friend Zack on the show. We had a great time talking about Tabletop RPGs, Movies, Video Games, and other assorted scuttlebutt. If you're interested in the FATE system for running some tabletop gaming fun times, you can find the rules and other resources here. We talked a bit about recent movies like the Green Hornet and their use of 3D. We talked about the Star Wars prequels and the excellent, hilarious, and hour long youtube critical reviews of them. Also Robot Unicorn Attack, there was some of that too. As promised, here's the full episode for downloading. The last song got cut off for some reason, so here's a link to the full song+video.

Episode 1: Press Start

Track List

Format: Order Played - Song Title - Artist/Band

1. Critical Hit - No More Kings
2. A Marine Biologist - Darkest Of The Hillside Thickets
3. She Make it So - Warp 11
4. Lost Woods (instrumental) - Team Teamwork
5. Firefly Opening Theme - Joss Whedon
6. Blackout - Darkest Of The Hillside Thickets
7. Techno Syndrome (Mortal Kombat) [7" Mix] - Immortals
8. First World Problem - MC Frontalot
9. Airbase - Anamanaguchi
10. No Way - Darkest Of The Hillside Thickets
11. Winter Storm - Kommisar
12. I Hate Your Blog - MC Frontalot
13. Chiron Beta Prime - Jonathan Coulton
14. Trainer Battle Rock - Mikosi
15. Some Things Man Was Not Meant To Know - Darkest Of The Hillside Thickets 

Links

Like "Airbase" by Anamanguchi? Click here for the legal full album download. If you liked "Lost Woods" by Team teamwork, here's his blog. It has all sorts of musical goodness, I promise. Furthermore, if you liked both of those, 8 Bit Collective is a sweet website for finding more awesome chiptune stuff.

Setting Up

Hello internets! Just setting up the blog and such. The plan so far is to post "Show Notes" after each show with links to featured musicians' websites and free legal downloads of any songs I play if I can find em, along with any other random things I happen to ramble about on air. Might be able to make the shows into a download-able podcast, so look for that in the future. Tune in midnight to 1 am on Friday nights starting this Friday.