Xmas Special 2018

This is our first Christmas Special. We planned to do one in 2017 but it somehow didn't work out. Since it's only 3 tracks I'm not going to describe them here. Surprise yourself and of course have yourself a merry little christmas 2018!

Enjoy!

Episode 20 - The Quiz

This is our end-of-season-two-quiz-episode-extravaganza! Enjoy us failing to recognize even the most obvious tracks. Marvel at our incompetence when attributing composers to albums. Bask in our shame when we mix up things that have never been mistaken for each other before! Obviously I'm not gonna mention what we are playing in this episode since that would take all the fun from those of you who would like to quiz along.

Enjoy!






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Episode 11 - Remastered Version

This is the 2018 remastered version of episode 11 where we for some weird reason played 7 tracks each although we were already convinced that 5 is the way to go. Anyway, here is the original description:


Broken Chair Scores Episode 11 is the first episode recorded in 2016. There was kind of a longish break in between the quiz episode and this one. Thus we take a long time to catch up and talk about all kinds of things. Sorry for the longer duration of the show. But then, if you listen to the show you probably like / can at least stand the discussions and off-topic speculations so you might even enjoy the longer running time. In this episode we talk about the soundtrack to the 2007 IO Interactive game "Hitman Blood Money" written by Jesper Kyd as well as the soundtrack to the 2001 Stephen Sommers film "The Mummy Returns" written by Alan Silvestri.

Enjoy!




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Episode 19

In episode 19 of the Broken Chair Scores we present the Angelo Badalamenti score to the 1990 TV series Twin Peaks by Mark Frost and David Lynch as well as the second set of tracks from the soundtrack to the Cavia video game "Nier" from 2010 composed by Keiichi Okabe, Kakeru Ishihama, Keigo Hoashi, and Takafumi Nishimura. We had to go back to this score since it contains so much great music that one episode of 5 tracks just weren't enough. Also this is the first episode only featuring Krazy Kaptain Khalid and Melee Markus. Apeshit Andy was absent and he is missed dearly.






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Episode 18 - aka Midi Madness

This is episode 18 which is basically our glorious comeback (again) into a more constant rhythm. Let's see how that goes.
Anyway we present to you this time the Ludwig Göransson score to the 2015 Film Creed by Ryan Coogler as well as something very special. Do you remember episode 12? (Sure you do, silly old me). Well this was the one where we presented two different versions of the Castlevania 3 soundtrack. This time Krazy Kaptain Khalid does something similar. Here he is himself describing what happened:
"So, I more or less glued two mp3 files together, so that they appear as one and I just have to run that one file instead of two. In the beginning of those "combined" files we hear for about the first minute, the version that probably most of PC players in the early 90s heard at home with their Sound Blaster cards, the Ad-Lib or OPL2 version. The second part is the more sophisticated version with the more expensive Roland MT32 General MIDI Synthesizer. If you're interested in that kinda stuff, you should totally check out the youtube channel by "8bit Keys". Great guy, great videos, fun to watch."
He does that with tracks from the 1990 Chris Roberts PC game Wing Commander which were written by George Alistair Sanger aka "The Fat Man".






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Episode 12 - remastered version

In Broken Chair Scores episode 12 we dive into contemporary classical music with Michael Nymans Score to the film "A Zed and Two Noughts" by Peter Greenaway which reminds me of my favourite guy from this genre (Philip Glass) and thus already makes this a very special episode for me. Then we do something even more cool in that we compare two versions of the same soundtrack. We dissect "Akumajou Densetsu" for the Famicom and "Castlevania 3" for the NES respectively (composed by Hidenori Maezawa, Jun Funahashi, Yukie Morimoto and Yoshinori Sasaki) with the Famicom version using the outstanding VRC6 chip (embedded into the cartridge as an addon to the systems' internal sound hardware!) instead of the NES' rather standard MMC5 chip. We listen to the (not so) subtle differences in the arrangements and have a lot of fun while doing so. And I hope you will have fun listening to it as well!

New in 2018: This episode got the remastering treatment which means that some very light editing has happened for the dialogue but some heavy editing has happened for the Castlevania tracks. The original version had the "room sound" that we produced on the fly. The remastered version was edited so that the tracks have higher quality. Unfortunately this goes only for the Castlevania tracks. The "Zed and Two Noughts" tracks couldn't be retrieved and thus still have their classic sound. (Not too bad though). This remastering really shines a light on the difference between the NES and the Famicom version which makes it a must listen episode for all followers even if you already listened to the original episode edit.
Fun fact: somewhere in the episode I mention that this is an unedited, almost life experience. Well this is no longer the case obviously but I think the new edit brings home the difference between the two versions nicely and thus I did it.

Also: I mention the "bad dudes" several times. This is also wrong. The composers of the Castlevania soundtrack are NOT the people who created the soundtrack to the game Bad Dudes which themselves were referred to as the "bad dudes" by Brent Weinbach and Rob F. Switch on their legendary vgm podcast The Legacy Music Hour. I have so much to learn.






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Episode 13 - Clean Version (Fixed)

The legendary and formerly broken Broken Chair Scores Episode 13. This was the one that 2 years ago when it was initially released had the stupid cellphone interference ziggiziggiziggi-sounds that kept stabbing your eardrums. Good news though! I completely remastered it and removed most of the more heavy ziggiziggiziggis. (Some minor distortions had to remain since we say important things like track titles or make stupid jokes simultaneously.) This process also took about half an hour of length from the recording which actually seems to not harm the overall experience too much. Maybe I'll do that more often in the future.
Anyway, we've got one film soundtrack and one game soundtrack for you. This time it's the soundtrack to the Bethesda game "Wolfenstein - The New Order " written by Michael John Gordon as well as the soundtrack to the original video animation anime series "Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team" composed by Kohei Tanaka.


Enjoy!



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Episode 17

This is probably the best edited episode so far. I tried to reduce the clicks and other sounds to a minimum. At least the ones that are not a part of the music ;-) Tracks have been edited seperately to sound crisp and clear. We also have a third microphone now so that all three of us get roughly the same air time.
In this episode we present the soundtrack to the 2013 Steven Knight film "Locke" by Dickon Hinchliffe as well as the soundtrack to the Cavia video game "Nier" from 2010 composed by Keiichi Okabe, Kakeru Ishihama, Keigo Hoashi, and Takafumi Nishimura. The two scores are quite different in style which should make for an entertaining and diversified listening experience.



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