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The Legacy Music Hour

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The Legacy Music Hour: Castle Areas

The music from castle areas in video games is the topic of Episode 134.  Sometimes the music sounds majestic and royal, and sometimes it doesn’t.  Brent and Rob also talk about muscles.  Full track listing below.   Game – Composer… more
133

The Legacy Music Hour: Racing Games 3

Racing Games, the Legacy Music Hour’s third installment.  Brent and Rob go Bahamas on this episode with some good selections from motorized vehicle racing games.  Brent goes especially Bahamas when he gets possessed by the music of Virtua Racing.  Full… more
132

The Legacy Music Hour: Motoaki Takenouchi

Motoaki Takenouchi, best known for his work with the Shining Force series, is an amazing composer.  Through very sophisticated, progressive compositions, he really takes video game music to the next level.  Episode 132 is a focus on him, though some… more
131

The Legacy Music Hour: Elevator Music 3

Solid, solid episode.  Seriously, the music is soooo good this week.  Every track is great.  The focus is “elevator” music, which means music that’s sort of jazzy, sort of synthy, jazz fusiony, 80′s-y, TV show themey, hold musicy, sort of… more
130

The Legacy Music Hour: Free Play 13

Another free play to celebrate 130 episodes.  Brent and Rob play a lot of “feel good” tracks as well as some relaxing ones, but more importantly, they share a lot of love with each other, for the music, and with… more
129

The Legacy Music Hour: Twilight Games

For Episode 129, Brent and Rob focus only on titles which were released the last year their respective consoles released licensed games, exploring the way composers approached working with old hardware.  But this episode is kind of a mess for… more
128

The Legacy Music Hour: Launch Games

For Episode 128, Brent and Rob focus only on titles which were released the same year their respective consoles were released, exploring the way composers approached working with new hardware.  And they do it chronologically, so you can hear the… more
127

The Legacy Music Hour: Taito 2

Taito, famous for Space Invaders, Arkanoid, Bubble Bobble, and the Darius series, is the focus of Episode 127.  This is The Legacy Music Hour’s second pass at Taito titles (the first was Episode 47) and this time, Brent and Rob… more
126

The Legacy Music Hour: Town Music

Episode 126 is sort of another RPG focus, although there are definitely some non-RPG games out there that have non-level town areas in them (The Lone Ranger, Castlevania II, etc.).  Anyway, the music in this episode is really, really good. … more