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1. AWITW – Doll’s Awakening
2. OSC – Cycles At Sundown
3. Yellow Magic Orchestra – Cosmic Surfin’
4. Raymond Scott – Tempo Block
5. Ryuichi Sakamoto – Thousand Knives
6. SkweeeRRL – Cold Russian Eyes
7. MISTER BEEP – Noises Part 1

1. NecroPolo – Rising Sun
2. Svetlana – Powertron! Productions
3. Logic System – Brain Child
4. Acidulé – Neo Tokyo’s Theme
5. Jredd – Neon Cruise
6. Elmobo – Eliminator in-game music #1
7. Portal 2 OST – Science is Fun
8. Irrlicht Project – romrom (introspec’s edit)
9. Elmobo – Mindsmasher

1. Vincenzo – Menthol Excess
2. Rico Zerone – Level 13
3. RetroCompute – Synapse
4. Dr. Vector – Harold F
5. Response of Darklite – Tik-Tiki-Tak – Part One
6. Ceekayed – Made of Meat
7. NecroPolo – Grotto Motto
8. Linde – Fractal Bus Ride

Tonight’s show featured a selection of tracks from the “nanoloop minimalism” compilation album, featuring longform, minimalist, ambient and glitchy Gameboy tracks.  Check it out if this kind of stuff is your jam!

1. Mt – mellom
2. Scanian Wolf – Secret Modem Dial-Up Delight
3. Pulselooper – monotask (truncated)

Tonight’s show was episode 26 of the Half Hour of Power!  This represents six months of weekly shows.  A huge thanks to everybody who has regularly listened to show during this time, whether live or from the archives.

This show was supposed to be a “return to the new normal” after a few experimental mix up shows.  The playlist combines chiptunes, skwee, vintage electronica, video game music and video game music remix into a single show, hopefully without feeling too disorganised.  This is the approach I think I will be taking from now on.

1. Daniela Salvia – Skwerminator
2. Logic System – Unit
3. dkstr – Day Late
4. Televicious – Gate Array
5. Feekzoid – Thrust (Magnificent Worlds)
6. Yellow Magic Orchestra – Computer Game (Theme From The Invader)
7. Mega Man 2 OST – Dr. Wily’s Castle
8. 505 – Tambumbi
9. Tales of Abyss OST – The arrow was shot

Tonight’s show featured the work of the Sega Sound Team Band, Sega’s official in-house band!  The S.S.T band held concerts and released tapes and CDs in Japan only during the late 80s and early 90s, playing rock versions of music from Sega’s games, and the two “medley” tracks from tonight’s show are examples of this.

1. Alex Kidd theme
2. Power Drift medley
3. After Burner sound effect collection
4. Galaxy Force – Defeat
5. Alien Storm – Nuclear Dance!, Oh My Buddha!
6. After Burner medley
7. Virtua Formula – Rad Mobile
8. R360 G-LOC – Earth Frame G
9. Battle Axe – Ending

The second “shaken up” Half Hour of Power was vintage electronic music night!  The late 70s and early 80s were pivotal times for the video game and home computer industries, so it’s only natural that the electronic music from these times would influence the earliest chiptune artists.  Sometimes the influence went both ways – the YMO song in tonight’s playlist is the first ever example of video game sounds being sampled in mainstream music.

1. Raymond Scott – Nursery Rhyme (1964)
2. Yellow Magic Orchestra – Computer Game (Theme From The Circus) (1978)
3. Ryuichi Sakamoto – Das Neue Japanische Elektronische Volkslied (1978)
4. Logic System – Chinjyu of Sun (1981)
5. Michael Hoenig – Sun and Moon (1978)
6. Jean-Michael Jarre – Oxygène (Part IV) (1976)