For grown-ups. Basically, there's a lot of gay to be seen when you're looking for it, and if you play video games, you start seeing the gay there. Me: In L.A. On Twitter. Tumbling otherwise here. Blogging otherwise at my big boy blog.
Listen to some of the most Halloween-appropriate 16-bit music I could gather. You’re going to hear some of the Super NES and Sega Genesis music you’d expect but also some appropriately meaty deep cuts too. Happy Halloween.
Check out the track list here, and listen to Singing Mountain’s other Halloween episodes here.
I’ve got another Halloween mix up. I’ve cherry picked (pumpkin picked?) the creepiest Game Boy music I could find, and I gotta say: sometimes the simpler sound of the Game Boy makes for an even more disturbing vibe. Plus one of the songs in this episode allegedly has a death curse on it!
See the tracklist here. And listen to a playlist of all my Halloween episodes so far here.
Hey, people. I’ve had a busy week, and so to reduce stress and also minimize the work needed to put out this week’s Singing Mountain, I decided to makr an hourlong mix of relaxing music. That’s it. Super straight forward but also something you could hopefully kick back to.
New episode! I took a long overdue detour into the world of creamed spinach color and come back with a solid 80 minutes of the best green screen-era Game Boy music ever.
Well, the world is garbage but at the very least I can make a podcast about pretty night music and gay moon music and put a fucking fairy on the cover art. (BTW, it’s Seren/Selene from Panel de Pon, in case you’re wondering.) Anyway, I think this doesn’t suck. Your input readily accepted.
True story: I maybe created a video game music podcast as part of a long con to trick people into knowing about italo disco, listening to italo disco, loving italo disco. You can actually hear a lot of echoes of this ‘80s dance genre in video game music, and I made a whole episode about specifically that.
Exploration of masculinity in video games continues with Final Fight, whose odd, seemingly curated depictions will one day be the subject of a research paper written by someone smarter than I am.
New episode! If summer means beaches and hiking and sunny skies, you might just like Singing Mountain’s take on summer music. However, if summer meant experiencing an approximation of these things by video games, then I’m almost certain you’d like this episode. Enjoy at your leisure, indoor kids!
I dont play 3D-street fighter games that much but my god this new M Bison look is gorgeous! The skull-armor looks a bit cheesy (but fits to SF character) but that tiny white beard does adds some style.
New episode! I love Wario Land 4 because it’s an underrated Nintendo platformer but it’s also a BONKERS WEIRD game with a perfectly wackadoo soundtrack to match. This new Singing Mountain does a big deep dive into the game, the music and a mysterious damsel in distress named Princess Shokora. Enjoy!
If you are the kind of person who has a sweet nostalgia spot for Donkey Kong Country music, you might be interested to know that there is a “lost” soundtrack. When Nintendo put Donkey Kong Country 3 out on the Game Boy Advance, they had series composer David Wise write an entirely new soundtrack, and it sounds very much in line with what he’d done for Donkey Kong Country 1 and 2. In this new episode, I look at the best of this lesser-known soundtrack as well as the original Super NES version by Eveline Fischer.
