Broken Chair Scores

This is episode 44, which marks a paradigm shift (at least a small one). We have tried to be more concise in discussing the scores we have brought along, so that we can stay under the 90 minute mark. You'll hear us talking about this during the actual show. It's all about constraints and how they can make the show better. You'll be the judge of that. As always, we bring you two soundtracks. This time they are both related to anime, or at least come from Japanese culture. On the film side we have Hellsing, a 2001 anime directed by Umanosuke Iida and Yasunori Urata with a soundtrack by Yasushi Ishii. The game is Xbox 2007's Lost Odyssey, with a score by none other than Nobuo Uematsu and directed by Daisuke Fukugawa. If you want to support us you can always write a comment here in the page, on Mastodon or on Instagram which would be highly appreciated. If you're interested in a more relaxed podcast about mostly (city-) building game soundtracks for the PC (think Anno, Settlers, Tycoons from the 90's and onwards) then check out Aufbaumusik. Enjoy this episode and please give us feedback!

Episode 43 took a while because I switched jobs and I was either too busy or too lazy to edit it. We actually recorded in the beginning of September 2024. Then I tried to upload in October but archive.org was still down. So this is coming out in November. Anyway, both scores we play are classics in their own way I guess. So on the film side we've got Michael Giacchino's score to the 2009 J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie which is also referred to (by me) as Star Trek 11. On the other side the Kaptain brings the score to the 1991 SNES Konami game TMNT IV: Turtles in Time by Mutsuhiko Izumi, Harumi Ueko and Kazuhiko Uehara. If you want to support us you can always write a comment here or on Instagram which would be highly appreciated. If you're interested in a more relaxed podcast about mostly (city-) building game soundtracks for the PC (think Anno, Settlers, Tycoons from the 90's and onwards) then check out Aufbaumusik. Enjoy this episode and please give us feedback! Did you see that we're on Instagram now? Follow us there via this link or find it on our landing page. We're cool now. Tell your friends. Also: here is the link to our Mastodon. PS: Maybe the upload won't work due to the archive.org hack. In this case I'll try again later. Sorry for any delays and disappointments this may cause. I know for sure that some of you can't wait to get the new episode. OK. Who am I kidding.

Did you see that we're on Instagram now? Follow us there via this link or find it on our landing page. We're cool now. Tell your friends. Episode 42 delivers. In fact, we deliver two great scores right into your earholes. The first is the score for the 1997 film Princess Mononoke. The film was directed by Hayao Miyazaki. The composer of the soundtrack is Joe Hisaishi. They are not the same person, nor do they have the same first name. This is somehow relevant and makes sense when you listen to the episode. The second soundtrack we play is by Jerry Martin, Marc Russo (no relation to Jeff Russo of Star Trek Discovery fame), Kirk Casey and Dix Bruce. These cool guys created the soundtrack for the 2000 Maxis/EA video game The Sims. We play tracks from an album released in 2007. Here is the link to a cool Mallsoft playlist. Here is the link to our Mastodon. If you want to support us you can always write a comment here or on Instagram which would be highly appreciated. If you're interested in a more relaxed podcast about mostly (city-) building game soundtracks for the PC (think Anno, Settlers, Tycoons from the 90's and onwards) then check out Aufbaumusik. Enjoy this episode and please give us feedback!

Welcome to season 5 of the Broken Chair Scores soundtrack podcast. This is the season where we're probably going to go viral. Did you see that we're on Instagram now? Follow us there via this link or find it on our landing page. We're cool now! Tell your friends about it. In this episode we play tracks by Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis from the 2020 video game Spiritfarer by Thunder Lotus Games as well as some selections by various composers (mostly Vangelis though) from the 1980 PBS television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (the Carl Sagan one). There are 40 years between these productions but they have one thing in common (and I'll borrow a phrase from Episode 39 here): They are totally mellowed out! Look no further if you need to calm down and want to find some chill tracks to relax! If you want to support us you can always write a comment here or on Instagram (where we totally are now since we're cool and all) which would be highly appreciated. If you're interested in a more relaxed podcast about mostly (city-) building game soundtracks for the PC (think Anno, Settlers, Tycoons from the 90's and onwards) then check out Aufbaumusik. Enjoy this episode and please give us feedback!

This is 2023 and I'm having some time on my hands so I'm remastering the old episodes. This means re-inserting all the music taken from proper sources and other minor tweaks to make it better. The original music was just recorded as played in the room from some shitty PC speakers. I went into the master and put the tracks in properly. I also tweaked some other parameters of the audio and converted it to mono as should always be the case for podcasts. The original ep was uploaded in 2015. Here is the original description: Broken Chair Scores Episode 6 is the best episode so far. Believe me. We deliver a concise and kind of bizarre one hour and thirty minutes of soundtrack goodness. [Update from 2023: It's 2 hours now due to including the tracks in proper quality as well as the voice-over ones.] As always we review our favorite tracks from one film and one game soundtrack. In this episode we talk about the soundtrack to the 1995 Sega game "Alien Soldier" written by Kazuo Hanzawa as well as the soundtrack to the 2003 Peter Weir Film "Master and Commander" written by Richard Tognetti, Iva Davies and Christopher Gordon. If you want to support us you can always write a comment here. This would be highly appreciated. If you're interested in a more relaxed podcast about mostly (city-) building game soundtracks for the PC (think Anno, Settlers, Tycoons from the 90's and onwards) then check out Aufbaumusik. Enjoy!

This is episode 40 which marks the end of season 4 of the Broken Chair Scores podcast. Instead of having the quiz we just play our 5 (actually 6) favorite tracks each from episodes 31 to 39. For reasons concerning this change, listen to the episode. We talk about it on the air. If you want to support us you can always write a comment here which would be highly appreciated. If you're interested in a more relaxed podcast about mostly (city-) building game soundtracks for the PC (think Anno, Settlers, Tycoons from the 90's and onwards) then check out Aufbaumusik. Enjoy this episode and please give us feedback!

The second post-Covid live and on-site recording felt just as great as the first one! Join us as we dive deep into the magical world of Outcast, the 1999 Infogrames video game with a soundtrack written by Lennie Moore. This is interlaced with the absolute banger score of Neon Genesis Evangelion from the 1995 Gainax Japanese television anime program directed by Hideaki Anno which was composed by Shiro Sagisu. This is also the episode that brings you the phrase "to mellow out" which should definitely be used more often. If you want to support us you can always write a comment here which would be highly appreciated. If you're interested in a more relaxed podcast about mostly (city-) building game soundtracks for the PC (think Anno, Settlers, Tycoons from the 90's and onwards) then check out Aufbaumusik. Enjoy this episode and please give us feedback!

This is 2023 and for whatever reason I'm having some time at my hands so I'm remastering the old episodes. This means re-inserting all the music taken from proper sources and other minor tweaks to make it better. The original music was just recorded as played in the room from some shitty PC speakers. I went into the master and put the tracks in properly. I also tweaked some other parameters of the audio and converted it to mono as should always be the case for podcasts. The original ep was uploaded in 2015. For this one in particular I'd like to mention that the new show is longer than the original cut because I included the tracks in their entirety without voice-over first before following this up with the version from the original recording since we apparently used to talk over the music in 2015 which was dropped in later episodes and I wanted to present both the original track in pure form and the voice-over one. Here is the original description: Broken Chair Scores Episode 7 is us paying tribute to the recently deceased James Horner. He was one of the three masters of my personal film music history (Jerry and John being the other two Js). He gave us so many awesome soundtracks. I'm actually really sad that he is no longer with us and there won't be new material. May he rest in peace. In this episode we talk about the soundtrack to the 1997 James Cameron film "Titanic" as well as the soundtrack to the 1995 Joe Johnston film "Jumanji". We chose Titanic because it is super well known and just a great example of James' potential when it gets emotional. I went for Jumanji because it was one of my first and most listened to soundtracks when I was a child so I have some very personal emotional bond to this score. If you want to support us you can always write a comment here. This would be highly appreciated. If you're interested in a more relaxed podcast about mostly (city-) building game soundtracks for the PC (think Anno, Settlers, Tycoons from the 90's and onwards) then check out Aufbaumusik. Enjoy!

Live and on-site! We sat together in the same room for the first time since February 2020 (that was episode 30 which does not sound too far away but since this show moves at tectonic rates of 3 eps per year it was actually 3 years ago!). And of course it was great and there was some physical contact and I think you can hear it (the good vides, not the touching). During the show I felt like asking you (the listeners) a bunch of questions along the lines of "should I drink more or less during the show?" and "how do you feel about my pussillanimous move to bleep out the c-word in ep. 37" but the most important question is the following: "What do you love about the show?" and I still stand by this one. Please write us via mail or (even better) comment on the page with your answers. Soundwise this one is rock solid since we present the killer John Powell score to the 2010 animated DreamWorks film How to Train Your Dragon and the equally badass Samurai Shodown video game score from the 2019 reboot by SNK with tracks composed by one or several of the following group: Hiroshi Yamazoe, Masato Horiuchi, Hideki Asanaka, Mayuko Hino, Naoki Kita, Minori Sasaki, Kensuke Inage, Jun Hoshina. Also at one point rather towards the end the Kaptain mentioned this cover version of the Castlevania 3 score which is really great. Enjoy this episode and please give us feedback!

This is 2022 and for whatever reason I'm having some time at my hands so I'm remastering the old episodes. This means re-inserting all the music taken from proper sources and other minor tweaks to make it sound better. The original music was just recorded as played in the room from some shitty PC speakers. I went into the master and put the tracks in properly. I also tweaked some other parameters of the audio and converted it to mono as should always be the case for podcasts. The original ep was uploaded in 2015. For this one in particular I'd like to mention that the new show is longer than the original cut because I included the tracks in their entirety without voice-over first before following this up with the version from the original recording since we apparently used to talk over the music in 2015 which was dropped in later episodes and I wanted to present both the original track in pure form and the voice-over one. Also there is a bonus early surprise visit by JS (the old c) during the Dracula track from Quantum Leap! Here is the original description: Broken Chair Scores Episode 8 is only 10 minutes longer than we planned it to be but this way you get two oldschoolers talk browsers, music streaming services and the fact that you can actually buy mp3-files legally. Further (and way more interesting IMHO) we review our favorite tracks from one film and one game soundtrack. In this episode we talk about the soundtrack to the 2013 Capcom game "Remember Me" written by Olivier Derivière as well as the soundtrack to the NBC television show "Quantum Leap" written by Mike Post and Velton Ray Bunch. If you want to support us you can always write a comment here. This would be highly appreciated. If you're interested in a more relaxed podcast about mostly (city-) building game soundtracks for the PC (think Anno, Settlers, Tycoons from the 90's and onwards) then check out Aufbaumusik. Enjoy!

This time we really went all in. Not just did the Kaptain massively increase his mic-game, no, I also treated parts of the recording to a full Auphonic spa which means that it sounds even better. But here comes the real kicker: I took the 1:40h original file and tried to smash every "erm" and to delete every false start and word-repetition I could find. I also hardcore erased some of the stuff we said cause it was really not saying a lot. This took me close to fifteen hours of additional work and I was only able to do it because I'm on holiday. The crazy thing is: there are still a lot of "erms" and other useless sounds in there! But it's easily 75% less than in the original file. The main part of the show (without the outtakes) is now only 1 hour and 18 minutes long. This means 22 minutes of "erms" less than usual! This is probably the greatest sounding episode I ever produced! I also finally mixed it down to mono cause I know how some of you like to just put one bud in for the sneaky micro-escape from reality during "quality time" with your "family" (You know that we are your real family. We'll always be there for you.) Anyways, the Kaptain brings the score to the 1976 animated feature film Les Douze travaux d'Astérix written by Gérard Calvi while I present Koichi Sugiyama's score to the 1990 Almanic SNES game E.V.O. Search for Eden (arranged by Motoaki Takenouchi). If you want to support us you can always write a comment here. This would be highly appreciated. We're still on Facebook is what I hear. Definitely none of the other platforms. So if you found us, congrats. You're a connaisseur! If you want me to remaster and re-upload the first 10 episodes you can also write a comment or reach us by sending an email to brokenchairscores@justemail.net. If you're interested in a more relaxed podcast about mostly city building game soundtracks for the PC (think Anno, Settlers, Tycoons from the 90's and onwards) then check out Aufbaumusik. Enjoy!

Good news and bad news. Good news first: We tried Zencastr so the audio should be better. Bad news: The audio is worse because one of the microphones was crapping out and I didn't hear the clicking sounds during recording. So sorry for that. This podcast is still in its infancy so we are naturally struggling with the technicalities. It can only get better. Anyways, the Captain brings the score to the 1993 Capcom SNES game Mega Man X written by Setsuo Yamamoto, Makoto Tomozawa, Yuki Iwai, Yuko Takehara and Toshihiko Horiyama. Great legacy stuff all around. I myself present James Newton Howard's score to the 2014 Disney movie Maleficent. If you want to support us you can always write a comment here. This would be highly appreciated. Maybe we're still on Facebook but I'm not sure about that. Definitely none of the other platforms. So if you found us, congrats. You're a connaisseur! If you want me to remaster and re-upload the first 10 episodes you can also write a comment or reach us by sending an email to brokenchairscores@justemail.net. If you're interested in a more relaxed podcast about mostly city building game soundtracks for the PC (think Anno, Settlers, Tycoons from the 90's and onwards) then check out Aufbaumusik. Enjoy!

Episode 35 means "One Hit Wonders and Remixes" with a definition of "one hit wonders" that might deviate a little from your run-off-the-mill definition used by radio DJs. If you're new here, don't worry. You'll get a proper definition during the show. If you're a BCS hardcore addict / poweruser you already know the drill. We present 10 tracks from various ages, media, and styles. Also there seems to be a bit of a problem with K's audio, I'm sorry for that. As soon as that first big wave of patreon money hits me I'll invest in a setup that goes above the potatoe status it currently is locked in. This is also the one with Boris Fueller! Enjoy.

So we ran into some audio issues after half an hour. I had to delete some minutes of the original recording but it's not like there was a lot of crucial stuff going on in those minutes anyways. In one case I had to include some sentences during editing, you'll hear it. My clothes are nothing to write home about but the dude from my game (Samorost 3, Tomáš Dvořák aka Floex, Amanita Design, 2016) is going full hipster wearing a white onesie with a bobble cap. Tripple K delivers, as usual, wearing a shirt with a fake GameBoy printed on the breast pocket, the connection of which to his selection (the 1978 Zombie classic Dawn of the Dead by George A. Romero with a soundtrack by the band Goblin and some creative choices done by Dario Argento for the release in Europe) didn't yet become clear to me. No bonus outtakes this time since I drank a little less and thus messed less with the buttons. Enjoy!

Yeah, so we're still not in the same studio. But! I basically passed my advanced sound engineering degree by hardcore figuring out how to hock up all the devices necessary and the result is alright. Is it great? Maybe not. But hey, this is the beginning of 2021 and our threshold for calling things "good enough" is pretty low. Anyways, while I'm wearing black and other dark shades to stress the general artsiness of my score (Philipp Glass, Koyaanisqatsi, Godfrey Reggio, 1983/1998), the Kaptain donned his classic Castlevania attire to perfectly accompany his Ryuji Sasai and Yasuhiro Kawakami score for the Square game Final Fantasy Mystic Quest (aka. Mystic Quest Legend) from 1992 for the SNES. As a bonus there are outtakes at the end because I messed up severely during the transitions from one track to the next. Warning: The outtakes contain heavy German swearing. Enjoy!

This is 2020 and due to Corona I'm having some time at my hands so I'm remastering the old episodes. We're talking reinserting all the music taken from proper sources and other minor tweaks to make it better. The original music was just recorded as played in the room from some shitty PC speakers. I went into the master and edited the tracks in properly. The original ep was uploaded in 2016. Here is the original description: Broken Chair Scores Episode 9 can be called a classic episode. We got all the main ingredients in there: Cleaning up the mess that we left unanswered in Episode 8. Talking way too long about the upcoming anniversary Episode 10. One film soundtrack. One game soundtrack. This time it's the soundtrack to the "Commandos" games written by Mateo Pascual as well as the soundtrack to the Tykwer/Wachowsky Film "Cloud Atlas" written by Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heil.

This is 2020 and due to Corona I'm having some time at my hands so I'm remastering the old episodes. We're talking reinserting all the music taken from proper sources and other minor tweaks to make it better. The original music was just recorded as played in he room from some shitty PC speakers. I went into the master and edited the tracks in properly. The original ep was uploaded in 2016. Here is the original description: Broken Chair Scores Episode 10 is THE QUIZ! We had to split it in two parts because SOMEONE needed to go to the toilet and thus there was a cut in the flow of the show anyway. This is part 2 and again I am not going to mention any of the tracks that are going to be played in the show since this would ruin the quiz-along experience for you! Instead you get the rules of the game that we basically stuck to. The pictures above show our super sophisticated audio setup (notice the 2 laptops and 2 sets of speakers to make sure that there is no cheating) as well as our bulletproof and comprehensible census system. 1. each host can choose from the 18 soundtracks presented so far2. tracks that can be played are either ones which have already been played as well as others from the same album which sound similar to the stuff presented3. the other person has to guess at least the album, bonus points can be earned by guessing track title and composer4. we can chose from the stuff we played as well as from the material the other person played on the show5. 5 tracks or 20 mins per person as usual BUT keep 2-3 backup tracks in the backpocket in case we choose the same stuff by accident6. no access to any documents during the show besides THIS list and your tracklist7. the tracklist may only contain the name of the track and the name of the album but NOT the name of the composer otherwise the bonus points for guessing the composer don’t make any sense

This is 2020 and due to Corona I'm having some time at my hands so I'm remastering the old episodes. We're talking reinserting all the music taken from proper sources and other minor tweaks to make it better. The original music was just recorded as played in the room from some shitty PC speakers. I went into the master and edited the tracks in properly. The original ep was uploaded in 2016. Here is the original description: (Beware that the rules of the quiz were still different than in later quiz episodes. The choices were solid though!) Broken Chair Scores Episode 10 is THE QUIZ! We had to split it in two parts because SOMEONE needed to go to the toilet and thus there was a cut in the flow of the show anyway. So this is part 1 and obviously I am not going to mention any of the tracks that are going to be played in the show since this would ruin the quiz-along experience for you! Instead you get the rules of the game that we basically stuck to. The pictures above show our super sophisticated audio setup (notice the 2 laptops and 2 sets of speakers to make sure that there is no cheating) as well as our bulletproof and comprehensible census system. 1. each host can choose from the 18 soundtracks presented so far2. tracks that can be played are either ones which have already been played as well as others from the same album which sound similar to the stuff presented3. the other person has to guess at least the album, bonus points can be earned by guessing track title and composer4. we can chose from the stuff we played as well as from the material the other person played on the show5. 5 tracks or 20 mins per person as usual BUT keep 2-3 backup tracks in the backpocket in case we choose the same stuff by accident6. no access to any documents during the show besides THIS list and your tracklist7. the tracklist may only contain the name of the track and the name of the album but NOT the name of the composer otherwise the bonus points for guessing the composer don’t make any sense

I really messed this one up. Since I was eager to record a show during the pandemic I kind of hurried during the setup phase. Turns out that the voices were recorded properly but the music was a fierce clusterfuck. Thus I had to not just edit in the music for the listening phase but the subdued music in the background as well, which in turn had to be synced up to the fragments that ended up in the recording after all. Anyway, in this fashion heavy episode one of us dons a rather urban look conveniently fitting the Sim City Soundtrack by Chris Tilton (EA, 2013) as well as the score to the Charlie Chaplin classic City Lights from 1931. The other dude just straight up refused to dress for the occasion. Hoping to be able to record Ep 33 in the same room again and thus raising the dress code bar. Enjoy!

In these trying times we need some constant elements that keep us grounded and sane. For some this element is their family or their job. Others might attribute these features to the Broken Chair Scores podcast of video game and movie soundtracks. So keep sane and sanitized and listen to this episode for your monthly dose of mental cleansing. More than any other episode this one brings you the latest in podcaster fashion since it is important during a crisis like this to hold up the facade of aesthetics and outer appearance. People rely on shit just staying normal and not changing. So although we're doing this one remotely we of course dressed for the occasion. Hear all about our fashion choices that were more or less directly influenced by our music selections. In this episode we got the soundtrack to the 2011 Cold War spy thriller Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy (directed by Tomas Alfredson) composed by Alberto Iglesias and the soundtrack to the 1993 cyberpunk-fantasy action role-playing video game Shadowrun for the SNES by Beam Software / Data East with music composed by Marshall Parker. Enjoy!

This is our third quiz-episode which also marks the end of season 3. It was a pretty long and tough season 3 since we lost a host. We added new segments to the show (fashion anyone?), got our email address (brokenchairscores@justemail.net) and launched a T-shirt competition (basically, you write a comment and we don't know you? you get a shirt; this only works once though, like for the very first genuine comment which still hasn't happened yet).Obviously I'm not going to name the scores that we used since you guys probably want to quiz along. The rules have been updated but you're gonna hear all about that during the show. Enjoy!

In this episode of our daily fashion insta-story I'm wearing the exact same stuff I was wearing last time but triple K's doing a smooth T from www.redbubble.com (please become a sponsor maybe?) so brace yourselves for the full fashion frenzy. Scorewise the show dons mostly black worn by Edward Scissorhands (written by Danny Elfman for the Tim Burton film from 1990) and steampunky bdsm leather stuff worn by the crew in Wachenroeder, the 1998 Japan only Sega Saturn game with music by Ian McDonald, Takayuki Negishi, Studio PJ (Kennosuke Suemura), T's MUSIC (Satoshi Miyashita, CHAMY) and good old Johann Sebastian Bach. Also: We launched a contest! The first "real/genuine" (i.e. not by ourselves or our moms) comment on the website wins a free BCS (that is "Broken Chair Scores", not "Better Call Saul", sorry) T-Shirt designed by the Kaptain himself! Like for free, via mail, irl! Enjoy!

In this episode of our weekly fashion vlog we're doing mostly checkered stuff and a bunch of Crocs. As a bonus Krazy Kaptain Khalid plays some funky beats from the 1992 ACCLAIM SNES game "Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge" composed by Geoff and Tim Follin. Melee Markus is doing the score to the 1997 Paul Verhoeven classic "Starship Troopers" by Basil Paledouris. Oh btw, we're using a new technique to live mix our stuff so maybe the transitions don't sound as smooth and seamless as they used to BUT you get some awesome live knob-fiddling instead which allows us to comment on stuff while it's running, basically like they do on real podcasts. Enjoy!

Hi I'm abusing the Broken Chair Scores channel to promote a new solo project that I was forced to begin since SOMEone decided to turn his life around and go back to university in a different city. This by no means has to be the end of the BCS but it means that particularly in the beginning of this new phase there might be some delays when it comes to new episodes. Meanwhile I took matters into my own hands and created a spinnoff project that is pretty similar to the BCS albeit with some important changes: the new show presents a bunch of tracks with some commentary in between AND during the songs it's video game music only it's games from a particular genre only (city-builders, management simulations, (real-time) strategy games across all plattforms) the style of the music as well as the commentary is very reduced as opposed to the overly enthusiastic and engaging conversations we tend to have at the BCS (think BCS episode 14 but even smoother)) the tracks play back to back and only once each the commentary is in German (which is not really a big deal since it is not a lof of commentary anyways; I try to keep it at a minimum so that even non-German speakers can get the idea, like when I mention composers' names and such things) So check it out and get your fix even when there is no new BCS material. The first episode features music from "Der Industriegigant" as well as "Anno 1602". I will only use this feed to promote the new show once to maybe bring over some of the "many" BCS listeners. The show is called "Aufbaumusic" (building music) and you can find its dedicated page here: aufbaumusik.blogspot.com Here is episode 1 of this new show:

Second upload in one month. Just sayin'. This episode is basically one big fashion advice column disguised as a podcast on soundtracks. We're talking colours, patterns, the lot. After 26 episodes of ramp-up we are following our true calling and giving fashion advice like your basic insta-bitch. In the background of all the fashion there is some talk about the soundtrack to the 2002 Square video game "Unlimited Saga" for the Playstation 2 composed by Masashi Hamauzu. The Kap brings music from the film "Oldboy" by Park Chan-wook with a soundtrack written by composer Cho Young-wuk. This one came out just the following year, i.e. in 2003. Enjoy!

Sooo eventually the Kaptain edited an episode. It sure is dope. Let's see, we got Kap bringing "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds", a 2003 video game for PS2, XBOX and GameCube developed by Eurocom Entertainment Software with a soundtrack by Ian Livingstone. On the other hand there is Melee Markus with some tracks from "The Fountain", a 2006 Sci-Fi flick by Darren Aronofsky scored by his go-to guy Clint Mansell. Oh and just by the way, this is our first real episode without Apeshit Andy. He is missed dearly. As we said in the episode, if you wanna drop a note on the editing or anything, we'd appreciate it. Enjoy!

This one is very special and dear to my heart since it is the one where Apeshit Andy says Goodbye. As always in the middle of a season each of us plays a bunch of tracks that fall into either of the following categories: cover/remix (that's the one that's apparently fairly easy to grasp) OR: "one hit wonders" (according to my definition). This one on the other hand seems to be a neverending source of misunderstanding and headache. To reiterate: "what we actually meant by that in the context of this show is this: tracks that are superb on otherwise rubbish or at least boring albums". Enjoy!

Melee Markus is kinda sick so he let Apeshit Andy and Krazy Kaptain Khalid take center stage. This turned out to be a very good idea since both of them are pros. Also, there is a gut-wrenching twist at the end! Listen how the Kaptain brings you the sweet sounds of the score to the Konami game "Super Castlevania IV" for the SNES composed by Masanori Adachi and Taro Kudo. Apeshit on the other hand casually drops a neat score-bomb in the form of Buzz Kulik's "Around the world in 80 days" by Billy Goldenberg. Enjoy!

This is episode 23 which is also sort of a tribute to J.S. Bach. The influence is strong. Anyways, we dive into the 4 or 5 tracks that make the "Dancing Mad" sequence by Nobuo Uematsu from the videogame "Final Fantasy VI" for the SNES by Square Enix. On the film-side of things we present exactly 5 or 6 tracks from the soundtrack to the 1984 film "Dune" by David Lynch which was basically written by Toto, a band. Enjoy!

This is episode 22 where we present basically two times the same soundtrack. "Flower" by Vincent Diamante to the 2009 videogame of the same title by Thatgamecompany has many similarities to the Basil Paledouris score to the 1982 John Milius film "Conan the Barbarian". Trust me on this one. They are brothers from anther mother. Just listen to the show and you'll get it. Enjoy!

In episode 21 of the Broken Chair Scores we present the Wojciech Kilar score to the 1992 film "Bram Stoker's Dracula" by Francis Ford Coppola as well as the soundtrack to the System 3 video game "Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance" from 1988 composed by Matt Gray. We drink red wine on this occasion and Melee Markus shares how he almost got to be an alcoholic because of this score (sort of). We strongly advise that you drink along so that you can relate to the hosts in a more intimate way. Enjoy!

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!

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! download

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! download

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. download

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". download

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. download

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! download

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. download

Welcome to the NEXT GENERATION of Broken Chair Scores. We improved our audio setup and drastically altered our style of presentation. Also, we bring important lifestyle advice in the form of "The tale of Troy's bucket". As usual we present one film soundtrack and one game soundtrack. This time it's the soundtrack to the Microsoft game "Age of Mythology" written by Stephen Rippy and Kevin McMullan as well as the soundtrack to the "Ocean's #" trilogy composed/selected by David Holmes. download

We're back and from now on we will be doing the show as a trio. The pattern is kind of complicated but we explain it in annoying detail right at the beginning of the recording. Other than that you will hear our selections from one game and one film score as always. The game boy (Krazy Kaptain Khalid this time) will present selections from Axelay for the SNES from 1992 which were composed by Taro Kudo and AKI whereas the film buff (Melee Markus) is hitting you with some of the awesome material for the 1988 animation classic Akira composed and performed by the musical collective Geinoh Yamashirogumi. Enjoy this classic episode of the Broken Chair Scores! (PS. We are using archive.org for hosting now. Let's see how that goes.) download

This is a very special episode. It took us more than a year to prepare it. Well at least that's how long we needed in order to come back together again after a very long hiatus due to the extreme busyness of some of the Broken Chair Scores show hosts. The topic is One Hit Wonders and what we actually meant by that in the context of this show is this: tracks that are superb on otherwise rubbish or at least boring albums AND that are at least loosely connected to films and games. I'm happy to announce that one of us took those rules very seriously whereas the other one took one of the rules seriously. Still it was a bunch of fun and I'm not going to spoil any of it by providing you with a tracklist. Instead I'm going to tease you with the fact that we are not alone in the studio this time and that something very special is going to happen at the end of the episode. Enjoy this unique episode of the Broken Chair Scores! (PS. We are using soundcloud for hosting now. Let's see how that goes.) download