Broken Chair Scores

Yeah, so the title says it already, we will take a little break from podcasting for the moment for personal reasons. It's explained in a little more detail on the air so listen to what is maybe the last episode for a while. I guess we will be back in one form or another in what only amounts to two to three times the duration it usually takes us to put a show together but at the moment it's all up in the air so who knows. Anyways, were presenting one final fun track each today with the Cap bringing Ryu's Theme from 2016's Street Fighter V by Capcom which is a remix of a track that was originaly composed by Yoko Shimomura. On my end I keep it fresh with Alicia written by Lorien Testard and sung by Alice Duport-Percier from the soundtrack to the 2025 game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 by French studio Sandfall Interactive. 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, particularly if you want the show to go on!

Episode 46 comes with a guest who knows a lot about Xenogears which is the reason why he presents the 1998 role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the PlayStation in this episode. The soundtrack is by Yasunori Mitsuda who all of you know as the composer of Chrono Trigger. On the other hand we've got CD 2 of Macross Plus, a four-episode mecha anime OVA and theatrical movie in the Macross series with super cool music by Yoko Kanno! 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!

Another episode ending on the number 5 means 'One Hit Wonders and Remixes', which has a slightly different definition of 'one hit wonders' to the one used by radio DJs. If you're new here, don't worry! You'll receive a proper definition during the show. If you're a hardcore BCS addict/power user, you already know the drill. As always, we present ten tracks from different eras, genres, and media. If you want to support us you can always write a comment here on 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! Enjoy.

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!