Broken Chair Scores

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 a

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 soundt

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 t

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 wi

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

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

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

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 comprehen

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

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 Sh

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!