Archive for March, 2023
mode8 #26: Minigames and MAR10
Welcome back to mode8! This week’s episode focuses (mostly) on minigames in video games, with a slight dash of Italian plumber towards the end to celebrate March 10th — Mario Day!
Veilstone City Game Corner // Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl
Spin Ye Bottle // Shovel Knight
Goldenrod City Game Corner // Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver
It’s Pizza Time! // Pizza Tower
Journey of the Prairie King (Overworld, Outlaw, and Ending) // Stardew Valley
the grind // Going Under
Level 3: Skellie Outskirt // Night In The Woods (Demon Tower minigame)
Blob Boss // Alien Hominid
I Sawed The Demons // Doom (1993)
Puzzle Kombat (Tiles of Death, Snake Food) // Mortal Kombat Deception
Boogie or Shuffle // Final Fantasy 8
Monkey Bowling // Super Monkey Ball
Theme of Chao // Sonic Adventure
Fishing Tourney and Bug-Off // Animal Crossing: New Horizons
The Professor’s Trunk // Professor Layton and the Last Time Travel
Fishing Game, Fishing Hit! // Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (Switch remake)
Select Crew Member // Warioware: Get It Together!
Luigi’s Casino // New Super Mario Bros.
Baton and On // Super Mario Party
Eternal Star // Mario Party 1
messy life 3/9/23
continental drift: italy
Welcome back to the drift! Tonight I was joined once again by Carolyne, dusting off the engines to go to Italy. Find the playlist here.
The Italian Republic is a country in south-central Europe known for its cuisine, beautiful locale, and opera music. It has a population of 61 million, making it the 23rd most populous in the world. The area of Italy has been inhabited since 1200 BC. Latins moved in around 1000 BC, forming the Roman kingdom in the 8th century BC. The state of Italy as we know it was established after World War II, 1946.
Modern musical notation was developed in Italy, and it wasItalian music innovation that led to the development of opera in the late 16th century. Their position on the Mediterranean sea and along major trade routes led to the diversification and globalization of styles in Italian music.
“Va Pensiero” from the Opera Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi played a role in the unification of the peninsula.
Puccini
Giacomo Puccini participated in the late romantic period of Italian opera, but eventually became better known for his realist works, such as La Bohème and Madame Butterfly, which have been adapted numerous times into works like Rent and Miss Saigon, showing the long-lasting impact of Italian opera on modern culture. Puccini “virtually brought the history of Italian opera to an end”, allowing the orchestra a more active role.
Opera declined after World War I, as themes of romance and beauty seemed out-of-date and didn’t fit with the feeling of disillusionment many people had, and the rise of cinema begun.
Opera segment:
Va, Pensiero (Nabucco) // Giuseppe Verdi
Quando m’en vo soletta (La Bohème) // Giacomo Puccini
Salon segment:
Guarda come dondolo (see how I rock) // Edoardo Vianello
Quando, Quando, Quando // Tony Renis
Nel blu dipinto di blu // Domenico Modugno
Italian film scores go hand in hand with the Italian film tradition. Spaghetti westerns are westerns produced in Europe (and italy specifically). Between 1960 and 1978, over 600 films were made.
The typical Spaghetti Western team was made up of an Italian director, Italo-Spanish technical staff, and a cast of Italian, Spanish, and (sometimes) West German and American actors. Spanish westerns were known as “paella westerns.”
Giocomo Puccini is credited with the first spaghetti western with his 1910 opera La Fanciulla del West.
Film segment:
To Jean // Berto Pisano, Jacques Chaumont (Kill, 1971)
Notti d’amore a Tokyo // Marcello Giombini (Le dolci notti, 1962)
Italo disco originated in the late 1970s from disco, adding pop and electronic elements to melancholy melodies and creating a “futuristic sound” with synthesizers and drum machines. Italo disco was adopted in Canada, becoming hi-NRG, and eventually faded to eurobeat with the adoption of Japanese styles.
Italian disco architecture
Italodisco segment:
Ti voglio // Ornella Vanoni
Eyes // Clio, Roberto Ferrante
Monkey Monkey // Flo Astaire
Disco Halloween // Forbidden Fruits
Modern segment:
Marechià // Nu Genea, Célia Kameni (tide)
Gungala nido // Sandro Brugnolini, Franco Bixio
100 wreks #45
Tracklist: If You Want To (feat. Kai Whiston) - Petal Supply Rainbow- Bladee + Mechatok Shopping Spree - Plastic Pet Blush (with Elphi) - Glimji you've changed your mind - Duskus crush (Glimji Cut) - Planet 1999 former is my hero - X-J-9 call'r - fyoum i<3u - Planet 1999 CIRCLING BACK ON THIS - Milkfish All My Time - mechatok EARSTIM - TUNA DISPLAY snow angelz (feat. new sylveon + gnaar) - diana starshine Once In A Lifetime - moistbreezy Forever (Dvnots Remix) - Charli XCX
velvet 03/08/23
today on velvet, you will hear a variety of styles within neo-soul, r&b, soul, jazz, funk, hip hop and more! the artist i’d like to highlight this week is the brilliant jade drea, atlanta-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, and vocalist. her song “something or another” features drummer dylan welch, bassist johnny bakos, and guitarist dan suero. each of them are atlanta-based musicians who grace the atlanta scene with their presence at jams, shows, and their multiple brain-children in the form of EPs and albums. hope you enjoy this weeks show!
sam♥
featured artist: jade drea
light // parcels
eucalyptus // mf doom
this was once out of shape // trap raddit, maxfield gast
circadian // pantology
something or another // jade drea
speak in truth // close counters, allysha joy
silencing the sun // myele manzanza, wallace
epitome(jostlike) // knxwledge
better // joy orbinson, lea sen
ldn // alexander floor
since i lost you // alex goose, matt zara, giuliano sorgini
glass shadows // liv.e
vegan better – intro // reuben james, tivon pennicott
frontline // butcher brown
(please don’t) leave me now // madison mcferrin
life happens here // lord, dego
this week’s spotify playlist:
an archive of all songs i have played on velvet!:
