mode8 #24: The Eighth Mode
Sorry about the hiatus due to sports broadcasts, but mode8 is back with a new episode! No focus this time but I wanted to play more original chiptune compositions this week 🙂
Title — Mario 64 on Club Circuit
Downtown Bikini Bottom // Spongebob Squarepants: The Yellow Avenger
Tableturf Battle (Last 3 Turns) // Splatoon 3
Tough Guy Alert! // Mario and Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story
Machine Passage // Kirby Air Ride
The Clone Wars // X-Men 2: Clone Wars
talossa II — laamaa
Puppets and Bicycle Repair — Fearofdark
Saber Rager — Button Masher
Butter Knife pt. 1 — Shady Monk, remixed by DonutShoes
Unreal Superhero 3 — Kenet, Rez
The_Sugar_Rush — Cyanide Dansen
Robot Dance Party — Glenntai, remixed by DINAARI
Pleiades — mikey303
Slateport City // Pokemon Emerald — orchestral arrangement by Tristan D. Perez
messy life 2/2/23
dynastic – sway
Your Arms Are My Cocoon – Snowy!
STOMACH BOOK – Our Story
Sorry Youth; Sam-seng-hiàn-gē – 出巡
One Step Closer – Turn to Me
Cecily Renns – Priestess (Yr painting of my life)
Riley! – God Released Me into the Wild and Now He’s Hunting Me for Sport
Newgrounds Death Rugby – Bears
Hospital Bracelet – Happy Birthday
The Van Pelt – We Are the Heathens
Girlfriends – New Computers
Thank You, I’m Sorry – Stars
Rainer Maria – Viva Anger, Viva Hate
Weatherday – Nostalgia Drive Avatar
exciting!!excellent!! – disappearing????a dying light’s last gasp(is this really the end????)
continental drift 2/1/23: el salvador
Welcome back to another week of Continental Drift. Today we are drifting 1400 miles southwest to El Salvador. Find the playlist here, and listen back to the episode here.
The Republic of El Salvador is located in the center of Central America, bordered by the Pacific Ocean, Honduras, and Guatemala. It is home to 6.5 million people, making it the 112th most populated country in the world. Their official language is Spanish.
The music of El Salvador was impacted in many ways by colonization. Indigenous Salvadorans had instruments such as the flute and drums, and when European colonizers came they brought with them the guitar, trumpet, and piano. The biggest impact, however, came from West African slaves who brought the xylophone, marimba, guira, and mbira with them.
The xylophone is El Salvador’s national instrument.
Xylophone sample:
El Celoso, Fox Trot – Marimba Centroamericana 1928
We’ll now go to a classic genre of central america: cumbia. We talked about Cumbia a lot in the Colombian episode of drift, specifically chicha, which is the Colombian regional version. Cumbia is just as popular in El Salvador. It is a dance music that comes from a blend of European, African, and indigenous styles. In El Salvador there exists Cumbia marmibera, which includes the marimba.
Cumbia segment:
Salvadorena // Los Hermanos Flores
Se Me Perdió la Cadenita // La Sonora Dinamita, Lucho Argain
Performing Xuc
Xuc is a popular form of folk music in El Salvador. It is named after a Salvadoran instrument juco, which makes a “xuc xuc” sound. Xuc music is typically performed in 2/4 time and has its own distinctive rhythm dance.
Xuc segment:
El Xuc // Orquestra Internacional Polio
Zafacaite comes from the North in a city called Chalatenango. The name comes from zafa, from zafar (to loosen) and caite (shoes). This refers to the fast and intricate foot dancing pattern that sometimes causes shoes to fly off.
Zafacaite segment:
El Levanta Polvo // Jhosse Lora
Chamorrito “La Zafacaite” (Composed by Maria Barratta, famous Salvadoran composer and ethnomusicologist)
American/British pop and rock influence in the 1960s and 70s created an “Epoca de Oro” (Golden age) of music in a genre called “Guanarock.” This comes from the slang term Guanaco, which Salvadorans use to refer to themselves. It means “brother” in Poton Lanca, an indigenous language.
Guanarock segment:
El Bardo // Hielo Ardiente
Se me olvidara // Los Supersonicos
Debil Estar on his radio show
The 90s saw a continuation of popular music that blended global styles with Salvadoran rythyms. Pescozada was a hip hop group founded in 1998 in Chalatenango. Debil Estar, one of the members, has a hip hop radio show on Salvadoran station YXY 105.7 FM!
90s Segment:
Telarañas en la Mente // Rucks Parker
Dias Oscuros // Pescozada, Triple Homicidio
Modern Segment:
Ultramar // Conjunto Tropidélico
Technicolor // Gaby Nieto, Ricardo Bendek, Naomy Diaz
Abajo del agua // Nativa Geranio
100 wreks #40
Here’s the link to my SOPHIE tribute episode from last year <3
And here’s the tracklist from tonight’s episode:
Run Away With Me (Himera’s Firework Remix) – Carly Rae Jepsen
EUPHORIA (DVNOTS REMIX) – LOREEN
Curiosity – Carly Rae Jepsen
my fault (prod. kmoe) – juno
25 bands and a geccco – 100 gecs
alive – blxty
picnic (prod. mixedmatches) – i9bonsai
will u ever shut up ! (prod. nebita + yung skrrt) – Can of Bliss
Chokehold – Dylan Longworth, Corefish, 31sentinel, Austyn With A Y (via Goop House)
LEMONADE – SOPHIE
Whole New World (SOPHIE and Doss Remix) – SOPHIE + Doss
My Forever (ELFZ Edit) – SOPHIE
Just Like We Never Said Goodbye – SOPHIE
the world’s most famous cat… – Kaho Matsui
Let Me KNow – TTristana + Esuna
Wonder (DJ PUPPYLUV NXC Edit) – Perfume
If I Had Your Number – moistbreezy
heart in 2 (D’Eon Remix) – caro<3
Dare (Dvnots Remix) – Namasenda
100 wreks #40
Tracklist: Run Away With Me (Himera's Firework Remix) - Carly Rae Jepsen EUPHORIA (DVNOTS REMIX) - LOREEN Curiosity - Carly Rae Jepsen my fault (prod. kmoe) - juno 25 bands and a geccco - 100 gecs alive - blxty picnic (prod. mixedmatches) - i9bonsai will u ever shut up ! (prod. nebita + yung skrrt) - Can of Bliss Chokehold - Dylan Longworth, Corefish, 31sentinel, Austyn With A Y (via Goop House) LEMONADE - SOPHIE Whole New World (SOPHIE and Doss Remix) - SOPHIE + Doss My Forever (ELFZ Edit) - SOPHIE Just Like We Never Said Goodbye - SOPHIE the world's most famous cat... - Kaho Matsui Let Me KNow - TTristana + Esuna Wonder (DJ PUPPYLUV NXC Edit) - Perfume If I Had Your Number - moistbreezy heart in 2 (D'Eon Remix) - caro<3 Dare (Dvnots Remix) - Namasenda
