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Hi. This is a podcast about video game music from the 16-bit era Singing Mountain is hosted by Drew Mackie, who feels most at home in the music from 16-bit RPGs.

And here, in the spirit of the season, is the second of the two "lost" Patreon episodes. Unfortunately, while I was able to find the file, I...

Way back in the distant past, there existed a Singing Mountain Patreon, where I managed to toss up four Patreon-exclusive tracks. Then, I cl...

I know I said in the previous episode that there would not be another Singing Mountain winter VGM episode. I lied. This episode — a two-hour...
Given that Christmas is upon us, you might be expecting a 2021 edition of Singing Mountain's ice music episode. Unfortunately, it turns out...

Here it is: my last effort at celebrating the spooky season with VGM. I don't have much to say other than that that this is a mix of new stu...

Some of you bemoaned the loss of the Singing Mountain Patreon because it also meant the loss of the "all music, no talk" versions of episode...

You're still driving. It still doesn't have to be a race. Listed to KVGM, "The Last Wave," a podcast full of low-key, chilled VGM that you'l...

The good news: Singing Mountain is back. The bad news: It's only coming back for a few more episodes before ending. Due to reasons I explain...

This is an experiment. What you have here is ninety minutes of 16-bit forest music, drawn from all four forest episodes of Singing Mountain,...
I'm going back to my roots, and no, that is not a pun about trees. I decided to revisit the "relaxing forest music" theme that I first did b...

Yes, it's the annual Singing Mountain episode about chilly winter music. The big difference is that this year I'm actually allowing a few tr...

A sequel of sorts to the "Lonesome Journeys" episode I did way back when, this episode is all about "sad travel music" — the kind of stuff y...

The episode I intended to put out this week isn't done yet, but I decided to toss you guys an episode that was previously a Patreon-exclusiv...

This year, I tried to pick tracks that sound like they could be from a horror movie — and not just any horror movie, but a solid B horror fl...

It's a Halloween miracle! As Singing Mountain preps to transfer over to a new hosting site, some of the Patreon-only bonuses from back in th...

The sun has gone down and the moon has come up, and it's not a good time to be in the city. This is part three of a three-part series that b...

Back in the 16-bit era, urban streets were littered with no-good punks who would attack in wave after wave, leaving a group of musclebound h...

In the grand tradition of Singing Mountain episodes that make driving music of VGM that's not from driving games, here's a new one: the soun...

Singing Mountain is back. I said it would be back and I meant it. And to contrast this new run of the show from what I left you all on month...

A disclaimer: This episode won't be for everyone. It's been an odd few weeks, and for some reason I've been finding comfort in sad stuff rat...

Welcome to this year's installment of my "Christmas Eve in an ice cavern" series. Do you think winter music could do with fewer jingle bells...

This is just a quick post to inform you that Singing Mounatin is going on hiatus for the rest of November — and beyond that too, despite som...

Nintendo may have a reputation as being family-friendly, but even its sunniest franchises have their dark moments. The second Halloween epis...

Because horror always begets sequels, I'm giving your a follow-up to last year's creepy 16-bit music episode. It's all Hallloween-appropriat...

Against all odds, this podcast persisted and endured, and now we're at the one-hundredth episode. The best idea I had to celebrate this mile...

We're ninety-nine episodes in, and I'm taking the moment to share some tracks I haven't yet featured on the show. Some got nixed from the fi...

Lifelong gamers might like to reminisce about video game consoles past, but just by the numbers, system that got the most play back in the '...

If I made the things you know to suddenly seem different, would that be good? Think about that while you listen to this episode of celebrate...

Released in 2009 for the Nintendo DS, Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light is the game that ultimately ended up leading to Bravely Default i...

What does a sunset sound like? This episode may well fail to answer that question, but what you might get anyway is the third installment in...

Hey, who likes trains? Because I do, and this episode is all about how different VGM composers interpret the sound of the train into actual...

Three hours of classic RPG town music. Enjoy. Track listing: 2:13: Town / Final Fantasy (PSP) / Nobuo Uematsu 3:59: Village / Dragon Quest I...

This is not a definitive list of the best-ever RPG town themes. This is the first in what will be a regular feature on Singing Mountain in w...

Do video game composers speak a language that video game players understand? I'd like to think so, and maybe there's some small proof in the...

An hour of relaxing video game music — a pixelated hideout from the world. For this go-around, all tracks are taken from the Super NES and S...

In a departure from the typical Singing Mountain episode, this one isn't focused on video game music. There still is VGM, it's just that the...

Every version of the stage themes in Super Mario Maker 2 has both a regular, in-stage version and then a sort of remix you here when you're...

One of the not-so-obvious functions of the Mario Maker games is as history archive for the Super Mario series. The newly released Super Mari...

Video games allow American gamers to see depictions of America that don't always line up with how they might see themselves. But how do VGM...

Released late in Nintendo's 8-bit run — and even then, only in Japan and Scandinavia — the Sunsoft platforming game known either as Gimmick!...

It's the sound of summer.... specifically for people who'd rather not put on sunscreen or deal with beach traffic. Everything in this episod...

So there is the Wonder Boy series, the Adventure Island series and finally the Monster World series, which are all related but separate. But...

Did you know that Japan got a spiritual sequel to Mario Paint in 1999? An entire suite of programs released under the name Mario Artist, it...

Because console video games hit mainstream around the same time that America was watching a lot of B-grade action movies, there's a more-tha...

It's not a rerun; it's a special edition. This is redo of the fourth episode I ever did on this podcast. I thought that original was good. b...

Samurai Shodown has a lot to offer… just not that one missing W. SNK's fighter had samurai and non-samurai alike swinging weapons in one-on-...

An early Super NES title, Lagoon is a Zelda-ish adventure that is today most remembered for its soundtrack. But here's the thing: That music...

Back before mainstream pop started sampling video game music willy-nilly, The Pixies went a step further and wholesale covered a VGM composi...

Not every desert sounds the same. The sitar and tabla are Indian instruments that, in video game music, are almost always used to signify th...

A big hit in Japan during the PlayStation's early days, the Arc the Lad series hasn't endured quite as well as other JPRGs. However, the sou...