“Epic story of a mysterious stranger with a harmonica who joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.”1
1Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) – IMDB
8bitpeoples
Everquest is pretty much the Yin to Ultima Online’s Yang. You can still play both in their old-style, archaic, beautiful madness if you look at Project 1999 and Second Age, respectively.
Rendered from MIDI via FluidSynth, these few songs make a good way to vaguely call back to the last episode while reminding listeners that the feed address is changing, as of December 1st, it will be http://feeds.feedburner.com/4040AD.
Everquest
Ultima Online is such a great game that it continues to be played today, even with the limitations of its engine; the non-online Ultima games are still worth playing through if you can get used to the archaic quirks of DOS, even Akalabeth. It should be noted however, “worth playing” does not necessarily mean “worth beating.”
Someone named Diz made a modern soundtrack for Ultima Online, aptly titled Recall, to improve upon its aging MIDI tracks. In my judgement, Diz has succeeded brilliantly. All the tracks in this episode are freely available for download on Diz’s website.
Diz
The Codex of Editable Wisdom
emptunes
Part the second of the Empirical Records episode. Most, if not all of Empirical Records catalogue is from 1994-1996 and is ambient-electronic along with some excellent Micheal Jackson covers. Also, its all free to download on their website! For more on Empirical Records, please also see the entry for Part A.
Various Artists
When I first heard the term “podcast,” quite awhile ago, I somehow stumbled upon one called Audio Alchemy. It’s an audio experiment/art project and I was disappointed that only two episodes were ever made. I investigated where it came from, finding a strange bunch of electronical-type music by Empirical Records. Turns out its all creative commons so its ok for me to broadcast — err podcast — err… pro(a)dcast…
Various Artists
Audio Alchemy
Empirical Records
