Category: The Last Wave

KVGM “The Last Wave” (4/7/19)

KVGM “The Last Wave” (4/7/19)

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Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of the Last Wave on KVGM with your host, Hammock, bringing you thirty minutes of the best video game jams(z) from all your favorite composers and consoles, each and every week from our beachside studio in sunny Aqua City. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.

Hi April. Hi again 64DD. Hi Amigos and Amigas. We’re back with more breezy goodness, embarking on mystical journeys to Mermaid Islands and Dolphin Shoals. Once again, the allure of mahjong has taken hold as Hammock gets closer and closer to taking a trip to the local retirement home to learn how to play. It can’t be that hard, right?


Playlist

Ocean Floor – Chris Jojo, Martin Goodall, Suddi Raval, and Kazumi Totaka
(Mario Artist: Paint Studio, Nintendo 64DD)

Mermaid Island – Harumi Fujita
(Higemaru Makaijima: Nanatsu no Shima Daibouken, Famicom)

Corna – Takashi Okamoto
(Poison Pink, Sony PlayStation 2)

Battle Theme 2 – Koji Yamada
(Mahjong Hishouden: Naki no Ryuu, Super Famicom

Title Screen – Frédéric Mentzen
(Alpha Waves, Amiga)

A Journey For Truth – Seiichi Hamada
(Tantei Jinguuji Saburo: Hai to Diamond, Sony PlayStation Portable)

Wrapped up in Sunshine Streaming Through the Leaves (Stella’s Ending) – Kazuo Nii, Atsushi Takada, and Satoshi Asano
(Astra Superstars, Sega Saturn)

Triumphant Return – Azusa Hara
(Garyo Retsuden, Arcade)

Special Request

Dolphin Shoals – Atsuko Asahi
(Mario Kart 8, Nintendo Wii U)

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KVGM “The Last Wave” (3/31/19)

KVGM “The Last Wave” (3/31/19)

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Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of the Last Wave on KVGM with your host, Hammock, bringing you thirty minutes of the best video game jams(z) from all your favorite composers and consoles, each and every week from our beachside studio in sunny Aqua City. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.

It’s warming up out there, the flowers are in bloom – spring time is upon us! And what better way to celebrate than with the Last Wave, bringing you tons of jams devoted to vacation, smooth continents, tennis courts, leisure time, and Yoshi being so dang cute. We’ve got Famicoms and Super Famicoms, Playstations and Playstation Vitas (which, I’m still not convinced actually exist). A little something for everyone.

 

 

Playlist

Opening – Akira Sato (MUSE)
(Doki Doki Vacation, PC-98)

Let’s Hit the Courts, Mom! – Iku Mizutani, Tetsuari Watanabe and Kohei Matsuoka
(Family Tennis Advance, Game Boy Advance)

Menu – Masaki Sasaki and Hiroshi Ootake
(First Queen, Super Famicom)

Leisure – MANYO
(Amnesia: Memories, Sony PlayStation Vita)

Marble Continent – Taku Iwasaki, Seirou Okamoto, Hayato Matsuo, and Atsushi Yamaji
(Mercury: The Prime Master, X68000)

Ending – Tomoya Tomita and Jun Chuma
(F-1 Sensation, Famicom)

So Kawaii!! ~ Information Editor – Kazumi Totaka, Kenta Nagata and Toru Minegishi
(Mario Artist: Talent Studio, Nintendo 64DD)

Staff Roll – Naoto Ishikawa
(Gaia Seed: Project Seed Trap, Sony PlayStation)

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KVGM “The Last Wave” (3/24/19)

KVGM “The Last Wave” (3/24/19)

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Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of the Last Wave on KVGM with your host, Hammock, bringing you thirty minutes of the best video game jams(z) from all your favorite composers and consoles, each and every week from our beachside studio in sunny Aqua City. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.

Lots of PlayStation 2 jams this week but also familiar jaunts to the Super Famicom and PC-98. If the audio is a bit subdued, it’s because my wife was sleeping…next to the studio, of course. There is no actual sleeping space in the KVGM studio. Well, okay, technically, the floor is a potential sleeping space but there is no bed in the KVGM studio. There’s only…a hammock. Wink wink.

 

Playlist

Expositor – Soichi Terada
(Futarino Fantavision, Sony PlayStation 2)

Kanako’s Office – Akira Sato (MUSE)
(Kanako, PC-98)

Inn – Atsuhito Motoyama and Akikaz
(Might and Magic: Book Two, Super Famicom)

Poke Her – Kenichi Koyano
(Cardangels, PC-Engine CD)

Sunday Afternoon – Sota Fujimori
(World Soccer Winning Eleven 9, Sony PlayStation 2)

Game Over – Takeshi Ichida
(Pro Sport Hockey, Super Nintendo)

Break Time – Junichi Nakatsuru
(Critical Velocity, Sony PlayStation 2)

Staff Roll – Phase Out
(Quiz no Hoshi, PC-Engine CD)

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KVGM “The Last Wave” (3/17/19)

KVGM “The Last Wave” (3/17/19)

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Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of the Last Wave on KVGM with your host, Hammock, bringing you thirty minutes of the best video game jams(z) from all your favorite composers and consoles, each and every week from our beachside studio in sunny Aqua City. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.

Whether you’re sailing across the ocean or experiencing a blind date in a dark dungeon somewhere, the Last Wave has you covered. We confirm that yetis are, in fact, very chill, and that pinball jazz is worth listening to if you can get close enough to the machine. Keep feeding us those requests and we’ll keep playing them on the show!

 

Playlist

Stars – Mark Cromer
(Civilization III, PC)

AKIKO – Akira Sato
(Akiko: Premium, X68000)

Across the Ocean – Tenpei Sato and Tatsuya Sato
(Magna Braban: Henreki no Yusha, Super Famicom)

Abominable Abode – Frank Klepacki
(Legend of Kyrandia 2: Hand of Fate, PC)

Gallery – Solid Tune
(Date ni Game Tsui Wake Jane! Dungeon Maker Girls Type, Nintendo DS)

Jazz – Brian Schmidt
(Checkpoint, Arcade)

Odegan Town – Motoaki Takenouchi
(Shining Wisdom, Sega Saturn)

Password – Miki Higashino
(Double Dribble: The Playoff Edition, Sega Genesis)

Special Request

Mallard’s Tomb – Alec Holowka
(Night in the Woods, PC)

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KVGM “The Last Wave” (3/10/19)

KVGM “The Last Wave” (3/10/19)

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Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of the Last Wave on KVGM with your host, Hammock, bringing you thirty minutes of the best video game jams(z) from all your favorite composers and consoles, each and every week from our beachside studio in sunny Aqua City. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.

Lots of unknowns this week but it’s the unknown that makes life interesting. It keeps us on our toes. And sometimes, the unknown creates sweet VGM jams. Takeshi Abo is back, Minesweeper is still boring, and golf games really are livin’ that Weekend at Bernie’s life.

 
Playlist
Intertwined Heart ~Moody Moon Light~ – Akira Asano
(Konneko: Keep a Memory Green, Sony PlayStation Portable)

Court 3 – Yuriko Keino
(Pro Tennis: World Court, Arcade)

Let’s Develop! – Unknown
(Develo Starter Kit: Assembler, PC-Engine)

JAXA – Takeshi Abo
(Robotics; Notes, Sony PlayStation 3)

Main Play – Katsuhiro Hayashi
(Minesweeper, Game Boy)

Sunday Morning – Haruhiko Kuroiwa
(St. Andrews: Eikou to Rekishi no Old Course, Super Famicom)

The Heat Haves – Tokuhiko Uwabo
(Super Monaco GP, Sega Genesis)

Staff Roll 2 – Tatsuro Suzuki
(Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold, Sega Saturn)

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KVGM “The Last Wave” (3/3/19)

KVGM “The Last Wave” (3/3/19)

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Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of the Last Wave on KVGM with your host, Hammock, bringing you thirty minutes of the best video game jams(z) from all your favorite composers and consoles, each and every week from our beachside studio in sunny Aqua City. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.Currently living in a snowbound landscape? Well, KVGM is under a foot and a half of snow but we’re still managing to find plenty of hot tracks to melt away the gloom. The request line is poppin’, Takeshi Abo is jammin’, Summon Night: Twin Age is resonatin’. Tons of emotion.

 

Playlist

Blue Platform – Koji Yamada
(A.III: A-Ressha de Ikou 3, PC-Engine)

Chaining – Takeshi Abo
(Remember11: The Age of Infinity, Sony PlayStation 2)

BGM 29 – Unknown
(Command Master, Game Boy Color)

Title Theme 1 – Hiroki Kouichi
(Noel 3: Mission on the Line, PlayStation)

Barlizer – Hiroaki Iwatani
(Princess Minerva, Super Famicom)

Snowbound Landscape (Alpine Racer Ending Theme) – Takayuki Ishikawa
(Alpine Racer, Arcade)

Resonating – Midi Club West and Kengo Sakurai
(Summon Night: Twin Age, Nintendo DS)

Credits – Shinichirou Satou, Yasutaka Hatada, Chamy, and Munetaka Sakamoto
(F-1 Challenge, Sega Saturn)

Special Request

Monsoon Jungle – Ryoji Yoshitomi
(Wario Land 4, Game Boy Advance)

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KVGM “The Last Wave” (2/24/19)

KVGM “The Last Wave” (2/24/19)

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Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of the Last Wave on KVGM with your host, Hammock, bringing you thirty minutes of the best video game jams(z) from all your favorite composers and consoles, each and every week from our beachside studio in sunny Aqua City. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.

Need a soundtrack for that Sunday morning stroll around your local IKEA? The Last Wave is here…for you. This week, we discover Pebble Beach on the 3DO, Yellow Magic Orchestra-influenced tracks, and the power of the Dragon Shadow Spell. What does it do? More importantly, what doesn’t it do? Also, there’s a loose theme of “customization” that threads everything together, be it robots, cars, clothes, etc.

 
Playlist

Calm – Junichi Nakatsuru
(Ridge Racer 7, Sony PlayStation 3)

City – Motoaki Takenouchi
(Granhistoria, Super Famicom)

Meeting – Kengo Sakurai
(Shining Force Feather, Nintendo DS)

Robo Station Theme – Shinji Hosoe
(Custom Robo, Nintendo 64)

Howl ~ In the Indelible Past – Satoshi Kadokura
(Metal Max, Famicom)

Within the Ship (Early Image) – Takashi Okamoto
(Dragon Shadow Spell, Sony PlayStation 2)

Escape ~ Ending – Hideki Okugawa and Yuki Iwai
(Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact, Arcade)

Options – Akihito Suita and Mitsuto Suzuki
(Kidou Senshi V-Gundam, Super Famicom)

Special Request

Settings – Yumi Kinoshita
(Pebble Beach Golf Links, 3DO)

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KVGM “The Last Wave” (2/17/19)

KVGM “The Last Wave” (2/17/19)

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Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of the Last Wave on KVGM with your host, Hammock, bringing you thirty minutes of the best video game jams(z) from all your favorite composers and consoles, each and every week from our beachside studio in sunny Aqua City. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.

1980’s buddy cop movies, island nations with unlimited lemonade supplies, monster fighters, and swanky swanks – everything you could ever ask for in half an hour. Happy belated Valentine’s Day, lovers and loveless. Happy Sunday Funday.

 
Playlist

Dark Line –  Satoshi Bandoh
(Gran Turismo 5, Sony PlayStation 3)

Shop – Tsukasa Masuko
(Magical Starsign, Nintendo DS)

Outride a Crisis – Katsuhiro Hayashi
(Super Hang-On, MSX)

Day Dream – Kenichi Hirata, Youta Kitagami, Hiromi Fuwa, and Mitsuhiro Arisaka
(Ongaku Tsukuru Kanadeeru, Super Famicom)

Concrete Cave – Masato Kouda
(Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire, Arcade)

Sea Breeze – Norihiko Hibino
(Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Sony PlayStation 2)

Ending – Robert Ling and Martin Wall
(Agony, Amiga)

Staff Roll – Masaharu Iwata
(Conquest of the Crystal Palace, Nintendo)

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KVGM “The Last Wave” (2/10/19)

KVGM “The Last Wave” (2/10/19)

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Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of the Last Wave on KVGM with your host, Hammock, bringing you thirty minutes of the best video game jams(z) from all your favorite composers and consoles, each and every week from our beachside studio in sunny Aqua City. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.

This week, we check in on the rising stock prices for detective, fishing, and golf game genres, as well as show appreciation for the “slow burn” when it comes to delivering a video game jam. If we’ve learned one thing on this journey so far, it’s that you can’t really mess up a beach level theme…or can you, if you’ve never been to a beach??? And what is the deal with the birds at Blooper Bay? Find out…on the Last Wave.

 
Playlist

Jody Summer – Daiki Kasho
(F-Zero GX, Nintendo GameCube)

Can’t You See Clearly Now? – Akari Kaida
(Breath of Fire III, Sony PlayStation)

Beach Level – Taro Bando
(Mole Mania, Game Boy)

BGM 6 – Million Bamboo
(Tanteibu: The Detective Club – Angou to Misshitsu to Kaijin to, Sony PlayStation Portable)

Radio 4 – Hikoshi Hashimoto
(Umitsuri Meijin: Suzuki-hen, Super Famicom)

Blooper Bay 2 – Motoi Sakuraba
(Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour, Nintendo GameCube)

Bonus Level – Julian Soule
(Lode Runner 3-D, Nintendo 64)

Your Name is… – Yasunori Mitsuda
(Tobal No. 1, Sony PlayStation)

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KVGM “The Last Wave” (2/3/19)

KVGM “The Last Wave” (2/3/19)

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Do you hear that sound? Can you feel it? The cool ocean breeze in your hair, the salt on your tongue. It’s the smooth crash of the Last Wave on KVGM with your host, Hammock, bringing you thirty minutes of the best video game jams(z) from all your favorite composers and consoles, each and every week from our beachside studio in sunny Aqua City. Sit back, relax, and get ready to catch…the Last Wave.

It’s February and half the country is freezing but the Last Wave is here to provide you warmth and comfort. It’s like a sweater with all your favorite colors, knitted with love. This week, we return to the theme of demonology and smooth music, we wonder how could the internet possibly get any better, and we ask the question: what’s your dream monster?

 
Playlist

Devil Forest – Hiroyuki Yanada
(Last Bible III, Super Famicom)

Mayuko no Theme – Yasuhiro Kawasaki, Tarojiro, and Akira Kurita
(Kuro no Juusan, Sony PlayStation)

Olivia – Masakatsu Maekawa
(Timeball, TurboGrafx-16)

Photograph in Twilight (Name Entry) – Atsuhiro Motoyama
(Battle Bakraid, Arcade)

Moon Night 1 – MARI
(Daiya no Kuni no Alice: Wonderful Wonder World, Sony PlayStation Portable)

Ending ~ You Are the Heavy Nova – Studio Riverkids, Tosimasa Iijima, Isao Nakasugi
(Heavy Nova, X68000)

Namcot Sports News – Hiromi Shibano
(Super Oozumou: Netsusen Daiichiban, Super Famicom)

Staff Roll – Hayato Matsuo
(Master of Monsters: Neo Generations, Sega Saturn)

Special Request

Lofty Castle – Stewart Copeland
(Spyro the Dragon, Sony PlayStation)

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