Feb 8, 2019
The second installment of the VGM+pop music series looks at Eternal Champions, a 1993 entry in the canon of fighting games that was created by an all-American team of Sega employees. Eternal Champions has its own merits, but this episode is concerned solely with two tracks from this game — both composed by Andy Armer and both of which seem to have been sampled in the 1995 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony album E. Eternal 1999. Neither Armer’s work nor Sega’s ownership of the source tracks seems to be documented anywhere official, and I do my best to try and find out why. Listen to all the installments of Singing Mountain’s VGM+POP series: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/playlist-vgm-pop-music-singing-mountain Cover art designed by Jude Buffum, pixel artist extraordinaire: https://judebuffum.com/ Gamelan music sample by the court musicians of the Royal Palace of the Sultan of Yogyakarta, via freesound.org: https://freesound.org/people/RTB45/sounds/255544/ View all show notes and cited sources here: https://singingmountainpod.com/episodes/59-eternal-champions-bone-thugs Track listing: 0:06: Blade’s Theme / Eternal Champions / Andy Armer 2:12: Rax’s Theme / Eternal Champions / Andy Armer 4:06: Shadow’s Theme / Eternal Champions / Joe Delia, John Hart, Jeff Marsh, Adrian van Velsen and Andy Armer 5:28: Title Theme / Eternal Champions / Andy Armer 9:46: Character Bio Theme / Eternal Champions / Andy Armer 11:54: Eternal / Bone Thugs-N-Harmony 13:27: Bad Ending Theme / Eternal Champions / Andy Armer 15:24: Crossroad / Bone Thugs-N-Harmony 17:50: Menu Theme / Eternal Champions / Joe Delia, John Hart, Jeff Marsh, Adrian van Velsen and Andy Armer 23:33: Rise / Herb Alpert 24:48: Hypnotize / The Notorious B.I.G. 25:23: Battle Room Theme / Eternal Champions / Joe Delia, John Hart, Jeff Marsh, Adrian van Velsen and Andy Armer 28:27: Jetta’s Theme / Eternal Champions / Joe Delia, John Hart, Jeff Marsh, Adrian van Velsen and Andy Armer 32:21: Title Theme / Ecco: The Tides of Time / Andy Armer 35:50: Ceremony / Secret of Mana / Hiroki Kikuta 37:55: Xavier’s Theme / Eternal Champions / Joe Delia, John Hart, Jeff Marsh, Adrian van Velsen and Andy Armer 40:00: Elec Man Theme / Mega Man / Manami Matsumae Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drewgmackie Singing Mountain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/singmopod On Facebook: https://facebook.com/singingmountainpod/ On iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/singing-mountain/id1252832457 On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ISyNLUc1ALxzvjBqw4ru3 On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Ifofiaeephbs27wb6cqr24dlgl4 On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingmountainpod/ On SoundCloud: @singingmountain On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f9iAcO1ZMTYVH91c2Jsyw Official website: https://singingmountainpod.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tablecakes TableCakes Productions: https://www.tablecakes.com