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AD made a pretty neat discovery the other day: a Spanish language radio program called "Space Wars" aired an hour-long look at the music of Wing Commander on September 3 on radio station Querétaro 100.3 FM. The broadcast include samples of lots of music and even one of Jazz's piano pieces played on a real piano! AD recorded a copy which you can listen to below.

We continue with our special Space Wars programs, where we take a brief look at the music of some Space Simulation video games. This time, we're focusing on a classic, Wing Commander, a video game developed by Chris Roberts that was a turning point in this video game genre in many ways, but primarily in its music. Listen to the adaptations of this video game's soundtrack to various formats that we've made, and hear the musical evolution that, as always, goes from the BIT to the Orchestra!

We would also like to thank uu from Discord for recording an extra copy and for listing out the timestamps:

Radio presentation of the show 00:00 to 00:03 then Wing commander presentation 00:03 to 00:06
Music 1 00:06 to 00:10
more info about wing commander music 1 & sound designer & more (soundblaster, midi tech, ...) 00:10 to 00:15
Music 2 00:15 to 00:19
More info about the music 2 & more 00:19 to 00:24
Music 3 00:24 to 00:26
00:26 ads 00:30
short music for the show & more info 00:30 to 00:34
Music 4 00:34 to 00:36
Info about the music & more info 00:36 to 00:39
Music 5 00:39 to 00:42
Info about the music & more info 00:42 to 00:45
Music 6 00:45 to 00:49
Info about the music Edouard Sanchez adaptation & more info & thanks then end of transmission 00:49 to 00:53
Music 7 00:53 to 00:55

• Archived Copy - Broadcast
• Achived Copy - Recoding

We also discovered that the same host had presented a similar program broadcast back on February 9, 2022 which was a biography of George Sanger, aka The Fat Man. You can listen to that one here.

In our Musical Biographies we continue with the pioneering composers in the US, and we go with a very important artist in the implementation of MIDI music in video games, the great Fat Man. In this program you will hear music from its origins in Intellivision to his most recent collaborations he has made in music and in various events that seek to reward the work of composers and sound designers.

• Archived Copy

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