Open Circuit #72: Blue Screen

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Technical issues are nothing new for Open Circuit, but a blue screen error in the middle of a live show?  That’s a first! This week, Open Circuit once again patches a Nintendo Entertainment System in to the radio stream to bring you some hardware renditions of some of his favorite entries from Famicompo Mini Vol …

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Open Circuit #71: MAGFest X Recap (Part Two )

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Continuing from where we left off last week, this episode of Open Circuit shines the spotlight on MAGFest’s Saturday concert lineup.  We’ve got tracks from every act that played the Main Stage, the Second Stage, and the two chip music shows, including new music from Minibosses and The OneUps, the debut performance of Those Who …

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Open Circuit #70: MAGFest X Recap (Part One )

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For the second year in a row, host jmr attended MAGFest with a mission: document as many of the concerts as possible.  Armed with a portable audio recorder and a few too many 5 Hour Energy shots (and with some assistance from fellow Arecibo Radio host Obtuse ), he attended and recorded just about all …

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Open Circuit #69

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First show of the new year!  Host jmr speedruns through a playlist jam packed with some brand new releases from Surgeon,  B4kn, Autoscroll, and more.  Plus, we highlight the results of the recent Dwelling of Duels with the top three entries of MAGFest Month from coda, virt and SnappleMan, and the DoD supergroup consisting of …

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OpenGameCircuitFuel End of Year Extravaganza!

Good news: Open Circuit and GameFuel are teaming up this Saturday for one last hurrah before the end of the year! We’ve got a epic playlist planned featuring our favorites songs of the year PLUS we’ll be featuring AN EXCLUSIVE TEASER from Diad‘s upcoming album. It all happens on New Year’s Eve:  December 31st starting …

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Open Circuit #68: The Make Up Show

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After a two week hiatus, Open Circuit is back!  This special Tuesday ‘make up’ edition of the show features new tracks from the final entry in the Nevar Say Die compilation series, new tracks from ‘newbie’ NSF composer Au Revoir and b4kn (aka the Jonathan of George and Jonathan ), a few concert recordings from …

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Open Circuit #67

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Finally!  The long awaited followup to Brass,  Minibosses’ Brass 2: Mouth has been released!  This week, Open Circuit brings you several picks from that album, as well as from the also-long-awaited Skrow!Media compilation Quit Your Day Job.  To top it off, we’ve got tracks from Danimal Cannon’s Roots, some chipmusic recommendations from Heosphoros, and some …

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Open Circuit #66

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This week, Open Circuit celebrates the music of Indie Games with a playlist comprised of music from The Indie Game Music Bundle.  Host jmr has picked out 17 tracks (one from each album ) with the intent of whetting your appetite and encouraging you to kick in a few bucks and supporting a bunch of …

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Open Circuit #65

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This week, we’ve got new music from solo prog/post rocker Cloudkicker, 8bitcollective tracks from an0va, RushJet1, and dj.tubig & Heosphoros, and videogame selections from the Video Game Music Choir, WillRock, Minibosses, VikingGuitar and more.  As well, jmr cheers himself up after a rough week of midterms (curse you, you horrible electromagnetic fields course! ) with …

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Open Circuit #64

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This week on Open Circuit a noticeably tired jmr brings you new music from video game rockers  Zubareus and VikingGuitar, chipmusicians 505 and Disasterpeace, and Canadian postrock band I Spell It Nature.  As well, we plug Josiah Tobin’s hard-drive recovery fundraiser album Disk Read Error and check out tonight’s 8static lineup with music from Dauragon …

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