Enja Hamman

I'm still bad at promoting. The opposite of @take-mitsuyoshi.bsky.social who I'm covering for my WinterFest 2025 special episode of Individual!

Brush up on your 2005-2009 Mitsuyoshi lore and music with this episode. We're making our way to From Loud 2 Low Too.

PLAYLIST UPDATE: Week Of - 15th December 2025: A double dose of Koichi "Mickey" Namiki albums plus music to test your luck, get checked up, join the flock & think farming life!

🆕 Koichi Namiki
🆕 Angry Birds: Mystery Island
🆕 Farming Simulator 25
🆕 Trauma Team

I did an Aquathon today. Or at least, half an Aquathon. Couldn't keep going after 1:15 ish.

Also I had to go to the bathroom three times. Good thing I didn't bring a water bottle or it would be four.

Pick n' Mix | S5E38 - A Slight Rumbling (07 November 2025) This week saw the global release of Sonic Rumble after lengthy delays. Was it worth the wait? Join Viper for the rundown while listening to the game's instant hall-of-famer OST. TRACKLISTING: 00:00:00 Sonic Rumble - City Escape Battle 00:02:44 Sonic Rumble - Green Hill Battle 00:06:44 Sonic Rumble - Menu 00:09:08 Let's Get into the Mix! 00:17:30 Code Breakers - Round 1 00:19:29 Sonic Rumble - Toybox 00:22:57 Sonic Rumble - Matching 00:25:23 Sonic Rumble - Silent Forest Battle 00:29:04 Sonic Rumble - Chemical Plant Final Battle 00:32:03 Changing the Tune to Your Friday Night! 00:51:41 Code Breakers - Round 2 00:52:18 Sonic Rumble - Sweet Mountain Battle 00:56:00 Sonic Rumble - Pinball Carnival Battle 00:58:50 Sonic Rumble - Starlight Carnival Battle 01:03:02 Sonic Rumble - Game Land Final Battle 01:06:15 Requester Monarchy 01:08:36 Code Breakers - Round 3 01:09:22 Super Hydlide - Chaos Separater 01:10:21 Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Party Dash (Umamusume Pretty Derby Nekketsu Hachamecha dai Kansha-sai!) - Fan Festival [Requester Monarchy #3] 01:15:31 F-Zero GX/AX - DIGI-BOY [Requester Monarchy #2] 01:18:02 Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds - Cyber Space [Requester Monarchy #1] 01:22:52 Code Breakers - Results 01:25:32 Sonic Rumble - Desert Ruins Battle 01:31:02 Sonic Rumble - Lava Mountain Battle 01:35:11 Sonic Rumble - Space Colony ARK Battle 01:40:30 Sonic Rumble - Biolizard Battle 01:44:42 Thanks for Listening! 01:47:52 Sonic Rumble - Seaside Hill Battle

🆕 PODCAST: This week's episode of #RSPickNMix follows up on the global release of #SonicRumble after rather lengthy delays. Was it worth the wait? Join Viper for the rundown while listening to the game's arguably instant hall-of-famer music!

I'm imagining God's Discord Server or Twitch Chat. Absolutely flooded with members saying stuff. And prayers are basically pings to get attention.

Technically true, at least it's a transport. Then again, with how overcrowded some streets can be with cars, their value really does diminish in my eyes.

The to/from work hour line of sitting cars always fills me with pity.

Most of the ads for AI character date apps I get the opportunity to block, their music sounds just like car commercial music.

I think these guys want to make love to their cars.

Enja Records - Wikipedia

Huh?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enja_Re...

It feels like THE 80's Synth-Pop album to me, like a distillation of the genre with songs covering every vibe I'd expect of that era, from the funky hits to ballads. I love "Murphy's Law" especially.

High Crime - YouTube

My to/from gym album for today - Al Jarreau's High Crime

Was on composer Kentaro Koyama's (Virtual-On, Jambo! Safari) top 5 albums list.
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*cries* I'm so proud of myself and Bee Movie

peak is on vgmdb now

Although from what I've heard peripherally, physical media is just getting more popular in the west anyway (but I get the feeling that's more "ooh retro" than actually caring for what physical media offers)

Is physical media dying in Japan now? Does it now need special incentives for people to support it? That's not something I'd heard happening in Japan, which might be why I thought of this as "west-targeted" choice (if it's about incentives).

I actually agree that there's some great parts to physical media that just... comes with it being physical media! Even if I'm not much of a physical buyer because of cost and maintenance problems, the format itself has to stick around.

I have no idea if that's the case here, or if it's an incentive, ala the earlier days of digital media when they might have new bonus tracks attached, possibly so people would repurchase albums they already owned. (I'm thinking of the very first release in SOUND! SHOCK SERIES, Super Hang-On).

Oh and absolutely, songs sometimes having to be excluded from digital releases because of rights dilemmas. I've seen plenty of albums that had to cut out their opening themes from the digital release.

I would never think there was intent to make the digital worse. But that's an unintended effect it can have on someone who has the means to access one thing and not another. The same difference between two things can be seen either way depending on what side of it you're on.

I'm from South Africa actually, not US/EU, but I see your point. I don't like that I came at this too much from a foreign perspective.

YouTube video by werothegreat Beauty and the Beast - How bad was A.I.D.S.?

Found werothegreat today and already watched 4 of their videos, absolutely brilliant with such a solid style and pacing of Disney movie reflection.

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CORRECTION: BOTH bonus songs to each Disc of the #FightingVipers "- 30th Anniv. Album -" will not be part of the digital editions as they'll only be included on physical. 😶

The good thing about this would be, now they have to make a bonus every time to make it appealing, so there's always something new to be heard. But mandatory bonuses can turn out shit sometimes, way more than when it's just done for the fun of it.

And now it's not special because its physical and comes with all the innate physical perks, it's special because they arbitrarily made bits exclusive.

Bonus inclusions can also just be a bad incentive for physical media anyway because then only the stuff with bonuses are going to really sell. People will skip anything that doesn't have a bonus, 'cause otherwise they might not have the money to buy something that does have an exclusive.

Add on to that that a lot of people just pirate VGM albums released overseas anyways, this will most likely just cut streams and purchases of the digital version.

Hi stranger, can I ramble here?

I think I agree. To me, exclusivity acts as more of an annoyance than a genuine incentive. It often doesn't make the physical version seem better, it just makes the digital version feel worse.

It's grey so it must be real.

Fighting Vipers - 30th Anniv. Album - 2025.11.27 Release

SEGA announced earlier this morning its next OST release: "Fighting Vipers - 30th Anniv. Album -"!
▶️ Releases 27th November
▶️ 2-disc set
▶️ Respective bonus track each Disc, by Koichi "Mickey" Namiki (digital version excludes Disc 2 bonus)
▶️ Supervised by game director Hiroshi Kataoka

They left them in a Burning house, never to be seen outside of town.

Please WAVE MASTER send Mizuno's remix worldwide.

コンピュータゲーム装置 | Patent Information | J-GLOBAL Patent "コンピュータゲーム装置" Detailed information of the J-GLOBAL is an information service managed by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (hereinafter referred to as "JST"). It provides free access to se...

Here you go. Remember to click the J-PlatPat link to see the full patent and not just the summary. (Can't link it directly because the link expires).

I know the stick figures don't look so SPIKEOUT-y, but it's definitely credited to Camera programmer Hisashi Endo.
jglobal.jst.go.jp/en/detail?JG...