VG Frequency
Saturdays, 10 PM - Midnight

Courtesy of Viralsound.com, here's what Larry's currently listening to:

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"Who's that fine black man?"

Larry Oji here. I'm on WMRE so much that people recognize me chillin' around on Emory's campus. And they damn well should. The basic deal is that I'm from New Haven, CT, I'm half Russian and half Nigerian so I'm like coffee and cream, and I've got a thing for video game music. My enjoyment of video game music led me to download the tracks I liked from Napster my freshman year at Emory, and it all snowballed from there. Now that I'm a lot more knowledgable and appreciative of the diversity of game music and game music rearrangement, I decided to do my part to expose other people to it. Video game music is more in-depth than the Super Mario Brothers theme, less geeky than Final Fantasy, more professional than what you heard on your Nintendo, and less ridiculous and disposable than you'd probably assume it is. It's all-around creative stuff. We all have agendas in life. My agenda on WMRE's to show you that video game music is quality music and have some fun while doin' it.

"So what's the show about if it's so damn good?"

VG Frequency features the artists of OverClocked ReMix and VGMix, which are the two most popular internet spots where musicians apply their talents to reinterpreting video game music in tons of different musical styles. Most of the songs you'll hear have something to do with electronic or techno music, and there's also tons of stuff under trance, ambient, jazz, rock, new age, orchestral, metal, ska, chiptune, whatever the hell. If you check out the show, you'll definitely like a fair amount of what you hear. Frequently, there are interviews featuring artists from the video game remixing community to give you more insight as to what's going on while they help me cause trouble on the radio. When it's on, feel free to check out the show on the AIM chat room "VG Frequency" or IM me at Liontamer87. I do my best to act idiotic for your amusement.

"Aight. Who do you play? Do I know 'em?"

Lemme coach you through a basic overview of the layout. With plenty of examples, let's break down the show like this...:

Original VGM composers: Graeme Norgate & Grant Kirkhope (GoldenEye 007), Alph Lyla (Street Fighter), Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy), Yuzo Koshiro (Streets of Rage/ActRaiser), Koji Kondo (Super Mario Bros./Legend of Zelda), Yasunori Mitsuda (Chrono Trigger/Chrono Cross), Masato Nakamura (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Game music remixers: bLiNd, Juverna, DarkeSword, analoq, Star Salzman, Rayza, The Wingless, OverCoat, SuperGreenX, GrayLightning, DCT, Beatdrop, and way, way too many others to do this list justice

Counterculture bonuses: Bubb Rubb (The whistles go WHOO!), Homestarrunner.com, Badger Mushroom Snake, Zero Wing (All Your Base Are Belong To Us), Icy Hot Stuntaz, etc., etc., ipso facto

"How'd you come up with VG Frequency?"

When I started DJing at WMRE in February of 2002, initially my show was called (Insert Name Here). [They can't all be winners, I know.] It was a mix of video game music along with my favorite regular music, which basically consists of sappy UK blokes like Travis, Coldplay, Starsailor & The Verve. It was a fine show, but not focused enough to have a regular audience. At the same time, fellow WMRE DJ Matt Kertz told me about OverClocked ReMix and I became a fan of the music there, so a year later in March 2003, I focused my show on video game music only and got the majority of my internet audience that way. I also DJed so much that I managed to get the MVP award for WMRE for the 2002-2003 year. (Damn straight.) With the start of the new year, the name of the game's VG Frequency. You can guess what the VG stands for. Some ladies have suggested "Virgin God". Can't say I would have thought of that on my own...

"Dis show iz phenomenal, Larry! Where do I get these muzaks, homey?"

www.ocremix.org - OverClocked ReMix is most popular place to check out video game remixes and rearrangements, with over 1,000 free MP3s available.
www.vgmix.com - VGMix is the second most frequented site for video game remixes and rearrangements, and features a more interactive, community-based approach to evaluating the music there; it's got hundreds of free MP3s available.
oc.ormgas.com - Based out of Sweden, Ormgas is a 24-hour internet radio station that features the music of OverClocked ReMix; check it out anytime to sample the goods.