12: Diamond Dust
What if you celebrated Christmas in a 16-bit ice cavern? That's the mood this episode wants to create for you. In this end-of-year installment, I'm trying to get together the best of the less holly-jolly music from ice levels. Think crystal blue. Think sparkly. Think about there being nary a jingle bell in sight. And don't worry about sliding off a ledge and plummeting to your doom.
You can also listen to all winter music episodes past, present and future in one playlist, if you so choose.
Track listing:
0:10 Bamboo Houses / Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Sylvian
2:32 Vanilla Dome / Koji Kondo / Super Mario World
3:58 Ice Caverns / David Wise / Battletoads
5:32 Winter Season / Tsuyoshi Tanaka / Harvest Moon 64
7:03 North Wall / Yuzo Koshiro / Actraiser
8:53 Ice Cave Chant / Eveline Fischer / Donkey Kong Country
10:55 In a Snowbound Land / David Wise / Donkey Kong Country 2
13:06 Frosty Frolics / Eveline Fischer / Donkey Kong Country 3
15:31 Ice Zone / Spencer Nilsen, Brian Coburn and András Magyari / Ecco the Dolphin for Genesis
18:42 Iceberg / Jun Ishikawa / Kirby’s Dreamland 3
21:19 Search a Seal / Motoi Sakuraba and Shinji Tamura / Tales of Symphonia
24:00 The Mines of Narshe / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy VI
25:45 A Bell Is Tolling / Hiroki Kikuta / Secret of Mana
28:13 Wind Scene / Yasunori Mitsuda / Chrono Trigger
29:54 Sacred Grounds / Nobuo Uematsu / Final Fantasy IX
31:56 Snowman / Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka / Earthbound
33:06 Phendrana Drifts / Kenji Yamamoto and Kouichi Kyuma / Metroid Prime
36:44 Snowpeak / Toru Minegishi and Asuka Ohta / Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
38:58 Freeze Man / Yuko Takehara, Toshihiko Horiyama and Makoto Tomozawa / Mega Man VII
40:12 Absolute Chill / Shusaku Uchiyama / Mega Man 10
41:42 Frost Walrus / Toshihiko Horiyama / Mega Man X4
43:55 Taboo Storyteller / Michiko Naruke / Wild Arms
44:53 Mount Sabre / Yoko Osaka / Crystalis
45:51 Crystal Palace Crawl / Yuka Tsujiyoko and Taishi Senda / Paper Mario
47:29 Ice Mountain Zone / Yuji Naka and Hiroshi Matsumoto / Sonic Advance
48:54 Ice Cap Zone / ????? / Sonic the Hedgehog 3
49:41 Diamond Dust Zone / Jun Senoue and Tatsuyuki Maeda / Sonic 3D Blast
51:00 Valak Mountain / ACE+ / Xenoblade Chronicles
54:23 Podul / Kenji Ito / Romancing Saga 3
56:38 Fluffy Snow, Here We Go! / Tomoya Tomita and Misaki Asada / Yoshi’s Wooly World
58:53 Sherbet’s Theme (Ice World) / Masaya Kuzume / Panel de Pon for Super Famicom
60:17Another Winter / Hiroki Kikuta / Seiken Densetsu 3
