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Quench your ears with the new soundtracks on Rainwave this week! Amazing arrangements from Mario Kart 8 mod CTGP Deluxe have arrived, as well as Touhou 12.5, Generation Xth, Hanakisou, and tohomoko's great digital fusion soundtrack for indie game Shadow Trick. Hear them all Monday at 11 a.m. PST!
Album cover for the CTGP Deluxe soundtrack. A logo modeled after the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe logo appears in the center, with the red and blue infinity eight design and the rainbow-framed "Deluxe" all sitting on a dark grey background of various racing-styled decals. Cover art for Touhou 12.5: Double Spoiler. A blue and white astral silhouette of a woman in a dress stands to the right, superimposed against a large strip of negative film in the background cutting an orange swath into the dark murky dark blue. Some unreadable reversed text spans the center of the image. Album cover for the Shadow Trick Original Soundtrack. The game's logo features prominently at the top, the first word black with bright blue outlines and the second word in yellow with a round, bubble letter font. In the center of the image, a round figure appears wearing red and white shoes and shrouded by a purple cloak, with only their yellow eyes visible through the void of their face. Their shadow peers out behind them, not mirroring their posture. An orange foreground figure of similar description illuminates them with a lantern, shedding light on the wood floor and blue tiled wall. Album cover for the Hanakisou PS2+PD Soundtrack. A man in a long blue-grey coat sits in a hazy, bloomy snow drift. Hair of a blue/grey/white colour covers most of his face, which is turned towards another man with his arms around him. The second figure is in white with red hair and red eyes, embracing the first man and looking towards the viewer with a solemn expression. Snowflakes and other abstract shapes frame them and the hilt of a sword is visible to the left going out of view.
December 8, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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New chiptunes on the radio this week! The classic Sega arcade title Quartet, excellent authentic work from the fan game Mega Man: Super Fighting Robot, Soyo Oka's OST for VS. Excitebike, and a pair of fun PC-88/98 soundtracks in Elm Knight and POWER DoLLS. Check them out!
Box art for the Famicom Disk System game VS. Excitebike, showing motorcyclists clad in red and blue drawn in a superdeformed chibi style with large heads driving through a dusty race course in front of a large crowd. Title screen for the fan game Mega Man: Super Fighting Robot, with the game's logo on a black screen and a red helmet spotlighted in the foreground. Box art for the PC-98 game POWER DoLLS, showing a silver robotic humanoid mech exchanging gunfire in an impressionistic forest scene. It holds a submachine gun in its right hand, muzzle flash point off screen, while a shot glances off its shield on its left arm. Promotional flier for the Sega arcade game Quartet, with a teal background and a drawing in the center showing four figures armed with futuristic guns marching towards the viewer: an ambiguously-gendered person in the front with poofy brown hair and light armour, a man to the right in a blue tank top with mid-length hair and a caterpillar mustache, a small woman on the left in a revealing pink-red uniform, and a broad, bald dark-skinned man in the back with a rocket launcher on his back.
November 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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I got distracted by a car accident, so no new music this week. Instead, tune in tomorrow (Nov. 10th) at 11 a.m. PST for an hour of recently added selections which don't have enough user ratings to show a global average. Like Caesar in the Colosseum, you alone control these songs' fates. 👍 / 👎 / 👉👌
November 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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aaaaa a bunch of people followed us and I realized I've been forgetting to post about new music. Last week we added fan arrangements of Touhou, Sonic, Castlevania, and Undertale - see the attached images. Stay tuned next weekend for new chiptunes. You can always join the Discord for more details!
Album cover for the Blue Client Touhou jazz arrange album, showing a blue-haired anime girl in a white dress and wide-brimmed black hat playing a saxophone. Album cover for the Magical Trick Society Akumajo Dracula ~ Odi et amo ~ album. A drawing of a black, lifeless tree is silhouetted against a large full moon. Very minimal colour is used. Album cover for the NewHome Underground Airport Undertale doujin album. Papyrus, a skeleton, is dressed for travel, holding a shoulder bag and dragging wheeled luggage which Sans, a smaller clothed skeleton, sits on. They walk through an airport. Their art is rendered in detailed black and white, outlined against a monochromatic sketched background. Album cover for RoBKTA's Club Needlemouse album, showing a futuristic computer monitor on which an image of Earth is shown with golden rings and brown asteroids floating in front of it. A blue bolt of lightning darts between the rocks, eventually breaking out of the screen and out of frame.
November 2, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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October 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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This week, selections from Azure Striker Gunvolt, Tokimeki Memorial 2, and Bloons TD Battle 2 have been added to Rainwave, as well as music from incredible fan project Sonic Riders Tournament Edition!
Album cover for the Azure Striker Gunvolt soundtrack, also known as Armed Blue Gunvolt in Japan. It shows the main character, an anime-styled man with spiked blonde hair and blue metal armor, pointing a gun towards the viewer while blue lightning crackles around him. Album cover for the Bloons TD Battles 2 soundtrack. A monkey in tactical gear holding a fortified compound bow points at another monkey with fire for hair and some kind of flamethrower in his hands? They stand in a grassy field in a tropical jungle with the hint of a city peeking through the background. Album cover for the Tokimeki Memorial 2 Vol. 1 soundtrack. A red-haired girl with a school uniform of a green long-sleeved jacket, yellow short skirt, and red ribbon stands in the foreground, with a composite of headshots of other characters with various hair colours and expressions. All are drawn in an anime style on a white backdrop. Album cover for Maximum Impulse, the Sonic Riders Tournament Edition soundtrack. Sonic is drawn in a sketchy style, wearing green goggles on his forehead and appearing to dropkick directly towards the viewer with his red shoe large in frame. A blue and white abstract background is dotted with various visual elements recalling futuristic design trends of the 2000s.
October 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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The soundtracks to Kabuto Park, Cobalt Core, Loop8: Summer of Gods, Wolf Fang: Kuuga 2001, and Tantei Jinguji Saburo: Innocent Black are new on Rainwave this week! Tune in in an hour to hear the full block of new selections back-to-back.
Cobalt Core Original Soundtrack album cover, featuring pink/purple/blue humanoid animal people, possibly reptiles, piloting a domed spacecraft. Kabuto Park Original Soundtrack album cover, showing a young girl with long hair and a yellow hat running with a bug net after a beetle through a sunflower field against a cloudy, bright blue sky. Loop8: Summer of Gods Original Soundtrack album cover, showing a male high school student with dark hair and a female student with raspberry hair sitting on the walkway outside a Japanese-style building with some nearby foliage. Tantei Jinguji Saburo: Innocent Black Original Soundtrack album cover, showing the titular detective turning towards the camera holding a notepad that reads "SHINJUKO OP". Striking lighting illuminates his weathered face and brown suit but leaves most of him in shadow against a black and dark blue abstract background.
September 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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A bunch of new music this week from insaneintherainmusic, Lame Genie, and The 8-Bit Big Band! Check it out!
September 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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August may be hot, but we're keeping things cool with new chill music additions: Zelda & Chill II & III, Samus & Chill, Souls & Chill, Chilltendo Deluxe, and The World Is Square's Square Love all came to the Covers channel this month. Look forward to more relaxing music in a new project this fall!
August 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Enjoy some new covers this week from acoustic Zelda band Dog Food For Bananas, as well as albums from their violinist @roninopf.bsky.social and their pianist @angrypolarbear.bsky.social! (also some unrelated bonus Splatoon stuff) Big thanks to these guys, very excited to share their tunes!
Album cover for angrypolarbear's album Out of Hibernation, done in a style reminiscent of an old Atari game cover. It shows the silhouette of a polar bear playing a keytar and raising a fist against a dark, snowy background. Album cover for the Dog Food For Bananas album Fishing Hook, showing the band's members dressed like Link from The Legend of Zelda in a cartoony style, each holding their instruments on the end of fishing lines. The album title features prominently at the top in a script font. Album cover for Ronin Op F's album Link's Restless Awakening, showing various objects from the video game The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, as well as a violin and bow, all in a flat papercraft aesthetic. Album cover for the doujin album Splasonic, showing cartoon depictions of Splatooon characters Callie and Marie holding hands in an idol pose against a pink background.
June 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Today, Rainwave is 18 years old. That's kind of crazy. Much appreciation to everybody who's tuned in over the years! There aren't a lot of remnants of the old internet anymore, and I'm glad we can keep this going.

(Also, happy pride month! Stay tuned for new queer music later in June.)
June 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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New this week: enjoy some tasty, groovy covers by Bi Score, some Tales of Phantasia metal covers from Unknown Pseudoartist and friends, and some Ace Combat series arrangements just in time for its 30th anniversary.
Album cover for The Hot Light by the band Bi Score, showing a logo similar to the Krispy Kreme sign with monochromatic green artwork in the background of a food fight with donuts. Album cover for the Ace Combat Series Special Remix Soundtrack, picturing a green LCD music visualizer embedded in some kind of command console or radio device. Album cover for Unknown Pseudoartist's album Songs of Phantasia, which is very very busy and full of lots of sprites and details which I cannot effectively summarize.
May 20, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Sega Saturn's North American launch, enjoy some new selections from the Burning Rangers soundtrack, to be highlighted in a Saturn tribute playlist Monday at 11 a.m. PST and Tuesday at 10 a.m. UTC. We need more Saturn music around here.
Album cover for the Burning Rangers Sega Saturn 30th Anniv. Album, showing key art for the game which features a long-haired man with a metal headband flanked by various other men and women with sci-fi adornments and a glowing crimson background.
May 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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New soundtracks this week:

- Puzzle & Dragons
- Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth
- Astal
- Rapid River
- Yakuman DS
Album cover for the Puzzle & Dragons "itoken limited" soundtrack, with green, red, and blue silhouettes of draconic beats filled in with starry backdrops against a black background. Box art for Yakuman DS, showing a green mahjongg table with pieces sitting at various positions. A watermark of Mario holding a game piece occupies the center of the table. Album cover for the Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth soundtrack, a black background with yellow and pink text and a yellow drawing of a spaceship. Box art for the Sega Saturn game Astal, showing a horrifying man-like creature, like a half-sized strongman crossed with a crab. Blue legs and armor(?) with red hair and massive spiky eyebrows, sporting hulking arms with gems and broken chains. A bird flees in the foreground; a stretched out creepy wizard dude or something lurks in the background.
May 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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New this week: chiptune soundtracks from Sega's Body Slam, Konami's Parodius, Falcom's Sorcerian, and, uh, somebody's Hokkaido Rensa Satsujin: Okhotsk ni Kiyu.

Also, tune in tomorrow morning at 11 am PST or the following morning at 10 am UTC for a show celebrating Majora's Mask's 25th anniversary!
Album cover for the Sorcerian Original Soundtrack Vol. 1, which shows the logo in a fancy metallic gold typeset on a black background. Promotional flyer for Sega's Body Slam arcade game, showing a superdeformed version of Japanese female wrestler Dump Matsumoto in a colorful style, standing in the center of a purple wrestling ring with a pink/red background and confetti and streamers falling. Box art for the MSX game Parodius, showing a red octopus and a human in a suit of armor each holding Japanese fans in front of an audience of penguins. Album cover for the Hokkaido Rensa Satsujin: Okhotsk ni Kiyu soundtrack, which depicts a man in business casual wear running desperately towards a woman who looks off screen with a frightened face. Some sort of statue or idol floats in the background.
April 30, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Everybody makes mistakes, even Rainwave's listeners when they unjustly reject perfectly cromulent music over concerns about "quality" and "hearing damage". Tune in tomorrow, April 1st, at 10 a.m. UTC or 11 a.m. PST, for Songs from the Rain Cellar, a showcase of music *too hot* for the radio.
Promotional image for "Songs from the Rain Cellar", showing the event title, time, and date overlaid on a blurred image of a rusty old safe.
March 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Tune in in 9.5 hours (or again in 25.5 hours) to hear new soundtrack selections from KanColle, Akai Ito, RetroMania Wrestling, Super Off Road, and Sega Bass Fishing. There's something for everyone, as long as they like one of those five things.
Cover art for Sega Bass Fishing, featuring a wicked 3D render of a bass (the fish) leaping out of the water towards a green lure in the foreground. Album cover for the KanColle Original Sound Track Vol. 1, showing two anime girls dressed in maritime dresses lounging in blue waters. Album cover for the RetroMania Wrestling soundtrack, which has the game's title in the center of a concrete wrestling ring surrounded by bones and fire, with a skeletal demon metal band performing behind it. Album cover for the Akai Ito soundtrack, showing an anime girl with brown hair and big brown eyes hunched over a desk, looking towards the viewer.
March 31, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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I keep forgetting to post here; apologies! Anyway, new Chiptune music this week from the Mega Man series, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Rush'n Attack, Star Gagnant, and the wonderful Namachuukei 68 OST (thanks to @t4n3.bsky.social for inspiration!). Power Hours Monday 11 am PST / Tuesday 10 am GMT
Cover art for the Sharp X68000 computer game Namachuukei 68, featuring a robotic metal baseball player raising a bat in front of an abstract stadium full of strange spheres and reflections. Box art for the NES game Rush'n Attack, where a soldier fires a weird looking gun (maybe a laser gun for some reason, or maybe it's just abstractly drawn) in front of a burning Russian skyline. Album cover for the RCT Album, taking inspiration from the Mega Man level select screen but featuring a uniquely coloured Mega Man head sprite to represent each featured artist. Album cover for the Star Gagnant Original Soundtrack, showing a spaceship flying above Earth while a few characters drawn in a weird faux-anime western art style are imposed in front of it.
March 17, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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hi we got some new music 2day frm G.I. Joe: Wrath of Cobra and also Gran Turismo 2 and Energy Breaker and Gradius Gaiden and Heaven's Gate, so if u like badass Tee Lopes tunes or sick jazz or SNES rock or Atlus or shmups u should totaly check it out tmrw in Power Hr @ 11am PST or tuesday @ 10am GMT
The album cover for G.I. Joe: Wrath of Cobra's original soundtrack, which shows Joe, who's like basically a military badass guy but don't tell my mom I called him that, and there's like a sick ninja and these dudes with big guns and stuff behind him and the background is exploding and stuff The album cover for Gran Turismo 2's Original Game Soundtrack, which puts the series logo on top of a dim photo of the interior of a racecar with dials and knobs and logos and stuff everywhere. The album cover for the Energy Breaker soundtrack, with the game title in big capital serif letters on the left all reflective and shiny and an anime-style girl jumping up on the right with her long red ponytail flowing and these long curved ribbon sword things in her hands? The album cover for the Gradius Gaiden Original Game Soundtrack, where Gradius (the ship) is flying right towards the camera to the lower right, and other ships are following behind, and it's in space, and everything is exploding, and there are planets and stars and stuff, and behind them they're coming from this crazy ice mountain flat world planet island thing that's all blue and spiky
February 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Tune in today to hear new additions from Genshin Impact, Guardian Angel, Plus Alpha, Alpine Surfer, and Super Adventure Island II!
January 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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New soundtracks added today:

- Graffiti Kingdom (Yasunori Mitsuda tunes)
- Vantage Master (Falcom jdk tunes)
- Asterix (Arcade) (Konami Kukeiha Club tunes)
- Tenerezza (inexplicably Japanese-exclusive Xbox tunes)
- Nitronic Rush ('80s synth rock tunes)
- Street Boyz (tasty hard rock tunes)
Cover art for the PS2 game Street Boyz, showing colourful graffiti of the title against a white brick wall with human shadows cast over it. Cover art for the Nitronic Rush Original Soundtrack, which puts the game's logo over a very dimly lit wireframe of a sports car driving into an abstract landscape. Cover art for the Tenerezza Original Soundtrack, which is just a flat white background with the game's red logo centered on it. Cover art for the Graffiti Kingdom soundtrack, titled in Japanese as Hako no Niwa. It's a sparse drawing of a white box with no top. The inside of the box is filled with bright colour: its walls painted as blue skies, round green trees like ice cream scoops and deep indigo waters.
January 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Happy 2025! Very excited to add new music this week from the inimitable VGM klezmer band Glitch Kibbitz. Also new: ThePlasmas' Mega Man 6 album, Falcom Acoustics 2, Undertale String Quartet, and salvation by faith records' We Bros. X. Tune in Monday 11 a.m. PDT or Tuesday 2 a.m. PDT to hear it all!
Album cover for Super Glitch Kibbitz, a somewhat impressionistic image of a colourful accordion with video game items surrounding it from the five games featured on the record. Album cover for Falcom Acoustics 2, showing a five piece band playing on a stage with Falcom anime-style character art projected behind them. The saxophone player features prominently in the foreground. Album cover for ThePlasmas' MegaMan 6 Tribute Album, showing a collage of sprites, official art, and screenshots from the game. Album cover for Undertale String Quartet Album "Pilot", showing the major characters from the game drawn and pained in soft pastels.
January 4, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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During 2024, Rainwave added more than 1,100 new songs across more than 160 albums - more than 32 hours of music. Tune in today at 11 a.m. Pacific / 2 p.m. Eastern to hear highlights we added throughout the year. (Non-US folk, you'll get yours at 10 a.m. GMT - that's in ~22.5 hours.)

Happy New Year!
December 30, 2024 at 11:37 AM
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New Chiptune music today, including Panic Restaurant, Aqua Kitty, and much more!

Did you know? We have a Discord server with in-depth and unhinged posts about new music, including audio versions by professional newscaster Salty. This week's is even done like a news show! Check it out! Link in bio!
Box art for the Game Boy Colour game Survival Kids - in this case, the PAL version titled "Stranded Kids" - featuring two anime-style children at the base of a large tree in a tropical jungle setting with a cute monkey watching them. Box art for the NES game Panic Restaurant, showing a grotesquely detailed chef with an oversized head, featuring a large nose and grey bushy eyebrows and mustache. He's brandishing a frying pan and running through a dining room after a living cooked rotisserie chicken while an anthropomorphic carrot and hot dog look on. It is absolutely horrifying and if you're relying on this alt text, you're better off for not being able to see it yourself. Album cover for the Aqua Kitty Original Soundtrack Recording, showing an orange cat with an eyepatch and a grimace inside the bubble dome of an orange submarine with cannons mounted to the sides. Mechanical sea creatures approach, launching their own missiles at the cat, as the blue hue of the ocean darkens into the distance. Album cover for the TIMECAPSULE album, a doujin release from the Pulsenotes record label. An anime figure of indeterminate gender, sporting blue-grey hair, a white hat, and green and white garb, holds a CD in their hands. Behind them is a photo of an arcade circuitboard recoloured in brown sepia with horizontal bars across it vaguely resembling scanlines on a CRT television display.
December 16, 2024 at 12:05 AM
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It's been a tough day for everyone, and the news out of Pennsylvania is hard to cope with. Join us tomorrow morning at 11:00 a.m. Pacific time for a special #Luigi themed Power Hour featuring old favourites and new additions from his first outing, Mario Is Missing!, as we get through this together.
Box art for the Super Nintendo release of Mario Is Missing!, where Mario is being dragged through a castle doorway by Bowser while Luigi looks the other way in absolutely bafflement.
December 10, 2024 at 6:13 AM