BGM Gems
BGM Gems
Podcast Description
Video game music large, small, and weird. Hosted by Dawn Violet with Jordan Hatfield. Produced, engineered, and edited by Dawn Violet. A podcast made by humans, published independently.
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Content Themes
Explores various themes within video game music, focusing on original scores, in-game soundtracks, and album releases, with the pilot episode focusing on the music of Cyberpunk 2077, covering topics like the original score, in-game radio tracks, and related media such as the Phantom Liberty score and Edgerunners soundtrack.

A nonsense music podcast, mostly about video game soundtracks.
Hosted by Dawn Violet with Jordan Hatfield.
Produced, engineered, and edited by Dawn Violet.
A podcast made by humans, published independently.
What is a Touhou? Jordan Hatfield & Dawn Violet… might know. Maybe you’ll find out if you listen to this episode all about Team Shanghai Alice’s Touhou Project! The hundreds of thousands (yes, actually) of fan works make this handily the largest body of Video Game Music yet seen on BGM gems, and maybe ever!!
Music in order of appearance
- Mystic Dream ~ Snow or Cherry Petal – Dawn’s arrangement for BGM Gems
- Bad Apple!! – Masoyoshi Minoshima arrangement feat. nomico
- Bad Apple!! – ZUN arrangement via Akyu’s Untouched Score
- Bad Apple!! – RichaadEB arrangement feat. Christina Vee
- Pierrot of the Star-Spangled Banner – RichaadEB arrangement
- Beloved Tomboyish Daughter – ZUN’s arrangement from Touhou 6
- Phantom Ensemble – ZUN’s arrangement from Touhou 7
- U.N. Owen Was Her? – JustSomeRandomMusician arrangement
- Final Savage Sister Flandere S – beatMARIO arrangement of U.N. Owen Was Her?
- Emotional Skyscraper ~ Cosmic Mind – ZUN’s arrangement from Touhou 12
- Maiden’s Capriccico ~ Dream Battle (Reimu’s theme) – ZUN’s arrangement from Touhou 8
- Cirno’s Perfect Math Class – IOSYS arrangement of Beloved Tomboyish Daughter
- Retribution for the Eternal Night ~ Imperishable Night – ZUN’s arrangement from Touhou 8
- Hartmann’s Youkai Girl – Tokyo Active NEETs Arrangement
- Night of Nights – beatMARIO + COOL&CREATE’s arrangement of Flowering Night
- Voyage 1970 – ZUN’s arrangement from Touhou 8
- Illusionary Night ~ Ghostly Eyes – ZUN’s arrangement from Touhou 8
- Player’s Score – ZUN’s arrangement from Touhou 14
OutOfCharacters’ Video essay on U.N Owen Was Her? / Death Waltz
Romantique Tp’s PC-98 recreation project
Listen to Gensokyo Radio on the internet.
TouhouDB hosts the Touhou Music Database.
The English Touhou Wiki is an invaluable source of information on Touhou Project.
Lots of fan works live on Moriya Shrine!
A Podcast made by humans, published independently.
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Dawn Violet on The Internet

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