Bit Harmony: A Videogame Music Podcast
Aug 9, 2026 · 3 hr 17 min · 18 segments
With both of your intrepid hosts recently indoctrinated into the Trails fandom via this game (and with 2nd Chapter coming soon), it was more than deserving of its own episode. Sure, the music is…
back.[upbeat music]
Uh, I decided, I elected to not play the first chapter arrangement of this because we played that back in the Best Songs or Best Soundtracks of 2025 episode.
But you can't talk about Trails in the Sky without talking about this battle theme, because this is just, like, the normal battle theme when you're in the turn-based combat.
It is maybe my favorite turn-based battle music of all time, so, like, we had to have some version of it here.
Yeah.
I, I was going back and forth in my, in my head between...
Mm.
Those are the two for, for me that, that...
But, but it is certainly up there.
It's excellent.
Um, also just a quick, uh, aside for you, I did look up during the break what zanmai means.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
And it means being absorbed in, immersed in, or indulging in something to your heart's content.
That's beautiful.
It comes...
Isn't it beautiful?
I wish I had known that before I wrote my haiku.
[laughs] It comes from the Buddhist meditation term samadhi, which means total concentration.
Huh.
And I, I genuinely love that sentiment.
I love that word, I love that sentiment.
I'm like, oh, zanmai is kind of what this entire podcast is.
back.[upbeat music]
Uh, I decided, I elected to not play the first chapter arrangement of this because we played that back in the Best Songs or Best Soundtracks of 2025 episode.
But you can't talk about Trails in the Sky without talking about this battle theme, because this is just, like, the normal battle theme when you're in the turn-based combat.
It is maybe my favorite turn-based battle music of all time, so, like, we had to have some version of it here.
Yeah.
I, I was going back and forth in my, in my head between...
Mm.
Those are the two for, for me that, that...
But, but it is certainly up there.
It's excellent.
Um, also just a quick, uh, aside for you, I did look up during the break what zanmai means.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
And it means being absorbed in, immersed in, or indulging in something to your heart's content.
That's beautiful.
It comes...
Isn't it beautiful?
I wish I had known that before I wrote my haiku.
[laughs] It comes from the Buddhist meditation term samadhi, which means total concentration.
Huh.
And I, I genuinely love that sentiment.
I love that word, I love that sentiment.
I'm like, oh, zanmai is kind of what this entire podcast is.
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