Aria Math Declaration! Imperial Floral Assault Group T11
mihata no moto ni is actually a song i've considered nomming multiple years in the past, and while that one is def my fav sakura wars song i love the og op as well!! T11 is one of those songs where it's absolutely insane i know of its existence now and i'm so grateful for it tbh lol, reminds me of soilscraper with how i think my life is noticeably more enriched by knowing this exists
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14.3 Billion Years (Outer Wilds) b10 T11
I've come to appreciate folky guitar melodies, something incredibly distant from anything I ever said I liked when I was younger. I think moving to a desolate desert and enjoying it here, it a major part of my identity certainly has something to do with that affinity. this hits that spot while being an interesting journey. I like numbers
tuned percussion is one of the greatest sounds for my ears. thank you for that, person who is named after number I love those(by which I mean I love numbers)
I love the chord spasms of Takayuki Negishi (well I assume his influence is why this is like what people think modern xenoblade fusion adjacent music is except living even further inside of a dart board)
b10 is like everything I like in music these days at once tbh. RINNE has become one of my favorite soundtracks. I used to find functional harmony with motion I perceived as too predictable very frustrating, but a recent shift in me is coming to actively seek composition in that vein out---i just definitely prefer it done in a subtler, new age-y scenario like this. It winds up giving a climactic fantastical mysterious feel. There's a lot of complexity here seamlessly woven atop too, the 7 (that I somehow didn't even notice in first many listens, which is rare for me to say about odd time), and some trick parallel motion ambiguating a lot of stuff. and yea the production is absurdly perfect for my inclinations, and with dense ethereal 90s (00s) new age dungeon themes at peak of my interests right now, while of all my noms this was one of the ones i was most attached to. This game actually seems weirdly tightly to my tastes and it's high on my list of things I plan to play when I can find the room. Anything featuring lots of collection, and transforming into creatueres, and prerendered isometric presentation? with THIS music? count me in
Boing Boing & Roger is a game I got as a kid at a local bookstore when I asked if they had any computer games and then someone came out saying a thing along the lines of oh, we know someone who makes computer games, we'll have her bring out some stuff she worked on. and then I got this, and a couple seemingly off-brand re-issuings of other educational (or even just like weird video editing) software. i lived in the middle of nowhere mid michigan so I have no idea if these people even knew what they were talking about, but the game is insanely obscure so maybe she did have some loose connection or something. the intensity of that obscurity is something I didn't even conceptualize until recently, there's very few hits for this game even existing online, though i know for sure there were a couple now-gone soundtrack uploads in the past. anyway, growing up I almost didn't even realize how strange a lot about the music is. Most of it is waaay too long for you to hear all of it in the context it plays---the game is largely silent and the couple dozen songs either are bgm to random mysterious stock nature FMVs the game has in it for no reason, or just play to titles/various win game conditions that you'd likely skip early into the track. It's also all very low quality with the raw audio files legit clipping, and instrumentation includes synths that came out over a decade before the game did (like DX7/hardware synth FM patches are actually very rare to hear in VGM even in 1994). This particular track is actually the select who plays first bgm though, and it is definitely weirdly serious & mysterious for the scenario. It also just happens to be quite to both my compositional and timbral tastes! lots of ambiguity in possible places you can be driven to instinctively feel beat 1 which tests your perception of the surrounding composition. Very minimalism-y in that way, though probably more Adams/Glass than reich?? Tho maybe most comparable to real 80s new age like Ray Lynch. Chord changes get pretty interesting with these powerful unexpected emotional motions at these well chosen sparing times. and of course, I'm really enamored genuinely deep with the exact way these distorted clipping loud recordings of whats supposed to be beautiful FM harps justfeels. I love the instrumentation of this soundtrack overall, but this is the most idiosyncratic case imo, like a grainy TV static-y sliiightly corrupted portal viewing into relics of a once beautiful lost temple in ze forest. How symbolic.
ichiro shimakura is someone I associate heavily with music that is very dense and full, like star soldier vanishing earth & frogger's adventures the rescue. it's difficult to express that spacious full production tendency in a chiptune. except he actually does somehow, implied harmonies and just careful choices make me forget how little space the chip this is playing on even has