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The Apex of the World (Rain)
Variations on a Ra Melody
Dark Legacy

The Apex of the World (Rain) is my 87th favorite in the contest! i remember liking this a lot more than i do. chanting at :25 is fun and the piano rhythms alongside it are fun. this doesnt viscerally excite me to an elevated extreme the way a lot of FE music does, but at least has the right vibe. the artificialness of the piano at like 2:02 and other production elements around that bit area cool they sound like deemo(blue reflection slow song). i don't dislike three houses music (I literally had this track on my "considering supporting" list) but i think i have to be very, very intently, actually listening to the song, to get anything out of it, where the Awakening/Fates music i like will immediately excite me even if i'm not paying much attention. this isn't a "bad thing" it's just a difference and means i'm rewarded for actively paying attention, but as a result at some times i'll rate this way higher/lower than others. right now's a time where i'm having a hard time paying attention to it so i'm not getting as much out of it as i wish i was

Onboro is my 183rd favorite in the contest! something abouit this song makes me Mad when i listen to it. there was some melodically similar fake dubstep chiptuine song i once felt the same way about and i'm not sure how to describe it there's just all thes notes at the start that arae too normal but are like "edgy" but not "cool" they just sound "stupid instead and i want thgE" lth[dlpb[ the drums are too fast shupt up i don't like this song. i don't really have anything positive to say but the reason it's ranked higher than all of 184-192 is because it's "obnoxious" and ""edgy"" (i dunno if anyone else would even use the word edgy to describe this, I use it too much but whenever I use it it's a positive descriptor, it's a trait i look for lol) in a way that feels like "a Sonic heroes song i dont actually like but makes me nostalgaic for 20034". I guess some more actual positive stuff i could say: I like playfulness of the synth patches. some of the guitar chords are also really cool.

where's waldo

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Variations on a Ra Melody is my 40th favorite in the contest! "Pure PCE jam that pushes its chip to the edge and back." - Place, 2020. ALways a pleasure to listen to a Basisc-[the enigmatic voice calls from the inside of the A logo in the art work: "BASISCAPE DIDNT EXIST YET YoU FUNKY FLOWER"] ok Fine you funky language precision DARK BEAM. Always a pleasure to listen to a HITOSHI SAKIMOTO original sound track : ) I love Hitoshi Sakimoto! he is one of my favorite video game music composers and founded my favorite video game music sound team. the strangely loud delay echoes is appealing to me, it feels like proto-yack sound design, Senko no Ronde DUO for PC Engine. also love how I always feel like this is in 3/4 but it's just a 3+3+2 4/4 rhythm but i don't notice because it hypnotizes me too much for me to get a solid perception and that's GOOD. sakimoto has a variety of traits/styles i like but I think my favorite is something he did a lot more often in his music for old soundchips than in full-prod stuff: Having really prominent held out bass notes that don't share the same scales as the rest of the music (particularly, using the note a half step above the tonal center). :46 feels SO intense somehow, and it doesn't feel wrong at all somehow even though it seems like it should. Instead it just seems GRAND and mysterious. I talk about unpredictable chord progressions all the time being a thing that consistently emotionally impacts me, this isn't even that it's just a single note managing to have the same effect that entire "weird chord changes" have on me (though the abrupt modulation at 1:00 is pretty unexpected and definitely threaded together by that bass pad thing). I think the very slight detune effect and exact timbre he's gotten out of this chip for that bass floating in there is beautiful as well. the abrupt quartal run ascensions in triplets at 1:40 are so VIDEO GAME(prog) lol i love their presence so much

Arcade Menu is my 121st favorite in the contest! Grand Theft Iuto has somg big funky e clavi and the good epiano sounds and hm. i have a hard time saying anything about this one. my reactions are really similar to the ridge racer one in earlier. I like this style of music but it isn't an example that stands out to me so instead my reactions just numb but like "oh yeah i like 'the kind of song this is' " without being impressed by any of it in specific, other than things that apply to every song in this style. It's cool and i like listening to it and do not dislike anything about it

cars6

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Dark Legacy (15th out of 56) / 1NF3S+@+!0N (Theme of Crabulon) (28th out of 56s). Kinda close, not really. both "7/10" ratings
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