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Topic	Haste2 ranks the VGMC retirees - Finale!
Haste_2 02/15/21 10:38:04 PM #140:	7) Opoona - Partizans https://youtu.be/96h3TkiXdqA Prelim score: 9.4/10 Score: 9.7/10 (Phenomenal) Composer: Hitoshi Sakimoto (Arranged by Noriyuki Kamikura) VGMC History: VGMC 14 (Lost R5 to Endeavour) Favorite part: The intro I didnt expect this one to make R5. I thought for sure it would fall to IDOLA ~ The Strange Fruits (which is amazing music, by the way! I hope it comes back next year and retires). Wonderful light synths and bells are used liberally all over the place and often very subtly. That means feel-good happy music! Also its one of my favorite emotional themes. Sakimoto and Kamikura are both amazing! It kicks off with a charming polymeter, basically 3/4 with dotted eighth notes vs. 4/4, or basically 2.25/4 vs. 4/4, I think. >_> Chords at the start are yummy..like, even the very first chord putting the 7th on top is cool, plus I love those pedal tones after that, and the bass gives it such a full sound. And the light synth melody sounds so wonderful at 0:14, especially when so many other sounds make an entrance after the pickup.... The next section we get jester music, the main theme of this! (Was it GameBop who called it that? Made me laugh and now I cant help thinking of jesters every time I hear this part) Love the little intermediary transition here at 0:46 with all the different little sounds here (nice crackles as well as a buildup of sustained soft synths). The next section at 1:01 is energetic, but feel-good simultaneously! Piano chords arent overly dense and yet pick just the right notes to provide a schmaltzy harmonic crunch (I love that dissonance at 1:04, really a lot of the melody notes are not used at all in the piano chords) not that the music is schmaltzy at all, as the synths and bells totally offset that feel. And the active bass leaping everywhere along with a somewhat Christmasy melody is awesome. The 16th piano patterns at 1:24 combined with the bell synths and other sound effects are so :) :) :). Gotta love 1:32 the way it heads to the resolution (heads to a new key), and the way it gradually descends AT the resolution (1:40 - yummy adjusting 7th chords!) with SO MUCH EMOTION here. Also, sparkling 16th notes in the background!!! The following section is so sweet and happy and feel-good with that choice of soft synth and crystalline sustains, and what a sweet way to recall the material from the jester part, wow :) :) :). I love how it winds down so softly, too... But yeah, its really hard to fault this track Such sweet emotion. I need to play this next time I feel down. --- "Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?" "You drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think." <cite>Haste_2 posted [p:950683280] in Haste2 ran... [t:79243737]...</cite> <quote>7) Opoona - Partizans https://youtu.be/96h3TkiXdqA Prelim score: 9.4/10 Score: 9.7/10 (Phenomenal) Composer: Hitoshi Sakimoto (Arranged by Noriyuki Kamikura) VGMC History: VGMC 14 (Lost R5 to Endeavour) Favorite part: The intro I didnt expect this one to make R5. I thought for sure it would fall to IDOLA ~ The Strange Fruits (which is amazing music, by the way! I hope it comes back next year and retires). Wonderful light synths and bells are used liberally all over the place and often very subtly. That means feel-good happy music! Also its one of my favorite emotional themes. Sakimoto and Kamikura are both amazing! It kicks off with a charming polymeter, basically 3/4 with dotted eighth notes vs. 4/4, or basically 2.25/4 vs. 4/4, I think. >_> Chords at the start are yummy..like, even the very first chord putting the 7th on top is cool, plus I love those pedal tones after that, and the bass gives it such a full sound. And the light synth melody sounds so wonderful at 0:14, especially when so many other sounds make an entrance after the pickup.... The next section we get jester music, the main theme of this! (Was it GameBop who called it that? Made me laugh and now I cant help thinking of jesters every time I hear this part) Love the little intermediary transition here at 0:46 with all the different little sounds here (nice crackles as well as a buildup of sustained soft synths). The next section at 1:01 is energetic, but feel-good simultaneously! Piano chords arent overly dense and yet pick just the right notes to provide a schmaltzy harmonic crunch (I love that dissonance at 1:04, really a lot of the melody notes are not used at all in the piano chords) not that the music is schmaltzy at all, as the synths and bells totally offset that feel. And the active bass leaping everywhere along with a somewhat Christmasy melody is awesome. The 16th piano patterns at 1:24 combined with the bell synths and other sound effects are so :) :) :). Gotta love 1:32 the way it heads to the resolution (heads to a new key), and the way it gradually descends AT the resolution (1:40 - yummy adjusting 7th chords!) with SO MUCH EMOTION here. Also, sparkling 16th notes in the background!!! The following section is so sweet and happy and feel-good with that choice of soft synth and crystalline sustains, and what a sweet way to recall the material from the jester part, wow :) :) :). I love how it winds down so softly, too... But yeah, its really hard to fault this track Such sweet emotion. I need to play this next time I feel down. --- "Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?" "You drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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