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Game: beatmania IIDX 26 Rootage
Title: Ryuuou no reibyou(Mausoleum Of The Primal Dragon)
Composer: TOMOSUKE
Nominator: @Prody_Parrot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O1aOntwlEk

EPIC PROG (quantum sea lindwurm) by tomosuke started auto-playing after this video ended, and suddenly i comprehended the connection the two tracks have! it's a parallel i never thought about before, but you can tell they're the same artist. they're both filled with a wonderful contrast of more traditional classical-aligned harmony and wacky modern prog/fusion harmony, alternating between the extremes for purpose of enhancing how powerful either extreme is able to feel when they each get their spotlight at alternating portions. and honestly given how bands like Emerson Lake & Palmer have a bunch of covers of classical music, this just makes it feel even more aligned with actual 70s progressive rock bands that i have fondness for. but the rhythm game vgm version!! (actually because of the pace of this, what it winds up sounding more like is prog metal. especially because all the recent dream theater albums have every single song be a castlevania pastiche for some reason (well actually it's probably the other way around...michiru yamane considers dream theater one of her favorite bands lol))

i'm most attracted to the bits of this that have lots of rock organ, partially because of the timbres featured in the track rock organ is my favorite one that is in here. but also partially because they are the portions of the song that are the most rhythmically and tonally intricate and to no one's surprise that is a thing i like

rhythmically 1:53 is something I comprehend as not a shift to bouncy 6/8, but rather polymetric bouncy 6/8 style drums layered on top of what is still retaining that 4/4 pulse of the whole rest of the song. except...i think it's actually literally just a timesig change to 6/8 straight up. and now i'm curious why i have this completely strange perception of it. I suppose it's because you hear very standard kick-snare-kick-snare type drums for such a consistent and lengthy portion of the piece. so when something subverts that and is {technically} the same tempo with nothing to lead into the change, i'm still hearing the original tempo, and the original pulse. i'm not sure if this is meant to evoke this layered (but secretly not actually layered) feeling or not, or if i'm just CRAZY and have listened to too much Virgil Donati/Planet X, which causes me to imagine uncommon things being there that aren't actually there. but i like what i experience, so i am glad that i experience it.

the beginning reminds me a lot of PREDATOR'S CRYPTO which is one of the rhythm game songs in this style i always mentally rank pretty high.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DO7cmzYncA

given that tomosuke has a track genre named EPIC PROG, it make me have to wonder what prog he even listens to. the influence from the genre couldn't be more obvious, across plenty of his tracks, but which specific artists is he pulling from?! i sadly can't figure this out and i wish i knew. i wasted my time fumbling around his social media for like an hour, which i could've spent catching up on writeups, didn't find any mentions of any musicians that aren't already vgm artists at all!

like i said on the last writeup, the very popular style of epic fast paced battle themes i probably come across as not-a-fan of. but i don't think i dislike the category, it's just that the popular examples don't line up with what i want from them, but this one DOES and it has the funny genre name of "RETROSPECTIVE EPIC MUSIC", it is very epic. i like it a lot : )