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| Topic | Mycro ranks the 278 VGM tracks nominated by BOARD EIGHT [rankings] 3 -(TOP_100)- |
| Toxtricity 02/03/22 5:22:33 PM #120: | 86nd Game: War of the Human Tanks Title: Deeper [H] samples Composer: Sampling-Sound.com, DeZI:R Nominator: @UF8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTMoEBMnYcQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSaSsx2b_zM i have uploaded this video TWO TIMES for no reason i remember uf8 commenting a few times about finding it really amusing that this particular nom hadn't dropped yet. but i mean...come on! i love atonal piano, and i'm one of the bigger fans of stereotypical orchestral cues in this community. but i'm gonna especially like it when it's like jankily synced over a drum loop in this particular way. the amount i get excited over this vaguely loose desync is a pretty core aspect of my music taste but i often filter it out when thinking about talking about what i like, since it's easy to filter out, as it'll permeate entire tracks most of the time and not even be something i notice about it until long after having loved the feeling it gave me. I first noticed i was really into it with Norio Hanzawa stuff, every layer gradually going out of sync with each other was ingrained into every song, in pretty much his entire history, even in his chiptune days somehow. like...just listen to this song i nommed for raetsel this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rt0QQsN2Qo but also like anything from stretch panic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVneE33MlMg or bucky o'hare (arcade version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oos-rBD7xcs and i didn't just like that because it was funny or anything, it just activated this instinctual feeling in me of engagement. i don't know exactly what "emotion" it represents, i guess it's largely because i associate that feeling with a lot of 90s dance music or stuff produced in an era where you'd get that by nature of limitations of the tools used. the looseness is also...technically...a form of "rhythmic complexity", at least in terms of what i get out of it, it makes what's going on harder-to-follow and that's why i get into complex stuff in the first place! anyway this war of the human tanks is THAT, except with dissonance in spades. it honestly really feels like norio hanzawa to me more than most things i've ever even heard, and since i crave that well, this song is like finding out some rare tasty meal i was only able to get at some local restaraunt in michigan has opened up in new mexico and i can get my favorite very specific pizza i haven't been able to get any of for 5 years again. a song feeling like norio hanzawa, as a compliment, it's not just being reminded of something i like, it's being reminded of something RARE and SPECIFIC that is HARD TO FIND that i LOVE. since his list of work isn't particularly massive or anything theres some other parallels to other stuff i like too. like the fact that you hear a full orchestra repeate Exactly the same sample totally unnaturally? that's drakengard 1 mood right there. i doubt it's exactly intended to sound like that, but it enhances the ominousness greatly to me. Dark Broken Reality vibe for sure whether it wants to be that or not i just realized something pretty funny tho; this isn't just any drum loop, it's literally one of the most commonly used default fl studio ones hahaha, the first one alphabetically in some versions even? that's so funny. sometimes something feeling too "indie" can really make me turned off, more than you'd expect from someone like me (i think it's mostly because i can't stand things that evoke "2010s" too much, and too much amateur indie stuff feels like "amateur 2012" which i dont like, instead of "amateur 1998", which i would instead love wholehearetedly). and whether i like it or not, it's very hard to detatch recognizing-specific-fl-studio-presets from INDIE GAME from eras that are newer than my taste in such a thing. some of it is more than just association too, fl's stock presets not used in the right way so often turn out as a specific form of muddy that focuses on frequencies i do not like, in the wrong way. maybe i'll be nostalgaic for that in the future but currently i'm not, though certain instances are growin on me but this is a case where, despite that it very directly comes across as "amateur 2012", i love it to bits. this is stuff where; the amateur-ness is exactly what makes it shine to me DISCLAIMER: i do NOT want to be someone seen as fueling the (extremely incorrect) perception that fl studio is "the amateur daw" because at this point in history, it's absolutely not. and even when it had its reputation that way, it was just as capable as everything else. personally it's fairly low ranked in my ranking of daws i've used, but that's just because of my admittedly esoteric workflow preferences. the correlation of "what daw someone uses" is honestly very low with what a given musician sounds like. i also dislike the company image-line for personal reasons, but it would be stupid of me to judge what someoine else chooses to use for their work if they happen to make things that i think sound good. this song sounds good! ...at least to me. i doubt that's a common sentiment. ANYWAYS you picked the right song from this. i'm skimming other songs in the game, and although i get a laugh out of some of them, they're NOT the type of indie-feeling vgm that i like, but this one nails what i want to hear so thank you haha --- time ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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