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83th
Game: Deemo
Title: Koqurow
Composer: Feryquitous
Nominator: @DireKrow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlp45Ka5bvI

this song title feels like it is a corruption of the word "crow" which makes it fitting with the animal that is the species that you are in real life (crow)

this nom may have been how i got introduced to Feryquitous? who's now one of the rhythm game artists i jump to listening to random stuff by whenever i get in a rhythm game mood? thank you!

i suppose this is of the genre "artcore" which is that genre that's like dnb where all of the piano sounds really fake and it's really complex or something. well i like every aspect of that description i just made so clearly its a genre i love~! i still barely understand anything about the origins of this very specific subgenre of music, but learning that it was the name people gave to one of my favorite categories of music that kept popping up in rhythm games was pretty game-changing. wound up finding a lot to love and i am so happy

i think when i say that i like "rhythm game music" an imaginary song that sounds exactly like this one starts playing in my head. it's just all my favorite tropes that've become distinct to the style.

i love how relentless the production just slams you with things that feel like /the production/ rather than the composition, the artifice in the piano that gets cut off instantly. Glitchy and harsh sound design moments abound that spark the piece to life. but the composition doesn't hold back either! i feel like anything i have to say about that will feel pretty redundant but yeah it's got thick chords and jumpy jazzy syncopation that feels cool and funky. this song feels like it'd be incredibly hard to memorize for a scenario like playing in a rhythm game, but it doesn't feel in-your-face about that, it just /is/, and that's a pretty successful and maybe even difficult balance and task to attain. this tune is super complex but it never really feels like it, it just evokes imagery of an imaginary stained glass cathedral with triangular polygonal textures that for some reason pops into my head whenever i hear it (what i mean by this is imagine if everything in the game "the witness" was made out of stained glass)

having just listened to a bunch of Pokemon Legends - Arceus at the time of this writeup, i also have to say this track feels like a more conventionally well-produced version of Hitomi Sato's style, maybe a bit more moody and emotionally dark than her stuff leans, but it's that style. It's like Edgy Ten Carat Hill (i think i said something similar to this about hayato asano in an earlier write-up, but i mean it in this case for an entirely different reason. this song isn't edgy just because it has a guitar in it (it doesn't have a guitar in it) it's edgy because the song feels like it is a dark color, it feels like it could be in something cyberpunnk or something)

my favorite bit of this tune has to be the piano, i keep coming back to fixating on that element no matter what i do really. there's just so much to that layer, it'll feel punchy in the bass when it's playing lower notes, and fill the empty space with exactly the touches i need in the higher frequencies exactly when I need it. it feels like the most ]essential[ component of this tune to me. the other layers enhance it beautifully, i mean i know this game is DEEMO literally, but not every deemo song feels like the entire song could just be the piano layer and still feel just as impactful. it's pretty powerfully utilized here! that said my favorite indiv moments in this tune are when specific piercing synths come in for the first time (That COOL spicy lead at 1:34, and stuff like that). any time the synths are prominent it feels like glowing lights lit up between the cracks of this imaginary stained glass version of "the witness" (except dark and at night and more cyberpunk in mood) that i have in my head

i want to know what this "Morden music not a video games!" comment on the video means LOL wtf