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82th
Game: Scrabble 2.0
Title: Moonglow
Composer: Jim Crew, Francis Dyer
Nominator: @Place
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POGD9Pal654

oh yeah!!! more recently than the making of this topic i actually found out exactly what that plucked synth at the start of this tune is. it's from the Kurzweil K2000r with the orchestral ROM which is also used extensively in the album "Dream Trance" by Tom Hambleton and extensively by Mannheim Steamroller which are both very important sets of music to my upbringing, beyond just nostalgia, they very heavily shaped what my taste in music would eventually become! So this tune has pretty special meaning in that way, recognizing these presets that were part of formative early sounds in what became my current music taste
https://youtu.be/Ws2eRrdQTY4?t=779

the beginning of this tune is easily the strongest part to me, but i still love the rest. it's very reminiscent of tetris cd-i to my brain, but a bit further in the future and higher quality

this tune is not particularly memorable, but it doesn't need to be. it's just a nice, comforting set of sounds and that fake brass melody just makes me feel so calm and pleasant. nice chord clusters in the piano...i dunno. i could just list elements in the song, but really to me this song is appealing for much more intangible reasons. typically i'm an excessively detail-centric person in how i react, and often lose sight of the bigger picture, to the extent i feel sometimes that i'm not capable of perceiving a bigger picture and am missing something everyone else can see. but in this song, I ONLY see a bigger picture. there's not many details i can point to, instead i see tetris cdi except that it is scrabble cdi

i guess one thing i'm realizing. at the beginning: the desynchronized nature of these sorta separate mechanical layers that are all just sliiightly off from each other; that's the same feeling of the War of the Human Tanks song and [entire norio hanzawa discography] thhat i really love that i talked about a lot in the war of the human tanks writeup. It's probably a bit of why i was referring to a lot of this song as "i like the FEEL of it", in an abstract way, rather than my usual being able to point to details, because the thing that drives my enthusiasm up is something that permeates long sections, all the layers interacting with each other in a subtle, non-perceptible way. that imperfection. the tune starts in honestly kinda chaos when i think about it, but it gradually morphs into vaporwave fodder (which in my book, is one of the highest compliments you can possibly give btw)

about the vaporwave point actually, i appreciate that this completely evokes that vibe, but doesn't actually do anything i would consider cliche. It just feels like it'd be on the weather channel in 1999, but it's almost like an unexplored example of that category. if this was a somehow viral song, i do not think i would see thousands of comments saying "A E S T H E T I C" obnoxiously, but it fits right into everything i like about the category that makes people say that! down to the presence of early 90s synth presets, but presets on them that aren't even commonly cited examples of the era's sound, but /i/ know it when i hear it, and i love it.

also by the way i LOVE scrabble it is my favorite board game if anyone ever wants to play scrabble with me let me know but i prefer very slow-paced sessions witghout a timer where it's normal to take like 10 minutes for a single turn so you might get bored if that's not your speed