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47rd
Game: Iji *Remix
Title: Tor Remix
Composer: HyperDuck SoundWorks, Robotaki
Nominator: @Shonen_Bat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU3d3FDIjRI

: ) i love this song ! i've always had at least a mild appreciation for the original---mostly for the composition specifically (meaning, it's something i WANT to see remixed with other styles. same notes but with ideally very different exuded aesthetics). but this takes content that i already enjoyed and changes the world to something i wholeheartedly LOVE with all of my energy. For the first 1:21 or so i'm expecting this to be totally grand orchestra world (which i like to begin with)...then the (REALLY good and engagingly manipulated) breakbeats come in and now it is "GUST SOUND TEAM" ar tonelico mood. fusions between electronic-ancient are something i've regularly expressed liking of course. i'm glad this doesn't come across as "epic orchestra song TECHNO REMIX" either, the electronic elements do not feel slapped on to a pre-existing thing in the slightest (which many remixes often feel to me). They're a /surprise/ when they suddenly come in, but they still feel like they belong in this merged mixture of timbres, as if they always belonged there, and just hadn't shown up to the party yet

i of course have interest in this being in 7, and i'm going to stubbornly say "7" rather than 7/8 or 7/4 or whatever, because this is a track that plays with different container sizes! The space of information of the song is simultaneously the length of 7 quarter beats / 7 eighth beats / depending on the layer you focus on here and i LOVE that! as a positive result of that to me, it doesn't feel like a rigidly enforced incarnation of odd time, it just becomes a new world, a new type of thing the song can be. new type of container for note positions (even if 7 isn't even that uncommon relatively speaking). i think that contributes to the open mood this has too, 7 can feel uncertain and claustrophobic, but this looser, harder-to-follow manifestation, especially given the instrumentation: it paints an open space to me.

it's pretty quick that i'll be excited about a song when i hear mallet percussion, lots of beautiful marimbas here...you know, the combined mixture of marimbas and 90s/00s electronic dance music drum elements makes me think of this remix by D*Note of "Piano Phase" by Steve Reich, which i've often used to signal a very good representation of what my taste in music is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZx-KL7yQ3c

this iji remix has exactly that mood, math-y composition on acoustic instruments such as marimbas which are often associated with "the jungle" and then electronic drums that are "jungle (genre) ((except they're not jungle, at all, but you get what i mean...))". but i think the big difference, the iji remix takes everything i like about that piano phase remix but makes it become EPIC. and I like epic~! That is so good and makes me very happy : ) thank you for nominating this wonderful song that takes me to a wonderful world with cool emotions and also has cool numbers in the song