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Welcome to Ulka!
Ancient Makes
Organic

Man Dang this first match, DoDonPachi has been one of my favorite discoveries of this contest, possibly within my top 10 osts of the contest, and here I am voting against it for the second time in a row because these match ups are nuts. I'm loving this upbeat digital energy of Xanadu, especially with the instruments in focus during the slight reliefs around :33 and :50, as well as the sudden extremely industrial turn at the section at 1:20 right before the loop point. There are some points throughout the song that the actual notes themselves come across as slightly "weak" and/or repetitive but honestly part of that is sort of "looking" for something to complain about, this is a very strong song for me, it's just, sometimes a little less strong. And Welcome To Ulka is also a very strong song for me, too! Super surreal vibes going on as this "welcome" to an alternate reality. A bit calm but very weird & interesting, particularly my kind of weird. Somehow the drums at the beginning at like :08 remind me of Obsidian. The glitchy bits at :31 are really great. Super nice surreal track of a foreign landscape with neat hints of things that are not quite right with this reality scattered throughout, especially but quietly right before the loop point at :49. This is to me one of the weaker Charge Cycles tracks, a bit short & can sometimes be a bit more ambient-ish than I'm sometimes in the mood for, but again, still real strong for me anyway. So as I said, two very strong tracks for me so this is a particularly difficult choice, but this is what a winners bracket match ought to be. Thank goodness which ever one loses here will stay around in the 2nd Chance bracket.

All songs today are decent actually, pretty good, but the other two matches are considerably easier choices for me especially compared to the first match. Cybersheep's Dream is a nice lighthearted Megaman NES track that sounds like Kirby at the start, I would say it's above average of a MMNES song, but not really much of a fan of those from the start, so that mostly just brings this song to "decent" for me. I love the synthy instrumentation of Ancient Makes as well as the active energy the song features, and this includes the sort of key changes back & forth with the kind of minor sound I really enjoy at :22. 1:00 sounds like pokemon mystery dungeon a comparison I maybe make too much did I just say that yesterday? Anyway 1:21 features high strings I don't care for which does bring the song down a bit, but I'm already a fan of what else this song has to offer so I can forgive you this time Ancient Makes.

Organic reminds me of Schizm, with those big purple structures made from organic material. That's a really bad description but I'm digging the surreal vibe those noises at the start give and the sort of tune they have, and enjoy the whole atmosphere of this song in general, really. The light hint of the beepy tune in the back of 1:14 is great, and this whole song is a real nice exploration experience. Arrow Maze is neat too, an interesting intense feel of, once again, a surreal atmosphere through the more limited soundchip it uses followed by a more calmer take on it. Cool stuff but Organic comes across as doing things better overall for me.

Really great day
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