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Id ~ Purpose
Imbrium
Kuroi Ita ~ The Black Song (International Version)

Id ~ Purpose is my 25th favorite in the contest! this has been in SO MANY TIMES for so many rounds that it is redundant to talk about it, not sure how much new I can say that I haven't said before, but my reaction HMM what is it? I like modulations, key changes "tonal center changes", whatever you want to call it, but particular when they're treated casually, not led up to. Stuff where if you're improvising along to it you have to change what scale you're using every 2 seconds for it to sound good at all. this is ALWAYS Moving where it is. I fall out of my chair 900 times in a row whenever this song is playing. Portions like :57 - 1:25 and 2:02 - 2:33 are made SO INTENSE by that kind of thing. I wouldn't say it's Lost Impact (Shadow The Hedgehog OST) on me, but because I've known it for so long and heard it so many times a lot of the surprise of every modulation that makes me FLOAT IN THE AIR gets a bit lost (though ironically I have more interest in the type of music this is than when I first heard this). but it's still impactful, still one of my favorites from a soundtrack I love. please stop nominating it for vgmc but also please actually retire this time I love you song...I love accordions and big orchestra choir songs with weird DESTINY chord changes that make me fall over

Fax Factory is my 118th favorite in the contest! Fax Factory is so silly : ) what the fuck : ) Honestly feel bad I do not like this more, I love Osamu Sato's stuff (my 3rd favorite in the contest is also composed by him and is a 10/10!) both his music and his bizarre games & other creative work. This one's just not really my thing at all beyond the superficial description of like "weird and I like weird", but I think the emotional zone it sits in is too...neutral for me? Like I can't feel anything from it the way I can other stuff from this game, doesn't really "create an atmosphere" or evoke any feelings in me at all... Especially as soon as 2:20 happens all the bizarreness and potential interpretation as trippy broken glitchy surreal world gets lost for me because that synth bass is just playing such a mundane simple layer to me. the song transforms from "cool weird WHOA wtf song" to "boring" in my head and i wish i didn't feel that way about it the instant that synth bass happens. If this were less frantic short-bar-length 4/4 gridded "the drums are too fast" and sit less in the tonally happy/goofy/simple zone, i'd be way more into this, but instead it's one of my lesser favorite things i know of from this game/composer. still 7/10 because it is weird enough for me to boost it as high as I have sorry for being "negative" even if this track is probably more meant for me than 90% of people and is going to have far more negativity expressed about it than it deserves. I'm glad something from this game got into the contest! I like the wacky violin!!!

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Scars of FAUNA is my 55th favorite in the contest! Nekomata master's instrumentation makes me so excited!!!!!! Yay!! I am so happy : D wow!!!!!!!!!!!! 1:05 - 1:11 has those semi-detuned keyboard-ish slightly hard attack on a soft pad hits things whatever you want to call those. I LOVE that sound, one of my favorite signature nekomata things and in this track those chords feel so cool specifically as the backing to the melodic layer there. The section before that has chord changes that remind me of chloe or something, loottts of flipping between major/minor/dorian in a way that feels like forest with lots of fauna in it which is an imagery that is probably evoked to my brain due to "jrpg ost tropes" (GOOD). just these single changes in which notes in a scale are "allowed" winds up having a lot of power. Reminds me a lot of how certain pokemon songs are composed, in contrast to the very abrupt total changes in tonal center in Id, what scales work changing every 2 seconds like in Id, this is just changing one note in the "the notes that work" every chord and it's a lot "smoother", but still winds up having a very similar effect to me. although I consistently like the world-y side of his stuff no matter what, I think I like nekomata master when he is more funky/jazz fusiony (ie his elebits stuff) than when he is dancey, not that i dislike dance music but i feel like this would be a lot more enjoyable if it was not drivingly pulsating and didn't feel like every phrase was so short. like basically i'd like this a lot more if it didn't have the kick drum.

Imbrium is my 17th favorite in the contest! HERE WE GO. Breakbeat BOB polymeter cyberpunk minimalism steve reich drinking lots of edgy fluids from the bad city. The BOB(ba) elements make this for me more than anything, even if I love everything in the backing what bumps this up to my top 4 favorite neotokyo songs is everything over-the-barline the vocal layer's doing rhythmically. Mathematical desyncing rhythm stuff (polymetric manectric) is like the single way to excite me the most about any song rhythm-wise. At first it's just 9/4 3+3+3+3+3+3, groups of dotted eighths endlessly looping 6 notes and that's cool. the fact that it's all even spaced to have a new BOp every 3 16ths makes it feel like it's not just a different timesig from the rest but a different tempo, other parts solidify the "these are in 16ths" though. The :56 - 1:52 portion offsets it from itself...the pattern actually very subtly doesn't stay 9/4 once this section starts either, it's like [3+9+9+9+9+9]/4 and little things like that i notice only after listening to this 900 times are so cool. Neotokyo music's full of subtle new stuff I notice every time I listen to it again and i've been a fan of its music since 2010. I think 2:38 specifically not having the drums during it at the start is REALLY COOL because you just hear the polymetric layer isolated for the first time, feels more like a complete timesig change even though it's not. I just love the vocal bits desyncing and resyncing from themselves, all while being completely detached from the 4/4 layers of everything else. Oh right the drums are also not always 4-bar phrased sometimes they're in groups of 3 bars of 4/4, which DOES make it line up with the vocals eventually. ALSO VIBRAPHONE IS MY #1 FAVORITE INSTRUMENT AND THIS HAS VERY PROMINENT VIBRAPHONE. The atmosphere of this is remarkable but I feel that about every Neotokyo track, every single one brings me straight into what it intends to bring me into, some of the first music that comes to my brain whenever thinking about "music for cyberpunk thing", one thing I notice is neotokyo music never feels timbrally empty. Sometimes it's musically empty, which is clearly delibarate, intended to be atmosphere and there's lots of minimalism influence g