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Scourge of the Universe
SEISMIQ
Flying Clouds, Drifting Haze

Scourge of the Universe is my 89th favorite in the contest! I wish I was more consistently fond of this one, it's the "type" of Terraria Calamity song I like, dramatic and full of the kinds of chord changes that make me EXPLODe that DM Dorurkororko likes to use so much. I feel like I'm taken a bit out of the soundscape this ost typically presents by the choice of square lead that dominates 1:23 - 2:03, like it doesn't really fit with the rest of the song to me and not in an endearing way either. and I LIKE "cheesy msgs midi sounds" but in this case it's breaking the immersion of an atmosphere i otherwise want to experience so it's mildly frustrating. I LIKE FRETLESS BASS, the 2:24 - 3:12 has a good bit of that and the particular flourish at 2:40 is WOW. I feel like I can't think of much more to say here but basically this song is EPIC and I like that : ) big full chords that make me feel good and. Chime

Waterworks Area is my 94th favorite in the contest! Love the chill chord pads that come in at like :22. Every sound in this track is extremely cool to me, most kirby games from this game on do a crazy amount to my liking in terms of the soundscape they go for...kirby games in general do but especially starting with this one. Ando and Ishikawa both seem like they have an obsession with "not being empty" in their own ways, and that's something I find interesting in terms of how it affects the music. Kirby music's always ultra busy and dense, even the sparsest modern kirby tracks have big massive full complex chords somehow. And even when it's like "happy simple normal song" there's usually some subtle interesting background thing to pay attention to in addition, or even just some snuck in unconventional chord progression even if it doesn't sound like it. This one isn't subtle though, it's overt, it's in your face, "this is the FAST WEIRD KIRBY MUSIC genre" and I can respect that. I feel bad but the frantic intro doesn't really interest me tonally even if I like the style of it instrumentally & rhythmically. It's actually very similar feelings to my reaction to fax factory, except maybe even more extreme in terms of how I feel like...I like weird music, and THIS is one of the types of weird songs I like the MOST...!...but...I just have a hard time conceptualizing the track as "not boring" because the note choices in the first 22 seconds are too 'neutral' (blues scale type stuff) or something. There's no emotion evoked for me it just makes me go "wat ever" votes calamity. The thing is like, this is a remix of another kirby song that I DO NOT feel this way about, a song I actually like, and I like this instrumentation more!!! but i think it's just because this arrangement focuses attention most on the elements i don't like, and doesn't really have the parts that interest me most about the original. In every other way I love this i just want the notes at the start to be ones I like more. ALSO this reminds me a lot of some of the more frantic junichi masuda pokemon battle themes! there's lots overlap between that style and kirby music but kirby music's usually far more tonally adventurous.

Insanely close match. i think disinterest in the tonality of the start is the key thing bringing waterworks down for me but I wish i could vote for it in honesty, because it's clearly going to get destroyed and this is a very, very close match for me. Maybe the closest one in round 1

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Tonitrus is my 154th favorite in the contest! This is pretty stereotypically board 8 music and i always at least like that "sound" but composition-wise this isn't really my cup of tea at all. I could trash it a bunch but it'd just be complaining about the same things I always do, just don't like how much attention it calls to it's predictable Anime resolutions, form of dramaticness i perceive as patronizing rather than 'epi'c...and stuff and there's just not enough going on to engage me. I'm happy that there are accordions and violins in the song though. and the anime voices make me feel like i'm watching anime and sometimes that's fun to do maybe. some of the light synth elements at like 1:35 are pretty neat. 3:30 haas some echoy synth sounds i like too. The violin and accordion solos right around that time are neat too and the abrupt in your face chord change out of nowhere at 3:46 really gets me in a good way too, favorite part of the track BY FAR and it only lasts like a split second lol

SEISMIQ is my 43rd favorite in the contest! on the exact opposite end of tonality style, sometimes all it takes to please me is jungle/dnb/breakbeat stuff with randomly transposing chord stabs lol. Unpredictable where it will land, though not completely random sounding either, just a really longwinded complex pattern and I love how "verbose" it feels so much. The antithesis of my issue with fax factory, this doesn't feel like it's evenly mechanically resetting itself every bar too fast for my interest to be retained. I'm realizing it doesn't do much exploring how different each chord makes the playing field of the music world feel from itself, the stuff behind those stabs is actually pretty conventionally tonal compared to the chords in isolation...not something I ever noticed. I still like the track just as much as I always have but now i feel like there was a missed opportunity for totally modal transpose-core fusion stuff that could've gone on under here or SOMETHING. Sound design's cool. I LOVE this soundtrack. Funnily I'm playing along to this on my synth right now and happen to have it on a vibraphone patch, and given the transposechordstab jungle style, playing along to it makes it sound like BOMBERMAN HERO, like Mimesis or something. Funnily I'm not the only one to make the bomberman comparison so far in the topic, though I wouldn't have made it if my keyboard wasn't literally on a vibraphone patch that makes it sound just like bomberman hero songs with vibraphone chord transposition stabbing stuff when playing along

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Flying Clouds, Drifting Haze (8/10) yeah i've talked about this song 3000 times because it's a retiree ok yeah it's aa song with the violin and the some parts Hayato Asano's rhythms are always really fun and his chords are always such fun voicings too i wish the guitar didn't sound liek dururrrnrngnungofnh though because then you can't hear the cool parts. favorite thing is all the 6-phrased stuff instead of 4, cool. yeaht i like the numbers. I wish there was a more 'polished' version of this or something, exactly the same composition but just different instruments because it has potential to be one of my favorite atelier tracks but instead it's just "one i like a lot" man i keep being negative about all these so