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Megaraph Fleet
Dance With Me
Big Blue

Megaraph Fleet is my 51st favorite in the contest! 5+3+5+3-ish rhythm in the first 40 seconds is really up my alley. Even though it's just 4/4 there's lots of ambiguity at where the "hits" are ("how it's grouped" to quote the way i phrase this most often myself) depending on what layer you're paying attention to and I LOVE the feeling of stuff like that. love epic ethnic chanting and strings : ) Aaah big key change at 1:01 feels so good. My main complaint with this one is the guitar is extremely uhhhh, i don't like that choice of guitar sound at all, nearly ruins this for me. I like the FACT that there is a guitar playing the exact things it's playing, just...a different tone to it would feel way less out of place to me. Just feels far too fake how it is. If it was a more appealing guitar sound to me this would be unquestionably much higher ranked and unquestionably my choice but as it is it feels like a unignorable gash in something that's near perfect to me otherwise. Waait I just realized that if you made sonic become yellow and then put a jester hat on him he would turn into spark the electric jester WHAT the FUSE. oh hey look it is Falk, that is, the guy. The choir layers are so cool!!!!!!!!!!!

In Circles is my 99th favorite in the contest! I used to like this waaay way more than I do now, and called it my favorite Darren Korb track, but i've fluctuated my reaction to it a ton. I even got to a point where I acted like I actually thought i disliked this! I'm back to "I like it but not as much as I used to act like I did". it's been in these things so much I've taalked about it a lot so i dunno if i have much new to say of value. i like 5/4 time and triplets and the instrumentation is cool and i like dramatic vocal stuff. Regardless there's plenty of other music from this game, Bastion, Pyre and Hades that I'd rather see than having this here again.

a very close match, honestly. but i won't save you, in circles [times joke has been made count: 26], for now. I thought this would be closer after my first listen of each of the two here but I've had Megaraph Fleet on loop for the past many minutes now so I think it is safe to say that I am voting the way my initial ranking implies.

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Dance With Me is my 125th favorite in the contest! Everything I've heard from this game has been super fun in sound. I love Tenpei Sato's instrumentation choices usually. Sorta "latin"ish, I LOVE AACCORDIONS. I find it really cool that a lot of World Dance Music is so most more willing to explore minor as like "this is fun music you can dance to" and not like it always has to be seen as this scary taboo thing to avoid for celebration. Examples like this are filled with so much drama and tension and release and that makes it EXCITING and I think that's an important feeling to be filled with for something like this. This is pretty dense, lots of stuff going on at once and all of it interacts with each other in ways that clearly depend on each other. A lot of how this is composed reminds me of Go Ichinose? Maybe it's silly to so often compare things to pokemon pokemon is a really eclectic series in terms of sound but there's some series of chord changes all over the place here that I feel like I've heard in random pokemon songs all the time. Just lots of those playful chromatic deviations for single bars from the diatonic minor center it sticks with like ~:59 and stuff. They keep this track feeling alive. Love the way this loops from like 1:07-1:12 wow. Oh no the song fades out too fast! Come back song I wanted to listen to more of you!! *plays this song on loop for the next 20 minutes*

L L ~Infinite Beating ver~ is my 188th favorite in the contest! I like the synth bell-like sounds this starts off with. then the song "actually starts" and it becomes one of my least favorites in the bracket because then it gets to doing that thing i don't like where the drums are just these quarter note pounding on loud cymbals and too fast without being interesting fast to me and yeah it is not my thing at all. . . . I like the synth sounds but these solos to me feel really unexpressive to me and trapped in some dumb diatonic/blues scale stuff that doesn't really interact at all with the chords or any other backing behind it to the point i can't feel any emotion at all from them. Just forceful show of speed without any substance. That's a type of thing I used to get annoyed when people complained about it and 10 years ago i might be annoyed at current self for reacting to this song this way but that is definitely how I feel about it now. Sorry 10-years-ago me! and fl81!

very easy match here. I like dance with me even more than the ranking number implies probably. prinny's soundtrack is cool and i need to remember to listen to every tenpei sato thing eventually...

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Battle With Saruin is my 55th favorite ToC entrant!! : ( the only one I like less than this is six feet thunder. This might be more okay with me if I did not hate the drums because they are too fast and boring and loud at the same time sorry I complain about that so much in "fl81 music". The only thing redeeming this is i kinda like the synth layer and rock organ layers, those do some fun stuff. Sometimes. Sakurabaish sliding up and down the rock organ is one of my favorite sounds and this gets blips of that for a few seconds sometimes. Lots of expressiveness in the solo layers when they happen and that's cool. but really in the end i'm just forcing myself to come up with positive things to say in a track that's drowning me with elements making me just wishing it was over at any moment

Big Blue is my 44th favorite ToC entrant! : ( i don't really like this either for very similar reasons to the above, but I've always kinda liked it melodically at least, and the elements that bug me are nowhere near as prominent as with Saruin. I like saxophones and mario kart 8's arrangement style usually appeals to me but this definitely doesn't represent what i like about it in the slightest. Still I have positive memories associated with other versions of the track, the melodic line grabs me and so even when arranged in a way i'm not fond of i can still dig the bare bones of what makes the tune the tune in this case. There is also plenty for me to love here, some cool series of chords that extend out held out parts in a cool way like right before :20 and 1:24. Some of the constant 16th backing organ stuff is fun throughout and like honestly I like this instrumentation and even like "arrangement style" but I can't get into it in combination. Big Blue on other instrumentation is more my thing, and this jazz fusion rock Mario Kart 8 style appeals to me in cases where what it's playing is...not really straightf