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Sky Tower
Partizans
Endless Nine

Sky Tower is my 73rd favorite in the contest! A long time ago i made a fairly embarrassing writeup for this that described that intro ostinato as "alternating 7/8 and 9/8" even though it's literally just a common 7+9 4/4 rhythm lol. To be fair I still feel this track really heavily that way. I feel the start/end of each bar during the parts that have that layer as if it's alternating 7/8 and 9/8 every bar rather than just anticipation rhythm/syncopation, honestly even when it's not playing the ostinato I still feel that really stark division over it. It's just so...idk, something about that ostinato draws me in as simple as it is, and makes the pattern it presents very stark with these rigid boundaries at those rhythmic positions in feeling to me. Wish it was louder in the mix at places like 3:30 and stuff. Fairly neat chord progression (though far from the coolest this series has to offer) and the melody does a neat job winding its way around it to highlight the coolest changes in 'which notes sound good with the chord' yeah(well basically it's just DORIAN MODE so that makes it DESTINY like big climactic sky tower climbing..up it..pokemon CLIMBactic ha ha). It's not like that unique but it's always one that lifts me up. always loved PMD series music to an extreme and to this day multiple soundtracks from it remain near the top of my favorite game soundtracks ever of every soundtrack ever (though the first not as much as 2 or gates to infinity). This isn't really like the best example of what I like about this series' music, but I still think it's very pretty and fun! new arrangement doesn't really improved/detract much for me, maybe slight preference for the original

Faint Dream ~ Inanimate Dream is my 185th favorite in the contest! despite how "it all sounds the same" touhou music is, my reaction ranges from strong dislike to stuff I love, pretty evenly distributed. It not a style I automatically love or hate, but the details can make or break it for me, zun's attracted to both some of my favorite and least favorite subtle compositional stuff and which sets of things he's pulling from determine where I'll rank stuff. a shame I'm such a fm synth guy because i feel like the pc98 touhou music almost never interests me as much compositionally as 6+ do, when stuff stopped being pc98. This is an example of that i guess, I don't /really/ hate it despite how low i ranked it, melodic line's ok and it's kinda dramatic which i like. I like the constant 16th stuff in the tonal layers driving it. Some pretty random feeling changes in tonal center that aren't led up to at all and I like that. I'm not a fan of these types of overly fast metal drums though outside specific circumstances, that's the main thing knocking this down low. The harsh-ish fm (despite me normally liking harsh fm specifically), density and hecticness of this just makes it really uncomfortable/stressful to listen to to me, more than the average touhou track for some reason, despite the elements I like

easy, maybe underranked the touhou though

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ElectriCITY is my 122nd favorite in the contest! man all these "i probably would've loved this 10 years ago" songs in the contest, this, somnom, the escape goat one. I was so attracted to constant 16ths synth stuff, delay echoes and these hypnotic electronic landscapes, stuff reminiscent of tracker demoscene stuff, etc. I like this much more than the things I compared it to though, I'd say I actively like it now. Sitar is a cool instrument in here, whole thing is hypnotic and flows in a pretty cool way. oh my god the delay echo'd weird flute a 2:23 is so extremely my thing. Pretty chill and I "like the atmosphere" of it but there's not much of interest to me compositionally, just think it has cool sounds

Partizans is my 23rd favorite in the contest! Honestly might even like it more than thatALWAYS A PLEASURE TO LISTEN TO A BASISCAPE ORIGINAL SOUND TRACkHitoshi Sakamoto, Noriyuki Kamikura. I'm pretty sure that on this specific ost that the tracks like this that are credited like "Composed: Sakimoto, Arranged: Kamikura" imply that the arranger basically wrote the whole thing but is using motifs written by the person listed as composer, just based on style-awareness. Anyways regardless of whether this is actually "mostly kamikura" or "mostly sakimoto" it starts right off the bat exemplifying the Opoona sound (and "basiscape when they're electronic" 'sound' as well). THE ALBUM ART FOR THIS GAME IS TOO BRIGHT. I love the (3+3+3) 9/16 against 4/4 polymeter for the first 30 seconds...wow!~ It's just like Confronting Myself and Imbrium's variants of polymeter!!! Also cool that the 4/4 layer is kinda subdued until more time goes on, easing you into the more conventional pulse from the more spacey loose one. It makes for a really strong pay off at :30 when suddenly everything IS synchronized and fairly straightforward musically actually. That contrast between chill floating in space ambiguity and "this sounds like intense fake orchestra music in a medieval CASTLE" is something I see as pretty strong about this. Every individual chord and chord change is so cool. Opoona reminds me of Klonoa music, it's like if you combined Klonoa music with...like a really laid back Mushihimesama...or something. PAT METHENY GROUP PORTAMENTO SQUARE WAVE SYNTH LAYERED ON TOP OF THE EVERYTHING(rip lyle mays). O O O O the chord change at 3:44 is so EXPLOSIVE. AAAHHHHHH. Right before 3:58 I expect a low quality voice to peek in and say "V" for a split second I LOVE BASISCAPE I CAME UP WITH THE "BASISCAPE" OPTION IN THE POLL

easy but had nothing but positive to say about the sim one

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Luna Ascension EX is my 19th favorite ToC entrant! Flashygoodness is fun! Their sense of melody's addictive, fun pitch bendyness, very "expressive". Fun fake chippyness, and this feels full and cool despite most of the instrument sources being very simple fake chip stuff or common things. I find it hard to say much about this...don't dislike almost anything about it and I think it's exciting and the type of catchy I like!

Endless Nine is my 12th favorite ToC entrant! Endless Nine is actually my 9th favorite Umineko ep1-4 track! (I thought it was going to wind up 9th in my ToC ranking too which would've been funny but enough other things slipped just barely above it last minute). I wouldn't imagine people expect me to say that if they don't already know that because I'm pretty vocally averse to dai's portion of the ost, but Endless Nine's a major exception where I'm a big fan. MYCROSOFT SAM!!!! I think a lot of it comes down to instrumentation for me, I kinda automatically love mallet perc used in a SERIOUS way, especially if it fe