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Chasing Daybreak (Rain)
Thermosphere
Douwa Kairou

Mirror Temple (Mirror Magic Mix) is my 141st favorite in the contest! a lot of people had complaints about confronting myself that are basically my complaints about every celeste song that isn't confronting myself. i remember getting kinda annoyed at a lot of the contrarian way much of the statements about it felt but i feel that way about this. it feels like it's selling myself to me something that is dishonest about it's advertisement. I hear surface like "chill electronic jazzy thing that's like mysterious and kinda melancholic", something i should like, but in the end i wind up feeling the actual synth patch choices in combo with the jazzy style is unappetizing, i can't perceive it as mysterious or sad because "chord progression isn't my kind of progression it's too easy" so i think it's cheesy kitsch i can't take seriously instead. even if the loungy jazz chords individually in themselves are cool. they are very cool! I like the delay echo vibraphone too because i like delay echoes and vibraphone is my favorite instrument : ) this is definitely not one of the celeste songs i get excited over, and there's many I love. Sorry song : (

Chasing Daybreak (Rain) is my 112nd favorite in the contest! there was a bunch of FE nommed and this was one of the few tracks that was NOT on my radar, normally love fe music. I never remember what it sounds like until i click play and listen to it. and then i forget what happened after. I have to type about it while listening or itk does NOT work. i feel "it's not memorable" is a kinda shallow complaint, since it has little bearing on whether or not I like something more/less (memorable=bad to me, very often), but like I just mean I literally can't talk about it unless i'm listening to it as it's playing because it's so abnormally unmemorable. ok yeah this song sounds like fires elbmen. i think i like a lot of its indiv. elements on paper, cool chords, it "sounds like modern fire emblem" and has a part with reversed/abrupt cut off choir fade in effect which is something i am addicted to. there's some neat sneaky fun modulations but it's nowhere near the "every chord's a different key" or other cool morishita stuff i like for (i suspect this particular track is not by morishita). I guess i don't have room to complain about this being musically unadventurous when Desire Below (Flow) of all fe things somehow got in, thank you Desire Below (Flow)

bonus bonus boys. 2203 houises. 2 songs with music from the same thing that i like WAY more than these examples. hard match to vote in. could flip.

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-[Midnight Lady is my 147th favorite in the contest!this song sounds like it would be called Midnight Lady. wtf who is that guy ggoing like "ohh yeah" he's so big. cooll instreuments i dont' care about the song though because it's too fun and i don't want to have fun. guitar solo is "epic" i like it. this has so many parts that sound like persona 5 and modern jake kaufman]-

-(Thermosphere is my 2nd favorite in the contest!!!!!!!!!!!! constant 16ths quartal run assault right off the bat! Tarkus arranged for "shmup synthesizers", i'm addicted to anything with rapidly jumping 4ths/quartals (or quintals or 5ths) basically songs that sound like they're imitating tarkus, but this is one of my favorite examples in the world (it is my 6th favorite piece of music in the world (it is deo's 7th and I will forever rub it in that I like this song exactly one slot more than he does)). One of my favorite moments in this community is when i just randomly said "who likes this song more, me or deo" when it was playing in a vgmgg, and he revealed it was his 7th favorite song ever right as I revealed that it was my 6th favorite song ever. The closeness of that and "NOOO" reaction of me BEATING deo at LIKING THERMOSPHERE MORE is just too hilarious to ever forget.
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1:35 is a contender for favorite moment in any piece of VGM. The flipping between 16ths and "triplets except they're groups of 4 triplets" is TOO GOOD, and like even though there's even crazier metric modulation / crazy tuplet stuff / polyrhythm/wHAT ever stuff in music, it doesn't matter what something mathematically IS, what matters is how it feels, and holy shit nothing has ever beat the way that part of this song FEELS to me. Taking non-4/8/16th/etc length values, but having the actual feel of the division not being where the barlines/beats are, it feels like a tempo change even though it's not. When the kick comes in and solidifies that it's NOT just a tempo change and it's just a triplet rhythm but with groups of 4 accents it FEELS LIKE A X RAY OF A HAND BONES just picked me up and threw me up into the thermosphere and then i died. I actually like the kh3 arrangement of this song but i'll never forgive it for that being the one section of the song not really explored.
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2:15 is in 7/4 (with some 6/4 bars) and i like that but also i just like every sound that is floating into my ear drums at that part. that glassy period-specific VAST synth sound world it creates. It's beautiful. It's easy for it to slip by my mind how cool the synth bass is there. that's a cool sound. More importantly, the chord progression is EXACTLY the kind of chord progression I like the most, the kind that makes me FLOAT IN THE AIR INTO THE THERMOSPHERE AND THEN DIE and become very excited : ) Melodic layers having to snake their way through that maze of abrupt tonal center changes in the chord progression to get it to sound natural, it results in some of the coolest most intense emotions I ever feel from music. extremely difficult to play along to by ear even if it doesn't sound like it would be because of how smooth and natural the melodic lines make all the chord changes that'd be disjointed otherwise. There's a lot of stuff in this direction on this soundtrack, but the 2:15-to-the-loop part of this song is likely my favorite bit of the ost tonally (some of the similar stuff in Afterimage is a close contender). Every time the melody leads me to another unexpected chord I feel like my body is being turned inside out AND THEN I DIE FROM THE i'm in the thermospher.e The beepy layer has a few sequences of cycling up 4ths intervals which is nice and connects it to the tonality of the chaotic beginning, even if the way they feel in this context is very CHILL instead.
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one of the biggest things I appreciate about this song (and this is a thing that defines most things i'll rate a 10/10) is that it manages to touch very disparate elements of my music taste all simultaneously. I feel like that's very difficult to do because my taste is so self-contradictory. This touches on "futuristic shmup synth sound", "danceability in pulsing, very 90s