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Mysterious Trap
Yesterdays Opponents are Todays Ingredients

EXEC_PAJA/.#Orica extracting. is my 10th favorite in the contest! My favorite Ar Tonelico 1 song probably too! fake gamelan-ish solo to start off, fading in cool vocal chord with abrupt cut off, cool slap bass! WOW, lots of things I like all at once right off the bat. I like how long-phrased the backing choir and melody stuff is throughout, takes like 4 bars at least before it feels like it lines up with the barlines. and there's so many cool multilayered vocal parts. fun 7/4 at 1:55 though it's actually one of my lesser favorite parts of the track, mostly because it's ironically not as weird as the rest, but it's still a welcome contrast in the context of the rest of the music surrounding it. My favorite portion is 3:39 for its extreme barline ambiguity, and "mixed meter where it's ambiguous where the downbeat is" is my favorite type of mixed meter! I count that part as 9/4, 6/4, 4/4, 4/4, 9/4, 6/4, 4/4, 9/8, 7/4, 6/4, 7/4, 4/4, 4/4 before going to the tv static break, but there's so many different ways you could interpret it because bar divisions are so obfuscated. the whole 3:39 section is made even more stimulating by how multilayered it is with the vocals there. whoa just realized these metallic sound effects toward the end i've heard in other tracks before COOL I like recognizing synth presets and samples...! Overall the instrumentation is to my tastes and this is undeniably rhythhmically intricate and obviously that's a thing I always love! also tonality is very much my thing too, this is phrygian in a bunch of places and that's a scale that I LIKE because it is DARK and sounds like a EVIL DESERT WHERE THE SUN IS OUT TOO Bright(i guess that is the opposite of darkk...), but the more conventional minor scale stuff is a nice breath of "Not Quite As Tense" air too, the alternation between these modes is powerfulTHERE ARE SO MANY COOL SOUNDS IN THE BACKGROUND And there is not enough time to liste all of them (I like this song that is why I supported it and also ranked it 10th!)

Chant This Charm is my 172nd favorite in the contest! this song is TOO HAPPY for me because i am too edgy > : ( but i do like some billy hatcher music but this song is to funy for me. There's some cool chords sometimes. i don't actually hate listening to it or anything but it's a pretty not-for-me song

Big Gap (right side of bracket B and left side of bracket C have a LOT of these...)

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Two Dragons is my 173rd favorite in the contest! i don't dislike this in any way but i have never understood the popularity of this one. I like edgy metal epic orchestra at the same time songs as a style, but there's like 90923084 other songs that sound like this that don't feel like they do not exist. this is like the most barebones song in this style and there's nothing that stands out to me about it. Why this out of everything that sounds like this? Normally when i'm not a fan of something that i see a lot of praise for i can still understand the appeal, but this one i understand 0 (get it? 0?! ha ha). The suddenly organic sounding melody at 3:21 is pretty BIG i like that feeling, nice contrast from the big blocks of angry columns.

Mysterious Trap is my 27th favorite in the contest! I love modern kirby music! Things i've said about other modern kirby music apply here too, just every possible zone of empty space being filled with something is a really cool feeling, never a pause. Not that having moments of pause is a bad thing for music to have, but the feeling of there being NOTHING empty and always 5 possible things to pay attention to at once is amazing. Instrumentation is ultra my thing, tuned mallet perc everywhere~! fun woodwinds but FAKE SITAR (i love "fake sounding sitar" as a very specific thing). and of course all the totally detuned parts have such a bizarre cool feeling. It feels like a familiar environment (desert? i have no clue where this plays in-game) but foreboding to a degree of reality distorting proportions. the drum loops being pitched down/low quality's a wonderful effect. This track actually reminds me a ton of Ar tonelico as weird a comparison as that may be, but there's tons of FAKE SITAR and this kind of electronic percussion all over that stuff. very inspirational stuff

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Kurokami Midareshi Shura to Narite is my 21st favorite ToC entrant! oh i forgot that this video was music audio sounds like a really old youtube (low quality). if I didn't know this song well already i would demand a higher quality video before judging this match but i know it' a song that i know my opinion on. I like the strings and the rhythms of the strings because they are "weird" (rhythm game song). The guitars going durrrgnn too loud to hear the cool things and "too fast drums" are the typical things i complain about but i don't mind them as much as usual here, something about this context lets them just drive a faster pace for me without me finding it too SILLy. THE PIANO CHORDS are so cool at so many places. 2:53 is really good. 3:06 is really piano. yeah i like epic fake traditional japan song with frantic piano and strings vaguely proggy ok. It's not my favorite version of something like this i'd rather listen to muramasa or even okami examples of this angle, but it's still nice and makes me happy : )

Yesterdays Opponents are Todays Ingredients is my 9th favorite ToC entrant! i feel like i talked about this too recently for there to be much new for me to say about it. I love all the dissonance, cool stark glitchy electronic effects are cool and make this cool. Love the instrumentation. This is fun, edgy, natural, artificial, and proggy all at the same time~! Kazuki Yanagawa is so cool and top tier gust composer

if you listen to atelier you go into the big cylinder ha ha
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