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Solitude
Another Winter
Battle!!

Pressure Cooker is my 129th favorite in the contest! i used to like this more, i used to like the whole vvvvvv ost more than I do now. still think it's great but this was never even a standout pick from the game for me. think i talked about this enough in bost, don't really have much new to say here

Solitude is my 103rd favorite in the contest! when i learned this was actually a soundtrack from the 90s it blew my mind, this whole time i'd assumed it was modern and just imitating the era...what i'm saying is, it's stylistically really ahead of its time while still having traits that are distinct to the period. that results in a combination of sounds i like! chill string pad chords fill the atmosphere up so that i feel like i am in a hot air baloon in the cloud. still haven't listened to this whole thing but i intend to because i'm very impressed with what i've heard! love all the voice samples peeking in. also love all the portameno/pitch bend-y synth stuff. that said, other stuff from this game i'd rank much more highly than this, what i've heard of the soundtrack has some of the most interesting timbres i've heard in any game music that's that old!

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The Venerable Ancient Battlefield ~ Suwa Foughten Field is my 137th favorite in the contest! This is a touhou track i think of as "the side of touhou I like" as of RIGHT now i have just decided that. even though i only ranked it like 5 slots above rftm which i think of as "neutral". anyway this song has surprisingly surprising chord changes, not what i expect from zun. startling key changes, and like :35-:52 is honestly pretty insane, definitely my favorite chunk. that section has suddenly a change to 3/4, sudden dip into dorian for one chord (and technically blues scale at one point hahaha) completely out of nowhere in a way that's not predictable but never sounds wrong. touhou instrumentation is fun!!! some parts of this remind me of junichi masuda, like the transposing bits starting at :23.

Another Winter is my 84th favorite in the contest! "nostalgia for 2009" song (i know this game did not come out until 2010 shut up also I swear i remember it being in vgmc4 but i guess it wasn't in until 5) . kinda like pressure cooker it fits more with my older taste than currently, but i still think it's pretty fun! the really open feeling atmosphere of the parts with the delay echo chiptune layers (ie 2:14) still get me every time! very simple fast drums but in a way i actually like for some reason and i am not sure why i actively like this case of it and hate over half of other cases of something like it. especially love how this starts but like 90% of other songs that are out there that start a similar way i would roll my eyes at. can't put a finger on why this is an exception

way closer match than these numbers make it look. could flip

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Battle!! (XBC2 Torna) is my 5th favorite ToC entrant! I still love this song!!!!!!!!

Evolution Era (Deemo) is my 41st favorite ToC entrant! deemo music has a cool "aesthetic", piano-focus but with glitchy electronic accompaniment. I love all the reversed piano bits in this sooo much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this does lots of interesting things, the busier piano parts with something different happening every 16th beat are great! the ranking is low mostly for vague reasons like "in the end i don't find it memorable or 'emotionally engaging'"what ever that means. I'd love this aesthetic applied to other composition more for sure (i like other deemo music much more than this). I definitely liked this more in vgmc9 than now.

easy match...the other two today are close but this one is not. also lots of "I liked this more in the past than now" songs today, one in each match, but the only case i'm voting for one of those is another winter for some reason despite how enthralled i am with this touhou one
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