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| Topic | [VGMC] d43: YO-KAI Disco vs Who Am I?, Solstice Title vs Become as Gods |
| Toxtricity 05/11/20 12:15:28 AM #16: | Who Am I? Birth of a Wish (Become as Gods) Yesterdays Opponents are Todays Ingredients YO-KAI Disco (Hell's Entrance World) is my 107th favorite in the contest! as i've said before i'm kinda not as fond of yasui as a lot of others who share similar taste to me, but this doesn't show the side of him that bothers me too much. I used to like this track so much more, think I ranked it in the top 10 or so of some contest (pretty sure i supported it, at one point). It pretty pointedly describes the aesthetic i wanted my music plastered in in like 2012-2013, FM Synth Jazz Fusion/Funk Fun music. The harmonies in this are great, which is typically the thing I'll always have positive to say about Yasui music (well that + loving his instrumentation), I always like his individual chords. it's the way he moves between them or his melodic style that's more hit-or-miss for me. In this case it's not super offensive to me but it doesn't invite me in that much either. I think the overall feel of this is too "fun" for my tastes or something, that's really all that's holding me back, this only does the "yasui predictable chord tropes" I don't like a few times. but there's really some interesting unexpected movement that puts this above a lot of yasui stuff for me to counter anything i mildly dislike. 1:00 starts out this really realllly cool chord progression thats like "whoa that's a really cool chord progression" yeah. Overall amounts to like a "yeah that's pretty cool", but it's nowhere near the level I appreciate Massive X or his Network Transmission songs. Who Am I? is my 59th favorite in the contest! repetitive evil 7/8 time chanting! THATS GOod it feels like if Myst IV Revelation - Main Theme was not as cool. The instrumentation outside of the vocals is pretty cool, many of the prominent instruments are ones i like, mallet percussion and oboes peek through just enough to make me happy. I think a lot of what I feel when I listen to this is that I'd just rather be listening to Myst IV: Revelation - Main Theme, because it's so SO similar to this song except has much more interesting stuff going on in it to me and just has more to it. but I still have lots of fun listening to this one! the 4/4 parts of Who Am I definitely don't excite me as much as the 7/8 bits, but they're also pretty necessary for variety and an overall intriguing flow so I welcome them. When the 7/8 rhythm comes back in at 1:14 it's really effectively dramatic of timing, taking you right back into action after a relative respite prior. Something about BECOME AS GODS repeating chanting that spends a lot of time expressing every single syllable on the exact same chord (monotone but like, not monotone...because it's a chord...you know . .. what i mean BECOME AS GODS) is a really BECOME AS GODS REALLY appealing effect to me. It's really intimidating BECOME AS GODS in sound. I think maybe because it's so unnatural, but is being expressed with the most natural instrument- a voice. People do not usually speak in such rhythmic monotone, and they BECOME AS GODS certainly do not speak in synchronization with other people repeating the same chord every syllable BECOME AS GODS. definitely something i've realized is one of my favorite effects. like i've listened to so much hymnnos and other similar stuff and until BECOME AS GODS recently never really thought about how much i'm attracted to moments that are chanting repeating the same chord every syllable. and certainly never thought about why I like that sound so much. BECOME AS GODS it's because it's a natural 'instrument' doing one of the least natural things, and that in itself gives a really uncanny feeling i realize i specifically love. BECOME AS GODSWho are you? ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Title is my 124th favorite in the contest! Tim Follin. Like I said on Plok-BITCH i think this song has the typical follin problem of this really "trapped" feeling melodic style, it uses up every "obviously right sounding" note WAAay too fast and has a hard time exploring outside of that range, so then it never has anywhere new to go. theres so many parts where I could really love it but the melody's just sticking to the same few "safe" notes and i'm really unimpressed with it despite how technically impressive this is soundchip-use-wise. That's a lot of the frustration too, this is what I WANT NES music to sound like, I get bored with NES music that's really plain most of the time and this is basically my standard of what i want stuff coming out of this chip to sound like, so I wish I liked the music beneath it too! That said I don't actually dislike the "tonality" of this at all. I love dorian mode! I LOVE DORIAN MODE it is so "celtic jrpg fantasy mus"(fire island volcano). I love QUARTALS and this has the big quartal moments like 1:02-1:09 which is my favorite part of the song!! Also lots of fun tempo changes, style changes, key changes, it's never "boring". I just wish i liked the actual melodic style more, the skeleton of this track is great and the meat SOUNDS COOL and is what I want NES music to sound like, but the actual composition of that meat is unsatisfying in the end. Birth of a Wish (Become as Gods) is my repetitive chanting winning my vote over a cool chiptune part 2. sorry sergiocornaga i promise chiptunes aren't dead to me i still like them ! ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Yesterdays Opponents are Todays Ingredients (9th out of 56) / Laguerra del Mundo (39th out of 56). pretty easy choice --- time ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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