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Konran shoujo Soflan-chan!!
The Wyrm's Jewelbox
Invitation Flower ~ Autumn

Hopes and Dreams is my 101st favorite in the contest! Yay! a Toby Fox song I can say nice things about ! : ) I like this song! It's very happy! and very HOPEful ! I like these types of rhythmically repeating short strings patterns, some harmonies in this song are cool. lots of sus2 chords~! That's my favorite chord ever (maybe) for SOME reason! 7ths/sus4s and other more complex chords I really love the full thick sound of present throughout this thing. I don't think this is a particularly high point of Toby's music mixing/production-wise but it's certainly not his worst (it's mostly the guitar in the mix, reminds me a lot of my frustrations with "atelier music with guitar in it", i don't necesarily dislike the timbre but it's mixed in in a way that muds the stuff that interests me up). Regardless, I can appreciate the composition behind that hangup well enough that it's not dragging this down too much, there's at least clarity of the elements I most care about. I always at least moderately liked this but it's grown on me a bit, more to my current tastes than in the past for sure, not one of my favorites from the game or anything but i certainly don't dislike it, top half of the ost at least

Konran shoujo Soflan-chan!! is my 79th favorite in the contest! This song defines itself around its hyper-complexity rhythmically, and...i wish i could be excited about it because that's totally my thing, but I can't hear it over the high pitch girl being a person! This would likely be top 40 or even top 20 if the vocals weren't there, not because I dislike the vocals, but because they're mixed so loudly I can barely hear the interesting stuff behind them! Very similar to my complaints about speed star kanade except even more frustrating because like, yeah I "kind of like" speedcore, but this type of over-the-top complex-for-no-reason prog/jazz fusion is among my favorite type of music! There's crazy interesting harmonies in some layers in the background, tons of rhythmic insanity and I can barely hear it! Another issue I have (this is detached from the music itself and not impacting my judgment), I also think I find a bit of frustration in how much this defines itself around its complexity in a way that feels kinda insulting. I know tons and tons of absurd avant-garde/prog/math/fusion stuff that goes this far rhythmically /regularly/ (and vgm and stuff in those same categories), so it's like a second hand embarrassing feeling seeing it advertise itself as if it's the most rhythmically intense thing when there's other VGM (and even other rhythm game tracks), that at least by my definition, take this sorta thing much further than this ever does. It's still cool and I am glad it exists, I just wish it sold itself more 'honestly' or something, it makes a big deal out of forms of complexity that are not even necessarily that outlandish compared to so much of what's out there (through its lyrics, self-description, etc "The answer's a 5/4 metr... eh, aah- wait, you changed it again, didn't you!" is literally part of the lyrics...as if changing a song from 5/4 to another timesig is this CRAZY prog thing when it's practically the least rhythmically weird thing some of my favorite music does). my big problems are that and that I wish I just could hear all the cool things it's doing that I can barely hear behind the person! other than that I think it's fun and sounds cool and it definitely engages me musically

Actually a pretty close match, but ANIME PROG wins me over...FOR NOW

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The Wyrm's Jewelbox is my 20th favorite in the contest! 2000. 20000002.00. My favorite discovery of the contest after the "discovery" of "Seto Kaiba". This thing is a pretty good representative of "kaonashi & mycro" music haha. Odd time (mostly just 5/8, with the not-odd-time parts with 6/8 and 4/4 taking up big chunks), "big marcato string chords on cool rhythms", and constant modulations as how the harmonic language in the music works (this is the most "key mycro-kao overlap thing" probably). it's like a more electronic version of my favorite basiscape or hiroki morishita stuff. like REVENGER meets CONQUEST~ABLAZE except in odd time. the constant 16ths Fake Piano is so JUICY and the constant 16th synth is so JUICY PART 2, instrumentation and "soundscape" is just all so JUICY PART 3 it feels like an organic computer.

Thrashard in the Cave (Arrange Ver.) is my 97th favorite in the contest! cool chill chords~! love echoy cool filtered epiano sounds. very "Acid jazz" which is not a real genre of music because "acid" is not a real instrument the way Cave Story is. oh now the drums are dnb cool!! This is s o chill i am in the moon cloud that is red i'm like the werewolf having a nap in the moonTHe SYNTH lead is so expressive, like that patch is the exact type of sound that makes me think "I like synthesizers", it warps and morphs between so many different timbres, and all the vibrato/portamento/pitch bendyness makes it come alive. soloistic nature of it is great.I LIKE "JAZZ HARMONY"

JEWEL

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Seize the Truth! (54th out of 56) vs. Invitation Flower ~ Autumn (8th out of 56). Extremely un-close.
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