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Epic Epileptic Apocalypse
P-R-O-G-R-A-M
Flying Clouds, Drifting Haze

Silence in the Sunlight Filtering Through Trees is my 114th favorite in the contest! MMMh FAKE PAN FLUTE I LOVE THAT SOUND i like "90s new age" nature meditation cd and echoy piano and echoy percussion. this is definitely more like the kind of falcom track I like, i'm not super fond of it melodically (i feel like i'd like it more if the violin line was just not there or was playing Some OTher Melody) but the atmosphere, instrumentation and everything surrounding it is wonderful. the synth pad chord this starts off with aaaah. the very starting melody is about a 5th off from where I'd expect it to be. this plays a lot with that I guess, tonality here by my interpretation is like both c minor and g minor at the same time and this makes it ambiguous which is the REAL DEAL and i like the sound of that. I've noticed I like stuff that plays with parallel fourths/fifths or chords built by duplicating another chord up a 4th or 5th or fourths/fifths synth chord patches or similar things involving ambiguity on where the tonal center is in relation to stuff a 4th or 5th away. When freely playing with modes that stuff gets to be explored. I'm not sure why that sound tickles me so much, it's why i love half the PSO2 music I do (it's Hidekuni Horita's THING it feels like), it exudes Some "feeling" that's abstract and intangible, and whatever it is, i like it. this probably sounds like a crazy overanalysis because what this is doing isn't even that weird i'm just thinking out loud about down an unrelated tangent wondering why i like something as simple as the first 5 notes of a g minor scale at the beginning and the reason is because i perceive the rest of the song as c minor pretty heavily so it makes it be THAT thing that i think feels cool for some abstract reason i can't define ok

Epic Epileptic Apocalypse is my 109th favorite in the contest! I'm known to like "weird" music and that is true, but it's not like i automatically like every type of weird music, just certain categories i like are considered "weird." I wouldn't say this is really a type of weird i actually like. It's close...I consider "the feeling of reality being distorted, glitched up or broken" a high-tier category for me. This has that, but it's like, mostly just because it's rapidly swapping between basically completely different songs. some of those are types of songs I love! others are too silly or "normal" for the atmosphere I'm looking for in this "type of weird" music to really shine through. (I should clarify also, I don't dislike the "normal" or "silly" portions of this, I actually have something vaguely positive to say about every individual bit, but in the end their presence results in a [very interesting] atmosphere that I think is COOL but not quite the one i am looking for). I'm glad something like this exists though, I respect experimental stuff whether it's a type i enjoy or not. One aspect I like about this extremely specific style is how almost natural some of these abrupt tempo changes between sections feel, it's not like Your Best Nightmare or Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE; where sections of contrasting styles have radio static or whatever between them, they're immediate and it makes this feel "organic." This track reminds me of those weird AI generated images of rooms or places that freely segue between different environments in a noneuclidian nonsensical way at a distance, but looking zoomed in at any tiny bit of it feels like a vaguely coherent environment. lots of portions of this remind me of the "RIO/Avant-Prog" bands i like, I was just listening to Mr. Bungle today who definitely falls into that category (so does "Boredoms", so this comparison should not be a surprise). Randy Wilson seems like an incredibly interesting composer that I should check out but i still have not yet checked him out but i will do so eventually

A very close match, one of the closest in the contest for sure. even if i'm voting on what's expected to easily be the losing side, I'm happy with its opponent advancing!

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P-R-O-G-R-A-M is my 34th favorite in the contest! yeah this is a ranking topic spoiler but i've expressed liking this unrelated to that topic anyways but still spoiler tagging it for whoever cares that much, if anyone! as usual for these spoiler'd ones I'm going to go on endlessly about this when we get to it in my topic SORRY IM TAKING SO LONG i don't think it's surprising i like this though i like crazy synth sound design in stuff with "complex chords" and it sounds like THERMOSPHERE from EINHANDER lol. i don't know what my favorite kirby ost is but this is definitely one of the contenders

Blue Skies (Infinity Remix) is my 106th favorite in the contest! Epic Orchestra Ace Combat Music is definitely a thing I like that i didn't used to like; doesn't matter to me how stereotypical or trite it may come across, it feels INTENSE and COOL when i hear it with my ears and I start floating in the air like in the sky where air planes are! IT's crazy to me how i had such a period in the past of rejecting "epic orchestral" stuff, it was definitely heavily tied to "identity" like "i like quirky cartoon synths slightly more usually, so that means I ALWAYS ONLY LISTEN TO COMPUTER SONG" but no shit like this makes me explode because it's so big like a helicopter that is really big or a very big air plane. I actively LIKE the predictability in this, as counter as that is to things i often say, it never touches any tropes i dislike, only tropes i love. 4:48's key change and all the string line leading up to it feels so good! the choir, brass, strings, everything comes together to make this exciting and an enjoyable ride. I don't find it a memorable ride tbh, there's other Ace Combat series music in similar style to this that stands out to me much more, but I'm not complaining that this exists!

not as close as the other two matches but I still respect Blue Skies a lot.

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Flying Clouds, Drifting Haze (10th out of 56) vs. Revenger (16th out of 56), a very close match. Revenger easily takes it in terms of broader strokes- instrumentation/production/overall style and "feel" of it, aura it gives off, emotion it exudes, I like the "type" of song it is a LOT more. FCDH easily takes it in terms of actual composition for sure though, and I think that's a bit more important to me in the end. if both of these were done in the style of revenger (or in the style of fcdh), I'd like fcdh significantly more, i guess that's the way i'm thinking of it. FCDH just gets all the little details right even if Revenger's more my type of song, and those details are why i have fcdh ranked a number of placements above. Both are great though and I'd be happy with either advancing!
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