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Topic	Haste2 ranks all 180 VGMC Retirees.
Haste_2 08/29/20 6:51:24 PM #361:	96) Digital: A Love Story - Paper Dolls https://youtu.be/V60rMJQ1MA8 Composer: Harrison Lemke and/or 4mat Score: 8.4/10 (Excellent) VGMC History: VGMC 6 (Lost R4), VGMC 7 (Lost R5 to Shop Music) Favorite Part: https://youtu.be/V60rMJQ1MA8?t=114 What a terrific beginning. I love the softness of the beginning synths, and the way they reverberate for five or six beats. The creates an effect of harmonies, when they are technically just outlines of those harmonies; even better is that many of these are 2nds and 7ths and stuff! Anyway, it takes some skill to make such an active melody like this work in such a setting! Then a similar bass that does cool counterpoint stuff using somewhat odd rhythms rounds it nicely. Then at 0:33 you get a synth that is pretty much the exact OPPOSITE of before. Its a bit harsh for my tastes, but I gotta admit it has great energy to it! The way the synth is divided into two parts (high and low, more than an octave between) is pretty sweet! Then the first melody gets put on top why did I not see it coming? 1:14 finally it moves forward music, with a nice contrasting slow melody on top of the rest of the craziness. Cool countermelodies in the sectioning following. 1:27 we now have a trio going on. 1:55 is neat with the stuff put on top of the 0:33 idea I like the more bleepy sounds here. But man, the high note stuff. It always stay on the same pitch class, but the way they slide up is epic, especially at 2:08 when it goes up to a SCREAMING high D and then back down slowly, but with intensity. WOW. And some more neat effects right after, too. One last little effect they do is allowing the music to fade out while the synth patterns keep going, which in turn fades out a little later, and then its like you hear the ocean at the end, which seems like an odd thing to do, but in practice it's very nice! 95) Demon Truck - Dead Neon Hell City https://youtu.be/aptaoGaE13k Composer: Andrew Aversa (zircon) Score: 8.4/10 (Excellent) VGMC History: VGMC 13 (Lost R5 to CLASS: EXPHERE_NOSURGE) Favorite Part: https://youtu.be/aptaoGaE13k?t=47 Wait, zircon composed this? Wow. Normally I dont like his loud stuff. This beat Dark Man Stage and Sky of Twilight :[. But I still love this! The reason this got such a high rating is less about the composition and more about the sound production. The main appeal for the start of this track is the super fun use of the bass. I just LOVE how metallic and grindy that bass is. MMMMMMMMM. Just in the first few seconds, man. The wave effect followed by staccato 16th notes is way cool! Also we got Phrygian going on, which is usually a good thing. 0:47 brings us awesome panning. 0:55 brings us Seiken Densetsu 3 snares! Yeah, I just LOVE this section so much because of that grindiness!!!! The way everything drops down except for the triangle at 1:36 before moving to the concluding section is cool! 1:38 has those fun percussive arpeggios! 1:53 brings in a FUN embellished countermelody Way for the loop to end with a BANG! Overall, it's nothing brilliant in terms of raw harmonies/melodies, but when you electronically orchestrate like this you dont need that as often. Also notable is that the music hardly qualifies as repetitive... its constantly throwing something new and fun at you. Amazingly, no annoyingly loud beats that I dislike, either. It took some time for this to grow on me to think I voted Galaxy of Friendship over this at one point. --- "Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?" "You drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think." <cite>Haste_2 posted [p:943979130] in Haste2 ran... [t:78392394]...</cite> <quote>96) Digital: A Love Story - Paper Dolls https://youtu.be/V60rMJQ1MA8 Composer: Harrison Lemke and/or 4mat Score: 8.4/10 (Excellent) VGMC History: VGMC 6 (Lost R4), VGMC 7 (Lost R5 to Shop Music) Favorite Part: https://youtu.be/V60rMJQ1MA8?t=114 What a terrific beginning. I love the softness of the beginning synths, and the way they reverberate for five or six beats. The creates an effect of harmonies, when they are technically just outlines of those harmonies; even better is that many of these are 2nds and 7ths and stuff! Anyway, it takes some skill to make such an active melody like this work in such a setting! Then a similar bass that does cool counterpoint stuff using somewhat odd rhythms rounds it nicely. Then at 0:33 you get a synth that is pretty much the exact OPPOSITE of before. Its a bit harsh for my tastes, but I gotta admit it has great energy to it! The way the synth is divided into two parts (high and low, more than an octave between) is pretty sweet! Then the first melody gets put on top why did I not see it coming? 1:14 finally it moves forward music, with a nice contrasting slow melody on top of the rest of the craziness. Cool countermelodies in the sectioning following. 1:27 we now have a trio going on. 1:55 is neat with the stuff put on top of the 0:33 idea I like the more bleepy sounds here. But man, the high note stuff. It always stay on the same pitch class, but the way they slide up is epic, especially at 2:08 when it goes up to a SCREAMING high D and then back down slowly, but with intensity. WOW. And some more neat effects right after, too. One last little effect they do is allowing the music to fade out while the synth patterns keep going, which in turn fades out a little later, and then its like you hear the ocean at the end, which seems like an odd thing to do, but in practice it's very nice! 95) Demon Truck - Dead Neon Hell City https://youtu.be/aptaoGaE13k Composer: Andrew Aversa (zircon) Score: 8.4/10 (Excellent) VGMC History: VGMC 13 (Lost R5 to CLASS: EXPHERE_NOSURGE) Favorite Part: https://youtu.be/aptaoGaE13k?t=47 Wait, zircon composed this? Wow. Normally I dont like his loud stuff. This beat Dark Man Stage and Sky of Twilight :[. But I still love this! The reason this got such a high rating is less about the composition and more about the sound production. The main appeal for the start of this track is the super fun use of the bass. I just LOVE how metallic and grindy that bass is. MMMMMMMMM. Just in the first few seconds, man. The wave effect followed by staccato 16th notes is way cool! Also we got Phrygian going on, which is usually a good thing. 0:47 brings us awesome panning. 0:55 brings us Seiken Densetsu 3 snares! Yeah, I just LOVE this section so much because of that grindiness!!!! The way everything drops down except for the triangle at 1:36 before moving to the concluding section is cool! 1:38 has those fun percussive arpeggios! 1:53 brings in a FUN embellished countermelody Way for the loop to end with a BANG! Overall, it's nothing brilliant in terms of raw harmonies/melodies, but when you electronically orchestrate like this you dont need that as often. Also notable is that the music hardly qualifies as repetitive... its constantly throwing something new and fun at you. Amazingly, no annoyingly loud beats that I dislike, either. It took some time for this to grow on me to think I voted Galaxy of Friendship over this at one point. --- "Ah, a party! We haven't had one of those. It could be fun! So... what is a party?" "You drink punch and eat CAKE! ...I think."</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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