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Topic	Mycro ranks the 278 VGM tracks that were nominated by BOARD EIGHT [rankings] 2
Toxtricity 10/20/20 3:28:04 PM #362:	136rd Game: WildStar Title: The Cold Science of Supremacy Composer: Jeff Kurtenacker Nominator: Zigzagoon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHAzBaUCcWo one of the types of music i go out of my way to look for, and struggle to find as i seek, is really really minimal ""evil lab"" atmosphere music that works for me as well as this does. this NAILS that and tbh i listen to it enough at this point in time that it's an 8 now (definitely underranked and i mean it in this case this time, it grew on me for sure. i knew ""i like this type of song and i like this song a lot but idk if i like this specific song enough to save it to a playlist"" but now i am like ""this is one of THE examples of this type of song that i really like! and i listen to it a lot!""), but yeah. lots of insanely cool sounds here, that portamento warpy pitch bend at like :31 is perfect. the whole thing really starts to open up with more variety of timbre colors around :46, reversed high metallic sounds and intensified low synth bass highlight the first real chord changes that show up. Good timing of the sounds highlighting the NOTES. the number of 'cool sounds' in this song is endless. i have to go out of my way to boost the volume to maximum to hear some of them and listen carefully, but this is a virtue as it means i never really run out of things to listen to. Despite how minimal it is, it's absolutely not ""empty"", there may not be that many layers of compositional content to pay attention to at once, but it makes up for that for the sheer number of ways the composition is represented through so so sooo many different cool sounds at the same time. and i like pretty much every one of these sounds! The glassy fm-like synth bells, all the electronic zaps and piano, sine wave-y beeps, echoy everything. too many good sounds to list! tthe chord changes in this song are really interesting, pretty much every time there is one it requires entirely different used scales and i like that : ) but most importantly it feels like it's always a shocking enough distance away from the previous chord to be SPOOKY. this actually reminds me a lot of perfect dark, what i was going to say is 'this reminds me of grant kirkhope except dark electronic instead of cartoony' but uhhh, that is basically what perfect dark is haha. the same types of cartoonishly jarring chord changes, but a bit more unpredictable in this case. at :49, by my interpretation It jumps from Eb minor to C minor to Ab minor, like modulating downward between those three entire keys, all within the span of a few seconds, and resolves or retensifies itself with variety of other chords throughout. and like, i mean i could just list every moment there's a chord change in the song and it'd be something i think is cool and interesting. and i suppose that's important since there's little actual melody or anything else to latch on to, this song is all about its quirky chord changes, and they certainly succeed in being interesting. at least to me! the chord change right at 1:26 is one of my favorites, it's not quite what i expect but it still works, maybe better than what i was guessing it was going to do, and evokes Mystery and Drama. and the series of chords after that are successfully freaky and tense. [exploring ruined remains of advanced-but-now-lost civilization] music. ""if ever there were a theme that conveyed exploring a mysterious, advanced civilization's remnants, this is it"" is a comment on the video so i assume that's accurate. acutally you know this kinda is like if songs like worldenddominator or even the -45 stuff in umineko were less intense. maybe that comparison doesn't make any sense but it's what i'm thinking of now this song is like if someone was making creepy castle haunted house music that was REALLY GOOD but decided to make it all a subtly presented ambient synth thing. that is another thing I really love about this song. it doesn't draw attention to itself. It can serve as background music that evokes its intended atmosphere well to me and i can focus on other things while listening, but if i choose to pay attention, i'm certainly rewarded with endless tiny details to react to and definitely can more powerfully feel how cool all these chord changes are. stuff that strikes that exact balance is tricky to find for me, but it's something i am always looking for. this track is one of the best at hitting it in this entire ranking tbh. not a lot of people think to nominated more understated stuff because i'm so known for looking for overt weirdness or complexity; but what i really like the most is subtle cases like this. Dark Detailed Dungeon music. it's why i'm such a big fan of pmd dungeon themes too, this hits the same vibe as most of those. man someone should have nominated pokemon mystery dungeon series music for this topic idk why no one thought to do that........ --- time <cite>Toxtricity posted [p:946082493] in Mycro rank... [t:77515167]...</cite> <quote>136rd Game: WildStar Title: The Cold Science of Supremacy Composer: Jeff Kurtenacker Nominator: Zigzagoon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHAzBaUCcWo one of the types of music i go out of my way to look for, and struggle to find as i seek, is really really minimal ""evil lab"" atmosphere music that works for me as well as this does. this NAILS that and tbh i listen to it enough at this point in time that it's an 8 now (definitely underranked and i mean it in this case this time, it grew on me for sure. i knew ""i like this type of song and i like this song a lot but idk if i like this specific song enough to save it to a playlist"" but now i am like ""this is one of THE examples of this type of song that i really like! and i listen to it a lot!""), but yeah. lots of insanely cool sounds here, that portamento warpy pitch bend at like :31 is perfect. the whole thing really starts to open up with more variety of timbre colors around :46, reversed high metallic sounds and intensified low synth bass highlight the first real chord changes that show up. Good timing of the sounds highlighting the NOTES. the number of 'cool sounds' in this song is endless. i have to go out of my way to boost the volume to maximum to hear some of them and listen carefully, but this is a virtue as it means i never really run out of things to listen to. Despite how minimal it is, it's absolutely not ""empty"", there may not be that many layers of compositional content to pay attention to at once, but it makes up for that for the sheer number of ways the composition is represented through so so sooo many different cool sounds at the same time. and i like pretty much every one of these sounds! The glassy fm-like synth bells, all the electronic zaps and piano, sine wave-y beeps, echoy everything. too many good sounds to list! tthe chord changes in this song are really interesting, pretty much every time there is one it requires entirely different used scales and i like that : ) but most importantly it feels like it's always a shocking enough distance away from the previous chord to be SPOOKY. this actually reminds me a lot of perfect dark, what i was going to say is 'this reminds me of grant kirkhope except dark electronic instead of cartoony' but uhhh, that is basically what perfect dark is haha. the same types of cartoonishly jarring chord changes, but a bit more unpredictable in this case. at :49, by my interpretation It jumps from Eb minor to C minor to Ab minor, like modulating downward between those three entire keys, all within the span of a few seconds, and resolves or retensifies itself with variety of other chords throughout. and like, i mean i could just list every moment there's a chord change in the song and it'd be something i think is cool and interesting. and i suppose that's important since there's little actual melody or anything else to latch on to, this song is all about its quirky chord changes, and they certainly succeed in being interesting. at least to me! the chord change right at 1:26 is one of my favorites, it's not quite what i expect but it still works, maybe better than what i was guessing it was going to do, and evokes Mystery and Drama. and the series of chords after that are successfully freaky and tense. [exploring ruined remains of advanced-but-now-lost civilization] music. ""if ever there were a theme that conveyed exploring a mysterious, advanced civilization's remnants, this is it"" is a comment on the video so i assume that's accurate. acutally you know this kinda is like if songs like worldenddominator or even the -45 stuff in umineko were less intense. maybe that comparison doesn't make any sense but it's what i'm thinking of now this song is like if someone was making creepy castle haunted house music that was REALLY GOOD but decided to make it all a subtly presented ambient synth thing. that is another thing I really love about this song. it doesn't draw attention to itself. It can serve as background music that evokes its intended atmosphere well to me and i can focus on other things while listening, but if i choose to pay attention, i'm certainly rewarded with endless tiny details to react to and definitely can more powerfully feel how cool all these chord changes are. stuff that strikes that exact balance is tricky to find for me, but it's something i am always looking for. this track is one of the best at hitting it in this entire ranking tbh. not a lot of people think to nominated more understated stuff because i'm so known for looking for overt weirdness or complexity; but what i really like the most is subtle cases like this. Dark Detailed Dungeon music. it's why i'm such a big fan of pmd dungeon themes too, this hits the same vibe as most of those. man someone should have nominated pokemon mystery dungeon series music for this topic idk why no one thought to do that........ --- time</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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