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"trancey" is actually probably one of the most consistent elements of "board 8 taste" across the entire range of like 2009 to now lol. it lines up with everything from zts umineko to even isoleucine/geofront4 at some level haha

but what factors people lean in on definitely change over time; and obviously between different groups of people here. and what i was talking about is how there's a /variety/ of very distinct sectors of taste here. there's always been the people big on zts umineko style or dai umineko style; which aren't necessarily the same people who've been big on falcom battle themes, or gust vocal stuff (or gust instrumental stuff!), or rhythm game music! all these categories are totally different, but make up things that aren't highly represented outside of this community necessarily, and that definitely defines a jarringly different vibe (or set of vibes) you'll experience here, relative to outside of here.

more newly grown (as in past few years) is the "prog/fusion/[complex music] sphere" which does contain a few older members like me/kao/jona/lasa, but also plenty of newer members allow it to be louder like cako, nfun, place, sergio, haste, etc. even if we don't all agree on everything, stuff like pso2 or geofront or whatever certainly wouldn't have the success it has now. and not every community has a bundle of people that react in this sorta way to music

another newer sector is definitely the group that likes 'weird' and especially weird electronic music distinctly, ie gamebop/hotdogturtle/collen/place/etc, and i think that little niche helped push the more electronic stuff further AND the more weird stuff further. this trend certainly shows in recent retirees, and strongly contrasts the kinds of stuff that used to do well in the past and even contrasts the sorts of things the group described in the previous paragraph might push, despite where you might expect overlap

the music you hear in the contest reflects these varied sectors of interests that different groups of people have. but it still is "board 8 taste", just like any individual can have a varied taste, a mesh of communities and their intersecting subsets of fandoms can have a varied taste; but it coalesces into something you won't find elsewhere, once you combine this variety together.

like you have the people who like complex-ish jazz fusion harmonies and the people who like umineko trance. what happens when you combine those categories together? (isoleucine)

and these combinations of overlap, that's what makes it so a band of dozens of people who might otherwise not have much musically in common with each other to go YEAH I LOVE KEN NAKAGAWA and enthusiastically dig for more other stuff that fits their odd areas of intersection

this is why i think the compatibility chart thing (especially the thing p0 hosted with the visuals) is cool; you can almost visually see the different categories of music people in this community like, as long as you know the kinds of things the different people listed tend to represent

i'd love even more stats and features with it. maybe some programming that doesn't leave those who don't hit the right thresholds out? like if someone's maximum compat is 55%, chaining them to the nearest person with a dotted line?? it definitely left people who DO fit, out of the picture, even tho they certainly have compatibility pairs. i'll definitely be way too busy to deal with that stuff so i hope player0 or haste or whoever will be messing with those stats can come up with some fun new ways to analyze that stuff.
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