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Topic	Mycro ranks the 278 VGM tracks nominated by BOARD EIGHT [rankings] 3 -(TOP_100)-
Toxtricity 07/12/21 6:58:31 PM #50:	95st Game: Transitor Title: _n C_rcl_s Composer: Darren Korb Nominator: @Raetsel_Lapin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMyoI-Za6z8 darren core ; ; ; ;wow i just realized someone wwho was my boy friend was named ""darren"" at one point which makes transistor music feel ""weird"" now (that person would absolutely not like these games and probably not their music tho i actually know he hates hades lol) uhh so I had actually no clue this version of In Circles existed until Raetsel nominated it for this topic!! I've always at least moderately liked the track, and this is certainly a ""weirder"" version of a song i already loved, it takes away some of my favorite elements of the original though, but it adds an entire layer of aesthetic distinctness that i LOVE so i can't really complain too much. Mostly the changes here that i'm not as fond of are that it makes the rhythms very gridded; and half of what i liked about the original was the bouncy, intersecting different grids from each other layered on top of each other. (the backing here has like this CONSTANT gated 16th filter, which makes it rhythmically ridiculously standard and with only one thing at once possible to focus on. while the other compares like swing with a gated triplet feel instead layered on top of each other, which i'm much more into because there's more possible things to latch onto at once I guess.) but the changes I LIKE here are the vocals now being vocoder particularly, i've always had an attachment to artificial incarnations of voices...blatant in-your-face auto tune ala eiffel 65 has always been one of my favorite sounds, but this is more like ""Alan Parsons Project - The Raven"" which i like even more! It makes me think a lot of one of my favorite albums called ""Metamorphosis"" by Jean Michel Jarre (actually i'd recommend this album to Raetsel in general, knowing her taste. tho some songs might be too thumpy edm pulse for her, it's definitely like ""pop except too weird to actually be pop""--which is different from Jarre's usual style, but lines up with stuff I know raetsel enjoys!!!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9FwrjATqYU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8FN8vfqy_U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWgWWdSThHs i guess a good way to put what i like about the changes in _n C_rcl_s are entirely things that are timbre-related. because everything electronic about the original is amplified here in a way that just sounds COOL. the jarre comparison feels really strong because of the really moody almost classical-like composition that feels like it could be in ""umineko"", like this FEELS like something jean michel jarre would have /composed/ AND arranged. and well, jarre was basically my favorite musician from the whole range of 2000s or so (close with tangerine dream and orbital though), i think partly a mixture of his successful dark emotinoal tingling with his crazy synthetic sounds all around. this is just one of the only other things i've heard to capture that feeling so it makes me retroactively nostalgic for when i was younger. also i guess i can't complain too much about the not comparing swing<->triplets really because it actually does instead compare triplets<->16ths at the end and quietly throughout in a few other places, it's just not the focus of the track the way it is in the original. this is still in 5/4 and 6/4 and stuff anyways at least one other comparison i can make that i feel VERY positive about, is Radiohead - Idioteque https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svwJTnZOaco i used to not get/like radiohead at all, but at this point i'd consider thom yorke one of my favorite vocalists; and the band...well i don't know them well enough to say they're among my favorites actually (still need to listen to everything), but i love the majority of what i know at the same level as other artists I consider favorites. and Idioteque is absolutely one of my favorite songs of theirs. Liking Radiohead is a recent appreciation that started around the time I made this ranking topic actually, so this version of In Circles that reminds me of this specific Radiohead song so strongly, it was exactly what I needed to hear and was looking at the time i made this topic!!! The ""atmosphere"" is exactly the same, a mechanical synthetic pulse made out of sounds that aren't even drums, and crazy unusual sounding pads, and haunting strange vocals. you know, i always mentally associated idioteque with imagery that's pretty reminiscent of what you see in Transistor, suddenly these parallels all make sense --- time <cite>Toxtricity posted [p:956017811] in Mycro rank... [t:79374344]...</cite> <quote>95st Game: Transitor Title: _n C_rcl_s Composer: Darren Korb Nominator: @Raetsel_Lapin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMyoI-Za6z8 darren core ; ; ; ;wow i just realized someone wwho was my boy friend was named ""darren"" at one point which makes transistor music feel ""weird"" now (that person would absolutely not like these games and probably not their music tho i actually know he hates hades lol) uhh so I had actually no clue this version of In Circles existed until Raetsel nominated it for this topic!! I've always at least moderately liked the track, and this is certainly a ""weirder"" version of a song i already loved, it takes away some of my favorite elements of the original though, but it adds an entire layer of aesthetic distinctness that i LOVE so i can't really complain too much. Mostly the changes here that i'm not as fond of are that it makes the rhythms very gridded; and half of what i liked about the original was the bouncy, intersecting different grids from each other layered on top of each other. (the backing here has like this CONSTANT gated 16th filter, which makes it rhythmically ridiculously standard and with only one thing at once possible to focus on. while the other compares like swing with a gated triplet feel instead layered on top of each other, which i'm much more into because there's more possible things to latch onto at once I guess.) but the changes I LIKE here are the vocals now being vocoder particularly, i've always had an attachment to artificial incarnations of voices...blatant in-your-face auto tune ala eiffel 65 has always been one of my favorite sounds, but this is more like ""Alan Parsons Project - The Raven"" which i like even more! It makes me think a lot of one of my favorite albums called ""Metamorphosis"" by Jean Michel Jarre (actually i'd recommend this album to Raetsel in general, knowing her taste. tho some songs might be too thumpy edm pulse for her, it's definitely like ""pop except too weird to actually be pop""--which is different from Jarre's usual style, but lines up with stuff I know raetsel enjoys!!!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9FwrjATqYU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8FN8vfqy_U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWgWWdSThHs i guess a good way to put what i like about the changes in _n C_rcl_s are entirely things that are timbre-related. because everything electronic about the original is amplified here in a way that just sounds COOL. the jarre comparison feels really strong because of the really moody almost classical-like composition that feels like it could be in ""umineko"", like this FEELS like something jean michel jarre would have /composed/ AND arranged. and well, jarre was basically my favorite musician from the whole range of 2000s or so (close with tangerine dream and orbital though), i think partly a mixture of his successful dark emotinoal tingling with his crazy synthetic sounds all around. this is just one of the only other things i've heard to capture that feeling so it makes me retroactively nostalgic for when i was younger. also i guess i can't complain too much about the not comparing swing<->triplets really because it actually does instead compare triplets<->16ths at the end and quietly throughout in a few other places, it's just not the focus of the track the way it is in the original. this is still in 5/4 and 6/4 and stuff anyways at least one other comparison i can make that i feel VERY positive about, is Radiohead - Idioteque https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svwJTnZOaco i used to not get/like radiohead at all, but at this point i'd consider thom yorke one of my favorite vocalists; and the band...well i don't know them well enough to say they're among my favorites actually (still need to listen to everything), but i love the majority of what i know at the same level as other artists I consider favorites. and Idioteque is absolutely one of my favorite songs of theirs. Liking Radiohead is a recent appreciation that started around the time I made this ranking topic actually, so this version of In Circles that reminds me of this specific Radiohead song so strongly, it was exactly what I needed to hear and was looking at the time i made this topic!!! The ""atmosphere"" is exactly the same, a mechanical synthetic pulse made out of sounds that aren't even drums, and crazy unusual sounding pads, and haunting strange vocals. you know, i always mentally associated idioteque with imagery that's pretty reminiscent of what you see in Transistor, suddenly these parallels all make sense --- time</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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