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So, kind of an arbitrary series of questions here, but is there anyone around who could try to help me learn how to describe the type of Sega Genesis music I'm interested in? There weren't many Genesis songs nominated at VGMC and none of those that were happened to use the types of sounds I was hoping to hear... so I was going to try to nominate one myself (more for the sake of having one on the playlist than a belief that it'd be supported), but hit a bit of a problem when I couldn't find one I wanted to nominate and couldn't describe what I wanted well enough to ask anyone for soundtracks or composers that I should look into.

It's one thing to not be able to properly describe my thoughts as long as I know what I meant; it's another when the lack of words is actually preventing communication and actively frustrating when I lack the words to even explain it to myself. "These nominations are playing the wrongs beeps, give me songs that play the RIGHT beeps" is not a coherent thought. So... here's a few Genesis songs, that also aren't exactly what I'm looking for but are at least in the ballpark?:

Traysia - Castle:
https://youtu.be/SzdWaZJTq6Q

Top Gear 2 - Auckland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZwtQ2Cz_Qc

Battle Mania Daiginjou - Sun Rise Purple:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUWogVlxr3Y

Uhh... for popular songs, I guess Chemical Plant Zone is sorta close in places?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LYB7iLZNWE

And I know the songs aren't exactly similar, but there's something about the instrumentation? Like the first two tracks have notes that are...umm... lower pitched or something, giving them this kinda deep "bwoom" feeling? And while the latter two have higher pitched beeping music like a lot of Genesis games, they also have like an... artificial bass instrument or something that's playing notes I like in a register I like? I feel like I'm using the wrong words for both sets of songs and that it's difficult for anyone to understand what I'm looking for even with examples, but I also don't really know how I'd go about learning the *right* words. It's not like there's a textbook on "artificial instruments in retro games" or something.

Well... considering that I don't exactly love any of those four examples, it's quite possible I'm barking up the wrong tree in my pursuit of new Genesis music anyway. They're just doing *something* I find appealing and I had hoped to find more new songs doing whatever that something was. Don't worry if this is all gibberish, I'll get back to work soon either way, but in the unlikely event that someone here knows the correct terms or has song/composer suggestions, that would be appreciated--even for non- Genesis songs, honestly I think the closest VGMC nominated song was that one Tintin track (which... really wasn't like any of those four, but did have a certain BWOOM-ing quality of its own) so the system is less important than the sound.

No update today as I decided to do this instead of actual work on the actual project. Aaanywho, thank you for humoring my nonsense and I'll get back to work as soon as I'm finished decompressing from the VGMC nominating period. (I... may have slightly underestimated how much time I'd want to spend resting after speed-running a list of a thousand songs)