FightFirstDeusExMachina_Dearest Main Title Live & Learn ...Main Theme of "Sonic Adventure 2"
From TunnelScene:
hi. I absolutely am not going to be able to be consistently present this year, I hope to come back eventually, because I really love this community, but things about my life circumstances make it unlikely any time soon. but i value this community too much to abandon it now, so here are some votes!
FightFirstDeusExMachina_Dearest (CRYMACHINA) Awakening ~ Nrburgring Suite New Bodhum (Final Fantasy XIII-2)
ah yea, the border line between all the dance types we've got DiscoEpic and HiromiAnime but most of all WeebBlues. I avoided saying weebfunk because this track isn't cool man enough. I always feel Hiramatsu has this density thru compositional-information in him that coalesces into something that almost surprises me can be interpreted as a battle theme because it is too fun, I suppose they are focusing on the game part of role playing game battle theme XD why the heck did they let Lt. Surge be in this game.
This is one of those where i feel an ambiguity between timbre & tonal/rhythmic information. if you just had the notes this track would be entirely different, it feels like there's very slight detuning on a lot of indiv elements that makes this feel so much more immersing.
extended chords in these unstable loop point chord pad samples is one of my fav tendencies of european computer music people, glad you can still hear that seep through even in something so full production (honestly I would have guessed this track was written many years later than it actually was)
my focus has returned to being far more timbre-centric in recent years, and as I hadn't really listened to this seriously since that shift, I'm coming to appreciate how cool all these evolving pads are. The thin artificial choir seamlessly morphing into serene string-like sweeps. It's something I seek, when almost no element really feels static in timbre, everything is evolving as it sustains or orchestrated with enough destiny or variety so that if this song was Nrburgring but every note is C id still have something new to pay attention to across this full lengthy runtime
I can't listen to live and learn without thinking of that video where the siivagunner people show Jun Senoue irl the rip where teh vocalist goes upward for too long and I smile when I think about how he laughed so hard at that moment.
There was a while when I'd make a big deal out of how much I liked XIII-2 music, this does include a bit of what I'd fixate on with it, nice chords and nice sounds. The friendly border between ethereal jazz fusion and dream trance. As instinctively futuristic as can be.