PowerOne (Breath of Fire V) Ordinary Days (Lethal League) Eden 1 (Outpost 2: Divided Destiny)
you can tell this is from the same game as that other dra+koi song that was always in. I do like it for similar reason even if it's a lot slower in pace. it's like a saori kobayashi-ified version of the best is yet to come(referring to the synth lead in the 2nd half. very panzer dragoon orta core). I would probably vote for this in a lot of matches but it got an unfortunate draw
seriously can't get over how many 10/10 top 50 (or 10) songs this contest has in it for me. granted this one is a bit more expected to show up in a vgmc. and I've been mentioning it less since it was always been on the low end of that border (I'm not even sure it's my favorite song in the gamebut I wind up listening to it as much as all the other songs I placed into my top 50 songs guessing game). I was thinking this actually has very little of what I like about hitoshi sakimoto's composition style in it somehow, the appeal is purely the precise mix of timbres and O_o heckin EPICness of it. some of the other tracks I like from this game are more obvious examples of what I like about sakimoto composition (bio public corporation, industrial area. or the one I nommed all have lots of Radiant Silvergun Ass parallel harmony or fourths/fifths based stuff that sounds like TRON WENDY CARLOS 1982.) but those are a bit less perfect in terms of timbre mixture and imagery evoked for me than electric power building. it's a tough call but all those are lingering around this 9.999 zone and might beat electric power building some daythose aren't even the only sakimoto songs I can say that abou.t. anyway electric power building IS my fav (barely) for a reason. IT'S.. . THAT . ITS IT. ITS PERFRCT. I feel like I'm in the electric power building oh man. you can find jolteon and zapdos here.
reminding me a lot of an old favorite from a different ocremix artist: "Celluar" from Fittest by Zircon. I think if it were 2009 I'd be obsessed with this for it's adjacency to that sound
the cool unnatural sound of chord samples transposing around in a lot of edm has always been something I'm fond of, and probably partly responsible for me gravitating toward more deliberate incarnations of that kinda composition in other genres too. fairly close match
oh no. I'm not prepared to talk about how much I love eden1. well it blew my mind when I first heard it. I loved Rama ost to death already (and rama is one of my favorite games as a game too). but eden1 has that rama sound but in an absurdly tight way to my composition preference. it's got transposing chord clusters? sequences of stuff rapidly going up in stacks of fifths!?!?!? and all this oddball like "tonal instrument being used like a drum" like drum track mapped to a tonal track accidentally type sound except on purpose. which just makes for some wild dissonant syncopated stuff. and oh man all these metallic sounds. and it sells this bleak artificial space setting so perfectly well. it wasn't even like this at the time I nommed but I think outpost 2 is like maybe my 6th favorite game ost or something. this track is still by far my favorite from it, but i do love almost every track it has to offer. I didn't even think it was possible chuck barth could out-do what I loved about him from rama. all these wonderful 80s & 90s synths i love (one single roland jv2080 patch is responsible for half of what I love here) playing back at this fuzzy 22050hz aaaah. I feel like eden1 might be one of the single pieces of music I can think of that represents my current taste in music best. and it's definitely in my top 10. more absolutely confidently than other stuff I've been saying (like I'm having to debate if it actually somehow beats rock castle. it's tight). was really lucky I was able to find a used copy of the game at a random book store in Arizona recently (its what the scan in this yt video came from). took me by surprised to see it there. I'm normally not an rts guy but I loved this soundtrack so overwhelmingly much that I feel I need to play this one just for the music
I like the dissonance: ) the beginning has some cool reversed attack stuff I dig. nice and edgy