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Koi Yume
Toxic Anoxic
K'Sante, the Pride of Nazumah

Never thought I'd see Koi Yume actually make a contest but I'm not complaining. I love this song a lot. Probably some of it has to do with context, but overall it's just a very pleasant and emotional song. For some reason I've never been huge on old pmd music. The explanation I eventually came to is that I think the DS instrumentation is just severely lacking, but who knows. Older systems use chiptune or similar artificial effects and it sounds fine, but here it's in this weird uncanny valley sort of region where it just ends up sounding like low quality "real" instrumentation. This particular song I also don't especially like how it uses (or doesn't use...) dynamics.

Close in the Distance is a solid but somewhat unimpressive vocal song. I think it's missing a really climactic section to bring it to the next level and the echo effect doesn't do enough of the lifting to get there. Toxic Anoxic is really interesting and creative song. Unfortunately I don't actually enjoy all of the sounds that it uses, but it's still definitely cool enough for the vote here.

Everything's Alright is a pretty piano/vocal duet. I could make similar comments as Close in the Distance, though I think a climax is definitely less necessary for a song like this. Lots of emotion here either way for sure. I really like the tribal chant style style that K'Sante has going on. I've cooled a bit on the song since I don't think it stands up quite as well after the style novelty wears off, but it's still great either way. Very close match

Koi Yume > K'Sante > Everything's Alright > Toxic Anoxic > Close in the Distance > Temporal Tower

I'm sorry if my writeups sound negative even though I actually like most of these songs, but it's lot easier for me to descriptively talk about aspects I don't like than about aspects I like.