Dance Of The Daring
Tempestissimo
The Blue Sanctuary
blue sanctuary easily my favorite discovery of the whole contest, this song is just. wew.... i need to know the context of this as an insert song in a vn lmfao cause holy shit
From TunnelScene:
Town, Flow of Time, People (Clannad)
City Centre (Sleepwalker)
Dancing Mad (Final Fantasy VI)
oh my gosh it is Joe Hisaishi from 1984-1996studio gh
this match is ridiculously painful. I RESPECT the death out of this song and I hope it wins. but I would be lying if I said I preferred it(the curse of being an edge lord but wanting"tonal complexity" more associated with cute music). absolutely bonkers chord movement in the first 30 seconds in particular. and then the chord stab transpose spam is so powerful
I like the triangle which reminds me of two 80s pop songs and one 90s pop song that had a triangle that did that. also nice roland sound canvas sounds ~ !
t+pazolite is the ultimate Halloween Party musician
ftr putting this against dancing mad was less a "bracket meme" as Mac had put it. it was more like it lined up with seeds/no overlapping supporters/etc. and i thought "oh! rhythm game song! yes obviously dancing mad should be against a short 2 minute song like all rhythm game songs are". and then realized what I had doneand actually realized it is ALSO perfect. tbh it's probably more fair to judge two long tracks against each other than one short and one long that are way harder to compare. but at the same time yeah I do apologize for the length of today's listening.
dancing mad is Emerson Lake and Palmer - Tarkus for millenials. a very top tier nobuo umentas song for me because of its 70s prog adjacency and Quartal Runs and odd time sigs and all that stuff I love. if you know me you know I tend to dig thru ridiculously obscure games just to look for music inspired by post-tonal prog in a way that clicks most with me, but honestly the chaotic quartal run bits of movement 4 here is some of the best anyone's ever done it. and even parts of mvt1-3 have their adjacency to the really particular dissonances I look for at moments. at the moment one of the only super mainstream vgm things I can think of at this level of "getting the keith emerson influence right" is Hajime Wakai with like Gohdan in wind waker and stuff (who is ALSO a Emerson Lake and Palmer fan). but that or other mainstream examples like it aren't usually what people think of when they think of those soundtracks. well I am very happy that people who like Keith Emerson make video game songs