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Wheels of Aurelia
Now What?
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-(the first 4 seconds of the video is so good...holy shine. How about it the person with the sword. I always see "weird ads" for ark nights and always thought "this seems like the kind of game that would randomly have a really good ost" and well....i remember being disappointed with some songs but this one isn't disappointing at all!! it''s "generically" EUROPEAN FOLK "prairie4" genre but i have no qualms with that at all, could listen to stuff like this all day! DORIAN MODE)-

-[ok so like; we use "prog" way too much to describe the niche cluster of voters like me that goes for more complex or weird stuff or whatever, and although that's sorta 0what prog IS there really hasn't been anything in the contest that is like actually "prog rock (genre)" but here we are, very overt, actual 70s-esque prog rock today right here. to be honest though the reason i listen to vgm so much more than non-vgm is so i can get music with this composition (since a huge chunk of vgm composers are prog inspired) but without actually sounding like this instrumentally. So like uhh, animorphs, or pso2, or linkage-alter; stuff like that, prog composition but more electronic or otherwise eclectic instrumentation is way more my thing than stuff in the actual genre "progressive rock" usually. ANYWAYS i'm in love with this sorta composition of course and despite what i just said i particularly like organs as a "progressive rock trope" instrument. very glad blues scale-y stuff has grown on me again i used to get too mad at it. the bits that click with me here the most are the most atonal and rhythically bizarre sections like 3:00-3:03, or the funky atonal intro section before the vocals come in. but this is full of a wonderful variety of stuff and i wish this existed in 2011 when this was exactly what my ears wanted to hear because i was a jolteon]-

-{jolt! jolt!}-

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-(ok FIHNALLY a falcom battle theme that is like one of the ones i go "yam why din;t you shut up meat ball supper" I love this song and have always loved it because it is so Aggressive and energetic in a way that doesn't ever feel condescending or mindless. It's like the compuner system breaking down BE CAREFUL and it has the obvious actual "prog moments(literal progressive rock, the 2nd time this contest, weird how it took that long but now we have two songs in a day)" like 2:22 - 2:32 with the really jagged 6+7 "13/8" bits. my favorite bit has always been the tonally angular electric piano though from 1:24-1:35 (or honestly every other time it plays but especially it's initially introduction), it's so FAKE and EPIuc. this song is so fun!!! There's never a dull moment, not even the beginning part that is not listened to by the big wave. Ryo Takeshita ranks pretty highly in my ranking of falcom composers and music like this is certainly one of the reasons why. probably my favorite after wataru ishibashi and ryo yonemitsu?)-

-["hot take", the actual proggiest song today is The Sims - Now What? if this song were on rock organ and had drums it would beat wheels of aurelia for how much those math people like talking about funny numbers just like king crimson - discipline was to "steve" I LOVE BREATH OF THE WILD. s;; yjr vpm all the contstant 16ths in 5/8 stuff is so mesmerizing and mathematical feeling which honestly fits perfectly with "building mode 5" as the kids like to call it. it's doing all these variances of its repetitions in a way that is like a NATURE COMPUTER and that's so cool. It's just like stonehenge or the
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this track reminds me a lot of this tune i linked in raetsel's topic, but the sims track is far less "actually minimalist"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgzQcDrX86M
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i get very similar things out of that steve reich track as this sims track though, especially in the middle section of now what. these looping patterns but just one thing being changed each repetition so that it's not actually repeating the full deal but still retains the "feeling" of this cyclical contraption. similar tonality too, lots of interesting clusters of chords bounced around in interesting rhythms. apparently these steve reich comparisons aren't totally unwarranted because...well aPPARENTLY Jerry Martin studied under Terry Riley!! (similar minimalist composer to steve reich...they're quite affiliated with each other and influenced each other, and even though i only ever talk about reich i'm a fan of others like riley too!). so like THAT is actually crazy to me haha. composer of this sims track that i just compared to reich is only like one degree separation from reich...but it explains everything.
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NOW WHAT has a neat chord progression too, alternates between something 100% pretty and beautiful and something significantly more tense, back and forth. that propulsive alternation keeps this moving forward without me ever feeling trapped, despite its repetitions. apparently these tracks were partially/heavily improvised which is cool in my books, and not surprising. process-wise opposite of that sort of reich-y minimalism, and leads to the sorts of organicness and flowiness you see in the end result, but that mixture is so good. it...really just feels like breath of the wild, which is one of my favorite soundtracks for a reason. i should probably listen to the sims soundtracks in full and get into other work by their composers more seriously sometime. it might be a lot more my thing than i would have ever expected.
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this song is really pretty and makes me want to look at grass]-

-{it hurts to vote against dreamy boys, especially this particular year, but i'll get chances to show my falcom appreciation later, my preference and enthusiasm placement is clear here}-

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