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-(sometimes modern edm doesn't click with me nearly as much as older edm, and i often point to sidechaining and some of the sounds this is drenched with as an example of why, but in this case? well, I really like that intro, and once the electronicness starts to show itself: the pulsing where it hides your ability to hear the first beat of every bar is super cool in its intensity in this particular instance. this song sounds very "old" (as in pre-1900 old) at times. very compositionally traditional in a way i actually find good these days. i might've written this off many years ago but i honestly think it's really great now. it is so serious and like a memory that is in sepia tone)-

-[ok now OPTICAL MODE is the type of electronic music i look for. as in DV-i is literally my favorite artist who'd typically be categorized as any sort of edm (though is basically tied with Yasuhisa Watanabe for me who is also often that).part of that is because it take an active effort to sound like various years that are earlier than the CASUAL REVOLUTION OF 2007 so all of the synths are cool 80s~90s ones that make my favorite sounds in the world such as the "Yamaha SY77" and "Korg M1" and various others.
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whWHERE do i even begin??!? well this song is just an endless barrage of COOL SOUNDS and i love it so much. One other thing that's one of my most commonly looked for things in music: choir swells, this is full of them and i adore it, it's like breathing, between the spaces in the song and it's so cool...! These super high FM PWEEWsftihnith shiny glass metallic material lines all ov er the place are sp good...dfgttth My favorite section is the bit at 1:47. the perfectly placed bits where there's extra chord tones over that main hard marimba-like loop, it just sounds so cooll, blurs the line between "timbre" and "chord" and AHHHHHHH. I also like the background strings pitch bending here as if you are standing on a tight rope and just looked down and saw you are going to fall into the ground which is scary because you are in a floating The Jetsons future city in the sky with lots of tubes.
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this is just so dense with information it's impossible to parse everything in the song and i LOVE IT SO MUCH. oh my god the outro sounds like "windows '93 you turn off the computer" sound jingle dvi is so good at being in the year 1993 and 2093 at the same time.
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DV-i is the reason i am not dead.]-

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OPTICAL MODE (8th/76)
Now What? (14th/76)
Wheels of Aurelia (21st/76)
Dreamy and Boisterous Holy Land (23rd/76)
Stay Gold (49th/76)
Neuchatel (50th/76)

overwhelmingly good day today, was really tempted to rank even both stay gold and neuchatel much higher too
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