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27rd
Game: Realmz *Remix
Title: Shop Music (2006 zyx remix)
Composer: Andy/Banal, Zyxyz0
Nominator: @Zyxyz0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvUYHc6NWtI

OH man; so, you have no idea how much i loved the original already. but this "remix" is...well . let me explain: one of my favorite hard-to-find traits in music, is actually the presence of breakbeats/drum loops that DO NOT play at the same tempo as the rest of the song. (so, in music theory terms "polyrhythmic" breakbeats). In this song, i assume 5 year old you went into the tracker and just like fucked up the drum loop timings so that they do not sound like a song anymore. and the end result is that i like it more...((i mean, i assume you suspected this would be the case, otherwise you would not have nommed it))

so not only is the drum loop stretched to be a different tempo from the rest of the song, but it almost /feels/ like irrational time to me, even if that's not quite what it is

so to make that not be like a buzzword; let me explain what that means here. irrational time means that instead of the end of a bar being something that lines up with a 16th note grid, instead it ends with something else (triplet grid, quintplet grid, etc). basically a timesig without a 4-8-16 at the bottom, but instead things like "11/12" can happen, at least for fleeting moments. everyone's heard triplets, but usually there's just 3 or 6 or 12 evenly stretched across one 4/4 bar or whatever and that's it. What if the number of triplets was something that wasn't a multiple of 3 then? That's what happens here, at least, the way this drum loop is stretched.......the way I hear it is 12+10+10 in triplets. This adds up to 32 segments, and actually lines up with a single 4/4 bar of the rest of the song, so they're not actually triplets, just weird 16ths. but since the accents are so starkly based on these hits in groups of 3, what i'm hearing is a different tempo. I'm hearing [4/4 + 10/12 + 10/12], at...whatever tempo that is that makes that make sense. however, because it's technically not /really/ that, it's like...normal. it's actually just REALLY FUCKED UP 4/4. because i mean, obviously; that is what it is!! the drum loop channel i guess was, screwed around with in some way, to where it realigned the accent positions into bouncy groups of 3. but since those are so starkly and regimentedly beaten into me in the way this sounds, instead i get those ridiculous patterns. it's very ..................||virgil donati||, basically. [3+3+3+3]+[3+3+3+1]+[3+3+3+1]

anyway most other elements here are things i already loved about the original song, AMAZING thick synth pad chords on some of the coolest 90s synth pad sounds in this world. and that 'rain' synth preset...all the echoy, ethereal expanse of evoking this album cover perfectly despite that not even being the context of this song. it's been a favorite for a decently long time, so i was happy to see this bizarre version of it nominated. it appeals to me in not even an endearing way, but a genuinely hypnotized and fascinated way.

the kind of 90s tracker songs i like most are the ones that make a big point out of being spacious within their grainy file size limits. filling themselves with stretched samples of synth pad chords, and a lot of use of l/r space carefully, and i think that definitely describes this one.

hmm this is going to be a totally random comparison, but this version of this song with this demolished drum loop makes me think of this track by ATB (ATB - Obsession)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDXqNEkEwZw

especially because of the similar chill oceanic mood being combined with that disjointed pseudo-off aspect

anyways thank you SO MUCH for sharing this absolutely crazy thing. there are probably not that many people in the world who would appreciate this as much as i do, for so many reasons at once.