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25st
Game: This is the Police 2
Title: Step Aside
Composer: Ben Matthews
Nominator: @kaonashi1
https://bossbattlerecords.bandcamp.com/track/step-aside

oh man; you know, i don't think i even quite comprehended how important certain elements would eventually become to me here when this was nominated. but this is VERY "tough cool guy" music; solving i suppose that void i mentioned earlier, of my being frustrated that music that sounds "edgy" tends to avoid complex harmonies ...but i LIKE edgy. I want edgy music with cool harmonies why i cant i have tha??!t.......but here we got edgy music with HAYATO MATSUO PIANO BLOOD all over the floor. yeah, i'm going to say that word; wait for it---------(quartal). both individual quartal chords, and piano lines jumping around in their angular fourths lines that sound like a circuit board game. they fill the space up with such a beautiful crystalline energy of uncertainty. it's the most 'vivid' color to me in more gritty track overall, and it does a great job being the OH MY GOD THESE NOTES ARE SO GOOLC

i regularly have complained about blues scale in the past, but i think it's really not that in itself that i ever had a problem with, it was simply the evoked imagery to me. often times a use of it will sound uncomfortably like the kinda old people who would be unpleasant to be around who are wrappedu p in non-relatable traditions from the year 1940 that cause damage to me. but blues scale used in a more 'modern' feeling way, that's where it's like shadow the hedgehog instead, and i LOVE shadow the hedgehog....

this song is actually ridiculously _Umbreon, thinking about it. because it's both the jazz side and the ;shadow the hedgehog; side of that; and sometimes the balance isn't quite allowing both to be heard clear

i remember you commenting about this nomination, hoping that i would think this is the "good type of jazz"...well...you nailed it i guess haha. A genre i am notoriously picky about basically BECAUSE of liking it a ton and having such a history with it. but i think this gets there without being explicitly "jazz fusion" which is kinda interesting too...i mean it is fusion, but it if i showed this to most people, unlike most "jazz fusion" they would be able to say that they think this is 'jazz'. iof i asked them what genre it is, as opposed to chick corea elektric band music where if i asked them what genre it is they would say "mario kart" or "persona vibes genre"

you know, i don't even notice the fact that this is in 7/4 sometimes. this isn't even because it does anything to smooth over the barline, but usually i find 5 and 7 the "obvious" odd timesigs that i quickly notice because they're shorter, and simpler, so often more heavy and repetetive than weirder ones. but this track i think actually becomes non-obvious to me because of the heaviness of the entire thing?!

the guitar at 1:50 is REALLY making me think of something, specific, i'm not entirely sure what it's making me think of but it is probably Allan Holdsworth. this'd make sense with the faster stuff later on in the solo, COOL solo.

i can't even decide what my favorite layer is here. i mean it's obviously that piano, but what if it's not ?! WHAT IF my favorite part is the*a quartal happens in the song again* ok my favorite part is the piano.

a lot of earlier jazz tracks brought back bad memories of dedicating so much of my life to jazz stuff. but this one? the memories from this track are entirely positive, hugely positive

this song reminds me why i like jazz.

hmm what do i do now? What else should i say next? I know i will talk about some jazz songs that this song remidns me of. here is the 5th one that this made me think of:

Allan Holdsworth - Metal Fatigue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FM2sCA1Gxc

tthough maybe i should link the first one that it made me think of too; this one purely about the mood of the brass to me:

Bob Mintzer - Computer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGmuttFIcqw

hmm but it probably ACTUALLY sounds more like this song than any of the other songs i linked:

Panzerballett - "Take Five"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM4W3qaNfng

anoither fun song popping into my head:

Tribal Tech - Mech X
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtLWI3VAf6E

ok that's enough links to 'jazz' songs that are loosely adjacent to this one; i hope you have enjoyed them and this writeup