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9st
Game: C-Wars
Title: Belly Crawl
Composer: tenfour
Nominator: @kaonashi1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-0PcU19UL0

i guess this is another instance of me being more tolerant of blues scale stuff than i would usually be because it's presented as "edgy" enough. the injection of subtly overstimulating complex harmonic stuff throughout the rest of the track only helps! ESPECIALLY those sharp synth stabs, they're so funky in presentation and so piercing in their punch (i love when they transpose around...or when those stabs PITCH BEND. and stuff like that). Those sorts of chord stabs are one of my favorite things to hear in this type of music.

Similarly (as in, another "anomaly" on how well this appeals to my taste despite my typical response to something), i usually have mixed reaction to when chords change up and down by an entire tritone (the "banjo kazooie chord progression") but...I LOVE it here, even though it's done in an almost cheesy cartoon ghost way, I think the edge and seriousness of everything else around makes me able to take it seriously (and general...well produced and compositionally all around explorative. IT's not the condescending manner other things i've heard have taken it.)

I find myself regularly inclined to noodle around improvisations over this (or even when this isn't playing; based around this) on keyboard a lot. It's just the sorta thing that's fun to extrapolate from. The number of ideas in the track isn't actually all that high, but it gives a lot of room for stuff to play with from them. This exact track is just one recording of its couple of ideas, but I can play around with the bassline, play around with those stabby synths, figuring out what other possible things work with some of these strange passages of weird chord changes with spooky diminished chords and all that.

Really though, the reason I come back to this one so much is something I often have a hard time admitting I can enjoy (because I often don't), but I find this super catchy! Its exact brand of funk, these infectious bass bits, funky syncopations, they "feel like a cool thing". It gets in my head and it's the sort of song that is FUN to get in my head, and it inspires me a lot and makes me feel like playing it a lot.

If i remember correctly (dont quote me on this), this soundtrack admits that it's inspired by Vince DiCola, and it's not hard to see how. a good example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq4YkFn4ego
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c4WdzztiFY

Vince DiCola's someone where he's openly said that specifically the reason he is so "quartal focused" IS because of Keith Emerson, and not just me assuming that for everything. but this is sorta funny, because while I can immediately point to Vince DiCola with this C-Wars track, it's actually not very quartal harmony-ish at all. Instead it's achieving a lot of the same feelings dicola/emerson/etc do through sus chords (which i guess, contain the same notes), but also just, the raw ENERGY and FURY that "prog battle themes" often have. Great Job At Ensnaring My EARS

maybe i'm wrong on the dicola inspiration descriptio nbecause elsewhere it's describing itself like "inspired by gritty 90s game osts like starcraft; and classic prog" which is like; on targeT? anyways WHO CARES it sounds COOL

I'm not sure if this is actually my favorite song in the game, but this is literally /9th/ in this topic; how much better would other tracks do? I'm not sure, honestly a huge number of them would wind up around this range, but I'd have to relisten to decide my favorite. the two I listen to most are High Tech Facilities and Belly Crawl which is...funny given that you nommed high tech facilities for rwlh. that might be part of why i kept coming to that one as well as this one? I can't really remember, they both get in my head all the time tho so then i listen to them and go YEAH

i know this is kind of an arbitrary thing that a lot of people think is toxic tribalism to fixate on; but it makes me feel very happy and validated that this was made with Renoise. At the time I discovered this soundtrack (when it came out) that wasn't even the main daw i used; but i thought it was cool that it was made with a "sorta uncommon daw". but not too long after, I had a CRISIS and realized that my workflow was not suited for the type of stuff I did anymore; so i went on a QUEST to find the PERFECT DAW FOR ME (i tried demos of like every single daw). I wanted to find what would work best, just for me, what did exactly the things I wanted most? It turned out to be Renoise, esoteric tracker-interface oddball. anyway, when I listen to this ost these days, and realize it was made probably quite similarly to how I work (simply on the basis that it's using an obscure-ish daw that works in an idiosyncratic way), it feels cool. This guy's experience making this ost is probably quite similar to my own experience when I make music and that's pretty neat to think about.