This is amazing, like even for you. I hope you're proud of this one. Like, goddamn, every part of this is incredible. This is definitely a new favorite for me. I've played most of the Mario Parties, and didn't realize the music was this good. Guess I wasn't listening critically. And man, I hear you on the pains of speed-rotating an analog stick. I actually cut my palm open doing that once with a Dragon Ball Z game - and I didn't even win the thing I was doing! (Turns out, you're *supposed* to lose that bit, and the idea that you even could fight back is basically a fake-out, but, uh, I'm very stubborn.)
Got a small list of requests this time. All obscure gems though. ToBi D+VINE - Aviator Three Dirty Dwarves - House of Fire Senko no Ronde DUO - I Kiss Your Hand, Highness Advanced Variable Geo - Fizz The Legend of Kay - Giant Turtle Intelligent Qube - Stage 2 As always, the playlist has been updated. Oh, and, I'm not requesting anything from it exactly, but I stumbled upon a pretty great OST the other week, and I feel like you might enjoy listening to it. Apparently it's called "I.Q. REMIX+ Rack One's Brains" - fun name, huh? I'd link it, but youtube comments tend to not like links.
I love this one. When i was in college i made a video for a project, we had a lot of leftover footage so i made a music video for this song with the outtakes, great memories. ❤
Great job dude. I gotta be honest, my expectations were low when I saw a Tobacco cover in my recommended, but you really captured that dark synthy sound of Tobacco very well, and the video editing was great too.
Initially read ‘Marijuana’ not ‘Majima,’ but I was even happier when i realized what it really said. Nice work! ..also.. Nice Hausu manekineko shirt ☺️
i use it for noisy experimental sounds. i love the microbrute. for me i liek it because it sounds gritty. but id say buy the synths that sound good to you.
IT WAS WORTH THE WAIT Arguably it was right on time, considering a new Yakuza game *starring Majima* was announced just last week! Oh my god there's so much to love here. Every part of this is gold.
Requests this week: Armored Core - Ambiguity AND Dooryard AND Shape Memory Alloys AND Insurance Money Gamera 2000 - Tokyo Bay AND Hawaiian Islands AND Underworld ~ Mutant Gyaos AND Neo Hong Kong AND LAST BATTLE ~ Mothership Metal Slug 3 - Blue Water Fangs AND In The Void AND Into The Cosmos AND Kiss In The Dark House of the Dead: Overkill - Get Funky (possibly without the conversation that starts at, 2:20, as entertaining as it may be) AND The House of the Dead AND Overkill House of the Dead 2: Magician Fight Theme Survival Kids/Stranded Kids - Jungle Theme As always, the playlist has been updated.
Gawd, I wish I’d been into synths around 2004 and got some second hand deals. Instead I was still being taught classical-style sax, so I viewed every electronic keyboard as interchangeable. Until around… 2009, 2010, when the super cheap analogue had already dried-up. I mean, less-so than today, but the price was higher and you needed know-how on fixing stuff. And I was only juuust learning electrical in school at the time (wouldn’t be until 2012 I was comfortable soldering at home). So I just bought a microKORG. Which… was so bad as a learning tool. Though I liked tweaking it, and running my guitar through its vocoder with the amp latched open. (LFO for vibrato/tremolo etc, plenty of distortion and comb filtering type stuff going on.) Just like you said about your XL, I didn’t really know what I was doing until I tried something else one-knob-per-function. I can use it more competently now, but also like… I don’t have much reason to use it very often compared to my big synth now. It’s mostly a very-occasional couch/bed noodler when I want “traditional” synth sounds rather than FM (or just using acoustic guitar.) I’ve honestly been curious about the Mopho/Tetra for ages, in the way that analogue mono synths can sound a bit gnarlier than my poly synths. But also, in terms of slightly pitch-unstable single-voice sounds with extreme distortion potentials and the ability to cut through a mix… I’ve always had my sax. So it’s never been a serious consideration so far.
I wish I had more to say about this one. It's bouncy, dreamy, spacey, catchy - probably all things you already knew lol It's always cool watching you just be in the zone with your synths. Can I ask if there's a reason you named it Refract?
This week's requests are mostly underloved songs - Okage Shadow King's whole soundtrack is an all-time great that's frequently passed over imo. I hope you enjoy. As always, the playlist is updated. Okage Shadow King - Theme of Madril (including the R version!) AND The Circus AND Forest of Willkur AND Plain of Lumile AND Addashi Desert AND Vampire Evil King Battle AND At The Gear Tower Donkey Kong Land - Last Boss AND Mountain AND Sky Total Distortion - You Are Dead Daffy Duck in Hollywood (Genesis) - Options ~ Game Over Decap Attack - Intro Bully - Defender of the Castle
To be honest with you, the reason it's called Refract is because I was mid-session and said "huh, I feel like this song is called Refract" and didn't think about it further lmao Also thank you for both the requests and the lovely words!
