#Jake Kaufman

[beauh]

I love skateboarding on a scythe

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 07/09/2023

Bigger at Night (Chung Yard)

Season 4 Episode 2 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume for Wii U

Ripped by MtH

BIG CHUNGUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's kind of funny to see just how naturally Big Chungus, the demon itself, slotted into being a core part of the SiIva meme line-up. The meme, obviously, has cemented itself due specifically for how unfunny and Reddit-coded it was, something with no real comedic value beyond making fun of its oversaturation akin to something like Pickle Rick. During Season 4 Episode 1, Big Chungus suddenly showed up in a couple rips in April - a solid four months after the meme had effectively exploded and already became tiresome to a lot of people. KFaD2 took advantage of this and turned the meme, along with a certain bandicoot and echidna, into a joke contestant - a character representing the idea of "dead memes" being remembered purely out of irony. And as I've said before, if Season 4 Episode 1 was the competition, then Season 4 Episode 2 was the celebration.

After the tournament was over, and Cool Meme Team had made themselves known to the SiIva audience...Big Chungus started showing up again. More than even during the tournament, he sort of just became another meme in the roundup, and at this point most everyone was on board. The four or five songs used in association with the characters offer such a wide spectrum of melodies to use in interesting and funny ways, and rips like Bigger at Night (Chung Yard) show how the meme had gotten past just having ironic appeal. Its a genuinely incredible, authentic-sounding arrangement, to the point of even being used in its album release video's list of examples of just how good rips have gotten over the years. MtH has this touch for quality that is just indescribable.

As mentioned before, a big appeal of Big Chungus rips in particular to me is just how many songs the meme comes packaged with - its mainly using the aptly named Big Chungus song by CG5 as its lead melody, but later switches in elements of both BIG CHUNGUS | Official Main Theme by Endigo and Big Chungus by The Slopster as the rip progresses. A kind of variety gets to be injected into this already high-quality arrangement without having it lose focus from the core joke.

That joke, of course, being the very sensible and sane "What if Big Chungus was in Shovel Knight". SiIva truly is wonderful for enabling things like this happen - and for it to always be of such high quality.

[vg-music-i-like]

Soak Patrol Alpha // Mighty Switch Force

[fancypantsrecords]

Jake Kaufman - Shantae And The Pirate's Curse | Limited Run Games | 2023 | Black

[themagicradio]

Alchemy- Jake Kaufman

From the Shovel Knight:Plague of Shadows soundtrack. I still maintain that no song from a video game dlc should go this hard

[wizardofjam]

song of the day 25!!

radical galaxy by jake kaufman

video game music!?!?!? in my song of the day?!?! the game is catgirl without salad, an absurd game. this song is fun and it changes styles for sorta every section and i think thats cool

[wokeupwiththissong]

The Battle Within - Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows

[nikkisticki]

MUSIC 5 MONDAY (Week 1)

Totally didn't forget on Friday so I'm going to overcompensate to assure myself I won't forget (because how embarrassing would that be) so gonna start on Mondays and post some grooves using the tag #Music 5 Monday

Pretty good game that wants to talk big words about complicated subjects, and unlike it's sister game YIIK (as this game has a fucking YIIK event in it, which is somehow as badly made as YIIK itself) it mostly succeeds.

Also, it's the best game soundtrack to fuck to, trust me

Speaking of sexy things, what a MUSTACHE...oh also, they filmed this video in actual factual space

IDK the mustache is more important tbh

LISTEN, Black Bullet is awful, absolutely dreadful, partially because of interference from the company making the products which drove the artist mad as they turned his Cyberpunk dystopia into an anime about Loli's doing kung-fu, and partially because the Soundtrack is done by THE MAN Shirō Sagisu, who has done many many amazing soundtracks including most famously Evangelion.

Black Bullet was butchered so brutally that the creator quit his job after the sixth book mid-series and opened a restaurant.

If anyone's curious, feel free to ask me about this as I've suffered through the full LN, Manga and Anime and have a lot of very angry things to say about capitalism and Japan being the fucking worst sometimes

I'm a big fan of the Mash-Up genre, because when done well it can create an entirely new sound that I really appreciate. There's actually a fascinating connection between it and "A.I" (It's not A.I) Art, because this is a process that requires a delicate touch as someone makes specific choices that requires a mixture of taste and skill to really appreciate how to make each element work, and """"A.I""" art just blenders everyone's work together and tries to find the average

Tech Bro's hate the blender comparison

Katana Zero - Hit The Floor

If you've not played Katana Zero, you've been living a pale imitation of life. Amazing game, fantastic music, probably my favorite game of that year and easily in the top 50 Indie games. I know that sounds like a lot, but I've played a lot of fucking indie games

Y'know, cause fuck capitalist art

If you've not heard this bonus track, it really brings together the best of the Shovel Knight campaigns. Mona is best girl

[buzzybee26]

I swear I'm never actually making the style of music I'm uploading at any one time.

Like, I was making ambient stuff whilst uploading my dubstep backlog and now I've started uploading ambient again I'm back to making dubstep and also other edm genres too

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 23/09/2023

From The Shad​-​slows (Plains of Des​-​passing​-​tú)

Season 4 Episode 2 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume for Wii U

Ripped by UUN4

Exactly one week ago, I covered what I believe to be one of the most legendary rips in the channel's life - Plains of Des-passing-to. In that post, I tried to explain just what makes Despacito such a fun source for SiIvaGunner to use - that its overexposure paired with its genuine good qualities as a catchy tune makes it something every SiIva viewer will immediately recognize and begrudgingly vibe to. Paired with the infectiously fun instrumentation and overall style of Shovel Knight, it resulted in a banger many still return to frequently.

Two years later, though, UUN4 would return to that very same concept for a rip and make what's effectively its direct sequel. In the same way that From the Shadows sought to reimagine the original Strike the Earth! into a more sombre, melancholic piece, From The Shad​-​slows (Plains of Des​-​passing​-​tú) takes a similar approach to the original Despacito arrangement. Its slower, moodier, almost atmospheric in a way, despite still using Famitracker and a lot of similar instruments as its base and despite still, yknow, being Despacito of all songs. Yet it follows through on its concept from start to finish and is, just like the original From the Shadows, in my opinion a much more interesting listen - even though the original in this case was already one of the most fun listens on SiIva. Every note placed is perfect, every cue from the original rerendition is translated in such a purely authentic way - its all so good and so natural, its as if it was produced right alongside the original rip back in Season 3.

My affection may also be in due part to how recently I discovered this arrangement: the original track sits at close to 200 thousand views, wheras this sits at barely over 25 thousand. Its not a rip I see shared around nearly enough given its quality, and I'm hoping this shoutout will do it at least a little bit of justice.

Quality of From The Shad​-​slows (Plains of Des​-​passing​-​tú) aside, it plays into a part of SiIvaGunner that I really do love - that these kinds of becks and calls even exist within the channel to begin with. It wasn't as if Plains of Des-passing-to was a momentous occasion in the channel's life that would therefor obviously be paid tribute to in the future - UUN4 simply realized on his own how fun it would be to expand upon a joke he told amidst hundreds of others during Season 3. The deeper you go into SiIvaGunner, and indeed the deeper you'll go on this blog, the more fascinating examples like this you'll find on the channel - rips paying tribute to one another despite releasing several years apart, and despite sometimes not even being as popular as Plains of Des-passing-to was.

Nothing on SiIvaGunner is ever forgotten. Not even if its a hit Latin pop song from 2017.

[vg-music-i-like]

Rainbow Love Zone // Mighty Switch Force 2

[selfinflictedgunshotwound]

i re-read i'm thinking of ending things bc, once again, i was ranting about the movie adaptation for an hour to my brother and i hate the movie even more now lmao. i don't really wanna but i'll probably rewatch the movie sometime this week and write a new letterboxd review with my final thoughts about it and how it doesn't work as an adaptation or even really a movie lmao

[flashfuckingflesh]

Wake Up and Get Lost in the EVIL Flowers. "Terror Firma" reviewed! (Dark Arts Entertainment / Blu-ray)

“Terror Firma.” The First Dark Arts Entertainment TItle Now Available! Having no place to go during the middle of an unexplained, national Marshall Law event where citizens must remain indoors or else face imprisonment, Lola bunks in with her fellow adopted brother Louis and his bizarre tenant Cage. Though Lola and Louis have not seen each other in years, they quickly bond to deflect Cage’s…

[nebuvoid]

wait i just remembered THE best overclocked remix. FFVI songs 'Aria de Mezzo Carattere', 'Grand Finale?', 'Overture', 'The Wedding' but its QUEEN-ified. usually i shy away from sung covers but by god this is so well done 💗

[sylvyspritii]

Here's my prediction; disco will come back in a huge way in the late 20's, maybe combined with some other genre, like electro-disco