#Triple-Q

[allemn89]

Smol Nozomi offers you an apple!

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 13/01/2024

RNR (Rip No Riffs)

Season 1 No Album Release (Read More) DND (Do Not Destroy) - No More Heroes

Ripped by Triple-Q

Alright, uh, WHEW - I hope everyone's had a great day in a post-Christmas Comeback Crisis Episode 11 world!! I've been absolutely giddy with excitement and joy ever since I watched it and I'm so glad that the reception has been so universally positive all around. I'm trying to wind down from all of it, and figured I might as well push a rip I had down the pipeline to cover up earlier in the schedule. And hey - RNR (Rip No Riffs) is also somewhat Christmas Comeback Crisis-related! If you haven't heard the rip on its own, you've DEFINITELY heard it within that series.

For those out of the loop, RNR (Rip No Riffs) is used as the theme to the Rapper's Union HQ in the CCC, the hub of the story's chill resistance faction fighting against The Voice. Yesterday with 9​来​4s I wrote a fair bit about how excellent a job dante and c.o. have done in giving the series a very distinct soundscape, but the thing is - that doesn't just apply to composing new songs for the series. Plenty of rips from the channel's life have been used for music in the series without being explicitly made with that purpose, and RNR (Rip No Riffs) is probably the most widely recognized of these tracks?

I think it's an excellent choice for a lot of reasons, quality aside, because of just how well it slots into the series' tone and feel. The original DND (Do Not Destroy) is the laid-back lounge theme of the original No More Heroes, playing whenever Travis Touchdown is at home rather than slaughtering people en masse outside - it's a chill calm before the storm, so to speak. At a first inattentive listen, you may not even notice that RNR (Rip No Riffs) is edited at all, as its edits aren't exactly explicitly out of tune or in contrast to the original tune. As the track's chill vibe plays out, elements from All-Star are inserted into the backing, eventually being replaced with the guitar from Linkin Park's In The End - a song typically associated with pent-up anger, frustration, rage, hatred, the works. Yet the rip builds it all up so subtly, it never interrupts the chill lounge beat that laid the foundation for the original track, and so this change in emotion never truly registers as sounding out of place or wrong.

And to me, that's what makes it such a perfect fit for the Rappers' Union's theme - it's a home where these people relax, where they talk to one another and lounge, yet its also the place where all their bubbling rage against the oppression they face is being stored - the last remaining home to all of these damaged souls. The Christmas Comeback Crisis, for as silly as its premise is, and for as many lighthearted moments that it does have, is still fundamentally a story about strife and conflict, about a bubbling state of disarray that's slowly exploding into full-on warfare. RNR (Rip No Riffs) feels like the perfect theme to embody all of those emotions, a breezy jam playing in the background to a downtrot apartment space that slowly bubbles to become something far more serious, with far more grit and rage.

I certainly don't believe this sort of vibe was what Triple-Q had in mind with the original upload - at the end of the day, it's just a silly, classic Season 1 rip, changing just enough in a familiar song to sound different while still sounding recognizably like the original. Yet I find it so fascinating that the rip still stands on its own two feet, whilst adding some genuine gravitas and mood to the series it was eventually grafted on to - althewhile being such a relatively-obscure pick for a rip to use, that it didn't feel played out whatsoever when it showed up again.

A lot of the stuff I've covered for Season 1 on this blog has been of a sort of "higher" status, be it all-time classics like Live and Ooooooooooooooh and Pikmin Park, the emotional highs of Epic Flintstones and Stone Halation, or just generally ones tied to more well-remembered passion projects like Everyday Goodbyes (SiIvaGunner Band Cover). And in comparison, rips like RNR (Rip No Riffs) may end up feeling kind of...normal, kind of basic and simple in their edits. Yet that simplicity has never been a bad thing, and its never been anything holding rips down from striking pure gold, and there's something just so sweet about knowing that any rip, of any kind, any popularity, can eventually get this kind of association, this kind of retroactive use and meaning, that ends up drawing so many more associations and thoughts to it than were originally intended.

[majokkoradio]

"Kill la Kill: Final Boss Theme" - Kill la Kill/Sonic Adventure 2 - Mashup Remix of "Live and Learn" & "ambiguous"

Requested by Anon

[tinsin]

I know I'm late, but please watch this video.

[megamoeka]

With how the bird app has been, I'm coming back to tumblr to try and reconnect with people and explore new horizons.

[flamethrower-seagull]

Slaughterhouse 9 No Powers AU where Bonesaw is Triple-Q

(Because they both make fucked up Mash Ups)

[tinsinart]

I drew Triple-Q's OC, the Birthday Girl, doing the face from the "Clearly you don't own an air fryer" meme. It was fun! I like her design.

[werewolf-cuddles]

why am i almost crying over a meme mashup at 2 in the morning?

[mytastessuck]

Triple-Q: Final Boss Theme

More Triple-Q and their Kill La Kill album! Here's Ryuko as she was always meant to be: Shadow The Hedgehog! Ambiguous mixed up with Live And Learn. Give it a try.

Song Score: 1975/10

[sqwdkllr]

All of Phil’s characters are so very aroace agender coded. I will not elaborate just look at the guy

[my-secret-shame]

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 09/08/2023

Planet Wisp Mashup Medley

Season 1 Featured on: GilvaSunner's Highest Quality Video Game Rips: Volume 7: Part mm2wood

Ripped by Smoky

Requested by @cathode-glacier!

(heads-up: there's no YouTube embed on this one because the rip has been blocked due to copyright. RIP to the comments too)

(heads-up 2: the Bandcamp is still down, and the rip is too large to embed. A Google Drive embed is what you get instead.)

Ah, Triple-Q...perhaps the ripper whose name was MOST well known in the early days of SiIva. Its hard to say exactly what is is about Q that constantly draws so attention to him. Be it his Twitter antics, over a decade's worth of experience doing audio shitposting, a very strong and consistent brand of humor and content, or some combination of all of the above - Triple-Q's influence on SiIvaGunner during Season 1 was unmistakably his. He's pretty much THE reason Snow Halation got an immovable slot in the channel's lineup of jokes, and had tons of influence all around in those early years.

As I've covered before on File Select Fusion Collab, the Season 1 finale was originally meant to be THE ending of the channel, which meant that a lot of rips made during it had a very...bittersweet tone to them. Some, like the aforementioned Fusion Collab, gave heartfelt thanks to the channel's fans for being part of it, wheras some like Everyday Goodbyes (SiIvaGunner Band Cover) were more personal passion projects from the team. During this entire event, Planet Wisp Mashup Medley stood out as particularly interesting - a massive 21 minute jamboree of mashups, all connected through the various theme songs of Planet Wisp from Sonic Colors. And according to Triple-Q, Planet Wisp is a song so personal to him, he considers it his own leitmotif. This was no coincidence.

Essentially, Planet Wisp Mashup Medley takes Triple-Q's entire history of Planet Wisp mashups and remixes from 2012 to 2016, and melds and mixes them together to form one giant, sudden loveletter to one of SiIva's most important contributors. To those out of the loop with Triple-Q, this was a rip already worth celebrating over its length and consistent variety in sound. To those IN the loop, this was something else entirely, and as the years went on has become sort of a parting gift to the guy. Q doesn't really contribute to SiIva anymore and left the team right at the end of the first Season, yet the mark he left on the channel has been immense.

In comparison to all that, there's not a lot to actually say about the rip itself. It's a wonderful listen and one I oft come back to. Take a moment out of your day and listen to it in full.

[felinefractious]

🐱 British Shorthair

📸 BKH/BLH of Triple Chocolate

🎨 Cinnamon Tortoiseshell

[mjpens]

Tf boys. Next round is on Fish.

[tinsinart]

"Waiting for them to play Gangnam Style." A drawing of Triple-Q's OC, the Birthday Girl.