#duuzu

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 02/03/2024

One-Winged DJ

Season 7 Featured on: The Year of Grand Dad Sound Selection [Side A]

Ripped by duuzu, digboye, COCONABE, l4ureleye, Netyasha Roozi, Jiko Music Performed by Chase Beck

You may have noticed that I try to keep an air of suspense when doing posts on the King for Another Day tournament such as Thank You, Everybody!. That is, of course, to not spoil the victor of Season 4 Episode 1's year-defining event - but at this point, it's a bit of a fruitless endeavor to try and uphold. Because DJ Professor K's victory celebrations haven't just been contained to his awarded day-long takeover during Season 4 Episode 2 - the takeover that gave us incredible rips like AIN'T NOTHIN' LIKE A CHUNKY BEAT, 88811, Ska Cha Cha (Rotten Mix) at an absolute breakneck pace during the SiIvaSummer All-Star Festival. Because during that takeover, a new flame was kindled - a flame by the name of Jet Set Radio Evolution.

Hideki Naganuma's style of sample-filled funk music is DJ Professor K's headlining ripping source, the one most closely associated with the game that the character originates from. Yet its a style that can be expressed in so many ways, not needing to be derivative of any prior existing songs from the two Jet Set Radio games - September, for instance, is able to sound authentically Naganuma-esque whilst being built off of a song as far away from his style as possible. Jet Set Radio Evolution, then, is an entirely made-up game - its name and logo deriving from a declined proof-of-concept, but its "soundtrack" completely made up by the SiIvaGunner team. This is far from the first fake game on the channel, and not the first one to be done without much of a shred of irony (Kirby Rip Attack is due for coverage on here) - but, notably, its a fake game born specifically to keep DJ Professor K's impact on the channel alive in the Seasons past his takeover. And, well, it took a few Seasons, but during Season 7, the team started going truly ham in utilizing its true potential.

There are a number of these Jet Set Radio Evolution rips I want to cover on here, both ones from DJ Professor K's takeover and from its revitalized usage during Season 7 - but to me, it was One-Winged DJ that really showed just how much flexibility rippers have with Naganuma's style of music. One-Winged Angel has long been seen as a sort of legendary track to rip due just how extensive of a song it is, a song that has a distinctly menacing feel to it that I can't imagine is easy to translate into a rip. Rips like One Winged PSYcho - V​.​S. Sepsyrop feel like absolutely herculean endeavors, and during Season 7 in particular we saw an absolute tidal wave of rips using it, as if it were just any other meme source in the channel's backlog and not this legendary 7-minute long work of art. Hen'yoku no Piraman was the first of these I covered, and while One-Winged DJ is likely far from the last, it still manages to feel like it sticks out from the crowd in just how dense of a sound it has - likely a result of how many people contributed to its creation.

There's the obvious highlight, of course: Chase Beck, the voice of DJ Professor K himself, returns to the role with new lines to supplement the original choir in latin of the original song, and it immediately gives the rip a charm to it, especially all these years after the original event and after Chase Beck's last "needed" performance as the character had long since passed. Before that even gets to kick in, though, its hard not to notice just how many different parts of Jet Set Radio's soundtracks are utilized right from the beginning: a bassline and voicelines echoing That's Enough, samples and pacing from Sneakman, the interlude's melody broken by the noise and chaos of The Concept of Love, and all throughout using small little sound effects and one-second samples from all over the games' soundscapes.

This is the kind of rip I could sit here and dissect for pages on end, yet I believe the point has been made abundantly clear already. In a Season already FILLED with celebration of every part of SiIvaGunner's life, One-Winged DJ is an absolute flex of a celebration, reminding us all of why DJ Professor K truly earned his win whilst showing just how much there is to still be done within the ever-appealing Naganuma style. I'm beyond proud of the rippers involved in how this rip turned out, and hope that the Jet Set Radio Evolution rips continue to impress into Season 8.

[purbiworl]

I just really like this duuzu track and I feel it's fitting to share it today uwu

[wokeupwiththissong]

Blow My Speakers Up! - duuzu

[duuzu]

duuzu's Key & BPM Database, version 8

a huge list of music theory info for over 13,000 songs, sorted by key for use in mashups etc.

big .txt (697 KB) big google doc

[sleepycap]

i was tagged by @starzie

im currently working on stuff that can't be shown yet but i can show some of the stuff i made in the past few years while messing with audio files!

i tag @buginacup @digboye and @duuzu if they got anything cool they wanna share! :)

[crystal--force]

tagged by @duuzu to make a playlist that spells out my name. for fun i decided to pull songs out of my head rather than searching for letters which was actually kinda hard. not tagging anyone else but do it if you want

[crashlapine]

finally catching up on 78:GOLD and god damn. the first two minutes of this part have been running in a loop thru my head. fuckin fantastic sampling/mixing that calling it a mashup just feels too disingenuous. whole album's been super solid so far

[belvira]

another banger  given to me while working by the sound gods.

[zorak-phd]

(duuzu)

[ithisatanytime]

(duuzu)

[willmelon]

(duuzu)

@dcurmudgeon

[magicalgirlmindcrank]

Y'all like mashups right

[wokeupwiththissong]

Dragula (Si Non Oscillas, Noli Tintinnare Mix) - Jet Set Radio / Dragulas - duuzu

[duuzu]

i got tagged by @sleepycap to make a playlist where the first letter of each song spells my name! duuzu is a really short name tho so i did it four times lol

hey @crystal--force @the-coolest @sketch-bored, you should do this too! (u dont have to do it 4 times tho)

[sleepycap]

I got tagged by @zircus to make a playlist where the first letter of each song title spells out your name! I also don't use Spotify but I made sure to include songs that you can actually listen to on Spotify. Track 7 is Chu, Tayousei if anyone is confused! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5vG8J5s06HptTANZk47aK1?si=a30cdff8b5f14189 Tagging @duuzu, @digboye and @kirbware to make their own!

[melblur]

still thinking abt Blow My Speakers up using the fucking Minecraft Oof as a sample for the second half. Why? Who fucking cares it slaps.

Also shoutouts to the 30 seconds of We Are Number One, who cares if its a dead meme to everyone outside of Siiva just fucking put it in man