#extended VGM

[posthumanwanderings]

[ Tomonori Sawada: Jet Set Radio - Electric Toothbrush ]

[marcussour]

[9823678]

[GB Style] Akuroma/Colress Battle theme Extended

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 17/11/2023

Beyond the Floating Isles

Season 4 Episode 2 Featured on: Summer​-​Colored Smiles ~ The SiIvaSummer All​-​Star Festival Collection

Ripped by redoxwarfare

Due to the absolute volume of rips per each album, a lot of my time listening to SiIvaGunner is done so rather passively. I'll chuckle with a joke I recognize, add tracks to "Banger" and "Vibes" playlists if I'm enjoying them, and continue with my day. Its only when I decide to just listen to those playlists in particular that my brain starts getting into gear again. Like...what *is* Beyond the Floating Isles even from? I knew it was an absolute vibe of a rip, yet knew nothing else about it. That was when my journey started - and my sudden, adoring infatuation with the band "Crying".

I only just recently turned 22 years old, and for a long part of that life, I didn't really...listen to music. I enjoyed looking up my favorite video game music, and Minecraft music videos were of course part of the collective childhood of my generation...yet the act of just listening to music for music's sake, the appeal of the creative medium, was somehow lost on me. There's likely something deep-rooted in my neurodivergent mind that explains this, but SiIvaGunner has as a result been a way for me to find bands and albums that I truly connect with - through the shared passion of video game music, I've been able to grow that emotional attachment to bands that I otherwise wholly felt like I lacked. The most prominent example of that is of course Maroon 5 thanks to channel creator Chaze the Chat's enduring passion for the band in the channel's first four Seasons: I've discussed in posts like Moves Like K.K. just how much that passion reflected back onto me, and its far from the only band I've gone through this with. It may sound silly to say, but these video game mashups and arrangements and meme edits have genuinely helped me grow attached to vocals and melodies and themes from the wider music industry that I never would've otherwise.

Which brings us to my most recent experience with this - Beyond the Floating Isles, and Patriot by Crying. After making more of an initiative for myself to listen to more non-VGM this year, and after having this rip sit in my playlists for years on end, I decided it was finally time to do my due digging. What I found was a band I'd never heard of before, with only one true album release, and a lack of any real activity over the last six years. Beyond the Fleeting Gales sits at just shy of 150 thousand views on YouTube - less than SEVERAL of the rips I've covered here on this blog, yet is one of my new all-time favorite albums yet released. Patriot may be the song covered in today's rip and the one I'm the most emotionally attached to, but the album in its entirety exudes a similar vibe that I'm absolutely enamored with - a vibe that redoxwarfare did an incredible job distilling into a rip. Float Islands was an excellent choice for a song to use for such an atmospheric, uplifting song as Patriot - the two themes have little in common in terms of joke-material, but its clear to me that Beyond the Floating Isles was not made with comedy as its main intent.

I have no connection to redoxwarfare - never spoken, not sure of which rips they've made prior, and no true image of their interests and goals as a ripper. Yet Beyond the Floating Isles speaks with so much intent and love - love for a band that feels destined to be forgotten, yet is adored by the few in the masses who have found them. And I extend my deepest, sincerest gratitude toward redoxwarfare for succesfully introducing me to Crying - even if its three years after the fact, I now finally see the Fleeting Gales, and beyond.

(no but seriously go listen to Crying i will break traditional post formatting just to give you easy access to it theyre SO GOOD)

[toyota-supra]

I hate extended vgm videos fuck man I don’t wanna hear this shit for 30 minutes if I did I’d just loop the video

[theworstzangooseever]

Daily VGM #233: Relax.

I.. Don't feel like making a big post today, honestly. Stickerbush Symphony again. This video in particular used to be an "internet checkpoint" that would randomly show up in people's recommended tab, and the comments were genuinely wholesome and nice. Though the video seemingly got false reported and taken down. As such, this is a reupload. Still a really lovely extended cut of the track with a nice background. C'mon and relax, you've earned it.

[krissiefox]

A List of Bandcamp Cover and Remix Albums

While I’m at it, here are a bunch of albums containing covers or remixes from either bands or video games that I’d recommend grabbing in case they get removed from the site. Some are free to download, others cost money. I haven’t listened to all of them myself yet, but they’re things I put on my wish-list because they looked interesting. https://datadiscs.bandcamp.com/album/the-revenge-of-shinobi-remastered

https://datadiscs.bandcamp.com/album/streets-of-rage-remastered

https://danieltidwell.bandcamp.com/album/versus-video-games-4

https://geoffplaysguitar.bandcamp.com/track/crazy-bus-main-menu-theme-but-its-doom

https://mdvhimself.bandcamp.com/album/shadow-warrior

https://entertainmentsystem.bandcamp.com/album/super-entertainment-system

https://dac2k9.bandcamp.com/album/nintendo-and-others-remixes-ii

https://theviledoctrine.bandcamp.com/track/superbeast-rob-zombie-cover

https://mdvhimself.bandcamp.com/album/sim-city-2000

https://mdvhimself.bandcamp.com/album/golden-axe

https://mdvhimself.bandcamp.com/album/monkey-island-2-lechuck-s-revenge

https://mdvhimself.bandcamp.com/album/the-curse-of-monkey-island

https://mdvhimself.bandcamp.com/album/the-secret-of-monkey-island

https://mdvhimself.bandcamp.com/album/descent

https://mdvhimself.bandcamp.com/album/descent-2-2

https://theviledoctrine.bandcamp.com/track/superbeast-rob-zombie-cover

https://dac2k9.bandcamp.com/album/nintendo-and-others-remixes-ii

https://thekoopasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/warp-zone

https://entertainmentsystem.bandcamp.com/album/super-entertainment-system

https://mdvhimself.bandcamp.com/album/shadow-warrior

https://mdvhimself.bandcamp.com/album/doom

https://mdvhimself.bandcamp.com/album/hexen

https://mdvhimself.bandcamp.com/album/doom-2

https://pixelizer.bandcamp.com/album/vgm-nes-legendary-pixelizer-remix-update-11-09-2016

https://psychostick.bandcamp.com/album/and-stuff

https://tnywvs.bandcamp.com/album/undertale-chill

https://voodoolion.bandcamp.com/album/episode-ii-rust-and-blood

https://giantwomanband.bandcamp.com/track/be-wherever-you-are-from-steven-universe

https://gamemusic4all.bandcamp.com/album/a-sega-genesis-compilation

https://theoneups.bandcamp.com/track/super-mario-bros-theme

https://mariancall.bandcamp.com/album/marian-call-sings-the-classics-vol-i https://8bitinstrumental.bandcamp.com/album/extended-pixels-more-music-from-lobei https://theoneups.bandcamp.com/album/part-seven https://huseyinthebrain.bandcamp.com/track/andy-griffith-theme-slapped https://graemenorgate.bandcamp.com/track/i-want-you-now

[fancypantsrecords]

Number 201 - Fate/Extended Play | Geneon Entertainment | 2007 | Black

[harrypotterhogwartsmystery]

Xenogears Revival Disc - Shevat -The Wind Calls- Extended

[nostalgia-ost]

Battlefield 1 Main Menu Song (Zajdi Zajdi) [Extended Version]

[posthumanwanderings]

[ Jun Senoue: Sonic Adventure 2 - Radical Highway (NoPlay) ]

[lazylazyleaves]

WELL, WHY NOT? XD

Frappe Snowland / Sherbet Land (extended) - Kenta Nagata

[bazmalexander]

Touhou 16 [東方天空璋] | Concealed Four Seasons | Extended

[nullarysources]

Here's VGM Collective's cover of "The Moon" from DuckTales for the NES, which you may have heard a million covers of before in your lifetime. There are a bunch of different parts of this arrangement that I like, such as the reharmonization, but I'm definitely just linking this for the beginning, which extends the 15/8 intro to play a trumpet solo over it

[hcmj]

HCMJ’s Favorite Albums of 2019!

Listen to a mix featuring these albums here: HCMJ’s 2019 End Of Year Mix

Other Favorites:

David Bruce - The North Wind Was a Woman

galen tipton - fake meat

upusen - Highland Ave.

BLACKPINK - Kill This Love

Starkey - Earth EP

Lamp - ‘A Distant Shore’ Asia Tour 2018

AWITW - Ｓｈｅ Ｗａｌｋ Ａｌｏｎｅ う者姻

Seaketa - Gion ぎおん

SNJO - Diamond

BONNEVILLE - AFFORDABLE LUXURY

20) Gareth Davis & Scanner - Footfalls

I first found the experimental composition/clarinet music of Gareth Davis in the early 2010′s during my initial dive into the Miasmah catalog. Teamed up here with another electronic musician/clarinetist, Footfalls uses long, poetic waves of deep woodwinds and synth improv to describe hauntingly desolate environments. It only seems fitting to start the list with one of many bookends on a decade in the grim, cold grey of Philadelphia.

BANDCAMP | APPLE MUSIC | SPOTIFY

19) Barker - Utility

Arp and delay-driven rhythmic expression that recalls late-era Kraftwerk, building a pristine sci-fi future with ear-pleasing, rich, and laser-sharp production. Like disembodied trance or house music searching for a strong beat that never comes, Utility is absolute, skillfully-stated synth pleasure.

BANDCAMP | APPLE MUSIC | SPOTIFY

18) Sean McCann/Seth Graham w/Kymatic Ensemble  - Split Series Vol. IV

Seth Graham’s Gasp was a big favorite in 2018, here condensed and re-imagined for chamber ensemble. Sean McCann’s “Vilon” finds a blissful middle-ground between electronic ambient music and traditional western instrumentation, like a poignant hymn sung somewhere far away, while the new “Gasp” arrangements are full of expressiveness and surprises.

BANDCAMP

17) 猫 シ Corp. & t e l e p a t h - Building a Better World

Deep bass pulses and distant rain welcome us to a familiar comfortable place, but as the unmistakable sound and melodic freedom of telepath’s original synth work bends its way over rolling toms in the reverb-soaked hifi opener, it becomes clear that this album is something new and special. Full-on new age drenched in an endless downpour, it’s a huge and beautiful world that’s blissful to be lost in.

BANDCAMP | APPLE MUSIC | SPOTIFY

16) Various Artists - Oneironaut

Another rare case of a compilation that is actually worth listening to, Japanese indie powerhouse Local Visions assembles the best talent from the sax-loving, jazz-infused, post-vaporwave electronic underworld of Japan and beyond in the indomitable Oneironaut comp. Notable contributions from Utsuro Spark, upusen, Tsudio Studio, tamao ninomiya, and countless others deliver a hazy daydream.

BANDCAMP

15) wai wai music resort - WWMR 1

Also from Local Visions comes this special collection of tracks caught somewhere between “lost LP found in a record crate” and “bedroom 4-track” - two distinct lofi flavors that mysteriously meld seamlessly on WWMR 1. It sounds new and old, youthful and mature, and full of affection for love and the music it references.

BANDCAMP | SPOTIFY

14) EXID - Me & You

There’s something about this mini-album, a Christmas time snowy nostalgia as the sun sets on another chapter of life (and era of kpop) in tracks like “나의밤” and “WE ARE..,” the Jamiroquai funk of “내일해 (Urban Mix),” or club igniting title track - EXID may never exist in this form or at this level again, and like so many of my favorites this year it reflects the recent history of its genre brilliantly.

APPLE MUSIC | SPOTIFY

13) Fire-Toolz - Field Whispers (Into the Crystal Palace)

Field Whispers is the stunning next step in the evolution of Fire-Toolz that feels completely at home on the finely-curated Orange Milk. Extended sax-soaked dreams collide with splinters of music jumbled and broken, elegant and disjointed, all bouncing off each other while still leaving room for moments of soaring guitar and dreamy synth pads.

BANDCAMP | APPLE MUSIC | SPOTIFY

12) Hakobune - The Last of Our Time Together

With over 50 releases (4 just this year!), Hakobune’s discography can seem like an impenetrable wall of ambience, but like classics Seamless and Here and Love Knows Where, The Last of Our Time Together stands out - monumental and multi-dimensional - a slow dance skidding along the frozen surface of an endlessly deep, rich sea of emotion.

BANDCAMP | APPLE MUSIC | SPOTIFY

11) FM Skyline - Advanced Memory Suite

As nostalgic electronic music continues to evolve and find itself elevated in the hands of increasingly-focused musicians, FM Skyline delivers a joyful retrospective on a decade that gave new life to so many old sounds. Exploring the inner recesses of our memory and delusion, Advanced Memory Suite turns the page on a decade of chillwave/synthwave/vaporwave/whateverwave. It’s a hypnotic monument to the modern renaissance.  

BANDCAMP | APPLE MUSIC | SPOTIFY

10) emamouse - Black place on the edge

It was a huge year from the prolific Tokyo-based visual artist and musician emamouse, whose non-stop creative output continues to challenge the very nature of reality. Black place on the edge was a standout favorite this year, layered and mysterious - incidental music for the surreal dreamworld described in mou’s most unnerving illustrations. Like waking up and finding yourself trapped inside Quest 64.

BANDCAMP

09) Koeosaeme - Obanikeshi

My favorite Orange Milk release of the year, Koeosaeme delivers another absolute hurricane of hyper-detailed, sensory-extreme, buckshot-to-the-face arrangements. The sheer amount of data on this album is staggering, with more musical information packed into a few minutes of its blissful chaos than most full length albums combined.

BANDCAMP | APPLE MUSIC | SPOTIFY

08) Jaeho Hwang - Non-self 비자아

I was super fortunate to play a show with Jaeho Hwang in Tokyo during this year’s Neo Gaia Phantasy tour - his immense set started so intensely it’s as if the entire room was cast under a shamanistic spell, hypnotized by percussive expressionism, drawn to the light of digitally melting faces and occult rituals playing out on the screen behind him. Non-self 비자아 is without mercy and full of powerful and primal energy.

BANDCAMP | APPLE MUSIC | SPOTIFY

07) Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising

Natalie Mering’s subtly expressive, velvety voice on its own is enough to make anything she touches turn to gold, but her songwriting is so masterfully dialed in on Titanic Rising it’s as if Harry Nilsson came back from the dead to write a new volume of pop rock ballads to get us through the next 50 years. It’s an album dripping with love for all the best parts of the 1970′s (Stardust-era Willie Nelson, early ELO, “Lost Weekend” Lennon and friends, etc), but also showcases the compositional chops to match and sometimes surpass its musical lineage (e.g. “Picture Me Better”).

BANDCAMP | APPLE MUSIC | SPOTIFY

06) Monari Wakita - RIGHT HERE

Off the heals of last year’s jaw-dropping Ahead!, ex-Especia Monari Wakita continues to defy modern conventions while asserting herself as one of the most powerful female voices in jpop. “エスパドリーユでつかまえて” sounds like Hitomitoi when she was a rising star, FRIEND IN NEED continues the new jack swing flirting, “やさしい嘘” sounds like it’s begging to be sampled by a future funk artist, and the lead-off single “Just a Crush for Today” is somewhere in a stop-and-go freefall between Billy Joel and Sonic R.

VIDEO 1 | VIDEO 2

05) Yeule - Serotonin II

Beneath the subtle power and diffusion of a voice like an extra-dimensional Julee Cruise, Serotonin II’s beautifully bleak paintings of the world it carefully constructs are reflective of Yeule’s transcendence into the artist’s next form. Crumbling brutalism under a blinding white sky, aliens in a graveyard - the romance of eternal torment in the spiral - all in dark room illuminated by a computer monitor sometime in the 00′s.

BANDCAMP | APPLE MUSIC | SPOTIFY

04) The Caretaker - Everywhere at the End of Time - Stage 6

The final release for this multi-year project, capturing a mind being lost to dementia, also marks the end of Leyland Kirby’s multi-decade spanning Caretaker project - a project that has had an immense impact on my perception of the limitlessness of music. Now completed, Everywhere at the End of Time towers as a 50 track, 6.5 hour journey from dreamy lucidity to terrifying confusion and darkness.

BANDCAMP

03) Tsudio Studio - Soda Resort Journey

Tsudio Studio brings a contemporary frame to leisure fantasy. Instant classics “Kiss in KIX,” “Asian Coke Light,” and “Like a Ruin” expand on the electro-bossa pop of Port Island, while surprises like “Beijing Cat” expand and explore new worlds of sound. One perfect chord after another, from start to finish, Soda Resort Journey is bubbly and delicious to listen to. Play it looped, close your eyes, be where you’d rather be.

BANDCAMP | APPLE MUSIC | SPOTIFY

02) Minuano - Butterfly Dream

Lamp vocalist Kaori Sakakibara’s side project Minuano is like some mutant variant of Lamp - equally complex while slightly less disorienting arrangements (although there are a few re-worked Lamp classics on here), tighter pop sound, stunningly immaculate vocal production - all while maintaining the unique orchestral jazz pop that makes both bands such a euphoric joy to listen to. “Memory of Soda Pop” was my favorite track released by anyone this year.

BANDCAMP

01) EQUIP - CURSEBREAKER X

This was the year of EQUIP. No better story for this year, no better sound than CURSEBREAKER X - the songs from this album will always bring back a thousand memories of smoke-filled clubs, dark forests, and snow-capped mountains from across Japan - the building promise of absolute freedom and a happier tomorrow as we all lived the Neo Gaia Phantasy.. But even without my personal connection to the music, the hardware-driven “perfect sound” VGM and EQUIP’s signature cassette tape destruction has never been better balanced than it is here - it’s loud, and filled with unforgettable melodies and unknown lands. It’s monumental and iconic and will stand the test of time and it was my favorite album of 2019!

BANDCAMP | APPLE MUSIC | SPOTIFY

[vgm-in-irregular-time-of-the-day]

DAY 1525) Sonic Shuffle - Spicey Sea

Composer: Hidenobu Otsuki, Ryo Fukuda, Takeo Suzuki, Yoshitaka Hirota, Kazumi Mitome

Celebrating NA dreamcast release day (20th anniversary) with my #1 favorite VGM soundtrack of all time (and therefore my favorite Dreamcast soundtrack), Sonic Shuffle!!!!

If you know my tastes at all it should be unsurprising why I love an OST as crazy complex and bizarre (and late 90s/early 2000s-feeling) as this!! (though it may surprise you that a Sonic version of Mario Party of all things turns out to have this much music at this complexity/weirdness level in it)

I put off posting this specific one for such a long time because it’s ridiculously erratic and hard to count, but I’ve got it down comfortably as this now right here:

(0:00 - 0:02) 1 bar of 21/16

(0:02 - 0:22) 4 bars of 5/4

(0:11 - 0:22) 3 bars of 11/8, 1 bar of 21/16

(0:22 - 0:30) 4 bars of 5/4

(0:30 - 0:37) 4 bars of 15/16

[loop]

Some aspects are debatable, like I think some people might write :22′s 5/4 section to start 1 16th note later, and have the previous bar be another 11/8 bar. This does make sense with how I count the rhythms of some of the earlier parts but puts the downbeat of everything else in a different place than where I feel it.

Either way this is rhythmically EXTREMELY erratic and hard to follow and as such I’m sure there’s other ways many people would rather this be written out too beyond the example I just explained! Could write it at 2x tempo and break it into some sort of mixed meter like [7/8 + 7/8 + 3/4] for the first 5 section, and so on

OH also one very cool thing to note is that the 15/16 section is polymetric for the last two bars, the background layer’s looping in 18/16 for the last two bars instead of 15 (and this extends to overlap with the loop point as well)

Super goofy and fun track, and I guess feels somehow fitting as a celebration for this anniversary of the system my favorite game ost is for!