Anyway regardless of whether this becomes a project for public consumption, I'm still building a huge playlist of very good songs from rhythm games. And I may release this publicly. We'll see!

Like now I'm just super interested in what happened because many of the producers on that OST are great in other soundtracks. Did they just have b-sides to give? 🤔

2) my brain loves the ranking format, but I don't like having to listen to a bunch of music I dislike AND having to be vocal about that dislike, which of course is necessary for an exhaustive ranking. and I'm not gonna lie I just got through an OST that was so... Go off give me nothing at all 😂

the wildest part is, Spotify's tiktok tag surfing feature is ACTUALLY GOOD but seems to be different to what they use for the tiktok style tiles on the home page, which alternate between "extremely popular album that is trending worldwide" or "a radio station for the last 3 bands you listened to"

Literally taking up so much real estate on the home screen for something I don't use and don't want to use.

After completing my first transcription, I did a deeper dive into my music collection today and came out with 100 new songs to analyse. I simply cannot help myself!
hopefully as my ear improves it will be easier to transcribe stuff? Or it won't be needed to do it so exhaustively?

I have like 40 tracks on my shortlist which is Ambitious. But I'm just gonna start with transcription (arguably the "easy" part), then try designing sounds to sound like the original (ouch oof ow).

Would love to know other people's experiences of this, or if anyone would like to come on this journey with me and transcribe or reproduce some tracks they love - even if just for a track or 2.

Likewise, there is a thin line of what I consider amplified enough to go into rock. But it's just a guideline! I'm excited to finally do this. We actually were going to do this at the conservatoire before I dropped out nearly a decade ago LMAO so this is nice to return to on my own terms.

The sorting itself was actually quite an agonising thing especially differentiating between maximal and minimal electronic. My thought is if there are lots of layers and aural candy that's maximal, and if there are just a few tight layers that are manipulated through the track, that's minimal.

so far the results have been cool! one okay album that i can see why it would appeal to me in another life. one knock my socks off 'how had i never heard this' album. (the album in question: open.spotify.com/album/2q6a60... )

Hearing the new renditions of Rabbit Rabbit and FSE songs highlights that this specific ensemble is something so special and unique. I am lucky to live in the timeline where they exist. it feels like the world has been righted that they could reunite like this.

Communing with the museum even in recorded form is a spiritual experience unlike any other. An incantation. Endlessly inspirational to me. they take me places I didn't know existed, time and again.