Musical Discoveries in Touhou Fandom

[Ken Hisuag 151]

Unbeknownst to me in my postings since the tournament, 11th Hour was working on their next album. This is a collaboration group of orchestral remixers organized by crescentia, and notably features several artists which I've recently posted about. I feel I've done crescentia himself a great disservice in not featuring him sooner, so here's his track from the album:

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Next up in the featured chiptune remixes is Kommisar. He hasn't posted anything recently, but there's several past arrangements from him which are worth a listen. His style is more complex than the retro sound of HertzDevil.

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Buskerdog has just unintentionally scared me, and I applaud him for his incidental timing. I don't know if audio notifications are new, but I'd never head them before now.

Edited November 14, 2020 by Ken Hisuag

[Ken Hisuag 151]

@buskerdog I've seen those pop up in my recommended before. I appreciated the second one; I wish remixes of Witches' Ball relied more heavily on the Seihou version.

Also, hi Amamiya!

Edited November 14, 2020 by Ken Hisuag

[Dana Iclucia 77]

ey~! it's one of those times that occurs once every thousand years i guess

 

[Dana Iclucia 77]

And while i'm here gotta post this i guess
 

It's not 2hu yeah but EastNewSound is circle that also created lot of touhou stuff in past it also includes PV which is quite good at least in my opinion still main dish is song which i like so damn much even tho it's one of my newest discoveries

 

Edited November 14, 2020 by Amamiya Yuki-

[Ken Hisuag 151]

@Amamiya Yuki- The song's not bad, but I'm not sure it's Touhou related. Leastways, I can't detect any familiar motifs myself.

[Dana Iclucia 77]

It may be related somehow but i honestly doubt it i literally can't hear any theme in it also no metadata like original song/game etc which most of touhou arranges have only thing that's related is fact it's created by ENS which is one of more popular 2hu circles especially trance/electronic wise 

[Dana Iclucia 77]

It may be not related but i think we are missing channel for music in general not just other games or 2hu music so i decided to post it here instead

 

[buskerdog 200]

29 minutes ago, Ken Hisuag said:

Buskerdog has just unintentionally scared me, and I applaud him for his incidental timing. I don't know if audio notifications are new, but I'd never head them before now.

They're nothing new, just doesn't happen often. I'm still here by the way, got another thing to post...

[Ken Hisuag 151]

Yeah, I remember EastNewSound; I still [guiltily] listen to Beneath the Scarlet Moon.

Um . . . didn't you make that thread?

Speaking of which, I was gonna post some of V.K's work over there . . .

[Dana Iclucia 77]

1 minute ago, Ken Hisuag said:

Um . . . didn't you make that thread?

oh yeah you are right it was so dead i just genuinely forgot about it lmao

[buskerdog 200]

Okay this is the third music post I've made today, but I'm in a eurobeat mood again and I've been binging a load of new stuff today.

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Okay bye I'm gonna listen to the new things you guys have posted tomorrow probably.

[Ken Hisuag 151]

1 minute ago, Amamiya Yuki- said:

oh yeah you are right it was so dead i just genuinely forgot about it lmao

Honestly, I've been afraid to post in it as often as I've felt inclined for fear of overdoing the non-Touhou content. I already have Other Game Music, and I don't want to push the patience of the moderators.

[Dana Iclucia 77]

cya

[Ken Hisuag 151]

11 minutes ago, buskerdog said:

Okay bye I'm gonna listen to the new things you guys have posted tomorrow probably.

Fair enough; thanks for sharing!

Also I find it hilarious that the three of us being here at the same time has meant a barrage of back-and-forth posts.

Edit: Did you know that when a thread is getting a barrage of consecutive postings, it's labeled as "HOT!" in the forum menu?

Edited November 14, 2020 by Ken Hisuag

[Dana Iclucia 77]

2 minutes ago, Ken Hisuag said:

and I don't want to push the patience of the moderators

Yeah that may be actually a thing, but that's not literally same topic 3x over again since we have other, touhou and also odd music discoveries (odd is also pretty much dead for now i think) it should be fine... i guess

[Ken Hisuag 151]

I wanted to add a couple more Kommisar pieces (just 'cause), and YaboiMatoi just released his prog metal album.

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I've been looking for Autumn related remixes for this Saturday, in keeping with Thanksgiving being next week. Unfortunately (but not unexpectedly), one rarely finds the better remixes by actively looking for them. Hopefully whatever I gather will suffice, and maybe the searching will trigger some proper discoveries via Youtube's Recommended.

[Dana Iclucia 77]

Ahh when i hear song like that all i want to do is bang to it, such one of the reasons i love trance so much



 

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Edited November 21, 2020 by Amamiya Yuki-

[Ken Hisuag 151]

Thanksgiving week is here! I'll be back before the day itself arrives, but it's still close enough for me to reference it. Here's some remixes (somewhat) suited to the occasion!

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I'm not quite satisfied with the first one, but I wanted at least one folk and at least one Tomorrow Will Be Special. I think I got lucky with the other two; most of the other Fall of Fall remixes I came across were metal, and CarrotWine is always a great find. Happy Thanksgiving, y'all!

[Dana Iclucia 77]

Ahh, Scarlet Curiosity was such a fun game.

[buskerdog 200]

22 hours ago, Ken Hisuag said:

I'm not quite satisfied with the first one, but I wanted at least one folk and at least one Tomorrow Will Be Special.

I was very satisfied with it. I liked all of those pieces.

[Ken Hisuag 151]

This is a piano remix which combines the first movement of Moonlight Sonata with Faith is for the Transient People. It works surprisingly well.

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My recommended has begun turning out Diao ye zong pieces. While I believe DF has an on-and-off feeling for the circle, I think the jazz-rock fusion of this piece should be appealing. Also, this will be another entry in my Emotional Skyscraper submissions.

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Finally, the next artist in my chiptune features is JX. He covers all sorts of chiptune styles, including the Touhou-associated PC-98.

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Edited November 28, 2020 by Ken Hisuag

[buskerdog 200]

Recently I've been going through my youtube history to compile all of the music I've listened to into a list to make it easier to keep track of, and something interesting I found was this; I've been rediscovering a fair number of pieces through doing this but this one in particular is interesting because I have no memory at all of listening to it before, so I guess originally I must have clicked on the video but then not watched it for some reason. It's actually a really unique arrangement, so I'm glad to have discovered it in this unusual way.

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Also another thing I've re-found is this, which I just felt like sharing. Maybe because it's a remix of the Aya theme that you don't hear that often, but also just because it's really jazzy.

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[Ken Hisuag 151]

This week's chiptune feature is Pegmode. His style is characterized by extended attacks and retreats, giving his music a slide-y feel. I picked these two because I like it when an artist adds a spontaneous interlude to better fit the piece into the chosen style.

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I alluded to Garison that I would find more piano remixes, and I can finally make good on that. As/Hi Soundworks' video titles are all in Japanese, which makes it difficult for me to peruse his work. But everything I've looked at is amazing; the videos are high quality in both audio and visual, the arrangements tend to be slowed down from the originals without loosing the effect, and he even showcases the sheet music. He's also been posting very frequently, so I expect I'll be listening to him more in the future.

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Edited December 13, 2020 by Ken Hisuag

[Ken Hisuag 151]

Almost forgot to post today.

It took me almost a year, but I finally found another waltz remix.

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So.

When I decided to start featuring some of the chiptune artists I'd been following, I discovered that the unofficial hiatus of MegaZun had been broken just that month. At the time, I thought it was quite fortunate. Then I featured Kommisar, and alluded to his months of absence. Later that month, he unexpectedly dropped his long-awaited second Touhou album. I thought it rather ironic to have just missed this. Finally, I posted some of Pegmode's work last week, only to discover this week that he has been working on his own album.

Please comment what music I should summon next.

40Nix should be safe, since he just released his second album. This is a return to the more retro style of chiptune.

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Just made it!

[buskerdog 200]

Unrelated relatively recent discoveries.

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This is an arrange of Mountain of Faith's title theme. I looked into Eternal Melody after hearing this, but unfortunately I couldn't find much from them, at least not much that I liked as much as this.

This one is actually a recent discovery lol. It's a just a very nice upbeat song that uses the main melody of Sanae's stage theme really well (no, I can't be bothered to type out the whole name of that theme here).

 

 

On 12/13/2020 at 4:55 AM, Ken Hisuag said:

Please comment what music I should summon next.

Although I think I already post a lot of it, I'd personally like to see your take on eurobeat. If that's not so up your alley, my other suggestions are rock or maybe drum n bass for something we don't see too often?

Edited December 14, 2020 by buskerdog