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    Musical Discoveries in Touhou Fandom

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    7 hours ago, Ken Hisuag said:

    My current working hypothesis is that this third soundtrack came from Mystic Square's music room. I am unable to verify this myself, but it would explain a few things

    If I remember correctly, I think the version of Touhou 1's soundtrack featured in Touhou 5's music room is indeed a remastered version. Not sure if this applies for the other games featured in Touhou 5's music room.

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    Musical Discoveries in Touhou Fandom

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    I've started making a habit of making a record of the songs I listen to each month. As such, it might start becoming routine for me to post on a monthly basis, as it's a good opportunity to go over what some of my discoveries were and cherry pick some ones to share here. We'll see how consistent I end up being with this.

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    A-One - LOVE INVASION
    I almost submitted this for the remix tournament, but seeing as I didn't, I gotta put it here. Very clever use and blending of the different themes used in this song.

    A-One - SNOWiNG
    This one features a pretty unusual combination of themes, Necro-Fantasy and Tiger-Patterned Vaisravana. Also Drunken recently mentioned he's a fan of Shou's theme so there's that.

     

    lastly...

     

    "Benbenbenbenbenbenben"
    -Stack, probably.

    Akatuski Records - VENTEN

     

     

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    Monster Hunter Rise soundtrack showcase

    Part 4/4: Wait, it's not Japanese?

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    The final part of this showcase is going to focus on the absolute highlight of this soundtrack: full on vocal songs, with LYRICS. Although before I dive right in, a quick disclaimer: these are NOT in Japanese. Although it sounds similar, the songs are actually in Monster Hunter's fictional language. Japanese versions of all these songs do exist as bonus tracks, and I very much recommend listening to those versions too, but as they are not used within the actual game, I will not feature them here.

    All the songs are canonically sung by in game characters, by the way! (But in most cases the singer and the character's VA are not the same.)

    The first song I will feature is used within the main area of the game's village - and seeing as this is where you'll end up in between every quest, it fits its job perfectly of creating a homely feeling even though the song is actually a prayer for the protection of the village against calamity

    And this next one is used for another section of the village. Relaxing youth choir song is not something I knew I wanted so much, until I actually had it...

    However, these vocal tracks aren't just restrained to the village - you'll even be treated with vocal songs during fights in the game. This last one I want to share isn't the final boss theme, but it does play during an important battle in the storyline, and is one of my favourite tracks from the OST.

     

    To sum up my closing thoughts on the soundtrack, the vocal parts really bring out a new element to the music, and it makes the OST to Rise not just feel like "The soundtrack of the next monster hunter game" but something with a wholly unique identity; and an evolution to the musical style of Monster Hunter.

    If I had to sum up this soundtrack in one word, it would be "lively". Because I feel that's exactly the effect the vocals in this soundtrack have, and for me it brings life the natural environments of the game, while also dually reflecting the people who make their home in this world, integrating nature strongly into their culture and now giving their all as they prepare for a coming calamity.

    But that's just my two cents. Perhaps it would have been an idea to focus a part of this on the themes used for said calamitous event, The Rampage, but I didn't consider it notable enough to integrate into my original plan for this showcase, and I've gone on long enough at this point anyway; you can always listen to the soundtrack yourself. And one last thing... if that previous paragraph made it sound like Monster Hunter has a complex storyline, let it be known that this couldn't be further from the truth, lol.

     

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    Monster Hunter Rise soundtrack showcase

    Part 3/4: The Chase

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    In my first post, I mentioned that there were some exceptions regarding all songs. Chase themes are what make up a large portion of these exceptions, being completely devoid of the vocals used so prominently in their battle counterparts. This gives them an entirely different feeling that helps to fit the feeling of pursuing a monster; and yet even then there is so much variety between different chase themes.

    The chase themes are short, due to them rarely being played for long in the actual game, but nonetheless have some of the most personality of all the music in the game.

    The first one I'll show is Chameleos's chase theme, as an example of an energetic chase theme.

    For the next two tracks, I'm using the chase versions of songs that appeared in my previous post. The chase version of Cold Blues and Flaming Reds is unique for being extremely ambient compared to all other chase themes; in very harsh contrast to both the previous chase theme here and the battle version of the theme. Yet despite this, I love it for the intense atmosphere of focus it creates.

    Finally I need to include the chase version of Barbarous Beast, just for the sheer climactic power it has.

     

     

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    Musical Discoveries in Touhou Fandom

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    I've been listening to some Touhou 18 remixes from Chocolate Fantasy recently, a Eurobeat circle who are new to me. I was going to share their song MINING & EATING, but I've also been catching up on the posts in this thread from when Unconnected Marketeers released and found that Ken has already shared it, so instead I'm gonna share this Kitten of Great Fortune remix from them that's become my latest addiction.

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    ChocoFan - LUCKY CAT

     

    I imagine we're going to start seeing a lot more touhou 18 arranges when Autumn Reitaisai comes, as that's the next big event where doujin circles will be selling new releases.

    Looking forward to hopefully hearing some Eurobeat of Ore from the Age of the Gods.

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    Monster Hunter Rise soundtrack showcase

    Part 2/4: Monster Hunting

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    Alright, for this entry it's time to get into some more battle themes, building upon the previously featured Sanctuary Abandoned by the Gods. The first song I want to show in this post is another generic area battle theme. Although I previously mentioned about the use of vocals in this soundtrack, this theme relegates that to more of a background role, maintaining more of an instrumental focus compared to the other area themes in the game. Nonetheless, this theme is a favourite of mine.

    Next I'm going to focus on some unique monster themes. And I simply can't not include the theme of the game's flagship monster, Magnamalo, because it's absolutely phenomenal.

    Finally to cap off this section is a rearrangement of a returning monster's theme.

    It's Zinogre's theme.

    Of course it is.

     

     

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    9 hours ago, Ken Hisuag said:

    Much hype!

    . . . Noted.

    I've got the thread record updated, but I have not been able to locate the original version of the "Arena Theme" from Monster Hunter Generations (Ultimate?). For the sake of others in my position of not being familiar with the music theme process of this series, I'd like to clarify that themes carry over from game to game, and may be posted to Youtube under entries in which they appeared but were not featured in the official soundtrack thereof. Case in point, the White Fatalis theme (Ancestral Dragon) from Monster Hunter Freedom is actually from Monster Hunter 2.

    Nice stuff. Although, it appears you've pasted in everything twice lol, you may want to fix that.

    By the way, I did some researching for you and found that the MHGen Arena theme is called "Draped in Valor". And regarding the difference between MHGen and MHGU, the latter is basically considered an expansion to the base game. You could make the distinction to point out which songs came from the base game and which one game from Generations Ultimate, but I don't think anyone will really mind it, seeing as you bundled in the Monster Hunter World: Iceborne themes under Monster Hunter World anyway. You've also used some of the Japanese names for the monsters in some titles, but again I don't think it matters much.

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    I'm back from my hiatus! Time for something that is long overdue. Yup, It's time for that Monster Hunter Rise OST showcase. I'm going to be going over this in a few different parts highlighting some of the different kinds of tracks used in the game, but to start with I'm going back to my first experience of the game with the demo, using some of the songs that were in it to give a taste of the soundtrack as a whole.

    Part 1/4: Introduction

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    And where better to start than with this game's rendition of Proof of a Hero?

    Next up, moving onto one of the game's battle themes. This one is a theme for the Shrine Ruins area.

    And finally, one of two short songs that's used for the game's title screen.

    These are essentially some of the songs that made up my first experience of the soundtrack. And throughout my time with the demo, something about the soundtrack stuck out to me: there was a lot of use of vocals in them; while background chanting and/or choirs have been present in some past MH songs, this demo used them much more widely than usual, and featured the vocals much more prominently, too.

    And indeed, as I would later discover from a developer interview, this was no coincidence, because this soundtrack actually uses vocals in some capacity for (almost) every song in the game! - well, there are some exceptions, but I'll get to that later. This vocal theming overall creates a strong identity for the soundtrack - not to mention the actual implementation of them into the songs is really good!

    I'll continue updating this on a semi-regular basis. With that introduction giving I think a good overview of what to expect, next time I'll be going into more specific sections of the soundtrack.

    Also, sidenote: I am SO HAPPY that people are finally uploading MH soundtracks with the SONG NAME! For the longest time, people always just uploaded as "X theme" even though the songs have always all had titles. I'm not sure why this was the case, but my best guess is that it could be something to do with translations for the song titles not being immediately available, as the MH series has had a history of Japan only releases. That being said, the titles have been known in the past, you just had to do a bit of looking. Anyways, I'm glad the proper song names are finally getting some recognition now! 

     

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    Musical Discoveries in Touhou Fandom

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    On 12/27/2020 at 3:14 AM, Ken Hisuag said:

    Since my recent searches for requested styles of music, my recommended has included an increased representation of these genres. I won't say y'all should expect more of those genres long term, but you can enjoy them while I've got 'em.

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    The last song from this post is now deleted, and despite my sleuthing around, I haven't been able to deduce what it was. Can you remember?

    If anyone remembers / has a way to know what it was, I'd be grateful.

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    Monster Hunter Rise is out now, and I have been enjoying not only the game, but the music a lot. The soundtrack for it has so far exceeded my expectations, which were already fairly high. So, I'm thinking I might like to do one of those OST showcase things similar to what Ken Hisuag sometimes does. I'm not doing it right now, I haven't decided how I'm going to structure it yet and I still need more time to play through the game anyway. But I have a feeling I'm going to need more than one post to do the music justice, which is why I'm making it known that it's possible I could do something like this in the future. Or I might just end up doing a regular post on it in the end. But still.

    Also, I've just seen Ken's post on December 31st about archiving previous songs posted here, which reminded me that the Monster Hunter 4 Main Theme (Setting off Wind) link was broken in one of my posts. So since Ken said he'd like to update the list if any broken links are updated, I'm going back to that post and replacing the link now.

    In the meantime, I'm gonna share the ABSOLUTE BANGER that is Khezu's theme!

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    I never played Scarlet Curiosity because I wasn't interested in the game's premise and definitely not because I don't play many fan games in general, but wow, that is some good music. The Broken Moon one actually made me laugh a bit the first time it transitioned to Septette. It had me thinking something like:

    Remilia: This is mine now.

    What's the original for the second song though? The closest thing I could link it to was Mystic Oriental Love Consultation, but I really can't tell.

    Also, I'm very happy you posted Onigashima in the Fairyland, because I almost NEVER hear arrangements of that song, and I really like the original. As great as Broken Moon is, I've always thought more of Onigashima in the Fairyland ~ Missing Power as Suika's theme. However whenever I click on a remix with Suika in the thumbnail - always Broken Moon or Oriental Memory.

    Since I'm on the topic of fan games, linking back to that post Garison made with Suika's theme in the Komajou Densetsu OST, that's a fan game I have played - both the first and second one. Although they aren't actually Touhou arrangements, they have some great music in their soundtracks too.

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    I'm not someone who normally watches anime, but I recently got into a show because of its soundtrack actually.

     

    Those familiar with my musical tastes shouldn't be surprised with what's in the spoiler tab.

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    @Ken Hisuag This... is not the first time you've posted music from ssbbmaster... correct? I'm sure I've come across them before, yet I don't remember ever exploring their channel, so I can only think that it must have been because you posted their music here before. Anyway, what's my point? Thank you for posting this one. Not only is that arrangement amazing, but through the intrigue of the recommended videos that appear at the end, I have now ventured into the rabbit hole and started exploring their videos (I hadn't even realised that they made the arrangements themself!), and found not only some of my new favourite orchestral arrangements, but even some really good non-orchestral stuff. You wouldn't expect it from such a small channel. Will be following this arranger from now on.

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    Talking about GET IN THE RING now, huh? Yeah, they're a good circle. Although Ken mentioned he was fond of their fun rock arrangements, I was actually more familiar with their more serious and h e a v y stuff, so it's cool to see to that more fun side which is also really good. Anyway, here's some stuff I know from them.

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    Starting off with my favourite song from them, which I found last month. When I originally found this I wanted to post it to musical descoveries, but then I decided I wanted to save it for a remix tournament. But now since we're talking about get in the ring, I think I might as well show it here. This song heavy, yet so... emotional. I don't know how to describe. I just love it.

    Now, here's also some other stuff:

     

     

     

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    I have made a discovery. 

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    I've heard so-called "bardcore" remixes before, but I had no idea people were doing it for Touhou, and it's great too! By the way, I hope you appreciate the images as much as I do. NUE DRAGON NUE DRAGON

     

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