One listen for this one.

There’s something about this song that feels like a prior era of club music, and it’s something that clicked for me, but I didn’t do a good job of getting across that it has that particular club music feel. Outside of that, I think I did quite alright with this one, though I think it is a little flat.

Mitsuto Suzuki’s (鈴木光人) “Ouroboros Festival” (“ウロボロスフィエスタ”) is from the soundtrack for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Original Soundtrack. The soundtrack is comprised of compositions from Masashi Hamauzu (浜渦 正志), Naoshi Mizuta (水田 直志) and Mitsuto Suzuki.

I hope you enjoy.

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Rolling percussion rattles and changes form quite quickly into something a little more tight in feel. It builds upon itself and steadies, and from somewhere behind a bright dullness rises forward, droning along, then disappears, falling away for an idea of voices to take the lead. Something lower murmurs, and that bright dullness seems to lurk here and there.

A brief pause before more beat comes in, and slowly the energy builds. The new beat has more thrust and drive behind it, and it strikes out, and part of it seems to rise and then shatter. Keys that weren’t there come in and play in a staccato-like fashion, and all keeps on driving forward.

Another shift and a lot pulls away, but the beat keeps going. It keeps pounding away in this lower moment, and it seems as though the energy has dipped but it’s still there. Then once more a rise and shatter before returning to what was before.

Eventually a new section comes in, and it sees much of the sound disappearing, and synth bubbles away before growing distant and muffled under gentle layer of something smooth and perhaps soft. Percussion returns and it switches its motion multiple times, seemingly always knowing itself but always trying to find something new, before disappearing.

The bubbling returns and the gentle layer rises, and they hold on a moment. The moment stretches on, and percussion returns once more, but when it stops, so does what is left and the song ends.