One listen.

Let go a little with this one. Led to some more repetition than I’d have liked, but this writing feels very… organic, in a sense. I mean, all my writing does to some extent, but this one especially so.

Radiowar’s “Exchange” is from For Everlasting Peace: 25 Years of Mega Man, a tribute album celebrating 25 years of Mega Man games. The song is an interpretation of Akira Kaida’s (海田明里) “Boundless Network” from Mega Man Battle Network, which I wrote about here.

I hope you enjoy.

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Light percussion in a silent space, but soon the space fills with reverbed possibility. It comes in waves, or perhaps stretched pulses, and the beat picks up, becomes more striking and yet remains relaxed.

There’s something soundless about this, and seems futuristic in a sense. It seems forward looking. And soon there is no sound, though brief silence broken by some beeps, like something coming alive. Something being discovered, and opportunity arising.

The release of white noise, and something crackles. The beat returns and that crackling remains low. It’s a low static, rustling, and those beeps remain, and something else starts coming forward. It seems calm itself, as all of this does, and it seems sleek and smooth, and perhaps powerful.

The beat picks up, as does everything else just about, and all the sounds remain reverberant. Something is being born, and it’s wonderful. It’s all just wonderful.

Te beat pulls away, the sounds heave and slide in shapes, and they form structure through repetition. They form familiarity. They form shape with the space between as the foundation. They reinforce it when the percussion returns, and it’s a lively moment, but it remains relaxed. It remains futuristic, and it shifts to something else once progress is needed.

It’s minimal once more, with something in the distance spreading out, and something drops into it and it spreads out further. It ripples in silk smoothness, and those beeps are there. They are here, and sounds pull away, but the future is here. The wonder of possibility is here, and it’s calm, but it’s exciting, and it remains as such when the song ends.