One listen.

Early on I became unsure about how I should proceed with what I was writing. Not a good way to be. Still chugged along, but it harmed the overall piece.

Mazedude’s “Hanmuru Moon” 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 Makoto Tomozawa’s (友澤 眞) “Hanmuru Doll Appears!” (ハンムルドール登場!) from Mega Man Legends, aka Rockman Dash – Episode 1: Adventurous Spirit of Steel, which was featured on its soundtrack, Rockman Dash Original Soundtrack.

I hope you enjoy.

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Percussion shapes and strides in, and soon synths rises forward among beeps and boops. That synth moves in bits and stays in the background for the most part, or at least feels it does, even when it pairs up with other sounds.

A voice and other parts flowing together and sometimes separated by brief silence, and everything fills out and pulls away, and it’s as though everything is moving in some sort of wave or pulse. It all builds and pulls away, and builds and pulls away.

There’s a quiet among this all, among this sort of futurism, and this calm that’s not quite there. There’s prominence again and everything is moving quite precisely. Everything moves as precise angles, starting and stopping as necessary and creating this enclosed space that feels as futuristic as it does the past.

A moment of more quiet, and from it everything starts building again. Everything starts growing into a sterile, bright space with some sort of foreboding, almost. And one sound in particular is more at the front of the others, and it grooves and moves and rises and falls, and it is busy and not at the same time. It is climactic but doesn’t feel climactic, and it falls away when the other sounds stop at the song’s end.