This one was a bit of a struggle. Somewhere through the listen I started thinking about an industrial area and how it would operate, and some of that came into the writing.

Hitoshi Sakimoto’s (崎元 仁) “Industrial Sector” (“最下層区街”) is from Breath of Fire V: Dragon Quarter‘s soundtrack, Breath Of Fire V – Dragon Quarter: Original Soundtrack. The soundtrack was also released as part of Breath of Fire Original Soundtrack Special Box a soundtrack collection of the soundtracks for Breath of Fire I through to V.

I hope you enjoy.

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Quiet sounds, tentative sounds. Light pulsing, shimmering, a steady percussion. It builds up, soft, repetitive, and strings move in and around this space and state. Then a shift and there’s a harder sound.

This harder sound carries melody in a structured and orderly fashion. It seems refined, trimmed, efficient, and cold. And it reaches a point where there’s a striking and a rise. A pounding that soon disappears, then comes back and the sounds keep rising with perhaps some danger in them, until everything returns to the start.

It’s a sort of quiet. Not an innocence; a quiet. A quiet that builds. Activity building up, processes and routines followed, then everything comes alive and more mechanical. Precise. Urging, pushing, moving through hardened, developed spaces. Spaces not thought about enough.

The danger returns, imminent, looming, rising, rising, tension rising, about to spill over, and then all returns to the start, fades out and the song ends.