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Tag Archives: beat
Mars Kumari: Arcade Dimension
I was going to do this one tomorrow but decided it would be better to do tonight for some reason. Anyway, I’m surprised that I got as much as I did out of one play of this song as it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged ambience, arcade dimension, beat, booms, distance, echoes, groove, mars kumari, melody, specific, vague
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Joe Hisaishi: Wave Cruising
This was over two listens. Had some difficulty getting going at the start and the song seemed to keep getting ahead of me which probably means I should’ve kept my sentences brief. I’m okay with the result but I feel … Continue reading
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Tagged beat, breeze, cool, descending, fluttering, joe hisaishi, peel, playful, strike, tension, wave cruising
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Hiroshi Yamaguchi: Sei-an City (Aristocratic Quarter)
I need to do this less often when I’m about to go to sleep. I tried to go with feel as I was trying to get across something that would be representative of the song’s title, but I’m not sure … Continue reading
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Tagged aristocratic, beat, bloom, City, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, loftiness, okami, percussion, reach, rises, slow, swells
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Tsukasa Saitoh: Ambiguity
I’d not heard this song until last night but it was only a small snippet. Decided I’d try having a go at writing about it due to the unfamiliarity. The below is from one listen and I feel I got … Continue reading
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Tagged ambiguity, armored core, atmosphere, beat, build, buzzes, Focus, keys, pattern, shuffles, spaced, tendernes, tsukasa saitoh
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Yasunori Mitsuda: To Far Away Times
I don’t know what I was going for here. I feel as though I got stuck and tried to get down whatever I could. I think I should have considered cohesion a bit more, but I didn’t and now this. … Continue reading
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Tagged beat, chrono trigger, clock, Hope, Journey, keys, melody, memories, song, times, woodwind, yasunori mitsuda
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Zu: Ostia
This one I think I was getting across the song as it progressed and little else. It’s an interesting song and it works well with what it is doing which I won’t get into more than below as it is … Continue reading
Masashi Hamauzu: The Archylte Steppe
When I started doing this one I thought I’d have an easy go with rambling on. In now having just done the writing I feel that that was not quite the case. I think I stumbled a bit as I … Continue reading
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Tagged archylte steppe, beat, breeze, coolness, expanse, Final Fantasy, hills, masashi hamauzu, rise, song, strings
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Ryota Kozuka: Battle -eon-
Depending on how they carry themselves, songs with a good deal of length to them are easier to ramble about, I find. With that said, I think I was a bit stumped in some parts here. The writing here is … Continue reading
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Tagged battle, beat, eon, lash, moves, moving, pressure, ryota kozuka, shin megami tensei, song, unknown, weight
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Masafumi Takada: Angel’s Despair
I wrote this over four listens and thought I’d get more out of the song than I did, but apparently I was incorrect. In a way it was easy to write about, but I feel as though I could’ve dug … Continue reading


