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Here’s the original Japanese soundtrack to a puzzle game about chaining colored fireworks explosions together for big points. The game had two different replacement soundtracks written for overseas releases, one for the US and then another one for Europe, because gamedev be like that sometimes. I had a hankering to relisten to this one for a reason which will become very obvious shortly.
Fun soundtrack by a fun EDM musician, Soichi Terada! The music’s mostly chill & chipper house-y material that occasionally dips its toes into DnB territory, with some cheesy theater organ jazz in a couple of tracks. If you like EP riffs, other synths, and incredibly fake dance piano, I might have a soundtrack that’ll interest you.
The soundtrack album includes five tracks at the end which, rather than remixes, are called “unused” and therefore appear to be alternate versions or prototypes that never made it into the game. Some are obviously pretty close to the originals, just extended or slowed down, while others are very different. One of them, “INFINITY(PRIMARY),” seems to have been split into two different tracks for the game, “INFINITY” and also “MOONY.”
Recommended tracks:
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“SOUTHISLAND ~ STAGE1,2” builds up a guitar, EP, and accordion all hammering away at different syncopated rhythms in a way that’s downplayed/removed in later remixes
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“STARMINE ~ STARMINE” is basically just an extended keyboard solo over house music
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“SOUTHISLAND(CONTRARY)” bears very little resemblance to the game version and features some fun random staccato sounds
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