Game info: Wikipedia (series info)
Listening: 1999 soundtrack album, series soundtrack album (tracks 1-8), emulated audio
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A fourth entry in the TETRIS THE GRAND MASTER series finally came out this year, and I’ve never really properly listened to any of the soundtracks in the series before, so this seems like a great reason to finally do that. The soundtracks for all of the first three games fit onto one disc, so they’re all short soundtracks, though the first game’s is especially short: just a bit over 10 minutes of music.
The only thing I knew coming into this was that the soundtracks contain Shinji Hosoe and Ayako Saso doing rave music, and while that’s definitely true here for the first game, it’s not all hard dance music: the low-level singleplayer music is a lower tempo, chiller track, and the ending and results themes are cuter and more jazzy. It’s pretty fun! Nothing especially mindblowing, but I do enjoy me some lo-fi sample techno music and you can count on Hosoe and Saso to deliver that.
The original 1999 soundtrack release includes two arrangements not present on SuperSweep’s later compilation release, a medley track by Shinji Hosoe and then a full-production version of “Let’s live variously” by Ayako Saso. They’re alright, not super essential.
Recommended tracks:
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“Hardening Drops (Normal Mix)” (Hosoe) has an acceptable amount of layers doing different things that I can rapidly shift my attention back and forth between
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“Happy Happy (Ending)” (Saso) has a periodic background sound starting at 0:09 that sounds like a telephone beep (though I isolated the channels to find out and it’s not really)
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“Let’s Live Variously” (Saso) is the most intense of the in-game themes and therefore my favorite
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