So about three weeks ago, my friend DM’d me on Discord with a system audio recording of a music node he found by completely bizarre coincidence in Second Life and asked if I knew what it was. He had made a new account and randomly clicked on a location with no one around so he could mess around with things, and somehow ended up next to one of the most ridiculous synthprog songs we’ve heard in a minute. I didn’t recognize it and couldn’t find it following a lead he had, but he Shazam’d it and it got identified as this. It makes no sense that this happened, truly unhinged sequence of events.
Anyway this song absolutely rips. I was vaguely familiar with the composer Shigeki Hayashi because I’ve heard a few of his early songs from the ’90s and ’00s, which honestly I wasn’t super impressed by so I never looked into him further, but clearly he’s got the sauce if he’s busting out tunes like this. I skimmed through the rest of his contributions on the album this is on and there wasn’t any more prog like this, but a number of them were also pretty dang good.
Boing Boing & Roger’s Learning Adventure – “T11”
Composer unknown
This is an impossibly obscure educational game apparently but this is a pretty minimalist tune with a healthy amount of early ’90s audio encoder crust. Some of the movement gets a little spicy starting at 1:03 too, it’s nice.
Let’s Yoga! – “Staffroll”
Sound Producer: Nobuhiko Matsufuji
Sound Director: Nobuyuki Akena
Engineer: Atsushi Sato
Sound: Masanori Adachi, Tomoko Sano, Kinglet, Nick James, Watchman, Sayuri Ono
We are all love random training software for the Nintendo DS, here’s a yoga trainer developed by Vanpool, a company I just learned closed down last year. They were responsible for some quirky titles like the DS Tingle games, and most recently helped HAL with development on some Kirby titles. Adachi and Sano both worked for Vanpool, and the other four have contributed to other games they’ve worked on so I guess they just called them up for this one too. Cool psychedelic rock track! Haven’t heard a whole lot like this in VGM ever, but I suppose it makes sense for yoga.
Sayonara wo Oshiete ~comment te dire adieu~ – “comment te dire adieu”
Composed and lyrics by Momoko Sapporo
Arranged by Kazuya Takase
Vocals by MELL
Poetry by Kenzo Nagaoka
I’ve now heard two pretty cool tracks from this game, so maybe I should listen to this soundtrack. Apparently this is a psychological horror game (a fairly early one in the visual novel space), so the sound design in this is a bit sinister.
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