IT'S SONG TIME BABEY! one (1) tracker or DAW video of a song of mine being posted per day on youtube, complete with cohost-exclusive commentary from me about the song! hope you enjoy!
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today's song is: Final Frontier ~Overture to "Brilliant Goldrifle"~, for the NES's 2A03 chip with VRC7 expansion chip
a while back there was a monthly compo on BotB named "VRC7: Lost in Space" - shoot-em-up themed - and my immediate thought was that i wanted to write a Hitoshi Sakimoto pastiche. i love that guy. his music is hugely inspiring and wonderful and distinct, i've loved it ever since i played FFTA as a youngin, and i wanted to try and build some muscles towards his style. it seemed like a fun and fruitful exercise - and ultimately it was! he's obviously more well known for RPG music but he wrote a killer score for an old shmup named Radiant Silvergun, which i listened to several times in the making of this piece. i even not-so-subtly borrowed the name for my own title. (i also hoped it would justify me submitting music that isn't particularly shmup-like, haha...)
anyway, this is my take on Sakimoto, which maybe sounds about 60% like him and 40% like me with how busy i keep my textures. but i tried to incorporate some of his modal melodic gestures, quartal/quintal harmonies, and huge pedal points while developing the material in my own customary ways, all while jumping around like an overture. i was pretty pleased with how this turned out - this was my second shot at the VRC7 and written when i had even less FM experience. the first time i did a lot with the custom patch so this time i really tried to put the stock patches to work.
