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1. mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 20:10:02 UTC mcc

   What I'm listening to today: "Secret of Mana +"

   In 1993 Hiroki Kikuta, composer of Secret of Mana and its Japan-only sequel Seiken Densetsu 3 released a single-track CD containing a fluid, album-length rearrangement of music selections from those two games, featuring stadium rock, acoustic versions transposed into classical Japanese tunings, and ambient sounds seemingly recorded around Kikuta's home. If you like these game scores, this is *definitely* worth a listen.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FNBH9P3Aes

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 20:10:01 UTC mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Prophecy", Julien Jacquart (orig. Hiroki Kikuta)

     Ahh, *there's* the Flammie intro.

     This is an arrangement of "Prophecy" (from Secret of Mana) by a French gamedev and progressive-metal guitarist, performed on guitar and piano. It's charmingly homemade in places but does a great job of capturing the enormous, epic feel that the original, for all of its mastery of the SNES S-SMP chip, strained to capture in its 64 KB of sample memory.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTWMY5OhZHk

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 20:10:01 UTC mcc

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     Note: Because nobody can really stop me, for the next week in place of my usual "listening to" thread I am going to be one-song-per-day posting a YouTube mixtape I made in 2020, titled "In The Future It Is The 1960s". ( https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DP31gmCfPqxQO-I67dp_uza )

     The concept of this playlist is a mix of songs from the 1960s that sound like they are from many decades later, and songs from the present that sound like they could have been recorded in the 1960s.

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 20:10:02 UTC mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "A Bell is Tolling", Christopher Hernacki (orig Hiroki Kikuta)

     In this video, a guy* multitracks himself a whole bunch of times to perform the "Ice Palace" music from Secret of Mana on trombones and tubas. While closely following the original score he slowly veers from soft melancholy to 70s movie-theme funk and just basically all the feelings in this arrangement are real good.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzNg16we74g

     * Okay, a professional concert trombonist and college professor