Pastelbat @pastelbat@awoo.space

Fuck Buttons' music is one of those weird experiences where I really like it a lot, but it's also absolutely Sensory Overload territory for me.

So like. Carefully selecting when to listen to it has interesting effects on my brain.

Playing 'Lumines: Electronic Symphony' on the Vita also has induced this feeling, and some of the more experimental/harsh-audiovisual levels of Pixeljunk Eden (many in Encore mode)

I do need new music to listen to tho..

I haven't poked around for new artists/albums in a while

Alive 2007 is such a powerful joyful album

Daft Punk remixing their own stuff together, merging tracks to give them a whole new lease of life

Why we don't just fix the whole energy crisis by running the entire power grid off the soul of Yui Ikari I really don't know

The Eva rebuilds are best approached as a fine vintage of the "Crackfic given an inexplicably huge budget" genre

They build up from "1.X wasn't bad as a redo of the first arcs I guess? I don't get the fanfare."
to
"Okay, Asuka's giant robot mom turned into a leopard. Now the leopard is tearing up a Final Fantasy whale-zeppelin powered by the soul of Yui Ikari."

GDPRvangelion 2.0:
You Can (Not) Advance Without Agreeing To Our Terms

I'm rlly proud of how the music for this project came out! Amelia's animation work is amazing, so I was really happy to contribute.

Also it being my first collaboration project in years, and the first ever where I was responsible for the musical component.. Yeah, I'm happy.

There's stuff I'd like to improve on that I spotted during it; I wanna get better at mixing different emotions in a piece
more variation in rhythms
being more confident working with melodies

But like, that's "to improve" rather than "ughhh I messed up" feelin'.

Really happy with the engine-come-bassline, the drumbeat & the guitars.

The overall feel started off early as "Oh wow this went Fuck Buttons style wall of noise real fast" as a kinda happy-accident with just the chords/drums/bassline, and made it feel ominous and forboding.

Also meant I had to be careful layering the melody over it without crowding the composition too much..! So went with a slower choral line rather than the aggressive violins I'd originally envisioned for it, which was the right call I think.

Hello, everyone

I completed the placement matches for Comp in the 3 days before the season ends, because some mixture of boredom and masochism. 5/10 wins playing with total randoms is honestly more than I was expecting, but it seems like the playerbase is big enough and the algorithms are solid enough to keep randos and precons mostly separated (at my level, anyway).

For the next few hours, I have an arbitrary number and a shiny medal beneath my portrait! ..Then it resets.

Insert 'tears in rain' speech here..?