[SotW] Song of the Week - WEEK 154 Voting/WEEK 155 Nominating

Song of the Week. 150 Weeks and counting.
Week 154 Voting is closed.
Week 155 Nominating is restricted.

Results:
1). [25] Neon Tango (Game Rip) - Strange New World
2). [18] et cetra:ETC ~ESTi's Temporary Collection~ - Phantom Goes to Far East
3). [15] Mother 3 (Game Rip) - Natural Killer Cyborg (Boss Battle, VS The NCK!)
4). [10] Arsys Best Selection - To the Distant Cosmos
5). [9/6] RAY-KUDRYAVKA musiX - A3 - The broken sun
6). [9/5.5] Daffy Duck: The Marvin Missions (SNES Game Rip) - The Incredible Shrinking Duck
7). [6] Plus Alpha - Sun Colors (Stage 4 "Snow Country")
8). [4] pop'n music 11 AC ♥ CS pop'n music 9 - AUSLANDSGESPRÄCH [80's WERK]

Tracks:
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Arsys Best Selection - To the Distant Cosmos
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Daffy Duck: The Marvin Missions (SNES Game Rip) - The Incredible Shrinking Duck
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: et cetra:ETC ~ESTi's Temporary Collection~ - Phantom Goes to Far East
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Mother 3 (Game Rip) - Natural Killer Cyborg (Boss Battle, VS The NCK!)
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Neon Tango (Game Rip) - Strange New World
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Plus Alpha - Sun Colors (Stage 4 "Snow Country")
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: pop'n music 11 AC ♥ CS pop'n music 9 - AUSLANDSGESPRÄCH [80's WERK]
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: RAY-KUDRYAVKA musiX - A3 - The broken sun

Notes:
If you are a member at more than one of the forums in which this event is being held, please nominate and vote in only ONE of the forums. You may, however, comment in the threads at any of the other forums.

Week 155 Nominating
The Nominations Queue can be found here.
The rules for nominating can be found here.

Here is the link to the corresponding thread in the other forum: Soundtrack Central

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Arsys Best Selection - To the Distant Cosmos Nicely spacey chipstyle tune. It doesn't have the most memorable melodic chops, but it's good for what it is.

Daffy Duck: The Marvin Missions (SNES Game Rip) - The Incredible Shrinking Duck Off-kilter jazz fusion. The bass line is really quirky and neat; the tinny trumpet lead is pretty bad though. If it'd had a better instrument out in front, this one would have been a winner.

et cetra:ETC ~ESTi's Temporary Collection~ - Phantom Goes to Far East I think Djinova needs to win some sort of obscurity award for all these left-field nominations. They're not always good, but they usually demand attention. This is one of the best; it's got a nice new-age sound and a good melody--the only real minuses are a couple of overused library sounds and a bizarre skippy interlude.

Mother 3 (Game Rip) - Natural Killer Cyborg (Boss Battle, VS The NCK!) It was really hard to choose a Mother 3 nom; most of the game's songs were too short or had spoilery titles. This one, though, was perfect: it's both a tribute to the final boss music in Earthbound and a rockin' tune in its own right with plenty of nods to Keiichi Suzuki.

Neon Tango (Game Rip) - Strange New World Not really sure what to expect from this one, but it turned out to be quite excellent--a nice rock/electronica fusion with great melody and rhythm (and a piano for good measure!). Terrific stuff. Is the whole rip as much fun?

Plus Alpha - Sun Colors (Stage 4 "Snow Country") Not really snowy in the stereotypical sense, but a good tune anyway. Nice drive, decent melody, and a bit of that old school flair.

pop'n music 11 AC ♥ CS pop'n music 9 - AUSLANDSGESPRÄCH [80's WERK] The use of phone sounds was interesting at first. After a minute, though, it started to get kind of annoying (makes sense, those sounds were designed to be irritating). Some good stuff, definitely, but the phone stuff wound up being a pretty big turnoff.

RAY-KUDRYAVKA musiX - A3 - The broken sun Some fine bouncyjazzysynth. Not as much variation as I'd like, but thoroughly fun from start to finish.

EXCELLENT week. I wish I had 12 points to distribute.

The Point Spread
Natural Killer Cyborg - 3 pts.
Strange New World - 2 pts.
Phantom Goes East - 1 pt.
Sun Colors, The broken sun - Just missed.

Nomination
* Album Title: Mass Effect
* Artist(s): Jack Wall, Sam Hulick, Richard Jacques, David Kates
* Track Title: Criminal Elements
* Track Number: 09
* Year: 2007

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Just a heads-up: there'll be no temporary voting links up this week since one of the songs is still missing. I'll have to wait until everything is placed in the voting directory to proceed.

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