[SotW] Song of the Fortnight - FORTNIGHT 246/FORTNIGHT 247 Nominating

Song of the Fortnight. 112.5 Fortnights and counting.
Fortnight 246 Voting is open unto the ends of the earth.
Fortnight 247 Nominating is open in the way black holes are open.

Tracks:
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Enemy Zero Original Soundtrack - The Last Movement
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Madballs in... Babo - Invasion (Game Rip) - Desert 3
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Penny Racers (PSX Game Rip) - Lake Circuit
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: PHANTASY STAR COLLECTION - Sound Collection I - The Ground
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Phantasy Star Portable 2 Original Soundtrack Wings of Universe - Hunt up
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Raskulls Original Soundtrack - Big Bone Boogaloo - World 1 Music 3
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Shantae - Risky's Revenge Original Soundtrack - She's Got Moves
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Shatter - Official Videogame Soundtrack - Kinetic Harvest

Voting Rules:
Voters must distribute 6 points among the 8 nominees, giving points to at least 3 songs, giving no song more than 3 points, and giving no more than one of their choices 3 points. Possible ways of voting include:

Spoiler:

"Traditional"
Song1 - 3 pts.
Song2 - 2 pts.
Song3 - 1 pt.

"Even Stevens"
Song1 - 2 pts.
Song2 - 2 pts.
Song3 - 2 pts.

"Tough Decision"
Song1 - 2 pts.
Song2 - 2 pts.
Song3 - 1 pt.
Song4 - 1 pt.

"Nomination Bias"
Song1 - 3 pts.
Song2 - 1 pt.
Song3 - 1 pt.
Song4 - 1 pt.

"Indecisive"
Song1 - 2 pts.
Song2 - 1 pt.
Song3 - 1 pt.
Song4 - 1 pt.
Song5 - 1 pt.

"Shotgun Spread"
Song1 - 1 pt.
Song2 - 1 pt.
Song3 - 1 pt.
Song4 - 1 pt.
Song5 - 1 pt.
Song6 - 1 pt.

Notes:
Please remember to upload your nominations to the SotF server! Uploaded noms mean a faster, smoother SotFexperience for everyone. Server information:

Spoiler:

* Host: ftp.sotw.info
* Username: nominations@sotw.info (that is the actual username; not an e-mail address)
* Password: gff
* Port: 21

Fortnight 247 Nominating:
The Nominations Queue can be found here.
The rules for nominating can be found here.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Enemy Zero Original Soundtrack - The Last Movement In a contest of movie and concert minimalists, I'll take Philip Glass over Michael Nyman any day of the week and twice on Sundays (why hasn't Glass scored any games?). The cell-based structure of the music is interesting, but the Melodrama Strings take a really long time to do anything that matches it. Still, not without its moments.

Madballs in... Babo - Invasion (Game Rip) - Desert 3 With a name like that...I was expecting something off-the-wall zany. Instead, it sounds like an Alex Brandon imitator. A pleasant surprise, to be sure, but the tracker style on display here lacks Brandon's chaops, though not for want of trying (and it's still fairly decent).

Penny Racers (PSX Game Rip) - Lake Circuit Actually a really nice racer track, with all the neccessary sense of movement without sacrificing melody or getting too repetitive. I still have no idea what a Penny Racer is, but that's okay.

PHANTASY STAR COLLECTION - Sound Collection I - The Ground Phantasy Star has in many ways lacked the cohesive feel of many big RPG franchises (especially if you compare the Online games to the Not-Online ones) but there have still been some good tracks. I really like the synths and piano runs here, the melody's not half bad either and the way additional layers are added in as the track evolves is pretty cool.

Phantasy Star Portable 2 Original Soundtrack Wings of Universe - Hunt up Two Phantasy Star noms in one week? Maybe the other six of us should just have acceded to a theme week. This sounds a lot more sci-fi than Ground, but it's also a lot less impressive in terms of melody and structure. Still a decent ambient listen though.

Raskulls Original Soundtrack - Big Bone Boogaloo - World 1 Music 3 One for the BSC, one for here. Synths, melody, and humble Bandcamp origins--the tune has it all. Get the whole thing here and maybe throw the creators a bone.

Shantae - Risky's Revenge Original Soundtrack - She's Got Moves I seem to remember a Shantae nom in the Best Chiptune Contest in the halcyon days before the Great Crashes of '06, but those papyri are now lost to the desert sands. I do remember it being good, though, which this also is. I was reminded, in a good way, of Needle Man's stage music from MM3.

Shatter - Official Videogame Soundtrack - Kinetic Harvest Nice synths and nice beats with a decent melody and apparently enough name recognition to make people tremble.

This is the best week ever. Seriously, I dowloaded every track, which I *never* do.

The Point Spread
W1M3 - 2pts.
Lake Circuit - 1 pt.
The Ground - 1 pt.
She's Got Moves - 1 pt.
Vote Harvest - 1 pt.

Nom
Album: de Blob Original Soundtrack
Artist: John Guscott
Disc #: 1
Track #: 7
Track Title: DB 606 (Euphoric)
Year: 2008
Additional Info: Challenge accepted!
Source: de Blob Original Soundtrack - VGMdb

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Kaleb.G

"A differently normalized version of Bretonia Space Suite has replaced the originally uploaded version."

Why? I think it should be part of the template from now on.

I can't believe none of us noticed that for like three weeks.

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Oh, I forgot to mention: I'm at a conference, so ability to create new voting thread = nil, at least until Tuesday.

How ya doing, buddy?