[SotW] Song of the Week - WEEK 199 Voting/WEEK 200 Nominating

Battle

A remix of the bomberman battle theme? Ace. The reworking of the battle theme is great, in fact I prefer it here than its in-game origin. but I think it's revisited too many times without enough variation. So they mix it up with pipes a bit. That's cool. But the change of instrument feels a bit arbitrary; just thrown on the heap for the sake of change. Over 5 and a half minutes it gets a bit boring. Deserves a point though. [1]

Baldric Fun 1

I love it. As someone with tracker musician pretensions, I lap up a mod done well. Here the drums sound full, the bass is crunching, the pads suitably atmospheric. And the melody: the melody is catchy and varied enough to never sound repetitive. In contrast to Battle, whenever the melody changes instrument here it feels purposeful, and the song shifts to a different layer of Epic. [2]

The Bottom

The Machinarium soundtrack is excellent, and The Bottom is my favourite of its tracks. It's ambient, but not cookie cutter: the Machinarium OST really has its distinct flavour. There's a tune too, and you can feel it going somewhere, building to something. The Bottom really connects with me just after the 3 minute mark, and for about 25 seconds I have this sense of the track opening outwards in front of me into a big empty expanse, and the feeling is like pathos. I'm not always moved to write so pretentiously-sounding about music, believe me: The Bottom is something special. The last 2 minutes feel like sad reflection. [3]

Jam it back in, in the dark.