It's (almost) Tenkaichi Otogesai time again! With a couple of returning artists stealing the show for the Taiko side 2nd edition in a row, it's only fair to digress a bit more about a certain track...
Taiko Drum Monster steμ feat. siroa| Version |  |  |  |  |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | x3 (150) | x5 (220) | x7 (400) | x10 (850) |
Taiko 0 Y, Taiko PS4, CD CC-5
266
none
???... Yeah, yeah, waiting 8+ years in order to make that corny Taiko reference at least once. It's quite fitting here though, as the title of the past Tenkaichi-approved Taiko song is based upon the infamous America-spawn Taiko Drum Master game for the PS2! This also marks the debut of a couple of recurring artists in very recent Bandai Namco history, both having made their self-introduction on the official Taiko blog a year ago (link).
Starting from the composing block, Taiko Drum Monster was made by the nick-named steμ (read 'ste-myu'), the latest NAMCO SOUNDS member as well as the youngest one. Ever since his employment, he wanted to make something happy for the Taiko series that would make people say "I'd like to play such a song!". The energetic target of the newly-employed artist has made it so that the elder Taiko Team members have decided to fully commit last year's Tenkaichi Otogesai direction with a song of his, with many current (and former) NAMCO SOUNDS members helping for the base score's direction and steμ himself being put on the creation of his song's notecharts. Starring Taku Inoue at the guitar, Jesahm (自営山) on the bass and a familiar guest singer's return, the newcomer artist has been deeply honored for having such a treasured occasion to start his working experience at Bandai Namco's, a sentiment that is surely carried on to this day by receiving another Tenkaichi Otogesai-related music production role!
The song's singer is also known by a nickname on the Internet thus far -siroa-, with her artistic contribution leaning on the independent music scene rather than being an in-house mainstay member. As mentioned before, she is a familiar aquaitance to steμ, as the two already worked together for the creation of a rhythm game song: the Synchronica boss track Libera Ray, the sequel of the also-on-Taiko God Ray which can also be found in Taito's Groove Coaster series due to some rhythm game collaboration magic (link). Taiko Drum Monster's mai artist duo will be back for this year's Tenkaichi Otogesai tune on the Taiko side as their most recent collaborative effort, but steμ was also previously scouted on arcade fields as the composer of Blessed Bouquet Buskers, one of the many NO debuts from the seasonal Rewards Shop feature.
Prancing between several scrolling speed shifts and multiple cluster tempo signatures intertwining for most of the time, Taiko Drum Monster's Oni rhythms are sure hard to follow on the notechart mind-to-input conversion as much as the physical finesse required to endure the varying note density for each note cluster, with some of these nearing the high hit-per-second ratio of other high-difficulty contenders like Ikazuchi!
Taiko Drum Monster steμ feat. siroa| Version | | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | - | - | - | x10 (1044) |
Taiko N 199-266 none ???The multi-signature nightmare starts anew with Nijiiro Version, the 4th-gen arcade firmware who both unintentionally leaked the addition of this one Ura Oni (and Mekadesu.'s) and then officially released it some months later.
Multiple base BPM/scrolling shifts now punctuate Taiko Drum Monster's erratic swing-ish rhythms with more cluster madness to tackle between 7/12, 1/16 and 1/24 divisions to tackle. If you manage not to trip on your way to perfection, it's also possible to notice note stanzas 113 and 151 both sport familiar combo digits in key points with the Nam-Combo and 1000 notes popping up respectively at the start of the former stanza and at the end of the latter one!
