Saturday, July 27, 2019

Song of the Week! 27 July 2019


Time for the first Namco Original Ura pick of the year!

 GO GET'EM! Satoshi Terashima
Version
Allx4 (131)x7 (234)x8 (384)x9 (555)
 Taiko 0 B
 146
 none
 ???


One of the sleeper hits in Blue Version's latter end of its life span, GO GET'EM brings pack to Taiko the joys of piano-based scores for its song genre after quite a long time. Courtesy of a series newcomer artist, no less!

The creator of this song is Satoshi Terashima (寺島怜志), an artist whose only major musical accomplishment being publically shared on the Internet is his victorious feats in the yearly Yamaha Electone Festival (ヤマハエレクトーンコンクール), a yearly competition for young artists in electronic music creation department. Satoshi Terashima managed to win the 2015 edition with an Electone remix of Aura Lee (オーラリー), whose performance was also shared on Youtube afterwards (link). As nothing else about the artist has been publically released and his social media accounts are not to be publically viewed by everyone, that's where we stop things up.

What we can see about his Taiko no Tatsujin debut, however, is a song whose Oni chart closely follows the piano reading key for its patterns, in a similar guise to 3piece-JazzParty!. Despite the slower BPM in comparison to such track, tricky 1/16 cluster madness awaits players, even in increments for the pre-Go Go Time portion!

  GO GET'EM! Satoshi Terashima
Version
All---x9 (648)
 Taiko 0 B
 146
 none
 ???


Four years and seven months since the Taiko release of Roku-chounen to Ichiya Monogatari, here's another song that makes its franchise debut with a regular Oni chart and an Ura Oni one that are both rated as 9-stars!

The charting approach to this song is akin to tracks like Ridge Racer, where the Taiko drum's musical accompaniment is consistent all throughout the track, thanks to several small clusters/single note successions along the way. Like the regular Oni setting, this mode features some mono-color cluster spikes of varying tempo signatures, just as manageable to get through due to the song's comfy base BPM setting.