I got little time on my hands this week-end, while a newcoming song is also coming out in the same day, a mix which is usually translated into it being Song of the Week material...
...which is the very case for this feature! Gaze upon the Namco Original debut of one artist whose composing feats landed soime heated music game contest victories elsewhere!
TOKIMEKI♡Destroyer!! (TOKIMEKI♡ですとろいやー！！) Ayatsugu_Otowa| Version |  |  |  |  |
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| All | x4 (???) | x5 (???) | x7 (???) | x9 (782) |
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???For one Taiko contest whose results have just been released, here's one artist whose debut didn't need joining such a fierce competition! Ayatsugu Otowa (音羽奇嗣) is a Tokyo-based composer whose online presence stretches out to peronal profile/works-sharing pages on Tumblr, Twitter and SoundCloud. His knack for the music-game scene has sparked during his college years, where he has been involved in the creation of videogame music, deciding years later to turn it into his full-time profession while also supplying original scores for TV broadcasts and club houses. He's also quite active in the doujin scene with his own label to nover, Digital Cyber Fragments.
To this day, Ayatsugu Otowa can nover a dozen songs between original pieces and remixes for bemani's music game series... all of which being adopted as contest winners no less! While select tracks have made it into pop'n music (Ziyu Jau Nei Zoi) and the now-defunct MÚSECA series (Purple Arise and Monoaware ni Naku Sakura), the bulk of his bemani adopted works lies in the SOUND VOLTEX series (including Chourenai☆Extreme Girl and Tokonatsu!! Crystalize Sherbet), being rooted as a SDVX name ever since the series's first entry. The composer also had his share of mobile music gaming track among several different games, from Stellights (Convictor) to Dynamix (Goldelius), from Deemo (Re: the Full moon World.) to even Muse Dash, with the track Light of Muse being also used for some of the game's trailers over the years.
The creation motif behind TOKIMEKI♡Destroyer!! was penned by the author himself through a tweet celebrating his latest track's release (link); Taiko no Tatsujin is a gaming series being played by people of all ages, so he opted for 'a straight song with a quiz melody in a cute&pop style' that it's easy for everyone to understand and to drum with. The Oni mode has quite a generous share of big notes for your average modern standards at such a high base BPM and handswitching nature, but its many repeating note stanza segments lean it down to a 9-star treat.
