4+1 no Sorezore no Mirai Taiko de Time Travel 00's/cosMo@BouSouP feat. Hatsune Miku
4+1のそれぞれの未来／太鼓 de タイムトラベル00's
cosMo＠暴走P feat.初音ミク
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???Donning the official English translation of '4+1 Myriad Futures', this is yet another of the songs made for the Taiko no Tatsujin franchise's 20th Anniversary song-production project, coming from the hands of one Vocaloid artist whose Namco Original introduction as a commission artist was also with the song that was adopted for the series' 10th anniversary. Talk about going full circle!
The Hatsune Miku no Gekishou-famed cosMo@BouSouP (cosMo＠暴走P) was asked to make a music piece fitting for the 2000s, the time frame which has seen the surge of Vocaloid voce banks' popularity. As opposed to the modern scene of Vocaloid-powered songs, the musical scene of back then was dominated by tracks that were about the act of singing a song in of itself, with the 'future' topic not trailing that far behind; with that in mind, the composer made the latest of his signature "High-Speed Development" Miku tracks around the concepts of 'spinning music' and the future, with part of its lyrics body borrowing a great deal of inspiration from the Taiko 3rd-gen-closer Namco Original Taik-color. It's quite fitting that steμ -the composer for that very track- also ended up being the notecharter for 4+1 Myriad Futures itself!
Tens of year are not only marking changes for the Vocaloid scene, but also for the artists behind their songs; the songwriter/animator coSmo, in particular, got in quite the whirlwind of events across the 10-year gap between key Taiko anniversaries! In 2014, he married the independent animator syuri22 and took part/founded many a work in the doujin circle scene, most notably expanding his own circle CHEMICAL SYSTEM LE from 2007. His music gaming portfolio also expanded to commissions of full-instrumental songs, and not just for Taiko either- bemani gaming had quite its huge share across the years (examples from pop'n music, REFLEC BEAT, SOUND VOLTEX, beatmania IIDX and Nostalgia), with Sega games (most notably on CHUNITHM) and mobile titles trailing not that far behind.
This ending week's official Taiko blog entry further highlighted the reciprocative respect that coSmo and steμ have in each other's craft, an intersection of which manifesting in different facets of 4+1 Myriad Futures. Not only the song inherited part of the lyrics' spirit of the aforementioned Taik-color, but it was also charted to match the same in all four modes! Stanzas 19-25, highlighted in the first Go-Go Time sector, all inherit charting bits that are also appearing in Taik-color's very last Go-Go Time zone (more specifically, stanzas 88, 90 and 92 for the Oni chart), a trait that is also shared to all other available modes, albeit to a minor extent on Kantan. The tune is also remarkable for being the first arcade Taiko no Tatsujin song to award different Full Combo titles for each of its modes!
Worthy of welcoming arcade goers as part of the latest Ranking Dojo set's 10th-Dan course, here's a speed demon to don a Ban-Nam Combo value in reference to the illustrious Nam-Combo treat that came before it from the same artist! The link to Hatsune Miku no Shoushitsu -Gekijouban- doesn't stop there, as the speed-enhanced trial with consecutive Don clusters also features some 1/12 charting to go along with the more intense Miku singing portion just like the Taiko 10th anniversary treat. The same coSmo@BouSouP put a direct reference to all playable modes in Taiko gaming with the '4+1' bit, so an Ura Oni mode might be in the cards for this very track...
