Desperate! 120-Frames Hit!
Daibouken Tatsudon Taiko de Time Travel 60's/Katsuro Tajima feat. Sixties Choir
大冒険タツドン / 太鼓 de タイムトラベル60's / 田島勝朗 feat. シックスティーズ・クワイヤーズ
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???Tatsudon sure has made its way in Taiko lore as years went by; being nothing but a goofy caricature for a faux Taiko commercial back in the old-livestream-broadcast days up to regularly appear in later entries as either a customizable item or as a fighter to either befriend or defeat, sometimes in tandem with his brother Tatsukatsu. Starting today, he's also got a Namco Original all of its own, too!
The composer for Daibouken (lit. 'Great Adventure') Tatsudon is the guitar-donning Katsuro Tajima (田島勝朗), one seasoned-enough Taiko no Tatsujin contributor to also be the sound director of a portable Taiko entry circa 16 years ago (the PSP's Taiko no Tatsujin Portable). In yesterday's blog entry, he also recalls how much he was into Taiko gaming even back then, to the point of entertaining a very long Taiko-centric talk with Portable 1's producer, while spending the night in a binge-based casual manner! The song's charter, on the other hand, is a relatively-new name in Chihara (ちはら), with this being the charter's second officially-credited job after the Game-Music-tuned-Variety piece waitin' for u.
A trio of singers collectively dubbed for the job as the 'Sixties Choir' sing their way though this piece of a prevalent, giant-robot anime inspiration, leading as the tenor with Odawara 'ODY' Tomohiro (小田原 ODY 友洋; personal website; Instagram). After dropping out of a musical vocation school and strong of his experiences with three indie bands on his tally, he started to grow interest on chorusing behind main artists rather than pursuing further band-performing acts leading to his current framing as a freelance chorus performer (while also officially joining the act bankband in 2016), a vocal director and a singing trainer, all the while getting commissioned music-making jobs on the side as well. He was not alone for Daibouken Tatsudon's vocal performance, as baritone Naoki Takao (高尾直樹) and bass Shinichiro Imayama (今山慎一郎) joined the fray as well.
One of the modern years' slimmest 8-star Oni challenges on the notecount side is also home of both your everyday conventional charting and weird note placement display gimmickry to go along with the song's pivot point. here for the declaration of the ficional Tatsudon Anime's hero special move that both nods to 4th-gen Taiko arcades' true 120 FPS specs and acts as a Full Combo arcade title for its completion. With the original plan of having an unhittable drumroll that would flow every 1/120th of a second fell through, an expedient achieving a similar result was reached by abnormally expanding the BPM value for that one portion while peppering it with really small drumrolls at the same time! Being a x0.5 scrolling speed passage, it also flows at roughly the same pace as the commonphase 135 BPM value of the song, unlike the x2 spedup markers for the other energetic highlights of the tune.
