For a news-less week to boot, here's a Future-Sight SotW to match!
Shinsei to Nue Silentroom晨星ト鵺
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???On the past few years, we were used around this time to have a Song of the Week feature starring a Touhou Project arrange song next to another one with elements pointing towards that direction while not being actually related to the danmaku series whatsoever. This year around, however... considering how the originally-scheduled Touhou song to appear here has actually appeared earlier in 2021 due to a clerical error of mine, have the other part of it as a stand-alone future peek feature instead, Nue referencing be damned!
Partly named after the namesake Japanese youkai that's part-tiger, part-dog, part-monkey and part-snake, Shinsei to Nue (lit. 'The Nue and Morning Stars', as intended by the same author) is the Faith Creation '21 contest-winning entry from the nicknamed Silentroom (Twitter; YouTube, personal website), a self-dubbed Japanese "Weekend Composer" really active in the BMS song-making scene, whose BOFU 2017 winning hit Nhelv already made the rounds in foreign music games as well (Arcaea, SOUND VOLTEX, Chunithm and Phigros thus far). Some of you might remember this isn't the artist's first day in the Taiko fore, as he applied in the previous contest with a song titled 9876734123, resulting in a total miss with no honorable mentions of sorts; while the song has been removed from the contest's website, it can still be heard over Silentroom's official YouTube account (link)!
More triumphant music gaming inclusions for other series include both BMS transplants as well as original songs, the most recipient among these parties being osu! (appearing as a Featured Artist, no less!) and lowiro's Arcaea. Both also feature original songs from him collaborating with other artists for special occasions, such as the osu!mania WC 2021 Finals song Purple Palace with the BilliumMoto/Se-U-Ra duo and the vs collaboration with Frums under the name of Aegleseeker, a former entry for an unsuccessful BMS contest who found its glory as the Grand Winner of the British-developed mobile game's latest song-submission contest. Flashforward to the wisdom that only a revisiting of a 'Future Sight' SotW can supply and we now know he's recently won two more rhythm gaming-oriented competitions: once for his collaboration piece with Sobrem for the BMS OF FIGHTERS tourney series' 2021 edition and another as the 10th Konami Arcade Championship's Grand Winner with the song XHRONOXHAPSULE, publicly unveiled on the very same day of Shinsei to Nue's Taiko public release announcement!
Impressions about the making of Shinsei to Nue were left by the same Silentroom as part of the same Twitter comment chain concerning the song's English translation posted above, opting for a 'music-game-core' experience through a short composite track on a really fast BPM. It was made with such a strong momentum the artist himself felt that he could have composed it even during his teenager years! We've also learned that Silentroom originally planned to join the 2nd Faith Creation competition with an additional song, but due to time constraints he could only go with this one while keeping the unnamed piece for another time.
Once again for another Faith Creation winner, contest judge steμ was really keen on complimenting someone's musical craft on an advanced technical level that still has that " 'easy-to-understand', 'easy-to-play' " attitude that is very prized in a rhythm game geries that's enjoyed by people of all ages. For once, though, we can also cite the song artist himself returning the keen words witch gratitude on the Web -once again in tweet form (link). By Silentroom's admission, the balance-act struggle between making "the music he wanted to make" and making "the music that was required for the target contest's means" was by far the biggest hurdle, but he was ultimately grateful he paid off in order to achieve one of his childhood dreams of leaving a mark in Taiko history, after more than 16 years of being a player himself!
Leaning on the easier side of the top-difficulty spectrum, here's one constant-flowing Oni chart to follow the percussions musical notation to a tee, which leads to a busier 2nd half with plenty of compound clusters to tackle.
