Here's another BMS-famed Faith Creation winner under these lines... and put down these bars of concrete soap, will ya!?
punk bastards Sobrem| Game | Genre |
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★5 (168) |
★6 (252) |
★7 (414) |
★9 (749) |
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158-225
???When musical talent is on the line for the Taiko Team's judgement, not even a mild allure to English swearing in the title is enough to restrain a quality track from one of the official song contests' victory altar, which has been the very case of this one piece, coming from an acclaimed Korean BMS talent to further represent greater Asia in original-music Taiko gaming after BTB!
Meet the nick-named Sobrem (Twitter; website; SoundCloud), a composer and storyboard artist for original creations and collaboration projects aimed at Be-Music Source song contests ever since 2011 who is also known by a handful of other minor aliases (among those: w_tre, Widowmaker and innkeeper). He's also a recurring guest composer for the Diverse Direct music circle, for which he's making regular cameos ever since 2016. Also worth mentioning is how he and Silentroom have scored together the Grand Winner victory in the latest BOFU contest, THE BMS OF FIGHTERS XVII -VISION THE RETRO FUTURE- with the song Random, one that had the fun quirk of getting its album jacket art on its SoundCloud page changed on a daily basis for a while. Maybe it's because of the just-released Namco Original Shinsei to Nue composer collaborating, but I have the odd feeling that this last song is deeply connected into a musical project of some other artist with a deep deep connection with Nues... Odd...
The initial bulk of Sobrem's published work into commercial music gaming is marked with a heavy leaning into greater-Asia titles and series, including among those O2JAM (Hammock Express), Ez2AC (Last Knot), Dynamix (Super Macaron), VOEZ (It's been a long long) and the recently-released Deemo II (Mistweaver), together with a bunch of his former BMS works getting ported in multiple series (most notably G2R2018's Giselle, headed to MUSYNX, KALPA and CHUNITHM). Despite that, however, punk bastards is not the first original tune for a Japanese rhythm game series, as that honor is held by bemani's Nostalgia series instead, with Gamja Dog.
With such a piano-enriched portfolio, Sobrem opted for the bold option of having a big-jazz-like submission for the second of the FaiCre Taiko no Tatsujin contests, something that judge/Taiko Team veteran Masubuchi dubbed as a piece of "technical new metal", developing a crescendo of genres from swing to fusion and punk into a 'sublimation of coolness'. Sobrem himself was surprised that Masubuchi got really close to the thought process leading him to punk bastards' creation, as shared on Twitter (link)!
It's a 9-star Oni topping at over 200BPM on its tally, a feat only a handful of other songs in Taiko ever matched to date (namely, the Ridge Racer 3D songs and Shiny Kung-fu Revival)! As such, even the repeated sequences of notes can be a worthy opponent to your average player's arm endurance when the busiest charting parts hit the scene.
