L△chesis
7mai
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★4 (154) |
★7 (250) |
★8 (387) |
★9 (654) |
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125-376
???Announced with last week's Taiko no Tatsujin YT livestream, here's the first Namco Original to triumphantly come out from the third Nijiiro-age official song contest! Given the title, this song is quite the perfect match for the God Collection genos as Lachesis is the second of the Greek mythology's destiny-symbolizing Three Fates (moreso considering another of her sisters -Clotho- already got her own song in said God Collection grouping), but as this song is not part of the eponymous ingame folder on arcades along the rest, we're saving up a bit of space here to talk about it, eventually adding it in the proper Series Showcase page once it joins the God Collection ranks in a 'proper' way like the others before it.
L△chesis is the series debut of independent composer 7mai (Twitter; SoundCloud), another artist harboring the dream of having one personally-made song available to play in Taiko no Tatsujin that managed to achieve such a goal, after a regrettable defeat the year prior. In the same fashion as other artists we've seen in the past like Se-U-Ra, 7mai also has a Fanbox page which is for all the MIDIs and mp3s of both old songs and tracks that not were released on the artist's albums beforehand. Among 7mai's other works in general rhythm gaming, we nover a few originals for SOUND VOLTEX (CUTE-Reflection; Getsugetsu Kouka), Arcaea (Chelsea) and Lanota, with the four-hands-made Cynthia.
The judge remarks on the song by SueP are particularly interesting on this tune and original Taiko songs evaluation in general that warrants its own paragraph. Starting from remarks on L△chesis itself, the Synchronica alumni finds really refreshing to lend a ear to 'music with a soul', giving a strong meaning to each of the tonal demarcations within despite the complex phase composition. It's especially valuable to SueP when considering the ongoing technological advancements in the contemporary music-making scenario, where everything is made more accessible than ever from synthesizing to audio sampling and such; in other words, it has become a setting where 'just pounding your beat' is not enough to cut in. None of these beat-intensive comparisons, however, do apply with 7mai's winning tune, as the overall strangeness of the composition is the one leading the way rather than the sound's variety/volume, making each and every note an irreplaceable element to univocally identify this song. The same SueP also reveals that 7mai was really close to achieve a Gold win in the 2021 contest with the track called Lumiere, but arguments between the judges arose on whether such a track could be appreciated by people of all ages, so instead it only managed to land a Masubuchi-shaped Honorable Mention. Clearly it's not the case of today's Song of the Week, given how much of a wall of text I've just typed about a judge's pleasantly-surprised closing remarks on it!
When you boot up a song in Taiko and spot the support dancers spazzing like crazy when the rhythm leaves the opposite impression, you already know what's up- insanely high BPM values under a x0.5 scrolling speed for the whole chart, a-la Kokorobo. This is pretty much the same case for the newcoming L△chesis, which actually manages to top the just-aforementioned Kokorobo in having the highest base BPM value in all of Taiko music history with astoni9shing peaks of 376 BPM as its commonpace! Its Oni notechart, however, is one of the more linear 'muscial notation' charting jobs you'll see in recent memory, heating things up only near the very end with its two relentless Go-Go Time areas' merciless cluster successions.
