Now you can also follow our out-blog Taiko Time reporting action on Bluesky, with a @taikotimeblog profile handle to be the most similar to the ongoing Twitter one! The link for our profile, not only shared with these here words, has also been added to our left-sidebar 'Links' section, as Taiko Time (Bluesky).
At this point, I'd pick a song from the blue genre to celebrate the Bluesky joining, but as we've already had a Pops pick last week, why not have something sky-related instead?!
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rnbsky (RAINBOW★SKY)One of the winners from 2022's Faith Creation music recruitment contests, here we have a debutant composer to share many a trait with a winning artist from the next year's contest in the somehow-collaboration-foreshadowing-on-our-part tn-shi (see here!), both self-taught artists with many a doujin label affiliation whose initial music-composing drive is all owed to their appreciation of rhythm-gaming music. We've got a bit more to talk about today's artist on our spotlight in comparison, considering quite the extensive online interview on Muse to draw from!
Meet Tatsunoshin Fujiyoshi (Twxttxr; SoundCloud; YouTube), a currently-22-aged composer who's best known online as either 4* or simply Tatsunoshin. Fond of playing J-Pop and music game tracks by years since elementary school years, he aimed since then to enroll into a major study course for music creation -the Osaka College of Music in particular- and started making music on his own since the second high-school year. With the bulk of his musical appreciation coming from the works of Hardcore TANO*C label artist P*Light, his core genres of production are the UK-originating happy hardcore and UK hardcore, only to then broaden his likeliness to club music with time. In fact, via DM messaging with many an artist during these years, Tatsunoshin managed to broaden his composing styles to the overseas -core scene that mostly caters to club-heading areas in comparison to Japan's mostly-gaming-related push for such generes, managing in turn to become the first Japanese artist affiliated to overseas circles: UK's Justice Hardcore and Australia's OneSeventy.
Such collaborative fondness was reflected on his home nation as well, joining Electric Fox (a branch of the Belgium-based Ditzy Workz label), releasing music for MEGAREX and even the same Hardcore TANO*C label, the latter of which lead him to meet and befriend the same P*Light who inspired him to join the music scene to begin with! Tatsunoshin also got to get aquainted with digital artist PIKASONIC when asked to make music game-affine songs, which lead to the creation of Skyfall for Andamiro's soon-to-be-dead Chrono Circle arcade and Lockdown for Konami's Polaris Chord. Tatsunoshin on his own also has many a song across rhythm games, from other Konami games (SOUND VOLTEX; jubeat; DanceDanceRevolution) to lowiro's Arcaea with the really-recent-release of Judgement.
Originally submitted for the contest without the black star on its title (link), RAINBOW★SKY is the first to appear for the 2022 competition's Winners Judge Impressions, with SueP complimenting the FutureCore/Happy Hardcore-inspired piece for having many an element to make listerers think for it to be played in a music game! This was Tatsunoshin's success at first try, but it wasn't such a sweep to recall years later for his second submission Donkasuga Exercise No.1 (feat. Dokanosin VS Arewasshoi), made for this year's song contest. At the point in time of this original writing, Bronze/Silver Honorable Mentions for the 2024 competition have not been published yet, so all we can say is that this one failed to impress both the Taiko Team judges and the Internet-armed mass of the General Voting audience... Drawing another parallel with tn-shi, Tatsunoshin's YT channel also hosts an official upload of his winning FaiCre song, releasing about a month after the 'regular' official upload at BanNam's JP YouTube channel.
What did make it to the Taiko rounds, however, was a compound-clusters-heavy challenge that prizes handswitching action over sheer stamina skills, soon to become an arcade-exclusive with the looming closure of RHYTHM CONNECT (at least, for the foreseeable future). It's here to stay on arcades, however, so grab your bachi of choice and see if you can manage to snag for yourself the 'Beyond the Sky' (空の彼方へ) Full Combo title that Tatsunoshin himself came up with, as told by the same on Twitter (link).
