The Song of the Week is... the song of the day, once more! What has publicly joined the Taiko family today also got quite the novel commentary approach from its own creator, as you're about to see...
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| AC Nijiiro (Y4) |  |
★5 176 |
★7 299 |
★8 534 |
★9 761 |
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???One of the two "returning-composers" winning picks from the Taiko Team judges board in last year's Columbia-Makes-hosted music recruitment contest, EXRiXiS marks the return of the independent composer Yomii, four years after the release of his also-contest-winner LECIEL GLISSANDO, back in 2020. The bulk of music trivia you're about to read on the song in question comes from Yomii himself, who recorded a first-impressions video of himself who could hear the latest contest's results only 4 hours after the fact!
Starting from the title, the reason of having the Exrixis (ἔκρηξις, 'explosion') Greek word was twofold: it's a cool-sounding one for the song's author and perfectly encapsulates the state-of-mind of your average player aiming for the best performance possible on a song, resulting into a (figurative) burst of emotions along the way. It's also something of a more-personal matter for the same artist, as the desire to show off the passion of the (music) arcade gaming scene to be the same as decades prior with he himself going (at the time of recording) a little over 11 years since the adoption of D's Adventure Note while he still was attending school. With music gaming being widespread in recent years as a 'thing of the youth' in middle-to-high-school years, you see people fall off in their adulthood years over time as well as working adults still well-versed onto music gaming enjoyment, so why would one start dabbling into the genre, or letting the interest fizzle out over time? By wielding the same passion for the genres with such an explosive-sounding song title, the song was written by someone like us to try answering these questions; whether passerby or hugely into the music gaming scene, being able (or not) to feel anything with the track in question is the objective for Yomii's latest musical endeavor, aiming to be the indicator of whether one would rekindle to the emotional ride of playing such games was like or if it's time for the listener to retire for good.
For the song's composition, it starts as a piano-lead piece like many but Yomii tried to work-in some sort of 'piano removal' portion as to give in Dubstep-like snappiness vibes (for the lack of better terms), only to then break up the fast tempo with a quieter portion, also in piano. It's a must for music-game-like songs these days to go ham with the BPM averages, but Yomii's "old-school" approach to music-making made him opt for the tension that comes with a change of pace, even when laying the ground for more quiet times. Yomii also revealed how he's been making for fun an Hardstyle-like track inbetween the composion of this song, something that is still pondering on whether to present or not in a latest music contest in the future; even a small audio snipped from it was played, in the same video!
EXRiXiS rides off the honorable-mention trails that Yomii got in the preceeding Taiko no Tatsujin music contest with the song ◎nigashim∀, which still managed to be praised by the author's classical-music approach to the "music-game-core" genre and a couple of honorable mentions- one from Masubuchi (silver) and another from Etou (bronze). It's the same Taiko Team leader, in fact, to pen the 2024 song submission's judges impression, still walking the fondness for the "textbook music-game-core" of Yomii with a unique 'evil' spin given to it via single-tone/long notes among other elements, resulting in something to be listened to over and over.
Although we've got most of today's trivia off to the "Yomii Ura" secondary channel of the author, this was one of the 2024 contest winners to make its debut without one of those, capping at a 1/16-charting dominant 9* Oni challenge with a modicum of BPM bursts right before the quiet piano-lead ending portion.
