It's the first Classic pick in quite a while! This ought to be familair to long-date Taiko players to hear, despite it being increasingly hard to scout in official titles...
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| PS2 4 |  |
★4 183 |
★4 230 |
★5 365 |
★7 475 |
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| xBox RC |
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★4 183 |
★5 230 |
★7 365 |
★7 475 |
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clsc2 (Classic - 2nd Carmen song)At the end of the day, the more-recently-titled The Drum Master for the xBox family of ongoing systems and Windows-running PCs has had a few features on the grand-scheme of the series en large that are quite distinctive about its base+DLC tracklist: one of the smallest J-POP/Pops music selection available, having a couple of modern songs that are not playable anywhere else as of now -Incompatible Thoughts and a unique medley from Tales of Xillia- and porting a bunch of licensed tunes that were only available once or twice among official Taikos beforehand as paid pieces of DLC. Among these lies a second track from the French opera Carmen scored by Georges Bizet, whose prelude -on the other hand- can be found in right about any other Taiko game these days!
The Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre aria (lit. "I return your toast to you"), also known in a number of other names like 'The Toreadors' or 'March of the Toreadors', opens the Carmen opera's second act as the vocal piece performed by the titular gypsy Carmen's other love interest in the play: the bullbighter Escamillo, as he describes in song the fierce happenings in the bullring and the resounding cheers of their victorious aftermath. The allegro-molto-moderato-scored piece is also partly played in the Carmen Prelude we've got quite accustomed thanks to consecutive Taiko returns and more specifically its refrain, titled "Toréador, en garde". Sure, the piece might have been used a lot of times in celebration for Formula One and World Rally Championship's traditional champaign-spraying action from the podium's seat takers, but play the Toréador, en garde part to the ear of your average Five Nights At Freddy's player and chances are they're gonna say it's the Freddy song, instead!
Debuting on Yondaime's default song list, this song has yet to be ported to arcade shores; despite that, however, for some reason it was still listed as part of the 6th Taiko arcade's songlist on its own website (link, archived)! The only other ports for it to date are for a couple of games whose means of distribution are going to get the plug (or in the case of RHYTHM CONNECT, such a plug that not even having your game installed won't help for a thing anymore!), leaving us with a hard-to-track 7* challenge using 1/12 and 1/24 charting for the latter portion in a more representative way than the refrain portion in the iconic Carmen Prelude does.
