Since not too long ago I have been revisiting my library quite often, going through tracks I haven't listened to in quite a while.
Naturally I started appreciating many tracks, with almost same vigor as I had listened to them the first time, however this one track I fell for a lot more than I did for the others. Fine wine sort of thing I guess? There were a few more tracks which I felt similar for, but not nearly as much as I felt for this. It was almost as if I treated it completely unfairly back then.
And thus this re-upload, probably my second highest worked upon video on my channel in terms of the ideas that I tried incorporating, and first time I ever tried working with the audio itself.
The track is a shortened version of original track which more or less looped twice, but this shortened version has an extended version of the middle section (my favourite part) which I have quite nicely looped a little bit (not perfect, but quite a passable loop).
I absolutely love this track. Eletronic tracks are not as common across animes, especially at the time of Parasyte, so this is such a treat and it perfectly hit a bullseye on most of the checkboxes.
The start of the track is a complete mysterious atmosphere with those piano celo and violin like combo upto 0:29, from where the transition starts happening into a more of a stressy atmosphere. Overall the theme is a bit difficult to describe for me, but its sort of a good mix of mystery + stress/tenseness.
The synth like sounds in the background starting at 0:29 are sound so good considering the feeling this track portrays. Buzzing sort of like insects, parasites! But in terms of music, don't really sound out of place either, which is fantastic.
Those rapid intense, breaking violin starting from 0:29 as well are also great. There are sort of like two layers to them, one produces rapid breaking notes while another covers more slower musical transitions, 0:55-0:58 is a great example of it.
The 0:58 section with those violins and beats (and those low pitch screechy synth sound in background) was such a great transition into the main theme kicking in at 1:21.
I tried to add a sort of interesting flavor to track from 1:12, which involved some audio tuning, obviously that tuning didn't turn out as well as I would have hoped for but I tried best I could from my limited knowledge. Then a middle section with intimidation from tamura reiko, probably the best line of her and one of the most critical moments of the show.
And then 1:21, which I fell over heels for. This section is so great, the electronic beeps in the background that sync well with the repeating piano notes is so great. Not to mention the background vocals in that section (yes there are some slow reverbed falsettos! I never noticed them initially, I have better audio gear now though). The violins ofcourse adding a real musical flow to the track, the beats and bass adding the intensity. Its such a lovely combination, so catchy, makes me want to listen it for eternity.
The closing of the track is a little abrupt, but not too bad at all, with just synths covering up, some slight cymbals and some violin notes. Not too shabby, but defintely not a rememberable part either.
The background change and transition at 1:21 is something I took the inspiration from the anime itself, similar to the transition of how the camera zooms into reiko's eye. It was clearly not on the same level, but was an interesting project on my part, which I am fairly happy about how it turned out (but even more happy that I was able to loop the best part of the track decently).
I did screw up the start of the track where it sort of starts a little bit in the middle of the note, but not too bad I guess.
With this re-upload, I've unlisted the original video (unlisted is not same as deletion, anyone who has the link, or is in their playlist will continue to be there).
This is a little different, not really one that may be expected from this channel, but I did want to do this, to, well, correctly portray my feelings about this track.
Our rating of this track: 10/10
Overall rating of this anime in terms of its background music : 10/10
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