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why is everyone reblogging my old stuff suddenly

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Thoughts on Splatune 3!

I wanted to share some of my thoughts on the soundtrack of Splatoon 3 now that we have the final composer credit for each track. This is my perspective as a musician as well as a fan of the lore!

Ryo Nagamatsu carried this soundtrack HARD man. There were six composers total and he did a third of the tracks, including everything by C-Side which came as a shock to me. I genuinely thought those were all Toru Minegishi, who has apparently stepped up to a supervisor role since Splatoon 2 and is less involved in the making of the soundtrack itself.

The new composers—Toshiyuki Sudo, Yumi Takahashi and Sayako Doi—also did a lot of heavy lifting this time around too. Takahashi caught me way off guard, especially when I found out she is responsible for all three DLC Squid Sisters tracks. Apparently she has inherited them from Shiho Fujii, who only contributed Wave Goodbye for this game.

Takahashi was able to capture Fujii’s essence while adding some cool harmonic ideas that we haven’t seen from the group’s almost satirical J-pop discography. I think she’s the best out of the new team members at writing chord progressions and strong hooks, and I’m really looking forward to new Squid Sisters tracks if it means she’s behind the wheel!

She’s also a really tight funk arranger, and one of my admittedly few correct predictions was that she was responsible for the vast majority of the lobby tracks. They all reminded me of her tracks from Animal Crossing New Horizons, especially with their mellow chord progressions and laid-back feel. Takahashi’s lobby tracks have energy but don’t carry too much momentum, keeping the tension low and the groove up front while switching occasionally to a more lush and complex progression on the bridge. She is everything I love in a composer lol

Sayako Doi also had my attention when I found out what she was responsible for. She’s only been with Nintendo for about four years now and barely as any individual track credits to her name. As it turns out, she did all of the Alterna map themes as well as the Tableturf soundtrack. All of the Tableturf tracks are intentionally camp and I think they did her sort of dirty by making that a good portion of her contribution, but the variety in her RotM tracks almost makes up for it. She seems more sound design-focused than Takahashi and it sounds like she focuses more on the overall feel of her tracks than the theoretical details behind them. I’m curious to hear what she might contribute for Side Order!

I said before that Minegishi is moving up to a directorial role as many game composers do, and he contributed significantly less this time around musically. He mainly handled the stage themes in RotM, a couple of which I thought were by Sudo and Nagamatsu. With Flying Colors is marked by orchestral sample spam, which I thought was Nagamatsu’s signature sound, and Ride or Fry sounds like Sudo’s Deep Cut compositions. Minegishi did both!

I don’t know what the best way to do this is on tumblr but I guess I’ll just share this now and edit it later? I wish it was more intuitive to make a thread or something I guess I’m just twitter monkey brain

#splatoon #splatune 3 #composer #reactions #deep cut #c side splatoon #front roe #Youtube

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ATTENTION SPLATOON MUSIC FANS!

since images of the Splatune 3 booklet leaked early I was able to compile the official credits for the Splatoon 3 soundtrack! I might post my thoughts on the composers later comparing my expectations and how the tracks were actually divided…

#splatoon #splatune 3 #music #composer #c side #front roe

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HEY wanna know what sacrilege sounds like

I should post here m,ore from now on

#splatoon #jamiroquai #touhou #remix

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so how about that #35 caught name drop in the jukebox huh

#dedf1sh #splatoon 3 #yoooooooo he did it he did the

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Drew some cephs for some very nice folks on twitter!!

featuring @anguyxd @moolamixtape @gonefissionnn @disspaiir @zuzuinktheory and some other people that probably have blogs here

#LOOK GARY THERE I AM!! #splatoon #based

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vanessa c side

#splatoon #splatbands #c-side #sketch #fanart

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hi tumblr I havent been on like at all but thanks for 100 followers from doing absolutely fucking nothing 🥹🥹 some doodles from twitter, top one is composer shiho fujii in splatoon style as her counterpart shy-ho shy, squid sisters producer whos only ever mentioned twice, I think I got her vibe down pretty well

Happy new year guys I plan on posting here more

#splatoon #fanart #sketch

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Love ur cc covers

thanks g!!!

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new chirpy chips style track for the holidays!! Dead Line KILLED IT w the artwork please give them a follow!!!

SHE'S DEFROSTED, START RUNNING

BUT WHILE YOU'RE DOING THAT GO CHECK OUT THE CHIRPY CHIPS ARRANGEMENT OF "ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU" BY MY FRIEND @moolamixtape! IT'S SUCH A BANGER. THERE'S NO TIME, CLICK THE LINK BELOW AND GAS IT UP FAST BEFORE SHE GETS YOU

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Thank you all so much for the kind words on the Splatband Banners so far! It means a lot making fellow fans of these characters happy and the support is what drives me to keep going. I've had this in mind the entire time while making these, and I wanted to gauge interest about it here! I've been thinking of eventually selling these banners as posters/prints later down the road! I've never dabbled in selling fan merch myself, so I'd need some time to figure out what my options would be. Regardless, it's something I absolutely want to do with these pieces at some point. Would love to hear thoughts and suggestions! More of these are coming soon, there's probably gonna be a little more time in between each of the remaining ones, but I'm going to do my best to get them out fast and make sure each one is better than the last! 🦑

#fuck yes #goated #awesome art

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Aggie doodles.. I’ve been in a huge artblock or something !!

#epic art

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don’t color my art often but I wanted to do this

#splatoon #callie cuttlefish #fanart

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RAAAHHHHHH PEARLIE

#splatoon #pearl splatoon #off the hook #fanart

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my magnum copus

#Youtube