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7grandmel · 2 months

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Todays rip: 02/03/2024

One-Winged DJ

Season 7 Featured on: The Year of Grand Dad Sound Selection [Side A]

Ripped by duuzu, digboye, COCONABE, l4ureleye, Netyasha Roozi, Jiko Music Performed by Chase Beck

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You may have noticed that I try to keep an air of suspense when doing posts on the King for Another Day tournament such as Thank You, Everybody!. That is, of course, to not spoil the victor of Season 4 Episode 1's year-defining event - but at this point, it's a bit of a fruitless endeavor to try and uphold. Because DJ Professor K's victory celebrations haven't just been contained to his awarded day-long takeover during Season 4 Episode 2 - the takeover that gave us incredible rips like AIN'T NOTHIN' LIKE A CHUNKY BEAT, 88811, Ska Cha Cha (Rotten Mix) at an absolute breakneck pace during the SiIvaSummer All-Star Festival. Because during that takeover, a new flame was kindled - a flame by the name of Jet Set Radio Evolution.

Hideki Naganuma's style of sample-filled funk music is DJ Professor K's headlining ripping source, the one most closely associated with the game that the character originates from. Yet its a style that can be expressed in so many ways, not needing to be derivative of any prior existing songs from the two Jet Set Radio games - September, for instance, is able to sound authentically Naganuma-esque whilst being built off of a song as far away from his style as possible. Jet Set Radio Evolution, then, is an entirely made-up game - its name and logo deriving from a declined proof-of-concept, but its "soundtrack" completely made up by the SiIvaGunner team. This is far from the first fake game on the channel, and not the first one to be done without much of a shred of irony (Kirby Rip Attack is due for coverage on here) - but, notably, its a fake game born specifically to keep DJ Professor K's impact on the channel alive in the Seasons past his takeover. And, well, it took a few Seasons, but during Season 7, the team started going truly ham in utilizing its true potential.

There are a number of these Jet Set Radio Evolution rips I want to cover on here, both ones from DJ Professor K's takeover and from its revitalized usage during Season 7 - but to me, it was One-Winged DJ that really showed just how much flexibility rippers have with Naganuma's style of music. One-Winged Angel has long been seen as a sort of legendary track to rip due just how extensive of a song it is, a song that has a distinctly menacing feel to it that I can't imagine is easy to translate into a rip. Rips like One Winged PSYcho - V.S. Sepsyrop feel like absolutely herculean endeavors, and during Season 7 in particular we saw an absolute tidal wave of rips using it, as if it were just any other meme source in the channel's backlog and not this legendary 7-minute long work of art. Hen'yoku no Piraman was the first of these I covered, and while One-Winged DJ is likely far from the last, it still manages to feel like it sticks out from the crowd in just how dense of a sound it has - likely a result of how many people contributed to its creation.

There's the obvious highlight, of course: Chase Beck, the voice of DJ Professor K himself, returns to the role with new lines to supplement the original choir in latin of the original song, and it immediately gives the rip a charm to it, especially all these years after the original event and after Chase Beck's last "needed" performance as the character had long since passed. Before that even gets to kick in, though, its hard not to notice just how many different parts of Jet Set Radio's soundtracks are utilized right from the beginning: a bassline and voicelines echoing That's Enough, samples and pacing from Sneakman, the interlude's melody broken by the noise and chaos of The Concept of Love, and all throughout using small little sound effects and one-second samples from all over the games' soundscapes.

This is the kind of rip I could sit here and dissect for pages on end, yet I believe the point has been made abundantly clear already. In a Season already FILLED with celebration of every part of SiIvaGunner's life, One-Winged DJ is an absolute flex of a celebration, reminding us all of why DJ Professor K truly earned his win whilst showing just how much there is to still be done within the ever-appealing Naganuma style. I'm beyond proud of the rippers involved in how this rip turned out, and hope that the Jet Set Radio Evolution rips continue to impress into Season 8.

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mth-emma · 10 months

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was tagged by @digboye to make a playlist that spells out my URL! you can listen here on YouTube. these are the songs included:

Marble Water / Seirou Okamoto telephone / Vylet Pony How Do I Life / Em-One & Answered - Emmaculate / l4ureleye Mirror / Porter Robinson まだダメよ (mada dame yo) / Yuki Kajiura and I'm home / wowaka

i think it speaks some amount of volumes that most of this is not popular music in the slightest, and that i am just a bit of a nerd loser. i do listen to normal music i promise, but since it was my name and the letters were limited, this was what came to my mind out of my fav songs. i also tried to pick tracks that would hopefully flow pretty well in playlist form. here's a different playlist that represents me a little better.

anyway ive been thinking about changing my url for a while so maybe if i end up doing that i'll make another playlist. for now i'll tag @aquacycle @knightofgames aaand @youtubepoopmusicvideo.

see below for embeds of all the songs!

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#tumblr game #music #Youtube #SoundCloud

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digboye · 10 months

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i was tagged by @sleepycap to make a playlist out of the letters in your name! though it's not really my thing to use spotify anymore. just look these songs up individually, i recommend them.

i tag @l4ureleye, @mth-emma and @chopp-6467 !

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7grandmel · 4 months

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Todays rip: 09/01/2024

Balcony Fusion Collab

Season 4 Episode 1 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume AI

Organized by l4ureleye Ripped by livvy94, Mitchell, l4ureleye, Supahstar Clod, Netyasha Roozi, RHMan, MtH, Jiko Music, Sarvéproductions, Scribblenaut19, Scribble1k, Harmony Friends

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I feel like I don't talk about it enough on here, but I love SiIvaGunner's fusion collabs in just about all forms they've taken. Sure, I've expressed my preference for the older style of collab, with their chaotic and unpredictable, yet still cohesive, nature (File Select Fusion Collab is still one of my all-time favorite rips!). But that preference doesn't equate to any sort of dislike for the current style of Fusion Collabs, of songs being split cleanly into sections to allow each artist breathing room to do their own arrangement - I love these for their own reasons just the same, and am always giddy to see a new one release. To the shock of nobody whatsoever, Balcony Fusion Collab was an absolute shoe-in for a favorite rip of mine immediately upon listening to it for the first time.

By the start of Season 4 Episode 1, 0a lot of things had changed with the Fusion Collabs since they began in Season 1. They were, for a while, mainly used to denote big events and moments, like how Patched Plains Fusion Collab was one big fanfare for the start of the Christmas Comeback Crisis, or the aforementioned File Select Fusion Collab denoting the end of Season 1. We'd get more of them made for character birthdays, notably for the first birthday of SiIvaGunner mainstay character Wood Man, but eventually...I feel like the collaborations began to feel a lot more "personal" in style. With rips like Balcony Fusion Collab, it felt less like it was made to denote and celebrate some huge event, and more...just to give praise and love to one of the most important indie games ever made.

I've made no secret that I'm a huge Cave Story enjoyer, and how much the game's music and world mean to me. Those feelings have simmered overtime, but in 2019 it really was a burning love - and I was absolutely overjoyed to see the Season start off with such an incredible collaboration that seemed to be directly in touch with my feelings on the game. There's so many different styles, many of which intentionally not being based on any particular source material, which ironically makes them all fit together to the tune of Balcony so much more seamlessly...its hard to put into words, but I'm eternally going to be thankful for l4ureleye and all other collaborators for getting this video together. The sheer love for Cave Story, and the love for music as a whole, shines through here harder than ever.

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7grandmel · 3 months

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Todays rip: 21/01/2024

8-bit Fish With Dreams

Season 4 Episode 1 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume AI Also on: I JUST WANNA DO CATCH SOME FISHS

Ripped by l4ureleye

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"This one's for you, buddy."

There's a time and place for everything, and honestly, right now really isn't the time for me to recount everything surrounding Marrow's place in the channel's history again. I've covered tributes to the ripper twice in the past, once with the heartachingly beautiful Telling Fish Tales, and later in the bittersweet cheerfulness of Turnabout Fishters. I won't repeat myself all too much here, so I suggest you read up on those posts if you're out of the loop in regards to StreetPass Fishing's place on the channel. And so, to round this topic off for the foreseeable future, we have 8-bit Fish With Dreams - one more tribute, yet one that seems to come from a rather personal place.

Honestly, in the recent months, in my time doing this blog, it's been a bit...strange, slowly assimilating into the more active parts of the SiIva community. I've said it a few times before, but before making this blog I was effectively nothing but a very invested observer - I kept my interest in the channel almost entirely to myself beyond leaving a couple of YouTube comments. That has left me out of the loop on occasion, primarily with in-jokes spawned from the SiIvaGunner Discord, yet I was content in knowing that I didn't really...have much of anything to contribute. And its with that preface said that I need to clarify once again that, I don't truly know much of any details regarding people's relations to one another in the SiIvaGunner team. Nowadays, with this blog and all, I've had the opportunity to finally talk with members of the team and other fans on a regular basis, and it's been a ton of fun - yet, I'll never know firsthand just how much Marrow meant to people. And honestly, its not exactly something that concerns me to begin with - it's not my feelings to hold.

Yet, the beautiful thing about music, about art in general, is that feelings that can be so hard to convey properly through words, through stories, through recollections and retellings, can be encapsulated so perfectly within a piece. And that is represented so beautifully within every single part of 8-bit Fish With Dreams. It's not a flashy tribute, nor some huge collaborative sendoff - but what is is, feels like a deeply personal arrangement made out of pure love. l4ureleye applies her signature flair and expertise for creating soothing, healing soundscapes in arranging 8-bit Kids with Dreams, an under-the-radar song made by fellow chiptune artist jankybit. Past the initial minute-long opening fakeout, so few parts of the original Beauford Pond remain, yet it still manages to feel...at home, with StreetPass Fishing's other music. It asks you not to be excited, nor to cry, but rather just invites you to sit by and enjoy the ride. As was the case with the original 8-bit Kids with Dreams, it feels like a gift made from one friend to another, a toast in their honor.

I really do not wish to intrude on the lives and mental states of these rippers to any degree - yet there's little I can do to avoid being emotionally affected by rips like 8-bit Fish With Dreams. As is the case with art as a whole, any rip made is inevitably going to feel like it has a piece of its ripper imbued into it. And its the ones where you can feel that most, the rips that feel almost like hearing one side to a conversation, waiting for an answer, that always end up sticking with me longest. Those are the rips like 8-bit Fish With Dreams, by rippers like l4ureleye.

"u cast your line at me when I needed it most, and helped pull me out from the murky depths of my anxiety and self loathing. I needed a friend like you, and I'm glad I got to have that. Hopefully I was good to you too, u more than deserve it. Rest easy gamer"

#todays siivagunner #season 4 episode 1 #siivagunner #siiva #l4ureleye #rest easy #streetpass fishing #Youtube #Bandcamp

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7grandmel · 6 months

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Todays rip: 21/10/2023

Bramble Blast Collab

Season 6 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume FF

Organized by Myeauxyoozi Ripped by Myeauxyoozi, eg_9371, l4ureleye, IzzyKart57, Heboyi, Memmy, Sarvéproductions, Pan, RHMan, Grambam36, C-Man, minindo

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Hot off the heels of yesterday's celebration, I felt it only right to follow it up with yet more celebration. Wheras SING A SONG ABOUT HOPES AND DREAMS was part of a celebration of SiIvaGunner as a whole, today we're looking at a somewhat different celebration: the premiere of Season 6, Bramble Blast Collab, is an enchantingly unique collab even amidst the channel's long history of doing them.

Kickstarted by our good friend tunedlink back in Season 1, collabs like the File Select Fusion Collab were initially labelled as just that - "fusion" collabs, a carryover from the Kirbtunes remix project they were imitating. These proved to be immensely popular and loved by the community, and so the "fusion collab" branding stuck around, eventually morphing into a whole new, more clearly-segmented form of collaborative projects. I'm yet to cover any of these on the blog, but Season 7's Shop Fusion Collab is an excellent example of these collabs - each segment lovingly crafted by teams of rippers with visuals to match. In comparison, the old style of fusion collab may seem a bit messy, a bit unfocused and noisy. But amidst that noise, these have always been able to serve as incredible celebrations of so many parts of SiIvaGunner all at once.

While File Select Fusion Collab served to celebrate the good times had across Season 1, looking back upon all of its events and memes in a sentimental way, Bramble Blast Collab has always felt more...mixed, in its messaging. It has old memes, of course, be it Space Jam, Soulja Boy, or the introductory clip of Chad Warden's holy ghost, but...its filled to the brim with so much more, sources from the channel's recent history like Big Time Rush, Yankin' and Astronaut in the Ocean, amidst sources that are basically never seen on the channel such as Baldi's Basics and Smiling Friends. Its all delivered at a pace that's insanely fast even for the standard of these kinds of collabs - the result is a noise collage not just of SiIvaGunner's history, but of its possible future - the jokes we're yet to hear the full potential of, mixed in with small snippets of our old memories.

Althesame, it carries a slight sense of melancholy to it buried underneath all those funny memes: The track its built on *is* Bramble Blast, after all, one of the most emotionally poignant pieces of retro VGM out there. After rummaging around a zillion sources for most of the rip, the four-minute mark feels as if the song is breaking free of itself with the core melody re-emerging at full force, gradually built up by the increased prominence of the backing melody from the three-minute mark. Season 6, even as early as this, had the feeling of sorrow sort of engrained in it from the announcement of GilvaSunner - the original channel SiIvaGunner is made in tribute of - officially shutting down later that year. The fallout of which wouldn't quite be understood until I've won, but at what cost, but even as far back as the Season's premiere it was as if we were all gearing up for the inevitable.

Bramble Blast Collab, with its noise, its barrage of memes and its enchanting core throughline, remains one of my favorite season premieres the channel has ever done, and I feel it's not appreciated nearly enough for just how incredible of a collaboration it is. My hat goes off to the dozen rippers involved in its creation, for setting the stage perfectly for the ride Season 6 would end up being - althewhile keeping the spirit of the old Fusion Collabs alive and kicking.

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7grandmel · 4 months

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Todays rip: 21/12/2023

Lifelike Waterway

Season 4 Episode 1 Featured on: FIRST STRIKE ~ SiIvaGunner: King for Another Day Tournament Original Soundtrack VOL. 1

Ripped by l4ureleye

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Every since the year the King for Another Day tournament came to a close, the Christmas season has always brought back memories of it. It was such a huge event, and only really happened to land around the Christmas season due to delays in production, yet it all felt so befitting - the kind of comforting, communal feel of the holidays just fit a tournament of this ilk so well. And while yesterday, with 11 Minutes of City Pop, I wrote about the tournament's beloved silver medalist, today we're going lower down in the ranks - to a combatant many thought went out before he could've shown his true potential.

To say that Cave Story means a lot to me would be an understatement - I alluded to it earlier this month with Whip Fortress, but its a game whose aesthetics and music have stuck with me and thousands of people all over the world for so many years. We all knew Quote would have bangers in the tournament, yet by the time he was up to bat, he'd barely had any arrangements up on the channel to truly show his stuff. That's not to mention the fact that his source list even included other early-2000s indie games, yet...before that could be taken advantage of, the voting was settled and he was out for the count. When his catalogue of arrangements started to finally be rolled out, there was an era of...sorrow, in their comment sections. And Lifelike Waterway was no exception to that - to me back then, it was the moment that it truly sunk in that Quote was down and out.

The dour circumstances of the rip were not something that the team could've ever planned around - the arrangements were obviously made far in advance before the voting actually happened. Yet as also happened with Geno and DEARLY BELOVED..., his loss added a magical form of ambience to the music, a secret spice to turn a chill arrangement into a full-on tribute in his memory. I've talked at length about l4ureleye's ripping prowess on the blog before with rips like Hopes and Divinity+ and SICKO TALE - she has an unparalleled ability to create entire worlds and galaxies in your mind, out of nothing but her sound. From the mashups to the remixes, she's uncontested in the art of lo-fi, music that sounds relaxing yet simultaneously gives off the feeling of venturing into an endlessly-deep cavern. With KFAD, she was able to flex her powers to absurd levels, and if you've been listening along you may already know what I mean.

The original Lifelike Waterway already marked one of the most intense emotional points of Cave Story, yet Lifelike Waterway is able to spin that melody, that soothing yet haunting tune into something else entirely. Its far from a faithful arrangement, yet the new atmosphere it creates is just so...gripping. Its hard to put into words the emotions it makes me feel, yet its palpably a blend of the feelings I still have from Cave Story, and the feelings from Quote's fallout in the tournament - yet, the arrangement doesn't fill me with sadness, either. Its more like...the feeling of taking long, deep breaths. The feeling that everything's going to be okay.

...Look, it's difficult to find many specifics to comment on with an arrangement that's as thorough and all-encompassing as this. All of this is really just to say, that Quote's part played in the tournament really highlighted just how emotionally attached many of us have become to this silly little music project, how SiIvaGunner has brought new emotional meaning to characters they didn't even create - and, most of all, that l4ureleye is a genius.

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7grandmel · 6 months

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Todays rip: 06/11/2023

God's PS2

Season 5 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume D

Ripped by l4ureleye

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During the spooky times last month, I covered the work of Netyasha Roozi with Play in MissingNo's Station, as part of a series of several PlayStation-console start-up remixes. All of those are excellent! Yet in my digging, I ran across a tangentially related, yet not quite aiming to be spooky, rip - one by long-time favorite ripper of the channel, l4ureleye. Needless to say - I was immediately intrigued

And yeah - God's PS2 falls in line with a lot of l4ureleye's prior work, setting up an immensely chill, dreamlike soundscape much like Sidelined Symphony or The Saltwater Mii, though this time there's an obvious extra wrinkle: The PS2 Startup sound isn't a full length song, meaning this is less of a mashup and more of a full-on remix. The iconic sound pitched up and down, along with a sprinkling of other PS2 BIOS sounds, are used as the backing to Drake's God's Plan, and it creates such an interesting soundscape as a result.

There's fun touches all around, in how the sounds both replicate and build on the vibe of the original God's Plan, but its really just a pick I included for the sheer vibes of it alone. I wish I had more to say, but on long days like today, sometimes all I can tell ya is to go give it a listen for yourselves.

#todays siivagunner #season 5 #siivagunner #siiva #l4ureleye #Youtube #Bandcamp #drake #ps2 #playstation 2 #ps2 nostalgia #ps2 games #hip hop #rap music #rapper #beats

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7grandmel · 6 months

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Todays rip: 28/10/2023

Sidelined Symphony

Season 3 Featured on: The SiIvaGunner Spooktacular Halloween Horror Special Collection '17-'19

Ripped by l4ureleye

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Part of Spooktacular Week! ● Requested by fezaki (Discord)

In all these Halloween events, there's obvious jokes that we all know to expect. Typical spooky music from video games, Five Nights at Freddy's the 8-BIt Beast, horror media, David S. Pumpkins, and so on and so forth. The events aren't always quite so all-encapsulating as to *only* be spooky-themed rips, but broadly speaking you know what to expect - the kind of rips I've posted in the last few days, that is. But amidst all of this, some rips get rather creative in the ways they celebrate the Season. And yes, I do know how ironic it is for me to be praising creativity when I'm here making my fourth post covering a Stickerbush Symphony rip, after Satinpanties Symphony, Stickerbrush State of Mind and Bramble Blast Collab. Look - they're all too good not to talk about, okay?

Sidelined Symphony falls in line with the many other excellent lo-fi rap mashups done by ripper l4ureleye, yet upon playing you'll no doubt recognize the man behind the vocal performance. Early in 2018, as Season 3 was just getting into gear, a very peculiar meme started circulating all around the internet - that of Burger King Foot Lettuce. It was borderline inescapable during the time, all thanks to the bizarrely straight-faced narration of such a ridiculous story by content creator Chills. The guy is seemingly very well off, with his own channel sitting above six million subscribers, and the channel he narrated the video for being similarly well off, yet...there's no doubt that being the target of a large-scale meme basically just about making fun of his voice likely got to him, mentally.

I can't speak to anything concrete about the situation, granted, other than that it seems like Chills is taking it well nowadays (and maybe always was) and is even embracing it through things like his cameo on Smiling Friends. Althesame, when August rolled around later in the same year, Chills released his first venture into music with Sidelined, a rather melancholic and openly emotional rap tune. With lyrics like "Been trying to get away for some time - part ways with the life I chose" - it gives the feeling that Chills was rather conflicted about the situation he was in.

All of that is to say, that seeing Chills' top comment in Sidelined Symphony's YouTube upload, thanking the SiIvaGunner team for the arrangement...it really warms my heart, and feels almost like a reconciliation. Even if there wasn't ever any true bad blood between Chills and the memes made of him, the rip serves as a reminder to us viewers that the guy is MORE than a walking meme - that he's an actual creative, a human being worth loving and cherishing. And that's easier to do than ever through the rip - Bramble Blast's emotionally poignant instrumentation and progression lends itself incredibly to the raw honesty of rap lyrics as the aforementioned Stickerbrush State of Mind already demonstrated, yet its given an entirely unique vibe in Sidelined Symphony thanks to all the other tweaks made to it. The lowered pitch of the original song, the sound effect samples from Super Smash Bros. Melee and Brawl, and the way the song knows when to let Sidelined take more emphasis in the song during the midway point of the rip.

It all comes together to a rip that's absolutely swirling with emotions in so many ways, and in so many directions - empathy and respect for Chills, nostalgia for Super Smash Bros. Brawl and the SiIvaGunner channel itself, and utmost admiration for the rippers that continue to make such incredible music out of love for the internet. Sidelined Symphony is, beyond being one of my favorite rips to listen to, just one of my favorite rips for all that it stands for. Peace and love on planet earth. And foot lettuce from Burger King.

#todays siivagunner #season 3 #siivagunner #siiva #l4ureleye #chills #creepypasta #creepypasta fandom #number 15 #burger king foot lettuce #horror media #horror movies #donkey kong #donkey kong country #dkc2 #donkey kong country 2 #diddy kong #david wise

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7grandmel · 4 months

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Todays rip: 01/01/2024

I'm Here to See...

Season 3 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume AI

Ripped by l4ureleye

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Pop the champagne bottles, its a new year - AND time for the blog to feature its shortest rip yet! Yet even at just 15 seconds of runtime, there's a decent bit to talk about with I'm Here to See..., and its had a surprisingly well remembered legacy on the channel. It remains nothing but a silly, pretty absurd in-joke on the channel, yet its one that's somehow stuck for a lot of people.

In the time it took to read that above paragraph, you've likely already had the time to watch or listen to the rip itself, and may be thoroughly confused or flabbergasted as to what just occurred. Similar in spirit to rips like Windows Wonga Wappa and Big Sus Chocobo, this is a rip that's pretty much a direct tribute to a prior-made YTP effort, this time referencing "im here to see doom" by former YouTube user 3pac shakir. There's...not much of any documentation of how big the channel was, and going by the reactions to I'm Here to See... when it was uploaded, I'm going to guess that it really wasn't an all too well-known edit - just something silly that l4ureleye landed upon and decided to make an edit of. Well, an edit is what we got, and it both confused and amused an entire audience of baffled SiIva fans on its upload.

The repeating section from the intro of MF DOOM's Rapp Snitch Knishes, the repeating questions with varying pitch going back and forth, the loud audio and video distortion as the video's cut off - it's a nonsensical edit that I just cannot get enough of. In preparation for this post, I went through all 20-something iterations and variations of these "im here to see doom"-edits up on the channel, and had a huge grin on my face the entire time. Its simply impossible for me to pick a favorite when the concept is this stupid, silly, yet thoroughly funny althesame.

I get the feeling that newer SiIva fans reading this may be just as, or more confused than back when I covered Sex - Steve Harvey. But look - just go into the playlist yourself, okay? I promise it's way funnier than it has any right to be - and somehow, its kind of mysterious, weird feel played perfectly into the overall tone of Season 3 as a whole. I'm Here to See... is one of the most nostalgic rips of the Season for me just due to how much I was left flabbergasted thinking about it, and how much its future edits would continue making me laugh.

#todays siivagunner #season 3 #siivagunner #siiva #l4ureleye #mf doom #heavy rain #quantic dream #detroit become human #ps3 #playstation 3 #ytp #ytpmv #shitpost #shitposting #Youtube #Bandcamp

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7grandmel · 9 months

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Todays rip [First 30 Archive] 11/06/2023

SICKO TALE

Season 4 Episode 1

Featured on: SiIvaGunner’s Highest Quality Rips: Volume AI

Ripped by l4ureleye

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Somewhere around…I want to say, Season 3 or so? A kind of phenomenon started occurring on the channel, of taking music otherwise understood as trashy or “bad” and making them a huge focus of the channel for a while. The seeds were already planted in the past with stuff like Season 2’s “Whip and Nae Nae Day”, the widespread adoption of The Nutshack theme, and the occasional full-on low quality rips uploaded, but gradually we started seeing these kinds of jokes more and more. I always tend to associate it with Season 3 as its when we got the Its Everyday Bro event, rolling out the carpet for more rips of its ilk.

Funny enough, when you’ve got these kinds of overplayed songs living rent-free in your mind, you become an expert at identifying their beats and instruments, which opens up a whole new world of possibilities for rips using them: They can be stripped and remixed down to their base essentials and still be identifiable. That’s part of what draws me to rips of that kind, just like todays shoutout. SICKO TALE is exactly what it says on the tin: SICKO MODE but redone with Undertale music, samples and sound effects that fully transform the song. l4ureleye does it again!! She has such a good understanding of how to wrap the entirety of a track in a kind of atmosphere no matter how absurd or ridiculous its sources may be: No corners are cut in making this the ultimate realization of its weird ass concept, althewhile being an absolute vibe.

#first 30 archive #season 4 episode 1 #siivagunner #siiva #l4ureleye #undertale #toby fox #mashup #travis scott #deltarune #sicko mode #vgm #Youtube #Bandcamp

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7grandmel · 10 months

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Todays rip [First 30 Archive] - 24/05/2023

Hopes and Divinity+

Season 5 Featured on: SiIvaGunner’s Highest Quality Rips: Volume GS

Ripped by l4ureleye YouTube Visuals by Netyasha Roozi

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As mentioned prior, l4ureleye is a standout name on the channel and one whose rips I always seek out to listen to as soon as possible. The last rip I shouted out from them may not have made the reason for such obvious - it was a nice mashup, but not really anything out of this world. Its rips like Hopes and Divinity+ that remind me both of what makes l4ureleye such an incredible part of the team, and what makes me stay with the SiIvaGunner after all this time.

The concept is nothing new for the channel and is, really, intentionally derivative, mashing up Undertale music with Porter Robinson in the exact same way as Goodbye To The Underground did back in Season 1. Today's rip was actually originally made for the Nostalgia Critic Takeover of Season 3, a takeover which centered around rips resurrecting the spirit of the channel during its first season. In that sense, even before its Season 5 remaster we're covering today, Hopes and Divinity+ is an absolute triumph. It sticks to the original winning concept as described beforehand, yet embellishes it with further touches: several of the channel’s most iconic inside jokes show up across the six minute runtime to add to the initial mashup, as if to show how far the channel has come since the initial Season. Its one of those rips that manages to be both a nostalgic look back at the past whilst reminding the audience of how much time has passed, helped especially by the fantastic visuals of the YouTube upload.

The track succeeds in so many ways - as a testament to l4ureleye’s capabilities as a ripper, to how far the channel has come from Season 1, to Season 3, to the track’s remaster in Season 5, and to how much Undertale still means to SiIvaGunner’s creators and audience. Godspeed.

oh also a fun fact: the creators of these two rips, MtH and l4ureleye, are actually lesbians and dating

#first 30 archive #season 5 #siivagunner #siiva #l4ureleye #Netyasha Roozi #undertale #deltarune #porter robinson #Youtube #Bandcamp

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Todays rip [First 30 Archive] - 22/05/2023

The Saltwater Mii

Season 3 Featured on: SiIvaGunner’s Highest Quality Rips Volume A

Ripped by l4ureleye

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l4ureleye has always been a standout name in the contributors of the channel and one you’re bound to see here a lot - she has an extremely distinct vibe in her music no matter how much effort is placed into it. Todays rip is a very simple one, just a mashup of a chill piece of menu music and an Owl City song, but the two come together so harmoniously that it feels as if the two were made for each other, yet at the same time undeniably being a mix perfectly emblematic of l4ureleye's own style

…Okay, so it’s a really simple mashup, but like a lot of the rips in Season 2 its a simple idea executed fantastically. Its mashups like this one that make you remember the channel stands for more than just bamboozles and shitposting, its a place to share genuine talent for making good-soundin’ tunes.

#first 30 archive #season 3 #siivagunner #siiva #l4ureleye #wii u #nintendo #mii maker #wii shop channel #owl city #mashup #vgm #youtube #Youtube #Bandcamp

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Todays rip: 11/02/2024

Unhealed

Season 4 Episode 1 Featured on: FINAL BOUT ~ SiIvaGunner: King for Another Day Tournament Original Soundtrack VOL. 3

Ripped by Netyasha Roozi

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With my coverage of Season 4 Episode 1 in particular, I do sometimes worry if I feature a bit too much stuff from the King for Another Day Tournament. It is, after all, just one event, one that despite its massive scope still at BEST made up just one-fifth of the Season's ten-month runtime. Yet its scope isn't just a factor that exists in some bubble: The King for Another Day Tournament is as big as it is in part because its hype practically enveloped the entire Season, remaining the largest event the channel has yet produced, and the size was far more than just for show. When looking at just about every upload made for the event, each demo rip campaigning for each of these thirty-two beloved contestants, you get the feeling that the event instilled energy into every single ripper, within and outside of the team, to put their absolute BEST foot forward.

Unhealed is but one of many more examples I could, and have, featured on here that shows just how passion went into the tournament from every front. Sunday Morning was the arrangement of a lifetime for wolfman1405 and cazsu to show their jazzy skills, Lifelike Waterway allowed l4ureleye to truly stretch her wings as a master of the ambient soundscape, A New Threat shows a rarely-seen side to ripper Sarvéproductions' output as an incredible original composition that manages to still convey so much about the character - and the list simply goes on and on. With all these rippers on standby firing at all cylinders for the channel's biggest-ever event, there were few rippers I was more excited to see operating at full charge than Netyasha Roozi - and regular listeners and/or SiIvaGunner viewers ought to already know why.

As an annual Halloween tradition at this point, Netyasha Roozi has provided the channel with some of its spookiest arrangements of its entire lifetime, the history of which I covered back in Play In MissingNo's Station. How befitting, then, that the infamous Pokémon glitch said rip takes its name and influences from, would then become a contestant for the King for Another Day Tournament - and one of its heaviest hitters, to boot. And as Netyasha Roozi's contribution to the character's set list for the tournament, Unhealed certainly doesn't disappoint.

As per MissingNo.'s source list, the arrangement is based on the legendary creepypasta Ben Drowned and the associated Song of Unhealing - itself simply a recording of the Song of Healing from the game the creepypasta is based on, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, played in reverse. Wheras the original Song of Healing feels like a careful balance between hopefulness, sorrow, acceptance, and grief, the reversed form of the song - even taken outside of its creepypasta context - sounds infinitely more ominous, hopeless, as if taking the form of despair personified. The effect of playing notes in reverse almost gives them the sense of being pulled away from your reach at the last second, as if its constantly moving toward something that it's never able to reach. As if the mere prospect of happiness, of peace of mind, is a fleeting thought, gone as soon as its envisioned.

Unhealed, when contrasted to many of its hype-beyond-belief arrangements - including other MissingNo. arrangements like mines.ogg (unused) - could almost be seen as a bit strange in comparison. Yet in refusing to abandon the original atmosphere of Song of Unhealing, it becomes an absolutely stand-out arrangement. Unhealed captures and refines each of those feelings, of despair and hopelessness, as described above, yet now executes them with the intent of a full arrangement rather than as a side effect of reversing a song meant only to be played in one way. The arrangement adds so much texture to the track: a sort of muffled noise pertaining throughout it, small glitches prodding at the seams as if trying to break free from a neverending pit of sorrow, and once again retaining that sense that the song's notes are just...flying away from your fingertips, just as you're about to save whoever you see on the other side of your screen.

MissingNo.'s character was already given a ton of fans through its portrayal on the King for Another Day MOJO website, characterized as far more than a mere monster born from the minds of children of the world wide web. Yet even without those stories, I feel as if an arrangement like Unhealed is able to say so much about the character its attached to, able to convey so many feelings and thoughts, all on its lonesome. Althewhile, the track still has about as much bombastic flair than a schoolyard whisper. In an event with over 700 videos uploaded, each one of such incredible quality, and many continuing to champion the sheer spectacle and excitement that the Tournament was all about, I hope Netyasha Roozi still knows how much I adore her small-yet-perfect contribution to it all.

#todays siivagunner #season 4 episode 1 #siivagunner #siiva #Netyasha Roozi #king for another day #kfad #missingno #pokemon rby #pokemon #majora's mask #tloz mm #the legend of zelda #creepypasta #ben drowned #song of healing #song of unhealing #zelda majora's mask #majoras mask

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Todays rip: 30/01/2024

Trial of the Heart

Season 3 Featured on: Now That's What I Call Quality!

Ripped by ShonicTH

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In a few posts on here, such as on Medley Rush #7 and Sidelined Symphony, I've brought up and discussed the idea that certain rippers on SiIvaGunner feel immensely recognizable even without knowing the credits of who made what. A big part of SiIvaGunner's appeal from the start was that this mass output of rips of varying quality was pretty secretive about who was behind what, and only the fans who care enough to download the team's album releases (or check the Wiki) would be made aware of the rippers' identities. I'll wholly admit that, despite being a self-proclaimed SiIvaGunner loremaster, it took me until around the middle of Season 4 Episode 1 to actually begin paying proper attention to all of the behind-the-scenes workings. Even whilst I was in the dark in a lot of ways, though, there were a few names I was still keenly aware of through their notoriety and frequent mentions in the YouTube comments. There was channel founder Chaze the Chat, there were the shitpost legends like BotanicSage, Triple-Q and toonlink - and then, there was ShonicTH.

Out of the two dozen or so rippers that have stayed actively participant in SiIvaGunner since the very early days of Season 1, ShonicTH has always stuck out as particularly memorable to me for a lot of ways. While I comment on l4ureleye's stylistic traits as a ripper, or the various ways that Chaze the Chat would sneak his affection for Maroon 5 into half the projects he worked on, ShonicTH's legacy on the channel is comparatively pretty simple. The dude just loves Kingdom Hearts.

From an absolute onslaught of rips in Season 1 that adds The Flintstones or Snow Halation to music all across the Kingdom Hearts franchise, to his literal sole contribution to the channel in Season 7 being a rip of the exact same nature aptly titled Quickly meeting my yearly quota, ShonicTH's presence on the channel has since way back in Season 1 been immensely identifiable as just "the Kingdom Hearts guy". It reminds me of the rippers like Uncle Fill that I discussed in Violet Sky Memories - the ones where you get the feeling that, they enjoyed contributing to SiIvaGunner just to share their love of the game. And at this point, whenever I see anything Kingdom Hearts related on SiIvaGunner, be it individual rips, the Yoko Shimomura tribute album "Il settimo grande padre", seeing videos in SiIvaGunner's "Liked" playlist relating to the games, or whatever else it may be - it feels like its become a community-known truth that it can all be traced back to Kingdom Hearts.

And for a lot of these rips, particularly ones from Season 1, I don't really have much to say, other than that I'm really glad that ShonicTH is still having a great time doing what he loves for the channel. But in his vast resume of contributions, Trial of the Heart really stands out as a symbol of love above the rest - after two years of making edits to Kingdom Hearts music, it's a fully original composition by ShonicTH himself meant to emulate that very sound. And yeah, it definitely succeeds in its mission statement! Trial of the Heart sounds like an authentic battle theme from the series, althewhile sneaking in small, repeating chord progressions that sound suspiciously like the beginning to The Flintstones theme. Its reminiscent to A Battle of Grand Proportions in that sense, I suppose, as an original composition aiming to feel like a sort of battle theme for the SiIvaGunner channel itself - yet Trial of the Heart makes its one reference to the channel somewhat more subtle, and does mainly feel more like ShonicTH just testing himself on if he's able to make a song in the same style as the games he so loves.

For all the years I've followed SiIva, and for having been very much outside the core community for most of those, its always been sort of...reassuring, I suppose, to know that ShonicTH is still part of the team no matter what. Rain or shine, if there's rips to be made, ShonicTH still wants to contribute to show his love for Kingdom Hearts, and its clear to me that he's a dear friend to many on the team.

It is on the other side of your heart that the memory of this place exists. It is your heart that remembers.

#todays siivagunner #season 3 #siivagunner #siiva #ShonicTH #Kingdom Hearts #kh #kh music #kingdom hearts 3 #kh2 #kh1 #kh3 #yoko shimomura

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Todays rip: 18/10/2023

Yoshi’s Cookie World

Season 4 Episode 2 Featured on: Neon Lights & Holiday Nights ~ The SiIvaGunner All-Star Winter Festival Collection

Ripped by Expensive Dispenser

Sometimes in making these posts, I like to go hunting inside particular albums I haven't listened to in a while. I can't say I have many memories of Season 4 Episode 2's christmas event, and so I sort of glazed over a lot of rips uploaded during the time...I think I just had stuff happening in real life getting in the way of my SiIva watching time. Looking back, the event had a lot of really neat reveals and really spoiled us with everything from fusion collabs to KFaD awards to more additions to the lore, but...I think I was just ready to move on to the next season by this point.

Its unfortunate that I never really gave the event a sincere chance, because when you peek through all these big reveals, hidden in the bushes and depths of the album release - you'll find Yoshi's Cookie World, one of the best mashups I've yet heard on the channel that I somehow only discovered a week ago. You may recall, long ago, I made a post of another album-exclusive holiday event rip from Season 2 - Battle! The Trainer Inside Your Head!. There's something really special about uncovering these kinds of rips, because you get to appreciate them in total solitude, with no YouTube comments or view count or even thumbnail influencing your opinion. It truly feels like finding a hidden gemstone, a treasure few have gotten to fully appreciate.

Yoshi's Cookie World is given extra favor just for the sheer amount of nostalgia and adoration I already hold for the music of Yoshi's Woolly World - given its laid-back vibe, listening to the rip for the first time felt like uncovering a transcendent music LP nobody had ever heard of. Like a lot of Expensive Dispenser's work, its a hip-hop centered mashup, using Cookie Chips by Rejjie Snow alongside the Up Shuttlethread Pass theme from the game in focus. But in all honesty, it doesn't really matter much to me which songs were used: Expensive Dispenser is an extremely versatile ripper who's dabbled in a lot of fields, yet their ability to create comfy lo-fi soundscapes out of just about anything is really only rivaled by l4ureleye, as I detailed in posts like The Saltwater Mii and SICKO TALE. Not to proclaim that I'm picking favorites of the SiIvaGunner team, of course, but just to highlight that at the level these rippers are at it really doesn't matter what songs are used in the mashup if it results in pure zen soundscapes.

And that's really the best way I can describe Yoshi's Cookie World. Finding it, listening to it, and enjoying it all on my own, in the perfect little bubble its created for itself within one of my more forgotten SiIva albums, made by a ripper whose work I honestly take too much for granted...it's a magical rip on every front.

#todays siivagunner #season 4 episode 2 #siivagunner #siiva #Expensive Dispenser #album exclusive #Bandcamp #yoshi #yoshi's island #yoshi's woolly world #goodfeel #super mario #mario music #hip hop #lofi hip hop #lofi music #rejjie snow #mf doom #cam obi

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