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
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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Lol someone just Blazed Ska Cha Cha Thursday.
Hell yeah
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Round 1 is up!
Wrapped in Black vs Bomber Barbara (WINNER: Wrapped in Black)
Raisin' Me Up vs A New Day (WINNER: A New Day)
Ska Cha Cha vs Ska Cha Cha (Blazy Mix) (TIED)
Ethno Circus (Blazy Mix) vs Back 2 Back (WINNER: Back 2 Back)
Right There, Ride On (Blazy Mix) vs Metal Scratchin' (WINNER: Right There, Ride On (Blazy Mix))
Vela-Nova vs What U Need is Remix (WINNER: Vela-Nova)
Seaside Hill vs Grand Metropolis (WINNER: Seaside Hill)
Casino Park vs Bingo Highway (WINNER: Casino Park)
Special Stage: Emerald Challenge vs System Screen: Select (WINNER: System Screen: Select)
Team Chaotix vs This Machine (WINNER: Team Chaotix)
Waking Up vs The Chosen One (WINNER: Waking Up)
Westopolis vs GUN Fortress (WINNER: Westopolis)
The Ark vs The Doom (WINNER: The Ark)
Digital Circuit vs Black Comet (WINNER: Black Comet)
Sky Troops vs Glyphic Canyon (WINNER: Glyphic Canyon)
Main Menu (Shadow the Hedgehog) vs Main Menu (Sonic Gems Collection) (WINNER: ShTH Main Menu)
Are You Brave vs Fairy of A.I.F. (WINNER: Fairy of A.I.F.)
Central City (Sonic Battle) vs Club Rouge (WINNER: Club Rouge)
Battle Highway vs Nonaggression (WINNER: Nonaggression)
Ocean Base Act 1 vs Cyber Track Act 1 (WINNER: Cyber Track Act 1)
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FAVORITE RUSH SONG GO :D
UHHHHH UMMMM RAISIN ME UP
wrapped in black and back 2 back and ska cha cha are RIGHT THERE AT THE TOP TOO but. raisin me up. the lyrics are hitting a bit too hard with that ending uuuggghhjn
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Blog post [HERE]
Tracklist
01. A Charlie Brown Christmas - Intro
02. Vince Guaraldi Trio - Christmas Time Is Here (Instrumental)
03. Sally Fletcher - White Christmas
04. Dina Washington - Ole Santa
05. James Brown - Santa Claus, Santa Claus
06. Brook Benton - Soul Santa
07. Charles Brown - Christmas Blues
08. Binky Griptite & The Dee Kays - Stoned Soul Christmas
09. Lowell Fulsom - I Wanna Spend Christmas With You
10. Glenna Bell - Be My Valentine On Christmas
11. Marvin Gaye - Christmas In The City
12. Amos Milburn with Charles Brown - Christmas Comes But Once A Year
13. Herb Alpert - Let It Snow
14. Winston Groovy - Merry Christmas
15. The Granville Williams Orchestra - Santa Claus Is Ska-ing To Town
16. Billy May - Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer Mambo
17. Pearl Bailey - Jingle Bells Cha, Cha, Cha
18. Four Imperials - Santa's Got A Coup de Ville
19. Beginning Of The End - Gee Whiz, It's Christmas
20. Milly & Silly - Getting Down For Christmas
21. Jimmy Reed - Christmas Present Blues
22. Vernon Garrett with Sir Stan & The Counts - Christmas Groove
23. Funk Machine - Soul Santa
24. Harvey Avenue Band - Let's Get Together For Christmas
25. Black On White Affair - Auld Lang Syne
26. Jimmy Jules & Nuclear Soul System - Christmas Done Got Funky
27. The Staples Singers - Who Took The Merry Out Of Christmas?
28. James Brown - Merry Christmas Baby
29. Freddy King - Christmas Tears
30. William Clarke - Please Let Me Be Your Santa Claus
31. Lightning Hopkins - Santa Baby
32. Carey Bell - Christmas Train
Download via [HEARTHIS]
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スウェーデンのゲイ・ガラにカーリヤがゲストで登場
(c)Jonas Norén (Direkt från QX-galan 2024! より )
ストックホルムで毎年開催されているLGBTの祭典、QXゲイ・ガラにカーリヤがゲストで登場しました!
ゲイを公表しているスウェーデン系フィンランド人のテレビ司会者Pekka Heino氏が、2023年8月5日に開催されたストックホルムでのプライドパレードでカーリヤのコスチュームをまとったことがご縁のよう。ゲイガラ当日もHeino氏はカーリヤのコスプレで現れましたが、そこでご本人登場とばかりに本物のカーリヤが現れ、Cha Cha Chaを演奏したようです(今回はダンサーのエテルとカトリも一緒💚)
(c)Jonas Norén (Direkt från QX-galan 2024! より )
プライド・パレードでカーリヤのコスチュームに身を包むHeino氏
ゲイ・ガラで談笑するカーリヤとHeino氏
LGBT誌のインタビューでは、自身はヘテロであるが、ゲイの友達がいて彼らはみんな面白いので好き、と語っていたLGBTフレンドリーなカーリヤ。
年齢や体型、肌の色、性別、性的志向など関係なくファンと接し、そのような差別をする人間は自分のギグに来なくていいとMCで語る彼は、あらゆる人々から愛されているようです💚
ゲイ・ガラの様子は下記URLより(スウェーデン語です)
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uh my top 20ish favourite pieces from the Sonic Rush soundtrack
A New Day
Back 2 Back
Wrapped in Black
What U Need
Right There, Ride On
Metal Scratchin'
Jeh Jeh Rocket (Blazy Mix)
Vela-Nova
Ska Cha Cha (Blazy Mix)
Ethno Circus (Blazy Mix)
Bomber Barbara
RAISIN' ME UP NUMERO UNO I CRY EVERY TIME
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WAIT I CANT BE SAD ITS SKA CHA CHA THURSDAY
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