My Daily Touhou Music #1: PERFECT AIM

[Mima-sama]

So I thought of doing one of those daily posting things from the
r/touhou subreddit, to make the discussion in this newsgroup more
lively. Please feel free to do one yourself too as a follow-up to this
message, and crosspost your daily to any newsgroup your chosen music is
relevant to (don't forget to change the title and reference this post by
Message-ID). :) It can be any Touhou music, whether official, fan
remixed, or even fan originals (as long as they're sufficiently
Touhou-styled)!

Alright, I'm gonna follow you up. :)

(The parent message's ID is <uf2opt$3glpa$***@dont-email.me>)

My Touhou music of the day is PERFECT AIM by the doujin circle SOUND
HOLIC. You can listen here in YouTube (via Invidious) with Traditional
Chinese and English subtitles (since it's a Japanese vocal):
https://yt.chaotic.ninja/watch?v=OZ1rdcBIfNw

It's a J-Trance and rock remix of two themes from Touhou 2 (PC-98 era):
- Extra Love (extra stage theme)
- Tank Girl's Dream (Rika's extra boss theme)

Hence the addition of alt.music.trance, japan.comp.pc98,
tw.bbs.music.japan, and rec.games.video.classic to the crossposts.

This SOUND HOLIC arrange has been eating at my mind like a brainworm.
It's such a fire remix that I had it on loop for hours, especially when
I'm coding.

It also doesn't help that I *love* Rika from Story of Eastern
Wonderland, and that I think she's a very underrated character in the
whole Touhou series. Yes, being a PC-98 character automatically makes
you underrated (except if you're Mima, Yuuka, or maybe Shinki or Elly),
but damn Rika is a contender for being the most underrated. She's purely
human (and not a youkai like Nitori, who is an engineer like Rika) yet
has built tanks, made bakebake (which are stage enemies that look like
ghosts and will become a staple of the series until the end of the PC-98
era), and given Reimu hell in extra stage. That makes Rika more the
impressive to me compared to Nitori.

Anyway back to the music, the instruments are all fantastic. The 12
second mark is such a powerful start you could've told me it comes from
Ace Combat or shit and I would've believed you for a second. The
electric guitars are absolutely shredding, and the vocalist has a
beautiful voice, as expected from SOUND HOLIC!

[Kijin Seija]

Post by Mima-sama
My Touhou music of the day is PERFECT AIM by the doujin circle SOUND
HOLIC. You can listen here in YouTube (via Invidious) with Traditional
https://yt.chaotic.ninja/watch?v=OZ1rdcBIfNw
- Extra Love (extra stage theme)
- Tank Girl's Dream (Rika's extra boss theme)
Hence the addition of alt.music.trance, japan.comp.pc98,
tw.bbs.music.japan, and rec.games.video.classic to the crossposts.
This SOUND HOLIC arrange has been eating at my mind like a brainworm.
It's such a fire remix that I had it on loop for hours, especially when
I'm coding.
It also doesn't help that I *love* Rika from Story of Eastern
Wonderland, and that I think she's a very underrated character in the
whole Touhou series. Yes, being a PC-98 character automatically makes
you underrated (except if you're Mima, Yuuka, or maybe Shinki or Elly),
but damn Rika is a contender for being the most underrated. She's purely
human (and not a youkai like Nitori, who is an engineer like Rika) yet
has built tanks, made bakebake (which are stage enemies that look like
ghosts and will become a staple of the series until the end of the PC-98
era), and given Reimu hell in extra stage. That makes Rika more the
impressive to me compared to Nitori.
Anyway back to the music, the instruments are all fantastic. The 12
second mark is such a powerful start you could've told me it comes from
Ace Combat or shit and I would've believed you for a second. The
electric guitars are absolutely shredding, and the vocalist has a
beautiful voice, as expected from SOUND HOLIC!

Hot damn, that's some lit music indeed :D

Anyway I wonder if posting to alt.music.trance was the right choice.
This sounds more like rock to me, and there are plenty of rock
newsgroups here

[Kijin Seija]

I've also removed the japan and tw newsgroups from crossposting since my
client (SeaMonkey) is erroring out every time I post the message
including those two:

"You can only send a message to one news server at a time"

[Mima-sama]

Post by Kijin Seija
Anyway I wonder if posting to alt.music.trance was the right choice.
This sounds more like rock to me, and there are plenty of rock
newsgroups here

It's described as J-Trance in this reupload by Kappashiro (who is
well-known in YouTube ripping CDs or albums):
https://yt.chaotic.ninja/watch?v=JqXipxfApm8

And it did have some trance elements there at least, so that's why. But
I guess you're right, in hindsight I should've replaced alt.music.trance
with alt.rock-n-roll... I just had too many newsgroups listed apparently
and I had to trim down.

[Takane Yamashiro]

Post by Mima-sama
My Touhou music of the day is PERFECT AIM by the doujin circle SOUND
HOLIC. You can listen here in YouTube (via Invidious) with Traditional
https://yt.chaotic.ninja/watch?v=OZ1rdcBIfNw
- Extra Love (extra stage theme)
- Tank Girl's Dream (Rika's extra boss theme)

Loved it. The Rika background used by the uploader is cool too.

Post by Mima-sama
It also doesn't help that I *love* Rika from Story of Eastern
Wonderland, and that I think she's a very underrated character in the
whole Touhou series. Yes, being a PC-98 character automatically makes
you underrated (except if you're Mima, Yuuka, or maybe Shinki or Elly),
but damn Rika is a contender for being the most underrated. She's purely
human (and not a youkai like Nitori, who is an engineer like Rika) yet
has built tanks, made bakebake (which are stage enemies that look like
ghosts and will become a staple of the series until the end of the PC-98
era), and given Reimu hell in extra stage. That makes Rika more the
impressive to me compared to Nitori.

I wonder what Nitori would think of Rika if they meet each other. Since
they're both engineers it probably is likely that the one will encounter
the other somehow someday... :)

(On a lesser related note I should get back around to playing PC-98...)

[Mima-sama]

Post by Takane Yamashiro
Loved it. The Rika background used by the uploader is cool too.

EX Rika is best Rika! :D

Post by Takane Yamashiro
I wonder what Nitori would think of Rika if they meet each other. Since
they're both engineers it probably is likely that the one will encounter
the other somehow someday... :)

Nitori would probably be curious first on how Rika was able to achieve
her engineering feats without any magic at all (or at least as far as we
know, but it does seem like Rika doesn't look like the type who would
know how to use magic though). And befriend her of course. Kappa and
humans are friends! :D

Post by Takane Yamashiro
(On a lesser related note I should get back around to playing PC-98...)

Gotta virtually dust off that virtual hard disk image! :3