Season 7
Featured on: The Year of Grand Dad Sound Selection [Side A]
Ripped by eg_9371
Tentative rip name: Don't Forget about the 2:23AM stream
Its always so interesting to me whenever I hear a joke on SiIva completely out of my circle - and even MORE interesting when its something I'm able to fully vibe with regardless.
Yeah, full disclaimer, I'm really not familiar with 2:23AM, the track used for the joke of todays rip, nor the context its oft used in. To my knowledge its a piece of royalty-free music used by some pretty big-name VTubers in their livestreams as pause or waiting music due to its laid-back vibe. Its not the kind of song that strikes you as being royalty-free in the same way Kevin MacLeod's library is, yet its sound is indistinct enough as to be easily associated with any of the streamers that currently use it.
Again, though, even without all of that background - kris gaming is just a damn good arrangement! It follows on the original song's first few notes sounding near the exact same as Deltarune's Don't Forget, and it gives the rip a kind of emotional warmth alongside its original lo-fi relaxing feel. Its kind of surprising just how many feelings come attached to UT/DR's various melodies and how well they carry through into all sorts of arrangements, especially given just how long the SiIva channel has been ripping the two games. Even seven years later we're finding new ways to arrange Toby Fox's music, in ways that are sounding so good they may as well be official.
eg_9371 is, as I described before in The Secret Forest of Bones, the kind of ripper who's been able to just throw himself at any challenge to see if he can do it, and he seems to be basically unstoppable at this point. Even at his massive rate of output, he doesn't forget to inbue his rips with additional touches of flavor - though this rip would have been great as-is simply arranging Don't Forget, it also quotes Hopes and Dreams and Dating Start! from Undertale in a surprisingly natural way and turns this into a heartwarming little road trip down Undertale's soundscape. Its damn cool to see what people like eg_9371 can do with jokes so seemingly out of nowhere for the channel, and how much those in the know are able to appreciate it.
