Techno-Rock from SVDX
I never knew about this artist until last week and holy shit, does it sound good. Not only does Noah produced my favorite genres of music, he also is a composer for the Sound Voltex series. Sound Voltex is a rhythm game series from Japan and the majority of their songs include techno, rock, JPOP, and a few other genres and mashups. Most of these songs are meant to be high tempo and really fast, and this song does not disappoint. Noah is the artist I’ll be writing about in this blog piece and I’ll be taking a look at his song, Acasia, from the Rebirth The End album.
The goal for these types of rhythm game music is to get you pumped up and wanting to play through these songs, while hitting objects to gain a combo. The combo you gain from going on a streak of hitting the notes also adds to the excitement factor of playing one of these songs on an arcade machine. There’s a skill factor involved and it really challenges you on the gameplay. Probably the most popular rhythm game of all time would be DanceDanceRevolution.
Just like that dog, I get pumped up when listening to this song. What would you even call it? It’s like a mix of techno, classical, rock, metal, and symphonic. It’s all instrumental and it sure does a great job at keeping my interest even without having a singer. As like most of my blog posts, Noah is an artist from Japan. he’s made a few solo songs, however, the majority of his work are dedicated to the SVDX (Sound Voltex) series. There’s just so much talent that comes from this tiny country and I got hooked on a lot of it.
Like my last week’s post about Middleisland, Noah utilizes the violin a lot. The song also uses the piano, drums, electric guitar, and probably some sampling too. The song flows so smoothly, none the the guitar parts are too fast or loud, they are very smooth and even in their solos they shine. The same goes with the violin and piano, they are played when needed and never over used. For example, at 3:51, the piano is only being played to slow down from the guitar part, and then the guitar is brought back along with some mixing of some music to create that techno feel. Each part gets their spotlight during some points through the song.
The transitions are very subtle and smooth. Nothing is being thrown at you unexpectedly. Even the ending is a very clean finish to the whole song, with the long guitar and the twinkling star noises. I feel like this song perfectly caters towards the rhythm game scene, and maybe even people who like rock music in general. It’s really well composed and is fast enough for the player base of SVDX.
If I were at an arcade, I would be playing this in a heartbeat. SVDX has many amazing songs, so I’m, sure I’d be on that machine for a while playing and even replaying the songs just to beat my old scores and to try and improve.
