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A jam submission

Isekai RacingView project page

Submission for the Composing Jam 09; an album about a racing game set in an alternate world
Submitted by CardThrower1234 — 45 minutes, 23 seconds before the deadline
Rated by 8 people so far
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Description
The album is set in a Jumanji style adventure, a racing game forgotten to time and unearthed by you.

Message from the artist
I keep rushing the keystone songs im sorry if its not the full vision

Theme

Songs of a Forgotten World

How does it fit the theme?
The racing game is lost media, and is also an isekai(ish) story

Number of tracks
6

Genre

Electronic
Rock/Metal
Jazz
Other

Soundtrack use permission

Yes (CC BY)

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

I think your chord progressions are fantastic, and those guitars sound really nice. My favourite song is probably Funk Fields, the drums, bassline and chord stabs come together really well to make a great Mario Kart-esque track. One thing I think you could do to improve might be to simplify your melodies a bit, in my opinion Antagonist Theme was the most polished sounding because of its simple melody with a few clear ideas. A lot of the other tracks have impressively detailed melody lines but I find them a bit difficult to follow. But overall this was really good!

Developer(+1)

Story wise, that one reflects the "isekai world" not wanting to let you go, and the antagonist wanting to keep you in the world. 

On all the chaos, my mind is a multithreaded chaotic machine that always has at least three things on it simultaneously. I guess it reflects in my music, where I revel in the chaos. I am working on it thoe, as my peers (I'm a composer in a gamedev grp.) also agree that I can be chaotic. Cheers!

Submitted(+1)

I couldn't quite understand the "Your Theme" song, it's very short and I'm having a lot trouble relating to it, sorry. Both "On the Rocks" and "Shop Theme" bring me to the mood of those two places, these songs are quite straightforward in terms of the feeling they provide of the ambient in the game, good job. Both these but especially the remaining ones are very creative, congratulations.

Developer(+1)

For the first song, I wasn't able to lock that in with good composition, it was a few hours before the deadline and I did NOT want to edge that. Thanks for the feedback and I wish I would have done better.

In the coming weeks I might be able to flesh that out, hoping for the best for my schedule...

Submitted(+1)

I really like your jazzy/funk vibes in this submission and its cool how you blend that together with chiptune at times. I also thought your rhythms and how you weave the instruments together were really nice. Personally though i feel like quite a few on the harmonies and melodies were a bit too dissonant. 

Developer

Yeah I do admit the harmonies were quite dissonant, for this jam wanted to try my hand at some tritone subs and some backdoor subs. The leads had to follow the underlying chords, and thats how I fell into it. Was doing the stank face every 4 bars making my favourites here lol.

Submitted(+1)

Your Theme:

The piano tone is really beautiful! One thing that I was confused on was the pulse of the song. I wasn't exactly sure where the beat was.

On the Rocks:

You managed to capture the style of a racing game quite well and the feeling is there. One thing I would advise you to work on would be your musical composition as it felt as though the song constantly was going in and out of tune with itself, which was quite odd. Accidentals only work if you know how to use them. I love the speed-up near the end and I think it enhances that racing game style! I just wish it incorporated the piano from Your Theme to connect the two songs, but maybe that's just me missing some part of the story.

Shop Theme:

Again, I really enjoy your sense of the context! You managed to pull off a nicely styled shop theme that matches the speed of On the Rocks but with a more laid-back jazz feel. Also again, I felt like the melody was quite random and misplaced. Coming from a jazz pianist myself, make sure not to overload the rest of the band by making sure every single measure has to be a rapid flurry of notes. Silence can be your best friend, especially if you've already spent thirty seconds purely soloing without any breaks. I love your chord progressions, its just the melody that throws me off.

Funk Fields:

Your chord progressions are absolutely incredible! I just wish that the melodies (namely the chiptune intro) and some of the accent chords were a bit more polished. Great song, really fun to listen to! I will say the melodies in this song are much more polished than the previous songs. I also wish that the intro of the song wasn't a synth and instead the piano as it would bring out the instrumentation from Your Theme and connect the songs in some way. This one is my favorite so far!

Antagonist Theme:

This is your most polished song melody-wise! The instrumentation is quite strange as the previous songs were all using real instruments while this one completely shifts it to the chiptune style. Maybe that's the style of this game. Maybe it has both of these styles, I'm not sure, but one thing you can do to make sure the listeners know that you are purposefully combining these elements is to make them play at the same time. Maybe you can have the chiptune leads on top of the funk...

End of the Line:

Which is what you did here! That slap bass solo is really sick. Again, your melody-work suffers a little bit, but everyone needs to improve, even me! Great song!

Thank you CardThrower for the great soundtrack you provided!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for rating! Me joining was really to test my limits and sharpen my skills instead of trying something new, and also to deliver something which I felt was different. Thanks for the reviews, I see how I can improve especially on some of the modal interchange parts and the "wrong notes" that I like sprinkling in. 

I wish to be a jazz musician myself, but evidently im still learning the ropes and have yet to get an instrument for myself (guitar isnt really for me). Thanks for the cool feedback!

Submitted

Please, dabble in the jazz arts. It's so fun, you will enjoy it if you had a blast making this!