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Fumie Saso - Hallway Hellion (Battle Theme A) [from "Misfit Manor"]

from The 12 Tracks of Christmas 2016: Pure Myrrhr on the Technics by 103 Records

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The irony of the fact that I'm able to put this together two days in advance, after several days of really struggling with music, is not lost on me at all.

To be fair, this came as easy as it did partially because it's based on a much, much older Gonkaka piece I wrote like five years ago now- Uncover The Truth. Although a tad simple in arrangement, I contest that it's one of the best old tracks of mine by a wide margin, due to the ambition backing it. It was part of a series of songs designed to sound like MIDI pieces from an old DOS game in the vein of something like The 7th Guest.

Originally, the idea was just to arrange it, but I quickly latched on to the idea of styling it to fit with the other two pieces I've written for Misfit Manor, an imaginary video game based on Dio's Misfit Demon Manor series. Largely because I thought the base track could make for a cracking RPG style battle theme. Granted, when I wrote the first two Misfit Manor pieces, I was going with the idea that it was an arcade game in a Snow Bros. / Nightmare In The Dark mould rather then the RPG Dio had in mind, but shhhhhhhhh.

This is one of my favourite Gonkaka pieces I've yet done, entirely because it has every hallmark of each of the fictional band's songwriting styles. It's got the free flowing melodies and complex drum work of Fumie Saso, the weird SFX/intricate bass playing of Takayuki Mitsuyoshi, the Very 90s Dance and/or Hip Hop touches of Denji Koshiro, and the guitar shredding of Shinji Namiki. Whilst it's fun to write Gonkaka pieces from just a single band member's perspective, I treasure the pieces that sound like a "band" wrote them. I'm also particularly fond of how well the ghostly lead in the third section works, as well as finally getting to use some samples taken from Halloween Toys I've been sat on for a couple of years.

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from The 12 Tracks of Christmas 2016: Pure Myrrhr on the Technics, released December 31, 2016
composed by Decon Theed

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