the stardust cannon segment is glorious!! I hope and pray you make an extended ending sometime^.^ Thank you for making this and good Luck!!

big fan of your work. do you happen to have your old witches ball arrangement anywhere? this one is great but i've been looking all over for the old version

I did not made this, the original is in Youtube and made by Pouty Keikie (Kishin Yui)
Original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLKT2mGehzI

Probably the best fanmade theme i have ever heard :D

[Touhou 15] Chang'e's Theme Guilt Of Impurities Sin Of Immortality [Phantasm] By Pouty Keikie

Album: Touhou 14 ~ Double Dealing Character
Title: The Shining Needle Castle Sinking in the Air
Composer: Zun

The Shining Needle Castle Sinking in the Air

Why am I here? What made me who I am?—the gate to pursuit is open.
Please listen.

The artwork is created with Midjourney.

Pursuit

Touhou 14.5 - Dichromatic Lotus Butterfly ~ Red and White

Touhou 14.5 - Emotional Skyscraper ~ Cosmic Mind

Changeability of Strange Dream

Changeability of Strange Dream [Kid's Festival ~ Innocent Treasures] (ZUN's Theme)

Touhou 16 - Okina Matara's Theme - Hidden Four Seasons

【東方アレンジ】Touhou 16 - The Concealed Four Seasons  Hidden Star In All Seasons Remix

魔女達の舞踏会 ~ Stardust Cannon

Bad Apple, or "BAD Apple!!" as ZUN likes to spell it
From Touhou 4 Lotus Land Story
Composed by ZUN
Remastered/Arranged by me

Yesterday, i felt like arranging Bad Apple, so i did.
It was quite random, i was just listening to an old arrange i made of Bad Apple in 2017 for something secret (you will find out eventually when said something is actually released...it's not up to me sadly).
But yes, while i was listening to my 2017 arrange of Bad Apple, i listened to Illusionary Sputnik Night from ZUN's music CD; Griomoire of Marisa, and i thought "hmmm...wouldn't it be cool if other old ZUN songs had those cool extended parts too?".
So, well, i figured it wouldn't be very hard to do, so i started working on it, it took around 11 hours.
For this arrange, i wanted to prioritize "remaster" for the first half, and "arrange" for the second half.
I really like the original song, but i have to admit that i am not very fond of the melody at 1:08, and thus, i also found it a little difficult to improve on.
Honestly, that part of the song is quite basic and even boring in my honest opinion, certainly not amongst my favourite melodies ZUN composed.
A lot of people would probably say "but Sylvy, it's the PC-98 era, he was still bad then", and to that i say...really? Some of my favourite ZUN songs are PC-98 songs, a lot of them have great composition.
Of course, i really love the rest of the original aside from that part, just a great Touhou song all around.
I tried making the song a bit longer by adding some new parts, messing with key changes, and adding a piano solo.
There's also some easter eggs hidden in the background melodies, pay close attention, and you might recognize them.
Also, i tried making this song more Marisa-ish than Reimu-ish.
There's 2 paths in Touhou 4: Lotus Land Story, it depends on which character you pick, the stage 1 theme will be different depending on which character you pick.
I always thought it would be kind of interesting to imagine what the music of Touhou 4 would sound like if each stage had like a "Reimu variation" and a "Marisa variation" of the music, this would definetely be the "Marisa variation" of Bad Apple.
I think if i ever made a "Reimu variation", it would sound a bit more eastern (the irony of that statement does not fly over my head), maybe with those cool saw instruments from her theme in Touhou 8...
This song was very easy and chill to work on, so i had fun, especially since i am working very hard on more difficult songs behind the scenes (i'm composing for 2 albums and 2 game OST's, consider joining/donating to my Patreon if you want to hear some of the songs early)

Also i drew Elly for the thumbnail, she's the stage 3 boss of Touhou 4 (this is not obvious for a surprising amount of people because of the popularity of the Astromo-something-i-forgot Records arrange of Bad Apple)

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If you've come this far, thank you, i'm glad you took the time to read this description, i wish an extra nice day to you!
(and if your day is bad, please do something about it, you know you can!)

Remaster/Arrange: Bad Apple

Composed by ZUN for 東方外來韋編弐 ~ Strange Creators of Outer World
Title：Last Occultism ~ Esotericist of the Present World
Image: Kogasa

魔女達の舞踏会 ~ Stardust Cannon

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