Fast Koto Music

Bandcamp: https://autodidactic.bandcamp.com/track/koto-breaker
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2T8MFBPGaSerfTKhKLqM5s
Newgrounds: https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1101169
YouTube: https://youtu.be/9EjR3kv6wXc
Music is royalty-free depending on use. See: https://www.autodidactic.ai/music/

This track was a nightmare to get finished and is basically the most Frankenstein collab ever - everything from project tempos being off by fractions of BPM to random source files being panned off-center - but it was definitely worth it, and we feel like we pulled out all the stops in making this feel like an epic koto music battle - like something out of a Japanese anime. Almost everything you hear from the string plucking to knuckle/wood percussion is koto with the exception of obvious additions like the flute, kick drum, and bass guitar that come later as the song progresses. This will be ear candy to those who have really good earphones/headphones - tons of detail and lots of frills, scratches, sub-melodies the more closely you listen. Funny thing is this probably has more influence from psytrance music like DNA (ie Angel Dust has that plucky sound), so it's like if you took that and merged it with something like East Wind / Uttara-Kuru. Enjoy and happy new year!

Koto Breaker (Waterflame vs pftq)

Chaotic, over-the-top plucky guitars with tons of scratches/scrapes and lots of ear candy! This one is mainly Waterflame doing the drums and pftq playing the guitar as if it were a koto, although there are obvious moments where styles converge. In some ways a spiritual successor to the Koto Breaker song (or a warmup to Koto Breaker 2). Some inspiration from Osamuraisan for how much plucking and scraping his guitar has.

We couldn't agree on the ending, so Waterflame also has an alternate, more electronic/rock-ish version on Spotify/Bandcamp!
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6kZTm8BkQHjSRaYzp3wYOk
Bandcamp: https://autodidactic.bandcamp.com/album/guitar-chronicle-waterflame-vs-pftq
Newgrounds: https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/project/1934204
YouTube: https://youtu.be/dqYq4xDm7mk

Music is royalty-free depending on use. See: https://www.autodidactic.ai/music/

Thanks Makoyana for the cover art!

Guitar Chronicle (Waterflame vs pftq)

Japanese flute and koto music inspired by the hichiriki in Silent Hill f's trailer! pftq actually has a real hichiriki he plays, so we weren't going to let that one go! We ended up pulling elements from all the collab tracks we've been making this year - Koto Breaker, Anime Medley, Guitar Chronicle, etc with this one taking a much more eastern/new-age/Uttara-Kuru feel than any we've done so far.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1QyiStckbzzy1Uqa11fpPn
Bandcamp: https://autodidactic.bandcamp.com/track/koto-mangetsu-waterflame-vs-pftq
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2XvexXMYAM

Music is royalty-free depending on use. See: https://www.autodidactic.ai/music/

Koto Mangetsu (Waterflame vs pftq)

Accidentally had two tabs playing for Goa Codex and Koto Mangetsu, thought it sounded cool and ended up making this in a couple nights. Will try not to make mashups a habit lol

Very niche even for goa-trance listeners, so huge warning upfront - this is strictly what appeals to me personally (tons of plucky sharp sounds, million details all around).

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6YssXm8RJxDrfWGKsAq5z2
Bandcamp: https://autodidactic.bandcamp.com/album/goa-codex-waterflame-vs-pftq
Newgrounds: https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1183580
YouTube: https://youtu.be/vTyXPtjdTYk

Original tracks by me and Waterflame (collab):
- Goa Codex: https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1125991
- Koto Mangetsu: https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1169171

Music is royalty-free depending on use. See: https://www.autodidactic.ai/music/

Koto Goa Mangetsu

Peacewave

Alternate version of Waterflame and pftq's Lunar Fractals with full koto instrumentation! We ended up liking the koto parts so much that pftq remixed the whole thing with koto as a bonus track! 

Original piano and techno version by Waterflame and pftq here: https://soundcloud.com/pftq/sets/lunar-fractals

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4DZiZDBQ7qyGxFLON5NfxV?si=5B_nzs05Rp6FH2e6XjL6yA
Bandcamp: https://autodidactic.bandcamp.com/album/lunar-fractals-waterflame-vs-pftq
Newgrounds: https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/project/4556328
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3szElQP3aM8&list=PLsKWgfWtIc5pKQYJizdOpM3Hy_uvxBW6F&index=2

Royalty-free as background music, depending on use.  See: https://www.autodidactic.ai/music/

Art by makoyana

Lunar Fractals (Koto Mix) (Waterflame vs pftq)

Shirobon and Radix - Cyber party

Amethyst Caverns

Experimenting with eastern instruments more. Some inspiration from Uttara-Kuru's East Wind album (ie Tsugaru) for the koto and some inspiration in the opening flute melody from Sega's games. The rest is improvisation.

It was much more peaceful in my head though; I don't know why it ended up sounding sad and dark. I blame Halloween coming up at the time I was composing this.

Originally I was going to make this longer, but it's been sitting in my drive for a year now unfortunately. I should start setting a deadline for wrapping my projects up, so I don't keep getting stuck on old stuff for so long.

If you enjoy this piece because of the koto, consider checking out the Heart of Forma Climax track as well which also features a koto:
https://soundcloud.com/pftq/heart-of-forma-climax

Elsewhere:
pftq.com: https://www.pftq.com/kotobox/
Newgrounds: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/591059
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtkuoU9D6Vo

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