Fast Koto Music

How to genre. Anyways, hope you enjoy! (I'm not dead yet yay!)

Dream Reality

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)

Original song: False Noise - Shiver
BPM: 190
Genre: Experimental
Credit: Akirir

False Noise - Shiver (Akiri's EVEREST Remix)

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

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)

Purchase/Streaming info will appear here on release day.

When the folks at Japan Ponycon reached out to me to write a song for their album Japan Pony Party, I immediately started thinking about how it should go. In that process, I began missing how it felt to be there— but less in simply remembering a good time, and more almost in a way of being homesick? I wanted to capture both the joyful feelings I had from exploring Tokyo with my friends, and the sorrow of that first farewell.

GOODBYE JAPAN
(J. Stebbins)
----------------
VERSE 1
The final sunrise
dances on my face
JR is rollin' in, farewell is coming
From Kawaguchi, Tokyo to Narita
I can't help the tears from fallin'

BRIDGE
Ueno green
Bathed in the sunlight
Tokyo city glow in the moonlight
I can't turn away
Why is it over
Wishing that I could stay for another

CHORUS
Goodbye Japan
I'm gonna be right back
I'll keep a dream of you
Wherever I go
Goodbye Japan
Already miss you now
Don't wanna go away
Until tomorrow

VERSE 2
I haven't even gone
But I've a plan
for my tomorrow
Get me through my sorrow
See me arriving
once more to this
Golden land
I need one more time to see the…

Goodbye Japan

🎹 Buy on Bandcamp🎹

Second version of Lunar Trigger & cousin to Lunar Fractals. Meant again by pftq as a collab stem for Waterflame to add to but didn't end up happening before the song got finished.  Maybe 3rd time's the charm!  Waterflame did share some synths/samples this time that were used by Zero-Bass though, so that helped get the sound a little bit closer to the inspiration. Like the first Lunar Trigger, the music is heavily inspired by two artists on Newgrounds - namely XsToRmEr1 (Flames of the Sky) and Zero-Bass (the Trigger in the name is a homage to his tracks as well - Lighting Trigger, Atomic Trigger, Death Trigger, etc).

This is also built out of the same instruments as Lunar Fractals, so it has a similar sound.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1jd6rdkOtYzvvhqWnxPZIf
Bandcamp: https://autodidactic.bandcamp.com/track/lunar-trigger-red-pftq
Newgrounds: https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/project/5120249

Lunar Trigger Red

... a remix of this fantastic progressive track ( https://soundcloud.com/user-972503307/brainticket ) , this time with additional pads/deep leads and drumkit/bassline.... at 3:35min there is a big kick in

Remix ist created with:
-Ableton
-3x Kick2 Synths (2x Kicks, 1x Snare)
-1x Ableton synth (1x Deep Pad)
-1x Reason synth Combination (1x Pad)
-2x FX Lines

(this time it is a real DAW remix)

(copyright by TSCHERNOBYLLIES )

(yt visual fx: https://youtu.be/Ol9x_73y8ow )

TSCHERNOBYLLIES - Brainticket (2024 / Progressive Psytrance - OhrTacK Remix)

Another Download Link :

http://www.mediafire.com/download/cm2r3mgoyiroijj/Touhou_Project_-_Nuclear_Fusion_(Novy_Remix).zip

Touhou Project - Nuclear Fusion (Novy Remix)

Here's track 8 from the album <3 Just wait that intro out ;)

Flashback

なないろエンジェル

Nana Takahashi - Just Believe

Track 4 from W_hole, available now on Spotify (http://spotify.tiasu.com), Bandcamp (http://tiasu.bandcamp.com) and iTunes (and all the other places you normally find music)

http://tiasu.com
http://twitter.com/tiasu

Entangled

01 - Eternals - Redout OST

I can't play an instrument to save my life, but I can keep pecking at those notes until I get them right! :P

Koto Goa Mangetsu

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