#Play Sound Records

[ravefmradio]

Zanurz się w najnowszych i najbardziej aktualnych newsach ze świata tanecznej muzyki elektronicznej i nie tylko! 🎵 W dzisiejszym odcinku newsów mamy mnóstwo ciekawostek dla fanów muzyki elektronicznej, rocka i wydarzeń kulturalnych! 🔥 1️⃣ Sara Landry szykuje się do wydania swojego debiutanckiego albumu „”! Sprawdź, czego możemy się spodziewać po tej wyczekiwanej produkcji. 2️⃣ Maddix uruchamia swoją audycję – pierwszy epizod już dostępny! 🎶 3️⃣ Najnowszy epizod Exhale Radio od Amelie Lens już online – nie przegap nowych brzmień techno.   4️⃣ Blazik Selection – nowy program na Rave FM już w drodze! 🕺 5️⃣ Armin van Buuren i Ben Hemsley wspólnie tworzą hymn dla ASOT 2025 – zobacz, co czeka nas w przyszłym roku! 6️⃣ wydał nowy utwór hard dance „Unicandy” z japońskim wokalem w Play Sound Records. 7️⃣ Jean-Michel Jarre wystąpił na zamknięciu Paraolimpiady 2024 w Paryżu – wyjątkowy koncert! 8️⃣ Kontrowersje wokół powrotu Linkin Park – syn Chestera Benningtona i fani krytykują nową wokalistkę zespołu. 9️⃣ W Marsylii odbywa się wyjątkowa wystawa dla naturystów – odwiedzający mogą przyjść... w samych butach :D 👀 🔟 W Berlinie, mężczyzna wjechał samochodem do klubu Sisyphos po odmowie wstępu! 1️⃣1️⃣ Pomagamy powodzianom – dołącz do zbiórki na Siepomaga.pl! 💙 https://www.siepomaga.pl/powodzie#skarbonki

[rocals]

CDs are obsolete because the sound quality sucks

yeah sucks me good and hard through my jorts

[sharkbytes662]

bwomp

[mintjeru]

i've been streaming a blind playthrough of hollow knight to 2 groups of people for the past month and a half and i really wanted to share some of my favorite experiences ><

open for better quality | no reposts

[scoriarose]

She came up with a new activity

[a-snowpoff]

POV: Sans Undertale chases you on Halloween

[xray-vex]

[source]

[toastereno]

i said i would post my piano covers here, so...what better song to start with than the iconic one from psmd? :'^)

this was all done by ear (except for the beginning where i used bespinben's score because those chords are tough to figure out, so shoutouts to them)! this song holds a special place in my heart for many reasons: it's the reason i played psmd and restarted playing the piano, just to name two!

by the way, there's a little surprise at the end 😊

[waterwindow]

um please enjoy my humble scream fortress compilation

sorry my mic is really really bad 😭

[drainbangle]

✨ happy anniversary and many thanks to octopath traveler! may the road ahead bring us joy and all the more stories to tell 🐙🗺️

[daddy-long-legssss]

carlos o'connell from fontaines d.c. talking about borrowing alex turner's guitar for the recording of romance [x]

you can see the album credit here

thank you to ratiomonkeys on twitter and tbhc.love on ig for finding the clip!

[goldensunset]

AGHHHH. the use of ‘embracing one’s duty’ again. SOOOOO good. this is n’s theme, to me- it’s him as a hero. in the first game maybe he was the misguided antagonist you had to stop but even so he fully believed he was doing something good. and this theme reflects that. now it’s used again and it’s fully him, having come into his own… there’s no better song they could’ve possibly picked for his triumphant return. plus it only played in one tiny area last time so now they’re doing it justice!!!!

[can-of-slorgs]

caw 🦅

[samsayswhatever]

When Edwin was talking about a "Victrola" I thought he was talking about something much older. But it's just a record player lol

[me-sploh-rada-imas]

mic'd up jure highlights from sea star festival last year

[choosingwhatmatters]

Music in The Loyal Pin, Episode 2

Welcome back to my music rambles. Y’all, thank you so much for your kind words! I am enjoying this show so much and sharing thoughts with you makes the whole experience infinitely better.

So, I unknowingly lied to you in my last post, and I am sorry. I claimed that there was little repetition in the music in episode 1. The truth is that I just didn’t notice. I have since done my homework and I am blown away by how much depth the music has. There are so many different motives and themes, and I am beyond excited where the music leads us in future episodes. Today, I would like to talk about two pieces. I call the first one “Pin and Anil’s past” and the second one “Pin’s heavy heart”.

Pin and Anil’s past

I talked about this piece in my last post and speculated that could be connected to childhood and adolescence. It sounds a little bit likes this:

After revisiting the episodes, I realised that we have two different motifs here. My theory is that the first represents Pin and the second one Anil. We can hear the first in the beginning of the recording. It is comprised of long notes that descend and then climb up again. It’s gentle and a little melancholic. When it repeats, it is joined by the second motive. This one features shorter note values and is more playful. As different as they are, they’re beautiful together and oh, if that isn’t telling us something.

The first motif is usually connected to Pin. It appears in a lot of scenes, among them the following: Small Pin exits the car in the very beginning of episode 1. Patt embraces her after promising to take care of her. Small Pin meets Small Anil for the first time and, later in the episode, Medium Anil discovers her pinwheel in Medium Pin’s room. During the voice-over after the opening credits, Medium Pin introduces the royal family. After the night market, Medium Pin gets scolded by Patt and Anil defends her. In episode 2, Medium/Adult Pin remembers how Medium Anil showed her the designs for her small palace.

The second motif, that in my theory belongs to Anil’s past, is not featured as heavily as Pin’s. We can hear it in episode 1, together with Pin’s motive when Small Pin and Anil meet for the first time and, again, when Medium Anil discovers her pinwheel. In episode 2, the melody changes slightly, but it's still very similar to its origin. We can hear it when Medium Anil cries on her letter to Pin and, most notably, at the very end of the episode. Prik has just uttered Anil’s name, Pin looks up, and there Anil is: smiling and beautiful. The costumary cheeky glockenspiel playing her melody is now accompanied by a whole orchestra. This is a new Anil: grown up, beaming, majestic.

Pin’s heavy heart

The second piece I want to talk about today sounds somewhat like this.

It’s not 100% of what is played in the show, but the melodies as well as the harmonies should be similar enough the recognise, should we hear them again.

This piece is very melancholic, and I want to talk about two musical concepts to explain why: major and minor harmonies, as well as suspended notes. Major and minor harmonies first. So, a chord in its basic form is comprised of three notes: first note, third note and fifth note. The third is a very powerful one because it determines the mood of the chord. If we have a minor third (three half tones away from the first), the chord tends to sound wistful and melancholic. If we have a major third (four half tones away from the first), the chord tends to sound more cheerful. In the beginning of the piece, we can hear the melody swing between to different notes a lot, g sharp and b. These are a minor third away from each other and thus, evoke the sombreness of a minor chord.

The second thing I’d like to talk about is suspension. Suspension means that there is one note that our ears want the melody to go to. But before going there, the melody lands on a note that is achingly close to the one we want to hear. It’s so close that it feels like a little stab to the heart that is then soothed by the arrival of the actual note that we want. In our piece, suspension happens when the melody starts from its lowest note and climbs up again. If you want to listen out for it: there are two notes that are repeated before being suspended by a higher note.

I call this piece “Pin’s heavy heart” because we can often hear it in scenes when Pin is sad, most notably the following: After being bitten by the snake, Medium Anil tries to stop Pin’s punishment. While eating cotton candy, the Medium girls talk about what life would be like if Anil had to go away. After the night market, Medium Pin realises that Anil is serious about being punished together. In episode 2, Medium Pin gets told by Patt that Anil is to leave within the next two weeks. In Medium Anil’s memory, Medium Pin is carving a mango after a bad exam. At the waterside, the Medium girls are about to float their Krathong.

There are three more instances where we can hear variations of the piece: Medium Anil is preparing for her trip and the girls don’t meet at all. After floating the Krathong, Medium Pin is crying. And, lastly, Medium Pin puts Anil’s picture next to her on the bed.

I adore this piece of music. The melody is quiet yet haunting which I think suits Pin’s character well. And it’s not that I enjoy seeing Pin sad but oh, I’m looking forward to seeing her happy again.

That’s it for my music rambles today. Thank you for riding along! I still find it hard to put into words how much it means to me to have this show in my life, as well as humans that are as invested in it as I am. What a life!