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raxmix vol. 6
We made it. It's 2021. We did it
I tried to make the tracks have an arc but it was hard and in the end it just goes up and down like a series of hills. I guess 2020 fought too, so that makes sense. Anyway. I've been watching this anime about rock climbing (I also took rock climbing as a high school elective) and there's a style called lead climbing where you climb up a little bit, attach your lead to an anchor like it's a check point, and use that to haul yourself up to the next anchor. These tracks were anchors I used to haul myself through this year.
You can probably tell which songs I had to steal off of youtube and soundcloud (hint: it's all the ones from Japan). I always feel guilty that I can't provide you with the highest quality files but all I can do is my best, I guess.
The cover is from a song called ROLLING1000tOON by Maximum the ryokun. I have never heard this song before, but I went trawling through the rhythm games wiki for rhythm game music covers and when I saw this one I knew this was it. Fuck 2020, we knocked it out. It's from their collection of instrumental-focused rhythm games, Guitar Freaks / DrumMania / Gitadora, which seemed like it suited you really well.
If you are not Rax but also like music, you're welcome to give this a listen too?
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( YouTube Playlist )
( Spotify Playlist )
01. AJR - Bang!
I found this song through this kingdom hearts fan animation but when I first listened to the full song, I thought it was a huge letdown compared to the bridge and I didn't like it. But then I kept listening to it and over time it ended up becoming my song for this year. The lyrics say it all, I think - the helpless shrug "everything is falling apart but we gotta keep going anyway" nature of it is just very 2020. And hey, the year is over; let's go out with a bang.
02. Parlor Tricks - Bukowski
I've been hesitating on putting this song on an raxmix for ages but I was finally like fuck it, I like this song, it's sassy AF let's do it. I like the disdain in it and it feels like this song gives me permission to say no just because I want to. No reason! Just no! No. I like the three part harmony and I like a lot of lines in this song; "On the dark streets of the city I've been drunk, unholy, all alone" and "I like to run away from my mistakes before I make them" and "There's a bluebird in your heart, you never do the things it tells you to."
03. Doja Cat - Say So
Apparently Doja Cat has had some scandals but this song is so fucking good I look past that temporarily. Also this song became popular on TikTok, I think? Kids these days. This was my summer track. The breeziness of it is so relaxing and delicious. I wrote a lot of fic to this song. You naturally want to sway your body back and forth when you listen to it.
04. Creep-P - She's Homeless
The vanilla ice cream track. Creep-P is a vocaloid producer, but this is a cover he made of a Crystal Waters song from 1991. There's a politicalness to this track that appeals to me, and I like this version a lot more than the original; this version is way more mixable.
05. Buriru ft. Hatsune Miku - Secret Police
While we're talking about politics, here's Hatsune Miku yelling "fuck cops" for three and a half minutes
It's a song that satirizes and mocks the police and the surveillance state. My favorite thing about is the chorus, "asa kara ban made omae wo miru" (they're watching you constantly, all day and all night), which is sung distortedly as "asa kara ban made omae wo MIU" and sounds like a police siren. ACAB
06. Nazzo-Non-Heat - Qubellic Prism
This is by SCU working under an alias, who also wrote Concon from raxmix volume 1! This was the theme song of a Jubeat release and it's a very cute tricky little beatmap. Also the chords! They're so good. This song goes so many places with a joyous lightness. I participated in a Jubeat tournament in December 2019, and I played this song during one of the rounds. So I guess this is a musical summary of the last memory I have before lockdown, also.
07. Billie Eilish - all the good girls go to hell
I've also been hesitating on putting this track on a raxmix because Billie Eilish is kind of overhyped and she's popular to hate? But I finally gave in because I saw a youtube video that broke down the technicalities of her music via jazz chords and it made me feel okay about liking it again, lol. This is off her first album, which only has like three good songs on it, but this is one of them. Billie Eilish is the singer, but her songs are written and produced by her brother, Finneas O'Connell, and I like her music a lot more as a demonstration of Finneas's skill than any skill she might have. BTW, they're like 15 or so when they made this album. Anyway I like this song! It's slinky and the lyrics are interesting and that line "if man is such a fool, why are we saving him?" sticks with me every time I hear it.
08. Utada Hikaru - Kremlin Dusk
This is off of her first English album, called Exodus. Exodus tanked so badly in both the English and Japanese markets that now trying to move into a new market and bombing is called "pulling an Utada." For all the hate it got, I do find it to be a very charming album, but this song is very different from the rest of the tracks, and very very good on its own. The lyrics are interesting. The production is interesting (harpsichord!). The title is interesting. If the whole album had been like this instead of forgettable pop club tunes, I think it would have really gotten somewhere. I love this song a lot.
09. Emily Ann Imes - London Fog
This is my friend Emily! We've been friends since 2004. We both figured out we were not cis around the same time and have had similar trajectories around it, so I've been listening to a lot of their music this year. This song reminded me of you because string instruments, and also the song title is a reference to tea.
10. noripy & Yura Mizuno ft. Kagamine Len - Butterfly on Your Right Shoulder
This is one of my favorite vocaloid songs, a very upbeat song with kinda vague lyrics about misery. I think the lyrics will really resonate with you; they do with me. I continue to like songs that have a shear between upbeat melodies and sad lyrics. I also like how the song opens with echoy Rin vocals and then does a bait-and-switch to Len; if you see live versions of this song, they also do that visually. The cover art of this song has Len in nail polish looking extremely femme and I like that a hell of a lot too.
11. Taishi - Reverie for Another Sphere
This song came up on my youtube recommendations and it's just hella good. Please ride on the waves of trance for 12 minutes with me. I listened to this for weeks when I first found it.
12. LP - Lost on You
I didn't want to end on this track but it refused to go anywhere except last. Another song that summarized 2020 for me. "To all the things I lost on you; tell me, are they lost on you?" That it's an open question matters to me. I think it's only lost if we allow it to be lost. I think there are a lot of things we learned this year that we can take forward with us into the future that will change us in ways that are permanent but also better; in me at least this year has built a stronger breed of kindness than I've ever had before. Also, I think that the question being open means that it's not just LP asking that of the person who hurt them; but also you. Is the meaning of your experiences lost on you? Let's not allow it to be so.
Bonus Track: Nakinyko - Falling
This is a mashup of a Dua Lipa song called "Levitating" and the Serial Experiments Lain song called "Duvet" (by Boa). It is SO good. Please check out every single mashup this person has made, there's a Hatsune Miku one in particular that's exquisite.
I tried to make the tracks have an arc but it was hard and in the end it just goes up and down like a series of hills. I guess 2020 fought too, so that makes sense. Anyway. I've been watching this anime about rock climbing (I also took rock climbing as a high school elective) and there's a style called lead climbing where you climb up a little bit, attach your lead to an anchor like it's a check point, and use that to haul yourself up to the next anchor. These tracks were anchors I used to haul myself through this year.
You can probably tell which songs I had to steal off of youtube and soundcloud (hint: it's all the ones from Japan). I always feel guilty that I can't provide you with the highest quality files but all I can do is my best, I guess.
The cover is from a song called ROLLING1000tOON by Maximum the ryokun. I have never heard this song before, but I went trawling through the rhythm games wiki for rhythm game music covers and when I saw this one I knew this was it. Fuck 2020, we knocked it out. It's from their collection of instrumental-focused rhythm games, Guitar Freaks / DrumMania / Gitadora, which seemed like it suited you really well.
If you are not Rax but also like music, you're welcome to give this a listen too?
Bonus Track: Nakinyko - Falling
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( YouTube Playlist )
( Spotify Playlist )
01. AJR - Bang!
I found this song through this kingdom hearts fan animation but when I first listened to the full song, I thought it was a huge letdown compared to the bridge and I didn't like it. But then I kept listening to it and over time it ended up becoming my song for this year. The lyrics say it all, I think - the helpless shrug "everything is falling apart but we gotta keep going anyway" nature of it is just very 2020. And hey, the year is over; let's go out with a bang.
02. Parlor Tricks - Bukowski
I've been hesitating on putting this song on an raxmix for ages but I was finally like fuck it, I like this song, it's sassy AF let's do it. I like the disdain in it and it feels like this song gives me permission to say no just because I want to. No reason! Just no! No. I like the three part harmony and I like a lot of lines in this song; "On the dark streets of the city I've been drunk, unholy, all alone" and "I like to run away from my mistakes before I make them" and "There's a bluebird in your heart, you never do the things it tells you to."
03. Doja Cat - Say So
Apparently Doja Cat has had some scandals but this song is so fucking good I look past that temporarily. Also this song became popular on TikTok, I think? Kids these days. This was my summer track. The breeziness of it is so relaxing and delicious. I wrote a lot of fic to this song. You naturally want to sway your body back and forth when you listen to it.
04. Creep-P - She's Homeless
The vanilla ice cream track. Creep-P is a vocaloid producer, but this is a cover he made of a Crystal Waters song from 1991. There's a politicalness to this track that appeals to me, and I like this version a lot more than the original; this version is way more mixable.
05. Buriru ft. Hatsune Miku - Secret Police
While we're talking about politics, here's Hatsune Miku yelling "fuck cops" for three and a half minutes
It's a song that satirizes and mocks the police and the surveillance state. My favorite thing about is the chorus, "asa kara ban made omae wo miru" (they're watching you constantly, all day and all night), which is sung distortedly as "asa kara ban made omae wo MIU" and sounds like a police siren. ACAB
06. Nazzo-Non-Heat - Qubellic Prism
This is by SCU working under an alias, who also wrote Concon from raxmix volume 1! This was the theme song of a Jubeat release and it's a very cute tricky little beatmap. Also the chords! They're so good. This song goes so many places with a joyous lightness. I participated in a Jubeat tournament in December 2019, and I played this song during one of the rounds. So I guess this is a musical summary of the last memory I have before lockdown, also.
07. Billie Eilish - all the good girls go to hell
I've also been hesitating on putting this track on a raxmix because Billie Eilish is kind of overhyped and she's popular to hate? But I finally gave in because I saw a youtube video that broke down the technicalities of her music via jazz chords and it made me feel okay about liking it again, lol. This is off her first album, which only has like three good songs on it, but this is one of them. Billie Eilish is the singer, but her songs are written and produced by her brother, Finneas O'Connell, and I like her music a lot more as a demonstration of Finneas's skill than any skill she might have. BTW, they're like 15 or so when they made this album. Anyway I like this song! It's slinky and the lyrics are interesting and that line "if man is such a fool, why are we saving him?" sticks with me every time I hear it.
08. Utada Hikaru - Kremlin Dusk
This is off of her first English album, called Exodus. Exodus tanked so badly in both the English and Japanese markets that now trying to move into a new market and bombing is called "pulling an Utada." For all the hate it got, I do find it to be a very charming album, but this song is very different from the rest of the tracks, and very very good on its own. The lyrics are interesting. The production is interesting (harpsichord!). The title is interesting. If the whole album had been like this instead of forgettable pop club tunes, I think it would have really gotten somewhere. I love this song a lot.
09. Emily Ann Imes - London Fog
This is my friend Emily! We've been friends since 2004. We both figured out we were not cis around the same time and have had similar trajectories around it, so I've been listening to a lot of their music this year. This song reminded me of you because string instruments, and also the song title is a reference to tea.
10. noripy & Yura Mizuno ft. Kagamine Len - Butterfly on Your Right Shoulder
This is one of my favorite vocaloid songs, a very upbeat song with kinda vague lyrics about misery. I think the lyrics will really resonate with you; they do with me. I continue to like songs that have a shear between upbeat melodies and sad lyrics. I also like how the song opens with echoy Rin vocals and then does a bait-and-switch to Len; if you see live versions of this song, they also do that visually. The cover art of this song has Len in nail polish looking extremely femme and I like that a hell of a lot too.
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11. Taishi - Reverie for Another Sphere
This song came up on my youtube recommendations and it's just hella good. Please ride on the waves of trance for 12 minutes with me. I listened to this for weeks when I first found it.
12. LP - Lost on You
I didn't want to end on this track but it refused to go anywhere except last. Another song that summarized 2020 for me. "To all the things I lost on you; tell me, are they lost on you?" That it's an open question matters to me. I think it's only lost if we allow it to be lost. I think there are a lot of things we learned this year that we can take forward with us into the future that will change us in ways that are permanent but also better; in me at least this year has built a stronger breed of kindness than I've ever had before. Also, I think that the question being open means that it's not just LP asking that of the person who hurt them; but also you. Is the meaning of your experiences lost on you? Let's not allow it to be so.
Bonus Track: Nakinyko - Falling
This is a mashup of a Dua Lipa song called "Levitating" and the Serial Experiments Lain song called "Duvet" (by Boa). It is SO good. Please check out every single mashup this person has made, there's a Hatsune Miku one in particular that's exquisite.