#kermis speaks

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1. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Karn Evil 9:

Lately been in a mood for prog again. Really enjoy the first and third impressions in Karn Evil 9 off of ELP's Brain Salad Surgery from 1973 (the second jazzier impression is good too but it doesn't get stuck in my head the same way the other ones do)

2. Takeshi Kuramochi - De-a lungul vieţii ~BIG Bonus~

I've not forgotten about Konami's past crimes, but the Castlevania pachislot machine soundtracks go hard. Takeshi Kuramochi also arranged Cross Your Heart from the arcade game Haunted Castle for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in 2018 after he left Konami

3. Shakatak - Walk the Walk

I fucking love fusion and especially stuff produced in the 80s, so this is a match made in heaven. I learned about Shakatak from the UK when I was searching up the origin of a certain Casio keyboard demo song (Night Birds). Sonic CD's Present-variant of Stardust Speedway seems to be especially inspired (or just coincidentally similar?) by this track off of their 1988 album Manic & Cool

4. Ramon Braumuller - Moon Child

This is a new discovery for me, I recently found out that Hoi on the Amiga had a sequel planned that eventually got turned into a PC game in 1997 after Commodore went bankrupt and the commercial viability of their 16-bit home computer line declined. An incomplete development build/demo of the Amiga version exists, and this tune plays in its title screen/intro sequence. It is absolutely jammin' and bumpin'

5. Anamanaguchi - Benvie Tech Boss Battle

The new Scott Pilgrim game came out and I've been watching @toxicoow stream it. The soundtrack from Anamanaguchi is phenomenal as expected, I especially liked this boss tune that leans heavily into sampled instruments from TMNT: Turtles in Time on the Super NES

I didn't realise until now that I never linked my Bluesky and FurAffinity accounts here, they're in the navigation bar now on desktop and mobile browsers, for the Tumblr mobile app you'll have to use these links instead because it doesn't support customised themes: