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Septette for a Nightmare

The grand finale of our “Crossover Month” is the 4th installment of our Reimu & Sanae crossover series (Mario & Luigi x Touhou). For those who don’t know what I’m talking about, this video contains everything you have to know:

The song of the 4th installment Reimu & Sanae: Fantasy Team features Remilia’s theme, Septette for the Dead Princess, from Touhou 6: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil and the Final Antasma Battle from Mario & Luigi: Dream Team. We call the result Septette for a Nightmare! The intro is inspired by Castlevania 64‘s Main Theme, though~

As usual you’ll find the song, the download and the video below. Once again, VanishingSVST made a sprite picture for the song, but this time we even get a picture of Remilia as Antasma (lower left)! Want to show your appreciation? Donate!

Septette for a Nightmare (4807 downloads )

And here’s the video:

That’s it for “Crossover Month“. But every second song of mine is more or less a crossover anyway…The Touhou voting is done as well, the winner is as expected Kanako’s theme. Let’s see what I can make with that. BUT next up is this year’s Halloween mix! Yes, it’s that time again. And you get EVEN more Touhou, since I chose Kagerou’s theme (Touhou 14) as the main source for this mix (although there might be more Werewolf-related stuff~). I have something else planned for Halloween, but I’m not sure if I can really make that, so I don’t want to give you hopes for nothing.

So much Touhou stuff…there are other franchises I’d like to tackle, but for now this is the most interesting one. Next week we’ll have another OST focus featuring the Encounter, Battle and Danger themes of my avatar Joe Ximer!

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Ack…at the moment I’m preoccupied with important stuff, so forgive me that I can’t finish the next crossover right now…instead, I let you do something. Sounds fair? To me it does~

So, let’s try this again, for real this time! Let’s have a poll, you can choose up to three themes, the one with the most votes by the end of September wins and will be made! There’s one more or less memorable song from every main series Touhou game. You might want to listen to the themes first as I doubt you know all of them, for this purpose I’ve added YouTube videos for all the songs. The actual poll can be found below. Happy voting!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyVPWjb26yc

Here are the contestants:

The one song which started it all. It even sounds nostalgic.

This tune is an insider tip, you should give it a shot if you don’t know it yet. Especially the part around 0:48.

Yumemi’s tune might sound a bit repetitive at first, but I’m certain it would make for a great techno/trance/house mix. Think about the possibilities!

That is easily the most popular tune of the PC-98 era and has been remixed to death already. Well, it’s a really catchy tune, so I’m not surprised.

I personally love this tune, it’s so upbeat. For me, it’s even catchier than Bad Apple.

The Extra Stage theme is something from that game I haven’t tackled yet. This might be the most interesting stage theme of Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil. My favorite is still Rumia’s Stage theme though.

The first stage theme of Perfect Cherry Blossom let’s you dream of a snowy winter wonderland.

An upbeat battle theme with a bug. The first battle theme of Imperishable Night has quite some potential I would think.

Pretty much the theme of Gensokyo’s reaper. Not as grim though, neither in sound nor appearance. But the tune is quite epic, especially around 0:41.

Certainly one of the most epic Touhou themes. You’re challenging a god after all, that certainly isn’t every day’s business, not even in Gensokyo.

The stage 5 boss is what drives people more crazy in that game than the actual final boss. To honor that fact, her theme is among the contestants.

The stage 5 boss with the tiger-pattern and the curvy lasers has one of the most interesting tunes of Undefined Fantastic Object in my opinion, only bested by Heian Alien.

Yuyuko’s theme in Ten Desires is so damn catchy, after quite some thinking I chose her tune to be worthy of representing that game. It’s a bit short, but a remix has the option of overcoming that fact. Could naturally feature a bit of Border of Life as well.

The most recent and the most ominous of the contestants, a theme with certainly great potential.

Finally, here’s the poll, choose wisely:

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Next week we’ll have another OST Focus featuring Shadow Dial. I can’t say how much time this “important thing” will still take of me, but I might not be able to finish the next song anytime soon.

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OST Focus – Nonexistence Battle 2

Today on OST focus we have a look at Nonexistence Battle 2, another tune from Super Mario: Vanishing Existence, the animated series created by VanishingSVST. Much like a regular Final Fantasy boss theme, the main battle theme versus Nonexistence has the number 2.

The song’s first appearance was in the second episode of Super Mario: Vanishing Existence, and what an episode it was! It featured the great battle of Gensokyo vs Nonexistence, who had regained a good amount of his power, but was still vulnerable to the girls’ combined forces. As usual the video features some nice artwork, as well as the decisive scene in this battle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bReaoWazoo

Nonexistence Battle 2 is not as old as the first one, which you should instantly notice. It’s faster, more serious and more powerful. It even has an ending! If you like it, there’s quite a bit more like that on the OST page!

Next time on OST focus: Shadow Dial, the theme of Shadow Sakuya! After that we might switch to another series, to keep everything fresh. Until next Sunday I want to finish the Castlevania/Touhou crossover mix, but I’m uncertain if I can. The problem is, I’m writing my master thesis and have to hurry up with finishing it, so that’s my top priority at the moment. I’m REALLY sorry if I can’t finish this song in-time!