東方Touhou [EDM/Dubstep] Lunar Rainbow

Comiket 100 came and went huh. Some awesome music came out in it, including this blast of an arrengement of Lunar Rainbow. Its simplicity is only a compliment to its effectiveness.
Inb4 the "wow you're still alive" comments, I for once have somewhat of a reason for this unprompted hiatus. Multiple small things have piled up: health issues, poor time management on my part and added responsibilities have drained a lot of my energy. Usually I disengage from the channel entirely so that I can come back when it feels right, but ever since sub count hit 10k I started to get a barrage of sponsorship spam into my email where seemingly every single marketing company wants to use this channel for advertising. I've mentioned this in a previous upload, and the problem has only gotten worse over time. It's hard to avoid feeling like the channel is constantly reminding me of its existence, so I'll be trying to figure out a solution to that. If only Google and RUclips weren't tied together and I could change the address without a hassle, sigh.
In addition, for a moment it seemed like Aether was making a copyright strike on the channel for my most recent upload, so although it turned out to be a non-threatening claim instead, I've just been too strained to get past the added pressure and upload stuff again.
Anyways, enjoy the great track and I hope you're all doing well - both the usuals and the new people who have showed up only recently. And don't think I won't notice someone going through the channel and commenting on multiple videos in a row. You know who you are and I love seeing it. Peace.
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◄Title:► 棱彩
◄Arranged by:► SIRIUS
◄Circle:► SPACELECTRO
◄Album:► 東方インストEDM17
◄Original theme:► Lunar Rainbow
◄Original game:► Touhou 18 - Unconnected Marketeers
◄Image artist & source:► @root8beat on Twitter ro...
Tenkyuu Chimata, Touhou © ZUN

[@shooptouhoueurobeat]

I totally get what you mean by the barrage of marketing emails lol, the email connected with this youtube account is just a wasteland of spam lol... anyway, so nice to see an upload from you and thanks for sharing this awesome lunar rainbow arrange ♥

[@bishamontenreturns6373]

I'm so out of the loop I havn't even listened to the original yet but that's some great remix ! Touhou 18 already, time flies..

[@grahamholbrook9112]

I'm glad there are still so many people making new remixs for touhou, i love the ost to unconnected marketeers

[@touhoudelivery3831]

The power of a Lunar Rainbow
Not just a boring day rainbow, instead a badass night rainbow

[@Nexavolt]

Glad to hear you're still kicking! Thank you for still sharing these absolute bangers!

[@braydeno4189]

I'm so glad that Japanese dubstep has finally caught up with the rest of the scene, it's been stuck in 2012 for far too long.

[@SkuddeOuo]

It has? I didn't notice anything particularly different about this track specifically. :o I've always sucked at the theory side of music (and everything else tbf) so if there's any features or sounds you can point at as distinctive things I'd love that

[@braydeno4189]

@@SkuddeOuo Sound design is modern, clean and innovative, mixing and mastering is on par with modern standards, arrangement and structure is better.....if you listen to a lot of Japanese Dubstep you'll find much of it is unlistenable because it's poorly mixed, poorly mastered, uses very dated presets or 2011-era sound design, and crappy drum samples.

[@SkuddeOuo]

@@braydeno4189 Meh, sounds a bit elitist to me.
When I studied art history and constantly got decades mixed up, I realized it was because art history in my country vs art history internationally are quite different. Finland got into all trends a decade or two later, simply because we were culturally a bit isolated and did our own thing mostly. Considering that Japan is an island nation and has a very distinct culture of its own, I'm not surprised if western-originated music genres take longer to adapt even today. When you get less exposed to a new type of media, your attempts to replicate it will be less "innovative" in the eyes of those who are more familiar, it's just how it goes.
It's like Americans with folk metal. Taking baby steps. We might be talking about the same thing here but I would just personally not use so many degrading words of foreign artists adapting a genre that they're less familiar with.

[@braydeno4189]

@@SkuddeOuo Okay....bro. You've officially pissed me off by calling me an elitist. I'm gonna give you a TL;DR and say please harden up, part of being an artist is dealing with criticism and you shouldn't even be getting offended on their behalf, but if you would like to experience a full package display of why you're wrong, click the Read More button.
For starters, I didn't use any degrading words. I gave perfectly fair and reasonable criticism with clear examples. I did not call their work overall shit and tell them to kill themselves, thank you very much.
Like, I don't want to spend the time picking apart that paragraph, and believe me I can because I work in the scene and have been involved in it for well over a decade, but you're showing that you really don't understand the Dubstep/Bass scene in general or how things work in the music industry in the modern day - So I'm going to have to.
When you have a genre like Dubstep which has relied heavily on the internet, you can't compare that to the spread and evolution of something like Metal. Ever heard of Goth-Trad? An OG of the Dubstep scene, way back from 2005 from its earliest days as a genre. Guess what? He's Japanese. His pre-2010 productions TO THIS DAY remain leagues ahead of most of Japanese Dubstep, by every objective standard. Why? Because unlike lots of those other Japanese artists, he used proper production techniques, and during a time where production was so much more difficult.
This isn't an issue of "oh Japan's an island" which has been an entirely irrelevant point for at least 15 years, it's an issue of "the artists haven't created quality productions". I'll give an example...There's a song called 紳士的PARADOX by nmk/EastNewSound. It's a 2018 release, but it sounds like a 2013 release. The sound design? Dated, muddy and weak. The kick and snare samples? Default Vengeance drum samples from 2013. The arrangement? Literally just Terror Squad, a viral 2014 Zomboy song that got copied by Western artists for 2-3 years. The mastering and mixing? Not terrible, but not to the standard that even 2018 was.
The thing about artists and the music industry is that it is one of the best ways to network and spread information between countries. Just three weeks ago actually in Perth, Australia, I randomly met a huge Dubstep artist you may have heard of, Spag Heddy - himself a spaniard - just off the back of knowing one of the support acts who himself managed to knock Skrillex himself off the beatport charts with one of his releases. In a five minute conversation with the guy, I found out so much just about music production - like how he specifically has his stuff mastered - and some juicy details about such artists like xKore, Trampa & Marauda. Just today I went to a networking event where What So Not and Slumberjack gave a seminar on growing your music career to about 40 random Perth local DJs. Now imagine stuff like that on a nation wide scale, between promoters, DJs, producers, fans, schools/teachers, etc. etc. Now imagine THAT on a global scale.
And the thing is, that's been happening for years, and years, and years. There is a wealth of knowledge out there freely available to either buy directly, view for free, acquire through social connections or simply have given to you in various forms of benevolence. So on that level alone, when I say "Japanese dubstep artists are not up to standard", this is with the full wealth of knowledge that they are perfectly able to just torrent pirated sample packs from any given year, watch 10 different RUclips or Niconico videos on how to arrange a dubstep song, and pay 20 bucks to a guy they can easily find online who will master their track to an industry standard.
And as someone who is a DJ/producer myself, who has been taught everything I know about those skills by the aforementioned Beatport #1, as well as having supplemented all of that with all the other methods of acquiring industry skills and knowledge, I can safely say that if you can not take objective criticism on your work and use that to do better, then you shouldn't be producing music in the first place. Now you can take the obvious response to this and say "well why haven't YOU released anything that good if you know so much?" and the answer would be because I don't release music I think isn't up to standard.
There's a reason the Flux Pavilions of the world stand out over the Brown and Gammons of the world, is all I have left to say, and it's called hard work and high standards.

[@SkuddeOuo]

@@braydeno4189 Well that was unnecessary... When I said "elitist" I meant that you clearly think that only "good music" should be made, and "bad music" is some kind of failure on the part of the creator. And everything in your massive response only strengthens that statement. You think making a structurally better end result is more important than artistic expression or enjoying the process, and that your greater knowledge of the subject means you can call some types of music "unlistenable" like it's an objective fact. That's quite degrading imo. I'd feel pretty hurt if someone said that about my art.
I didn't mean to start an argument here either though. Sorry that it came off that way. I'm clearly less informed about music and my guess about geographic influence on genre adaption was pretty far-fetched in hindsight - you proved that much, gotta give you that - but in the end we have a very different relationship with music and art in general. It's completely fine to view it as a product to be perfected if you like. But please remember that some people, especially doujin artists making fan music, are not trying to make the best product possible. Some of them just want to have fun. So barging in with nasty statements about their creation process would be just... rude.
That's all I gotta say really.

[@Aurachan787]

Hey, always glad to hear from you! I hope things will be better for you soon, hang in there! Oh yes, loving the Lunar Rainbow, great first upload for the Touhou 18 ost! ❤

[@nico1520]

lunar rainbow love is always appreciated 🌈

[@kamikare_]

Let's hope that everything will be better in the future for you ! That's all I wish ^^
Btw, thank you lot for all those years of uploading and to help us to find and appreciate some beautiful masterpieces that could be unknown or barely know if you never uploaded them !
Take some rest and some time for you and see you soon ᕙ(`▽´)ᕗ

[@lennny.6984]

mmm temazo

[@cesare_inverardi]

Goes hard!!!

[@stellerseider270]

Always a welcome surprise to hear from you again, both music and how you're doing (well, if it's going decent or good, at least).
Oh, and I'm glad that the claim wasn't a problem in the end and the channel is safe and still diligently looked after ^^'
I wonder if it's just that everyone having 10k subs is spammed with ad offers, or if you can write in some space/description on your channel in order for anyone to filter out that you are just not interested in promoting anything.

[@SkuddeOuo]

The emails are automatic. Like, every single one screams "they have not seen my channel or even a second of any of my videos" because they're super vague and undescriptive. Stuff like "we love your content and think you have such unique style", like ok mr bot.
Hence why I'm 99% sure they're not manually sent by a person either. It's an algorithm that searches for growing channels that reach a certain views per day threshold and sends offers. Also quite sure a lot of the time the offer itself isn't even genuine, and instead is itself an advertisement for whatever the company is selling. An ad directed at me, not any of my potential viewers.
Ain't late stage capitalism just great.

[@stellerseider270]

@@SkuddeOuo that's doubly annoying, triply so, even. Well, maybe there is a way to filter and lead most of it into spam directly?

[@SkuddeOuo]

@@stellerseider270 I'm sure there's some keywords I could use. It'll be a task to tackle on a day when I have the spoons to spare. I've gotten 6 emails in 4 days so something needs to be done or I'll have to go mute mode.

[@stellerseider270]

@@SkuddeOuo good luck with that, then!

[@FireBleba18]

RUclips in general can be so frustrating, good luck and I hope you can find a solution!
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I've been wondering for a while now... who is the most difficult Touhou character to draw? Could it be Chimata for her dress?
Now that I think about it, I don't even know if fan artists try to replicate the dress or just improve, I'm going to need to look this up

[@SkuddeOuo]

That's a fun question, and especially in the context of Touhou!
In many other fandoms it's the norm to try to replicate a character's design perfectly, while in Touhou alternative outfits that only vaguely imply the original design are much more common, almost equally so with more traditional fanart.
So here it's not so much about replicating the design, and often people make characters' clothing way more complicated than the original design was heh.
And then we have old characters like Sariel where the game artwork is so vague that artists need to use a lot of interpretation to even draw them.
But if I'd have to pinpoint specific characters with particularly complex canon designs, I'd think all the ones with unconventional outfits and extra objects with them go up there. Shiki, Shou, Keiki, Toyosatomimi no Miko, and even Kanako to an extent all have some extra stuff going on that may not be easy to replicate.

[@sulpre]

4개월 만이야 !

[@SkuddeOuo]

그리고 난 아직 여기 있어