"floating island music"

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getting the most obvious one out of the way but let’s do a cover of it for fun

trying to figure out if there are any throughlines with these (especially in the jrpg context) in the same way you’d hear airship music and go “that’s airship music, to me”

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this counts but it feels like angel island zone doesn’t. i can’t justify this

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is it the sitar. is the sitar the secret. is that a sitar what is that

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killer thread concept, ty

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cave story is entirely set on a floating island (sorry for spoiling cave story for you), but this is the “floating island music.” i don’t think it’s really going to be similar to any of the others

it turns out a lot of videogames with floating islands are entirely set on the floating island, which hampers my research

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this song really goes in a lot of directions, love it

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All of gimmick takes place on a floating island, but the last stage is another little island that descends over the big island, thus fulfilling the traditional role of the floating island

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wikipedia describes shevat as a “floating city-airship” so i was worried this would be airship music. however, it is floating island music

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this immediately comes into my head anytime i hear the phrase “floating island”

FF6 belongs in here, as with all things

dunno if this level really counts as a floating island, but i did an arrangement of this theme back in the day for oc remix so it deserves a mention

most levels in Jumping Flash are all floating islands, so

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sometimes floating islands are mechanical rather than mystical. ff6’s floating continent is somewhere in between because there is a harp. is this the true meaning of “magitech”…?

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i suspect xiv has several of these but i haven’t played it and this is hard to google. here is one. it doesn’t really say “landlords” to me

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which interpolates this

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mallet instruments (marimba and glockenspiel especially?) seem to be big on floating islands, they say “magic” and they also say “island”

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LANDLORDS IS SUCH A GOOD SONG our free company has an inside joke where we teleport to the place that song plays all the time

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surely mushi futari stage 1 counts as a floating island

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i feel like a vocal-oid pad stretched out over several bars or strings doing more or less the same thing are a big factor too, and like an arpeggio that lets you breathe a little … i don’t know enough about modes and keys to make any particular assertions but i bet those are a factor too

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I believe the instrument this patch is attempting to replicate is in fact a hammered dulcimer

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