Losing Count
Artist: Hyparpax
Genre: ELECTRONICA
BGA: Trofflesby
7KEYS:
- NORMAL 4
- HYPER 6
- ANOTHER 8
9KEYS:
- [TICKING TIM] 42 (obj. agu)

This is a track I had started on for fun a while ago and brought back for BOF because I needed a third song and thought it contrasted with the tone of my other two entries nicely. The initial concept was to make something like "shade" from spctrm's OMNICHAPTER, but the overall tone turned out completely different! I don't know if you will be able to tell.

There are many repetitive loops and rhythms in this track, but they are tricky and deceptive, falling out of sync with each other or suddenly playing at the wrong moment instead of staying in a consistent rhythm throughout. This is why the track is named "Losing Count". The second half is more coherent, and instead rises in tension as the track caves in on itself, shattering in the end.

By the way, this BMS only exists because Seraphin bought me the aforementioned spctrm album, so thank you. (On occasion it has been my hobby to make 8bar loops by copying elements from albums in my bandcamp collection.) It also seems spctrm made BMS a long time ago under a different name, which I didn't know when I first heard the album...!

This time, my friend Trofflesby made the BGA, making this the first time since 2019 that I've had a MV in BOF made by somebody else. (Although since the weeks before registration period intersected with his vacation, a couple of the finishing touches were by me.) I asked for a minimalist direction this time, but there's also a lot of subtle touches that bring out the instability of the track. The 7K patterns are slow and low difficulty but tricky, which is a type of pattern I've been finding myself having to make a lot lately as I've been leaning into low BPM ambient music over the past few years. It's a direction that's outside the usual scope of rhythm games in the last few years, but I enjoy making it and I'm quite happy with the patterns this time, so I hope there are people who enjoy it.