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Kori - Illusionary Sputnik Night It's been quite some time since I featured this artist, so I'm giving myself some leeway due to this piece being unexpectedly difficult to find for. The style reminds me of another game's soundtrack that I'm hesitant to name. Marione - The Banquet Begins at Dawn! I'd have adjusted the translation but for the exclamation point at the end making it difficult to reinterpret. There were a lot of great arrangements for this piece, far more than I expected; I feel the range of genres incorporated into this one specifically works well as a representation of what's out there. Colorful Harmony - Spring Harbor End of Spring was always going to be a hard one to choose for; I feel I don't give this piece the respect it deserves, even as I've come to appreciate it as much as I have. A slow waltz may not seem enough, but it's a full arrangement nonetheless, and balanced well with the rest of the feature. Shionne submitted some great remixes for the tournaments, so check for those if this doesn't settle right. Bonus: Togakisan - "Sputnik Night" for Piano Trio ~ Roslavets Style I had to look up Roslavets to understand what was going on here, and I think it's better to have heard something of his compositions before listening to this remix. For context, Roslavets was a "modernist" composer, which means he sought to subvert the standard "rules" of music to express "new" styles (I use the quotations because this is more philosophy than music theory). I personally feel the remix artists fail to understand the fundamentals of Roslavets's style, resulting in something that doesn't quite accomplish what they think it does (again, a fuller explanation would get really philosophical, so I'm holding off for now).