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Today’s Mana Music Monday update takes us to the Remix page once again because I don’t have any of my music on me right now. But also I figured I’d bring one of my favorite remixes ever up to the main page.

Big Giant Circles does an amazing job of working “Mission” and “Fight 2” together and keeps them weaving in and out of one another through the entire track for a really dramatic effect. Every time I hear this it takes me off guard by how awesome it is, this is an easy track to get lost in. But don’t take my word for it, have a listen yourself:

Begin the End of the Beginning – Big Giant Circles
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If you really like this track you can download it here or visit the
OCRemix Page.

Let it never be said that here at Seikens we are getting too predictable. We may always cover pretty much the same series, we may have week after week where the only update is another track from one of the soundtracks or a remix, but then suddenly we throw a spanner in the works and BAM!

Which is probably high ranking in the non-appropriate ways to lead up to good news such that we bring you today, but hey, this is me writing here, what did you expect?

So without further ado, and ceasing all mindless babbling that you’re accustomed to from myself, I hope you will all join me in congratulating our very own Deques (aka Wai Wong) on his recent marriage! The rest of the team wish him and his newly wed wife all the happiness in the world in their new life together.

And seeing as this happens to be Monday, it’s time for some fitting music, from the hands of our resident musical maestro Destiny. A remix from Deques’ favourite game in the series, Seiken Densetsu 3, based on the track Delicate Affection, this is called This Heart (and is available on our Remixes page, so you can download it there and listen to it again and again).

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In keeping with the great article Sheexy wrote on Griffin Hands (scroll down and read it if you’ve somehow managed to miss it!), it seems only fitting to have the music from Pureland in Secret of Mana as our Mana Music Monday track. A soothing, mellow piece which perfectly fits the ambience of a forest filled with maverick footstools that fly at you with sharp claws, yellow ghosts which go bump in the eternal night of the forest and resent the lack of a Christmas card in the past 6 years, hedgehogs that pack more of a punch than Sonic when he found out about the Nintendo deal, and enough dragons to make you wish that you could actually get your Sword forged to the level of Dragon Buster before entering this infernal no-man’s land in preference to relying on the 2 Faerie Walnuts you forgot to restock back in something resembling civilization.

Yeah, soothing and mellow. You need it to keep from going m-m-m-m-m-m-m-mad, sir!

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Edit: Fixed lack of musical goodness. PEBCAK.

Following on from last week’s Triple MMM, I figured that we could listen to the title theme from Seiken Densetsu 3, Where Angels Fear to Tread, since this is the game we all wish Square would release to the rest of the world officially and debugged. In addition, this saw the return of the ever famous Angel’s Fear, but included as part of a new theme and with a different take completely.

And this brings me back to rant mode, I’m afraid. You see, one of my really big gripes with Rising Sun, what appears to be the official Mana theme in Ito’s eyes, is that every game I hear it in, it sounds exactly the same. Alright, the instrumentation may change slightly, but it doesn’t change. I can’t listen to each instance of it and say “yes, that’s the same song, but it has its own personality to itself!” because, let’s face it, it just doesn’t have any new distinguishing features.

Angel’s Fear, on the other hand… every instance has unique qualities to it that adapt it perfectly to the scenario it is being used in. And here’s part of the proof of this fact.

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Thanks to Marini for pointing this out to us on the Forum. Secret of Mana is now available on Virtual Console in the US for the price of 800 Wii points.

Coincidentally, I wanted to post the theme from this game as part of Triple M before I heard of this. Love it when a plan come together.

I love this theme, it truly is one of the greatest themes in videogaming history. And rightly so, it’s soothing, takes emotions to new heights, and encompasses all that the series stands for in one simple melody. Kikuta-san rocks! What really strikes me as bizarre is that I have seen people list this in Top 10’s, but below, wha tI consider to be at least, rather poor excuses for themes such as the Crystal Theme from Final Fantasy. It should be higher up!

I guess I should just be happy it gets on a list at all, considering how overshadowed the series is. Ah well.

Also I feel that THIS should be the main theme for the series, not Rising Sun!

I’ll stop ranting now. Enjoy the music!

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OK, so the past two weeks we’ve been chilling out to the tones of Pandora’s Vox, which means this week we’re taking a look at a different Doujin Album that we have also featured in our Soundtracks section. This time round it’s Marina, published by Mana Label, a ver elaborate effort for a fan made album, and with some very interesting choices in style for certain tracks.

For this week’s Mana Music Monday (on Monday, egads!) I’ve chosen Neverending, which takes the theme An End from Secret of Mana (just after you defeat Dark Lich, in case you didn’t know) and does all sorts of funky stuff with it.

In case you’re wondering what on earth has happened to my expression for this post, my brain has been given very little rest between night shifts, and I am extremely tired. That and I have just tried myself to cover a track from Seiken Densetsu on the guitar using a very curious arrangement style, and the juxtaposing tempos have done quite the number on my senses.

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So it’s Monday again, and Sheexy is here to introduce this week’s track.

We’ve got another track from Pandora’s Vox this week, and this time it’s a remix of Secret of the Hot Sand. I chose this one because Kassidy told me it is good and I should listen to it sometime. So now everyone is going to listen to it with me.
Ready? Here we go!

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OK, I’m late again. I’m afraid work has taken it’s toll on me this week, and in spite making some headway on other content, my tiredness Monday and Tuesday led me to forget about this completely. But to make up for this, I’m putting up two tracks from this great Doujin Album: Pandora’s Vox. It was released at Comiket 74, and contains 8 tracks remixing some of your favourite Secret of Mana tracks.

The two being brought to you here are The Sorceror (from the fight against Dark Lich) and This Sole Wish (the Mana Beast approaches the Fortress). Enjoy, and let us know your feedback!

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Welcome to Seikens’ Mana Music Tuesday! Brought to you by Sheexy with a video brought to him by Kassidy who found it on Youtube. Business here at Seikens is a mysterious thing indeed.

Here is Swivel as performed by a fan NicoNicoDouga. The vocals are made using Vocaloid 2, with the voice of Hatsune Miku.
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And in a bizzare chain of events I actually have no idea what this sounds like, I’ve just looked at the pictures.
I don’t have headphones here at school.
So lemme know how it sounds please?

Very quick update for this as I’m running myself into the ground (hence the delay). The Ruined Ground, track from Children of Mana. Enjoy!

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