Disc Station 98 #16 [Music Synups] (PC-98), 1992
IMAMI PON, Tomonori Minami
Weirdly serene for shmup music! Another GG Aleste arrangement courtesy of the original composer. Included for your perusal (and posterity) are IMAMI PON’s notes from the Music Synups page of DS98 #16:
暑い日が続きますが、皆さんお元気ですか？ 初登場、今未ＰＯＮです。今回のミュ－ジック・シナプスでは、「ＧＧ－アレスタ」を取り上げて、アレンジしてみました。ゲ－ムとはまた一味違った雰囲気で楽しんでもらえると思うので、じ－っくり聞いてみてください。
また、コンパイル・ブランドのゲ－ムで、「あの曲をぜひ！！」とのリクエストがあったら、『ゲ－ム名』と、その曲が使われていた『場面』を書いて、どしどし御応募下さい。サウンド課のピチピチはりきり社員達（ＢＡ．Ｍ君、大矢嬢、ガオウ長尾、ドナドナ松島、サルサ中西、そして、わたくしＰＯＮ）が腕によりをかけてアレンジいたしますっ！！！！！
では最後に、我らがアイドル、ＭＡＴＳ様に一言お願いしましょう。
→ うひっ。最近、アンケートとかで『ＤＳ９８の音がいいぞ』とかいう反応が多いのですごくうれしいぞう。おれちゃまは、しばらくサウンドからはずれるけど、これからもみんなをかわいがってあげてね！！必ずかえってくるからそんときは、よろしく。
では、どしどしリクエスト待ってるＺＥ！！
Ｆｒｏｍ ＰＯＮ
Thanks again to foxhack for the convenient NEC PC text ripping method! I will always include these when they are available from now on, and go back and add them to my earlier Disc Station posts. I just wish I could do a better job of preserving them for an English-speaking audience.
Something I am not incapable of translating: IMAMI PON is not a Chie Ohya pseudonym, as some websites claim. Ms. Ohya is named in the above list of Compile sound staff as a separate entity.
One of the instruments that Music Synups loads for the file is “SSG_OLGAN”. It is incredible to me that anyone could think something produced by a Yamaha SSG resembled an organ. Wishful thinking, but pretty imaginative! It speaks to an old school synth mentality that looks at the instrument as primarily emulative.
Additionally, I have updated (and hopefully finalized) my Music Synups post with a little more info and links back to these posts. I am proud that I am now the first Google result for it. Where there was once a dark void, I have cast a thin ray of light for a single nerd trying to look this up in ten years so that they might more easily shrug indifferently. Surely, my time on this planet will be worthwhile.
