music - Padraig Fahy

"What Angel Wakes Me" - Masayoshi Soken

This is the 4th song from Final Fantasy XIV that I have written. The other 3 can be viewed here. At the start of Final Fantasy XIV’s 3rd expansion, ShadowBringers, it brought a truck load of new content including dungeons and trials. One of the first trials that

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Dress Down - Kaoru Akimoto

In March of 1986, Akimoto released her one and only album Cologne under the Victor record label but went under the radar when it was initially released. As part of the resurrection of Citypop in Japan and the discovery of the genre in the west, the single “Dress Down&

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The Reach of Darkness - Masayoshi Soken

Staying with Final Fantasy XIV and back in 2015, which was about a year and a half after the game re-launched, Square Enix launched the final major patch for the A Realm Reborn expansion titled Before The Fall. There is a very good documentary about Final Fantasy XIV and what

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Weight of the World (Prelude Version) - Keiichi Okabe

I am a huge fan of Final Fantasy XIV and it’s music. It’s main composer Masayoshi Soken has created some fantastic music in the last 6 years of the game’s existence and he knocks it out of the park each and every expansion. At

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Rick Takeuchi - Never Gonna Give You Plastic Love

In my previous post, I wrote about listening to a new genre of music, Future Funk for the last couple of years. There has been a sub-genre of Future Funk though which has had a resurgence in the last 10 years, known as City pop. City pop is a loosely

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[The Jukebox] S6E11 - Macross 82-99 - Fun Tonight

A genre that I have been listening to a lot in the last couple of years has been “Future Funk”… ahem, I mean “Ｆｕｔｕｒｅ　Ｆｕｎｋ　因為ヾ” A genre born from the illustrious vaporwave sub-genre which was brought to popularity in the early parts of 2010&