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We’re back at it with more Touhou! This time with Mokou’s Theme from the 8th game in the series: Imperishable Night.

One of the first things you might notice is I changed the key down a half step for this remix. Changing keys tends to send some people into a crazed frenzy, so in case you’re wondering, this is the key the original game MIDI file is in. The description in that video goes into a bit more detail.

This song poses a common problem some songs (especially Touhou) present: what the heck are we supposed to do on the fast parts. Those parts being what on the surface sounds like an amalgamation of random notes (00:14 and 00:48 in the video). So I just did some fast stuff. I don’t think people seemed to mind.

I ended up liking this song quite a bit! Touhou was the #14 most requested series from last year’s song ballot, but an early look at the (currently still open as of this writing) 2020 ballot entries show that it may end up a lot higher this year. So we just might see some more in the near future!