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Time Compressed

By impbox on January 18, 2026 1:42 pm

Been playing Final Fantasy 8 again after 27 years when it released and I finally finished it... wtf mate. I kind of hate it, it's so broken, and disappointing, but it definitely is intriguing and I've been reading huge fan theory threads most of the week.

Anyway, here's this weeks' track, maybe inspired by it?

All made on M8.
Started with the chord progression, then the melody, then everything else fell in around it.
Had to work really hard to compress the time of the track from over 8 minutes to the 6 minutes it is now.

Epic percussion. That's growly bass at 2:30 ... nice! That 4:15 change is sweet too. No wonder you had trouble fitting this all into one song. I love the result though.

And, yeah, FF8 was a letdown after FF7.

VIII is my favourite, as a game it kinda sucks but the vibes are unmatched. Could totally see this as boss music for a particularly nasty encounter

Water_Feature wrote:

VIII is my favourite, as a game it kinda sucks but the vibes are unmatched. Could totally see this as boss music for a particularly nasty encounter

Yeah, I love the vibe and ideas explored in it, just felt very rushed and empty to me compared to 6 and 7 and never really connected with the characters in it, except maybe Laguna and co.

Cheers!

i did really enjoy 8, i wish they stayed in that kinda goofy but still videogamey graphic style

this track is great! yes totally would fit as a spooky ff8 boss encounter!

Big tune. Hitting 6 mins on an m8 track is wildly hard to do

Ah man 8 was the first ff I played. Such a weird game.
Love the tune, sounds huge and that big bass is ominous.

Mad track! great beat and sound design, it's well glued. I like the chords. i can see how ff influenced it (I haven't played any of the games tho).

My only experience with FFVIII is a demo that came with Brave Fencer Musashi - I think it was just the dropship sequence at the start of the game.

This is a super cool track though. Love the breakbeats in this and the plinky piano carrying through the whole thing.

Big pressure in this song, interesting.
- Spider

Top-shelf stuff.

Loving the slippery melody with its crunchy timbre. (Slippery and crunchy?) Very nice breaks, too--propulsive!

The distortion and all adds a nice dark ambient vibe, around 4:00 it feels like urgency takes the wheel. Brilliant from start to finish!

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