【東方】Touhou Hardstyle/Rawstyle Mix (Antithetical Disonance)

Seija has gotten into the stash of beautiful, pleasant, melodic hardstyle tracks and is slowly corrupting them into harsh weapons of sound, the sole purpose of which is to assault your eardrums! In other words, I'm back with another genre-specific mix, this time Hardstyle + Rawstyle!

The theme is pretty straightforward, we start with typical hardstyle that focuses on melodies, and end with rawstyle that focuses on heavy kicks. That is the antithesis that the mix subtitle is refering to, anyway. Naturally I love making mixes that gradually increase in intensity, so putting these two together is a no-brainer. However, hardstyle is notoriously difficult to mix for me, so I can only hope that I was able to craft a sufficiently hype flow to keep you entertained throughout this 2 hour mix.

As for the character, Seija was my initial pick because of the reverse bass connotation, however I don't think there's gonna be that much of that in the end. That said, I've had several Seija arranges in these genres that I've been itching to use in a mix, so I went with her for the BG anyway.

Audio was mixed in VirtualDJ, video was made in After Effects and the BG image has been as usual drawn by ‪@saturday1785‬, who continues do outdo themselves.

Tracklist this time is a custom list on TouhouDB, which I hope is more convenient since Youtube keeps messing with the clickability of my links (you have to copy just this one). Here:
https://touhoudb.com/L/3436

If you want to avoid spoilers, all I'll say about the tracklist is that I tried to put in as many various artists as possible, but we may occasionally ride the heaven's sound, if you catch my drift...

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