It’s a nice jazzy track which is slow-paced and allows the listener to slowly sink into the theme. After a while, Arai starts to break his beats up, sounding as if the record is malfunctioning, which is effective in getting the listener to notice these sudden changes in the track. While the main melody is repetitive, it still manages to entice the listener to the very end. “Rock” is an interesting change you get loads of drum beats that are sometimes slow – and at other times – very rapid.
Here, Arai just adds on layer after layer of techno sounds while the main melody repeats continuously. However, “Woods” doesn’t offer much variety. You get mainly tribal drumbeats mixed with techno beats - Arai simply keeps on adding effect after effect, which makes it a fairly basic theme. Eventually, Arai decides to add a few rapid drumbeats, which start off quietly and keep on getting louder and louder. “Sandtown” starts off with a few cymbals and beats, a few drums, and it stays this way for most of the track. Not your usual opening track, that’s for sure. Then comes an extremely rapid drumbeat, followed by another, and another. The album starts off with “Opening,” which begins with a few generic beats, then explodes into a cacophony of weird sound effects.
The outsider among them is Front Mission Alternative, which was actually composed by a techno artist rather than game composer, Riow Arai. There are currently nine games released thus far, most of them composed by different teams. It’s an amazing series featuring strategic combats involving futuristic mechs. Unfortunately, most of the Front Mission series remained in Japan, and only serious importers would get the chance to see what the fuss was about. When one mentions the name ‘Front Mission’, many immediately think of Front Mission 3, the last title for the PlayStation. DigiCube (1st Edition) Square Enix (2nd Edition)
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