M2U is a Korean musician that I’m sure the reader would have a bit of idea about who the person is, assuming that you are well versed around Rhythm game communities yourself.
In a sense, he is one of the honorable musicians that are considered household names, as his work is featured in numerous rhythm games, such as those developed by Rayark, and for good reason too! He is responsible for the Iconic Trio Chart that is featured in Deemo, namely Magnolia, Myosotis, and Marigold, all three are arranged by MRU, and beautifully recorded by NiCode, all of three are music that are well worth the time checking out.
M2U had composed music of numerous genres over his career, from his numerous EDMs, to the more generic pop songs he had composed over the years, to a couple of wonderful classical tracks that are night and day when compared to what he normally creates.
Describing M2U’s music is a bit hard, much due to the very wide range of music that he had produced over the years, but a good amount of music that he produced are all very memorable, and can instantly be recognized by those who only heard it for the first time.
I suppose following that thought process, it’s fair to describe his music as being Impactful. As an example, Magnolia is a track filled with a soothing yet emotional start, which gradually climaxes and descends into a hailstorm of electronic synths and growls that resembles, if not straight up being Dubstep, and cuts back to an emotional sway of regular instruments that are composed to carry the emotion left by the emotional turbulence, to an end that perfectly draws a period on the track. This is the type of composition philosophy that you can find throughout most of the EDM based music that M2U produces, and despite that possibly being repetitive at some point, I think M2U executes this format of EDM music with great skill, although it's difficult for me to put the uniqueness into words, I suppose this fact is up to the listener to determine.
Switching gears, he also composed other tracks with a lot more personality behind them. Masquerade, Quo Vadis, Body Talk, Cradle Waltz, Deerstalker, Wicked Fate, Ayla, the list goes on, and there’s always so many to listen to.
His music has always been fun and exciting, for me at least, to listen to, and that is remarkable in my book, hence why I’ve decided to talk about him this time!
It’s that time of the year, and it is time for that obligatory post on EDM. Now that I typed whatever that came to mind a second ago, (which tbh hosts no meaning besides giving me a simple way to start this segment). M2U is another one of those artists that I’ve stumbled upon through, you guessed it, rhythm games. That’s not to say his work isn't of any quality, far from it actually.
M2U’s music leans heavily towards electronic, but that doesn’t mean all his stuff sounds samely like a lot of contemporary music is doing nowadays. His works differ from the mainstream-ish stuff, look at his 四方神’s series, integrating traditional symbolisms into his music. The track Yellow dragon is my favorite out of the whole thing, followed by Ayla.
Yellow dragon, from asia mythos, the yellow dragon is said to be the one above the four symbols( 四方神) which are the blue dragon, white dragon, black tortoise and red phoenix (Yes, some sources call them azure instead of blue, vermillion instead of red, this part is solely for clarification sake). And M2U captures that, the entity that stands above all, making this track sound serene and standoffish compared to the other entries of his 四方神 series, which is a great choice, in terms of context and contrast.
Moving on from that, when it comes to his EDM stuff, Felis is the one for me. It has its highs, and sufficient down time in the middle for us to catch a breather before moving to the next chorus, a beautiful song if I can spot one.(That aside, the osu port of this song is also something osu.ppy.sh/beatmapsets/1536884#osu/3142389).
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