Lavender Town

Me and my big mouth are here once again with the same introductions. So yeah, we're back in Writer's Block where we let the music compensate for the lack of thoughts for a better post. This time around we focus on a tune that gives true Pokemon fans a nostalgia boner every time.

As some of you may know, Lavender Town is part of the Kanto region in Generation 1 of the Pokemon universe. It is the sixth place you visit as I recall which is most memorable due to the infamous Ghost Tower erected there as a memorial for the souls of dead Pokemon. Yes, I have been quite the follower of Pokemon.

Anyway, a conspiracy has been spread across the internet a year ago about the theme music heard in Lavender Town as well as the Ghost Tower and its inhabitants. It is known as Lavender Town Syndrome. Long story, click the link.

Short story, there have been reports of mass suicides and illnesses of children aged 7-12 in Japan upon hearing the original Lavender Town theme music in Pokemon Red and Green due to certain frequencies and images formed when translating the sound into images. The sound engineer who translated the sound found out with his powerful ear that there was a certain frequency missing which made Lavender Town sound incomplete. His friend added it in (after he died) and some shocking images were displayed.

Look, I'm a bit skeptical about this but either way, I love the hauntingly beautiful tune of Lavender Town and I, too, believed that there was indeed something missing. Yes, I am a sound engineer. Yes, I got an ear for frequencies. Yes, my roommate found this out by accident after viewing the Gary Motherf***ing Oak meme. But no, I did not want it to sound more devious than it's current reputation.

Lavender Town was missing beauty. I added more instruments and an additional chord sequence that fit the "hauntingly beautiful" theme perfectly while still remaining faithful to the original. Plus, I sampled a classic horror string sound effect.

P.S. If you play this song in iTunes on repeat, it loops just like in the game.

You're never too scared to move... on.  Face the music and make the best out of it.

P.S. I just noticed that the song cut at about 4:24 onwards. That was my bad. It wasn't an intended abrupt cut at the climax to creep you out rather it was an editing mistake I never checked since I made this video at 2 in the morning.