It’s time for yet another Touhou arrange album, a sequel of sorts to the ALiCE’S EMOTiON-released Fanatic Hardcore set. Just as the last arrange album saw two of Betwixt & Between’s best new tracks, Wide Awake and Dust to Dust, this compilation sees him contribute a thundering schranz tune, The Moon From Below. Slightly reminiscent of Zusammengehorigkeit, it doesn’t overdose on the melodies but is a really powerful track. Betwixt actually played it on Saturday, and while there’s no way in the world that you could mix it into something like Mirage, his newer tunes are quite often schranz-influenced, and so it worked quite well (actually following Zusammengehorigkeit, if my sketchy memory serves me right).

Putting my neutral observer hat on, it might not really be worth the price of Scarlet Eyes alone, though, and so if your interest doesn’t run as far as the RED ALiCE-style of arrange tunes, it might be best to give this one a miss. It would however be a crime not to mention the brilliant cover artwork, the ALiCE’S EMOTiON label is really setting the standard on that front recently.