Raw, skeletal, behind-the-scenes DS-era compositions that sound like catching a composer mid-thought. 7th Dragon's limited fragment release is basically a sketchbook in audio form, and that's what makes it fascinating. "The Record of Kazan I" and "II" are piano sketches of Murmonsia, stripped down to just melody and feel.
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You hear the bones of what became full arrangements. "Battlefield - etude III (ancient-8bit)" reimagines a battle theme in chiptune and it goes surprisingly hard for something labeled an etude. "Journey - Land of Dream" appears twice, original and resketch, so you can hear the evolution.
The outtakes at the start are numbered and unlabeled. Just pure experimentation. If you have ever wanted to hear how a JRPG soundtrack gets built from scratch, this fragment collection is exactly that.