Late 90s PC mood pieces drifting between eerie calm and sudden tension. C's ware Fan Club Special CD-ROM Vol.13 collects tracks from 1999 Windows-era visual novels and the vibe is all over the place in the best way. "Plane of Fiends" opens dark and stays there, while "see breeze" (yes, spelled like that) exhales into something coastal and light.
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"Rhythm Fear" snaps you back into unease without warning. The track names read like poetry fragments. "the evening grow," "here and there," "ancient wind..." with that trailing ellipsis. Even "Japanese seasoning" is in here and it works somehow.
Late 90s Windows sound design had this specific quality. Raw MIDI warmth with nowhere to hide. For anyone who wants to hear what obscure Japanese PC game music felt like before everything went digital distribution.