Bonus Episode 04 - Arise, Effect, Infinite

The fine folks at Enhance reached out to me and asked if I’d show off some of the soundtrack for Lumines Arise, along with their other games like Tetris Effect and Rez Infinite. And I said yes, because all three of those soundtracks are great, so that’s what this special bonus episode is all about.  Special thanks for this episode goes out to: CJ from Enhance for approaching me and asking if I’d do an episode about Lumines Arise. You can follow Enhance on BlueSky at enhance-experience.com, on Twitter as @enhance_exp, and visit their website at https://enhance-experience.com/ BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.  Independently of this episode, I found Lumines Arise via games writer Pete Davison’s blog MoeGamer. You can find his excellent article about it at https://moegamer.net/2025/11/14/lumines-arise-the-art-of-sincerity-and-creating-meaning-without-explicit-narrative/ and you can visit the whole website at https://moegamer.net  If you want to know more about Hydelic, you can find his website at http://www.noborumutoh.com and you visit his Bandcamp page at https://hydelic.bandcamp.com, where you can download all three of the soundtracks featured on this episode.  To hear more from Luma, who contributed to some of the Lumines Arise vocal tracks, you can visit her YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/c/LumaMusicOfficial/about.  To hear more from Kymara, who also contributed to a Lumines Arise vocal track, you can find her YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/@KymaraJapNgie. Her official website is https://kymaramusic.com and she can also be found on Spotify.  Mechi Pieretti was the vocalist on one of the Tetris Effect songs, and you can find her YouTube page at  https://www.youtube.com/@MechiPieretti and she’s also on Spotify.  Kat McDowell’s guitar also shows up on one of today’s featured tracks from Tetris Effect, and you can find her website at https://www.kat-mcdowell.com and on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/user/katmcdowell. Mayu Wakisaka contributed to one of the Rez Infinite tracks, and you can find her work on Spotify and Apple Music, and also on her YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/user/mayutantanutan.  The show opened and closed with tracks featuring Krysta Youngs, and you can find more of her music on her website at https://www.krystayoungs.com, on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/user/krystayoungs, on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/krystayoungsmusic, and also on Spotify and Apple Music. 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Track Listing: 00:00 - Show Tagline 00:08 - Lumines Arise (Steam/PS5) - Arise (composers: Krista Youngs and Hydelic; performed by Krista Youngs and Hydelic) 02:52 - Talk Segment 1 06:19 - Lumines Arise (Steam/PS5) - In Black and White (composer: Takako Ishida) 08:43 - Lumines Arise (Steam/PS5) - Reboot (composer: Hydelic) 12:46 - Lumines Arise (Steam/PS5) - The List (composer: Hydelic) 15:37 - Talk Segment 2 16:29 - Lumines Arise (Steam/PS5) - Bloom Pulse (composer: Takako Ishida) 20:44 - Lumines Arise (Steam/PS5) - Swarm Within (composer: Takako Ishida) 24:45 - Lumines Arise (Steam/PS5) - Snow Murmur (composer: Takako Ishida) 29:23 - Talk Segment 3 30:45 - Lumines Arise (Steam/PS5) - Sky Falls Down (composers: Hydelic and Luma) 34:13 - Lumines Arise (Steam/PS5) - Two Lost Stars (composers: Hydelic and Luma) 38:09 - Lumines Arise (Steam/PS5) - Wash Away (composers: Hydelic and Kymara) 41:33 - Talk Segment 4 43:16 - Tetris Effect (multiplatform) - Next Chapter (composer: Hydelic) 47:54 - Tetris Effect (multiplatform) - World of Colors [In-Game Mix] (composer: Hydelic; vocals: Mechi Pieretti; guitar: Kat McDowell) 51:22 - Talk Segment 5 52:56 - Rez Infinite (PlayStation 5 / Steam) - Deeplights (composers: Hydelic and Takako Ishida) 54:07 - Rez Infinite (PlayStation 5 / Steam) - Awakening (composers: Hydelic and Takako Ishida) 58:36 - Rez Infinite (PlayStation 5 / Steam) - Singularity X (Ending Edit) (composers: Hydelic and Mayu Wakisaka) 1:00:58 - Outro Talk Segment 1:03:00 - Lumines Arise (Steam/PS5) - Only Human [In-Game Mix] (composers: Hydelic and Krysta Youngs)