Rabid's Video of the Week #7 - Strange Beast by redcap

Welcome to video of the week, where I pick a random video from my exceptional playlist and talk about it in depth

sorry for missing a week, I was on vacation with limited internet and a crappy laptop.

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THIS WEEK'S VIDEO: #104

Strange Beast by redcap


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOuSyQLxJ6U

The best way to describe this is "a beastly XY" (haha I'm punny) /purtle

It was also one of the few tracks to be featured on this site (during the first downtime) so go here for a great thread about it:
https://iridethelines.forumotion.com/featured-movies-f1/strange-beast-by-redcap-t1262.htm
(to add on to that, MrZNF more recently called it "MEGA UBER SEXY" - no joke, check youtube)

and here's the original thread about it:
https://iridethelines.forumotion.com/bare-tracks-f3/strange-beast-redcap-t1241.htm

This is, at least in my opinion, up there with the best XYs ever. ClosedDo0r had XX XY, Ram Tzu had Fluid Karma, boo had Nocturnal, STP had Vibrato, MJ now has Digital Frenzy, and redcap has strange beast. It's all a matter of style preference which one of those you like best, but it's virtually all in agreement that this is redcap's best XY.

What I like about this track is its variety. It might not have the flow of ram tzu or boo, but it has lots of creativity. You can see various granuals, flings, elevators, integration, and basically anything XY you can think of in this track.

It was recently entered in ToC3 (by me I think) and it got to the thrilling thirty two, look at these polls:
round 1: https://iridethelines.forumotion.com/tournament-of-champions-3-f42/round-1-poll-4-t2163.htm
round 2: https://iridethelines.forumotion.com/tournament-of-champions-3-f42/round-2-poll-2-t2256.htm
round 3: https://iridethelines.forumotion.com/tournament-of-champions-3-f42/round-3-poll-5-t2396.htm

I find it interesting how close it was with nocturnal (15-18), especially after nocturnal did so well in rounds 1 and 2.

Well done Redcap. I still can't believe I beat it in the poll. Redcap seriously put so much more hard work into this than I did with mine.

Did anybody notice that he recycled XY Integration in there? Check out 0:55 and 1:55. Insane.

The whole reason why I ever got into XY as much as I did is because of the first time I saw Sinister about two years ago. I remember it being one of the best tracks in contest cycle started by chih, and I was determined to beat it.

Redcap really had a part in making XY what it is today, and so he deserves the feature and the spotlight 100%!

~boo wrote:Redcap seriously put so much more hard work into this than I did with mine.

Haha, aren't you the guy who takes like a year to make a minute of track?

N2 would have been the most procrastinated XY if it hadn't been deleted. ._.

I'm honored. Thanks so much. But something else will take the place of strange beast, just you wait.

this track is actually tied w/ nocturnal for favorite XY

i luv it !

You guys know I really do pick a random video? I had 137 videos in the exceptional playlist and I went to random.org and 104 came up. So you're welcome redcap, but really you should be honored for being on the list, this thread itself isn't really an honor. I believe you were added a few months ago

Strange beast always has, and always will be epic. What a great track.