Distant Worlds II: more music from FINAL FANTASY (320kbps)

Size: 140MB
Bitrate: 320kbps
Uploaded By: Deviant Reaper
Release Date: May 01, 2010
Publish Format: Commercial
Release Price: Unknown
Media Format: CD
Classification: Arrangement
Published by: AWR Records
Composed by: Nobuo Uematsu / 植松伸夫

Track Listing:

01 Prelude (FINAL FANTASY SERIES)
02 The Man with the Machine Gun (FINAL FANTASY VIII)
03 Ronfaure (FINAL FANTASY XI)
04 A Place to Call Home – Melodies of Life (FINAL FANTASY IX)
05 Zanarkand (FINAL FANTASY X)
06 Dancing Mad (FINAL FANTASY VI)
07 Victory Theme (FINAL FANTASY SERIES)
08 Suteki da ne (FINAL FANTASY X)
09 Terra’s Theme (FINAL FANTASY VI)
10 Main Theme of Final Fantasy VII (FINAL FANTASY VII)
11 Prima Vista Orchestra (FINAL FANTASY IX)
12 Dear Friends (FINAL FANTASY V)
13 JENOVA (FINAL FANTASY VII)

Download:

http://rapidshare.com/files/383222076/FF_Distant_Worlds_II.rar.html

or

http://hotfile.com/dl/41111587/b2e0c39/FF_Distant_Worlds_II.rar.html

Enjoy! 🙂

Also! remember to buy the FLAC version and support the makers!!
Official Distant Worlds Store (http://store.ffdistantworlds.com/album/distant-worlds-ii-more-music-from-final-fantasy)

Thank you so much! I’ve so been looking forward to this. Especially dancing mad XD

You rock…no where’s the lossless?! j/k…

Thanks for this! I’ll be buying the CD on day one, but this will tide me over until then.

Sweet! Thanks!

Awesome! Thanks!

Thank you!

Are the Distant Worlds albums re-arranges or the exact same themes just gathered together?

Thanks for sharing.
Waiting for the CD to release.

Arigato gozaimasu. I’m buying original also!

Great, ill wait for the 1.2GB FLAC version…that would be great! 😀 Any idea when its upped?
Ill buy it when i can since i dont have a creditcard or paypal

Its time for Europe distribution without the crazy price change.
Distant Worlds was $12.00 in US and 25 EUR in europe…25 EUR is $33,29

thanks a ton *_*

Looking forward to the FLAC version.

OMG it’s Suteki da Ne in english for the first time!!! Thanks a bunch 😀

omfg

I love u ;; <3

OMG!!!!!!!
……..already bought Dancing Mad. hahaha BTW can I request the PDF that comes with the full album download? I only want to see it, in hopes of the PDF including the lyrics for Dancing Mad. 😀

Thanks! 😀

Whoa! I didn’t even know there was going to be a second Distant World! Awesome! Thanks for the upload! Can’t wait to buy it!

I mean, come on, FFVII fans get to sing their anthem, "SEPHIROTH". They can just google the lyrics if they don’t know the lyrics..but FFVI fans…haven’t been able to sing along with the ultimate predecessor of One-Winged Angel. Hopefully…everything changes now…>:D

Yeah, I’d really like to see the lyrics for Dancing Mad. ^.=.^

OMG it’s Suteki da Ne in english for the first time!!! Thanks a bunch 😀
OMG THIS!

Suteki Da Ne, Melodies of Life, and Kiss me Goodbye are to me the ultimate in Square Enix vocal tracks from final fantasy games and Suteki Da Ne was the ONE track I was uable to ever listen to in english. This version of the song is also AMAZING. I may have to buy this just to support the creation of one of my lifelong wants!!!

Also to Deviant Reaper – you should link to the site to buy it so people don’t have to search if they want to support the creators of this awesome album.

Much thanks for the album! Great stuff 🙂

Terras Theme and Zanarkand are broken?

Yes TY!!!

I listened through it….Sort of lame they reused the FF VI and VII theme from previous versions, but the rest is pretty good.

I listened through it….Sort of lame they reused the FF VI and VII theme from previous versions, but the rest is pretty good.

To me it sounds like they have much more movement in the music than previous versions. Either that or I just didn’t have the proper audio equipment when I listened to the first ones. In that sense its a huge improvement.

Oh dear god. A fully orchestral version of Dancing Mad with Ominous Latin Chanting and Ominous Pipe Organs?!

I came.

Thank you. Thank you SO MUCH.

Oh dear god. A fully orchestral version of Dancing Mad with Ominous Latin Chanting and Ominous Pipe Organs?!

I came.

Thank you. Thank you SO MUCH.

*just got off of TVTropes finally… oh wait, 2 more tabs, I’ll be back in an hour*

And, thanks for the upload.

Thanks

OMG THIS!

Suteki Da Ne, Melodies of Life, and Kiss me Goodbye are to me the ultimate in Square Enix vocal tracks from final fantasy games and Suteki Da Ne was the ONE track I was uable to ever listen to in english. This version of the song is also AMAZING. I may have to buy this just to support the creation of one of my lifelong wants!!!

Also to Deviant Reaper – you should link to the site to buy it so people don’t have to search if they want to support the creators of this awesome album.

Here you go for that piece of info.
Official Distant Worlds Store. (http://store.ffdistantworlds.com/album/distant-worlds-ii-more-music-from-final-fantasy)

an I request the PDF that comes with the full album download? I only want to see it, in hopes of the PDF including the lyrics for Dancing Mad. 😀

Thanks! 😀

Thanks so much for this! Brilliant!

O yeah!

Here you go for that piece of info.
Official Distant Worlds Store. (http://store.ffdistantworlds.com/album/distant-worlds-ii-more-music-from-final-fantasy)

Thanks. I bit! I love supporting the release of 24 bit lossless files (even if they are HUGE) and a few of the tracks on this album gave me the chills.
If you enjoy this you should support digital distribution done right (if you live in the USA and its $9.99)

Arigatou gozaimas

Loving it, looking forward to the flac upload.

an I request the PDF that comes with the full album download? I only want to see it, in hopes of the PDF including the lyrics for Dancing Mad. 😀

Thanks! 😀
Only lyrics included are from Suteki Da Ne and Melodies of Life.

Yeah, i won’t be posting the FLAC version. I think it should be paid for to be honest.
Still, if you don’t have the money to buy the FLAC release… you can make do with the MP3 320k release that i’ve already posted.

Added support DW store link to first post~! We need to support releases like this 🙂

Yeah, i won’t be posting the FLAC version. I think it should be paid for to be honest.
Still, if you don’t have the money to buy the FLAC release… you can make do with the MP3 320k release that i’ve already posted.

Added support DW store link to first post~! We need to support releases like this 🙂
I won’t be either. I agree with this.

"… HD 24bit/88.2k FLAC…"

Oh shit
will buy later

Wow, Thanks a bunch. Totally forgot about this release.

If you enjoy this you should support digital distribution done right (if you live in the USA and its $9.99)
For what it’s worth, I’m in Europe and it only cost me $9.99 as well.

Thanks, now that I have listened to both albums I can say that the Disant Worlds Albums are my favorite orchestral Final Fantasy albums.
Btw I find it hilarious that they declare loseless to be for nerds only …

super thanks.

Thank you!

Cheers mate, thanks for the upload. Appreciate it.

Purchased the HD FLAC version. $9.99 is a joke for something like that.

^ It’s actually quite cheap to be honest.
$9.99 works out as �6.55 or so here. It’s half the normal price of a CD for me o.O
Can’t argue with that~!

^ It’s actually quite cheap to be honest.
$9.99 works out as �6.55 or so here. It’s half the normal price of a CD for me o.O
Can’t argue with that~!

Yea! Its only 7 euro’s and I REALLY want to buy it, its not the money…its the payment options thats holding me back 🙁

PayPal is not an option and i dont have a creditcard nor people i know. We have iDeal in Holland, the biggest competitor of PayPal

Question:
Does the FLAC version also has bad poping/clicking or is it just a bad MP3 conversion? (Listen to Prelude for example)

Also, im really disappointed that there are major tempo issues with some tracks, especially Prelude, Dancing Mad and Man With The Machine Gun….the tempo is not consistent and kind of awkward

But the recording and mixing quality is superb and i also like Susan Calloway’s voice

Btw I find it hilarious that they declare loseless to be for nerds only …

And for Audiophiles 🙂 "For Audiophiles and Nerds"

Indeed it’s cheap as hell, but it’s more of the same. Most of it we heard before. FF has tons and tons of music to arrange, but they still selling us the same thing. I don’t like that approach to fan and a customer: "BRAND NEW! THREE cues never published before! Buy it U music loving idiot, next time we will give you one more, for a full prize":/.

New tracks aren’t that good – Dancing Mad is mediocre at best, especially middle part (as Finalfantim noticed, there are some tempo problems). And I actually had hopes for an orchestral arrange (like the one by Jeremy Robson:)) of whole thing, here it’s basically original version performed live… Jenova is quite cool though and I like Prelude here. It was also nice to hear Prima Vista Theme:).

As for songs, Melodies of Life sounds horrible. I hate the vocalist voice, and the way she sings. Dreadfull. And why english Suteki da Ne? It’s my favourite FF song, but it just sounds strange here. Maybe because I used to japanese version. Or maybe because they translated everything except "Suteki da ne". It sounds odd.

Overall, not bad album as a whole, but I pass on it. I have most of those songs already, and for one Jenova I won’t pay 10 bucks. Thanks to Distant Worlds for streaming option though:).

http://www.sendspace.com/file/tdog7y Pdf booklet.

There was a sequel?!?!

YAY!!!!

Concert in Vancouver was AMAZING!

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Size: 140MB
Bitrate: 320kbps
Uploaded By: Deviant Reaper
Release Date: May 01, 2010
Publish Format: Commercial
Release Price: Unknown
Media Format: CD
Classification: Arrangement
Published by: AWR Records
Composed by: Nobuo Uematsu / 植松伸夫

The tracks you uploaded are missing seconds in the beginning…just letting you know… 🙂

^That’s cause it’s a rip from the streaming rather than a bought 320 mp3 version. Here it is for everyone http://www.sendspace.com/file/01c3g6

ahhh shit….

my apologies people… i have the stream rip, bought mp3 320k and FLAC all on my desktop. bought mp3 and stream rip have almost identical file names.
I feel so stupid right now 🙁 I’m re-uploading the bought 320k as i write this!

please forgive me 🙁 was an honest mistake.

EDIT:
Re-uploaded the proper 320k release on RS/MU/HF!

enjoy

thanks a lot deviant

Indeed it’s cheap as hell, but it’s more of the same. Most of it we heard before. FF has tons and tons of music to arrange, but they still selling us the same thing. I don’t like that approach to fan and a customer: "BRAND NEW! THREE cues never published before! Buy it U music loving idiot, next time we will give you one more, for a full prize":/.

New tracks aren’t that good – Dancing Mad is mediocre at best, especially middle part (as Finalfantim noticed, there are some tempo problems). And I actually had hopes for an orchestral arrange (like the one by Jeremy Robson:)) of whole thing, here it’s basically original version performed live… Jenova is quite cool though and I like Prelude here. It was also nice to hear Prima Vista Theme:).

As for songs, Melodies of Life sounds horrible. I hate the vocalist voice, and the way she sings. Dreadfull. And why english Suteki da Ne? It’s my favourite FF song, but it just sounds strange here. Maybe because I used to japanese version. Or maybe because they translated everything except "Suteki da ne". It sounds odd.

Overall, not bad album as a whole, but I pass on it. I have most of those songs already, and for one Jenova I won’t pay 10 bucks. Thanks to Distant Worlds for streaming option though:).

I wholeheartedly agree with everything you said. I will not be buying this.

This version of Dancing Mad is watered down at best and is devoid of the power and epic sound it deserves. I hope they bring back Shiro Hamaguchi to orchestrate in future productions as his orchestrations dominate the album’s tracklist and they just sound better. He is the best choice to arrange Uematsu’s music and truly get it right.

This version of Dancing Mad is watered down at best and is devoid of the power and epic sound it deserves. I hope they bring back Shiro Hamaguchi to orchestrate in future productions as his orchestrations dominate the album’s tracklist and they just sound better. He is the best choice to arrange Uematsu’s music and truly get it right.

I agree, Shiro Hamaguchi’s arrangements are the best. I enjoyed Dancing Mad mostly because I really didn’t care for the original in-game version, and this version was just somehow more appealing, although it could’ve been better.

The other songs I’ve heard a lot of in other concert releases, Voices, More Friends, etc, although a studio released version is always a bonus and better quality. The beat seemed a bit off in a few songs, but nothing I didn’t get used to after listening to it a few times.

I have mixed feelings about Susan Calloway’s vocals. I enjoyed it in Distant Worlds (the song) more so with her than the original singer mostly because her’s was easier to understand and her voice was pretty suited to the powerful nature of Distant Worlds. Her Melodies of Life was a little too rock’n roll for me, especially since Emiko Shiratori has such a beautiful and fitting voice for it, being more a soft ballad and whatnot.

Her Suteki Da Ne was good for people who can’t stand Rikki. Personally I grew to like Rikki’s voice but Susan Calloway’s voice fit it reasonably. What I couldn’t stand about the song was the lyrics. It was cheesy when translated, although I give them credit for keeping it as genuine to the original Japanese as possible. But unfortunately I can’t stand the way she sings "Suteki Da Ne." I don’t know of a better method for how they could’ve replaced the "suteki da ne" part to make the song sound better, but the way it is right now in the song sounds horrible, and doesn’t even sound like Japanese anymore. They manage to make the Korean version sound nice translated, I wish they could’ve done it with the English.

Ultimately I’ll probably end up buying the FLAC anyways, since its so cheap. 10 bucks was what I paid for just for parking at the Distant Worlds concert last year, so its nothing.

ahhh shit….

my apologies people… i have the stream rip, bought mp3 320k and FLAC all on my desktop. bought mp3 and stream rip have almost identical file names.
I feel so stupid right now 🙁 I’m re-uploading the bought 320k as i write this!

please forgive me 🙁 was an honest mistake.

EDIT:
Re-uploaded the proper 320k release on RS/MU/HF!

enjoy

Haha no problem, thats why i brought it up…not to bash or anything, just to clarify. I had my suspicion that it was a streaming rip 🙂
But does no one notice the annoying clicking and popping in Prelude? I hope its not in the lossless FLAC

Haha no problem, thats why i brought it up…not to bash or anything, just to clarify. I had my suspicion that it was a streaming rip 🙂
But does no one notice the annoying clicking and popping in Prelude? I hope its not in the lossless FLAC

It doesn’t seem as bad in the reupload, did you download it?

This is the best orchestral release I’ve heard from Sqeenix. The vocal tracks have improved dramatically in my opinion. (not a big fan of japanese vocals) And yes, this album does have a bigger momentum, they aren’t a track collection.
Thank you so much for posting this!

I think people are being quite harsh on this album. o.O I’m enjoying it quite a bit. It’s not as good as it’s predecessor that’s for sure… and I wish there were a better selection of songs too.

But all in all… quite enjoyable experience on my end.

I think people are being quite harsh on this album. o.O I’m enjoying it quite a bit. It’s not as good as it’s predecessor that’s for sure… and I wish there were a better selection of songs too.

But all in all… quite enjoyable experience on my end.

Yea i know…its because of the expectation i think. I waited for this album since the announcement so…my expectations were pretty high.

But i agree, its a real good album and its rather cheap. I also love the vocals of Susan Calloway…there’s absolutly nothing wrong with that voice…Its only a shame Kiss Me Goodbye wasnt on the list….ah well, they need tracks for DWIII right 😉

Yea i know…its because of the expectation i think. I waited for this album since the announcement so…my expectations were pretty high.

But i agree, its a real good album and its rather cheap. I also love the vocals of Susan Calloway…there’s absolutly nothing wrong with that voice…Its only a shame Kiss Me Goodbye wasnt on the list….ah well, they need tracks for DWIII right 😉
Yeah well Kiss Me Goodbye doesn’t need to be on there because it already exists in English and Japanese and there is no way in hell ANYONE could possibly improve on Angela Aki’s own versions. If you are looking for flac versions I may be able to help you on that part.

Yeah well Kiss Me Goodbye doesn’t need to be on there because it already exists in English and Japanese and there is no way in hell ANYONE could possibly improve on Angela Aki’s own versions. If you are looking for flac versions I may be able to help you on that part.

First i said the same thing as you…
This clip made me think differently:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3DXM75CiSc

Id rather have Kiss Me Goodbye instead of Prima Vista or Dear Friends to be honest 🙂
But as i said…there should be tracks left for DWIII

First i said the same thing as you…
This clip made me think differently:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3DXM75CiSc

Id rather have Kiss Me Goodbye instead of Prima Vista or Dear Friends to be honest 🙂
But as i said…there should be tracks left for DWIII
Not even close. Then again I’m a fanatic of a fan for Angela Aki. This just sounds wrong. Most of the other singers of major vocal songs on Final Fantasy games I don’t listen to their other work outside the game. Now orchestral version of Kiss Me Goodbye on a Distant Worlds album would be very nice but only if they got Angela Aki. I can understand why they have to use this other singer because she is touring with them for purposes of the live shows but doesn’t mean I would support it.

I have a few other songs I wanna hear in DWIII. 🙂 Force your way from FF8 is one of my fav Boss themes… would love to hear DW do it! >.<

I actually screamed when I saw the thread title…

Is that sad?

Downloading now.. thanks for the links. I hope it’s good, but seriously, what the hell, 70% of the tracks are same as DW1?

OH MAN! YOU ROCK BUDDY!

Does anyone have the original of this?

This version of Dancing Mad is watered down at best and is devoid of the power and epic sound it deserves. I hope they bring back Shiro Hamaguchi to orchestrate in future productions as his orchestrations dominate the album’s tracklist and they just sound better. He is the best choice to arrange Uematsu’s music and truly get it right.

Guess I’ll jump on this boat too. I had the chance to see Distant Worlds II in Chicago back in November, I believe it was. It was an amazing experience, but I was deeply saddened when my favorite song, Dancing Mad, was played. It felt like a hollow version of the original. It had no spirit, and it was cut down way too much. Really depressing.

Though it was epic when Uematsu jumped on stage to play One-Winged Angel. His sound was fucked up on keyboard, so after the show ended, they all came back out and played it again. I thought it would be overkill, but I was wrong. Listening to that song live is beyond words.

I amanged to find the original one online. These concerts are awesome!

How come they dont have all the music from the concerts released? I checked the Wiki and they recorded more music for the first two concerts than is on these two CDs?

I amanged to find the original one online. These concerts are awesome!

How come they dont have all the music from the concerts released? I checked the Wiki and they recorded more music for the first two concerts than is on these two CDs?

Expect those on Distant Worlds III.

Lossless FLAC version (thanks to seraphiel0) (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1473606&postcount=7862)

BTW I’m curious, how are you guys playing the flac version? I usually use VLC but would like to confirm this works, since I know flac sometimes is screwy on VLC.

Winamp works perfectly for FLAC, but to play this particular album at full quality you have to have a sound card capable of 24 bit, 88.2 kHz, and then you have to go into Winamp’s preferences menu under playback and enable it to output in 24 bit.

This album is weak compared to the first one, the orchestration is horrible, Terra’s Theme is so blend like midi

Lossless FLAC version (thanks to seraphiel0) (http://forums.ffshrine.org/showpost.php?p=1473606&postcount=7862)

AWESOME!

Thanks a lot for the 88khz version !
Good album, a bit disappointed by Dancing Mad… the last part of this song was more epic by the Black Mages in my opinion, and I wish a place to call home was Instrumental, crappy vocals and lyrics spoiled a good melody… But the prelude is trippy, Terra’s theme and The Man with the Machine Gun are better than ever, JENOVA feels like a spy theme when played this way, kinda cool, and at last there’s a good version of zanarkand without vocals.

yay; thanks for uploading these music ^^

Yes thanks a bunch!

Oh dear god. A fully orchestral version of Dancing Mad with Ominous Latin Chanting and Ominous Pipe Organs?!

I came.

Thank you. Thank you SO MUCH.

Agreed. Thanks for the upload!

Thank you for uploading this beauty

thx