Geinō Yamashirogumi ~ Symphonic Suite AKIRA 2002 (lossless 4.1 and stereo)

Here it is, exactly nine years after its release (2002-03-21). As it seems, the first rip ever …

Geinō Yamashirogumi ~ Symphonic Suite Akira 2002 (ver. 1.01)

Composed and conducted by Ōhashi Tsutomu in 1987.

The 4.1 multichannel audio content was ripped from the original DVD-Audio (VIAL-60001) and has been meticulously corrected.

tracklist

01 � 3:43 � Kaneda
02 � 3:35 � Battle Against The Clowns
03 � 3:22 � Winds Over Neo-Tokyo
04 � 3:28 � Tetsuo: The Theme of Tetsuo � Special Patterns
05 � 1:36 � Tetsuo: The Theme of Tetsuo II � Awakening I, II
06 � 3:12 � Tetsuo: Awakening III � Meditation
07 � 1:59 � Tetsuo: Coda
08 � 2:56 � Dolls’ Polyphony
09 � 2:47 � Shohmyoh: Kongohkaigobutsushingon � Shihosan
10 � 3:18 � Shohmyoh: Shiharamitsusan
11 � 4:03 � Shohmyoh: Shohgondarani
12 � 5:21 � Mutation
13 � 3:20 � Exodus From The Underground Fortress / Kei and Kaneda Escape
14 � 6:33 � Illusion: Netori � Notto � Issei � Nanori
15 � 4:45 � Illusion: Iroe � Tetsuo’s Statement
16 � 2:48 � Illusion: Prayer
17 � 4:16 � Requiem: Prologue � Requiem Aeternam � Vocalise
18 � 4:16 � Requiem: Invention � Toccata
19 � 6:00 � Requiem: Shu � Recollections of Festival � Rest in Peace

Those familiar with the music will notice that some of the pieces are longer than those on the original album, so you can also call this an "expanded" release. (On the other hand some tracks are slightly shorter.) Four pieces were divided for the DVD-A version, so there are slight pauses and fade-outs here and there … In two cases I edited them back together again (tracks 5/6 and 18/19). In other cases this was either not possible or not necessary.

On the whole, this version has different sound, extended running time (71:11) and lacks the introductory sound effects heard on the original album.

A personal recommendation: Go for my Symphonic Suite Akira 2019 (Thread 227826) which uses this rather boomy release drenched in reverb as enrichment for the original album. I find it to be superior.

4.1 | 24 bit | 96000 Hz | FLAC | 2.79 GB

get in touch (http://forums.ffshrine.org/private.php?do=newpm&u=522664)

Thanks for this… but on Megaupload files of this size require you to be a Premium member.

all fixed… *whistles*
Really nice. Very nice!
Mortified, stupefied. By you.

Nice to have both the 24 and the 16 bit.

done.

rasera rasera raserase rasera…

Awesome soundtrack and a only one of it’s kind.

Wow, I so need this. Waiting for update…

been searching my thread for a while in the film music section …
thanks for moving the thread to the correct board. 🙂

glad to see so much interest. I also like this album and regard it as high art.

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You did a tremendous job here, sinus. Thanks for your great effort.

Thanks for your kind words! 🙂

Thanks a lot for all your hard work. 🙂

Very much appreciated.

3.19 GB for a single disc….this is the Manhattan project of music.

Anyone have any hi-res artwork for this?

Hello, I want to know ? The Original CD Version here, is this the 1988 version or a japanese reissue 1994 please ?

Thanks sinus. I’ll try posting again once i get a chance to listen to the 4.1 on my 5.1

Hello, I want to know ? The Original CD Version here, is this the 1988 version or a Japanese reissue 1994 please ?
I never seen a 1988 rip of the cd or vinyl. is there anything different about those?

also here’s a link to the 1990 JVC version released in the states. if you need it.
Thread 76915

Hello, I want to know ? The Original CD Version here, is this the 1988 version or a japanese reissue 1994 please ?

I wondered, too.

It’s from a torrent I downloaded, complete with log files.

Thanks for this.

Thanks sinus. I’ll try posting again once i get a chance to listen to the 4.1 on my 5.1

I never seen a 1988 rip of the cd or vinyl. is there anything different about those?

also here’s a link to the 1990 JVC version released in the states. if you need it.
Thread 76915

Absolutely not, but the audio quality depends sometimes of a reissue release …

I’m sure I’m gonna miss the thunder & effects at the beginning of Kaneda. But I’m dying to hear it!
Great work sinus!

Thanks sinus. I’ll try posting again once i get a chance to listen to the 4.1 on my 5.1
Would love any kind of feedback! 🙂

I never seen a 1988 rip of the cd or vinyl. is there anything different about those?
Maybe the 1994 version is from a remaster series. CDjapan lists several releases by Geinoh Yamashirogumi with the exact same date. The CD album version I offer for download shows some clipping – maybe the 1988 version is even better!? 🙂

I’m sure I’m gonna miss the thunder & effects at the beginning of Kaneda. But I’m dying to hear it!
Great work sinus!
Thanks! And tell me what you think!

Mortified, stupefied. By you.
I’m so sorry! 😉

Okay, I’ve seen this thread for earlier but kept skipping over it. I hate being a nit, but am I to understand that this is not, in fact, a symphonic suite at all; that is, either an official, concert arrangement of the music ((similar to the normal CD release,) or a fan made product combining tracks to simulate a concert version, but is the exact opposite of a symphonic suite, that is, a very polished DVD rip.
Sorry for the long sentence,
JonC

Of course this is a DVD rip, but not from selected channels of a DVD-Video to omit dialogue and sound effects but a DVD-Audio rip. It’s a "DVD rip" of a music DVD as a "CD rip" is a rip of a music CD.

The Symphonic Suite AKIRA 2002 is an updated version to the original album from 1988.

I don’t know what you think "Symphonic Suite" means, but several soundtrack releases from Japan bear this title – I think, a way of saying: This is the real thing: no SFX or dialogue. (correct me if I’m wrong)

Just to further clarify things: This is from a genuine album I have in my possession. It’s the only "pure" DVD-A I have (no DVD-V part). I bought it 3-4 years ago. The current amazon (B00005S7GM) price is steep to say the least.

My apologies if I sound harsh. The real fault here are the publishers. The Japanese invented the term symphonic suite, and used them to distinguish from BGMs, that is, albums using the actual music from the film (or TV show.) That this was labeled a symphonic suite is just… contrary.
I’ll shut up now,
JonC

My god this is EPIC!!!

My apologies if I sound harsh. The real fault here are the publishers. The Japanese invented the term symphonic suite, and used them to distinguish from BGMs, that is, albums using the actual music from the film (or TV show.) That this was labeled a symphonic suite is just… contrary.
I’ll shut up now,
JonC

no problem. 😉
and thanks for the info!

🙂

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_%28film%29#Soundtrack) says that it contains re-recorded music so the title Symphonic Suite should be right. 🙂

Here’s a little documentary I found … it’s from the US LE DVD I think

YouTube – Akira ( (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdSjCBUg8yY)
YouTube – Akira ( (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuQH84IfJKg)

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… and by surfing youtube I found a Kaneda-with-Lyrics video which translates some of the words as "Festival", so I was wrong with guessing Fate instead of Fete/Festival. (I corrected the opening post, you may correct your file)

This is awesome, thanks a lot!

Anyone have any hi-res artwork for this?

PDF cover (http://www.scribd.com/doc/54703457/Symphonic-Suite-AKIRA-2002-Geinoh-Yamashirogumi)
I recreated the original cover with Inkscape. Vectorized a bitmap of the Geinoh Yamashirogumi logo and set the text with Palatino which seems to be quite near to the original.

Thanks sinus.

So if I already have the OST for akira in lossless format, is this any different?

Yeah, please read the previous posts.

Well, it is not a symphonic suite; in order to qualify as such it would have to be a) symphonic, and b) a suite. That, I suspect, is why JonC is commenting.

The album was officially released with this title; presumably whoever titled it was in the traditionally Japanese frame of mind where throwing in random English makes whatever you’re selling into a super-cool commodity.

The term "symphonic suite" when applied correctly, refers to a piece of music performed by a modern symphony orchestra – which has been written with symphonic structure in mind (form, melodic integration, etc).

Anything else is just mindlessly using words with no thought to the expectations they convey or the implications they make.

Would it be possible to get an ISO Image of the DVD-A ?

do you have dvd-audio capable equipment or just a regular dvd player?
as this is a pure dvd-a without dvd-v part …

Yup, i’ve got a sweet home theater.
No need to say that if you want me to upload something in exchange for this, you just have to name it and i’ll do what i can to get it for you (especially if it’s vgm).

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Awesome, just awesome. Thanks !

sinus: Thank you very much. Great share!

My god…the price on this thing!! I am so ashamed to download this for free :zillayay:
thank you kind sir :zillawalk:

I don’t understand… i got a sweet 5.1 set up… My CD DTS are running sweet from my computer using Foobar. but when i play these tracks I just have simple st�r�o, no 4.1…

Any ideas?

share some details, plug-ins. which version is it you’re playing?

Windows XP pro foobar v0.9.6.8, didn’t add any plug in.
My spdif is ON (bitstream with MKV or divX hd and DTS CD are OK…), I’ve got no 5.1 problems exept these FLACs (just tried to put a DTS CD, works fine, played a .DTS file from my computer, works fine…)…

Anyway, thanks for trying to help me!

Edit : tried to update foobar, no results…

Edit 2 : It’s probably foobar not doing a DTS downmix of the FLACs in question. I managed to output front channels only, not 4.1. Maybe a SPDIF is not enough for outputting 5.1 flac in lossless. I need a dts downmix (from the files or from a program…) or an HDMI output for audio… Damned, I’m depressed!!

so you downloaded the 5.1 flac version i take it? (first entry in opening post)

what does foobar show in its status display when playing?

make sure you don’t have any DSPs enabled (such as "convert 5.1 to stereo").
[preferences -> playback -> DSP manager]

I took the 4.1 version (first in the list)… I checked the dsp in foober, no one is active.

What do you use for those FLACs… Optical cable? HDMI? HD amp?

Foobar detect FLAC 6channels.

I’m pretty sure it’s a bandwitch problem with spdif. And I don’t know how to force DTS downmix with foobar…

I use optical cable but I’m a stereo man and have no 5.1 setup. But you’re right of course: 5.1 PCM (not FLAC as it gets decoded before transmission) is simply not possible with SPDIF. And I think the stereo signal you get is not a downmix but the two front channels.

I don’t think there’s a real-time DTS conversion plug-in for foobar. So you’d either have to change the interface (HDMI) or use a stand-alone DTS converter.

eac3to should do the job. i fiddled around with it and the akira files but my time is tight as of now …

No problem, I’m a bit tired of finding a f**king GUI version of eac3to… Will do with the great stereo version for the moment, will try when I will have a HDMi output on my PC!

For now, PC as a stereo drive –> cambridge DAC magic –> Yamaha preamp –> Harman Kardon signature power amp make the noise! But I was curious about the 4.1 version.

Anyway, thanks SINUS!

thanks a lot for this ! I really loved the music from akira, and I’m curious what this album sounds like.

Unlike many other DVD-A-ISOs I can’t play this one with foobar2000 (+"DVD-Audio Decoder and Watermark Detector" aka foo_input_dvda). It shows all the tracks with correct lengths but refuses to actually play them; the console yields many repititions of
Stream parameters not seen; skipping frame.
one or more bad chunks removed from dsp chunk list.

ShaPlayer also skips all tracks; extracting the MLP tracks with DVD-Audio Explorer does not yield playable files; immediately decoding them to wav by it fails.

Do you have an idea what’s going wrong here? Perhaps this is some copy protection doing its work?
By the way, the FLACs sound great 🙂

I noticed that there are some further track groups:
GROUP2:
INFORMATION (BGM使用曲)
EXODUS FROM THE UNDERGROUND FORTRESS (ケイと金田の脱出)
GROUP3:
CREDIT (BGM使用曲)
KANEDA (金田)

Perhaps those tracks are worth to be ripped as FLAC, too?

I’m sorry, I can’t help with that technical problem.
tulala, who requested the image file, seems to have no problem with it and may be of help.

maybe the copy protection was retained … 🙁
didn’t test the image file with foobar …

The other groups just use the same music as the main program (Exodus and Kaneda). No different version or something. 🙂

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Sweet jesus!!! oO

http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/2/fuck-yeah-funny.gif

another update …

The font of the recreated cover was corrected. It’s now Garamond instead of Palatino.

🙂

Thanks for the PM, sinus.

Updated cover looks good. I’m a bit of a perfectionist myself you know.

please ReUp all in FileSonic…

I never seen a 1988 rip of the cd or vinyl. is there anything different about those?
Maybe the 1994 version is from a remaster series. CDjapan lists several releases by Geinoh Yamashirogumi with the exact same date. The CD album version I offer for download shows some clipping – maybe the 1988 version is even better!? :)Until someone brought this thread up, I didn’t realize that there’s an expanded version beyond that 1994 version, which the track listing looks identical to the 1988 version. Anyway, I do have the 1988 version…

Haven’t listened to this one for quite some time already… 😀

Nice!

Well, would you mind uploading? 🙂
Or maybe you could just compare it to my upload …

I thought of scanning it but the gold emblem and words won’t show up properly, that’s why I took a photo instead. I’ll rip it when have the time (and HDD space). FLAC I presume… 🙂

I thought of scanning it but the gold emblem and words won’t show up properly, that’s why I took a photo instead. I’ll rip it when have the time (and HDD space). FLAC I presume… 🙂

My 2002 version also has these gold logo and letters, so I tried to recreate it with this yellow tone in my cover …
Didn’t know the ’88 CD version also had that gold print. I used to have a CD way back with black print. So, it’s very nice to see that original and I’m really looking forward to listen to it in lossless quality and/or compare it to the later versions. 🙂

sinus what the problem with Uploading files …?

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All references have died… sinus, make a good deed… 😉

any chance for 2.0 | 16 bit | 44100 Hz | FLAC | 0.37 GB (original CD version)?
thanks in advance 🙂

Most of them will be up again as soon as the fileserving dust has settled.

Most of them will be up again as soon as the fileserving dust has settled.
nice to know 🙂 thanx!

I’ll re-up some of them today. Mainly the smaller ones. Any particular wishes?

The "original CD" (as requested by DICEY69) will not be re-uploaded. I don’t have that one anymore. Maybe lexwalker will upload his CD.

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4.1 version is online again!

🙂

taken offline for remastering and new stereo downmix, see below.

Over the last weeks I spotted some minor noises in the 4.1 material and removed them. I also optimized silent portions which are now really silent and not just hiss and tiny noises.

As a little bonus, the gap between track 18 and 19 was eliminated (like I have done with tracks 5 and 6 before) and the flow of the original album’s Requiem was restored for this part.

The new version has no additional silent center compability channel to save storage space. Furthermore, the LFE channel is not the usual rumble but also incorporates higher frequencies which technically makes it a center channel. According to FLAC standard, the 5 channels of the new version are 5.0 (not 4.1) which is more or less true in this case.

Using this newly remastered material I made a new stereo downmix version which is now more refined than before. The high-resolution version of that downmix is now 24 bit/48 kHz instead of 24 bit/96 kHz because the original material is 41.1 kHz anyway and when analyzing the spectogram of the multichannel material you can see that is very rare that the higher frequencies are really used.

The download speed is really crap, having trouble downloading the 4.1 version. Is there a time of the day when it’s not so bad? I download a lot of anime posted on zomgupload or what ever it’s called, averages 345KB/ps on my connection, and it handles larger files too. It any good as a file host for big files like these? Just putting it out there.

Yeah please upload to jumbofiles. They never let me down.

just to reassure: download is not lightning speed, but not crawling either, like rs.
thank you, sinus, for the continued work improving this

No offense radliff but I would call 66KB/s crawling.

No offense radliff but I would call 66KB/s crawling.

as would I; I get more than half a meg on concurrent download of three files. no comparison to 30KB/s

All the other parts downloaded fine, but the first one is downloading at 23kb/s and this internet is capable of 4 megs…

I’m also unable to convert the files to V0 for my portable player. What’s the problem? (I’m using foobar2000 which has been fine with all flacs so far…)

I’m also unable to convert the files to V0 for my portable player. What’s the problem? (I’m using foobar2000 which has been fine with all flacs so far…)

Which files do you mean?

Which files do you mean?

regular CD album

During the last weeks’ research and remastering I found two different CD versions of the original Symphonic Suite Akira on the internet. While I’m not entirely sure of their origins, one of them has a better dynamic range. I assume that one is the original version from the 80’s. While there generally is nearly no audible audio quality difference, for example Winds is very different in terms of build-up. Dynamic range is clipped on the ’94 release and the phase is inverted.

Because of some requests for the original CD album version I uploaded them too, untouched (see opening post).
The 4.1 (5.0?) rips (2.79GB total) don’t seem to want to convert for me.

4k1ra – Minus (http://minus.com/mOuF2fWy2/1l)

These^

The 4.1 (5.0?) rips (2.79GB total) don’t seem to want to convert for me.

Well, this request can be answered in multiple ways …

– Did you ever convert multichannel audio to multichannel MP3?

– The only multichannel MP3 format I know about is "MP3 Surround" by Fraunhofer. I don’t think LAME would do the trick.

– Try to be more specific and to not spam this thread. For instance, I’d like to see the converter output error message.

– If you simply want MP3-to-go, take the CDDA version and convert that one to MP3. There should be no problem …

Awesome. Downloading now…

You’re putting quite a lot of effort in this rip! Thank you very much sinus!

simply awesome, thanks so much!

wow never thought of getting the rip of suite version! cus on amazon the price is just… unbelievable.
really appreciate your work sinus, thank you!

well guess what: while listening with different headphones to the stereo downmix I came across even more audio to repair.

the full album download will be restored in some time.

sinus, is this under revision again?

yup. i’m really sorry. just at the moment i was fiddling around with track 12. :).
it’s my left ear. it lost its ability to hear higher frequencies. ^^ so, i have to flip my headphones. 🙂

so far, 13 of the 19 tracks have been repaired, so there’ll be no replacement package – only the whole thing. I’m truly sorry for those who might have to download again …

No problem, sinus, take your time, your hard work is appreciated.

Sorry to double post; but any new on this?

so far, i already uploaded the 4.1 version (yesterday). but i will have a final listening (hopefully today) before publishing it and the stereo version.

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online again. 15 out of 19 tracks were repaired.

Excellent work! You effort is commendable! Thanks!

Hi! Ehm… I would like to send you a PM, but i think I can not…
I would like to ask you if you found something about the Clint Mansell Pi score.
The music he composed, not the album with Aphex Twin etc…
Thanks!

😀

You cannot send PMs unless you have a certain amount of posts … 2 to 5 or something.

And yes, I got hold of the 6-track promo but not the supposedly longer one. Will be one of my next releases. Stay tuned.

Great, thanks.

nvrmnd.

sadly I can not download the files. Minus seems to be in big problems. When I try to download a file the server dos not respond. It seems that they have eliminated the suport for all except image files, and even images have problems acording to the users.
Can you please upload at least the 4.1 version in another server (mediafire) or maybe a torrent file ?
– Is the original DVD-A version in 4.1 or 5.0?
It would be awesome to hear this version. I searched in google and the DVD-A version have desapeared from the market?

I searched in google and the DVD-A version have desapeared from the market?

Just on Amazon Japan Marketplace for ￥ 17,000+… (http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/offer-listing/B00005S7GM/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used)

mote: sinus’ Minus links still work.

the files apear in the link but when I try to download them Chrome says "Error 102 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED): server rejected the conection"
Same with Internet Explorer. I have also tried using several proxies as someone sugested in a thread of minus support, but that doesnt work for me, nor the sugestions of minus support (save link as.., deleting history, cookies,etc.). Some months ago I downloaded a manga from the Hox`s minus folder, but now I cant download fron that very same folder, I attempted downloading random guys files from minus and always the same, the server rejects conection and do not generate the download. Can you download the files? I can see the folder and file icons but the links in them do not work at least for me. In a post from the minus support they sayd that they are abandon file sharing and will remain in image hosting only bussines.

– just wait a day or two and try again, minus is buggy sometimes …
– DVD-A is in 4.1

i have tryed once every day and today finaly it�s downloading with the trick of "downloadin link as". Thanks Mr. sinus

in order to listen it in multichanel in my home system I made a DVD-V version with Dolby Digital 4.1 sound. If someone is interested here are the links.

http://depositfiles.com/files/7kow6khvj
http://depositfiles.com/files/xaibx0lpt

Thanx a lot mote, I’m interested!

You cannot send PMs unless you have a certain amount of posts … 2 to 5 or something.

Thank you for the information. I wanted to PM you, sinus, and it seems that it doesn’t work! My only question is : where are the links to your files.
I can see mote’s ones (thanks again for your job) but can’t find yours… I know, i’m a noob!

Thank you for this!

sinus,

Your 4.1 rip is just perfect! I’ve nothing more to say than you’re great! Thank you again for your fantastic work, it’s quite excellent.

Does this include the music heard during Tetsuo’s and Kei’ battle outside Akira’s sphere shaped container ?

Has anyone though of ripping th audio of The Blu-Ray ?

Hello Sinus,

I’m trying to get in touch with ya in regards to the stereo mix, but I’m unable to PM ya. Thanks for all of your time and effort!

stroll the forum, maybe make another post, wait a little and your messaging capabilities should be enabled …

stroll the forum, maybe make another post, wait a little and your messaging capabilities should be enabled …
I’m assuming it works both ways then? I can’t PM anyone and they can’t PM me?

Sounds like a lot of work has been put into this.
Would love to download and listen to it, but I seem to be missing privileges. 🙁

Watched the movie for the first time 3 days ago. The music had me at Hello; impressive soundtrack. Immediately bought the CD and had Kaneda on replay for about 12 hours straight yesterday. 🙂
The version on my CD has the bike sounds at the beginning, though, and I’ve been trying to find one without them. Downloaded a 4-track Soundtrack I found online, but the intro to Kaneda is the same.

From what I read here, your rip doesn’t have any soundeffects at all(?)
What can I do to get access to this masterpiece?

Beautiful cover, btw!!

You need two posts before you can send Private Messages.

get in touch (http://forums.ffshrine.org/private.php?do=newpm&u=522664)

thank you for sharing these masterpieces!
Akira is my favorite animate movie forever.

Thank you, Mr Salad!

Thank sinus 😉

just a post/bump in anticipation of this, signed up to the forum to send a PM and will have to wait before the privileges are enabled. Trying out a few different DLs of this album tonight as i’m a long time fan but could never get my head around the shrill overdriven treble in some parts. It looks like they’ve rectified that in the DVD-A. Would also be interesting to hear the alleged CD remaster…

So I finally saw this film tonight. The plot is shambolic, the dialogue terrible, and the ending is one of those old typically annoying anime endings. Urgh. How and why is this considered a classic?

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Yes it had high quality animation and was animated to match the voices, which is never done in anime, and I’m not keen on sitting and listening to the soundtrack but I don’t deny it’s affect. But as far as story and dialogue are concerned, bleh. I loved Blade Runner and T2 was the best Terminator film, though T2 had kinda bleh dialogue and an OK story, that film was all about the effects and Robert Patrick as The T-1000, now he was scary. I do recognize that Akira was doing something new, but I cheered when Kaori the ditz got crushed, and I wondered why no one shot Kaneda in the face just to shut up his incessant babbling. Surprised Kei didn’t at least give him a karate chop or two to his throat. Tetsuo was an idiot too. Since the pruny kids said he chose to use his power the way he did it’s not as though the power corrupted his mind to turn him into a jerk. He was always just a spoiled self entitled brat who resented the fact that his best friend was just kindhearted and protected him since he was young. Not as though he couldn’t have done his own damn growing up and defended himself later. Did I mention the shambolic plot and dialogue? The film was too darn long too for it’s story.

Akira for me has strength in aesthetics. Design, direction, style, imagery, and obviously sound. Yes it might lack the plot or script of ghibli films, but so does 95% of anime.

Thanks to sinus for a copy of this. Great mixdown, brilliant copy. Still trying to figure out if i PREFER it to the original. Certainly its easier on the ears and benefits from clarity in the treble where the CD is often slightly distorted or crushed, which i always found tiring. This version is only slightly longer, many improvements in overall sound but tracks like "winds over neo tokyo" (one of my favourites although some people hate it) seem to have lost their sheer musical ENERGY. The mix has simply changed the composition and meaning of the track on a fundamental level. A lot of the time ambient SFX are brought front and centre of the mix while key hooks and melodic instrumentation are drowned out. Otherwise really enjoying it, not a 100% improvement but probably my choice of the two releases.

Thanks for all your hard work Sinus! Much appreciated!

With Sinus permission, here are the files hosted on MEGA

Geinoh Yamashirogumi ~ Akira
4.1-1 https://mega.co.nz/#!4t8jgZqa!IS3axhFy3CxaDPkkrhzmfgheebAqSXzoNCh2bv6 cyoc
4.1-2 https://mega.co.nz/#!c4smmTAS!KmZkpGLsH2nVc35Tv9_4vxHNjigwcc9llYjk5d2 UGDM
4.1-3 https://mega.co.nz/#!h5kGTLrB!RTeYUHAYHDGr45gHB9x0-lyLfAJ0syFwjDF3NjOJl2w
2.0 https://mega.co.nz/#!h5FngZBL!R24poHpdOPhYOFJOehOMN3IHVWwuz4cPEkPtax4 zFIQ
CDDA https://mega.co.nz/#!l81XBKIL!amspTVqzNWfTFmcY_iBei1CUsuw03j2Fy5Fr4vA gbv8

I signed up specifically for this thread. The Akira OST is not just one of my favorite soundtracks, but one of my favorite albums Back in 99/00 after I first saw the movie, with the classic Streamline dub on a vas from Blockbuster I was so addicted I went out to my local music store and had them order me the soundtrack. That CD was one of my genuine treasures for years, and I didn’t even know there was a surround version. I wish I had the set up to listen to it, but this stereo mix is utterly commendable and thanks to your touch I’m hearing sounds I never even knew were in this. I’m not sure this will replace the original as my go-to copy (Sometimes it’s DIFFERENT, not bad, but I have like every tone from the original burned into my brain.)

The farty synths in Battle against the clown were a real treat. The whole thing sounds really refreshed, and the difference in the mix is just enlightening.

TO add my own attempt to help out, I was googling around to see if this album is available on vinyl. Theretically it would have to be a double LP to get the whole thing in. I didn’t find that, but I did find that it has indeed been on wax. Also, because of time constraints I imagine, it’s missing some tracks. What interested me was that there’s a track on it called Ohjifuchi. Does anyone have any clue what that’s about?

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Holy crap, the Tetsuo coda is just THUNDERING. Well done OP. Well freaking done.

Thanks for your input.
This is indeed interesting. My first guess is that Ohjifuchi is one of the pieces otherwise missing or maybe some kind of mini-suite? 🙂

I too signed up just for this thread. Thank you very much for your stereo mixdown version, just listened the entire album and found that the sonic perfection gets into my brain in an interesting magic feeling way – almost a state of meditation.

This is awesome stuff! Thank you!

Thank you so much. Humbled by this discovery…life is wonderful.

thanks very much OG

Does anyone have the link to the DVD ISO? I scoured this post and the only thing available are the FLACS and mix downs. I really want the ISO Rip. Thanks.

Thanks sinus. I’ll try posting again once i get a chance to listen to the 4.1 on my 5.1

I never seen a 1988 rip of the cd or vinyl. is there anything different about those?

also here’s a link to the 1990 JVC version released in the states. if you need it.
Thread 76915

Those are gone.

thanks allot, no idea this even existed

Symphonic Suite Akira 2002

Download from Mediafire SSA 2002 (http://www.mediafire.com/download/sld9g87omyqthj6/SSA_2002.7z)

MP3 S CBR 320Kbps 44Hz 16 bit – Tagged

Re-encoded from 24 bit 48000 Hz FLAC

OP http://forums.ffshrine.org/f91/gein-yamashirogumi-~-symphonic-suite-akira-2002-a-87528/#post1654619

There was a link for regular mp3 but that upload disappeared, so I made this one.

Does anyone have this: http://www.discogs.com/Geinoh-Yamashirogumi-Symphonic-Suite-Akira/release/2142270 ?
There is an unreleased track and that vinyl has a new track. So I am hopeful that is the track I am looking for.

I have this strange luck that my all time favorite tracks from a soundtrack are never released. Armitage III, Generator Gawl, Shin Cutey Honey… to name a few. God Dammit…

I’m at it again. ^^*

While growing dissatified with the lack of musical energy in my downmix, the idea of a two-part downmix series formed.

Part I is true to the DVD-A release which this thread is all about. I revisited the 4.1 material, listened to it very carefully and in the end chose to make a straight downmix. Got rid of the LFE channel and treated front and surround channels equally. It now sounds more balanced and less boomy. As I wrote, this downmix is true to the 2002 release.

Wanna have it? 🙂

get in touch (http://forums.ffshrine.org/private.php?do=newpm&u=522664)

Part II will be a downmix incorporating material from the official CD version. That means its sound will be enriched quite a lot. 🙂
[ Thank you Simon B for the 1988 CD rip. <3 ]

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https://www.discogs.com/Geinoh-Yamashirogumi-Symphonic-Suite-Akira/release/1343229
The original japanese 1988 release, catalogue number VDR-1532

hum :/, do you need this ?

contact me in pm 😉

Wanna have it? 🙂

Of course ! ^^ 😉

I am going to spam a bit in saying there are 2 releases, a single and a LP version with 2 new tracks. Symphonic suite is not the soundtrack… its a symphonic suite. There are amissing tracks, and I am still hoping someone might get those 2 releases and share it. They are pretty damn rare and hard to find. I have not even seen it on youtube or some other video site like nicoudga just to see if those tracks are the missing tracks or not.

hum :/, do you need this ?
Thank you very much! 🙂

I am going to spam a bit in saying there are 2 releases, a single and a LP version with 2 new tracks. Symphonic suite is not the soundtrack… its a symphonic suite. There are amissing tracks, and I am still hoping someone might get those 2 releases and share it. They are pretty damn rare and hard to find. I have not even seen it on youtube or some other video site like nicoudga just to see if those tracks are the missing tracks or not.
Where can we find information about said releases? Discogs only shows a vinyl release with the track Ohjifuchi. As this release only has five tracks: Kaneda, Tetsuo, Ohjifuchi, Exodus From The Underground Fortress, Requiem, the chance may well be that Ohjifuchi is just a suite of the other tracks off the symphonic suite otherwise missing on the LP …

http://vgmdb.net/album/22726
http://vgmdb.net/album/52920

I know someone who does have the single… but refused to rip, saying it had no skills in ripping music. :/

Best guess for the b-side: It could be "Mutation" 🙂

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from the Akira FAQ

AKIRA

Akira

Invitation CD-S: VDRS-1077 (1988.7.16), Y937
2 tracks, 14:00 {Contains a melange of BGM from the movie}
—
1. AKIRA no TE-MA 6:05 [Akira’s theme]
2. Tetsuo no METAMORUFO-ZE 7:56 [Tetsuo’s metamorphosis]
—

maybe "mutation" plus "dolls’ polyphony" … 🙂

we will never know until we get them or listen them in some way

Thank you!

For some reason I can’t see the link for the original post. Can somebody help me? Maybe they were old so got removed. But if so please direct me to another one.

Links received. Great upload bud this and the others thanks very much 🙂

PM Sent. Can’t wait to check this one! 😀

Thanks, link received.

links received
many grateful thanks my friend!!!

nice

(Thread 227826)

Go here (Thread 227826) for my definitive version of Akira. The 2002 version should be considered obsolete and this thread can be regarded as archival.

Might as well close it. 🙂

Thank you very much for sharing your precious movie music.

Thanks a million bro, been looking for this for ages!

Highest Quality Post 🙂