Game Music Concert Series (1991-1995) -Remastered-

By request, from THE BIG ORCHESTRAL ACTION MUSIC THREAD! (Thread 57893)

Game Music Concert Series (1991-1995)
-Remastered-

Excerpts

Toshihiko Sahashi
Super Metroid
Tokyo Symphony Orchestra

PV1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKVHSs5EaZo)

Toshihiko Sahashi
SimCity
Tokyo Memorial Orchestra

PV2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXxxsb-NyQ8)

Kosuke Onozaki
Star Fox
Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra

PV3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyOHn0sUh6E)

It’s now 20 years since the last Orchestral Game Music Concert Series cd has been released in japan. The five albums certainly deserve a little love and attention now and then so I’ve been revisiting those old gems and found the sound to be too flat and muffled in general and decided it’s time for a little "cleaning". I have done a complete remastering of the Game Music Concert Series. I carefully adjusted EQ and reverb to match the concert hall environment and applied "warm" saturation as well as tape simulation. I also did some tricks with virtual mics which may sound odd at first but the results are very pleasing to my ears. In general the sound is more bright, more warm and closer to a soundtrack recording. Everything was done in the highest possible quality, converted from cd to FLAC, edited in FLAC and finally saved as FLAC. THEN I converted it to MP3 V0. First and foremost I did it for my own enjoyment and to suit my preferences but I thought why not share it with you all… Unfortunately my internet is not good enough to upload 1,5 GB at the moment so MP3 will have to do, expect it tomorrow. I will have "much" better internet in september so I could update it in the future.

Game Music Concert 1 (1991)
Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra
-Remastered-

Game Music Concert 2 (1992)
Tokyo Memorial Orchestra
-Remastered-

Game Music Concert 3 (1993)
Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra
-Remastered-

Game Music Concert 4 (1994)
Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
-Remastered-

Game Music Concert 5 (1995)
Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra
-Remastered-

All things considered, they are fantastic orchestral albums and well worth the money. Many famous (and soon to be famous) composers and arrangers worked on this series. Keiichi Oku, Kohei Tanaka, Toshihiko Sahashi, Toshiyuki Watanabe & Yoko Kanno to name just a few. They gave a brilliant tribute to the musical quality of the 8-Bit and 16-Bit Era and showed everyone that melody will always be king, at least in japan. I grew up on a Super Famicom and I remember vividly with a smile how I hummed all the killer themes written for the games of that era for hours. Music played a huge part in my enjoyment of these games and to hear it arranged for a whole symphony orchestra brought me to tears the first time I listened to it. I hunted down the CDs which were quite expensiv even then but my love for the melodies was stronger than my economical reasoning.

Everything is properly tagged: Who arranged, who composed and who conducted. The one fault with the series in my opinion is that Sugiyama’s own symphonic series makes the Dragon Quest pieces feel quite redundant but that’s only a minor complaint.

Also, as a bonus, I remastered the Smash Brothers DX Orchestral Concert, of course with the same attention to quality as the rest, have a listen:

Dairantou Smash Brothers DX Orchestra Concert (2002)
New Japan Philharmonic
-Remastered-

LINK IN DESCRIPTION[FLAC] (https://mega.nz/#!4qh0gKbK!I3W1Ea6Ln0eOVwfzWmg4-pM3jHdAYpp_ZBZNG2koxmg)

Awesome, thanks for sharing! I’ve always loved that most Japanese VGM composers put such emphasis on good melodies, and these arranges are the stuff.

Thank you very much, Vinphonic.

Thanks 🙂

Thank you very much

Thank You! I can’t wait for the flac version of this too! ^^

I do think your remastered version sounds better than the original, which is painful for me to say, since I usually hate everything that has "remastered" in it. lol
But thanks god you didn’t compress it like crazy.
The original were way too quiet and muffled.
You found the perfect balance I think. I still haven’t listened to everything though.
(I even like the way you renamed the tracks lol)

But frankly I can’t wait for the FLAC version! Such quality is wasted on mp3! lol

Pretty pleeeease? 🙂

Thanks a lot! Is it possible for you to remaster this album?:
SCDC-00315 | MARIO & ZELDA BIG BAND LIVE CD – VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/410)

There is bad remastering, where some idiot takes a bunch of plugins and applies them without knowing what he’s doing… and there’s good remastering, when somebody musical takes a delicate, measured approach using knowledge and common sense, to make something genuniely better.

This is a clear case of the latter.

Vinphonic; thank you. I actually started doing these myself but the number of albums, combined with the list of issues I had with them, intimidated me and I ended up quitting it.

Your work is magnificent. 🙂

Thank you so much! So years I’ve been listening to a decades old rip, but this is much better.

Thank you! The only problem I’m having is that the second volume keeps giving me a temporary error and I can’t download it. All the others work fine.

Thanks for this!

Everything has been updated to FLAC. I know it’s been requested numerous times but it’s finally done. Enjoy to your hearts content 🙂

Thank you very much!

This is awesome, thanks so much!

Does anyone know if a recording exists of the first Symphonic Game Music Concert in Germany, in which a suite of Jeremy Soule’s work for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was performed?

EPIC!!!! No word!!!

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TY very much for the FLAC!

Finally got around to comparing the original versions to your "remastered" versions and have to admit it’s pretty impressive.

I (like others) am someone who prefers the original versions of something, but this genuinely sounds better (to my ears as well). It makes the recordings feel like they’re not as old or flat. Great job and thanks for sharing your hard work.

(for reference, I compared "Palace Minuet" and "Red Wings")

Thank you very much. I’ve been looking for this albums a long time. Well done!!!

ah rock on, this is awesome! Great work!

Thanks!

Thank you!

Darn it, the links are down. Any chance on a re-up? Thanks.

Thanks for the upload, but all the links ae down, please re-up (:

reupload please!

Up again. Let’s see how long it lasts. Enjoy 🙂

Fantastic Vinphonic. This is a combined upload of all 6 albums. And I got it super-fast. Mega is badass… and so are you !

I’m looking forward to hearing your remastering skills. 🙂

Thanks 🙂

Still working out why after five years of nothing happening, suddenly all my links got reported/deleted and all my threads rated terrible. That’s almost too clever for a bot but I just can’t imagine anyone would be this malicious. Oh well…

Still working out why after five years of nothing happening, suddenly all my links got reported/deleted and all my threads rated terrible. That’s almost too clever for a bot but I just can’t imagine anyone would be this malicious. Oh well…

It’s happened to a lot of people here recently (the past few months). No one can quite tell whether it’s a bot or a person with too much time on his hands.

Does anyone know if a recording exists of the first Symphonic Game Music Concert in Germany, in which a suite of Jeremy Soule’s work for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was performed?

Lol, I don’t know why I posted this here of all places. I guess I was too ignorant then to realize that they’re two completely different things. 😛

I want to comment on the bang up job done by Vinphonic. It’s like he produced a brand new official release of these albums, so professionally done and crisp and clear and powerful the sound has become, the only small issue I have are the awkward fade outs on occasion in an attempt to cut out the applause, but that may be because I tend to notice such things (OCD listener).

Again, much appreciated.

Down again, could we get another re-up?

reupload please!

New Link is up.

thanks

Dude, you fixed the cut-off at the end of the star fox track! That has been the bane of VGM collectors for 20 years! Way to go!

PS. does the mp3 version still exist?

I usually don’t like fanmade remasters very much, but these were beautifully crafted.

Much appreciated!

Thank you so much for doing this!

Thank you for this remaster! Is there a mp3 link anywhere?

Thanks, lovely!

Thank you for this remaster! Is there a mp3 link anywhere?

It looks like the original MP3 upload disappeared.

For anyone interested, here’s an MP3 conversion I made from the original FLAC files:

MEGA (https://mega.nz/#!a6xWkQgA!m8gMFsAPK0-dd-V2mSL260gJRvC_DNHEclctNrwH1CM)

Please note that I take no credit for this. All credit belongs to Vinphonic for their hard work!