I think (and I hope) I have thanked you for some of these shares as you’ve previously made them available elsewhere. This dedicated thread, however, not only gives your extraordinary collection its proper platform to reach a wider audience in the forum, but also provides me with another opportunity to express my deep gratitude to you. With the exception of Joe Hisaishi, I ignored the output of these Japanese composers (and I largely confined my Hisaishi listening to his Ghibli work). However, your guided tours through these composers have been an inspirational introduction! I hope your efforts (and these composers) are discovered by others, because there is a bewildering amount of joy to be found here 🙂
Thank you for the introduction, the education, and all the glorious music!
Last time I checked I didn’t violate any forum rules. The stuff I present here I have shared in parts elsewhere without complaint and 99% of individuals scores have been shared before or are still shared in mp3 on this very forum. And Star Wars and Indiana Jones shouldn’t violate anything.
Wow, they even reported Gravity Daze 2. And while they (he/she?) are/is at it, they have reported every thread I ever started. Even the ones from over four years back!!! Great 🙁
Whoever is responsible for this, I know we all are moving along the grey area of legality and technically every share on this forum should be reported but let me tell you its absolutely ridiculous that you have reported a download link for a freaking cover art!!! you infantile malicious person/people/bot.
It will take time to get everything fixed. Until then you can already check out various soundtracks for yourself, for most there’s still a way to buy them from iTunes, amazon, ebay or CDJapan / and if you’re out of money theres numerous places on the internet to get them. And hey, it’s not like they can ban my words too…
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Well, considering all of my shares lasted five years on MEGA, which in filesharing terms is an eternity, I would say it was pretty safe for me. But it’s about time I no longer share openly. I just never had any reason to… until today of course.
Only now did I notice everything’s down. Such a pity. Thank you for your previous efforts though.
Trivia: I actually thought there was a limit to how long your post can be. Kinda surprised it turned out there really isn’t one 😀
Trivia: I actually thought there was a limit to how long your post can be. Kinda surprised it turned out there really isn’t one 😀
Not to sound ungratefull, could you pretty please make a torrent that includes everything, i would like to download everything in one go, and the risk of links being deleted goes away as well. soo much to listen to 🙂
What took me years and years of research and compiling I hope I can bring to the world with just a few clicks, to the benefit of us all. The more composers discover and experience this level of quality and wonder, the better for our profession. We have an oversaturation of people who take after Zimmer anyway, so I think its time we look what other composers do on the other side of the world and take our media music back to the standard of the 70s and 80s.
To all: The password is Legacy with a capital L
Kohei Tanaka — KT1 – Vigor and Valor
Kosuye Yamashita — Part I – Universe
Toishihiko Sahashi — TS3 – Classicalventures
I’ve downloaded each one 4 times with the same result, when unzipping the files, it stops with the corrupt file message.
Thanks again !!!
The next big thread with Japanese composers I quite love but that didn’t make it in the absolute top list is in conception (I started the project three years ago and it might finally be ready this month), their music deserves to be heared just as much.
The only nitpick I have is that the picture you are using for the Iwasaki collage is not actually him- that’s a young American jazz singer who happens to share the same name.
Does anyone know if there’s a workaround Mega’s transfer quota limit? Or is it necessary to become a paying subscriber?
But nothing that can’t be fixed in a minute 😉
I should put a disclaimer upfront that these are not fulfilling all of the criteria of a discography but instead function more along the lines of a "Best Of" collection. You can still discover more music beyond the Legacy collection from every artist if you so desire. Of course, buying their CDs (soundtracks and solo albums) is always recommended, especially for a relativly niche market in which they craft their music, even if it is available in better format online 😉
I approached the entire project from a film music mindset in the sense that what is missing (from those two specific albums in particular) is most often pop songs or tracks not by the specified composer that don’t match or hurt the "flow" of the album. Since the project was done over several years I have no exact memory what I changed for each specific album but I’ve put much work into selecting and arranging the albums, putting tracks in "more sensical order" so that they flow like a film music soundtrack or concert work CD and choosing carefully what track should or should not stay in the folder. For easy references I included the name of composer as well as arranger and orchestrator if necessary and put some pictures as bonus for easy identification. I’ve also done some musical arrangement work or editing of my own. For example Kohei Tanaka’s Gravity Daze is my own audio engineering effort for fixing the "not-good" presentation of the music on the official release. Or Yoko Kanno’s collection… the original soundtracks are a mix of numerous genres that don’t exactly flow well together but if you put the orchestral pieces one after the other you get a symphonique tour de force that can easily compete with the very best film scores of Hollywood and early cinema. All to serve the purpose of presenting the music, the score and the composer in the best light possible. (Incase some of my overly enthusiastic descriptions are not giving it away) They are just as much a celebration of their work as they function as a musical archieve. The more people fall in love with their music, the better place our world will become.
Which reminds me to put the appendix up soon. I’m still deciding if I release everything at once again or gradually expand it (since some are not quite finished).
I appreciate that with all honesty. It was thanks to you I came across a rare occasion of being introduced to a new area of music I never thought that would awake something in me.
Part V – Toshihiko’s Tokusatsu
The Super 8 Ultra Brothers remains my favorite Tokusatsu score of his, it doesn�t get more epic than this one. Kind of what the Avengers should have sounded like. A great Superhero score all around, again with two major themes, one bold and heroic theme to lift up your spirit and a lofty and encouraging theme to make you fly. I really think Sahashi takes after Horner�s philosophy of a maximum of three primary themes in a film score, two being the ideal.
From all the Ultraman TV scores I think Gaia takes the spotlight. Like Mebius it�s full of western references like Top Gun but also manages to incorporate quite a lot of classic Hollywood style. For the Gaia movie he even incorporates previous famous Ultraman themes for a rousing climax. His �Battle in Hyperspace theme� as well as his �Photon power theme� being an excellent fun ride. Also some trivia: Mitsuda’s NHK Comet Theme sounds suspiciously similar to Sahashi’s "Ties of Friendship" from Mebius. Ultra Daikaiju Battle is for all intends and purposes a classic SciFi score where Sahashi�s trademarks appear much stronger than usual.
I personally adore his Gingaman score but objectively speaking it�s not among his best, although there are quite a few stellar orchestral pieces among the wacky and funky ride.
I�m not that positive of his Kamen Rider scores, but Agito takes the cake with its operatic nature, a direct homage to Goldsmith�s Omen, Silvestri�s Back to the Future and Italian Opera.
But the actual ZIP file is missing "The Super 8 Ultra Brothers", "Mebius and the Ultra Brothers", "Great Decisive Battle", and "Agito"; and instead contains the following which aren’t listed in your description: "Tokyo Itsu-Datte", "Legend of Crystania ~The Motion Picture", "Ghost Sweeper Mikami", and "Dinner".
Also thank you all very much!! Took me only like five years but everything great from the current age should be available now.
I could potentially do another appendix of those who did not make the cut (Yugo Kanno, Yasunori Mitsuda & friends)… would take almost no effort since I already made collections for myself… I’ll think about it.
But… the link is down again!
https://anon.click/suyun11 is not working
could you or any else would be so kind to upload this to a torrent or mega, would love to download this entire collection, please anyone.
thank you so much for sharing, i just hope i get to download
Thank you very much
It’s simply the BEST compilation of all the greatest composers (even if I’d add a 1 or 2 more) ! Thank you very much for your hard work gathering all those albums for us !
I’m very grateful for that. Now, I will be able to let my friend discover the greatest japanese’s compositions through one post.
Vinphonic, I think the anon.click domain is dead. So it’d be better to update it so that the links behind can be reachable.
Thank you 😉
I actually made a new thread with some compilations and write-up and put it in a much nicer package. Every artist I compiled here can be reached individually if you scroll down this hub post where I have them listed, with their own thread. I will probably add more if I have enough freetime to work on further compilations but don’t expect them anytime soon. This took me years afterall 😉
I actually made a new thread with some compilations and write-up and put it in a much nicer package. Every artist I compiled here can be reached individually if you scroll down this hub post where I have them listed, with their own thread. I will probably add more if I have enough freetime to work on further compilations but don’t expect them anytime soon. This took me years afterall 😉
Oh I see, I didn’t know about this post. That’s perfect !
Thank you so much for this, Vinphonic ! 😉