Vinphonic
08-14-2015, 07:59 AM
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)
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)