MartyMcflies
10-27-2015, 07:24 AM
Kinda surprised to see that there hasn't been a thread created to keep track of the "Hi-Tech Series" albums, so I'll create one here.
Brief summary for those of you who don't know what it is (according to Orie):
Back when the Digital Trip Synthesizer Fantasy albums were being made in the 80s, Animage also tried to make remix albums of various
Japanese anime works similar to what some of the Digital Trip albums were doing; these albums were known as "HI-TECH SERIES" albums. Unlike
the Digital Trip albums, where they were also making original albums based off of manga as well, Hi-Tech albums were only focused on anime. Sadly,
I don't have a complete list of which albums were released in this label...but I do know that most of the 80s OSTs made by Joe Hisaishi (except for Venus Wars)
had a Hi-Tech album. This includes the Ghibli OSTs made by him as well
Unfortunately, this label didn't last long in Japan and died out quickly since it wasn't very well-received. The only albums in the series that
got a re-release on CD were Joe Hisaishi's Ghibli works and some other albums (Magical Emi, GeGeGe no Kitaro, and Arion, to name a few).
The rest have yet to be released on CD...
So far, here are the current Hi-Tech albums I know of that have also yet to be released publicly on the internet:
-Arion
-CAT'S EYE
-GeGeGe no Kitaro
-Orguss
-Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross
That's about it, I guess. If anybody has a complete list of the albums in the series to keep track of which ones have/haven't been uploaded here,
it'd be nice to post the list here.
Anyways, I'll start off by uploading my copy of an album in this series that hasn't been released on CD yet:

Holmes Hi-Tech
Ripped by me in FLAC
https://mega.nz/#F!70Ei2C4C!9sfMiEINl9RRcqFFwFd5yQ
Includes remix tracks of several songs from the TV show and the short film versions.
Brief summary for those of you who don't know what it is (according to Orie):
Back when the Digital Trip Synthesizer Fantasy albums were being made in the 80s, Animage also tried to make remix albums of various
Japanese anime works similar to what some of the Digital Trip albums were doing; these albums were known as "HI-TECH SERIES" albums. Unlike
the Digital Trip albums, where they were also making original albums based off of manga as well, Hi-Tech albums were only focused on anime. Sadly,
I don't have a complete list of which albums were released in this label...but I do know that most of the 80s OSTs made by Joe Hisaishi (except for Venus Wars)
had a Hi-Tech album. This includes the Ghibli OSTs made by him as well
Unfortunately, this label didn't last long in Japan and died out quickly since it wasn't very well-received. The only albums in the series that
got a re-release on CD were Joe Hisaishi's Ghibli works and some other albums (Magical Emi, GeGeGe no Kitaro, and Arion, to name a few).
The rest have yet to be released on CD...
So far, here are the current Hi-Tech albums I know of that have also yet to be released publicly on the internet:
-Arion
-CAT'S EYE
-GeGeGe no Kitaro
-Orguss
-Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross
That's about it, I guess. If anybody has a complete list of the albums in the series to keep track of which ones have/haven't been uploaded here,
it'd be nice to post the list here.
Anyways, I'll start off by uploading my copy of an album in this series that hasn't been released on CD yet:

Holmes Hi-Tech
Ripped by me in FLAC
https://mega.nz/#F!70Ei2C4C!9sfMiEINl9RRcqFFwFd5yQ
Includes remix tracks of several songs from the TV show and the short film versions.