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THANKS!!!!!!!!!

Who are you and...and...and.....OMG!I�m speechless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Holy. Shit. This is... this... THIS IS AMAZING! Thank You So Much!

Thanks ! :D

Dear Vinphonic,

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!

Great list. Would love to see a full Hiroshi Miyagawa (Space Battleship Yamato) List, especially the "Yamato Sound Almanac" series.

Gonna have to bring snacks and set up base camp in this post to study and download this stuff. Thanks for what looks like an INSANE amount of work you put into this post and all the information you've provided. Very excited to dig into this.

this is too awesome, wana download everything, but the links dont seem to be there anymore, any chance of a re-up with torrent with everything.

I tried starting these, but all the links are dead now :( :( :( :( :(

Would love a reup as well...

Thanks for the comments.

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...

Great share, thank you very much

well Mega is not safe anymore....the only chance is sharing by pm, even those sometimes go down......

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.

Ridiculous how much work must've gone into this. When I scrolled down and I saw live-action Tokusatsu scores appear my hope was that the Super Sentai series would appear further down the line and boy YOU DID NOT DISAPPOINT! Shaider, Super Sentai, Gokaiger, ... I've been looking all over for those :) Thanks! OP repped.

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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.

To all who send me PMs, don't worry, I'll figure something out. I don't really like to resort to "PM me for X" and I will try to avoid it if I can. I will notify you when it's done. My slave pc just needs a few days to get everthing ready ;)


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 :D

To all who send me PMs, don't worry, I'll figure something out. I don't really like to resort to "PM me for X" and I will try to avoid it if I can. I will notify you when it's done. My slave pc just needs a few days to get everthing ready ;)


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 :D

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 :)

Links are up again. I let my slave pc upload everything in one go without checking it all, so should there be any corrupt files, please notify me if and what is corrupt and I will update the list. I hope everything works again.

Thank you very much! I guess you should include Taro Iwashiro :)

Whats the password please

thanks but 'legacy" doesn't work

@ TheFountain: Well, these are my personal favorites of course but the ratio of quantity and quality from those eleven is just greater than everyone else composing and recording like they live in the Golden Age of cinema right now. Michiru Oshima alone has several projects all over the world this year, while Taro Iwashiro's work at large can be lackluster at times (with too much electronic drums for my taste) and he scored only a few films, games and anime shows in the last couple of years. I have a separate thread in the works for the neglected masterpieces from Hayato Matsuo, Toshiyuki Watanabe,Taro Iwashiro and Hitoshi Sakimoto.

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

thank you so much

Many thanks for all of your efforts ...

Thanks for the share…

WOW.... This is amazing!!!... GREAT JOB!!!... Thank you so much, Vinphonic!!!... I really, really appreciate your job & time to sharing... Regards!!!... :)

Unbelievable !!!!! Thank u so much for this amazing work

I don't sure if I going to have space in HDD... T_T Thanks for this awesome recopilation!!

I must be missing something, where are the links?

I can't work out how to download anything, either.

Many thanks for this extremely generous and well informed share!

Okay, worked out how to do it, thank you!!!

This is an amazing job !!! Not only the upload but all the information. I can't thank you enough for helping me filling some holes in my japanese collection. Sadly I had to report 3 corrupt files:

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 !!!

What a wonderful, extraordinary upload. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Such an amazing and wonderful post! You are to be commended for all of your hard work!

With the help from RayKay and reppa35 I was able to locate the links that gave some of you corruption reports. I've updated the list with all links. They should all properly work now.

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 corrupted files have been fixed. Thanks Vinphonic. Great job with this share. Keep up the good work.

Grandiose work. Thank you for this. Very kind from you.

Very informative article and thanks for keeping the links alive.

Great selection

Hi KT1 is apparently unavailable.

This is amazing. Tyvm!

I think I said this before in the BAO thread, but this is a truly fantastic collection that will be very useful for anyone who wants to jump into the non-Jpop realm of Japanese media music. As for me, this collection really opened up my eyes to composers I'd neglected before like Hirano and Sato.

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.

http://www.makiwatanabe.net/disco/disco.htm

Good Zeus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a great time to be alive hahaha. Thank you so much!

Does anyone know if there's a workaround Mega's transfer quota limit? Or is it necessary to become a paying subscriber?

@Zipper: I had no idea o_o In that profile shot they looked identical and Iwasaki always has a thing for styling all over so I didn't question it at all...

But nothing that can't be fixed in a minute ;)

thanks!

@Vinphonic, I've found that tracks are missing from Nabari no Ou and The Tatami Galaxy Soundtracks, which are part of the Japanese Pride Legacy. Was it because you deliberately handpicked the best tracks from each and ruled out some others?

Something like that.

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).

Vinphonic, you're a god among men. Thank you.

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.

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.

The Appendix is now up. Take on a journey once more :)

As a Japanophile myself, this is a master work, & fully deserving of an award.

I noticed that at least one of the ZIP files contain different albums that what you listed. For instance, here's what's listed for the fifth Sahashi compilation:


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".

A wonderful collection of symphonic splendour! Thank you for sharing it with us :)

@Beechcott: Yeah, that has to do with a restructuring because all my files got deleted at some point and I did not have backups for everything. So some pictures are not up to date but everything you see is in the new zips so no worries.


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.

Thanks a lot for your new add, the appendix! Really appreciated to share us! :D

I have most of these already, but thank you so much for putting these compilations together. It's also really fun reading through your descriptions!

Can anyone send me Toshiyuki Watanabe and Hayato matsuo works please? Thank you

Here you go (https://mega.nz/#!lyph3YAJ!-rRwaz6BWQS2S_AfT8Jjioukz52p8loe0xrS57dOIMw)

Thank you!

I registered just for this thread :)
But... the link is down again!

I cant seem to download
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

I will put up new links very soon, don't worry.

I will put up new links very soon, don't worry.

Thank you very much

I wonder why this post is not more famous...
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 ;-)

Thank you very much for your kind words :)

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 ;)

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Thank you very much for your kind words :)

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 ;)

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Oh I see, I didn't know about this post. That's perfect !
Thank you so much for this, Vinphonic ! ;-)