Thank you for the new Koshiro... It's lovely to hear a veteran still keeping busy. I do wish they'd given him some actual money for some actual... you know... humans to play this wonderful score... but hey, ho...

No prob, though I think they are live performances, or the jazzy string ensemble stuff is, at least. Maybe my ears are tin, but if it is synth, it's the finest I've ever heard. Koshiro's been all over the place, between this, 7th Dragon and Shinobi, not to mention the retro reissues like Bare Knuckle. It's safe to say one of the greats isn't going anywhere.

All the orchestral stuff is synth... There's real strings in Labyrinth I (gorgeous) and similar tracks... but mostly we're in sample city.

It is extremely well done, though. Ensemble brass is excellent.

Wait till you get to "The Red Stone Forest." It's Kirkhope-alicious.

Rejoice, mofos. Square is finally acknowledging that FFXII exists. (http://www.originalsoundversion.com/piano-collections-final-fantasy-xii-yes-its-finally-happening/) Perhaps a concert will be on the way in the foreseeable future?

Loveliness, Elegance and Nobility Volume 2
A compilation of anime music
47 Tracks | 01:57:48
Download (http://www.gamefront.com/files/22080246/LEN+Vol2.rar)
Tracklist
1. Kousuke Yamashita - Hoshi no Densetsu (Garasu no Kantai)
2. Kousuke Yamashita - Kibou no Tsurugi (Garasu no Kantai)
3. Kousuke Yamashita - Yuujou (Garasu no Kantai)
4. Kousuke Yamashita - Densetsu no Bujin (Garasu no Kantai)
5. Tamiya Terashima - Tasogare no Kizashi (Gedo Senki)
6. Tamiya Terashima - Tabiji (Gedo Senki)
7. Tamiya Terashima - Kubiki (Gedo Senki)
8. Tamiya Terashima - Hikari no Kage (Gedo Senki)
9. Michiru Oshima - Everyday Radiant (Hanaukyo Maid Team: La Verite)
10. Michiru Oshima - Peaceful Every Day (Hanaukyo Maid Team: La Verite)
11. Michiru Oshima - Revolution (Le Chevalier D'eon)
12. Michiru Oshima - Casket Back (Le Chevalier D'eon)
13. Michiru Oshima - Changing Person (Le Chevalier D'eon)
14. Michiru Oshima - The Clock Rings (Le Chevalier D'eon)
15. Michiru Oshima - Anemone Elegy (Le Chevalier D'eon)
16. Tsuneyoshi Saito - Machi no Tomoshibi (Dennou Coil)
17. Tsuneyoshi Saito - Yuujou (Dennou Coil)
18. Tsuneyoshi Saito - Tomadoi (Dennou Coil)
19. Tsuneyoshi Saito - Todokanu Omoi (Dennou Coil)
20. Tsuneyoshi Saito - Kanashimi wo Koete (Idol Master XENOGLOSSIA)
21. Tsuneyoshi Saito - Penguin to Ohanabatake (Idol Master XENOGLOSSIA)
22. Tsuneyoshi Saito - Yasashisa no Okurimono (Idol Master XENOGLOSSIA)
23. Tsuneyoshi Saito - Ie nai Itami (Idol Master XENOGLOSSIA)
24. Tsuneyoshi Saito - Idol no Kokoro (Idol Master XENOGLOSSIA)
25. Nanase Hikaru - Haruka's House (Noein)
26. Nanase Hikaru - With Friends (Noein)
27. Nanase Hikaru - Fate and Sadness (Noein)
28. Nanase Hikaru - Cute Exchange (Noein)
29. Ryo Kunihiko - Kibou (Saiunkoku Monogatari)
30. Ryo Kunihiko - Oka no Ue, Ichirin no yuri (Saiunkoku Monogatari)
31. Yuki Kajiura - Farewell (El Cazador de la Bruja)
32. Yuki Kajiura - Walk down to your Freedom (El Cazador de la Bruja)
33. Kouhei Tanaka - Buster Machine 7 gou (GunBuster 2)
34. Yoshihiro Ike - Isshou no Omoide (Joou no Kyoushitsu)
35. Yoshihiro Ike - Nap Time Anytime (Kamichu)
36. Yoko Kanno - First love Final love (Sousei no Aquarion)
37. Yoshihisa Hirano - Pavan for piano and orchestra (Ouran High School Host Club)
38. Yoshihisa Hirano - Nocturne for orchestra (Ouran High School Host Club)
39. Yoshihisa Hirano - Theme for the "Zuka-bu" for orchestra (Ouran High School Host Club)
40. Yoshihisa Hirano - Romance for violin and piano (Ouran High School Host Club)
41. Yoshihisa Hirano - Sakura Kiss for piano (Ouran High School Host Club)
42. Yoshihisa Hirano - Kokoro no Fuukei (Strawberry Panic)
43. Yoshihisa Hirano - Ketakaki Yuri no (Strawberry Panic)
44. Naoki Sato - Heroic Age (Heroic Age)
45. Naoki Sato - Star Way (Heroic Age)
46. Naoki Sato - Age no Hibi (Heroic Age)
47. Naoki Sato - Heroic Age -Aratanaru Tabidachi- (Heroic Age)

English versions of tracks in Japanese above thanks to NaotaM
1. Kousuke Yamashita - Legend of the Stars (Garasu no Kantai)
2. Kousuke Yamashita - Sword of Hope (Garasu no Kantai)
3. Kousuke Yamashita - Friendship (Garasu no Kantai)
4. Kousuke Yamashita - The Legendary Warrior (Garasu no Kantai)
5. Tamiya Terashima - Twilight Omens (Gedo Senki)
6. Tamiya Terashima - Journey (Gedo Senki)
7. Tamiya Terashima - Yoke (Gedo Senki)
8. Tamiya Terashima - Light and Shadow(Gedo Senki)
16. Tsuneyoshi Saito - The Light of Town (Dennou Coil)
17. Tsuneyoshi Saito - Friendship (Dennou Coil)
18. Tsuneyoshi Saito - Puzzled (Dennou Coil)
19. Tsuneyoshi Saito - Reaching One's Thoughts (Dennou Coil)
20. Tsuneyoshi Saito - Beyond the Grief... (Idol Master XENOGLOSSIA)
21. Tsuneyoshi Saito - The Penguin and the Flower Garden (Idol Master XENOGLOSSIA)
22. Tsuneyoshi Saito - The Gift of Kindness (Idol Master XENOGLOSSIA)
23. Tsuneyoshi Saito - Unhealing Pain (Idol Master XENOGLOSSIA)
24. Tsuneyoshi Saito - The Idol's Heart (Idol Master XENOGLOSSIA)
29. Ryo Kunihiko - Hope (Saiunkoku Monogatari)
30. Ryo Kunihiko - Atop the Hill, The Lily of the Wheel (Saiunkoku Monogatari)
33. Kouhei Tanaka - Buster Machine Number 7 (GunBuster 2)
34. Yoshihiro Ike - A Lifetime of Memories (Joou no Kyoushitsu)
42. Yoshihisa Hirano - Panorama of the Heart (Strawberry Panic)
43. Yoshihisa Hirano - The Gilded Lily (Strawberry Panic)
46. Naoki Sato - Age's Everyday Life (Heroic Age)
47. Naoki Sato - Heroic Age -A New Journey- (Heroic Age)

For volume 2 I decided to experiment with including multiple tracks from certain anime because there were a lot of great tracks and I felt it would be more enjoyable this way. Like before I listened to everything first to make sure that it was a good flow from beginning to end to make sure everything fit together.

I'd rather not have to listen to Dennou Coil or Idol Master Xenoglasia all the way through to get to these tracks, so it works to take the few good ones out of the albums and all onto here.

Translations for Erementar Gerad and Gundam Seed Destiny. The first two, anyway. Gonna have to add album information for the last two myself.

VICL-61555 | Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK I - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/33399)
VICL-61600 | Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK II - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/33398)

VICL-61617 | Erementar Gerad Original Soundtrack 1 - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/21491)
VICL-61726 | Erementar Gerad React Re-No:1 SOUND-SIDE - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/22270)




1. Kousuke Yamashita - Legend of the Stars (Garasu no Kantai)
2. Kousuke Yamashita - Sword of Hope (Garasu no Kantai)
3. Kousuke Yamashita - Friendship (Garasu no Kantai)
4. Kousuke Yamashita - The Legendary Warrior (Garasu no Kantai)
5. Tamiya Terashima - Twilight Omens (Gedo Senki)
6. Tamiya Terashima - Journey (Gedo Senki)
7. Tamiya Terashima - Yoke (Gedo Senki)
8. Tamiya Terashima - Light and Shadow(Gedo Senki)
16. Tsuneyoshi Saito - The Light of Town (Dennou Coil)
17. Tsuneyoshi Saito - Friendship (Dennou Coil)
18. Tsuneyoshi Saito - Puzzled (Dennou Coil)
19. Tsuneyoshi Saito - Reaching One's Thoughts (Dennou Coil)
20. Tsuneyoshi Saito - Beyond the Grief... (Idol Master XENOGLOSSIA)
21. Tsuneyoshi Saito - The Penguin and the Flower Garden (Idol Master XENOGLOSSIA)
22. Tsuneyoshi Saito - The Gift of Kindness (Idol Master XENOGLOSSIA)
23. Tsuneyoshi Saito - Unhealing Pain (Idol Master XENOGLOSSIA)
24. Tsuneyoshi Saito - The Idol's Heart (Idol Master XENOGLOSSIA)
29. Ryo Kunihiko - Hope (Saiunkoku Monogatari)
30. Ryo Kunihiko - Atop the Hill, The Lily of the Wheel (Saiunkoku Monogatari)
33. Kouhei Tanaka - Buster Machine Number 7 (GunBuster 2)
34. Yoshihiro Ike - A Lifetime of Memories (Joou no Kyoushitsu)
42. Yoshihisa Hirano - Panorama of the Heart (Strawberry Panic)
43. Yoshihisa Hirano - The Gilded Lily (Strawberry Panic)
46. Naoki Sato - Age's Everyday Life (Heroic Age)
47. Naoki Sato - Heroic Age -A New Journey- (Heroic Age)

Aquarion EVOL LOVE@New Dimension link
http://www.gamefront.com/files/22080337/aquarion+evol+vocal.zip

anyone find pokemon movie score the sacred swordsman

Thanks for the translations. I added them to this post here and will update the other thread for those who want them.

Annnd done.

VICL-61610 | Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK III - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/34453)
VICL-61791 | Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK IV - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/34455)

this would be great to hear, any chance of reupping please?

So, yesterday was pretty sporty around here, wasn't it?! Ah, you know, a good little barfight once in a while can really have something pleasantly bracing and manly to it! :D *wacky country music playing*

Anyway, let's get back to the (orchestral) music now, because I *think* this is the original purpose of this thread!




Loveliness, Elegance and Nobility Volume 1.
A compilation of anime music
32 Tracks | 1hr 26 minutes

Very nice compilation, my friend! There are some amazing pieces in there, including some I never heard before. Here are some of my favs: the Fafner ones (some classics for me), the Hirano one (exquisite folklike piece), the Ohtani one (no wonder why you chose its name for your compilation), the Watanabe one (some pure goosebumps-giving glory), and "Quiet Landing" (a masterly piece, but Horner is not far). You really have to admire this sense of elegant, beautiful lyricism the japaneses are so good at, which tends to be rather lost in the western world.

Now, if I can express a few "cons", I'd say a lot of pieces are too slow and sad for me, notably the Kajiura and Sahashi ones (Sahashi, the king of explosive boldness, is only represented by some restrained emotional pieces? How comes?!), and I personally wouldn't have added "Kodoku", "We meet only" or the Nakagawa one. That said, Loveliness, Elegance and Nobility is a pretty large ballpark, so technically there's a lot of music that can fit in.

Thank you!



Just wanted to share this in case any of you missed it, I re-upped this last night.
It's one of the projects I'm working on in my spare time. It's background music extractions from the Orchestral Score of Spider-man the Animated Series from 1994.

At the present time I do not believe there are any plans for this music to be released. The music is part of the Saban Catalog of music, who's publishing rights were a year ago bought by BUG music. Bug Music has recently been acquired by BMG Germany. It's also important to know that Disney (Buena Vista Home Entertainment owns the distribution rights for the series) So between the two companies there must be some negotiation regarding the release of the music if this release is ever to happen. The re-upped cues are available in the latest post here if anyone is interested. Would appreciate your thoughts.

It sounds pretty good, you actually have successfully removed enough dialogues and sfx so it can be listenable. Sometimes the volume goes a little too much up and down and the music seems to be cut and pasted too abruptly, but nothing too intrusive. Concerning the music, there's some nice material indeed, notably a surprisingly good romantic theme that briefly appears in "Lengthy BGM". Yet, the score lacks a clear, bold, defining orchestral main theme, and this cheap electro-rock overture it got instead (probably to please the kids) sounds really awful. Anyway, the perfectly functional orchestral score compensates for this! Thanks for posting!




Edit: sorry for the crude language and the name calling, everybody, this is not worthy of the thread, I know, but as you can easily imagine, I absolutely *HATE* being called a "nitwit" or "imbecile" in the first place, so no wonder why things went awry like that. Let's be more civil now, as it used to be in this thread not so long ago.

Indeed, good compilations. Vol. 2 is as strong as the first one. However, one small thing bugged me. Perhaps five pieces of the same soundtrack is a bit much, sure it's consistent tone but it also takes up space and overshadows some of the other works. Perhaps one or two pieces from Shiro Hamaguchi, Hajime Mizoguchi or Hayato Matsuo wouldn't have hurt either. But I enjoyed it a lot nonetheless, hope you do a Vol. 3.


I actually did a compilation of my own and I thing it's time to share it with you guys:

Anime Music: The Unusual Suspects Vol. 1

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tPtuVmJH_Tg/UB3Ctk53cTI/AAAAAAAAD-I/h0qjryh_TlM/s320/Accel%2BWorld%2BOriginal%2BSoundtrack%2Bfeat.%2BOs hima%2BHiroyuki.jpg

Download (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/1F3MKAAK/Anime_Music_The_Unusal_Suspects_Vol.1.zip_links)

01. Yumekoi Merry (Reminiscent of Phoenix 2772 and absolutly superb)
02. Kingdom of Gynos from Queen's Blade
03. World from Dragon Crisis!
04. Theme of Rio
05. Chihiro to Rea from Sankarea
06. Nichi Nichi Kore Koujitsu from Samurai Girls
07. Soshite Subete ga Umaku Yuku from Girls Bravo
08. Concerto For Two from Suite Precure
09. Yosuga no Sora
10. Soft Wind blows from Kodomo no Jikan
11. Shinsou no, Ojousama desu from Highschool DxD
12. 4 441 from Rinne no Lagrange
13. PET Determination from Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko
14. You should be together from CubeXCursed XCurious
15. Song of the Heart
16. Love from Mayo Chiki!
17. Heartcatch Orchestra!
18. My precious friends from Okami-san to Shichinin no Nakama-tachi
19. C
20. returning point from Linebarrels of Iron
21. Amanohara from Maken-Ki!!
22. Golden Glory from Accel World
23. Closure from Freezing
24. Sorry from Motto To Love-Ru
25. Toward the Future from Moretsu Uchu Kaizoku
26. JOY OF LOVE, FOREVER from Princess Comet


I believe NaotaM is right with Japan being the King of musical entertainment these days. I mean most of the music featured on this album is written for crappy campy niche shows most people would never watch based on the cover and it still sounds better than most big budget blockbuster movie scores.
I hope I succeeded in creating a satisfying album full of great music that is relativly unknown around here.

Enjoy

Thank you klnerfan and Sirusjr for the delicious compilations! :D

Thanks for the input guys :) Yes I do plan on doing a volume 3 eventually. There are a lot of great soundtracks I haven't hit. I started Volume 1 with one or two from new scores but otherwise most of it was from the older stuff. Volume 2 as you can see from the years included is mostly stuff from 2004-2006 and I will probably have at least one maybe two more volumes to represent the rest of the stuff.

Klnerfan - thanks for posting a compilation of your own. I will check it out. As for your suggestions, I have zero scores by Hajime Mizoguchi, only one by Shiro Hamaguchi (Hanasaku Iroha) and a couple by Hayato Matsuo but only Spirit of Wonder and The World God Only Knows - which may make it on a later compilation in some form. Perhaps if you could share some of the soundtracks you have by these composers, I would very much welcome it :)
Also, I am re-uploading your compilation with updated tags after making it like mine (tagged like an album, all with the same genre, etc).

Arthierr - I see your point but I tried to avoid explosive boldness. To me the feel I was going for was slower and more restrained so anything that was too fast or epic sounding was taken off. The restrained emotional pieces were more the style I was going for. I also couldn't completely ignore some pieces by Yuki Kajiura because I am such a big fan that I wanted to at least represent some of her more emotional pieces that aren't full of synths and beats.

Hey Sirusjr and klnderfan! Thanks for your last compilations :) I enjoyed them very much ;)

@NaotaM: You wantet to translate tracklists right? I haven�t found a good list for these yet...:

(GEAR Fighter Dendoh) OST 1
(GEAR Fighter Dendoh) OST 2

Hope you can help :D

@NaotaM: You wantet to translate tracklists right? I haven�t found a good list for these yet...:

(GEAR Fighter Dendoh) OST 1
(GEAR Fighter Dendoh) OST 2

Hope you can help :D

Never heard of those. I'll see what I can do.

GEAR Fighter Dendoh OST 1
1. The Day it All Began
2. W-Infinity
3. Signs in the Sky
4. Out of the Wind!
5. Confusion in the City
6. Pulse of the Holy Beast
7. A Lonely Decision
8. Fearful Dialogue
9. Invasion of Spiral Cstle
10. And Crisis Response
11. Starting the Puzzle
12. Shadowy Plot
13. Knights of the Mask
14. Kyutenchokka (?)
15. A Dear Promise
16. Fight! Boy of Electricity!
17. Guard Earth and Advanced Reconnaissance
18. Infiltration
19. The Three Mysterious Agents
20. Hokuto and the Sullied Galaxy
21. Theme of Friendship
22. Traces of Electrons
23. Knight of Fangs
24. Data Weapon
25. The Distance Between Us
26. Theme of Our Daily Lives
27. GEAR Fighter
28. We'll Fight and Defend, For As Long As it Takes
29. The Boy Who Commands Lightning!
30. Love Theme ~ Vega
31. W-Infinty(Kareoke with Hironobu Kageyama)
32. W-Infinity(Kareoke with Hitomi Mieno)

I only found the one disc. Are you sure there are two soundtracks? If you happen to own them, could you please spot me the japanese or romaji for the second?

Here is a re-tagged version of Klnerfan's compilation. Download (http://www.gamefront.com/files/22085326/AMUS+V1.rar)
I tried to make it more like an album, the way I tagged my other compilations.

BTW, I listened to your compilation Klnerfan and it is certainly eclectic, unlike mine. I was a bit taken aback when I heard the hip-hop piece from The Money of Soul and Possibility of Control. I think you included some solid pieces but I also found some of them to be pretty grating for me to listen to. I can say that you didn't include anything from any of the soundtracks I expect to include in future volumes, which is very interesting. I quite enjoy your use of material from composers I am not very familiar with at all. It just shows that we each like a different style of music even though we are all big on orchestral music.

Well I'm the type of person who can enjoy any style of music when it's done well or just hits a certain spot (and I have a soft spot for E-Guitars). I know C is silly but it's so over-the-top it's good. I'm always fascinated by the creativity the japanese put on their soundtracks, for better or worse. Takanashi's combinations of gentle string melodies and heavy rock anthems just does it for me. It's cheesy as hell without any depth but it's so damn enjoyable it puts a smile on my face, even on bad days. This volume in general is more experimental in style so expect the next volume to be more traditional (but with a slight focus on brass). But that's the great thing with Japan: You get the best of both worlds, traditonal orcherstral scores like the recent Pokemon Best Wishes movie (fantastic stuff) as well as experimental soundtracks like Highschool DxD full of gentle string pieces, somber piano tracks, jazzy fun, techno ballads and rock anthems. I have a broad interest as far as music goes so Japan is a goldmine for people like me.


Klnerfan - thanks for posting a compilation of your own. I will check it out. As for your suggestions, I have zero scores by Hajime Mizoguchi, only one by Shiro Hamaguchi (Hanasaku Iroha) and a couple by Hayato Matsuo but only Spirit of Wonder and The World God Only Knows - which may make it on a later compilation in some form. Perhaps if you could share some of the soundtracks you have by these composers, I would very much welcome it :)

Oh boy you're in for some beautiful stuff. When Mizoguchi works his strings he does great things: Jyu Oh Sei Soundtrack #16 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuWPcYENnwc). Hayato Matsuo has crafted one of the greatest scores for modern entertainment (I'm dead serious) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI-UhHVOATA) and it's a crime so much music is still unreleased. I would give my soul for a complete recording session. As for Shiro Hamaguchi, I would recommend to start with Kiddy Grade or AWOL (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ym9JP6ArvM) (He didn't team up with Kohei Tanaka for nothing). A shame I lost his score with the Warsaw Philharmonic on my old harddrive.
I will see what I can do, if anyone has scores from those three composers that are not in this thread, feel free to post. Saves me some work.

Well I'm the type of person who can enjoy any style of music when it's done well or just hits a certain spot (and I have a soft spot for E-Guitars). I know C is silly but it's so over-the-top it's good. I'm always fascinated by the creativity the japanese put on their soundtracks, for better or worse.

The same composer has done that before in some other soundtracks too. Like a bit of rap-opera in Gurren Lagann (ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWA!). I think he did some quirky vocal stuff in Katanagatari too. I think I'll give that a re-listen.

Naoki Sato - Rurouni Kenshin Live Action Score (2012)



Free File Hosting - Online Storage; Upload Mp3, Videos, Music. Backup Files (http://www.peejeshare.com/files/363259103/Rurouni_Kenshin_Original_Soundtrack.rar.html)

Tracklist:

01 - AKATSUKI NO TATAKAI
02 - SEISEIRUTEN -SHIN JIDAI HE-
03 - KANRYUU TEIKOKU -GASHUU NO TAKE-
04 - KYOUKETSU
05 - KAIKOU
06 - GOU NO MICHI
07 - HITOKIRI BATTOUSAI -SATSUJIN KEN-
08 - SAKABATOU
09 - RUROUNI
10 - KENKA JOUTOU
11 - KOROSAZU
12 - KERAKU NO YUME
13 - HITEN
14 - FIRST DUNGEON
15 - SECOND DUNGEON
16 - KAIKOU
17 - RINKAI
18 - KOROSAZU

All my thanks.

Thanks

sigh ... another Sato score I do not like at all.

Naoki Sato - Carnation OST 2 (2012)



Carnation OST 2 (http://www.peejeshare.com/files/363259191/Carnation_Original_Soundtrack_2.rar.html)

Tracklist:
01 Ayumi
02 Aratani
03 Shinnen
04 Shuppatsu
05 Anokorowa
06 Denaoshiteki
07 Iyanayokan
08 Donaisho
09 Shinpaigoto
10 Hitosuji No Hikari
11 Takurami
12 Itsumademo
13 Omoi
14 Naa Naa
15 Kanawan Na
16 Tsugi No Step
17 Atatakasa
18 Nukumori
19 Tsutaetai Koto
20 Kokoro No Naka Ni

Link to OST 1:
Carnation OST.rar (http://www.mediafire.com/?tgzgv3zvcxgbdgu)

... and all is well :)

Thank you

Hmm... Just lately, Naoki Syntho is working more frequently than his considerably more talented brother Naoki Sato...

Thanks for first list Naota :)

Here is the tracklist for (GEAR Fighter Dendoh) OST 2:

01 目覚めの瞬間
02 奇跡の融合
03 粉砕の誓い
04 電童滑空
05 輝刃の鼓動
06 悲劇の絆
07 暗黒の激突
08 天空の孤独
09 データウェポンの散歩
10 光の変形
11 静寂の空間
12 迷宮
13 本部浮上
14 進め三幹部！
15 不動の決戦
16 決意の選択
17 機獣飛行
18 アルテアの接近
19 失意の勝利
20 危機接近
21 サブタイトル
22 アイキャチＡ
23 アイキャッチＢ
24 確執と葛藤
25 非情な戦士
26 スバル
27 陰謀の暗躍
28 挫折の王子
29 頓珍漢
30 敵地潜入
31 破滅の記憶
32 慕情
33 最終決戦

Intrada just released North by Northwest - newly restored and remastered from the original elements!
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.7688/.f)

Anyone have AWOL or anything by Shiro Hamaguchi or Hayato Matsuo that they would be willing to post?

Everyone loves Katamari

I have no Idea why U know that this had orchestral score. I have no idea how the hell this score can fit the game about... rolling huge something. But I know one thing - it's inceredibly good piece of music. Thanks for that man:).


Etrian Odyssey 4/Sekaiju no MeiQ 4 OST

One more surprise. Wonderful score, pieces are long and complete, not some 45 second mobile rings. Great mood, atmosphere, splenid melodies and it sounds really great (no matter if it's live or not).

So huge thanks for those two shares, cause without U I would miss 'em.

On the other hand we've got plenty of crap by Sato. Don't get this guy. For example listen to first track of Unmei no Hito OST - great piece. But what the hell those drums are doing there? No clue. Maybe there are really two of them...

Anime Music: The Unusual Suspects Vol. 2
~Soaring in the Sky~



Download (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/YHLTXDGA/Anime_Music_The_Unusal_Suspects_Vol.2__Soaring_in_ the_Sky_.zip_links)

01. School Scarlet
02. Running
03. Hatarki Man
04. Morning of the summer camp
05. Gott
06. Kyoshiro's Violin
07. A Wonderful World (Orchestra Ver.)
08. Warmth
09. Officers and Student Council March
10. To the Sky!
11. Love and excitment
12. Wind in the Hair
13. It's Going to Be Special
14. Library Wars
15. Battle of destiny
16. Priestesses of the Godless Month
17. Deep Darkness
18. Pride of a Knight
19. Decision
20. Ray of Light
21. Introduction Song
22. Wish
23. Pride
24. Decisive Battle
25. Triumph
26. Thank You
27. To Europe
28. Journey to the Future
29. Separation
30. Spaceblazer Suite



So here are 30 Tracks of fantastic music arranged to a pleasant album experience. Unlike the first volume each track is from a soundtrack worth checking out for any orchestral fanatic. Maybe some of it is completley unknown to you (though I doubt that). Perhaps I'll do a third volume (or do the same thing with game scores) when I have some more free time.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy it.



Anyone have AWOL or anything by Shiro Hamaguchi or Hayato Matsuo that they would be willing to post?

I don't know if the three soundtracks for Hellsing are still up here but I've got some new tracks.

Hellsing Unreleased Tracks (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/1CGOUCYG/Hellsing_Extra.zip_links)

01. Gradus Vita (Instrumental)
02. Into Hell (Used in the trailer for OVA 6)
03. Letzte Bataillion (Alternate Take)
04. Merche Funebre (OVA 2 End Credits)

Ahh now THAT's what I'm talking about!! :D
Delightful selection here, and you saved me a few soundtracks that I won't have to try and include in a future compilation. Also this gives me a good guideline for when I should and shouldn't include multiple tracks from the same soundtrack. If there is a wonderful 5 minute track I will just include one, but otherwise I may include two or three until I hit 5-6 minutes. Also you put in quite a few I didn't already have. Specifically I didn't know there was a .hack movie with music by Chikayo Fukuda.

(RARE) Naoki Sato - Shutsugeki! Machine Robo Rescue Vol. 1 (2003)



Shutsugeki! Machine Robo Rescue Original Soundtrack Vol.1.rar (http://www.mediafire.com/?c3cfk6yafkeb76l)

THANK YOU

Speaking of Naoki Sato, here's his next project: Anime about cars that transform into giant robots that beat the crap out of each other... sign me up for that!

I found that project MONTHS ago, then forgot what it was called, and couldn't find it again anywhere on the internet! I remember seeing a trailer which was classic Sato (Heroic Age / Friends / Revenge of The Mask sort of stuff) but it was all really, really cheap synthesiser. I had been hoping that they put a mock-up in the trailer prior to the orchestral recording session, but I haven't been able to check on it since I had been wondering if I'd dreamed up the whole thing...!!!

Do you know what this new project is called?

Did a quick check up. It's Chō Soku Henkei Gyrozetter (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=13831) and actually a game IP by Square Enix. The synth stuff could have been from the game and the anime will get the orchestral treatment (nothing unusual).


Smack81: Do you have vol.2 as well? Because this is the Sato I know and love.

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I think this deserves to be placed in the orchestral thread ;)




Elegy of the Uprooting

Composed by Eleni Karaindrou

CD 1
1. The Weeping Meadow: Prayer
2. The Suspended Step of the Stork: Refugee's Theme
3. The Weeping Meadow: Theme
4. Ulysses' Gaze: Dance
5. Trojan Women, First Stasimon: An Ode of Tears
6. Trojan Women, First Stasimon: For the Phrygian Land a Vast Mourning
7. Eternity and a Day: By the Sea
8. Eternity and a Day: Depart and Eternity Theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1kZFlVTRB0)
9. Rosa: Rosa's Aria
10. The Weeping Meadow: Memories
11. Trojan Women, First Stasimon: Hecuba's Lament/Hecuba's Theme
12. Trojan Women, First Stasimon: Telamon, You Came to Conquer Our Town
13. Trojan Women, First Stasimon: The City That Gave Birth to You Was Consumed by Fire
14. Trojan Women, First Stasimon: An Ode of Tears
15. The Weeping Meadow: Theme of the Uprooting
16. The Weeping Meadow: Theme
17. Voyage to Cythera: Voyage
18. Voyage to Cythera: Theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5020lIzriY)
19. The Weeping Meadow: On the Road

All Tracks @ FLAC + Artwork Included on CD2
DepositFiles (http://depositfiles.com/files/jn3g6wjcj)
DepositFiles (http://depositfiles.com/files/taipxveb7)


CD 2
1. Happy Homecoming, Comrade: Parade
2. Happy Homecoming, Comrade: Return
3. Trojan Women, Parodos: Andromache's Theme
4. Trojan Women, Parodos: The Land I Call Home
5. Trojan Women, Parodos: Home of My Forefathers
6. Trojan Women, Parodos: I Wish I'm Given There
7. The Suspended Step of the Stork: Refugee's Theme
8. The Seagull: Theme
9. The Seagull: Song of the Lake
10. Landscape in the Mist: Father's Theme
11. Trojan Women, Third Stasimon: In Vain the Sacrifice
12. Trojan Women, Third Stasimon: My Beloved, Your Soul Is Wandering
13. The Price of Love: Decision
14. The Beekeeper: Farewell Theme
15. The Weeping Meadow: Theme of the Lake
16. Trojan Women, Exodos: Hecuba's Theme
17. Trojan Women, Exodos: Lament for Astyanax
18. Trojan Women, Exodos: Exodos
19. The Weeping Meadow: Theme

All Tracks @ FLAC + Artwork
DepositFiles (http://depositfiles.com/files/6c7l7nj1t)
DepositFiles (http://depositfiles.com/files/pf2ulsipn)



Well what can i say, this is an excelent concert that embraces Karaindrou music commissioned for theatre plays, but mainly with her music composed for the many films directed by Theo Angelopoulos (who sadly passed away earlier this year), including Ulysses' Gaze, Eternity and a Day, The Weeping Meadow, and many more.

Karaindrou music is marked by melodies of extreme delicacy, restrained in tone, often accompanied by a solo voice or a chorus. with several moments of piano and woodwind solo passages along with folk/traditional instruments.

Hope you like it! Enjoy :)

Thanks Sanico! Lovely music :)


Akira Senju - Magic Tree House

New Akira Senju - Magic Tree House (Thread 119046)

Thanks for first list Naota :)

Here is the tracklist for (GEAR Fighter Dendoh) OST 2:

01 The Moment of Awakening
02 Miraculous Fusion
03 The Oath
04 The Boy of Lightning Glides
05 The Blade's Bright Pulse
06 Bonds of Tragedy
07 Clashes of Darkness
08 The Lonely Sky
09 March of the Data Weapons
10 Warping of the Light
11 The Silent Void
12 Labyrinth
13 Floating Headquarters
14 The Three Agents ar Moving Up!
15 Battle of Attrition
16 Determination of the Chosen
17 The Flying Mecha Beast
18 Altea Approaches
19 Triumph of Despair
20 Approaching Crisis
21 Subtitle
22 Eyecatch A
23 Eyecatch B
24 Discord and Cnflict
25 Ruthless Warrior
26 Subaru
27 Conspiracy Behind the Scenes
28 The Troubled Prince
29 Absurdity
30 Infiltrate Enemy Territory
31 The Hidden Ruins
32 Love is a Wondrous Thing
33 Final Battle

Done. Sorry it took forever. Between a birthday, car trouble, things have been rather busy.

To make up for it, here's Carnation 2

1 Walking
2 Anew
3 Abyss
4 Departure
5 Back Then
6 A Little Touch-Up
7 A Bad Feeling
8 Donaisho (no idea)
9 Mutually Worried
10 Ray of Light
11 Trick
12 Always
13 Emotions
14 In It Together
15 What I Didn't Know
16 The Next Step
17 Cheerful
18 Warmth
19 I Want to Tell You Something
20 Into the Heart

May as well do Kenshin, too:
1 Battle at Dawn
2 Purge -To the New Age-
3 The Korean Empire -Designs of the Royal Family
4 Bloodlust
5 First Encounter
6 The Path of Karma
7 The Manslayer ~With Swords Drawn~
8 Reverse Blade Sword
9 Exiled
10 Fine Fight!
11 Life Spared ~ One
12 Fleeting Dream
13 Honorable Blade
14 First Dungeon
15 Second Dungeon
16 Second Encounter
17 Pressure
18 Life Spared ~ Two

Also, Magic Tree House(really hope this one gets a "suite." Sooo many obnoxiously short cues, and I'm hearing a lot more recycled Brotherhood ideas than I would've liked):

1 Camelot
2 A Sparkle of Magic
3 Morgan was Taken
4 Magic Tree House
5 The Pride of Frog Creek
6 Peanuts
7 The Adventure Begins
8 Jack's Curiosity
9 World of the Dinosaurs
10 The Mysterious Medal
11 Tyrannosaurus
12 The Vast Land
13 Tyranno Again
14 The Moon and Magic
15 Night Expedition
16 Solve the 4 Puzzles
17 Deep-Black Walls
18 To the Castle
19 Medal Discovery
20 The Lord's Feast
21 Big Chase in the Castle
22 Clever Annie
23 The Alchemist's Chambers
24 Morgan Lou Fay
25 Shining Ray of Hope
26 Escape from the Castle
27 Open the Door
28 Seeds of Courage
29 Pounding Heart
30 To a New Adventure
31 Pompeii
32 Looking for a Hint
33 Jack's Challenge
34 Seize the Chance!
35 The Ruined City
36 Regret and Sorrow
37 Trembling in the Prophecy
38 Overflowing Emotion
39 The Final Medal
40 Pirate Island
41 Dolphin Rescue
42 Moment of Determination
43 Close Call!
44 From Darkness to Light
45 Battle at Sea
46 Captain Bones
47 The Final Decisive Battle
48 Annie's Tears
49 The Medal of Miracles
50 Morgan's Goodbye
51 A New Day
52 A Gift to the Future
53 And to the Adventure!
54 Message

Could Tango treat us again to Akira Senju's Symphony of Psalms - The Tale Of Genji (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/178.html#post1432825)? Thanks in advance :'D

Certainly! Just off to see Ted at the cinema, but will re-upload when I get home. :)

Thanks for the translations Naota :)
And i hope all went well with your car and the hiring ;)

Did Unmei no Hito

1 Man of Destiny
2 Bold
3 Temptation
4 Contradiction
5 Breakthrough
6 Reminiscence
7 Isolation
8 Gear
9 Mastermind
10 Doubt
11 Generosity
12 Blasphemy

Everyone loves Katamari
Orchestral Game Score by Katsuro Tajima



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Thank you very much

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[center]Loveliness, Elegance and Nobility Volume 2
A compilation of anime music
47 Tracks | 01:57:48

Your 2 compilations are great. thank U

NaotaM,

I currently work for them writing reviews and such. It is a good job especially when they give you soundtracks :). Good luck to getting hired!

I'm going to regret asking this, but what's a SEMO? Please tell me it's not that God-awful Square Enix music thing. I've never seen so many illiterate reviews in all my life. I believe one of them refers to "orchestration by the London Symphony Orchestra" and "John Smith handling the conduction"... :-O

Before I get flamed for negativity, I have no doubt that you two gentlemen will up the ante quite significantly.

Ah, what a wonderful site that is. They say orchestral, I hear synth. They say unconventional, I hear it done a hundred times before. Wouldn't it be wonderful if game music sites (or anime for that matter) would draw more parallels to film or television music for a change. I always get the impression from many review sites that they ONLY listen to game or anime music, regardless of the composer.
I wish many reviewers would think outside the box more often and actually have an education in music, I don't know, it might actually help when you're writing A REVIEW ABOUT MUSIC ... and btw, attaching a number to a score is bloody stupid (this thing needs to stop for games as well, people actually get employed or fired depending on review scores now, the hell?!), just say if it's great, mediocre or shit instead of "4/10 but I still liked it".

Just my two cents though. Don't misunderstand, I still like sites like Square Enix since they give me a good overview about soundtracks I missed and some general info and interviews with composers. I just wish they would put up more competent reviews.

^^ That's exactly what I wanted to say but felt I shouldn't, lest I offend somebody with my "constant negativity".

Yes Tango it is exactly the site you are thinking of, Square Enix Music Online. I'd say the reviewers are mixed in quality. Some are terrible, others are better. Some know music enough to know when Jablonsky's Gears of War 2 is basically re-using typical Zimmer and Co. stylistic choices over and over.

I haven't visited that site in a while because they review too many terrible western scores and I've seen too many scores I absolutely hated getting high praise.

On another note, I've been reading the David Raskin autobiography and it is absolutely fabulous. This man can write so well I am surprised that he wrote this book himself. Thankfully I got it during the time when it was made available for free on Amazon last weekend.

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NaotaM,

I think that reviews will be more informative with both of us ;). I have reviewed Imeruat and I am finishing up reviewing Moon Breakers as well as the score to Warhawk. One soundtrack that I have found utterly distasteful is Mark Mancina's score to Sorcery. It had some good compositions, but the rest is utter shite.

Oh and editing is provided for you :).

Wow, you mean the crap that's on that site has actually been editorially approved? Somebody sent in a review, somebody else read it, thought "Oh, hell yeah! That's going on my website!"

If I may present; a review in the style of SEMO:



Gravity Daze
composered / BGMs maked by Tanaka KOUHEI

So I didn't really know what to expect on this CD because well you know theres alot of EPIC MUSICS out there & who knows whether these BGMs will be cool? I consider myself a bit of a buff when it comes to Nintendo MUsics. Tanka Hokei orchestrated BGM's for Gundam and Overman King Gainer so you know he can make epic tunes right up there with the best of them. But how is Gravity Daes? I didn't think that Cohey Tannaker would make epic musics as epic as the other epic musics wroted for epic games this year (WHAT AN EPIC YEAR FOR VGMS) but he actually impressed me alot.

Well, fans of orchestrated BGMs will be happy to hear that Hokei Tnakha has conductorized a cool orchester and made dozens of really cool symphonies and opera tracks for Gravity Days. Some of these cool songs are sort of like you would hear in Star Wars or something, they're that epic and all the horns and violins are really great. Kohay handles the conduction duties really great because he orchestrated a cool band of really good NIHONGO music player people. Koihey also made cool songs for like saxerfone and drums and stuff - they're really amazing too. They are much better than the orchestrered songs because they have a beat. I mean, I like opera sometimes but you just can't compare it to the sheer epic awesomesauce of a good kickin' rock track. Just no comparison.

Anyway, this CD is OK. I didnt like most of it, but I'm still going to give it 8 out ot 10 because Overman King Gainer had REALLY EPIC BGMs and I think the game Gravit Daisy is really fun, so anyway, it's OK. Not in the same league as the greatest VGM BGMs ORIGINARU SANDOTURAKKO this year (Gears Of War, epic musics right there) but not every compositor orchetrsated symphony conductoriser can be as cool as Steve Jabolnskie can they?

EPIC FACTOR 8/10
AWESOMENESS 7/10
ORCHESTRED SONGS 4/10 (but some of them are cool)
NUMBER OF SONGS 9/10
OVERALL 8/10

Uh...I don't think I have ever seen a SEMO review like that Tango. For the most part they seemed to be folks with a better head on their shoulders than most game music sites these days. At least they talk about melody, rhythm, themes and other aspects of that nature.

How about something positive for a change ;)



Review: Sahashi Toshihiko�s Simoun soundtrack is a rare gem that transcends simple greatness and enters the realm of �amazing�. After what amounts to hundreds of playthroughs, I still haven�t gotten tired of it; every subsequent listen yields something new to like. Sometimes, I�m entranced by how seamlessly Sahashi merges passion with action, resulting in pieces that are not only breathtakingly exciting but also remarkably lyrical. Other times, I�m impressed by how the music always grows in intensity or draws back in trepidation in all the right places. Whatever the exact reasons are, I find myself engrossed in a breathtaking adventure every time I listen to this soundtrack. All it takes is the first track to immediately immerse me in the strikingly beautiful story.

The tale begins with the dramatic �Yoen Naru Kizuna no Hibiki�. Improvising a dashing invitation, a solitary accordion proffers its hand to its audience with a flourish. The offer is irresistible. In no time at all, the surroundings are illuminated by a heated tango that is colored with the slightest shade of mystery. Suavely charismatic, the accordion is then joined by its partner, a cello, and the two intertwine in a beautifully impassioned duet. The accordion�s invitation to dance is a portal to an entirely different world � a world where the colors are brighter and passions run high.

This world is quickly revealed to be on the brink of an all-consuming war. The nation of Simulacrum�s march towards impending strife with its neighbors is mirrored in the grim and relentless timpani heard in �Josei Kokka Dai Ichi Gakushou: Kyuu Jinrui�, whose deliberate strokes create a heavily oppressive atmosphere reminiscent of strained relations in desperate times. These uneasy feelings roiling beneath the surface are apparent in the agitated �Ginen to Shinjitsu� and �Kuroi Kage�, where barely restrained strings capture tensions ready to break forth at the slightest provocation. It does not take much to send everything over the tipping point when all stability is shattered in the magnificently rousing �Tabidachi no Yokan�. The shimmering calm that begins the track is fleeting; the transient peace is quickly shattered by trumpeting cries that transform the gentle introduction into a landscape set ablaze by tidings of war.

The calls to battle are promptly answered as the music rapidly escalates with an intensity to match. �Josei Kokka Dai Ni Gakushou: Danseishakai no Houkai to Haijo� sees chaos break forth as instruments scramble frantically in the wake of the breaking of peace, effectively setting the listener on edge as the rapid notes and sudden bursts of volume create an atmosphere of frenzied panic. This initial rush segues into the sound of mobilization in �Tokubetsuna na Mirai to Tameni��. The piece�s terse, down-to-business feel unexpectedly rises into a resolute song soaring on mighty wings, conjuring a sudden sensation of wonderment at the magnificent show of strength assembled for a determined purpose.

Nevertheless, war proves to be no easy affair. Nerves are stretched paper-thin in the turbulent �Yakusoku� and �Josei Kokka Dai Yon Gakushou: Josei Kokka Kakuritsu� as desperate struggles play out in the tenuously agitated atmosphere. Despite the odds, the forces press forward with determination in �Kanashimi no Simoun Shivuyura�, whose fiercely unflinching melodies remain steadfast even in the face of loss and tragedy. This firm resolve pays off at last in �Oozora no Auriga�, where the theme which initially drew the listener in makes its return, just as bold in its steps as ever. In the daring melody is a performer who dances arm in arm with danger, mere inches away from a precarious death. Yet, the steps are executed with a confidence that guarantees success. One is only left marveling at the aplomb with which the music pulls off this act with victorious triumph.

But feats of skill can only do so much � the endless fighting begins to take its toll on the individuals in the war, a change reflected in tracks like �Utusukushiki Miko no Namida�. Stripped of all its earlier audacity, the main theme is reiterated by a lonely violin. The sorrowful lament is made all the more poignantly wretched by memories of the theme�s former glory. Meanwhile, �Shizuka Naru Inori no Koe� and �Sonomama de�� are similarly performed by a solo piano that relates bleakly melancholic renditions of the anime�s OP and ED. All of this grief is suppressed in sound until �Doukoku Kooru Tempest� opens the emotional floodgates and releases a heartrending storm of despondent passion. Raging violently, the pained notes bemoan unjust tragedies born from conflict.

Despite the many cataclysms, the music continues on to raise the audience�s spirits, reminding us that the world continues on regardless of the tragedies experienced in victory or loss. The tranquil yet grandiose swells of �Sora yo Kaze yo Kagayaki no Daichi yo� and �Josei Kokka Dai 3� speak of wide expanses where countless new opportunities await, ready to yield the fruits of peace. However, the track that resounds with the sound of hope the most is doubtlessly �Denen�. In the piece, a delightfully lyrical pastoral theme is warmly performed by an orchestral ensemble, painting a vibrant picture of a verdant land bathed in radiant sunshine. It�s the perfect heartwarming end to the prodigiously grand and tempestuous tale of Simoun.

Simoun�s soundtrack is truly exceptional in that the music never leaves you thinking �more could have been done with that.� Indeed, Sahashi takes full advantage of every opportunity. Track after track, he demonstrates his expertise at orchestration, utilizing his expertise at manipulating tension and emotion to craft an album that remains engrossing in its entirety. Even better, the second disk is just as good, making for twice the amount of wonderful music.

Rating: Masterpiece
blog.animeinstrumentality.net/2012/08/simoun-ost-1-review (http://blog.animeinstrumentality.net/2012/08/simoun-ost-1-review/)

Am I not entitled to exaggerate for the sake of some cheap humour? ;)

No, they're not that bad - but there are some that come pretty close and some that are thoroughly excellent. It's a mixed bag. There is no quality control.

That Simoun review, on the other hand, is mostly excellent. A Sahashi score (Simoun particularly) always has excellent opportunities for drawing comparisons with the classical repertoire and also with more mainstream film music. I'm disappointed that this hasn't been done at all. No mention of the "homage" to Mozart's 40th symphony in the opening War cues, or to Mozart's influence on the score in general. No parallels drawn with Sahashi's other work, or his particular approach to this score as opposed to others. Nor especially big issues but somewhat suggestive that the writer, whilst erudite, literate, and surprisingly comfortable with musical terminology, isn't particularly well versed in the genre of media music or classical music in general. Both I would consider vitally important qualifications for any music reviewer.

Still, I'm not going to nitpick about a review that doesn't prattle on about "BGM, orchestrated songs, and epic awesomeness" every other word... ;)

Damn, amazing review. Love it!

Man, I am having a hard time finding good tracks from Kotaro Nakagawa to put on my next volume besides one or two from Code Geass season 2. I guess my self-imposed limitations pretty much rule out any of his music.

But to move away from review chat, hey, Simoun :D

OST1
2 The Sound of Transfixing Bonds
3 The Nation of Women ~ First Movement: Man in Antiquity
4 The Nation of Women ~ Second Movement: The Collapse and Elimination of a Male-Dominated Society
5 The Nation of Women ~ Third Movement: Change and Preservation of the New Species
6 The Nation of Women ~ Fourth Movement: The Women's Nation is Established
7 Heart of Faint Love
8 Premonition of Departure
9 Wings Upon Wings
10 For the Benefit of the Special Future
11 Sorrow of the Simoun Sibylla
12 Stay Yourself...
13 Surge of the Spring
14 Promise
15 The Beautiful Maiden's Tears
16 Suspicion and Truth
17 Black Shadow
18 Auriga of the Wide Open Sky
19 Wailing Cold Tempest
20 Sky Fortress
21 Voice of Quiet Prayer
22 The Country
23 Oh Sky, Oh Wind, Oh Brilliance of the Earth
24 Song of Prayer

OST 2
1 A Melody in the Palm
2 The End of the Sky Battle
3 Chaos
4 History Teaches Us
5 Inevitability and Tears
6 The Courage to See Tomorrow
7 Time of Unease
8 Resting Wings
9 Doubt
10 Run!
11 Cathedral
12 Cloud of Dusk
13 The Promised Morning
14 A Splendid Ballroom
15 The Shining Nation of Simulacrum
16 Worried Eyes
17 Waiting in Midair
18 Emotion Etched in Your Face
19 The Lonely Maiden
20 Wave Motion of Tempus Patiem
21 Invasion
22 Fragrance of the Gentle Wind
23 Lonely Prayer and Song
24 A Single Person's Courage
25 Dreams Written in the Sky
26 Legend of the Ri Majon
27 Lullaby of Wings
28 The End of the Dream

Well that's why they include samples of the music in their reviews, but I agree with you that the specific approach doesn't work very well.

Are you also submitting these English translations to VGMDB? It would be nice to have a way to grab them all and update the tags on an album without having to copy and paste each one. I like English tags but not enough to go through the effort of re-tagging each album manually.

Well that's why they include samples of the music in their reviews, but I agree with you that the specific approach doesn't work very well.

Are you also submitting these English translations to VGMDB? It would be nice to have a way to grab them all and update the tags on an album without having to copy and paste each one. I like English tags but not enough to go through the effort of re-tagging each album manually.

I have been, yeah, like with Gundam Seed. I'll post these in a bit.

The Epic Final Fantasy VI Medley (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1QgLqWb0rE&feature=plcp)

Because it's just too awesome.

I respected that guy right up until he went to work for ZERO... ;)

If you guys haven't been keeping an eye out for Hideki Sakamoto's Time Travelers, you absolutely should. Thread 119103

I've barely dipped my toes in it so far, and I'm already in love. The main theme is a stunner. Heroic, stately, foreboding, intensely chromatic, and it's the only piece of VGM I've ever heard to feature a tuba or whatever that is so prominently as it looms over the passionate orchestra in an ominous staccato like the unconquerable march of time toward some grim future. Amazing stuff.

I respected that guy right up until he went to work for ZERO... ;)

I still respect him. Dude's got serious talent and is the one good thing about ZREO.

Hi everyone, does any have TV Animation Fullmetal Alchemist Original Soundtrack(not brotherhood ost) 1,2,3? There are some nice orchestral music and i hope anyone can upload it in mediafire

Time Travelers was a massive, massive disappointment for me. This is the man who wrote Echochrome... and there's not one melody in the whole score. Just a load of poorly orchestrated synthy mush.

I could stand the fake orchestra if the music was any good, but alas...

Oh, well... time to get out his St Petersberg album to dull the pain... :(

Any news on Taro Iwashiro's Blade & Soul (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRAvx18fqAc)?
According to VGMdb it was released on August 02.

Here's the score.

BOOM! Boom, boom, boom, slam slam, slammety slammety bang-bang-bang, bangerangerangerangerBAAAAAAANG. Swirling strings, tuneless unison horns, BOOM! Boom, boomety boomety boomety boomety. The end.

I checked out Taro Iwashiro's Blade & Soul score and it was a huge disappointment for me. It sounded like typical movie/action score...

Dammit! and I had some hope for another Red Cliff.

klnerfan my sentiments exactly
sometimes composers are restricted by directors visions...

I have a lovely score I will be posting today :) Be ready for a smile on your face.


Nijine - Natsuiro Kiseki OST
MP3 320kbps|Scans|Relaxing|Solo instruments|

Download (http://www.gamefront.com/files/22132687/Natsu+Kise.rar)
Thanks to Animeost.info for posting this soundtrack. Tags have been updated although track names are still in Japanese.

Ah you beat me to it ;) But don't forget the Image album. That one works well when put together with this one, infact I combined the two because their essentially part of the same score.

Natsuiro Kiseki ~Image Album~



Download (http://depositfiles.com/files/35cdksjtq)


English Tracklist:

01. 11th Summer vacation
02. Let's go straight! ~Natsumi's Theme~
03. Reach Perry Road
04. Yuka's Chat Time♪
05. Nande Kuttsuiteiru no yo!
06. Go My Own Way ~Yuku's Theme~
07. Please Oishisama!
08. Longing for love
09. Flying whales ~Rinko's Theme~
10. Witch
11. Doubt
12. Loneliness
13. Moving ahead
14. Rinko and Heya
15. Sometimes, girls fly in the sky
16. Shimoda street
17. Beleaguered girl ~Saki's Theme~
18. Uncertainty
19. What to do about this?
20. Old memories
21. Affection turns to love
22. Natsumi & Saki
23. In a loud voice
24. One Heart, Three-legged race
25. Morning sickness
26. Making memories
27. Miracle of the stars
28. Flourish feeling (composed by Masumi Ito)
29. The way home to tomorrow ~Orgel ver.~
30. Reconciliation
31. The four girls who are friends forever

Image Album:

02. Beginning
03. Calm
04. Daily Life
05. Go Go
06. Excitement
07. Dream
08. Intimate friend
09. Peace
10. Summer sky
11. Spectacle

Who is Nijine? What does their stuff sound like?

I am listening to parts of a rip of Blade and Soul, and I'd say it's a poor man's Red Cliff. Still, it's Red Cliff! Not nearly as bad as suggested, if you don't mind going by my impressions.

Weeeeell, I thought Red Cliff was a piece of crap, so that doesn't fill me with confidence... I do hope other folk find and enjoy it though...

Weeeeell, I thought Red Cliff was a piece of crap, so that doesn't fill me with confidence... I do hope other folk find and enjoy it though...

Somehow, I am not surprised. There is always someone in this thread that doesn't like a piece of music that, to me, just can't be hated.

...And somehow, despite me being on this site for 2 years longer, you have nearly 2.8k more posts than me. Does not compute.

@NaotaM

I discovered them (him/her?) with Mashiro-iro Symphony (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNHnQakup0o). Very relaxing and melodic music. A little ensemble consisting of strings, woodwinds & piano with the occasional solo instrument and a little synth. I would say nothing out of the ordinary, but they got the typical "Slice of life" feeling done perfectly. I enjoy it very much.

Ahh I missed the image album, thanks :) I lost my patience just trying to rearrange the tracks in order after the lack of track numbers in the tags so I couldn't be bothered to further re-tag it.

Does anyone know an easy way to take a tracklist like the ones you guys have been posting and update tags without copying each one individually? I feel like I'm missing something easy I could be doing.

AHH!! I figured it out!!
So if you use MP3Tag, you can use the feature Text File - Tag. If you load up the soundtrack and sort it by track number you can grab the tracklist like the one NaotaM posted above and copy it into a text file and save it. Then if you load it and you didn't change the format, you would enter the command line of %track%. %title% so that %track% grabs the track number info and %title% grabs the track title info.

Taro Iwashiro... nope.

Red Cliff... I wish, I dearly wish, I could understand why it gets so much love. The main theme is quite pleasant but apart from that, it's some of the most generic, tired out, cliched crap I've ever heard in all my life. It's nicely orchestrated - or some of it is, at least, but, you know... it's basically a lot of banging and slamming, interspersed with more-or-less verbatim statements of the main theme.

Oh, well... :)

Yeah Tango, I agree. My friend loves that score too and I don't know why. The films are delightful though (if you watch the FULL version).

I wouldn't call it cliche'd crap - RCP fits that like a bill. I mean, maybe it's just me, but these days I don't give a crap if a soundtrack is unique or not - I just want some nice music. I mean, it is arguable that there are no new stories because every story we can conceive has been told. In some respects, I suppose the same applies to music. We've been at those instruments for a couple thousand years at least now - it's all going to sound the same at some point. I just care if it's done in an interesting way.

Or, for my fellow videogame fans, here's a different analogy. Once you break a game down to it's most basic, barbaric levels, every video game ever (with the exception of puzzle and racing games) are the same. You kill things to accomplish an objective which leads you to more killing. It's the specifics, the details, the way all that killing is represented that makes the difference between a cliche'd piece of crap and Game of the Year.

I say the same thing with music. These days, every composer draws major influence from some era of music. It's in how he makes his music his own that matters to me, not in how he tries to create a new sound of music. If that makes sense.

Perhaps love is not the right word I would use for Red Cliff, I just like it. It's functional for an historical epic and works fine with the visuals on screen. I'm mostly interested in a new Red Cliff because I like to use this type of score as bgm for some of my strategy games.
I know too well that someone like Michiru Oshima would have crafted an eargasmic masterpiece worthy of such an epic tale but I would not call Iwashiro's score crap or shit either, I heared far worse for these type of movies to call it that.

For a better example, take one of my favorite action music moments (Mars, the Bringer of War) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0bcRCCg01I#t=4m24.585s) and compare it with similar action tracks from Williams to Zimmer. In my opinion, they're all inferior BUT there's still a whole universe between Willams and RCP (not that I'm implying that Iwashiro is anywhere near Williams).

Thanks, klnerfan. Natsu-iro's enjoyable enough. It's a neat change of pace form what I usually get from anime scores.

Added tracklist information for Simoun.

http://vgmdb.net/album/25464

http://vgmdb.net/album/25471

I think EVERYONE should check out the track Tateyo! F Class!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Y-gT2sg8s) from Nijine. It's not like the Natsuiro Kiseki OST but more of a prelude for battle song (a bit tense and dramatic).

For a better example, take one of my favorite action music moments (Mars, the Bringer of War) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0bcRCCg01I#t=4m24.585s).

Uhhhh...

For a better example, take this late romantic masterpiece written by British composer Gustav Holst (Mars, the Bringer of War ~Allegro) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0bcRCCg01I#t=4m24.585s) and compare it with similar action tracks from Williams to Zimmer. In my opinion, they're all inferior BUT there's still a whole universe between Willams and RCP (not that I'm implying that Iwashiro is anywhere near Williams).

better?

How about capitalising British? ;)

With pleasure ;)

WORLD OF WARCRAFT: MISTS OF PANDARIA - THE COMPLETE SOUNDTRACK
104 Files (-1 Intro Cinematic to be added upon OST release) | .MP3 160 CBR | 6"22'55



http://www.mediafire.com/?vzgu6m3m4g51rjv,y9r65ea3yq5pmgs,im1b4v3scbfata4

1. Russell Brower - Heart of Pandaria (Main Menu) (7:59)
2. Russell Brower - The Wandering Isle (5:44)
3. Neal Acree - Shen-zin Su (7:15)
4. Edo Guidotti - The Pandaren (3:20)
5. Neal Acree - Making Contact (2:15)
6. Neal Acree - Making Contact (Soft) (1:27)
7. Russell Brower - The Temple of Five Dawns (11:49)
8. Russell Brower - The Song of Liu Lang (2:50)
9. Russell Brower - The Song of Liu Lang (Alternate) (3:54)
10. Russell Brower - The Song of Liu Lang for Orchestra (4:51)
11. Russell Brower - The Song of Liu Lang Orchestral Suite (8:24)
12. Sam Cardon - The Lay of the Land (1:47)
13. Jeremy Soule - Jade Forest (3:15)
14. Neal Acree - The Mistweaver Monks (7:00)
15. Jeremy Soule - Positive Chi (4:16)
16. Russell Brower - Sleepwalking Monk (2:06)
17. Neal Acree - The Windwalker Monks (2:37)
18. Neal Acree - The Way of the Monk (5:38)
19. Russell Brower - Know the Forest (1:48)
20. Russell Brower - The Thunderpaw Refuge (3:12)
21. Russell Brower - Pure, Exhilerating Might (1:11)
22. Russell Brower - The Hozen (3:03)
23. Russell Brower - Troubles of the Hozen (1:15)
24. Edo Guidotti - The Jinyu (4:49)
25. Russell Brower - The Mogu (9:11)
26. Russell Brower - The Serpent's Heart (4:54)
27. Jeremy Soule - Temple of the Jade Serpent (3:51)
28. Russell Brower - Depths of the Temple (1:51)
29. Russell Brower - The Sha (3:15)
30. Russell Brower - The Seven Burdens of Shaohao (2:57)
31. Derek Duke - Sho and Sha (2:53)
32. Russell Brower - Once Lost in History, Now Found (2:44)
33. Neal Acree - Valley of the Four Winds (6:21)
34. Neal Acree - The August Celestials (7:00)
35. Russell Brower - Spirits (4:28)
36. Russell Brower - Whispers in the Wind (2:22)
37. Russell Brower - Where the Spirits Dwell (11:44)
38. Russell Brower - Walk With the Spiris (5:35)
39. Sam Cardon - Balloon Ride (2:48)
40. Edo Guidotti - The Stormstout Brewery (6:28)
41. Neal Acree - Chen Stormstout (2:44)
42. Edo Guidotti - Bottoms Up (2:54)
43. Edo Guidotti - Darkbrew (2:25)
44. Edo Guidotti - A Toast! (2:20)
45. Edo Guidotti - Out Drunk by Chen (5:43)
46. Sam Cardon - Wood of Staves (3:09)
47. Neal Acree - The Mist (2:09)
48. Neal Acree - A Good Land, One Worth Fighting For (8:54)
49. Jeremy Soule - The Krasarang Wilds (2:42)
50. Jeremy Soule - Seekers of Prophecy (3:28)
51. Jeremy Soule - Ride the Serpent (2:32)
52. Russell Brower - Bamboo (5:41)
53. Russell Brower - The River (11:41)
54. Sam Cardon - Drunken Fist Style (1:15)
55. Jeremy Soule - Kun-Lai Summit (3:44)
56. Jeremy Soule - Evil Chi (2:38)
57. Sam Cardon - Shadow Under the Mount (2:26)
58. Sam Cardon - The Shado-Pan (4:53)
59. Russell Brower - Cardonian Wood Walk (1:58)
60. Jeremy Soule - Positive Chi (3:03)
61. Jeremy Soule - The Mogu'shan Vaults (1:24)
62. Jeremy Soule - Feng the Accursed (0:57)
63. Jeremy Soule - The Spirit Kings (1:28)
64. Jeremy Soule - Will of the Emperor (1:01)
65. Russell Brower - A Conflict of Old and New (2:28)
66. Sam Cardon - The Townlong Steppes (3:28)
67. Edo Guidotti - The Mantids (4:45)
68. Jeremy Soule - A War Every Thousand Years (3:22)
69. Edo Guidotti - Something Lies Below (2:50)
70. Jeremy Soule - The Hive (3:09)
71. Neal Acree - The Corruption (5:13)
72. Jeremy Soule - The Dread Wastes (2:34)
73. Jeremy Soule - The Siege of Niuzao Temple (3:04)
74. Russell Brower - Vale of Eternal Blossoms (5:24)
75. Neal Acree - For Family (5:28)
76. Neal Acree - Ancestral Seat of Power (3:32)
77. Neal Acree - We Speak of Honor (5:55)
78. Neal Acree - The Great Wall (0:52)
79. Edo Guidotti - Night Falls On the Wall (2:40)
80. Jeremy Soule - An Ancient Land (3:45)
81. Neal Acree - Windspire (5:13)
82. Edo Guidotti - The Heartland (6:09)
83. Sam Cardon - Mogu'shan Palace (2:48)
84. Edo Guidotti - The Gate of the Setting Sun (3:36)
85. Edo Guidotti - Mantids On the Wall (1:37)
86. Edo Guidotti - The Siege of the Wall (2:07)
87. Jeremy Soule - The Temple of Kotmogu (2:14)
88. Russell Brower - Fire and Fist (1:06)
89. Russell Brower - Scholomance (14:25)
90. Jeremy Soule - The Scarlet Monastery (4:08)
91. Edo Guidotti - The Toys in the Basement (1:33)
92. Glenn Stafford - WC2 ''Main Theme'' (2:08)
93. Glenn Stafford - WC2 ''Mysterious and Noble'' (1:50)
94. Glenn Stafford - WC2 ''Valor'' (1:52)
95. Glenn Stafford - WC2 ''Pensive'' (2:38)
96. Glenn Stafford - WC2 ''Human Victory'' (0:15)
97. Glenn Stafford - WC2 ''Human War Room'' (0:46)
98. Glenn Stafford - WC2 ''Rockin'' (1:46)
99. Glenn Stafford - WC2 ''Harpischord and Chorus'' (2:01)
100. Glenn Stafford - WC2 ''Rushed'' (2:04)
101. Glenn Stafford - WC2 ''Concerto'' (2:01)
102. Glenn Stafford - WC2 ''Orc Victory'' (0:18)
103. Glenn Stafford - WC2 ''Orc War Room'' (0:35)

So, when you download the files and play them, you will realize that the numbering start with 2 and ends at 104, when there are only 103 files. That is because I will be putting the Intro Cinematic cue as the first track, but since we don't have the OST I have nada. So when I do get it I will just post a link to the one file that you can just download into the folder.

Greetings from ridiculously hot Amsterdam! Having a long weekend over here with my mum, great time to far, weather has been just beautiful. Car rental firm at the airport cocked up last night and didn't have the car I had booked - so they gave me a Mercedes instead... so having heaps of fun. I'm feeling so uncharacteristically cheerful right now I might even enjoy Red Cliff...

;)

Peace & see you all later.
TT :)

STARCRAFT II: WINGS OF LIBERTY - THE COMPLETE SOUNDTRACK


3"43'46 | 320 VBR -0 | 77 Tracks


http://www.mediafire.com/?sofmkfmrnmb0mnn,2a2cm75prj8oc2e,ah495m85z9e6p2t

1. Cris Velasco and Sascha Dikiciyan - The Deal (Intro) (3:40)
2. Russell Brower, Glenn Stafford, Derek Duke and Neil Acree - Wings of Liberty (Main Menu) (7:15)
3. Glenn Stafford - Battle.Net Theme (4:00)
4. Derek Duke - Loading Screen (5:30)
5. Glenn Stafford - Heaven's Devils (4:16)
6. Glenn Stafford - Raynor's Raiders (3:13)
7. Glenn Stafford - The Outskirts of Humanity (3:48)
8. Glenn Stafford - Desperate Times (2:54)
9. Glenn Stafford - By Whatever Means (3:11)
10. Russell Brower - Firstborn (4:21)
11. Russell Brower - The Void (4:37)
12. Russell Brower - The Dark Templar (4:47)
13. Russell Brower - Exiles (4:07)
14. Russell Brower - All That Remains (4:43)
15. Derek Duke - The Hive (3:37)
16. Derek Duke - The Swarm (1:39)
17. Derek Duke - Kerrigan (2:09)
18. Derek Duke - Hivemind (1:51)
19. Derek Duke - Infestation (2:07)
20. Derek Duke - Crawlers (2:54)
21. Derek Duke - Mutated Depths (3:11)
22. Derek Duke - Assimilation (3:01)
23. Derek Duke - One Mind (2:15)
24. Glenn Stafford and Russell Brower - Public Enemies (1:40)
25. Glenn Stafford - Liberation Day (1:25)
26. Glenn Stafford - Charging into Town (2:44)
27. Glenn Stafford - The Miners (6:41)
28. Russell Brower - A Business Proposition (2:36)
29. Big Tuna - Jem's Tune (2:05)
30. Whiteboy James and the Blues Express - Zerg, Shotgun, and You (3:17)
31. Romeo Bode - American Trilogy (4:54)
32. Big Tuna - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, and Loud, Loud Music (2:29)
33. Whiteboy James and the Blues Express - Excuse Me for Scribblin' (2:48)
34. The Blasters - Free Bird (5:53)
35. The Bourbon Cowboys - Suspicious Minds (4:24)
36. Big Tuna - Sweet Home Alabama (4:52)
37. Glenn Stafford - The Outlaws (2:04)
38. Glenn Stafford - The Crane (1:09)
39. Glenn Stafford - Zero Hour (1:40)
40. Glenn Stafford and Derek Duke - The Cavalry Has Arrived (3:28)
41. Neal Acree - Escape from Mar Sara (1:54)
42. Russell Brower - The Hyperion (1:54)
43. Romeo Delta - Raw Power (3:50)
44. Mike Campbell and The Dirty Knobs - Rumble (3:18)
45. Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftan - Terran Up the Night (4:37)
46. Derek Duke - The Lost Viking (0:16)
47. Derek Duke - Level BGM (2:24)
48. Derek Duke - Boss Fight (1:48)
49. Derek Duke - Boss Killed (0:16)
50. Derek Duke - Outbreak (7:59)
51. Glenn Stafford - Another Day (0:08)
52. Glenn Stafford - 'Some Undiscovered Paradise Somewhere...'' (0:36)
53. Russell Brower - The Relic (2:25)
54. Neal Acree - Queen of Blades (2:09)
55. Neal Acree - Infested (2:07)
56. Neal Acree - A Good Man (1:18)
57. Neal Acree - Tosh's Business Ventures (0:33)
58. Neal Acree - Project Shadowblade (0:29)
59. Glenn Stafford - The Great Train Robbery (4:05)
60. Russell Brower - Zeratul's Warning (1:47)
61. Neal Acree - The Prophecy (4:10)
62. Russell Brower - Prophecies of Doom (1:30)
63. Glenn Stafford - Stalkers (2:31)
64. Derek Duke - Fragments of the Prophecy (1:07)
65. Russell Brower - A Better Tomorrow (2:23)
66. Russell Brower - Chatting It Up (2:38)
67. Derek Duke and Neal Acree - The Betrayal (2:28)
68. Neal Acree and Glenn Stafford - Heir Apparent (2:04)
69. Jason Hayes - Hyperion Opera (1:53)
70. Neal Acree and Russell Brower - Bar Fight (1:46)
71. Neal Acree - Dangerous Game (2:43)
72. Russell Brower and Neal Acree - Card to Play (2:33)
73. Russell Brower - The Zerg (2:03)
74. Russell Brower - Fire and Fury (3:39)
75. Neal Acree - Choices to Make (2:49)
76. Russell Brower - Credits (1:07)
77. Cris Velasco and Sascha Dikiciyan - The Deal (Album Version) (4:55)

I combined the two because they're essentially part of the same score.

RE: Natsuiro Kiseki ~ OST + Image Album
Sorry, but both my PC and MAC say these files are damaged. I can't download any of the tracks from the OST, and of the 11 tracks on the Image album that do download, several quit after playing about half-way through. Anyone else having this trouble?

RE: Natsuiro Kiseki ~ OST + Image Album
Sorry, but both my PC and MAC say these files are damaged. I can't download any of the tracks from the OST, and of the 11 tracks on the Image album that do download, several quit after playing about half-way through. Anyone else having this trouble?
then maybe something happened at your end, I checked both right now, dling with jdownloader from depositfiles and the gamefront one via firefox's file transfer and find all files to work perfectly as far as random prodding and a little listening can tell.

while I am in bed now, maybe you want to specify how you can download 11 tracks when it is a zipped file package... was the archive file broken- it should have output a notice then?

Both the archive and music file integrity is fine.

RE: Natsuiro Kiseki ~ OST + Image Album
Sorry, but both my PC and MAC say these files are damaged. I can't download any of the tracks from the OST, and of the 11 tracks on the Image album that do download, several quit after playing about half-way through. Anyone else having this trouble?


Both the archive and music file integrity is fine.

While I'm pleased to say that on my 2nd download/extraction I received no errors and can now play the 11 tracks fine, the other half of my original question still stands. Unless I am misinterpreting the original post (#10333), isn't this supposed to be a 42-track combo of the OST and Image Album? Isn't that what klnerfan inferred when he said "I combined the two because they're essentially part of the same score."?

My statement was only about the image album. I didn't fetch (and run verification on) the other upload.

My statement was only about the image album. I didn't fetch (and run verification on) the other upload.

I understand, and I wasn't questioning your expertise or wisdom. It's just that my question isn't about "the other upload"---just the upload posted by klnerfan (#10333) where he seems to state that the file he is sharing includes both the OST and the Image Album----and it simply doesn't. So either the OST was mistakenly left out of that file, or I misunderstand what he meant. I am simply after a confirmation on file contents.

Klnerfan is sound asleep in Germany right now and can't answer for himself. Perhaps he is dreaming of how I am writing about him and wishes I'd just shut-the-fuck up?

I understand, and I wasn't questioning your expertise or wisdom. It's just that my question isn't about "the other upload"
By "the other upload" I'm referring to the file shared by Sirusjr in post #10332.


just the upload posted by klnerfan (#10333) where he seems to state that the file he is sharing includes both the OST and the Image Album
I'm not reading the post that way. The upload clearly states "Image Album". klnerfar just days that he combined the two for listening purposes. There is no statement that the upload also contains this "mix".


I am simply after a confirmation on file contents
File content of klnerfan's upload in post #10333 = Natsuiro Kiseki Image Album (ANZX-6882), nothing more.

klnerfar just says that he combined the two....There is no statement that the upload also contains this "mix".

That strikes me as a complete contradiction. If he combined the two then his upload would contain both---no? It's really just about how I interpret what he wrote and I read it quite differently than you. It's really no big deal since, as you pointed out, the OST can be gotten in Sirusjr's post. And I'm thrilled to be able to listen to both and am grateful to both for sharing. Other FFshriner's are no doubt tired of my rambling on about the wording of a post, so I'll let it go. No offense intended to anyone!

That strikes me as a complete contradiction. If he combined the two then his upload would contain both---no?!
No. Uploading both is nonsense, since Sirusjr already went through the trouble of uploading the OST. Why upload it again?

EDIT: Combined doesn't have to mean that you actually modify the rips itself. You can just as well create a playlist with just a selection of the tracks.

EDIT2: I fetched the two Carnation soundtracks from this thread (greets to the uploader again *g*). I'm very much pleased by Sato's work on those. Actually I weren't aware that the mostly did film/series scores. Anything else that you guys can recommend by him? (Or not by him, but similar in style?)

DELETED. Sorry, wrong Thread.

You simply misinterpret what the he did. I can "combine" my rips in my media player all day long and the original files would still be untouched.

No. Uploading both is nonsense, since Sirusjr already went through the trouble of uploading the OST. Why upload it again?

EDIT: Combined doesn't have to mean that you actually modify the rips itself. You can just as well create a playlist with just a selection of the tracks.

EDIT2: I fetched the two Carnation soundtracks from this thread (greets to the uploader again *g*). I'm very much pleased by Sato's work on those. Actually I weren't aware that the mostly did film/series scores. Anything else that you guys can recommend by him? (Or not by him, but similar in style?)

Gaku has the same kind of heartfelt sound to it with a slight heroic, adventurous edge and some overt action tracks here and there, as does Heroic Age. Unmei no Hito and Human Naze Ningen ni Naretanoka were recently uploaded. Try those.

Gaku has the same kind of heartfelt sound to it with a slight heroic, adventurous edge and some overt action tracks here and there, as does Heroic Age. Unmei no Hito and Human Naze Ningen ni Naretanoka were recently uploaded. Try those.
Sounds good, going to have a look/hear. Thanks! :)

By the way, I am putting the final touches on my third and likely final compilation for a while. Loveliness, Elegance, and Nobility Volume 3 takes me up through 2010 and includes many iconic soundtracks from 2007-2010. There are only a few soundtracks from 2011 and 2012 that were not featured on either my first compilation or the Unusual Suspects compilation. So unless I go back and work on an action music one, I'll probably leave it at that for now. This final compilation runs for just over 2 hours but has a lot less repeats than the second one. I limited it to 2 per soundtrack.

Oh Sahashi ... why no budget for Saint Seiya?

To compensate, have some incredibly rare Sahashi score, now in my hands thanks to Herr Salat.

Wonderful life



Download (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/2DUSOO42/Wonderful_life.zip_links)
MP3 / VB0 / 22 Tracks


This is Sahashi in old-hollywood-mood ... and most important for his music: REAL trumpets & brass.

Enjoy

Omega is hideous, isn't it. Big shame. Oh, well... Sahashi is entitled to the occasional stinker. I can't begin to understand why there was no money for all-live musicians. Surely you don't hire Sahashi unless you have a decent budget? It's like getting John Williams and saying "You don't mind scoring this for comb and paper, do you? That's all we can afford, really."

I can't quite fathom out what's going on half the time, either. There is some real brass there, sometimes... othertimes it's fake brass and real strings. Sometimes it's fake strings and real woodwind. It looks as though they were trying to stretch a meagre budget as far as it would go.

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OOPS! So sorry, Mr Salat! Ted was great (Walter Murphy's score a real throwback to the golden age of Hollywood) but I know that's not what you were really asking... ;)

So, how about another patented Tangotreats repost - and upgrade to lovely FLAC... :)

Edit: Zetsuen - WOW. Only ten seconds of music but that's vintage Oshima right there. Big orchestra, and a wonderfully terrifying action cue that may be the most muscular, to-the-point Oshima has been since Fullmetal Alchemist. Nice find! Thank you!




AKIRA SENJU
Symphony Of Psalms - The Tale Of Genji (Shihen Kokyokyoku Genji Monogatari)
Takashi Matsumoto (lyricist)
Sara Kobayashi (soprano)
Kunpei Matsumoto (tenor)
The Kyoto Symphony Orchestra (leader: Naohisa Miyama)
Naoto Ohtomo (conductor)



New 2012 rip - FLAC at Level 8. Tags in Romaji. Full booklet scans included.

Links: Gamefront http://www.gamefront.com/files/22165591/AS-SOP-TTOG.rar (This seems to be broken at the moment.)
Jumbofiles http://jumbofiles.com/sknwsz56jmqm
PackUpload (thanks Yepsa) http://www.packupload.com/FY5WN9CD8FO

If anybody has any problems and would prefer another host I'm open to suggestions.

I spent two hours in Shibuya looking for this, and despite walking up and down every aisle in the classical section of HMV (which was enormous; sadly it closed last year) and exchanging some frenzied pantomime with a very confused member of staff, I didn't find it and ended up importing it when I returned to England. (Yes, I know... on holiday in Tokyo and what do I do? Spend it in a record shop.)

This symphony is a sensitive adaptation of Murasaki Shikibu's insanely well known 11th century masterpiece "Genji Monogatari". It's been translated into just about every language known to humankind, it's been several films, an anime, and even an opera by Miki Minoru in 1999. Here, Akira Senju takes a shot at this venerable tale and what a shot it is.

This is one of those pieces I don't presume to try to describe in any great detail. It's hypnotically beautiful - not a note is wasted, as is usually the case with Senju. It's just lovely. Anybody who appreciates Senju's work will certainly have a special love for his absolutely unique sense of melody and trademark warm, romantic harmonies. Here, they are truly to the forefront - not that Senju's media scores are anything less than wonderful, but it's so good to hear the man unencumbered and just allowing his imagination to soar. No further description is needed from me, I don't think. Please, listen, and enjoy.

"Tale of Genji runs like a pompous and boring exercise that (will) please all fans of the artist if they approach (it) with the gullibility with which they do own their stressed film." - Miguel Angel Ordonez (a recent review of this piece by a man who is completely missing the point and manages to insult film music, cinema, Senju, and fans of the above all in one barely coherent sentence...

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It's no problem all - I interrupted doing washing and folding bed sheets... so believe me, it was most welcome. ;)

Have added stupidly-forgotten links to the above post... Hope you enjoy the Senju. I love it. A lot of people don't. Oh, well... :)

I really enjoyed Ted - but then I'm a big fan of Family Guy, etc... but it actually really took me aback. It's crude, it's tasteless, all the stuff you'd expect from Seth Macfarlane... but under it all it's a very simple, and very fantastical tale of friendship and innocence. That movie made me feel a very particular way and I don't think a film has made me feel that way for probably fifteen, twenty years. Whereas in Family Guy the emotional content gives way to the laughs and the random humour, in Ted, the emotional stuff is handled with uncanny sensitivity. It's a movie steeped in the old traditions of Hollywood - it even has a proper, full-length main title sequence - how long has it been since you saw one of those in the cinema? Murphy's score is spread thinly (the first five and last fifteen minutes of the film receiving the bulk of it) but he manages to get in some good old-fashioned heart-warming fantasy, a beautiful theme (which he uses as a leitmotif - another long dead tradition revived), some straight-as-an-arrow exciting action cues, some shameless grandeur, some touching romance, and some cool-as-hell Family Guy swing... not to mention a genuine big finish (no wrecking the final scene with a crap pop song here, no siree) and an actually-written (not glued together in the edit) end credits suite that sums up the whole score in immensely satisfying fashion, in one of those glorious main-theme-reprise, rolling timpani, clashing cymbals, rushing strings, brassy "THE END" moments you just don't get any more.

All in all... wow! :D

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Magical Girl Lyrical NANOHA The MOVIE 2nd A's Original Soundtrack [MP3-V0]



Album Information: VGMDB (http://vgmdb.net/album/32634)

Long story short, this album really took me by surprise. I expected maybe a half-decent album with few orchestral tracks, but I fell in love with the sweet melodies. Maybe my standard are too low but I really love this album.
I also did some research on the composer, Misa Chujo, and it looks like this is her first major work. Can't wait to hear her future compositions!

Download Part I (http://www.mediafire.com/?q5cvqraw7ck39dv)
Download Part II (http://www.mediafire.com/?enhkxo1x9exlxff)
Sample Track: YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn_dKIkO9O4)

Credit goes to the original uploader.

Enjoy!

By any chance someone has the album for the 1996 NHK drama "Hideyoshi"?? Sample of opening (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDzbhAjmfzw)

In return, here is Taro Iwashiro's 風の果て
http://item.shopping.c.yimg.jp/i/j/yamano_4107090171
Download (http://www.mediafire.com/?pefrwynm05doi5m)

I apologize if this has been uploaded already.

It's no problem all - I interrupted doing washing and folding bed sheets... so believe me, it was most welcome. ;)

Have added stupidly-forgotten links to the above post... Hope you enjoy the Senju. I love it. A lot of people don't. Oh, well... :)

I really enjoyed Ted - but then I'm a big fan of Family Guy, etc... but it actually really took me aback. It's crude, it's tasteless, all the stuff you'd expect from Seth Macfarlane... but under it all it's a very simple, and very fantastical tale of friendship and innocence. That movie made me feel a very particular way and I don't think a film has made me feel that way for probably fifteen, twenty years. Whereas in Family Guy the emotional content gives way to the laughs and the random humour, in Ted, the emotional stuff is handled with uncanny sensitivity. It's a movie steeped in the old traditions of Hollywood - it even has a proper, full-length main title sequence - how long has it been since you saw one of those in the cinema? Murphy's score is spread thinly (the first five and last fifteen minutes of the film receiving the bulk of it) but he manages to get in some good old-fashioned heart-warming fantasy, a beautiful theme (which he uses as a leitmotif - another long dead tradition revived), some straight-as-an-arrow exciting action cues, some shameless grandeur, some touching romance, and some cool-as-hell Family Guy swing... not to mention a genuine big finish (no wrecking the final scene with a crap pop song here, no siree) and an actually-written (not glued together in the edit) end credits suite that sums up the whole score in immensely satisfying fashion, in one of those glorious main-theme-reprise, rolling timpani, clashing cymbals, rushing strings, brassy "THE END" moments you just don't get any more.

All in all... wow! :D


Yeah yeah, what we really wanna know is, where's the extended, tongue-in-cheek, 60's Broadway homage musical sequence? :p

Magical Girl Lyrical NANOHA The MOVIE 2nd A's Original Soundtrack [MP3-V0]


Crap, it's happened. A composer who is younger than me broke into anime. I am now officially old.

Misa Chujo... one to look out for! I wonder if she's single...

doppel9014 has posted links to a FLAC rip of Kid Icarus on the lossless video game thread! Although I wanna wait until my copy arrives, I can't resist giving this a listen now...


Crap, it's happened. A composer who is younger than me broke into anime. I am now officially old.

Misa Chujo... one to look out for! I wonder if she's single...

Now that you mention it, she's only 27!

Ah, thank you! I wouldn't have even noticed it there. Downloading - at snails pace - as we speak. :)

Yeah, 27... scary. Very, very scary. A very good composer in the making, there. It sounded to me as though she was trying to ram too many different ideas into one score - but then again, I can understand why - she's using this as an opportunity to build a career and build a portfolio of demos... so we get a bit of everything. I could've done without quite so much of the over-percussion but there are a handful of well developed, straight orchestral cues in there that make up for it.

And everything is so well done. Cues like tracks 9, 19, and 20 on disc 1... I should hate it... but I don't. It's so convincing.

NachtWal - a straight orchestral action cue with no electronics and no slamming noises. Really good stuff, very old fashioned (those dissonant brass chords at the beginning are straight out of something like Ifukube's Godzilla) - and the dissonant strings from 2:19 - this is a debut score from composer still in their TWENTIES. If her career prospers, imagine what she'll be doing twenty years from now. :D

Many thanks BK7530! Great first major contribution in this thread.

Loveliness, Elegance and Nobility Volume 3
A compilation of anime music
41 Tracks | 02:06:19

Download (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/018IRU2Z/Len_Vol_3.rar_links)

Tracklist

01. Kousuke YAMASHITA - Kokoro Tsunagu Kizuna (Digimon Xros Wars)
02. Kousuke YAMASHITA - Tabidachi (Digimon Xros Wars)
03. Yamashita Kousuke - Yasuoka-ke no Nukumori (Shion no Ou)
04. Yamashita Kousuke - Tokkou (Dragonaut -THE RESONANCE-)
05. Yamashita Kousuke - Arigatou (Dragonaut -THE RESONANCE-)
06. Kousuke YAMASHITA - Six Characters in building ESUKARUTIN (Getsumen Toheiki Mina)
07. Kousuke YAMASHITA - Mina, throbbing (Getsumen Toheiki Mina)
08. Hasumi Shigeomi - Kiss (Sasameki Koto)
09. Joe Hisaishi - Deep Sea Ranch (Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea)
10. Hitoshi Sakimoto - The Legendary Climber (The Tower of Druaga ~the Sword of URUK~ )
11. Hitoshi Sakimoto - Royal City Meskia (The Tower of Druaga ~the Aegis of URUK~)
12. Sakimoto Hitoshi - Fureai (Romeo x Juliet)
13. Michiru Oshima - "Watashi" no Theme (Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei)
14. Michiru Oshima - Akashi-san no Theme (Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei)
15. Michiru Oshima - Au coin de feu (Sora no Woto)
16. Michiru Oshima - Nostalgia (Gokusen - The Movie)
17. Ooshima Michiru - Main Theme ~ Seijaku (Nabari no Ou)
18. Oshima Michiru - Tadoritsuita Basho (Nabari no Ou)
19. Hiroyuki Sawano - Prelude -We are not alone- (Yoake Mae Yori Ruriiro na Crescent Love)
20. Haketa Takefumi - Koukou Seikatsu (Aoi Hana)
21. Miyagawa Akira - Kaze no Oba-san (Symphonic Poem Emily of New Moon)
22. Masamichi Amano - 7th Movement (Mushiking: Super Battle Movie)
23. Yoko Kanno - Take Off (Macross Frontier O.S.T.1)
24. Kanno Youko - Test Flight Delight (Macross Frontier OST 2)
25. Hama Takeshi - Running Skirt (Kobato)
26. conisch - gentle feelings (Linebarrels of Iron)
27. Nanase Hikaru - Requiem for the Phantom part II (Phantom -Requiem for the Phantom-)
28. Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra - Lento Oodanen (TYTANIA)
29. Yuugo Kanno - Chiffon (Birdy the Mighty: DECODE)
30. Yuugo Kanno - SAYAKA (Birdy the Mighty: DECODE)
31. Senju Akira - Akai Niwa (Red Garden)
32. Senju Akira - Overture ~Brotherhood~ (Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood)
33. Kotaro Nakagawa - With You (Code Geas)
34. Kuroishi Hitomi - Nunnally (Code Geass R2)
35. Koh Otani - For Yuuki (Tokyo Magnitude 8.0)
36. Nobuo Uematsu - Grand Opening - The Thread of Fate (Guin Saga)
37. Yoshihisa Hirano - Friends Stay With Me (Hajime No Ippo New Challenger)
38. Yoshihisa Hirano - Nakama Tachi (Koutetsushin Jeeg)
39. Yoshihisa Hirano - Shou Sou (Koutetsushin Jeeg)
40. Yoshihisa Hirano - People in Misfortune (Tatakau Shisho the Book of Bantorra)
41. Yoshihisa Hirano - Destiny of Assassin (Tatakau Shisho the Book of Bantorra)
42. Hirano Yoshihisa - Maki with the Past (Himitsu The Revelation)
43. Yoshihisa Hirano - Yuuki (Chuu-Bra!!)
44. Yoshihisa Hirano - Soshite, Haru (Chuu-Bra!!)
45. T-Pistonz+KMC, Berryz Koubou, Berryz Kobo - Parting ~Eternal Friendship~ (Inazuma Eleven Saikyou Gundan Ogre)
46. T-Pistonz+KMC, Berryz Koubou, Berryz Kobo - A Speech for the Future (Inazuma Eleven Saikyou Gundan Ogre)
47. Toshihiko Sahashi - ????? (Tomica Hero: Rescue Fire)
48. Toshihiko Sahashi - ??????? (Tomica Hero: Rescue Fire)
49. Toshihiko Sahashi - Start Operation (Ultra Daikaiju Battle)
50. Toshihiko Sahashi - Journey To Eternity (Eternal Traveller) (Ultra Daikaiju Battle)
51. Toshihiko Sahashi - Let's Go! To The Star Of Ultra... [M48] (Great Decisive Battle! The Super 8 Ultra Brothers)

This is most likely to be the last compilation I do for this series, although I may expand it into other genres at some future time (movie soundtracks, game music). Loveliness, Elegance, and Nobility Volume 3 takes me up through 2010 and includes many iconic soundtracks from 2007-2010. I hope you enjoy this and it brings you peace. Please comment if you like it (or have suggestions to make it better).

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It's like looking through a haystack to find this "needle" by Rozsa - HELP! It just sold out tooooo fast.... :(

NachtWal - a straight orchestral action cue with no electronics and no slamming noises. Really good stuff, very old fashioned (those dissonant brass chords at the beginning are straight out of something like Ifukube's Godzilla) - and the dissonant strings from 2:19 - this is a debut score from composer still in their TWENTIES. If her career prospers, imagine what she'll be doing twenty years from now. :D

NachtWal and the track after are my favorites - none of that overwhelming percussion which was used in a lot of tracks (I still love most of the melodies). I really hope that her talent develops over time and that she gets more anime to work on. :D

And Sanico has posted both soundtracks for Atsuhime, a HUGE hit J-drama from 2008, here (Thread 119652). They are lovely and wonderful!

It's like looking through a haystack to find this "needle" by Rozsa - HELP! It just sold out tooooo fast.... :(



There's an iTunes release for Rosza's Eye of the Needle: Link (http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/eye-needle-original-motion/id549721143)

However, I bet you want a lossless rip of that, right? :'D

In case you are going to buy iTunes, I would just go for this cd:

Eye of the Needle Miklos Rozsa SUPER RARE Varese Sarabande Club Encore NEW CD! | eBay (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Eye-of-the-Needle-Miklos-Rozsa-SUPER-RARE-Varese-Sarabande-Club-Encore-NEW-CD-/221112149327?pt=Music_CDs&hash=item337b4fa54f)
Good luck!

Thanks for the tip. I don't know, in these financially-challenged days, $30 may be a bit steep for me... Have to think about it...

---------- Post added at 08:39 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:38 AM ----------

Thank you, Herr Salat... Actually, I would be happy with MP3 - not really enamored by FLAC. Should I be?

Magical Girl Lyrical NANOHA The MOVIE 2nd A's Original Soundtrack [MP3-V0]



Album Information: VGMDB (http://vgmdb.net/album/32634)

Long story short, this album really took me by surprise. I expected maybe a half-decent album with few orchestral tracks, but I fell in love with the sweet melodies. Maybe my standard are too low but I really love this album.
I also did some research on the composer, Misa Chujo, and it looks like this is her first major work. Can't wait to hear her future compositions!

It's always interesting to hear what new composers are breaking into the industry with. It gives a good indication of what kind of music it takes to show you can get the job done.

vvs75 - I appreciate that you want to share, but both of these scores are Varese (although Conan may not be depending on the specific release). Varese scores aren't allowed here.

Sorry about that I had no idea. How to tell which are Varese's?

in this forum, downloads that come with a "PM for link" in the announcement could be something not allowed for public dissemmination.
In general, google is your friend, and varesesarabande.com's search should also be, though I could not find JC there.

That's because John Carter is not a Varese Sarabanda score. It was put out by Buena Vista.

In case you missed it, Kid Icarus Uprising 3CD version is posted on the forums now. Also, someone posted a kamen rider x super sentai score that is kotaro nakagawa and kousuke yamashita (soundtrack section). Go find em ;)

This Fall will have some promising scores... and many scores build around classical pieces (a rarity in film scoring nowadays, still prevalent in Japan).

Michiru Oshima's Zetsuna no Tempest: One more similarity with FMA, it's Beethoven again: Zetsuen no Tempest Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r-uB6wZlwg)

Shiro Hamaguchi's Girls and Panzer: Expect a bold score build around the British Grenadiers march. (Don't forget his score for Tari Tari, it has a lovely theme and any show about music is worth a shot.)

From the new World: I would be surprised if they don't use Dvorak for the score.

Naoki Sato's Transformers: Hopefully in the same territory as Shutsugeki! Machine Robo Rescue

Joe Hisaishi's Tenchi Meisatsu

The only thing missing would be a new Sahashi score with the LSO to make this the best year ever. Still, the coming months are gonna be like heaven regardless.

*Saving precious post space instead of quoting*
http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/391.html#post1986455

Massive thank you arthierr, been looking for this for months. Either i'ts just me looking in the wrong places all this time, or this might be the only live link on the internet.

//rep

By any chance someone has the album for the 1996 NHK drama "Hideyoshi"?? Sample of opening (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDzbhAjmfzw)

In return, here is Taro Iwashiro's 風の果て
http://item.shopping.c.yimg.jp/i/j/yamano_4107090171
Download (http://www.mediafire.com/?pefrwynm05doi5m)

I apologize if this has been uploaded already.

One of my favourite composers. Is there any chance for a lossless version? I understand if there is not currently one available though.

Saint Seiya Omega ost.1 by Toshihiko Sahashi (聖闘士星矢Ω ost.1 by 佐橋 俊彦)

http://blog.yimg.com/3/OwqIu4l7s58TxuQbx9IYcOIZ9kRMzvmsXKx7tzzneIfUO4Xl.Q 2J1Q--/77/l/zJEmD6_T5Z7Ie2FUIR2e1A.jpg

mp3@320k (142mb)
Download seiya_omega_ost1_320.rar from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way (http://www.sendspace.com/file/ssfz5e)

lossless in flac, tr.1~14 (168mb)
Download ssy_omg_ost1_flac1.zip from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way (http://www.sendspace.com/file/kr2rbi)
lossless in flac, tr. 15~28 (148mb)
Download ssy_omg_ost1_flac2.zip from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way (http://www.sendspace.com/file/pxz018)

bk (8mb)
Download ssy_omg_bk.zip from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way (http://www.sendspace.com/file/glrbol)



Findings on net, credit goes to the original uploader ~ :D

For low budget Sahashi, I really enjoy this one so far. I certainly won't be bothering to grab it in lossless though.

Thanks a lot!

i guess this fits in here



this album is amazing
Max Richter, who also composed some Soundtracks like Waltz With Bashir, recomposed Vivaldi and brought it to our century..

here is also a video that you get an idea how it sounds:

http://www.youtube.com/embed/tidGU4S69DI

and here the music: Download mr.zip from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way (http://www.sendspace.com/file/gywsi0)

lossless in flac n booklet added ~:D




Saint Seiya Omega ost.1 by Toshihiko Sahashi (聖闘士星矢Ω ost.1 by 佐橋 俊彦)

http://blog.yimg.com/3/OwqIu4l7s58TxuQbx9IYcOIZ9kRMzvmsXKx7tzzneIfUO4Xl.Q 2J1Q--/77/l/zJEmD6_T5Z7Ie2FUIR2e1A.jpg

mp3@320k (142mb)
Download seiya_omega_ost1_320.rar from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way (http://www.sendspace.com/file/ssfz5e)

lossless in flac, tr.1~14 (168mb)
Download ssy_omg_ost1_flac1.zip from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way (http://www.sendspace.com/file/kr2rbi)
lossless in flac, tr. 15~28 (148mb)
Download ssy_omg_ost1_flac2.zip from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way (http://www.sendspace.com/file/pxz018)

bk (8mb)
Download ssy_omg_bk.zip from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way (http://www.sendspace.com/file/glrbol)



Findings on net, credit goes to the original uploader ~ :D

Interesting... the Saint Seiya booklet credits a full string section, two percussionists, a chorus, and eight brass players including two horns, three trumpets, two trombones, and a bass trombone. What the f**k were they doing, then?! (Additionally, no woodwind, no harp.)

This has to be Sahashi's biggest turd in a decade. It's still occasionally interesting from a musical perspective, but it all sounds CHEAP and trying to cover up the cheapness with electronics and percussion just makes it sound even cheaper. (And even musically... anybody think Sahashi has got stealthily dull in recent years? The music is getting slower, simpler, more repetitive, less imaginative, less melodic. He's obviously still got it inside him (any more proof needed than the 2009 Gundam Symphony?) but he's just not putting it out there much any more. He's been in anime for twenty years. Maybe he's getting sick of it.

I hope the concept of hiring a very competent, veteran composer and then giving him no budget for live players doesn't become a popular one. The fact that it's happened to Sahashi of all people - who is not doing a great deal these days compared to his workaholic late nineties through to mid noughties era - is worrysome.

It's surprising how much a bad sounding sampler can ruin some relatively decent music, isn't it? Come on, Toshihiko (if I may call you so), you can afford some better equipment than that! Any popular orchestral library these days sound ten times better than the cheap stuff you've been using here. A professional composer of your caliber MUST get the best tools he can (the very best of all "tools" ultimately being, of course, live players).

Having said that, there are indeed a few good tracks in this ost. Not many, and not on par with his best works, but some really appreciable material nonetheless. Overall this score is mostly a disappointment for me, who's been an avid fan of Yokoyama's original music, which featured an incredible number of great pieces. This new series obviously lacks some ambition, including in its music, hence the weak score we eventually got. Let's hope Sahashi gets a new Gundam or Super Sentai style of show to score, so we can get again some of these explosive, muscular orchestral feats he's generally known for!

And thanks for posting, of course!

Imagine, for a moment, if he did get hold of a decent sample library... he would be instantly typecast as the guy who can create a fake orchestra with no budget and he'd never get live players ever again.

I get a feeling composers are playing a very clever game. They take the no-budget jobs and then use the limp, lacklustre results as ammunition to fight for real musicians; a sort-of "reverse showreel" if you will.

I remember a composer friend telling me about a score he wrote for a short indie film. He was told there was no money for live players, and that he'd be doing a synth job. When he complained that the results would be poor, the producers told him "Do the best you can with the synthesiser. If it turns out terrible, we might be able to find some extra budget..."

At which point... he went off and produced the most atrocious-sounding synthesiser rendition of his score he could muster up! The producers loved the score, hated the synthesiser, and the guy got his live players. If he'd done a convincing job, the producers would have almost certainly been satisfied and the synth score would've stayed in the film. Swings and roundabouts...

Similar situation with Alexander Courage on Superman IV. Get offered no budget, offer to record score on the cheap in Munich, record a few complicated cues with under-rehearsed orchestra, producers hear how terrible it's sounding, producers reluctantly find extra budget and score is recorded in London.

On synthesizers, the music done for the Tomb Raider game The Last Revelation was surprisingly good. Yes synth, but done in a very clever, and textured way. It almost sounds live, almost. But it's not cheesy synth either, it's light and breezy, and the composer put a great deal of effort into it. Shame the .wav files on the disc weren't lossless though. Oh well.

Haha Tango that sounds like a genius way to do things.

Hello everyone. :)
I have been updating my thread of Dirty Pair, and there is one particular releae that I think some of you may like.
Dirty Pair Flash had 3 OVA seasons, but not all with same composers. Although Jun'ichi Kanezaki was in the last 2, and I do love is kind of jazzy & blues compositions mixed with heavy guitar and a lot of strings, the first OVA is the one that I think it i smore memorable in music like.
I am a Sucker for Kei Wakakusa, and I ma sucker for his Horns compositions, but to be honest, anyone who composes with horns in this way I just get nuts. XD
This soundtrack is much more orchestral then the others. Yes, we have a few non symphonic instruments, but they don't last long, as Kei seems to still give priority to orchestral sheets. "LOVELY ANGELS" is fro me the most epic track. 7 minutes long.
This soundtrack is always worked as oldschool "ongaku hen" or Symphonic suites, in which some are named after the episode titles.
And, maybe because of my youth and how that seemed so cool to me, I LOVE when they this. I know. Some like to have seperated cues from a track. But I preffer they are together if the composer did it that way. :)
But that is just me. ;)


Now, for the bad news, (which i not bad for me) the bitrate is 128kbps, but I dont think it is that bad, because it still is audiable, and can be enjoyable. I do still enjoy everyday I am listening to it. :)
So please, accept my humble special offer for the all orchestral Lovers. ;)



DIRTY PAIR FLASH ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK / MP3 CBR 128 (Thread 54104)

Release date: 1994.03.01
Catalogue number: VPCG-84219
Label: VAP

Music Composed & Arranged by: Kei Wakakusa


Tracklist:

01 Good Morning Mr. D.S.E.
02 Kagiriinai ANSWER (VIDEO VERSION by MANA)
03 RUNAWAY ANGEL
04 Theme of WALDESS
05 DARKSIDE ANGEL
06 Theme of FREYA
07 FROZEN ANGEL
08 CHASE
09 SLEEPING ANGEL
10 SPECIAL TRAINING
11 STRAY ANGEL
12 A Prelude for a Battle
13 LOVELY ANGELS
14 Return in Triumphal
15 Dai 2 Shou (VIDEO VERSION by MANA)

Thanks, Orie! You can never have too much Kei Wakakusa.

I'm particularly enjoying the 70 second lift from Alan Silvestri's Back To The Future in Lovely Angels! ;)

Seriously, Japanese composers must love Back to the Future more than any other film score, even Star Wars. I could make two compilation albums with all the references alone, longer than the original score itself, it's insane.

So I listed to a couple tracks so far of the Saint Seiya soundtrack and didn't think it particularly awful. Sure it didn't set my eyebrows on fire, those are still a bit singed from Hajime Mizoguchi's Jin-Roh score, Taro Iwashiro's Onimusha 2, AND Tak Iwasaki's Now and Then, Here and There, but maybe it's because I've heard such abysmal synth scores I'm less sensitive to it, or I just have no taste, lol. Still, the fact I didn't switch off 20 seconds in was a good sign.

I confess, it's not actually a bad listen... but Sahashi is a victim of his own high standards... ;)

True, John Williams these days has been getting kinda flat and boring for me. Comes from making some special scores, and just having nowhere to go after. Alan Silvestri did that too, and even to some extent Hans Zimmer and Harry Greggson-Williams. Though I'm more of a Mark Mancina fan over Silvestri, lol.

I think that "bad" mixing/recording is a big part of the problem.

http://www.mediafire.com/?bzxqkb11vnivxr2,2isrd8839e6ur7t

1. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Overture (1:32)
2. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - The Seraph (3:13)
3. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Bear's Spirit (4:26)
4. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Call of the Raven (2:55)
5. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Out of the Dream (2:21)
6. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Heritage of Humanity (1:59)
7. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Snaff's Workshop (2:22)
8. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Eir's Solitude (2:12)
9. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - The Walls of Ebonhawke (2:23)
10. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Battle with the Tamini (2:30)
11. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - The Sea of Sorrows (2:30)
12. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - The Vigil Goes to War (2:37)
13. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Mepi's Ranch (2:13)
14. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Legion of Flames (0:43)
15. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Farren's Theme (1:02)
16. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Ruins of an Empire (2:09)
17. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Ventari's Legacy (1:57)
18. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Tears of Stars (1:14)
19. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Logan's Journey (2:34)
20. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Tyria Reborn (4:09)
21. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Tyria Awaits (3:04)
22. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Farahr (2:43)
23. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - The Tengu Wall (2:14)
24. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Zhaitan (2:32)
25. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Lornar's Pass (2:45)
26. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Dawn in Shaemoor (2:40)
27. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Fallen Comrades (0:37)
28. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Straits of Devastation (3:23)
29. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Kormir's Whispers (1:56)
30. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Shadow of the Behemoth (0:34)
31. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Zojja and Mr. Sparkles (1:51)
32. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Michoti Battle March (2:18)
33. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Smodur the Unflinching (2:24)
34. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - The Darkness Will Fall (2:15)
35. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Change Versus Comfort (0:34)
36. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - A Land Restored (2:37)
37. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Explorers and Artifacts (2:16)
38. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - The Shiverpeaks (4:14)
39. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Plains of Ashford (2:16)
40. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Sunrise Over Astorea (2:14)
41. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Blighted Battleground (2:21)
42. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Rytlock (2:41)
43. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Hero's Canton (2:47)
44. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Journey Through Caledon (2:15)
45. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Melandru's Calm (2:09)
46. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - The Stars Shine on Kryta (1:39)
47. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - The Saga of the Norn (2:27)
48. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - The Last Great City of Men (2:49)
49. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - The Great Wall Has Fallen (4:37)
50. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Gendarran Fields (2:42)
51. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Bandits' Expanse (2:19)
52. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Almora's Revelation (1:44)
53. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Battle of the Vanguard (2:22)
54. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Caithe's Daggers (3:03)
55. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - The Grand Gamble (3:18)
56. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Promenade of the Gods (3:04)
57. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Hope Falls (2:38)
58. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - The Vaults of the Priory (2:03)
59. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Knight of Embers (3:13)
60. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - The Charr Triumphant (2:14)
61. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - The Orders Unite (3:11)
62. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Raven Speaks (3:57)
63. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Journey to the Mists (2:20)
64. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Once Friends Now Enemies (2:34)
65. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Of Tides and Quaggan (2:14)
66. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Whispers in the Dark (1:38)
67. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - The Pact (1:51)
68. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Adelbern's Ghost (2:25)
69. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - The Hammer Falls (2:00)
70. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - The Heart of Rata Sum (1:37)
71. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - We Fight! (2:21)
72. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Malchor's Leap (2:12)
73. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Sparkfly Fen (3:32)
74. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - March of the Legions (2:43)
75. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Here be Dragons (1:46)
76. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Scales of Issormir (2:13)
77. Jeremy Soule & Julian Soule - Trahearne's Reverie (1:15)
78. Asja Kadric - Fear Not This Night (5:02)
79. Jeremy Soule - Overture (Piano Theme) (1:30)

So here is a little something that I know we have all been waiting for (well, most of us, at least), and I think I can say with a certain amount of faith that it was well worth the wait. Now the game is, of course, fantastic. Anyone who has played the game and is of sound mind can attest to that. However, just because a game is good does not mean the music is. If the Goldsmith Effect is to have any weight, there is the fear that the better the game/movie/tv show is, the worse the music accompanying it will be. But Jeremy Soule is a composer with a certain amount of recognition and respect from within the industry - some would call him the John Williams of Video Games. I certainly would not go anywhere close to such claim - John Williams has never written a boring note in his life (his cantina cue from Star Wars was the closest he ever came to that) and Soule has a record of just downright boring soundtracks. I'd say from 2004-2010 his music was downright identical, and overall, nothing really worth talking about. KOTOR, Oblivion, the vast majority of the original Guild Wars, were all just rather bleh and uninspired. Now, some gems did arise from the muck, such as Supreme Commander and it's expansion pack Forged Alliance, Guild Wars' expansion Eye of the North, IL-2 Sturmovik, and Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.

However, with the fifth Elder Scrolls game Skyrim, something interesting happened. Soule started to get good again. But not just "Oh, this is kind of interesting" good. No, really good. Hummable themes good. Themes that you reacted to whenever you heard them. Soule started to write like he was early on in his career, with Total Annihilation, Icewind Dale and Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War. But Skyrim was still a little off, to me personally. I could say that it was a good score - or, at least well worth the $35 I paid for it - but it was missing something. Skyrim was a very atmospheric score. Not ambient - ambient is music that sets a tone with no emotions. But it was very hard to recall individual cues, in terms of notes. The main theme and battle cues aside, you couldn't directly say "I remember that!" It was a very slow, melodic work.

Then came Mists of Pandaria - he wasn't the sole composer, but he did write nearly an hours worth of music. The OST has yet to be released, but my nearly complete gamerip was - check it out (Thread 119341). Soule wrote some of the biggest stand out pieces from that score, and even better his music wasn't indentical in style like his other music was. It was unique and fresh, but it still had his touch on it. Just listen to Ride the Serpent - or this YouTube mirror (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGDBAxbClFs). You can tell it's Soule as soon as you take a listen to it. But it is also so radically different from anything else he has ever written. And it's so damn catchy too! You can listen to it once, and when you take a listen a second time you start humming around.

Now we come to the main attraction; Guild Wars 2. This is the music we have been waiting for ever since A.Net started putting out those racial trailers. The moment we heard the human, norn and charr themes, nearly everyone was unanimous: I need to hear more. So now we have the full package: three hours of music. What is there to say?

Mother of God, Soule, please write more like this.

Now now, I have to admit that I have a certain amount of bias here. I have been waiting for this game for three years. I registered a site for a roleplaying guild more than a year ago and have been waiting eagerly to get the story rolling for that ever since. I have eaten up every news post, looked at every convention footage, and stared down every interview I could get my hands on. So when I give such unanimous praise to the score for the game, it is not 100% done with objectivity. However, in my honest to God opinion, this is great music. This is music that envelops you into Tyria; but this is also music with a personality too! The Big Orchestra Thread has been clamoring for years that the very best scores are those that have both a great deal of intellectual layers that are so prominent in modern Classical, and emotional depth that current Hollywood scores are catering to exclusively nowadays. I believe that Guild Wars 2 has both.

Now I could take about each o the individual cues and themes that make up this score, but I won’t because this will start to look more like a college thesis and less as my personal thoughts on the music. So, let’s just go with the big cues. First off, the main themes of the races – “Out of the Dream”, “Heritage of Humanity”, “Snaff's Workshop”, “The Saga of the Norn”, and “The Charr Triumphant”. They are rich, expressive in tone and style, and perfectly reflect the races that they symbolize.

“Out of the Dream” has slow, melodic pacing that is very reminiscent of Skyrim, but strings play an added importance to the theme. It deals specifically with the sylvari’s naivet� and their entering of the world. The sylvari are only twenty five years old, as a species, and the theme talks about their childlike sense of wonder. There is a slight use of synthesizer at the beginning, but the rest of the piece is dominated with harp, other mysterious (to me) string instruments and a voiceless chorus towards the end.

If the sylvari theme represents the sylvari entering the world, “Heritage of Humanity” represents the human’s stubbornness in becoming less relevant. “Humanity” is full of a dozen different instruments that are symbolic with an epic orchestra. Soule makes use of the full array of instruments in an orchestra to talk about the large history of the humans. The piece starts off with thoughtful strings detailing the humans’ long history, then horns take over talking about their slight militaristic persona. The strings and percussion unite together right around the middle, signifying how these two aspects are directly intertwined in the human zeitgeist. Then the music fades and then abruptly ends, talking about the inevitable nihilistic conclusion of the humans in Tyria.

“Snaff’s Workshop” begins with some playful strings, and they are ever present throughout the theme. The asura in Guild Wars 2 are displayed as something of bitter comic relief characters, with the writers using their arrogant (but apparent as day) intellect to comedic effects. The playful strings often partner with strings that are long and elegant, speaking of the asura superiority complex.

We talked about the humans earlier – now it is time to talk about the charr. “The Charr Triumphant” talks about the Spartans in the Fantasy Industrial Age that is the race’s concept. The charr are all about turning the war machine; cubs are taken from their parents to be raised in individual warbands that are each attached to one of the three Legions that make up the military and political leaders of the race. They are marvelous inventors, but all of their advances deal strictly with furthering the war efforts. Years ago, it was against the humans of Ebonhawke. Now it is against the Elder Dragons.

Back on track with the theme, “Charr” makes use of dissonance (”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissonance_(music)#Dissonance”) to speak about the “horrors” of the charr war machine. I am speaking specifically about the note arrangement beginning at the 0:40 segment. Large horns and rapid drum lines are the main cornerstones of the theme, and if one were to say it was the motif of the villain one would not be surprised. It is an interesting contrast to have arrangements so often used with bad guys for a morally ambiguous race. Chances are this was a reference to the charr’s roles as villains in Guild Wars: Prophecies and Eye of the North.

Pardon me for saying that, as a player who favors the norn, the norn theme is without a doubt the best theme of them all. The norn are essentially Beowulf turned into an entire species of half giants, and the theme reflects that. We start out with loud, boisterous fanfare and slight synthesized chorus before we enter tightened strings and percussion done at a furious pace. This leads us into the heart of the theme with heightened horn usage and a great sense of pacing as Soule makes use of drums, strings, percussion and chorus to create a great heroic cue. The norn represent unbiased heroism and a sense of adventure, as does their theme.

The cues that accompany the players travelling the world are the hallmarks of the score, and it is the music that the players will hear the most. “Logan’s Journey” is Soule’s answer to the first Shore’s “Fellowship theme” from “The Fellowship of the Ring”. It just screams the adventurous spirit that makes up every Tyrian hero. “A Land Restored” is a requiem to fallen Ascalon and tells of the price the charr have paid for taking back their stolen homeland.

There is also several combat cues, but for the most part this is the low point. After Icewind Dale, Soule never could understand the concept of a great action piece. “Blighted Battleground” is supposed to say something about the horrors of the Elder Dragon that the players face against, but it just comes off as overly slow. Soule makes use of rapid horn blasts to poor effect, and the chorus comes off as forced and uneven.

However, there are a few battle cues that just shine. “The Seraph” is a fantastic use of chorus to accentuate a battle rhythm, and “Scales of Issomir” (which was famously used in the Gamescom 2011 trailer) is some of the most thrilling chorus based action music this year. That doesn’t change the fact that for the most part you are better off with just replacing the battle music, albeit still using some of the better action cues.

Now, I have given you a page and a half of accolades. It’s time for me to be reasonable now. There are flaws, albeit just a few. The one that is the most prevalent is how Soule writes these sweeping, wonderful themes…and never uses them again! Now, this could be attributed to the fact that the music was used in the game not with specific areas in mind, but rather as a mood setter. However, the game does use select cues in select places, so Soule should have taken advantage of that and had some snippets of the racial themes be used in their regions. As it stands, the only time we hear the race themes are in their capital cities, which is a real shame.

Another flaw is that some of the cues do tend to be somewhat reminiscent of Skyrim in that they are more of mood setters rather than being loud, emotional pieces of music. These pieces are few and far between and are dominated by the boisterous and impactful themes, but their existence is still a hamper on the overall quality of the score.

But overall, this is a fantastic score. It continues the trend of MMO’s having some of the best music in the gaming industry – it started off with The Old Republic, continuing the trend somewhat with Tera, and then we moved onto Mists and Pandaria and are finishing off with Guild Wars 2. I hope that Guild Wars 2 is a continuing incline of quality for Soule, rather than being the finisher of a chain of great scores to precede a bunch of mediocre ones.

John Williams has never written a boring note in his life (his cantina cue from Star Wars was the closest he ever came to that)

Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?

Nope. I still say that was a very good score. I don't think Williams has ever written anything that has ever gone beyond "good". He couldn't be mediocre if he tried.

Nope. I still say that was a very good score.

I didn't say the score was bad did I?

You said boring note.

What about his early scores like John Goldfarb etc.?

This was news to me, maybe it'll be for you; there's a new game release called Demon's Score coming sometime in the future featuring Yoko Shimomura and Kouhei Tanaka. Keep on the lookout.

I really enjoy Guild Wars 2, particularly the cutscene and cinematic tracks, also it is lovely to hear so many woodwinds in a Soule score. This guy is heading in the right direction again. Problem is, as you pointed out, the lack of thematic development (unlike Supreme Commander) and the generic action (unlike Total Annihilation). I also don't understand why he used samples (although one of the best sample libraries out there) when arenanet had a large enough budget for an orchestra. Soule knows how to use one, proof is Azurik, TA and the recent Panderia, so why not? I don't know the guy other than for his music but I sure as hell hope he does not have a similar philosophy as the guys from ZREO, especially if he labels himself as a "symphonist".

@NaotaM: Didn't know this one. Fantastic news!!! (At first I thought it's a new FROM SOFTWARE game, that would have been delightful news indeed)

It seems someone from YouTube has posted a very high quality video of the Joe Hisaishi concert in Budokan and I thought it would be a terrible sin if I did not share ;).

Music - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTMoSaDdlLs)

Oh and it seems that his album Melodyphony will receive a full conductor score release. I think I might purchase this so I might study them. Anyone else like to read the music while listening?

Hey NaotaM ;)
Can you translate another tracklist for me. I didn�t find a good one for the Maken-Ki Ost...
Here is the list:

01 Fly Away (TVサイズ)
02 優しさとぬくもり
03 傷跡
04 恋のはじまり?
05 穏やかな日々
06 ヤキモチ
07 トキメキの予感
08 胸騒ぎ
09 妄想の世界
10 恋風
11 破れた想い
12 孤独な記憶
13 アイキャッチA
14 アイキャッチB
15 桃源郷
16 ドキドキ学園生活
17 見えた!いや見ていない!
18 無理難題
19 すきとおる肌
20 大人の色香
21 想い出
22 部活動見学
23 ときめき
24 エレメント
25 コダマ親衛隊
26 戦いの宿命
27 麗しの君
28 VENUS登場!
29 迫りくる恐怖
30 統制会のしきたり
31 嫌な予感
32 隠された闇と真実
33 動き出した罠
34 加速してゆく魂
35 激突!
36 絶体絶命
37 呻るマケン
38 バトルダンス
39 トホホな日常
40 鬼ごっこ
41 カミガリ
42 アマノハラ
43 神話の世界
44 タケル覚醒
45 Fly Away ～piano solo ver.～
46 予告編
47 恋愛中毒 (#8挿入歌) (BONUS TRACK)

Track 1 and 45 are clear for me ;)
Thanks in advance :)

And thanks for the Guild Wars 2 Ost from Doublehex here too ;)

ohhhhhhhh yeahhhhhh, thank's!!!!!!!!

ohhhhhhhh yeahhhhhh, thank's!!!!!!!!

Sure thing.

I think.

The Long Goodbye will be released by Quartet Records: https://www.facebook.com/QuartetRecords

More good news coming in:

Star Driver Song & Soundtrack collection out in January 2013 to celebrate the upcoming Star Driver movie. Best of all, the movie will get a new score by the original composer team.

That sounds very promising kInerfan ;)

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Prospect is intriguing. Much appreciated.

The Long Goodbye will be released by Quartet Records: https://www.facebook.com/QuartetRecords

Already sold out.

Just thought you guys might be interested in Kritzerland's new release of David and Bathsheba, now complete and in stereo.
Music from the motion picture "David and Bathsheba" with Music by Alfred Newman (http://www.kritzerland.com/davidbath.htm)
I think it is going to go fast.

Sorry if this has already been posted, but here is a list of anime in the upcoming fall season plus composer for each series. Can't wait to hear these soundtracks!
VISUAL NOVEL OST: LIST OF COMPOSERS - AUTUMN ANIME SEASON 2012 (http://www.visualnovelost.blogspot.sk/2012/08/list-of-composers-selections-from.html)

Awesome music right here.

Just to add to that list, Yuugo Kanno has been confirmed for Psycho;Pass. Woot.

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Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons



Download mr.zip from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way (http://www.sendspace.com/file/gywsi0)[/QUOTE]

Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Performer:
Daniel Hope
Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin
Andr� de Ridder

Tracklist

01 Spring 0 [00:42.20]
02 Spring 1 [02:31.38]
03 Spring 2 [03:18.59]
04 Spring 3 [03:09.12]
05 Summer 1 [04:11.32]
06 Summer 2 [03:59.25]
07 Summer 3 [05:00.66]
08 Autumn 1 [05:41.62]
09 Autumn 2 [03:07.47]
10 Autumn 3 [01:44.60]
11 Winter 1 [03:00.42]
12 Winter 2 [02:51.20]
13 Winter 3 [04:38.69]

Restoring the Score: Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi Remastered Edition Video 3 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svg2P_s7Eqc)

Restoring the Score: Return of the Jedi Remastered Edition Comparison Video 2 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm9tz5crXp4&feature=relmfu)

Restoring the Score: Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi Remastered Edition Comparisons - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH3kuxSlGyo)

Does anyone happen to have "Debussy: La Mer / Ravel: Ma M�re L'Oye / La Valse" performed by the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra? I have watched YouTube videos of the concert and this has to be the definitive performance of La Mer. Ever. Each part is crystal clear and it is performed with such vigor and precision.

Can anyone post an ordinary download link for the Yamato symphony? Thanks!

Yamato Symphony coming up.

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Thank you, tangotreats. Looking forward to seeing this concert.

Ah, I've just twigged that you're after download links for the Yamato Symphony VIDEO - this is 2gb and I can't upload that much any time soon. I was going to provide the album re-recording of 2009, which is considerably better quality.

Sorry about that - what's the matter with downloading the torrent?

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The DVD is a massive improvement and features stereo sound. The BakaBT rip looks like crap even for a Laserdisc, but I believe it's the best currently out there since the DVD has never surfaced online. If I ever find it, I'll buy it in a heartbeat.

The 1984 recording has been released on CD but sounds terrible - it's on my long, long list of "must remaster this" projects. IN any case, the 2009 re-recording renders it somewhat redundant.

Thanks for all the info, guys, on the concert recording and, Herr Salat, thanks in advance for the MediaFire links next week. In the meantime, I'll check out the YouTube clips. As for torrents, tangotreats, I've never tried these, and really don't know anything about them.

I hope I'm not speaking out of place, here. I don't understand the logic. Why deprive yourself of the use of the most popular form of media downloading on the basis of not understanding how they work? Why ask that other people massively inconvenience themselves to provide you alternatives? Why not just engage the services of Google, spend fifteen minutes learning about what it is and how to do it, and then do it? You could be downloading torrents half an hour from now.

"I can't access torrents in my country / my ISP prohibits them" is an acceptable basis for not using torrents. Unwillingness to become educated is most emphatically not.

Point taken. I should look into torrents. It's just somebody once told me to avoid them for reasons I can't even remember now and, trusting that person, I have.

You should, definitely. It's not hard and it gives you access to so much more. What with recent cyberlocker events, torrents are enjoying a bit of a rebirth. There's no reason to avoid torrents other than the thought that hyper-popular torrents are sometimes monitored by law enforcement agencies. Nothing we'd be talking about on here is even on their radar. It's well worth doing it. :)

I personally don't like torrents partly because of security because, but also because of how invasive the actual torrent programs can be, as in the downloaders. They at least in my PC are rather slow and sticky, and affect my computer in ways I really don't like. Also, I haven't been so desperate to find something that I'd resort to a torrent, at least yet. I've found things I'm bummed about not finding in anything but a torrent, but it's too much of a pain to go that way even for the odd time. Have to be something REALLY special to get me that enthused. So I either wait for a direct download or just leave it if it's not likely to happen. Just my 2 cents.

Well, use a better client program, then... Torrents aren't bad because your choice of software is bad. I have never had one iota of trouble with torrents or torrent clients and I've been using them daily for a decade. A well-seeded torrent is preferable to a direct download every day of the week. Granted, a poorly-seeded torrent is probably going to be slow, but at least it's a way to get the file you want. Once you've finished downloading it, seed it for a little while. Spread the love. Help out.

With the greatest respect, your logic is bizarre to say the least.

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Thank you! You can count on me if there's someone requesting Yamato Symphony '09 to re-uploaded again...since now I'll finally get to download it (Join Date: Jan 2008...why haven't I visited this thread earlier?!!!) :'D

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Is it this one? Would like to buy it, but I'm looking at something else right now, JBarron2005. The link below offers a FLAC download copy for 11.99 �. Not sure if it includes the booklet.
PayPal, etc.




Link (Deutsche Grammophon Shop) (http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/cat/single?PRODUCT_NR=4764498)

JBarron2005's discovery of "the best" performance got me thinking how many recordings of the classics are(/will be) out there. I'm probably in the minority of just sticking with just the one I encounter first, but if someone knows of a "better" performance of X, I'm all ears. Especially in the age of the internet, Youtube videos aplenty :'D

Yes that is it! I might buy it and rip it myself for this recording is nowhere to be found for free download. Thanks anyway Herr Salat :).

Herr Salat



Toshihiko Sahashi
Platonic Sex
OST
(2001)

FLAC Level 8 (Tracks 1, 20)
MP3 VB0 (Tracks 2-19)
Full booklet scans included. Mostly tagged in English. Difficult track names left romanised.

GameFront (http://www.gamefront.com/files/22164918/Platonicus+Sexus.rar)
MediaFire (http://www.mediafire.com/?e8axidd79ce5ucc)
...

Thank You
Wonderful Post

@Herr Salat
THank you VERY much for posting these video shares. Amazing. Such a shame the west does not appreciate orchestral brilliance like this in the same vein. Hopefully Japanese will continue to value film music as the west replaces the instrument with digital noise. Cheers buddy

OK Tango, got a torrent client to recommend? I promise I'll try it out and see how it goes.

uTorrent is a very fine client. Used it for years with no issue.

klnerfan will most likely be excited about this one as some of the rest of you ;).

From Square-Enix Music Online:

On December 23, the WDR Radio Orchestra will perform the symphonic game music concert soundtrack - "East meets West" in Cologne. Two more items have been confirmed for the set listings, "Light Spirit" from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and "Toward the Celestial Sphere" from the Star Fox series. Both are new arrangements written by Jonne Valtonen. Tickets can be purchased here. A radio stream of the concert will also be available.

So hopefully, a good rip will surface shortly after it is streamed :).

Here is something I am enjoying to share with you all. I have not seen here anywhere, so I assume no one has ever posted this.
I have been re-watching this mini-series, and although the soundtrack is nothing compared to our friend Basil, it does not fail to wonder us on it.
I did try to look for better quality but this all I can offer.
I think the sound of it is really wonderful. And those big tracks (over 15 minutes long in one track, for example) are delicious. :)
Hope you guys like it ;)
Enjoy ^_^





ROBOCOP PRIME DIRECTIVES / MP3 CBR 128kbps (Thread 120719)

Release date: 2001.01.16
Catalogue number: GNPD 8070
Label: GNP / Crescendo

Music by: Norman Orenstein


Tracklist:

01 - Prime Directives Overture
02 - Delta City Defender
03 - Bone Machine
04 - Death Of A Hero
05 - Remember
06 - Young Murphy
07 - Pursuit
08 - Old Detroit
09 - Clash Of The Titans
10 - Innocence
11 - Smith And Wesson
12 - S.A.I.N.T. Goes Wrong
13 - Legion
14 - Finale


Pass: Catalogue N�

OK, I'll give utorrent a go, see how it works for me.

@JBarron2005: Oh I'm definitely excited. Perhaps I can even manage to attend the concert this time. But Twilight Princess again? I wish popularity of a game would not determine it's importance in concerts and on albums, especially when it should be about the music in the first place. Even the 25th anniversary left a small bitter taste afterall. The main theme was excellent but the rest a bit lackluster. Perhaps I should start a kickstarter campaign to orchestrate A Link to the Past (it's already written like an orchestral score anyway). Another thing that bothers me is the lack of an offical soundtrack for Skyward Sword, after all this time, not even a small club nintendo release...

Klnerfan,

Well at least they are adding more Star Fox. I also hope they play Masashi Hamauzu's Kirby arrangement since I haven't found a clip of it anywhere. As for Kickstarter, I would certainly help you on that endeavor as an arranger ;). I agree that the 25th anniversary was lacking, but some of the arrangements were ok. I just can't stand the audience interrupting the music. It is a shame that people nowadays do not understand "concert etiquette".

god, has anyone see the super shit robocop remake clips? it looks soooo bad

From Square-Enix Music Online:

On December 23, the WDR Radio Orchestra will perform the symphonic game music concert soundtrack - "East meets West" in Cologne. Two more items have been confirmed for the set listings, "Light Spirit" from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and "Toward the Celestial Sphere" from the Star Fox series. Both are new arrangements written by Jonne Valtonen. Tickets can be purchased here. A radio stream of the concert will also be available.

Really no idea where they did that date from, but it's totally incorrect. From the Eventim ticket site:

Fr, 16.11.12, 20:00 UhrKlaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
Wallrafplatz / WDR-Sendesaal, 50667 K�LN

And the tickets were long sold out. Plus the WDR already confirmed that there won't be any additional concert (on the same day or around that date).

LINK: Tekkouki Mikazuki OST.rar (http://www.mediafire.com/?be8byx4qn76u68w)

Thanks to Kaiju Kaizer

KaijuKeizer (http://kaijukeizer.blogspot.com.br)

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Some of those track titles are probably just character names(Wikipedia and CDJapan are your friends) whereas "Shinobi Yoru Kage" and the like are actually fairly common titles, usually denoting ominous, more atmospheric pieces.

13. Creeping Fear
15. No Sale on the Street Corner
24. Creeping Shadows

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Hey NaotaM
Can you translate another tracklist for me. I didn�t find a good one for the Maken-Ki Ost...
Here is the list:

01 Fly Away (TVサイズ)
02 優しさとぬくもり
03 傷跡
04 恋のはじまり?
05 穏やかな日々
06 ヤキモチ
07 トキメキの予感
08 胸騒ぎ
09 妄想の世界
10 恋風
11 破れた想い
12 孤独な記憶
13 アイキャッチA
14 アイキャッチB
15 桃源郷
16 ドキドキ学園生活
17 見えた!いや見ていない!
18 無理難題
19 すきとおる肌
20 大人の色香
21 想い出
22 部活動見学
23 ときめき
24 エレメント
25 コダマ親衛隊
26 戦いの宿命
27 麗しの君
28 VENUS登場!
29 迫りくる恐怖
30 統制会のしきたり
31 嫌な予感
32 隠された闇と真実
33 動き出した罠
34 加速してゆく魂
35 激突!
36 絶体絶命
37 呻るマケン
38 バトルダンス
39 トホホな日常
40 鬼ごっこ
41 カミガリ
42 アマノハラ
43 神話の世界
44 タケル覚醒
45 Fly Away ～piano solo ver.～
46 予告編
47 恋愛中毒 (#8挿入歌) (BONUS TRACK)

Track 1 and 45 are clear for me
Thanks in advance :)

Thank you for all your efforts, Herr Salat.

Herr Salat
danke sehr f�r Tokyo Niwatsuki Ikkodate

Pardon?

Even more great contributions by Herr Salat! Wonderful as always, herzliches Dankesch�n ;-)


Pardon?

Is the german answer confusing you?

where can i find this in a clean mp3

T-SQUARE & New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra - Omens of Love - Harmony Live - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXtn1-9gGxw)


the song is the most beautiful thing i have ever heard in my life

Hey, for those that would like to know, the Mists of Pandaria OST has been leaked onto the net so I have updated my complete rip with the cinematic track. You can download it by going to my thread. Thread 119341

Six hours, 26 minutes? *thumps head against wall* ;)

It's the entire score! And there is a lot of good music in there that I guarantee you is not in the OST.

Now granted, a fair amount of that huge score length are variations of each cue, but I am of the philosophy it is better to include them than to trash them.

@tajdjd: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra plays T-Square

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=VRCL-2035

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@tajdjd: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra plays T-Square

Classics T-Square & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [CD] (http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=VRCL-2035)

for free ? no cash right now to buy will save the page tho incase i come onto some

With respect, you've got a reasonable quality version off the Youtube video. A bit of Google research turns up a number of places from where you can find that Royal Philharmonic album (all the links that I found are dead) and also information regarding the DVD from which the Youtube video is from - T Square Visual Anthology Vol. 3.

Can you not search for this stuff yourself?

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Edit:

In other news, Gundam Age breathed its last on Saturday. I have not enjoyed the score at all on the whole; after a promising start on the first album, it quickly degenerated into electronica noise leaving only about five minutes of decent music on OSTs 2 and 3...

The final episode has some decent music that we haven't heard yet - I haven't followed the series since about episode 10, but have been skimming the episodes to check on the score, so I may have missed some other good stuff. Gundams traditionally get four OSTs, with the fourth coming some months after the series has finished, so don't be surprised if OST 4 turns up around Christmas.

All in all, Kei Yoshikawa's not done too badly... at any rate, it's not been as bad as the horrific train wreck that was Kenji Kawai's Gundam 00, but it doesn't bear close comparison to previous scores by Senju, Sahashi, Kanno, Higuchi, etc... Oh, well. It's not like we haven't had some good stuff this year. A disappointing Gundam always brings me down a bit, though.

Hi Salat, thanks for the Ghibli ensemble album!



Anyway...any favorite non-Miyazaki films? What about the scores? I thought Whisper of the Heart was Miyazaki, but it was actually directed by Yoshifumi Kondou, also scores by Yuuji Nomi (thought it was Joe Hisaishi). I am interested in checking out the other Ghibli film (scores). Any Isao Takahata recommendations? :'D

Both Yuji Nomi's a Whisper of the Heart and the Cat Returns are worth a listen in my opinion. If you like others Ghibli, chances are that you will like these two also :)

With respect, you've got a reasonable quality version off the Youtube video. A bit of Google research turns up a number of places from where you can find that Royal Philharmonic album (all the links that I found are dead) and also information regarding the DVD from which the Youtube video is from - T Square Visual Anthology Vol. 3.

Can you not search for this stuff yourself?

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Edit:

In other news, Gundam Age breathed its last on Saturday. I have not enjoyed the score at all on the whole; after a promising start on the first album, it quickly degenerated into electronica noise leaving only about five minutes of decent music on OSTs 2 and 3...

The final episode has some decent music that we haven't heard yet - I haven't followed the series since about episode 10, but have been skimming the episodes to check on the score, so I may have missed some other good stuff. Gundams traditionally get four OSTs, with the fourth coming some months after the series has finished, so don't be surprised if OST 4 turns up around Christmas.

All in all, Kei Yoshikawa's not done too badly... at any rate, it's not been as bad as the horrific train wreck that was Kenji Kawai's Gundam 00, but it doesn't bear close comparison to previous scores by Senju, Sahashi, Kanno, Higuchi, etc... Oh, well. It's not like we haven't had some good stuff this year. A disappointing Gundam always brings me down a bit, though.

wow im sorry if i offend before i asked i did try google for hours

In case anyone missed this:


King Colossus
Arranged by Yasuhide Ito
Sega Sound Orchestra



FLAC
kingcol.rar (http://www.mediafire.com/?dewm29z2attw9b5)

Password: crampshlor@astost-86732409

Original post: http://forums.ffshrine.org/f72/lossless-video-game-soundtrack-thread-links-first-64743/737.html#post2006950

If you're a Rozsa/Poledouris fan this comes highly recommended. Worth the upgrade from the 128kbps. Thanks to Zetto for the rip!

Hey guys. So like most of you, I love, love O Fortuna. An absolutely masterful use of chorus. However, I did have one issue with it...

Just what the heck are they singing? Come on, admit it. The thought went through your head once or twice.

Well, I think I have found the answer.

O Fortuna Misheard Lyrics (Animated) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIwrgAnx6Q8)

THANKS for King Colossus album!!

Thanks a lot for King Colossus, a very nice soundtrack indeed!

Love it, Doublehex!

does anyone have a link to my neighbour totoro Symphonic Suite

and My Neighbor Totoro (CD Single) this on has 2 songs and two instrumentals

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anyone nice could hv it re-up~? THX IN ADVANCE~ :D




Mutant Chronicles movie is kinda lame, but funny and entertaining, so after all... it is cool film:). And score is really surprising. Maybe a bit too much of horror cues on the album, but after all rather good listen (I just love first track:)).

About this japanese drama - for me it's nothing special. Of course it is good track, but nothing more. And I don't like male voices (well, mostly, there are exceptions of course). They just annoy me. No difference here. And about J dramas - if annyone is interested, than I can post Yoshitsune by (one of my fave japanese composers;)) Taro Iwashiro.

And now the main part of my post: Krzesimir Dębski - Stara Baśń (Old Tale) and it's hideous cover art;).





http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UTJSD5K4
password: H4sL0

Hope U'll enjoy it, though it's a bit more "underscorish" than With Fire and Sword (as I remember;)). Still good listen (though 16th track is "kinda" similiar to something else...;)). Except for the last track. Shitty pop song. Just delete it for your own good;).

And one more thing. I just ripped it, so I had no time to check if everything is allright there. So if something's wrong, just tell me.

tajdjd, you mean the "My Neighbor Totoro Orchestra Stories" (http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/soundtracks/totoro/#orchestra), right? (Info on Nausicaa.net (http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/soundtracks/totoro/))




I'll download the Totoro albums from the Ghibli Music Collection (http://bakabt.me/142405-ghibli-music-collection-flac.html) later today, because...I've never listened to them. If you need the whole Ghibli lot, check out that link. You need to use a BitTorrent client, though.


thank you im gonan downloading the hole lot nearly 15gb bound to be some killer tracks there


i gonna download all the movies to see whats all the fuss about there like the pixar of japan ?

If I may, I'd like to present this evening one of the finest scores ever to grace a motion picture. A score written a prominent British classical composer, which in my eyes is one of those rare times when everything just works beautifully. A score that was forcibly ejected from the film by over-zealous studio executives, and replaced by a tacky 80s synthpop score by Eurythmics. Ladies, and gentlemen, I give you...



NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR - The Music Of Oceania (1984)
Composed, orchestrated, and conducted by
DOMINIC MULDOWNEY
Performed by
The Endymion Ensemble
The London Voices (chorusmaster Terry Edwards)



My rip - LAME 3.98.4 - V0 - Scans Included


In case someone who got this is interested, here's my custom cover for Nineteen Eighty Four - The Music of Oceania by Dominic Muldowney

Click for large size.
(http://imgur.com/c5WI4)

You've never seen a Ghibli film? Oof. Download, download like you've never downloaded before! :D

(And if you're ever in Japan, get to the Ghibli Museum. It's just wonderful.)

I would say that the "Japanese Pixar" label is a little unfair. Firstly, it's a disservice to Ghibli - a film studio which produces nothing short of cinematic art. Pixar, by comparison, produce occasionally good CGI fluff in a crowded marketplace of mostly crap CGI fluff... I've enjoyed some Pixar films, sure, but there really is no comparing, say, Wall-E and Howl's Moving Castle. Even when Pixar is trying to be earnest, trying to be genuinely emotional, trying to make something genuine... something always feels wrong. Even in "Up!" - (fascinatingly, know in Japan as "Grandpa Carl's Flying House") it just feels like another tired cliched American CGI movie with some hamfisted emotional content sledgehammered in for "grown-up cred".

Secondly, it implies that Ghibli is trying to be a Pixar duplicate.

Third, they have basically no stylistic tendencies in common, beyond the fact that both studios produce animated films and both studios are known for making better animated films than most of their competitors.

My favourite thing about Ghibli - and picking one favourite thing is really, really hard - is that they're not afraid to stop and just watch the world go by for a while. They have breathing room. They delight in the unremarkable; quiet, natural, beauty. The main thrust of the plot grinds to a halt and we just enjoy the simple pleasure of being alive. In Miyazaki's films, Joe Hisaishi's scores live and breathe just as the world lives and breathes. There is a maturity, an honesty, a directness, an earnestness in Ghibli films that Western studios just don't bother with any more. Pixar give it a bash every now and again, but they're little token gestures sitting in the middle of trashy cliche movies.

Well yeah, there is no comparing Wall-E, or Up for that matter(and how anyone can call anything about that story "cliche" or "hamfisted" is beyond mortal understanding), to Howl's Moving Castle, though I believe we may be leaning on opposite ends here.

I'm kinda meh on both studios lately with most of their recent efforts rarely climbing above "merely ok"(Brave, Arrietty) or "awful"(Cars 2, Ponyo.) Eh, Pixar had Toy Story 3, I guess. :)

I would say that the "Japanese Pixar" label is a little unfair. Firstly, it's a disservice to Ghibli - a film studio which produces nothing short of cinematic art. Pixar, by comparison, produce occasionally good CGI fluff in a crowded marketplace of mostly crap CGI fluff... I've enjoyed some Pixar films, sure, but there really is no comparing, say, Wall-E and Howl's Moving Castle. Even when Pixar is trying to be earnest, trying to be genuinely emotional, trying to make something genuine... something always feels wrong. Even in "Up!" - (fascinatingly, know in Japan as "Grandpa Carl's Flying House") it just feels like another tired cliched American CGI movie with some hamfisted emotional content sledgehammered in for "grown-up cred".

Personally, I'd put Ratatouille up against any Ghibli film. I definitely agree that Ghibli films contain less commercial pandering, but that's largely due to how animation is perceived in different cultures and arguably gives more weight to Pixar's accomplishments. I'd also say that it's unfair to say Pixar is "occasionally good"; I'd say they've produced a series of good to very good films and have lately been on a slide (since Toy Story 3).

While I agree it's unlikely they'll produce a Grave of the Fireflies anytime soon, I do think that Pixar on their "A" game could pull off a Nausicaa or even a Mononoke... especially if they were able to animate in a more traditional style. Something about the 3D modeling still strikes me as gimmicky.

Why does American animation [typically] have the best production values and the worst stories?

I do think that Pixar on their "A" game could pull off a Nausicaa or even a Mononoke

Wishfull thinking imo. No way that American execs would give green light to something as complex, as deep as Mononoke. This is probably my favourite animated film of all time, and one of my fave films in general. It's incredibly well done, Hisaishi score is masterpiece, emotions that flow from the screen are huge and far from childish, this movie makes U think (and what is beautiful, is the fact that it desn't pick sides - it's honest).

Yeah, Nemo is cool movie, fun as hell, with adorable characters, the same goes for Rattatouile (I guess my favourite Pixar). But Oscars and other prizes? Dunno. Also I don't understand huge hype for UP or Wall-e - overrated movies with wonderful start and standard and formulaic after that (eh, talking dogs, inconsistent world in Wall-e...).

Pixar is good as good can popcorn flick go. Ghibli is more than that - it's an art, not all movies of course, some are just simple stories like Cat Returns, Arriety etc., but even those are - for me - far greater movies, far greater expreriences than anything that Pixar did. Pixar is a studio that makes animated comedies after all, Ghibli is studio that makes animated films.

Pixar is good as good can popcorn flick go. Ghibli is more than that - it's an art, not all movies of course, some are just simple stories like Cat Returns, Arriety etc., but even those are - for me - far greater movies, far greater expreriences than anything that Pixar did. Pixar is a studio that makes animated comedies after all, Ghibli is studio that makes animated films.

L. O. L. Also, no "Japan is just better/No way America would be this creative" bullshit arguments please, as they're obnoxious, baseless and take only the barest effort to blast holes into.

Such arguments are simplistic, but compelling. Japan isn't "better" but their industry is in a different place with regards to standards, style, and intentions. America has produced some of the finest animated films ever made by anybody, and some of the finest films of any genre, but they're not doing so at the moment. I don't for one moment doubt that there are animators and directors in America (or the UK, or any other country with a substantial history of animation) who could produce a Nausicaa, or a Grave Of The Fireflies... but no studio would touch it, finance it, or promote it with a barge pole. Creativity isn't dead; it's merely out of vogue, undesired, and misunderstood by the people with the power (ie, money).


Why does American animation [typically] have the best production values and the worst stories?

Money, money, money.

Not that I would agree with that, for a moment. Most American animation, these days, is soulless CGI. They can't make an animated film without a giant render farm and hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of software. Ghibli can make an animated film with a camera and a box of paints. Yes, I'm aware that Ghibli films use CGI sequences in places and that they've done digital ink and paint, but my point is there's human films made by humans.

I'd put the production values of Gake no ue no Ponyo ahead of any Pixar movie, any day of the week. It doesn't matter how much money you threw at it, or how many programmers worked on the physics subroutine ensuring a character's FUR moves realistically, or accurately modelling the behaviour of a helium-filled balloon.

I'm going to be really unpopular (particularly with NaotaM, doing his usual trick of turning up after two months absent to disagree with everything I've said - missed you, old buddy ;) ) when I say this, but I find Gake no ue no Ponyo (I'm not calling it Ponyo; that's the name of that Disney trash with Miley Cyrus and a rap song over the end credits) to be a masterpiece. Admittedly, it did take a few viewings for me to really accept the film - but once I finally got it, you couldn't prise me away. (Speaking of end credits, why are there more American names [and they come first] on the Disney versions of Ghibli films than Japanese? Hundreds of skilled Japanese animators toiled long, arduous hours to produce the masterpiece you're watching, but NEVER MIND THAT because we need to see where the dialogue was recorded, who was the translator, who was in charge of "localisation" (ie, insulating Americans from unfamiliar cultures by converting every Japanese concept into its nearest American equivalent) and who lent their voices to the atrocious dub! It's not your movie, guys. If you have to splatter your names all over it, do it at the end and for as short-a-time as you can manage.)

Anyway, I digress.

Incidentally, I watched Ratatouille and thoroughly hated every minute of it - including Giacchino's patronising, work-a-day stereotype score. Yet another entry in the oft-trod "talking animals beating humans at their own game" genre I can well do without. It's a cut above the rest - but that's no compliment; merely a piercing insult to "the rest". It has an unusually complex plot (for a Western animated film) and unusually genuine emotional content (for a Western animated film) but it's all relative.

Such arguments are simplistic, but compelling. Japan isn't "better" but their industry is in a different place with regards to standards, style, and intentions. America has produced some of the finest animated films ever made by anybody, and some of the finest films of any genre, but they're not doing so at the moment. I don't for one moment doubt that there are animators and directors in America (or the UK, or any other country with a substantial history of animation) who could produce a Nausicaa, or a Grave Of The Fireflies... but no studio would touch it, finance it, or promote it with a barge pole. Creativity isn't dead; it's merely out of vogue, undesired, and misunderstood by the people with the power (ie, money).

Such arguments are "compelling" only to the culturally biased, woefully uniformed and/or unbelievably stupid. Japan's "standards" lololo. The old adage(well ok, Twilight Zone episode) remains forever true: People are the same everywhere. Having kept up to date on the latest anime productions and trends of the last several years, and taking a brief glimpse at the releases' of years past, the idea of Japan being more open to creativity and having artistic standards is utter bunk. Period. People have this sad tendency to forget Ghibli is not representative of the majority in Japanese animation. Their name carries a lot of clout, but many of their finest works don't perform terribly well in the box office, and their cultural attitudes and approach to storytelling are not common ones. Animation, as always, is part of the business machine first and foremost, and for the overwhelming majority, ratings, checklists and demographics are the Alpha and Omega.

Look at television schedules. Tepid slice-of-life, formulaic shounen, manga and LN adaptations and moe/alarming incest dross as far as the eye can see. Actual creative, artistic endeavors and few and far between, and have been since the dawn of the medium. Even simply within the sphere of filmmaking, the pool of reputable anime directors has always been relatively small, and with the tragic passing of Satoshi Kon and Miyazaki and Takahata not getting any younger(or any more seasoned), is rapidly dwindling. I'm not even gonna touch the cheesetastic wasteland that is live-action J-TV/Film. This idea that Japan is a hotbed of artistic wonder and pure creative expression, especially now, just because Ghibli happens to be there is naive to the extreme. Sturgeon's Law exists for a reason. Nor do I buy for one second that an America that still gives work to Nolan, Tarantino, Spike Lee, Sundance, etc. is any more creatively bankrupt than anywhere else, and this is coming from someone who despises Hollywood and its recent trends.

Moving past silly statements about "soulless CGI" or whatever;I guess people just become unfeeling sub-humans when certified as programmers. Paint, CG, clay, woodcraft, it's all just tools utilized by human hands, none any more or less "valid" than any other outide of how well they're implemented or how fake they appear, and to argue Pixar looks fake is to be hilariously, objectively wrong; just gonna reiterate I adore both studios and see little point in comparing the two, largely because such arguments tend to devolve into exactly this kind of East vs. West claptrap. As an artistic whole, Ghibli tends to appeal to me just a tad more because they tend to pry more into fantastical, complex themes that speak to me, but I generally enjoy Pixar films on their own merits far more, and for the record, would put Rattatouie, Up, Nemo and especially Wall-E and Incredibles over any Ghibli film any day of the week. Sorry, but just gotta be me. :) (Also for the record, I despise Nausicaa; it's shallow, subtle as an inflatable tube man, and were it not for its incredibly iconic reputation, the fact that it basically put Ghibli on the map and connection to the earlier manga, which is admittedly a masterpiece, it would be among the most easily ignorable items in the studio's catalogue. After all, Miyazaki did the same exact thing far better in Mononoke, so who the fuck really needs it?) Show me the Ghibli film that elicits powerful emotion for two silly, sweet robots solely through visuals, CGI and little to no dialogue. I thought so.

I kinda wish Miyazaki would just go away for awhile, perhaps forever, so some new, interesting talent can finally take that studio in a new, interesting direction, because the man has long passed his peak and neither of those adjectives can reasonably describe them these days. The man's earned his place as a legend, he'll be fine.


(particularly with NaotaM, doing his usual trick of turning up after two months absent to disagree with everything I've said - missed you, old buddy

Never meant anything by it. You just tend to have the biggest mouth, is all. ;P

I know Japan has its share of trash - but it's not all there is! I am not nor would I ever suggest that everything that comes out of Japan is Godlike and everything that comes out of America is crap. Japan is a land of media extremes; we have the vapid cheap kiddy anime, and we have the breathtaking art films, and we have everything in between. Ghibli is not representatitve; but it is there and it is reverred. America, in its current film climate, would not create a Ghibli nor would it sustain one if one already existed. All the people exist who could make films that would knock Ghibli down to the bottom of the ladder... but they're not getting work. The guys who make Kung Fu Panda 12, Ice Age 23, and Shrek 45 are getting the work because trash sells.


...culturally biased, woefully uniformed and/or unbelievably stupid.... utter bunk... naive to the extreme... silly statements... hilariously, objectively wrong... claptrap...

Grow up.

I know Japan has its share of trash - but it's not all there is!...Ghibli is not representatitve; but it is there and it is reverred. America, in its current film climate, would not create a Ghibli nor would it sustain one if one already existed.



Pixar...Disney

all my sighs

I can understand why dismissing (todays) american animation in favor of japanese animation can be seen as a snobish and narrow-minded but that is really not the case. I understand Tango's view on pixar and ghibli and I agree. The thing is, I love american animated movies like Fantasia, Aladdin, Iron Giant and Beauty and the Beast (even Huncheback and Mulan with their fantastic scores and gorgeous visuals), but that was over a decade ago and Disney has not crafted anything worth my time since, unfortunatly.

Pixar never impressed me. They make good "family" movies but that's about it. They almost never try to bring something great, thought-provoking and out of this world to the screen. Call me interested when they decide to animate a full scale space opera with lots of deaths, tears and tragedies for political ideals and people's ambitions. Or how about a small and delicate story about a young man who lost his chance with the woman of his life and has to learn to accept it and move on. Or even a movie about appreciating the little things in life or even the fact that being alive is a wonder in itself. Please no more talking animals or cars, when you have to do it, do it like Secret of Nimh with class and grace please.

"Class and grace" on the other hand, is something Ghibli excells at. The beauty of the moment in Kurenai no Buta, Tenkū no Shiro Rapyuta or Mononoke-hime is simply magical. It's an atmosphere I find difficult to describe, simply out of this world. The best part about japanese animated movies is the fact that sometimes you have to think in order to know what's going on. The movie challenges your ability to grasp it's complexity and to understand the symbolism and metaphors to know what is really going on or what the movie is really trying to say. Usually this is something a great movie or a great show will do in general but american animation is still on the "entertainment for kids" route and something as beautiful and poetic as Jin-Roh will not be made in the west anytime soon.

Another thing that disturbs me greatly is the fact that the japanese entertainment industry seems to care more about our cultural history than we do: The classic fairytales, the plays of Shakespeare and Schiller, classic literature and (most important of all) classical music, all thrive and live in japanese animation. In the west it's usually just a shallow image made for quick box office money.

Heh. All I'm even gonna bother gonna saying to any of that is that if all Pixar films seem like to you are "good family movies and that's it", you aren't looking hard enough.

But anyway, music

I've been playing this to death lately:
Link (http://www.sendspace.com/file/wxicsj)

The Peace Walker medley from the Metal Gear 25th anniv. album (http://vgmdb.net/album/33412).

A question for the orchestral experts here: The orchestrator of the medley, Nobuko Toda, seems to have done a lot more than just VGM. According to the IMDB resume (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1773881/resume) she's also done several film and TV series scores. However either the films/series are so obscure that there never was any official release of the soundtracks, or I'm just too stupid to dig these up.

E.g. a search for her name on Amazon.co.jp yields nothing at all (yes, there are two items in the search results -- but I don't see her connection to the products at all). A english Wikipedia article doesn't exist and the one on the Japanese wiki is surprisingly short and doesn't even feature something like a discography. Her website (filmscore.jp)... nothing.

Something that might be what I'm looking for: GNCL-7005 (http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=GNCL-7005)
Supposedly (according to both IMDB and japanese Wiki) she has scored this film. But neither CDJ nor Amazon.co.jp mention her on the product page. She's kinda like a ghost...

Any ideas?

Oh, what�s this? A full out debate in which not only can I make sense out of things, but I am on an equal level? Yes! About damn time!

Also, this is the first time when I am more or less in agreement with NatoM. Ghibli is great, and so is Pixar. Both are of equal quality, for the most part. I mean, I would even dare to say that Pixar is ever so slightly ahead of Ghibli just because of the opening scenes of WALL-E and Up. I have never seen Ghibli open up any film with 20 minutes of silence, and never have I seen a Ghibli film open up with so much emotion and character as Up did. There is more emotion in that opening scene than in all of the Ghibli films combined � and this is coming from someone who adores Ghibli, who has seen all of their films a dozen times over (except for Graves of the Fireflies. Once is enough). Pixar is a fantastic, wonderful studio, and by no means is not just some mere �family movie� factory.

Now Tango, you say Ghibli is revered and no studio would ever come out like that in the West. Well, you are only half right. Ghibli is revered, but once Ghibli is gone (and it will come someday) then it will be a while before Japan has another studio like that. Nearly every other animation studio in Japan is just as bad and good as all of the ones here in the States. Ghibli is an anomaly in a field mostly filled with unadulterated crap.

And klnerfan, you say that there is no movie out there that approaches the sense of quality of Ghibli�well one just came out. ParaNorman is a wonderful, beautiful and totally mesmerizing film that has all of the qualities of a Ghibli film. You want a quiet, serene, tear jerking moment? One of the final scenes of that film will make you cry. I got teary eyed at the end, and no �damn onions� comment was going to get me out of that.

I've been playing this to death lately:
Link (http://www.sendspace.com/file/wxicsj)

The Peace Walker medley from the Metal Gear 25th anniv. album (http://vgmdb.net/album/33412).

A question for the orchestral experts here: The orchestrator of the medley, Nobuko Toda, seems to have done a lot more than just VGM. According to the IMDB resume (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1773881/resume) she's also done several film and TV series scores. However either the films/series are so obscure that there never was any official release of the soundtracks, or I'm just too stupid to dig these up.

E.g. a search for her name on Amazon.co.jp yields nothing at all (yes, there are two items in the search results -- but I don't see her connection to the products at all). A english Wikipedia article doesn't exist and the one on the Japanese wiki is surprisingly short and doesn't even feature something like a discography. Her website (filmscore.jp)... nothing.

Something that might be what I'm looking for: GNCL-7005 (http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=GNCL-7005)
Supposedly (according to both IMDB and japanese Wiki) she has scored this film. But neither CDJ nor Amazon.co.jp mention her on the product page. She's kinda like a ghost...

Any ideas?

Never heard anything of the sort. Color me intrigued.

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I have never seen Ghibli open up any film with 20 minutes of silence, and never have I seen a Ghibli film open up with so much emotion and character as Up did.

But those openings are lost oportunities. After great first minutes of UP we've got really mediocre movie, with annoying characters and a bit absurd in the middle and idiotic during finale story. Same goes for Wall-E. Wonderful first 30 minutes or so and after that mediciority with obvious moral but with adorable characters. Also I hate that thing with real actors in Wall-E, it totally kills any mood for me, and I just can't buy a world, where people changed into cartoons...

Pixar is odd studio, they've got good concepts, but they don't know what to do with them - so they do animated comedies for everybody - it will make money for sure, why risk in something deeper, right?

And I wasn't speaking earlier about "American" films in general, for example Iron Giant is wonderfuly great film and is better than any Pixar movie. And it floped... I might add, that most of anime IMO is PoS. Unwatchable crap. But the same goes for american animation. Pixar shines brighter than other studios (and Dreamworks is trying to outshine them), but on the world map of animation Ghibli is the sun. Sorry;).

Not feeling well today & therefore not up to my usual standards of whingeing. Normal service will be resumed shortly. :)

She also did the first track on the Play For Japan Vol. 1 (http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/play-for-japan-the-album/id450785090).
Yeah, I know that one. I consider it VGM, since the album is primarily done by prominent videogame composers.

Same goes for Wall-E. Wonderful first 30 minutes or so and after that mediciority with obvious moral but with adorable characters. Also I hate that thing with real actors in Wall-E, it totally kills any mood for me, and I just can't buy a world, where people changed into cartoons...


Yes! Wall-E was so painful in the second half, barely worth my time. It started out strong but lost its way somewhere. Of course the heavy-handed message they included there doesn't help either.

I agree with Tango that Ponyo is indeed a masterpiece. It is such a powerful film and really grabs me. I don't think that ALL Ghibli films are great (Arietty was generic and kinda boring) but when they hit it out of the park, they do a great job. Pixar has given its share of quality but lately I have lost my excitement over the name.

I also agree with NaotaM, there are going to be mounds of mediocre releases from every country in the world and a couple of masterpieces from every country. American films are not always fantastic but then every once in a while you get a film like There Will be Blood and things are right in the world for a while. Like NaotaM said, most anime is generic and over-using of stereotypes but every few years they release something like Code Geass and it is enough to blow you away with its brilliance.

Code Geass? Brilliance? I dare say we have to disagree. I would call that a humongous mess, a clusterfuck of ideas and poor execution of tropes. It tried to appeal to everyone, and in the end it ended up leaving you with nothing.

I agree with Doublehex on this one (it was fun to watch though). Personally I would love to see another Baccano! or Gankutsuou but a couple of stellar series and movies come out almost every year while the generic stereotype commercial stuff is always present and in overwhelming number. I believe this has always been the case with Japan, like Tango said, it's an industry of extremes.

I agree with Doublehex on this one (it was fun to watch though). Personally I would love to see another Baccano! or Gankutsuou but a couple of stellar series and movies come out almost every year while the generic stereotype commercial stuff is always present and in overwhelming number. I believe this has always been the case with Japan, like Tango said, it's an industry of extremes.

I think that is the case with every country. I mean, in video games we just got Spec Ops: The Line which is absolutely fantastic. And we just got MoH: Warfighter, which is a pretty generic shooter I'm sure. And then Black Ops 2 soon after. In film, there is ParaNorman, The Master, Hotel Transylvania (I've heard), and hopefully The Hobbit.