TARI TARI Music Album ~Utattari, Kanadetari~ (Shiro Hamaguchi) [MP3 V0]
DISC 1 ONLY (I couldn't stand any of the vocal tacks on the second disc and hopefully, you guys won't rip me apart for not uploading it)




Click me! (http://www.mediafire.com/?vorfbbtqz4ldzgx)



Many thanks

Xiami Download Abuse Tutorial (Page 1) (http://www.doujinstyle.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=3576) :'D

Great site with lots of gems I've never even heard of, but it can also be enormously annoying at times, between sketchy registration recognition and just flat out downloading the wrong songs multiple times.

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Nice thread keep up the good work :).

Title: Kaitakushatachi (The Pioneers)
Composer: Yugo Kanno
Release Date: 21.03.2012
Label: Rambling Records
Catalog Number: RBCP2613
Format: AAC
Bit Rate: 256kbps
Size: 123MB (+10% Recovery)
Tracks: 21

Booklet scans: Not available

Track Listing:

1. Pioneers ~Main Theme~
2. The Beginning
3. When the People Smile
4. The Eyes of a Friend
5. War
6. Occupied Land
7. Beyond the Border
8. Snow
9. Back Alive
10. Hunger
11. Whistling
12. The Value of Life
13. Family
14. Captivity
15. Pioneers ~Here Lies Hope~

16. Song of Life (Orchestral Version)
Composer: Takatsugu Muramatsu

Thanks to NaotaM (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/432.html#post2197728) for the English tracknames :'D

From the iTunes Store.

https://mega.co.nz/#!iBYCCTxJ!Z75h4XZrFoSn2ZOqd2HEpn3WSccYdyfXzCUWPlu q_t8

Holy shit! That opening cue in that Yugo Kanno score is delightful! More Kanno drama scores please!

Herr Salat, did you buy that album through Japanese iTunes?

Nah, German iTunes Store. But it's still Japanese file/track names, don't ask me why / it's the Japanese publisher's fault.

Thanks I'll be checking that out soon.

That Yugo Kanno score isn't bad. Wish I could find the Candidate For Goddess soundtracks. Can't find the CDs anywhere, and still no lossless versions. Unless my search methods are very wrong.

That Yugo Kanno score isn't bad. Wish I could find the Candidate For Goddess soundtracks. Can't find the CDs anywhere, and still no lossless versions. Unless my search methods are very wrong.

Well, this one was really easy... Download Candidate for Goddess OST torrent - BakaBT (http://bakabt.me/11144-candidate-for-goddess-ost.html)

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Love me some Yugo Kanno, thanks for the upload!

I'll upload some Yugo Kanno as well in few days.

Well, this one was really easy... Download Candidate for Goddess OST torrent - BakaBT (http://bakabt.me/11144-candidate-for-goddess-ost.html)

For a second it got up to 10KB/Sec. This is EXACTLY why I don't bother with torrents. Thanks anyway though.

For a second it got up to 10KB/Sec. This is EXACTLY why I don't bother with torrents. Thanks anyway though.

I don't know about that particular torrent but I get most of my music from torrents just fine. Grab a good client and just wait a bit until seeders appear (you don't even have to wait for most music torrents on BakaBT as they are really fast).

EDIT: Since I really enjoy that album, I'll upload it on mediafire for you and others' convenience.

EDIT 2: FLAC links for The Candidate For Goddess Original Soundtrack by Tomoyuki Asakawa
Part I (http://www.mediafire.com/?kmtz8yd1wu8nm89)
Part II (http://www.mediafire.com/?5easwas8bqd5cf6)

Thanks I appreciate it. I used Utorrent as suggested by Tango and it seemed alright. Didn't bog down my system and worked alright, just had slow seeders. And so you know I didn't just start it, look for only a few second then give up. I really did give it and a few other files a good chance. Call me a control freak but I just really don't like the randomness of it all. I appreciate the idea, it's a good idea, when it works. My internet activities literally are all over the map, so torrents with their sometimes on nature, especially for more obscure files which I seem to be after more than more mainstream downloads, just aren't seeded so much anymore, so it kinda becomes a pain in the arse for me. If you have a better clients in mind (which doesn't make my computer run like frozen molasses) I really would give it another shot.

Diplomat Kousuke Kuroda ~ "Time to Say Goodbye"
Yugo Kanno



diplomat.rar | Game Front (http://www.gamefront.com/files/22579347/diplomat.rar)



Dignity of Hegemony
Yugo Kanno



dignity of hegemony.rar | Game Front (http://www.gamefront.com/files/22579378/dignity+of+hegemony.rar)


Fumo Chitai
Yugo Kanno, main theme by Ryuichi Sakamoto, track 16 a Tom Waits cover




fumo chitai.rar | Game Front (http://www.gamefront.com/files/22579416/fumo+chitai.rar)


Files should already have English names.

Pioneers Tracklist

1. Pioneers ~Main Theme~
2. The Beginning
3. When the People Smile
4. The Eyes of a Friend
5. War
6. Occupied Land
7. Beyond the Border
8. Snow
9. Back Alive
10. Hunger
11. Whistling
12. The Value of Life
13. Family
14. Captivity
15. Pioneers ~Here Lies Hope~
16. Song of Life (Orchestral Version)

jlaidler - it doesn't sound like a problem unique to you. That is why torrents aren't perfect, either the original poster has to seed them for a long time or hope that someone else will. Either way, you are often going to try to connect to older torrents and find you can't grab them at all. I'd rather re-up a file every once in a while than keep a torrent open forever seeding.

Here's a new isolated score rip I recently did.

Bernard Herrmann: Jane Eyre 320k


http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RGI8WSVE

No track titles, sorry. I believe the recording has been released in some form before, as well as a rerecording by Adriano. This is an interesting version in that it includes some between-take studio noise, even one instance where Benny thanks the orchestra and promises to come by individually. The dvd has a pretty cool commentary track with Steven Smith, Herrmann's biographer as well.

reup please !

maybe this is a bit out off topic, but I just realized that Lincoln is going out just in a few days and I didn't heard any preview of the music. And now, looking for some samples (typical 30'' can be found here (http://www.jwfan.com/?p=4950)) I just heard this great two introductions:
-SoundTRAX - Episode 13: Exclusive LINCOLN*Soundtrack! - News - GeekTyrant (http://geektyrant.com/news/2012/10/30/soundtrax-episode-13-exclusive-lincoln-soundtrack.html) released 2 days ago
-THIS JUST IN #19 | Cinematic Sound Radio | The Home For Film, TV and Video Game Music Radio Since 1996 (http://www.cinematicsound.net/this-just-in-19/)

Such is life. Heaven help us if the file sharing sites really do go completely bust. Be some dark times for all of us.

I'll be damned, Tango was right again, Gundam Age Vol.4 out on 21.11.12. Unfortunately no new Hellsing Soundtrack CD, my only hope now is the blueray collection of OVA VI-X.

Naoki Sato
Fireboys: Megumi No Daigo

http://d2oz5j6ef5tbf6.cloudfront.net/cd/small/Fireboys_SRCL5661.gif

Download (from xiami) (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/162TR5N8/Firefighters.zip_links)

This is just the orchestral stuff.

I don't think there's any new music in the latest OVAs - I skimmed the last one and it was Gradus Vita dialled down so low you could barely tell what it was, for a few minutes at the beginning, then a load of electric guitars and some synthy chanting shit. :(

OVA 9 has almost no orchestral pieces (in contrast to the others), but OVA 8 has at least four new pieces (Symphony of War, Lord Dracula, Wallachian Army, Alucard vs Anderson). Then there're at least three pieces missing from the earlier OVAs. I bet the last one will have a fair share of new material as well, I even hope for a pastoral version of Gradus Vita at the end. All of that would make for a fine last CD wouldn't you say ;)

It would be a terrible life without another CD, because Hellsing is one of my favorite orchestral scores and perhaps the best musical score for the Dracula Legacy.

Probably the only well written thing fo rthe Dracula legacy too. Funny how it took the Japanese to make something good with it.

Such is life. Heaven help us if the file sharing sites really do go completely bust. Be some dark times for all of us.

Only for people who are irrationally afraid of torrents or whatever replaces them in a few years time.

Probably the only well written thing fo rthe Dracula legacy too. Funny how it took the Japanese to make something good with it.

Kilar's Dracula and Glass' Dracula would like to have more than a few words with you.

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Only for people who are irrationally afraid of torrents or whatever replaces them in a few years time.

I'm not so much afraid of them as I prefer to avoid them. They tend to be either very good or very bad - I just finished a torrent that took me FIVE days to dl for a 130 MB .rar.

Back in the ed2k days you could wait months for 50MB to finish...

Suna no Utsuwa Original Soundtrack/The story of the Last Symphony [FLAC]
Music by Akira Senju


Part I (http://www.mediafire.com/?1osqsh6kar7597q)
Part II (http://www.mediafire.com/?575g1dz3h7ddalt)

This is a FLAC rip from my CD. The album has a dark/melancholic theme with the first two tracks being magnificent piano concertos.

TBS Friday Drama "Umareru" Original Soundtrack [MP3 320]
Music by Yuugo Kanno


Mediafire (http://www.mediafire.com/?xay4sp1wmfh9c5f)

Not my rip. Credit goes to the original uploader.
To me, this is not the best Yuugo Kanno but still very enjoyable. The only tracks I had to skip were the synth ones (there are about 4 of them).

Back in the ed2k days you could wait months for 50MB to finish...

Still a right pain in the bum. And thanks again for putting words in my mouth Tango.

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I didn't do it the last time (for which you still owe me an apology) and I didn't this time either. I stated a logical fact; only folk who dislike torrents will have a problem if File Lockers disappear. Since 99.9% of the downloaders on the internet recognise torrents as an effective and safe means to share files - any pronounced opposition to them (fear or otherwise) must by definition be irrational.

Anyway, how about we lighten the mood with some music - which, ironically, comes from a torrent which I have downloaded, re-encoded, tagged, and re-uploaded for the convenience of the good folk in this thread.


HIROSHI TAKAKI AND SLAVEK KOWALEWSKI
AKB0048
Studio Orchestra



MP3 (LAME 3.99.5 -V0 - my encode from WAV original downloaded from Japanese blog) - (GO4UP - multiple mirrors): GO4UP : Upload everywhere ! (http://go4up.com/dl/1UuY1NbpqrGv)
FLAC coming up in a few hours - I'm off for dinner now...

Oh, yeah, baby! It's HERE! Are you listening, klnerfan??? :D

So, who's have thunk it? Crappy cash grab anime designed to hook even more people into the merchandising trap of AKB48 - a hyperpopular (in that particularly Japanese way) J-pop girl group. Riiight.

What we have is a fairly flimsy sci-fi plot (in a future dystopian society, music is forbidden, so a bunch of girls with crazy coloured-hair, inspired by this crazy band from hundreds of years ago - AKB48 - form a new
girl group to spread music and joy through the universe and have big space battles at the same time... or some crap like that) providing numerous excuses to play songs by this group. A score no-hoper, if ever there was one. All pop songs and some cheap electronic trash to fill in the gaps, right?

Only, it's not - it's a surprisingly muscular symphonic score by none other than Hiroshi Takaki, interspersed with really, really BRILLIANT orchestral versions of AKB48's biggest smash hits. Takaki uses the cheesy J-pop melodies very deftly indeed, leading to pieces like the very first on the album - Heavy Rotation - which is three minutes of joy filled with wonderful little sci-fi flourishes and endless melody.

The orchestra is probably a little bigger than your average TV anime orchestra, and they get a nice workout. The recording is kinda odd in places - it sounds like one of those "every musician recorded in a different place on a different day then glued together in the mixing studio" scores that has some fairly odd sonics as a result; a nicely recorded, naturally reverberating string section, mixed with strangulated, nasal, and dry sounding brass, close-miked to a point of claustrophobia. It's absolutely forgiveable, in any case.

You even get some straightforward sci-fi underscore (track 8, for example) - a smashing little action cue.

I have tagged everything according to VGMDB - accordingly, the symphonic versions of AKB48 songs are credited to their original composers and not to Takaki, who's role in these tracks is clearly more than that of a mere orchestrator. I thought this was still a good idea, though, as I wouldn't want to denigrate the efforts of the band members... so let's just go along with the fact that it's essentially a Takaki score very substantially based on somebody else's melodies.

Enjoy, ladies and gentlemen! :D

wait wat

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Only for people who are irrationally afraid of torrents or whatever replaces them in a few years time.

Not "irrationally afraid" as you say, just more along the lines of what Doublehex said. They can be effective if a bunch of people are seeding them at the same time AND for long enough to get the whole thing before it suddenly comes to a stop or near stop. So I do recognise they can sometimes be effective, but unlike a complete file squirreled away on a server somewhere, older torrents aren't likely to work too well. Me, I'm more of a "casual downloader" so I can't have my PC on all day or for many days just to finish the odd file. Especially since I modified my internet habits after being hacked back in April. That was really nasty. So regardless of how safe the torrents are, it's still a bad idea to leave one's machine on and connected for so long at a time. As for the seeding thing, safest way I can think of is to have a separate machine purposed as a home server of sorts to cut the risk to the main PC. Also, you have a source for that 99.9% claim? Not challenging the validity either way, just would like to know where you found that number.

Of course I don't have a source for it. It's a casual observation based on the fact that effing everybody who has ever used the internet for any sort of downloading has used BitTorrent - or some other peer-to-peer technology.

A torrent is as good as its seeding. It is fast and reliable for as long as it is well seeded. It is always available even if it is seeded by just one person. It will certainly be slower, but it will be available. Filelockers, on the other hand, have a guaranteed availability of little more than a week, a pretty-good-chance availability of a month or two, and almost guaranteed death within 6 months or so. In other words, I think that, let's say, a two year-old torrent has a MUCH better chance at still being alive than does a two year-old Rapidshare/SomebodyShare link.

Obviously it can be a shit to have some wheezing old torrent running stupidly slowly; my only point is that if it's a choice between a torrent and nothing, most people will suck it up and download the torrent. Some really nice folk might re-upload it to a filelocker/Usenet/whatever to save other people the trouble. Only a small minority will bellyache about the inconvenience to which they are subjected and seek to alleviate some of said inconvenience by asking other people to voluntarily inconvenience THEMSELVES!

The basic crux of your argument seems to be that something bad happened to your computer (whether through a lack of security, improper configuration, outdated software, ignorance, or just sheer bad luck, I don't know) and as a result every second you're on the internet you're terrified that it will happen again. You want to get your download done in the minimum amount of time possible and get off the internet so the bad guys can't find you. An understandable reaction from anybody who's been stung... but still an ultimately irrational one. You can protect yourself - and I have to say that my personal experience tells me that people who get completely f**ked by some terrific internet-related breach have usually brought it on themselves. There is bad stuff out there that will get you regardless of how careful and how clever you are - that's just the way it goes. You secure yourself as much as you can to prevent problems - and you take measures to protect your important things in the event the problems come regardless. Being afraid of the internet on the grounds that bad stuff can happen is like being afraid to leave your house because you might get mugged, hit by a bus, or struck by lightning. Yes, they're all possibilities but we take the best precautions we can (not carrying masses of cash and expensive stuff on your person, looking before crossing the road, not sheltering under trees during a storm, etc) and then we get on with our lives.

Same thing on the internet.

For the record, I'm a heavy downloader, and a heavy internet user. The last time something bad happened to me was four years ago; my home server was hacked and unknown Russian mobsters used my VOIP gateway to make international phone calls. They ran up a bill of about �30 and it was entirely my fault because I had misconfigured the gateway. When I saw what they'd done, I kicked them off, restored the server from a backup, changed all the passwords, and fixed the security hole. We're talking about a server which is switched on every minute of every day. It's been switched on for two years now. It's a email server, FTP server, VOIP gateway, download station (Usenet, torrents, HTTP) and media manager. I keep it up to date, I have internet security measures in place, and I don't do stupid stuff on it. It's been on the internet 24 hours a day for two years. Guess how many times it's been hacked?

Point is... whether you have a server or not... if you're smart and you keep your house in order, the internet is mostly safe. Sometimes you're unlucky and you get screwed. Sometimes you're stupid and you get screwed. That's the way it goes.

Exactly. I never said I hated torrents per-se, just dislike their limitations. And of course I know file locker type places have their own foibles. I do appreciate other people uploading stuff to a file locker type place even if especially these days they have a limited shelf life. If the twits who owned Megaupload hadn't been doing such stupid crap to get themselves into trouble most of those links would be available to this day, because I was downloading stuff from that site uploaded sometimes a year or more before I downloaded them. And no, I'm not adverse these days to using torrents if it were the only course for some things. Of course I'd have to find out when the better times of the day are to try it considering the peer to peer system. And yeah, I got super unlucky back then, but it did teach me to be more careful about things in future. Since PeeGee seems to work very well for all the anime I download I might try getting an account and see about uploading a few things myself, just been hanging back these last months and keeping watch on the situation. Maybe when I finally retire my current rig I'll see into setting it up as a torrent server of sorts, will just have to do some research on that. Cheers.

Thanks to Herr Salat for the new addition to the Senju discography!

Hi

I know this was posted back in 2009 but the download links have expired and I am desperate for this music. Can you help Pleeeeasssee.

Regards
Recoill1975

You've neglected to mention what it was you were after!

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Ohh NOOO Tytania! This will just remind me of how atrociously small the orchestra in AKB0048 is...! ;)

I feel another big Takaki post coming up tonight...

Still not small enough to diminish my enjoyment of it :) Love almost every note of this little gem. Very exciting news about a second season, will definetly put this on my watchlist. Once again Japan continues to surprise me.

*Waits patiently for Tango's next upload*


EDIT: Here's a custom cover I made for AKB0048

Very fitting that you uploaded this AKB0048 score to the thread considering a song from the group is in Wreck it Ralph. I noticed the name in the credits today and laughed.

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

Thanks to Kaiju Kaizer

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

Thank you for this. I was pretty surprised that Hikaru Nanase wrote music for this tokusatsu series.
And I think people just looked over your post because it's without a description or anything but this is definitely worth checking out.

I have the CD of soundtrack 2 but there isn't much to scan in the booklet. I can upload lossless of soundtrack 2 of Tytania if enough people want it.

*cheshire cat grin*

Has FLAC for Sinfonia Tytania ever turned up? OST 2 is good but it's mainly the offcuts - stuff that didn't fit in the symphony...

Or shall I put it on my Tokyo shopping list?

I haven't seen it in flac tango. You are right about ost 2 though, that is why I haven't been quick to post it in flac.

Hmm... I think I'm going to need to rob a bank...

BTW Tango - your tags for this AKB0048 score could be improved greatly by simply adding a tag for Album Artist. You could then keep all the individual track artists on there but still organize it under the main composer - Hiroshi Takaki.

William's score for Lincoln doesn't help my cause in convincing people he doesn't just imitate Copland all the time. :(

Can you point me to a good recording of a Copland piece that sounds as good as Lincoln? Most of the time when I hear people say that X score imitates X classical piece, the similarities are there but not pronounced enough that I really would rather just listen to the classical piece.

William's score for Lincoln doesn't help my cause in convincing people he doesn't just imitate Copland all the time. :(

Just play Vaughn Williams music, and it should prove your case (not that Lincoln sounds like Vaughn)

Can you point me to a good recording of a Copland piece that sounds as good as Lincoln?

I haven't heard any of Lincoln but Copland's 3rd Symphony, particularly the finale, is all kinds of awesome. I uploaded it a while back.

The Americana sound that Copland advocated was put to use mostly in Fanfare for the Common Man (which was the basis for the Symphony No. 3), Appalachian Spring, Quiet City, Our Town, Rodeo, and Billy the Kid. There are lesser known works by Copland that utilize the same effects, but generally the idea is winds playing soft shaker-like hymns with the wind instruments of the orchestra. Also, trumpet solos. I'm not saying Williams is ripping anyone off (like Horner ripped off Our Town in Field of Dreams, for example), but it's obvious where the inspiration came from, and has been coming from for decades. American movies about America often get the Copland-esque treatment. Other composers that did this are Newton Howard (Wyatt Earp) and Thomas Newman (Shawshank Redemption, Horse Whisperer, etc.) It's a good sound. It works. But Williams isn't breaking any new ground here, so for that I'm a little disappointed.

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The main theme in Year One in the North evokes the feeling of cold in me. I always picture snowy mountains with freezing wind blowing in my face while listening to it. The only other soundtrack which evokes this feeling is John Debney's White Fang 2. Weird.

Lhurgoyf, could you re-upload John Debney's White Fang 2 score for me? :'D

Herr Salat: Yes I can do that. Do you require FLAC, or V0 is enough?

FLAC please :'D

A little bit of good news. Both Hamaguchi's Girls und Panzer and Takayuki's Code Breaker have confirmed, physical score releases - both scheduled for Boxing Day. They both seemed like prime candidates for the "bonus CD" phenomenon... so I'm pleased to see them getting a proper release. One Piece Film Z is getting a release near the end of the year as well (Hamaguchi again with Tanaka).

Still waiting for announcement of Zetsuen no Tempest (Oshima), Magi (Sagisu), and Tanken Driland (Hirano), and Gyrozetter (Sato) - but I suspect only the first two have any chance of an independent release. Driland - despite being first grade Hirano orchestral and choral magnificence, is a crummy kiddy show which isn't doing too well in the ratings, and Gyrozetter is a marketing vehicle (har har har) so that will almost certainly wind up with superbly expensive BD sets with bonus CDs..............

I've got Girls & Panzer preordered. Was also pondering whether to include One Piece Film Z in the order, but I decided not to (Gravity Daze was mediocre IMO and I rather wait for samples first).

Tracklist:

01 - Prologue / Main Title [3:53]
02 - Forest Frolic [1:57]
03 - The River [5:02]
04 - The Reluctant Wolf [1:46]
05 - Watching Lilly / Training [3:08]
06 - Mountain Dance [1:22]
07 - Haida Dreams / Wolf Dreams [2:38]
08 - Dangerous Forest / Finding Caribou [6:59]
09 - Lilly And Henry [3:53]
10 - The Reverend / Henry Returns [2:06]
11 - Kindred Spirits [2:34]
12 - Henry Saves Lilly [4:24]
13 - The Reverend's Demise / Sad Homecoming [3:08]
14 - Hidden Feelings [2:08]
15 - Noble Heart / Lilly Chooses Henry [2:23]
16 - A Happy Ending [1:40]
17 - End Credits [3:04]


One of my most favourite John Debney's score, very melodic, adventurous, emotional and full of themes. They don't make them like this anymore.
If there is demand, I can scan the front and back cover in high res.

Encoding: FLAC (lossless, maximum setting)
Size: 225 MB

Download Links:
Part 1:
JD-WF2-MotWW.part1.rar | Game Front (http://www.gamefront.com/files/22605421/JD-WF2-MotWW.part1.rar)

Part 2:
JD-WF2-MotWW.part2.rar | Game Front (http://www.gamefront.com/files/22605538/JD-WF2-MotWW.part2.rar)

What happened to

HIROSHI TAKAKI AND SLAVEK KOWALEWSKI
AKB0048

FLAC?

Thanks for the mp3 Tango.

To Herr Salat,

Thanks for Year One in the North. ++

Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones Expanded Edit

This is an expanded version of AOTC, I notice that this score gets a lot of flack, which is quite a bit undeserved IMHO, in fact this is one of my favorite of the SW scores, so I decided to right that wrong, for I felt that the reason this score is disliked by so many, is the fact that there is only an hour of music presented, from a 2 hour score.

So I decided to right that wrong, here is 2 hours of music, from the pen and baton of the Maestro John Williams.

(I have used a aphex aural exciter imitation plugin to create a sound not too unlike Jurassic Park, and the early 90's scores recorded by Shawn Murphy)

Disc 1 (57:15):

1. Star Wars Main Title and Arrival At Coruscant (3:03)
2. Thwarted Attempt (3:41)
3. The Meeting of Anakin and Padme (1:36)
4. She Hardly Recognized Me (0:55)
5. Zam's Dirty Trick (3:27)
6. Zam Chase (3:38)
7. Zam In Pursuit (3:18)
8. Zam Is Eliminated (3:38)
9. Palpatine's Plotting (2:27)
10. Departing Coruscant (1:43)
11. The Library Scene (1:13)
12. Lunch and the Younglings (3:55)
13. Approaching Naboo Palace (2:24)
14. Finding Kamino (1:39)
15. Visiting the Prime Minister (0:50)
16. The Kiss (1:18)
17. Interior Tipoca City (1:52)
18. The Meadow Scene (2:30)
19. The Meeting With Fett (3:13)
20. The Dinner Scene (3:56)
21. Rainy Ramp and Anakin's Nightmare (2:17)
22. The Jango Fett Fight (3:49)
23. Watto Describes Mother's Fate (0:53)


Disc 2 (1:04:46):

1. Across The Stars (5:33)
2. The Spare Canister Caper (2:11)
3. Arrival At Tatooine (4:12)
4. Obi-Wan Eavesdropping (2:48)
5. Rescuing Mother (2:44)
6. Exacting Revenge (1:21)
7. Carrying Home Mother (1:56)
8. Anakin Changes (2:05)
9. Shmi's Funeral (3:39)
10. The Commerce Guild Prepares For War (0:59)
11. Finding The Conveyor (1:36)
12. The Conveyor Belt (2:30)
13. The Senate Scene (1:46)
14. Love Pledge (1:54)
15. Entrance of the Monsters (5:11)
16. Padme Falls (2:12)
17. Dooku Vs. Obi-Wan (2:12)
18. Yoda Strikes Back (2:14)
19. Finale (5:21)
20. End Credits (6:05)
21. Zam Chase/Zam In Pursuit (No Guitar) (0:53)
22. Rainy Ramp and Anakin's Nightmare (0:37)
23. Finale (Partial Alternate) (4:47)

Total Time: 2:02:01

Flac Version Part 1 (http://www.gamefront.com/files/22603845/2AotCESpt1.zip)

Flac Version Part 2 (http://www.gamefront.com/files/22604416/2AotCESpt2.zip)

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Oops, I forgot! I'll upload it a bit later, or if you don't want to wait, somebody else has uploaded a version with shitty tags in the Lossless Anime Music thread. :)

Edit: Faleel; the FLAC links aren't working... which may be just as well. Why on earth you'd want to induce digital distortion to make something some like what it isn't, I will never understand.

That Year One in The North album is very special. Is the film available in the US? I think I'd like to see it.

Here are five of my favourites - all from Western movies again.http://www.ryak.info/15.jpghttp://www.ryak.info/09ht.jpg

So... do we guess what they are? ;)

Edit: Listening to this Star Wars thing... please tell me this is a comedy upload, Faleel... You've taken a perfectly clean, well-equalised recording and distorted it to buggery.

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Did anyone ever end up doing a skyward sword orchestral essentials? I seem to remember a plan that someone on this thread was going to collect all important and relevant orchestral tracks and organize them into a decent listening package. I still haven't really heard it, although a few of the tracks I heard did have promising material.

(also hello again everyone)

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January 2012... Haha, fucking hell... Sorry, folks. You should know by now that I'm completely incapable of doing anything to any sort of deadline... ;)

k1nerfan did do an excellent compilation, if memory serves, which contained most if not all of the noteworthy orchestral pieces.

Yeah, his compilation covered all the bases. No need for Tango's.

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Here's k1ner's reuploaded, as I know he has issues with uploads: GO4UP : Upload everywhere ! (http://go4up.com/dl/1ff3cKKJOXt0)


Yeah, his compilation covered all the bases. No need for Tango's.

Thanks a bundle. Actually, there is still a need for mine, which is trying to be something very different and featured substantial multi-track editing and remixing. With the greatest respect for k1ner's - it's a superb compilation, but it's not at all like the one I was planning (and am still working on) which was, as much as is possible with the source material, very much a reimagination, a symphonic suite of sorts.

The trouble with the orchestral music in Skyward Sword is really the over-abundance of boss battle music. From fiddling around myself, I found those the toughest to edit in a musically satisfying way, though there *are* a few definite improvements that can be made.

Mr Treats, I still have a few ideas on that if you want to tango ;)

So why was there never an offical release? I know Nintendo is downright lunatic when it comes to soundtrack releases but we're talking about Zelda here. Oh Well...

Tango, not so much upload as re-upload but my internet is getting a little bit better as of late so there's hope for improvement. I'm sure you have your mind full with other request and stuff, but perhaps there is some room for Robo Rescue Vol.2. It's not urgent, since it is not a Sato score I absolutly love (Pocket of Rainbows, E7, Friends, K-20 etc.) but it would still be nice to have.

Oh and Twilight Symphony is out, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Symphony ~ Full Album Preview (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUQPTNc4TZk). Perhaps this calls for an overlong essay but since I'm not fit for such a thing I will be brief:
This is not a Symphony, it's just a rearrangment... OF THE WHOLE SCORE. Are they fucking nuts!!! (Is it actually legal to label something like this a symphony?) Some parts sound good (Marc Papeghin), others fail so hard it's not funny anymore. Zelda music needs to be lyrical but this is for the most part just EPIC EPIC EPIC, SO AWESOME. The wonderful idea of Choir Overkill with obvious fake synth succeeds in it's task to make my ears bleed. There is (almost) nothing graceful about the music. The obvious misconception these guys have of symphonic writing (or orchestral writing in general) is perhaps the main reason why this project fails.

t's just a rearrangment... OF THE WHOLE SCORE.

Its not the whole score.

Oh and Twilight Symphony is out, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Symphony ~ Full Album Preview (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUQPTNc4TZk).

Todd Flanders expresses my thoughts perfectly. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiX4FAQC9cg)

Based on the comments on youtube, they know exactly what their audience wants, and it isn't a proper symphony that would make Tango proud. Also look no further than the Kanto Re-orchestrated fan project that did a similar thing with Pokemon just with a fake orchestra. Clearly the fans really just want a better quality version of the soundtrack they love, not quality music to dissect.

"didn't twilight princess use MIDIs? what a waste. it could've had a top-notch orchestra soundtrack like this. the hyrule castle theme sounds REALLY good here."

"Oh wow, i expected this to be good, but this really is blowing my mind. Fantastic work! So excited to buy the digital copy"

"I am just listening to this over and over, and I can't wait for the rest of the amazingness to come! ;o; Amazing job, you guys! Bringing nerdy tears to my eyes listening to this! I'm really proud of you for accomplishing this amazing feat!"

Oh, you'll love this one. Enjoy this special release for the Big Orchestral Thread!


Kentaro Sato
Symphonic Tale "Peter Pan"
and other Symphonic Music

Philmharmonic Orchestra Prague and other orchestras

I hate to badger you guys again, but can anyone re-upload this album or tell me where I can purchase the album? I looked everywhere and the website that was selling Sato's Peter Pan suite doesn't it anymore...
I promise this is the last time I request this album!

So I should just simply let this type of "symphony" grow popular and let this type of "epic" sound be even more accepted than it already is. The current state of modern film scoring is precisly because of not enough resistance by those that should know better. My theory is that if it were a full mature symphony, the young folks would still love it, most because it's Zelda, others because they like the melodies and "the orchestral sound". This would ideally lead to even more people listening to symphonies and wanting more. Now they listen to this and associate this type of sound with "symphonic music". This will do exactly the same damage that the RC scores did. So I will try to explain to the fans that this is not what a symphony is and that it's not as good as it could have been. Maybe it's futile but I believe most people simply don't know better and perhaps I can convince one or two that this is essentialy a waste of money.

I'm surprised you put Kanto and Twilight in the same category just because they both use synth.


Clearly the fans really just want a better quality version of the soundtrack they love, not quality music to dissect.
Maybe because it was quality music in the first place? Kanto actually succeeds in giving the fans what they want without my ears bleeding: Kanto Symphony - Final Album Preview (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyRIMneJ654&feature=relmfu)

^^ THIS THIS THIS.

Great culture never thrived by celebrating the lowest common denomintator. Culture develops by teaching stupid people to become clever people by showing them clever things in genres that understand.

Star Wars, on paper, is just some silly kids movie. But the score - which never once made a single concession to the thought "it's only a silly kids movie, who cares?" - introduced a whole generation to good quality orchestral music. I bet all the kids "wanted" was some space ships and aliens and crap like that.

Well both were low quality tripe to my ears. I couldn't even get through Kanto Symphony without falling asleep because it was so slow. Listening instead to Quo Vadis (Prometheus) and The Red House (Intrada).

I don't mean to suggest that you two are wrong or that we shouldn't demand better, because we absolutely should both demand better and educate. I'm simply saying that the damage has already been done by trailer music such that people hear this tripe and say "Oh that is so EPIC!"

Re: Kentaro Sato's Peter Pan Symphonic Suite


I also included in this upload the other symphonic pieces I found at his website.

The same 128 kbps mp3 files from Kentaro Sato's website music player, like Arthierr shared.

http://www.mediafire.com/?nn6maemskaidi6b

Star Wars is a perfect example of why it's hard to chalk it up to "maybe they've never heard better, humanity has declined." Some TV channels have been running Star Wars marathons every holiday weekend for years. The vast majority of people typing up English youtube comments have heard the Star Wars music many, many times! As well as many other good things. The vast majority of people who've played Twilight Princess must also have played a few other modern big budget games with equivalent quality soundtracks.

I think there must be some rare breed of person with the musicality equivalent of the Dunning-Kruger effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect). Maybe they say "BEST THING EVER!" every time. And since they say it every time, it tricks us into thinking there are more of them.

disclaimer: I haven't played Twilight Princess. So to me, this stuff sounds much the same as the normal soundtracks for modern big budget games. Good enough when you're busy being distracted by playing the actual game, but most of it you wouldn't listen to again outside of the game. There were a few parts where it sounded like they were really trying too hard, but the rest wasn't terrible by game standards. And there were some parts where I could tell that the underlying content meant that the original was catchy, but I didn't feel like the specific performance really rose above other games doing the same half-synth thing. And I do listen to game soundtracks when the mood strikes, even the 8 bit stuff.

I don't really have anything to say on the matter. Yes, Twilight Symphony is generic as hell. And, yes, people are praising it as the best thing ever when it doesn't even deserve a sliver of the praise. But guys, let us be honest for just a moment. This is nothing new in the history of creation. Bad crap has always been praised! For every Mozart. Shakespeare, Miyamoto, Kubrick and Tolstoy, there are those that appealed strictly for the lowest denominator and got praised to high heaven for it. And there were those that were on both sides of the scale and are hardly recalled. It's just the way things are, and it's not really that big of a deal. Twilight Symphony will come and go...but Twilight Princess will be here forever.

We think things are bad now because we are right in the middle of it. We see all of this schmuk and we think "MY God, what has happened?" People wail and wail, and not just in music but also in video games ("What happened to the 90's?"), books ("Twilight is ruining eveeeerything!") film ("The only thing good nowadays is the stuff that Nolan does. Everything else are pointless sequels and remakes!), and TV Shows ("HBO aside, we just have stupid reality shows!"). But in the long term, we will look back and be able to see that, yes there was a big decline in quality...but it preceded an incline. I can look at today's music and see a drastic improvement from four years ago. Wreck It-Ralph, a score that has no business to be good, is a wonderfully orchestral score intermixed with 8-bit tunes. And it was written by Henry Jackson no less! Lorne Balfe's Assassin Creed III, although not quite symphonic or orchestral, is a step in the right direction of balancing synth with orchestra. Guild Wars 2 was freakin' awesome (even if Tango is crazy). And of course there was LEGO Universe...

I mean, I know I have been saying this for years, but: things are not as bad as we are making them out to be, and they will get better before we know it. I'm not saying that we shouldn't criticize - because we damn well better do so! - but don't despair. It's not really that bad.

I just find it hilarious that they call the blending live solos, choir, and synth "Unique"....uhhhh, as far as I could tell that has already been done before (The Clone Wars (TV, not the movie), and lots of other TV shows and movies)

I just shrug my shoulders, say "Meh", and continue to bang my head against my keyboard while I write an essay.

Hey, I may have a 1 to 1,000,000,000 chance, but eventually this head banging will arrange the letters in the right way that I will get an A. It's all about persistance!

So many special fx to overcompensate for one oft-overlooked but significant detail: what ever happened to strings being the core of the orchestra? Why else would I have chosen this silly username?

I've thought for while now that piccolo (and possibly trombone) glissandi, snap pizzicato and most especially cymbal rolls should be banned, except in very exceptional circumstances.

Listening to the individual samples on the main site, some are actually not that bad, a couple even quite felicitously done. I agree on the misuse of the term symphony (see also Howard Shore and YES). The get-out of course is that it needn't denote the highest, most ambitious musical form known to man, as passed down from Papa Haydn, but merely a "sounding together"... so any old concert really.

Aye; symphony these days means orchestral medley.

Watering-down, bastardization, trivialization and vulgarity are sad signs of this era, not only in terms of music. A collection of cues does not a symphony make, it's a merely that: a collection. Even in Shore's case, the material hasn't been reworked one bit, it's just a splicing-together of cues from the film scores. Any notion that even links Zimmer e.g. to the term symphony is a joke, and a bad one at that. There seems to be a trend just to throw together music from various movies series and call it a symphony to give it a fake smidgen of artistic integrity when there is none. Of course, none of this matters for the pimply cinema going pizza crowd. It's disturbing.

The mere fact that, by a vast margin, the most popular thread on a film muck board is a "big action movie music" one is very telling, and, also, depressing. It's very, very easy to compose loud music. Composing quiet music of quality and character is so much more difficult. That's why the flock always gathers around the loud music.

There seems to be a trend just to throw together music from various movies series and call it a symphony to give it a fake smidgen of artistic integrity when there is none.
This is precisely the sickening hypocrisy and snobbery at the heart of popular modern attitudes. They appropriate the language of the very forms they spurn and label "elitist" for the sake of phony prestige.

The mere fact that, by a vast margin, the most popular thread on a film muck board is a "big action movie music" one is very telling, and, also, depressing. It's very, very easy to compose loud music. Composing quiet music of quality and character is so much more difficult. That's why the flock always gathers around the loud music.
Oh I think you'll find this thread has grown to be a lot more all-encompassing and many here would agree with you. We just use the "BIG ACTION" title to sucker them in!! ;)

wimpel: This thread is not what its name would suggest... I think you're doing it a disservice. :)

I've always thought of the thread title as being ironic myself.

So any thoughts about the new law in Japan that penalizes downloaders severely? Is it going to cut us off from Japanese sources of music?

I sincerely doubt anything will come of this law that effects us, because a) the new law has been in force for six weeks already with no apparent effect, and b) the law closes a loophole which made *downloading* OK; uploading was *always* illegal in Japan and stories of people being arrested have circulated for years. :)

So in laments terms politicians once again trying to stop a tidal wave with a picket fence. Nothing to see here people! As you were.

Just encountered the sad news that Richard Robbins, the composer of choice from the Merchant Ivory production films, has passed away last week: BBC News - Merchant Ivory composer Richard Robbins dies at 71 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20310059)

He composed very fine scores for those movies. Howards End, a Room With a View and The Remains of the Day are, to name a few, a testimony of his musical talent.

He will be sorely missed. RIP

RIP, indeed... It seems as though barely a month goes by without the announcement of another old master passing on. At least we will always have the music... :)

In other news, of considerably less gravitas but on a more positive note... has anybody been following Inazuma Eleven Go 2: Chrono Stone? I talked about the score back in April - I was loving it then, and the show's still going, and the music is getting better every week. Inazuma Eleven (2009) received a serviceable score (with a giant orchestra) by Yasunori Mitsuda, with a handful of cues written by other composers including Natsumi Kameoka, better known as super-orchestrator-extraordinaire. Inazuma Eleven Go (2011) received a pretty good score (with a tiny orchestra) by newcomer Shiho Terada... The new series, Chrono Stone, made a very exciting choice - the scoring duties went to Natsumi Kameoka as lead composer. I can't even begin to accurately state what a bloody JOY it's been so far! Since Kameoka is involved, you know you're in for some extremely good orchestrations at the very least, but this thing is the whole package.

Inazuma Eleven is a show about silly kids playing football. The latest series has added a time travel element - now it's about silly kids travelling through time and playing football with random people they discover in the past, intermittently blowing stuff up, fighting with ludicrous bad guys, and hanging around with a teddy bear. The score has latched right on to this flimsy sci-fi premise and frequently launches into the sort of insanely thematic, unabashedly majestic music that wouldn't be out of place in a grand space opera. This is grown up, muscular music, made to underscore great friendships, heartbreaking betrayals, noble heroes, and fearless armies marching into battle.

It's a show about kids playing football with losers and stuffed toys.

As if that weren't enough, it seems that the music budget for this show is, by TV anime standards, virtually limitless - the orchestra is 100% real, and bloody huge at around 80 players. It's exceedingly well-recorded for a domestic orchestra, as well - this ain't no stinkin' Sound Inn score. It still has that slightly claustrophobic "not-quite-big-enough-studio" sound that is par for the course with 99.9% of Japan-recorded scores, but it's genuinely a cut above most. There appears to be masses of music recorded; new music is turning up in almost every episode so far and we're up to 27 now. Occasionally they re-use a cue from Mitsuda's or Terada's scores, and many of Kameoka's new cues incorporate Mitsuda's established melodies to a certain extent... but Kameoka just blasts this one right out of the park. It's such a joyous, busy score - some may say there are more notes than necessary - but in a world dominated by the likes of Zimmerframe, Djawanker, Smegson-Williams, and Master Bates... well, bollocks to it - a bit of good old-fashioned florid exuberance is a truly great thing.

No score release has been announced yet, but since Inazuma Eleven is a cash cow franchise, I do not doubt for one minute that it will receive at least two full-release soundtrack CDs - I would guess early next year judging by the release schedule observed for the previous series. At any rate there's probably three discs worth of music here. Mitsuda's 2009 score received four CDs in the end - three from the TV series and one additional movie score. Since they're plastering Mitsuda's name all over the credits wherever it will fit, despite it being glaringly obvious the majority of the music is by Kameoka, at that point, numerous CD releases become almost 100% certainties.

Kameoka REALLY BLOODY BADLY needs to score a big sci-fi project with the Warsaw Philharmonic. I think, with the right director and the right budget (ie, splurge) she might be in a position to whip up a Kanno-level symphonic score. That's an exciting prospect.

Watch Natsumi Kameoka. She's going to do WONDERFUL things in the next twenty years. I'm calling it today. :D

I think you mean soccer there Tango. ;)

But I think it is somewhat comical just how marvelous the most ridiculous of shows get. I mean, like you said, Inazuma Eleven Go is a time traveling show about kids playing soccer! First of all, how the heck was that show even made? I can only imagine an American studio head would look at this premise and just see it as absolutely absurd and unmarketable (and I wouldn't blame him). Secondly, why would they get a full out 80 man orchestra for this? Even in the glory days of Western Film scores, I don't imagine we would get a score of this magnitude for a show this bizarre. Electronica all the way!

I'm telling you, Japan must be in on some funny joke or something.

EDIT: In other news, I'm loving THE HOBBIT so far. Damn fantastic stuff, as always. Loving all of the references to LOTR, and the new themes are great.

Zimmerframe

I had to google this reference. Might I suggest something more international? Zimjob perhaps?

John Mauceri: Who's Your Favorite Living Composer? (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-mauceri/stravinsky-the-rite-of-spring_b_2114536.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false)

By the way everyone, I picked up Desplat's Rise of the Guardians on HDtracks and it is quite delightful. Such a fun thematic orchestral score. You will notice that all of Varese's releases are on HDtracks in lossless. (Though sadly they don't sell outside of the US yet, but there are other such sites out there for Europe lossless downloads).

I've seen several requests for this to be reuploaded over the past several months. I know Tango intended to do so at one point but I believe he has yet to do so; hopefully he won't mind that I've taken the liberty myself:


KENTARO HANEDA
SYMPHONY YAMATO 2009
Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Naoto Otomo
Yukio Yokoyama, piano
Yasuko Otani, violin

Sweeping, Grand, Romantic
FLAC + CUE + LOG + SCANS | 4 Tracks | 56:28 | 236 MB



1. First Movement: Birth | 17:24
2. Second Movement: Battle -Scherzo- | 13:13
3. Third Movement: Prayer -Adagio- | 10:15
4. Fourth Movement: Hope for Tomorrow -Double Concerto- | 15:36

Having heard this piece a while ago from Tangotreats' original share, it's simply too good to remain unavailable. My own, new rip and scans of the artwork. Description from the original post:


I do love it when a composer is offered a massive recording budget, a bit pot of money, and is asked to just do whatever the hell he wants to do. You tend to end up with pieces like this; true 21st century masterpieces. My knowledge of Yamato music is limited (well, non-existent) but I understand that this symphony incorporates melodies from previous Yamato incarnations -into four splendidly structured movements that feel like they've fallen straight out of the late romantic classical period. The fourth movement in particular becomes a mini concerto for piano, violin and orchestra. ABSOLUTELY STUNNING STUFF.


THREAD (Thread 123348)

East meets West (HQ Audio Recording)

Wayne Marshall


WDR Rundfunkorchester & WDR Rundfunkchor K�ln





Download (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/1RROUOV2/East_meets_West.zip_links)



01. Toward the Celestial Sphere [StarWing, Lylat Wars] arr. Jonne Valtonen
02. Thundering Steppes [Everquest II] arr. Laura Karpman
03. Athens Harbour Chase [James Bond: Blood Stone] arr. Richard Jaques
04. Apotheosis [Journey] arr. Austin Wintory
05. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra [Final Fantasy] arr. Roger Wanamo
06. Xenogears [Suite] arr. Roger Wanamo
07. Ruby‘s Theme [Unlimited Saga] arr. Roger Wanamo
08. Gothic 3 [Suite] arr. Kai Rosenkranz
09. Light Spirit [The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess] arr. Jonne Valtonen
10. Anthology Suite [Turrican II] arr. Roger Wanamo
11. East meets West [Merregnon III] arr. Jonne Valtonen
12. The Great Giana Sisters [Suite] arr. Jonne Valtonen



So here is my new recording of the concert in higher quality and without nasty artifacts. About the concert itself, it was pretty good. The audience was respectful and some of the arrangements are superb. H�lsbeck's Anthology Suite is an amazing piece and definetly gets me excited for his upcoming Turrican Collcetion. I felt a bit dissapointed with Gothic 3, I expected a bit more than just a few pieces thrown together. Toward the Celestial Sphere on the other hand is Space Suite 2.0 and a great improvement. Light Spirit, however, is basically an excerpt from the Zelda Symphonic Poem. I was hoping for a Symphonic Suite of A Link to the Past. This is long overdue so I see this as a wasted opportunity here. Regardless, I had a great time and the Encore was a pleasant surprise. I would buy a CD of the Concert (I hope there will be one).

EDIT: New Recording (24.11.12)

Just returned from Cologne. Great concert, especially enjoyed Apotheosis (I kinda expected this). Star Wing was lacking the choir, this really worked so much better at Symphonic Legends. And the Xenogears suite was just too short. Like klnerfan I also was delighted by the encore :)

I will upload Yuji Nomi's Sukitte Ii Na Yo (AKA Say I love you, a recent anime series) soundtrack vol. 1 soon. There are romantic tunes in the album that some of you will enjoy.

Edit:
Sukitte Ii na yo. MUSIC & DRAMA COLLECTION Vol.1[FLAC+CUE+LOG]

Album Information (http://vgmdb.net/album/34849)

I wasn't too familiar with Yuji Nomi until I gave a listen to Nichijou soundtracks. While I really liked his work for that anime, I didn't find his other work particularly appealing other than sometracks in Bokurano and Mimi wo Sumaseba.
Sukitte Ii Na Yo is an anime about a really popular guy at school and a clumsy, socially reclusive girl falling in love. With that said, you won't find any brassy, action-packed songs in this soundtrack but you will find some delicate, romanctic, and melancholic melodies that fit this anime (it does get a little dramatic). My personal favorite is Tracks 3, 7, 13, 19, 25 are drama tracks that you guys can look over/delete after splitting the FLAC file. My personal favorite is track 11 which plays when the girl decides to kiss the guy in a very drawn-out fashion...
While this soundtrack isn't anything ground-breaking, I hope this relaxing soundtrack serves as a good listen.

Credit goes to skippergong@astost and his wonderful personal rip.

Part I (http://www.mediafire.com/?e3e9x759209r39k)
Part II (http://www.mediafire.com/?o6x32amlz53wolu)

Idk why they used the same cover as the Hulsbeck concert. Still thanks for sharing :D

Wayne Marshall? As in the British-born pianist/organist? What's the matter? Benyamin Nuss fallen out of favour...?

Few things that are not obvious, but worth listen.

First of all Dragonball Online. Awesome score with some cool orchestral moments (that sometimes sounds almost live). Rip is not in the greatest quality and lots of tracks are the same pieces in different versions. But it's really worth checking. Nothing breathtaking, but really nice, a bit relaxing music.

Here are some samples:

DragonBall Online OST - 1 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x_CHLcKNdk)
DragonBall Online OST - 2 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxNsCSGC8t4&feature=relmfu)

And U can grab the RIP from here:

Thread 123347

The second thing is Nightwish album Imaginaerum:

Thread 123223

Orchestral version is the one that you should be interested in. No guitars, no distracting vocals, just not bad orchestral concept album.

Here's sample: Nightwish - Storytime (Orchestral version) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sOCKxXpaqk)

Also - which was a shock to me, new COD have some solid tracks. Yes, it's still modern action music with all its flaws, tons of electronica, ostinatos etc. But somehow it works for me (maybe because U can actually hear an orchestra there). Album is obviously to long (2h+), but some pieces are really great.

For example: Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 OST - "Afghanistan 2025" - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5x1QwcCQkU) (check out 00:55 - Jack Wall was listening to Hirano?;))

Wayne Marshall? As in the British-born pianist/organist?
It's this guy (http://waynemarshall.com/biography/)


What's the matter? Benyamin Nuss fallen out of favour...?
Huh? Marshall conducted, Nuss performed on piano -- nothing unusual here.

As in, the British-born pianist/organist - in short, exactly what I just said.

I had assumed that since Marshall is principally known as a pianist, not a conductor, that he was playing the piano...and that if he was playing the piano, that meant Nuss wasn't. I therefore joked that perhaps Nuss had fallen out of favour.

As far as I'm concerned it's unusual because Marshall has never had any involvement with this concert series and I was surprised to see his name (of considerable prestige - and not inconsiderable controversy as a result of his notoriously breakneck tempi in his organ interpretations - in the British classical music world) show up in a German concert series featuring Japanese music arranged by two Finnish orchestrators.

:rolleyes:

IIRC he was involved with the WDR a few times before this event.

EDIT: I think there was some info on the concert flyer, but I forgot to take one with me.

I will upload Yuji Nomi's Sukitte Ii Na Yo (AKA Say I love you, a recent anime series) soundtrack vol. 1 soon. There are romantic tunes in the album that some of you will enjoy.

Edit:
Sukitte Ii na yo. MUSIC & DRAMA COLLECTION Vol.1[FLAC+CUE+LOG]

Album Information (http://vgmdb.net/album/34849)

I wasn't too familiar with Yuji Nomi until I gave a listen to Nichijou soundtracks. While I really liked his work for that anime, I didn't find his other work particularly appealing other than sometracks in Bokurano and Mimi wo Sumaseba.
Sukitte Ii Na Yo is an anime about a really popular guy at school and a clumsy, socially reclusive girl falling in love. With that said, you won't find any brassy, action-packed songs in this soundtrack but you will find some delicate, romanctic, and melancholic melodies that fit this anime (it does get a little dramatic). My personal favorite is Tracks 3, 7, 13, 19, 25 are drama tracks that you guys can look over/delete after splitting the FLAC file. My personal favorite is track 11 which plays when the girl decides to kiss the guy in a very drawn-out fashion...
While this soundtrack isn't anything ground-breaking, I hope this relaxing soundtrack serves as a good listen.

Credit goes to skippergong@astost and his wonderful personal rip.

Part I (http://www.mediafire.com/?e3e9x759209r39k)
Part II (http://www.mediafire.com/?o6x32amlz53wolu)

The cue sheet is broken for me. And the forum's attachment system rejects my attempts to post a fixed version :(
So a little extra work for people who want it: open notepad, paste the following text into it, and then save it encoded as UTF-8 instead of ANSI

REM GENRE Anime
REM DATE 2012
REM DISCID 700B441B
REM COMMENT ExactAudioCopy v1.0b3
PERFORMER "野見祐二"
TITLE "好きっていいなよ。 Music&Drama Collection CD vol.1"
FILE "野見祐二 - 好きっていいなよ。 Music&Drama Collection CD vol.1.flac" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "Friendship ～ for 好きっていいなよ。"
PERFORMER "岡崎律子"
ISRC JPKI01216342
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "Say �I love you�."
PERFORMER "野見祐二"
ISRC JPKI01216297
INDEX 00 05:03:03
INDEX 01 05:05:63
TRACK 03 AUDIO
TITLE "オーディオドラマめいとマシュマロ①「めいとマシュマロ」　"
PERFORMER "出演／橘めい：茅野愛衣、マシュマロ：櫻井孝宏"
ISRC JPKI01216350
INDEX 00 07:49:07
INDEX 01 07:50:67
TRACK 04 AUDIO
TITLE "友達なんて不必要"
PERFORMER "野見祐二"
ISRC JPKI01216298
INDEX 00 09:01:46
INDEX 01 09:03:31
TRACK 05 AUDIO
TITLE "おもしろい人"
PERFORMER "野見祐二"
ISRC JPKI01216299
INDEX 00 10:37:16
INDEX 01 10:39:01
TRACK 06 AUDIO
TITLE "うちら占め"
PERFORMER "野見祐二"
ISRC JPKI01216300
INDEX 00 11:58:10
INDEX 01 11:59:32
TRACK 07 AUDIO
TITLE "オーディオドラマめいとマシュマロ②「バンソーコとマシュマロ」"
PERFORMER "出演／橘めい：茅野愛衣、マシュマロ：櫻井孝宏"
ISRC JPKI01216387
INDEX 00 13:17:51
INDEX 01 13:19:36
TRACK 08 AUDIO
TITLE "弱い心"
PERFORMER "野見祐二"
ISRC JPKI01216301
INDEX 00 15:04:10
INDEX 01 15:06:33
TRACK 09 AUDIO
TITLE "たくさんの目"
PERFORMER "野見祐二"
ISRC JPKI01216302
INDEX 00 17:13:24
INDEX 01 17:14:09
TRACK 10 AUDIO
TITLE "嫌な女"
PERFORMER "野見祐二"
ISRC JPKI01216303
INDEX 00 19:04:25
INDEX 01 19:06:10
TRACK 11 AUDIO
TITLE "キスをした。"
PERFORMER "野見祐二"
ISRC JPKI01216304
INDEX 00 20:23:72
INDEX 01 20:25:57
TRACK 12 AUDIO
TITLE "キモチワルイ"
PERFORMER "野見祐二"
ISRC JPKI01216305
INDEX 00 23:33:62
INDEX 01 23:35:47
TRACK 13 AUDIO
TITLE "オーディオドラマめいとマシュマロ③「ケイタイとマシュマロ」"
PERFORMER "出演／橘めい：茅野愛衣、マシュマロ：櫻井孝宏"
ISRC JPKI01216388
INDEX 00 25:14:32
INDEX 01 25:16:17
TRACK 14 AUDIO
TITLE "人からもらう温度"
PERFORMER "野見祐二"
ISRC JPKI01216306
INDEX 00 27:10:73
INDEX 01 27:13:21
TRACK 15 AUDIO
TITLE "アイキャッチ①"
PERFORMER "野見祐二"
ISRC JPKI01216307
INDEX 00 29:12:53
INDEX 01 29:13:38
TRACK 16 AUDIO
TITLE "なんか、おもしろい"
PERFORMER "野見祐二"
ISRC JPKI01216308
INDEX 00 29:19:74
INDEX 01 29:20:59
TRACK 17 AUDIO
TITLE "恋愛初心者"
PERFORMER "野見祐二"
ISRC JPKI01216309
INDEX 00 31:07:69
INDEX 01 31:09:17
TRACK 18 AUDIO
TITLE "あまのじゃく"
PERFORMER "野見祐二"
ISRC JPKI01216310
INDEX 00 32:22:53
INDEX 01 32:24:38
TRACK 19 AUDIO
TITLE "オーディオドラマめいとマシュマロ④「おしゃれとマシュマロ」"
PERFORMER "出演／橘めい：茅野愛衣、マシュマロ：櫻井孝宏"
ISRC JPKI01216389
INDEX 00 33:32:02
INDEX 01 33:33:62
TRACK 20 AUDIO
TITLE "女の子独特の感情"
PERFORMER "野見祐二"
ISRC JPKI01216311
INDEX 00 35:09:40
INDEX 01 35:11:62
TRACK 21 AUDIO
TITLE "彼の理想"
PERFORMER "野見祐二"
ISRC JPKI01216312
INDEX 00 36:17:00
INDEX 01 36:18:60
TRACK 22 AUDIO
TITLE "本気チュー"
PERFORMER "野見祐二"
ISRC JPKI01216313
INDEX 00 37:44:62
INDEX 01 37:47:10
TRACK 23 AUDIO
TITLE "とまらない..."
PERFORMER "野見祐二"
ISRC JPKI01216314
INDEX 00 38:42:55
INDEX 01 38:44:40
TRACK 24 AUDIO
TITLE "心配だよ。"
PERFORMER "野見祐二"
ISRC JPKI01216315
INDEX 00 40:21:02
INDEX 01 40:23:25
TRACK 25 AUDIO
TITLE "オーディオドラマめいとマシュマロ⑤「ごはんとマシュマロ」"
PERFORMER "出演／橘めい：茅野愛衣、マシュマロ：櫻井孝宏"
ISRC JPKI01216390
INDEX 00 41:34:71
INDEX 01 41:36:56
TRACK 26 AUDIO
TITLE "自分の置かれている状況"
PERFORMER "野見祐二"
ISRC JPKI01216316
INDEX 00 43:11:25
INDEX 01 43:13:10
TRACK 27 AUDIO
TITLE "どうしようもないくらい"
PERFORMER "野見祐二"
ISRC JPKI01216317
INDEX 00 45:48:14
INDEX 01 45:50:36


That fixes the character encoding problem I had, and points at the .flac file (instead of a .wav that doesn't exist).

The cue sheet is broken for me. And the forum's attachment system rejects my attempts to post a fixed version :(
So a little extra work for people who want it: open notepad, paste the following text into it, and then save it encoded as UTF-8 instead of ANSI


Sorry if any of you had this trouble. It worked just fine for me on Windows.

Really, Imaginarium? That is one of Nightwish's worst albums ever, and the instrumental version isn't that much better.

Really, Imaginarium? That is one of Nightwish's worst albums ever, and the instrumental version isn't that much better.

For once I have to agree. The YouTube link was kinda...well, atrocious.

Sorry if any of you had this trouble. It worked just fine for me on Windows.

On Windows too and I had to rename the file. Didn't like the music enough to keep it, but I'll try that UTF-8 encoding the other guy suggested for the next one. Just glad it's rare when I have trouble. Just glad not too many uploaders do one big file.

Really, Imaginarium? That is one of Nightwish's worst albums ever, and the instrumental version isn't that much better.

Hah, probably that's why I kinda like it, cause I mostly hate Nigtwish and gothic-metal (or whatever it is). In orchestral version there are no guitars or those really over the top, kitchy vocals. The biggest problem is the fact, that U clearly can hear that those orchestral pieces are just part of whole song, and they sometimes not work well as solo track. But overally i like it, it gives me some fun. It's a bit like less epic / loud trailer music;).

And the link I gave was just the first one I found on youtube, maybe not the wisest selection, when it comes to advertising this thing.

This is definitely better: Nightwish - Imaginaerum (Orchestral Version) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI751P6oamQ)

Also U can't blame me for liking it. I like new COD (partially, but still) xD.

And I'm kinda surprised that noone mentioned here Cloud Atlas - in a good or bad way (or I missed that?). I actually expected huge discussion about how bad it is, how generic, how trashy electronica kills those mediocre themes... Well, I'm kidding, imo it's wonderful score, with simple, yet very good theme, massive amount of emotions and lots of heart. And I really like the way the music was performed and recorded - with lots of hisses, crackles etc. Great score with proper "end credits" piece;).

Oh, now that's spooky as hell. I just tried going back to the original (not edited) cue and discovered something about foobar. If you load the cue, it has to be perfect or foobar won't find the actual music. But if you directly load the .flac itself, foobar magically finds and parses the cue file correctly, and figures out the character encoding too.

Hell. I've been fixing my cue files for years.

edit: wait, that seems to still work even if I delete the cue files. Nevermind. Maybe foobar is caching those somewhere else. I don't have an un-fixed set to try it with.

The FLAC has an embedded CUE. Foobar doesn't give a crap about the .CUE file because it is reading the track details from the FLAC itself.

/conversation

And I'm kinda surprised that noone mentioned here Cloud Atlas - in a good or bad way (or I missed that?). I actually expected huge discussion about how bad it is, how generic, how trashy electronica kills those mediocre themes... Well, I'm kidding, imo it's wonderful score, with simple, yet very good theme, massive amount of emotions and lots of heart. And I really like the way the music was performed and recorded - with lots of hisses, crackles etc. Great score with proper "end credits" piece;).

I greatly enjoy Cloud Atlas as well: film, book, and score. I don't think the music is great on its own terms, particularly the action material, but the march and "sextet" themes worked well enough to establish an emotional connection, something I can't really say of many scores of late. My favorite track is the "Sextet for Orchestra," the name of which doesn't make much sense to me but it's chromatic beauty makes up for it. I do think I might have preferred that the producers had commissioned a more-seasoned composer to create the Sextet as a fully-realized work and build the score around that (similar to Tavenner and Children of Men), but I'm decently satisfied with what we've got.

I just found this thread, too many pages! the first "action cues" are great. It's a pity many links are broken now.
I've been clicking randomly and found this post #9378 (page 376 (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/376.html)), tangotreats are the links still working? I'd love to hear a re-recording of quo vadis prelude but I don't understand how the mirrorcreator works...

New links:

MP3 Version: http://go4up.com/dl/1BW21C4cU76K
FLAC Part 1: http://go4up.com/dl/1IjdcMUGxibg
FLAC Part 2: http://go4up.com/dl/16S8pkeignJP

Now updating original post. Enjoy! :D

Thanks a lot! Great music, Im going to listen to it right now. Good server too, very fast.

I quite like the highlights of Cloud Atlas. The main theme and some of the better emotional music is great. Sadly, the rest of the soundtrack is not so exciting and thus easily forgettable. I tend to mostly give my praise to albums that are solid from beginning to end, which Cloud Atlas is not, so it loses points.

Oh I see, if the uploader embeds a cue then Foobar should read it just fine. If I run into cue sheet troubles again I'll try that first before faffing abou twith file names and encoding.

Here are five of my favourites - all from Western movies again.http://www.ryak.info/15.jpghttp://www.ryak.info/09ht.jpghttp://www.ryak.info/09ax.jpghttp://www.ryak.info/16.jpg http://www.ryzu.info/6.jpghttp://www.ryzu.info/18.jpg

jlaidler: It's definitely worth a try. Occasionally (actually, probably more often than not) there's nothing at all embedded, in which case you still need the original CUE... but if the uploader has been very thorough it might be a quick solution.

As to the logic behind these range rips... well, that's anybody's guess...

East meets West

Download (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/1TNZPTTD/East_meets_West.zip_links)


Thank you so much! WDR will stream the "official concert recording in better quality" on Saturday 24th at 8:05 PM. If you have the time, I would love for a recording of that stream too. You can read my request here:
Thread 123482



It seems Jonne Valtonnen and Chris H�lsbeck are credited as arrangers.

Jonne did Starfox, Zelda and the first encore (his original composition). Roger did FF, Xenogears, Unlimited Saga and Turrican. The second encore (The Great Giana Sisters) I think is the same as on Symphonic Shades (by Jonne). I know for a fact that neither Jonne nor Roger did any of the other pieces, which are very straightforward orchestrations from the originals.

Great news! I have nothing to do this Saturday anyway (aside from writting essays). Finally I can do something about the annoying artifacts! I really love the audience this time. I can make clean cuts without clapping, I guess they were properly instructed or greatly moved by the music. Now imagine Zelda concerts with that kind of audience...

In other news Gundam Age OST 4 FINALLY brings us the prober conclusion with the unreleased orchestral pieces from the previous arcs and the final episodes. Tango might not enjoy it as much as I do but if you combine the four volumes and cut all of the synth and ambient tracks you still have a fine score worthy of Gundam. Certainly not as good as SEED (Destiny) or Afterwar X but definetly better than Unicorn and (the giant turd) 00.

New links:

MP3 Version: GO4UP : Upload everywhere ! (http://go4up.com/dl/1BW21C4cU76K)
FLAC Part 1: GO4UP : Upload everywhere ! (http://go4up.com/dl/1IjdcMUGxibg)
FLAC Part 2: GO4UP : Upload everywhere ! (http://go4up.com/dl/16S8pkeignJP)

Now updating original post. Enjoy! :D

I enjoyed it a lot, king of kings, quo vadis and ben hur in one disc is nice!
I found little differences with the original songs:
"parade of charroteers" (ben hur): volumen drops a bit at 1:34 (to introduce the brass section)
"star of Bethlehem" (ben hur): played a bit slow but that is even better!
I found a note (from the oboe?) at 1:41 (almost 1:42) "miracle and finale" (quo vadis) that is half tone low or something.

Now I've found this other disc, by Tazermonkey:
quo vadis/ben hur phase 4 (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/374.html#post1922491)
is this another re-recording? If so I'd love to hear it too.

edit: The DamnDirtyLossyLepers.zip (79 MB) would be ok to me! thanks!

Great news! I have nothing to do this Saturday anyway (aside from writting essays). Finally I can do something about the annoying artifacts! I really love the audience this time. I can make clean cuts without clapping, I guess they were properly instructed or greatly moved by the music. Now imagine Zelda concerts with that kind of audience...

In other news Gundam Age OST 4 FINALLY brings us the prober conclusion with the unreleased orchestral pieces from the previous arcs and the final episodes. Tango might not enjoy it as much as I do but if you combine the four volumes and cut all of the synth and ambient tracks you still have a fine score worthy of Gundam. Certainly not as good as SEED (Destiny) or Afterwar X but definetly better than Unicorn and (the giant turd) 00.

The funny thing is, I hate both of the SEED scores. They bore me to tears. But I quite enjoy Unicorn, and I see 00 as a pretty fun guilty pleasure.

The funny thing is, I hate both of the SEED scores.

WHAT???

SEED Destiny is one of my all time favorite anime scores. One of the most complex and symphonic scores Sahashi wrote in his career, but calling a Sahashi score boring is a bold statement as well. Does not compute...

Here is a new score for everyone, posted kindly by macdawson.


Space Battleship Yamato 2199 - OST Part 1 - Akira Miyagawa et al (320k)

Original thread (Thread 123511)

Now I've found this other disc, by Tazermonkey:
quo vadis/ben hur phase 4 (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/374.html#post1922491)
is this another re-recording? If so I'd love to hear it too.

edit: The DamnDirtyLossyLepers.zip (79 MB) would be ok to me! thanks!

It's a rerecording Rozsa himself conducted in the 1970s. I'll re-up it in a bit.

EDIT: Thread (Thread 123521)

Thank you very much tazermonkey! I'll comment about the disc on the other thread after I have listen it.

WHAT???

SEED Destiny is one of my all time favorite anime scores. One of the most complex and symphonic scores Sahashi wrote in his career, but calling a Sahashi score boring is a bold statement as well. Does not compute...

Eh, I kinda have to concur. I love Unicorn and Sawano gets a bad rap around here that I find kinda unfair. The SEED scores...Never been crazy about Sahashi in general. He does fine work, can't fault him for much(cept that I find his brassier stuff unbearably cheesy), but I dunno, it tends to miss a certain something that would make his music more memorable to me than it actually is. Serviceable, I guess is the word. On their own, both SEED scores let me down because they're broken down into these very short cues. Not quite Senju levels of malnourishment, but there's never enough there to really stick. Their respective symphonies do them far more justice. In any case, Gunslinger Girl is by far his best work in my eyes.

But most of us can agree 00 sucks, at least.

Well, ladies and gentlemen - I bid you farewell for now; when next we speak I will hopefully be coming to you live from Asakusa, Japan! The weather here in London right now is HORRIFIC... I think we might have a hurricane on the way, the way the wind is blowing at the moment... so I might end up going nowhere... but at the moment there are no cancellations, so fingers crossed. I'm flying in about 16 hours, so I'll be in Japan in 28 hours, and probably posting here in 30.

Wish me luck and do think of some ideas regarding what you want me to buy while I'm in Tokyo. :D

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Hi Yen! Message received - replying now. Thank you so much!

Here's Tall Ships. http://www.peejeshare.com/files/3633...G-TSS.rar.html or GO4UP : Upload everywhere ! (http://go4up.com/dl/1JRb4I4LxiP6)

I'll fix the original post when I get to Japan - but I thought you might forgive crappy presentation to get the album sooner. ;)

Good luck tango, hope there won't be any last minute flight cancellation! Have fun in Japan :)

I liked the Seed scores. OK, it's no work from Yoko Kanno, Shiro Sagisu, Hajime Mizuguchi etc, but the London Symphony Orchestra sounds great on it. Even if they do always sound like Star Wars and every other George Lucas produced film. Still one of my favourite orchestras. Though I personally favour the London Studio Orchestra used by Sagisu on teh Evangelion Rebuild albums, as well as the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra as used by Mizoguchi on Jin-Roh. I was REALLY disappointed by )) though. That's Kenji freekin' Kawai scoring that! At least Ghost In The Shell 2 Innocence kick ass.

[Edit: Never mind, I'll let somebody else take the flack for a change...]

I have arrived in Tokyo alive and well, by the way, and now I'm going to find some dinner and then bugger off to bed...!

I'm going to find some dinner and then bugger off to bed...!

But first you're going to go out and buy lots of soundtracks to share with us, right?

I think if I'd gone out last night, I probably would have died of exhaustion. ;)

I was up all morning packing, three hours to get to the airport in London, 3 hours waiting, 12 hours flight, one hour pratting about in Tokyo customs, 90 minutes to get from Narita to my hotel... All whilst dragging along one enormous suitcase on wheels, a giant backpack, and a heavy laptop case. Oh, Asakusa station with your broken lift and 499 stairs to get to street level... how I've missed you.

Shopping hopefully today, although I will need to find a map first................ and a cup of sodding tea...

Many thanks for Tall Ships TT - it's great music. My post was duplicated somehow and when I deleted one, both went, which is why it is empty. When you have your tea, you must have some Castella cake with it (Bunmeido brand is the best). It's the most delicious cake I ever had. The Portuguese brought it to Japan centuries ago and the Japanese typically improved on it.

New Recording of East meets West (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/436.html).

thanks you klnerfan! people like you are what make this forum so great

I just found a great adventure song, in my opinion as good as te "building the deathcoaster" (army of darkness) or the "happy flight" (never ending story):
the goonies symphony (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWluEIx7mkI&feature=youtube_gdata_player)

Vielen Dank kinerfan!

IIRC he was involved with the WDR a few times before this event.

EDIT: I think there was some info on the concert flyer, but I forgot to take one with me.

It must've been a late swap. The physical ticket said Jonne Valtonen IRC. Got the flyer somewhere too. Great evening still. Should've spent more time on these boards before going.

Fantastic, thanks a lot for the link of "East meets West"!

Really appreciate the recording! Thanks for that.

I was at the evening performance. In previous Leipzig concerts, I used to find the MC superflous, but found that I was actually missing the commentary and introductions in between. I like how Wayne Marshall managed to break the ice and gave us some nice surprises for the encore. Good evening overall, despite the composers making a quick exit. Should've spent more time on this forum to meet like minded people.

It must've been a late swap. The physical ticket said Jonne Valtonen IRC. Got the flyer somewhere too. Great evening still. Should've spent more time on these boards before going.

That was undoubtedly a mistake; Valtonen doesn't conduct.

Track List:

Disc 1 (http://www.mediafire.com/?b3xrru5i6dff5bw)

01 Gods Message =3EM02=
02 The Ultimate Soldier =3EM05=
03 Dark Defender =3EM06=
04 The Anthem =3EM07=
05 Out of the Dark =3EM10=
06 L'Ap�tre de la Lune (2 pianos) =3EM12=
07 Quatre Mains (� quatre mains) =3EM16=
08 Qui veut faire l'ange fait la b�te (piano solo) =3EM17=
09 Trust =3EM19=
10 L'Ap�tre de la Lune (orchestre cordes) =3EM22=
11 Return to Ash =3EM23=
12 It will mean Victory =3EM24=
13 Betrayal =3EM25=
14 Scarred and Battled =3EM26=
15 From Beethoven 9 =3EM27=
16 The Wrath of God in All its Fury =3EM28=
17 Tout est Perplexe (Th�me Q) =3EM30b=
18 Gods Gift =3EM31=
19 Kindred Spirits (Th�me Q) =3EM30a=




Disc 2 (http://www.mediafire.com/?vynaey30la3in61)

01 Bataille d'Espace =3EM01=
02 Quiproquo 131 (2 pianos) =3EM03=
03 Serenity Amongst the Turmoil =3EM04=
04 Quelconque 103 (piano) =3EM08=
05 Quiproquo 83 (2 pianos) =3EM09=
06 Quatre Mains (chambre cordes)*
07 Quiproquo 140 (piano) =3EM18=
08 Long Slow Pain =3EM20=
09 Quelconque 56 avec A4 (2 pianos plus) =3EM21=
10 Quiproquo 131 (orchestre)*
11 Qui veut faire l'ange fait la b�te (piano capricieux)*
12 Th�me Q (guitare) =3EM13=
13 Bande-annonce (gar�ons)*
14 Peaceful Times (choeur) =3EM32=
15 Famously�

EDIT: Zero_flyer has uploaded the missing two tracks.


Thank you! Searching for for missing tracks

UPD!
12- Th�me Q (guitare) =3EM13=
13- Bande-annonce (gar�ons)(Bonus tracks)

download (http://www.multiupload.nl/JBJM1ZG7YG). rar. no pass.
cheers~

I've also found scans to the lyrics for all the songs:
Lyrics Scans.rar (http://www.mediafire.com/?0491sjq25a8q13l)

Oh sweet Jesus. First I had Japanese food...now this.

Best. Hour. Ever.

EDIT: Tracks 12 and 13 from disc 2 are missing.

Not my rip. Although I never noticed there were two tracks missing.

Score hasn't been out for 24 hours though and there are bound to be more rips soon. So we're gonna have to wait a bit until that happens.

Jan A.P. Kaczmarek - Finding Neverland (2004) (MP3 V0)
Orchestral|Piano|Relaxing

Download (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/HOWWLMYS/Finding_Nevd.rar_links)

A delightful score that everyone who likes film music should check out! Heavy on piano and great melodies this one is likely to give you those elusive chills.

Bollocking bastard Japanese have renovated Tower Records in Shibuya, and now I can't find the anime soundtracks. I did ask a smiley chap at the information desk "ANIME SANDOTURAKKO???" whilst waving my arms around and all I got back was a big smile and "YEAH ANIME IS COORU DESHO!!!" and a thumbs-up, so anyway bugger that. The soundtracks section has got really, really small - last year it was most of the 6th floor and now it's just two or three racks with all the rest being Jazz and Easy Listening. I'm sure it must be *somewhere* in there... but I didn't see it. So, I will try in Shinjuku tomorrow. I did manage to get some goodies, though - watch this space... :D

Regarding that Evangelion crap... why the bloody hell does Masamichi Amano keep taking these shitty jobs? Surely they're not the only offers he's getting. Orchestrating for Shiro Sagisu... phew... it's like getting John Williams to orchestrate for Ramin Djawadi.

How is this music for the Evangelion release?

Well at least sometimes Amano does good (Berserk) but I just can't get over the Evangelion soundtracks. They are pure hype! They jump around far too much stylistically to be enjoyable at all.

I disagree. I don't think the juxtaposition is a bad thing - I rather like it! It's a weird criss cross of many musical ideas, and I think Sagisu does a good job with it.

it's like getting John Williams to orchestrate for Ramin Djawadi.

Hehe, better that way than another, right?


why the bloody hell does Masamichi Amano keep taking these shitty jobs? Surely they're not the only offers he's getting. Orchestrating for Shiro Sagisu

Please, enlighten me - why Sagisu is bad? Because he can write original music withour ripping of every single living note and even sometimes get creative? I'm not big Sagisu fan, I actually like just few his scores, but for me guy is an ok composer with some nice ideas. Nothing more, nothing less. Far from being unworthy of Amanos orchestrations;P.

Hello klnerfan! This may sound a bit strange, but is quite important. The first upload you had, was it taken from the original audio livestream on Nov 16th? Thanks for your hopefully quick response!

Yes

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Wait...JoJo's Bizaare Adventure..

Is that the show where a martial artists fights using techniques that exploits his afro and rediculisly long nose hairs?

You're thinking of Bobobo-bo-bobobo.


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With a name like that, how could I ever get confused?

My God. I love Kaczmarek's works! Thanks for Finding Neverland, Sirusjr!

Would love to have it in FLAC, but that's ok too. :P

I must say I agree on the Evangelion soundtracks. The first one blew me away, I loved it and bought the CD. Glad I was able to find the official South Korean releasxe though, only cost 18 bucks versus 35 to 40 for the Japanese version. The second was alright, not as brilliant but not unlistenable, I'm just sticking with my lossless download from this very site around a year or so ago. But the third? I downloaded it the other night from this thread, listened to it, and then deleted it. It probably works for the film when actually watching it, but I just didn't get into listening to it. Damn shame too. Angel of Doom got me into the first, and now I'm just cold on the music in the series. And I own the first two series albums, plus End of Evangelion. I flipped over 1.0, was OK with 2.0, and with 3.0 I'm just meh. Wonder what 4.0 will be like. Also Tango, I'm surprised with your multiple visits to Japan you haven't picked up some of the language. Really not a criticism, but learning the Japanese version of "where might I find the anime soundtracks?" might be a good idea. Though in fairness I'm surprised the guy didn't already speak it, they've been teaching it there starting in juniour high since at least the 1990s. Maybe he was screwing with you. Also surprised Tower Records is still around there. Been defunct in the US for nearly 10 years now. Though some blokes based in Montreal have been talking about rebooting the brand. Me, I'm happy that Rasputin Music bought a bunch of their defunct locations, so I only have to drive about half an hour to Stockton for my CHEAP new and used CD cassette record and DVD fix, lol.

Just for the record, I have picked up a great deal of language - but telling stories about Japanese people mangling English is more entertaining than telling stories about me mangling Japanese, so I leave those ones out. ;)

The problem is that it's very easy to learn "where are the anime soundtracks" and say it to the guy in the store. Your problems begin when he starts to answer you in high speed colloquial Japanese. If the answer is anything other than "Sorry, we don't have them" or "They're just over there" then you're stuffed.

English in Japan varies wildly; yes, it's a school subject but it's not really taught to any level approaching fluency. Schoolkids snooze through their English lessons for the most part. Maybe they remember a handful of words from their textbooks but they won't be getting any jobs acting as Hamlet any time soon.

My housekeeper said to me this morning "Roomu creano finishu" which is about as good as it gets on average. Enough to get the message across, barely. Sometimes you strike it lucky, though. On my first trip a little old lady in a kimono shuffled up to me in a train station and said to me in almost cut-glass British English "Excuse me, can I help you, young man?" - and ironically at that point I didn't need any help!

Some people know enough English to give it a bash; but in order for them to know it's English you're after (from their perspective, I could be French, German, American, Swedish, or whatever) you either begin your conversation in English and hope they understand you, or you make your first question "Do you speak English?" to which the answer is frequently "no". If you speak to them in Japanese, you get an answer back in Japanese because they assume that if you've said one sentence with reasonable competence, you speak Japanese. You have to get a balance. If your parrot-Japanese is too good they'll think you're fluent and get pissed off when you don't understand the reply. If your Japanese is terrible they won't know what you're asking in the first place. I'm getting better a pitching it, I think. ;)

"Excuse me, kind sir! Where do I find the anime soundtracks" / "On the fourth floor at the other end of the store opposite the pink cash register next to the AKB0048 poster!" / "Huh?" / "God dammit, you asked me a question and I answered you and now you're saying you don't understand! Damn gaijin..."

I've had some very successful exchanges... and some brain-meltingly-embarassing ones where my Japanese and their English just haven't stretched far enough to reach some level of understanding in the middle. It's a shame. My friend, who I was counting on for some translation-assistance, has been sadly unavailable this week due to a family emergency so I've been blundering around on my own.

As a solo traveller, an introvert, and an Aspie... I think I do pretty well. ;)

Tower Records in Japan was bought out years and years ago - they're now a completely separate Japanese-owned company who just purchased the rights to the name. So when Tower USA (and others) went down the shitter, it was business as usual in Japan.

They've just finished a big renovation of their flagship Shibuya store... so obviously they're doing OK, which is good news. :)

I see what you mean. My mum is a NICU nurse and working and living in California there are a LOT of Spanish speaking mums. So though she's picked up the odd word and phrase, it's slow going. So when she even haltingly asks something basic in Spanish, they reply a mile a minute so she has to say "un piquito Espanol." In Paris I've had to say "Je parle petit francais." And the Tower Records thing makes sense, look at Lawson convenience shops. Went out of business here back in the 80's I think, but still going strong there.

I'm surprised you had trouble finding anime soundtracks though. As just a guy living in The States with his ear to the ground I know it's THE big entertainment business there. Hopefully they were just in the middle of a restructuring or something. Shops change where things go all the bloody time, rather annoying. There is hope though, there are phone apps being developed to translate in more or less real time, be it audio or captured text, so if you have a smart phone of some sort there's that going. Damned shame that little old lady in the kimono wasn't around this time though, lol.

Hey Tango, does Japan have any used/new type music/movie shops there? Here in Northern/Central California there's the small chain Rasputin, the best of them of course being the original location in Berkley. I couldn't find any in London, at least back in '08. Forget about it in Paris Rome and Florence too.

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[STAR DRIVER] THE MOVIE PV2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXC7q_rkwOY)

First (45s) preview of the Star Driver movie score ... and I already want to preorder. Possible first firecracker of 2013.

Oh yeah! Can�t wait to see and hear it ;)

Keep an eye out, I am working on Volume 4 of Loveliness, Elegance, and Nobility. I was going to try to continue it with game music but that just didn't work very well. So I am using film scores. This will likely end up with many more volumes but for now volume 4 should be out soon.

And the next tadlow re-recording is: Hour Of The Gun - Theme - YouTube (http://youtu.be/p9IctI3FbWs)

Coming up later... - comingup.mp3 (http://www.mediafire.com/?6ax7k3m5m7n6ry8)

Loveliness, Elegance, and Nobility Volume 4
A compilation of film music
31 Tracks - 1hr 40min
This is the first one to be posted in FLAC as well as MP3 because it is the first one where I have every single track in lossless.


MP3
Download (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/DCXBTZZ0/LEN_V4.rar_links)

FLAC
Download Part 1 (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/GHYBJ2CQ/LENV4_FLC.part1.rar_links)
Download Part 2 (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/1XVBTSVH/LENV4_FLC.part2.rar_links)

Tracklist

01 - Omar the Teacher (Lion of the Desert).mp3 Maurice Jarre
02 - Main Titles (Emma).mp3 Rachel Portman
03 - Arn & Cecilia (Arn-Knight Templar).mp3 Toumas Kantelinen
04 - River Waltz (The Painted Veil).mp3 Alexandre Desplat
05 - Long, Long Time Ago (Pan's Labyrinth).mp3 Javier Navarrete
06 - Eva (Cross Of Iron).mp3 Ernest Gold
07 - Love Happens (Love Happens).mp3 Christopher Young
08 - The Traveling Montage (The wolfman).mp3 Danny Elfman
09 - Main Title (To Kill A Mockingbird).mp3 Elmer Bernstein
10 - Main Titles (The Cider House Rules).mp3 Rachel Portman
11 - Anna's theme (Leap year).mp3 Randy Edelman
12 - Dinah's Theme (The View From Pompey's Head).mp3 Bernard Herrmann
13 - The Boys Arrive (Islands in the Stream).mp3 Jerry Goldsmith
14 - End Title (The Man Who Would Be King).mp3 Maurice Jarre
15 - Finale (Brideshead Revisited).mp3 Geoffrey Burgon
16 - Wishing Well And The Fratellis Find Coin (The Goonies).mp3 Grusin, Dave
17 - Hope & Hoah (The Young Lions).mp3 Hugo Friedhofer
18 - The Cottage on the Beach (Atonement).mp3 Dario Marianelli
19 - Homecoming (Percy Jackson and the Olympians The Lightning Thief).mp3 Christophe Beck
20 - Adoration (Blue Denim).mp3 Bernard Herrmann
21 - Worth Waiting For (The spiral road).mp3 Jerry Goldsmith
22 - H20 (Hierro).mp3 Zacarias M. De La Riva
23 - You Are the Real Tooth Fairy (Tooth Fairy).mp3 George S. Clinton
24 - Mountain Vineyard (This Earth is Mine).mp3 Hugo Friedhofer
25 - Main Title (Kimberly).mp3 Basil Poledouris
26 - Christmas at the Front (The Promise).mp3 Tuomas Kantelinen
27 - What Happened to Our Country (Princess Ka'iulani).mp3 Stephen Warbeck
28 - The Ludlows (Legends Of The Fall).mp3 James Horner
29 - Preparing Pauline (Perfume the Story of a Murderer).mp3 Tom Tykwer
30 - End Theme (Good Luck Miss Wycoff).mp3 Ernest Gold
31 - Fate Has Smiled Upon Us (Robin Hood).mp3 Marc Streitenfeld

And the next tadlow re-recording is: Hour Of The Gun - Theme - YouTube (http://youtu.be/p9IctI3FbWs)
I didn't think this needed a new recording, but after watching the clip how can I resist! So pleased to hear they're embarking on a Goldsmith series. My top most wanted are QB VII, Basic Instinct (the string sound in the original has always been sub-par), Planet of the Apes (impossible you may say, but I think they'd be in their element close-miking this one), Blue Max (nuff said) and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Am I being too greedy?

Sirusjr, that's a very eclectic mix there! I could do with some loveliness, elegance and nobility at the moment. :)

Great to see Tango back safe and sound from his trip.

Coming up later... - comingup.mp3 (http://www.mediafire.com/?6ax7k3m5m7n6ry8)
*Faints on the spot*

Yeeeh, more Loveliness! I'm sure it will be at least as lovely as, well, the other parts...anyway, thank you very much for the work you put in, Sirusjr! :) Can't wait to get my ears on this.

Is that Amano you've got in store for us TT? I'm so poor at keeping track of all these great Japanese composers!

*grins*

Not Amano, my friend... ;)

Loveliness, Elegance and Nobility Volume 1.
A compilation of anime music
32 Tracks | 1hr 26 minutes
Download (http://www.peejeshare.com/files/363245262/LEN_V1.rar.html)
Could I humbly request a re-up of Vol 1 and 2 since the links seem to be dead?

And this if possible:

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)


Thanks, great thread by the way.

Volume 1 and Volume 2 should still be up on the official thread:
Thread 118491
I'll re-up them if they aren't working but the Pejeeshare one seems to be.

Pejeeshare isn't working for me for some reason. "Click here to Download" just takes me to the upload interface. Tried on another browser, disabled antivirus, nothing.
Any suggestions?

I posted some new links for volume 1 and 2 on my original thread.

Peegee share does that to me too when I try downloading anime. I think they're just having issues.

Yeah, it's the exact reason why I'm not reuploading any of my rips at the moment. There doesn't seem to be any reliable filehosts out there. Peeje loses files constantly, and I cannot upload separated archives on Mediafire.

Rapidshare until recently was good too, but they've gone crap again, now they always say the file owner has exceeded their traffic.

Koichi Sugiyama
The Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
Symphonic Suite Dragon Quest X: Mezameshi Itsutsu no Shuzoku



01 序曲Ｘ
02 アンルシアの恵み
03 ざわめく心
04 王宮への招待
05 街の息吹～まどろむ街並～夢のマイルーム～村人たちのおしゃべり～街の息吹
06 空飛ぶ小舟～迫る脅威～高なる鼓動
07 刃の旋律～渾身の力を込めて
08 天空の世界
09 花の民プクリポ～地の民ドワーフ～トンテンカン～あの丘を越えたら
10 風雅の都～五重魔塔
11 水の民ウェディ～風の民エルフ～炎の民オーガ
12 暗闇をさまよう～終焉の迷宮
13 死の世界より来たる者～死へのいざない～冥府の王
14 更なる未来へ
15 目覚めし五つの種族

DQX Symphonic Suite (http://www.sendspace.com/file/qss1qm)

Enjoy. :)

What? When was Dragon Quest X released? Thanks for sharing!

Wow that was fast for DQX it just came out Dec. 5th. Thanks for sharing.

KICC-6351 | Symphonic Suite Dragon Quest X: Mezameshi Itsutsu no Shuzoku - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/34977)

By the way, I really enjoyed Dragon Quest X Symphonic Suite, more than the past ones. It is quite lovely!

Soon...

project Attack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCFeeQ3G8yM)



Next possible firecracker, coming Spring 2013.


@Sirusjr: I prefer Dragon Quest VIII and IX over X, especially the Overture and the Finale. Still not as fantastic as the London Philharmonic Suites but great stuff regardless.

MP3-128: ADrive | Online Storage, Online Backup, Cloud Storage (http://www.adrive.com/public/PKPuTz/PGttO.rar)

Broadcast UK BBC Radio 4 DAB digital radio, December 6 2012 Thursday 11:30am-11:59am

BBC Radio 4 - The Physicist's Guide to the Orchestra (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p3n9f)

In 1945, Benjamin Britten wrote The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, showing off the instruments of the orchestra in a short film. Viewers are taken through each section of the orchestra accompanied by a narration which describes the different sound quality of instruments: 'Clarinets ... make a beautifully smooth, mellow sound', flutes have a 'sweet voice' and the oboe has a 'plaintive quality.'

Trevor Cox, Professor of Acoustic Engineering at the University of Salford, looks at the physics behind the way orchestral instruments produce their unique sound. How is the sound produced, and how much does the material from which the instrument is made affect the sound?

Trevor talks to scientists who have studied musical instruments - David Sharp from the Open University, Mike Newton at Edinburgh University and Jim Woodhouse of Cambridge University. And members of the BBC Philharmonic provide the players' perspective.

I think some in this thread might enjoy the music in the new Code Geass OVA. So far there is some great orchestral music as well as some jazz for the theme of the main character. They brought on a new composer for the OVA, giving it a different sound.

Wow!

I would never have expected something good to show up in Code Geass... what a score! Really loving the jazz - Ichiko Hashimoto's more known for her jazz, so there's no surprise there... but the orchestral pieces are excellent, too. Even a real choir! Thanks for the pointer!

I think some in this thread might enjoy the music in the new Code Geass OVA. So far there is some great orchestral music as well as some jazz for the theme of the main character. They brought on a new composer for the OVA, giving it a different sound.

It's the same composer who made the music for RahXephon (Ichiko Hashimoto). Thank you for the information; I'll be checking this one out.

EDIT: It would be a damn shame if they don't release a soundtrack for this...

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Soon...

project Attack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCFeeQ3G8yM)



Next possible firecracker, coming Spring 2013.


@Sirusjr: I prefer Dragon Quest VIII and IX over X, especially the Overture and the Finale. Still not as fantastic as the London Philharmonic Suites but great stuff regardless.

Oh, that's Attack of the Giants. Pretty spiffy manga, so an adaptation by Araki promises to impress. Here's hoping for a Hirano score.

And yeah, DQ X doesn't measure up to VIII, one of my favorites, but it stands head and shoulders above IX, at least.

Bollocks; Hiroyuki Sawano on Attack On Titan. NaotaM will be pleased... but for the most of us, that's fucked pretty much any chance of that show getting a good score.

[Edit: Forget the placeholder; please see post below...] :)

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Well, how about some brand new Yamashita? The first in my series of "gifts from Tokyo" - I decided to jump this one ahead in the queue. The samples I posted a few days ago were indeed Megumi Ohashi (nicely done Mr Salat) and were from the final three discs of Tokumei Sentai Gobusters. Pretty good scores, of course... but as much as I love Megumi Ohashi, she must get in line behind Kousuke Yamashita...


KOUSUKE YAMASHITA
(incorporating themes by Michiaki Watanabe)
Space Sheriff Gavan - The Movie
Studio Orchestra



KY-SSGTM.rar | Game Front (http://www.gamefront.com/files/22724735/KY-SSGTM.rar)

My rip. Scans included. FLAC at Level 8. English track listing.

2011 was the Super Sentai series; 35th Anniversary year. Accordingly, a very expensive series (Gokaiger) was made and more movie tie-ins than you can shake a stick at. One of the movies featured a crossover with tired 80s superhero Space Sheriff Gavan. As the Sentai composer for the year, Yamashita scored the movie, and when Gavan's newfound popularity earned him a brand new solo feature film this year, it was pretty obvious who would be writing the music. Yamashita casts off his Sentai melodies and writes a largely original score, though there are passing nods to veteran Michiaki Watanabe's 80s themes within the scores in addition to new arrangements of the original Space Sheriff Gavan theme song.

The only critical thing I could say about Yamashita's score is there isn't enough of it! What there is, though... well, it's magnificent. A well-rounded selection of straight symphonic cues (about 25 minutes - some have some minor, TASTEFUL electronic elements; not drowning in synth, just a bit of colour here and there) is interspersed with drum/guitar/orchestra tracks and needless to say they're all at Yamashita's usual level. The orchestral score is surprisingly romantic in tone, with Yamashita even pulling a Joe Hisaishi in track 32, with a rousing, brassy, heroic theme that rounds off the score wonderfully.

All in all, excellent stuff. Yamashita still playing his A game.

(A little note about the track listing; it's my own translation and for the most part it makes sense. It's not completely perfect, but it's not bad. I had to do a lot of reading about the movie to make sure certain things were right. Enjoy!)

Many thanks Tango. I just wanted to note that if you downloaded my lossless version of Loveliness, Elegance, and Nobility Volume 4, there is a fix uploaded for some tracks that were out of order.

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Wir Wollten Aufs Meer (Shores of Hope)



DOWNLOAD (http://www.mediafire.com/?8o329tvm70xssn7)

Obrigado Herr. Salat

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Many thanks Herr Salat :D New music is always welcome.

re: KOUSUKE YAMASHITA
(incorporating themes by Michiaki Watanabe)
Space Sheriff Gavan - The Movie
Studio Orchestra



excuse me... i can't dl it... does the link still work~? THX~~!!

micobear: Works for me - what happens? I'll try to get some mirrors up a bit later. :)

Thank you, Herr Salat!

micobear: Works for me - what happens? I'll try to get some mirrors up a bit later. :)

cant start dl... anyway, it would be much appreciated if you can get some mirrors for it~ :D BIG THANKS Tangotreat~!!!

micobear: Works for me - what happens? I'll try to get some mirrors up a bit later. :)

Hi friends, Game Front file downloads are not supported in our countries tangotreats :( --> Game Front File Hosting FAQ | GameFront (http://www.gamefront.com/file-hosting-faq/)

That interview with Raine - great part at about 5:45 xD.

Game Front, at least the last time I used, it worked fine for me and I'm in the US. Where are you atlantean1?

In Spain. But your country is in this list ----> Game Front File Hosting FAQ | GameFront (http://www.gamefront.com/file-hosting-faq/) so you can download :)

Wonder why Spain of all countries is blocked. Thought Europe on the whole were more free really than America.

Symphony AIR ~Shinwa e no Izanai~ [FLAC]
Original music by Yoshikazu Suo, Shinji Orito. Arranged by Yuji Nomi.
Czech Philharmonic conducted by Mario Klemens



Tracklist:

1. 1st Movement (From "Invitation to the Legend"/"Two People") 10:52
2. 2nd Movement (From "Bird's Poem") 9:40
3. Scherzo (From "The Distant Hub Says") 9:24
4. Finale (From "If Dreams Came True") 10:32

This album is obtainable at BakaBT but I figured that many of you do not know about this album as it's not posted in this thread. Basically, it's a symphonic arrangement of four selected themes used in the anime film AIR (the original work is a visual novel, a game consisted of endless texts about romance and reincarnation). I certainly didn't expect a symphonic work given how unremarkable the original soundtrack was, but we here have a great symphony arranged by Yuji Nomi.
I hope you guys enjoy this as much as I have!

CLICK ME (http://www.mediafire.com/?z9bccwtn8iduz1y)

Monster Hunter Orchestra Concert ~Shuryou Ongakusai 2012~ [MP3 V0]
Various Arrangers
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra


VGMDB (http://vgmdb.net/album/35485)

I grabbed this because VGMDB lists Kousuke Yamashita, Shiro Hamaguchi, and Hayato Matsuo as arrangers among others.
I haven't given this a full listen so I can't comment how it is, but there seems to be a great deal of percussion and ethnic instruments mixed into orchestra.

Credit goes to 園城寺怜@astost

CLICK ME (http://www.mediafire.com/?2xla8wn1fw7s4qa)

Symphony AIR ~Shinwa e no Izanai~

Thanks for this. But It links to a .001 file. Is there a second part?

Edit: Nevermind. Everything is there. Awesome music!

I will upload Yuji Nomi's Sukitte Ii Na Yo (AKA Say I love you, a recent anime series) soundtrack vol. 1 soon. There are romantic tunes in the album that some of you will enjoy.

Edit:
Sukitte Ii na yo. MUSIC & DRAMA COLLECTION Vol.1[FLAC+CUE+LOG]

Album Information (http://vgmdb.net/album/34849)

I wasn't too familiar with Yuji Nomi until I gave a listen to Nichijou soundtracks. While I really liked his work for that anime, I didn't find his other work particularly appealing other than sometracks in Bokurano and Mimi wo Sumaseba.
Sukitte Ii Na Yo is an anime about a really popular guy at school and a clumsy, socially reclusive girl falling in love. With that said, you won't find any brassy, action-packed songs in this soundtrack but you will find some delicate, romanctic, and melancholic melodies that fit this anime (it does get a little dramatic). My personal favorite is Tracks 3, 7, 13, 19, 25 are drama tracks that you guys can look over/delete after splitting the FLAC file. My personal favorite is track 11 which plays when the girl decides to kiss the guy in a very drawn-out fashion...
While this soundtrack isn't anything ground-breaking, I hope this relaxing soundtrack serves as a good listen.

Credit goes to skippergong@astost and his wonderful personal rip.

Part I (http://www.mediafire.com/?e3e9x759209r39k)
Part II (http://www.mediafire.com/?o6x32amlz53wolu)

Symphony AIR ~Shinwa e no Izanai~

Thanks for this. But It links to a .001 file. Is there a second part?

Edit: Nevermind. Everything is there. Awesome music!

That means it was compressed with 7zip.

Thanks for this :D Symphony Air should be fun. I'm not a big fan of Monster Hunter concert though.

Sorry to disapoint you, but Spain is a disguised dictatorship. Maybe the rest of Europe is more or less free, but we Spaniards live in the past...

Somebody Japanese posted Giant Robo OST in 24 bit 96 kHz

(Anime OST) Giant Robo The Animation - Chikyuu ga Seishi Suru Hi Original Soundtrack [1993-1997 (http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4247111)

However, no EAC logs. So I dunno if its real (I assume it is). I don't have enough space on my computer to check it out now.

It might be legit. There's a blu ray remaster (amazon.jp link) (http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B008KIWI3Q) that's supposed to have the soundtrack at that quality. The related line passed through google translate: "high-quality sound recording to Blu-ray or more CD, the soundtrack of EPISODE.1 ~ 7. (96kHz/24bit/2ch) "

If it's lifted from the BluRay film then probably. Because BluSpec CDs are Red Book audio, just made using blue lasers instead of red. So literally the same as what's been around for 35 years.

EAC is a CD ripper. This doesn't come from a CD. Of course there's no LOG. This is a rip from the new BD edition's isolated score track. Nobody is talking about CDs, Bluspec or otherwise.

Not that it matters much, because the torrent is dead at the moment.

Monster Hunter 5th Anniversary Orchestral Concert
|Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra - Conducted by Hirofumi Kurita
|MP3|VBR256 V-0 Fast|Scans|106MB|

Download (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/O1XATLTW/MHtr5Con.rar_links)

This was re-upped by PM request. Will go well with the other Monster Hunter Concert.

"Composer"/Orchestrator/Conductor:
Masamicz Amano
Orchestra:
Warsaw National Philhamonic Orchestra

2e.
Suite Symphonique
"GR"
(Giant Robo)

1. Part 1 (25:18)
2. Part 2 (30:06)

Speaking of worthless throwaways, sort of, here's another unnecessary old Amano album.

I don't think this is worthless at all. Certainly a fresh recording would be welcome, which would allow for perhaps greater tweaking of the score, but I think this is interesting as a reconceptualization of Amano's exceptional scores for "Giant Robo" into a concert work. Frankly, it's something I wish a lot more film composers would do... but of course it requires far more effort than just throwing all the cues onto a disc in chronological order and calling it a definitive presentation of the music.

That said, I find the "symphonic suite" album of the first episode's score to be a more enjoyable and satisfying listen.

Thank you for your thoughts, TazerMonkey! :'D

To give anyone the heads up ... this concert is to be broadcast tonight on bbc radio 2 .... is there a chance someone can record it ?? Thanks!!

On BBC Radio 2:
8.00-10.00pm: Friday Night is Music Night – A concert of the music of John Williams
The concert features the BBC Concert Orchestra under their Principal Conductor, Keith Lockhart who has worked with John and who took over from him as Principal Conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra. They are joined by the choral forces of London Voices who have featured on many of John's film soundtracks including Star Wars and Harry Potter.
The concert recorded last month at the Watford Colosseum includes music from John's Academy Award winning scores - Jaws; Star Wars; E.T.; and the young violinist Charlie Siem joins the orchestra to perform music from Schindler's List. Also included Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Raiders of the Lost Ark; Empire of the Sun; The Witches of Eastwick; Hook; Jurassic Park; Amistad; Saving Private Ryan; Harry Potter; along with his most recent Oscar nominated scores for Warhorse and Tin Tin

Here you go:
http://www.adrive.com/public/zdV825/FNiMN-JW.rar

Yen , that will be good , 128 is better than nothing !! thanks !

Star Trek The Original Series Season 2 Disc 1 Part 2 Friday's Child:

1. Alexander Courage - Main Title (soprano version) (1:05)
2. Gerald Fried - Ship/Capella IV (1:11)
3. Gerald Fried - Captain's Log (2:08)
4. Gerald Fried - Klingon Ship/Music for Fruits/The Teer (1:27)
5. Gerald Fried - The Challenge/Klingon Blip (1:10)
6. Gerald Fried - Distress Signal (1:44)
7. Gerald Fried - Arm Barbeque/Slow Turn/Call of Duty (0:58)
8. Gerald Fried - Scott/Bones' Good Idea/Capellan Desert (2:17)
9. Gerald Fried - Belly Feeler (2:14)
10. Gerald Fried - Sonic Ambush/Bouncing Boulder (1:03)
11. Gerald Fried - Kras on the Rocks/Paternity Case/New Capellan in Town (1:44)
12. Gerald Fried - Negative Report/Old Russian Saying/The Mother Splits (1:35)
13. Gerald Fried - The Baby Sitter/Road Hog (0:46)
14. Gerald Fried - Down the Throat (1:14)
15. Gerald Fried - Arrows (1:31)
16. Gerald Fried - Forfeit (1:33)
17. Gerald Fried - Coochy Coo/Godfathers (0:43)
18. Alexander Courage - End Title (soprano version) (0:46)


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... I think this is interesting as a reconceptualization of Amano's exceptional scores for "Giant Robo" into a concert work. Frankly, it's something I wish a lot more film composers would do...

Reading this over again, it kind of sounds like I want film composers to re-edit their existing recordings into "concert suites." I meant that I wish more film composers would reconceptualize the music for concert performance, like Prokofiev creating the Nevsky cantata by reshaping his score for the film, or the supposedly dreaded "album rerecordings" of old where Rozsa, Goldsmith, Williams, et al. would pick highlights and tweak it for optimal musicality separate from the film to create a better listening experience. It's nice to hear the music develop a bit instead of jumping from dramatic beat to dramatic beat when its divorced from the filmic context. But you all probably knew that's what I meant, right?

Ugh. It's been a long week.

I know a place where people would riot if they got a single CD of symphonic suites instead of every last fragment of score, in chronological order mind you, (along with alternate cues and rehearsals) released in a limited 4 CD collector's set with a 100 page booklet detailing what the composer had for breakfast the morning before he decided a short passage was to be played spiccato and not staccato.

If it is the place where dissent is shat upon and sangreals are unearthed every other day and bodily fluids must be loosed at every mention of every release of every specialty label, then I too know of this hell. 'Tis a silly place. ("OMG! All 37 takes of Bear McCreary's Fugue for Tampax! My life is now complete!")

KOUSUKE YAMASHITA
(incorporating themes by Michiaki Watanabe)
Space Sheriff Gavan - The Movie
Studio Orchestra


excuse me... i can't dl it... does the link still work~?

http://www.adrive.com/public/mbDkMP

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This is one of those things where I feel primed to complain about how they missed everything good about the original and what a horrible idea it is to make a sequel to a bona fide unrepeatable masterpiece 30 years later... In this case though they're actually doing everything *right*, short of getting Howard Blake back in to weave his magic. Ilan Eshkeri isn't a bad choice though!

wimpel69 has recently posted an album with The Snowman including narration here (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/christmas-thread-2012-a-123707/2.html#post2216435) :'D

I posted the original without narration a while ago, but needless to say the links are now dead.

By the way, sorry for my lack of input lately - laptop motherboard fried. Hopefully I can get back up and running after Christmas!

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This is one of those things where I feel primed to complain about how they missed everything good about the original and what a horrible idea it is to make a sequel to a bona fide unrepeatable masterpiece 30 years later... In this case though they're actually doing everything *right*, short of getting Howard Blake back in to weave his magic. Ilan Eshkeri isn't a bad choice though!


Did you not read my comments about this on Facebook? ;)

Wait until you hear the score. Then you'll have lots to complain about. It's hideous.

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Salat: THANK YOU! These are VERY worth having... Why? Less dynamics compression, and no electronics/overlays on tracks that featured them from the original soundtracks. Please compare 3:40 on the Train Chase Edition symphonic suite with track 1 from the 7th score. Note missing electronic slapping percussion... and more interestingly, when it goes off into the Stargate ripoff (4:25 on the Train Chase suite) it sounds like a different performance all together... and 4:52 finishes on a different chord and goes into a brass chorale that links it to the beginning of the Train Chase / Attache Case cue.

I'm pretty well convinced that there are NEW RECORDINGS here edited with the original soundtrack performances to ease the flow. Probably they got, say, a single session in there to record linking bits and such. The train chase cue itself - at least some of it - is definitely the original soundtrack recording - note the bow slip in the double basses at 8:45... it's identical.

Either way... LOVING THIS. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

So guys, I got a question. I am meaning to start to reupload most of my stuff, but I don't know a good place to do it. MF is putting a lot of emphasis on taking down split archives, and considering the large file sizes of my stuff it is no longer a good idea for me to continue to use MF. What would you guys suggest I go next?

Doublehex: I've also been using ADrive (http://www.adrive.com/) lately. No size limitations. The download speed is ok.