I'll second Herr Salat on Adrive. No problems for about a month so far.

I hope ADrive works for you :'D

KY - SSGTM.rar (http://www.adrive.com/public/mbDkMP/KY - SSGTM.rar)


WOW~~!! thank you so much Herr Salat~!! it works fine~ :D

Here is a new link of Shinsengumi from Shadow original rip (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/209.html#post1479499).

Sendspace (http://www.sendspace.com/file/gs2zr5)

The main theme only appears three times throughout the album, but every each different variation of the theme is fantastic.

I hope ADrive works for you :'D

KY - SSGTM.rar (http://www.adrive.com/public/mbDkMP/KY - SSGTM.rar)

Thanks for the link :)

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Courtesy of Jack Daniels, London Pride, and various other alcoholic beverage manufacturers... combined with two pisshead wankers by the names of Brian and Yvonne... let is be known that I'm sick of humans, sick of the world, sick of pretending I fit in in the world... in short, sick of every single bollocking thing. Sorry in advance. I'll regret this tomorrow but right now I don't give a fuck - so DROP DEAD every single person I ever met.

I am suddenly very glad I have yet to have met you in person tango.

This will pass dude. The world is trying to fuck you up tonight. Out best it by fucking it in the ass back. Then move on.

Tango i have never had the pleasure of met you in person, but let you know that you're one of the nicest guys of the forum, and always stop to read your posts with particular attention.

Life is not sad, it just happens that there are sad days to all of us, and tomorrow when you wake up you'll be glad that you have another day to live.

*hugs* be strong and be yourself

Shit sucks mate, which we all know. We just plod on and get on with it. Chin up, stiff upper lip and all that. Failing that, haul off and hit someone if you can get away with it. On another note, glad to see the forum back in action.

Thanks again to Herr Salat for Things You Taught Me!!

STEPHEN SONDHEIM
SYMPHONIC SONDHEIM
London Symphony Orchestra
Arranged and conducted by Don Sebesky
FLAC | 11 Tracks | 53:48 | 241 MB



1. Sweeney Todd Suite - 13:12
2. Not a Day Goes By - 3:11
3. Finishing the Hat - 3:36
4. Barcelona - 4:06
5. Comedy Tonight - 2:39
6. Multitudes of Amys - 4:15
7. Into the Woods Suite - 8:36
8. Pretty Lady - 3:10
9. Losing My Mind - 3:35
10. Side by Side by Side - 2:29
11. Send in the Clowns - 4:29

THREAD (Thread 124697)

Wow nice. I just realized I've been spelling his last name wrong all this time. I always read it as SondheLm not SondheIm.

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)

Anyone could reupload these? The Gamefront links are down.

Thanks in advance!!

Anyone could reupload these? The Gamefront links are down.

Thanks in advance!!

I'll have to get on that after Christmas, cause I'm going out of town today. Thanks for letting me know.

Thanks for posting this.

Just in case you see it before you go, happy Xmas Naota. :)

Shared by NaotaM (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893-post2197728/#post2197728), re-ups:

Yugo Kanno's
Diplomat Kousuke Kuroda (http://www.adrive.com/public/pSDwvu/)
Haken's Destiny / Dignity of Hegemony (http://www.adrive.com/public/ZxTPZ2/)
Fumō Chitai (The Waste Land) (http://www.adrive.com/public/QdXExK/)

I'd just like to offer the thread my sincerest apologies for my drunken outburst; sorry, folks. Booze and women are never a good combination. You'll never know how much I appreciated the words of support I received from gratitude alone, but nonetheless THANK YOU! :)

In other news... Thursday's episode (12) of Zetsuen No Tempest had one of those music cues... you know the type... you hear them and you think "THIS is why I love film music" - the entire episode is pretty much wall-to-wall music, but that two minute cue may well be one of the finest pieces of anime scoring of all time. I think the scene was scored to picture - or, at least, to detailed storyboard - Oshima just goes for it and the scene itself is glorious, and the whole thing is just breathtaking. Tempest now surpasses any of Oshima's prior works; and to be able to say that about a composer who's been in the business for more than twenty years... that's just thrilling.

Takayuki Hattori's Code Breaker also continues to impress - the previous episode (10) opens with a cue that opens out into the most gloriously melancholy trumpet solo - which tickled me in that place that no other solo trumpet work has ever done since Goldsmith - and that's saying something. The strings take the melody and the rest of the orchestra come in. Best of all, it's instant and classic Takayuki, harmonically quite close to Intelligent Qube. This is the score I've been waiting for him to write for years and years. TWO CD RELEASE (YES YES YES!!!) coming out on Boxing Day!

Yoshihisa Hirano's Driland score, astonishingly, is also being released - and on actual CDs as well. Unfortunately they're coupling it with Character Songs and putting out only a couple of tracks at a time... but at this stage in proceedings I'll take what I can get. It's a superb score - fully orchestral, with a catchy theme (albeit recycled from Ouran High School Host's Club) coupled with some very heavy-going atonal music, some more traditional symphonic heroism, and of course a bit of choral mayhem - a thousand times better than that dumb little kiddie show deserves.

Shiro Sagisu's Magi continues to be excellent - but with Masamichi Amano orchestrating it's hardly going to be any different. It's being really thinly spread so far in the anime, with probably only ten minutes of orchestra heard so far (in eleven episodes!!!) but it's a 24 episode series so obviously the fantastic stuff is still to come. They're padding out the episodes with cheap crap and bringing in the orchestra at very pivotal moments. 24 episode series' with full orchestra budgets typically record about an hour of straight symphonic music (that's the most economical use of one day - two three hours sessions, with 60 minutes of finished recording) so I wouldn't worry about that. And since it's Sagisu, a sensible release is all but guaranteed. Bearing in mind that we're not talking about piddly little studio ensemble - this is a Warsaw grade score.

In other less-than-brilliant news, the first episode of the new season of AKB0048 (The Next Stage) has surfaced a few weeks early, and so far features no new score whatsoever - instead tracking in familiar pieces from the first season. I suppose they could be saving the new stuff... but something tells me there won't be any new music. Bummer.

Some music coming up as a Christmas gift - hopefully tonight, probably tomorrow - having Internet problems at the moment. I think my next door neighbour's Christmas tree is fucking with my router... so we shall see.

In the mean time... peace! :D

I'll have to get on that after Christmas, cause I'm going out of town today. Thanks for letting me know.

Dont worry! Im not in a hurry so take it easy

Oh, Herr Salat (Aka faster the speed) reuploaded them so you dont have to worry about it.

Just enjoy your holidays!

PD: Im moving too U^^.

Toshiyuki Watanabe - SPACE BROTHERS - A proposal...

So, we've all been waiting for this score forever... and it's not turning up. It comes in two parts - the first was released in September with the Bluray as a bonus CD, and the second will follow next week - also as a bonus CD. It's two hours of score all together. Each Bluray set costs 28350 yen, or about $330. For both, call it a round $700 once one factors in postage and customs.

F**k that, right? Indeed. I'm sure as hell not going to do it. And yet, it's a great score - good old fashioned sci-fi just like they don't write any more. What to do?

Proposal: I'll start the ball rolling with $50 in the kitty. If I can find 40 or 50 people to each chip in $10-15USD I'll buy both BD boxes, scan everything, and rip the CDs (FLAC of course). I'll then sell the set (I have no need for it) and try to refund as much of your money as possible. I have no idea how much money I'd be able to get back, but let's say half - so if you donate $20 you hopefully get $10 back in a few months and both of these stupidly elusive scores in lossless quality. If I can't shift the box sets on eBay or Amazon, and nobody else has any bright ideas... you don't get any money back. No promises - I have no idea if it'll be easy to sell or not. If it does, you get refunded. If it doesn't, you don't. But you still get the scores.

Anybody interested?

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FIFTY? Did you win the lottery?! ;)

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Merry Christmas, folks. I feel a bit sad that I could not participate in this thread as much as I wanted to recently but I hope I will be able to visit (and post) more frequently next year.

@Tango: I definitely agree on Tempest, FANTASTIC score and great episode (and only half-way through!). Also glad to hear Driland getting a release 'somehow'.
As for your Spacebrothers project, if you accept paypal just send me a PM ;).

Thanks! I wouldn't usually do this but I don't know of any other way to get this score out there - other than to wait around and hope somebody uploads it... but I get the feeling that they would've done by now if they were going to. No sensible person could justify spending $700 on a soundtrack. I want it, I know a lot of people want it... and if we pool our resources we can all get it and not really pay any more than your average Japanese import CD. I understand that some folk may be uneasy about the idea - and won't be comfortable sending off their money to some perfect stranger. I could just take the money and run, after all.

Hopefully we can find enough people who can trust me and who don't mind putting in a few quid. Salat's offer to match my $50 is just amazingly generous - there's no way I would ever expect anybody to put in *that* much. Since this is my big idea, I don't mind sinking $50... but hopefully most folk can get away with $20 or thereabouts.

Assuming k1nerfan was kind enough to give $20, we've already got $120 and require another $580. Thirty further donations of $20... can it be done...???

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Well I hope you guys succeed. Maybe I'll look up sound samples and see if it's something I'd be interested in. Also, see if you can find someone with the set and offer to buy the CD from them, see what they say.

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Well thought it would be worth a shot, short of plonking down $700. At least keep a close eye on the available BluRay sets.

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There hasn't been a US release of an anime soundtrack since about 2005-2006. Back then it was rare to get a soundtrack with a film/series set, these days it's even rarer.

I don't know why people are moaning about the animation, of all things... It's not Ghibli standard, but it's an effing TV series! It does the job, it's competent and well drawn. That's all you really need.

Haha yeah seriously. What do they expect? The show itself is quite enjoyable.

Isn't it! It's the only show from last series I'm actually still watching though I do download others to keep track of the scores.

Natsume Yuujinchuu was rather special. Had a sparse but interesting soundtrack too. The theme songs were interesting.

Naoki Sato - Priceless Original Soundtrack (2012)



Naoki Sato - Priceless.rar (http://www.mediafire.com/?846ds7ju85ozbbm)

Tracklist:

1. PRICELESS
2. CHEERFUL RAINBOw
3. 7th HEAVEN
4. COOK UP
5. ANNIHILATION
6. THAT�S NOT A CASE
7. MISERY
8. GENTLENESS
9. NO LIGHT
10. GOOSEBERRY
11. NEVER SAY NEVER
12. SERENDIPITY
13. BE CORNERED
14. READY OFF NOW
15. LAMENT LUCK
16. WONDER STRICKEN
17. WAY UP THERE
18. MAKE MY DAY

Full symphonic score by Naoki Sato. Enjoy! :)

Why the bloody hell can I not click the "Like" button eighty thousand times?

Smack81, thank you so much for this!

Folks, if anybody's thinking "Meh, another Naoki Syntho score..." just get this one. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Not one shred of electronics in any track. No MV percussion. Themes. Action. Romance. This is top-tier Sato. For a shitty TV comedy. Japan does it again.

:D

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You must have gotten a region free BluRay player then Herr Salat, because Japan's BluRays are the same as here in the US, A. You guys are B right? I was wondering, since BluRay players are made to be backwards compatible with DVDs, and Japan uses region 2 whereas the US uses 1, BUT we share the same BluRay region, does that mean American BluRay players can play Japanese DVDs?

Also, thanks for the Sato score, but why is that poor young man in pink being molested by those children? Japan I guess, lol.

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Ah. My Black Lagoon BluRay set has English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, but the Japanese is only Dolby True-HD 2.0. Clever bastards. Guess the Japanese if they want surround won't be buying my set for only $45 US, lol. Might also explain why No.6 released by Section23, AKA what used to be ADV, is $40 bucks for a two disc, 11 episode set. That also has DTS-HD Master Audio too but only 2.0 in both English and Japanese. List price is 60 though, screw both those.

Upon reflection, $40 for the entire series VS $80 for a two episode disc in Japan is not so bad. Kinda sucks though that they get the bonus CDs etc, but guess they hav eto take SOME of the sting out of it some way. How do the Japanese handle Western produced films imported there though? Hell, my $8 BluRay copy of Serenity has Japanese DTS 5.1 and subtitles. They really should stop worrying so damn much about anime. Hell, they'd sell a Hell of a lot more of it if they just sent it straight here at the get go to be dubbed, subbed, and sent back there. It's like CDs in the 1980s. Most classical and other titles were either made in West Germany by Philips etc, or in Tokyo and were freekin' expensive. Hell, I'm old enough to remember the early 1990s when CDs were still a HUGE deal. Then they started making them here and in whichever local market they were being sold. Disctronics of Australia made some excellent pressings. Certainly bring their own damn production costs down.

Ayumi Hamasaki's A Classical (http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=AVCD-38689):

"A Classical" will be out on January 8, 2013. This album features classical music version of her songs arranged by Kosuke Yamashita backed by full-orchestra.

While I was in Japan, I bought a DVD for a friend. It was of a British animated film from 1986. The DVD over here costs �4.99. In Japan I paid �30 for it. It was in a "Deluxe Collector's Edition" box - which was just the same as the regular one but with some cheap stickers and a crumpled booklet of pictures from the film.

Japan's market makes no sense to me... but it must work... because otherwise they wouldn't be selling anything...

VGMDB (http://vgmdb.net/forums/showthread.php?t=10964)

Sorry if this has been posted before, but this is the list of composers for 2013 Winter anime season. I can't see any major names except Hiroshi Takaki on Bakumatsu Gijinden Roman and Kousuke Yamashita on Chihayafuru 2 (!). Hopefully we will see some of the lesser known composers come up with an orchestral score...

Ayumi Hamasaki's A Classical (http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=AVCD-38689):

"A Classical" will be out on January 8, 2013. This album features classical music version of her songs arranged by Kosuke Yamashita backed by full-orchestra.

Interesting. This isn't the first one she did. I wonder who arranged the prior ones.

Shiro Hamaguchi on Mondai-ji is interesting - that's a fantasy/comedy so you never know. Hitomi Kuroishi has great potential but I fear she's getting stuck typecast as a cheap Kotaro Nakagawa. Takaki's score is going to be splendid. Apart from that, nothing's jumping out at me. Oh, well. Winter season is traditionally not where the good stuff goes. And 2012's been such a corker anyway! :)

James Newton Howard - Dave
Orchestral|Sweeping

Download (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/1SEP83KX/Dave.rar_links)
A delightful orchestral comedy score. Soon to be expanded by La La Land.

I found Space Brothers Soundtrack 1. It will be uploaded in a few hours.

Space Brothers Soundtrack 1 [FLAC/EMBEDDED CUE]
Music by Toshiyuki Watanabe

ALBUM INFORMATION (http://vgmdb.net/album/32885)

This floating FLAC rip was found on a Chinese website. My guess is that a random Japanese dude ripped and uploaded it to Perfect Dark or Share, popular Japanese P2P programs.
I haven't given this a thorough listen yet but from what I heard so far, this won't disappoint (So many glorious tracks toward the end). Hopefully, this means that the second soundtrack is within our reach soon.

Part I (http://www.mediafire.com/?4d579d04x72hw98)
Part II (http://www.mediafire.com/?w2k2rp2te54qv9p)
Enjoy!

Oof! Seriously? Where on earth did you find that? :D Should I stay up...? (3:30am here but I don't care!)

Herr Salat must be banging his head against the wall right now...

Well perhaps not, this was found floating on the internet, let's give him time to rip his own discs first.

Many thanks :D I've been waiting for this for a long time now!

EDIT: Uploading tagged V0 for everyone :)

Toshiyuki Watanabe - Space Brothers OST 1
Orchestral|Regal|Grand|Emotional
MP3 VBR V-0|Converted from FLAC|114MB

Download (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/0UAWLOHN/Space_Bros1.rar_links)

FLAC
Download (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/8T9TB9OO/Space_Bro1.rar_links)

This is one of the most beautiful soundtracks I have heard in a long time. The main theme is so powerful that it never loses its power throughout the show. It has the power of a flight score, the inspiration of characters chasing their dream. At other times, the score is so emotional that I can feel myself tearing up.

Small warning: Tracks 13, 14, and 15 are some sort of funky jazz stuff that sounds totally out of place with the rest of the score.

Seriously, AMAZING news! I guess we're fucking lucky!

Space Brothers OST 1, should move to thread anime music download.

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It was posted on AST on the 24th.

It was posted on AST on the 24th.

Yep. The Chinese website is astost.com. I used to use it to download some hard-to-find video game soundtrack. Since they have a strict point system (you have to upload albums in lossless to get points which you use to download stuff), I only use it occasionally. Thankfully, the Space Brothers album cost 0 points thanks to the courtesy of the uploader.
I also used to use Share and Perfect Dark to find some old Japanese soundtracks but I don't recommend them for orchestral albums as they rarely get uploaded. Some newer soundtracks like Space Brothers can be found randomly, at random times though...

Also Share/PD might seen even more decline of users with the latest changes to Japanese law (concerning copyright infringement / filesharing).

HAHAHA! Toshihiko Sahashi on 2013's Super Sentai! Now there is a surprise! He hasn't scored Sentai since 1998 and I was fairly sure we'd never see him doing it again - particularly as Megumi Ohashi (Sahashi's student) has been back a few times recently. Looking forward to that immensely!

Space Brothers FLAC added to my post, split and tagged.

Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition
Motoi Sakuraba
1"58'08 | 30 Tracks | MP3 256


1. Motoi Sakuraba - Souls of Fire (4:50)
2. Motoi Sakuraba - Prologue (3:45)
3. Motoi Sakuraba - Firelink Shrine (2:56)
4. Motoi Sakuraba - Taurus Demon (2:39)
5. Motoi Sakuraba - Bell Gargoyle (3:25)
6. Motoi Sakuraba - Gaping Dragon (2:57)
7. Motoi Sakuraba - Pinwheel (2:16)
8. Motoi Sakuraba - Chaos Witch Quelaag (2:38)
9. Motoi Sakuraba - Daughters of Chaos (2:54)
10. Motoi Sakuraba - Iron Golem (2:50)
11. Motoi Sakuraba - Crossbreed Priscilla (3:04)
12. Motoi Sakuraba - Great Grey Wolf Sif (3:21)
13. Motoi Sakuraba - The Ancient Dragon (3:18)
14. Motoi Sakuraba - Ceaseless Discharge (3:02)
15. Motoi Sakuraba - Ornstein & Smough (2:49)
16. Motoi Sakuraba - Gwynevere, Princess of Sunlight (2:46)
17. Motoi Sakuraba - Sanctuary Guardian (5:14)
18. Motoi Sakuraba - Kalameet (6:56)
19. Motoi Sakuraba - Knight Artorias (6:56)
20. Motoi Sakuraba - Manus, Father of the Abyss (6:55)
21. Motoi Sakuraba - Battle of Stoicism (5:24)
22. Motoi Sakuraba - Dark Sun Gwyndolin (2:54)
23. Motoi Sakuraba - Four Kings (2:43)
24. Motoi Sakuraba - Centipede Demon (3:00)
25. Motoi Sakuraba - Bed of Chaos (3:40)
26. Motoi Sakuraba - Gravelord Nito (3:09)
27. Motoi Sakuraba - Seath The Scaleless (2:59)
28. Motoi Sakuraba - Gwyn, Lord of Cinder (3:37)
29. Motoi Sakuraba - Ascension (5:00)
30. Emi Evans - Nameless Song (8:11)


http://mir.cr/0LTZAQEA

Thanks to Infernus Animositas for the rip which gave me access to the Artorias of the Abyss music, as well as "Souls of Fire", "Ascension" and the expanded "Nameless Song".

Many thanks :D I'll check this out.

Also, Loveliness, Elegance, and Nobility Volume 5 should be up in a day or two :) I just need to give it a full listen tomorrow to make sure it is good before I post it.

Loveliness, Elegance, and Nobility Volume 5
37 Tracks|2 hours 20 minutes


MP3 V0 - 263MB
Download (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/7EVJHLN6/LENv5.rar_links)

FLAC - 693MB
Download Part 1 (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/CDX0YPNY/LovElNo_v5.part1.rar_links)
Download Part 2 (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/16M4CW8G/LovElNo_v5.part2.rar_links)
Download Part 3 (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/05IFOLNP/LovElNo_v5.part3.rar_links)

Tracklist
1. Bill Conti Main Title (North And South)
2. Ray Cook Main Theme (Careful He Might Hear You)
3. John Barry Main Title (Frances)
4. Marvin Hamlisch Greg Falls For Rose (The Mirror Has Two Faces)
5. Luis Bacalov Coup De Foudre (Coup De Foundre)
6. David Hirschfelder Flight from Home (Legend of the Guardians)
7. Michael Kamen Leonardo (Hudson Hawk)
8. John Addison Overture (A Bridge Too Far)
9. Hugo Friedhofer The Seduction (One-Eyed Jacks)
10. Jerry Goldsmith Do Not Disturb (A Gathering of Eagles)
11. Rachel Portman Main Titles (Never Let Me Go)
12. James Horner "The Fog's Just Lifting" (The Perfect Storm)
13. Philippe Sarde Alice et Martin (Alice et Martin)
14. Andre Previn Fur Salon (All in a Night's Work)
15. Leigh Harline Mildred and Johnny (The Wayward Bus)
16. John Barry Flying Over Africa (Out Of Africa)
17. Rob Lane The Witch's Aria (Merlin TV Series)
18. James Horner Brave Words, Braver Deeds (Glory)
19. Bill Conti Please Stay (The Formula)
20. Epilogue End Credits (A Far Off Place)
21. James Horner Colwyn & Lyssa, Love Theme (Krull)
22. Michael Kamen The Fourth Musketeer (The Three Musketeers)
23. John Barry Flight Over New York (Across The Sea Of Time)
24. Diego Navarro In Space (Oscar - The Color of Destiny)
25. John Scott Pearls (20,000 Leagues Under The Sea)
26. Tuomas Kantelinen Cave (Quest for a Heart)
27. Mark McKenzie Another Chance (Blizzard)
28. John Scott On To New Adventures (Shogun Mayeda)
29. Bruce Broughton End Credits (Glory & Honor)
30. Tuomas Kantelinen Mother of Mine (Mother of Mine)
31. Alain Mayrand The Goddess Revealed (The Legend of SilkBoy)
32. Alan Silvestri Track01 (Practical Magic Promo)
33. Jeff Grace Opening Titles (I Sell the Dead)
34. Reijiro Koroku Opening (Kessen II)
35. Bill Conti Main Title (The Adventures of Huck Finn)
36. John Powell Death And Transfiguration (Hancock)
37. John Williams The Flying Sequence (Superman: The Movie)

Shiro Hamaguchi

Girls und Panzer



Brass / Wind / Piano / Strings


Download (http://www.putlocker.com/file/9CEC08F7557C649E)
(animeost.info)



Sample (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDwSwBv6n58)


Here is a fantastic gift for New Year's Eve (ah WHAT A YEAR!). A joyful score with so much warmth and happiness it's impossible not to love. From the catchy and brassy military marches to the more gentle piano and string pieces with the usual trademarks of Hamaguchi, it's a joy to listen to. It's so wonderfully old-fashioned and I guess that works with the silliness of the show, but I wish this kind of bold and joyful music was more commonplace around the world (escpecially in the west). Oh well, Japan saves the day (for classic music) once again and that's all that matters. On disc two you find all the inspiration for Hamaguchi's score and a good collection of the famous classic military marches everyone should already know (and if not, shame on you). I don't think two discs were really necessary though. I personally prefer the marches as part of the score so I combined the two discs (minus the two J-Pop songs and two synth tracks) and still got under 80 minutes of score (perhaps a custom cd is in order).

Nonetheless this is an excellent score and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
With that I wish you all a happy new year and thank you for this wonderful thread.

and for your consideration (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jftmXemXzKU) (not British enough for you?) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFFLIA2DNu8) :D

See you next year!

I think it is pretty clear why the second disc was separated. Most of it is "source cues" as some would say. I find the barebones recordings of familiar marches to be quite boring bordering on annoying myself. This score will certainly need some minor editing before I can enjoy it without skipping tracks. Still, much of the material in the score is quite delightful when it is good so I don't mind a few extra cues I don't really like.

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Thanks for the latest uploads and a happy (musical) new year for all of you ;)

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Beware: Sexy Japanese pronunciation and sexy voice.
:awsm:

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Final Flight. ;)

Free Online Storage - MediaFire (http://www.mediafire.com/?21kd0tp6fzkxw8o)

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Kosuke Yamashita
Yūkan Club (The Leisure Club)

FLAC + CUE + LOG + SCANS | 24 Tracks | 53:08 | 347 MB



Ich wei� nicht wie du es immer wieder fertigbringst, aber bitte h�r nicht auf damit! :D

Got to laugh at all this whining that's going on in the States about bringing back film score recording to LA... close down your damn scoring stages, institute crippling fees and insane contracts, provide sub-standard orchestras... and wonder why your business is going down the shitter!

Besides, probably 80% (I'm pulling this figure straight out of my arse but it can't be far wrong) of the noteworthy Hollywood scores of the past were recorded in London, anyway. Why? Because the combination of facilities (and even though we've had a few high-profile closures in recent decades, London is still an embarrassment of riches as far as recording venues are concerned,) world-class musicians, and competitive prices cannot be beaten.

LA fascists claim that the LA studio musicians are the best in the world! I don't deny they're very good, but they are what they are; studio musicians.

"Put any piece of music in front of them, they can play it and nail it first time, every time!"

Yep, I'm sure the London Symphony Orchestra can probably do that, too... I'm pretty sure they performed some of the most lauded symphonic film scores of all time. There's a reason people from all over the world come to record with them, and I doubt it's because they want to walk across the Abbey Road crossing...

Meanwhile in LA, I'm sure the dozens and dozens of musically complex, thematic, imaginatively orchestrated Hollywood scores they record each year is helping them stay on top and always able to play their A-game!

The fact remains today as it has done since the beginning of the custom-composed film score; if you want the very best you come to London. If you want something pretty damn good on a budget, you go to Eastern Europe. With remote recording facilities, you don't even have to attend the session. Why on earth would anybody record in LA, where you have union vultures down your throat 24 hours a day? If they absolutely insist on recording in the USA, it's not as though America has any shortage of great classical orchestras. Go to Seattle, as many lower-budget productions have done. Or try the NYPO, Chicago Symphony, BSO, Cleveland, Philadelphia, etc, etc. They'll probably whip LA's arse these days, since they play real music every day and the LA studio guys play pretty much nothing but repeating ostinatos and droning unison power anthems.

Rant over, thank you gentlemen. ;)

Seriously. Good luck getting them to play complex music sight reading if all they play is modern film scores. And if that is what you are having them play who the hell needs talented musicians? Most scores are hardly Ballet for Brawlers quality action.

True... for what's being asked of them currently, who needs anything more? It's a sad state of affairs, though... when you hear horror stories from composers who go to LA with music to play hoping for quality and getting disappointed. It's even sadder when you hear the musicians in interviews almost acknowledging that they're slipping.

When Masamichi Amano recorded Mushiking in LA in 2007, the orchestra were uncomfortable performing without a click track, for Christ's sake... what HAS happened to these poor people? The score is full of bum notes, and ensemble falling to pieces. It sounds OK... but it would've sounded OK in Prague. It would've sounded fantastic in Warsaw or London.

Julie Gigante, orchestra leader for Wataru Hokoyama's Afrika session in 2007: "He's truly talented and I can honestly say that he's an artist. We don't get that a lot, lately. We've been playing a lot of scores lately, and working very hard with different kinds of composers, but it's rare that we find someone who sparks the orchestra into wanting to play beautifully."

Geraldine Rotella, also at Afrika session: "This composer is fabulous. The music is first rate. The fact that he can compose, conduct, and convey what he wants to say emotionally and musically... is a real treat for us, because we don't always get to have that."

Sandra Kipp, orchestra contractor for Afrika: "Sometimes composers come in, and they're not sure if what they wrote is what they want... So, they listen to the orchestra and then they decide to make changes. Wataru knew exactly what he wanted; he wrote it that way, and it was perfect."

And these sound bites come from people who are aware that they're being interviewed, and are trying to be diplomatic. Imagine what these guys say behind closed doors. Imagine how much they must worry for their technique...

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The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is rather good too. They did some nice stuff for Edmund Choi's score for The Dish. Then there's The Eminence Orchestra of Sydney, an unofficial bunch of musicians doing it for the love of music. I too love the LSO, but have you noticed a lot of what they play sounds like Star Wars/Indiana Jones? Case in point Symphonic Suit Mobile Suit Gundam SEED by Toshihiko Sahashi. Sounds fantastic, but I kept thinking of those two George Lucas franchises. The London Studio Orchestra used for the Evangelion Rebuild series are rather good (save 3.0, wtf was that?), if a little flat. Especially when compared with the Chezch Philharmonic Orchestra. But to be fair I'm STILL hung up on Hajime Mizoguchi's Jin-Roh. Side note, anyone have any suggestions for other works by Mizoguchi to check out?

I too have noticed that a lot of Williams scores sound like the LSO, strange isn't it ;)

The SEED scores heavily borrow from the soundworld of Williams (and Horner) in many segments so it's no surprise they sound similiar when played by the LSO.

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my god that AKB0048 orchestra ost was amazing i think ill tab its thread :)

Quite right; Oz has some outstanding orchestras, some truly world class ensembles. Sydney Symphony, Melbourne Symphony, Adelaide Symphony, West Australian Symphony, etc - the list goes on... and Australia has an excellent recording venue (Trackdown) not to mention excellent concert halls that could also be used for recording.

Sad that only a handful of mainstream film scores have been recorded there - Graeme Revell did Power Rangers with the West Australian Symphony in 1996, which was superb... and Poledouris recorded The Blue Lagoon with the Australian Symphony in 1981. All excellent performances.

As far as Eminence go, I respect what they're trying to do... but as an ensemble they're only just competent. They wouldn't win any prizes, assuming knowledgeable judges.

Regarding the LSO... I think you've got a bit of faulty cause and effect going on, there. An orchestra is a bunch of people playing instruments. Composition and arrangement influences what the music sounds like, not who's playing it. Music lovers who are primarily into film scores probably associate the LSO indelibly with the sound of Williams because that accounts for 97% of their exposure to the orchestra. The LSO can and do play absolutely everything, unfailingly with aplomb.

The London Studio Orchestra is basically a significant percentage of LSO players intermixed with a few freelancers. They're just like Sidney Sax's old National Philharmonic - you call up the best players in the city and you've got an orchestra. Of course, they're excellent - but they're hampered by those train-wreck Sagisu scores they've been playing recently. Those Sagisu scores are also badly recorded and atrociously mastered - LOUD LOUD LOUD LOUD is the order of the day. How I wish Eric Tomlinson would come out of retirement and remind everybody how it's done.

Czech Philharmonic definitely very good - world class, but only just. I'd pick London, Warsaw, or Berlin over them any day.

A Classical (Special compilation commemorating Ayumi Hamasaki's 15th anniversary since debuting) [MP3 320]
Sung by Ayumi Hamasaki
Orchestrated by Kousuke Yamashita



Somebody mentioned that this album is supposed to be out on the 8th but it's already leaked as of today. I'll say just one thing about this: while the orchestration by Yamashita is excellent, I can barely handle her voice.
But I'm still keeping it for the novelty...

Hopefully some of you will enjoy this more than I do.

Click me (http://www.mediafire.com/?0lhh21c9fr6zlax)

EDIT: this kinda grew on me after getting used to the voice

I guess I'm so in love with the Czech Philhamonic so much because they had good material to work with. And yeah, I figured the orchestra would sound like whomever they were recording for. Just a funny thing that another example of their work, Nights in White Satin by The Moody Blues also has that 1970s outer space fantasmic sound, but I just chalk that up to being the 1970s.

A Classical (Special compilation commemorating Ayumi Hamasaki's 15th anniversary since debuting) [MP3 320]
Sung by Ayumi Hamasaki
Orchestrated by Kousuke Yamashita

Thank you very much! Yamashita is better than this... I'm all for orchestral arrangements of pop songs (see Ali Project's Grand Finale for an example of doing it right) but this one just isn't working for me. The songs are pretty samey and drenched in J-pop cliches... I was hoping we'd get to see a bit more of Yamashita the composer here, but alas what we've got is Yamashita the orchestrator. Take the melodies and expand them into an orchestral score, nothing more, nothing less. Yoshihisa Hirano has such an individual orchestral style that he can't help but leave sonic fingerprints all over everything he touches... but Yamashita's is a lighter touch when he's arranging somebody else's music. This is a very professional job, does nothing at all wrong but plays it safe and comes out sounding pretty generic.

The music doesn't lend itself to symphonic expansion - for things like this to work, significant recomposing based on melodies needs to happen; in other words, composition instead of merely orchestrating. Otherwise you've got a succession of sappy J-pop tunes. Just listen to the rare bits where Yamashita is clearly composing - how much more interesting these segments are! (1:26 to 1:47 of track 1, for example...)

On top of that, Hamasaki's voice just doesn't meld well with the orchestra - and the recording doesn't do it any favours either.

Oh, well... win some, lose some. :)

Thanks for your thoughts on it Tango. I can only stand so much of her voice these days. I used to love it but no longer.

Fuck me, not even Oshima's Tempest gets a soundtrack release now... Bonus CD coming with second ridiculously overpriced (�70 for two episodes, just 40 minutes of video) Bluray on February 27th.

Girls Und Panzer gets a 2-CD release. Tempest doesn't. Does not compute. (Don't get me wrong; Panzer is nice, but, you know...)

[Edit: In other news, Space Brothers tonight, at episode 39 of 50, looks like it's finally entering the sci-fi phase of the plot. On the moon, JAXA suddenly and mysteriously lose contact with a probe and send Hibito (who is currently on the moon) and another astronaut out to investigate. A moment of carelessness on the part of his colleague puts them both in grave danger. I suspect that something terrible / exciting happens which necessitates Mutta's fast-tracking through the training programme in order to mount a rescue. He's got ten episodes. He better get his skates on. I think the pace is going to change quite drastically now. Undoubtedly Toshiyuki Watanabe's score will also shift and I expect we'll finally be getting the space adventure score we've all been waiting for...]

But to be fair I'm STILL hung up on Hajime Mizoguchi's Jin-Roh. Side note, anyone have any suggestions for other works by Mizoguchi to check out?

I 2nd this as well

A Classical (Special compilation commemorating Ayumi Hamasaki's 15th anniversary since debuting) [MP3 320]
Sung by Ayumi Hamasaki
Orchestrated by Kousuke Yamashita



Somebody mentioned that this album is supposed to be out on the 8th but it's already leaked as of today. I'll say just one thing about this: while the orchestration by Yamashita is excellent, I can barely handle her voice.
But I'm still keeping it for the novelty...

Hopefully some of you will enjoy this more than I do.

Click me (http://www.mediafire.com/?0lhh21c9fr6zlax)

EDIT: this kinda grew on me after getting used to the voice

anyone songs in this that are instrumental also ?

Well if you want pure instrumental Jpop pieces, there is another thread that I posted. The links posted by bk7530 look like they are still alive.
http://forums.ffshrine.org/f91/harmony-jpop-meets-classics-utada-hikaru-ayumi-71365/2.html#post2039642

Thanks for the link Herr Salat, shame the I can't find a flac torrent for it. I also found out about Please Save My Earth, and even found the collection on bakabt, but the download doesn't work, seems it'a unavailable, no one seeding it. I'd love to have that collection too.

Apparently there are four seeds, but I've been looking at it for three hours now and downloaded 0 bytes. :(

I'll have the first volume of Please Save My Earth uploaded to Mediafire. You can see for yourself if you want to download the second and third soundtrack after listening to the first one.
For me, the music didn't do anything for me-more than half the tracks are non-orchestral and even the orchestral ones are severely FLAT. Maybe I expected too much after liking White Lion and his contribution in Escaflowne.

A quick dump of DL links here:
FLAC Part I (http://www.mediafire.com/?u00veje4kwocowm)
FLAC Part II (http://www.mediafire.com/?n2ilkzwxy2am59q)

Oh thanks. I appreciate it. Love Mizoguchi. Listening to a few bits of Texhnolyze on Grooveshark. The CDs are on Amazon for not TOO much, but I don't know if they're bootlegs or not. Gotta be careful.

Well if you want pure instrumental Jpop pieces, there is another thread that I posted. The links posted by bk7530 look like they are still alive.
http://forums.ffshrine.org/f91/harmony-jpop-meets-classics-utada-hikaru-ayumi-71365/2.html#post2039642


lovely thank you so many album gonna grab the lot

I see what you mean, very 1990s, but it's a little more than the normal fare of the period, and his cello is lovely. I'd be interested in hearing more. Really appreciate it. On a quick side note, I really don't get it. The Japanese studios could annihilate costs by sending their anime and music here to the States for manufacture. They save on producing the product, get a good quality product, and their consumers save money, and thus CAN buy more stuff. Why haven't they figured that out yet? There's gotta be a reason they didn't do that, but I'll be buggered if I can figure it out. And I'll be buggered if I spend a fortune amassing my library.

Fuck me, not even Oshima's Tempest gets a soundtrack release now... Bonus CD coming with second ridiculously overpriced (�70 for two episodes, just 40 minutes of video) Bluray on February 27th.

Girls Und Panzer gets a 2-CD release. Tempest doesn't. Does not compute. (Don't get me wrong; Panzer is nice, but, you know...)

[Edit: In other news, Space Brothers tonight, at episode 39 of 50, looks like it's finally entering the sci-fi phase of the plot. On the moon, JAXA suddenly and mysteriously lose contact with a probe and send Hibito (who is currently on the moon) and another astronaut out to investigate. A moment of carelessness on the part of his colleague puts them both in grave danger. I suspect that something terrible / exciting happens which necessitates Mutta's fast-tracking through the training programme in order to mount a rescue. He's got ten episodes. He better get his skates on. I think the pace is going to change quite drastically now. Undoubtedly Toshiyuki Watanabe's score will also shift and I expect we'll finally be getting the space adventure score we've all been waiting for...]

I really can't believe Tempest is not getting a separate soundtrack release. Why make such good symphonic score and never let us buy it? *Sad face*
And for Space Brothers, if it has 50 episodes and the first blu-ray volume only had 13 episodes, does this mean we will have at least three soundtracks in total?

On a quick side note, I really don't get it. The Japanese studios could annihilate costs by sending their anime and music here to the States for manufacture. They save on producing the product, get a good quality product, and their consumers save money, and thus CAN buy more stuff. Why haven't they figured that out yet?

Unless I'm missing something major, I don't understand why you think domestic manufacturing in Japan is more expensive than sub-contracting the work to a company in a foreign country importing the finished product.

Recording music is disproportionately expensive and unnecessarily complicated in the USA. Japanese productions use small domestic ensembles or overseas European orchestras. Almost no non-American production has ever recorded in the USA through choice - because there are better, cheaper alternatives in other countries.

Physically making CDs and DVDs in Japan, I can imagine, is good value for money because of their proliferation of factories, in contrast with the USA (and most other Western countries) where manufacturing is shrinking at an alarming rate. Like China, Japan make their own stuff and stuff for other countries - so their prices can't be that bad. Perhaps there's some broken down last generation factory in the US that's fallen on hard times and would undercut the Japanese just to scrape by another six months... but I wouldn't want to rely on them.

Japanese stuff isn't expensive because it costs a fortune to make. It's expensive because they've worked out that enough crazy assholes will pay those silly prices to make it worth their while. Where else could you charge �70 for a DVD of two episodes of a cartoon and a book of stickers, and people would actually BUY it? Crazy country...


I really can't believe Tempest is not getting a separate soundtrack release. Why make such good symphonic score and never let us buy it? *Sad face*
And for Space Brothers, if it has 50 episodes and the first blu-ray volume only had 13 episodes, does this mean we will have at least three soundtracks in total?

I suppose there's a chance that there will be three soundtracks for Space Brothers - but my instinct is telling me there won't. OST 1 and 2 are both reasonably well stocked (~55 minutes each) and from watching the show there just isn't enough stuff to get on a third CD... Reading the track listing of OST 2, I get the impression that's the whole lot. Cue titles like...

"Survival", "No Oxygen Left", "Emergency Call", and perhaps most worryingly "Incurable Disease" and "Beyond The Sadness"

...all sound like finale cues to me.

with pokemon gen 6 just announced i can only dream what the orchestrations will be like

Toshiyuki Arakawa, Shinji Miyazaki, Shiro Hamaguchi
Crayon Shin-chan The Movie Soundtracks (1993-2003)

MP3 320kbps | 99 Tracks | 356 MB
Toshiyuki Arakawa: 25 Tracks | 33:19 | 84 MB
Shinji Miyazaki: 14 Tracks | 22:15 | 57 MB
Shiro Hamaguchi: 18 Tracks | 39:17 | 96 MB

Release Date: 18.06.2003
Label: Columbia
Catalog Number: COCX-32232-3
Source: Xiami (http://www.xiami.com/album/498972)



I am sure Kan Sawada's DORAEMON score is bigger and better, but another crowd-pleaser is the Crayon Shin-chan series. Toshiyuki Arakawa is the main composer for the TV show and film series, but other composers like Shiro Hamaguchi (e.g., ONE PIECE) and Shinji Miyazaki (e.g., POK�MON) help him out when it comes to the big orchestral tracks. This album features tracks until the the 11th film. The 21st film will be shown next year, so there might be another soundtrack release in the near future future. There are new/other co-composers for the newer films, though...

The original album has two discs with 99 tracks. There are lots of non-orchestral tracks by Toshiyuki Arakawa, so I've decided to share three compilations focusing on one composer at a time. I think Shiro Hamaguchi's tracks are the best, followed by Shinji Miyazaki. I found out who did which track according to the listing at Tsutaya (http://www.tsutaya.co.jp/works/20134778.html). There may be a possibility some tracks are not credited correctly, though. Listening to some Arakawa tracks made me think if it could have been one of the other composers...

Wonky trranslation/romanization on the Shiro Hamaguchi and Shinji Miyazaki tracks. Toshiyuki Arakawa tracks left in Japanese. Full album not translated at all.

EDIT:
In the Shinji Miyazaki folder: Track "2-09 - Action Kamen's Flesh and Blood.mp3" is by Toshiyuki Arakawa. Sorry. Please delete it :'D
In the Shiro Hamaguchi folder: Spelling mistake in the first track. It should be "Hot Spring", not "Hotspring". Sorry. Please rename it :'D

Samples for the Shiro Hamaguchi tracks:

1-49 - The Absolute Hotspring Sensation / Mystery Robot Appears (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856876)
1-50 - Fear of Giant Robots (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856877)
1-53 - Shin-chan Gets Excited Over Hot Springs (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856880)
1-54 - Tanba, Spirit of the Hot Spring (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856881)
1-57 - Farewell to the Warriors of the Hot Spring (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856884)
2-14 - Tower of the Sun (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856899)
2-15 - Strong! Hiroshi Sun (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856900)
2-17 - Yesterday Once More Operation Begins (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856902)
2-20 - Hiroshi's Reminiscence (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856905)
2-22 - To Get Back Into The 21st Century (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856907)
2-27 - Meeting Ijiri Matabee (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856912)
2-29 - Shinnosuke's Assistance (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856914)
2-31 - Uma-mawari - Magara Tarouzaemon (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856916)
2-32 - Face to Face with Stable Boy Kanauchi (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856917)
2-33 - Blue Sky Samurai (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856918)
2-34 - Yakiniku Variation (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856919)
2-36 - Major Dougashima's Sortie (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856921)
2-37 - Tour d'Atami (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856922)

DOWNLOAD
Shiro Hamaguchi (http://bayfiles.com/file/zC8V/n90Syh/Shiro_Hamaguchi_-_Crayon_Shin-chan_The_Movie_Soundtracks.rar)
Shinji Miyazaki (http://bayfiles.com/file/zCnL/R7q3Fu/Shinji_Miyazaki_-_Crayon_Shin-chan_The_Movie_Soundtracks.rar)
Toshiyuki Arakawa (http://bayfiles.com/file/zCwz/QvywHb/Toshiyuki_Arakawa_-_Crayon_Shin-chan_The_Movie_Soundtracks.rar)

Full Album (https://bayfiles.com/file/zFxf/TgBIwv/Various_Artists_-_Crayon_Shin-chan_The_Movie_Soundtracks.rar)

They made a Shin Chan film. They made a Shin Chan film? THEY MADE A SHIN CHAN FILM!!!??? Oh my God!

They made TWENTY ONE Shin-Chan films... ;)

IN other news... Yoshihisa Hirano's Hunter X Hunter movie score is... utterly dreadful. This is not a joke. It's easily Hirano's biggest stinker by a mile - and I don't mean this in my usual "Hirano's crap is still golden" looking-proportionally way. It's just a stinker. I'm basing these assumption on (lengthy) samples from iTunes, not the whole score - but I think there's enough there to make a reasonably informed judgement. There's an orchestra (quite a big one, as irony would have it) but there might as well not be because it's under so much electronic crap you can barely hear it. It's little itty bitty fragments of music and pretty much none of Hirano's flair - just a lot of modern rambling noise. Maybe he had the flu, maybe the producers cajouled him into it, who knows? Either way... massive, massive disappointment.

I suppose he's entitled to wank it up every now and again... but I was really hoping he wouldn't in his first theatrical score in over five years.

BUUUUUUGGER. :(

21 films? OK, it's official, I'm scared.

Japan doesn't like to do things by halves... :zillawalk:

Yikes.

well POKEMON has 15 movies with the 16th out this year

I mustn't run away. I mustn't run away. I mustn't run away.

If someone wants to lose 40 minutes of their life - new Hirano:

HUNTER x HUNTER Phantom Rouge Original Soundtrack (http://www.anime-mp3.com/2013/01/hunter-x-hunter-phantom-rouge-ost.html)

It's very bad album (pieces lasts for few seconds) and rather bad music:(.

Naoki Sato - Priceless Original Soundtrack (2012) - FLAC+Scans


Download (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/0PBYVINF/Priceless.rar_links)

Full symphonic score by Naoki Sato. Enjoy! :)
In case you don't believe this is any good, listen to this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIqW3sLO-Q8

Please see three or four posts up... ;)

I never thought I'd see the day where I listen to a new Hirano score and wind up holding my head in my hands in despair... but he's gone and done it. Not that it's 100% a stinker (there's some fascinating stuff in The Emperor's Time and The Puppeteer if you can look past the hideous industrial electronica, etc) but I can only pray that this is a Hirano experiment which he will not be repeating. Mostly themeless, fragmented, ambient, electronica noise for the most part. Still fifty-billion times more stuff worth listening to in here than your average Hollywood score... but Hirano YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS.

Oh, well... as I said earlier... you win some, you lose some. Hirano's had more that enough wins over the past twelve years (hard to believe he's only been going that long) to be entitled to a fail of this magnitude... still, it's a disappointment. First theatrical score for donkeys years, and it's... not very good...

Interview with Souhei "Fractale" Kano from 15th December 2012. In Italian, but Google Translate gives some good results :'D

http://www.giapponeinitalia.org/contemporaneita-e-polistilismo (http://www.giapponeinitalia.org/contemporaneita-e-polistilismo/)

Thanks for Priceless in FLAC, Sirusjr! I loved the soundtrack so much that I went ahead and replaced the lossy rip that was posted several weeks ago.
And seeing it again somehow led me to the K-20 soundtrack (also by Sato) of which no working link is available online. Could anyone who grabbed the soundtrack a few years ago on this forum re-upload it please? If it's as good as Priceless as tangotreats suggested, it would be an ecstatic listen.

Oh, I almost forgot-I obtained a rip of Takashi Yoshimatsu's Taira no Kiyomori 5-disc box set. While I don't understand why Yoshimatsu wrote so many mindlessly percussive tracks, a bulk of them is tastefully done. Some people have expressed interest in this release so I'll still upload a v0 version of it later. In the meanwhile, I hope you guys enjoy this classical album by Yoshimatsu.

Takashi Yoshimatsu - Symphony No. 4, Trombone Concerto 'Orion Machine', Atom Hearts Club Suite No. 1 [MP3 V0]
Played BBC Philharmonic, Conducted by Sachio Fujioka



LINK (http://www.mediafire.com/?ung20cfj116cwdu)


Interview with Sohei "Fractale" Kano from 15th December 2012. In Italian, but Google Translate gives some good results :'D
I almost forgot about this guy! Let's hope to see his next work be as good as Fractale. :D

I have the physical soundtrack in my collection. If no one has it in higher quality I will gladly share it in FLAC. It's perhaps Sato's best movie score (followed by Pocket of Rainbows and Naki).

I have a lossless of k-20. I'll post it later.

Well I watched the first episode of Hakkenden (Hitomi Kuroishi) and it was the best music I've heard from Kuroishi as a score since she went out on her own. The anime on the other hand is painfully bad with too many joke characters to make it fun. I suspect there is some relation to the anime Legend of the Dog Warriors the Hakkenden (a favorite of mine) but this new one is not very serious.

Speaking of anime music, there's lots of good scores this season to my surprise. Maoyuu Maou Yuusha has pleasant string and flute pieces and typical medieval tones. Kotoura-san has a 10 minute orchestral piece for the first episode, underscoring a rather dark story. Vivired Operation could become great and has actually an orchestra behind all the synth (albeit a small one). Then there is of course Chihayafuru 2 and judging by the first episode it will be just as fantastic as the first score.

Magi also takes up with the orchestral pieces and the last couple of episodes are filled with them to the brim.
That reminds me, any news on Space Brothers OST 2? (and the OST for Magi for that matter).

I'm pleased you're enjoying the scores this season; I am not. They're all terrible, with the exception of Chihayafuru 2 which is pedestrian by Yamashita's standards. Hamaguchi's Problem Children has a little bit of promise but it's one of those "half-an-orchestra" scores (real strings, fake brass - ironic as Hamaguchi's previous Girls Und Panzer was real brass and fake strings!) that are trying to save money at every corner.

No biggie; the January season is traditionally where all the cheap trash goes. Expect some genuinely good stuff in April and October. :)

Space Brothers OST 2 has now been released - but if the timing of the first one is anything to go by, we've got a long, long wait.

No announcement for Magi - no standalone release, no bonus release, nothing. I'm not worried yet. It's Shiro Sagisu. It's going to get released somehow.

Salat: Thanks for the Souhei Kano interview. Fascinating stuff! Including the admission that Fractale was done on a shoestring budget (and still managed 40 minutes of fully orchestral score) and the frightening revelation that he hasn't been offered any new anime projects yet! SHOCKING.

Sirus: Many thanks for the Priceless upgrade. A smashing score. When one door closes, another opens.

Well I'm very easy to please at the moment. Not sure if I will download everything I checked out (besides Chihayafuru of course) but an enjoyable score is sometimes more than enough for me these days (and Hollywood isn't helping this case either).

Still a major bummer that Tempest is not getting a standalone release (perhaps years later like Star Driver :(). If there is one score from japan I would be willing to spent money on right now, it's this one. The show itself is fine and all but I would like to own the music, not the show and it's too expensive otherwise. I'm not even sure if that will support Oshima in any way.

But putting that aside, wasn't there some talk of a FLAC version of Tytania months ago. I remember it being a possible goodie from your trip to Japan but I'm not sure if you had the chance to buy it.

Naoki Sato - K-20 Legend of the Mask
Orchestral|Action|Adventure
Lossless - APE

Download (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/HCNTCLXW/K-20.rar_links)

I feel stupid now because I found a working link of K-20 in 320kbps on this forum. :( Thank you so much for the lossless version of the score though!

Here's a high-res alternate cover for K-20 I found online. http://imgur.com/evpVW

Naoki Sato - K-20 Legend of the Mask
Orchestral|Action|Adventure
Lossless - APE

Download (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/HCNTCLXW/K-20.rar_links)


Am I the only one who immediately thought "Ennio Morricone Spaghetti Western" when he saw that cover?

Thanks for the upload.

I'll begin uploading Space Brothers Soundtrack 2 to mediafire (thanks again to generous Chinese uploaders). Check this thread in a few hours to grab it!


Space Brothers Soundtrack 2[FLAC/EMBEDDED CUE/LOG]
Music by Toshiyuki Watanabe



Album Information: VGMDB (http://vgmdb.net/album/35099)

Part I (http://www.mediafire.com/?ybdgh13qdych0bm)
Part II (http://www.mediafire.com/?88haiwia3p8qfz7)
Credit goes to 常言笑@ASTOST

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ARRRRRRRRRGH! It's here already?!

bk7530, I can't help but notice that there is no Part 1... *cries*

ARRRRRRRRRGH! It's here already?!

bk7530, I can't help but notice that there is no Part 1... *cries*

That was dumb of me. Fixed!

FFFFFFing hell.

Thank you so much, friend. :D

I did NOT expect this one to show up in a month of Sundays.

:D Many thanks for Space Brothers Part 2. I will upload a tagged mp3 version for all who want that.

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YES YES YES

Thank you so much!

I doubt that the guy bought the BDs just for the score... We're the only fuckers crazy enough to contemplate doing THAT... ;)

Toshiyuki Watanabe - Space Brothers OST 2
Orchestral|Regal|Grand|Emotional|Piano
MP3 VBR V-0|Converted from FLAC|

Download (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/PYTEXJRY/SpaBro2.rar_links)

FLAC
Download (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/B5QPQUGD/SpaceBro2.rar_links)

Here is my re-tagged FLAC and MP3 for everyone. I split the range rip and re-tagged it then created a mp3 version.

Just a word of friendly advice here, I hope you won't mind me saying...

FOLKS, if you're watching the show you might want to avoid reading the track titles. They are spoiler city. It's not like the music won't tell you what's going on, but still... whoever titled these cues needs to be shot in the balls... especially putting it out with two months of the show still unaired...

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Just a word of friendly advice here, I hope you won't mind me saying...

FOLKS, if you're watching the show you might want to avoid reading the track titles. They are spoiler city. It's not like the music won't tell you what's going on, but still... whoever titled these cues needs to be shot in the balls... especially putting it out with two months of the show still unaired...

I never pay attention to track titles while I am playing the music but thanks for the heads up.

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does anyone still share the Final Fantasy COMPLETE score??? I like to have it. In return I would share the score PDF

You're talking about Elliot Goldenthal, right? :'D I unfortunately don't have that in complete score form, if that's what you refer to.

yep. the complete score by Elliot Goldenthal.
I know the score is seperate on DVD as well but I can't rip it myself

Try asking here (Thread 89744) or post a new thread in the request section (http://forums.ffshrine.org/film-television-music-requests/). Good luck!

Stratos 4 is availabe on BakaBT (http://bakabt.me/details.php?id=128057&page=0) in 128kbps. I found a link for astost.com having the soundtracks in higher quality. But since I haven't registered on that site (and it probably would cost points to download), I'm fine with the serviceable 128kbps. There are many tracks on the soundtracks not being orchestral, just so you know.


If you can give me the album's link to astost, I can grab it for you. :)

I found CD2 but CD1 link is dead

Can't find it anymore. Maybe it wasn't on there and I'm just desperate for attention...Just found this public thread (http://www.astost.com/bbs/read.php?tid=10859495). There's a mention of

(M-01101)[EAC] (サントラ) ストラトス•フォー アドヴァンス オリジナルサウンドトラック(天野正道) (ape+cue,CD EXTRA)

That's it, though. Not sure if that means it's available for download. I think that's the only Masamichi Amano album on there. But you shouldn't waste your valuable points on Stratos 4 ^^"

I tried to make some sense of that thread using Google Translate but to no avail. After looking for the album myself, I saw another forum with the same content which has a link to a Megaupload (RIP) folder. So I think it's safe to say those links are all dead :( But the good news is that a lossless rip of that soundtrack exists online. Hopefully, a generous Chinese dude will re-upload the long-forgotten Amano work in the near future.

Thanks for trying, though :'D

A short advertisement for my thread :D
I posted my rip of Rachmaninov's Piano Concertos 1~4 here (Thread 126137).

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That can't possibly be Michiru Oshima in that video.

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I will be a really sad dog if that was Oshima.

EDIT: That's more like it but I think that is a little lackluster by Oshima's usual standard of work. But it's too early to judge from the trailer music alone. :)

The first one is trailer music trash. The second video sounds like Oshima - albeit a synth mockup. Since it's four months to go before premiere it's entirely conceivable that the score hasn't yet been recorded, or isn't mixed/mastered to a usable extent. Sounds like Oshima in Gokusen mode. That means a domestic orchestra. Looking forward to this. :)


(by Herr Salat)
From the Stratos 4 OST, I like track 7 the most. So good it even comes up in the aforementioned wind band version as the second track :'D. Not sure if it's Warsaw, but it's an orchestra.

Hmm, absolutely. Here's a special extended version of that track - in FLAC, as well. It runs over seven minutes! :D

http://www.mediafire.com/?46xl4llcqc5eene

Time to finally listen to Holst's the Planets :'D

Time to finally listen to Gustav Planets :'D

Good Taste .... Beautiful orchestration.
Good audition

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Trust me, you already listened to it a few times ;)

For example, here are some famous "variations" of Mars off the top of my head:

Gundam Age OST 1 - Main Theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrSILQu1jVk#t=01m30s)

Gladiator OST - The Battle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fapCOoOp9ic#t=2m22s)

Star Wars: A New Hope - The Battle Of Yavin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Du1INtJvw#t=8m06s)

Giant Robo OST - Kairiki Otokotachi no Tatakai

Super Mario Galaxy - Airship Theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLYWHiuRFQQ)

and many, many more.

Reusing a repetitive military-style rhythm is one thing... nicking pretty much the whole piece note for note is quite another. ;)

MASAMICHI AMANO
Ruin Explorers FAM & IHRLIE
Suite Symphonique 1+2
Les Solistes de Versailles & Choeur des Etoiles
conducted by Bernard Le Monnier

Release Date: 21.09.1995, 20.01.1996
Label: Columbia Music Entertainment
Catalog Number: COCC-12857, COCC-13011



Album Information (VGMdb) (http://vgmdb.net/album/40014)

01. Pr�lude
02. Joie et espoir (Th�me de Fam & Ihrlie)
03. Les secrets de l'ancien royaume
04. Th�me du voyage
05. Fuite et poursuite
06. Les compagnons
07. L'�nigme de la ville souterraine
08. La preuve de la maison royale
09. Le d�mon
10. Bataille et �pilogue



Album Information (VGMdb) (http://vgmdb.net/album/40015)

01. Sillage marin
02. Soulagement
03. Le pays natal
04. Danse de f�te
05. La r�volte
06. Dragon de mer
07. La force des t�n�bres
08. Le nouveau chemin
09. Le dernier combat
10. La folie
11. Eternelle l�gende
12. La fin du voyage

FLAC + LOG + SCANS

https://mega.co.nz/#!wt9GzBLZ!GTM7ZmjcML846iuR0jyvTzuRiRQXi0niBVsW7qk mjXE
or
http://www.adrive.com/public/f24kwN
http://www.adrive.com/public/DPQZ9b

Now I am reminded of the whole Kanno debate years ago ;)

klnerfan, you mentioned once anime soundtracks LOVE Silvestri Future. Do you have any links?

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From David G. Hebert's "Wind Bands and Cultural Identity in Japanese Schools":

Composer Masamichi Amano is another very popular band composer who has produced numerous arrangements and original works for the wind band idiom, but is also widely known for composing soundtracks to animated movies and major feature films. Amano has a strong affinity to Polish culture and has often commisioned the Warsaw Philharmonic to record his symphonic pieces. His sountrack for the animated film "GR" (for Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Sill) expresses a passionate response to the future threat of dehumanizing technology. Amano's soundtrack to the blockbuster film "Battle Royale" brought him to international attention. Interestingly, the plot of this infamously violent film symbolically protests the horrific effects of an ultra-competitive educational system, which is a theme that some consider relevant to the social and institutional context of school bands in Japan. Amano's wind symphony "Ohnai" is a powerful homage to the victims of Kobe's Great Hanshin earthquake of 1995.

(...)While Tetsunosuke Kushida and Isao Matsuhita clearly aim to represent Japanese cultural identity through their music, the expression of Japanese identity appears to be somewhat less of a concern for Yasuhide Ito, Toshio Mashima, Hiroshi Hoshina, and of little concern at all to Amano. As a result upon listening to most of Amano's wind band music it is difficult to identify the national identity of the composer. The music is certainly expressive and interesting, but it does not necessarily sound "Japanese".

(...)Masamichi Amano seems to have very little interest in Japanese identity, and even appears to question why this should be an issue in the contemporary world, which places them more on the side of "phantasm".

Well here's a start:

Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight OST - "Manabi Straight!" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5duKu10qnHU)

Perhaps I will do a compilation album, but I think it will be tireing to hear the same theme over and over but who knows ...

HAHA, bloody hell on fire... grasping at straws a bit there, aren't they? Seven vaguely connected notes in a different key with different intervals in a piece of music that sounds entirely different with different instrumentation and a different mood...

Salat: What on earth is that Herbert guy talking about? Masamichi Amano is a passionate admirer of Polish culture because he's recorded a handful of scores in Poland, and is disinterested in Japanese culture because his symphonic music isn't dripping in oriental cliche? Wow, what insight! I'm pretty sure it's all just a job to Amano; if he were that bothered about cultural influence and whatnot I doubt he'd be plagiarising his own score for gay pornography and putting it in a horror thriller movie about highschool students getting blown to pieces in a stomach churning bloodbath... or recycling the same cue time and time again, etc... ;)

It was just interesting seeing an academic book writing about him. There was mention in the book that Amano confirmed he writes non-"Japanese" music during an interview with the author.

Though, there must be a reason he lately changes his first name to "Masamicz"...Even using it for extremely Japanese sounding tracks like Chushingura Ibun (Thread 125297).

Absolutely, fascinating to see somebody writing about him... less amusing though, to see that what's written seems to have been summarily and hastily shovelled out of the author's anus. ;)

This "Masamicz" business confuses me. Presumably it came about initially with some Polish orchestral player having a joke with him and converting his name so it sounds Polish... but it keeps on cropping up. Maybe I should just shut my mouth.

Probably the author did his research and I'm just being a miserable arsehole, as always... Please disregard. :D


By the way, any other Amano soundtracks worth upgrading EXCEPT Jupiter 4? :P

Hmm... I honestly can't think of any off the top of my head. Just looking through the Phoenix catalogue and it seems like pretty much everything noteworthy has been obtained.

Since I'm pretty certain now that you are actually a rich Prince, or you've won the lottery... may I suggest you stop spending money on Amano CDs and lend me �10,000 for my recording project instead? ;)

You want Hirano on your project, right? That could cost even more.

Well, if we're going the whole hog, yes. I'll have the London Symphony Orchestra (one week of sessions, please) in Abbey Road Studio 1, and Hirano as orchestrator and conductor. That shouldn't push the price up higher than about �150, maybe �200,000. I'll give you my bank account number! :roflspock:

In the real world... I'm looking at two hours with the Macedonian Radio Symphony Orchestra (har har har, but yes, seriously), some jobbing conductor nobody's heard of, and myself as orchestrator. That's going to go well... :O

Gustav Planets shared by wimpel69 here (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/wimpel69s-could-film-music-classical-corner-work-121898/13.html#post2226398) :'D

Thanks for Herr Salat version "The Planets for piano duet"
excellent guidance

Isaias

Well here's a start:

Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight OST - "Manabi Straight!" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5duKu10qnHU)

Perhaps I will do a compilation album, but I think it will be tireing to hear the same theme over and over but who knows ...



that track is gorgeous omg so freaking happy

So La La Land's expanded Dave is finally starting to wear on me only after listening to it 15 times in the last three days. Holy shit, that is some amazing James Newton Howard music. I doubt I'll ever be satisfied with a new score of his that reaches this level of amazing. If you didn't get a PM from me and want to listen to it, PM me and I'll send it your way. Totally worth checking out.

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Absolutely agree with that; it's a sad state of affairs. Emotional film music is derided as manipulative. Emotional film (or literature) is derided as melodramatic. Expression of feelings, or response to somebody else's expression of feelings, is "A Bad Thing". Do people really go to the cinema today to see a cynical, grim, ultra-stylised reality, which is in fact not at all realistic?

Edit: Sirusjr - completely unmoved by Dave. Does this mean I am not human? :O

I know this is an old file but is there anyone here that still has this and can re upload it please?

Basil Poledouris: Concert in Ubeda (2006)
Track list:

01 - Anvil of Crom.mp3
02 - Riddle of steel / Riders of doom.mp3
03 - Atlantean Sword.mp3
04 - Love theme.mp3
05 - Funeral pyre.mp3
06 - Batlle of the mounds.mp3
07 - Orphans of doom / The awakening.mp3
08 - Anvil of Crom Bis.mp3

Thank you so much if you can

Couldn't agree more tangotreats. Frederic Jameson did try to warn us. We didn't listen. Now we are living in post-modernism where nothing is sacred, emotion is invalidated, consumerism the god and nothing has any meaning if it is not in some way sarcastic or perverse (as long as it leans to the hyperreal tensions of irony). Is Penderecki melodramatic? One could argue that now if we were to be wretchedly postmodern.


Absolutely agree with that; it's a sad state of affairs. Emotional film music is derided as manipulative. Emotional film (or literature) is derided as melodramatic. Expression of feelings, or response to somebody else's expression of feelings, is "A Bad Thing". Do people really go to the cinema today to see a cynical, grim, ultra-stylised reality, which is in fact not at all realistic?

Edit: Sirusjr - completely unmoved by Dave. Does this mean I am not human? :O

Absolutely agree with that; it's a sad state of affairs. Emotional film music is derided as manipulative. Emotional film (or literature) is derided as melodramatic. Expression of feelings, or response to somebody else's expression of feelings, is "A Bad Thing". Do people really go to the cinema today to see a cynical, grim, ultra-stylised reality, which is in fact not at all realistic?

Edit: Sirusjr - completely unmoved by Dave. Does this mean I am not human? :O

Not sure what to say RE Dave, although it did take me a few listens of the original album before getting the new one so maybe it isn't immediately there but will come with time.

As for the other point, I agree it is sad. I watched and greatly enjoyed The Impossible and was saddened to see reviews claiming that the music was manipulative because it helped the film become more emotional. I love movies specifically for making me feel something and anime as well. Thankfully there is no shortage of emotions in the good anime. Chihayafuru is so far quite emotional but now I feel to call a score melodramatic is to suggest it is a bad thing. I see the same complaints all the time from western gamers about JRPGs. They don't want a story about characters that is tinged with emotions, just another story about why the evil guy needs to be taken down. JRPG characters that express emotions are derided as whiny (Titus in FFX especially) when anyone else in that same situation would feel similar emotions.

#Herr Salat
Thank you so much. Following from our chat with tangotreats, Im a big fan of shin chan. I even have a Shin Chan android phone. I've only seen a couple of the films, everything Shin Chan is genius.

Also, I saw the film tangotreats/herr salat. 9 as you advised. brilliant as always.




Toshiyuki Arakawa, Shinji Miyazaki, Shiro Hamaguchi
Crayon Shin-chan The Movie Soundtracks (1993-2003)

MP3 320kbps | 99 Tracks | 356 MB
Toshiyuki Arakawa: 25 Tracks | 33:19 | 84 MB
Shinji Miyazaki: 14 Tracks | 22:15 | 57 MB
Shiro Hamaguchi: 18 Tracks | 39:17 | 96 MB

Release Date: 18.06.2003
Label: Columbia
Catalog Number: COCX-32232-3
Source: Xiami (http://www.xiami.com/album/498972)



I am sure Kan Sawada's DORAEMON score is bigger and better, but another crowd-pleaser is the Crayon Shin-chan series. Toshiyuki Arakawa is the main composer for the TV show and film series, but other composers like Shiro Hamaguchi (e.g., ONE PIECE) and Shinji Miyazaki (e.g., POK�MON) help him out when it comes to the big orchestral tracks. This album features tracks until the the 11th film. The 21st film will be shown next year, so there might be another soundtrack release in the near future future. There are new/other co-composers for the newer films, though...

The original album has two discs with 99 tracks. There are lots of non-orchestral tracks by Toshiyuki Arakawa, so I've decided to share three compilations focusing on one composer at a time. I think Shiro Hamaguchi's tracks are the best, followed by Shinji Miyazaki. I found out who did which track according to the listing at Tsutaya (http://www.tsutaya.co.jp/works/20134778.html). There may be a possibility some tracks are not credited correctly, though. Listening to some Arakawa tracks made me think if it could have been one of the other composers...

Wonky trranslation/romanization on the Shiro Hamaguchi and Shinji Miyazaki tracks. Toshiyuki Arakawa tracks left in Japanese. Full album not translated at all.

EDIT:
In the Shinji Miyazaki folder: Track "2-09 - Action Kamen's Flesh and Blood.mp3" is by Toshiyuki Arakawa. Sorry. Please delete it :'D
In the Shiro Hamaguchi folder: Spelling mistake in the first track. It should be "Hot Spring", not "Hotspring". Sorry. Please rename it :'D

Samples for the Shiro Hamaguchi tracks:

1-49 - The Absolute Hotspring Sensation / Mystery Robot Appears (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856876)
1-50 - Fear of Giant Robots (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856877)
1-53 - Shin-chan Gets Excited Over Hot Springs (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856880)
1-54 - Tanba, Spirit of the Hot Spring (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856881)
1-57 - Farewell to the Warriors of the Hot Spring (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856884)
2-14 - Tower of the Sun (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856899)
2-15 - Strong! Hiroshi Sun (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856900)
2-17 - Yesterday Once More Operation Begins (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856902)
2-20 - Hiroshi's Reminiscence (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856905)
2-22 - To Get Back Into The 21st Century (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856907)
2-27 - Meeting Ijiri Matabee (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856912)
2-29 - Shinnosuke's Assistance (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856914)
2-31 - Uma-mawari - Magara Tarouzaemon (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856916)
2-32 - Face to Face with Stable Boy Kanauchi (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856917)
2-33 - Blue Sky Samurai (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856918)
2-34 - Yakiniku Variation (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856919)
2-36 - Major Dougashima's Sortie (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856921)
2-37 - Tour d'Atami (http://www.xiami.com/widget/isingle?sid=1770856922)

DOWNLOAD
Shiro Hamaguchi (http://bayfiles.com/file/zC8V/n90Syh/Shiro_Hamaguchi_-_Crayon_Shin-chan_The_Movie_Soundtracks.rar)
Shinji Miyazaki (http://bayfiles.com/file/zCnL/R7q3Fu/Shinji_Miyazaki_-_Crayon_Shin-chan_The_Movie_Soundtracks.rar)
Toshiyuki Arakawa (http://bayfiles.com/file/zCwz/QvywHb/Toshiyuki_Arakawa_-_Crayon_Shin-chan_The_Movie_Soundtracks.rar)

Full Album (https://bayfiles.com/file/zFxf/TgBIwv/Various_Artists_-_Crayon_Shin-chan_The_Movie_Soundtracks.rar)

As requested by vidjunkie, here is a re-upload of the Conan Symphony, ripped from the DVD: Sendspace (http://www.sendspace.com/file/e8485n)

Many thanks kindly goes to the original uploader(s) for this rip.

Just listened to Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2. I am reminded at how lush his writing is. I'll consider myself enriched :). Anyone happen to have the recording of the Berliner Philharmoniker version of this conducted by Simon Rattle? From what clips I have heard this is a top quality performance and recording maybe a definitive one.

Do you guys know how to convert itunes format to mp3? I have the latest version and most sites only work for older versions. If I can figure this out, I'll post some goodies that I just got.

Edit, Preferences, Import Settings, Change the current "Import Using" settings to MP3 Encoder.

But...if that iTunes Format you're speaking of is Apple Lossless, just upload that. It's okay. Even if it's just AAC, everybody's media player can handle it :'D

Herr Salat shared this with me a while ago, but this hasn't been posted on the thread.

Arc the Lad Animation Soundtrack II [MP3 320kbps]
Music by Michiru Oshima

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/79886315/Arc+The+Lad+TV+Animation+Soundtrack+II+arcthelad2. jpg

Link (http://www.mediafire.com/?pisu2cs053ehfhd) (I hope you don't mind me linking directly to your upload)

Replace the 128kbps rip circulating online with this one!

And... all credit goes to Herr Salat and his generosity. :D

Toshiyuki Watanabe is talking about just finishing a substantial recording session, with a full symphony orchestra, for an unnamed television anime project. No more information than that, at the moment - except to say that I am almost 100% sure he's not talking about Space Brothers. I wonder what this could possibly be???

Additionally, he's stated outright regret that Space Brothers didn't get a CD release - and says the reason is because anime soundtrack CDs aren't selling in sufficient quantities these days to make a standalone release worthwhile. There you go, folks - in black and white, from the source, that's the reason for this bonus CD scandal. What a stinker. I'm grateful that they're still a) spending money on music and b) finding a way to get it out there somehow but nevertheless... in the country where just about every single movie and TV show ever made gets a dozen soundtrack CD releases... they're giving up.

:(

Trying to decide if this Michel Plourde (https://www.youtube.com/user/spocksmusic) guy is real. Writes in multiple genres, from jazz to classical and rock, has four jobs, mostly in the 80's, Google and Wikipedia turn up nothing but his own pages. Research yields few examples of documentation on him, or most of bands and projects he claims to have worked for, and his video and move-making skills are terrible, almost Tim and Eric-esque. Seems like an awful lot of work for their relatively little attention, though. Can anyone identify his orchestral pieces in particular and recognise anything?

The Japanese aren't buying CD soudtracks anymore? Guess the financial crisis took it's final hold there too. Though to be fair they'd had a worse recession going about 10 years before our credit crunch. Still it took a LONG while to happen there, but it's basically what happened here in the US 6-7 years ago. Perhaps more comprehensive CD releases, OR they might hopefully get smart and just release high-def downloads. Might have more success here than the failed Tofu Records label back in the early to mid 2000s. I'm too young to be this nostalgic about that time.

It is quite sad but not surprising really. In a way i think the sales would be better if they only released the better scores but i'm sure the stuff like Naruto and Bleach sell well enough on CD even though they aren't so good. At least we have something available to get the music out there.

Now that even Oshima has fallen to the bonus cd treatment (crime against humanity if you ask me), I will lose all hope in Japan when a Hisaishi score doesn't get a soundtrack release. (Speaking of Hisaishi, anyone got a tracklist of the special music cd from the Ni No Kuni: Wizard Edition?)

Nowadays I have to do most soundtracks myself, it seems.
Here's my cover for Space Brothers if anyone wants it.

A sequel to Xenoblade was announced today for Wii-U. Sadly they got Hiroyuki Sawano to do the music so I expect a Gundam Unicorn style here. Game looks awesome though, trailer below.
Monolith Soft: Neues Spiel in der Entwicklung (Wii U) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JIsunvMelk)

Great, why have so many promising projects such wasted opportunities in the music department (why no Yoko Shimomura?). During the Attack on Titan composer reveal I actually listened to Guilty Crown, Unicorn and other Sawano works. That did not lift my worries in the slightest and I'm still baffled why he gets so many prestige projects when his music is just not that good in my opinion, slightly above RC-level. Maybe he can write traditional symphonic scores when he is asked but what I've heared so far does not show much promise.

Sawano hasn't written a single note of music in his life. His best scores are those which are borderline passable if approached with low expectations... and that's not a good position to be in. Who knows? He may surprise us all. I predict that he won't. I'm sure somebody will appear with an ill-mannered rebuttal but I think Sawano's lack of skills speak for themselves.

This news doesn't explicitly bother me, because I barely rate Shimomura... so Sawano isn't much of a come-down. Drammatica had some decent moments but it seemed to be another case of sub-par material being propped up by an orchestrator... She doesn't explicitly offend me, but she's never written anything I'd listen to twice through choice.

Sawano hasn't written a single note of music in his life.


I'm sure somebody will appear with an ill-mannered rebuttal but I think Sawano's lack of skills speak for themselves.


Gundam Unicorn OST Track 12 On Your Mark (High Quality) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDveFBn8yoU)

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This is music. Great one to add:D.

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Chihayafuru 2 gets a 2CD release, there's still hope.

ive loved to get my hans on nintendoland ost for wii u that game has some great orchestral track still no rip for any wii u games on here yet maybe in the future

As far as I know there is no orchestral music in Nintendoland whatsoever.

As far as I know there is no orchestral music in Nintendoland whatsoever.

Nintendo Land OST: Main Theme (Orchestra ver) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y96cw701nG0)
Nintendo Land Music: Credits - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNFijCU46Zk)



3 attractions also are heavily orchestra zelda metord & luigi maision


most of the soundtrack is orchestred exept for retro 8bit music

the game is alot of fun

As far as I know there is no orchestral music in Nintendoland whatsoever.

QFT

A Herr Salat / Tangotreats Co-Production

YASUO HIGUCHI
Orientation "A Thousand Calabashes"
Violin Concerto "KOMA"
The Philharmonia Virtuosi Of New York
Mamoru Takahara, Conductor
Oscar Ravina, Solo violin
Richard Kapp, Music Director



My transfer from Herr Salat's vinyl. Scans included. Titles in English. Anybody who asks for .LOGs should be subject to mandatory euthanasia.

Gamefront: FLAC: http://www.gamefront.com/files/22882637/YH-OATC-VCK.rar
Gamefront: MP3 (LAME 3.99.5 -V0): http://www.gamefront.com/files/22882670/YH-OATC-VCK-MP3.rar
MEGA: FLAC https://mega.co.nz/#!9g4HzBRS!G535PWicx3iFtgPvy0kfHiyxQU9WPAVcqejok4A 8dNs
MEGA: MP3 https://mega.co.nz/#!Y8BESQBC!aKGXm3En5PQBBumwPwEE2R1hEVEMm6yZT-ulpDfQKJU

I'll preface this post by saying that Herr Salat (a kind, generous man with impeccable taste) is absolutely 100% the person to thank for making this wonderful music available. He jumped through some unbelievable hoops and paid lunatic sums of money to Japanese middleman agencies to obtain this old and very rare LP. From Japan to Germany, the record finally ended up in my care, here in England - and I transferred it to the digital domain. I can say without doubt that the time I spent doing so constituted my happiest hours for I-don't-know-how-many months. My life got blasted to pieces last June and it was only yesterday, listening to this glorious album, that I was able to feel peace and joy again.

In the absence of sleeve notes, I'll write a little myself.


Yasuo Higuchi is a name that should be foremost in the mind of any music lover. Higuchi wrote what is probably my favourite score of all time; for Suguru Sugiyama's breathtaking Phoenix 2772 - both film and score immeasurably ahead of their time in 1980 and still ahead of their time today. As irony would have it, he is probably the least prolific genius the world has ever seen - at 59 years of age he has scored only a handful of film and television projects - and has completed a similar number of concert hall classical works, two of which are on this album.

Osamu Tezuka came to hear one of these works - the sublime Violin Concerto - and this lead to Higuchi's engagement as composer for Phoenix 2772. Tezuka initially asked permission to use the violin concerto in the film, but Higuchi completely re-orchestrated his concerto (it is played almost in full and completely uninterrupted by sound effects and dialogue) and composed a full score based around its melodies. Here, you will be able to hear the original concerto, in its original form for small chamber orchestra.

This is not an album of symphonic acrobatics or virtuosity; it is an album of sublime beauty and intimacy. For those who may worry that Higuchi's foray into "serious" classical music would turn out to be some monstrously pretentious piece of avant garde squeaky-gate nonsense, please let me dispel your worries. Classical Higuchi is warm, romantic, eloquent, approachable, and lyrical.

Here, I will stop - because I am unashamedly biased; I simply adore every note of this album. It is a musical expression of pure joy. This is music that lives and breathes, and is plainly happy to be alive. I'm now considerably happier to be alive for hearing it - and eternally grateful to Herr Salat for his efforts, without which my life wouldn't have been thus enriched.

A few technical notes; despite being pressed in 1979 and now rarer than a Firebird's tooth (har har) Herr Salat managed to locate a copy of this album that appears to have been never played - this must be the easiest, most pain-free vinyl transfer I have ever made. I have manually edited out the handful of light clicks that were present, and lowered rumble. That't it. What you hear is what's on this beautiful record. There are a handful of jumps here and there which are the result of poor editing in the studio; they are NOT vinyl artifacts or groove skips.

Additional; no matter what a certain subset of the audiophile community will tell you, vinyl is not the perfect audio reproduction means, although bearing in mind the technology is over 100 years ago, it does reach an almost miraculous level of quality. Since a record rotates at 33.3rpm at all times, the absolute rotation speed (ie, how much vinyl is passing under the stylus in a given unit of time) decreases as the tonearm moves toward the centre of the record. This means that high frequencies and loud passages sometimes attract distortion or roll-off near the end of the record. Side A contains 17 minutes of music, and finishes a comfortable distance from the label. However, Side B is stuffed - 24 minutes of music, which is just pushing the limits of what can be comfortably accommodated on a 12 inch disk. Accordingly there is some minor distortion and high frequency drop-off towards the end of the violin concerto. It's the sound of vinyl, folks - like it, or lump it, that's what it is. :)

Additional additional; vinyl is not and never has been a precise medium; no two turntables (or cutting lathes, for that matter) run at exactly the same speed. Human musicians tune their instruments to different pitches in different countries, and sometimes just because they feel like it. There is no way of knowing what's right and what's wrong for certain. Nevertheless, I have made a slight pitch correction to this album and in doing so made two assumptions that I believe are quite logical. The first assumption is that the Violin Concerto was not transposed in Phoenix 2772 and the second is that the CD release of Phoenix 2772 is running at the right speed. A pitch comparison between the violin concerto on this record and in Phoenix 2772 suggests that the record is playing about a semitone sharp; a comparison between the track timings of my transfer with the advertised timings on the album sleeve seem to confirm this. The ear test also confirms. Therefore, I have pitch-corrected the entire record bringing it into alignment with the violin concerto as heard on the Phoenix 2772 album. For better or worse, that's what I did - with the best of intentions and the

About the scans; a vinyl record sleeve is too large to fit in an A4 scanner. In order to scan this one, I scanned in several parts and reassembled the cover in Photoshop. It's not 100% perfect but it's pretty good. The track listing and ensemble pictures are both from the back cover; the ensemble picture has been colour corrected from metallic silver and grey to black and white - so it's almost legible now. It shows the Philharmonia Virtuosi of New York and conductor Mamoru Takahara.

That said, please enjoy this gorgeous album; 45 minutes of some of the most magnificent music ever written... and please put your hands together and applaud Herr Salat; truly one in a million. Thank you, friend. :)

Thank you Herr Salat and Tango for making such ULTRA RARE album available. I'm not familiar with Higuchi's work other than After War Gundam, but just from your glowing praises, I know it's going to be a good one. :D

Now may be an appropriate juncture to recommend Higuchi's masterpiece - please toddle along to this thread: Thread 88354

My links in the first post are dead but Herr Salat's re-up (at Mediafire) a little bit further down are still active. :D

Many thanks Tango and Herr Salat!
EDIT: I have to say, the sound quality is stupendous for a vinyl rip. I wouldn't know it was vinyl if you hadn't said so.
bk7530 - Can you share After War Gundam? I don't believe I have this one.

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Tango: Thank you, again, for the pointer! This will be a magnificent listening. I hope it's a good blend of classical symphony and modern film work. :D
Sirusjr: I have them in lossless but I didn't keep any of the vocal tracks. And I believe I took out some tracks that were a bit too synthy for me. Is that fine?

I don't mind that sort of edit. Just note it on your post as being edited. Arthierr might object but he hasn't been around lately.

I will post them after I get back home tonight. :D

BREAKING: J.J. Abrams to Direct Star Wars: Episode VII! | Superhero Hype (http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/174633-breaking-jj-abrams-to-direct-star-wars-episode-vii)

Well we pretty much know who will score it now.

Nah. Williams is still alive last time I checked. If I were in charge I would let Williams score it now and build the films around it later. It would be Williams last great project and everyone will remember this enormous musical achievment for years to come and it could possibly bring back the traditional symphonic scores to Hollywood ... oh who am I kidding, that will never happen in this indecent times.

Sadly, I believe it's an absolute impossibility that Williams will be anywhere near rebooted Star Wars - although if Giacchino does end up scoring it (likely) we will no doubt get ballsed-up versions of Williams' iconic themes in some form or another.

It was a miracle Williams came back for Episodes 1-3 - and it was quite obvious by Episode 3 that he'd absolutely had enough of Star Wars. Coming back ten years later at the age 83 and coming out of retirement to score a cash-grab movie directed by a guy who already has a "composer" who seems to "score" absolutely every movie and TV series he makes... and a composer who is a self-confessed Williams fanatic? Not a chance.

If Giacchino had any sense, he'd refuse to do it... but alas, Giacchino is a fanboy and the opportunity to write music for a movie called "Star Wars" - however unlike Star Wars it might be - will be a temptation he simply cannot resist.

I don't like Abrams and I don't like Giacchino. That pretty much finishes up any hope I had for a new decent Star Wars score in 2015. Not that I had any hope for it in the first place. The movie will stink and so will the score. We all know that's the case. Some may say I'm jumping the gun and that I should listen to it before making a judgement, and how dare I denounce a score that hasn't even been written yet... but realistically... come on, folks. Who disagrees? You know in your heart that it's going to stink, just as I do, and just as anybody with an ounce of common sense does. It's a great shame - but all Hollywood is doing lately is pissing on venerable franchises; sucking out the last dollar at the expense of their dignity... so again, I'm not overly surprised.

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Added MEGA links for the new Higuchi album. Let me know how that works out...!!!

I'm a little more hopeful for the new Star Wars films because the guy who wrote Toy Story is writing them. OK, it's a bit of a stretch, but the guys at least wrote that well. As for the music, yeah, I've always been kinda cold on Giacchino. Never liked his work much. Abrams pisses me off too, especially bloody Lost which described his writing direction. But I enjoyed Star Trek. Perhaps Hans Zimmer or even Mark Mancina would be better choices to score it. Basil Pouledoris is pretty good too. You guys have any ideas? We could write an open letter to the director with a better suggestion, lol.

Basil Pouledoris (August 21, 1945 � November 8, 2006)...

Well crap. Also Tango, what was the turntable you used to copy that vinyl album? Did you also use any particular pre-amplifier? Also, how expensive is it?

I think you're being a tad overly pessimistic, Tango. I'm not a huge fan of either Abrams or Giacchino, but jlaidler is right: Michael Arndt is a sign of hope; Toy Story 3 demonstrates he's a pretty capable writer. And Abrams's Star Trek, while lacking a bit of the philosophy and literacy of the prior incarnation, was at least an enjoyable thrill ride that managed to outdo all but two or three of the previous films in entertainment value. Giacchino... well, while several moments in his work have impressed me, every score of his that I've listened to outside of the film has worn thin. That said, I'm mostly unfamiliar with his Medal of Honor work from the beginning of his career that seems to be relatively well-regarded, which is Williams pastiche -- almost certainly what will be asked of him for Star Wars.

I'm cautiously optimistic. It's obviously a cash-grab to extend the "saga," but that water was already muddied (dating all the way back to Jedi) and if Star Wars becomes an ongoing property like the Bond films, it opens up a lot of interesting narrative possibilities in the future as they break away from the episodic structure and do their own thing.

It could be a lot worse. (Directed by Brett Ratner, written by Akiva Goldsman, music by RZA)

Frighten us all out of our wits why don't you Tazer? I'll have nightmares after that now. But yeah, if Michael Arendt can make an emotional scene over a bunch of toys accepting their fate of being incinerated, then he might actually be alright with Star Wars. I just hope it doesn't look like Episode III. They literally looked like they were just stumbling around on a green screen set with NO clue what they were doing. Someone get Peter Jackson in here.

After War Gundam X Soundtracks[FLAC/CUE/LOG]
Music by Yasuo Higuchi

Side 1

Missing Tracks 2 and 20 (Vocal songs not composed by Higuchi)

Part 1 (http://www.mediafire.com/?skevdgt1v1vgcxe)
Part 2 (http://www.mediafire.com/?d7r41l9f196e7nv)

Side 2

Missing Tracks 2, 5, 12, and 19 (Again, these are vocal songs not composed by Higuchi

Part 1 (http://www.mediafire.com/?4k0ef6sjpk04i6e)
Part 2 (http://www.mediafire.com/?1gifta23o935a23)

Side 3

Missing tracks 2, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 16, 17 (The same deal here - I can never warm up to these vocal songs in anime soundtracks :()

Part 1 (http://www.mediafire.com/?p89vvd2cycvcb61)
Part 2 (http://www.mediafire.com/?v26v15m6blt01w8)

Here are all three soundtracks to Higuchi's After War Gundam X. As stated above, I took out all the vocal songs but kept all songs composed by Higuchi - even synthy ones are here because I think they are tastefully done.

EDIT: Just realized that these soundtracks are available on BakaBT and that's where I got these from! Oh, well... I guess some people who don't like torrents can still grab these direct links.

My first choices to score this would be Williams orchestrators, whom themselves are composers, Eddie Karam and Conrad Pope. John Neufeld doesn't appear to have scored anything.

Of course, if she were still alive, I'd hire Angela Morley in a heartbeat.

Many thanks :D I don't know how I didn't have these before.

this just...this just makes me so happy. Herr Salat, Tango, there are no words that these hands are able to type that can communicate the feeling of compleat joy and happiness that i am feeling right now. This is a glorious and resplendent work, and you guys...are amazing. the work you do in order to present us with these, utter god-sends, just amazes me.
Thank you for doing this for us, and for me.
I'm so happy. So utterly, completely, gleamingly, violently happy!!!

So I finally finished listenting to Yasuo Higuchi's Violin Concerto ... this is simply too beautiful for words.
Thank you Tango and Herr Salat (Hoping for future productions of your co-operation).


Here's another Sato score that I really enjoy that needed some trimming in my opinion. As Tango said many times there is an actual score underneath all the synth and percussion. Since the good stuff is scattered across three volumes and I like creating my own soundtrack CDs as of late, I decided to share my CD for Ryomaden. This is 80 minutes of orchestral score that I put together in an attempt to make it more like a film score.



Download (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/MSWEHRG0/Ryomaden_(custom_cd).zip_links)
MP3 / 320kbps / 80min



Enjoy

Tango, I completely agree with you that the movie will stink, but you are underestimating Michael Giacchino. Haven't you listened to his music for the Medal of Honor series? If he is to compose the music for the new Star Wars trilogy, surely he will use several (or many) themes by John Williams, mainly the theme from the beginning and the end of every episode. They wouldn't be Star Wars movies otherwise. But I'm sure Giacchino is more than able to make a decent (or maybe nice) score for a probably indecent trilogy. I'd like to encourage you to expect some good music from this and to listen to every Medal of Honor score by Giacchino.

PS. I don't like the idea of Disney making another 3 SW films, but at least let the guy create a good score. Many composers create beautiful music for horrible films.

Absolutely... Medal Of Honour isn't too bad, but it's straight Williams pastiche. I don't want to be uncharitable, but the good bits of MoH are the bits that are clear attempts to emulate specific Williams scores. It makes me uncomfortable that the score that made everybody notice Giacchino will be fifteen years old by the time he comes around to scoring Star Wars - Revenge Of The Unnecessary Sequel. Giacchino hasn't written like that since the late nineties and probably can't any more... and in any case, there is no way in hell that Abrams will allow him to score a 2013 blockbuster movie the way he scored a 1999 computer game.

Anything's possible... but Giacchino just isn't that good a composer. At the beginning of his career, he managed to pull off a fun Williams potpourii with significant heavy lifting from his orchestrator and since then it's been one disappointment after another.

Cinema Serenade 1 & 2 [FLAC/CUE/LOG]

Thread 126638
Posted my rips on a separate thread. :D

Composed by
HIROSHI TAKAKI
Sinfonia TYTANIA
The Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Taizo Takemoto



Release Date: 18.02.2009
Label: Columbia Music Entertainment
Catalog Number: COCX-35366

Translated track names thanks to tangotreats!! :'D

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FLAC + LOG + SCANS | 17 Tracks | 46:47 | 275 MB

FLAC - https://mega.co.nz/#!vtRXGDRI!5u3iMsTqt1jOgGscit8G4QcDZRbiOhPVSHWBuLO AktY

MP3 -V0 - http://www.adrive.com/public/u8mvRw

Thank you for Sinfonia Tytania!

Here's a reasonable translation - not wonky, not completely perfect, but quite servicable:


1. Tytania
2. Conquer The Universe (TV Size)
3. First Movement "Gale" - Andante Grandioso "Nation"
4. First Movement "Gale" - Andante Grandioso "Fighting Begins - Battle"
5. First Movement "Gale" - Andante Grandioso "Desperate Situation"
6. Second Movement "Whirlwind" - Adagio "The Future"
7. Second Movement "Whirlwind" - Adagio "Family"
8. Third Movement "Storm" - Moderato "Space Conquest"
9. Third Movement "Storm" - Moderato "Battle In Space"
10. Third Movement "Storm" - Moderato "Great Battle"
11. Third Movement "Storm" - Moderato "Victory"
12. Fourth Movement "Calm" - Lento "Emptiness"
13. Fourth Movement "Calm" - Lento "Finale"
14. LOST IN SPACE - TV Size
15. Conquer The Universe (Original - Karaoke without chorus)
16. LOST IN SPACE (Original - Karaoke without chorus)
17. LOST IN SPACE (TV Size Karaoke)

Feel free to use them as they are, improve them, or ignore them completely, as you desire. :)

THANKS. I'm just indecisive when it comes to the song "Ano Sora wo, Ike". The Chinese characters mean "universe", but the reading aid in the booklet notes the pronounciation as "Sky"...

Some amazing stuff you guys posted! Wow!

Thank you :)

BTW . . . about Gundam, has anyone here managed to get the (perpetually out of stock) 2005 remaster of

Newtype Saga Gaia Gear, both volumes?

Its not on bakabt in lossless I think because most people don't know about it when they think "gundam" and its old but it has amazing music. used copies seem to 1993 non-remasters. I don't know if there is any difference. I think the mp3 of the remaster was posted in this thread long ago.

Indeed... Sora is usually translated as "sky" but I think the scope is somewhat wider here. The lyrics have a certain maritime quality to them ("thou shalt raise thy sails") but at the same time they directly allude to space travel ("Although the deep black darkness / Hinders us on our journey / To protect thy important person who's far away / ano sora wo, ike") it seems more appropriate to translate as "conquer the universe".

Additionally, in the final episode of Tytania, a letter is seen - written in English - the last lines of which are "I suppose everything changes, as people say; The universe, and Tytania as well." - the implication being that since they have conquered the universe, Tytania has changed. Then again, the Japanese voice dub translates "universe" as "uchuu" (space) so who knows?

Bloody complicated language if you ask me... :D

About the scans; a vinyl record sleeve is too large to fit in an A4 scanner. In order to scan this one, I scanned in several parts and reassembled the cover in Photoshop. It's not 100% perfect but it's pretty good. The track listing and ensemble pictures are both from the back cover; the ensemble picture has been colour corrected from metallic silver and grey to black and white - so it's almost legible now. It shows the Philharmonia Virtuosi of New York and conductor Mamoru Takahara.

That said, please enjoy this gorgeous album; 45 minutes of some of the most magnificent music ever written... and please put your hands together and applaud Herr Salat; truly one in a million. Thank you, friend. :)


Thanks guys, this is dedication!

Regarding large scans, this might be useful in the future:

Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher...
Microsoft Research Image Composite Editor (ICE) (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ice/)

It automatically (no manual labor, if it works) combines overlapping scans.

Has anyone here managed to get the (perpetually out of stock) 2005 remaster of

Newtype Saga Gaia Gear, both volumes?

Its not on bakabt in lossless I think because most people don't know about it when they think "gundam" and its old but it has amazing music. used copies seem to 1993 non-remasters. I don't know if there is any difference. I think the mp3 of the remaster was posted in this thread long ago.

Those Animex releases are just cheaper re-issues. Used copies actually available on Amazon Japan (http://www.amazon.co.jp/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?__mk_ja_JP=%E3%82%AB%E3%82%BF%E3%82 %AB%E3%83%8A&url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%8 2%A4%E3%83%97%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AC%20%E3%82% AC%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AE%E3%82%A2%20 %E3%82%AA%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B8%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AB%E3%8 3%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%82%A6%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%88% E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF).

I doubt anyone has those in lossless, dark2600.


(...)In the final episode of Tytania,...

What do you think of this writing about the show (http://plotshield.blogspot.de/2010/10/tytania-documenting-slow-death-of-anime.html)?

I confess that I gave up after only a handful of episodes... I'm surprised that guy managed to get to 18! I have the whole series just in case I ever feel the need to torment myself... I don't think I saw enough to confirm or deny the content of the review, but the first episodes were some of the most tiresome anime I've ever seen. I feel like I should give it another try, some day...

In case you wonder how I knew about the letter at the end... I skim series' for music and sometimes stop to watch segments that are particularly well scored. ;)

About Gaia Gear... bloody fantastic score is that. I have them in MP3 - not sure which version, but Herr Salat is right - the Animex 1200 release is unlikely to be anything other than a straight re-pressing... therefore it doesn't matter.

Copies on Amazon.jp are quite cheap... I might be persuaded to pick them up. Not sure how to go about buying from those sellers though...

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Indeed Gaia Gear is fantastic, especially the musical suite. Listening to it again always brings a smile on my face (even if it is Star Wars) :)

I'm also eagerly anticipating to hear the score for Ni no Kuni in the PS3 game. Everything I've seen so far seems like a dream come true for me (Not that Ghibli, Level5 and Hisaishi alone wouldn't be reason enough).
Here's an interview with Hisaishi talking about Ni No Kuni: Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch - The Music of Joe Hisaishi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bcf0X7Vlh4)

Here's both Gaia Gear albums bundled up in one RAR. KM-GGG.rar | Game Front (http://www.gamefront.com/files/22888869/KM-GGG.rar)

Truth be told, the bulk of the good stuff is in the 18 minute suite at the end of the second disc... but it's still a great score all considered. :)

I hope they get Williams, but Giacchino might surprise us. I actually liked his work on Super 8 better than Medal of Honor. When it comes to MoH I prefer Chris Lennerts :). Too bad Abrams won't get Chris to score Star Wars.

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Either him, Lennie Moore or John Debney without restrictions. Pleasant surprise would be Brian Tyler. Regarding Giacchino, Super 8 and Star Trek were boring for me. His best work is definetly Medal of Honor: Frontlines.

What are you lunatics talking about?! :awsm:

My top picks, assuming the films have "space" for a good score, and with no regard whatsoever to how likely that would be to get the gig: Bruce Broughton, Lennie Moore, George Fenton, Yoshihisa Hirano.

Of course, the job will go to Giacchino... who is terrible but by no means the worst possible choice; for that, I'd have to go with Chris Lennertz. If he retired today the world would be a better place. Brian Tyler has proven he can write a tune with Lego Universe, but that plus fifteen years of abominable trash is hardly a qualification to follow in the footsteps of one of the greatest composers to ever live. Debney is the king of pastiche; his score would be a "Best Of John Williams" compilation. (If for whatever reason it doesn't go to Giacchino, it will go to somebody worse.)

Lennie Moore would be a fantastic choice given his recent experience as "additional composer" on the Star Wars games - the only genuine musician on the team, effortlessly upstaging the collection of rank amateurs Griskey, Roget, and Haab.

Bruce Broughton would absolutely flourish with a good old fashioned sci-fi score - his last minute replacement for Lost In Space was magnificent. Just think what he could do with more time.

Yoshihisa Hirano would completely blow it out of the water; that stands to reason.

Sadly, all of these choices - even the ones that are borderline plausible (Debney, Moore) - would, even if they DID get the job, never in a million years be permitted to produce a decent score. This is 2013, folks. You have heard the kind of trash Hollywood pumps out, lately, I guess? That's not going to change because it's Star Wars. Williams is the only man on the planet who can get away with writing music like that in Hollywood, and Williams will absolutely not go anywhere near these movies. I absolutely 100% guarantee it. Remember who the director is. Even if Giacchino suddenly miraculously discovered his mojo and wanted to write the biggest most amazing f**k off symphonic Star Wars score you ever heard, completely knocking Williams out of the stratosphere and ushering in a new golden age of intelligent, well written, timeless orchestral film scores... Abrams will temp it with Lost and Star Trek, and Giacchino will end up writing a thoroughly modern score that merely nods to the past - a la Star Trek. Even if Abrams decided to go with something decent, can you see the execs letting it through the door?

This is an era where any overtly thematic music is avoided. Themes are no-go. Leitmotif, forget it. Emotion, no chance.

I'm so sorry to be so negative - even more negative than usual, some may say... but I think a healthy dose of painful realism would be a good thing here. There is absolutely no point spending the next two years bouncing up and down with excitement waiting for this new great score that's going to save film music and completely revitalise the artform we revere so much. It will NOT happen. Back in '77 they made Star Wars because they wanted to make a good movie. In 2015 they'll make Star Wars because some asshole wants to make more Star Wars because Star Wars makes a lot of money. The score will follow the same line of artless, uncreative thinking.

Ok, thanks for the info. If they are just re-pressings, I'm going to get the 1993 versions shipped to me which are not too expensive and check those out.

Nice of tango to re-up BTW. :)

I don't think that they are not trying to atleast capture some of the original spirit of the films, otherwise, they wouldnt go for Kasdan for VIII, or ask Struzan to draw the poster (even though he never drew anything for the OT, and a poster changes nothing about the film)

Symphonic Suite & Score composed by
Norio MAEDA
CRUSHER JOE
(1983 Film, dir. Yoshikazu Yasuhiko)

Original Release Year: 1983 (Vinyl)
Re-Release Date: 23.06.1999 (CD) | Label: Victor Entertainment | Catalog Number: VICL-60401~02 | Series: Dendou ("Hall of Fame") Twin



<table style="width:100%"><tr><th>ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra,
Katsuaki Nakatani (cond.)</th><th>SYMPHONIC SUITE
Toyko Symphony Orchestra, Makoto Sasaki (flute on "Alfin"),
Norio Maeda (cond.)</th></tr></table>

Holy crap. That is spooky. I was listening to Crusher Joe last night (the horrible circulating rip) thinking a) "Now if there's a score that I'd really love to upgrade to FLAC, it's this one" and b) I'd love to hear the OST recording again which I lost in a disc crash a few years ago and could never find again... then I turned off my computer and went to bed. An hour later I had a weird dream where I was conducting Crusher Joe in the Royal Albert Hall - I woke up, went to the loo, couldn't get back to sleep, turned on my computer, and noticed Herr Salat had posted something in this thread...

Crazy or what???

FLAC + LOG + SCANS | 533 MB
Source: Personal collection. Rip and scan by me.

<TT>MediaFire (http://links.snahp.it/4021983 Vintage)</TT> | Password: YasQueen

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---Bonuses---
- Unused Cues, 1986 Victor CD "Super Collection" [MP3 128] (http://www.mediafire.com/file/9uafymu7lw71d1a/Maeda-_Crusher_Joe_%28Score_%2B_Unused_Cues%29_%5B1986_V ictor_%27Super_Collection%27%5D_MP3_128.zip) | Thanks to Grandis
- Digital Trip (Goro Ohmi, synthesizer), 1983 Nippon Columbia LP [MP3 -V2] (http://www.mediafire.com/file/yq6wt0uo2862t7l/Maeda-_Crusher_Joe_%28Ohmi%2C_synth%29_%5B1983_Nippon_Co lumbia_LP_%27Digital_Trip_%2C_Synthesizer_Fantasy% 27%5D_MP3_-V2.zip) | Thanks to Gensou
- Sheet Music (arr. for Piano), Published by Tokyo Ongaku Shoin [PDF] (http://www.mediafire.com/file/3be70dvs6bd79rn/Maeda-_Crusher_Joe_%28Suite%2C_arr._Piano%29_%5BTokyo_On gaku_Shoin%5D_%E3%83%94%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8E%E5%BC%BE %E3%81%8D%E8%AA%9E%E3%82%8A_%E3%82%B5%E3%82%A6%E3% 83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A1_%E3%80%8 C%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3% 83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%82%A6%E3%80%8D.pdf) | My scans

The main theme track in the symphonic suite is absolutely glorious and beautiful. Thank you.

Even if Abrams decided to go with something decent, can you see the execs letting it through the door?

I guess I'll play the cautious optimist's advocate here: the execs are Disney, plus parts of Lucasfilm, minus George Lucas, plus parts of Pixar. They're not going to have some guy bang his face on a xylophone for 90 minutes and run with that. The Disney side are traditionalists who're looking to build something long term that they can milk forever, which is why they spent a few billion dollars buying Star Wars. Even if something drastic and wonderful happens in copyright term reductions, they're going to own the next movie for at least 55 years. They'll take decent if they can get it. Decent is safe. They're averse to risk, not to decency. They won't hesitate to pay for a full orchestra; that cost is a drop in the bucket compared to what they're going to pay for the movie overall, and they'll be aiming for each one to push close to a billion dollars in ticket sales.

So I would think that in the "worst" case scenario, the next movie's score will be traditional and unthreatening; they'll pay for the big orchestra, and a few of Williams' themes from the older movies will show up here and there. No boats rocked, no jimmies rustled. They'll be iterative about it; if it turns out so-so for the first installment, they'll try someone else for the next. Which is still part of a "worst" case scenario since it means there wouldn't be much musical continuity through the new movies.

Best case is they hire some idiot, then facepalm over how bad the idiot's work is and hire some unknown (or lesser known) genius instead, and we get a good or even great score out of it. (which will then get used all across the franchise for decades just like Williams' themes did, because this is Disney).

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Absolutely... Medal Of Honour isn't too bad, but it's straight Williams pastiche. I don't want to be uncharitable, but the good bits of MoH are the bits that are clear attempts to emulate specific Williams scores. It makes me uncomfortable that the score that made everybody notice Giacchino will be fifteen years old by the time he comes around to scoring Star Wars - Revenge Of The Unnecessary Sequel. Giacchino hasn't written like that since the late nineties and probably can't any more... and in any case, there is no way in hell that Abrams will allow him to score a 2013 blockbuster movie the way he scored a 1999 computer game.

Anything's possible... but Giacchino just isn't that good a composer. At the beginning of his career, he managed to pull off a fun Williams potpourii with significant heavy lifting from his orchestrator and since then it's been one disappointment after another.

Tango, what do you feel about the Pixar music (mainly The Incredibles, but also Ratatouille and Up)?

Tango, what do you feel about the Pixar music (mainly The Incredibles, but also Ratatouille and Up)?

Well, obviously he's not a fan, and if he did like them, he finds them the exception, not the rule.

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Tango, what do you feel about the Pixar music (mainly The Incredibles, but also Ratatouille and Up)?

Well, obviously he's not a fan, and if he did like them, he finds them the exception, not the rule.

Norio Maeda
CRUSHER JOE

Holy crap. That is spooky. I was listening to Crusher Joe last night (the horrible circulating rip) thinking a) "Now if there's a score that I'd really love to upgrade to FLAC, it's this one" and b) I'd love to hear the OST recording again which I lost in a disc crash a few years ago and could never find again... then I turned off my computer and went to bed. An hour later I had a weird dream where I was conducting Crusher Joe in the Royal Albert Hall - I woke up, went to the loo, couldn't get back to sleep, turned on my computer, and noticed Herr Salat had posted something in this thread...

Crazy or what???

Herr Salat is a hero :)
and once again its the first time ive heard of any of this !! stuff

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Considering that this thread is now rapidly evolving into a Dream Factory, how about Gingaman Herr Salat ;)

EDIT: After today I'm sure if there will be no Star Driver movie score afterall. Because the "fabulous" piece from the trailer, along with a handfull of other tracks not in the show, are actually on the Song & Soundtrack collection. My guess is they will reuse the TV score for the movie with the few new pieces for additional scenes (the movie is a retelling of the show anyway).

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I woke up, went to the loo, couldn't get back to sleep...

Yoshihiro Kanno
CANVAS ON THE WAVE
アンサンブル・レニエ / Ensemble "Renie"?, conducted by Yoshihiro Kanno

Release Date: 25.10.1995
Label: Datam Polystar
Catalog Number: DPCX-5051



The booklet front doesn't even have the title of the soundtrack, so I included an alternate cover, booklet page 1, where the title actually appears.

This soundtrack to a NHK documentary, I think, is like Yoshihiro Kanno's other spookingly unspooky and warm Aspirazione e Sogni di Firenze (Thread 124167). According to the booklet, the performance is credited to "アンサンブル・レニエ / Ansanburu Renie". Conductor is Yoshihiro Kanno himself. After I searched for that performance group, I found it's the same group performing on the Aspirazione e Sogni di Firenze album (https://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/firentsu-eno-mengto-chongre/id324042232). That's probably conducted by Kanno, too. Not that I would have doubted considering his caliber.

Track names not romanized/translated. Just wanted to post this after reading Tango couldn't sleep last night. Listening to this helps, I think. Sleep well! :'D

Here's the theme music track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH5f6Ap2DUc

DOWNLOAD
http://www.adrive.com/public/7w4jWK

Okay, so I am going to be jumping somewhat late into the discussion, but I feel as a simple matter of necessity.

YOU GUYS ARE NUTS

There, I said it. When I read that JJ Abrams was going to direct the new Star Wars, I could never have been more excited. I could not imagine a better fit for Star Wars. Abrams’ style of directing is the perfect complement to the original trilogy. Look at his stories – they have that perfect balance of character development and bombastic action that made the Original Trilogy what they were. Look at the newest Star Trek – it was in so many ways a Star Wars film! Some had even joked it was Star Wars with blasters. That film had the winning formula of character interaction and crowd pleasing films.
And what about Super 8? That was such a good film, and it did not rely on over the top action scenes like in Star Trek. It was about the story, the characters that mattered. Abrams has that way of knowing how to please people without making them leave their brains at the door.

Well, most of it at least. He is not trying to be Terrance Malick here, and that is just fine! His movies are deeply complex affairs – and that is perfectly fine! They are complex enough for the audience to be drawn into the films and then we get over the top action. And that’s fine! We need pulp in our lives, along with the complex, profound films. A healthy artistic diet is a balanced diet after all.

And even if Abrams isn’t the most complex director, Star Wars is not exactly the most complex intellectual property out there. It is space opera every step of the way. If there was anything profound about it it would have airdropped in from better science fiction. But what it is would be defined as emotional. And that is the perfect fit for Abrams. Hell, the only time Star Wars got complex was when Obsidian Entertainment got their hands on Knights of the Old Republic II – and that is where arguably 80% of all Star Wars’ intelligence comes from.

And if I can be a little bit more honest here – KOTOR II was the best thing to ever emerge from Star Wars. It was about we had some moral ambiguity, and praise Chris Avellone for finally saying that maybe, JUST MAYBE, the Force is not a power for good after all. But now I am rambling.

So let me get back on topic here. Or, rather get the prologue out of the way for the real meat of the discussion: WHAT IS UP WITH ALL OF THE GIACCHINO HATE?

I mean, what the heck guys? Here we have the possibility of having someone who is the last, popular composer that strictly composes in the classical style, and I see is nothing but hate on the guy? I could understand it if we are talking about him pre John Carter – a composer who has a good heads on his shoulders but has a big trouble with themes – but after John Carter? Come on people! John Carter was fantastic! And even with the poor use of great themes, Star Trek was pretty rocking too! This man is a self declared John Williams fanatic – his work on Super 8 all but declared himself as such. Why would we want anyone else? I mean, maybe if we could bring Goldsmith back from the grave. And Hirano would be great too. And Lennie Moore. But Giacchino is a fantastic choice! A wonderful choice!

Tango, I don’t get your criticisms of Giacchino’s Medal of Honor. Those were fantastic; absolutely superb, if you don’t mind me going all fan boy here. I could not remember a note of Williams’ Saving Private Ryan, good as it was. Medal of Honor is imprinted on my skull. The music is recognizable, and it works so very well. Yes it was written in the Willaims style, but it is also freshly Giacchino as well.

So, I guess what I am saying is…you guys are all nuts. Seriously. The glass isn’t half full. It’s not empty. It’s not contaminated with poison. Disney has put the nozzle of a hose in it and has unleashed the water.
I’ll be there opening night. I’ll buy the soundtrack day one.

And this is coming from a guy that thinks Star Wars is way too overrated for it’s own good.

P.S.: I love you guys, I really do. No hate intended with this rant. But you are all being way too pessimistic here. This is the very best thing that could happen to Star Wars in a long, long time. It will be good to see Mark Hammil on screen again. He could use a deprive from the Joker after all.
P.SS.: Here's something useful I found for those of us that are not quite so proficent in classical music terminology. Someone made a little graph with all sorts of definitions and stuff.

You see, the thing I really, REALLY love about this thread is that we can disagree with each other (occasionally vehemently) and at the same time remain respectful and friendly to each other. :)

A long, rambling rebuttal coming up shortly. ;)

if you don't beat my word count Tango, I am going to rub that in your face forever.

FOREVER.

You were warned.

OK, here goes.

You have farty pants.

Beat that. :awsm: