Tetsujin volume 1 didn't really grab me, too jazzy for my tastes. But thanks for posting volume 2 :)

Haha! Four minutes of the album were jazz...!

Either way, glad it's out there now... didn't cost me much either as they were the US versions which usually go dirt cheap... almost losing the bastard things in the mail aside, a successful transaction! :)

It couldn't be that easy!

Oh! My apologies... ;)

FIVE HOURS? Fucking hell. This music is shit! Where's the orchestra? 90% of this is ambient trash! You suck! 630mb download? Sod that!

Better? ;)

Well the jazz part is all I remember. It certainly has a bit of a different sound to it that I didn't really feel but I'm not revisiting it again to give a more detailed critique because I deleted it. ;)

Oh! My apologies... ;)

FIVE HOURS? Fucking hell. This music is shit! Where's the orchestra? 90% of this is ambient trash! You suck! 630mb download? Sod that!

Better? ;)

WIN.

:erm: he looks oddly more British now...

Considering he was British to begin with...

He is probably shitting the Queen now.

http://www.geekextreme.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Gif-Queen-Elizabeth-II-Giving-Finger.gif

;)

JOE HISAISHI
Symphonic Suite
NEO HEROIC FANTASIA
ARION
New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Joe Hisaishi (Piano)
Conducted by Katsuaki Nakatani

FLAC | 6 Movements | 00:39:53 | 192 MB

Original Release Date: 25.04.1986
Release Date: 25.01.1996
Label: Tokuma Japan Communications
Catalog Number: TKCA-70800



1. First Movement
2. Second Movement
3. Third Movement
4. Fourth Movement: Lesfeena's Song
5. Fifth Movement
6. Sixth Movement

VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/19093)


A score of truly epic sweep here for an anime painted on a similarly broad canvas. The main theme is classic Hisashi - soaring and wistful - heard most gorgeously singing over a bed of churning strings. Each track is like a little suite of contrasted sections, with many different kinds of music, but all united into a smooth whole [How does JH do this? It's all so accomplished, with lyricism and crucial telling details in the orchestration, yet it sounds so simple!]. I think you'll find this one grows with repeated listening. Also recommend the movie very strongly. Some beautiful art and character design and a story filled with incident, based on classical mythology, with plenty of those quasi-avant garde touches that make the best anime so strange and so special.



Thanks to the original uploader! A higher quality scan of the cover, with the obi though (), was included in the archive I downloaded. So here's the watermarked scan of the black and white 1986 vinyl cover: i.imgur.com/musWrFD.jpg (), and obi and watermark removed, wonkily: i.imgur.com/1pnCzaS.jpg () :'D

DOWNLOAD
https://mega.nz/#!NttWFQSQ!GHI4vj2KSiwoHaTqpXIWyhtgSrhvKbzBM9RA7MLqumI

http://www.geekextreme.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Gif-Queen-Elizabeth-II-Giving-Finger.gif

;)

Fuck YEAH!

So, uh guys...

Brian Tyler to Score ?Thor: The Dark World? | Film Music Reporter (http://filmmusicreporter.com/2013/06/18/brian-tyler-to-score-thor-the-dark-world/)

This is the best update I imagine we could expect. Tyler did an awesome job with Iron Man 3, and represents the best fusion of classical orchestra and modern music. If The Dark World achieves the same scale of quality as Iron Man 3, then we might expect the Marvel films to have a decent progression in musical quality after The Incredible Hulk and Captain America.

Hi, I'm just reposting some of my posts from the "Lossless Video Game Soundrtack Thread v2" for the classical listener. For file extraction, I would recommend using 7-Zip (http://www.7-zip.org/).

Destiny: Dreamer's ALLIANCE
Again not my rip, but something which should be in every fan's collection.

VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/5696)
Make sure to include ".001" in the first file before extraction.
ADD.7z (http://www.mediafire.com/download/eejq731qr1zjwxp/ADD.7z)
ADD.7z.002 (http://www.mediafire.com/download/xcqol2nn37yn1nm/ADD.7z.002)


EBCD-0001 | PRESS START The 5th Anniversary (Re-Up)
Not my rip, but then again, like what I said on the Destiny: Dreamer's ALLIANCE, this album too should be in every fan's collection, right next to every orchestrally arrange album and live video game orchestra concert.
No scans, but it has a log and two cue files, but don't use either one of the cue files, as the files will not be seperate once if you use or the other and it will be fine once you view them on a file viewing program like Foobar2000.

VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/20629)
Make sure to include ".001" in the first part of the album before extraction.
PS5thA.7z (http://www.mediafire.com/download/iydmakpplibndh6/PS5thA.7z)
PS5thA.7z.002 (http://www.mediafire.com/download/987ycm6c27yeome/PS5thA.7z.002)

For a more thorugh review on "Press Start: the 5th Anniversary", read Patrick Gann's Review at RPGFan Music:

RPGFan Music - PRESS START The 5th Anniversary (http://www.rpgfan.com/soundtracks/pressstart-5th/index.html).


GAME MUSIC CONCERT LIVE: THE BEST SELECTION COLLECTION(Not related to the albums, just the set itself.)

Again, these are not my rips, but the albums are something which should be lossless for listener's sake; for that reason alone, these albums do have the cue file, the log and the scans.


Be Sure to include ".001" in the first file of each album before extraction.


WPCL-560 | Game Music Concert -The Best Selection-

VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/877)
GMC I.7z (http://www.mediafire.com/download/ydsco35iaz8tssx/GMC_I.7z)
GMC I.7z.002 (http://www.mediafire.com/download/3oh4opbr5crvt1o/GMC_I.7z.002)

WPCL-709 | Game Music Concert 2 -The Best Selection-

VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/878)
GMC II.7z (http://www.mediafire.com/download/z4s79qip14sbj0w/GMC_II.7z)
GMC II.7z.002 (http://www.mediafire.com/download/84j5cbsc71asguh/GMC_II.7z.002)

SRCL-2732 | Game Music Concert 3 -

VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/879)
GMC III.7z (http://www.mediafire.com/download/56z2u1blcd4c254/GMC_III.7z)
GMC III.7z.002 (http://www.mediafire.com/download/xqvs5rvv597y40n/GMC_III.7z.002)

SRCL-2736 | Game Music Concert 4 -Live Best Collection-

VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/880)
GMC IV.7z (http://www.mediafire.com/download/fbiqbmas89cl51y/GMC_IV.7z)
GMC IV.7z.002 (http://www.mediafire.com/download/vzpvb1cpblqi16y/GMC_IV.7z.002)

SRCL-2739 | Game Music Concert 5 -Live Best Collection-

VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/881)
GMC V.7z (http://www.mediafire.com/download/0d1zb8cush4yjr7/GMC_V.7z)
GMC V.7z.002 (http://www.mediafire.com/download/hb27tkfsjxkuwkk/GMC_V.7z.002)

My comment on the Game Music Concert Series:

These albums are not the first to actually tackle the job of translating video game chiptones to orchestra; Falcom did it first with the Symphony Ys & Sorcerian albums, and the Falcom Special Box '89: Orchestra Version Mini Disc, with all three said albums performed by the King Symphonic Orchestra, but that was with one single composer-conglomerate group for a company and one orchestra; here there are are mutilple Composers from different game companies participating for concerts and various different orchestras performing the arranged works, with the first album being a recording from the first live concert of it's type. I enjoyed all these albums and I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.


NineEyes9Nines

Interesting. I am not familiar with Press Start 5th Anniversary. Should be worth checking out. As for Destiny Dreamer's Alliance, I was hugely disappointed. I am a huge fan of Hitoshi Sakimoto's work but I didn't find it particularly engaging at all. I would have enjoyed it more if it was a full orchestra (as many of Hitoshi Sakimoto's scores really do need to be recorded with full orchestra at some point).

NineEyes9Nines, regarding the Game Music Concert albums, tango has shared his remastered version of the first album. I couldn't download it, though, since it was shared in 2010 and the links are all down. Maybe someone else still has it :'D

#5650 (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/226.html#post1500140)


The recording itself is atrocious (most notably on the first concert, but all five have their own problems) - midrange heavy, boxy, unnatural, muddy, and flat.

Should I not bother asking why a bear is riding what looks like Terminator Abe Lincoln or why Tango is now sporting a stache and monocle?

I'm not sure I understand myself... just going with the flow at the moment. ;)

In other news, NO CUSTOMS CHARGE on my latest CDJapan order, which I am now holding excitedly in my greasy mitts. What could they possibly be?

Well, one of them is a certain hotly anticipated Hirano score... FANTASTIC MUSIC, disturbingly well-recorded, but too sodding short... A few highlights to whet your appetite for the main upload-fest this evening... Ladies and gentlemen, TANKEN DRILAND! That real musicians made it into this idiotic show at all is a miracle... that there's a full orchestra and chorus is a miracle... that Hirano scored it is a miracle... that he scored it in this style is a miracle. That he got away with scoring an astoundingly dumb kiddy anime made for no reason other than to sell crappy over-priced trading cards in this style AND managed to get a soundtrack release... is the miracle of all miracles. Yes, the cues are short... and yes, the orchestra session was not particularly long (15-20 minutes?) but there is so much greatness here, even packed into 65 second cues...

Probably the highlights, ironically, would be some of the more intimate chamber pieces... Hirano channels (well, OK, rips off... but gorgeously) Ravel in "In A Dream" with a delicious Nocturne for strings, sax, and piano... Yep, it's a thinly cloaked abbreviation of Ravel's Piano Concerto In G... but it's so beautiful... and remember the trashy TV show this music is playing in...

"Warmth" is a beautifully warm rendition of the main theme for Piano, cello, and violin. This guy does more with three instruments than most other composers can do with 100.

DRILAND SAMPLES: http://www.mediafire.com/?cd2g8rdqo87ktj6

Additionally, we have a two-disc brand new anime score (this year)... the show is UTTERLY TERRIBLE BEYOND ALL HOPE OF REDEMPTION. Complete and utter cock from start to finish. Would you know it from the score? I doubt it... No clues at all for this one... Just have a listen... ;)

MYSTERY SCORE: http://www.mediafire.com/?417q51g74j19918

Should I now be concerned that the Japanese film The Silver Season, otherwise known as The Season on Snow scored by Naoki Sato might not be a good film after all? Black Lagoon turned out to be my top favourite anime next to Evangelion, Jin-Roh has become one of me favourite action/thriller films. I sure wish bloody Netflix had a better international section. Not paying $50 for the BLuRay from CDJapan on a whim, that's for damn sure.

First short glimpse of Hisaishi's music for Kaze Tachinu perhaps?

??????????????TV???????? - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5teNe-Z9hlE&feature=player_embedded)

Edit: Btw, The engine noise in the footage might sound weird to some because "for the fighter plane engine sound effects, they've decided to employ a technique of recording effects produced by human vocals." lol

Additionally, we have a two-disc brand new anime score (this year)... the show is UTTERLY TERRIBLE BEYOND ALL HOPE OF REDEMPTION. Complete and utter cock from start to finish. Would you know it from the score? I doubt it... No clues at all for this one... Just have a listen... ;)

MYSTERY SCORE: mystery score.mp3 (http://www.mediafire.com/?417q51g74j19918)
Beast Saga is quite unexpected.


First short glimpse of Hisaishi's music for Kaze Tachinu perhaps?
Nah, according to ANN the trailer music is by mandolinist Tadashi Aoyama.

How'd you guess that? :P

How'd you guess that? :P
Well it happens to be the only 2CD anime soundtrack from 2013 that's orchestral and hasn't shown up in this thread.

...and I listened to the samples somewhat recently.

Nah, according to ANN the trailer music is by mandolinist Tadashi Aoyama.That's what I get for not reading up on things!

Since Ravel's Piano Concerto was mentioned and because I meant to upload this a few days ago...


S. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3
M. Ravel: Piano Concerto in G, Gaspard de la nuit
FLAC|9 TRACKS~70:50

Not My Rip

Martha Argerich
Claudio Abbado/Berlin Philharmoniker

http://boxset.ru/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/argerich_abbado_prokofiev_ravel_piano_concertos.jp g

Coincidentally, I was listening to this disc for good four hours yesterday, re-discovering each work each time I looped the disc. In short, absolutely exhilarating performance of both concertos. Piano Concerto in G is a jazzy departure from other Ravel pieces - it was composed after Ravel's American tour during which Ravel met Gershwin! Ravel's solo piano work Gaspard de la nuit is included as a bonus (the real highlight here IMO). Argerich's reading of Ondine is just amazing. It feels like real "water music" and the climactic cascade is so magical (maybe a tad bit fast) that I probably have listened to this at least 20 times before moving onto Le Gibet. It's too bad she hasn't recorded Ravel's entire piano oeuvre (unsubtle fanboy-ism, yes). :(

The recording is from 1965 but fear not, it is remastered extremely well by DG. This should be a real treat for those who are at least a bit interested in classical music.

As a side note, I had to postpone my purchase of Tanken Driland because of a recent audio gear upgrade and other film music discs I bought. Will be looking forward to your generous upload, tango. :D

DOWNLOAD: https://mega.co.nz/#!dBwExa4b!JrX72A6MPW9czaF08-r0qzzvtO852clCSey349gslN4

Enjoy. :)

TARO IWASHIRO - GARGANTIA ON THE VERDUROUS PLANET ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
320K MP3 | SCANS | 261.8 MB | 49 TRACKS - 01:52:33
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Taro Iwashiro


VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/38745)
Catalog Number: LACA-9293~4
Release Date: June 26, 2013

Tracklist

Disc 1 - Orchestral Works
01 ようこそ!ガルガンティアへ [2:24]
02 明日に捧げる聖戦 [2:11]
03 前の前に進め [2:26]
04 汚れなき祈りと共に [2:12]
05 難航の重圧下 [2:16]
06 母なる海に [2:09]
07 戦い、さらなる闘い [2:29]
08 我、虚空の将なり [2:19]
09 宿敵難敵強敵 [2:13]
10 疾走の船団 [2:28]
11 思慕記 [2:31]
12 潜思の輪郭 [2:24]
13 高まる決意 [2:01]
14 新たなる暁光 [2:20]
15 脅威と敵陣の狭間で [2:02]
16 反撃からの起死回生 [2:14]
17 進撃攻撃追撃 [2:16]
18 急襲来襲敵襲 [2:19]
19 海風よ、海原よ [2:12]
20 悲哀悲愴悲劇 [2:31]
21 抗戦準備令 [2:09]
22 群敵の陣 [2:01]
23 風波が舞う [2:22]
24 予兆前兆 [2:04]
25 逃避航行 [1:51]
26 理想郷夢想郷 [2:05]
27 出撃快進 [2:14]
28 愛しき日々の光と風と海 [2:01]
29 心深き乙女のままに [2:15]

Disc 2 - Chamber Works
01 帆走の船団 [2:23]
02 洗濯日和 [2:09]
03 日々、人々 [2:06]
04 祝・大漁 [2:15]
05 祝祭幻舞 [1:36]
06 少女の瞳子 [2:21]
07 閉ざされた真実の扉 [2:26]
08 夕闇の刻印 [2:16]
09 迷宮幻郷ノ図 [2:35]
10 無頼流麗 [2:13]
11 祝宴の幕切れ [1:57]
12 限りなく透明な時間 [2:33]
13 童景抄 [2:11]
14 黄昏の調べ [2:09]
15 夕凪 [2:14]
16 心深き乙女のままに (オカリナ編) [1:48]
17 悲しみの波紋 [2:51]
18 孤独の向こう側 [2:38]
19 ガルガンティアよ、永遠に [2:24]
20 祝祭乱舞 [4:03]


Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!gZdwjABC!RHI-lUq5XPaWgFc4XkKw0Ba1AEgiQopZntaQukXlfNA

I haven't listened to this yet but this anime has easily had some of the best music so far this year. Disc 1 is labelled as Orchestral Works and Disc 2 is labelled as Chamber Works.

Expect lossless + English translated tracklist soon, probably (not from me).

I always get the vibe that Iwashiro doesn't know how to come up with a melody. Some tracks are okay, but I'm left very underwhelmed by this score (and almost every other Iwashiro work). Even the okay tracks sound pretty mono-rhythmic and predictable. And why does the Tokyo Philharmonic sound so claustrophobic here?... Sorry about the negativity - I'm still thankful for the upload, of course.

On the plus side, that looks like a fun tracklist to translate. :D

*sigh*

What a waste of an expensive orchestral session... Much gratitude for the upload, of course, but this is just about as terrible as I could've ever expected, even with awareness of what sort of composer Iwashiro actually is (a crappy one)... themeless, monotonous, badly orchestrated, poorly recorded.

Imagine if they'd taken this budget and this series and given it to Yamashita, Oshima, Sahashi, Hirano, or Souhei Kano... we could've ended up with the score of the decade... and instead we have another bass-heavy, melody-light, percussion-intrusive, Iwashiro dirge that sounds like it was recorded inside a Coke can.

Seriously... why would you give a project with this sort of money available to Iwashiro? A man who has almost no idea how to handle an orchestra or write a melody? The mind boggles...

Well...I have a "soundtrack related upload" that I am certain everyone here will unironically love.

As for a hint.. DW 2010.

EDIT: Aw hell. Either you lot are all clueless or are too lazy to even take a whack at it. Lame.

I present to you...Doctor Who at the BBC Proms 2010!

https://mega.co.nz/#!GAoD1I7C!Q5LYNQ15BE1rVqYRSeHrejxKRlAWDULZY3ZIeEa _JFE

The last time that Doctor Who music was performed for the proms was 2010 - and I have no idea why, because watching this was a hell lot of fun. The program intermixed completly orchestral suite arrangements of themes from the third, fourth and fifth seasons with classical pieces. I cut out the classical pieces from this rip.

We start off with "The Mad Man With a Box", which I think is the Doctor's theme for the fifth season. That is followed by another fifth season cue, "Down to Earth" and "I Am the Doctor". Then we get a litte something called "Symphony of the Daleks", which is honestly just a suite of "Victory of the Daleks" and "Battle in the Sky". BUT Victory of the Daleks gets a nice chorus to accompany it, and it makes one wonder why Gold didn't put that in the original piece because it works so damn well here.

The next two pieces, "The Theme of Amy Pond" and "Liz, Lizards, Vampires and Vincent" are the last season five cues. I know for a fact that "Liz" is a suite made up partially out of "The Vampires of Venice", but I am not sure about "Amy Pond".

"The Regeneration of the Doctor" is essentially made up of two pieces, from two different seasons. The first half if "Galofrey - Our Childhood, Our Home" while the second is Vale Decim from the Season 4 specials. (Does that count as being part of season 2? I don't know. Brit television is damn complicated.) The show concludes with "The Pandoric Suite" and "Epilogue: The Theme of Doctor Who."

At the end of the day, this is a nice summation of Doctor Who season 5, with some nods to 3 and 4 when appropriate. If you have never heard of Doctor Who this is a good opportunity for you to get acquainted.

In the old tradition of King Arthierr (just as tangotreats and Doublehex just recently did), guess what this is from. Or rather who the composer is (not sure if his style is particularly recognizable or not). Japanese score from 1990. The music is like this, "worse" than Sentai scores with even 6 or 7 cues in one. And it only has 4 tracks total...Lalala, Driland (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/501.html#post2382208) for the win! :'D


:o (http://kiwi6.com/file/8x3adb9053)

Herr Salat: What a lovely score... no idea AT ALL who or what it is, though...!!! Any clues? The style sounds vaguely familiar, almost like it's a very early outing for somebody we now know quite well...???

How about a patented Tango triple bill? :D



KOICHIRO KAMEYAMA
Beast Saga (Volumes 1 and 2)
Studio Orchestra
conductor uncredited



Both CDs in one pack, with booklet scans and LOGs. My rip at FLAC Level 8. Track titles in Romaji.

https://mega.co.nz/#!EwInBDwB!IJbZaE28dA2xhiTLvL42URKBMmcoIkHhpHB92r9 DKMQ

Here's surprise score of 2013, without a doubt. Let me introduce Beast Saga; it's one of those runaway Japanese franchises that starts off as something relatively innocuous and ends up becoming lunchboxes, comics, TV shows, games, trading cards, comics, concerts, restaurants, statues, plastic toys, and Christ-knows what else. On a distant planet called "Beast" (wow, imaginative) common animals have undergone a miraculous evolutionary change - ie, now they can talk. They have divided into three tribes of beasts - the Sea Tribe, the Land Tribe, and the Sky Tribe. They busy themselves by stuffing their faces full of food, and chattering mindlessly about how great their kingdoms are... and when they're bored with that, they beat the living daylights out of their rival tribes whilst prancing around theatrically showing off their ludicrously colourful merchandising armour. Still with me?

So, even by Japanese cash-cow franchise standards, this thing is pretty terrible.

For reasons I will never understand, somebody had the bright idea of giving this distinctly dodgy show a completely serious orchestral score, just like they've been known to do every now and again in Japan... and what a surprisingly good score it is! Kameyama hadn't been on my radar before... but he certainly is, now. Blessed with a surprisingly well-stocked orchestra, if a little thin on the woodwind front (four trumpets, four horns, four trombones, flute, oboe, and a full string compliment - the ever reliable Masatsugu Shinozaki group) he ends up turning in a very tuneful, melodic, brassy-as-hell adventure score. It has something of a 1960s vibe at times, with some very Batman-esque "ZAP! POW! SPLAT!" style brass slides... and a very good number of straight orchestral cues amongst them. There is also a very good indeed fake chorus in a handful of cues which is ridiculously well done, particularly for a Japanese TV score.

Additionally, as a point of interest, the percussion instruments are all fake as well. Not that I'm thrilled about hybrid scores, but lesson one of saving money is that if you absolutely have to the percussion players should be the first to go - piano, cymbals, snares, timpani, bass drum, etc - and also the harpist can go as well. Sorry, Tomoyuki Asakawa. If it comes down to chosing between somebody to play the cymbals and somebody to play the flute, or throwing away the timpani for another trumpet, etc... bring on the samples. Percussion instruments are easy to sample and they sound just fine. Well mixed and matched with the hall acoustic they blend in excellently; basically, you can't tell - and if you can tell, it's not distracting. This score, and Driland, are both prime examples of what can be done with not-very-much money if you prioritise.

A note about track translations; I did made a number of abortive attempts and decided to give up when I realised I'd actually have to watch this dreadful show to make sense of it all. It's ludicrous. Getting the translation right requires knowing what these crazy animal bastards are all called... as well as decoding all the English -> Katakana -> English (MEIN TEEMU FURU ORUKAESUTURARU!!!! MADU FAITO BEASTURU DESUISIVURU BATTORU!!!!, etc) crap - and frankly, life's too short. If somebody wants to try, they're more than welcome... but it's not a game for me. Romaji transliteration shamelessly stolen off CDjapan's page.

YOSHIHISA HIRANO
Tanken Driland - 1000-nen no Mahou
Studio Orchestra
conducted by Yoshihisa Hirano



My rip at FLAC Level 8. Booklet scans and LOG included. Track titles in English - my translation.

https://mega.co.nz/#!YxJkVT5B!aoWEiVSnlSK25l3Lw4rU_XtbFpxtD0XZqVQRT7r 7RcY

Not much to say, here... It's Hirano, it's GREAT, GET IT NOW.

FANTASTIC MUSIC, disturbingly well-recorded, but too sodding short... Ladies and gentlemen, TANKEN DRILAND! That real musicians made it into this idiotic show at all is a miracle... that there's a full orchestra and chorus is a miracle... that Hirano scored it is a miracle... that he scored it in this style is a miracle. That he got away with scoring an astoundingly dumb kiddy anime made for no reason other than to sell crappy over-priced trading cards in this style AND managed to get a soundtrack release... is the miracle of all miracles. Yes, the cues are short... and yes, the orchestra session was not particularly long (15-20 minutes?) but there is so much greatness here, even packed into 65 second cues...

Probably the highlights, ironically, would be some of the more intimate chamber pieces... Hirano channels (well, OK, rips off... but gorgeously) Ravel in "In A Dream" with a delicious Nocturne for strings, sax, and piano... Yep, it's a thinly cloaked abbreviation of Ravel's Piano Concerto In G... but it's so beautiful... and remember the trashy TV show this music is playing in...

"Warmth" is a beautifully warm rendition of the main theme for Piano, cello, and violin. This guy does more with three instruments than most other composers can do with 100.

Enjoy!

.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAH Tomoyuki Asakawa! :D :D :D :D

I'm listening to Tanken Driland right now and it's superb. EVEN with the tracks being as short as they are, this has to be one of Hirano's best yet... and to think it's for some silly kids anime that almost no one watched! It seriously makes me wonder why Hirano didn't do something like this for Hunter x Hunter, which is undoubtedly the biggest anime he's worked on to date aside from Death Note.

Thanks for sharing, tango.

And now for what I'm sure you've all been waiting for...


HIROYUKI SAWANO - ATTACK ON TITAN ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
320K MP3 | 169.5 MB | 16 TRACKS - 01:17:28
Studio Orchestra


VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/38626)
Catalog Number: PCCG-01351
Release Date: June 28, 2013

Tracklist
01 ətˈ�k 0N tάɪtn
02 The Reluctant Heroes
03 eye-water
04 立body機motion
05 c�unter・att�ck-mˈ�nkάɪnd
06 army⇒G♂
07 Vogel im K�fig
08 DOA
09 凸】♀】♂】←巨人
10 E・M・A
11 巨♀～9地区
12 Baukl�tze
13 2chi城
14 XL-TT
15 Call your name
16 omake-pfadlib

Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!BA0TkLCB!SkuFcWnwVFvdMka7GdcY7AD0x9ler_Y_3PcKW2S Rr60

Yeah, it's Sawano, you know what to expect. Like it or hate it. I can at least say this is better than his last two soundtracks.

Oh shit, these are all out already. Happy happy day.

That is the most batshit crazy tracklist I have ever seen.

I love it.

(I still call it March of the Giants. Attack on Titan is Engrishy as hell.)

*sigh*

What a waste of an expensive orchestral session... Much gratitude for the upload, of course, but this is just about as terrible as I could've ever expected, even with awareness of what sort of composer Iwashiro actually is (a crappy one)... themeless, monotonous, badly orchestrated, poorly recorded.

Imagine if they'd taken this budget and this series and given it to Yamashita, Oshima, Sahashi, Hirano, or Souhei Kano... we could've ended up with the score of the decade... and instead we have another bass-heavy, melody-light, percussion-intrusive, Iwashiro dirge that sounds like it was recorded inside a Coke can.

Seriously... why would you give a project with this sort of money available to Iwashiro? A man who has almost no idea how to handle an orchestra or write a melody? The mind boggles...

Tango show him how it's done, you're still working at music composition correct?

That is the most batshit crazy tracklist I have ever seen.

I love it.

(I still call it March of the Giants. Attack on Titan is Engrishy as hell.)

That track listing pretty much sums up Sawano for me: A bunch of flashy bullshit that doesn't mean anything; not able or willing to eloquently convey an idea so relies on noise and "quirk" to distract. It's all about the brand, and the style... but underneath it there is no substance.

This is coming from somebody who generally despises Sawano but is enjoying this score in a very basic, brain-switched-off, big-dumb-noisy-fun-stupid kinda way... :)

Gah as tempted as i am to let my ears gasm from the Sawano goodness i think I'll wait till i get my copy first. Not surprisingly this particular album is on the top 5 most popular albums this week (at least on cdjapan). Considering most animation soundtracks don't even get close to that point i'd say that says quite a bit ;).

First of all thanks for all these new scores. I'm interested in checking out Attack on Titan and Tango's two shares.

I really am not sure exactly what the complaints are about Gargantia. I thought it was pretty solid even though it is lacking in a core theme to bring it together. A good solid action score with some nice emotional cues. Similarly, I actually like Djawadi's score to Pacific Rim. It manages to sound balanced for once and really delivers a solid sound. I hope that it signals a change in style for big composers overall.

A big YES to the unknown Asakawa album,, Mr. Salat. :D

And massive thanks for the triple pack, tango. Hopefully I'll have time to listen through them all today.

That track listing pretty much sums up Sawano for me: A bunch of flashy bullshit that doesn't mean anything; not able or willing to eloquently convey an idea so relies on noise and "quirk" to distract. It's all about the brand, and the style... but underneath it there is no substance.

This is coming from somebody who generally despises Sawano but is enjoying this score in a very basic, brain-switched-off, big-dumb-noisy-fun-stupid kinda way... :)

Wait, what's this? Tango's getting soft! Call the presses! Tango likes Sawano! He likes Sawano! Selective quote the hell out of him!


Thanks for the 2 (technically 3) uploads Tango. I'll get around to them after I get off my Company of Heroes 2/Pacific Rim cycle.

YUGO KANNO - GALILEO � MIDSUMMER FORMULA ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
320K MP3 | 140.1 MB | 23 TRACKS - 01:16:15
Studio Orchestra


Catalog Number: UPCH-1936
Release Date: June 05, 2013

Tracklist
1. ガリレオの苦悩
2. 物理学科第十三研究室~理系クン
3. 幻惑す
4. 探偵ガリレオ
5. 透視す
6. 偽装う
7. 演技る
8. 心聴る
9. ガリレオの苦悩 ~Ballad Version~
10. 光る海原
11. 宝の番人
12. 水晶の海
13. ソナチネ ~Piano Version~
14. 不吉な使者
15. Horizon
16. 謎の死
17. 絡み合った秘密
18. 憎むべき真実
19. 夏も終わり
20. 進むべき道
21. 水晶の海~いつもあなたのそばに~
22. ひとりぼっちじゃない
23. ソナチネ

Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!dIsjXDCR!DZ-fJEnYBY0AcJ6kUhhWCWN0nI8y5swPA3FHnQ2JzS0

This is two soundtracks in one if I'm not mistaken. Main theme is nice but I'm sure that goes without saying since this is Yugo Kanno.

Ah, I love you! I wanted this one badly but I had to regrettably leave it off my CDjapan order because I'm a bit skint right now...

So, thank you, thank you, thank you! :D

Midsummer Formula is a side-story theatrical spinoff of Galileo. :)

Oh and in other news, AURA's soundtrack is confirmed to be included with the limited edition blu-ray. This also means we will be getting a soundtrack for Hal since from it's the same publisher.

Hahaha! The good news just keeps on coming! Now we much hope for... Patema Patema Patema PATEMA PATEMA PATEMA PATEMA PATEMA PATEMA!!!!!!!!!!

I see (thanks again!) that Gyrozetter is getting a 2 CD release as well... And Senju's Valvrave... and hopefully Majestic Prince if your spidey sense is correct (I pray that it is...!)

Is it just me, or is the tide turning back, even a little bit?

So, I did a little review (http://www.chaosinferred.com/personal/ostreviews/2013/06/27/pacific-rim-2013/) for Pacific Rim.

Give me your thoughts on it - not just opinions, but on the review itself. This is No.2 for me, and I know for a fact that I have room to grow.

Ahh lovely! Yugo Kanno in full orchestral mode! Many thanks!

EDIT: Of course I spoke too soon. Plenty of filler junk tracks I'll have to cut out. Still awesome though.

I don't think I have come across a Yugo Kanno album that doesn't need cutting... Somebody should make a suite out of only his intricate main themes only (and have it performed by a BIG orchestra). That would be quite a seller. :D

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Yugo Kanno - Wings of the Kirin (Edited)

Orchestral|Action

Download (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/7S5LRXNU/Wings_of_the_Kirin.rar_links)
With all the talk about the editing that is needed for Yugo Kanno scores, I present an edited version of a score I found quite enjoyable. I didn't save the full score but it works so much better like this.

That's a shame. Thanks for the upload. Call me when you have the unedited one.

TOKYO KOSEI WIND ORCHESTRA - BRABAN AKB48!
256K M4A | 124.2 MB | 15 TRACKS - 01:03:38
Conducted by Ichiro Saito


Catalog Number: KICC-1085
Release Date: June 12, 2013

Tracklist
01 ブラバンAKB48!スペシャルメドレー
02 チャンスの順番
03 言い訳Maybe
04 Beginner
05 ギンガムチェック
06 真夏のSounds good!
07 フライングゲット
08 桜の栞
09 ヘビーローテーション
10 Everyday、カチューシャ
11 風は吹いている
12 大声ダイヤモンド
13 GIVE ME FIVE!
14 桜の木になろう
15 ポニーテールとシュシュ

Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!oR8hkCAK!UrM6Gk-xKmlohaT9nSEq3lEY6u5DYMtIOfese9dA2NM

Last year we got orchestral AKB48, this year we get brass band AKB48. Track 1 is a 9 minute medley arranged by Masamichi Amano. It's a fun little album.

Score composed & arranged by
Tomoyuki ASAKAWA
THE FIVE STAR STORIES
(1989 film, dir. Haruki Kadokawa (https://archive.fo/kNaIy))

Studio orchestra (F.S.S. Orchestra), Japan;
organist (track 7 "Destiny"), and conductor uncredited

Release Date: 08.03.1989
Published by: Victor Musical Industries
Catalog Number: VDR-1590
Format: CD



Album review in Japanese by Amasawa (https://archive.fo/QShJe)

<hr>

Untouched files from the source. Romanized tags, English translation from DYNAKYRIS included.

Sources: FLAC from Van. (BakaBT) (https://web.archive.org/web/20111124153954/http://bakabt.me/155220-the-five-star-stories-original-soundtrack.html) / Scans from VGMdb (Cedille, Daemonskald)

---FLAC + Scans (203 MB)---
<TT>MediaFire (http://links.snahp.it/831_80sHair)</TT> | Password: HoldTheeePhone

...

Score composed / Vocal tracks arranged by
Tomoyuki ASAKAWA
JUNGLE EMPEROR LEO
(1989 Series)

Columbia Orchestra (Studio orchestra, Japan), conductor uncredited

Cues compiled into suites

Release Date: 01.08.1990
Published by: Nippon Columbia
Catalog Number: COCC-6534



"Symphonic Suite"
1st Suite "At the Forest of Peace"
2nd Suite "Present-Day Africa"
3rd Suite "Invasion of Paradise"
4th Suite "The End, And to Dawn"

English tracklist taken from the VGMdb entry.

There's also another soundtrack release called Symphonic Fantasy (Thread 190746) shared by Kanyenda.

<hr>

Source: Personal collection. Rip and booklet scans by me.

FLAC + Log + Scans (422 MB)
https://anon.click/dubeg40 (https://anon.click/dubeg40)
(MediaFire Behind Capcha)

So much new music lately.... Big thanks to every poster!

That AKB48 album is really interesting; not sure if i'll enjoy it even though Amano arranged it (I know all the [silly] originals, thanks to all the Japanese TV shows constantly having the mega-popular girl group on board.... :P).

And MASSIVE thanks for the Leo Suite, Herr Salat. Bless your soul, really. :D

EDIT: Leo is pure joy (the suites)... Just lovely. Thanks again!

Akashi San, did you upload the Five Star Stories in this thread at one point? I just see the Candidate for Goddess. Just want to get the facts right :'D

Nope. I do have it downloaded somewhere in my external hard drive. It's the perfect time to re-visit it again. :)

And the Candidate for Goddess has got to be one of my favorite anime soundtracks of all time. Still listening to it regularly...! Available on BakaBT if anyone is interested in the only other Asakawa soundtrack that hasn't been posted recently.

Score composed, arranged, piano soli & conducting performed by
Tomoyuki ASAKAWA
THE CANDIDATE FOR GODDESS
(2000 Series)

Studio orchestra, Japan; Tomoyuki Asakawa (cond.)

Release Date: 23.03.2000
Published by: Victor Entertainment
Catalog Number: VICL-60524




The Candidate for Goddess has got to be one of my favorite anime soundtracks of all time. Still listening to it regularly...!

Akashi San's Mediafire links (Thread 57893) are down, so here's a re-up, also since it's Asakawa Time :'D

<hr>

Untouched files from the source. Romanized tags, English translation from nonchan/st_nht included.

Sources: FLAC by Hale (Ripper), ChalamiuS (Additional Thanks), Chiyachan (Uploader) (https://web.archive.org/web/20150324103810/https://bakabt.me/11144-candidate-for-goddess-ost-flac.html) /
Scans from jonai (VGMdb)

[b]---FLAC + Scans (405 MB)---
<TT>MediaFire (http://links.snahp.it/769Blue)</TT> | Password: Ocean

I included one of the major cues from Five Star Stories in my Loveliness, Elegance, and Nobility Volume 1. Great score indeed.

Yes Candidate for Goddess is a lovely soundtrack. Shame the series was so short, and wish they'd but a little more effort into the production. Made in 2001 or not, the space bits looked too much like Playstation 2.

Soundcloud | Age of Conan: Secrets of Dragon's Spine MEDLEY by Knut Avenstroup Haugen (https://soundcloud.com/knut-avenstroup-haugen/age-of-conan-secrets-of)

I remember a couple tracks from this were posted while back so here's a new track he just uploaded. Audio quality kinda sucks but it can't be helped.

Yugo Kanno - Wings of the Kirin (Edited)

Orchestral|Action

Download (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/19WWCDF9/Kirin.rar_links)
With all the talk about the editing that is needed for Yugo Kanno scores, I present an edited version of a score I found quite enjoyable. I didn't save the full score but it works so much better like this.
While some regret missing some
7.8.9.10.11.12.13

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I've posted edited scores before from Naoki Sato scores that really needed cutting. If you want an idea of what you are missing, think of the filler in Bird the Mighty.

If you want an idea of what you are missing, think of the filler in Bird the Mighty.

I'd rather listen to it. For myself. With my ears.

Not to sound ungrateful, I just hate it when people trim scores before posting them in any other form elsewhere under the reassurance that they know better. Endless thanks for posting the album, but could we please listen to the material ourselves and make our own decisions of what to cut?

Well like I said, I already deleted the stuff I didn't like so I don't have access to the full score anymore. So it is edited or nothing.

Doublehex,

I thought your review accurate and I completely agree with you. As for my own opinion, Djawadi is certainly improving and is starting to stick out from all the others at Zimmer's studio. He can actually write for real instruments and he doesn't seem to be afraid to do it either. Plus his melodies are more memorable than anything Hans comes up with. I never tire of hearing the Main Theme to Game of Thrones. As for Pacific Rim, I love the composition "Cancelling the Apocalypse". It so reminded me of Chris Lennertz, but that is a good thing! Speaking of Lennertz, I really hope one of these days he scores an action film or maybe even a war movie. I find his talent wasted on comedies just like John Powell.

Well i'm officially pissed now. I was hella excited to see that we were going to get more of Takanashi's work in a new show called Fantasista Doll. Then i go to find out that the series decided to go the Deadman Wonderland and Freezing route by only releasing a few tracks within 6 Blueray/DVD enclosures........honestly this the worst route a publisher can take for anime soundtrack lovers, because you are basically paying around 80-90 bucks JUST for like 8 tracks.

Even though Takanashi is my favorite composer this is one of those kind things i refuse to support because i don't approve of this crap (I know it's not his fault). This is the first time this has happened for his music which is indeed a shame. TOHO animation is already looking like a crappy publisher to me =(.

Look on the bright side, at least they spared Toshiyuki Watanabe. Probably.

It is strange though, that they still choose to do the bonus CD route even though they just made a new label specifically for their anime CDs.

Welcome back everyone ^_^. I'm glad to see the site was able to survive to see another day thanks to all your support. That aside i've been waiting to share my biggest purchase yet. This order costs me around 280$ (thanks to donations from animeost it was lowered a bit). It took me about 3 hours to scan and 5 hours to rip, organize and upload them all. Both my wallet and mind are very tired but i think it was well worth it to get my hands on all the great music (at least in my opinion) last season had to offer.
ANZX-9028 | VIVIDRED OPERATION Original Soundtrack 01 - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/38063)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/38063-1369828438_zpsf7eda64d.png.html)

Title: VIVIDRED OPERATION Original Soundtrack 01
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Hideyuki Fukasawa, Hidekazu Tanaka
No. of tracks: 22
Format: MP3 and FLAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Jun 26, 2013
Size: MP3 152mb/ FLAC 321mb
Host: Zippyshare/MP3 Mega/FLAC

Tracklist
01 The Smell of Salt Water
02 The Usual Dining Table
03 Small Grandpa
04 Have Courage
05 To the Other Side of That Sky (Friends Version)
06 Tense Air
07 Things to Do
08 Rei Kuroki
09 Time of Parting
10 Something is Coming!
11 Harbinger
12 Appearance
13 Vividred Operation Main Theme ~ The Color of Friendship
14 Vivid System
15 Transformation!
16 Wings Towards the Sky
17 Impact
18 Reverberation of Victory
19 Small Bonds
20 Slowly
21 Everyday Happiness (BGM ARRANGE ver.)
22 Music Box at Night

320 kbs MP3
Zippyshare.com - VIVIDRED OPERATION Original Soundtrack 01.7z (http://www33.zippyshare.com/v/15612278/file.html)

FLAC
https://mega.co.nz/#!vM4TEZCQ!EzrIwhmZESRb9s9NMpdYz2-9iNIxOy2aNWiHvXRFil8


COCX-38065 | DATE A MUSIC SECOND HALF - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/39127)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/COCX-38065_zpsf6bc63a9.jpg.html)

Title: DATE A MUSIC SECOND HALF
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Go Sakabe, 金祥玉, Tetsushi Enami
No. of tracks: 26
Format: MP3 and FLAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Jun 26, 2013
Size: MP3 145mb/ FLAC 383mb
Host: Zippyshare/MP3 Mega/FLAC

Tracklist
01 Date a Live (TV Size) <Opening Theme>
02 Portrait
03 Secret
04 Mana
05 Busted
06 Felling
07 Rhapsody-Flame
08 Weird Waltz
09 D.A.L. Seasons
10 16bit Girl (TV Size) <Episode 8 Insert Song>
11 Date a Live Piano Version
12 Rhapsody-Rage
13 Pride
14 Empty Nest
15 Kotori Commander
16 Rain in the Garden
17 HQ in the Sky
18 Kotori Samba
19 EveryDay☆HappyDay of Love (TV Size) <Episode 11 Insert Song>
20 Mizuiro
21 Alert
22 Compass
23 Date a Live Orchestra Version
24 16bit Girl (Full Size)
25 EveryDay☆HappyDay of Love (Full Size)
26 Surely Always (Full Size) <PS3 �Date A Live: Rinne Utopia� Ending Theme>

320 kbs MP3
Zippyshare.com - DATE A MUSIC SECOND HALF.7z (http://www33.zippyshare.com/v/95576503/file.html)

FLAC
https://mega.co.nz/#!PMhAQSaK!ClfkKiTnbp3BR79462KSPHgMPmoTsdlj1BnHVap 2ifo

LACA-9295~6 | HATARAKU MAOUSAMA! ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/38746)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/38746-1370633146_zpsa3c85727.png.html)

Title: HATARAKU MAOUSAMA! ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Ryosuke Nakanishi
No. of tracks: 53
Format: MP3 and FLAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Jun 26, 2013
Size: MP3 223mb/ FLAC 567mb
Host: Zippyshare/MP3 Mega/FLAC

Tracklist
CD1
01 ZERO!! (Short Size)
02 Ente Isla
03 The Beginning of the Battle
04 Confronting
05 The Devil Arrives in Sasazuka
06 Parallel Universe
07 The Devil�s Castle
08 First R�sum�
09 Anguish of Ashiya
10 Formidable Enemy
11 The Devil and Hero Reunite
12 Fateful Confrontation
13 The Hero Visits the Devil�s Castle
14 Living Poorly
15 Table at Maou�s Home
16 Chiho
17 Give Up on Ente Isla
18 The Hero Stays at the Devil�s Castle
19 Unrest
20 Ashiya All Fired Up
21 Date with Chiho
22 Cannot Bear to Watch!
23 Pandemonium
24 Emi vs Chiho
25 In the Dark
26 The Devil Regains His Strength
27 Eyecatch A
28 Welcome to MgRonald

CD2
01 Eyecatch B
02 Maou and Ashiya
03 Urushihara
04 Strategy Meeting
05 Intrusion
06 Seven Wonders of the School
07 Calm Days
08 ZERO!! (Acoustic Ver.)
09 On the Sly
10 Suzuno
11 Imminent Fear
12 Rage
13 Subtitle
14 Loneliness
15 Maou�s Daily Life
16 Warm Memory
17 Hometown
18 Touched by Tenderness
19 Moon Flower (Acoustic Ver.)
20 Premonition
21 Awakening
22 The Strength of the Hero and the Devil
23 Moon Flower (Short Size)
24 Star Chart (Short Size)
25 Strumming Alone (Short Size)

320 kbs MP3
Zippyshare.com - HATARAKU MAOUSAMA! ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK.7z (http://www33.zippyshare.com/v/45418572/file.html)

FLAC
https://mega.co.nz/#!DAoSXRBQ!eNU26zy4868_IKRHIqVL1EaHoOJ9mxQnBCToQEw 8JBM


UMCA-10019 | Zettai Bouei Leviathan Original Soundtrack "Zettai, Kiite... - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/38927)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/38927-1370709528_zpsbca3dad5.png.html)

Title: Zettai Bouei Leviathan Original Soundtrack "Zettai, Kiite Hoshiinda mon!"
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Shiho Terada, Tomoki Kikuya, 大凪樹
No. of tracks: 30
Format: MP3 and FLAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Jun 26, 2013
Size: MP3 134mb/ FLAC 357mb
Host: Zippyshare/MP3 Mega/FLAC

Tracklist
1. SOKO NI KAMI ARIKI-AQUA FALL ZENSHI
2. HAJIMARI NO RESOLUTION TV Size
3. MIZU TSUKAI NO SHOUJO-LEVIATHAN NO THEME A-
4. LEVIATHAN.HENSHIN!-LEVIATHAN NO THEME B-
5. DAIMADOUSHI NO MUSUME-BAHAMUT NO THEME A-
6. KANASHIMI NO TATAKAI-BAHAMUT NO THEME B-
7. ASU HE FUMIDASOU-JORMUNGANDR NO THEME A-
8. RYUUZOKU NO TATAKAI-JORMUNGANDR NO THEME B-
9. ATASHI.SYRUP!
10. NAZO NO SHOUNEN
11. NAZO NO ISEKI
12. ODAYAKA NA HIBI
13. TANOSHII VACANCES
14. MUJAKI NA WATASHI TACHI
15. HATARAKU HITOBITO-GANBACCHAUNDAMON!-
16. TANKEN NANDAMON!
17. TORIPU SHUTSUGEN!
18. RUKASAITO SHUTSUGEN!
19. YURLUNGUR.SHOUKAN!
20. KECCHAKU!
21. RUKASAITO-TATAKAI WO MOTARASU MONO-
22. YOU MUST.
23. SHOURI HENO MICHI-CHANCE NANDAMON!-
24. TATAKAI NO ATO
25. KAZOKU HENO OMOI
26. AQUA FALL
27. HAJIMARI NO RESOLUTION ～Guitar Inst ver.～
28. YOU MUST.～Guitar Inst ver.～
29. HAJIMARI NO RESOLUTION ～Piano Inst ver.～
30. YOU MUST. ～Piano Inst ver.～

320 kbs MP3
Zippyshare.com - Zettai Bouei Leviathan Original Soundtrack Zettai, Kiite Hoshiinda mon!.7z (http://www33.zippyshare.com/v/93022471/file.html)

FLAC
https://mega.co.nz/#!bdxkWJgK!KTboThxjqVShk5qd__fgVksBzxBK62M3thmY2Nq aEAg


LACA-9293~4 | Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet Original Soundtrack - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/38745)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/38745-1371038216_zps18838174.png.html)

Title: Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet Original Soundtrack
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Taro Iwashiro
No. of tracks: 49
Format: MP3 and FLAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Jun 26, 2013
Size: MP3 262mb/ FLAC 566mb
Host: Mega/MP3 Mega/FLAC

Tracklist
CD1
01 Youkoso! Gargantia e
02 Asu ni Sasageru Seisen
03 Mae no Mae ni Susume
04 Kegarenaki Inori to Tomo ni
05 Nankou no Juuatsuka
06 Haha naru Umi ni
07 Tatakai, Saranaru Tatakai
08 Ware, Kokuu no Shou nari
09 Shukuteki Nanteki Kyouteki
10 Shissou no Sendan
11 Shiboki
12 Senshi no Rinkaku
13 Takamaru Ketsui
14 Arata naru Gyoukou
15 Kyoui to Tekijin no Hazama de
16 Hangeki kara no Kishi Kaisei
17 Shingeki Kougeki Tsuigeki
18 Kyuushuu Raishuu Tekishuu
19 Umikaze yo. Unabara yo
20 Hiai Hisou Higeki
21 Kousen Junbirei
22 Gunteki no Jin
23 Fuuha ga Mau
24 Yochou Zenchou
25 Hikou Koukou
26 Risoukyou Musoukyou
27 Shutsugeki Kaishin
28 Itoshiki Hibi no Hikari to Kaze to Umi
29 Kokoro Fukaki Otome no Mama ni

CD2
01 Hansou no Sendan
02 Sentaku Biyori
03 Hibi, Hitobito
04 Shuku Tairyou
05 Shukusai Genbu
06 Shoujo no Doushi
07 Tozasareta Shinjitsu no Tobira
08 Yuuyami no Kokuin
09 Meikyuu Genkyou no Zu
10 Burai Ryuurei
11 Shukuen no Makugire
12 Kagirinaku Toumei na Jikan
13 Doukeishou
14 Tasogare no Shirabe
15 Yuunagi
16 Kokoro Fukaki Otome no Mama ni (Ocarina-hen)
17 Kanashimi no Hamon
18 Kodoku no Mukougawa
19 Gargantia yo, Eien ni
20 Shukusai Ranbu

320 kbs MP3
https://mega.co.nz/#!aZ4H1YLQ!GOcgXgxZ9wsLlIrPnjSTeVC_oyRyhlJueUjxlNs eBU0


FLAC
https://mega.co.nz/#!qYJU2CZY!aY-MCA7kNWedYgf50cyCJ101eI8ZZ2NR5uqC3uWTEYo


LACA-15309 | Arata Kangatari Original Sound Track - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/38747)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/38747-1369928320_zps1e28a8c0.png.html)

Title: Arata Kangatari Original Sound Track
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Kow Otani
No. of tracks: 40
Format: MP3 and FLAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Jun 26, 2013
Size: MP3 178mb/ FLAC 396mb
Host: Zippyshare/MP3 Mega/FLAC

Tracklist
1. HIMEOU
2. HEION
3. MATSU RI NO GISHIKI
4. CHIISANA TOMOSHIBI
5. ANDO NO IYASHI
6. KIZUNA
7. NIGIYAKA NA MACHI
8. KYOUI
9. BOUKYOU NO NEN
10. ZETSUBOU TO KANASHIMI
11. FUKURAMU IKARI
12. FUSHIGI NA CHIKARA
13. KETSUI NO TATAKAI
14. SEMARU TEKI
15. MEZAME
16. SHI NO KYOUFU
17. TOMADOI TO FUAN
18. DAIOU NO UTSUWA
19. WAKITATSU KINCHOU
20. SEIGI NO KANJOU
21. TODOKANU OMOI
22. YOMIGAERU KIZU
23. TAKAMARU KODOU
24. SHIZUKANA SEKAI
25. OSHIYOSERU FUAN
26. KUTSUJOKU TO IRADACHI
27. ASHIDORI OMOKU
28. WAKIAGARU ONI NO KOKORO
29. TOUBOU
30. NOGARERARENAI UNMEI
31. JOUKA NO HIKARI
32. KETSUI NO TABI
33. ONIKA
34. KAMIGAMI NO TATAKAI
35. ATATAKAI HIKARI
36. HAHA NO NUKUMORI
37. NIGORI NAKI KOKORO
38. ANNON NA KURASHI
39. KAREI NA MAI
40. YUUDAI NA SHIZEN

320 kbs MP3
Zippyshare.com - Arata Kangatari Original Sound Track.7z (http://www33.zippyshare.com/v/7118980/file.html)

FLAC
https://mega.co.nz/#!2AZzEbgI!IqFblRuVDdkINcfW--qiZxWjLScRYkSgYZvYW-6LDk8


PCCG-01349 | TV ANIMATION "PHOTOKANO" ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/38627)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/38627-1369835647_zps86524d86.png.html)

Title:"PHOTOKANO" ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Mina Kubota
No. of tracks: 28
Format: MP3 and FLAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Jun 28, 2013
Size: MP3 114mb/ FLAC 217mb
Host: Zippyshare/MP3 Mega/FLAC

Tracklist
01 Main Theme
02 Ribbon
03 Riseball
04 Prism
05 Beginning of Love
06 Theme of the Photography Club
07 Girls
08 Dance of the Wind
09 Promise
10 Sweet Pea
11 Top Secret Meeting
12 Cosmos
13 Dandelion and Konpeito
14 Message
15 Madder Red
16 Mission
17 Hill with a View of the Stars
18 Beyond the Feeling
19 Picnic
20 Heartbeat
21 Blue
22 Funny Spy
23 Lie and Mirror
24 17 Steps
25 An Afternoon Deep in Thought
26 Photo Session
27 Looking for You
28 Photograph

320 kbs MP3
Zippyshare.com - TV ANIMATION PHOTOKANO ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK.7z (http://www33.zippyshare.com/v/48801849/file.html)

FLAC
https://mega.co.nz/#!KUADFZqA!FmGCwD1m1VOqlbfvdLdEojy2vGFgGoFcuLaW2V_ vStc

PCCG-01351 | "Attack on Titan" Original Soundtrack - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/38626)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/38626-1370611541_zpse616bf13.png.html)

Title: Attack on Titan Original Soundtrack
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Hiroyuki Sawano
No. of tracks: 16
Format: MP3 and FLAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Jun 28, 2013
Size: MP3 193mb/ FLAC 490mb
Host: Zippyshare/MP3 Mega/FLAC

Tracklist
01 ətˈ�k 0N tάɪtn
02 The Reluctant Heroes
03 eye-water
04 立body機motion
05 c�unter・att�ck-mˈ�nkάɪnd
06 army⇒G♂
07 Vogel im K�fig
08 DOA
09 凸】♀】♂】←巨人
10 E・M・A
11 巨♀～9地区
12 Baukl�tze
13 2chi城
14 XL-TT
15 Call your name
16 omake-pfadlib

320 kbs MP3
Zippyshare.com - Attack on Titan Original Soundtrack.7z (http://www33.zippyshare.com/v/67941001/file.html)

FLAC
https://mega.co.nz/#!mFojyRYD!GvDhHCovnKBGz7CZQmtn8nNOnoJpugnBPd7hmyQ 7qbE


Now i'm going to take a LONG deserved nap http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq271/leatherhead93/kucing_bobo_zps5d37c39a.gif (http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/kucing_bobo_zps5d37c39a.gif.html)
Also I should have Valvrave and Red Data Girl uploaded sometime next week hopefully. Sorry I'm always late uploading my stuff =( http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq271/leatherhead93/kucing_hiks_zps430d7f89.gif (http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/kucing_hiks_zps430d7f89.gif.html)

Hahahaha! You've got NOTHING to apologise for, sir!

Many, many, many thanks for all of these... even if I can't muster up much enthusiasm for the music, I'm endlessly grateful for your generosity and effort... :)

One small point, however... you keep advertising your uploads as FLAC when in fact they are Apple Lossless. Of course, one can convert to whatever one wishes, but all that aside, wrong is wrong... ;)

Thanks for the mega post.

I'm listening to Photokano right now and it's very soothing and light-hearted. The tracks are a bit short but it's one of the better soundtracks from this past season. I hope Mina Kubota's next work will be for something actually worth watching past episode 1.

Christ, so do I... Still waiting for the next Amuri...

@LeatherHead333
Huge thanks for all the uploads. Now that I've finally had enough time to catch up with all the stuff posted in the last weeks here are my two cents:

Beast Saga: Great Score, definetly worth a purchase.

Tanken Driland: Absolutly fantastic, Hirano does it again.

Galileo X Midsummer Formula: Lovely with the typical Kanno filler.

Vividred Operation: Some "very" enjoyable tracks (4, 13, 15 and especially 18). The rest is okay but the second ost is even longer so perhaps we'll get more of the good stuff.

Date A Live: Very Good, one of the better scores of 2013 and there is even a third ost coming.

Gargantia: Some tracks are enjoyable but I would not listen to it again. Rather forgettable.

Photokano: Nice and enjoyable. Perfect for a relaxing afternoon.

Leviathan: So I gave this one a go and it's better than expected. It has some nice string pieces and the synth tracks are enjoyable.

HATARAKU MAOUSAMA!: I like track 22 from the second disc, the rest is not for me.

Attack on Titan: I don't like it.

Arata Kangatari: I don't care for Otani unless Giants and or Angels are involved.

Pacific Rim: Terrible but at least it has motifs.

I'm now waiting for Yamato 2199 and Final Fantasy: The Celebration (is it actually worth buying, I already have Returning Home so I'm still unsure...). Also, since Watanabe's Majestic Prince has still no release date what about his more lyrical score: Daini Gakusho (http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=AVCL-25784). If no one has it yet I will consider buying it.

....why do I suspect that Sirusjr and I were the only ones that enjoyed Pacific Rim?

KEISUKE SHINOHARA - THE PIANO FOREST ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
320K MP3 | SCANS | 195.9 MB | 28 TRACKS - 01:14:13
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Mario Clemens


VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/32899)
Catalog Number: SICC-736
Release Date: June 11, 2007

Tracklist
01 Forest of the Piano (advanced version)
02 The perfect world of Kai
03 An unfavorable Welcome
04 Skirmish
05 Treasure in the Forest
06 Kai and Shuhei
07 Shimmering light
08 Promise
09 Twinkling in the treetops
10 Puzzled and lost
11 Pandemonium
12 Melancholia
13 The Pianists
14 Winds
15 3 to nil
16 Classics
17 Wendy's Waltz
18 Loser
19 On my own
20 New Horizon
21 Forest of the Piano (simple version)
22 Beethoven: For Elise, WoO.59
23 Chopin: Waltz No.6 in D-flat major, Op.64 No.1 (Petit Chien)
24 Chopin: Piano Sonata No.3 in B minor, Op.58 ~ IV. Finale. Presto non tanto
25 Bach: Italian Concerto in F major, BWV971 ~ III. Presto
26 Mozart: Piano Sonata No.8 in A minor, K310 (300d) ~ I. Allegro maestoso
27 Mozart: Piano Sonata No.8 in A minor, K310 (300d) ~ III. Presto [Cadenza (Arranged by Keisuke Shinohara)]
28 Forest of the Piano (orchestra version)

Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!5AFgSbID!Wmlsxiwf69_fNRsXq_1-ozIlDrZXlylY1ZUetbJb5RU

Keisuke Shinohara was a talented composer with only a few soundtracks to his name and only a couple that have surfaced online. An interesting thing about this one is that renowned pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy served as musical adviser in addition to playing the piano pieces for it. The main theme is quite beautiful and one of the best solo piano pieces I've heard on an anime soundtrack. There's also a few classical piano pieces on here, as you may have noticed from the tracklist, though only one is arranged.

Thanks!

I couldn't even get through Pacific Rim. Same old story. Composer who's renowned for 100% shit writing for movies which usually have 100% shit scores... writes score that is only 99% shit, is hailed as second coming of Jesus.

It's a shit RC score. Frankly there's more to enjoy in Attack On Titan...

...Hailed as the second coming? By whom? I hear praise that guys so far as "The score is good - mindless, but fun", which is my assessment as well!

I would definitely not call it another shit RC score. I mean, the rock guitars actually compliments the orchestra for one, and we don't get any cliche RC style synth. It certainly has faults in the use of themes (as in there are none), but I said all that in my review. No point in retreading old territory.

Pacific Rim is full on RC style. There is not a single track without excessive and unnecessary percussion and the use of rock in orchestral scores is so overdone that it should not be something to note anymore. From Goldenthal to Goldsmith and from Hirano to Takanashi, many composers have used rock instruments with an orchestra to great effect, some with classical education, some with pure musical talent and a good sense of melody and harmony, all things Djawadi does not have. Pacific Rim is passable rock at best and I'm still baffled why Del Toro has not hired a japanese composer for the film. Still, it is one of the better RC scores but that does not make it suck less.

....why do I suspect that Sirusjr and I were the only ones that enjoyed Pacific Rim?

You forgot that I posted my praise for the score ;).

Hello everyone.
I want to ask your help in this.

https://mega.co.nz/#!GI4ngLTA!Wy4ZXGE5PfGb1MrAKUOHfRZAFkIEO1wTzVQNJy-Ms5c

Can you help identify what classical song does that belong too and which piece is it? It is familiar to me, but I just can't recall it. :/

Keisuke Shinohara is a talented composer with only a few soundtracks to his name and only a couple that have surfaced online.

I just saw he died 17th August 2011 (https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AF%A0%E5%8E%9F%E6%95%AC%E4%BB%8B).

...

Thanks for sharing, nextday.

RIP Mr Shinohara... This is a wonderful score, though... Thank you. :)

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News time... I'm tentatively optimistic about the upcoming Ultraman Ginga score - the first Ultraman TV series since 2008. There appears to be an orchestra; and Fumio Hara is credited on the Japanese Wikipedia page as "Orchestral Arranger" - so we might just be in for something good. There is a four minute mega-trailer out now (galaxy promo - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N2oQk86IFg#at=176)) ahead of the first episode which airs next week, which has a few fragments of music...

Not sure what to expect... bear in mind that Ultraman hasn't had a substantial ensemble of live musicians for five years now - and that includes the theatrical scores. Funny how Ultraman's music went cheap and synthy at the same time as Super Sentai gave us scores from Hiroshi Takaki, Kousuke Yamashita, Megumi Ohashi, and Toshihiko Sahashi... It seems to have all gone to hell when Tsubaraya got bought out. Sahashi did a great fully symphonic score for the 2008 feature... and then it all stopped, just like that.

Here's hoping they've come to their senses for the new TV series, and we can look forward to some robust orchestral superhero scoring again...

You forgot that I posted my praise for the score ;).

You don't count. Your just as bad as Herbaciak and I in that we love music the rest of the Thread hates!

Anybody want to see my review of Pacific Rim? ;) :rofldata:

Pacific Rim (2013)
Composed by Rahmin Djwadi
Published by Watertower Music

IT SUCKS


Hrm...somehow Tango, I am not quite so sure that I do...

HAHA! Well, I'd spell his name right... ;)

By the way, you didn't on your review. Bottom bit. You have Raman instead of Ramin.

I can't decide whether or not to crack a rim-job joke. Would that lower the tone too much?

Bottom bit

Good God you are absurdly British.

Hello everyone.
I want to ask your help in this.

https://mega.co.nz/#!GI4ngLTA!Wy4ZXGE5PfGb1MrAKUOHfRZAFkIEO1wTzVQNJy-Ms5c

Can you help identify what classical song does that belong too and which piece is it? It is familiar to me, but I just can't recall it. :/

My first reaction was "one of the Beethoven symphonies" followed by "...argh, which one?"

After some skipping around, I found it. Third symphony, second movement. A version on youtube, for reference: Beethoven, Symphony 3/2/1 - Marcia Funebre (E flat major Op. 55) "Eroica" - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Jk6rOvW5c) Around 11:20 in to that.

Hiroyuki Sawano - Jigyaku no Uta



FLAC (image, LOG & CUE) | 17 tracks | 62:19 Min | 332 MB

Not my rip.

Tracklist:

01. 自虐の詩
02. ALL IN ALL
03. Passionate Tango
04. the ups and downs of life
05. 自虐の人
06. 幸せになれますように
07. nocturne
08. 自虐の街
09. OVERTURN-GO
10. 心の声
11. 自虐の音
12. 近くにいても、遠くにいても、嬉しい時も、悲しい時も...
13. 気仙沼牛乳
14. 自虐の家
15. poor & pure
16. nocturne ~reprise~
17. I love you <Vocal: Aika Sekiyama> (Bonus Track)


https://mega.co.nz/#!BQd1wZqC!UMDy2C9wY6BQriyOnLK5eCcnBSlXFFqsAkD0IPs U-2s
PW: FFShr1n3

Here it is. The to my knowledge only completely orchestral Sawano score so far. No electronica or e-guitars and most importantly no terribly pronounced German singing!!
It's a bit on the eccentric side at times but it's surprisingly subtle.
This may prove that he has a couple more tricks up his sleeve than some give him credit for. Although I'm pretty sure one particular user will still find enough to rant about ;)
I'm not ashamed to admit that I enjoy Sawano's usual over-the-top scoring style. It can get a bit exhausting at times but I like it nevertheless.
So this is easily my least favourite of his scores but maybe some of you will enjoy it.

My first reaction was "one of the Beethoven symphonies" followed by "...argh, which one?"

After some skipping around, I found it. Third symphony, second movement. A version on youtube, for reference: Beethoven, Symphony 3/2/1 - Marcia Funebre (E flat major Op. 55) "Eroica" - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Jk6rOvW5c) Around 11:20 in to that.

Thanks a lot for your help. :) I have some other tracks to try to find out which classical music it is. Some tracks I did mange myself to recognize, but others I can't do it without help. As I am watching this old Japanese Tv-Drama I am ripping the missing tracks, and they used a lot of classical pieces an many places.

I just saw he died 17th August 2011 (https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AF%A0%E5%8E%9F%E6%95%AC%E4%BB%8B).
Oh my, less than two years ago. It's on his official page but I never noticed since it's at the bottom of his bio in Japanese. Sudden heart failure at the age of 52... how sad.



KEISUKE SHINOHARA & MUNEO TERUYA - ONE STORMY NIGHT ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
320K MP3 | 86.7 MB | 23 TRACKS - 00:49:47
Stormy Night Orchestra (Studio Orchestra)


VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/32906)
Catalog Number: PCCR-00427
Release Date: Nov 23, 2005

Tracklist
01 To Live ~One Stormy Night
02 A Storm
03 Meeting
04 Delightful Promise
05 Throbbing
06 Your Friend Looks Delicious
07 Mother Nature
08 Mei and his Companions
09 Gabu and Mei
10 I'll Protect You
11 Grandmother's Story
12 Waking Up Sad
13 True Friends
14 Resolution
15 Towards the Green Forest
16 To Be a Wolf, To Be a Goat
17 Continue to Escape Forever
18 My Final Feast
19 Risking Your Life
20 Gabu is Alive
21 Lost Memories
22 Star (instrumental)
23 Believe in Each Other ~One Stormy Night


Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!dN9GDBKD!ORmY6iY5jng4E_MzZonBjjiSklx8JKPTCfkbUwv KCxY

I'm pretty sure this is the only other soundtrack by Keisuke Shinohara that you will find uploaded on the internet. He composed more than half of this soundtrack including the main theme. The rest is by an unknown composer named Muneo Teruya. Additionally, there's 3 other composers who each contributed one track. It's a bit short but still quite nice.

You don't count. Your just as bad as Herbaciak and I in that we love music the rest of the Thread hates!

Haha. I guess you are right! It is good to be different :).

Hahahaha! You've got NOTHING to apologise for, sir!

Many, many, many thanks for all of these... even if I can't muster up much enthusiasm for the music, I'm endlessly grateful for your generosity and effort... :)

One small point, however... you keep advertising your uploads as FLAC when in fact they are Apple Lossless. Of course, one can convert to whatever one wishes, but all that aside, wrong is wrong... ;)In my opinion there is really no difference between the two. Both are losseless and have the same audio quality. It's just apple losseless is more convenient for most people because you can just play it on your itunes. While FLAC can be particular tricky to covert and play. I never could figure out the "EA" program that people use for flac nowadays so I simply turned to itunes where i can easily convert my cds into 320 kbs MP3 and Apple loseless with no problem at all. I understand what you mean when you say it's technically not FLAC but imo it technically is ^_^.

Well, it's not really a case of technicalities; FLAC is not ALAC, and Concorde is not an Airbus A380 even though both are flying machines designed to transport people long distances by air. Apples are not oranges, even though both are spherical fruits that contain juice.

TL;DR - If it's in ALAC, please say it's in ALAC... There's nothing explicitly *wrong* with ALAC, but if you have apples for sale, I do not understand the logic in refusing to simply say they're apples. If you're going to advertise them as oranges don't be surprised when people say "Ah, I expected oranges because that's what you said they were." ;)

I would say that, community-wise, most people find ALAC more tricky than FLAC - FLAC has open source developers behind it, hardware support, ubiquity, and brand recognition. EAC is a BIG pain in the butt to get configured if you're not familiar with it but it can pay dividends. iTunes is not a reliable CD ripper. It's not bad - and not nearly as bad as it used to be - but EAC is the gold standard. It's worth your while to figure out how it works; it's a great, great package once you've wrapped your head round its less-than-intuitive interface... :)

Just to clarify; I haven't got a problem with ALAC or your rips, although all things being equal I would prefer an EAC rip to an iTunes rip. :)

I was re-listening to this the other day and saw that it surprisingly hasn't been posted here before?


KEISUKE SHINOHARA - THE PIANO FOREST ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
320K MP3 | SCANS | 195.9 MB | 28 TRACKS - 01:14:13
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Mario Clemens


VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/32899)
Catalog Number: SICC-736
Release Date: June 11, 2007

Tracklist
01 Forest of the Piano (advanced version)
02 The perfect world of Kai
03 An unfavorable Welcome
04 Skirmish
05 Treasure in the Forest
06 Kai and Shuhei
07 Shimmering light
08 Promise
09 Twinkling in the treetops
10 Puzzled and lost
11 Pandemonium
12 Melancholia
13 The Pianists
14 Winds
15 3 to nil
16 Classics
17 Wendy's Waltz
18 Loser
19 On my own
20 New Horizon
21 Forest of the Piano (simple version)
22 Beethoven: For Elise, WoO.59
23 Chopin: Waltz No.6 in D-flat major, Op.64 No.1 (Petit Chien)
24 Chopin: Piano Sonata No.3 in B minor, Op.58 ~ IV. Finale. Presto non tanto
25 Bach: Italian Concerto in F major, BWV971 ~ III. Presto
26 Mozart: Piano Sonata No.8 in A minor, K310 (300d) ~ I. Allegro maestoso
27 Mozart: Piano Sonata No.8 in A minor, K310 (300d) ~ III. Presto [Cadenza (Arranged by Keisuke Shinohara)]
28 Forest of the Piano (orchestra version)

Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!5AFgSbID!Wmlsxiwf69_fNRsXq_1-ozIlDrZXlylY1ZUetbJb5RU

Keisuke Shinohara was a talented composer with only a few soundtracks to his name and only a couple that have surfaced online. An interesting thing about this one is that renowned pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy served as musical adviser in addition to playing the piano pieces for it. The main theme is quite beautiful and one of the best solo piano pieces I've heard on an anime soundtrack. There's also a few classical piano pieces on here, as you may have noticed from the tracklist, though only one is arranged.



Thank you for sharing

@tango: More important, as far as I know FLAC is the only codec that has an extensive testsuite. Which is kinda important if you claim to properly archive music.

AKIRA SENJU - VALVRAVE THE LIBERATOR ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACKS
320K MP3 | 130.4 MB | 28 TRACKS - 00:58:07


VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/39137)
Catalog Number: VTCL-60348
Release Date: Jul 03, 2013

Tracklist
01 Kurozome
02 Shinu Dake dayo
03 Anata to Watashi no Uta
04 Yorokobi to Kanashimi
05 Kanau Koto ga nai to Shiri nagara
06 Blitzendegen
07 Rakurai no you ni
08 Gensou to Musou
09 Magius
10 Shiroi Kessoku
11 Mune no Tsukae
12 Anbu
13 Ima Dake no Shiawase
14 Ima ga Tanoshii to Omoeru toki
15 Daremo Tachiagarenakute
16 Hashitteiku beki darou
17 Mou Ato wa nai
18 Bon'you na Yakara no Yume no Ato
19 Chiisana Chikara to Ooki na Chikara
20 Hanbunko
21 Ten'yo no Egao
22 Shikake
23 Aseri to Kakushin
24 Shi no Saki ni Aru Koto
25 Subete wa Tsukaihatasareta
26 Minna no Shouri
27 Koushitsu Zankou
28 Akuma to Hito no Kesshou

Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!UI9ESCqS!Sp5Fazls6MDomQz3Xtn5zX7a3DpSLiS94rSAFD5 uCGw

Thank you mecha genre for bringing us Valvrave and Majestic Prince.

Thanks for Valvrave. :)

EDIT: And thanks for Piano no mori as well. The first piano track is absolutely gorgeous impressionistic piece and I was doubting my eyes when I saw it's an original piece! Yummy stuff.


The Film Music of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett

FLAC



1. Murder on the Orient Express 11:22
2. Far from the Madding Crowd 15:33
3. Lady Caroline Lamb - Elegy, I 8:04
4. Lady Caroline Lamb - Elegy, II 9:44
5. Nicole's Theme from Tender Is the Night 2:10
6. Enchanted April 19:25
7. Love Scene from Four Weddings and a Funeral 3:28

My rip. Enjoy!

DOWNLOAD: https://mega.co.nz/#!9JoESLoQ!RC1KFxdAjvhPD_nsCJqk90SVp3A4OhEwehWIm0g 80Rk

Here I go again asking help from the symphonic lovers. :p

I ripped 3 more classical pieces, which I don't know who they belong too.

I admit the first is too short to get what it is. I kinda feel Wagner in it. :/
The second is violin based in rhythm (nothing comes to my head referring to it...)
The third makes me think of Massenet... But then again, I don't feel it at all. :/

Classical 1 (https://mega.co.nz/#!iVQi0YYI!PF3D9jmZnwsYq98I2U2WdAkvpOICpeInNYAVEYL JI8k) / Classical 2 (https://mega.co.nz/#!PRgWASzZ!Jdf18iSpnsYiXdh_62xYJyfARo5EbU_QE7Z2gOx BV28) / Classic 3 (https://mega.co.nz/#!TAolAAaD!YHeHfnaAPTIUWa95gWeCBBYD4rdPhD0ZN5w-i-EnBrs)

Thanks in advance guys ;)

Hey, did anyone see this: Studio Trigger to Launch Kickstarter for New Little Witch Academia Episode - News - Anime News Network (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-07-05/studio-trigger-to-launch-kickstarter-for-new-little-witch-academia-episode)

Trigger is planning on making another episode of Little Witch Academia. I wonder if they plan on getting new music by Oshima for it. We'll find out soon enough.

I kind of wish it had enough support to have it's own anime series :(.
Watched the first episode and loved it with ALL of my senses ^_^.

Yeah me too. :)
It has enough potential for an own series.

I really loved it... but I somehow see it functioning best as a standalone. I'd be cautiously optimistic to see another instalment with the proviso that they don't go cheap; part of the appeal for me was the sumptuous animation and yes, the A-grade score. I'd rather they didn't adopt this as a franchise and then run it into the ground with a succession of low budget, poorly animated, synth scored OVAs. If they're asking for donations to make it, this doesn't bode well.

The first episode cost �250,000 - which is a scary sum of money. They'll either ask for that amount again and not get it and not make the episode, or they'll ask for less than they need and end up making something shoddy.

Leave it alone, Trigger. It was a great short... but part of its charm is that it isn't a franchise - it was a wonderfully creative 30 minute love letter to the genre. Leave it alone and do something different, now.

I really loved it... but I somehow see it functioning best as a standalone. I'd be cautiously optimistic to see another instalment with the proviso that they don't go cheap; part of the appeal for me was the sumptuous animation and yes, the A-grade score. I'd rather they didn't adopt this as a franchise and then run it into the ground with a succession of low budget, poorly animated, synth scored OVAs. If they're asking for donations to make it, this doesn't bode well.

The first episode cost �250,000 - which is a scary sum of money. They'll either ask for that amount again and not get it and not make the episode, or they'll ask for less than they need and end up making something shoddy.

Leave it alone, Trigger. It was a great short... but part of its charm is that it isn't a franchise - it was a wonderfully creative 30 minute love letter to the genre. Leave it alone and do something different, now.
Well, they actually are doing something different. An original 24 episode Aniplex-funded action anime airing this fall from the director and writer of Gurren Lagann.

This will just be a little side project.

Edit:
Q:
Are we going to see more of Little Witch Academia:
A:
Most of you have probably already heard that there is going to be a Kickstarter for episode 2 of LWA (as was announced at the public panel). What was not mentioned there, was something even more exciting: Although Trigger does not want to start it now because they only have one director, and they'll be busy with Kill la Kill followed by the second episode of LWA, Otsuka really wants to make an actual TV anime for LWA. He's not really sure when, though.

Q: What can we expect from Kill la Kill?
A: While Otsuka didn't want to give much away, he said that anybody who liked Gurren Lagann's over the top action will be extremely satisfied with Kill la Kill (he even made the claim that it was even more over the top). He also said that very few people will be able to predict where it's going. Also, it's driving their animators crazy trying to turn the craziness of the script into animation. And it will be entirely hand drawn, like LWA.

Finally got my order today. Scanned everything like always. There's a very kawaii pic of Senju in the valvrave scans btw :3. (actually his picture is kind of scary honestly. Why do composers have to look so scary in their pictures? >.>)

VTCL-60348 | Valvrave the Liberator Original Soundtracks - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/39137)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/img012_zps156b2518.jpg.html)

Title: Valvrave the Liberator Original Soundtracks
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Akira Senju
No. of tracks: 28
Format: MP3 and FLAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Jul 03, 2013
Size: MP3 142mb/ FLAC 332mb
Host: Zippyshare/MP3 Mega/FLAC

Tracklist
01 Kurozome
02 Shinu Dake dayo
03 Anata to Watashi no Uta
04 Yorokobi to Kanashimi
05 Kanau Koto ga nai to Shiri nagara
06 Blitzendegen
07 Rakurai no you ni
08 Gensou to Musou
09 Magius
10 Shiroi Kessoku
11 Mune no Tsukae
12 Anbu
13 Ima Dake no Shiawase
14 Ima ga Tanoshii to Omoeru toki
15 Daremo Tachiagarenakute
16 Hashitteiku beki darou
17 Mou Ato wa nai
18 Bon'you na Yakara no Yume no Ato
19 Chiisana Chikara to Ooki na Chikara
20 Hanbunko
21 Ten'yo no Egao
22 Shikake
23 Aseri to Kakushin
24 Shi no Saki ni Aru Koto
25 Subete wa Tsukaihatasareta
26 Minna no Shouri
27 Koushitsu Zankou
28 Akuma to Hito no Kesshou

320 kbs MP3
Zippyshare.com - Valvrave the Liberator Original Soundtracks.7z (http://www74.zippyshare.com/v/48423624/file.html)

FLAC
https://mega.co.nz/#!qAxTXSBR!Xeya8CQgJNyEtqM4ds4KWXPEbWwL5V-ix7S4S10JojA


LACA-9301~2 | RDG Red Data Girl Original Soundtrack - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/38748)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/38748-1371316057_zpse7768fde.png.html)

Title: RDG Red Data Girl Original Soundtrack
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: myu, Masumi Ito, 神木遙
No. of tracks: 20/31
Format: MP3 and FLAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Jul 03, 2013
Size: MP3 254mb/ FLAC 604mb
Host: Zippyshare/MP3 Mega/FLAC

Tracklist

CD 1
1. SEIHITSU
2. IZUMIKO
3. HAJIMARI NO YOKAN
4. CHISUJI
5. EIKYOU
6. FURETEKURU MONO
7. OSANANAJIMI
8. SHIKOUSAKUGO
9. NICHIJOU
10. YAMABUSHI
11. SHINOBIYORU MONO
12. HIMEKAMI
13. DOUSHITE
14. KUUKI KAN
15. GEKIHEN
16. JUJUTSU
17. KATTOU
18. WAKAI
19. YUUBI SA
20. IZUMIKO NO MAI (HAYAMI SAORI)

CD 2
1. KOURYUU
2. MANATSU
3. ARATANA NICHIJOU
4. KYOUFU
5. TAKAYANAGI
6. MAYURA
7. SEKKIN
8. YOROKOBI
9. CHAKUSHIN MELODY
10. YORISHIRO
11. YOUKI
12. MASUMI
13. HARESUGATA
14. SHIZUKESA NO NAKA DE
15. HONOKA
16. IZUMIKO NO MAI (HAYAMI SAORI)
17. KESSEN
18. HAHA
19. KUCHIGENKA
20. DOUSHITA TAKAYANAGI
21. HIMEKAMI NO SUGATA
22. CHIKAZUKU KOKORO
23. SETSUNASA
24. OMOU HODO
25. GAKUENSAI
26. KASSEN
27. IZUMIKO NO KOKORO
28. NEGAI
29. KAKUGO
30. SUMORU WORLDROP (TV Size)
31. YOKAN (TV Size)

320 kbs MP3
https://mega.co.nz/#!rdZBlBgR!IXoaAEfL6tcvVgjvjiaHolQ6UBVIfDB_KH2YAqA 8CS0


FLAC
https://mega.co.nz/#!3JBlTBKR!QcdqQGpwT0CzXkPUg0xLBQyAI1kxKg8sxOCoZoN UzkU


Enjoy yall http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq271/leatherhead93/kucing_mikir_zpscaccfb71.gif (http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/kucing_mikir_zpscaccfb71.gif.html)

Also that's great new about LWA. After all if there was an animated series we would get more Michiru Oshima right? :)

Musica e WCCF secondo movimento

Composed by Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Junpei Mishima download please

warstar937, please post your request here (http://forums.ffshrine.org/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=70)...

Musica e WCCF secondo movimento Compos� par Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Junpei Mishima Download lien ???

lol http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq271/leatherhead93/kucing_capek_zpsc3d04393.gif (http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/kucing_capek_zpsc3d04393.gif.html)

warstar937: Musica e WCCF secondo movimento (WM-0599).rar (http://www.mediafire.com/?zn7982azp5onfe3) - Don't let it ever be said that I don't help out sometimes... ;)

LeatherHead333: Thank you so much for APPLE LOSSLESS of Valvrave! Is it me or does this album sound unnaturally trebbly?

Thank you so much

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Tango, this is your reward for feeding the Troll.

He'll just keep re-posting the requests.

He's been a member here for over 4 years. He could have learnt english in less time than that...

Ah, right - blame me. ;)

Ce n'est pas le bon endroit pour les demandes! S'il vous plait cliquez le lien Herr Salat a la section de demande.

Voila le lien: http://forums.ffshrine.org/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=70 <------- CLIQUEZ s'il vous plait.

Je parlez Francais un peu, tres tres limite- je suis desolee.

** If anybody can do any better, please help this poor sod... **

You know there are times when I really really love the internet: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1311401276/little-witch-academia-2 (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1311401276/little-witch-academia-2/posts)

In the end I predict there will be enough money for a full 24 episode series with the same quality as the OVA *a two hour score by Oshima with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra* and a possible movie as well. Come to think of it, any chance for more Oshima is reason enough to back this project.

Yeah, I saw it too. Crazy. Though they didn't mention anything about Oshima on the project page and there's nothing about a soundtrack CD in the rewards though which is worrisome.

I ended up sending them a question asking if Oshima is returning for this. She has previously said she wanted LWA to become a series so I don't think there should be any issues.

es ce que ya quelle q'un qui aurai album de christopher Lennertz saint sinner si quelle Q'un a quil menvoi le lien pour le telecharger

Aw, fuck.

It's okay, I think your plan worked.

http://forums.ffshrine.org/members/warstar937-319057

Current Activity: Creating Thread Video Game Music Requests

I am beyond extremely surprised that the Kickstarter project has gathered so much attention and money so quickly. Was the OVA THAT good? Maybe I should go watch it again while restraining my ears from paying attention to the music so much.

It's pretty scary. I wasn't overly thrilled with the OVA - it was very pretty, the character designs were beautiful, the animation was exceptional by anime standards... but it was a plot-by-numbers. It's hard to introduce a world, introduce some characters, give us some backstory, give them something exciting to do, and tie up all the loose ends... all in 26 minutes. In the end, I don't think they were seriously trying - it's a superb animation showcase, but a terrible story: There are young witches; one of them is small,not very good, and doesn't come from a "wizard family"... and she's a fan of a celebrity witch who was famous when she was a kid... but everybody else believes the celebrity witch is a fraud. They do some exciting stuff, but the useless witch saves the day with a spell she learned from the celebrity witch, thus gaining the respect of her peers both for herself and for her celebrity idol. The snooty "proper witches" get a severe dressing down and the underdog prevails. THE END. That is literally that.

Nothing wrong with it... it is what it is; a short and highly indulgent film made with a luxurious budget, designed to show off the skills of a new generation of Japanese animators. It's the film equivalent of a showy Liszt piano shiowpiece; full of noise and bluster, outrageous levels of showing off... but devoid of soul - and that's exactly what it's supposed to be.

Of course, Oshima's score is out of this world... but I fear that the music isn't going to be a primary driving force behind making LWA 2, and I doubt whether the producers will seriously consider engaging A List, expensive Oshima and sending her half way across the world to record another fifteen minutes of music. Could be wrong... Stranger things have happened... That said, I'm calling it now - if LWA2 does happen, it will in order of likelihood a) have another composer who provides a cheap synthy score or maybe a spindly domestic orchestra, b) exclusively reuse the score from the first episode, c) have Oshima writing fragments of filler music for Gokusen-sized ensemble and they'll reuse the Moscow score for setpieces.

Now, if there's a movie or a TV series... I would say there's a reasonable chance of seeing a big score coming out of that... but I still don't know if I trust lightning to strike in the same place twice within two years...

Aw, fuck.

Post reported.


es ce que ya quelle q'un qui aurai album de christopher Lennertz saint sinner si quelle Q'un a quil menvoi le lien pour le telecharger

What the fuck ?! Awful. Thanks to tip a correct french. Post reported.


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Ce n'est pas le bon endroit pour les demandes! S'il vous plait cliquez le lien Herr Salat a la section de demande.

Ah !... Normal french...


...
Je parlez Francais un peu, tres tres limite- je suis desolee.

...

No, no, no ! Je parle, tu parles, il parle, nous parlons, vous parlez, ils parlent !... Please correct your post and send it to me by PM.


... And don't make me come back again for that, please.

*PARRRP* ;)

I haven't studied French since I was ten years old. :awsm: (Which was 19 years ago.)

Are you telling me this guy is speaking crappy French? Does this mean he's not French either? *grumbles*

I wish we could find out where he comes from so somebody could translate "FOR GOD'S SAKE, BUGGER OFF!" and he'd finally understand...

I am beyond extremely surprised that the Kickstarter project has gathered so much attention and money so quickly. Was the OVA THAT good? Maybe I should go watch it again while restraining my ears from paying attention to the music so much.
I'd like to believe there's another reason. Trigger is trying something new by going to Kickstarter. They are listening to their overseas audience and putting them in charge. We (overseas fans) are, for once, going to be able to get a sequel to an anime that was popular over here but not so much in Japan. And we are the ones making it happen.

Kickstarter and anime has never really taken off but think of what may happen after other studios see how successful this one is. It's exciting.

If they're making it for Western audiences, look forward to it sucking even harder... ;)

Fun fact: the last show directed by the head of Trigger was a TV anime that pretty much a homage to Western 90's cartoons.

Well, I just hope Oshima will be given enough budget for at least a decent orchestra. Sometimes though, as a humongous fan of her music, I would like to hear some non-orchestral music by Oshima. She can do jazz, bossa nova, chamber music, heartfelt piano solos, and more so well. Tenchijin soundtrack has this delicious track called "神秘", a jazzy piece that blends piano, violin, and guitar in an amazing way. Too bad it's so damn short at two minutes (I had to press repeat 20 times before moving onto the next track!). But of course, she's at her best with a big orchestra. :D I just want to hear the even more intimate side of her.

Trigger hasn't decided what the stretch goals will be for the KS yet. Hopefully, one of them will be to get the State Cinema Symphony Orchestra (or otherwise stellar group) back for the soundtrack recording. I don't think they've stated whether Oshima will be returning for it or not (and then an OST release!), but I've shot them the question over twitter. Here's hoping.

Ben Salisbury & Barnaby Taylor - Nature's Great Events

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/80757359/Natures+Great+Events+Music+from+the+Television+Ser +365961498495.jpg

TRACKLIST:
1 Nature's Great Events (Title)
2 The Great Forest
3 A Mountain Awakening
4 Hunting Salmon
5 Pacific Rain
6 The Great Melt
7 Mother & Cub
8 Narwhal Journey
9 Icy Waterfalls
10 Journey's End
11 The Sea Turns to Ice
12 The Mountain of God
13 Wildebeest Play
14 Stealth Attack
15 The Great Migration
16 The Pride Returns
17 The Great Flood
18 Dragonflies
19 Desperation
20 Elegy
21 Scorched Earth
22 Reaching Water
23 The Great Feast
24 Storm
25 Bubble Netting
26 The Great Tide
27 Super Pod
28 Dying Gannet
29 Gannets Take Off
30 The Attack Begins
31 Massed Attack
32 The Making Of

You can preview the music here (http://grooveshark.com/#!/album/Nature+s+Great+Events+Music+From+The+Television+Se ries/7353414"}])

Encoding: mp3 V0
Performed by: BBC Concert Orchestra
Released: 09 September 2009
℗ 2009 BBC Music



https://mega.co.nz/#!2MZV3ZAB!Fi20wiffQrhKx0s1QfLvjlCw1kEzRtvccvKqjzU p4Ww

*PARRRP* ;)

I haven't studied French since I was ten years old. :awsm: (Which was 19 years ago.)

Are you telling me this guy is speaking crappy French? Does this mean he's not French either? *grumbles*

I wish we could find out where he comes from so somebody could translate "FOR GOD'S SAKE, BUGGER OFF!" and he'd finally understand...

Or that could be worse... he could ACTUALLY be French, and "speaking" in SMS language (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_language).
I can also, being French myself, give you the translation to your all caps phrase, it is "POUR L'AMOUR DE DIEU, FOUS LE CAMP !".

Or that could be worse... he could ACTUALLY be French, and "speaking" in SMS language (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_language).
...

Or he could simply be illiterate. And come on, SMS language is done to take shortcuts, not to make as long sentences full of new words.

The only way it could be worse would be not to have the phonetical match wich is still recognizable here if you pronouce it. Otherwise I can tell this guy will be forbiden for a job for wich he'd have to write... And I mean even write "out of work" ! But I wonder if he did that on purpose.

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... Tango, where is the PM with your correction ??!!! I'm waiting !... And please don't tell me "je suis d�sol�e" like above, because you're a man, and man man says "je suis d�sol�" !

... Gosh ! I corrected it all now.

You're damn lucky I remembered *anything* of your crazy language. ;)

Speaking of which: WHICH, not WICH. RECOGNISABLE, not RECOGNIZABLE. Two can play at this game!

So what does everyone think of Go Sakabe being on his own so far? I think he did a pretty good job with Date A Live. I wasn't particularly amazed by anything but there are a good amount of tracks that i still listen to very often. I saw that he recently started doing another show called Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku but i after watching the first episode i don't care for much that was there.

You're damn lucky I remembered *anything* of your crazy language. ;)

Speaking of which: WHICH, not WICH. RECOGNISABLE, not RECOGNIZABLE. Two can play at this game!

... Yes but I don't speak a foreign language to show off. :-D ... I'm using it by necessity. I though s or z were good for "recognisable", like some words that have that difference from UK to US.

I wasn't trying to show off, I was working in desperation to get Warstar397 to understand that he's asking for requests in the wrong place... :P

The English of course never even bother with learning a foreign tongue. I've been talking to them many, many times, in pubs of course, and they were always very proud when they're able to say "Guten Tag" ;)

I think this is another good score coming from Bear McCreary. The main theme (what I am guessing is the Main Theme) at the beginning of the video is solid. It reminds me of his Battlestar and Da Vinci work. Sirius, I am posting this for you ;).
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=474189179330156

Nah... ;)

I wasn't trying to show off, I was working in desperation to get Warstar397 to understand that he's asking for requests in the wrong place... :P

Of course :)... But your french was too good for he understood ! :D... And if you knew how many times I need my dictionnary for speaking my own language. :P

A full symphonic score by Bear McCreary :). This one is very good and full of strong themes. This is uploaded by KevinG.

Link: Thread 136903

I am blown away by the music in the trailer for How to Train Your Dragon 2 as I can tell it is written by John Powell. Of course it was confirmed a while ago that he was returning, but I can't wait for this one. I really enjoyed the first one and the music for this sounds all the more powerful and exhilarating.

How To Train Your Dragon 2 - Video Dailymotion (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x11teqw_how-to-train-your-dragon-2_shortfilms?start=1#.UeBvhW1vq-E)

Blown away? I didn't care for it at all. There was no sense of the fantasy wish fulfillment in that scene. It was just very loud music.

I am blown away by the music in the trailer for How to Train Your Dragon 2 as I can tell it is written by John Powell. Of course it was confirmed a while ago that he was returning, but I can't wait for this one. I really enjoyed the first one and the music for this sounds all the more powerful and exhilarating.

How To Train Your Dragon 2 - Video Dailymotion (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x11teqw_how-to-train-your-dragon-2_shortfilms?start=1#.UeBvhW1vq-E)
Gorgeous! That looks and sounds very promising!


Blown away? I didn't care for it at all. There was no sense of the fantasy wish fulfillment in that scene.
Yeah, that's my usual reaction to Oshima's music which some of you always go crazy about ;)

Interesting. What do you not like about Oshima, Liquid?

That HTTYD 2 didn't do anything for me. Sounds like cheap music for a typical family fun movie. :D

Interesting. What do you not like about Oshima, Liquid?
See below.


That HTTYD 2 didn't do anything for me.
That's my usual reaction to her music. I can't say what I particularly dislike about it -- I just don't find it interesting at all.

To each their own I suppose :). I am hoping the complete score will hold just as much wonder as the last one. John Powell usually doesn't disappoint for me at least.

What did you guys think of The Cape or Europa Report?

Aniplex published 4 music samples for Genei wo Taiyo Kakeru by Tatsuya Kato for anyone who is interested.

Music｜オリジナルアニメーション「幻影ヲ駆ケル太陽」公式サイト (http://www.geneitaiyo.com/music/)

Aniplex published 4 music samples for Genei wo Taiyo Kakeru by Tatsuya Kato for anyone who is interested.

Music｜オリジナルアニメーション「幻影ヲ駆ケル太陽」公式サイト (http://www.geneitaiyo.com/music/)Have they announced a CD yet? Already got a list of stuff i'm planning on getting this season.

Free!
Genei wo Kakeru Taiyou
Highschool DxD 2
Fate/Kaleid liner
Mushibugyou (technically this is from last season but haven't seen a OST pop up for it yet)
Hakkenden 2
Makai Ouji: Devils and Realist (i like this one the most so far)
Blood Lad
Silver Spoon
Stella Women's Academy, High School Division Class C3
Inu to Hasami wa Tsukaiyou

Music this season isn't as good as the last one but still i'm one of those people who will buy a soundtrack if even ONE song catches my ear that i like xP.

It's Aniplex so expect bonus CD treatment.

To each their own I suppose :). I am hoping the complete score will hold just as much wonder as the last one. John Powell usually doesn't disappoint for me at least.

I am really, looking forward to it, though I didnt get much out of the trailer music.

I don't deny that Djawadi's score for Pacific Rim is very much in the realm of generic sounding RC themes. Still, he wrote a quite catchy main theme and it was fabulous in the film. Thanks for all the shares while I was gone. I will check them out and see what is good :) But seriously go see Pacific Rim, so amazing!

Kousuke Yamashita - Getsumen Toheiki Mina ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
FLAC|CUE|LOG
Not My Rip


VGMDB (http://vgmdb.net/album/23240)

DOWNLOAD: https://mega.co.nz/#!5B4yHawR!bewMslhUcqBZX1G8_YcSnzWf-hpvz8WASm7cqKE_11M

Lossless upgrade for a very enjoyable Yamashita soundtrack.

Yo has anyone checked out the music for Kiniro Mosaic yet?

Gotta say it's VERY enjoyable so far and there lots of moments in the show where the music is left to shine in it's own glory. The show also wasn't to bad either. If i had to compare the music to something recent i'd say it's a bit like photokano but the tracks are MUCH longer. Major hype for this one :3.

Something I made and collected from another sexploitation anime with good music.
What do you guys think of Masaru Yokoyama music and compositions?



TV ANIME [FREEZING] ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK -COLLECTED BONUS BD- (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f91/tv-anime-%5Bfreezing%5D-original-soundtrack-collected-bonus-137178/#post2396477)

Release date: 2013.07.15 (Custom Soundtrack)
2011.03.30 to 2011.07.27 (Original BD releases)
Catalogue number: N/a
Label: Media Factory

Music by: Masaru Yokoyama

Main Theme for the film Europa Report:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIFmiaT5u2Y

I really love this composition. The string ensemble and piano really work well. The melodies and ostinati are addictive. To those who dread McCreary's synth sound from Defiance, you will hear be in for a treat as the only part that has synthesizer sounds would be a few seconds in the beginning. After that, we are treated to some top notch chamber style music. I am really excited for this one to release, which I believe will be soon.

Oh and he will also be scoring the music to Marvel's Agents of Shield and Starz's Black Sails, which tells the tale of Captain Flint before Treasure Island. It will be interesting to hear how he handles the music for both. This seems to be his year and the fact that he acknowledges that Shirley Walker's score to Batman: The Animated Series as the best score in superhero TV music is a plus ;).

Indeed, pacific Rim was quite awesome, I saw it yesterday. I agree on the music too. Still this film kinda makes a live action Evangelion unnecessary. At least right now, still want to see one though. I view the film as a vindication for all us Anime fans. Took about 30 years, but we're finally getting some recognition of sorts.

TOSHIYUKI WATANABE - SECOND MOVEMENT ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
320K MP3 | 146.1 MB | 24 TRACKS - 01:06:58
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra


Catalog Number: AVCL-25784
Release Date: May 22, 2013

Tracklist
1. 絆を紡いで
2. 開演～はじまりの調べ～
3. Professional～表舞台～
4. My Home
5. 守るべきもの
6. 裏切り～衝撃から絶望へ～
7. 裏切り～疑惑～
8. 予感
9. 闇
10. 絶望
11. 雪解け～和解～
12. Professional～情熱～
13. よみがえる音楽への渇望
14. 井戸端会議
15. 女友達の絆
16. 侵食
17. Professional～苦悩～
18. ランデブー
19. 母性
20. 終演
21. 絆を紡いで [ピアノ・ソロ]
22. ヴァイオリン協奏曲:第1楽章より
23. コンソレーション第3番
24. パガニーニの主題による狂詩曲:第18変奏


Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!ccs1STgB!Du4Zvm0nvXn-KISEMm9b3W6j-NhDN5eW04NlTwHO4qo

Got this off Xiami. The entire soundtrack is classical and it's quite nice.

I had a couple extra downloads leftover so here's some bonus Yugo Kanno that I hadn't heard before. [1] (http://kiwi6.com/file/8vx6kid292) [2] (http://kiwi6.com/file/4g6d2u2dz5) - Gonna have to get the rest later.

Thanks!

Two new Hisaishi soundtracks just got posted on astost...

If they are what I think they are, bugger! I was going to post them later today! ;)

They are and I hope you still do.

Does anyone happen to have a complete Puella Magi Madoka Magica collection? (just the soundtracks).

I used to think Yuki was only a decent composer but after hearing the a couple tracks from the show i think she might be on my AUTO buy list. (so far only Takanashi is on it so that says something there ;)

But bloodly hell aniplex completely raped with show with enclosures didn't they? o_O

I was collecting the Puella Magi Madoka Magica music but then it started to bore me. Sword Art Online is even worse. I do have volumes 1, 2, and 3 of Magica if you are interested in those.

I am very much interested yes :).

If i'm not mistaken there have only been 3 osts released for the series + the new movie OST coming out the 24th?

Yuki Kajiura - Puella Magi Madoka Magica Bonus Soundtracks 1-3
MP3 320kbps

Download (https://mega.co.nz/#!CF9hhS6C!FH6gYzDITqBKs9hxkwOD-gbBKoZ-uQHiV4rdHN5qxXM)

Uploaded by request. All 3 are in one RAR. Typical Yuki Kajiura here.

So the new trailer for Rome II has a closer look at the score and while the battle tracks are a bit too rythmic for my taste and have that annoying trailer music vibe, the cinematics have some old sword and sandal movie vibe to them (at least from what I've heared from the previews) so perhaps it won't be necessary to replace all of the game music with Gabriel Yared's Troy, Alexander, Titus and LAIR.

Lend Me Your Ears - The Audio of Total War: ROME II (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWgis-j5BZk&feature=c4-overview&list=UUugJq15BiB-c1NDYPHiznWQ)

JOE HISAISHI - THE WIND RISES SOUNDTRACK
FLAC, LOG, CUE | SCANS | BONUS CD | 314.0 MB | 34 TRACKS | 58:50
Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Joe Hisaishi


VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/38888)
Catalog Number: TKCA-73920
Release Date: July 17, 2013

Tracklist
01 旅路 (夢中飛行)
02 流れ星
03 カプローニ (設計家の夢)
04 旅路 (決意)
05 菜穂子 (出会い)
06 避難
07 恩人
08 カプローニ (幻の巨大機)
09 ときめき
10 旅路(妹)
11 旅路(初出社)
12 隼班
13 隼
14 ユンカース
15 旅路 (イタリアの風)
16 旅路 (カプローニの引退)
17 旅路 (軽井沢の出会い)
18 菜穂子 (運命)
19 菜穂子 (虹)
20 カストルプ (魔の山)
21 風
22 紙飛行機
23 菜穂子 (プロポーズ)
24 八試特偵
25 カストルプ (別れ)
26 菜穂子 (会いたくて)
27 菜穂子 (めぐりあい)
28 旅路 (結婚)
29 菜穂子 (眼差し)
30 旅路 (別れ)
31 旅路 (夢の王国)
32 ひこうき雲

-BONUS CD-
01 旅路(夢中飛行)《MONO》
02 菜穂子(めぐりあい)《MONO》

Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!sJcSHKRC!NKkk-HqSCqSkcBuLXrRFVCZSWURLNYv5_i-YYhprIgU

The tracks are a bit short but this is still wonderful. I'm loving the main theme. Please enjoy.

Didn't know Studio Ghibli was still making stuff. I always loved their movies ^_^.

Thanks for the score as well :)

Not only is this a Ghibli movie, it's a Miyazaki movie - his first in 5 years and reportedly one of his last. It's apparently a pretty unique film and I'm really looking forward to seeing it.

Also, the main character is voiced by Hideaki Anno for some reason.

By the way, since I suspect someone else here would be interested, I wanted to share information about an app (for smartphones)/ application (for computer) that I recently started using that is very useful for learning Japanese (and any other language). The app on android is called Ankidroid Flash Cards but you can also sign up for Ankiweb.net on the web. Basically it is a flash card app you can use to supplement a book or class, or you can use certain sets that work well for learning directly from them.

The most useful one I have found so far is a Japanese Core 2000 set with audio of sentences and then the translation and writing of the sentence. I wouldn't use this as a complete beginner but it is useful if you have taken Japanese in the past and want to refresh and strengthen your learning. Some basic learning in a class or through something like Japan-Activator (Ja Sensei on android) would be necessary before starting so that you know basic Japanese grammar including how particles work etc.

nextday: Thanks for the new Hisaishi.

Sirus: Are you learning Japanese right now? How is it for you? :)


Here's Kaze Tachinu English Tracklist. We are probably gonna have localized English track titles but until then, this will suffice.
1. Journey (Dreamy Flight)
2. Shooting Star
3. Caproni (Engineer's Dream)
4. Journey (Determination)
5. Naoko (Meeting)
6. Evacuation
7. Benefactor
8. Caproni (Illusory Giant Machine)
9. Excitement
10. Journey (Sister)
11. Journey (First Day of Work)
12. Squad Falcon
13. Falcon
14. Junkers
15. Journey (Wind of Italia)
16. Journey (Caproni's Retirement)
17. Journey (Meeting at Karuizawa)
18. Naoko (Fate)
19. Naoko (Rainbow)
20. Castorp (The Magic Mountain)
21. Wind
22. Paper Airplane
23. Naoko (Propose)
24. Surveillant Prototype 8
25. Castorp (Farewell)
26. Naoko (Yearning)
27. Naoko (Crossing Paths)
28. Journey (Marriage)
29. Naoko (Gaze)
30. Journey (Farewell)
31. Journey (Dreamland)
32. Vapor Trail

Yeah, I took 3 semesters in university so it isn't so bad. I started up again since my fiance (male) decided to learn Spanish in his free time. I had a few tools but they weren't what I needed so flash cards like this help me to focus on doing a small amount per day. I still remember a decent amount so it isn't so bad. I found a few good grammar ones to use as well. Then in a while I will try reading some shounen manga I have lying around in Japanese.

Does anyone know a score by Akira Senju that is similar to Valrave? Been wanting more of his work for a while now :).

Similar is exactly the word to describe a huge part of his scores, some pieces are just carbon copies with a different melody on top and action is usually not his strong point (Valvrave is a pleasant surprise in that regard) but he has composed magnificent scores for Red Garden, Victory Gundam and Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood. They are of course more lyrical or have more of the traditional epic grandour than the more straightforward approach in Valvrave but Tales of Vesperia ~The First Strike~ or his very short Grand Odyssey sound more like it than others.

I must confess... I'm getting tired of Senju. Not because the music is bad, but because it's the exact same score over and over and over again. Listening to a Senju score, it seems almost encoded into the fabric of the music that he'd rather be doing something else. That and, as you said, the guy just isn't an action composer. He's a melodist, and a romantic. Some of the harmonies in Valvrave wouldn't be out of place in a syrupy 1950s string arrangement. But, when all is said and done, he's writing the same music he did twenty years ago; not just the same style but the same damn everything... but it's missing something. In 1993, he gave a damn. Now, he doesn't give a damn. That's the impression I get.

Oshima's been in the game as long as Senju, give or take a few years... and she's doing her best work RIGHT NOW. She's getting better every score. Senju is writing limp retreads of earlier scores. He's coasting. Sometimes he's inspired - I know some folk in this thread will disagree, but I still say FMA Brotherhood was one of his best, if not his best work full stop... but by and large, Senju snoozes through his projects these days, reusing themes, harmonies, progressions, orchestrations left, right and centre, and putting in the barest minimum effort necessary.

I do not have the foggiest idea why he takes these sci-fi assignments, when he's borderline incompetent at action music, but literally a magician at the art of lyrical melody. Senju on a romantic tragedy drama, YES PLEASE! Senju on another sci-fi show, I'll pass...

There's nothing wrong with Valvrave... but wouldn't you rather listen to V Gundam? If somebody took away Valvrave, would you feel like you were missing out on something really special?

Am I just being a miserable shit?

...Wait, don't answer that. ;)

Well I've rarely gotten into Senju in the first place. I just grab his stuff because it is orchestral Japanese stuff. I found FMA brotherhood to be pretty bland really (though I couldn't really get into Oshima's FMA scores either). I didn't particularly enjoy Valrave either.

I personally would place both FMA among the best scores ever written for an anime. Especially Oshima's score (including the movie score) has not only a great tragic core (Brothers and Homunculus) but superb orchestration and romantic feel on top of the heroic marches (I really love the Alchemist Theme), bombastic action and somber piano pieces. Xam'd has a stronger personal identity but I love the epic scale and romanticism of FMA a bit more. Brotherhood is overall the darker score of the two and feels less like a film score and more like a concert work. I must say that I'm not very fond of some tracks here and there but it has real standouts like the Amestris Theme and by god that is perhaps my favourite military march from an anime and it's really a stroke of genius how something so relativly simple on paper can have so much power, glory and grandour.

JOE HISAISHI
Kiseki no Ringo (Fruits Of Faith)
The Tokyo New City Orchestra



conducted by The Composer
Tadashi Aoyama, mandolin
Mikihiko Matsumiya, guitar and ukulele
Ikuo Kakehashi, Jew's harp

FLAC. English track titles and scans included. NOT MY RIP. All the gratitude in the world to my Japanese friend who wishes to remain anonymous but who hopes you're enjoying the music.

https://mega.co.nz/#!c8gDxLqC!WsySeVk7T1otT_VHa9_fqR1hGr5RYN6jZDdEWjm rabk

A million apologies for how long it's taken to get this up! Hopefully it'll be worth the wait.

What do we have here, then? Well, for starters, an absolutely KILLER theme - and that's bearing in mind Hisaishi's skill as a melodist. We first hear it in the first track as a trumpet solo - a cheerful melody calling back to Hisaishi's early Ghibli work (splashes of Totoro and Laputa) that expands out into a lovely pastoral piece for full orchestra. Nobody, truly nobody, can score a beautiful sunny day like Hisaishi. You can feel the warmth and taste the apples. There is a significant role for mandolin, guitar, and ukulele (unusual for Hisaishi) which blends with the orchestra beautifully, and if you're wondering what that weird springy noise is... that's the Jew's harp! (Which, incidentally, is nothing to do with Jews or Judaism, and is in fact an instrument native to the Asian continent.)

As is usually the case with film scores, the cues are short, with over half the tracks coming in under two minutes and only five tracks over three minutes... but it's Hisaishi, and he says what he needs to say in the time he has to say it. The short cues feel just long enough - and the album plays beautifully as a complete listening experience; ignore the tracks flicking past and imagine it's an episodic symphony divided up into 28 parts.

It's youthful, it's happy, it's joyous. I admit I didn't really enjoy it the first time I listened... but then I listened to it on a gorgeous summer's afternoon, relaxing with a glass of good cider, with the sun pouring down... and then it all made sense.

Coming up... we've heard Hisaishi's ode to sunshine... later on, we'll hear his ode to the sea...

Enjoy :)
TT

AKIRA SENJU
The Mystery Of Rampo
The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Vaclav Neumann (tracks 1, 3, and 20) and Mario Klemens (all other tracks)



https://mega.co.nz/#!ZlYBwKxT!OjSdAjHn5sulXrh9gtZNrkEn4RJpdPBOh0qVjrr 9U8o

My rip. FLAC Level 8. Booklet scans and English track listing included. This rip is from the USA release by Discovery Records, so includes English sleeve notes as well in the very informative booklet.

What with recent less-than-complimentary discussion about Akira Senju, let's have possibly his finest score of all time, in a nice upgrade to FLAC. There are two versions floating about online; the first is an awful cassette transfer that plays too slow and is plagued by hiss and a more recent rip at 320kbps from Xiami, released to us courtesy of our own Herr Salat... Now, there are three.

The Mystery Of Rampo is a film which fits Senju's skills and strengths like a glove. Melody, harmony, emotion. This is where he shines - this is the sort of music at which there is simply no finer composer. In the sleeve notes, he writes about the profound effect the film had on him ("When I saw the rough edit of the film on video before music had been set to it, I felt tense with emotion. The world of Rampo was already completed in my mind. I was over-joyed at being surrounded by such talent and genius. Everything I had been trying to find in Japanese films for the past five years was in this work. I have devoted all of my knowledge and experience into the making of this recording. As a composer and creator of music, I could not have had a more wonderful or electrifying experience.) -- and his enthusiasm is clear in the score. Completely original, delicate, darkly romantic, sumptuous, beautiful. If you're more familiar with Senju the awkward action composer, or Senju the recycler... give this one a try... this is Senju the wizard, Senju the genius.

Technical note: I had a devil's own job getting a good rip of this CD. The CD itself is in spotless physical condition, but when I tried to rip it, it failed repeatedly on Tracks 6 and 7. After trying six different CD-ROM drives, I managed to get a rip that completed without any error. Track 7 failed AccurateRip, although it registered no read or sync errors, and EAC verified it as accurately ripped - so I'm confident that this is of good quality.

Oh yes, and I am aware that the last track is the same as the first track. ;)

Enjoy! :)
TT

[EDIT: Link now visible!]

Tribute to
JERRY GOLDSMITH
FREE AS THE WIND
The Japan Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Taizō Takemoto (1, 10-12), Tomomi Nishimoto (2-9, 13), Ryūsuke Numajiri (16)

FLAC + LOG + SCANS | 17 Tracks | 00:49:37 | 273 MB

Release Date: 26.11.2004
Published by: King Records
Catalog Number: KICC 509



01. Capricorn One
02. The Sand Pebbles
03. Chinatown
04. Air Force One
05. A Patch of Blue
06. Poltergeist
07. Pappilon
08. Basic Instinct
09. The Wind and the Lion
10. Suite from Twilight Zone:The Movie
11. The Mummy: Camel Race
12. The Mummy: Sand storm
13. Patton: Entr'acte
14. Rambo
15. Total Recall
16. Alien
17. Star Trek: Nemesis

You have to re-name track 6. I didn't check. It should be "Poltergeist". Sorry ^^"

Track 15 "Total Recall": Deafening percussion... Fortunately stops / a more pleasant one is used at 1:36 onward.


There is no neck under Jerry Goldsmith's ponytail, only a tatoo of another great score to a B-grade action movie.

At a signing back in the 90s Jerry Goldsmith wrote a few musical notes for a fan on his copy of the soundtrack to The Mummy. Those few notes later became the score to The 13th Warrior. (That fan was, in fact, Graeme Revell)

Jerry Goldsmith wrote the score for Alien between lunchtime and dinnertime, then wrote Star Trek: The Motion Picture for dessert.

The line Harrison Ford speaks from Air Force One "Get off my plane!" is actually based on a feud Jerry Goldsmith once had with Randy Newman in which during a heated argument Goldsmith was known to have said "Get off my podium!"

Before settling on the Euro, the Italian government considered changing their currency from lira to Jerry Goldsmith soundtracks.

Jerry Goldsmith has never had a rejected score. It is his scores that sometimes reject movies.

Jerry Goldsmith's theme to Star Trek Voyager is the first example of a TV series created solely to fit the music he wrote for it.

Jerry Goldsmith was told to write a very classical and tonal score to Planet of the Apes. Something like Mozart or Mendelssohn. But Jerry Goldsmith only takes orders from one person: Jerry Goldsmith.

Once on the Todd AO scoring stage a violist coughed between takes of LA Confidential's soundtrack so Jerry Goldsmith fired the entire orchestra and recorded the entire score entirely with hand farts.

DOWNLOAD
https://mega.co.nz/#!ggkwkT4K!LuT8azLGm4w5Dww2bW2LrzMxJMIgF-juUaegvkZOwbo

Bless you, my friend; your timing is impeccable.

RIP Jerry Goldsmith - after nine years the pain still doesn't go away.

I have read what some of you thought of the initial previews of Martin O'Donnell's music to Destiny, but I encourage you guys to give this a shot. It is the best effort by O'Donnell yet, imo. It sounds more musically mature than Halo ever was. I love the melodies and orchestration. Very powerful and moving! Sorry for the poor YouTube quality, but it is listenable ;). I hope you all enjoy his as much as I did.

Destiny Concert! Video Games Live! [Comic Con 2013] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ29DbT-wjY)

All I can say is...

BUNGIE YOU BEST PUT DESTINY ON PC OR AM I GOING TO BE VERY DISPLEASED.

As for the music, it started off alight but then turned into a fairly enjoyable piece.

DOCTOR WHO AT THE 2013 BBC PROMS
As Performed by the BBC Orchestra of Wales, Conducted by Ben Foster
Running Time: 1"22'44 | MP3 256



1.Murray Gold - A Mad Man in a Box (2:53)
2.Murray Gold - I am the Doctor & Words Win Wars (5:03)
3.Murray Gold - The Companions Suite (6:55)
4.Murray Gold - Cyber Shard (4:41)
5.Murray Gold - The Final Chapter of Amelia Pond (6:20)
6.Murray Gold - The Rings of Akhaten (4:28)
7.Murray Gold - All Those Strange, Strange Creatures (3:35)
8.Murray Gold - The Impossible Girl (3:37)
9.Tristram Cary, Malcolm Clarke, Dudley Simpson, Paddy Kingsland, Peter Howell, Jonathan Gibbs, and Mark Ayres - Classic Doctor Who Medley (7:59)
10.Gabe Stone and Matthew Owen - Create A Soundtrack - Senior Category (1:43)
11.William Davenport and Jordan Picken - Create A Soundtrack - Junior Category (1:20)
12.Murray Gold - The Daleks & First There Were Daleks (5:28)
13.Murray Gold - The Name of the Doctor (7:34)
14.Murray Gold - Song for Fifty (10:52)
15.Murray Gold - Vale Decem (3:10)
16.Ron Grainer and Murray Gold - Doctor Who Theme Tune (1:39)
17.Murray Gold - The Rings of Akhaten (Unedited) (5:27)

https://mega.co.nz/#!SRBD0JhY!Yb-gVhfMtWx1_RYpdpjp_hLHYCQEwDTVZhNFjkibXzA

If you have never listened to Doctor Who (and somehow managed to miss my release of the 2010 Proms), then this is a great way to get a taste of Murray Gold's awesome music.

The Rings of Ahkaten and Song for Fifty are just pure bliss.

Jesus, what an appalling audience. Sorry, world... we can't even show respect for our own stuff any more.

Really? I didn't mind them too much at all - it's not even close to what we got with Zelda.

I mean, I would say 85% of the music is completely uninterrupted - and that is including both the audience and the video that is played in the background! Honestly, you hear the worse of it with "I Am the Doctor" - but even then goes in phases in only the opening third.

But on an additional note, the crowd IS encouraged to do this. Between the monsters that are on the stairs interacting with the audience, and the big gargantuan video (with sound!) I am not at all surprised that the audience goes off into cheers every now and then.

This time, I would out more blame on BBC than on the audience. The whole atmosphere just says "fan wank".[COLOR="Silver"]

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Okay boys and girls, let us have an itsy bitsy winsy little chat about a little dinosaur called Godzilla.

And by a chat about Godzilla, I obviously mean the music for the franchise! This is Pirate Music HQ after all.

So, between 2004 and 2010 Toho released six gargantuan box sets containing fifty hours of music spread across 29 different films.

That's right. Fifty. Hours. I will let that settle in your head before we continue.

But to be fair, let me be a little bit critical. I am still in the Shōwa Era right now, having just finished listening to "Godzilla's Revenge"...and Akira Ifukube, bless his heart, is just on redial after "King Kong Vs. Godzilla". I am not exaggerating when I saw a good 40% of all he does is copying and pasting themes from his first two Godzilla flicks. Granted these are all GOOD cues, but after sixty listens to an essentially unedited theme I am getting sick of it.

Fortunately towards the end of the Shōwa Era we get some relief in the form of Mr. Masaru Sato, who does not use ANY of Ifukube's themes whatsover (much to everyone's relief). Now this could very well be nostalgia talking, as I watched the every living hell out of "Ebirah, Horror of the Deep" when I was a kid, but Sato uses California Surfer Guitars in a very refreshing way. "A Sailboat, a Storm and a Monster" still manages to give me a certain sense of dread, and his chase theme is ridiculously good (even if it is at less than a minute).

Kunio Miyauchi's work for "Godzilla's Revenge" is just a big bore though, but the whole movie is a turd so we shouldn't expect anything else.

Anyways, I split the release three ways, one for each of the Kaiju Eras: Shōwa (https://mega.co.nz/#!uc4nlIyR!HR0c4WJjQLevbbb5TWIyDGjPUeNBJC13980I6Hk LrjY), Heisei (https://mega.co.nz/#!TJokyaQb!X-MSny8m3jZohX_26ki-CDnVzOBW5ld2bx6tafg9MiQ), and then Millennium (https://mega.co.nz/#!XRoEEKBI!GNKp9GkbX8T6-ty2kVybzAoT5kIRMJFyoiCFZv8aZg4). That means you are going to get some very big downloads - all three together will be around nearly 6 GB. I felt that was a better option than having 39 different .rar (29 film soundtracks + Godzilla Unleashed + 9 Bonus Releases).

I posted a few individual Godzilla scores from the box set a while back, specifically the ones by Michiru Oshima, Koichi Sugiyama, and Takayuki Hattori. Are all of these in the Millennium set?

Sirus, could you please link me to the post with those Godzilla scores?

Any prior links are probably dead so I won't spend a long time trying to find them. I mentioned it so that people know that the Millennium stuff has music from those composers. You might as well just grab what Doublehex just posted.

JOE HISAISHI
NHK Special Giant Deep Sea Creatures (2013)
(aka NHK Shinkai Project)



https://mega.co.nz/#!U9oCWZTZ!ahqds32-HT_Pa2BCpGxPki0QT-kflF7M6mzFtPZhwuY

Orchestra conducted by The Composer

NOT MY RIP. FLAC. Many thanks indeed to a former member of FFshrine who doesn't post any more, but who has given me permission to share this with you. Track titles in English (a competent translation by a native Japanese speaker, not my usual wonky translation...) and unfortunately no booklet scans... If I find them, I'll update this post.

Joe Hisaishi scoring a prestigious nature documentary for NHK� surely this must be some fantastic dream? No dream! This is, for me, one of the rare occasions where my desires, my expectations, and the completed score, completely match up. So, what was I hoping for?

First of all, a Taiga Drama-style full length main theme � a nice, three minute chunk of music. Check. We have a delicious, fully symphonic main title theme, with a beginning, middle, and end � a concert suite tone-poem.

Secondly, a strong and romantic theme that didn�t just crop up once and then disappear forever; something that would function both as a full length theme and as a series of melodic and harmonic ideas that could be broken down into their constituent elements and peppered throughout the score. Check.

Thirdly, for Hisaishi to continue with his recent experimentation phase and try something a bit different. Check.

Finally, for Hisaishi to perhaps revisit and expand upon his �water� ideas from Ponyo. Check.

Essentially, this score is Joe Hisaishi � A Sea Symphony. If you�re looking for three descriptive words� elegant, passionate, warm. Also of interest� not even the mighty Hisaishi is above writing in what I�ve come to call the �NHK style� � there�s just something about these grand NHK scores� not for one moment do composers lose their unique voice (and certainly not Hisaishi) but there�s always *something* in there which sets the music apart from the composer�s usual style. Oshima did it in Planet Of Life and Data Map For 3.6 Billion People� Hattori Takayuki did it in Shinsengumi� Even Akira Senju did it in Furinkazan. Now, Joe Hisaishi joins the ranks and melds the NHK sound perfectly with his own technique.

Well, what can I say? I really liked Kiseki no Ringo� but I absolutely adore this one. It�s got a great theme, Hisaishi�s amazing (and STILL maturing) mastery of the modern symphony orchestra, and some cracking action - Strong Creature Of The Deep Sea, Bluntnose Sixgill Shark is just brutal; I�ve never heard Hisaishi so raw and so� dangerous � and he�s channelling Janacek! It�s funny how all over the world, documentaries consistently bring out the best in our treasured film composers� truly, there is nothing more fantastical than the natural world! Please enjoy this wonderful exercise in COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY IGNORING every single �development� modern film scoring techniques have undergone; absolutely timeless, a great score today that will still be a great score in 100 years.

Enjoy! :)
TT

I can't explain what exactly it was but I listened to Deep Sea Creatures a few times and it did not grab me in the slightest. To me it felt like it was lacking in all that really makes Hisaishi interesting. You are certainly correct that it is very raw and brutal. Perhaps the word I would use is dark.

May I ask what you enjoy about Hisaishi that's missing here?

That sounds like a "WTF is wrong with you???!" request but it's actually genuine... To me, this score is everything that makes Hisaishi interesting - a roll call of his talent, all rolled up into one package... I'd be fascinated to hear your thoughts. :)

I haven't listened to it, but I already know what Sirusjr doesn't like.

It's dark. He hates "dark" music. He likes it when music is lighthearted, heroic and optimistic. When music starts to take a slant towards the darker side of human nature that is a big turn off for him.

To me it sounded like it was lacking 1) a core theme that resonated with me, and 2) hope. Then again i also took a long time to warm to Kiseki no Ringo so perhaps it is just how I relate to Hisaishi. I still can't really enjoy Mononoke Hime because it is too dark for me. I think Doublehex is pretty close in describing exactly what it is. The best way I can explain it is how many horror scores make me nervous while listening to them because they are too effective. Rather than feeling the music driving me forward or touching my heart, I feel it pulling me down into a deep dark depression. Wolverine (Marco Beltrami) and World War Z (also Beltrami) are two good examples of this.

Million thanks for Deep Sea Creatures. Haven't gotten to it yet, but already excited. Ringo was great, but this one seems like it'll be more...full. Look at all those long, meaty track lengths...

So anyway, looking forward to this. Always tended to like Hisaishi at his darkest. Mononoke, Le Petit Poucet, even Onna Nobunaga exhibit the man's talent at creeping dissonance and rhythmic drive that still sounds grandoise and purposeful.

Dark sounds good, I prefer the dark serious stuff, why do you think I'm always going on about Jin-Roh? Big dark powerful emotional pieces get me going. Same for Taku Iwasaki's Now and Then, Here and There. That 20 minute Standing In The Sunset Glow is amazing. Dark, sad, really sad, and a little uplifting at the end. I'm looking forward to hearing this one.

Tango - I am more irritated by the dialog and sound effects over the music than the audience. I mean really, I thought we were over dialog on our soundtracks.

Tell me about it... It's rather sad. The first Doctor Who concert in 2006 was a very classy affair; it was marketed and planned as a classical concert and the audience reacted appropriately. Now, they're sold almost like Doctor Who Live with an orchestra there too. It's really not about the music at all, any more; it's about noise, spectacle, Daleks, and stupid children. Pity, yes... Surprise, no...

I would still go in a heartbeat. The audience are quiet through many pieces, such as "Rings of Akhaten" and "Song for Fifty", and their cheers are not so pervasive to ruin my enjoyment of the music.

Tango, I think it is still about the music, but it is marketed as a concert that will be easier for people to go to. They do still play classical pieces after all.

I'm asking this here because I don't want to offend any sensibilities in the actual thread:

"Tree of Life - Audiomachine"

100 requests in a few days - what's this about??? I listened to the Youtube selection, and it's almost obscenely trivial. Why are there so many requests?

Trailer music is the new obsession for those who have recently become interested in film music.

Thanks for the new Hisaishi, tango.

Anyone care to recommend some other sea/water themed soundtracks? Doesn't necessarily have to be orchestral.

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Kon-Tiki by Johan Soderqvist, quite nice exotic score.
Shogun Mayeda by John Scott - one of his finest scores, delightful theme
Solisterrae by Pascal Gaigne - a delightful relaxing score. I have no idea what the film is about but it shows the beach on the cover.
Those are the first few that come to mind.

Not orchestral ... well then here's my favorite: ARIA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY3M8XNlNrQ)
Absolutly love the three soundtracks, no better music for a relaxing afternoon (besides a Hisaishi score), also the most relaxing show I've watched with really beautiful moments.

I love Aria as well. The Origination soundtrack is still one of my most played albums.

Could someone please re-up Tact I and II, plus Unknown Aspects of the British Museum by Taro Iwashiro? I missed these. I usually prefer FLAC, but I doubt anyone has them in that format. Lately I've been listening to a lot of Taro's music. I still can't find the FLAC version of Red Cliff II. He's such a good composer. This, however, does not mean that all of his music is great. Some of his music really lacks in all aspects.

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Heres my recent purchase. For anyone wondering Sakurasou is an anime (that turned out to be pretty good in the long run) that ended like two seasons ago but you know thanks to Media Factory marketing it's only now getting it's second OST. Gotta love those them scumbags amirite? :).

TGCS-7337 | SAKURASOU NO PET NA KANOJO Special Disc Vol.7 Soundtrack2 - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/35765)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/img050_zps66b4ef98.jpg.html)

Title: SAKURASOU NO PET NA KANOJO Special Disc Vol.7 Soundtrack2
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Yuzo Hayashi
No. of tracks: 25
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Jul 24, 2013
Size: MP3 154mb/ ALAC 288mb
Host: Zippyshare/MP3 Mega/ALAC

Tracklist
01 Ginga Neko Nyaboron no Theme
02 VS Nyagoro Seijin
03 Nekoze no Ein
04 Meatball Beam!
05 Utsukushiki Ai no Hoshi yo, Eien ni
06 Suimei Geijutsu Daigaku Fuzoku Koutou Gakkou Kouka
07 Daremo Inai Asa
08 Masshiro na Canvas
09 Nee, Sorata
10 E wo Kaite Kita no
11 Watashi wa Sorata mo Kizutsuketa?
12 DAYS of DASH piano arr.
13 Ganbareteru kana
14 Tensai to Bonjin
15 Tensai
16 Jibun no Ibasho Kurai, Jibun de Kimero
17 Watashi no Naka kara Dete Itte
18 Kegareta Canvas
19 Kimi ga Yume o Tsuretekita guitar arr.
20 Tomodachi
21 Ganbatte Miru yo
22 Ippai, Arigatou
23 Itsumo Miteru yo
24 Namae wo Yonde
25 Kyou no Hi wa Sayounara

320 kbs MP3
Zippyshare.com - SAKURASOU NO PET NA KANOJO Original Soundtrack vol.2.7z (http://www25.zippyshare.com/v/76804215/file.html)

ALAC (Loseless)
https://mega.co.nz/#!ScJDRTLL!LO7TlTBXYiq8-Kf1acXFT2I0GXdSLOez_v8nwF5Aq8M


ANZX-9030 | VIVIDRED OPERATION Original Soundtrack 02 - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/38238)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/img002_zpsc916fa77.jpg.html)

Title: VIVIDRED OPERATION Original Soundtrack 02
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Hideyuki Fukasawa, Shinya Saito, Satoru Kosaki
No. of tracks: 23
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Jul 24, 2013
Size: MP3 167mb/ ALAC 356mb
Host: Zippyshare/MP3 Mega/ALAC

Tracklist
01 To the Other Side of That Sky
02 Certain Things
03 Blowing in the Wind
04 Spilt Milk
05 See You Tomorrow
06 True Feelings
07 ENERGY (BGM ARRANGE ver.)
08 Separated Hands
09 Alone
10 Wandering Memories
11 Opaque Scenery
12 Whereabouts of Tomorrow
13 Transformation! (Short ver.)
14 Invisible Enemy
15 All-Out Attack
16 Battleground
17 Defense Force
18 Assembly
19 Now the Front Line!
20 Operation Complete!
21 Friends
22 In a Mother's Arms
23 Vivid Shining Sky (BGM ARRANGE ver.)

320 kbs MP3
Zippyshare.com - VIVIDRED OPERATION Original Soundtrack 02.7z (http://www54.zippyshare.com/v/67942132/file.html)

ALAC (Loseless)
https://mega.co.nz/#!yQQGlCBC!JF_ffVmX1Pv7e0PvApDxyjPWYW8E_jS3j-ojaAw-cHE

Tracklist for Sakurasou was translated by nextday :).

Took my awhile to scan both of these (since i like scanning concept art and junk that no one cares about!). Enjoy ^_^.

Next week i should have the new pokemon ost movie up.

I will re-up NHK Special Unknown Aspects of the British Musuem, bought from iTunes. Also, Tact I (from found 4shared link (https://www.4shared.com/zip/61DW3eGj/)) and II (from micobear (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/404.html#post2036430)), both lossy. Do you still have problems with MEGA? :O

EDIT: Sanico will surely re-upload Red Cliff II when she has time.
Thank you. No, I no longer have problems with MEGA, which is great. I'm also trying to find H2 OST 2. Do those OSTs exist in lossless anywhere? If not, I'll take lossy. I found OST 1 in lossy.

Oh, and that Tact II link was dead, but I found yours.

Lol kids in furry suits with ipads.

Yes Sirusjr I went "duh phuq!" at that too but I'm not really shocked anymore. Also on Mega, I figured out my own work around for Firefox. Click the little globe thingy in the URL bar for info on the site, go to permissions, click allow notifications, click ask to store offline storage and click clear storage before actually starting the download. Works so far for Firefox and hope it helps.

I now have a question. As, I haven't listened to much of Michiru Oshima's work, I've previously heard a few pieces and found them fascinating. I want to check out Oshima's work, but what soundtrack would be a good place to start? What would be truly phenomenal? I could ask the same thing for Yamashita. I've run out of music as far as the composers I currently listen to.

On another note, hey tangotreats, do you know of any music I may like? I think the Kid Icarus Uprising soundtrack is still my favorite overall OST. Something orchestral, of good overall quality. I ask you because you are a knowledgeable critic that knows good from bad, and everything in between.

Yoshihiro Kanno: Water Scene (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/works-yoshihiro-kanno-resounding-sphere-i-1991-a-130488/#post2316431) - for Meditation ~ Sleeping. Maybe also his Angel's Egg (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f91/lossless-anime-music-thread-66456/97.html#post2330605) score. The subtitle for the CD is "Living in Water"... ^^"

Kon-Tiki by Johan Soderqvist, quite nice exotic score.
Shogun Mayeda by John Scott - one of his finest scores, delightful theme
Solisterrae by Pascal Gaigne - a delightful relaxing score. I have no idea what the film is about but it shows the beach on the cover.
Those are the first few that come to mind.

Not orchestral ... well then here's my favorite: ARIA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY3M8XNlNrQ)
Absolutly love the three soundtracks, no better music for a relaxing afternoon (besides a Hisaishi score), also the most relaxing show I've watched with really beautiful moments.
Thanks all. I love Aria as well.

I thought of a few more myself too:
Nanatsu no Umi no Tico by Miwa Hibiki (a.k.a. Michiru Oshima)
Umi no Twilight Zone by Hitomi Kuroishi
Umimonogatari by Ken Muramatsu


I now have a question. As, I haven't listened to much of Michiru Oshima's work, I've previously heard a few pieces and found them fascinating. I want to check out Oshima's work, but what soundtrack would be a good place to start? What would be truly phenomenal? I could ask the same thing for Yamashita. I've run out of music as far as the composers I currently listen to.
You can't go wrong with Fullmetal Alchemist. At least it was my introduction to Oshima and I still believe it to be one of her very best works. Magic happens when she records in Russia and this is no exception.

Full Metal Alchemist OST 1 - Way Home - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8OaiTN1K0E)

Could someone please re-up Tact I and II, plus Unknown Aspects of the British Museum by Taro Iwashiro? I missed these. I usually prefer FLAC, but I doubt anyone has them in that format. I still can't find the FLAC version of Red Cliff II.

TACT (Thread 137788)
TACT II (Thread 137789)
NHK Special: The British Museum (Thread 137790)
Red Cliff Part 2 (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/red-cliff-part-1-2-2008-2009-a-110213/#post2404342)

All lossy.


I'm also trying to find H2 OST 2. Do those OSTs exist in lossless anywhere? If not, I'll take lossy. I found OST 1 in lossy.

I have just found this on BakaBT (http://bakabt.me/166639-h2-ost-collection-mp3.html) with OST 2 in 128 kbps quality.

For Michiru Oshima - I'd say start with Year 1 In the North, Sora no Woto, and Blast of Tempest. On the more intimate side I am also quite fond of Adiantum Blue.
For Kousuke Yamashita - my favorite is Chihayafuru. After that, Glass Fleet and Dragonaut the Resonance. Keep in mind many of his bigger space scores have a lot of cues that are not orchestral.

You will find a good introduction to these and other anime scores in my Loveliness, Elegance, and Nobility compilations (Thread 118491). If the links in there are all dead let me know and I'll re-up them :)

Thank You !!!!!

A friend of mine who is just great at playing piano, who also played my arrangement of Time's Scar from Chrono Cross ;). She also has played some pieces from Final Fantasy and Xenogears. I really love the ones that are fore piano, cello, and violin.

https://soundcloud.com/ruby-schala

Glorious Hirano.

Riot - Listen and download mp3 - Kiwi6 Mp3 Upload (http://kiwi6.com/file/8zgz0g0ej5)

Glorious Hirano.

Riot - Listen and download mp3 - Kiwi6 Mp3 Upload (http://kiwi6.com/file/8zgz0g0ej5)

Is the rest of the soundtrack available?

If it is, I don't have it.

Very nice. Where may that track be from?

Hunter x Hunter, used as the ending theme for the 51st episode. Third soundtrack was released a couple days ago.

Masaru Yokoyama -> Queen's Blade REBELLION Tokuten CD Vol.1~6 (Soundtrack) MP3 VBR (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f91/queens-blade-rebellion-tokuten-cd-vol-1~6-138016/)

Well it seems Giacchino will not be taking the reigns from John Williams...

John Williams Officially Confirmed for Star Wars Episodes VII - IGN (http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/07/27/john-williams-officially-confirmed-for-star-wars-episode-vii)

I am very pleased that John is returning. Now I don't care if the movie is good or not as long as I have another Williams Star Wars score to add to my collection.

YES!

Funny, I don't have a single Star Wars CD in my collection. I'm only now slowly warming to the scores. Then again I'm probably one of the few people who never really watched the Star Wars movies very many times. I'll rarely watch a movie more than twice.

I'm a huge fan of original Star Wars trilogy, but I never cared for new one (it's passable at best). I also do not care for books, comics, TV series, games etc. I don't love world of Star Wars, I love three wonderful adventure flicks from long, long time ago. Saying that, I don't think Williams should score new SW movie. Why? Because the world changed, music changed and god damn, I'd love to see NEW Star Wars.

First trilogy is fantastic, but - despite overall quality of the films - a big part of it's greatness is sentiment. I don't think that creators should go for sentimental ride and hiring Williams is precisely that. Abrams with SW should make the same thing which he did with Star Trek - kill tradition and create something new. Never liked old Star Trek, but I liked the new movies. Why? Cause they are not Star Trek;).

So yeah, even though I love those three old movies, I'd like to see and hear something new for a change. Reanimating a corpse for most time is a bad idea. And if they need to do that, at least give it some new robes. And lens flares;D.

p.s.
I still believe that new SW movie can be cool.

Who says that Abrams can't "reinvent" Williams? Williams has been "reinvented" before, with the original Star Wars, with Harry Potter, and Potter 3.

Williams does not need "reinventing" and particularly not by an incompetent hack of Abrams' like.

And, I'd very much like to hear who should score this film if not Williams... Name one composer who is a) competent, b) has a hope in hell of actually being hired for it in today's climate, and c) is powerful enough to be allowed to write a decent score and not be micromanaged into writing Batman Begins In Space. Extra bonus points for a1) Somebody competent to or beyond Williams' level... ;)

Williams does not need "reinventing"

You mistake "reinventing" with "selling out" and going Zimmery and slathering electronics, drums, foghorn, electric guitars, heavy compressed brickwall mixing etc, or writing in the modern style most other composer's are forced into writing in.

Which is not at all what I meant.

DO you really think Abrams - the guy who lusts after Giacchino's hack work - has anything useful to offer musically to a man who's been a professional composer since the early 1950s, single-handedly revitalised the romantic orchestral film score, defined the very concept of film music for a generation, and still - even at the age of 81 - is completely unmatched in the industry?

Don't get me wrong - I'm not against a composer - even a genius such as Williams - trying something new... but I very much doubt that anybody who thinks the sun shines out of Giacchino's arse has any meaningful advice to offer the man who scored Jaws, Superman, Star Wars 1-6, ET, Indiana Jones, and dozens more...

The simple fact is this: If Williams doesn't score this film, the score is 100% guaranteed to be shit. Simple as that. This is 2013. Every single composer in Hollywood with any hint of talent (at least, talent even approaching Williams') is either a) dead, b) retired, or c) sold out and writing modern trash to pay the electric bill.

Name one composer who is a) competent, b) has a hope in hell of actually being hired for it in today's climate

Abel Korzeniowski - guy is on the rise, but unfortunately associated with dramas. He can write big, powerful music though;

James Horner - lately he has rather bad luck...;

John Powell - I know what you think of this guy, but I think he is more than capable of writing something great;

And I would love to hear SW score by Murray Gold or... Walter Murphy:D. Also Brian Tyler is definitely competent and liked by producers, but he is also rather boring composer, even if has potential.

But the truth is the truth - If not John, we would hear music by some other Williams or... Djawadi. Or Streitenfeld. So yeah, not hell of a choice. But still, I would love to here some new approach to SW scores.

I want Goldsmith Star Wars.

Abel Korzeniowski...

...Is vaguely competent, nowhere near Williams, has no prior experience scoring a Blockbuster, would never get the gig in a million years, and if he did, he would never be given free reign anyway. Getting hired at the last moment to replace a third-rate Horner romance score does not = guy who will be trusted with $300,000,000 major franchise. Fails tests a), b), c), and a1).


James Horner...

...Is competent, but hasn't written anything noteworthy for twenty years and has completely sold out in his most recent scores. If he suddenly discovered his 1982 style again, great... but Star Wars by post-Avatar Horner? Even post-Spiderman Horner? No thank you. Horner today is getting work because a) Jim Cameron is directing, b) Avatar sold like hotcakes - apart from that, basically retired from the A List. Fails tests c) and a1).


John Powell...

...Is more competent than your average RC clone, but ultimately writes above average music for below average cartoons. Fails test a), c), and a1).


Murray Gold...

...Is vaguely competent, could possibly produce something that at least sounded partially decent with the right director, but that ain't Abrams. Even with Doctor Who under his belt, is still a minor footnote composer in the Hollywood sense and has no chance whatsoever of getting hired for any kind of expensive movie. Fails tests a), b), c), and a1).


Walter Murphy...

...Is very competent, but still miles off Williams level. Has no prior experience scoring a blockbuster, has retired except for Seth MacFarlane films, and as a typecast comedy composer has no chance whatsoever of getting hired for a serious sci-fi blockbuster. Fails tests b), c), and a1).

;)

If not Williams, then with Jerry Goldsmith dead the only other option satisfying me would be... Joe Hisaishi. ;)

I don't know about Hisaishi ... I love almost every single score to death but I would not hire him for Star Wars to be honest. Same with Oshima, it just doesn't feel right to me. My candidates are of course Japanese (Japan has currently the best music environment, music education and opportunities for aspiring composers who want to write like Williams, that's a fact!) and I would choose Kousuke Yamashita, Naoki Sato or Toshiyuki Watanabe (the action in Majestic Prince is already Star Wars enough). If they are not available I would turn to Amano or Kanno and tell them to rip off Stravinsky and Korngold to the best of their abilities.

But on the western front there is still Lennie Moore.

We are forgetting how Williams reinvented himself by writing Memoirs of a Geisha which, to me, is a complete departure from most of the scores he has done his entire career. I can't see any other composer writing Star Wars than John and that isn't because I am a fan of his music but like what Tango said... you aren't going to find a composer that has the kind of experience and knowledge that he brings to a project. He is the perfect collaborative composer who can still retain his own musical direction and work with the director's criteria. Not too many composers can do that especially in the current market because either you are a Zimmer or a zero. This is because director's think that Zimmer style music is in demand which for some reason it is. I think it more impressive that John Williams has the balls to be John Williams in a market that wants everyone to be someone else. He can write an orchestral score in this day and still make money. That is why he is good for Star Wars because he is experienced and he doesn't need a director to sit there and tell him what to do. The man wrote War of the Worlds without seeing a script, picture, or info from Spielberg for God's sake! So, yeah, I don't think anyone else is qualified ;).

If Williams were unwilling or unavailable these names come to mind (in no particular order):


Javier Navarrete
Christopher Gordon
Bruce Broughton
Lee Holdridge


And out of left field: Philippe Sarde

Why not Andrew Lockington? xD

Listening to this great score to celebrate the good news - John Williams Nixon - The 1960's: The Turbulent Years / The Meeting with Mao - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b62jIYXW4Qc) The imperial march's cousin!

Underrated score in my opinion.

Definitley sheds light on why Williams scored ROTS the way he did, what with all of the comparisons Lucas made between the Emperor and Nixon.

3. Bruce Broughton

Why is this not no. 1? Explain yourself!

Why is this not no. 1? Explain yourself!

Changed to a bullet point list. Happy now? <a href='http://www.mysmiley.net' title='smiley icons'><img src='http://www.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/tongue/tongue0020.gif' alt='smiley icons' border='0'></a>

Yes. But also because someone recently uploaded this: Elliot Goldenthal: Othello (Desmond Richardson, Yuan Yuan Tan, Gonzalo Garcia; 2002) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4u-xKj20hU)

I'm going to be yelled at for saying this, but Williams these days has been sounding kinda tired to me. And it's because of his many years and great successes. Don't misunderstand me, I love his body of work. But that body has gotten rather large and bloated. Once you've done so many great things, where is there to go? I'm not ragging on the man, he's hugely talented and influential in the music scene and Hollywood in general. But I think the man needs a holiday, a rather long holiday. Hans Zimmer was starting to stagnate a bit for me but he's been doing some different things these days and not sticking to his basic tired motifs. His work with the Sherlock Holmes films and The Lone Ranger has been different. As much as I love Mark Mancina's work, he's kinda been regulated to big loud bombastic blockbusters, but when he's allowed to be a little more artistic he can have some interesting results. Hollywood needs more Japanese composers though. Anyone here familiar with Ryuichi Sakimoto's score for The Last Emperor? I love that one. I also adore much of Taku Iwasaki's work. His score for the anime series Now and Then, Here and There is right up there with the best. He had some interesting stuff with Angel Heart, Witch Hunter Robin, Origin :The Spirits Within etc. He also recently scored Soul Eater and that was interesting. Then there's Hajime Mizoguchi and his ex wife Yoko Kanno. Love to see them given some work here in the West. Honestly it's been a while since I've heard music in a recent film which has compelled me to buy the soundtrack. Shame Basil Poledouris is long dead, his scores for Conan, The Hunt for Red October and The Jungle Book were FANTASTIC. Let's also not forget Harry Gregson-Williams. He's hugely talented too, at least in my opinion, and scored many of my favourite films. Granted most of those were Tony Scott films, but whatev, lol

Speaking of Andrew Lockington. These samples of Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters sound interesting!

https://soundcloud.com/sony-soundtracks/percy-jackson-sea-of-monsters?in=sony-soundtracks/sets/andrew-lockington-percy

https://soundcloud.com/sony-soundtracks/new-coordinates-by-andrew?in=sony-soundtracks/sets/andrew-lockington-percy

Here's the whole preview - https://soundcloud.com/sony-soundtracks/sets/andrew-lockington-percy Almost 17 minutes of samples.