WARHAWK
Music by: Christopher Lennertz and Timothy Wynn
Platform: PlayStation 3
Tracks: 29 Gamerip download please

...wait, Andrew Lockington?

As in Andrew "Watch me make the Journey movies be redeemable with my eargasmic music" Lockington?

Holy crap. I just became interested in Percy Jackson.

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At the risk of inciting civil war... Lockington is unadulterated shit. ;)

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At the risk of inciting civil war... Lockington is unadulterated shit. ;)

LOL. Beat me to it.

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At the risk of inciting civil war... Lockington is unadulterated shit. ;)

You are going to have to explain that one to me. Lockington just radiates 70's Orchestral conventions. If I didn't look at the cover I would think his stuff for the two Journey films were done by Goldsmith himself.

Christophe Beck's score for the first Percy Jackson film was a lot of fun. I suspect Lockington's score will also be good. I'd say I'm in the middle with Lockington. I don't think he is some unappreciated savior of orchestral music but he is also not shit like Tango suggests.

I'd suggest that tango's responding less to Lockington's "shit" talent and more to the seemingly non drug induced tolerance threshold for mediocrity amongst the assembled here.

Christophe Beck's score for the first Percy Jackson film was a lot of fun. I suspect Lockington's score will also be good. I'd say I'm in the middle with Lockington. I don't think he is some unappreciated savior of orchestral music but he is also not shit like Tango suggests.

Well I'm not suggesting he is the savior of Western Orchestral Music (I would put that on Murray Gold just for the sheer high quality and popularity), but I do think he is a very good composer.

Well said; Lockington's not shit - but, as I have moaned about many times before, this is one of those infuriating desperation-generates-talent moments. Lockington's music makes occasional passing (and superficial) nods to symphonic scoring techniques of days gone by... and so is pushed to the fore as a God amongst men. He's no such thing. He's a pretty ordinary composer who likes to cosplay as John Williams every now and again. That's all, folks.

Doublehex: You know I massively respect you... but really... what? Seriously? I really, genuinely believe that nobody (at least, nobody with any peripheral interest in film music) would genuinely mistake Lockington's scores for Goldsmith, in a month of Sundays - what an insult to Goldsmith! Nor would they mistake them as scores of the 1970s, 1980s or even 1990s, since they're literally drowning in contemporary sensibilities and have only a peripherally appealing orchestral sheen to disguise the generic melodies, repetitive ostinati, and lack of development.

And, lest we forget, all of Lockington's scores with above-average orchestral sensibilities have been orchestrated and conducted by Nick Dodd - the man you hire when you want a symphonic-sounding score but don't have a composer who knows how to write one properly.

Also, lest we forget... Lockington's name came up in response to my challenge to name a composer who could score Star Wars and had a level of skill even half of John Williams'. Surely nobody knowledgeable would seriously put Lockington near Williams in terms of ability and quality... I'd rather have Lockington than Djawadi, sure... but all things are proportional...


Murray God

Haha! Believe me, he's no God. He's a lot of fun down the pub and can really hold his booze (unlike Ben Foster) but... saviour of Western Orchestral Music? If that's the case, I'll officially quit being interested in film music right here and right now.

Part of the problem of trying to replace John Williams is, well... take a look at Williams' career trajectory: List of compositions by John Williams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_John_Williams) . He didn't just show up straight out of school and do Star Wars and get famous. Before Star Wars, he'd already done over 40 film scores, written a few concertos and a symphony, and a musical. He'd already been nominated for a bunch of Oscars/Emmys/Grammys (and won some of them).

If there was a The Next John Williams ready right now to write their first Star Wars-level megahit, we would probably have already heard of them. This thread, collectively, listens to pretty much all the stuff that person would have already been writing.

At the risk of sounding silly: if the challenge is to find "half a 1977-Williams", that's be, what, a 1969-Williams? We might have some of those. They might still be hard to recognize this early on. But they won't be ready to write Star Wars for another 8 years ;)

If the challenge is to find half a 1996-Williams, well, they would have already written their Star Wars-equivalent.

Hmm, my brain just melted...

The thing about Williams... is that I suspect even fresh out of school he'd have written a score which would completely humiliate any contemporary composer - even those who've been at it for years and years. 1969 Star Wars wouldn't have been as mature and assured as 1977 Star Wars... but I'm willing to bet real money it would've swept the floor with Andrew Lockington - 2013 Star Wars Episode 7.

There will never be a "next" John Williams - there will be people with that potential, but there simply aren't the opportunities for one to hone one's craft to the extent that, say, Williams, Goldsmith, Herrmann, did. Those guys were/are only as good as they are because they were in school at the "right" time and they waltzed straight out into film music's renaissance. Imagine if Williams - the same guy, the same brain, the same potential - had been born in 1984... what would he do? If he became a musician at all, he'd probably go to work for Hans Zimmer, spend twenty years getting "additional music" credits on Djawadi scores, and then eventually make his debut writing a drab and unimaginative score for Game Of Thrones Season 58 in 2030...

I don't want a next JW, I just want a good composer.

If he became a musician at all, he'd probably go to work for Hans Zimmer, spend twenty years getting "additional music" credits on Djawadi scores, and then eventually make his debut writing a drab and unimaginative score for Game Of Thrones Season 58 in 2030...
Don't forget the Orchestral Anarchy credit... If I remember it right a Zimmer minion got that credit. I think it was Bruce Fowler :E

About Lockington, I like him but obviously he's not near as skilled as Williams for obvious reasons. Journey 1 & 2 were really good scores though imo. Can't remember Skinwalkers, I think the music on that one wasn't special.

I was kinda interested until the third track of the soundcloud demo, then I just quit. Never heared of him before but certainly will never come back. Even Naoki Sato in full RC-mode had far more interessting stuff going on beneath that noise.

To me Lockington is more of a John Debney of right now. He has talent better than a lot of the mainstream composers right now and writes solid scores for his works. I've been listening to some Dimitri Tiomkin lately and of course there is more compositional brilliance in Fall of the Roman Empire and 55 Days at Peking than all the work combined of most modern composers. The finale alone in Fall of the Roman Empire wipes the floor with most of these.

That being said, I've mentioned before I am not a big Williams fan that much. I really love his scores to movies like War Horse and to a lesser extent Lincoln but it has still been a slow process to appreciate his scores. Besides Lincoln and War Horse, most of his scores post 2000 were not interesting to me in the slightest. So, unless he plans on writing a delightful romantic style main theme for the upcoming Star Wars scores, I don't know that I will be too excited with it. His action music in TinTin largely left me cold (though that was partially to do with his heavy use of accordion).

TinTin

Who? I have never heard of this TinTin fellow, I have heard of Tintin though.

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Alternate timeline fantasy:

Star Wars composed by Bernard Herrmann (in good health).

I agree about Lockington. Of course far from everything he writes is good, but that dosen't mean he can't write good stuff. Building The Raft - Journey To The Center Of The Earth - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL7ekUNKSi0) if you say that's a bad cue, then I don't know really what to say. It's rare to hear such scoring these days. Anyway enough Lockington now for me! ;)

I can hear it now...

BH: "You want me to score what? Are you f*****g kidding me?"
Producer: "Yeah, it's a science fiction picture."
BH: "For f*****g kids, yes?"
Producer: "Well, sort of, but..."
BH: "Oh, lord..."
Producer: "We'll pay you five hundred thousand dollars."
BH: "I don't want your money. I'm too old and too rich to give a shit."
Producer: "Ah... OK, how about we buy the rights to some of your older scores and track that in?"
BH: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Fine, I'll do it. I'm going to use 18 pianos, 20 double basses, eight bassoons, twelve flutes, a viola, a Wagner tuba, ondes martinot, prepared harpsichord, 36 timpani, and a harmonica."
Producer: "Um... fair enough... By the way, I hope you're planning a nice, hummable romantic theme for this! A march, or something. Something to sell LPs, something they can turn into a disco track, you know."
BH: "I don't do that horseshit. Do you want me to score this bastarding thing or not?!"
Producer: "Well... yeah, but..."
BH: "Fine, get off the f*****g phone then, and let me write the score. I'll ring you in six months when it's finished. Call again and I quit. I'll see you at the recording studio. I want a pipe organ, as well."
*CLICK*
Producer: "Yikes... What are we getting ourselves in for? Why couldn't we have just used that Williams bloke? He seemed nice..."

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I guess in this alternate universe Lucas was replaced by this "Producer" fellow...

What do guys think of S�ren Hyldgaard? Eye of the Eagle - S�ren Hyldgaard - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK-Cc5bepc4)

I found and shared an album by him some weeks ago.

Also this one was a was a unexpected surprise I must say:

Gagarin: First in Space - George Kallis - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Y5iAi4fNw)

Opinions?! I'm curious what people on here think of this music.

Building The Raft - Journey To The Center Of The Earth - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL7ekUNKSi0) if you say that's a bad cue, then I don't know really what to say. It's rare to hear such scoring these days.

YES. THAT. IS. A. BAD. CUE.

Quite awful, in fact; I couldn't listen past the entry of the Choir of Ahhsumness.

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I can hear it now...

BH: "You want me to score what? Are you f*****g kidding me?"
Producer: "Yeah, it's a science fiction picture."
BH: "For f*****g kids, yes?"
Producer: "Well, sort of, but..."
BH: "Oh, lord..."
Producer: "We'll pay you five hundred thousand dollars."
BH: "I don't want your money. I'm too old and too rich to give a shit."
Producer: "Ah... OK, how about we buy the rights to some of your older scores and track that in?"
BH: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Fine, I'll do it. I'm going to use 18 pianos, 20 double basses, eight bassoons, twelve flutes, a viola, a Wagner tuba, ondes martinot, prepared harpsichord, 36 timpani, and a harmonica."
Producer: "Um... fair enough... By the way, I hope you're planning a nice, hummable romantic theme for this! A march, or something. Something to sell LPs, something they can turn into a disco track, you know."
BH: "I don't do that horseshit. Do you want me to score this bastarding thing or not?!"
Producer: "Well... yeah, but..."
BH: "Fine, get off the f*****g phone then, and let me write the score. I'll ring you in six months when it's finished. Call again and I quit. I'll see you at the recording studio. I want a pipe organ, as well."
*CLICK*
Producer: "Yikes... What are we getting ourselves in for? Why couldn't we have just used that Williams bloke? He seemed nice..."

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Your projection is showing. :)

YES. THAT. IS. A. BAD. CUE.

Quite awful, in fact; I couldn't listen past the entry of the Choir of Ahhsumness.
Ok, then I don't know what you expect to hear to be honest if you say it's a terrible cue. The golden era is long gone you know :( I would also LOVE to hear cues like The Sand Volcano for instance (I still think The Mummy is one of Goldsmith's best scores, if not at least one of my personal favorites).

The latter part of that cue is the highlight though, so sad that you didn't even get past the choir! What is a good cue to you then? Now i'm curious. Name something good made from a composer that is today working in Hollywood that isn't a "mainstream" composer such as Williams, Elfman, Horner etc. post 2008 for instance?

Of course you can find some, but I still think it's rare to hear such scoring today. Or maybe it's just me getting to listen to all the bad score releases these days? :( The latest score I heard which I hated was The Conjuring I think. The Wolverine was terribly boring. I also find Red 2 by Silvestri also very boring. Of course gems can be found, but still it's rare. Ottman's Jack the Giant Slayer (Jack and Isabelle) was good cue imo, i'm not a huge fan of whole score but overall it was a nice and quite solid effort.

Ok, then I don't know what you expect to hear to be honest if you say it's a terrible cue. The golden era is long gone you know :( I would also LOVE to hear cues like The Sand Volcano for instance (I still think The Mummy is one of Goldsmith's best scores, if not at least one of my personal favorites).

The latter part of that cue is the highlight though, so sad that you didn't even get past the choir! What is a good cue to you then? Now i'm curious. Name something good made from a composer that is today working in Hollywood that isn't a "mainstream" composer such as Williams, Elfman, Horner etc. post 2008 for instance?

Of course you can find some, but I still think it's rare to hear such scoring today. Or maybe it's just me getting to listen to all the bad score releases these days? :( The latest score I heard which I hated was The Conjuring I think. The Wolverine was terribly boring. I also find Red 2 by Silvestri also very boring. Of course gems can be found, but still it's rare. Ottman's Jack the Giant Slayer (Jack and Isabelle) was good cue imo, i'm not a huge fan of whole score but overall it was a nice and quite solid effort.

SO.

Something "good" post 2007 by a composer working (and presumably based) in Hollywood who isn't considered "mainstream"? Well, that there is some pretty self-limiting listening criteria; say goodbye to Desplat, Navarette, Ba�os, Iglesias, Wallfisch, Doyle, Sarde, Korzeniowski, Coulais, Gordon, Vel�zquez, Nieto, Rombi, Yared, Fenton, etc, etc.

In any case, try these on for size:

Marco Beltrami: Knowing, The Thing, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Soul Surfer, Warm Bodies
Mychael Danna: Life of Pi
Stuart Hancock: Hawk
James Peterson: The Red Canvas
John Powell: Hancock
Christopher Young: Drag Me to Hell, Priest

Though expertly crafted, for me both World War Z and The Wolverine are underwhelming listens. The only Ottman score I wholly appreciate is his Lake Placid from 1990 (that's not to say the rest of his catalogue is absent creativity. It's just that his writing so often goes from inspired to insipid in mere seconds). And Silvestri is a one trick pony who does this one trick so well he can lay claim to a 30+ year career based on it (and since I actually enjoy a number of his scores you can regard my assessment as either praise or criticism).

BH: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Fine, I'll do it. I'm going to use 18 pianos, 20 double basses, eight bassoons, twelve flutes, a viola, a Wagner tuba, ondes martinot, prepared harpsichord, 36 timpani, and a harmonica."
No harp? I am disappoint

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Could anyone reupload adiantum blue ost?
The link are all dead and I can't find it anywhere

Thanks

Michiru Oshima: adiantum blue - Re-Up: michiru-oshima-discography-89760/6.html#post2407902 (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f91/michiru-oshima-discography-89760/6.html#post2407902)


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... ;)

I'm sure these fail tests b), c), and a1).

- Fr�d�ric Talgorn (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/30.html#post1175934)
- Mike Verta
- Robert Folk (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/neverending-story-ii-ost-symphonic-lovers-sendspace-56716/#post1096246)

Other thoughts:
- Will John Williams fly to London to record with the LSO again?
- Will Eric Tomlinson record the music again?
- Mike Verta on the prequels' picture not being locked / modern film editing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vZNqx3KjrIo&t=3653): "Writing the score before the edit is locked is exactly like shooting a film before the script is finished.".

Excellent choices, though sadly they do indeed fail the tests... Talgorn hasn't worked in the US for years and wouldn't be asked in a thousand years. Folk's almost retired (and sold out on his most recent scores) and wouldn't be asked in a thousand years... Mike's got experience and industry recognition... but he himself said he believed hell would freeze over before he was asked.

Imagine Robert Folk doing Star Wars in his 80s style... Or Talgorn in his Asterix style. That could be amazing. Wouldn't happen in a month of Sundays... but would be amazing.

Other thoughts:


Will John Williams fly to London to record with the LSO again?

Cautiously optimistic... Williams has said he's fed up with long flights but I have a sneaky suspicion he might make an exception for Star Wars. Since the film is being made in England anyway, I think it's a safe bet that the scoring session will be in London. I actually think the odds of this are reasonable...


Will Eric Tomlinson record the music again?

Sadly, not a chance. He didn't work on any of the prequel scores, and his last outing as engineer (for an orchestral recording) was almost twenty years ago. He must be in his 70s now, if not older - he started his career as engineer in 1959. Oddly enough, he's indicated that he'd be open to working again (“I’d love to get back and do some more but unfortunately there’s a great lack of orchestral work these days and I certainly wasn’t interested in getting into the rock scene. I don’t like the time spent getting the drum sound and things like that,”) but, well, you know...


Mike Verta on the prequels' picture not being locked / modern film editing.

A big, big problem... film music today isn't just crap because composers are crap and they're being told to write crap... it's because films are crap. That's going to effect even John Williams... I still think he'll do something amazing. :)

Does anyone here know where I find the volumes of Ryomaden by Sato in 320 kb or FLAC? I did a search but the all the links seem to be down. If no one here knows i'll try in the hunt thread and continue my search.

If I understand it right atleast the first one seem to be RC-mode. I only have a few scores by Sato (Battleship Y, Carnation and recently Gaku ontop of my head, I think I have one or two more somewhere too, but can't remember. One of them had a girl on the cover with black hair is all I can remember) and all have been enjoyable so far to be honest. I'd like to discover more. Any recommendations are also welcome ;p

Does anyone here know where I find the volumes of Ryomaden by Sato in 320 kb or FLAC? I did a search but the all the links seem to be down. If no one here knows i'll try in the hunt thread and continue my search.

If I understand it right atleast the first one seem to be RC-mode. I only have a few scores by Sato (Battleship Y, Carnation and recently Gaku ontop of my head, I think I have one or two more somewhere too, but can't remember. One of them had a girl on the cover with black hair is all I can remember) and all have been enjoyable so far to be honest. I'd like to discover more. Any recommendations are also welcome ;p

Did you try requesting re-uploads where you found the dead links ?.

Did you try requesting re-uploads where you found the dead links ?.
Not yet. I found this thread (Thread 74214) with no replies and the uploader have not been active for years.

Thread 73641 and Thread 80564 looks like the latest active threads but the original uploaders have not posted/been very active. I'll try.

Not yet. I found this thread (Thread 74214) with no replies and the uploader have not been active for years.

Thread 73641 and Thread 80564 looks like the latest active threads but the original uploaders have not posted/been very active. I'll try.

Volumes 1, 2, and 3 re-uploaded in their respective threads.

Volumes 1, 2, and 3 re-uploaded in their respective threads.
Wow, thanks so much!

...has the Thread always been this pessimistic, or is it just that we've reached a boiling point? I mean people are saying nothing good comes out of the West period, Tango saying all movies are junk, we are bashing composers that actually try to adhere to classical inspirations...

Jesus people. It is good to be critical and analyzing of an artform we love, but if all we do is downright hate everything that comes out then what is the fricking point?

film music today isn't just crap because composers are crap and they're being told to write crap... it's because films are crap.
Films have been mostly crap for a long time now, but I think you were right on with the being told to write crap part. Directors are temp-tracking their movies with Zimmer or Zimmer-like scores (I'm 95.3% certain that The Amazing Spider-man was temped with Zimmer's The Da Vinci Code and Debney's The Passion) so instead of getting Williams/classical/Golden Age imitations, we get Zimmer imitations, and producers and directors are going "this is the norm, this is what sells, write more like this."


...has the Thread always been this pessimistic, or is it just that we've reached a boiling point? I mean people are saying nothing good comes out of the West period, Tango saying all movies are junk, we are bashing composers that actually try to adhere to classical inspirations...

Jesus people. It is good to be critical and analyzing of an artform we love, but if all we do is downright hate everything that comes out then what is the fricking point?
You sound like a young me. I gave up giving new things a chance long ago because the past 10 years haven't been kind to me in that regard. Even when something with a massive orchestra and soaring theme comes out I am hesitant to praise it because it always sounds like it's trying to be film music, and trying to emulate John Williams, but not showing nearly the same level of maturity or complexity that we put in the top tier of film scores. I will always be of the belief that the most successful film composers (musically successful, not financially) will be those who follow the classical tradition, not the film music tradition. An approximation of John Williams or Jerry Goldsmith or Basil Poledouris is just not enough to fill that empty void. Where is the one who will bring balance to the force? The one the prophecies foretold of?

I know of a certain female Japanese composer/songwriter who seems to have mastered the art of the concert-music-based score; one who is said to bring balance to the force.


But Kanno's getting a bit on in years, so perhaps we will soon see a new, young idol in her early 20s who writes hit songs and also dabbles in Prokofiev and Ravel. :D

Hopefully, Yoko Kanno returns for Yoshiyuki Tomino's new Gundam series.

crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2013/07/03/gundam-creator-yoshiyuki-tominos-newest-series-slated-for-2014-2015 (http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2013/07/03/gundam-creator-yoshiyuki-tominos-newest-series-slated-for-2014-2015)

...has the Thread always been this pessimistic, or is it just that we've reached a boiling point? I mean people are saying nothing good comes out of the West period, Tango saying all movies are junk, we are bashing composers that actually try to adhere to classical inspirations...

Jesus people. It is good to be critical and analyzing of an artform we love, but if all we do is downright hate everything that comes out then what is the fricking point?

The alternative would seem to be to artificially inflate the worth of abject shite. If something's shite, pretending it's not because other stuff is more shite... does nothing at all positive to the artform we love so much. It reinforces the "good enough is good enough" trope which got us in this mess in the first place and guarantees the eternal reign of mediocrity.

This reminds me of Chad Seiter's retort to my whingeing about his Star Trek score - I'm paraphrasing, but basically he said "My wife likes it so **** you!"

Nobody's interested in doing something great or in pushing themselves to higher heights... they're just interested in satisfying the requirements of the status quo; and when the status quo says that Man Of Steel is film scoring's greatest masterpiece, well... 'Nuff said.

Let's enjoy Lockington, by all means - it's a fun sound, it's at least making an effort... but let's not exaggerate its worth, pretend it's up there with Goldsmith's greatest (I say again: What?!) or put the guy up on a pedestal to replace John Williams just because he wrote a couple of melodies longer than three notes and makes some nice sounds that remind us of better times... :)

Let's enjoy Lockington, by all means - it's a fun sound, it's at least making an effort...

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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... ;)


How about them Japanese composers? Yoko Kanno, Hisaishi, Masamichi Amano, Yasuo Higuchi, Sahashi and etc all seems to be competent enough for me.

Yes it is easy to tell when a film is temp scored with something else. Case in point, 1995's Bad Boys was temped with Mark Mancina's Speed score. Can hear it in the music, BUT since that idiot Michael Bay got him to score his film the score was also allowed to explore other musical directions with some of the accent pieces for bits which weren't car chases and explosions, things he didn't get to do with Speed. I love and own both scores, but even I would scream in rage if Mancina were slated to score Star Wars, lol.

Shawn Murphy will be recording the Ep.7 score.

_Mike

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Did that make your ears burn? ;)

How are you doing? Haven't seen you around these parts for quite a while!

And yet, thanks to Google Alerts... :)

And I'm well, thank you for asking! Like everyone else with a functioning brain, I'm happy to hear Williams is up to tackle the film. The original score is why I became a composer.

The alternative would seem to be to artificially inflate the worth of abject shite. If something's shite, pretending it's not because other stuff is more shite... does nothing at all positive to the artform we love so much. It reinforces the "good enough is good enough" trope which got us in this mess in the first place and guarantees the eternal reign of mediocrity.

This reminds me of Chad Seiter's retort to my whingeing about his Star Trek score - I'm paraphrasing, but basically he said "My wife likes it so **** you!"

Nobody's interested in doing something great or in pushing themselves to higher heights... they're just interested in satisfying the requirements of the status quo; and when the status quo says that Man Of Steel is film scoring's greatest masterpiece, well... 'Nuff said.

Let's enjoy Lockington, by all means - it's a fun sound, it's at least making an effort... but let's not exaggerate its worth, pretend it's up there with Goldsmith's greatest (I say again: What?!) or put the guy up on a pedestal to replace John Williams just because he wrote a couple of melodies longer than three notes and makes some nice sounds that remind us of better times... :)

One alternative may be to artificially inflate the worth of music, but what many people in this thread are doing are artificially deflating soundtracks that have some worth. Unless it is one hundred and ten percent inspired by classical music this thread seems to consider it worth less than crap, which is a terrible statement of affairs. An art form needs to experiment to try new things in order to stay relevant with the times.

Now, I am not suggesting RCP is the way to go. You guys know I am with you on that. But it seems unless we get somebody who tries to be like John Williams-esque, or classically inspired, you guys rip him to pieces. In the vast majority of cases unjustifiably so. There are plenty of bad soundtracks that come our way, no doubt about that. But even the worst soundtracks have some cues that are enjoyable to listen too - and yet most of us in this thread will just say "Soundtrack is shit, don't bother".

And even worse we are not recognizing good composers or soundtracks when we see it. Murray Gold for instance - he is one of the best composers working in the West today. Okay granted he excels when he works in the classical format and when he works with electronics for Doctor Who it's less than great. But when Gold rocks the house, my God he is absolutely phenomenal. Rings of Akhaten and Song for Fifty are absolutely superb, and as far as I can tell, perfect. Now I accept that both of those pieces are kinda in my "Listen to them over and over again" phase, so I am may be a teensy insy bit subjective...BUT! They have a spectacular use of chorus and orchestra, they are emotional, they are complex...they have everything that we want in soundtracks today!

And tango, you think Gold is merely "competent" for Star Wars? Your reasons for why Gold would NOT be selected for Ep. VII are completely on the ball. But if he WERE to be selected he would produce something phenomenal I'm sure!

Star Trek Into Darkness WAS a good score, a score that I think you criticize somewhat unjustly due to your distaste for Abrams. Lords of Shadow was also a great score, but I remember you criticized that upon release.

...and also, who the hell is saying Man of Steel is film scoring's greatest masterpiece? It was sharply divided on the Shrine and you can't count Amazon reviews for crap. Amazon reviews are ALWAYS inflated by Joe Smo movie goers who don't think about the music and fanboys of the composer. Case in point - my review of Pacific Rim, that went into detail and was more than a couple paragraphs long? Not even on the front page. Probably because - gasp - it criticized the soundtrack somewhat.

Not worth even thinking about. By all means buy from Amazon. But when it comes to soundtrack reviews don't even consider it.

One alternative may be to artificially inflate the worth of music, but what many people in this thread are doing are artificially deflating soundtracks that have some worth.

I don't see any artificial deflation going on; merely blunt acknowledgement of the fact that something that's 1% better than utter crap is still, substantially, crap. If there is any deflation happening (which I dispute) then I would say it's absolutely justified as an antidote to the lunatic levels of praise being heaped on crap scores by crap composers simply because they have the vaguest most superficial glimmer of a connection to better scores from a better era.


Unless it is one hundred and ten percent inspired by classical music this thread seems to consider it worth less than crap,

Wrong; citation please. Show me a great score that isn't inspired by classical music, and I'll sing its praises from the rooftops. (Note; showing me a score you think is great and then saying "I told you so!" when I moan about it doesn't count.)


An art form needs to experiment to try new things in order to stay relevant with the times.


That's a euphemistic way of saying that things will get worse in order to appeal to the lowest common denominator, who will gobble them down regardless of their quality.

In the purest sense, yes, absolutely an artform can experiment... but that doesn't mean it should get shit and we shouldn't complain about it because somebody (you) can't tell the difference between genuine criticism-because-something's-actually-rubbish and complaining because something isn't the genre you like. The former is what you see in this thread 99% of the time.


But it seems unless we get somebody who tries to be like John Williams-esque, or classically inspired, you guys rip him to pieces.

Wrong again. The only person who should be John Williams-esque is John Williams. My repeated invocation of John Williams as a paragon of musical virtue is to do with what he does NOT how he does it; Williams has flawless dramatic sensibility, a melodic gift, the ability to sustain and develop an idea elegantly and over a long period of time, the ability to tell a fluid and continuous story in music. THAT'S what I care about. That's what other people care about.

Jerry Goldsmith was about as far away from Williams (stylistically) as you could get... and most people in this thread will have very good things to say - if not outright gushing praise - for the man. Speaking for myself, Goldsmith was my hero.


Murray Gold for instance - he is one of the best composers working in the West today. Okay granted he excels when he works in the classical format and when he works with electronics for Doctor Who it's less than great.

Well, I'll agree with your first sentence; I think Gold is basically terrible but he's got more going for him than most. I've never heard him work in the classical format; I've heard him write (or, more to the point, his orchestrator write) music for orchestra and some of it sounds very nice... underneath the glittering orchestration, what is there? F**k all.


And tango, you think Gold is merely "competent" for Star Wars? Your reasons for why Gold would NOT be selected for Ep. VII are completely on the ball. But if he WERE to be selected he would produce something phenomenal I'm sure!

The guy writes power anthems for symphony orchestra. That doesn't belong in Star Wars. Yeah, it all sounds great when all the fireworks are going off, but I get more satisfaction from just about any Williams cue from Star Wars than I do from Gold's entire back catalogue. I think Gold can do better than he's doing at the moment - but at the moment, he's revelling in Who and in getting away with essentially doing the same shit again and again and making lunatic sums of money, getting to record with a giant orchestra for hours at a time a few times a year, doing concerts in the Royal Albert Hall, getting interviewed on TV, etc... Who wouldn't?

He has written the exact same music now for Doctor Who for eight, long, years. It's a waste of a very expensive, very skilled orchestra. I was there. I saw those poor people sitting there playing that crap and looking for all the world like 90 people paying their mortgages. In the break time, do you think we talked about how great Gold's music was? No... we talked about proper music and discussed their upcoming concerts at the Proms later that year. Gold's a great guy, so's Foster - and I think Foster is the better composer of the two, and I told him as much... but once again, we come back to this: If you had two scores - Gold Doctor Who Series Whatever, and Williams - Empire Strikes Back, and you had to choose to obliterate one of them from the face of the earth... which one, for the good of humanity, would you rescue? I sincerely pray that you'd save ESB, but who knows...? ;)


Star Trek Into Darkness WAS a good score, a score that I think you criticize somewhat unjustly due to your distaste for Abrams.

Wrong again. I don't give a toss about Abrams other than that I think he demands a certain type of (shit) music in his films. Giacchino can do better than he does routinely for Abrams, because Abrams is a hack and he wants a particular style. Giacchino is a hack too, but he's got more going for him than Star Trek. Into Darkness was a terrible score which was just a terrible score. Nothing to do with the film (which was terrible) or the director (who's incompetent) or the screenwriters (also incompetent) or the composer (who may be the most overrated in the business) but simply because the music... was a pile of shit. There was no theme, no drama, no development, no orchestral technique, no storytelling, no flow, no nothing. Just a load of blandly arranged noise played by an orchestra the same size as the one that performed Goldsmith's Star Trek TMP.


It was sharply divided on the Shrine and you can't count Amazon reviews for crap. Amazon reviews are ALWAYS inflated by Joe Smo movie goers who don't think about the music and fanboys of the composer.

It's Joe Schmo I'm talking about. That's who matters these days. This forum is mostly populated by Joe Schmo, and it has a few miserable bastards like me, Wimpel, Streich, Lens, etc, to even things out. Fact remains; average moron thinks Man Of Steel is a great score. My opinion, your opinion, the Shrine's opinion... doesn't matter, when the album sells twenty billion copies and Hans Zimmer buys himself an Aston Martin with the money he made...

To add to the discussion, I think Streich is absolutly right with classical music. Just listening to a classical piece and then trying to analyse it can teach you much about what makes great film music. The very reason why I love the majority of japanese composers is not because they're simply better or modern hollywood sucks but because they almost all have classical education, either through university or self-taught and they know what they're doing.
Classical education is also not a limitation but rather a doorway to do almost any musical style you want. Look at Sahashi, Yamashita and Hirano, they're all classical composers at their core but they can do any other genre so well and with so much ease whether it is rock, metal or jazz. I think this is precisely because of classical education.

Your remarks concerning the indulgence of mediocrity, tango, could be applied to contemporary consumer culture as a whole I should think.

Wrong; citation please. Show me a great score that isn't inspired by classical music, and I'll sing its praises from the rooftops. (Note; showing me a score you think is great and then saying "I told you so!" when I moan about it doesn't count.)

Don Davis' Matrix and Reloaded. Revolutions is a great score but it is 100% influenced by classical so it doesn't git the argument. Elliot Goldenthal's SWAT also fits.


That's a euphemistic way of saying that things will get worse in order to appeal to the lowest common denominator, who will gobble them down regardless of their quality.

In the purest sense, yes, absolutely an artform can experiment... but that doesn't mean it should get shit and we shouldn't complain about it because somebody (you) can't tell the difference between genuine criticism-because-something's-actually-rubbish and complaining because something isn't the genre you like. The former is what you see in this thread 99% of the time.

No, any artform that adheres strictly to one style of doing things gets bland, boring and irrelevant to the modern culture. Video Games need to change; books need to adapt to their surroundings, as do film and television, plays, and anything else. Art must not be A + B = C.

On the other hand, an art form must also NOT sacrifice objective measures of quality in the name of experimentation. RCP, for the most part, throws away what is good about orchestral music in the name of trying new things. That is bad. Remember Me is a better example of a score that is trying something new but the composer holds onto the best of classical music as well. I consider it more of a honorable failure than a great piece of art, but it is still a good example of what we should be seeing. Instead of Man of Steel.


Wrong again. The only person who should be John Williams-esque is John Williams. My repeated invocation of John Williams as a paragon of musical virtue is to do with what he does NOT how he does it; Williams has flawless dramatic sensibility, a melodic gift, the ability to sustain and develop an idea elegantly and over a long period of time, the ability to tell a fluid and continuous story in music. THAT'S what I care about. That's what other people care about.

Jerry Goldsmith was about as far away from Williams (stylistically) as you could get... and most people in this thread will have very good things to say - if not outright gushing praise - for the man. Speaking for myself, Goldsmith was my hero.

You are absolutely correct - my term was simply an incorrect one. A better one for me "a composer writing like he is writing classical music". And I have no issue with composers doing that! UNLESS that is the only thing that is going on within the medium. Then it would become stagnant. And we don't want! Unfortunately we've gone to the worst possible alternative but there are plenty of signs of us amending that mistake.

You are also correct in that we need more composers to make themes a more important part of their music. But I disagree on the idea that it is the MOST important part. Music needs to be enjoyable first before it can intellectual. You need to make the listener love your music - as in dig into their hearts - before they can think about it. If I am going to like a soundtrack, it needs to be emotional first. If I am going to love a soundtrack, it it needs to be intellectual. But just because I don't love a soundtrack doesn't mean that it's bad. It can be good for what it is - and that's not sacrificing my convictions. If a game is experimenting with mechanics and has a great story but is very buggy and glitches out, then me praising me doesn't mean I am forgetting about the technical faults. If a film is visually stunning, but narratively it has flaws, then me enjoying it does not mean I treat narrative less than visuals. I am giving it the praise it deserves, not withholding praise because of areas it falls back on.


Well, I'll agree with your first sentence; I think Gold is basically terrible but he's got more going for him than most. I've never heard him work in the classical format; I've heard him write (or, more to the point, his orchestrator write) music for orchestra and some of it sounds very nice... underneath the glittering orchestration, what is there? F**k all.

The guy writes power anthems for symphony orchestra. That doesn't belong in Star Wars. Yeah, it all sounds great when all the fireworks are going off, but I get more satisfaction from just about any Williams cue from Star Wars than I do from Gold's entire back catalogue. I think Gold can do better than he's doing at the moment - but at the moment, he's revelling in Who and in getting away with essentially doing the same shit again and again and making lunatic sums of money, getting to record with a giant orchestra for hours at a time a few times a year, doing concerts in the Royal Albert Hall, getting interviewed on TV, etc... Who wouldn't?[

He has written the exact same music now for Doctor Who for eight, long, years. It's a waste of a very expensive, very skilled orchestra. I was there. I saw those poor people sitting there playing that crap and looking for all the world like 90 people paying their mortgages. In the break time, do you think we talked about how great Gold's music was? No... we talked about proper music and discussed their upcoming concerts at the Proms later that year. Gold's a great guy, so's Foster - and I think Foster is the better composer of the two, and I told him as much... but once again, we come back to this: If you had two scores - Gold Doctor Who Series Whatever, and Williams - Empire Strikes Back, and you had to choose to obliterate one of them from the face of the earth... which one, for the good of humanity, would you rescue? I sincerely pray that you'd save ESB, but who knows...? ;)

I'd save Empire Strikes Back - as much as I love Gold, ESB needs to be preserved just for The Battle of Hoth and The Asteroid Field alone. But I don''t understand how you can consider Gold crap - I mean, it's beautiful orchestral music! I would actually consider it equal to some of Williams best - but in totally different ways! Just like how Goldsmith was equal to Williams - in completely different ways! These are all great composers, but they all have their own signature. And I would not have it no other way.

I wouldn't even want to classify "proper" music. What is proper music? How can we set a precedent for that? We should have base standards of quality of course - not make it repetitive, don't artificially muddle music with electronic hampering, have a sense of melody and progression... - but there has to be a point when we allow new ideas that go against the flow set by the "first classics". DOOM was a fantastic first person shooter - but we can't let that be the only shooter. The Ten Commandments was a wonderful historical epic - but again we can't let all of our historical epics be dominated by Biblical context.


Wrong again. I don't give a toss about Abrams other than that I think he demands a certain type of (shit) music in his films. Giacchino can do better than he does routinely for Abrams, because Abrams is a hack and he wants a particular style. Giacchino is a hack too, but he's got more going for him than Star Trek. Into Darkness was a terrible score which was just a terrible score. Nothing to do with the film (which was terrible) or the director (who's incompetent) or the screenwriters (also incompetent) or the composer (who may be the most overrated in the business) but simply because the music... was a pile of shit. There was no theme, no drama, no development, no orchestral technique, no storytelling, no flow, no nothing. Just a load of blandly arranged noise played by an orchestra the same size as the one that performed Goldsmith's Star Trek TMP.

Except by all technicalities, isn't everyone in Hollywood a hack since they all do this for a paycheck? If they were "real" artists (and by god I hope you see the air-quotes I'm doing on the other side of the Atlantic) then they would do everything for out of the love of the medium!

But that's kinda a false response to your comment, so let's try that again.

Star Trek Into Darkness DID have a theme. It had several themes. I could pull up te JWFan thread and they'd give a fairly detailed account of all the themes in Into Darkness. As for drama...well, how isn't "Ship to Ship", "Shipbound and Down" and "Warp Core Values" dramatic? I don't know what other category to put those in besides as dramatic.


It's Joe Schmo I'm talking about. That's who matters these days. This forum is mostly populated by Joe Schmo, and it has a few miserable bastards like me, Wimpel, Streich, Lens, etc, to even things out. Fact remains; average moron thinks Man Of Steel is a great score. My opinion, your opinion, the Shrine's opinion... doesn't matter, when the album sells twenty billion copies and Hans Zimmer buys himself an Aston Martin with the money he made...

Except Joe Schmo doesn't even know what they want. They will say they want Man of Steel in the morning and Star Wars in the evening. They just want something that is recognizable and "cool" - and both scores fit those definitions in different ways. But the difference doesn't matter because both are loud and cool. Joe Schmo has simple tastes, so what they "good" and "the best thing ever" is going to have an absolutely enormous spectrum. I had an argument with a friend who loved - and I mean loooooooved - trailer music. Essentially it boiled down to one thing:

"Why do you love Two Steps From Hell?"

"Because it sounds cool."

"But...why does it sound cool?"

"Because it does dude. It's...loud and easy to follow."

That fits both John Williams and Hans Zimmer. Williams can be quiet and intimate, but he's louder than higher brow classical composers. So people like him. Just like they enjoy Man of Steel.


Your remarks concerning the indulgence of mediocrity, tango, could be applied to contemporary consumer culture as a whole I should think.

Except there are STILL great films, books, plays and games still coming out. People still want quality entertainment. I can look at any given year, and easily find you half a dozen books or movies that are not only not blockbuster cash grabs, but are also artistically designed and well made. And considering that I am currently working on an RPG that I hope in a years time to sell, you are also throwing me into that generic category as well. That is kinda insulting, because even if this book is crap or doesn't sell for whatever reason, I am still putting a crapton of work, effort and love into this game. And that is no "indulgence of mediocrity".

Don Davis' Matrix and Reloaded. Revolutions is a great score but it is 100% influenced by classical so it doesn't git the argument. Elliot Goldenthal's SWAT also fits.

Sigh... The Matrix scores are written with classical techniques by a man with a solid classical background, decades of prior experience as an A-list orchestrator, and a concurrent career as a concert composer.

Elliot Goldenthal is likewise classically educated and his music is thus constructed.

Still waiting for an example of a great score not classically influenced or written by somebody with a solid musical education. ;)


On the other hand, an art form must also NOT sacrifice objective measures of quality in the name of experimentation.

Quite agree - and I do make a concerted effort to never do that.


RCP, for the most part, throws away what is good about orchestral music in the name of trying new things.

RCP, for the most part, throws away what is good about [u]music[/i] in the name of pleasing dumb people. It's not about trying new things. It's about trying the same things over and over again because a population of blockheads loved it the first time.


That is bad. Remember Me is a better example of a score that is trying something new but the composer holds onto the best of classical music as well. I consider it more of a honorable failure than a great piece of art, but it is still a good example of what we should be seeing. Instead of Man of Steel.

I don't get that score. The guy has a technique most modern composers would die for. Agreed; nice try, but failure. Then again, what did he hope to achieve? I thought the final result was utterly disgusting - not only because of the imbecilic noise that it frequently degenerated into, but because under all that shit was the potential for some truly glorious music. Conditions were perfect; world class orchestra to die for, guy who knows how to write for orchestra... and what happened? I think we shouldn't be seeing any of that bullshit at all; what we should be seeing is talented musicians writing music - not trying to turn everything into experimental sound design.


You are absolutely correct - my term was simply an incorrect one. A better one for me "a composer writing like he is writing classical music". And I have no issue with composers doing that! UNLESS that is the only thing that is going on within the medium. Then it would become stagnant. And we don't want! Unfortunately we've gone to the worst possible alternative but there are plenty of signs of us amending that mistake.

Classical music - and by that, I mean that in the sense of construction, intention, complexity - has stood the test of time, and for a very good reason! Music is a language and in order to speak eloquently, one requires a high degree of skill in the manipulation of that language. Classical music is eloquent. The fact that pretty much [u]all[/i] music widely regarded (by people who's opinions matter) as high quality... is written with a classical sensibility in mind, would seem to suggest this is the case.


You are also correct in that we need more composers to make themes a more important part of their music.

The reason they don't is because a) they're scared of themes because they can be construed as emotionally manipulative (which in itself is now considered a bad thing, despite the fact that all good music is emotionally manipulative) and b) they're hard to write.


But I disagree on the idea that it is the MOST important part.

I don't recall ever saying that it WAS the most important part.


Music needs to be enjoyable first before it can intellectual. You need to make the listener love your music - as in dig into their hearts - before they can think about it. If I am going to like a soundtrack, it needs to be emotional first. If I am going to love a soundtrack, it it needs to be intellectual.

True genius is to do both; that's what makes Williams so powerful. You can appreciate his music with your brain switched off, and you can also analyse the bejeezus out of it.


I'd save Empire Strikes Back - as much as I love Gold, ESB needs to be preserved just for The Battle of Hoth and The Asteroid Field alone. But I don''t understand how you can consider Gold crap - I mean, it's beautiful orchestral music! I would actually consider it equal to some of Williams best - but in totally different ways! Just like how Goldsmith was equal to Williams - in completely different ways! These are all great composers, but they all have their own signature. And I would not have it no other way.

Quite! That's exactly the point I was trying to make.


Except by all technicalities, isn't everyone in Hollywood a hack since they all do this for a paycheck? If they were "real" artists (and by god I hope you see the air-quotes I'm doing on the other side of the Atlantic) then they would do everything for out of the love of the medium!

People have accused John Williams of being a hack; as they did of Korngold before him, Wagner before him, and even the likes of Mozart, Haydn, and Bach. They all composed for a paycheck. They all wrote music for a variety of less-than-stimulating environments. They never once sacrificed their artistry in the process. That's why music that Mozart wrote three hundred years ago to accompany rich snobs eating dinner is still recognised as great.


Star Trek Into Darkness DID have a theme. It had several themes. I could pull up te JWFan thread and they'd give a fairly detailed account of all the themes in Into Darkness.

I don't care how many people write down examples of clusters of three or four notes which are heard more than once in the score and decide those are themes. They're not themes. There are no themes in Star Trek Into Darkness, except for Alexander Courage's. There are simplistic motifs, played against generic chord progressions and some of the most dull orchestrations I've ever heard in all of my life. I believe we've been through all this before. ;)


As for drama...well, how isn't "Ship to Ship", "Shipbound and Down" and "Warp Core Values" dramatic? I don't know what other category to put those in besides as dramatic.

Dramatic isn't the be-all and end-all of everything.


Except Joe Schmo doesn't even know what they want.

This is why we should be trying to raise his awareness with things that are more than what he thinks he wants. Not ask him what he wants and give him that constantly until he bursts.


That fits both John Williams and Hans Zimmer. Williams can be quiet and intimate, but he's louder than higher brow classical composers. So people like him. Just like they enjoy Man of Steel.

I'm fairly sure that if Star Wars had been simply "loud" and "easy to follow" it wouldn't have reached the level of popularity that it did. Any idiot can do loud and easy to follow. It takes a genius to go loud, easy to follow, and worth listening to...



Except there are STILL great films, books, plays and games still coming out. People still want quality entertainment. I can look at any given year, and easily find you half a dozen books or movies that are not only not blockbuster cash grabs, but are also artistically designed and well made. And considering that I am currently working on an RPG that I hope in a years time to sell, you are also throwing me into that generic category as well. That is kinda insulting, because even if this book is crap or doesn't sell for whatever reason, I am still putting a crapton of work, effort and love into this game. And that is no "indulgence of mediocrity".[/QUOTE]

My observation: the more one integrates into one's film music listening experience a recognition and understanding of the foundation upon which "good" music is built the better one can objectively discern the qualitative value between a Goldsmith and a Giacchino, a Williams and a Lockington, a Morricone and a Zimmer. The problem, if you would even refer to it as such, and I wouldn't be the first to acknowledge in kind, is that in the years and decades that have passed fewer and fewer people have more than passing exposure, let alone learned appreciation, of the technical and aesthetic developments of Western "art" music over the course of the past 500+ years.

Anyone remember that guy named Shinji Miyazaki? Well i have just received his latest score hot from japan :).

MHCL-2312 | Pok�mon Best Wishes "Shinsoku no Genesect Mewtwo Kakusei"... - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/39960)
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Title: Pok�mon Best Wishes "Shinsoku no Genesect Mewtwo Kakusei" & "Pikachu to Ibui☆Friends" Music Collection
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Shinji Miyazaki, Minoru Maruo
No. of tracks: 58
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Jul 31, 2013
Size: MP3 154mb/ ALAC 348mb
Host: Zippyshare/MP3 Mega/FLAC

Tracklist
01 Title
02 Tsuite Koraremasuka?
03 Samayoeru Genesect
04 Saki Ni Ikimasuyo
05 Uchini...Kaeritai
06 Genkai Heno Chousen
07 SOS
08 Taiji
09 Main Title
10 Sono Shounen Satoshi
11 Tokai No Mannakade
12 Youkoso Poke'mon Hills He
13 Ortus No Saku Ike
14 Genesect To Satoshi
15 Maigo No Genesect
16 Nakanaide
17 Genesect Gundan
18 Watashi Ha Mewtwo
19 Tozasareta Kokoro
20 Chance! Chance! Chaaance!
21 Rocketdan No Yabou
22 Ortus No Hana
23 Shinryaku
24 Taihenda! Taihenda!
25 Mewtwo No Kako NO
26 Hitori Deha Nakatta
27 Mewtwo No Ketsui
28 Ima Sokoniaru Kiki
29 Mewtwo VS Akai Genesect
30 Sentou
31 Haijo Seyo!
32 Yokatta...
33 Tatakai. Soshite Ortus No Hana...
34 Gekikasuru Tatakai
35 Minna Hiwo Kesunda!
36 Yakusoku
37 Genkai No Sekai He!
38 Uchi He
39 Kyuujo
40 Minna Nakama
41 Ortus No Hana Ga Saku Tokoro
42 2014Nen Yokou
43 Title Theme
44 Iza! Otomarikai He!!
45 Sylveon To Kakurenbo
46 Eevee No Odemukae!
47 Oikakekko
48 Glaceon No Oheya
49 Eevee House Wo Daibouken
50 Mizu No Jet Coaster
51 Eevee Friends
52 Kyodai Blanco
53 Ikemen Meowth
54 Party No Hajimari!
55 Kasoutaikai
56 Umbreon No Takurami
57 Tentai Show He Youkoso
58 Oyasuminasai

320 kbs MP3
Zippyshare.com - Pok�mon Best Wishes "Shinsoku no Genesect Mewtwo Kakusei" & "Pikachu to Ibui?Friends" Music Collection.7z (http://www69.zippyshare.com/v/99605836/file.html)

ALAC (Loseless)
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Included scans as always. Enjoy ^_^
Next week i will have Karneval and Data a Live Music Extension up.

Interesting discussion guys.

I would say that I think it is not the composers being afraid of writing themes but the producers who don't want any. There was an interview video with Henry Jackman when he was writing for XMen First Class and he talks about how he had a theme for some of the bad guys that sounded pretty John Barry-esque and the producers complained that it sounded old fashioned and so he removed it. I don't think we have really seen very many film projects where the modern RC composers have been given a blank slate to write something War Horse level. That is just what happens when they get the projects they are given. Or take for example Alan Silvestri who said that he purposefully did not include any full statements of his Captain America march in the film because he didn't want the music to draw too much attention to itself. You just aren't going to see a score that has the theme repetition we see in Japan for a modern film.

Probably the best example of a recent modern score that was solidly written and not by anyone major was Mark Isham's score to 42. Solid theme and delightful use of it in the finale cue. Cloud Atlas was overall mediocre musically but it did have one of the more interesting themes last year.

Don't get me started on the general mediocrity that takes over other genres of music. You have album after album of repetitive trash being put out by so many metal and rock bands that it is a bit sad really. Though I don't mind so much because when something good comes out I can really enjoy it. There just aren't very many musicians with true talent out there. That's why in the metal and rock world supergroups are so popular. People recognize the skill of certain musicians so much that when they form together and create new groups they take notice. For example Richie Kotzen (well known for his guitar playing, also solid vocalist), Billie Sheehan (one of the best bass players around), and Mike Portnoy (great drummer) got together recently and formed up a little supergroup called The Winery Dogs that wrote some great music. Many lowest common denominator bands write a ton of stuff with mediocre solos and mediocre riffs that people lap up because they can't tell the good from the amazing.

Cloud Atlas...musically mediocre?

Okay guys. You get the torches. I'll grab the pitchforks.

Thanks for more Hisaishi! :)

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.

it comes out aug 2nd. same day as the movie hits theaters. i hope it does well cuz i luved this movie.

I remember that discussion... Jackman complained that the director wanted the "fucking theme" removed and replaced with the "fucking bassline" - and I couldn't help but think to myself... the "theme" he spoke of was utterly atrocious. But, apart from that, quite right - we had a composer trying to sneak in melodic material (however poor in quality and simplistic in construction) and being vigorously rebuffed.

I genuinely wonder what would happen if one of these guys got hired and were told "Right, guys... no electronics, no drum loops. Themes, lots of them. Don't be afraid. Long, arching melodies. Emotion. Memorable, lyrical. Construction. Fludity. Progression. Flow. Counterpoint. Woodwinds. Nuance. Elegance. You have a 90 piece orchestra - use it properly, use it fully, exploit it. Think Korngold, Ravel, Scriabin, Vaughan Williams. Write something timeless. Write something beautiful. Write something you'd be proud to show to Williams. Write something that'll be filling concert halls thirty years from now. Write something they'll be re-recording all over the world. Write something that will penetrate the general public. Write something you'll leave the cinema whistling to yourself. Forget everything that's happened to film music over the last thirty years. Write a film score the way they used to write film scores. Write music."

I have a feeling some of them would surprise us. Now, if somebody took Henry Jackman and told him to do that, and told him to do that every time over the next twenty, thirty years... In 2040 we might see the emergence of a genuine heir to the throne of the old masters.

Edit - Cloud Atlas, YES, terrible. Klimek, Heil and co should stick to stuff like Run Lola Run (which I really loved; put that in your pipe and smoke it, people who think I disregard anything that doesn't have an orchestra or the internal structure of a Mahler symphony!)...

Guys...

we are going to need a lot more torches.

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BVCR-17077 | Triangle Original Soundtrack



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For anyone wondering what this is, the artists are: Hiromi Uehara (opening track), Hiroyuki Sawano (8 tracks) and Yuki Hayashi (8 tracks)

Aside from Hiromi's excellent jazzy intro track, Yuki Hayashi is the star of this soundtrack. Sawano's tracks are pretty much the usual, at least in my opinion.

Before I download 500mb... is this anything I'm likely to like...? ;)

Sawano? Er....

Is this him in Unicorn Vol.1 mode...or March of the Giants mode?

Before I download 500mb... is this anything I'm likely to like...? ;)
No.

Haha! OK... Many thanks regardless... :)

Before I download 500mb... is this anything I'm likely to like...? ;)
Definitely not.


Sawano? Er....

Is this him in Unicorn Vol.1 mode...or March of the Giants mode?
Well considering Unicorn is his best and Titan is his worst, I can say that his stuff on here is probably somewhere in the middle.

FREDERIC TALGORN
Asterix at the Olympic Games
The Philharmonia Orchestra
conducted by the composer

FLAC + LOG + SCANS | 25 Tracks | 01:05:28 | 442 MB

Release Date: 28.01.2008
Published by: Milan
Catalog Number: 399 188-2



01. Lois Andrea feat. Big Ali - All we need
02. Big Ali feat. Lois Andrea - Funk Machine (Asterix Funk)
03. Hakkimakli - Dollaly
04. Eight - Supernatural Funky Fresh
05. G�n�rique D�but
06. Ast�rix et Ob�lix
07. �Mais nous sommes Romains!�
08. En Route vers Olympie
09. Les Juges
10. Dr. Mabus
11. Bain Mousse - La Palestre
12. Entra�nement D'Alafolix
13. Sc�ne du Balcon
14. Ouverture des Jeux et Parade
15. Congr�s de Druides et Id�fix cherche Panomarix
16. Test du Col�opt�re
17. Course de Relais
18. Lancer de Disque - Alafolix et Humungus
19. Brutus se dope et se d�gonfle
20. Pr�paratifs de la Course de Chars 1
21. Pr�paratifs de la Course de Chars 2
22. La Gel�re
23. Couronnement et Banquet Final
24. La Course de Chars
25. Beno�t Poelvoorde - Besoin de Rien, Envie de Toi (Peter & Sloane)


La Course De Chars

Talgorn composed a remarkable almost 12 minute orchestral piece, full of action, with even some slight occurences of the romantic theme. It's largely inspired by John Williams' music, as you'll notice, but it's very enjoyable anyway.


YIKES, I can't believe I didn't bring this one up before. That Talgorn score is one of the true musical miracles of 2008. He's one of the only composers who can can adopt John Williams' buoyant style, without merely doing an impression. Absolutely breathtaking stuff, and if I may add (with a bit of friendly patriotism) proudly performed by London's very own Philharmonia Orchestra. :D


It's the oboes and flutes playing with xylophones that gives it that Williams texture/quality. It's really well done, especially for something so recent. 4:10 sort of reminds me of Hook.

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A score for a French film performed by the London Philharmonic.

I bet there were all sorts of gags between the French sound people and the English orchestra.

The Film & TV Music of Christopher Gunning
FLAC|12 Tracks~75:55
My Rip



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I bet they had a blast. ;) Looks like they used a mainly English recording crew - the credits reveal a familiar list of names: Steve Price, Jake Jackson (another prolific boozer), Jon Allen, Allan Wilson, Paul Talkington, etc, etc, etc...

Still, our esteemed cousins from across the Channel have a lot to be proud of - French orchestras have performed on some of the most revered film soundtracks in history, French recording studios are sought after by producers from all over the world, French engineers are considered second to none... Oh, wait... :awsm:

Also, not meaning to be an ass... but it's performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra, not the London Philharmonic. ;)

and if you've got a score for upright piano, mouth organ, and accordian... better head straight off for the Eurostar.

That Christopher Gunning CD is delightful. I got it as a lossless download direct from the label.

Rich and varied lovely themes by Christopher Gunning, performed immaculately, thank you Akashi-san.

Hi alls! I've been a long-time lurker of this thread ever since I realized it was a great way to discover new music I liked. That was years ago, and since then I've accrued quite the collection of scores (mainstream and obscure) and I finally want to participate in the discussions so I can learn something about quality (and overrated) orchestral action music. I'm going to list many composers I frequently listen to as well as my opinion on them as I would like to know how my purely subjective thoughts on them compare to your ("you" being the knowledgeable frequenters who seem to have music theory backgrounds). For any of the artists I list, feel free to ask for example songs that display some of the positive (or negative) traits that I describe.

Forgive me if I fail to be sufficiently articulate in my opinions. It's my first time trying to explain exactly what I like or dislike about instrumental music (I don't listen to lyrical music, by the way), so I may be lacking an adequate vocabulary at the moment.

Akira Senju: I fell in love with the Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood soundtrack, but I haven't ruled out the possibility that it might be a mediocre score with a few good parts that played in my favorite story of all time. The weird thing was, as I found and listened to more of his works, everything sounded the same. It wasn't like the similarity between Star Wars and Indiana Jones, where each had a distinct style, but rather as if Senju had made a huge library of aurally similar material to randomly pick stuff from for different scores.

Alexandre Desplat: I've only heard his recent Harry Potter music, but after listening to it a fair amount, I realized that much or most of it seems like dark ambiance instead of actual music... kind of like Hans Zimmer in many cases. Lily's Theme is ok, and I like Dragon Flight, but his best HP track is the End Credits, and that's because it piggybacks on good parts from John William's Harry Potter music.

Bear McCreary: I don't see him mentioned in this thread often or ever, and that seems like a shame because his music really stands out to me. Much of it is great "battle" music, and SOCOM 4 and Dark Void have arrays of great themes I like to hum in my head. I've heard people complain about "overuse" of the loud taiko drums, but I think they keep the music feeling fast and exciting. Even in small quantities, I find myself loving percussion sections in orchestral pieces.

Brian Tyler: While some of it is generic action movie fare, this man manages to come out with a fair amount of gems. I appreciate his Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift theme because it combines very fast string instruments with electronic elements similar to The Matrix's score. Conversely, Lego Universe strikes me as a masterpiece of lighthearted but still (when necessary for the action cues) intense background music.

Don Davis / Juno Reactor: I've only heard their The Matrix scores, but to this day they remain iconic with their high-tempo electronic battle music combined with bold brass that manages to feel powerful like the trumpets in Star Wars without feeling annoying and blaring.

E.S. Posthumus: Honestly, I view their Unearthed album as one of the greatest albums of the 21st century. Their combinations of synthetic/electronic elements with string, percussion, and chorus form some of the most beautiful and relaxing songs I've ever heard.

Hans Zimmer: I love his Sherlock Holmes score and some key parts of the Batman ones, but I feel like he's massively overrated and most of his "music" is just dark ambiance or really unpleasantly synthy and repetitive.

Howard Shore: The The Lord of the Rings trilogy's score feels like one of those legendary, impossible-to-top orchestral soundtracks like much of John Williams's work. It's got slow, beautiful parts, and memorable themes for many of the different settings and characters. And yet, it's like he's a one (or three?) trick pony. I tried listening to some of his other work, and it didn't impress me in the slightest. Even the recent The Hobbit seems like a significant step down... all of its best parts are the ones that sound like the original trilogy rather than new material.

Immediate Music: They don't get as much attention as Two Steps From Hell, but their trailer music is excellent (at least the publicly released "Trailerhead" albums). As I try to figure out exactly what I like about it, I'm not sure if it's their chorus, the really fast string instruments, the percussion, or what.

Jeremy Soule: I've listened to his Skyrim and Guild Wars 2 scores, and while they definitely have some gems, a lot of it seems like the kind of synthy, themeless ambiance that Hans Zimmer pumps out. Particularly frustrating are the songs that I feel have potential but fall flat from the overly loud fake trumpets or chorus. (Although Land of the Golden Sun from GW: Nightfall is still one of my very favorite songs.)

Joe Hisaishi: I think we can all agree that he's excellent. I've by no means heard all or even most of his work, but I adore Castle in the Sky, Ni No Kuni, and the other Studio Ghibli scores he's composed.

John Williams: He's the man. Hardly anything beats Star Wars, and although I love the original trilogy, I have to admit that his Episode 1 soundtrack is my favorite (one of my favorite albums of all time actually) due to its occasional chorus and excellent, fast paced action cues. Harry Potter and Indiana Jones also have special places in my heart and fit their movies perfectly, instilling great senses of wonder (HP) or adventure (IJ). I just wish his more recent work was up to that standard... Tintin was ok, but I loathed War Horse, which seemed like Hans Zimmer's themeless ambiance to me. Lincoln's also seemed meh, but that may be because it's too "boring" for me to appreciate.

Mahito Yokota: His Super Mario Galaxy soundtracks remain some of the grandest, sweeping scores I've heard for a while. The sense of awe many of the tracks instill is fitting for the cosmic scale of much of the game, and I even feel like some tracks are up to par with John Williams.

Michael Giacchino: I've seen a fair amount of hate here about him, and I don't really know why. The Incredibles fits the jazzy superhero vibe excellently, Ghost Protocol is a lot of fun and matches the goofy, over-the-top setting of the movie. I have no problem with the recent Star Trek soundtracks and do not at this time understand why some people seem to hate them.

Murray Gold: I love I Am The Doctor, but it seems like this guy has trouble coming up with anything good beyond that. For the rest of his songs, I'd probably compare the quality to Hans Zimmer in terms of themeless orchestral blaring.

Nightwish's instrumentals: Dark Passion Play and Imaginaerum have some top-notch orchestral action music. Others may view it as heresy, but I for one love the combination of electric guitar, drums, and orchestra. Maybe it's so excellent because they use the London Philharmonic Orchestra (and then they handle the brilliant orchestration), but regardless, the end result is exciting and fills me with that rare sense of awe.

Nobuo Uematsu: Maybe the orchestras do all the work in making it sound great, but many of his Final Fantasy tracks are paragons of Orchestral Action as far as I can tell. Whether it's the fast battle songs or the slower, relaxing themes, I find that I love his music as long as the orchestra of the album in question didn't drop the ball.

Two Steps From Hell: Oh boy, this one's a doozy. Nick Phoenix and Thomas Bergersen have made so much trailer music, people tend to look at the best of it and call them saints or the worst of it and call them garbage. I'm a huge fan, personally, but that's because I absolutely love their gems. I find that Nick Phoenix's songs tend to be the really synthy instrumentals with fake chorus overuse, but Thomas Bergersen's are the ones with inspiring vocals, dynamic strings, and far more experimentation. His Illusions album is a masterpiece and easily one of my favorite albums of all time due to its combination of orchestra, electronic (even dubstep) elements, and wordless vocals.

Welcome!

No time to comment extensively, but I will say that I think you've got it right on the nose regarding Senju. It's like he's got a catalogue of prototype cues mapped out, maybe partially orchestrated, for different circumstances... and when he needs, say, an action cue, he'll find something that fits, trim or extend as time requirements dictate, overlay whatever the main theme is for the current project, and bingo, one "original" action cue. Sometimes it's slightly less flagrant, but 90% of the time there's a sensation that one has heard this cue before. It feeds my suspicion (further fuelled by his comments in the Rampo booklet about the Japanese film industry going to hell, composers getting a crappy deal, endless rubbish TV shows, etc) that he views most of his projects with a certain degree of contempt; look at what he does with something like Rampo... that's Senju when he's fired up and raring to go... Other times, it's like "Oh, bugger... Gotta score this garbage. I'll write a couple of themes, stick them on top of cues I already wrote, and collect the pay cheque."

Despite that, I still love his music - and even Valvrave is growing on me... if this is his way of working and it works for him, well, good on him... He's found a way to come up with an hour long score that's actually good quality whilst in reality only writing about two or three mintues of music, and not get found out. He's the most shrewd businessman there is in the business, and manages to keep some sense of artistry in the finished product.

Shore has some other good work in his catalogue imo. I haven't heard all of his scores, but most. Two examples which I liked (although I find the full scores a bit boring):

Howard Shore - Suite for Richard - YouTube (http://youtu.be/UN_ioLeR6Y8?t=2m1s) sounds Orff-inspired! You may hear some LotR in it too ;)

And Soul of the Ultimate Nation (S.U.N.) - Track 3 - Tides of Hope - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb7sUomjMc8)

Not a fan at all of his synth-work.

I also like this unreleased piece heard in this video from his concerto - Howard Shore A Composer's Dream - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NONDCA_dmHA)

King Kong would be nice to hear one day too..

Cloud Atlas...musically mediocre?

Okay guys. You get the torches. I'll grab the pitchforks.

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John Williams: but I loathed War Horse, which seemed like Hans Zimmer's themeless ambiance to me.

No, it sounds beautiful string music (the War music is a little duller, but the action music is superb), much better than Tintin, which is Williams on autopilot.

So, with 6 days to go, Little Witch Academia 2 just hit the 500k stretch goal which adds an original soundtrack. Looks like the campaign will end at around 600k or so at the current rate.

Hopefully they put that extra money to good use.

No, it sounds beautiful string music (the War music is a little duller, but the action music is superb), much better than Tintin, which is Williams on autopilot.

I agree with Faleel here. War Horse has some of my favorite themes of recent years. It is probably my favorite John Williams score of all time. It grabs me more than any of his Star Wars or Indiana Jones scores ever could. His theme for Jurassic Park comes close but the rest of the score not so much.

As for Howard Shore suggestions, I would suggest Hugo, which is my favorite Howard Shore score. Though I never really got into LOTR or The Hobit. Hugo has a whimsical nature and some beautiful themes as well.

Still, even when I disagree with you, Mykinius, to each his own. Welcome to the thread and thanks for sharing your thoughts.

BTW Have your heard Angela's Ashes SirusJr? while there is no action music, it's one of Williams' best score, and album IMHO, and was written in my favorite year in Williams' writing: 1999, his string writing that year was superb (Anakin Is Free, Angela's Prayer).

Well I thought War Horse was a good Williams Score but nothing special (for Williams). I prefer Tintin by far, even if it is Williams on autopilot it is still the best autopilot one can get. I'm a sucker for adventure scores and his swashbuckling piece is actually so well done, both as a homage and as a standalone piece that I can forgive the score for not having a distinctive theme.
On the topic of liking or disliking certain instruments, I can generally like any instrument no matter the sound when it's done well and Williams use of Accordeon is delightfully done.
His best scores for me are a mix of the really popular choices: Superman, Star Wars, Indiana Jones and his darker scores for Prisoner of Azkaban and Black Sunday. My favorite overall is probably Hook or Empire strikes back but Williams is the absolute King of movie themes so even if the rest of the scores do not match up there will never be more perfect themes for a movie franchise than Harry Potter and Jurassic Park.
On Star Wars: I love all scores to death except Revenge, it did not have any standouts for me, Phantom Menace (the unedited score) is full of standout moments from start to finish with a musical climax only few scores can match, then you have the beautiful love theme in Attack of the Clones as well as the Chase through Coruscant, the arena march and my favorite rendition of the emperor's theme and the imperial march in the prequels. Revenge did have some great action tracks and choral pieces but not as memorable as or exceptional as the other scores.

Also, Star Wars flashmob (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTHXIzHPyqE)!

I am developing a growing appreciation for Revenge of the Sith, after listening to the expanded, fx free sets. I was not keen on the official album, but the expanded stuff has a lot of nice subtle moments, pushing it musically closer to the original trilogy than Phantom Menace. Of course, you'd never know that based on a listen to the ost.

Gah i'm so sick of fangasming over Majestic Prince. I WANT THE OST NOW!

Since i had some free time i went ahead and ripped a mostly clean short version of the Wulgaru's theme with the intro (the one with the epic chorus) and a completely clean short version as well. Also included the preview theme.
Just something for people can't wait for it like me i guess :P.

Zippyshare.com - Majestic Prince Samples.7z (http://www39.zippyshare.com/v/76903668/file.html)

1. The Beautiful Country 3:01
2. A Dream of Freedom 2:39
3. Saigon 2:49
4. Ship of Hope 4:06
5. The Promised Land 2:52
6. Letter to My Mother 2:34
7. The Streets of New York 2:55
8. Rain 1:27
9. A Brother's Death 3:22
10. Conversation with Father 3:19
11. Memories of Mother 3:05
12. Malaysia 2:28
13. Strange Look 1:59
14. Saigon Version 2 2:51
15. Farm 2:05
16. Time Passing 5:21
17. The Beautiful Country: End Credits 3:03

Download (http://www.mediafire.com/download/k8focks8b2g7682/TBC-ZP.rar) - 320 kbps

A track from the score on YouTube: Zbigniew Preisner - Conversation with Father - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVvXyUvgcCc)

I've been participating in a discussion elsewhere on a topic that I think would be interesting to explore here more in depth. The question is, why are themes so important to our discussion of orchestral music that a score we don't like is instantly dismissed as "themeless trash"? What is it about themes that draw us in like nothing else? To take it a step further, since many golden age scores are primarily motif driven, what is it that causes us to reject a primarily motivic approach to scoring? As an example, Jack the Giant Killer (Paul Sawtell and Bert Shefter) is primarily motivic in its approach to pointing out characters on screen. What is missing in the Star Trek scores by Giacchino that Jack The Giant Killer has? Is there something else lacking in the typical modern scoring approach besides good themes?

For what it's worth, I think a themeless score can work perfectly well - The Matrix being an extreme example - if the score is written with that sensibility in mind. My problem with Trek is that they're theme-driven scores with no themes.

On a basic level, humans connect to melodies. Recognisable melodies, in addition, to appealing to our sense of musical aesthetic (ie, they are pleasing to the ear), stick in the subconscious, enabling them to be invoked later on in a score and thus making the music interactive in a way. The way a scene 60 minutes in plays to the viewer is coloured not only by the score that's currently playing, but by how that relates to music that's been heard earlier on. Sure enough, 99.9% of people don't "notice" music in films - not conspicuously, anyway... but their brains do, always.

Back to my old favourite Superman, when the big theme comes out when Supes does something heroic for the first time, the impact of that music is made more by a) hearing the theme in the main titles and b) having it delicately hinted at for the preceeding hour. If we just got slapped in the face by that theme for the first time in that scene, it wouldn't have the same impact. It needs to be vaguely familiar before our minds can start processing it in context. Otherwise our brain is tied up thinking "Oh, new melody, wonder what this means" rather than what you want it to be thinking - "I know this one, this is the hero's theme, wow, it sounds great with him doing all that heroic stuff!"

YOSHIHISA HIRANO
Hunter x Hunter vol. 3
320K MP3 | 117 MB | 30 TRACKS - 52:46
conducted by Yoshihisa Hirano



Tracklist

01 Kingdom of Predators [2:58]
02 Hegemony of the Food Chain [5:02]
03 Capture [1:28]
04 Man-Hunting [1:20]
05 The Prey [1:17]
06 Elegy of the Dynast [2:27]
07 Rhapsody on the Theme of Holst [2:35]
08 Soldier Ants [1:22]
09 Riot [1:53]
10 In the Palace ~ Lamentoso [2:04]
11 Sudden Evolution [1:07]
12 The Anthill [1:21]
13 Nowhere to Escape [1:14]
14 Hopeless War [1:14]
15 New Mutation [2:10]
16 Obvious Difference of Power [1:54]
17 Legend of the Martial Artist [1:17]
18 In the Palace ~ Agitato [1:27]
19 Scariness [1:20]
20 Unsettled Conditions [1:23]
21 Shiver [1:23]
22 Concentration [1:30]
23 Victims [1:06]
24 Memories [1:48]
25 Understanding [2:02]
26 G.I Theme [2:07]
27 You Can Be Stronger [1:19]
28 Holding a Card File [1:41]
29 Who's the Bomber? [1:34]
30 departure! -second version- [1:23][TV Size]


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So Mancina's Planes is out, and he wrote a solid theme. The rest of the score seems to be stuck in the 90s though, with the early RC sound of rock mixed with Orchestra rather than synth mixed with orchestra.

Mr. Hirano's currently working on Pin to Kona, a TBS drama that aired its first episode two weeks ago. I can't find any YouTube clip with music, so we might have to pirate an episode.

EDIT: Just skimmed through one of the episodes and the music doesn't really stack up to his usual work...

I don't know if any of you heard of this project before, but its a very ambitious project and its still only less then two weeks in crowdfunding stage.



"Karmaflow: the rock opera videogame" featuring singers of Epica, Dragonforce, Amaranthe and more

Karmaflow is the worlds first rock opera videogame! You take on the role of the Karmakeeper, who has been burdened by the task of restoring the balance of different worlds by finding the long lost Karmaflows. What makes this game unique is the fact that the narrative will be told through (interactive) music and song, in a musical setting of metal, orchestra, ethnic instruments and electronics.

Composer and initiator Ivo van Dijk (Xystus) wrote the rock opera "Equilibrio" in 2008, which was performed live with over 120 musicians, dancers and actors. "Karmaflow" can be seen as a spiritual successor. Van Dijk: "The idea was born about a year ago. Currently I am specialising in game-audio, but off course my love for rock and metal has never left me. I have gotten in touch with several game-developers throughout the years. When the time was right, I pitched my idea to a bunch of guys with whom I had worked before on other games. Everyone was very excited and we decided to start working on the game".

The soundtrack will be performed by Simone Simons (Epica), Mark Jansen (Epica), Marc Hudson (Dragonforce), Henning Basse (Metallium, Firewind), Elize Ryd (Amaranthe, Kamelot), Dani Filth (Cradle of Filth) with more singers to be announced. The rest of the score will be performed by the world famous Metropole Orchestra (who also participated on Within Temptation's Black Symphony) and a full band consisting of Epica and former-After Forever members. The game itself is inspired by games such as the Zelda-series, Journey and the darker tone of Darksiders, best described as an immersive 3D puzzle platform adventure.

Besides the game, a �Karmaflow� soundtrack album will also be made. Because of the high costs involved in both hiring and recording these musicians, the "Karmaflow" team needs your help. A crowdfunding campaign is currently running on Indiegogo.com, where you can get the game and the soundtrack, and several other items you can cliam. The game and soundtrack is set to be released November 2014, and will be available for PC and MAC.

Visit the Indiegogo campaign: Karmaflow: The Rock Opera Videogame | Indiegogo (http://igg.me/at/karmaflowgame/x/1865230)
Website: Karmaflow: The Rock Opera Videogame (http://www.karmaflowgame.com)
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Twitter: @karmaflowgame
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Yoko Kanno Discography (1990-2012)

Incase anyone here wants it I uploaded it here:

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Yoko Kanno Discography (1990-2012)

Сountry: Japan
Filesize: 8.6 GB
Format: mp3
Bitrate: 128-320 kbps

Album's

[1990.05.25] Uncharted Waters (320 kbps)
01. Opening [01:42]
02. A Siren Song [02:49]
03. Echoes Of The Middle Ages [01:37]
05. Olieve Wind [04:30]
05. Portugal [04:03]
06. The Palace [01:42]
07. A Symphony Of Pirates [07:00]
08. Princess Chris [04:49]
09. The Card Master [04:09]
10. Southern Twilight-Dance On The Cape Of Good Hope [08:55]
11. Ending-Seven Seas- [05:07]

[1993.07.25] KOEI Game Music Works Yoko Kanno Collection (320 kbps)
01. Kohga - Yohsukou [04:30]
02. Aoi Hatou [04:08]
03. Catalina [05:00]
04. Mast in a Mist [03:55]
05. Portugal [04:01]
06. Princess Chris [04:47]
07. Orudo [02:27]
08. Harukanaru Sanga [03:21]
09. Hieizan Moyu [03:00]
10. Bi no Kishi Jou no Maki [03:07]
11. Bi no Kishi Ge no Maki [01:44]
12. The Chase [05:24]
13. Land of Luxury [04:18]
14. Yoake - Jikan no Nakade [06:17]

[1994.03.25] Uncharted Waters II - New Horizons (320 kbps)
01. Opening - Hate Shinaki Koukai [01:42]
02. Chuusei Nokodama [01:37]
03. Olive no Kaze [04:31]
04. Southern Twilight ~ Kibouhou de Dance [08:55]
05. Nanatsu no Umi he [05:09]
06. Wind Ahead [04:21]
07. Ryuto no Tameno Kisoukyoku [02:46]
08. Catalina [04:59]
09. Indo no Zou Tsukai [03:56]
10. Moslem no Odori [03:45]
11. Emerald no Umi [05:22]
12. Ougon no Chi [04:20]
13. Kiri no Minato [03:57]
14. Chase [05:26]
15. Kansoukyoku Oukyuu no Theme [01:49]
16. Funanori Tachino Sakaba [03:46]
17. Close to Home [03:44]

[1994.10.21] Macross Plus OST I (320 kbps)
01. National anthem of MACROSS [02:57]
02. Fly up to the air ~ Tension [06:20]
03. AFTER, IN THE DARK ~ TORCH SONG~ [09:03]
04. MYUNG Theme [05:04]
05. Bees and honey [01:44]
06. In captivity [02:49]
07. More than 3cm [04:31]
08. VOICES [03:59]
09. Break out ~ Cantabile [06:14]
10. Very little wishes [02:33]
11. SANTI-U [07:14]

[1995.02.22] Macross Plus OST ~Sharon Apple The Cream P.U.F.~ (320 kbps)
01. Information High [08:06]
02. Idol Talk [05:38]
03. The Borderline [05:19]
04. Santi-U [07:14]

[1995.04.21] NHK Special China - The inspired dragons, where to now (320 kbps)
01. Main Theme [01:44]
02. Mugen [06:06]
03. Koma [01:32]
04. China [02:57]
05. Mizu Shigoto [01:03]
06. Main Theme ~duet~ [01:49]
07. Matsu ni... [02:55]
08. Yama [02:40]
09. Mizu Shigoto ~duet~ [02:06]
10. Hibari [02:36]
11. Main Theme ~percussions~ [01:14]
12. Sayonara [05:48]
13. NHK ending theme [02:33]
14. Mizu Shigoto ~piano~ [02:03]
15. Main Theme ~piano~ [01:31]

[1995.07.21] Macross Plus OST II (320 kbps)
01. Idol talk [05:39]
02. Jade [03:29]
03. Namad soul [02:59]
04. Welcome to Sparefish [02:52]
05. Go Ri A Te [03:55]
06. Let's News [00:27]
07. Pulse [05:22]
08. 3cm [04:17]
09. VOICES (Acoustic version) [04:13]
10. Pu Qua O [03:21]
11. Sweet feather [02:19]
12. A sai en [01:22]
13. Bad dog [03:55]
14. Child MYUNG [03:07]
15. Coma [02:39]

[1995.11.22] Macross Plus OST ~For Fans Only~ (320 kbps)
01. Welcome to Sparefish [02:53]
02. Fly up in the air [02:54]
03. Idol talk [04:58]
04. Tepee [04:03]
05. Nomad soul (piano version) [01:38]
06. Break out [02:57]
07. Cantabile [03:16]
08. MYUNG Theme (cello version) [05:39]
09. WANNA BE AN ANGEL [05:35]
10. SANTI-U [05:09]
11. Torch song [02:39]
12. Dog fight [04:07]
13. VOICES (a cappella version) [02:12]

[1996.01.01] MEMORIES [Magnetic Rose part] (320 kbps)
02. CHORALE [04:05]
03. COSMOS [02:46]
04. MADAMA BUTTERFLY [02:01]
05. MEMORIES [03:29]
06. SICKNESS [03:38]
07. TOSCA [02:04]
08. RADIO~MAD BUTTERFLY [05:26]
09. EMILY [02:37]
10. END [03:26]
11. CHORALE (Reprise) [02:01]

[1996.06.05] Escaflowne - Over the Sky (OST 1) (320 kbps)
01. Yakusoku wa Iranai [03:36]
02. Flying Dragon [02:40]
03. Dance of the curse [04:09]
04. Murder [04:04]
05. Escaflowne [02:09]
06. Angel [02:21]
07. Cubic [02:09]
08. Romance [05:47]
09. Ne Zu Mi [03:27]
10. Wings [03:38]
11. Gloria [07:02]
12. Eyes [03:00]
13. Pocket o Kara ni Shite [04:04]
14. White Dove [05:39]
15. Mystic Eyes [04:21]
16. Deja Blue [01:17]

[1996.07.24] Escaflowne - OST 2 (320 kbps)
01. The Vision Of Escaflowne [04:19]
02. Fanelia [02:17]
03. Ask The Owl [02:08]
04. Charm [01:55]
05. Country Man [01:38]
06. A Mole Man [03:09]
07. Cradle Song [01:31]
08. Machine Soldier [02:32]
09. Shadow Of Doubt [04:46]
10. A Far Cry color=gray] [05:42]
11. Market Place [01:37]
12. Medicine Eater [02:56]
13. Godds Drunk [02:33]
14. Cat's Delicacy [03:22]
15. Love [05:04]
16. Hitome Theme [04:31]
17. If You [04:43]

[1996.09.28] Escaflowne - OST 3 (320 kbps)
01. Short Notice [00:46]
02. Arcadia [05:18]
03. Epistle [03:27]
04. FAREWELL [02:54]
05. Aoi Hitomi [03:18]
06. Perfect World [04:43]
07. I Recommend Instincts [04:47]
08. SCRAPPY [01:45]
09. Shrilly [02:14]
10. Revenge [04:12]
11. Illusion [01:41]
12. Blaze [04:28]
13. Fatal [01:16]
14. Hikari no Naka he [04:42]
15. Again [03:42]

[1997.01.01] X Character File Soundtrack (320 kbps)
01. Yuzuriha [03:34]
02. Nataku [03:26]
03. Satsuki [07:20]
04. Karen [04:02]
05. Subaru [04:18]
06. Sorata [04:42]
07. Yuto [03:30]
08. Arashi [03:38]
09. Seiichiro [04:08]
10. Kusanagi [05:07]
11. Seishiro [05:15]
12. Kakyou [04:36]
13. Fuma [06:04]
14. Kamui [04:31]

[1997.01.22] Escaflowne - Lovers Only (320 kbps)
01. Yakusoku wa Iranai - TV Edit (TV Edit) [02:12]
02. The Vision Of Escaflowne (Take 2) [04:11]
03. Memory Of Fanelia [03:12]
04. Dance Of Curse [04:10]
05. ZAIBACH [02:13]
06. Flying Dragon [02:39]
07. Cradle Song [01:30]
08. Tomodachi [03:43]
09. Bird Cage [02:42]
10. Chain [04:07]
11. Epistle [03:28]
12. Perfect World [04:42]
13. Blaze (Take 2) [03:35]
14. Hitomi Theme [04:30]
15. Angel [02:21]
16. Neko no Kimochi [03:53]
17. Arcadia [05:17]
18. Kaze ga Fuku Hi [05:57]
19. Mystic Eyes (TV Edit) [01:14]
20. THE STORY OF ESCAFLOWNE ~ END TITLE [04:53]

[1997.03.21] Happy go Lucky (128 kbps)
01. Piano I [00:55]
02. Kemeko no Uta [02:42]
03. I Don't Wanna Go Home [05:18]
04. Kuchibue [02:59]
05. Merodorama [ [01:24]
06. Chibikko 110 Ban (Opening Theme) [00:40]
07. Hitorikko [01:12]
08. The Red Sarafan (Traditional) [01:06]
09. Piano II [01:11]
10. Snake Gial [01:48]
11. Chibikko [00:41]
12. Kemeko no Uta (Karaoke) [02:42]

[1998.01.01] Song To Fly (320 kbps)
01. Atomic Bird [04:52]
02. Reunion [06:19]
03. Next Time [06:09]
04. ABC Mouse Parade [05:09]
05. This EDEN [05:08]
06. Nowhere and Everywhere [04:40]
07. The man in the desert [04:13]
08. Artisan [01:04]
09. The Ship [03:35]
10. Hallelujah [02:53]
11. Lydia [02:57]

[1998.05.21] Cowboy Bebop O.S.T. 1 (320 kbps)
01. Tank! [03:31]
02. Rush [03:34]
03. Spokey Dokey [04:05]
04. Bad Dog No Biscuits [04:11]
05. Cat Blues [02:37]
06. Cosmos [01:37]
07. Space Lion [07:12]
08. Waltz for Zizi [03:30]
09. Piano Black [02:48]
10. Pot City [02:14]
11. Too Good Too Bad [02:35]
12. Car 24 [02:50]
13. The Egg and I [02:43]
14. Felt Tip Pen [02:43]
15. Rain [03:24]
16. Digging My Potato [02:25]
17. Memory [01:32]

[1998.06.03] Cowboy Bebop Vitaminless (320 kbps)
01. THE REAL FOLK BLUES [06:17]
02. Odd Ones [03:11]
03. Doggy Dog [03:17]
04. Cats on Mars [02:46]
05. SPY [02:04]
06. Fantaisie Sign [05:00]
07. Piano Bar I [03:24]
08. Black Coffee(hidden) [03:15]

[1998.08.05] Brain Powerd O.S.T. 1 (320 kbps)
01. Power of Light [03:07]
02. Ark [03:30]
03. Deep Trench [04:20]
04. Sonne [Sonne ~] [02:45]
05. My Little Pony [02:05]
06. Run [02:17]
07. Chemical Dance [02:20]
08. Butterfly [03:08]
09. Blue Tone [02:56]
10. Home [03:10]
11. Ground Zero [03:36]
12. War Ship [03:54]
13. Spark [03:57]
14. Flow [05:07]
15. Transmission [02:59]
16. Music Box [01:47]
17. Bridge [02:22]
18. Ephemera [01:30]
19. ai no rinkaku [04:22]
20. On the Earth [02:33]

[1998.10.21] Cowboy Bebop O.S.T. 2 No Disc (320 kbps)
01. American Money [01:08]
02. Fantaisie Sign [05:20]
03. Don't Bother None [03:41]
04. Vitamin A [00:11]
05. Live In Baghdad [03:23]
06. Cats On Mars [02:47]
07. Want It All Back [04:02]
08. Bindy [02:19]
09. You Make Me Cool [03:11]
10. Vitamin B [00:11]
11. Green Bird [01:55]
12. Elm [05:05]
13. Vitamin C [00:07]
14. Gateway [02:58]
15. The Singing Sea [04:40]
16. The Egg and You [03:45]
17. Forever Broke [03:34]
18. Tank! (Power of Kung Food Remix) [05:28]

[1998.11.21] Brain Powerd O.S.T. 2 (320 kbps)
01. Light of Love [07:58]
02. Crossing [03:43]
03. Lost Memories [04:01]
04. Prism [03:11]
05. Aurora [03:12]
06. Warriors [05:10]
07. True Love [04:40]
08. In My Dream [04:58]
09. Departure [03:10]
10. Waver [04:14]
11. Shell [01:28]
12. Orphan [01:42]
13. Morning Grace [02:53]
14. Smile [02:17]
15. Tribe [03:28]
16. Nervous [02:34]
17. Field [02:06]
18. Walk by Myself [03:03]

[1999.05.01] Cowboy Bebop O.S.T. 3 Blue (320 kbps)
01. BLUE [05:05]
02. WORDS THAT WE COULDN'T SAY [03:30]
03. AUTUMN IN GANYMEDE [03:55]
04. MUSHROOM HUNTING [03:19]
05. Go Go Cactus Man [02:38]
06. CHICKEN BONE [04:57]
07. THE REAL MAN [04:01]
08. N.Y.RUSH [05:06]
09. ADIEU [05:40]
10. CALL ME CALL ME [04:43]
11. AVE MARIA [05:50]
12. STELLA BY MOOR [01:09]
13. FLYING TEAPOT [03:33]
14. WO QUI NON COIN [03:44]
15. ROAD TO THE WEST [02:56]
16. FAREWELL BLUES [05:32]
17. SEE YOU SPACE COWBOYS NOT FINAL [05:56]

[1999.06.02] Cowboy Bebop remixes music for freelance (320 kbps)
01. Radio free mars talk 1 [01:14]
02. Tank! [03:37]
03. Radio free mars talk 2 [00:39]
04. Forever Broke [05:23]
05. Radio free mars talk 3 [00:35]
06. Cats on Mars [03:50]
07. Radio free mars talk 4 [00:49]
08. Piano Black [06:52]
09. CAT BLUES [04:50]
10. Radio free mars talk 5 [00:45]
11. Fe [03:51]
12. Fantaisie Sign [05:19]
13. Radio free mars talk 6 [00:27]
14. Space Lion [06:20]
15. Radio free mars talk 7 [00:24]

[1999.07.23] Turn A Gundam OST I (320 kbps)
01. Spiral Re-born [01:02]
02. Chi no fuchi no genri [05:19]
03. Gunka no kioku [04:59]
04. Chi yori hazumeto [02:37]
05. The first advent ~ Kami no azakeri [02:11]
06. Second advent ~ Kami no tsumasaka ga fureta kishi [02:08]
07. The third advent ~ Chi ni hisomu mono [02:41]
08. Final shore ~ Oo, sairin ariyato [05:17]
09. Moon [05:16]
10. Yoigoshi no inori [02:16]
11. Oshaberi Soshie [01:37]
12. Days [04:20]
13. Ojousan, naishobanashi desu [01:22]
14. Gwen Lainford's Limousine [02:34]
15. Girls rule [02:09]
16. Quiet landing [04:30]
17. Air plant [01:18]
18. Koujiku no nazoru mono [02:34]
19. Ondori no you ni [01:57]
20. Kyuuyaku no kataru tokoro [01:38]
21. The song of a stone [03:16]
22. Boys about 16 [05:38]
23. 5/4 moon [02:29]
24. Felicity [03:30]

[1999.11.03] Turn A Gundam - Dianna & Kihel OST II (320 kbps)
01. Turn A Turn (opening version) [01:23]
02. White Falcon [02:00]
03. London Bridge Falling down [00:11]
04. ALFA and OMEGA [03:41]
05. Barbarian [02:30]
06. Moon flower [02:23]
07. Jyuukikaigaku [02:57]
08. Pan o koneyou [00:44]
09. Winter Sun [02:12]
10. Tsuki no tamashii [01:52]
11. Kabocha matsuri [02:28]
12. Drum Head [01:52]
13. Triad [02:32]
14. Jig [01:35]
15. Lily ~ Tsuki o mitemo sakanai yuri [03:34]
16. Puff the Pussy Puzzle [03:01]
17. Until [02:42]
18. Blond [03:23]
19. Uka [03:36]
20. Morning of NOCIS [03:32]
21. Mokusei hikouki [01:12]
22. She's so high [03:23]
23. AURA(acoustic version) [02:34]
24. Joy [03:21]

[2000.02.04] Turn A Gundam - the Concert (320 kbps)
01. White Falcon Medley [10:31]
02. Jig [01:52]
03. Moon flower [02:53]
04. Blond [03:31]
05. Mokusei Hikuki [01:24]
06. Gunka no Kioku [05:09]
07. The First Advent ~ Kami no azakeri [02:14]
08. The Second Advent ~ Kami no tsumasaka ga fureta kishi [02:13]
09. The Third Advent ~ Chi ni hisomu mono [02:24]
10. Final Shore ~ Oo, sairin ariyato [05:39]
11. Spirit of place [04:29]
12. Moon [05:53]
13. Felicity ~ Back to the river [09:00]
14. Back to the River (hidden) [02:34]

[2000.06.07] Turn A GUNDAM OST III Cocoa (320 kbps)
01. Kagiri naki Tabiji [04:58]
02. Tsuki no Kujira [04:22]
03. Modern Life [01:21]
04. Kawaisou Soshie [02:31]
05. Shukaku Matsuri [02:41]
06. Merry Bell [01:11]
07. Innocent lie [01:55]
08. Position X [04:00]
09. Exit [02:03]
10. Vesper Bell [02:36]
11. Black History [03:41]
12. Honou to Ame [04:10]
13. Sabishii Kieru [02:02]
14. The song of a stone [02:22]
15. Bokisaito [01:28]
16. Element's [02:48]
17. Colors of the wind [03:07]
18. Heavy Duty [02:30]
19. Sad Waltz [03:07]
20. Tsuki no Mayu [05:39]
21. Tsushin [00:56]

[2000.07.05] Escaflowne - Movie OST (320 kbps)
01. Ring (Movie Version) [03:38]
02. First Vision [04:13]
03. Colors [03:08]
04. Into GAEA [02:40]
05. Ryuugeki-tai Toujou [02:00]
06. Horse ride [01:40]
07. Gaia Hitsuji [00:48]
08. Regret [04:05]
09. Bird Song [00:59]
10. Sora [02:25]
11. Aruseidesu Fukkatsu [02:21]
12. The hurt [02:36]
13. Take my hands [01:15]
14. Organ Pub [01:24]
15. What'cha gonna do [03:18]
16. Sora's Folktale [01:38]
17. Torushina Shinkou [01:06]
18. Dance of curseⅡ [01:49]
19. Black Escaflowne [02:58]
20. Tree of hearts [01:47]
21. We're flying [02:41]
22. Who will save [01:55]
23. Final Vision [01:36]
24. Drinking Song [00:42]
25. You're Not Alone (Hitomi & S�ra Duet Version) [03:54]
26. Call Your Name (Piano Version) Hidden [04:13]

[2000.10.21] Napple Tale - Fairy Illustrated Book (320 kbps)
01. Ha Todokei [01:06]
02. Shippo no Uta [02:44]
03. Flower of yesterday's [03:10]
04. Chocolate forest [02:50]
05. Jumping cracker [01:59]
06. Tanoshii Sansu [01:34]
07. Yuki no Joo [02:35]
08. Sanpo [01:12]
09. Hosen Ga [01:48]
10. Yuki Dama [02:53]
11. Tree of church [01:00]
12. Tamago [00:48]
13. Ame no Waltz [04:45]
14. Cecil no Niwa [03:29]
15. Skipper [02:51]
16. Dual Tango [01:47]
17. Toy train [02:13]
18. Hatena Omocha Do [02:26]
19. Pooch [01:46]
20. Maru Hatsushi [02:53]
21. Little black book [01:37]
22. Midori no Hane [02:53]
23. 13 Ice cream [01:32]

[2000.11.22] Napple Tale - Monster Illustrated Book (320 kbps)
01. Imomushi [01:57]
02. Highland Clock [02:15]
03. Haru no Petal [00:37]
04. Natsu Ika [03:37]
05. Natsu no Petal [00:29]
06. Tama Iru [02:20]
07. Be a frog [04:09]
08. Slow water [02:21]
09. Aki no Petal [00:35]
10. Fire Land [02:05]
11. Crystal Palace [01:32]
12. Fuyu no Petal [00:38]
13. Susumu Toki [00:36]
14. Parfait Room [01:18]
15. The man in the hole [02:28]
16. Hochimetsu Ginkou [00:51]
17. Dreams in a pie [04:26]
18. Usagi Bed [04:55]
19. Sleepy snake [01:01]
20. Tobasco [02:25]
21. Sax [02:34]
22. October child [02:30]
23. Okane no Suki na Dragon [01:50]
24. Natsu Shimatsuri [02:07]
25. Modore Toki [00:37]
26. Sonnet [03:15]
27. Wild Wind [03:57]

[2001.03.23] Arjuna into the another world (320 kbps)
01. Early Bird [02:10]
02. Awakening [07:58]
03. Cl�e [03:21]
04. Time To Die [02:51]
05. 2nd Life [03:05]
06. Diving [02:38]
07. The Clone [02:07]
08. Feel The Circle [01:37]
09. Aerobics [03:27]
10. Omega Blue [02:49]
11. A Drop Of Time [00:54]
12. Resonance Of The Earth [ [01:57]
13. Prophet [04:10]
14. Before Breakfast [01:15]
15. Bells For Her [02:05]
16. Motor Bike [05:13]
17. Diamond [01:26]
18. Mameshiba [06:12]
19. Air & Stars [01:10]
20. Aqua [06:30]
21. Mameshiba (instrumental version) [04:01]

[2001.05.23] Arjuna Onna no Minato (320 kbps)
01. Gold Fish [01:58]
02. Enka [03:06]
03. Mawaru Supoku [03:21]
04. Butter Sea [03:41]
05. Veggie [01:39]
06. Shizukana Inochi [02:29]
07. Didn`t it Rain [02:39]
08. Sanctuary [02:35]
09. Girl with Power [04:53]
10. Asura Jittaika [02:51]
11. Teresa [02:44]
12. One [04:18]
13. Saiga no Mameshiba [03:15]
14. secret track [00:28]

[2001.07.25] ASK DNA Mini Album (320 kbps)
01. WHAT PLANET IS THIS. [02:46]
02. Ask DNA [04:52]
03. COSMIC DARE [04:28]
04. Hamduche [01:54]
05. Is it real [04:40]

[2001.08.28] Cowboy Bebop presents Cowgirl Ed (320 kbps)
01. Goodnight Julia [01:57]
02. PAPA Plastic [04:12]
03. Telephone Shopping [00:18]
04. Kabutoga ni Kodai no Sakana [03:43]
05. Slipper Sleaze [03:33]
06. 23 Hanashi [04:53]

[2001.08.29] Cowboy Bebop Knockin on Heavens Door O.S.T. Future Blues (320 kbps)
01. 24hours OPEN [03:23]
02. Pushing the sky [04:10]
03. Time to know~Be waltz [03:50]
04. Clutch [05:16]
05. MUSAWE [03:29]
06. Yo pumpkin head [04:05]
07. Diggin' [05:07]
08. 3.14 [01:37]
09. What planet is this! [04:32]
10. 7minutes [06:49]
11. Fingers [04:25]
12. Powder [01:31]
13. Butterfly [05:00]
14. No reply [06:01]
15. Dijurido [01:59]
16. Gotta knock a little harder [05:25]
17. No money [01:21]
18. In the rain [03:24]

[2002.02.06] Turn A Gundam - Movie OST (320 kbps)
01. AFTER ALL [04:17]
02. Yoigoshi no Matsuri [02:16]
03. Wild Game Ririku [06:30]
04. Silent Prayer [02:31]
05. MOON [05:14]
06. Jig [01:36]
07. Cricket [02:12]
08. THE ETERNITY DANCE [02:56]
09. Hataraku Ojousan [01:50]
10. Hana Dorobou [01:42]
11. Moon Whale [04:24]
12. The way to the river [02:34]
13. Gwen Sama no Fast Car [00:33]
14. Queen's valley [02:17]
15. Kisekae Doll [00:42]
16. Element's [02:47]
17. Tsuki no Tamashii [01:51]
18. X top [02:52]
19. Black history [03:41]
20. Yopparai Waltz [01:28]
21. Koren no Saiki [02:29]
22. Final shore [04:14]
23. Moon 2 [03:10]
24. End Title ~ Nostalgina [04:45]

[2002.05.22] 23-Ji no Ongaku (feat. Maaya Sakamoto) (320 kbps)
01. Two things [03:18]
02. Here [05:05]
03. Danielle [03:48]
04. Pepper strech [03:41]
05. Kissing the christmas killer [04:28]
06. Trust me [03:17]
07. Noel [03:08]
08. Fado [03:10]
09. Tarkan [02:18]
10. A Penguin Repairman [03:18]
11. A Unconditionally Spectrum [04:20]
12. Toto [04:06]
13. A Fruit Knife [03:45]
14. A Noel's Piano [03:28]

[2002.08.31] tokyo.sora OST (320 kbps)
01. medley [07:13]
02. try full song [02:02]
03. endtitle [02:28]
04. Bi Dai no Shika [01:11]
05. Kuuchuusen [01:26]
06. Namae Nonai Heya [01:02]
07. Anchobi to Kyabetsu [02:09]
08. skimsky [01:45]
09. Jikan no Suna [01:10]
10. try full song a cappella [01:54]

[2002.09.19] Mizu no Onna (320 kbps)
01. Dance with blue wind [01:35]
02. Spark - original acoustic guitar version [03:22]
03. Heikinritsu Clavier (Bach) [00:25]
04. Searching for shadow of umbrella [01:20]
05. The ascension rain [02:29]
06. Whispering for rainy sky [02:25]
07. Wreck Bathroom School [02:10]
08. Piano Sonata N�2 (Beethoven) [01:39]
09. Ameni Nureta Bojou [03:41]
10. The black sooty dream [02:32]
11. Main theme [03:01]
12. The wave of flame [01:39]
13. The moonstone knew everything [01:16]
14. Requiem for Midori [02:52]
15. ODD [04:35]
16. Piano Sonata N�12 (Souso)(Beethoven) [03:12]
17. The eternal conversation [01:02]
18. Piano Sonata N�32(Beethoven) [03:10]
19. Spark (an abandoned tape) [06:38]

[2003.01.22] Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex OST (320 kbps)
01. run rabbit junk [04:33]
02. Yakitori [07:10]
03. Stamina Rose [02:52]
04. surf [03:01]
05. where does this ocean go [04:45]
06. train serch [01:59]
07. Cyberian Doll House [03:50]
08. velveteen [05:06]
09. lithium flower [03:26]
10. home stay [03:57]
11. inner universe [04:55]
12. fish~silent cruise [07:31]
13. some other time [04:07]
14. beauty is within us [06:09]
15. we're the great [01:34]
16. Monochrome [05:06]

[2003.02.19] Per l'eternita (320 kbps)
01. Per l'eternita (single version) [03:48]
02. Ura l'eternita [04:02]
03. Hel l'eternita( She-rank-edo MIX) [03:36]
04. Per l'eternita (INSTRUMENTAL) -Sono KARAOKE Demo Ichido... [03:48]

[2003.03.29] Wolf's Rain OST 1 (320 kbps)
01. Stray [05:23]
02. Rakuen [03:04]
03. Coracao Selvagem [03:29]
04. Renga [01:32]
05. Pilgrim Snow [02:23]
06. Leaving On Red Hill [02:59]
07. Shiro [02:04]
08. Dogs And Angels [03:02]
09. Strangers [05:04]
10. Sleeping Wolves [02:08]
11. Tip Toe Waltz [01:31]
12. My Little Flower [02:44]
13. Could You Bite The Hand [03:40]
14. Valse De La Lune [03:04]
15. Hot Dog Wolf [02:24]
16. Silver River [03:25]
17. Sold Your Soul [02:26]
18. Visions Of A Flame [01:34]
19. Run, Wolf Warrior Run [05:56]
20. Gravity [03:23]
21. Paradiso [03:52]

[2003.10.22] Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex - Be Human (320 kbps)
01. be human [04:06]
02. trip city [03:55]
03. patch me [01:33]
04. Tachikoma no Iede [01:55]
05. Osanpo Tachikoma [02:04]
06. bang bang banquet [02:01]
07. FAX me [01:27]
08. Rocky wa Doko [04:26]
09. spotter [05:57]
10. let's oil [00:45]
11. cream [03:55]
12. spider bites [00:45]
13. good by my master [02:10]
14. piece by ten [02:51]
15. what can I say [01:12]
16. Hi! [00:06]
17. I'm not straight [01:24]
18. AI Sentai Tachikomas [01:06]
19. Pro Bowler Tachikoma [00:39]
20. don't sponge me [00:36]
21. po'd pod [01:03]
22. ciao! [00:07]

[2003.10.22] Nobunaga's Ambition - Tenshouki (320 kbps)
01. Overture ~Nobunaga no Yabou~ [00:50]
02. Gensei Mugen [03:46]
03. Tenka Koubou [02:42]
04. Gunyuu Kakkyo [05:05]
05. En Ookami no Kiba [02:01]
06. Fuuga ~ Noroshi [05:58]
07. Tenjou Mukyuu [02:57]
08. Haou Joshou [03:20]
09. Akatsuki Kane [05:42]
10. Ransei no Taka [01:55]
11. Haou Kumikyoku - Warsaw Edition [04:56]
12. Joshou - Shou Hoshi Kourin [02:37]
13. Yuukyuu Taru Jidai Wo Motome te [03:25]
14. Reppuu Izanaite [01:30]
15. Unmei to Tomoni [02:03]
16. Mezame no Koku [01:34]
17. Mada Minu Yoake [01:26]
18. Yuu nagi Hara [02:14]
19. Ryouran no Daichi [01:37]
20. Takeru Shiro Ookami [01:48]
21. Kizano Mai Nin [02:33]
22. Nobunaga no Yabou Online opening [01:05]
23. Nobunaga no Yabou Kassen Zone. Kougekigawa [02:50]
24. Nobunaga no Yabou Online ending [02:15]
25. Kyouran no Hayate [01:13]
26. Nagi no Kaze, Kasuka [01:46]
27. Shitataru Umeki no Hate [02:05]
28. Haruka Yume Michi Heto [01:48]

[2004.01.21] Get 9 (320 kbps)
01. GET9 [04:45]
02. rise [05:31]
03. icy mice (Tadokoro Kaichou no Himitsu Party) [icy mice [03:53]
04. GET9 (naked) [GET9 [naked]] [04:43]

[2004.01.21] Wolf's Rain OST 2 (320 kbps)
01. heaven's not enough [05:13]
02. shiro,long tail's [03:22]
03. Cycle [04:30]
04. beyond me [02:38]
05. mouth on fire [02:57]
06. hounds [03:32]
07. rain of blossoms [01:19]
08. separated [04:09]
09. Escape [01:28]
10. face on [02:15]
11. Tsume no Suna [02:07]
12. flying to you [02:21]
13. night owl [03:41]
14. Shi no Mori [01:56]
15. Indiana [01:53]
16. amore amaro [02:28]
17. Friends [03:52]
18. Tell me what the rain knows [01:40]
19. float [01:40]
20. trace [02:52]
21. sad moon [02:19]
22. cloud 9 [04:58]
23. Go to Rakuen [05:26]

[2004.05.26] Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex OST 2 (320 kbps)
01. Cyberbird [06:01]
02. rise [05:29]
03. ride on technology [04:42]
04. Idling [02:49]
05. i can't be cool [04:32]
06. 3tops [04:00]
07. gonna rice [02:04]
08. GET9 [04:46]
09. Go DA DA [01:53]
10. Psychedelic Soul [04:48]
11. what's it for [03:18]
12. living inside the shell [06:25]
13. Pet Food [01:30]
14. security off [01:15]
15. to tell the truth [04:52]
16. i do [04:53]
17. we can't be cool [01:34]

[2004.05.26] Shimotsuma Monogatari OST (320 kbps)
01. Flashback Waltz [01:26]
02. Hola Hola [02:38]
03. I Love Shimotsuma [02:00]
04. Momoko, The Stars Shine Bright I [02:04]
05. Punch permafunk [00:53]
06. Lucie Est Amoureuse [03:06]
07. Sweet Home Ryugasaki [00:58]
08. Parceque C'est Toi [02:13]
09. Fukuin Step [01:40]
10. Momoko, The Moon Shine Bright [01:24]
11. She Said [02:43]
12. Oikaze Fukumichi [02:16]
13. Jitsuroku! Hi miroku shuutome densetsu [01:51]
14. Honey You [03:04]
15. Meatball [01:57]
16. Momoko, The Stars Shine Bright II [00:45]
17. Une Belle Histoire [02:25]
18. Negurije maryjean [01:23]
19. Ike nai kankei - immoral Nikki[00:33]
20. A Place For Me And You [03:01]
21. Don Quijote [00:53]
22. The Daddy's Zingi [00:20]
23. Last Samurai [00:44]
24. Television Killed The Shine Stars [00:30]
25. Strawberry & Peach Pie [01:20]
26. Momoko, The Stars Shine Bright III [00:45]
27. Super Shomin Car (short version) [03:42]
28. Time Machine ni onegai [04:21]

[2004.12.22] Cowboy BeBop Tank! THE! BEST! (320 kbps)
01. Tank! (TV stretch) [03:27]
02. WHAT PLANET IS THIS. [02:45]
03. COSMIC DARE (PRETTY WITH A PISTOL) [04:09]
04. DIAMONDS [04:02]
05. Don't bother none (TV edit) [02:56]
06. PIANO BLACK [02:48]
07. MUSHROOM HUNTING [03:20]
08. No Reply [06:00]
09. BLUE [05:05]
10. EINSTEIN GROOVIN' [06:20]
11. PEARLS [04:45]
12. Gotta knock a little harder [05:20]

[2005.04.13] Ashura-jo no Hitomi Original Soundtrack (320 kbps)
01. Perdeski Cloyn [04:43]
02. Tsukudajima Yarippanashi [02:09]
03. Iro Otoko Natsugare Sanmai [01:49]
04. Chirimen Air [01:07]
05. Ikki ya Kora [03:58]
06. Sakashi Mada [03:19]
07. Maku no Uchi Western [02:09]
08. Kono Oni Koroshi [03:12]
09. Koi Naki yo Neko Tenshou Tan [03:31]
10. Keren te Keren [05:03]
11. Blues In My Heaven [04:48]
12. Are Hanamichi [02:56]
13. Haraiso, Haraiso [06:59]

[2005.06.08] Genesis of Aquarion OST (320 kbps)
01. Sousei no Aquarion Onii-sama to [04:43]
02. Aquarius [03:57]
03. high spirit [03:06]
04. Macho Battle [04:12]
05. Carthage Nova [02:57]
06. Max Bomber Girl [01:25]
07. Ibarinbou Apollo [01:28]
08. Michelle [04:26]
09. Tori ni Natte [04:16]
10. Kikai Tenshi Aquarion [04:36]
11. brown horses [02:26]
12. Dragon Reika [03:31]
13. Pride ~Nageki no Tabi [04:34]
14. sal [02:04]
15. Sei Aquarion [02:13]
16. Kouya no Heath [05:41]
17. Omna Magni [01:36]
18. Kedama [00:27]

[2005.07.21] Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex OST 3 (320 kbps)
01. the end of all you'll know [02:21]
02. Turkey [06:09]
03. know your enemy [06:25]
04. Laser Seeker [03:15]
05. break through [02:36]
06. flying low [04:37]
07. Europe [04:32]
08. Hantou no Higashi [04:07]
09. Mikansei Love Story [01:54]
10. CHRisTmas in the SiLenT ForeSt [06:56]
11. access all areas [01:36]
12. sacred terrorist [04:05]
13. dear john [05:01]
14. 35.7 �C [01:48]
15. Smile [04:12]
16. flashback memory plug [01:10]
17. dew [05:50]

[2005.09.22] Genesis of Aquarion OST 2 (320 kbps)
01. Go Tight! [04:41]
02. CyberFolk Music [05:38]
03. Dribble Dribble [02:42]
04. Vatican Dance [02:27]
05. Shinwatekigikou Sonata [04:51]
06. Baron to Taiyo [03:58]
07. Celiane [04:10]
08. Diet Waltz [01:19]
09. Psychedelic Academy [04:52]
10. Nike 15-sai [04:47]
11. Heavens Gate [03:16]
12. Exodus [05:07]
13. BLAQARION [04:09]
14. Thoma no shintaku [04:06]
15. Seikan renraku sen [03:15]
16. Vector Return [04:29]
17. Genesis of Aquarion [03:13]
18. First love Final love [04:16]
19. Rena no tanpopo [03:22]

[2006.07.12] Honey & Clover movie OST (320 kbps)
01. Koi ni Ochiru Oto [00:17]
02. Scooters [04:42]
03. Colors in Bloom [03:51]
04. Kageki Wary Sanonara Furusato no Ieyou [03:28]
05. Art-school-hood [01:26]
06. Circle line [02:31]
07. So much more to say [02:50]
08. Going to the sea [01:36]
09. lithium flower [02:26]
10. Solus [ [04:57]
11. Atedonaki Tabi [02:25]
12. Back in the moment [02:52]
13. Love is Growing [04:03]
14. Maho no Kotoba (instrumental version ~ Don't worry about the candy) [02:18]
15. You [00:45]
16. Aki Mafurah Hamabidaiura Syoutengai [01:06]
17. Sekai no Morita [01:37]
18. Crybaby [00:36]

[2007.02.04] Elegant World (The Show Must Go On) (192 kbps)
01. Corsica [01:24]
02. Everybody Doubt [01:23]
03. Ugly Duckling [03:10]
04. Look It Up [00:37]
05. Go Up The Stairs [02:01]
06. Boil It To A Pulp [01:01]
07. Bad Boyz [01:47]
08. An Ordinary Day [02:03]
09. Darlin' Darlin' [02:13]
10. Tiny Painting [00:26]
11. Pathetique [03:43]
12. Time Doing Time [05:44]
13. Green Man [02:27]
14. Corsica Ⅱ [02:56]
15. Euphoria [02:04]

[2007.04.11] Say Hello! Ano ko ni Yoroshiku (256 kbps)
01. Say Hello! [02:32]
02. Clarity [05:34]
03. Play Play Play [03:55]
04. Ticklish Pleasure [03:33]
05. Yume no Komoriuta [03:29]
06. Motion In a Minute [06:57]
07. Sanko [04:14]
08. Lucy In the Room [01:45]

[2007.07.05] Ragnarok online II OST (320 kbps)
01. Intro Theme [04:22]
02. Din Don Dan Dan [04:48]
03. HODO [04:09]
04. Beginners [01:38]
05. Clap & Walk [03:26]
06. Yoru [04:04]
07. Sailing [04:22]
08. Thr Force Midgarts [01:54]
09. Kings Joy [01:42]
10. 5 Years War [03:18]
11. Red Wolf [02:56]
12. Church [02:23]
13. Prontera Field [03:31]
14. Swamper [04:27]
15. Poem [03:01]
16. Sara [03:31]
17. Pub [04:00]
18. Hold your Life [05:32]
19. Everland [03:17]
20. Play Chess in the air [03:28]

[2007.07.25] Darker than Black OST 1 -Kuro no Keiyakusha- Gekihan (320 kbps)
01. GO Dark [03:14]
02. HOWLING (TV size) [01:30]
03. Highheel Runaway [03:29]
04. Tenderly [02:20]
05. Sid [02:05]
06. Was [04:09]
07. Outside [02:36]
08. No Ones Home [02:44]
09. Guy [02:03]
10. ScatCat [02:13]
11. Keiyakusha [03:35]
12. Shadow [02:46]
13. Kuro [03:39]
14. Deadly Work [03:36]
15. Tentai Kansoku [00:46]
16. BlueCat [03:08]
17. Tsuki Akari (TV size ver.)[01:33]
18. Water Forest [02:12]
19. Blend in [03:15]
20. In no Piano [03:11]

[2008.05.02] CM Yoko (320 kbps)
01. Kare 100% Tr�s Bien [01:51]
02. Lion Man [01:24]
03. Densen ni Tako ga Garamacchattara Dousuru no [00:42]
04. Silent Star [00:53]
05. Seeds of Life [02:12]
06. walk travel along [02:17]
07. Exaelitus [04:01]
08. Chiyahoya Saretai Onna [00:23]
09. Don�t Spend MONEY! MONEY! [00:35]
10. Dear Blue [03:05]
11. Long Goodbye [01:40]
12. Mama Shinhatsubai! Opening [02:22]
13. MAGICSWEETS [00:41]
14. Melody [01:14]
15. em outro lugar [02:38]
16. Viva Kobara [00:43]
17. From Metropolis [00:43]
18. Melty Kiss [01:04]
19. Beautiful Memories [00:49]
20. Family Affair [01:08]
21. Yuuji (CM Version) [00:36]
22. MAGICSWEETS -Masao Nisugi Remix [02:43]
23. Choco to Yuuki [00:35]
24. Living In Future [01:35]
25. Glass Shoes [02:49]

[2008.06.04] Macross Frontier OST1 - Nyan Furo (320 kbps)
01. Frontier 2059 [03:01]
02. Welcome To My FanClub�s Night! (Sheryl On Stage) [03:45]
03. What �bout my star (Sheryl On Stage) [05:03]
04. Iteza Gogo Kyuuji Don't be late (Sheryl On Stage) [06:02]
05. Vital Force [02:47]
06. Triangular [04:39]
07. Zero Hour [03:05]
08. What �bout my star @Formo [04:47]
09. Innocent green [02:48]
10. Aimo [01:33]
11. Big Boys [01:19]
12. Private Army [02:31]
13. SMS Shoutai no Uta ~ Ano musume wa Alien [01:01]
14. Ninjiin Loves you yeah! [01:03]
15. 'Choujikuu Hanten Nyan Nyan' CM Song (Ranka Version)[00:23]
16. Alto�s Theme [02:04]
17. TALLY HO! [04:33]
18. The Target [05:53]
19. Bajura [02:13]
20. Kira Kira [02:37]
21. Aimo ~ Tori no Hito [03:37]
22. Take Off [01:49]
23. Infinity [04:08]
24. Diamond Crevasse [05:58]

[2008.10.08] Macross Frontier OST2 - Nyan Tora (320 kbps)
01. Prologue F [01:41]
02. Northern Cross [04:54]
03. Triangler (fight on stage) [05:01]
04. High School Life [01:19]
05. Transformation [02:30]
06. Anata no Oto [05:02]
07. Test Flight Delight [02:19]
08. Seikan Hikou [03:54]
09. Inumimi Ranka [01:48]
10. Yousei [妖精] [05:17]
11. Tsuioku no Trumpet [01:36]
12. Shikuu no Diamond Crevasse [05:04]
13. Ai, Obeteimasu ka ~bless the little queen [04:30]
14. Ao no Ether [03:48]
15. is this LOVE [02:31]
16. shadow of Michael [03:47]
17. Aimo O.C. [04:42]
18. Battle Frontier [06:04]
19. Nyan Nyan Service Medley [07:29]
20. Protoculture [01:35]

[2008.12.03] Macross F Vocal Collection album - Nyan Tama (320 kbps)
Disc 1
01. Triangler [04:39]
02. What 'bout my star @Formo [04:47]
03. Aimo [01:34]
04. Diamond Crevasse~Tenbou Kouen nite [00:44]
05. Welcome To My FanClub's Night! [03:46]
06. Iteza Gogo Kuji Don't be late [05:44]
07. What 'bout my star [05:07]
08. Infinity #7 [04:07]
09. ''Choujikuu Hanten Nyan Nyan'' CM Song (Ranka Version) [00:21]
10. Seikan Hikou [03:58]
11. Watashi no Kare ha Pilot [02:46]
12. Neko Nikki [04:12]
13. Ninjin Loves you yeah! [01:02]
14. Uchuu Kyoudai Fune [01:46]
15. SMS Shoutai no Uta~Ano Ko ha Alien [01:02]
16. Aimo O.C. [04:58]
17. Aimo~Tori no Hito [03:36]
18. Ai, Obeteimasu ka [05:00]
19. Diamond Crevasse [05:59]
20. Aimo -Koi no Uta- [02:16]
21. Infinity without vocals [04:07]
22. Ninjin Loves you yeah! without vocals [01:01]

Disc 2
01. Lion [05:06]
02. Diamond Crevasse 50-50 [02:32]
03. Sheryl no Aimo [02:16]
04. Yousei [05:16]
05. Northern Cross [04:58]
06. Brera to Ko Ranka no Aimo [00:26]
07. Anata no Oto [05:02]
08. Ao no Ether [03:48]
09. Ai, Obeteimasu ka ~bless the little queen [04:31]
10. Nyan Nyan Special Service Medley (Tokumori) [12:25]
11. Triangler (fight on stage) [05:04]
12. Haha to Ko Ranka no Aimo [02:13]
13. Nyan Nyan Special Service Medley [without vocals]] [12:27]
14. Anata no Oto (without vocals) [04:59]

[2009.04.22] CM Yoko 2 (320 kbps)
01. All you need is love [02:16]
02. Kojika [00:21]
04. Modern Line [00:35]
05. Success Road [01:45]
06. Ichijiyoji [01:50]
07. Ubique [01:52]
08. Blue Groovin' [00:45]
09. Akai Taiyou [01:56]
10. Life is Dance [01:38]
11. New Moon [01:50]
12. Hyou [00:23]
13. Red Swingin' [01:30]
14. The Secret Magic [00:55]
15. Hisou [03:30]
16. Mite no Uta [01:23]
17. Hachi [00:21]
18. Remember me [01:33]
19. Maria [01:24]
20. Utsukushii no Asu e Ikimasen ka[00:48]
21. My love [01:31]
22. Kiseki to Taikutsu [05:49]
23. Green [02:13]
24. Chase the Lady [01:06]
25. World you reached [00:42]
26. Wild Fight [01:13]
27. Mambo No. 5 [02:24]
28. Sougen [00:57]
29. Ohontou wo Kubena Kara [03:10]
30. Share [02:05]

[2009.05.27] SPACE BIO CHARGE (320 kbps)
Disc 1
01. Fly up in the air (eco. size) [02:54]
02. Tank! (TV stretch) [03:27]
03. Kouya no Heath [05:35]
04. Turkey (eco. size) [05:35]
05. WHAT PLANET IS THIS. [02:46]
06. High Heel Runaway (eco. size) [02:41]
07. Ask DNA (eco. size) [04:42]
08. could you bite the hand [03:38]
09. player (eco. size) [05:35]
10. Power of the Light (eco. size) [02:45]
11. Kagiri Naki Tabiji [05:00]
12. DANCE OF CURSE (eco. size) [02:52]
13. Genesis of Aquarion [03:13]
14. Lithium Flower [03:26]
15. Shiro, Long Tail's [03:12]
16. inner universe (eco. size) [04:36]
17. Lion [05:04]
18. Chikyuu Kyoumei [02:02]
19. Rakuen~secret garden [05:26]

Disc 2
01. MOON (eco. size) [05:07]
02. high spirit [03:10]
03. Yakusoku ha Iranai (eco. size) [03:03]
04. Be Human [04:06]
05. Get9 (hyper eco. size) [03:22]
06. The Garden of everything [06:20]
07. CORACAO SELVAGEM [03:32]
08. Hamduche [01:54]
09. Voices [03:50]
10. Cloe (eco. size) [03:02]
11. White Falcon [01:23]
12. The Real Folk Blues (save money size) [05:03]
13. i do [04:55]
14. End title Nostalgia [04:48]
15. Yubiwa (Single Ver.) [03:48]
16. Toki no Kioku [04:24]
17. BLUE [BLUE] [05:09]
18. THE STORY OF ESCAFLOWNE (eco. size) [04:16]

Disc 3
01. Sasurai no Cowboy [03:17]
02. Doggy Dog (hungry size) [02:52]
03. Neko no Kimochi (demo version) [03:51]
04. Miwaku no Horse Riding [02:39]
05. WO QUI NON COIN [03:42]
06. No money (more money size) [01:20]
07. Waratteta [04:46]
08. CAT'S DELICACY [03:22]
09. AI Sentai Tachikomans [01:07]
10. Ranka to Bobby no SMS Shoutai no Uta [01:01]
11. ABC Mouse Parade [05:09]
12. Yoake no Octave [01:51]

[2009.09.30] Darker Than Black OST 5.1 (320 kbps)
01. Shidou [03:15]
02. Hoshimi-sama [02:37]
03. Go Dark [03:14]
04. High Heel Runaway [03:29]
05. Tenderly [02:20]
06. Shido [02:05]
07. Kurasan [02:25]
08. Was [04:09]
09. No One's Home [02:44]
10. Keiyakusha [03:35]
11. Kuro [03:39]
12. Deadly Work [03:36]
13. Tentaikansoku [00:46]
14. BlueCat [03:08]
15. Water Forest [02:12]
16. Night Cruise [04:17]
17. Kuroneko no Hikkoshi [02:02]
18. Shizuku [02:43]
19. EPR [03:37]
20. Mizu to Densen [02:21]
21. Total Eclipse [03:23]
22. EPR2 [02:58]
23. Super Kuro [02:36]
24. Sesshoku [02:30]
25. M25-3 [02:43]
26. Sekibetsu [03:01]

[2010.07.07] Surely Someday (320 kbps)
01. Guilty [02:14]
02. T.N.T. [01:24]
03. Amai Mainichi [01:25]
04. Bitter Dog Blues [01:29]
05. Band Yarouze [02:15]
06. I'm all in love [00:54]
07. Maybe Someday [01:32]
08. Shiawase Nara Clap Your Hand [03:07]
09. SURELY SOMEDAY [02:39]
10. Because [02:31]
11. SURELY SOMEDAY (demo version) [03:21]

[2011.06.08] YOKO KANNO Produce Cyber Bicci (320 kbps)
01. Velveteen [05:07]
02. Monochrome [05:03]
03. Valse De La Lune [03:02]
04. Einstein Groovin' [06:19]
05. Diamonds [04:04]
06. Dew [05:13]
07. I Can't Be Cool [04:38]
08. Flying To You [02:23]
09. Christmas In The Silent Forest [06:10]
10. I Do [04:55]
11. Un Soffio Di Vento [03:01]
12. Rr Lyrae [06:27]
13. Pearls [04:44]

[2012.04.25] Sakamichi no Apollon (320 kbps)
01. KIDS ON THE SLOPE [02:30]
02. Chick's Diner [02:02]
03. Moanin' [04:44]
04. Bag's Groove [02:30]
05. Blowin' The Blues Away [01:28]
06. Satin Doll [01:10]
07. YURIKA [02:36]
08. Rosario [02:19]
09. Curandelo [01:41]
10. Transparent [01:39]
11. Run [01:35]
12. But not for me [04:31]
13. My Favorite Things [03:21]
14. Equinox [02:42]
15. A Piece Of Blue [01:29]
16. Lullaby Of Birdland [03:07]
17. Jazz For Button [01:21]
18. Four [01:39]
19. Easy Waltz [ [02:06]
20. float [01:27]
21. Milestones [02:44]
22. Apollon Blue [02:44]
23. Kaoru & Sentaro Duo in BUNKASAI (Medley 'My Favorite Things ~Itsuka Oujisama Ga~... [03:40]
24. Someday My Prince Will Come Itsuka Oujisama Ga [01:43]

[2012.05.23] AQUARION EVOL Eve no Shihen (320 kbps)
01. Pandora, Pandora [01:32]
02. Paradoxial ZOO [04:34]
03. Ivu no Dampen [04:59]
04. Beast Beat [02:50]
05. Kimi no Shinwa ~ Aquarion Dai ni Shou [05:31]
06. Pop-up Holy [01:31]
07. a jealous flapper [03:33]
09. Shikkoku no Cadenza [01:06]
10. Sei Tenshi Gakuen Kouka [02:11]
11. Gekkou Symphonia [03:52]
12. Sei Ompa [01:56]
13. Gekkou Shin Tamashi Kyoku [03:47]
14. Kouya no Kagura [03:36]
15. A� [02:49]
16. Sousei Carnival [04:00]
17. Altea Shinkou [03:09]
18. Chuusora Fanfare [01:36]
19. Souseiki #2 [01:50]
20. Itoshiki Mono, Sonata no Na wa [03:20]
21. Aquaria Mau Sora [06:08]
22. bonus track [00:42]

...and here I thought my Godzilla rips would be the biggest release the Shrine would ever see.

Mr. Hirano's currently working on Pin to Kona, a TBS drama that aired its first episode two weeks ago. I can't find any YouTube clip with music, so we might have to pirate an episode.

EDIT: Just skimmed through one of the episodes and the music doesn't really stack up to his usual work...
Yeah, I skimmed it too, and it doesn't. Though it's not only his work. It's a collaboration with Yutaka Shinya (who has done synth programming or worked on the OP/EDs on a number of Hirano's soundtracks). And speaking of dramas I skimmed Michiru Oshima's music for Shomuni 2013 and it sounds good as usual (release on Aug 28). Can someone post the previous Shomuni soundtracks? I only have the first one.

Other news: Trigger says they would like to work with Oshima on LWA2 but they have not made any agreements yet.

John Williams to Score ‘The Book Thief’ - John Williams to Score ?The Book Thief? | Film Music Reporter (http://filmmusicreporter.com/2013/08/06/john-williams-to-score-the-book-thief/)

"John Williams is currently scoring the upcoming drama The Book Thief. The film is directed by Brian Percival (Downton Abbey) and stars Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson and Sophie Nelisse. The movie based on Markus Zusack’s best-selling novel is set in Germany during World War II and follows a girl who finds solace from the horrors around her by stealing books and sharing them with others while her adoptive parents are sheltering a Jewish refugee under the stairs of her home. Michael Petroni (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Rite) has adapted the material for the screen. Karen Rosenfelt (The Twilight Saga, Marley & Me) and Ken Blancato are producing the Fox 2000 and Studio Babelsberg production. The Book Thief marks Williams’ first scoring assignment for another director than Steven Spielberg since 2005. The composer had been in talks to score the project since last year before the movie started shooting. The film is set to be released on November 15, 2013 by 20th Century Fox".

Interesting to see he's doing non-Spielberg stuff and that it seems we're going to get a new Williams this year!

Proof: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151631974815326&set=a.10150658466000326.393754.62282245325&type=1&theater

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151631976070326&set=a.10150658466000326.393754.62282245325&type=1&relevant_count=1

Oh, Hirano...

I was listening through that new Hunter x Hunter, not paying attention to filenames, when suddenly, Jupiter! I wonder what happened in the show that needed that.

There's some suddenly, Vivaldi! later on too. I should be expecting these things by now, but they still catch me with my guard down sometimes.

Right, certainly a few obvious classical segments in the score.

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Needless to say but that album cover is absolutely amazing :I

Thanks!

Oh, Hirano...

I was listening through that new Hunter x Hunter, not paying attention to filenames, when suddenly, Jupiter! I wonder what happened in the show that needed that.

Well, since we're talking about a track entitled "Rhapsody Of The Theme Of Holst" I can't say I'm overly surprised to hear a theme of Holst therein... ;)

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Speaking of dramas I skimmed Michiru Oshima's music for Shomuni 2013 and it sounds good as usual (release on Aug 28). Can someone post the previous Shomuni soundtracks? I only have the first one.

Akashi San shared this here, but the Mediafire links are down. New link in a new thread :'D

Michiru Oshima: Shomuni Final (2002) [FLAC] (Thread 138755)

Tari Tari is pretty solid. Good music by Shiro Hamaguchi though a bit typical carefree anime style. Second disc is mostly throwaway though. Bunch of songs with five versions a piece.

Sad to hear that some people can't appreciate the beauty of e.g. Reflectia for choir *sigh*

Yoko Kanno Discography (1990-2012)

Is there a torrent of this? I keep getting to 98% downloaded then it stops, it's eating up my bandwidth.

Possibly Hirano-related news
- Break Blade is getting a new anime. Details to be announced at a later date.
- There's a new season of Hajime no Ippo airing next season.

Other composer news
- New PV (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY0x4z4_LfY) for Patema. Aside from the music we previously heard, you can hear a preview of the theme song composed by Oshima and performed by French singer Estelle Micheau. Looks like an interesting movie.
- Sawano is doing the soundtrack for an anime next season. It will be announced in September though it has been predicted that it is Kill la Kill, Trigger's new 2-cour anime.
- Takanashi is doing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7kvLAJu7_Y) the soundtrack for a 2-cour action/fantasy series called Log Horizon next season.
- Yuki Hayashi is the composer for the new Gundam series airing this fall.


Still no news about Kohei Tanaka's new thing.

Is there a torrent of this? I keep getting to 98% downloaded then it stops, it's eating up my bandwidth.

It's on RuTracker. There's also a public torrent if you google it. The most comprehensive Kanno discography, however, is on the Chinese web. I managed to get just Creation and Tenshouki (not available in the circulating torrent or "discography") before Megaupload died.

It's on RuTracker. There's also a public torrent if you google it. The most comprehensive Kanno discography, however, is on the Chinese web. I managed to get just Creation and Tenshouki (not available in the circulating torrent or "discography") before Megaupload died.
What do we have to do to have you upload it? ;) Do you take checks? Is there any other good discography for another composer up on the web by the way? I think I grabbed a Joe Hisaishi disco way back or well some of his ;) scores, but i've no clue how complete it is. I have never touched it. "Ghibli Music Collection".

15,6 GB size. Probably no way near complete but I believe it's still a start. It was from bakabt.

I uploaded them awhile back so the links are dead. I'll re-upload after I get home.

Besides those two, I believe there wasn't any additional orchestral material that is not in the torrent.

I uploaded them awhile back so the links are dead. I'll re-upload after I get home.

Besides those two, I believe there wasn't any additional orchestral material that is not in the torrent.
That would be great if possible. To be honest, I haven't heard many of her scores but I will get to all the albums one day!

Got my order today. Sorry i'm a little late with this one. Some more Shiro goodness as well as the last volume for Go Sakabe's Date a Live.

LACA-9303~4 | Karneval Original Soundtrack - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/39389)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/Bookletfront_zpsd89daba6.jpg.html)

Title: Karneval Original Soundtrack
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Shiro Hamaguchi, Keiji Inai, Masaaki Iizuka, Miki Watabe
No. of tracks: 39/1
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Aug 07, 2013
Size: MP3 200mb/ ALAC 489mb
Host: Zippyshare/MP3 Mega/ALAC

Tracklist
Disc 1

01 Rondo of Partiality (TV size)
02 Creeping Fear
03 Everyday Moments
04 Battle Gate
05 Dispute
06 Break Out
07 Kafka
08 Hidden Space
09 Victorious Battle
10 Round Table of Z
11 Beginning of the Parade
12 Friends of Circus
13 Everyday of Circus
14 Darkness and Shadows
15 Hide and Seek
16 WARNING!!
17 Warm Memories
18 Gentle Feelings
19 Feelings Kept Secret
20 Creatures
21 Thinking of Each Other
22 Peaceful Place
23 Fun Time
24 Sorrowful Memories
25 Mysterious Forest
26 Time with Friends
27 Faintly
28 Counterattack
29 Recollection
30 Beyond the Loss
31 The Other Side of the Truth
32 THEATER OF CIRCUS
33 Requiem
34 To the Smoky Mansion
35 Reunion with Karoku
36 Last Fight
37 Operation Complete
38 A Promise to Meet Again
39 REASON (TV size)

Disc 2

01 Original Short Drama

320 kbs MP3
Zippyshare.com - Karneval Original Soundtrack.7z (http://www56.zippyshare.com/v/94066891/file.html)

ALAC (Loseless)
https://mega.co.nz/#!Lc42DSAb!NPQ7J0VUDv0rnXHEUnMJYnBzA5E_qHx5Zm_-CQ4saVc


COCX-38133 | DATE A MUSIC EXTENSION - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/39502)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/CaseFront_zps805e4273.jpg.html)

Title: DATE A MUSIC EXTENSION
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Go Sakabe, Motoi Okuda, Mitsuru Wakabayashi, 隠田遼平
No. of tracks: 20
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Aug 07, 2013
Size: MP3 187mb/ ALAC 478mb
Host: Zippyshare/MP3 Mega/ALAC

Tracklist
01 Dead or Alive
02 Koiiro Origami
03 Whistle of Dragonfly
04 Catastrophe
05 Little Mai Drops
06 Country Road
07 Table Mountain
08 Hitsuji No Jukai
09 Ground Zero
10 Date a Live Maboroshi No Jingle Medley
11 Date in Utopia (Game Size)
12 [DATE A LIVE RINNE UTOPIA] BGM COLLECTION VOL.1
13 [DATE A LIVE RINNE UTOPIA] BGM COLLECTION VOL.2
14 [DATE A LIVE RINNE UTOPIA] BGM COLLECTION VOL.3
15 [DATE A LIVE RINNE UTOPIA] BGM COLLECTION VOL.4
16 [DATE A LIVE RINNE UTOPIA] BGM COLLECTION VOL.5
17 [DATE A LIVE RINNE UTOPIA] BGM COLLECTION VOL.6
18 [DATE A LIVE RINNE UTOPIA] BGM COLLECTION VOL.7
19 [DATE A LIVE RINNE UTOPIA] BGM COLLECTION VOL.8
20 Kitto Zutto (Game Size)

320 kbs MP3
Zippyshare.com - Date A Music Extenstion.7z (http://www4.zippyshare.com/v/91206590/file.html)

ALAC (Loseless)
https://mega.co.nz/#!OY4lAIKA!O0nFTA46BqKtuSaFHa71w0mwkMY4cSO4v2nlxiH P9KU


Included scans as always. Enjoy http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq271/leatherhead93/kucing_kagum_zps89401d1f.gif (http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/kucing_kagum_zps89401d1f.gif.html)

Who is that on the top left corner and what series is that?

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Fantastic news Lens !

It's been over a year since I joined this thread and I'm releaved to find out that a backup exists.

But to return this thread to it's old self, here is a little collection of mine:


The Greatest Orchestral Anime Masterpieces




Download Part I (http://www.mediafire.com/file/17rbg1f5sw1mb9x/I.7z)

Download Part II (http://www.mediafire.com/file/4awt8i47ywv1dov/II.7z)

Download Part III (http://www.mediafire.com/?489f22d85p792m8)

Download Missing Track (http://www.mediafire.com/?9bhbvubk9qfb36v)


Here is a collection of my favorite anime orchestral tracks. I've chosen 80 tracks from 80 shows & movies which I constantly have in my playlist, I listen to them almost on a daily basis and consider them to be the finest achievments in anime music history.

EDIT: If Star Driver would be available now I would have put the Main Theme in there

What is the top left corner? Series or character?

Shangri-La is the top left by Hitomi Kuroishi.

Leatherhead - Thanks for your recent shares :) Though again the cover art is a bit uh...strange.

Thanks for Date A Live. Very Sahashiesque score overall.

EDIT: Keep an eye out for Project Phoenix, a japanese RPG on kickstarter. One of the Stretch goals is to get the Eminence Symphony Orchestra (didn't know they were still around) for Nobuo Uematsu. If you pledge enough Uematsu will even compose a music theme for you.

Have they announced any other composer involvement?

Shangri-La is the top left by Hitomi Kuroishi.

Leatherhead - Thanks for your recent shares :) Though again the cover art is a bit uh...strange.

It's japan bro xP. You shouldn't expect any less from them lol.

As far as date a live is concerned "Ground Zero" is easily the highlight of the OST imo.

Thanks for Date A Live. Very Sahashiesque score overall.

Uh what? I don't hear much Sahashi at all in here. Then again the cutsey synths and synth-orchestral cues along with the painful J-Pop songs don't really help. I'll be surprised if in the end I'm left with more than 30 minutes of good orchestral material here.

Track 14 in Date A Music First Half is a perfect example of cutsey disco synth that drives me nuts.

EDIT: I realize at first I saw Sahashi but read Hisaishi. Of course it is very like Sahashi to write such silly disco cues among quality orchestral music.

There's a lot of good stuff in Date A Live. It's a stupid shitty cheap show about a guy who saves the world by chatting up hot girls. It has no right to have any sort of decent score at all... and yet it received a pretty entertaining orchestral/rock score with a real orchestra and even about 15 minutes of completely straight symphonic music (15 minutes more than anybody could have reasonably expected - and all from a composer who's pretty new on the scene, as well...

I'm very pleased... :)

As for Karneval... GOD DAMMIT WHY DO THEY KEEP SCREWING HAMAGUCHI OVER WITH CRAP BUDGETS?! He could surpass Kanno if they let him... and they keep giving him crappy schoolgirl romance shows, or big shows with no money. The music is always first rate - on paper, Karneval's great... but when they give him some strings and a couple of woodwinds, and synth the rest... it sounds cheap and nasty.

It's fascinating to hear his concerted effort in most cues to keep the fake instruments out of there completely - it's concpicuously a very, very string dominated score (and Hamaguchi's skills as a master orchestrator really come to the fore) and he seems almost embarassed to bring out the brass... burying it under woodwind flourishes and energetic strings... but it shows. He's trying really, REALLY hard to hide it in track 34 - which is a BLOODY FANTASTIC piece of music, just SUPERB...

When do we get the next Hamaguchi score with a decent budget? It's been fourteen years since he did a Warsaw score... INJUSTICE.

Can you do us the honor of cutting out the quality material?

Little Witch Academia is out in Japan right now. The music didn't really strike me as Oshima's best, but it would be thrilling to hear it NOW nonetheless. :D

Should I be waiting up all night just in case...? :D

It pains me that us Americans have to wait till September to get our packages..........very much so indeed.

(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/h4358B559_zps7f2bea3d.jpg.html)

As for Karneval... GOD DAMMIT WHY DO THEY KEEP SCREWING HAMAGUCHI OVER WITH CRAP BUDGETS?! He could surpass Kanno if they let him... and they keep giving him crappy schoolgirl romance shows, or big shows with no money. The music is always first rate - on paper, Karneval's great... but when they give him some strings and a couple of woodwinds, and synth the rest... it sounds cheap and nasty.


Hmmm. nope. BUZZERNOISE Uh uh. Don't even know which Kanno you could be referring to :p , but Hamiguchi's always fluttered around being "decently saccharine" or "decently stuffy", with very little in the interim. Nothing I've ever heard from the guy was particularly musically impressive, which was always odd. He certainly has a lot of flair when dressing up other people's work, but his self-produced stuff...well, that's the thing.

Can't really come up with a decent criticism. Unlimited Saga or Fithos Lusec tend to be the albums that see play first, is all I'm sayin'.

That said, tell me more about this apparent trip to Warsaw. :)

Thanks to all for the great recent uploads.

Shirou Hamaguchi - Abareru Megami (Ah My Goddess - The Movie)
A fine score by Hamaguchi, performed by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. Not - I repeat - NOT - by Nobuo Uematsu (as some commentators seem to insist upon!)

Just downloaded the score from BakaBT. Will upload it later today :'D

There's actually another Megumi no Daigo Original Soundtrack (http://vgmdb.net/album/27404) ;)

I believe Hamaguchi has still a lot to show, he's the main reason for Tanaka's musical magic and composed very good scores for Kiddy Grade, Ah My Goddess and Girls und Panzer. Not to mention his arrangements for Final Fantasy. Let's hope he had a bigger budget for the upcoming OST for the Hanasaku Iroha movie.

Speaking of Warsaw, I cannot wait to hear Magi: The Kingdom of Magic, I simply can't get enough of tracks like Magie et sorcellerie. Shame that Hellsing is not getting a new release anytime soon. One of the best orchestral scores for an anime and Matsuo's Magnum Opus and almost half of it is still missing.
Also someone should do a Warsaw Philharmonic discography for all those game and anime scores. This is long overdue.

SHIRŌ HAMAGUCHI
Oh My Goddess! (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oh_My_Goddess!&oldid=573417844#Controversy)
The Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Mario Klemens

FLAC + SCANS | 27 Tracks | 01:06:40 | 358 MB

Release Date: 01.11.2000
Published by: Pony Canyon
Catalog Number: PCCG-00556



01. luna Aeterna ~ The one who awakens you
02. dea cantat ~ The Goddess Sings
03. Spring Unchanged
04. Magister ~ Beloved Master
05. The Fountain of Heart
06. Love Lesson 3
07. Don't Expect
08. Wishing for a Bond
09. Together We Can
10. Believing Your Heart
11. Invidia ~ Swaying Heart
12. Recollection ~ Nostalgia
13. Crystallus Malus ~ Dark Shine
14. Celestin-Seditionis Auctor
15. Sealing the Feelings
16. Ventus ~ Raging Goddess
17. Wishing for Happiness
18. Morgan-amor tristis
19. Whisper of Life
20. Propositum ~ Defying God
21. Thor ~ God of Destruction
22. Thundering Destruction
23. The Proof of Us
24. Coro di Dea ~ Voices of Goddesses
25. The New World Prelude
26. Try to Wish ~ What you need
27. Cantilena Angeli (Song of an Angel)

Shirō Hamaguchi (1~5, 7~25, 27)
Nobuo Uematsu (6, 26)

VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/16438)

Source: BakaBT (http://bakabt.me/158277-aa-megami-sama-ah-my-goddess-music-collection-flac.html) (Thanks to the original uploader, and shika21!! :'D)

Only a couple of tracks are songs / from the Japan studio orchestra recording session.

The ADrive link contains Gigablah's scans of the typo-ridden 2003 Pioneer Entertainment (USA) release.


Holy crap, are they serious? Is that an official release? Surely it has to be a bootleg...

They misspell the names of the two main characters ("Touichi" and "Beldandy" - actually Keiichi and Belldandy), the name of the composer (Shiro "Hamada") and the name of the conductor (Mario "Clemense")... that's pretty good going. Shows how much respect they had for this release.

Nonetheless, it's a really brilliant score - how anybody can listen to cues like "Ventus" and not recognise that Hamaguchi is being woefully underused, I will never know. He's got melodic flair, can orchestrate the pants off of pretty much anybody - maybe even Yoshihisa Hirano (comparing the two stylistically is of course pointless, but from a quality perspective...?) and can write something that sounds filmic and classical both at the same time...

...And he doesn't plagiarise every note from either himself or every classical composer who ever lived. The guy needs more work, and I don't mean for Jewelpet Sodding Tinkle. So far he's spent his career alternating between applying gloss to Uematsu, playing second fiddle to Kohei Tanaka, making outstanding arrangements of crap music (Haruhi...) and scoring atrocious children's shows that should come with a diabetic health warning... with most original scores of recent years being performed under strangulating budgetary constraints.

Imagine, for a moment, if Hamaguchi had got, say, Gargantia. Or even Tempest, or Majestic Prince - and I love both those scores... but think what Hamaguchi could do with that sort of show and that sort of budget. Same with other scarily underused geniuses like Tomoyuki Asakawa (great harpist, superlative composer), Tada Akifumi, and Masamichi Amano - three guys who never get the big gigs (or, in Asakawa's case, any gigs in over a decade) despite being more skilled than most of the current crop of "go-to composers" put together.

Instead, we get Hamaguchi on "Problem Children Are Coming From Another World, Aren't They?" and three series' of Jewelpet, Akifumi doing donkey work for Shinji Miyazaki on Pokemon and scoring Crayon Shin-chan movies, and Asakawa playing harp on crap scores by Sawano... and Taro Iwashiro on Gargantia, Sawano on Almost Everything, Tatsuya Kato on Everything Else, and Masamichi Amano orchestrating for Shiro Sagisu!

When Japan get it wrong, they get it REALLY wrong... but they get it right a lot of the time, so I suppose I shouldn't complain... but please, Japan, if you're listening - next year, big Warsaw or Moscow scores for Akifumi, Hamaguchi, Amano, and Asakawa please, ideally for 50 episode shows with 2-CD score releases... and if you've got any money left, I'd appreciate the same for Kousuke Yamashita (vastly overdue a big prestige overseas score), Souhei Kano (PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE), Hirano (lots of good scores recently but please give him something meaty to work on and a decent budget, and stop asking him to do this cheap rock-Schoenberg hybrid crap), Sahashi (LSO please, big sci-fi series if you don't mind), Yasuo Higuchi (PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE), Hiroshi Takaki (Tytania was four years ago, guys... Bakumatsu Roman was cheap crap, and he's a thousand times better than Pretty Cure, for God's sake), Hitoshi Sakimoto (not Eminence, please - a real orchestra), Hayato Matsuo (a genius you're currently wasting on The World God Only Knows), Kan Sawada (sci-fi show, please), Kohei Tanaka, and Koichi Sugiyama (he's still alive... and I'm sure he'd like to write something other than Variations On Dragon Quest to break the monotony of the last twenty years)... and if there's any cash left at the end of that one for Kanno please - spare no expense, two hours of orchestral score, chorus as well please.

There you go, that's my 2014 sorted... ;)

DOWNLOAD
FLAC MEGA (https://mega.co.nz/#!fBQSyQAQ!TS7ma3yNH6IyroJjuqdul2Jg-y18a1NJJuf4n924P_0)
MP3 -v0 ADrive (http://www.adrive.com/public/4KJa6W)
Scans ADrive (http://www.adrive.com/public/5Q3VqC)

Has some of the Hellsing music been released though? I never found it and would be interested in hearing it.

Also, just another example of why we have so many generic scores...
This is taken from a post by someone else on another forum, discussing the difference between what Ryan Amon wrote for Elysium and what we actually got in the final soundtrack.


Ryan Amon composed many cues that included woodwinds and elaborate/intricate woodwind runs. Director Neil Blomkamp made it clear that he didn't like their inclusion. He also preferred the sampled/synth percussion that Amon used. Thus, the only live instruments are the strings and the brass (and the female vocals).

Additionally, it was Neil Blomkamp's idea and desire to use a solo "wailing" female voice. Ryan initially resisted the request, as he felt that the approach was clich� and overused, but Blomkamp continued to insist on these (supposedly for the "human" element), so Amon yielded and went with the flow (as would I in his position). Ryan decided to use these vocals in combination with a solo piano, which I think was a wise decision (a la Goldenthal on FINAL FANTASY) and helped to at least improve the situation.

Lastly, Amon said that he submitted nearly 200 cues for the film- almost NONE of which were composed to picture. He would fire off files of all different styles to Blomkamp and the editing team, who would start to place their favorites over sections of film. Amon said that he offered up synth cues, purely orchestral cues, hybrid cues, contemporary cues, classical-ish cues, sound-design-ish cues, melodic cues, etc. The style that you hear in the final film is definitely the direction that Blomkamp decided to go. Once this was determined, Amon then focused on that style for the rest of the score.

All this is to say that Amon did exactly what he was hired and directed to do. Which was a very smart thing to do for his first film, as it will ensure that it was not his last. He loved working with Blomkamp, and loved working on a film (he'd never done one before).

Do I like the score? Honestly, no. But I'd have done the same thing in Amon's place (well, not exactly the same thing, but you get the point). I don't dig the score, but for now I give Amon the benefit of the doubt when it comes to talent/ability. To have an informed opinion of Amon's ability as a composer, I'd need to hear a lot more of his work, and in very different circumstances.

What a train wreck of an industry.

A Hitoshi Sakimoto concert in Paris incoming?! VAGRANTES M�LODIES, Hitoshi Sakimoto en concert � Paris (http://www.ost-center.fr/news/vagrantes-melodies-hitoshi-sakimoto-en-concert-a-paris-301.html)

KEISUKE SHINOHARA
NHK Special
EINSTEIN ROMAN
Studio Orchestra "Shinohara Project"
conducted by Hiroshi Kumagai (track 1), and Takashi Hiroi

FLAC + LOG + SCANS | 22 Tracks | 01:13:11 | 387 MB

Release Date: 21.09.1991
Published by: Apollon
Catalog Number: APCE-5175



01. Main Theme ~Violin Concerto based on Mozart's Don Giovanni~
02. Lost Civilization
03. Theme Of Moon And Photon
04. Particle Pizzicato
05. Mother Nature
06. The Curve Of The World
07. Schr�dinger's Cat
08. Theme Of The Universe
09. Frozen River
10. Equation
11. Kyrie
12. Theme Of War
13. Sense Of Time
14. Zero Gravity Trill
15. Hell
16. Sophia
17. Perpetual Motion
18. Consider
19. Points And Lines
20. Bern...Home
21. Leap
22. Mother Nature (Reprise)

EDIT: Please correct track name 1 after you've downloaded the archive ^^"

Track 1, violin solo by Koh-Gabriel Kameda

Track 7, 17 by Masayuki Onoe

Wonky translation. On the back it says the conductor's name is "Kumagaya". I've seen him elsewhere credited as "Kumagai" before, so I sticked with that reading.

I'm not familiar with Mozart and his (Violin) Concerto "Don Giovanni", so I cannot say if the main theme is inspired by the whole work or a particular section.

Track 3, 2:52 sounds a little bit like Alan Silvestri's Back to the Future.

Joe Hisaishi's Giant Deep Sea Creatures (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/508.html#post2403053) is surely the gold standard of orchestral NHK Specials today, but hopefully you'll enjoy some of Shinohara's work here. I actually wanted to post this next Saturday, but my calendar entry was wrong ^^"

Also, check out The Piano Forest (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/504.html#post2388113) and One Stormy Night (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/504.html#post2388905) :'D

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Has some of the Hellsing music been released though? I never found it and would be interested in hearing it.

There are 2 soundtracks for the first tv series:
PICA-1252 | Hellsing original soundtrack RAID - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/22218)
and
PICA-1253 | Hellsing original soundtrack RUINS - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/22219)

There are also 3 soundtracks for the newer OVA remake:
GNCA-1134 | HELLSING OVA SERIES Original Sound Track BLACK DOG - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/21768)
Hellsing Soundtrack "Nazi CD" - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/22318)
and
GNBA-1144 | Hellsing IV PREMIUM DVD DISK Warsaw Recording Selection - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/22321)

Has some of the Hellsing music been released though? I never found it and would be interested in hearing it.



Here is a torrent for it Download Hellsing Music Collection [MP3] torrent - BakaBT (http://bakabt.me/153106-hellsing-music-collection-mp3.html)

Has everything boogiepop pointed out

KEISUKE SHINOHARA
NHK Special
EINSTEIN ROMAN

Fascinating and quite wonderful... thank you!

Mozart never wrote a violin concerto called "Don Giovanni" - although he did write an opera by that name... I'm not familiar with either the opera or Mozart's violin concerti to know which one they're talking about or what section Shinohara has based his (lovely) theme on... Hopefully somebody else more versed in Mozart will be able to shed some light... :D

I actually watched every episode of Hellsing Ultimate (it was pretty good in a mindless fun B-movie kind of way) and I can say there's enough stuff missing to justify at least another CD release.

We have a choral theme for the bad guys Maxwell and the Major (Start of OVA IV and VI), a danger motif track during the interrogation of the Vatican (OVA IV) and Merche Funebre at the end of OVA II (never offically released). There's also the death of Penwood (OVA V) and the Ninth Crusade Invasion of England (OVA VI) as well as two somber pieces for strings, woodwinds and piano in OVA VII. OVA VIII goes all out with Symphony of the Battlefield, Draculas army, Maxwell's death and Alucard vs Anderson (best action track of the whole score). For the final we have yet another brilliant orchestral march and a great operatic piece during the climax and in the last scene there's a peaceful orchestral lullaby. Not to mention the orchestral variations of Gradus Vita and the vocaless arrangement of Broken English.

All in all there's over 30 minutes of brilliant music still unreleased.

News: Toshihiko Sahashi's new drama, Yamada-kun to 7-nin no Majo, started yesterday... yet another cheapo penny-pinching score for strings and some crappy sounding fake brass samples. God dammit, why? Five years since Shikaotoko Aoniyoshi... two years since Sacred Seven, FOUR since Element Hunters... Dinner (cheap), Koko Nyushi (cheap), and Experimental Detective Totori (cheap) this year...

Next year's Tokyo Battlefield drama score could be good (it's for NHK) but otherwise, what the hell is going on? :(

Gradus Vita
Every now and again somebody makes an anime with a ridiculously big music budget. This is one of them. Here is the apocalyptic ending theme to the first episode.


Re: Gradus Vita
Motivically concise, I like it!


Re: Gradus Vita
Very impressive and grandiose piece.


Song of DEMETER
I have a soft spot for good, soft choral pieces like this. They help me settle my mind, something that no drug or physical event can offer. They also help me sleep.


I think that no matter the "climate", if something is truly well crafted it will shine. For example i know a bunch of anime watchers that are into electronica, but if i ask them what their favorite anime song is they tell me Gradus Vita from Hellsing.

Im not saying that good stuff can't be looked over, but when you really try and put out a good product people will often respond.



HAYATO MATSUO
HELLSING
ULTIMATE
The Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, and Chorus
conducted by Lukasz Borowicz, and Michal Dworzynski



Hellsing IV PREMIUM DVD DISK Warsaw Recording Selection

MP3 320 kbps | 9 Tracks | 00:33:10 | 76 MB

VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/22321)

Source: Demon Rin (Thank you! :'D)

ShadowSong (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/186.html#post1454172) uploaded this back in 2010.

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Release Date: 22.02.2008
Published by: Geneon Entertainment
Publish Format: Enclosed with Hellsing IV Limited Edition
Catalog Number: GNBA-1144

01. Gradus vita
02. Kuro Inu to Mukade no Koushin
03. Letzte Bataillon
04. Stolzer Aristokrat
05. Feuerkreuz
06. E M I A
07. Daitaihei Shokun
08. Apocalypse now!
09. Der Freisch�tz Nr.9. Terzett

"Gradius vita"
Lyrics by Mami Hamada

"Der Freisch�tz Nr.9"
Composed by Carl Maria von Weber



HELLSING OVA SERIES Original Sound Track BLACK DOG

MP3 -v0 + SCANS | 9 Tracks | 00:49:11 | 99 MB

VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/21768)

Source: BakaBT (http://bakabt.me/168676-hellsing-music-collection-flac.html) (Thanks to AnimeYakuza, and shika21!! :'D)

Some tracks from the Japan studio recording session, conducted by Kōji Haishima.

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Release Date: 21.03.2008
Published by: Rondo Robe / Geneon Entertainment
Catalog Number: GNCA-1134

01. Song of DEMETER
02. TARGET INSIGHT
03. Stand Up, Count!
04. March of a Black Dog and Centipedes
05. Thousand Fangs, Ten Thousand Eyes
06. E M I A
07. Dog's Scratch
08. Stench of Death and Splashing Blood
09. Badrick†
10. Dog Shit
11. ShotGun Circus
12. Hell's Boundaries
13. One Million Bullets
14. Cromwell
15. Die Fledermaus
16. SHINOBIASHI SASURIASHI
17. Gradus vita



Hellsing Soundtrack "Nazi CD"

MP3 -v0 | 14 Tracks | 00:52:16 | 92 MB

VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/22318)

Source: BakaBT (http://bakabt.me/168676-hellsing-music-collection-flac.html) (Thanks to AnimeYakuza, and shika21!! :'D)

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Release Date: 22.10.2010
Published by: Geneon Universal Entertainment
Publish Format: Enclosed with Hellsing I-V Blu-ray Box
Catalog Number: N/A

01. Der Freischutz Nr.2 Terzett mit Chor
02. Letzte Bataillon
03. Feuerkreuz
04. Karei Naru Sensen Fukoku
05. Daitaihei Shokun
06. Der Freischutz Nr.9 Terzett
07. MILLENNIUM
08. Sensou no Yoru he
09. Shingun Jokyoku
10. Genkaku mix Kyousei Shuuryou
11. Eikoku Shingunka
12. Akahata to Kokka
13. Der Freischutz Nr.2 Terzett mit Chor
14. (Bonus Track)

M-01, 09, 13
Composed by: Carl Maria von Weber
Arranged by: Hayato Matsuo

M-11
Lyrics: Hermann Lons
Composed by: Herms Niel
Arranged by: Hayato Matsuo



Hellsing: Uncollected Tracks

MP3 192 kbps / 320 kbps | 4 Tracks | 00:12:15 | 26 MB

Source: I don't know anymore who shared this. Thanks to the original uploader, and klnerfan!! (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/412.html#post2056022) :'D

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01. Gradus Vita (Instrumental)
02. Into Hell
03. Letze Bataillon (Alternate)
04. Merche Fumbre

Track 1, 4: 192 kbps
Track 2, 3: 320 kbps

NHK Special
EINSTEIN ROMAN

Track 1 should be "Main Theme ~Violin Concerto based on Mozart's Don Giovanni~"

And million thanks for this wonderful disc!

I don't know anymore who shared this. klnerfan? :'D

That's right :D I got them from a Hellsing fansite. Still not the real deal. My last straw right now is the upcoming japanese bluray box of VI-X.

@Tango: Sad news about Sahashi. I actually believed his trips to London were an indication of great things to come but that never payed off. Even Date A Live had enough budget for a small orchestra but Sahashi is left with crappy synth? Injustice!

Don't understand it for the life of me:
2004 - Send him to London for expensive sesson with the LSO...
2005 - Send him to London for expensive sesson with the LSO...
2009 - Send him to London for expensive sesson with the LSO...
2012 - Give him twenty strings and synth the rest.

KOICHI SUGIYAMA
Space Runaway Ideon - A Contact / Be Invoked (1980)
(Orchestral music only.)



Studio Orchestra
conducted by
Koichi Sugiyama

My rip. FLAC at Level 8 and MP3 -V0. Booklet scans are available in my upload of Sugiyama's Ideon Symphony (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/483.html#post2334834).

FLAC (Mega) - https://mega.co.nz/#!R4hyXS5B!XsDQ1Clc3flZORFu-yGTN3AnqGYU8i3admi4t-NXrc4
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Poor old Koichi Sugiyama; 82 years of age, a career spreading over six decades, a skill for orchestration and melody that most composers can only dream of… and nobody ever talks about him except to wax lyrical about Dragon Quest and occasionally attack him for his politics. Dragon Quest is great – there’s no doubt about that… and I’m of course very grateful that this franchise is keeping a veteran composer busy… but it’s not all he’s done, and it’s certainly not the only work in his oeuvre worthy of discussion.

Yoshiyuki Tomino, like Sugiyama, is a victim of the monumental runaway success of one franchise – Mobile Suit Gundam; Tomino has written and/or directed dozens of critically acclaimed shows but none of them worked their way into the public consciousness like Gundam did. One such series that is almost forgotten today (except by the hardcore fan community) is Space Runaway Ideon – a mecha story with a difference, made in 1980… years before Dragon Quest even existed. His score for the TV series was great fun but a rather typical 70s affair – a mix of saccharine light pop and a tiny, badly recorded orchestra grinding through dated disco numbers. We have already heard the full classical symphony he wrote based on his original melodies, as performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, but that’s not the whole story as far as Ideon goes…

Ideon yielded some truly atrocious ratings (as did the first Mobile Suit Gundam series, ironically) and like its more famous cousin, was cancelled near to the end of its run, leaving the producers with a massively complicated and involved story which had to be completely resolved in just a few minutes of airtime. They did what they could – and the series did have an ending of sorts – but fans complained, and Tomino wasn’t satisfied with the way it turned out… so it was decided to revisit the story in the form of two films, to be released back-to-back theatrically, which would resolve the story properly. The first film was essentially a clip show condensed version of the TV series. The second film picked up where the TV series finished and concludes with arguably the greatest ending in cinematic history.

Sugiyama provided brand new symphonic (and occasionally, choral – a rarity at the time) scores for the movies; and it’s these that I’m presenting here. Like every Japanese score, alongside the orchestral score we also have disco reminiscent of the TV series, re-used tracks, sloppy filler tracks, and fragmentary stingers. I will upload all of this stuff separately but this release is about the symphonic score, so accordingly these pieces are missing. I have taken the liberty of extracting the symphonic tracks from both films (originally released separately) and running them together in a continuous album format – taken together, we have fifty minutes of cohesive, motif-driven music which plays at times like an Ideon Symphony No 2.

In these scores you will find heroism, grandeur, romance, action, suspense, mysticism, and even religious fervour.

The second film ends with two cues – “Flying” and “Cantata Orbis” - which, together, might constitute the most inspired work of Sugiyama’s career – the final scenes of that film demand a score to end all scores, and the composer absolutely rose to the challenge. Almost ten minutes of music (most of which plays in the film with little or no dialogue) that will have you in floods of tears and laughing with joy all at the same time. Some may call this music melodramatic… Some may call it emotionally manipulative. Let them be damned; it’s living, breathing music that doesn’t hide in the background… music that isn’t scared of coming to the fore. It’s music that aims right for your heart and tells you it’s OK to cry.

Ladies and gentlemen, Koichi Sugiyama at his very best… Space Runaway Ideon, for your pleasure.

Enjoy! :)
TT

Thanks a lot!

I remember Ideon! Back in the day of when I was just getting to anime, back when Naruto and Bleach was the coolest thing off of the block, back when CrunchyRoll was a 100% free underground site...I discovered a weird anime called Ideon. If you were to ask me now how I even found out about the show, let alone why I decided to check it out, I honestly could not tell you. But I found Ideon and I watched it.

I think I got through four or five episodes. They weren't bad persay - in fact they could very well have been good. But I think I just lost Ideon in the wave of all the shows I was watching. I would download a new show every week, checking out new stuff, throwing away others when I was only partially done. I think I was trying to cram a decade's worth of anime knowledge in the span of a few months. Who knows.

But I always remembered Ideon as something that was a product of its time...and yet, it kinda wasn't. The technology looked remarkably cheesy, and the aliens were blue - blue - but the conflict wasn't just Good VS Evil. It was a conflict brought about by chance, by a misunderstood shot and the lack of communication between two radically different cultures.

I think I should finish what I started six years ago. If only to see the infamous ending.

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What a train wreck of an industry.

Only in regards to music - we are still producing plenty of fantastic films and television.

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Right, time for a Higuchi-gasm...

Yasuo Higuchi actually scored the full trailer for Hi No Tori 2772, completely to picture - and recorded it with the same ensemble that performed the film's score. Holy crap... THIS is music, folks... The whole story told in two minutes and twenty seconds of completely fluid, goosebumps-inducing glory. The trailer began with one exchange between two characters, and then this music started... and played out with only one word of dialogue to interrupt it (near the end - edited out here). Brave. Jaw-dropping. Higuchi's score carried that trailer all on its own, no SFX, no chatter, no crappy pop music... Just a stunning whistlestop medley of all the major themes of the score.

This guy is a genius. Seriously.

I've extracted the music from the trailer and performed a bit of a restoration. It still sounds like shit. I don't care. I'd listen to this music if it were on Edison cylinder. Enjoy! :D

Yasuo Higuchi - Space Firebird 2772 (Hi No Tori) - Trailer Score.flac (http://www.mediafire.com/?15t83xmjg9m5qad)


But I always remembered Ideon as something that was a product of its time...and yet, it kinda wasn't. The technology looked remarkably cheesy, and the aliens were blue - blue - but the conflict wasn't just Good VS Evil. It was a conflict brought about by chance, by a misunderstood shot and the lack of communication between two radically different cultures.

I never got along with the TV show... I actually think it works so much better in the two-movies format. "That" ending isn't actually present in the TV series version... it feels like they didn't know they'd been cancelled until they'd made 90% of the last episode - because everything's going along quite nicely, a load of exciting stuff happens, then suddenly it grinds to a halt right at the climax, and a crummy narrator appears... to jog through the entire remainder of story in literally ninety seconds accompanied by some cheap crappy disco music and some really, really, REALLY shoddy animation that looks like one guy did it during his lunch hour. We get a lazy montage, another shite song, some still images of the main characters against a star field, some credits, then f**k you buster, we're done. Utterly shocking, not to mention shameful.

The film spends fifteen minutes on the ending, with absolutely GLORIOUS animation and actually shows us why all that crazy stuff happens.

My personal advice would be to forget the TV show completely and watch A Contact and Be Invoked, back to back, and make sure you've got a big ole' box of kleenex open and ready to go...

Only in regards to music - we are still producing plenty of fantastic films and television.
That's like a restaurant serving fantastic steaks, but all they have to drink is Coors Light.

...I just order soda wherever I go, which fits my opinion on the matter quite well. Great music is not necessary for a great film. I mean, look at Nolan's Batman trilogy for example. Fantastic big budget films...mediocre music at best.

Was checking up on some blogs.

Toshiyuki Watanabe says he has a 40th anniversary concert later this month with the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra that will, among other things, have 10 minute medley with music from Space Brothers, Kaikyo, Gege, Satorare, Majestic Prince and Mothra. Maybe if we're lucky they will give the concert a CD release like with his 35th anniversary concert.

He also has a new soundtrack out for the NHK drama Castella and it's only on iTunes apparently: https://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/kasuteira-orijinarusaundotorakku/id681672346


Kohei Tanaka says his fall anime was announced and... It's some robot anime (http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/gaist/index.php) that's part of CAPCOM's Kids Project... (why is it always the kids shows)

Music by himself and Takayuki Negishi. Avex is handling the music production. Tanaka also composed the theme song which is performed by Hiroshi Kitadani (edit: arranged by Takayushi Negishi with lyrics by Shoko Fujibayashi. In other words the exact same team as One Piece's famous first opening theme "We Are!").

Aah, Gaist Crusher! Interesting... Tanaka on a sci-fi mecha show, eh? First time in a decade, I think? (Overman King Gainer?)

Thanks for the info, very much indeed! :)

PS - Watanabe's concert sounds fantastic and Castella is quite lovely... even if it is only iTunes, I've got no problem with moving away from CDs to digital ditribution as long as lossless becomes a standard rather than a luxury. I think iTunes have plans to offer lossless music at some stage so... maybe we'll see a shift from poxy bonus CDs to iTunes score releases...

Now we just have to hope he has a decent budget to work with. Gaist Crusher is apparently a new major IP for Capcom so hopefully that means they're willing to spend a bit of money on it.

The main issue with lossless and digital seems the server costs. The distributors don't see it as worthwhile since only a tiny number of users will actually download lossless. I don't foresee this changing any time soon unfortunately. The average user just doesn't care.

As for moving more towards digital distribution in general? I'm all for it. I've always wondered why unreleased soundtracks have never been published digitally. With digital there's nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Some anime PVs from next season with interesting music. I wonder who the composer for Tokyo Ravens is.

Arpeggio of Blue Steel (Masato Kouda)
『蒼き鋼のアルペジオ　ーアルス・ノヴァー』PV第２弾！群像・イオナver (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igKQazKvaBo)
『蒼き鋼のアルペジオ』アニメ化決定！PV第１弾！ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA2QOujuc_0)
『蒼き鋼のアルペジオ　ーアルス・ノヴァー』PV第３弾！タカオver (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdaR3XTkCOI)

COPPELION (Mikio Endo)
TVアニメ『COPPELION（コッペリオン）』PV (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifbc-FRXs4c)

Tokyo Ravens (N/A)
東京レイヴンズ コミケ84 PV (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MuxbeVaoDM)

Unbreakable Machine-Doll (Masaru Yokoyama)
【PV】TVアニメ「機巧少女(マシンドール)は傷つかない」PV第1弾 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAHHkFduUCA)
【PV】TVアニメ「機巧少女(マシンドール)は傷つかない」PV第2弾 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3EMc5EFUYo)

Hey, hey! Ichiko Hashimoto's Code Geass Akito The Exiled gets a release on September 11th. Two scores in one; Hashimoto's trademark cool jazz, and some brilliant orchestral cues as well. (As in, real orchestral, no electronics, no drum loops, etc.)

Really, really looking forward to this one.

Blue Steel could be great... but there's an awful lot of synth on those PVs... Here's hoping they're early drafts and that there will be real people playing on the finished score... could be really, really great if so...

Tokyo Ravens very interesting - even with electronics... don't recognise the composer's style at all... ooh ooh ooh fun!

The others seem pretty average... but who knows? Fun stuff will emerge... It always does in the October batch. :D

Ichiko Hashimoto!!! :D :D :D :swoon: :love:

For jazz lovers out there: Blue In Green - Ichiko Hashimoto - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOxz61BvR-E)

I, too, am looking forward to Akito. I watched the first episode a while back and liked what I heard. I mean, it's not every day you hear free jazz on a soundtrack. And I love jazz, it's my favorite genre.

Edit: I feel the same way about Blue Steel. Get some real musicians and we'll have something very nice. This is Masato Kouda, the composer of the Monster Hunter series. His name has been on all the promotional material and was announced from the very beginning. It's his first anime series. Why they would hire someone like him, use his name for promotion, and then not give him a budget? That would be a real shame.

Coppelion isn't orchestral but I really liked Mikio Endo's use of piano and strings in his soundtrack for K. This is his second anime soundtrack and I hear some pleasant sounding piano and strings in the trailer here too (though mixed in with electronics and guitar this time).


Keep an eye out for Project Phoenix, a japanese RPG on kickstarter. One of the Stretch goals is to get the Eminence Symphony Orchestra (didn't know they were still around) for Nobuo Uematsu. If you pledge enough Uematsu will even compose a music theme for you.
It's live now: [Project Phoenix] Japan's indie RPG feat. AAA talent! by Creative Intelligence Arts, Inc. - Kickstarter (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1300298569/project-phoenix-japans-indie-rpg-feat-aaa-talent)

Ha, I'm guessing Uematsu will only compose the main theme and a couple tracks at most. The promotional video only had music by Tomoki Miyoshi and Kevin Penkin. [Edit: it does say Uematsu is the lead composer though... I wonder. Penkin has worked with Uematsu twice before and both times Uematsu only contributed a couple tracks with Penkin doing the bulk of the work. I'm suspicious.]

Hey nextday, a huge jazz fan here as well. What jazz musicians do you primarily listen to?

I don't think I primarily listen to anyone in particular. I like all the greats. Mingus is my favorite though.

Re: Yoko Kanno Discography (1990-2012)

Is there a torrent of this? I keep getting to 98% downloaded then it stops, it's eating up my bandwidth.

nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=431634 (http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=431634)

Currently 11 seeders. Hope that works :'D

Well the problem with digital distribution is finding a way to get legal downloads of music from Japan. Most of the time, you are limited to buying stuff released in your country.

Decided to get this old soundtrack just to complete my Takanashi collection :).

Nothing groundbreaking just some relaxing short tunes. Kind of wish the dramas didn't litter this ost but oh well :P.
COCX-32862 | Soreike! Zukkoke Sanningumi ~Zukkoke Kaitei Tairiku no... - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/38664)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/BookletFront_zpsfadf8232.jpg.html)

Title: Soreike! Zukkoke Sanningumi ~Zukkoke Kaitei Tairiku no Himitsu~
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Yasuharu Takanashi, Ryuichi Kawamura
No. of tracks: 28
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Aug 25, 2004
Size: MP3 158mb/ ALAC 383mb
Host: Zippyshare/MP3 Mega/ALAC

Tracklist
01 ↑UP3
02 ① secret of Zukkoke undersea continent
03 BGM1
04 BGM2
05 BGM3
06 BGM4
07 BGM5
08 BGM6
09 BGM7
10 ② secret of Zukkoke undersea continent
11 BGM8
12 BGM9
13 BGM10
14 BGM11
15 BGM12
16 BGM13
17 BGM14
18 BGM15
19 ③ of secret Zukkoke undersea continent
20 BGM16
21 BGM17
22 BGM18
23 BGM19
24 BGM20
25 BGM21
26 BGM22
27 BGM23
28 A big hug and wish

320 kbs MP3
Zippyshare.com - Soreike! Zukkoke Sanningumi ~Zukkoke Kaitei Tairiku no Himitsu~.7z (http://www25.zippyshare.com/v/54370315/file.html)

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Scans and junk included as always. Should have Devil Survivor original soundtrack 2, Robotics Notes OST 2 and Kin-iro Mosaic uploaded by the 21st.

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Whew... now here's one I didn't see coming. And it's seven years old. I bet you didn't know Taku Iwasaki did a Warsaw score... I didn't until about an hour ago, when a lucky search turned up this...


TAKU IWASAKI (yes, really...)
Gin'Iro no Kami no Agito (2006)
performed by the
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
conductor unknown



Not my rip. Courtesy of MetalGear25 at BakaBT. FLAC. No booklet. Romaji track titles.

https://mega.co.nz/#!FwARBDpB!SEqZ813nZiS_-iAB-mfiKHdzjWQVy3k95iJlCNlDJqU

So... Taku Iwasaki, eh? I actually really like Iwasaki - and I think he's far, far smarter than anybody's really given him credit for... not to mention smarter than his recent scores would suggest. He's got himself stuck in a rut. I've always believed he had within him the ability to write great orchestral scores... but I wasn't quite prepared for the maturity and assuredness of his orchestral writing here! There's something about overseas recordings that make Japanese composers give just a little bit extra. Never have I known a composer to step up quite as proudly as Iwasaki has done in this score. Every note is still unmistakeably Iwasaki... but it's bathed in an almost Kanno-esque symphonic sheen... and it also just feels like symphonic music. We've all heard plenty of scores where a crappy composer does a big expensive sounding score and you listen to it thinking that it sounds like a load of nicely arranged trash... This is different. This is a score which belongs in the medium. There are electronics and "typical Iwasaki" in a handful of tracks, of course, but this is basically a grand old symphonic score like you never, EVER thought you'd hear from the likes of Taku Iwasaki in a million years.

About half way through, the orchestral cues suddenly start sounding like a domestic Japanese session (albeit a very well-recorded one with a decent size orchestra) and less like Warsaw. I haven't the foggiest idea why - maybe they ran out of session time and had to finish the score in Tokyo... who knows? If the session was an unmitigated balls-up it may explain why this was Iwasaki's first and last (to date) outing with a full symphony orchestra... But the music is uniformly excellent. The style or flair doesn't vary... but I suspect a significant portion of this score wasn't recorded in Warsaw.

Anyway... Enjoy! Taku Iwasaki does a completely straight symphonic score... and does it very, VERY well indeed!
TT

Thanks!! :'D

Slightly higher quality front cover from VGMdb:

Thank you! Replaced. ;)

I've never had a doubt in Iwasaki's ability to write orchestral music after listening to this: https://mega.co.nz/#!kIQXkJhA!bp1_fRr9vTID8BAtC9ijkhhzpzpcWxrsbTvdVmr l2ZY

He just doesn't do it often enough. :(

BLOODY HELL...!

I wonder if Iwasaki's doppelganger will ever retire. I want the real one to come back because of soundtracks like this one. He's been forced into a corner which is pretty sad considering he's one of the more talented soundtrack composers.

Aside from the Iwasaki, I really love the songs KOKIA contributed for this. They're some of her best. She's one of my favorite Japanese singer-songwriters.

Thanks tango :)

I only heard Iwasaki Angel Heart, which is a kind of late night chill mix of ambient-lounge music with some electronic elements, and i love it exactly for that reason. Admittedly i only know that score as i assumed that Iwasaki body of work is focused on electronic music, so i'm curious to hear an entirely orchestral score made by him.

nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=431634 (http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=431634)

Currently 11 seeders. Hope that works :'D
Yep, it worked, thanks!

Thanks tango :)

I only heard Iwasaki Angel Heart, which is a kind of late night chill mix of ambient-lounge music with some electronic elements, and i love it exactly for that reason. Admittedly i only know that score as i assumed that Iwasaki body of work is focused on electronic music, so i'm curious to hear an entirely orchestral score made by him.

Check out Now and Then, Here and There AKA Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku. First track is a 20 minute orchestral piece. I did get it here, but if it's long dead, I just installed Google Chrome to download Gin'Iro no Kami no Agito up there (I feel dirty) so I'll look into setting up a free Mega account and upload it if you need. But a tremendous soundtrack. Just sucks that track 2 of Gin'Iro no Kami no Agito has a ripping error, I must track down the actual CD, so hard to find though. But I'll keep looking.

Just sucks that track 2 of Gin'Iro no Kami no Agito has a ripping error

That's the crappy KOKIA song, right? I'll live... ;)

For those who are interested though, sorry there's a problem... this is a rip from BakaBT and the original poster there himself transcoded it from another (lossless) format provided by Anonymous... so the chances of getting a fresh rip would seem to be slim...


I just installed Google Chrome to download Gin'Iro no Kami no Agito

Chrome is not required to download from Mega. Firefox will do nicely. Even Internet Explorer can download and upload - it's just not recommended, for very good reasons; it's crap. But it works, sort of.

Still, having Chrome on your computer is hardly a bad thing... Again, ten seconds to install - sixty seconds to complain about installing. ;)


First track is a 20 minute orchestral piece

Well, four minutes of small string ensemble, two minutes of electronic rumbling noises, seven more minutes of small string ensemble, two minutes of solo piano, and five minutes of small string ensemble with dumb electronic percussion playing all over it - pity, because the theme is just beautiful... and even though the rest of the score is 95% electronica Iwasaki, there are still some lovely moments... Thanks for pointing it out.

My favourite Iwasaki is still Bincho-tan. :)

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Whew... now here's one I didn't see coming. And it's seven years old. I bet you didn't know Taku Iwasaki did a Warsaw score... I didn't until about an hour ago, when a lucky search turned up this...


TAKU IWASAKI (yes, really...)
Gin'Iro no Kami no Agito (2006)
performed by the
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
conductor unknown



Not my rip. Courtesy of MetalGear25 at BakaBT. FLAC. No booklet. Romaji track titles.

https://mega.co.nz/#!FwARBDpB!SEqZ813nZiS_-iAB-mfiKHdzjWQVy3k95iJlCNlDJqU

So... Taku Iwasaki, eh? I actually really like Iwasaki - and I think he's far, far smarter than anybody's really given him credit for... not to mention smarter than his recent scores would suggest. He's got himself stuck in a rut. I've always believed he had within him the ability to write great orchestral scores... but I wasn't quite prepared for the maturity and assuredness of his orchestral writing here! There's something about overseas recordings that make Japanese composers give just a little bit extra. Never have I known a composer to step up quite as proudly as Iwasaki has done in this score. Every note is still unmistakeably Iwasaki... but it's bathed in an almost Kanno-esque symphonic sheen... and it also just feels like symphonic music. We've all heard plenty of scores where a crappy composer does a big expensive sounding score and you listen to it thinking that it sounds like a load of nicely arranged trash... This is different. This is a score which belongs in the medium. There are electronics and "typical Iwasaki" in a handful of tracks, of course, but this is basically a grand old symphonic score like you never, EVER thought you'd hear from the likes of Taku Iwasaki in a million years.

About half way through, the orchestral cues suddenly start sounding like a domestic Japanese session (albeit a very well-recorded one with a decent size orchestra) and less like Warsaw. I haven't the foggiest idea why - maybe they ran out of session time and had to finish the score in Tokyo... who knows? If the session was an unmitigated balls-up it may explain why this was Iwasaki's first and last (to date) outing with a full symphony orchestra... But the music is uniformly excellent. The style or flair doesn't vary... but I suspect a significant portion of this score wasn't recorded in Warsaw.

Anyway... Enjoy! Taku Iwasaki does a completely straight symphonic score... and does it very, VERY well indeed!
TT

Hahahaha, very nice. Shit you not, but I was thinking of posting this exact score a little while ago but assumed everyone here already knew of it. Even I've had it for awhile, but recently revisited it for the past couple weeks.

Shame this was Iwasaki's thus far only sojourn to Warsaw, but it lends the score a uniquely filmic quality that you rarely hear from him. His trademark use of strings is always very rich and multilayed but rarely climbs into the higher registers, I guess to sound more mature(though it can make some of his darker string ensemble cues sound like they should be scoring clowns crying in black and white rooms with film grain and subtitles)., so it took me aback to hear such airy, warm textures in his work this time.The Agito and Toola cues, Project Green Earth and Neutral City in articular are simply astounding, sublime pieces of work, shades evocative of his work before and since but more bouyant, more full. At least according to VGMDb, no particular orchestrator is listed, which is interesting.

I have to take issue, however, with some of the whining regarding his more recent work. Having recently toured Iwasaki's entire available oeuvre on a lark, I've come to the conclusion his recent "rut" is largely imaginary. Aside from orchestra and jazz, Iwasaki's music has always leaned at least a little on well-worn tropes, and as far back as his earliest works has always contained some element of the electronic. It's clearly an avenue he's always dabbled in, but it wasn't until Gurenn Laggan and Soul Eater that he allowed himself to dive into more experimental forays into contemporary genres to any degree deeper than "generic beats overlaid across string ensemble."

He liked the results, discovered that hey, he's really good at crafting electronica and rap of his own, and started getting more into that for awhile.

If anything, I sometimes get the impression Iwasaki himself doesn't like working with an orchestra nearly as much as we enjoy his results. He was apparently whining during GL's production that writing generic space opera-y cues was beneath him and came up with whatever he damn well felt like, genre be damned. And lo and behold, Imaishi loved his choices so much they animated and reanimated scenes just to fit with the score better.

I doubt it's coincidence that ever since doing Persona, Iwasaki has delved more and more into rap and eletronica(as opposed to merely "electronic elements"), recruiting more and more vocalists, coming up with new samples and sounds far more accomplished that what he was doing prior. I'll take that kickass disco beat in Gatchaman over any of the limper, stock beats he was using pre-Robin, and his chilly, smoothly-atmospheric tracks are some of my favorites of his discography just for how cooly effective his choice of moods and warped samples can be.

So no, nobody is "forcing him" to do anything. Soul Eater's rampant experimentation and contemporary stylings, Jormugand's dirty beats and haunting ethnic themes, Jojo's...everything, all of this is the product of a fiercely varied musician with a powerful thirst for trying new things and marveling at the results.

So relax, guys. He'll do another Katanagatari when he gets a project he feels a symphonic sound would work best. Of that, he's already proven.

Does anyone have any recommendations of osts by Toshiyuki Watanabe?

It seems like he isn't very active considering space brothers is his most recent work in about 5 years o_O.
Still i wonder if he has any osts that have the awesomeness of Majestic Prince (i see he's composed for quite a few mecha shows).

If that is the best Taku Iwasaki can do, I am not impressed. It makes perfect sense why he is more fond of electronics. He doesn't have the skill to properly use the orchestra.

As for Toshiyuki Watanabe, I don't have a lot of other stuff by him but his score for Rebirth of Mothra 2 is nice and there was a good best-of compilation posted in this thread some time ago.

He isn't inactive or anything. He just does dramas more often than anime.

I don't know if his Mothra soundtracks are here, but check those out. Space Travellers too.

I have to take issue, however, with some of the whining regarding his more recent work.

The fact that it's not actually whining but disappointment, and your characteristic lack of tact notwithstanding...

It does indeed look as though Iwasaki has consciously and deliberately moved to a new style of composition: I don't find it particularly successful - experimental doesn't mean better - but I applaud him for exploring other avenues. It doesn't mean I don't yearn for the next time he feels like writing music and not hyper-technological sonic wallpaper which, whilst sounding quite unique and working well enough in situ, provides very little from an artistic perspective and almost nothing that sustains repeated listening on CD. Given Iwasaki's predilection for noise, experimentation, and sound design (particularly in his more recent scores) I tend to think of purely orchestral scores as uncharacteristic - for him. Doing that stuff takes skill. Anybody who can operate a computer and has the most basic understanding of musical theory can write the stuff he's been writing recently. Not everybody can bounce themes around an 80 piece symphony orchestra. He should be proud of the fact that he can - and develop those skills wherever possible... since he's clearly got a VERY BIG BRAIN, which he's just not exploiting from a compositional perspective these days.


He doesn't have the skill to properly use the orchestra.

Yes, just listen to Agito to Kain. What a poorly orchestrated piece of music that is(!)

I don't think anybody said it was the best he could do - even though it is excellent - but I think it's the best he's done so far. Iwasaki is still only in his mid 40s.

That one cue I posted yesterday should also give you a rough idea of what Iwasaki's potential. Although it's only one cue, I think it more than showcases his ability to properly wield an orchestra (the brass section reminds me of Asakwa).

And on the other [lack of] news, Little Witch still hasn't surfaced online. :(

Go Sakabe
Date A Live
Studio Orchestra



Orchestral / Rock / Synth / Piano

Download (https://mega.co.nz/#!e4g3BBhZ!ShkLzwsX6UI8Adur7zDNjT5qGDBYZjb_N1cKbZy 8ETI)
MP3 / V0 / 40 tracks / 80min

Preview: Pride (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LJFdg9G1WU)



Huge thanks for LeatherHead333 for the soundtracks.
After listening to it again I can say we have here a pretty good score from a relatively fresh composer with a lot of promise. HQ in the sky is probably my favorite track. I hope this will be a better representation of the score than what's on the individual discs. I am now looking forward to the second season and Go Sakabe is definetly on my watchlist.

Enjoy

Many thanks Klnerfan :) I didn't have the patience to do that myself.

Doing that stuff takes skill. Anybody who can operate a computer and has the most basic understanding of musical theory can write the stuff he's been writing recently.


haahahaha. Well that's just silly.

One need only take even a cursory glance at the current spheres of anime music, VGM or basically any genre of music imaginable to realize "any bloke with a pc who can put notes together can succeed at sound design and production" is blatantly and laughably false, but ok.

As for calling it whining, well, sorry, but for a long, long time, that's exactly what it was. It was meant as a general statement, not an aimed criticism(though neither of us are innocent of it.)

Even now, the pervading opinion of Iwasaki, here and elsewhere, was that his recent musical direction was a result of "pigeonholing", recruiters seeking him out just to have him write, I assume, "that awesome epic rock shit and rap like in Gurren Laggan. That was THE SHIT, so just keep doing it again and again from now on" to the point of stagnation. I'll grant he has a tendency to reuse certain basic ideas, but there's a thinly-veiled implication to this argument that if Iwasaki isn't writing the kind of music he used to, that YOU/I/WE like, then surely it must be that THE INDUSTRY is strangling him creatively, forcing him to write this cheap mainstream garbage when CLEARLY he wants to go back to the good ole' days of orchestral splendor. Katangatari, Rurouni Kenshi. Yeah. That's the REAL Iwasaki. When will the REAL Iwasaki finally get to come back and not this cheap shell who's CLEARLY being forced to do this noisy crap.

I believe you when you say it's just disappointment in your case, sure, but I see this everywhere(and not just with Iwasaki, either), and it needs to stop. Even if all evidence didn't suggest that what he's writing now is exactly what he wants to(although it does), it shouldn't need explaining how presumptuous and disrespectful that is to the artist.

My head hurts... and an argument will make it hurt more. Deleted original posts. ;)

I understand your point NaotaM and to a large extent I think you are right. Many of these composers enjoy writing rock infused scores (Brian Tyler) and as much as we might expect and prefer a certain style it doesn't mean the composers are all itching to write the next big orchestral masterpiece and getting stuck in a rut. I do think some composers who are truly symphonists are feeling constrained by certain projects but for others, they enjoy experimenting. Hell, even Jerry Goldsmith experimented with all sorts of strange stuff in the end of his career because he was interested in different sounds. We all agree he is a talented composer but I can still look at stuff he wrote in his synth fart era and laugh. I still can't enjoy Total Recall or Executive Decision (little wonder then that I also hated John Debney's Iron Man 2 score that borrowed heavily from these).

The thing about ole' Jerry was that, even at the height of this crazy synth era... not once did he sacrifice the quality of the music. Some of the sounds are utterly ludicrous... but underneath the extremely questionable electronica... the notes on the page were always good.

I love the synths in Total Recall. Slightly less so in Legend... but there's just so much to love about that score I can pretty much entirely forgive the grinding, farting, rumbling, hissing, squealing noises... because even though I don't particularly enjoy the sounds, it's completely obvious that they're from the hand of a master.

I understand your point NaotaM and to a large extent I think you are right. Many of these composers enjoy writing rock infused scores (Brian Tyler) and as much as we might expect and prefer a certain style it doesn't mean the composers are all itching to write the next big orchestral masterpiece and getting stuck in a rut. I do think some composers who are truly symphonists are feeling constrained by certain projects but for others, they enjoy experimenting. Hell, even Jerry Goldsmith experimented with all sorts of strange stuff in the end of his career because he was interested in different sounds. We all agree he is a talented composer but I can still look at stuff he wrote in his synth fart era and laugh. I still can't enjoy Total Recall or Executive Decision (little wonder then that I also hated John Debney's Iron Man 2 score that borrowed heavily from these).

Right. Opinions are opinions and you can't change that. Plus, not a week ago, we saw a composer wrestle with rigid requests and a stubbornness to allow creativity with Elysium, so it does happen.

I just wish more people were able or willing to discern "I don't like the direction he's taken" from "I don't like the direction he's taken, and if I don't, it's clearly the wrong choice and he must think so too, as noone of such talent would ever do X".

Gordon Bennett, all I said was that Iwasaki's most recent scores haven't been his best...

If you want to beat me up, go ahead... but please, wait a few days. I'm really suffering today. Long story. So tired. So drained. Need beer. :(

That one cue I posted yesterday should also give you a rough idea of what Iwasaki's potential. Although it's only one cue, I think it more than showcases his ability to properly wield an orchestra (the brass section reminds me of Asakwa).

And on the other [lack of] news, Little Witch still hasn't surfaced online. :( I'm not surprised actually. Little Witch Academia isn't that popular in japan for some reason while Americans love the crap out of it.

I guess this probably because it has a western like animation style that people in japan aren't used too. They recently had to cancel an event for the show in Japan because of a lack of tickets sold (their goal was 200 but they only ended up with 94).

I kind of think it would have been a better idea to hold an event in America considering that's where the MAJORITY of the funds for the kickstarter came from in the first place.

Was never even talking about you, go back inside gawsh

Tango, I was using Firefox to download from Mega, even had a good workaround for getting it to work. Now though it just doesn't want to play ball, so using Chrome. Thank goodness there are no ill effects to my system's operation.

Huh. I am using a fully updated FF and I can upload and download from MEGA with no issue.

Tango, I was using Firefox to download from Mega, even had a good workaround for getting it to work. Now though it just doesn't want to play ball, so using Chrome. Thank goodness there are no ill effects to my system's operation.

You shouldn't need to install Chrome; just have it as one of your options.

I use Chrome for Mega only. Otherwise I use Safari.

Tango, I was using Firefox to download from Mega, even had a good workaround for getting it to work. Now though it just doesn't want to play ball, so using Chrome. Thank goodness there are no ill effects to my system's operation.

Oddly enough, it was the other way with me. Back when people starting posting Mega links, it didn't work in Firefox for me. I already had Chrome, so I used Chrome for it.

Then a week or two ago, problems started: the transfer would silently stall at some random point. Frustrating! Eventually I tried it in Firefox, and discovered that it works fine there now for me.

Shameless repost; two scores that came up in another thread... and one which I posted over 18 months ago - all old links dead now, of course... so here we go:

Time for a twofer, this evening - these scores may be the best kept secret in orchestral game scoring. Like Outcast, they are mature, symphonic works that feel more like concert hall works than game scores. Performed by the Russian Philharmonia Symphony Orchestra and the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, ladies and gentlemen, here is...



Composed and Orchestrated by
YURY POTEYENKO

Sea Dogs - An Epic Adventure At Sea (2000)
Russian Philharmonia Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Alexander Yedernikov
Chamber Choir of Moscow Conversatory
conducted by Boris Tevlin

and

Age Of Pirates - Caribbean Tales (2005)
Moscow Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Alexander Yedernikov
Choir "Kastalsky-Kapella"
conducted by Aleksey Rudnevsky



My rips. Scans and log included in FLAC edition; scans only in MP3.

MP3 Editions - ZippyShare - (these are my original rips from 2008, encoded with the then-current state of the art LAME 3.97; rips were verified accurate but no logs were recorded. Bitrate setting -V0)

Age Of Pirates: Zippyshare.com - YP-AOP-MP3.rar (http://www70.zippyshare.com/v/2698852/file.html)
Sea Dogs: Zippyshare.com - YP-SD-MP3.rar (http://www47.zippyshare.com/v/75624410/file.html)

FLAC Editions - MEGA - (these are new rips made today, also verified accurate, with EAC log included.)

Age Of Pirates: https://mega.co.nz/#!hwgV1abS!Ga43yxe7jGphFMBZTmnyk2SComsM6SPvIdfU216 rjlw
Sea Dogs: https://mega.co.nz/#!4lYSXAKC!W_OkZxHc-VTQNGTvgTj2vBAK28sBndqFwvVkas5jgGU

Whew, where to begin with these? Yury Poteyenko has written two absolute corkers here - about as far away from the current Hollywood pirate music as you can possibly get, and yet also not at all like the more traditional Korngold swashbucklers. The music is more sea-faring; grand, and highly melodic. The action cues aren't about high-speed orchestral acrobatics; they're precise and stately.

The earlier score, Sea Dogs, is the more energetic score and is also the shortest of the two. It begins with a magnificent main theme first hinted by clarinet and strings but first stated outright by a glorious choir. The centrepiece is a masterful six minute action cue - "Battle Theme - Dies Irae" which wouldn't seem out of place if you programmed it in a concert next to Verdi's Requiem. Superlative choral writing compliment this brassy piece, full of tension and power. There are some "country themes" - which are a thousand times better than the titles would suggest; fully fleshed out pieces evoking traditional melodies of their respective nations. And "Sunrise" is just glorious - a glorious, impressionistic piece which evokes Scriabin, Ravel, and Debussy, all at once.

Age Of Pirates takes a slightly broader approach; the main theme is a grand piece that conjures up images of a beautiful sailing ship, coarsing majestically through the sea. This wonderfully versatile theme is used liberally through the score. There's another "Sunrise" cue, as well - this time a warm, romantic, sailing theme presented first on Cor Anglais and then later on flute, the rest of the woodwinds, brass, and finally with a choral accompaniment. The action cues are a little more... direct... than in Sea Dogs - and there's more of them; Fierce Close Fight, Mortal Combat, and "To Boarding" being some of the highlights.

All in all, two ridiculously good scores - certainly conceived as concert music first and game scores second. This is music that just screams out "quality" - no shortcuts, no cheap tricks, no lowest-common-denominator Hollywood concessions to modernity. Only imaginative, exceptionally well written music - superbly orchestrated and beautifully performed.

Sea Dogs features slightly muddy sound quality but the performance is excellent. Age Of Pirates is a vast improvement in sound quality, with an equally fine performance.

Enjoy! :)

Tango - It always amazes me how you can differentiate between quality of performance and quality of sound on a recording. Most of the time when I hear poor quality of sound I am turned off the music. Only when the music is good quality can I sometimes notice the poor performance.

NaotaM - Exactly. I think there is a tendency, and I have been guilty of this myself, for us to act as critics and assume that because something is not musically what we expect to hear it is trash. It follows from that argument that because the result is trash it must mean that the composer has no talent. We then immediately typeface composers who start off writing simplistic stuff when the simplistic nature of the music or derivative nature of the music may be more because of the demands of the job than the talent of the composer. Both District 9 and Elysium got what we would call generic scores and it seems the main reason for that is that Blomkamp wanted something generic. We saw on the other page his insistence on wailing woman and a rhythmic orchestral/synth sound that does without woodwinds. We have just reached the point where new directors come to expect a certain type of music for movies and they perpetuate the generic sound.

One could argue that the films themselves require a sonic wallpaper approach but it is hard to say for sure because we haven't really seen what would happen if Elysium was given big orchestral work with themes and woodwinds. Some would argue that Elysium has themes but to me most of them are short motifs that aren't properly used.

If I couldn't, I'd have a miserable time with about 99% of Japanese scores. ;)

Don't get me wrong... I'm not saying I don't care about sound quality... but if the music is worthwhile and I can't have it, well, never mind. I'd rather go to Disneyland in a Rolls Royce, but if I have to go in a rusty old Reliant Robin... hey, f**k it, I'm still going to Disneyland!

I think that explains why I have a miserable time with a lot of Japanese scores. They often just don't sound like what I have come to expect.

You need the patented Tangotreats "London Symphony Orchestra" filter. It's a little gromit that sits in your ears and automatically re-records, on the fly, any orchestral music you hear... in Abbey Road Studio with the London Symphony Orchestra, and then passes it directly to your eardrum. All those shitty twenty piece orchestra Sahashi scores come out sounding like Symphony Seed! ;)

Thanks for posting Age of Pirates, tango - after I already ordered a copy....! :D

Wonderful Poteyenko scores thank you TT, I got them when you posted February last year and neglected to thank you then, so here is a hearty arigato!

I didn't download Sirursjr's FLAC rip of Rebirth of Mothra 2, but fortunately a YouTube user GORIZARD8 (https://www.youtube.com/user/GORIZARD8) has shared all of Toshiyuki Watanabe's Mothra scores in still working MediaFire links.

Because of lack of scans/information I can't say who conducted / who performed.


Re: Rebirth of Mothra 2
Gordon Bennett, this is great! A fine symphonic action score just like they don't write any more. (Except in Japan!)


Re: Rebirth of Mothra 2
I'm a bit of a Mothra fan (don't ask me why!) so this is very welcome :) I'm surprised how lyrical it is.


Re: Rebirth of Mothra 2
Indeed! About as far away from Ifukube's uncompromising primal Godzilla style as you can get - these are more traditional melodic, energetic action scores.


As for Toshiyuki Watanabe, I don't have a lot of other stuff by him but his score for Rebirth of Mothra 2 is nice.


He isn't inactive or anything. He just does dramas more often than anime.

I don't know if his Mothra soundtracks are here, but check those out.


TOSHIYUKI WATANABE

REBIRTH OF MOTHRA



MP3 CBR 320 kbps (48k sample rate, tho :S) | 21 Tracks | 00:47:26 | 108 MB

Release Date: 28.10.2003
Published by: ADV Music
Catalog Number: ADV0061? / CD/006 (http://www.godzillamonstermusic.com/ADV006.htm)

01. Main Title
02. Super High Speed Battle
03. The Beginning of the Great Journey
04. The Guardian Goddess of the Beautiful Star
05. The Mothra Song
06. Battle of Sixty-Five Million Years Ago, Revisited
07. Evil Beast of Destruction
08. Pray with Me
09. The Song of Prayer
10. The Will of the Larvae
11. The Battle with the Enemy of Life
12. Get Back to the Ocean
13. The Song of Prayer (Instrumental)
14. Mothraleo
15. Emergence of a Saint
16. Birth of the New Mothra
17. Fight! In Order to Protect
18. Sealed Away
19. The Instant of Life
20. Forever Friends
21. End Title

Vocal performances by Megumi Kobayashi & Sayaka Yamaguchi (http://www.godzillamonstermusic.com/ADV007.htm)

Information on track 5 (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mothra&oldid=568258008#Mothra.27s_songs):
The fairies' famous song "Mosura No Uta" ("Mothra's Song") was written in Indonesian, though the Shobijin often sing Japanese approximations to the original lyrics. The song was composed by Yūji Koseki. Other verses and entirely new songs (in Japanese) have been added by various composers over Mothra's film history.

Source: GORIZARD8 (https://www.youtube.com/user/GORIZARD8) / 500x500 Cover from John H. Blankenship (http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/B0000DFZYU/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_0?ie=UTF8&index=0)

DOWNLOAD
Mega - https://mega.co.nz/#!uNYhhA4D!EX0Xcz44vtbl5FMJ6vjoZFaTfdd-A7MOw5k77eHnPEo
MediaFire (link from the GORIZARD8, original uploader) - http://www.mediafire.com/download/o0ikkarbdacv7bf

REBIRTH OF MOTHRA 2



MP3 CBR 320 kbps (48k sample rate, tho :S) | 16 Tracks | 00:34:42 | 75 MB

Release Date: 28.10.2003
Published by: ADV Music
Catalog Number: ADV0071? / CD/007 (http://www.godzillamonstermusic.com/ADV007.htm)

01. Opening Title
02. At the Cape
03. The Girl and Gohgo Meet
04. Into a World of Adventure I
05. Into a World of Adventure II - Nirai Kanai
06. The Myth Lives On
07. In Order to Protect the Planet / Mothra's Song
08. Dagahra Comes Ashore
09. Prepared to Die / Mothra's Song / To the Bottom of the Sea
10. Mothra Pushed to the Brink
11. Princess Yuna's Theme
12. Gohgo: Along with the Miracle(s)
13. The Miraculous Transformation
14. Armageddon at the Bottom of the Sea
15. The End of the Myth
16. To the Children of a New Civilization

Vocal performances by Megumi Kobayashi & Sayaka Yamaguchi (http://www.godzillamonstermusic.com/ADV007.htm)

Information on track 9 (1:08) (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mothra&oldid=568258008#Mothra.27s_songs):
The fairies' famous song "Mosura No Uta" ("Mothra's Song") was written in Indonesian, though the Shobijin often sing Japanese approximations to the original lyrics. The song was composed by Yūji Koseki. Other verses and entirely new songs (in Japanese) have been added by various composers over Mothra's film history.

Source: GORIZARD8 (https://www.youtube.com/user/GORIZARD8) / 500x500 Cover from Sirusjr (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/138.html#post1351291)

DOWNLOAD
Mega - https://mega.co.nz/#!DRoBjTTb!CYfTzBRkVlSPd-KamX9cRHGV9DFMdwon-RX3J6z6B9M
MediaFire (link from the GORIZARD8, original uploader) - http://www.mediafire.com/download/36vb8c3llp3hojf

REBIRTH OF MOTHRA 3


upscaled from 350x348 to 500x500!

MP3 CBR 320 kbps (48k sample rate, tho :S) | 25 Tracks | 00:49:55 | 114 MB

Release Date: 28.10.2003
Published by: ADV Music
Catalog Number: ADV0081? / CD/008 (http://www.godzillamonstermusic.com/ADV008.htm)

01. Opening / The Legend Unfolds
02. The Eerie Meteor
03. The Strange Meteorite
04. Mothra's Song
05. The Mighty Foe Returns
06. The Appearance of Mothra
07. Meeting with Mothra
08. The Sad Sounds of the Blade
09. The Decision to Travel Through Space-Time
10. Haora Mothra (Moll vers.)
11. Deathbed Request
12. Traveling 130,000,000 Years Back in Time
13. The Strange Dome
14. Cretaceous Battle 1
15. Risk Your Life
16. Cretaceous Battle 2
17. Haora Mothra (Lora vers.)
18. Requiem
19. Resurrection of King Ghidorah
20. The Tragic Battle
21. The Appearance of the Armored Warrior
22. Last Battle
23. The Final Metamorphosis
24. The Power of the Legend
25. Ending / The Heart Can Reach

Vocal performances by Megumi Kobayashi & Misato Tate (http://www.godzillamonstermusic.com/ADV008.htm)

Information on track 3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mothra&oldid=568258008#Mothra.27s_songs):
The fairies' famous song "Mosura No Uta" ("Mothra's Song") was written in Indonesian, though the Shobijin often sing Japanese approximations to the original lyrics. The song was composed by Yūji Koseki. Other verses and entirely new songs (in Japanese) have been added by various composers over Mothra's film history.

Source: GORIZARD8 (https://www.youtube.com/user/GORIZARD8)

DOWNLOAD
Mega - https://mega.co.nz/#!rYxEwbSS!BWuu0jtRo_duh19pFYFzAlPSOgtFw6VqIepKIVZ oUNQ
MediaFire (link from the GORIZARD8, original uploader) - http://www.mediafire.com/download/r8n2pmzy6963c1i

Are you like Google reborn in human form? You manage to dig up some of the best selections of stuff. Thanks for these :D

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I have a confession to make... my favourite part of Overman King Gainer is the opening song. Probably because it's written by Tanaka and is therefore musically interesting, as well as stupidly good fun... :awsm:

Just... wow. Thanks a lot, Herr Salat!

Aliens: Colonial Marines Soundtrack | -= KEVIN RIEPL MUSIC =- (http://www.kevinriepl.com/wordpress/index.php/aliens-colonial-marines-soundtrack)

a free download of Kevin Riepls very enjoyble musical continuation of James Horners Aliens Score.Fully orchestral.

The Greatest Orchestral Anime Masterpieces




Download Part I (http://www.mediafire.com/file/17rbg1f5sw1mb9x/I.7z)

Download Part II (http://www.mediafire.com/file/4awt8i47ywv1dov/II.7z)

Download Part III (http://www.mediafire.com/?489f22d85p792m8)

Download Missing Track (http://www.mediafire.com/?9bhbvubk9qfb36v)


Here is a collection of my favorite anime orchestral tracks. I've chosen 80 tracks from 80 shows & movies which I constantly have in my playlist, I listen to them almost on a daily basis and consider them to be the finest achievments in anime music history.

EDIT: If Star Driver would be available now I would have put the Main Theme in there
Other than klnerfan's amazing compilation above and recent posts in this thread. Is there some work I cannot miss? By any composer? Newer works? His post is almost three years old now and I really hope there's other good newer stuff out as well. Or anything that he did not include, i'm open for anything really.

Could someone make a list for me pretty please? Mention everything that's worth checking out in your opinion. It doesn't have to be a masterpiece (but that's obivously more than welcome, just anything good).

I'm quite new to anime music or well... I do not have much music. I haven't heard much and many composer's work so I'd like to discover a lot more! I spent some good hours finding the majority of albums which klner had included in his compilation and I now have them, but it really whetted my appetite and i'd like to find moar. The biggest issue for me is that I don't know where to start and I do not like loud japanse vocal pop music (that's what I got on my first go on some completly unkown score I wanted to try).

Thank you SO much for the Mothra pack. Can't wait to listen to it later.

I wonder if the original Mothra 2 soundtrack will ever turn up. It's 2 CDs with 59 tracks.

For some reason ADV Music cut down their release to 16 tracks. Mothra 1 and 3 are mostly untouched. An example would be that the last track on Mothra 3 is apparently 5:24 in the original release but 2:53 on ADV's release.

If this is / these are Watanabe's score(s), then there also's a regular Mothra 2 release with 16 tracks in Japan.

http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%83%A2%E3%82%B9%E3%83%A92-%E6%B5%B7%E5%BA%95%E3%81%AE%E5%A4%A7%E6%B1%BA%E6%8 8%A6-%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9/dp/B00005FN0E

Mothra 1 Complete: http://www.amazon.co.jp/「モスラ」オリジナルサウンドトラック完全盤-サントラ/dp/B000064MGJ

Mothra 2 Complete: http://www.amazon.co.jp/モスラ2-海底の大決戦-―-オリジナル・サウンドトラック-サントラ/dp/B00005FN0F

Mothra 3 Complete: http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%83%A2%E3%82%B9%E3%83%A9-3-%E5%AE%8C%E5%85%A8%E7%9B%A4-%E2%80%95-%E3%82%AA%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B8%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AB%E3%8 3%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%82%A6%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%88% E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF/dp/B00004SZBA

@Lightdevil

There really is a need for a site like filmtracks just for anime scores. Here is a list of notable composers I posted some time ago (with a few changes), you can pretty much download anything they've done and 99% of the time you won't be disappointed:




Joe Hisaishi / Ni No Kuni / Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJjde-gL3GE)
Joe Hisaishi / Howl's Moving Castle / Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9XZwESu9fU)
Joe Hisaishi / Kiki's Delivery Service / New Japan Philharmonic World Dream Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elrfDu51Yq4)
Michiru Oshima / Full Metal Alchemist / Moscow International Symphonic Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULL9TSUfeiw)
Michiru Oshima / Bounen no Xamdou / Orchestre des Virtuoses de Paris (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7rZShrmIj8)
Michiru Oshima / Zetsuen no Tempest / Russian State Symphony Cinema Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7xaZGwuLZQ)
Yoko Kanno / Genesis of Aquarion / Warsaw Philharmonic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz32ws6JHLw)
Yoko Kanno / Escaflowne / Warsaw Philharmonic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_49H_N43jQ)
Yoko Kanno / Turn A Gundam / Warsaw Philharmonic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3Ky9AJd4_k)
Masamichi Amano / Super Atragon / Warsaw Philharmonic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMELh7b1BSE)
Masamichi Amano / Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic / Warsaw Philharmonic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6M71-FVRuk)
Masamichi Amano / Giant Robo / Warsaw Philharmonic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8aZFKOPMEQ)
Masamichi Amano / Princess Nine / Warsaw Philharmonic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZvIpEYoMr8)
Toshihiko Sahashi / Gundam Seed Symphony / London Symphony Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl7JfQxDnU4)
Toshihiko Sahashi / Element Hunters / Studio Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkhENDpAkhE)
Toshihiko Sahashi / Steel Angel Kurumi / Studio Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5Iv9_jBScM)
Toshihiko Sahashi / Simoun / Studio Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_1escyKvsU)
Kohei Tanaka / Sakura Wars: The Motion Picture / Tokyo Philharmonic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwLFH21ODRA)
Kohei Tanaka / Bastard!! / Tokyo Philharmonic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep4_yVD5WBc)
Kohei Tanaka / One Piece / Studio Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njsS7S4U9Xo)
Kousuke Yamashita / Garasu no Kantai / Kanagawa Philharmonic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44EngvDNBkQ)
Kousuke Yamashita / Dragonaut: The Resonance / Kanagawa Philharmonic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GiGeBZe4d4&playnext=1&list=PL1DEA81C56C4412AB)
Kousuke Yamashita / Chihayafuru / Studio Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ne7oNIMJyA)
Yoshihisa Hirano / Death Note / Studio Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUyb4yQMEXQ)
Yoshihisa Hirano / Broken Blade / Studio Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q3gtY5wHuI)
Yoshihisa Hirano / Ouran Highschool Host Club / Studio Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8FLUUOkSZ4)
Naoki Sato / Eureka Seven: Pocket of Rainbows / Studio Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhzyzGMX0jc)
Naoki Sato / Heroic Age / Studio Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhQYahiVOdQ)
Naoki Sato / Sword of the Stranger / Studio Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTIwbusbN1g)
Akira Senju / Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood / Warsaw Philharmonic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6QqZfvE3Fw)
Akira Senju / Red Garden / Studio Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjs75LN1c78)
Hayato Matsuo / Hellsing / Warsaw Philharmonic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFZjegvE6OA)
Yuji Nomi / Nichijou / Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-_6Q17dbCU)
Hiroshi Takaki / TYTANIA / Kanagawa Philharmonic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n15IIRr1X_g)
Souhei Kano / Fractale / Studio Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMwA0KvzZ0c)

Other composers worth checking out:

Taku Iwasaki / RUROUNI KENSHIN -Meiji Kenkaku Romantan- SEISOU-HEN / Studio Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaB43jSKLYU)
Hitoshi Sakimoto / Romeo X Juliet / Eminence Symphony Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHEOCLWJLsM)
Toshiyuki Watanabe / Space Brothers / Studio Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijTDZqRAhBk)
Koh Otani / Haibane Renmei / Studio Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCgQZFMG3Mg)
Yuugo Kanno / Birdy the Mighty: Decode / Studio Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F9JjdEFYjA)
Satoru Kosaki / The Dissappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya / Eminence Symphony Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACsrDhqNg80)
Satoru Kosaki / Star Driver / Studio Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6EeCs9orK4)
Mina Kubota / Kannazuki no Miku / Studio Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEbOjcfyecY)
Nanase Hikaru / Infinite Stratos / Studio Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTaX3Wk4Fi4&playnext=1&list=PL00E93257CFD2E74B)
Shiro Hamaguchi / Kiddy Grade / Studio Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tdfu4tTevg)
Shiro Hamaguchi / Hanasaku Iroha / Studio Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxZQOSktM3Y)
Hajime Mizoguchi / Escaflowne / Warsaw Philharmonic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv50DzU2l4s)
Hajime Mizoguchi / Planet of the Beast King / Studio Orchestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuWPcYENnwc)
Kan Sawada / Doraemon / Tokyo Philharmonic


and if you are also a fan of Rock/Metal with orchestral elements then Yasuharu Takanashi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohdxVI5_dEw) might be the right composer for you.

If this is / these are Watanabe's score(s), then there also's a regular Mothra 2 release with 16 tracks in Japan.

Amazon.com: モスラ2 海底の大決戦: 音楽 (http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%83%A2%E3%82%B9%E3%83%A92-%E6%B5%B7%E5%BA%95%E3%81%AE%E5%A4%A7%E6%B1%BA%E6%8 8%A6-%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9/dp/B00005FN0E)

Mothra 1 Complete: http://www.amazon.co.jp/「モスラ」オリジナルサウンドトラック完全盤-サントラ/dp/B000064MGJ

Mothra 2 Complete: http://www.amazon.co.jp/モスラ2-海底の大決戦-―-オリジナル・サウンドトラック-サントラ/dp/B00005FN0F

Mothra 3 Complete: Amazon.com: モスラ 3 <完全盤> ― オリジナル・サウンドトラック: 音楽 (http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%83%A2%E3%82%B9%E3%83%A9-3-%E5%AE%8C%E5%85%A8%E7%9B%A4-%E2%80%95-%E3%82%AA%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B8%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AB%E3%8 3%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%82%A6%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%88% E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF/dp/B00004SZBA)
Ooh, hadn't even noticed those. Looks like there's around 2 hours of additional music from the complete versions.

Lightdevil - Check out my Loveliness, Elegance and Nobility compilations. Part of why I created them is to help introduce people to Anime music. If the links are dead let me know.
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That's a really nice list.

I have been wondering about the performance credit for Garasu no Kantai. The booklet doesn't seem to credit any specific orchestra. Not sure about Kanagawa Philharmonic but it doesn't sound like your regular studio orchestra either.

Escaflowne's Gloria was a Mizoguchi piece, dawg

Here's an example I like to use to show something is amiss when it comes to the orchestral aspects of a Kanno soundtrack. Take Escaflowne for example, where she collaborated with Hajime Mizoguchi. The orchestral tracks he supposedly composed and arranged on the first OST are Cubic, Romance, Gloria (http://www.youtubeclean.com/watch?v=Uf9nV8C2ffo), Eyes. Listen to these and you will notice they sound EXACTLY like Kanno's orchestral style, from the melodies to the harmonies to the early 20th century orchestral idioms. "Cubic" sounds like "Prism" from Brain Powerd, composed by Kanno. "Eyes" uses the same Caro Mio Ben theme which is practically the main theme in Brain Powerd. But Hajime Mizoguchi didn't work on Brain Powerd. He composed the soundtrack to Jin-Roh, which sounds nothing like his work in Escaflowne. I'd say his work in Escaflowne is leagues better.

Mizoguchi eh ... I know I have forgotten someone.

Yakumo Tatsu OVA Original Soundtrack download please...

That has nothing to do with what I said...? It's credited to him and sounds like him, just admit the mistake.

Also, stop emptyquoting so much. Make your OWN points.

I downloaded (http://bakabt.me/150999-yakumo-tatsu-eight-clouds-rising.html) the two OVA episodes to listen to the soundtrack. It didn't really sound like the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra playing. Megumi no Daigo (http://bakabt.me/154990-me-gumi-no-daigo-h264-ila.html) was definitely Warsaw. :S

EDIT: Misunderstanding resolved...

Was obviously talking to Herr. Seems like drudging up blah blah speculation blah blah plagiarism for no reason makes a much bigger deal out of a harmless discrepancy than merely pointing it out. Speaking of getting easily offended...

Edit: Nah, I'm better than this. Those who aren't will never change. :)


I have been wondering about the performance credit for Garasu no Kantai.

There's no reason to believe it's anybody special... It sounds like your Yamashita's average studio group to be, albeit recorded with a little more 'verb than usual... The sound is reasonably consistent with other Yamashita scores of the era - ensemble size aside... (Kantai's definitely the biggest he's ever gone on TV.)

As for the list in general, excellent, excellent, excellent... and relatively easy-to-find stuff, too.

Not sure of anyone's opinion on Masami Ueda(RE 2, Okami, Bayonetta; I, for one, quite like him, and Hirano did wonders with his work in Darkside Chronicles), but he's handling the upcoming Wonderful 101. Music in the demo sounds like fairly generic superhero/sentai stuff, with lots of brass and dense action chords, but that kind of thing seems popular here, so keep it in your mental rolodex if it sounds like your bag.

Bayonetta was quite good at parts, same with Okami. Both were far too long on disc and could use some trimming.

Yup and yup. There's no real telling if there'll be any additional composers announced as of yet. I have a feeling there's at least two other people involved; possibly Rei Kondoh, maybe more;, if just because big game soundtracks are so rarely one-man showstoppers anymore.

No hard feelings, NaotaM. I never have hated anyone personally on the internet and I never will. This place is actually one of the most civilized places I had the pleasure to come across and NaotaM is just a bit rude that's all. It's just another unfortunate incident that could have been avoided with a less aggressive attitude and a better clarification of who you're actually rude towards but I'm also not the nicest bloke today, so let's forget about it and listen to warm and fluffy orchestral music instead.



Toshihiko Sahashi
Steel Angel Kurumi
Studio Orchestra



Orchestral / Strings / Piano / Synth

Download (https://mega.co.nz/#!jogi2ZSb!PgzRXUwPgaLuNpRFcbe2uAhYvj8k8XjGhtwvPxH DgcQ)
MP3 / V0 / 34 Tracks / 69min

A classic Sahashi score, very lyrical with heartwarming strings and piano pieces but not without a fair share of symphonic action. Miracle of Love is one of the best orchestral compositions in Sahashi's career, an excellent symphonic piece for the concert hall and a true sign of a great composer. I'm interested how many high names in Hollywood can actually hold a theme for more than just a minute as effortlessly as Sahashi does it here.

Enjoy

Same here, man. Sorry if I came off as attacking you. Our posts were within seconds of each other and it's easy to forget how easily with text "curt" can be misconstrued as "anger".

In any case, as you say, it's no biggie. Never heard of Kurumi before, so great post! Just wish MEGA would get past that 99%, taunting me. >_<

I love Kurumi... I think that was my first Sahashi, all those years ago. Anybody want some FLAC? (With the greatest respect to klnerfan's post, of course.) :)

Oddly enough Kurumi was one of the first animes i watched when i had finally grasped the wonders of the internet. Remember loving the score alot especially the battle theme <3.

Almost makes me want to watch the show all over again :3.

Thank you so much for posting that list klnerfan!! I'll surely check the whole list, it's bookmarked now ;) Some of them are familiar but most not.

And thanks to Sirusjr for linking to your mix! I actually downloaded one part of the Loveliness, Elegance and Nobility (but I can't remember which one), but I never got to it and I forgot about it. Now i'll grab the whole thing and check it out when I can, thanks again. I would search the whole thread for gems, but sadly many links are dead due to Megaupload's bane.

Thanks for posting Steel Kurumi too! I've been stuck on a torrent for that one for a few days now =]

English Tracklist for Origin(Gin Iro no Kami to Agito), in case anybody wanted it.

1. Memories of the Forest
2. Harmonized Sound ~ with Reflection
3. Agito and Kain
4. Druids
5. Toola
6. Cataclysm
7. Neutral City
8. The Right to Stay
9. Ragna Gun
10. Helping Out Around Town
11. Agito and Toola
12. Agashi
13. A Man from Long Ago
14. Leaving Home
15. Toria City
16. Minka's Sorrow
17. The Temple in the Canopy
18. Strengthening the Core
19. Agito and Toola II
20. Uncontrollable Power
21. Yolda's Thoughts
22. The Day the Moon Breaks
23. Project Green Earth
24. Istolk Starts
25. General Attack
26. Istolk, Stop!
27. Great Eruption ~Agito and Toola III
28. For Our Future
29. That Which Connects Us to the Forest
30. Melody of Love

While going through some composers' work, I found that Yuji Nomi made orchestral arrangements of Anpanman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anpanman) (a legendary children's show from where I am from as well) themes. Performed by the Czech Philharmonic to boot... The only problem is no samples.... :'(

Amazon Japan link (http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%81%9D%E3%82%8C%E3%81%84%E3%81%91-%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%91%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9E%E3%8 3%B3-%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%91%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9E%E3%8 3%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B7%E3%83%83% E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9-%E3%83%81%E3%82%A7%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%8 2%A3%E3%83%AB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A2%E3%83%8B% E3%83%BC%E7%AE%A1%E5%BC%A6%E6%A5%BD%E5%9B%A3/dp/B000GG4EQO/ref=sr_1_18?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1376594697&sr=1-18&keywords=%E9%87%8E%E8%A6%8B%E7%A5%90%E4%BA%8C)for those who may be interested.

Samples: jplayer (http://web-cache.chocomaru.com/jplayer.html?G_655&d|%7F20k%7Fb51&EJ667124%3E2&7&nrrv%3C%29%29qqq%28hciqoha%28ei%28lv%29bcrgojpocq% 28nrkj9MC_%3BPVEA+%3E2%3E21&75103%3F3%3F37)

:D :D :D :D

tango, I can't access the link for some reason (it's killing me!). Could it be the buggy IE8 I'm forced to use at work?...

Hmm... try this one, it's at the English-speaking CDjapan... :)

Kids (Czech Philharmonic Orchestra) / Soreike! Anpanman Anpanman Classics (http://www.neowing.co.jp/track_for_cdj.html?KEY=VPCG-84847)

Edit: Coming up later, an insanely lovely album, very rare, very old, very beautiful... another Tangotreats / Herr Salat co-production... :D

NaotaM, sorry. I don't think I can ever make a point. I don't think i have anything worthwhile to say on anything, therefore the many quotes.

NaotaM, sorry. I don't think I can ever make a point. I don't think i have anything worthwhile to say on anything, therefore the many quotes.

To each their own, but I'm sure everyone here would love to here your thoughts, whatever they happened to be.

A Herr Salat / Tangotreats Co-Production

INSTANT CLASSICS (1983)
Arrangements by Yasuo Higuchi and Richard Kapp
Featuring music by Chopin, Beethoven, Debussy, Wolf-Ferrari, Yasuo Higuchi, Schumann, Dvorak, Grieg, and Rameau
Philharmonia Virtuosi
Richard Kapp, director
Cameron Grant, piano



My transfer from Herr Salat's vinyl. High resolution (1600x1600) scans (including fantastically ugly front cover) included. Titles in English. As with previous vinyl releases, anybody asking for .LOGs will be summarily executed.

NEW LINK 27/04/2016 - FLAC - https://mega.nz/#!MoghxTSI!EKt5rHAnWkNUQ3yMlx8aGwPgiuch1HilXz1VecgDoeM

Once again, a debt of gratitude is owed to Herr Salat, in this splendid international co-operation release - particularly, his generosity, good humour, seemingly endless source of money, and boundless enthusiasm for all great music. Folk in three countries - Herr Salat in Germany, his intermediary agents in Japan, and myself here in England - have collaborated to present... Instant Classics.

So, what do we have here? Well, on the face of it, we have a compilation of famous classical pieces, but that doesn't really tell the whole story. Richard Kapp selected these pieces himself, and Yasuo Higuchi (and Kapp) produced sensitive arrangements for the same ensemble that performed Higuchi's Orientation and Violin Concerto (Thread 126589). The result is a 40 minute survey of melody and warmth - spotlessly performed by the Philharmonia Virtuosi Of New York (sadly disbanded, after Kapp tragically passed away from cancer in 2006). Just like their previous album, this isn't about showing off, virtuoso runs, or larger-than-life orchestral shenanigans... it's largely about lyricism, beauty, and elegance. You'll recognise the tunes, but the arrangements are all new and extremely beautiful. If you're like me, one of those folk who think Clair de lune shouldn't ever be arranged for anything because its original solo piano version is sublime... just give Higuchi's intimate chamber arrangement a try... just wonderful.

Suffice to say, Higuchi's original composition (track 5, entitled "Fame" and based on a theme he wrote for a television commercial for cosmetics!) is a highlight of this beautiful album.

This is one to play when you're feeling peaceful. It's also one to play if you want to feel peaceful...

Please enjoy, and as ever, let's raise a glass of your favourite poison (and a cheer) for Herr Salat, who really made this happen.

Tech notes: This record was comparatively banged up compared to some of the others I've had the pleasure of working on... but it still came up sounding pretty much excellent after some light noise reduction. Vinyl will never win prizes for accuracy of reproduction, but it has a certain sensation about it that just can't be beat. The sleeve notes say that this recording was made digitally and cut directly to vinyl. Scans were a pain in the arse as usual; they are produced by stitching together four separate scans of different parts of the cover. Most of the time this works out great and you can't see the joins because Microsoft ICE does it all for you. On this occasion, a handful of minor artefacts are visible. They are quite legible, very usable, and anybody who wishes to complain is hereby emphatically invited to kiss my arse.

Enjoy! :)
TT

Endless thanks to both of you for the asurredly wonderful post. Gundam X completely floored me from out of nowhere when I first heard it several summers ago, and I've been foaming in the back of my mind for more like it ever since. Herr and yourself have done God's work posting so many rarities , and it's much appreciated. Hyped for Clair de Lune in particular.

You're very welcome... I do wonder sometimes if Higuchi will ever score anything, ever again... but then I imagine folk thought that after ten years of silence following Gundam X, and then suddenly there was Wings Of Rean. I wonder if there's a chance, albeit slim, that he'll reunite with Tomino on his new project? A man can hope. I know some folk will be clamouring for Kanno... but c'mon, folks... Kanno's done a f***tonne of scores. Let us Higuchi fans have this one... ;)

I wonder what would happen if more producers took notes from Jojo and Space Dandy and started hiring multiple composers for a series. Higuchi/Kanno dreamteam. Imagine it. Higuchi evoking the old masters(with hopefully no drumkits but eh, why not) and Kanno copying them scarily well. ;P

Also, just curious; was there ever an ost release for Rean?

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YASUO HIGUCHI
After War
GUNDAM X



SIDE 1

FLAC + LOG + CUE | 20 Tracks | 01:12:55 | 429 MB

Catalog: KICA-313
Record Label: King Records
Released: July 24, 1996

FLAC (Mega) - https://mega.co.nz/#!DMxXGYAA!YWHdZl8xq5ANN0Q0ECpOpCvwdex53ck5ZufR2Ty qFz4

01. Prelude: The Seventh Space War
02. DREAMS
03. After War 0015
04. Boy
05. Pursuit
06. Starting
07. Moon and Girl
08. Eyecatch
09. Frieden
10. Tifa and Garod
11. Vultures
12. Premonition
13. At the Battlefield
14. Trust
15. Attack
16. Death Line
17. Give Power to You
18. Satellite Cannon
19. Triumphant Return of Dawn
20. HUMAN TOUCH

"DREAMS"
Lyrics, composed, arranged by: RO-M
Performed by: Romantic Mode

"HUMAN TOUCH"
Lyrics: Susanne Marie Edgren
Composer, Arranger: Tom Keane
Performed by: Warren Wiebe



SIDE 2

FLAC + LOG + CUE | 19 Tracks | 01:07:02 | 407 MB

Catalog: KICA-322
Record Label: King Records
Released: October 23, 1996

FLAC (Mega) - https://mega.co.nz/#!vAh0ybBQ!JRck51MerEDxO9wzlG3MQHupcPxbey5ZiOr4q_O ywXs

01. At the Times When We Lost Dreams...
02. DREAMS [T.V. SIZE VERSION]
03. The Target is Freedom
04. Don't Forgive That Child
05. POWER by YOU
06. Tifa and Carris
07. I'm a Newtype
08. Fear as a Newtype
09. Just Run Without Thinking
10. Garod, Revived
11. In the Morning
12. To the Gentle Future
13. Please, Determine That for Yourself
14. A Giant Power is Approaching
15. Saw Again
16. GX That Running Past
17. New Weapon, Divider
18. Because I'm a Person, too!
19. HUMAN TOUCH [TV. SIZE VERSION]

"POWER by YOU"
Lyrics: Keiko Kimoto (木本慶子)
Composer, Arranger: 五島翔
Performed by: Wataru Takagi

"To the Gentle Future..."
Lyrics: 錦織貴子
Composer, Arranger: Hisaaki Hogari (保刈久明)
Performed by: Mika Kanai



SIDE 3

FLAC + LOG + CUE | 17 Tracks | 01:16:57 | 453 MB

Catalog: KICA-335
Record Label: King Records
Released: January 22, 1997

FLAC (Mega) - https://mega.co.nz/#!3JBTFSBZ!eX3knUKMtRAx8G1GR38oNEXzRhdseJ34OupLiGO CNH4

01. Why Do You Know Me?
02. Resolution [TV SIZE VERSION]
03. Nightmare, Again
04. In the Deep Dark
05. HUMAN TOUCH [TV. SIZE VERSION]
06. Fifteen Children
07. growth
08. Silver Colored Horizon
09. Weightless World
10. I Saw the Moon!
11. HUMAN TOUCH
12. Rainbow Color is Changing
13. D.O.M.E.
14. Growling Space
15. And to the Moon...
16. Silver Colored Horizon [T.V. SIZE VERSION]
17. Resolution

"Resolution"
Lyrics: Yui Nishikawa
Composer: Joe Rinoie
Arranger: Joe Rinoie, 鈴川真樹
Performed by: Romantic Mode

"growth"
Lyrics: Keiko Kimoto (木本慶子)
Composer, Arranger: Hisaaki Hogari (保刈久明)
Performed by: Wataru Takagi

"Silver Colored Horizon"
Lyrics: Komuro Mitsuko
Composer: Kingo Hamada
Arrangement: Tom Keane
Performed by: Satomi Nakase

"Rainbow Color is Changing"
Lyrics, Composition, Arrangement: Akino Arai
Performed by: Mika Kanai

Soure: BakaBT (http://bakabt.me/169760-after-war-gundam-x-music-collection-flac.html) (Thanks to the original uploader, and MetalGear25!!)

1. Main Titles
2. Young Merlin / A Strange Boy
3. King Gorlan
4. Young Merlin
5. Galapas the Teacher / The Red Dragon Medallion
6. The Young Lovers / Ninianne and Ambrosius
7. Merlin Journeys to the Palace
8. Merlin's Adventures
9. Ambrosius Kills the Sacred Bull
10. The Vision Explained / Merlin Returns to England
11. Death of Galapas / Merlin Captured by King Vortigern
12. Ambrosius' Invading Army Attacks King Vortigern
13. Attack on the Rafts
14. Vision of Stonehenge
15. Killary Battle
16. The Sacred Stone
17. Rebuilding to Stonehenge
18. Funeral of Ninianne and Ambrosius
19. Sunrise / Arthur / Who Shall Be King
20. Merlin's Theme

Merlin of the Crystal Cave - Francis Shaw - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7M9t9n5pps)

Download (http://adf.ly/U6RgH) - 320 kbps

I like the theme in this score ;) Many cues of the longer cues are boring though, nothing happens.

Lovely re-post, Herr!

Man, After War Gundam X. My first introduction to Higuchi, so I had no honest idea what to expect. Still just so, so damn good. The score sounds so peculiarly out of time, like some lost concert score Tomino plucked from antiquity to score his latest epic, bursting with sheen and craft.

And hey, weirdly enough, even the pop songs are pretty good. Well, Human Touch is icky, but most of the others rock. To the Gentle Future especially reminds me ofAkino Arai's best. Lovely, lovely score.

So I found this: madoka-concert - AIM VILLAGE (http://www.aim-vil.com/organization/madoka-concert/)

There will be a Madoka Magica concert on October 16 performed by the Tokyo Chamber Orchestra and conducted by Ken'ichi Shimura.

So a real concert this time around. There was actually a fan orchestra concert a few months ago. Interestingly, one of the arrangers was Souhei Kano.

So here's a little taste of the music from One Piece's New World arc.

Kohei Tanaka - To the New World!! (http://kiwi6.com/file/bb67wmpzn9)

Urrrrrrgh, Tanaka and Hamaguchi WHY YOU SO CHEAP?! Isn't One Piece one of the unstoppable franchises that just keeps on making more and more and more money? Wouldn't you think they'd be able to splash out a little bit on music...? :(

Maybe they make so much money BECAUSE they spend so little of it?

WARHAWK
Music by: Christopher Lennertz and Timothy Wynn
Platform: PlayStation 3
Gamerip download please