Blueberry pie is cancer to deserts everywhere.

Don't like a pie? FINE. But a) Unless God made you the Patron Deity of Desserts, you sure as hell aren't, and b) explain your reasonings! :awsm:

We give an opinion on something and you just go off and say "It's cancer", or some other one line response, how do you think that makes us feel? Like our opinions aren't wanted.

SHA-FUCKING-ZAM!


And what the fuck you mean you don't like Mozart? His Requiem is amaaaaazing! Dies Irae man. Dies Irae.

You HAVE to be trolling me.


Verdi's Requiem stomps Mozart's.

Aye. And Rutter's, Faure's, Stanford's, and Dvorak's are pretty good too.


Would that be a fruit or meat pie? You being a Limey and all.

Steak and ale for me, please. With a hundredweight of mashed potatoes and a pint of Guinness. :D

…Rutter's, Faure's, Stanford's, and Dvorak's are pretty good too.

Myself, I'm partial to Berlioz's, Britten's "War", Brahms' "Deutsches", Busotti's "Rara", Durufl�'s, Penderecki's "Polish" and, although not designated a requiem, Jan�ček's Mass is probably my favorite liturgical onslaught of the bunch, though I can't deny Verdi's Dies Irae packs a wallop when you have a sudden craving for Catholic kitsch.


Steak and ale for me, please. With a hundredweight of mashed potatoes and a pint of Guinness. :D

LISTEN up Bub. Do you see steak and ale on the menu? No! It's pie or nuttin', so lump it or leave it. Capiche? Besides, you gonna hurt my mamma's feelings. And you don't want to be doing that, see….

I don't care for Blueberry Pie because I don't care for blueberries. That and its so damn messy. I mean even the act of cutting out pieces is a gigantic mess. Pumpkin Pie is considerably more manageable! Even if you put some vanilla ice cream on it you can still keep it more or less neat. Melted ice cream not withstanding.

Now, can someone tell me what is wrong with Mozart's Requiem? I always thought that was one of the most awesome pieces of dramatic, over the top, chorus music I have ever heard. The entire thing blows me away every time.

I will agree that Verdi's Requiem is "the shit", though. I think that was my one and only classical upload, actually.

I don't care for Blueberry Pie because I don't care for blueberries. That and its so damn messy. I mean even the act of cutting out pieces is a gigantic mess. Pumpkin Pie is considerably more manageable! Even if you put some vanilla ice cream on it you can still keep it more or less neat. Melted ice cream not withstanding.

Hmmm, blueberry pie. - Homer Simpson



Now, can someone tell me what is wrong with Mozart's Requiem?


"Too many notes"? - Emperor Joseph II (apocryphal)

First off: kudos for quoting a fantastic movies.

Second off: wasn't Mozart part of a wave of composers that were all about minimizing note usage? I always considered one of the beauties of his Requiem was how it said so much with so little (in vast quantities).

First off: kudos for quoting a fantastic movies.

Second off: wasn't Mozart part of a wave of composers that were all about minimizing note usage? I always considered one of the beauties of his Requiem was how it said so much with so little (in vast quantities).

The composers that formulated the classical style weren't so much about minimising numbers of notes, as moving away from the steady perpetuo rhythms and ornaments of the Baroque toward a musical language rooted in dramatic contrasts. Themes took on a more sectional, narrative character within the overall form; newly crystallised forms, like the symphony and sonata, were lucid structures for development of dynamic contrasts and themes; rhythms chop and change; tonal centres battle for attention. All of that working under the guise of an essentially 'good-natured', popular, art-that-conceals-art style. I think the most useful way to think about composers like Mozart and Beethoven is as early Romantics. They brought a kind of operatic style of expression to large scale instrumental forms.

Some of the High Baroque composers point towards it more than others - I hear it in Handel's big gestural moments, or some of JS Bach's keyboard concertos. CPE Bach's music is the like the awkward, unruly precursor.

I find as I get older I like composers like Mozart, Kraus and Vanhal more and more. Oh, and where it's at in Mozart's Req for me is the Domine Jesu, which I'm convinced he at least sketched out in huge chunks.

Meh everyone knows sweet potato pies are where it's at fools.

Meh everyone knows sweet potato pies are where it's at fools.

I did not even know there was such a thing.

Speaking of melodies and saccharine things:


GIACOMO PUCCINI
POPS PLAY PUCCINI
Selections from Tosca, Madama Butterfly, La Boh�me, etc.
Arranged for orchestra by Crafton Beck, Steven Bernstein, and Erich Kunzel
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, conducted by Erich Kunzel

FLAC | 19 Tracks | 73m:48s | 295.8 MB



Tracklisting at Discogs (http://www.discogs.com/Puccini-Kunzel-Cincinnati-Pops-Orchestra-Pops-Plays-Puccini-Puccini-Without-Words/release/3244261)

I'm not a huge opera person, but I do love a gorgeous melody when I hear one. This is perhaps a little "easy listening" and isn't necessarily a gripping listen as a whole album, but the music is beautiful and the recording is superb.


https://mega.co.nz/#!g9xw3ZwR!Ho_lC0s1z4JpQjiU9YPbL391l8BtfFvqLoBV0P8 FEyI

Hmmm, blueberry pie. - Homer Simpson



"Too many notes"? - Emperor Joseph II (apocryphal)

Too many notes? Fucking Hell, lol. 18th century trolling.

Holy hell, guys! The man, the one and only, the GOD himself is posting a reddit AMA about how he changed the once shitty video game "music" genre into a respectable and profitable industry full of rainbows and unicorns: I am Tommy Tallarico - Video game composer, worked on over 300 games, Guinness World Record holder, creator & producer of the 11 year world touring Video Games Live show, hosted & co-produced 3 video game TV shows, founder of the non-profit Game Audi (http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1m01ax/i_am_tommy_tallarico_video_game_composer_worked/)

This is the man who gave us all our favourite game soundtracks such as RoboCop versus The Terminator and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (which was orchestrated on Orchestral Game Concert No. 23 "American Invasion" by Shiro Hamaguchi.) I'm sure he's only being modest in that he says he's won 50 industry awards, because I'm sure that number is more around a billion by the time I finish this post!

Also be sure to check out his self-proclaimed popular website www.tallarico.com for floating-head goodness. It's all the rage with the kids these days.

Also, he's also won a Lifetime Achievement award for his work on Color a Dinosaur and Pac-Man World so his corpse will be preserved in the Smithsonion or something like that, it was hard reading his bio through all the tears. Tears of EPICNESS that is!

Also also ALSO don't forget to donate $10000+ dollars to his new Video Games Live Kickstarter so you, yes you, can play a part in the show itself. You get to MAKE THE LIGHT SHOW!!! = No orchestral concert is complete without a light show! You don't even need prior lightshow experience. Who knows, in 20 years you might win a Lifetime Achievement award for lightshowmanship.

And did you see the line up? Orchestral arrangements from never-before-orchestrated games such as Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger/Cross. Altho, finally some recognition for the oft-requested orchestrations of Earthworm Jim and Red Dead Redemption (I admit I wore out my personal copy of Red Dead Symphony performed by John Williams and the Boston Pops.)

Let's hear it for Dr. Tommy "The Governor" Tallarico: the savior of video game music!

edit: I think the slash in Trigger/Cross is a hint that Tallarico's uncle Slash (lead singer of the Beatles) himself will be making an appearance at this show...

GET OFF MY LAWN!!!

The Lord doth speaketh:


Totally respect your opinion. But I do respectfully disagree with you that some video game music isn't as complex as classical. But comparing Shostakovich to Mario is a little unfair. I could do the same thing with say Skyrim vs. Bach (whom I personally despise) and make the same argument for the other side. :)

Way too much on there to read. I hope someone (Herr Salat) can find some gems among that and share it with us here ;)

EDIT: New major theme at the end of Episode 72 of Space Brothers :D

Many thanks for this!

Totally respect your opinion. But I do respectfully disagree with you that some video game music isn't as complex as classical. But comparing Shostakovich to Mario is a little unfair. I could do the same thing with say Skyrim vs. Bach (whom I personally despise) and make the same argument for the other side.

There are so many things wrong in that quote that I wouldn't even know where to begin. That last sentence, though, is almost genius-level trolling.

Yeah totally. Skyrim is the last score I'd attempt to compare to classical, let alone to Bach. I'm not a huge fan of Bach but I do recognize that it is at least good music. Skyrim is 90% ambient shit.

Is there something about being an American game music composer that brings out the douchiness? First Soule talks about how scholars will analyse his Symphony No. 1 (the number is to help distinguish it from the other symphonies he's yet to write) for decades to come, and now Tallarico is joining him on the Kickstarter bandwagon to raise funds for recording things that HAVE NOT BEEN WRITTEN YET! Yes, the music ain't even there, but don't let that stop the funding $$$!

And it looks like he didn't try elaborating on that ridiculous Bach comment lest he makes a clown out of himself. Don't bother trying to read any of those comments on that asinine AMA.

And... "I wonder what Shostakovich would have sounded like if he was working on an 8-bit NES? I bet it wouldn't have sounded as good as Koji Kondo! :)"

HAHAHAHA

That has to be trolling. Nobody can be that ignorant.
But I must admit I already lost any respect for the guy when I saw how he treated an orchestra during the Video Games Live series. That guy has no respect for any serious musician and wants to reduce concerts to flashy lightshows. The last thing on his mind is for people hearing good music, that's for sure.



I wish this was satire but that would ask for some modesty. Degeneracy at its finest.

EDIT: I have now much more respect for our german video game concert series. It's almost ridiculous how big the difference is. Just by hearing interviews with Uematsu and the WDR Orchester you can really tell Uematsu loved to be there and the orchestra loved to perform it and had as much a great time as the audience. All I get from musicians during video games live was "Well, it pays alright".

On Bach: Among the most important music ever written, by a man who worked his ass off day and night while living in the 18th century and it's still being played all around the world in concert halls, has a gazillion variations and arrangements even to this day in all forms of media and inspired many composers through the ages, only a complete fool would try to ridicule that ... oh wait

Honestly, the only condemning thing I can say about Tallarico was that VGL is essentially a rock show. But it is evident that the guy has alot of passion for Video Game Music, and I think his concerts did alot to show companies that producing albums was viable. Is he ignorant on classical music? Sure. But is that reason enough to insult him? No.

Edit: I still like pie.

Yasunori Mitsuda barely knows how to play the piano and yet he still writes great music.

I am not saying he isn't ignorant of music - he obviously is. But he does have a passion for music in video games and used that passion to help make it mainstream. He deserves respect for that at the very least.

If he had an iota of humility I might just give him a pass, but no, this guy went full-person with intellectual disability* in the way he talks about himself:

From his bio:
"He is considered the person most instrumental in changing the game industry from bleeps & bloops to real music now appreciated worldwide by millions of fans."

Sorry, but that sentence right there means he's 100% deserving of ridicule and mockery. It's like if Hans Zimmer said: "Hey guys, it's me, the Zimm, the guy considered the person most instrumental in changing the film industry from orchestral garbage to real music now appreciated worldwide by millions of fans." But you know what, I think Zimmer actually respects his roots. Tallarico is just outright LYING.

And the argument that he's making game music mainstream? NO. He is not responsible for that. First of all, game music is still not "mainstream." Neither is film music or classical. That's a good thing! Mainstream might sell, but at the cost of your soul. Music designed by committees and marketing departments, with dozens of producers and their investors lined up ready to pump money into destroying young girls' lives by promoting drugs and sex and twerking - that is not culture, that is the "mainstream."

Second, VGL is actually doing a DISSERVICE to video game music, convincing orchestras everywhere that their worst nightmare is coming true: that kids only want rock bands, guitars, celebrities, jumbo-trons, etc. and the actual orchestral music plays 10th fiddle (they refuse to call it a violin for some reason.) As already mentioned, we look to our European cousins for how things ought to be done for many a thing, and this is one of them. VGL only convinces us classical guys to stay FAR AWAY from video game music, because the culture being promoted is less Beethoven, more Miley Cyrus (omg, they have the same hair!)

Just because someone has a passion for throwing rocks at cars doesn't mean we should let them.

edit: Holy f'n drama, Batman!

https://m.facebook.com/martinleungmusic/posts/595909650461335

That string of comments are really professional, aren't they...

Granted it seems like Martin Leung could have made it more clear about the aristic difference before leaving. I still don't understand why he is personally getting attacked. Those guys seem more offended about the fact that Martin's vision of music is not the same.

IMO VGL is a complete shitshow and good for Martin that he left.

Oh, those comments read like a bunch of cultists accusing a former member of heresy. Is this representative of the fans Tallarico is working so hard to attract?

I think that is just fan mentality in general...but I think you really only see it with either videogames or music. The fact that this is related to both videogames AND music just makes it worse.

edit: On further reflection: screw Tallarico. I can accept ignorance in spade with passion, but I cannot accept ignorance and arrogance conjoined together with passion. His concerts were a driving force for popularizing videogame music, but by no extent were they the one, most important, force.

Well it seems we have something we can all agree on in this thread: that VGL is a joke, and that other orchestral game concert series out there are better. Hell, even Distant Worlds is far better than VGL.

Bugger you! VGL is the best thing ever! Unless God made you the Patron Saint of Opinions, you sure as hell aren't! Show your working in detail or you suck! :awsm:

OK, bored with that now.


VGL is a joke

...Amen to that.


Hell, even Distant Worlds is far better than VGL.

I actually quite like Distant Worlds. It doesn't really take risks, and most of the arrangements are approaching twenty years old... but it's mainly about the music, the music is actually good, the orchestrations are mostly excellent, and the audiences keep their ****ing mouths shut when the music is playing. It is what it is... repetitive, but frankly I think a lot of FF's music is so strong it bears repetition. OK, so we really, REALLY don't need another rendition of Shiro Hamaguchi's arrangement of One Winged Angel... but I'd rather listen to that than any of this Tallarico cobblers. (Slight tangent: Did anybody hear the Chocobo Medley from the most recent Japanese Distant Worlds? Quality.)

The Gold standard must be the "Symphonic" series, though, definitely. Not all of them have been 100% successful, but they are TRYING and when they succeed, they blow everything else away.

I know they're not on any more, but I still have a soft spot for the early nineties Japanese Game Music Concerts. Another case of "they are what they are" - nice arrangements, good music. No, you don't get a symphony or something daring and avant-garde... you get something nice and approachable, a nice variety of themes, very competent orchestrations. They're good listens, even if they're not anything artistically standout.

Doublehex: Not being able to play the piano doesn't make you ignorant. Beethoven couldn't play the flute, Mozart couldn't play the trumpet, Elliot Goldenthal can't conduct, Danny Elfman can't orchestrate, and Jerry Goldsmith had to ask Arthur Morton for help with the choral parts of The Omen, etc, etc. Yasunori Mitsuda might not be able to play the piano but it's very obvious from his music that he's not in the slightest bit ignorant about the artform. Tallarico is the self-styled God-like "musician" who knows nothing about music. THAT is ignorance... and good old-fashioned stupidity in equal measure.

Right. Distant Worlds is Final Fantasy music for the masses but done competently and well. If Tallarico took the same themes and removed the lights and removed the electric guitar he might have something decent and yet it would probably still be as popular because of the themes represented not the flash.

...what is wrong with Distant Worlds? I enjoyed the hell out of their albums.

But Tango: at first I wasn't disagree that he wasn't an ignorant fool, but that he was an ignorant fool with his heart in the right place. But now I see him as an ignorant fool with his heart in the right place that is ALSO arrogant as fuck. And maybe I just can't stand arrogance but that was the tipping point for me.

How the hell did this guy compose Advent Rising, an absolutely superb orchestral soundtrack that I consider to be my "Star Wars". As in this, along with Lord of the Rings, was what got me into orchestra all those years ago. It just doesn't make sense.

There had to be ghost writers. There just had to be. That's got to be the only logical explanation.

Advent Rising, an absolutely superb orchestral soundtrack

*blinks*

What? Oh wait, never mind... ;) I've heard considerably worse. There you go, I praised it.

Suffice to say, a skilled orchestrator can do wonderful things with the work of an incompetent or insufficiently competent composer.

That said, I thought Advent Rising was Michael Richard Plowman and Emmanuel Fratianni? With additional music by Tallarico? Plowman and Fartianni are both actual musicians, so that would explain a lot...

As for those comments... well, it doesn't surprise me one bit. I see similar levels of stupidity even on this very forum.

Ignorant, arrogant people with loud voices. Naive, timid people end up following them. Intelligent, timid people end up hating them... Intelligent people with loud voices end up arguing with them but to the naive and timid people it looks as though they lost the argument because, as the old saying goes... "You can't argue with an idiot; they drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."

That sort of person... I have no desire to associate with. I'd much rather debate the finer points of Jonne Valtonen's symphony than listen to rabid Tallarico fanboys engage in electronic but no-less frenzied analingus...

Um, wow. Wowwy wowwity wow wow.

Jesus Christ, these comments. The cult comparison was spot-on. They sure just love to toss around the word "opportunity", don't they? As if HOW DARE Martin Leung choose to leave this BRILLIANT ESSENTIAL WORK the likes of which the world has never seen or desperately needs. I don't get it. Why do they even care? Do they really, genuinely believe VGL to be this integral bridge linking appreciation of a medium to a wider audience? 'Cause while that's a great thing to do, and a great thing to think you're doing...

I couldn't find any concrete info verifying any of VGL's many bold claims, aside from an insane tour schedule.

Oh right, it's cause Leung was discovered on Youtube and clingy, venomous, jealous uberfans are interpreting his creative differences as a BETRAYAL. How could he? Tallerico MADE YOU. YOU!!! IT COULD HAVE BEEN ME!!! ME! I CAN PLAY PIANO TOO VGL IS WONDERFUL DON'T LISTEN TO HIM I'LL SUCK YOUR DICK JUST PLEASE PLEASE HIRE ME

And what a classy talent pool to choose from! One guy just outright comes out with the fact that "I'm a sad lifeless shell of a human being who internalizes the nerd shit I consume so deeply any slight against it is percieved as an attack worthy of vicious retaliation, and nothing less than a written apology, in cursive and sealed in gold leaf will serve as recompense."

Christ almighty. Just trying to suss out the exact ratio of how much that comments section is equal parts "clingy cult-of-personality fanboyism", "naive purity lashing out when their heroes aren't everything they want them to be" and "jealous seething rage at someone for being in a position to be seen and heard" is just giving me depression migraines.

It's like how I said NaotoM. Video games and music both have a very cult-like power of personal attachment to it. You are not just a person who likes music; the music that you like defines you, and people do shape their perceptions of you based off of what you like to listen to. The same will be said of videogames in that they are VERY protective of their favorite brands and game genres. People who love JRPGs take a personal offense when I argue that they have no right to be called RPGs. They view that as a part of their personal identity and although that can be extended - in a sense - to any artistic medium, it's exaggerated even more so with music and games.

You should have seen the shitfest four years back when there was Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition and Pathfinder (whcih was essentially 3.5 but with enough improvements for it to be "better" than 3.5 but not enough for it to be a new edition outrught). Mother of God that was a clusterfuk of emotions, ridicules claims, butthurt geeks and just personal offenses all together. It was just absurd and that was hardly anyone who wasn't into tabletop RPGs that wasn't in on it. I didn't even play D&D at that point and I got dragged into that massive debacle.

Anyways, so what I am TRYING to say is that the combination of games and music creates a brew of cult like personalities that you just can't find elsewhere.

ahaha oh wow. If you dig further back into the comments, even Tallerico shows up(or someone claiming to be), and he's a class act.

Apperantly, Leung made some comments earlier than are now deleted, so it looks like getting the full picture will be difficult. Sure doesn't make anybody involved look any better. :)

I know what happaned!

Somebody said something that pissed someone one off for some reason.

There!

That said, I thought Advent Rising was Michael Richard Plowman and Emmanuel Fratianni? With additional music by Tallarico? Plowman and Fartianni are both actual musicians, so that would explain a lot...
Liar! Wikipedia clearly lists Tommy Tallarico as the sole composer(s)! If you read down further you will see it says "The music was composed by Emmanuel Fratianni and Michael Richard Plowman,[6] whilst the additional music and orchestrations were performed by Laurie Robinson and Tommy Tallarico."

Oh...

edit: I like how after a trainwreck Reddit AMA the seemingly failed Kickstarter somehow manages to earn another $40,000 in a day, including someone miraculously buying one of those $10,000 donations. This is US Government-level campaigning, folks.

YUGO KANNO - RESIDENT ~ THE STORY OF 5 INTERNS
320K MP3 | 172.8 MB | 22 TRACKS | 01:17:59


Catalog Number: UZCL-2034
Release Date: Dec 5, 2012

Tracklist
01 レジデント～5人の研修医～
02 レジデント～私の選んだ道～
03 新たなスタートライン
04 新人研修医
05 冷静な判断
06 救命救急
07 見えなかった真実
08 受け入れ要請
09 逆境
10 レジデント～私がここにいること～
11 研修生活
12 軽いノリ
13 交錯
14 選択の連続
15 わたし達の大切な事
16 めまぐるしい日々
17 息抜き
18 ホットライン
19 正しい道
20 限界
21 医者になる資格
22 レジデント～あなたが生きていること～

Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!IJlEFB5D!UunBqEnPQmJpI6uGk0WpmCXfyeQhbmqJO4S2I4R 8arA

It's the usual Yugo Kanno so you should know what to expect. For anyone who just wants to hear the main theme: link (http://kiwi6.com/file/sen8mek479)

How about an antidote to the recent Tallaricitus... Since the weather is now miserable again in England, please enjoy this brief and glittering ode to sunshine...


Emmanuel Chabrier
Espa�a (Rhapsody For Orchestra)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by
Leonard Slatkin



Live recording from the BBC Proms 2002. My transfer from VHS.

Video (MKV, H264 video, FLAC audio) - https://mega.co.nz/#!opZi0bRa!Io2OIhhnV3T2c7rOxYsEyllJCnlXtIOn06aiEoX CUdY
YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvlD7XYbI_U
Audio Only (FLAC) - https://mega.co.nz/#!Ux5xUTDb!OuxbriyuNYaXpkiNuyQ09SXshXNZnRLyn0o545d oUQQ

I've been having a bit of a rummage through my old tapes just lately, and there are certainly some gems in there! This BBC Proms concert from 2002 was the last Prom I ever recorded on VHS. Leonard Slatkin was never massively popular during his time with the BBC Symphony Orchestra - the orchestra made no secret of their distaste for his manner, technique, and repertoire, nor was his tenure helped by the fact that he replaced the incredibly popular Sir Andrew Davis, who scarpered to conduct the Lyric Opera in Chicago. Since we gave Davis to the Americans, it seemed only fair that they should send us a Yank to replace him... so in 2000 Leonard Stalkin took up his post as Chief Conductor. He was fired in 2004; under his leadership, the orchestra's performance quality varied wildly - at their worst, the drop of standards took them back almost to the 1960s where they were the chronically underfunded, under-rehearsed, underpaid "Shame Of England". Slatkin wasn't all bad, though... and he got some smashing performances out of the BBC Symphony... of which this is one.

A piece of pure fun - six minutes of Spanish sunshine, in glorious sound quality.

So a while back I posted an anime PV with some interesting music: 東京レイヴンズ コミケ84 PV - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MuxbeVaoDM)

Maiko Iuchi has been inadvertently announced as the composer. That's the same Maiko Iuchi that did that Index soundtrack (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/525.html#post2435391) I recently posted. The orchestra arranger is not yet known but I wouldn't be surprised if it's Keiji Inai again.

...which brings me to something else. I was looking up Keiji Inai when I stumbled across something he worked on with Ryo Kunihiko (he said a soundtrack album was coming months ago but it never came): Blackyak 2013 OST - Himalayan Suites Main Theme - (PV) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkYK0Jqv7bI)

And from there I found that Ryo Kunihiko is also doing orchestral music for an upcoming game called ASTA:
Gate of God ASTA (Online role-playing game "ASTA") - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2KkB7Q7XqU)
Asa Son (Online role-playing game "ASTA") - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGyqcShmqYA)

Some neat stuff.

Ichiko Hashimoto Code Geass 2013 music pls download.

POAST NAO its bin out 4 nearly 18hours Where da fuk is it download nao!

...what the hell is going on?

Badly wanting to get our hands on Ichiko Hashimoto's new Code Geass OVA score, that was released today. It's got some cracking orchestral cues... and some seriously good jazz as well.

Here, have some samples: jplayer (http://web-cache.chocomaru.com/jplayer.html?G_655&d|%7F20k%7Fb51&EJ66553775&7&nrrv%3C%29%29qqq%28hciqoha%28ei%28lv%29rtgemY%60it Yebl%28nrkj9MC_%3BPREJ+06565&751%3E%3F56%3F01)

The samples suggest about 10-15 minutes of the good stuff. The soundtrack is listed as representing the first two episodes. There are four episodes scheduled, so a second soundtrack at some point would seem likely. It's really good stuff. Hashimoto isn't known for her orchestral prowess but she really makes good in this one. I really like Mythical Heritage... an example in how to keep it a) simple and b) interesting, both at the same time... Cavalry Spirit is a big battle cue, with some lovely angular brass writing... Euro Britannia is a National Anthem-esque piece. Superior Knights could well be the standout cue, very avant-garde, lovely dissonant choir... so so so looking forward to this.

I seem to remember somebody saying that they'd ordered it... so it may not be far behind.

Ask and you shall receive. Fedex didn't fail me this time! :D. Here is Geass and the Chunibyo movie soundtracks fresh from japan :3.

LACA-9305~6 | Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Rikka Version Original... - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/40040)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/img005_zps176d2cb1.jpg.html)

Title:Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Rikka Version Original Soundtrack
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Nijine
No. of tracks: 34/22
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Sep 11th, 2013
Size: MP3 193mb/ ALAC 467mb
Host: Mega/MP3 Mega/ALAC

Tracklist
01 Chuunibyou no oniichan
02 Ankoku no Chikara
03 Natsukashiki Chuunibyou Jidai yo
04 Shinen Ni Mau Senritsu Shanikusai (short size)
05 Ketsujitsu Shita Kanjou
06 Omoi Afureru Nyuujou
07 Seijaku Wo Yaburu Jitsuryokusha
08 Seirei To Tomo Ni
09 Honoo No Shikkoukan
10 Yami No Honoo
11 Umareru Shinjitsu No Chikara.sore Ha Ai
12 Katarareru Kaikou No Rekishi
13 Eye Catch Shinka
14 -Across the line- (short size)
15 Unmei No Deai Kara Rekishi Ha Hajimatta
16 Akasareru Sujou
17 Fureaidasu Kokoro
18 Yukai Na Kuuki Ni Tsutsumarete
19 Mimamoru Futatsu No Hitomi
20 Ushinawarekaketa Hokori
21 Youkoso Himitsu No Basho He
22 Ketsuzoku Ni Yoru Tatakai
23 Heibonsa No Bigaku
24 Shoukan Sareta Mono
25 Kessha Tanjou
26 Jitaku Ni Shinnyuusha Ari
27 Ressei Kara No Gyakuten
28 Yukai Na Nakama Tachi
29 Tsukisusume Monodomo Yo
30 Kamisama He No Inori
31 Natsu No Mizu Moyou
32 Oshieru Mono To Osowaru Mono
33 Ureshisa No Yuuyake
34 Kakenukeru Otoko


Disc 2

01 Kagayaku Taiyou To Kessha Ichidou
02 Tojiteita Tobira Ga Hiraku Oto
03 Tachifusagaru Shouheki
04 Kakan Na Tatakai No Hate Ni
05 Taisetsu Na Mono Ha Soko Ni Atta
06 Chijimaru Kyorikan
07 Koi Ni Ochiru To Iukoto
08 Mukiau Kimochi
09 Mietekita Kanjou
10 Gunshi No Oshie
11 Toro Shita Omoi
12 Rikai Aru Kankeisei
13 Omoi No Tsutaekata
14 Todokanai Sekai
15 Koi Ga Hashiri.koi Ga Naki.koi Ga Warau
16 Kessen Mae No Odayakasa
17 Omou Kokoro Ga Ugokasu
18 Rokkakukei
19 Kishikan To Ha Nanzoya
20 Atarashii Seikatsu Ga Hajimaru
21 Natsukashiku Soshite Atarashii Kaze
22 Secret Survivor (short size)

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VTCL-60303 | CODE GEASS Akito the Exiled O.S.T. - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/40226)
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Title:CODE GEASS Akito the Exiled O.S.T.
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Ichiko Hashimoto, Yoko Kanno
No. of tracks: 19
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Sep 11th, 2013
Size: MP3 163mb/ ALAC 386mb
Host: Mega/MP3 Mega/ALAC

Tracklist

01 Unspoken World
02 Mythical Heritage
03 Cavalry Spirit
04 Speculations
05 Euro Britannia
06 No Choice but to Fight
07 Another Story
08 What She Can't Forget
09 Commanding Eyes
10 Let me introduce myself
11 A Man Called the Devil
12 It's Purified
13 Lost Mind
14 Knightmare on the Highway
15 Impermanence We feel
16 Pale Flame
17 Emits No Light
18 Superior Knights
19 More Than Words

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Enjoy ^_^.
Next week i should have Go Sakabe's latest work KKK (no i'm not making that name up......) uploaded :).

Thank you very much *__*

Holy crap, thank you! :D

Slightly off-topic... anybody been having massive Google trouble today? And anything ran by or related to Google? I've been reduced to using bloody BING for most of today because I can hardly ever get Google's homepage... and just about every Youtube video I try to play either fails straight off the bat ("An error has occurred") or spends ages and ages pretending to load... and then fails anyway.

Is it just me?

Not only Code Geass but also the Chunibyo demo Koi ga Shitai! movie took me by surprise. They could have used the music from the show, but they recorded a brand new orchestral score for the movie. Another romantic comedy with a serious orchestral score. It's just fantastic! NIJINE's best score so far.

Not only Code Geass but also the Chunibyo demo Koi ga Shitai! movie took me by surprise. They could have used the music from the show, but they recorded a brand new orchestral score for the movie. Another romantic comedy with a serious orchestral score. It's just fantastic! NIJINE's best score so far.

I was afraid of that as well. I've been screwed over many times when it comes to precure movie soundtracks as most of the time the majority of the soundtrack is just rehashes from the original series. I thought the same would apply here since the movie if i recall correctly is half new content half old stuff from the series that we've seen. That's the deal with movie scores. Most of the time you just gotta take a leap of faith and trust in the publisher and composer. Glad to see my trust coming through with Nijine :).

Tango: No problem with Google here.

LeatherHead: Thank you so much for Code Geass! Chuninyo also looks interesting and I liked Nijine's effort on Mashiro iro Symphony although I didn't like his other work very much.

Does anyone have a lossless copy of Valkyria Chronicles 3 (http://vgmdb.net/album/22542) soundtrack by Hitoshi Sakimoto?
I need only one track from it, track 1 from disc 1 (i.e. Main Theme). If some could upload this track, I would be highly appreciative.

Looks like I never downloaded Vakyria Chronicles 3 OST in FLAC. I can only share the first track in mp3. If you are interested I can send that to you though.

Looks like I never downloaded Vakyria Chronicles 3 OST in FLAC. I can only share the first track in mp3. If you are interested I can send that to you though.

Thanks for the quick reply, Sirus. I grabbed the mp3 rip back in the days. Was thinking of upgrading my most favorite cue of this score now.

Does anyone have a lossless copy of Valkyria Chronicles 3 (http://vgmdb.net/album/22542) soundtrack by Hitoshi Sakimoto?
I need only one track from it, track 1 from disc 1 (i.e. Main Theme).

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Music & Arrangement: Hitoshi Sakimoto

Lead Orchestration: Nicole Brady

Additional Orchestration: Dave Volpe

Orchestra: Sydney Scoring Orchestra

Conductor: Brett Kelly

Solo Trumpet: Matt Dempsey

Trumpet: Yusuke Noguchi

Acoustic Guitar: Mitsuhiro Ohta

Violin: Teisena

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This is a rip of the soundtrack from the video game based off the movie by the same name. There were originally a bunch more tracks but the ones I cut out were 10 seconds or less so they weren't worth keeping. Most of the tracks are 3 minutes long. This is another amazing work by James Hannigan and the audio quality is fantastic. Don't pass this up just because it is a rip.

Fresh re-up by request.


This link is not working for me since I am on a Mac. So can someone please reupload this? Thanks!

Too many spam accounts on Shrine nowadays...

First impression of Code Geass Akito the Exiled is a big meh. Lots of slow cues that don't do much and some crazy jazz cues that are too much for me.

I was actually looking more forward to the jazz pieces but man, are they a letdown. Some of them have nasty, overblown electronic bass that I just can't stand. While Hashimoto is no Hirano, orchestration leaves a lot to be desired. I think she orchestrated better in Rahxephon and that was 10 years ago! It sounds like she couldn't sustain the harmonic and melodic development without being repetitive. I still enjoy the album for what it is, but it leaves me disappoined that Hashimoto has not grown as a more mature composer.

Plus, some of these pieces sound like lazier renditions of ones in Rahxephon. (e.g., "Superior Knights" here vs. "Promised World" in Rahxephon). Where are wonderful brooding jazz pieces like "Dense Blue Water" in here? :(

A recent re-realization: I sometimes really think Japanese producers and recording engineers strive to make music sound "lively" on a $20 boombox... Sound quality shouldn't be a good meter stick for judging musicality but still...

I thought the orchestrations were rather good. Very assured, very professional. I agree, there isn't much in the way or development or recognisable motifs, but I'm finding the music on the whole exceedingly good.

You have to admire a Japanese composer who gets through three quarters of a four minute battle cue without bringing out the snare drums!

Euro Britannia... Over four and a half minutes, never gets boring. Begins as a proud anthem, morphs into a suspense cue, then a bit of major key romanticism, then back to the theme. Seriously... in recent years has any Japanese composer sustained a cue for that long and covered a wide range of moods like that?

I agree that is a fantastic cue Tango. Sadly, there isn't much of that caliber in the score. It may take me some time to whittle down a list of highlight cues that I actually enjoy.

It's different from what I was expecting but I'm still satisfied by it overall. There's definitely a lack of development on the soundtrack but the whole thing still sounds, as tango says, professional. Not that bad at all considering she rarely ever does orchestral work (it's been all jazz for her in the years since RahXephon).

Edit: Oh, and for anyone that doesn't know, this is the first soundtrack. A second will follow later on (not for another 1-2 years I bet).

I agree that is a fantastic cue Tango. Sadly, there isn't much of that caliber in the score. It may take me some time to whittle down a list of highlight cues that I actually enjoy.

Yeah, I know... It could do with more like that, for sure... I'm just thrilled with what there is to be honest... OVA's are getting rarer these days, so it's nice to see one with a bit of money spent on it. I think there will be another soundtrack, which will probably deliver the same amount again, so there'll be 30 minutes of pretty solid orchestral material.


Not that bad at all considering she rarely ever does orchestral work (it's been all jazz for her in the years since RahXephon).

If I'm being unfairly lenient with this, that might be the reason why. Hashimoto is a jazz gal - and a very good one, at that. It's amazing to hear somebody who, as a rule, doesn't go anywhere near an orchestra, come out with stuff like this - even if there's not much of it, and even if it could've been better. Looking forward to OST 2.

Also, I'm bearing in mind who scored Code Geass up until now... Kotaro Nakagawa. Even if Hashimoto's score isn't the best in the world, it's WONDERFUL to see producers move from electronica to symphony orchestra, rather than the other way around... Hope is still alive! :D

There was some semi-orchestral work in Code Geass even if most of it was by Hitomi Kuroishi. Nothing full blown but close enough as Nakagawa goes. Then again I'm easily impressed by the use of vocals in that score so it is still one of my favorite Nakagawa/Kuroishi scores. I would prefer the electronic work on there to the jazz on this one to be honest. And the sentimental cues were more interesting than the piano cues on the OVA.

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Big thanks for the share Herr Salat! You're the best!

PCXE-50326-2 | HAL Original Soundtrack CD - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/41574)

Only Patema left now. Will it follow the trend and be an enclosure as well? Hopefully not but there's now less than two months to release and still no sign of anything...

By the way, I saw a rumor originating from China stating that Oshima will be composing for a certain upcoming anime. Just a rumor, nothing more.

Sheez why are all of Oshima's recent scores in enclosures only? I thought it was a aniplex thing but apparently not.

By the way, I saw a rumor originating from China stating that Oshima will be composing for a certain upcoming anime. Just a rumor, nothing more.

Rumour? I like rumours... Do you have any further fragments of information...? *salivates*

Well, y'know, I wouldn't want to get anyone's hopes up for nothing. There's no source for the claim. None. I made sure of it.
But if you really want to know the claim is that it is something from next season. The composer bit was not the only info the user included either.

My timing is improving. Used to be I take a few days off and there's been a huge fuck off argument and it's still going when I come back. Then I'd get back JUST after it's over, and now I'm here after the trolling is done and things are back to normal.

Are there any Hitoshi Sakimoto specialists in this thread? I seek suggestions! I have all his works for the Valkyria Chronicles (VC hereafter) series as well as Romeo x Juliet. There are some lovely piano solo pieces in those scores (e.g. “A Girl in the Battlefield”, “Graduation”, and “Riela Marceris” from VC 1-3 respectively - just to name a few) and I would love to hear more of this style if there are any in his other works. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

For those in Blighty, BBC Radio 3 is broadcasting Sound of Cinema: Live from the BFI at 4:30pm today. I wonder if Tango will perform his magic again and copy it for us like he kindly did with Thread 142282. Otherwise I will have a go if I get home in time.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b039pwmm:

Sean Rafferty presents a special show live from BFI, Southbank in London, to launch Radio 3's Sound of Cinema season, and to tie in with the BFI's focus on the Gothic. His guests include Norma Herrmann, widow of the great film score composer Bernard Herrmann whose celebrated partnership with Alfred Hitchcock gave rise to some of the most disconcerting scores in cinema history; silent film pianist and composer Neil Brand; and the Tippett Quartet playing live and showcasing some of the best music to come out of the movies.

For those in Blighty, BBC Radio 3 is broadcasting Sound of Cinema: Live from the BFI at 4:30pm today. I wonder if Tango will perform his magic again and copy it for us like he kindly did with Thread 142282. Otherwise I will have a go if I get home in time.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b039pwmm:

Sean Rafferty presents a special show live from BFI, Southbank in London, to launch Radio 3's Sound of Cinema season, and to tie in with the BFI's focus on the Gothic. His guests include Norma Herrmann, widow of the great film score composer Bernard Herrmann whose celebrated partnership with Alfred Hitchcock gave rise to some of the most disconcerting scores in cinema history; silent film pianist and composer Neil Brand; and the Tippett Quartet playing live and showcasing some of the best music to come out of the movies.

I hope tango performs his magic as well .. the other recordings sounded perfect !!!

Are there any Hitoshi Sakimoto specialists in this thread? I seek suggestions! I have all his works for the Valkyria Chronicles (VC hereafter) series as well as Romeo x Juliet. There are some lovely piano solo pieces in those scores (e.g. “A Girl in the Battlefield”, “Graduation”, and “Riela Marceris” from VC 1-3 respectively - just to name a few) and I would love to hear more of this style if there are any in his other works. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

Well there hasn't been much released that was any good since Valkyria Chronicles 3. I found Dragon's Crown to be pretty boring musically. You might find some interesting cues in Opoona, though it is a huge score with a lot of music in varying styles. It has some solid lounge style jazz cues and some interesting use of synths. The two scores for Tower of Druaga anime are both solid though not a lot of piano. There is the Valkyria Chronicles piano album you can grab that will probably be closest to what you want. Perhaps someone with more classical knowledge can suggest a composer that is similar in style to the piano work Sakimoto uses.

YASUO HIGUCHI
DANCE (1988)
Shakuyaku (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paeonia_lactiflora&oldid=564070353) Trio; & Studio Orchestra
conducted by the composer (Track 4)

FLAC + LOG + SCANS | 5 Tracks | 00:41:26 | 253 MB

Release Date: 21.11.1988
Published by: Victor Entertainment Inc.
Catalog Number: VDR-1564


Yae Nishikawa (Violin) / Reiko Nomura (Piano) / Youko Yamaura (Cello)

1. Barbarian Dance | 4:32
2. Urban Dance | 4:56
3. Gypsy Dance | 9:50
4. Triple Concerto "Symphonic Dance" (http://kiwi6.com/file/062x1s03r1) | 18:17
5. Acoustic Dance | 3:49

Tracks 1-3, 5
Synthesizers operated by: 松武秀樹
Synthesizers played by: 山川恵津子
Drums: 山木秀夫
Bass: 高水健司
Guitar (Track 3 only): 松原正樹

Booklet Information (Pastebin) (http://pastebin.com/0kR6a3LU)

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Herr Salat, thank you so much! "Symphonic Dance" is just an absolute killer! I wish Higuchi had written the whole album in that style and it would have been just like echochrome ii, but better. :love:

So anyone ever hear of Two Steps from Hell? It is a group led by Nick Phoenix and Thomas Bergersen (the EastWest Quantum Leap guys). It contains some really neat cues that were used for various trailers. However, I must bring this album of theirs to your attention. It is called "Two Steps from Heaven" and it is quite breathtaking! The melodies and the orchestration are superb. It is certainly what Hollywood is missing at the moment. I hope you all enjoy!

Two Steps From Hell - Two Steps From Heaven [EPIC MUSIC] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2qZGzzE9jU)

JBarron, albums from them and other trailer music groups are not allowed to be posted on the forums. You should send the link via PM.
EDIT: NVM, Youtube links are OK!

Also, Thanks Herr Salat for more Higuchi.

This link is not working for me since I am on a Mac. So can someone please reupload this? Thanks!

It's nothing to do with using a Mac, the link itself is long dead. Multiupload.com closed in early 2012.

In fact it was posted over 2 years ago. How long do you think links last for ?.

Shakuyaku Trio
SHAKUYAKU JIDAI (1988)
Arrangements by Yasuo Higuchi
Featuring music by Debussy, Yasuo Higuchi, Bach, Borodin, Delibes, Saint-Sa�ns, Brahms, and Bizet

FLAC + LOG + SCANS | 10 Tracks | 00:50:16 | 226 MB

Release Date: 21.04.1988
Published by: Victor Entertainment Inc.
Catalog Number: VDR-1506


Yae Nishikawa (Violin) / Reiko Nomura (Piano) / Youko Yamaura (Cello)

01. Clair de lune from Suite Bergamasque (Debussy)
02. Prelude (Y. Higuchi)
03. Gavotte en Rondeau from Partita for Violin No. 3 (Bach)
04. Impromptu (Y. Higuchi)
05. Third Movement from String Quartet No. 2 (Borodin)
06. Valse from Copp�lia ou La Fille aux yeux d'�mail (Delibes)
07. Le cygne from Le carnaval des animaux (Saint-Sa�ns)
08. Second Movement from String Sextet No. 1 (Brahms)
09. Intermezzo (Y. Higuchi)
10. Habanera "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" from Carmen (Bizet)

Synthesizer played by: Yasuo Higuchi
Synthesizer operated by: Yasuo Kimoto, Keiji Toriyama

After Instant Classics (1983) (Thread 57893), now more arrangements of classical music by Higuchi. This time, performed by a piano/violin/cello trio with Higuchi playing the synthesizer. There's some cheesy *badum badum* synth drums in the Brahms and Bizet tracks. It's the first time I've listened to most of these classical pieces, so I can't tell if the arrangements are good or bad.

Unfortunately, no orchestral Symphonic Dance-like track here. I like Prelude, jazz-ish, and the saloon-ish Impromptu, though.

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YES! Mr Salat is back and he's kicking bottom! Thank you so much for these, my friend... I haven't listened to this most recent one yet, but I loved yesterday's... Can't wait for this. Endless gratitude again!

Also... Toshiyuki Watanabe, you just keep on being FANTASTIC - from episodes 70 and 73 of Space Brothers... Zippyshare.com - - newspacebrothers.mp3 (http://www70.zippyshare.com/v/54084323/file.html)

So anyone ever hear of Two Steps from Hell? It is a group led by Nick Phoenix and Thomas Bergersen (the EastWest Quantum Leap guys). It contains some really neat cues that were used for various trailers. However, I must bring this album of theirs to your attention. It is called "Two Steps from Heaven" and it is quite breathtaking! The melodies and the orchestration are superb. It is certainly what Hollywood is missing at the moment. I hope you all enjoy!

Two Steps From Hell - Two Steps From Heaven [EPIC MUSIC] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2qZGzzE9jU)

I don't know about the rest, but the first two tracks are incredibly good!

Really trying to wrap my head around these two cues. Orchestration is far, far better than what I would usually expect from these guys...

...what the hell? TTFH became good?

...I don't know what to say.

Some tracks are surprisingly tolerable... but there's a feeling... an inescapable sensation of incompetence... running through the whole thing. A feeling of somebody not very good trying way, way too hard. Trying to out-Williams Williams is never a good idea, particularly if you're not that great... it ends up sounding like "HOLY SHIT AN ORCHESTRA!!!" and somebody throwing in every single traditional symphonic scoring cliche they can think of, turning the brass up to MAX, and hoping for the best.

The (comparitively) good stuff: Reach For The Skies, Motherland, Benedictus, Welcome To Fantasia, Beyond The Horizon, She's A Superhero, Into The Moonlight, Neptune's Secret, An Awfully Big Adventure, and Gloria...

Still... it's nice (and frankly gobsmacking) to hear this sort of music coming out of "the" go-to guys for shitty generic trailer music. I wonder what the purpose for this is? Wikipedia says it's Thomas Bergersen's "pet project" but they must be hoping to sell this stuff somehow. The stupidly large orchestra and a big rack of dynamics compressors and limiters doesn't come cheap... ;)

I'd be the first to cheer if the tracks I listed above turned up in movie trailers... but I genuinely wonder if Hollywood is making any movies these days which would sustain score like this - even in the trailer. What are you going to do, slap "Beyond The Horizon" over Batman Begins, or "She's A Superhero" over The Fast And The Furious? I'd love to hear it... but the style of the films themselves doesn't lend well to music like this.

All said, fascinating stuff - thanks for pointing me towards this. I can guarantee I'd never have even contemplated listening to it had it not been posted in this thread. :)

The first Higuchi album is only decent on the symphonic track. The rest have these cheesy drum machines or cheaply recorded drums that sound really bad. I won't even touch the second one. Still, the symphonic track is awesome so thanks so much!

Aren't the Two Steps from Hell tracks sampled?

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This is a rip of the soundtrack from the video game based off the movie by the same name. There were originally a bunch more tracks but the ones I cut out were 10 seconds or less so they weren't worth keeping. Most of the tracks are 3 minutes long. This is another amazing work by James Hannigan and the audio quality is fantastic. Don't pass this up just because it is a rip.

Fresh re-up by request.

Here is Sirusjr's file re-uploaded in a password protected shell...

DepositFiles (http://dfiles.eu/files/qfszxu41h)

Password: Orion999

If Sirusjr objects to this post, the link will be removed.

Aren't the Two Steps from Hell tracks sampled?

Most are, I think... but this is a real, very large, albeit atrociously recorded symphony orchestra...

I like some of Two Steps from Hell's cues, but the majority of their stuff is too electronic/choir heavy for my taste. I like a few of the 'heavier' tracks too however, but sadly too many of them are too generic for me and I just can't get into many of them.

I recently discovered a new name (to me), I haven't heard much yet but one cue had some interesting elements and a nice choir mix which I really liked (it is not on YouTube).

Here is a quite wierd one which intrigued me -> NicholasLens_MilliensMillenae - YouTube (http://youtu.be/CFgYpTrMwpg?t=4m21s)

Nicholas Lens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Lens)

Anyone here heard any of his stuff?

Edit: Here's some more choral power -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZnfq2zWb2M&feature=youtu.be&t=55s

I for one love Two Steps From Hell... even the earlier albums, which have many annoyingly synthy tracks, have some real gems. From what I can tell, Nick Phoenix is the one who makes most of the bad ones, and Thomas Bergersen is the creator of almost all of those gems that aren't oversaturated with that trademark awful-sounding chorus and annoying brass.

I highly recommend Illusions from him for anyone looking for something good and different. It's probably one of my favorite albums of anything ever, up there with Star Wars Episode I.

01 Thomas Bergersen - Illusions - Aura - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4y5-zwbhGI&list=PL9ECC843F84F45591)

I'm not so sure about that Tango. There are plenty of jolly, adventurous movies coming out. Each of the Marvel films could easily make use of these tracks. There are dark films coming out, but I still think there are plenty more light hearted films.

I also disagree on there being a sense of incompetence. If the writers were incompetent, they wouldn't be able to write anything to this caliber. They'd put out shitty, generic music like what we've been hearing as of late. Now I'm not saying the music on display here is bad, but it sure as hell is enjoyable and a refreshing change from the usual crap.

If you look under the surface, it's a tune, chords, and some orchestrator-trademark flourishes... and it rips so much from classic film scores it's untrue. I suppose that's sort-of the idea in trailer and production music - to come up with something that instantly shouts out "THIS IS THE MOVIES!" in as little space as possible... but I think coming up with this stuff is probably quite easy. It's generic, but it's the kind of generic I haven't got the slightest bit of a problem listening to.

It reminds me of the sort of music you get when a second rate MV guy gets asked for a big symphonic score, hires a shit-hot orchestrator to ensure everything makes the right sound, and really tries... but just isn't quite bringing it together.

It's unfair to judge this stuff, I'll grant you, because the tracks are a) short (by necessity) and b) constructed for a very unique purpose, which they satisfy with aplomb.


I'm not so sure about that Tango. There are plenty of jolly, adventurous movies coming out. Each of the Marvel films could easily make use of these tracks. There are dark films coming out, but I still think there are plenty more light hearted films.

I could see this stuff on a Pixar adventure, or some other animated CGI thing... but I couldn't see it on Spiderman or Superman or Green Lantern or any other "serious" movie. I'd love to be proven wrong though...

How about Ant-man ;)

I'm glad TSFH have moved two steps closer to heaven with their music (or maybe I get this feeling only because Nick Phoenix wasn't on this album...). Definitely more sophisticated orchestration than the trailer norm. Quite enjoyable experience, but this album just doesn't seem to create a greater whole. There is quite a mix of styles but no recurring theme (as far as I can tell), except the repeated Men of Honor and 2-3 similarly sounding adventure cues. Also, there is no definitive culminative moment but several of them, which allows me to say, that this album should be perceived as a compilation or a demo disc (which it is, judging from what I read, that at first this album was released to professionals only: producers and music supervisors). Too bad... not enough glue and common elements IMHO for it to work as a whole.

Now, as for the individual tracks (I hope the cues are matched correctly)...
The first one is flawless. The second one has a bit too much going on IMO, but otherwise is great. Third: Strength of the empire... and there it is! Batman ostinatos @3:57 and 6:17, not too annoying, thankfully, but then there come also the inevitable... epic horns (4:03) and epic choir (4:33)! From 5:03 you have no illusion any more - this is not a symphony but a rock orchestra. Let's move on. Benedictus @6:33 - excellent. Men of Honor - ok, although a very predictable choice of instruments and melody, and then there's this too-compressed piano in the front in a clearly smaller room.

Before you know it, @12:12 the epicness starts again. Track 6: Welcome to Fantasia @13:48 - very Williamesque. Liberty rising - somewhat synthy-sounding strings @16:10 and... a WTF?! moment @16:19. Then @16:37 we have a cool adventure track, afterwards an awkward solo voice appears @19:28, still all is fine, but at 20:15 there's this typical trailerish moment - we get crushed by the bloody epic shouting chorus and overblown horns. Now, another familiar tune: @21:52 we are sent back in time to the good ol' days of Zimmer's bloody Rock! @25:15 we are once again reminded that this is a rock orchestra (or is it?) and @26:17 you start asking if it can get any more powerful than this, and is it the culmination of the album? The superhero track @27:56 is once again too complicated, but we get a little treat getting to listen to Elfman choir this time. :) @29:18 change of styles, once again, but wait... yes, there's the damn choir again (@30:23) and lousy cello ostinatos throughout. A surprise moment @31:27 - a highly processed choir from an old tape recorder plays from backstage or what? @33:58 there's a Horner-like moment. Next track (is it Neptune's secret?) quite good but @35:59 the percussion just doesn't fit to this music. We then go back to the Men of Honor and afterwards hear an over-complicated typical Bergersen adventure music and... @41:41 wow, yet another funny ending! And then there's the last piece of music: a soft choral track.

After listening to the whole album I feel quite fine but, on the second hand, I also can't recall any theme at all, which is a very disappointing thing to say about a piece of music.

To answer the question about their music being sampled, I believe it is live. You can find the confirmation on their website. As for their work, I really love the Archangel album. The track Archangel starts off like something I would hear in Hellsing by Hayato Matsuo before it breaks into a Lorne Balfe sounding progression. Everlasting is another great track, as I love the vocal and piano along with the orchestra. United We Stand - Divided We Fall is very melodic and sweeping. I love the french horn melody section. At times it reminds me of Soul Caliber when Junichi Nakatsuru composed them. For those who like a more hybrid sound, the Solaris album features Alex Pfeffer. That one could easily fit into Mass Effect. I Love You Forever is a nice original sound and I love the build up and the catchy melody.

Archangel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkLqp-M8e0Q

Everlasting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFcwvsc522Y

United We Stand - Divided We Fall: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O6Q1OiF6LI

Portals Over Earth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpYApKo5gsw

I Love You Forever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpYApKo5gsw

I believe this guy in this video orchestrated the album? Making of: Two Steps From Heaven - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_-NwKkmrvI&feature=youtu.be) at least it says is he the orchestrator/conductor.

"Petr Pololanik talks about his work with TSFH since 2006 as orchestrator, orchestra contractor, and conductor".

It's unfair to judge this stuff, I'll grant you, because the tracks are a) short (by necessity) and b) constructed for a very unique purpose, which they satisfy with aplomb.


I have to say it but couldn't you say the same thing about all film music? I mean all scores are "constructed for a very unique purpose." Whether they also satisfy that purpose is hard to say because I don't go see the films most of these scores come from. But in the case of Man of Steel, the music is not my thing but it satisfies its purpose and works well in the film. I'm not saying we should never be critical of film music but it is a bit unusual to hear this specific statement from you.

This isn't trying to (and doesn't need to) go for musical sophistication, build a world, compliment and amplify emotion, be a character in a specific story... it's just a few dozen ninety-second film-score soundalike pieces designed to provide a mood-appropriate, instant gratification backing track to what is essentially a long commercial.

Yeah, there are scores which suck as music and do perfectly well in their movies, and that's fine, fair enough... but it's not to say that the great scores, or the scores where a skilled composer has made an effort and understood just what film music can achieve (beyond the typical contemporary interpretation of the term)... don't function perfectly well in their movies and make a worthwhile statement as standalone composition. The scores we all remember, and the scores we'll still be talking about and seeing concerts of... will be the ones which succeeded at this dual purpose.

Imagine the great music we'd have missed out on if composers just wrote cookie cutter scores that don't specifically offend the film in which they feature but don't add anything worthwhile either.

This stuff is fun to listen to, pretty professional, doesn't do anything explicitly obnoxious. From that perspective, it's all good. You haven't got the time, or the space, or the need for thematic integrity, counterpoint, leitmotiv, construction, development, or "theme planting" when you're doing a minute and a half of generic nicely orchestrated wallpaper. These aren't, and don't need to be, film scores.

Some composers have stepped up and actually scored trailers as if they were miniature films, and some with jaw-dropping results. (Yasuo Higuchi's scored-to-picture three minute Phoenix 2772 trailer springs to mind.) But, it's a pleasant bonus... nice when it happens, but probably isn't really necessary for the medium...

:)

Call me crazy, but that wonderfully dated disco drumkit sound that guys like Higuchi, Haneda and the like are so fond of fails to faze me. If anything, it's grown on me. Hearing things suddenly turn groovy in After War or Cobra is always such a weird treat. Who knew?

I know! I've grown to love it too. It's so much of its time. I must be going soft, because I'm not even offended by the crazy classical trio meets 80s synth meets drum machine classical arrangements on the latest Higuchi album...

Vladimir Cosma - L�vy et Goliath (1987) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIExR1ssdWM) another theme to drown in.

Cosma must be ridiculously underrated.

I always love when GOOD composers (like Williams etc.) go crazy with the source music etc. (like the big band stuff from 1941, SW etc.)

Cosma must be ridiculously underrated.

I'd say Vladimir Cosma is probably the most prolific (and famous) French film composer there ever has been*: take a look at all the re-issues available on iTunes (U.S.). And someone thinks enough of him to have released those 2 huge 17-CD box sets in 2009 and 2010. The problem I have with Cosma is that a lot of his music sucks: all those overly-cute or pop/synth scores. I gave up on him at one time and then heard his sweeping orchestral music to "La Neige et le Feu" and his delightful score to "Trilogie Marseillaise" and got hooked again. The guy can certainly write a memorable tune.

*Legrand comes close in terms of fame, but much of his output was non-film music. And I'd say his fame came mostly through other people interpreting his music rather than through his own work.

I tried to go through some of the box sets for Cosma. I got half way through the first one before I decided there wasn't going to be anything worthwhile. Most of it is low budget stuff, typical of French films of that era.

...I didn't even know this guy existed before now.

Anybody able to help me identify a composer? Whilst browsing around, reading about Two Steps From Heaven, I encountered a Japanese MMORPG called "Tiara Concerto" (ティアラ コンチェルト) which seems to be very music-centric indeed. It seems to be in open-Beta stage at the moment, but recorded its score six months ago with the Capellen Orchestra, conducted by Petr Pololanik. I can't find out any information about this thing at all, nor who composed it... but the music is quite impressive:

Journey Awaits: 2012 [Game] Tiara Concerto-Journey Awaits on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/62984917)
Legend Of The Sky: 2012 [Game] Tiara Concerto-Legend of the Sky on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/61398832)
Unknown Piece: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tcbXtRSKuwM

In "Journey Awaits", the descending brass chords at 2:05 have shades of Masashi Hamauzu but the rest of it sounds less like him. Additionally, I hear shades of Kohei Tanaka but I'm sure it's not him either. I feel like I know this composer, and I should be able to identify them... but I'm basically drawing blanks. Anybody got any clever ideas, or can turn up any obscure information about this game...? Excited, and mighty confused... :)

Wong Kin Wai seems to be the composer according to this article - G!VOICE (http://brand.gamania.com/gvoice/vol60/en/wazzup/51_tw01.htm)

Forum: How to use movie soundtrack technology to enhance the quality of the game?

Speaker: Wong Kin-Wai

"In this year's lecture series we invited Mr. Wang Kin-Wai, the renowned Hong Kong composer for the game, Tiara Concerto, to share with Gamanians how he used movie soundtrack to enhance the quality of the game.

Lecturer, Wang Kin-Wai, notable composer from Hong Kong presented the game scenes along with the soundtrack.

Mr. Wang is the rising star in commercial/movie score composition. He often composed soundtrack for Chinese movies along with maestro, Peter Kam. During the lecture, he also shared the creative process of making the soundtrack for Tiara Concerto and the experience of flying over to Czech to record orchestra. The lecture was both interesting and practical".

Hahaha! My Google-fu must suck so badly today... thank you very much - fascinating stuff. :D

I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to this one. I'm actually quite interested in playing it, too.

Is this actually a Japanese production then? Plenty of Chinese/Hong Kong productions end up with Japanese composers, but I'm not aware of ever seeing the reverse.

Hahaha! My Google-fu must suck so badly today... thank you very much - fascinating stuff. :D

I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to this one. I'm actually quite interested in playing it, too.

Is this actually a Japanese production then? Plenty of Chinese/Hong Kong productions end up with Japanese composers, but I'm not aware of ever seeing the reverse.
Actually it was easier than that. I just clicked on the channel which had posted the clip and his name was there and then I googled his name and the name of the game to double-check;)

"With the experience of composing for over 400 TV commercials, 15 movies, 2 PC game soundtracks, Wai not just only provide creative music ideas, but also perfect executions for his clients".

Yep, it looks like it. A Japan production with a composer from Hong Kong.

Tango,

That "Unknown Piece" sounds very close to Koichi Sugiyama, more specifically it reminded me of Dragon Quest. Journey Awaits is very well done and it has to be my favorite out of the bunch you posted. Thank you for sharing.

Somebody should do a game rip of that Tiara Concerto immediately. The music is beautiful!

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To those of you who might have enjoyed the Da Vinci's Demons score, Bear McCreary won an Emmy for his Main Theme. Too bad he never won an Emmy for his BSG work, but hey it's better late than never I say :).

Yeah, a shame that at the same time a mostly unimpressive score for World Without End also won. But what do you expect. The competition it had wasn't that strong to begin with.

Just having a listen to the samples for Sahashi's latest Saint Seiya release... and by golly gosh, there appears to be real people playing this time! Goodbye, cheap shitty-sounding brass samples... It's about bloody time! I wonder why on earth they decided to score the first season with that dreadful synthy ensemble and then suddenly find some cash to hire some BRASS PLAYERS?

AKIRA SENJU - GEKIRYU ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
320K MP3 | 86.7 MB | 20 TRACKS | 00:38:29


Catalog Number: ASCD-0003
Release Date: Aug 7, 2013

Tracklist
01 それぞれの絆
02 枯渇I
03 "MENUET" from L'Arlesienne / G.Bizet <Ensemble ver.>
04 時は戻せない
05 朝はまた来る～DO YOU REMEMBER ME～
06 破滅への道程
07 不穏
08 どうにかなるさ
09 穏やかな時間
10 激流
11 枯渇II
12 無くした、たいせつなもの
13 不安だらけの日々
14 "MENUET" from L'Arlesienne / G.Bizet <Piano solo ver.>
15 紐解かれていく謎
16 悲しい人びと
17 忍び寄る影
18 明日、また会おうよ
19 歩いていこう
20 もう一度夢を見よう

Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!0F0EUbKK!IeuSvnPd2ir86ZmbWMXCRkIY0rAbNTCCiH2kR3z zWFE

Mostly piano+strings.

KEIICHI OKU - "KIMI NO IRU MACHI" MAIN THEME
MP3 v0 | 15.2 MB | 1 TRACK | 00:08:05


Catalog Number: UMCA-10029
Release Date: Sep 18, 2013

Download/Streaming: http://kiwi6.com/file/53nlz2b79h

Enjoy this lovely 8 minute theme from Keiichi Oku. Included as a bonus track on the character song album since they don't appear to be releasing the soundtrack.

Edit: I gotta say, this is pretty nice. I'm only familiar with the composer's work on Yumekui Merry which, too, had a great main theme (http://kiwi6.com/file/d5dqe6lzow). It's too bad he's not very active.

So I've been revisiting NHK Shinkai Project (Joe Hisaishi). I must have been in a bad mood when I first listened to it or not paying much attention because it is certainly better than I first thought. And of course yes Tango was right, there are themes.

EDIT: Also, I know there has been some discussion in the past of Toru Takemitsu. Kritzerland will be releasing his score to Rising Sun next Monday.

Huh.

So it turns out that back in 2000, Iwasaki scored for some one-shot OAV (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/buried-treasure/2013-09-17/pile-of-shame-grandeek/the-alternative) neither you or I have probably ever heard of. Neat.

tango, do you still have this Symphonic Yoko Kanno Compilation (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/202.html#post1474805) you shared in 2010? Could you please reupload it?

Just received Go Sakabe's latest work this morning. Ignore CD 1 it's just character songs. Sadly since the the score is made for a purely comedy driven show it isn't on the level of Date a Live and tracks are pretty short. I hope one day Sakabe can get on board with a GOOD show that will allow him more freedom. Really want to see more of his work :).

VPCG-84948 | Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku Character Song & Soundtrack... - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/40278)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/40278-1377892421_zpsdf1fa952.png.html)

Title:Kitakubu Katsudou Kiroku Character Song & Soundtrack Collection
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Go Sakabe, Masaki Yoshida, toku, ARM, Yukiko Sakai, Tomokazu Tashiro, Franz Peter Schubert
No. of tracks: 15/49
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Sep 18th, 2013
Size: MP3 242mb/ ALAC 647mb
Host: Mega/MP3 Mega/ALAC

Tracklist
01 Wakuwaku DAYS ☆
02 Hanabi
03 Kimi ni tsuite ieru koto
04 Best Friends
05 On'nanoko no hōsoku
06 Wakuwaku DAYS ☆ (TV size)
07 Hanabi (TV size)
08 Kimi ni tsuite ieru koto (TV size)
09 Best Friends (TV size)
10 Wakuwaku DAYS ☆ ~ kitaku-bu zen'in ver.~ (TV size)
11 Wakuwaku DAYS ☆ (karaoke ver. )
12 Hanabi (karaoke ver. )
13 Kimi ni tsuite ieru koto (karaoke ver. )
14 Best Friends (karaoke ver. )
15 On'nanoko no hōsoku (karaoke ver. )


Disc 2

01 Kitaku-bu no theme
02 Let's Go Home!!
03 Chat?
04 Azarashi
05 Natsuki no theme
06 Natsukitaru
07 Catch the kitaku-bu?
08 Keiri sofuto
09 Botan no theme
10 Buyū-den
11 Kurukuru kitaku-bu
12 Let's Go Out !!
13 Kitaku ssanoba?
14 Rokkī sanmyaku
15 Chat?
16 Sakura no theme
17 Maō
18 Kitaku 2: 50
19 Karin no theme
20 Tora kamen-san
21 Parasol
22 Kowai
23 Karūseru kintarō
24 Kyōfu no isu-tori ge~ēmu
25 Seito kaichō no theme
26 Catch the kitaku-bu?
27 Buraddishākumakishimamumamushi X
28 Kansatsu - ōboe no tame no -
29 Chat?
30 O tanjōbi
31 Hoshino sensō
32 Kitaku 18:00
33 Kurea no theme
34 Kitaku kuizu
35 Kitaku ssanoba?
36 Kitaku Quest
37 Never endingu kitaku
38 Chat?
39 Black Diary
40 Shiten'nō no theme
41 Rhythm
42 Meruhenchikkuna kitaku
43 Yume shibai fīto. Tomisaburō (fue)
44 Reddodoragonmidiamu Z
45 Chat?
46 Mudaka, mudananoka
47 Zunō-sen
48 Possible Mission 007
49 Next Week Coming kitaku-bu

320 kbs MP3
https://mega.co.nz/#!CVZCCAyB!UfDAkiCyefwz4m3Sut1RfHPI9KtbfqbNR6TRl_p Z7V4


ALAC (Loseless)
https://mega.co.nz/#!SYh3ESTR!CqxVJHvPVUzhQYEZDLrHL0YmexRzzWiToR87k1Z RZGg


Scans included as always. Enjoy ^_^

Thank you very much for KKK! ;)

Sadly, this is (mostly) one of those typical anime scores... cheap as shit, silly, childish. Perfectly suited to the show... Interesting though, are the times when Sakabe goes orchestral - yes, it's synth and yes, it sounds terrible... but clearly Date-A-Live wasn't a fluke; the guy has orchestral aspirations and seems to be wanting to show them off whenever he can. With a decent budget and a good show, I wonder if Sakabe could turn out to be one of the new "big guys" - twenty years from now we'll be thirsting after his new Moscow score as we do with Oshima's today.

I just hope he gets the opportunity to play. The Japanese style at the moment seems to be to give the big, expensive scores to the composers who've proven they can do them in the past... so whenever there's money, we get Oshima, Sagisu, Yamashita, Kanno, etc, etc; there's less experimentation. New composers produce cheap shit scores, old(er) composers get the orchestra. Even as recently as ten or fifteen years ago, new or orchestrally-untested composers were getting big(ish) budget scores. Souhei Kano on Fractale was a jaw-dropping miracle - we need MORE OF THAT kind of risky composer selection, and we need them to follow through... I am literally gobsmacked that Kano made his DEBUT with Fractale and hasn't written a single god-damned thing since. What the hell? His debut score was better than most people's twenty-years-in-the-business score. GIVE HIM MORE WORK and MORE MONEY!

You know what happens when your new generation of composers don't get the opportunity to write proper music; when and if the opportunity presents itself, they can't.

Space Sheriff GAVAN THE MOVIE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
(MP3-320kbps) (Thread 161656)

Release date: 2012.10.17
Catalogue number: COCX-37647
Label: Columbia Music Entertainment

Music by: Kousuke Yamashita (01~19, 21, 23, 24, 30~32)
Michiaki Watanabe (04, 20, 22, 25~29, 33)

Arranged by: Kohei Wada (27)
Kouji Makaino (33)

Lyrics: Keisuke Yamakawa (27, 33)

Vocals: Akira Kushida (27, 33)



Tracklist:

01 PROLOGUE
02 Shuugeki
03 MAIN TITLE - Geki no THEME
04 ZAN VARDO VS GAVAN
05 Gin'iro no Senshi no Shoutai
06 Ketsui
07 Makuujo no THEME
08 Hoshigata no PENDANT
09 [kanata] de no Dekigoto
10 Sennyuu Sousa
11 San nin no Yakusoku
12 Ayatsurareta Hitobito
13 Chijiku Tenkan Souchi Sadou
14 Nokosareta PENDANT
15 Kawari Yuku Omoi
16 BRIGHTON no Takurami
17 Houteishiki no Yukue
18 Yoki Senu Saikai
19 Geki, PINCH!
20 Retsu, Toujou!
21 Torawareta Itsuki
22 Shitsubou
23 Otoko Nandarou
24 Geki, Mezameru!
25 Makuu Kuukan he, Youkoso
26 Gavan, Jouchaku!
27 Space Sheriff GAVAN -type G-
28 SHARIVAN, SHAIDER Toujou!
29 Sorezore no Tatakai
30 Bouchou suru Uchuu
31 GAVAN, HYPER DYNAMIC!
32 San nin no Kizuna
33 Space Sheriff GAVAN

Thanks Orie. I believe this was posted before but long enough ago that the links are dead for sure.

Rayman Legends

The Macedonian Radio Symphonic Orchestra
Conducted by Oleg Kondratenko





Music composed by Christophe H�ral, Additional Composition by Billy Martin
Orchestrations by Mathieu Alvado

Download CD1 (https://mega.co.nz/#!n0xXkQCZ!HBb1cxZjojWyOC9qeBhkABOtu9BQjzQCjTA0BjK wiC4)

Download CD2 (https://mega.co.nz/#!O0YzmIAY!CCSLKytspPWsjN1E6xxS0xFvTCJat2D19MYs0ds Dj8k)


So I'm really loving Rayman Legends, best platformer since Mario Galaxy 2. The music was done with a relative tight budget I believe, but at least it's a real orchestra. It's a little charming and quircky score, not a serious orchestral tour de force and it's not trying to be. Very heavy use of percussive instruments but not to my disliking. It really is an orchestral "game" score, not a film score and I enjoy it a lot.
I sorted out all of the worthwhile stuff from over seven hours of gamerip and soundtrack and here's 2 hours and 40 minutes, perfect for a custom 2CD version. I did not put the 8-Bit remixes on here since there already on the OST.

Enjoy

I can also recommend Patrick Doyle's game score for the Puppeteer. What a breeze of fresh air to hear Doyle in classical mode again. There're also lots of great sounding game scores coming up soon. Judging by the TGS trailers Sonic Lost world seems to be this generations Mario Galaxy, same with the music. I'm also hoping that Yoko Shimomura will outdo herself for Final Fantasy XV. It's all looking good on the game music front.

I don't know whether a link has previously been posted, but you might like to check out this year's Sounds of Cinema concert - excellent as always - at Cinema: Kino f�r die Ohren | BR-KLASSIK | Radio | BR.de (http://www.br.de/radio/br-klassik/sendungen/cinema/index.html). Would that I had the means to capture the video.

1. Requiem
2. Reise nach Germanien
3. Flucht
4. Trance
5. Erstes Training
6. Trainingsmontage
7. Germanus und Flaminia
8. B�renkampf
9. Die Arena
10. Abschied und Lamento
11. Der Letzte Kampf
12. Triumph
13. Requiem (Reprise)

Held der Gladiatoren soundtrack Carsten Rocker (Requiem) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_ZoER3AZ8Q)

Download (http://adf.ly/W1gEB) - 320 kbps

Mishima Ochiru Aura link download?

:happycroc:

... my Tenchijin FLAC rips coming up soon

Yes Yes Yes!

With some Gyrozetter and Saint Seiya Ω please!

AND more good news:
Here's Kohei Tanaka's next project
????????????? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlMbfOA1zxo&feature=html5_3d)

Are we sure about that? No new music in that promotional video...

Thanks for Rayman Legends. I'm interested to give it a full listen. I wasn't a big fan of Puppeteer but it was mostly short cues. It sounds like generic big playful orchestral style. Normally that wouldn't be a negative but it didn't really grab me.

Aura... has some moments of unadulterated shit... and some moments of pure, jaw-dropping brilliance... Can't wait for this to show up...

^ STOP !!!! Tango, caught again with NSFW language ! *BLAME*

... Yeah, you're now wearing a moustache, a glass and a hat... But I could still spot you in the crowd with your green hairs. Well tried nevertheless.

Thanks Orie. I believe this was posted before but long enough ago that the links are dead for sure.

Really? 0.0
I don't doubt you, but I searched and didn't find here... so... XD
oh man. it's the second time it happens with a Kousuke Yamashita soundtrack and you tell me the same. XD

Which is the best Kousuke Yamashita soundtrack for you guys? I only have like... maybe 3 or 4 soundtracks... and I really like his compositions.

Really? 0.0
I don't doubt you, but I searched and didn't find here... so... XD
oh man. it's the second time it happens with a Kousuke Yamashita soundtrack and you tell me the same. XD

Which is the best Kousuke Yamashita soundtrack for you guys? I only have like... maybe 3 or 4 soundtracks... and I really like his compositions.

Most of these Kousuke Yamashita scores were posted so long ago that new viewers of the thread can't easily find them so your new posts are always appreciated :)

I am not always watching this thread, so, yeah. It's normal that I loose the track of everything. But as Symphonic Lovers you all are, I try to share with you what I consider wonderful listening experiences.
Was yesterday listening that "Yamato Nadeshico Shinchi Henge" of K. Yamashita. Tangotreats is so right. The main theme is a killer. :)

My old links are indeed dead. With the greatest respect to Orie, here's a repost of my original FLAC upload from last December, from my own CD as purchased in the middle of a typhoon in Shibuya's Tower Records. It's coming around to Tokyo time again... planning to go back in November.... :D



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



https://mega.co.nz/#!045gkK5b!Xr-rSgFapApR_s9Mpd_mcjhsyOxTJn_4biFIg_25Ozs

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

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

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

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

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

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If you're looking for Yamashita recommendations... some of my favourites.

Garasu No Kantai, for some of the best symphonic sci-fi music written this side of Star Wars...

Pirate Sentai Gokaiger, for the greatest Super Sentai score of all time (some highlights in my compilation album "Symphonic Sentai" still available at the Mega links here: http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/457.html#post2278250)

Reign of Revolutions, for a jaw-dropping big orchestra score for a 2006 Korean fantasy MMORPG.

Papa to Musume no Nanokakan, a dumb daddy-daughter "body swap" television drama that Yamashita scored with a mixture of grand romanticism, symphonic exhuberance, and pastoral innocence...

Tango - any tips for hunting for scores from certain composers when digging through stores in Tokyo? I might be heading there sometime in the first half of next year for a few days and if possible would stop for some time in some CD shops. Should I just try to learn kanji for composer names so I can recognize them? Are they typically on the packaging somewhere?

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

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

All in all, excellent stuff. Yamashita still playing his A game.[/CENTER]

I share the same thoughts on this soundtrack as you. You know I like electronic and other music styles, so, the techno issue was not really my complain. But I did felt the same issue in track 32 has "joe hisaishi syndrome". I thought it might had been my brain messing with me.
Yamashita was very... subtle, well, I think he is very subtle when adding electronic tunes to his compositions. In my point of view, I think he does in purpose to not stand out from the symphony so much, as I can feel that he cares more on delivering true symphonic music, and when adding something new, he seems to keep it in "low profile".
This is what I think from listening 4 soundtracks from him. The guy is Tasty in his music. And that is for sure.

This is difffffffffficult... oftentimes, composer's names get left off of CD spines and sometimes the Kanji is in such an insane font you'd never spot it anyway even if you learned them. My strategy has been to print off discographies of composers I'm interested in, with the catalogue numbers. They're always on the spines and they're always in a language you and I can understand. Failing that, you can ask the shop assistants to search by that or the title. If all else fails, write down the catalogue numbers or the show names you're interested in on a piece of paper and thrust it under somebody's nose whilst bowing and repeating "Onegaishimasu!"

Things might get more exciting in second hand stores. I walked up and down for literally hours last year trying to find Disk Union, and eventually I gave up, had a McDonalds, and then went to the pub!

If you can somehow arrange to have a native speaker with you... your job will be MUCH easier and MUCH less embarassing...

Held der Gladiatoren soundtrack Carsten Rocker (Requiem) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_ZoER3AZ8Q)

Sigh… How very original.

Rayman Legends is way too long. Some solid cues but some percussion cues that go no where. I do appreciate you taking the time to go through a rip because I've done that in the past and I know it is not fun (thus why I haven't done it recently). I also know it is hard to decide if something is worth keeping or should be deleted. The line can be hard to draw.

Still, I couldn't make it through the first disc going straight through. There might be 1 hour of worthwhile music here if I was to take the time to trim it down.

Add another Toshiyuki Watanabe release to the calendar for December: SVWC-7965~6 | SPACE BROTHERS ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/41696)

I would have expected 3 CDs. Wonder if it will include the new music.

WHAT?! Ohh, those bastards!

Also... ????�?????? ????????? (http://www.uchu-concert.com)

Okay, so it IS three discs. Amazon just made a mistake and listed it as two. So this will be a complete soundtrack.

And yeah, I saw the concert too. Wonder if they'll record it and throw it in one of the later blu-ray boxes as a bonus disc or something.

It will be complete in the sense that it will include all the music from the previous two bonus CDs and the latest session...

But since we have no idea how many episodes Space Brothers will eventually have, there may well be more sessions and therefore more music at a later date... That said, I'm beginning to think they're going to jack it in at 100 episodes. I have a feeling... If that's the case, I'll be very sad...

Hope the concert makes it somehow... also buoyed by the popularity of this thing. Not every show gets a concert. Watanabe's music has obviously been noticed by Average Joe. And, after two staggered bonus CD releases, and Watanabe telling us no Space Brothers and no Majestic Prince... and then suddenly there's Majestic Prince **AND** a three-disc Space Brothers, in the same month... Well, there's hope for us all!

I will have to consider importing that. I'll wait until we see the tracklist though.

Ever known life to look really fucking boring on Friday, pretty interesting on Saturday, exciting on Sunday, explosively exciting on Monday, completely crap Tuesday through Friday, and then you realise that you'll be crossing about fifty things off your bucket list...?

What a bloody week! And what a fun occurrence just occurred...

I thought some members here might be interested to know that La La Land is releasing Elmer Bernstein's score to True Grit tomorrow (in mono sadly but hopefully it sounds good). Also, Intrada is releasing Elmer Bernstein's Miracle and John Debney's Hocus Pocus next week :)

I've learned that Yoko Kanno is scoring NHK's next morning drama, Gochisousan, which airs this week. It's her first time scoring a drama since 2009. A soundtrack is scheduled to be released in mid-December.

It's also been announced that Joe Hisaishi's Kaguyahime no Monogatari soundtrack will be released on November 20th.

I am convinced Bear McCreary's score for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. will be his best. Check this video out and hear this rich orchestral sound that I believe is a fit for the Marvel universe.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - The Composer Initiative - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rg0Qa3pOFo)

So... does anybody actually want to hear what I think, or shall I just save my breath? ;)

TOSHIHIKO SAHASHI - SAINT SEIYA OMEGA NEW CLOTH ARC ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
320K MP3 | 143.7 MB | 29 TRACKS | 01:04:38


VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/40457)
Catalog Number: COCX-38189
Release Date: Sep 18, 2013

Tracklist
01 Mirai Saint Ω ~Saint Evolution~ (TVsize)
02 The Four Greater Pallasites Appear
03 Subtitle
04 Steel Combativeness
05 Looming Menace
06 Time Incursion
07 A New Myth
08 Destination: Blue Earth
09 Echoes of Time
10 Lonesome Eden
11 The Pallasites' Magic Castle
12 Blocked by a Strong Foe
13 Tomorrow's Hero
14 Overcome Your Sorrow
15 Those Days Won't Be Back
16 Blowin' in the Wind
17 The Warrior's Respite
18 Sorrowful Pallas
19 The Saint's Conflict
20 Tragic Resolve -Slow version-
21 Unleashed Power
22 After the Battle
23 Wounded Wings
24 Athena
25 A Prayer for the Saints
26 The Ruler of Time
27 A Fateful Fight
28 Pegasus, Fly
29 Constellations Light Up the Future

Translated by Phonograph@VGMdb

Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!VVFWlJwS!F2F0jnzpTNisTLWoIxXNOiwZiQp2eQTdvHOC0Ti FpHY


Just having a listen to the samples for Sahashi's latest Saint Seiya release... and by golly gosh, there appears to be real people playing this time! Goodbye, cheap shitty-sounding brass samples... It's about bloody time!

To be honest, I expected a lot more from Saint Seiya. After the recent musical outburst of Oshima, Hisaishi and Sato, I believed Sahashi would also get back in top form but I'm not hearing it. It's not on the same level as Sacred Seven and sounds pretty uninspired to me. Perhaps a big project with enough budget would help.

So, on the videogame music front...

Dragon Age: Inquisition is being done by Trevor Morris. Maybe this time we will actually get some good music?

It will still be a hell of a lot better than what Zur did. And this is coming from the guy that just did a complete soundtrack of Origins.

Also Motoi Sakuraba will be returning as the composer for Dark Souls II. So that means Dark Souls will still continue to have good music!

Now if only Lennie Moore would get some projects that are actually worth his time...

So... does anybody actually want to hear what I think, or shall I just save my breath? ;)

We pretty much just did.

So... does anybody actually want to hear what I think, or shall I just save my breath? ;)

Let me guess, Bear's theme for Agents of Shield is not a theme?

So... does anybody actually want to hear what I think, or shall I just save my breath? ;)

I would. As a fan of Bear McCreary, I'd love to hear some genuine - even and especially negative - criticism.

We pretty much just did.

No, what you heard was me wondering if anybody was actually interested, or whether the thread was still stuck in the "Everything is fantastic, you're a snob, shut your face if you don't have anything good to say" rut... Judging by the reactions so far, I'll assume that we are - since you're already jumping down my throat and I haven't said anything at all I think it's safe to say that real comments would fall on deaf ears.

And you people accused me of stifling discussion. The mind genuinely boggles.

---------- Post added at 07:46 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:39 PM ----------

Edit: Here's a guy who's a proud fan of McCreary's work and still wants to hear opposing opinions. We need more of you in this thread, my friend.

And you people accused me of stifling discussion. The mind genuinely boggles.

Please quit being such a baby about that and let it go. If you'd actually learned anything from that month-old derail, you would be actually discussing things instead of being passive-agressive as hell every post you make.

I haven't said anything at all

No you didn't, but it was quite apparent that what you would say was going to be negative and the opposite of the views of others.

I personally have no comment on the matter, I have not heard much of McCreary's work, and what little I have, has failed to engage me.

Well, I guess I do have a comment on the matter LOL.

Edit: Here's a guy who's a proud fan of McCreary's work and still wants to hear opposing opinions. We need more of you in this thread, my friend.

Maybe not that big a fan. My affection for his work in BSG and Caprica is tremendous, but the Human Target OST was probably the worst blind-buy media purchase I have ever made in my life. I like some of Eureka and Dark Void, but I'm definitely aware he has quite a ways to before he can master a symphonic style.

And yeah, he deserves to be called out on the percussion at this point. The DaVinci Demons theme is him drowning in his own cliches.

Please quit being such a baby about that and let it go. If you'd actually learned anything from that month-old derail, you would be actually discussing things instead of being passive-agressive as hell every post you make.

Reporting your usual obnoxious shit to the moderators. Do be quiet, you unpleasant little man.


No you didn't, but it was quite apparent that what you would say was going to be negative and the opposite of the views of others.

Not so; if anybody had bothered to find out what I thought... ;)

...And since when are "opposite" views bad things?


Maybe not that big a fan. My affection for his work in BSG and Caprica is tremendous, but the Human Target OST was probably the worst blind-buy media purchase I have ever made in my life. I like some of Eureka and Dark Void, but I'm definitely aware he has quite a ways to before he can master a symphonic style. And yeah, he deserves to be called out on the percussion at this point. The DaVinci Demons theme is him drowning in his own cliches.

Ah, a post that's not about trying to shut me up, or score points... my gratitude to you.

I never really liked BSG or Caprica, and oddly enough I massively preferred Human Target - or at least parts of it. I feel like McCreary has the potential to do great things - inside his head lurks the ability to actually do the things everybody pretends he already does... but as you say, he's killing himself with his own stylistic clich�s. It's a massive shame because he can write a theme (Dark Void) and there is indeed shades of a theme in Agents - some genuinely interesting stuff, actually. In the video, the passage from 2:02 - particularly the surprising shift to major key at 2:19 and the subsequent, almost "call and response" from the strings in a descending motion - you just don't hear that any more. I don't think it hangs together particularly well, but I think - and have always thought - that McCreary has moments of brilliance, moments where I feel like he could genuinely, eventually, compose a masterpiece in the greatest sense of the word. He's stuck in his own rut, he overdoes the percussion, and in this score, the electronics. He's a surprisingly decent orchestrator - not the best in the world, but far better than he really needs to be doing what he does... so it's a shame that he drowns it all in that noise.

He's stuck trying to be clever right now - like that daft backwards theme in his last score - I forget what it was - and invent all sorts of new crazy noises and whatnot... when he should be concentrating on writing good themes, in creative arrangements. I've not seen him do that yet - but I do, most sincerely, think he has the chops - or, should I say, has the potential to attain the chops. In twenty years, assuming a favourable climate, he could be doing amazing things...

Another encouraging step for a mainstream Western score. Not a masterpiece, not anything that will make me throw away my Star Wars CDs. Not McCreary's best... but enough to warrant continued interest in the guy - and if that's not a compliment I don't know what is... :)

Edit: Oops, forgot something:

klnerfan: Yeah, Saint Seiya isn't Sahashi's best... At this stage, I'm just relieved to hear that he has an orchestra again - a step up from the previous two releases of Saint Seiya. Taking a few cues as isolated instances, I'm actually quite pleased to hear that Sahashi is still innovating - even after all these years. His style doesn't move on at all - 2013 Sahashi is 1993 Sahashi... but, for example, track 12... Familiar, familiar, familiar, ooh, 1:20, what's this? Chord movements and harmonies we've never heard from him before... not to mention his very own riff on James Horner's danger motif! ;)

Oh hey, an effort post! Next time, start with this


I never really liked BSG or Caprica, and oddly enough I massively preferred Human Target - or at least parts of it. I feel like McCreary has the potential to do great things - inside his head lurks the ability to actually do the things everybody pretends he already does... but as you say, he's killing himself with his own stylistic clich�s. It's a massive shame because he can write a theme (Dark Void) and there is indeed shades of a theme in Agents - some genuinely interesting stuff, actually. In the video, the passage from 2:02 - particularly the surprising shift to major key at 2:19 and the subsequent, almost "call and response" from the strings in a descending motion - you just don't hear that any more. I don't think it hangs together particularly well, but I think - and have always thought - that McCreary has moments of brilliance, moments where I feel like he could genuinely, eventually, compose a masterpiece in the greatest sense of the word. He's stuck in his own rut, he overdoes the percussion, and in this score, the electronics. He's a surprisingly decent orchestrator - not the best in the world, but far better than he really needs to be doing what he does... so it's a shame that he drowns it all in that noise.

He's stuck trying to be clever right now - like that daft backwards theme in his last score - I forget what it was - and invent all sorts of new crazy noises and whatnot... when he should be concentrating on writing good themes, in creative arrangements. I've not seen him do that yet - but I do, most sincerely, think he has the chops - or, should I say, has the potential to attain the chops. In twenty years, assuming a favourable climate, he could be doing amazing things...

...and JUST this instead of your tenth-straight "Well, I'd say something, but I wouldn't wanna get the negative police on me LOL:D" and people will be more interested in what you have to say.

...I do not disagree in the slightest. Well, except for BSG and Caprica; I felt those were by and far his best scores. I think because those were his first. He had to prove himself; perhaps just as much to himself as he did to others. So he busted his ass on those scores. He tried new things. He didn't stay competently conventional, but he didn't dare give up on his education.

And it worked, BSG was a strange, wonderful and crazy beast of a score. It cemented his reputation as the go-to guy for orchestral television scores. And it earned him a huge fanbase.

But lately he has gotten...complacent. His scores are becoming familiar, instead of new and emotional. He is too reliant on percussion, and he is dealing far more in drowning electronics than he has any right to be. He still has those moments, though, when he reminds you why you loved him in the first place. Maybe it's just for a moment, or maybe it's for an couple of tracks. But you smile, and you think to yourself, "That's right. I remember why he caught my attention in the first place."

There was some lovely stuff in BSG... some of the minimalist small string ensemble cues were... I'd go as far as to say... inspired. They weren't just themes, they were music. Some of that stuff actually tickled the same parts of me that are fascinated with Adams, Glass, and Nyman... But, I found the whole didn't work. Back then, ten years ago, I thought to myself "with time, the right project, the right director, and a lot of money... this guy could be amazing..."

But, alas...

Tango you make some great points, but I really liked the themes on Da Vinci's Demons. I felt those were really strong melodically driven works. Lucrezia's Theme is not only a period piece but fresh and lyrical. I think his strength is melody and some of his signature harmonies and progressions are really nice. Now if we were talking about Defiance, now I would agree that that doesn't have much to it aside from dubstep/orchestra hybrid. Some of the pieces are great (i.e. Ninety Niners), but others get covered up by all the percussion and synth effects. I will say that it is his weakness to cover up superb orchestration with percussion and effects. So I do see your argument and agree with a few of its points, but I believe the man is good for just starting out. I have a feeling in a few years he will be a force to be reckoned with. I feel like he will bring film music back to real orchestras and real instruments... not that synth Hans Zimmer "noise". We need to go back to that. I'm tired of the Zimmer fad.

I know plenty of people that love Zimmer that are tired of the Zimmer fad. When people who go on about how TDK Trilogy is some of the best music ever written say that they want some more Willaims style music, you know its time to change.

This is going to sound pretty obnoxious... but I genuinely wonder if people (average cinema-going Joe) are currently in a position to cope with a forthright music score in a movie. Something that doesn't hide in the background, or attempt to emulate popular contemporary music styles, or play silly games with sound design, synthesisers, and batteries of ethnic percussion instruments... a score that lives and breathes with the film, one which has its own intelligence, one which doesn't merely react to the film, but informs it, strengthens it... One which is a major player in plot and character development. One which is written using the age-old, tried and trusted (because they work) techniques of creating drama and emotion through music. A score like the scores that created the community of film score fans in the first place.

It's nice to think that perhaps they can... but I genuinely don't believe films have space for that now. Not Western films, anyway.

I was watching a Japanese TV drama over the weekend. It was about four men who escape from prison. They all have good reasons for wanting out, but one man breaks out in desperation because he hears that his daughter is dying and requires an expensive operation; so he escapes with the other three who have access to funds on the outside.

It has a scene where two of them are arguing. The guy who's daughter is dying gets mad, lunges across the room, and smashes the other guy right in the jaw, then breaks down in tears as he delivers a motivational speech; the other man sits on the floor, blood running down his face, and looks as though he will retaliate - but instead, he weeps too; then the two hug each other and, with a renewed sense of purpose and comraderie, set off in earnest to prove their innocence.

THAT is the sort of stuff that can sustain proper music scores, the sort we like to hear... None of this cynical, anti-melodrama, anti-drama, anti-theatrics Western crap would be able to take it. The overwrought, shamelessly sad cue that scores this scene - minor-key strings, doleful piano, and defiant trumpets... which works so well because the scene is written and acted with honesty - it's earnest, dramatic, and raw... that same cue would be laughed right off the stage in any Western movie.

Before the orchestral renaissance can happen again, film-making styles must change dramatically...

Before the orchestral renaissance can happen again, film-making styles must change dramatically...

I agree with this. I think it has been said before but it bears repeating. If there is anything I've gained from watching interviews with composers these days, it is that modern producers want something absolutely different than what we would hope to hear.

I watched a film this week called The War of the Buttons, scored by Philippe Rombi. The film was a bit of a miss at parts but had such an old school feel cinematically that I now understand why Rombi wrote the 80s style Horner score he did. It didn't really make me appreciate the score more, because it wasn't the best use in the film itself, but at least it helps me understand why the composer wrote what he did.

I don't mean to suggest in my comment above that McCreary is a masterful composer. Like JBarron said, his themes in DaVinci's Demons were interesting and about half of the score is really good. The parts I like are very enjoyable, and some of the love themes really touch me in a proper way. I am optimistic based on some of the material I hear in the video above that we will hear something interesting in Agents of Shield. Then again, considering the comments I've heard from those who are in charge of choosing music for the marvel films, I am not really expecting much. They take the position that music should be hidden in the background mostly and so I doubt we will hear many full quotes of McCreary's theme.

Interview with James Horner... DP/30: Avatar, composer James Horner - YouTube (http://youtu.be/Qrcuw9D92_s?t=13m53s)

His take on this matter.

Sad thing is, a renaissance cannot happen again, or at least not simply willed to happen by higher-ups who happen to enjoy orchestral music personally. Film-making, music writing, what speaks to the public, all of that moves in cycles, and these kinds of things never move backwards. Fans of movie music in the 60's and 70's were probably saying these same general things in the 80's and 90's, and where do you hear this kind of music now but in individual throwbacks and pastiche?

I agree films today likely aren't well-disposed towards carrying lush, orchestral melodies that enhance the action. Producers certainly seem to think so. I have my own thoughts on how true this line of thinking is, but honestly, the argument seems more and more futile the more it looks like western Hollywood film scores just aren't the place to look for this kind of thing anymore.

I was always more of a vgm person than a film score listener, speaking strictly of more niche forms of music, and having grown up primarily with Japanese games and home consoles, it was a pretty sucky culture shock suddenly being hit with a millionty-billion identical shooters all with the same grey-brown graphics and the same pounding, indistinct score saturating every last one of them(many bearing composers who are now full-blown film composers themselves.) It looked like less and less of the market was made of the kind of catchy, memorable game tunes I loved.

But it quickly stopped being a source of any real consternation. These games weren't delivering the kind of thing that spoke to me, so I looked elsewhere and stopped expecting Call of Duty or its ilk to deliver. The market had broadened and with it, a trend that just happened to pass me by. Current filmscoring tendencies are just another one of those trends. Personally, I've never been able to rouse the ire or disappointment for where film scores are going when there's still plenty of great music all over the place. It's anybody's guess as to whether the classical orchestral style will ever come back into vogue within Hollywood. The only thing any of us can really do is adapt, move on, speak with our wallets, or lead by example. All you can hope for is that someone, somewhere, will write something melodic and thoughtful and sumptuous of their own accord that happens to speak to enough people for somebody to be inspired by it/imitate it for profit.

it's earnest, dramatic, and raw... that same cue would be laughed right off the stage in any Western movie.

Before the orchestral renaissance can happen again, film-making styles must change dramatically...

My impression is that this is what good-but-stumbling composers like Desplat, Giacchino, McCreary honestly think they are doing. Though somehow they keep falling back into Western scoring cliches.

I'm not sure that a huge shift from cynicism/minimalism/anti-melodrama/whatever to optimistic escapism would help ....some of the most cynical movies ever made (Sunset Blvd. - Vertigo - The Godfather - Chinatown) have superb scores by giants such as Waxman, Herrmann, Rota, Goldsmith. I do agree that BAD movies don't really *help* the creation of good music, but most of the great composers have never seemed to have a lack of imagination even for the biggest turd.

Nor will a filmmakers' complexity or idiosyncrasies in how they see the world automatically prevent great music. Miyazaki's more avant-garde fare Princess Mononoke, The Wind Rises and portions of Spirited Away I would definitely call "anti-melodrama" and often rock-solid serious in tome...and yet Hisaishi still managed to write music utterly melodic and appropriate. (The thing with Wind Rises is that Hisaishi knows exactly what approach to take with the protagonist's theme, while someone like Bear McCreary or even Desplat would probably miss the boat and start foreshadowing WWII in his music.)

I'm not sure that a huge shift from cynicism/minimalism/anti-melodrama/whatever to optimistic escapism would help ....some of the most cynical movies ever made (Sunset Blvd. - Vertigo - The Godfather - Chinatown) have superb scores by giants such as Waxman, Herrmann, Rota, Goldsmith. I do agree that BAD movies don't really *help* the creation of good music, but most of the great composers have never seemed to have a lack of imagination even for the biggest turd.

I think it has less to do with tone than it does with editing, and how the dialogue between music and image, or composer and director, is handled. Man of Steel, a morose, glowering slog of a movie, sounded more or less identical to the fist-pumping Pacific Rim or any number of disposable Zimmer scores for Bruckheimer, and none of these composers or filmmakers are people I'd describe as above theatrics. The razor-sharp editing and tightened cinematography of current AAA films superficially lends itself more to, as Horner nails it, "propulsion." Rhythm, ostinati, dramatic blares. It comes across more like the director and producer wants to let the film speak for itself, and less like they just have a very limited idea of or standards for musical accompaniment.

On the other hand, I'm not so sure there's evidence audiences would necessarily turn their noses up at something more like the Golden Age. The fact that people like Giachinno or Desplat are popular at all in the face of RC's ubiquity is kind of impressive, and the popularity of year-end Oscarbait, fertile ground for schmaltzy, pathos-affecting scores, surely says something.

McCreary just called his music swashbuckling... The guy honestly can't hear the difference. He think's he's writing Hook or Captain Blood.

Ragebot - your recent posts are awesome. Since I don't think I've seen you posting here before recently, welcome to the thread and please keep writing stuff :)

McCreary just called his music swashbuckling...

An swashbuckling to you means?

An swashbuckling to you means?

Ain't Hook...but...

Human Target OST - 21: Into The West - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Nw3_R6aSs)

I'm sure with twenty-two episodes in his belt he'll keep honing and learning. He has the money, he has the players, he has the support from Joss. I remember in a blog post of his where he had a big "oh, duh!" moment a few episodes into Human Target when he realized he didn't have to have the strings and the brass play melodic lines in unison, and realized his music was lacking counterpoint. I don't know if that makes him really astute for correcting his technique, or really dumb for not having realized it in the first place.

I really wish McCreary didn't see the need to introduce electronic loops into his orchestral writing starting with Human Target. The Caprica pilot probably remains his most elegant piece of work, since it's a combination of a decent ensemble, impressive new themes, and a minimum of ruckus.

First off: Tango, you have to tell us the name of this show. You can't just mention a scene like that and not reference it to us.

Secondly: I think you are 100% wrong on the films being anti orchestral music. I point towards Children of Men as a prime example. Not only is it one of the darkest stories ever depicted on film, but it has a classical score. John Taverner even wrote an original piece for it! Children of Men is certainly not the norm, but it rests as a prime example of how great orchestral music can still be used in very dark films. I don't agree with the notion that movies dictate the music so much as they direct it. A scene does set the stage in terms of what the music should express on a base emotional level, but the execution is up to the composer.

We could look back on the history of film and find plenty of evidence for dark, brooding films with dark scores. The problem are not the films but the production. Producers want these pulse driven scores. Perhaps to create a link between popular music and the soundtracks. Or maybe they think this new wave of music is "edgy" and "cool".

All I know is that any industry that just copies itself is just spiraling down to a collapse.

The problem are not the films but the production. Producers want these pulse driven scores. Perhaps to create a link between popular music and the soundtracks. Or maybe they think this new wave of music is "edgy" and "cool".

And maybe they're just lemmings with no taste who want to save and make a fast buck to maintain their Q score.

It's a massive shame because he can write a theme (Dark Void) and there is indeed shades of a theme in Agents - some genuinely interesting stuff, actually. In the video, the passage from 2:02 - particularly the surprising shift to major key at 2:19 and the subsequent, almost "call and response" from the strings in a descending motion - you just don't hear that any more. I don't think it hangs together particularly well, but I think - and have always thought - that McCreary has moments of brilliance, moments where I feel like he could genuinely, eventually, compose a masterpiece in the greatest sense of the word. He's stuck in his own rut, he overdoes the percussion, and in this score, the electronics. He's a surprisingly decent orchestrator - not the best in the world, but far better than he really needs to be doing what he does... so it's a shame that he drowns it all in that noise.

I myself am a huge fan of McCreary, and if you like his score for Dark Void you would also probably enjoy SOCOM 4's. I play both on a special playlist for when I'm doing homework.

Ummm... Thanks a lot for the new Omega score. The series are really crap but the music is listenable.

Listening to the new Sahashi's score, i really liked it. IMO it's better than the two previous ones but im still thinking about "the wash some anime music should have" <- you know, for that type of things like being original, non repetitive and creative...

Well, im not an expert but I have been listening anime, movies and game score mainly (among some classical composers, typical here) since a lot of years, and for me (and that's its an opinion, not an statement or a fact) the Rurouni Kenshin and Saint Seiya old scores were like being in the heaven. Taking the Seiya part, Seiji did an impressive work with that and now come the questions...

Some people were arguing about (in other forums) changing the style of music and do a total wash to the new SS series. And also this was pointed among other anime's. �Is this really a good thing? I mean, listening to the Sahashi's new scores you will find interesting pieces but... �aren't the most intereting ones some sort of re-arranging of the classical themes of the old series? That's my case, the tracks i enjoyed the most were mostly re-arranges or new "versions" of the old themes.

I still believe that some of the old style (call it what you want) anime music are by far better than the new scores of the "new" anime era. Of course, iIm talking about the anime music in this aspect because trying to do some comparisons withs game or movies music... Will be impossible for me.

Oh, and im not a big fan of BSG scores but they have interesting pieces. Never listened to Human Target or Caprica but some DaVinci's themes were pretty good. Guess i will have to try those Caprica/Human Target ones.

Interesting remark. For what it's worth, I'm loving the hell out of Yamato 2199, the disco tracks in particular (Cosmo Tiger!!!). The show itself is also wonderfully old fashioned in the best possible way. Not to mention the killer theme that is Yamato.
Even if some say it's just a remastered reorchestration of the old scores, it's still terrific music and anyone who says that this music has no place anymore in this day and age is a fool.
Given the right context it works wonders. It's the reason why I enjoy Sahashi so much. Others find it cheesy, I just adore that stuff.

Now we have 2013 and Japan still has not given up the old ways. I don't know exactly what that "new" anime era style is supposed to be because most composers from 20 years ago are still kicking in the business and they experimented a bit (and improved a lot) but their style is pretty much identical. We're lucky that Sawano and Zimmer Sato are still a minority and even for a low-brow Highschool comedy they hire a real brass band and most ecchi shows have better scores than the biggest Hollywood productions today. Can you imagine that someone in the west would hire a composer to write a serious cinematic score for softcore porn and even hire an orchestra to perform it? I think that says a lot about their musical ideology and quality.

Ain't Hook...but...

Human Target OST - 21: Into The West - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Nw3_R6aSs)

I'm sure with twenty-two episodes in his belt he'll keep honing and learning. He has the money, he has the players, he has the support from Joss.

That is a really nice composition! I forgot this one as it has been a long time since I heard it. I must agree with you that Caprica has a very good sound. My two favorite tracks are Capricoperatica and The Differently Sentient.

[Caprica Series OST] Capricoperatica - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPcM1jR_rVg)

Bear McCreary - The Differently Sentient - Caprica OST - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq6d0QEsg9U)

Got a big haul again for you all again today ^_^. I strongly recommend trying out Kamisama. One of the better osts at least in my opinion this season (though I didn't like the anime much).

KICA-3217 | Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi O.S.T Requiem - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/40314)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/40314-1379520562_zps31c4ff81.png.html)

Title:Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi O.S.T Requiem
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Hiromi Mizutani
No. of tracks: 34/2
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Sep 25th, 2013
Size: MP3 186mb/ ALAC 462mb
Host: Zippy/MP3 Mega/ALAC

Tracklist
01 Lost World
02 Transfiguration
03 Impatience
04 Melancholic
05 Loneliness
06 Ortus
07 The valley of the dead
08 Conflict
09 Fate
10 Mystery place
11 Warmth
12 The rhythm of a blue sky
13 Late riser
14 Pleasure
15 Sulk
16 Reminiscence
17 Farewell
18 Calmly
19 Death and despair
20 Gloomy secret
21 Undertaker
22 Dampish
23 Pressure
24 Shock
25 Dread
26 Ominous premonition
27 The dark of the valley
28 Battle
29 Tense atmosphere
30 Transitoriness
31 Utopia
32 Solvation
33 Future world
34 Blessing

Disc 2

01 Rainy land of smiles
02 Rainy land of smiles (Instrumental)


320 kbs MP3
Zippyshare.com - Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi O.S.T Requiem.7z (http://www33.zippyshare.com/v/38908773/file.html)

ALAC (Loseless)
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VTCL-60353 | Blood Lad O.S.T. 2 - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/40228)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/40228-1379427680_zpsd4def65f.png.html)

Title: Blood Lad O.S.T. 2
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Yuki Hayashi, manzo, Michio Yamashita, Hiroyuki Akita, Yusuke Kato
No. of tracks: 24
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Sep 25th, 2013
Size: MP3 136mb/ ALAC 315mb
Host: Zippy/MP3 Mega/ALAC

Tracklist

01 Sennyuu
02 Yoridokoro
03 Third Eye
04 Nakama (Piano-Mix)
05 BLOOD LAD (Egt-Mix)
06 Yasoukyoku
07 Surechigai
08 Zunousen
09 Kinki
10 Jintai Sosei
11 Imawashii Kehai
12 Kiki
13 BLOOD LAD (Mb-Mix)
14 Nikudansen
15 Attouteki na Chikara
16 Namida
17 BLOOD LAD (Flow-Mix)
18 Ore no Ketsui
19 BLOOD LAD (Fiddl-Mix)
20 HERO
21 Ai wo Torimodose!!
22 MoNochrome MoNologue
23 ViViD -TV-EDIT-
24 BLOODY HOLIC -TV-EDIT-

320 kbs MP3
Zippyshare.com - Blood Lad O.S.T 2.7z (http://www33.zippyshare.com/v/96597964/file.html)

ALAC (Loseless)
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LACA-9309~10 | Fate/kaleid liner Prisma?Illya Original Soundtrack - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/40421)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/40421-1379427871_zpse001a9b6.png.html)

Title: Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya Original Soundtrack
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Tatsuya Kato, Sin Kawamoto, Tomohisa Ishikawa, Kyo Takada
No. of tracks: 32/25
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Sep 25th, 2013
Size: MP3 247mb/ ALAC 672mb
Host: Mega/MP3 Mega/ALAC

Tracklist
01 starlog (Short Ver.)
02 Daily Life of the Girl
03 Promenade of the Girl
04 Rest of the Girl
05 Footsteps of the Girl
06 Peace of the Girl
07 After School of the Girl
08 Whereabouts of the Girl
09 Farce of the Girl
10 Slowness of the Girl
11 Fuss of the Girl
12 March of the Girl
13 Playful Scuffle of the Girl
14 Magical Girl Musashi, Appearance
15 Magical Girl Musashi, Dance Performance
16 The Girl is Yearning for Friend
17 The Girl is Yearning for You
18 The Girl is Yearning for the Sky
19 The Girl is Yearning for the Night
20 The Girl is Feeling Different
21 Original Scenery of the Girls
22 Explanation to the Girls
23 The Girl, Evading
24 The Girl, Approaching
25 The Girl, Entwined
26 Subtitle A
27 Subtitle B
28 Eyecatch A
29 Eyecatch B
30 Eyecatch C
31 The Girl Must Advance to the Future
32 The Girl Must Challenge Tomorrow

Disc 2

01 kagami
02 Girl Revelation!
03 Girl Obtrusion!
04 Girl Meeting!
05 Girl Invocation!
06 Girl Evolution!
07 The Girl is in the Dark
08 The Girl is in Sorrow
09 The Girl is in a Memory
10 The Girl is in a Memory (Music Box Ver.)
11 The Girl Must Take a Stance
12 The Girl Must Endure
13 The Girl Must Live a Long Life
14 The Girl Must Plan
15 The Girl Must Confront
16 The Girl Must Fight
17 The Girl Must Fly
18 The Girl Must Hit
19 The Girl Must Exceed
20 The Girl Must Not Look Away
21 The Girl Must Deal
22 The Girl Must Win
23 The Girl Must Become a Star
24 Connecting Bond: Enveloping Solitude (Short Ver.)
25 Prism Sympathy (Short Ver.)

320 kbs MP3
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GNCA-1343 | DANGANRONPA THE ANIMATION ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/39979)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/39979-1375465618_zps739b5420.png.html)

Title: DANGANRONPA THE ANIMATION ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Masafumi Takada, MOSAIC.WAV, suzumu, Kazunori Watanabe
No. of tracks: 24/27
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Aug 28, 2013
Size: MP3 240mb/ ALAC 672mb
Host: Mega/MP3 Mega/ALAC

Tracklist
1. Danganronpa The Animation
2. High Speed Butsuri Action
3. Momomomonokuma The Animation
4. Oshioki Rocket
5. Chimidoro Fever
6. Beautifuldays The Animation
7. Monokuma Sensei No Jugyou
8. Laundry De Rendez-vous
9. Hotel Kibougamine
10. Kibou Teki Kansoku 78 Seiun
11. Zetsubou Eden
12. Beautifuldead The Animation
13. Nichijou No Seishi Suru Hi
14. Kokoro No Riron
15. Box15 The Animation
16. Ikikiru The Animation
17. Monokuma Kara No Douki X
18. Yonimo Zetsubou Na Monogatari
19. Eleki Boy Meets Metal Girl
20. Zetsubou Shoukougun The Animation
21. Distruct The Animation
22. Versailles San Hiaburi Majo Gari Jitate
23. Youkoso Zetsubou Gakuen The Animation
24. Negaigoto Ensemble The Animation


Disc 2

25. Never Say Never The Animation
26. I Want Tune
27. Chou Koukou Kyuu To Hito Ha Yobu!
28. Hirameki Anagram The Animation
29. Super Mtb The Animation
30. Super Final M.t.b. The Animation
31. All All Apollo Shisu The Animation
32. You Great Guitar
33. Dangan In The Dark
34. Houkago Dai Sakusen
35. Old Comic Situation
36. Koroshiai Tokku
37. Kouron.one Inch Punch
38. Shokei Ni Negai Wo The Animation
39. Gakkyuu Saiban Reimei Hen The Animation
40. Giron-break- The Animation
41. Gakkyuu Saiban Ranse Hen The Animation
42. Giron-heat Up- The Animation
43. Gakkyuu Saiban Taiyou Hen The Animation
44. Hoshuu For Fuun
45. Zetsubou Syndrome The Animation
46. Box16 The Animation
47. Chou Koukou Kyuu No Zetsubou Teki Oshioki
48. New World Order The Animation
49. Sayonara Zetsubou Gakuen The Animation
50. Zetsubou Sei:hero Chiryouyaku The Animation
51. Monokuma Ondo The Animation

320 kbs MP3
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ALAC (Loseless)
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Big thanks to nextday for translating Fate/Illya :). And a shoutout goes to Akashi-san for translating the 10th track of cd one :D.
Enjoy it http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq271/leatherhead93/kucing_mikir_zpscaccfb71.gif (http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/kucing_mikir_zpscaccfb71.gif.html)

Next week i i should have the ever so jazzy Stella Jogakuin Koutouka C3-bu Original Soundtrack and Free! uploaded. ^_^

Anyone having an issue with MEGA lately? Downloads and uploads have been freezing in the middle for me and they are eating up my bandwidth every time I restart them (sometimes multiple times).

Anyone having an issue with MEGA lately? Downloads and uploads have been freezing in the middle for me and they are eating up my bandwidth every time I restart them (sometimes multiple times).

Yes the downloads have been taking a while, but they do complete even if after frequent pauses.

Anyone having an issue with MEGA lately? Downloads and uploads have been freezing in the middle for me and they are eating up my bandwidth every time I restart them (sometimes multiple times).

Didn't know it was being a pain for everyone else as well. It took about 5 hours to upload all this stuff because mega was giving me crappy upload speed and each file took from 30 minutes to an hour to upload. First time it's been an issue for me but i hope they fix it soon. I usually go to sleep after i upload stuff but this kept me up all day >.>

People are talking about Bear McCreary and don�t even mention The Cape.What the hell? He already scored a superhero series and the score was great, a hommage to Shirley Walkers (R.I.P) DC scores.

People are talking about Bear McCreary and don�t even mention The Cape.What the hell? He already scored a superhero series and the score was great, a hommage to Shirley Walkers (R.I.P) DC scores.

Probably because it wasn't all that great. I didn't care much for it and I am not one of McCreary's biggest critics.

It seems like Sonic Lost World is really Galaxy 3 (with more beat): Japanese Philharmonic Orchestra - Sonic Lost World: Main Theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTbZgid5Aww). There is even a full orchestral cue for the opening cutscene: Sonic Lost World - Opening (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEm9OYY9SvE).

What do you think John Williams is doing in this pic? Pictures & Photos of John Williams - IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3503790080/nm0002354)

Anyone got a qualified guess?

MECHYRO ACHEMAH ZESTOIN NO TOMPIST OST3 PLS DOWNLOAD FICHIER LE TELECHARGER DE LA LIEN LA VITE!
AND AURA DOWNLAOD PLS TOO. IS GREAT SCORE REALY GOOD HAS BIN OUT FOR A FEW DAYS NOW... :D :D :D

What do you think John Williams is doing in this pic? Pictures & Photos of John Williams - IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3503790080/nm0002354)

Anyone got a qualified guess?

That was the day Steven Spielberg got his name on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame I was there and he was reacting to some of the action in the cement.

MECHYRO ACHEMAH ZESTOIN NO TOMPIST OST3 PLS DOWNLOAD FICHIER LE TELECHARGER DE LA LIEN LA VITE!
AND AURA DOWNLAOD PLS TOO. IS GREAT SCORE REALY GOOD HAS BIN OUT FOR A FEW DAYS NOW... :D :D :D
Just so you know, the Tempest guy hasn't uploaded any new blu-ray volumes since June (and he was the only one doing it).

Don't you just love this month. EVERY score and album I'm really looking forward to is nowhere on the net even weeks after release and almost everything else is uploaded instantly. Give this man's wallet a break already. I have enough patience left for a few more weeks then I'm pulling a Tanken Driland.

Ohh, bugger...

Well, the Tempest DVD (which also includes the soundtrack CD) is �40 plus postage plus customs. I'd have a hard time justifying forking over that amount of money for 25 minutes of score - to add insult to injury, this CD isn't going to be highlights - it's going to be 80% dregs with perhaps two or three noteworthy cues interspersed.

Aura is �60 plus postage plus customs... for maybe an hour of music, 30-40 minutes of which is decent, I think... definitely cannot justify that expense either.

That, and I know full well that within minutes of the order being dispatched (ie, when it becomes impossible to cancel) it will turn up on here.

I badly, badly want to buy new releases - but since I have no use whatsoever for the DVDs (they don't have subtitles) it is simply a nonsense. I could try to sell the DVDs minus the soundtrack CD - but who in an English-speaking country is going to buy used collector's edition anime DVDs (sans the collector's item) with no English subtitles? And who in Japan would re-import the same package when there are probably fifty billion copies of it already on Japanese eBay?

If I had �100,000,000 in the bank I wouldn't fork out for these on a matter of principle - and I am far from wealthy.

Welp, you know what that means. Time to scrap some funds together boys.

Sheez so many Michiru fanboys up in here :P

We like good music. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_burn_centers_in_the_United_States)

I do dislike the term fanboy; it is a cheap and derogatory turn of phrase. Oshima is a living genius. I know she's not everybody's cup of tea (for whatever reason) but she deserves more respect than for her loyal fans to be written off as rabid squealing idiots who have just latched on to her for no reason... It is a word that implies that the "fanboys" in question are uneducated and selected their idol for reasons unrelated to the quality of whatever it is they produce. It's a typical piece of modern terminology used by people who don't share their opponent's taste to mock them. I like to think the tone of this thread is slightly higher than that. (Although frequently, it isn't, and more often than is comfortable, it is significantly lower.)

I think these ones will turn up in due course. At least, I hope they do, or my OCD may force me - justification or no - to import them just so I can get to sleep at night!

We like good music. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_burn_centers_in_the_United_States)

(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/yo-dawg-at-first-i-was-like_zpsc8117916.jpg.html)

? What may be the problem with being this "fan-boy" of Oshima's music? She writes mean orchestral music and this thread is THE place to talk about it in this forum.

I do dislike the term fanboy; it is a cheap and derogatory turn of phrase. Oshima is a living genius. I know she's not everybody's cup of tea (for whatever reason) but she deserves more respect than for her loyal fans to be written off as rabid squealing idiots who have just latched on to her for no reason... It is a word that implies that the "fanboys" in question are uneducated and selected their idol for reasons unrelated to the quality of whatever it is they produce. It's a typical piece of modern terminology used by people who don't share their opponent's taste to mock them.

I think these ones will turn up in due course. At least, I hope they do, or my OCD may force me - justification or no - to import them just so I can get to sleep at night!

I don't think the term should necessarily be a bad thing (at least all the time). Having dedicated army of followers who would crush the hearts of those who opposed you would warm my heart as a composer ^_^. Was mostly kidding though. I would consider the folks here to be "Educated Fanboys". People who love everything a certain composer dishes out but can still acknowledge the flaws they can sometimes have with their works. Personally i don't mind being called a fanboy when people point out my over-obsession with Takanashi's works. It's nothing to hate be proud of it my boy!

For importing stuff well.........you are right it sucks that the industry had started to this enclosure crap more often. Spending 50-90 bucks just for the soundtracks is rough.......but personally I've gotten quite attached to the process. I wouldn't say the disc that contains the two episodes are completely useless. Since i usually finish watching the series of whatever enclosure soundtrack i buy I pretty much know what is going on in the episodes without needing the subs. Plus by buying the enclosure you are supporting the show by doing so which could allow for another season and ANOTHER soundtrack. Makes me feel all fuzzy inside sometimes :3. Of course most people can't afford to buy enclosures like Japanese folks can (seriously i have no idea how on earth this system works over there) so it's a slippery slope.

P.S

It seems that my lighthearted comment has offended a couple people here. Sorry about that. I'll go back into my cave till next week :(
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No offence taken here, friend... I guess some of us (ie, me) get jumpy with certain expressions with certain connotations regardless of the spirit in which they were spoken. :)


People who love everything a certain composer dishes out but can still acknowledge the flaws they can sometimes have with their works. Personally i don't mind being called a fanboy when people point out my over-obsession with Takanashi's works. It's nothing to hate be proud of it my boy!

Aye; with a certain composer usually comes a certain something that permeates their works and which appeals to you. There are just some composers who routinely "tickle" me in special places - and believe it or not, that isn't intended to sound sexual! ;)


I wouldn't say the disc that contains the two episodes are completely useless. Since i usually finish watching the series of whatever enclosure soundtrack i buy I pretty much know what is going on in the episodes without needing the subs.

True, although from my perspective, I'm rarely interested in the anime. I only watch two or three shows a year - I download and skim searching for scores, sometimes I end up watching the shows in order to hear the music, but on the whole I'm many times more interested in the score than in the anime itself.


Plus by buying the enclosure you are supporting the show by doing so which could allow for another season and ANOTHER soundtrack.

Good point; every one they sell slightly improves the odds of more coming... although again, I'd really only be interested in encouraging the composers. I couldn't give a flying toss if there's another season of Valvrave or Tempest or Magi, but if it means more music by Senju, Oshima, or Sagamano then I'm more interested. It's a tenuous grip, at best - to buy a DVD of something I don't like in order to support a production I don't care about because it may encourage in the future another production I also don't care about, and that production may by sheer chance feature a comparatively insignificant something that interests me - a good score.

There aren't many shows that are renewed after production has finished. You get shows that are 11 episodes and then they're finished, and sometimes if they do well they get another 11 episodes next year (Valvrave). You get 24 or 50 episode shows that were planned to be that long from the outset (Magi, Majestic Prince)... and you get shows that go on longer than 50 episodes because TV ratings are pretty good or they're selling lots of Manga because of the interest generated by the anime (Space Brothers, One Piece, etc).

Since Tempest is finished, buying a DVD isn't going to make there be more Tempest. It increases revenue, helps the producers make back their money, and might encourage the budget guys to put a bit of money the way of their next show, which may in turn improve the odds of a good score... but by and large, if you do the maths, I don't think it works out.


Of course most people can't afford to buy enclosures like Japanese folks can (seriously i have no idea how on earth this system works over there) so it's a slippery slope.

I wish I understood it... I mean, obviously people are buying these bloody things or they a) wouldn't make them, or b) would sell them cheaper... but who? Who is spending $400 on a box set of a dozen episodes of a limited-animation cartoon show? You could buy fifty Hollywood blockbuster DVDs for that money and still have enough money left over for beer and pizza. The Japanese work themselves silly to pay for bare essentials. Where are these people coming from? Are Otaku really that plentiful and that stupidly wealthy? Crazy, crazy country...

In the meantime...


MICHIRU OSHIMA - SHOMUNI 2013 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
256K M4A | 91.1 MB | 16 TRACKS | 00:45:14


Catalog Number: PCCR-00571
Release Date: Aug 28, 2013

Tracklist
01 ショムニ2013
02 戦う女たち
03 奇妙な出来事
04 まあ、普通にいいね!
05 ショムニ～メインテーマ
06 強いオンナ、カッコイイオンナ
07 たくらみ
08 Love and Like
09 元気に行こう!
10 前向きな日常
11 闇にうごめくもの
12 穏やかな結末
13 不思議な人々
14 強大なるテキ
15 カイケツ
16 ショムニ2013～ピアノソロ

Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!wUdzCaxR!Py0ydxaQW5d5gtFnaC3QGBO_kiN-6TcYP998SGuZrl8

Awww man. When I saw this in the email I got all excited because I thought this was ZNT Vol.3. Then I actually read it and found out it was not meant to be. :(

Hirano's next score will be for the third season of Hajime no Ippo. It will be a collaboration with Tsuneo Imahori who scored the first season in 2003. The new anime will run for 25 episodes and airs one week from now.

WOT? They asked him back? Is there an official confirmation here? Because it sounds considerably more likely that they'll be re-using the other guy's score from season 1 and Hirano's score from season 2...

Hirano's score for season 2 was pretty much universally hated from what I remember and it was even said that he was sacked and replaced midway through the run due to the legions of whingeing bastards complaining about his music, which was too intelligent for them. I don't have a source for that, but I believe some other music started coming in the last dozen episodes or so and another composer was credited...

Stranger things have happened... but I have a less-than-optimistic feeling about this.

The news comes from Animate: 『はじめの一歩 Rising』EDはシクラメンが担当！ - ニュース - アニメイトTV (http://www.animate.tv/news/details.php?id=1379426485&p=3)

＜STAFF＞
原作：森川ジョージ（講談社「週刊少年マガジン」連載）
監督：宍戸 淳
シリーズ構成： ふでやすかずゆき
キャラクターデザイン：杉浦幸次
音楽：平野義久、今堀恒雄
音響監督：三間雅文
企画協力：講談社 週刊少年マガジン編集部
アニメーション制作：マッドハウス MAPPA
製作著作：日本テレビ、バップ


Had no idea they replaced him. But maybe they've made up since then. I mean this is the same production company that later asked Hirano to do the music for Hunter x Hunter, which is now his biggest project to date.

Edit: And I think it'd be pretty strange for them to re-use the first season's score which is now a decade old.

True... it just seems odd that they'd get back the original guy who everybody loved but hasn't really done anything in the last ten years, and have him collaborate with his successor who everybody hated.

Could be interesting... but if they're going to try to barge Hirano into some style other than his own, I can forsee this not going particularly well. Hunter x hunter may be Hirano's most famous project, but it's given us far from his best music - from the nice but unremarkable and somewhat lobotomised OST 1, the better but cheap OST 2, and uniformly dreadful movie OST, and the highly variable OST 3... overdoing the slamming noises and drowning in electronica almost every cue...

It really is about time he got another project with a decent budget and where he was free to do what he is so obviously capable of... Break Blade and Real Drive were both an uncomfortably long time ago.

Really, I'm just waiting for more info about that new Break Blade.

Really, I'm just waiting for more info about that new Break Blade.

...wait WHAT. When did this happen?


Hirano's score for season 2 was pretty much universally hated from what I remember and it was even said that he was sacked and replaced midway through the run due to the legions of whingeing bastards complaining about his music, which was too intelligent for them. I don't have a source for that, but I believe some other music started coming in the last dozen episodes or so and another composer was credited...

I didn't even know this happened, or that most anime fans would care that much about the music. I'd imagine they would care more so about character designers or directors than about composers.

Revealed last month: Broken Blade Fantasy Robot Manga Has New Anime in the Works - News - Anime News Network (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-08-08/broken-blade-fantasy-robot-manga-has-new-anime-in-the-works)

And I just looked into the Ippo thing. The composer who came in during the second half was Hideki Taniuchi who had already worked with Hirano a couple times before (Death Note, Real Drive). So maybe Hirano wasn't replaced at all, the other guy was just late or something. I mean if they really hated it so much why would they release a soundtrack with only Hirano's music. (edit: to add to this, they didn't remove Hirano from the credits. They just added the other guy's name below his).

In other words, people didn't like Hirano's somewhat avant-garde orchestral style so they bought in the safe and reliable Taniuchi at the last minute.

They're not going to wipe Hirano's name out of the credits for contractual reasons and also because they would probably need to fill in gaps with his score. The soundtrack was released weeks before any of this happened.

Well actually the soundtrack was released on May 22 when the anime was already on episode 20 (May 20). Taniuchi was added at episode 11 (March 18)

Sources:
VPCG-84893 | Hajime no Ippo New Challenger ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/30203)
::AniDB.net:: Anime - Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting - New Challenger :: (http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=6153)

So it was - apologies! Brain failures are becoming more and more frequent lately!

Point still stands, though... Soundtrack was undoubtedly planned and put together months before release and was probably too far through the production process to stop, if that's what they wanted to do. Having Taniuchi on your soundtrack album is definitely something the money men would have wanted; that his contributions are completely missing from album a) confirms that his involvement was not planned from the start, and b) strongly suggests that he was brought in at the last minute as damage control.

Did any (significant amount) of Hirano's score appear in the show after episode 11, does anybody know?

I skimmed some episodes and I honestly didn't hear a whole lot of Taniuchi. The majority of the music they used was still Hirano's.

If you're wondering why they didn't bring Taniuchi back for the third season it's because he got busted for marijuana last year so his professional career is pretty much over (because draconian Japanese laws).

I skimmed some episodes and I honestly didn't hear a whole lot of Taniuchi. The majority of the music they used was still Hirano's.

Ohh. Well, who knows? Not me. ;)


If you're wondering why they didn't bring Taniuchi back for the third season it's because he got busted for marijuana last year so his professional career is pretty much over (because draconian Japanese laws).

LOL! I'm not sure if I agree that his career should be over for that - but frankly I can only think of a few other composers I'd be happier to see abruptly stop working... ;)

Hirano's next score will be for the third season of Hajime no Ippo. It will be a collaboration with Tsuneo Imahori who scored the first season in 2003. The new anime will run for 25 episodes and airs one week from now.

Hirano AND Imahori? Fuck. and Yes.

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Hirano's next score will be for the third season of Hajime no Ippo. It will be a collaboration with Tsuneo Imahori who scored the first season in 2003. The new anime will run for 25 episodes and airs one week from now.

Hirano AND Imahori? Fuck. and Yes.


If these two really were to come together and write new music for the series' latest entry, or dreamsqueals incoming, become more frequently sought together as a team similar to Hirano and Taniuchi before it, oh the rapture~. I'll gladly take Imahori's roughed-up, wildly experimental rock stylings over Taniuchi's anyday. The relationship could help better the two of them, or at least help each other get to shine more in their respective genres.

Not that Taniuchi's bad, I liked his share of Death Note alright.

LOL! I'm not sure if I agree that his career should be over for that - but frankly I can only think of a few other composers I'd be happier to see abruptly stop working... ;)
Eh, I like Taniuchi. Talented rock composer if you ask me. I don't think his career should end over a mere 1.5 grams. But there's not really much that can be done to save him now. Anyways, time for another share.



YUGO KANNO - THE LOVERS OF SHARE HOUSE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
320K MP3 | 161.9 MB | 23 TRACKS | 01:13:08


Catalog Number: VPCD-81762
Release Date: Feb 20, 2013

Tracklist
01 シェアハウスの恋人～TERRA～
02 day by day
03 僕は宇宙人なんだ!
04 三角関係か!?
05 トキメキ
06 How to share
07 ちょいちょいちょ～い!!
08 ノッテる!
09 少しずつ、前に
10 あやしいなぁ～
11 胸騒ぎ
12 叶わぬ恋
13 シェアハウスの恋人～メインテーマ～
14 新しい風
15 笑っていればいい事がある
16 これは恋だ
17 キュンと切ない
18 トラブル
19 二度と、もう二度と
20 なんじゃこりゃ
21 あなたに会うために
22 シェアハウスの恋人～we are not alone～
23 空を見上げて

Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!EANSkZZJ!d9ZBEDAC6FbzaAkHRm97NF7DTs53lvfytvxdpSn YlWU

Click here for the main theme (http://kiwi6.com/file/9yp2wtz50b). I wonder, has anyone ever compiled all of Yugo Kanno's main themes? I think it would be worthwhile.

Shomuni 2013: I fished the album out of the Net awhile ago and I can safely say that Oshima went really lazy on this one.What I heard were rehashed old Shomuni themes with electronic overlay on top. Not really thrilled by this one, but considering her recent output, she can have a dud or two.

We should rally up for Tempest OST 3 and Aura OST if they don't turn up in the coming week or two... I hope there's enough interest (like how it was for Space Brothers).

And I was going to post Tenchijin soundtracks in FLAC. They were supposed to arrive last week but Amazon Japan has messed up my order yet again. Some of these sellers don't know how American address works and wrote it backwards for my order. Fortunately I got a full refund but man, when will an affordable digital platform exist for Japanese soundtracks?

Also, if anyone wants a tracklist or two translated for a Japanese album, soundtrack, etc, I can do some in my free time today.

Shomuni 2013: I fished the album out of the Net awhile ago and I can safely say that Oshima went really lazy on this one.What I heard were rehashed old Shomuni themes with electronic overlay on top. Not really thrilled by this one, but considering her recent output, she can have a dud or two.

We should rally up for Tempest OST 3 and Aura OST if they don't turn up in the coming week or two... I hope there's enough interest (like how it was for Space Brothers).

And I was going to post Tenchijin soundtracks in FLAC. They were supposed to arrive last week but Amazon Japan has messed up my order yet again. Some of these sellers don't know how American address works and wrote it backwards for my order. Fortunately I got a full refund but man, when will an affordable digital platform exist for Japanese soundtracks?

Also, if anyone wants a tracklist or two translated for a Japanese album, soundtrack, etc, I can do some in my free time today.

You should use cdjapan my brother :P.

Also i don't know if it would be to much to ask in one go but i have 4 albums i need translated for a big order i have next week. I kind of hate relying on google translate Romaji cause it's sometimes inaccurate as hell :(.

Sure, send me a PM with VGMDB links. Can't say I will do them all, but I can do at least one plus few more if the albums interest me.

After Oshima's golden year, I can enjoy Shomuni for what it is... There's some good stuff in there, but it is indeed mostly a rehash... It's fun to see how well Oshima does the Yamashita/Kanno-style lengthy main theme with orchestra, beat, and guitars. Substantially orchestral scores in dramas seem to be a bit out of season at the moment, so this is very welcome. Sato's Priceless was an amazing fluke, but a fluke nonetheless.

I came across Phantasy Star Series 25th Anniversary Concert Sympathy 2013 Live Memorial Album (http://vgmdb.net/album/38600) while browsing through VGMDB to see what some major orchestras have been up to. The album is available here (http://www.anime-mp3.com/2013/09/sympathy-2013-concert-live-memorial.html). Played by the Tokyo Philharmonic and conducted by Amano... There were some enjoyable parts but it sounds like a rock concert mostly. This might save Herr Salat a few bucks if he hasn't pulled the trigger on it yet.

Yeah... pretty manky, all considered, isn't it... Big shame. Why does Amano keep taking these demeaning effing jobs? Isn't the guy who scored Giant Robo worth more than that?

Atrociously recorded, as well... I've never heard an official release of a live concert that sounds WORSE than an amateur audience recording... until now. Disgraceful.

Toshiyuki Watanabe - UDON (Movie) Original Soundtrack
UDON オリジナル・サウンドトラック/ サントラ

Catalogue Number: TOCT-11617
Release Date: 2013/09/18
Format: FLAC
Link: Download (https://mega.co.nz/#!QwZTgKCJ!N5vJ9TJ2Nc5IKUgyOoItzCZs-HAu-UrwJq-BynyVQBA)

^Actual release date is 2006. Was reprinted in 2013.

Thanks!

^Actual release date is 2006. Was reprinted in 2013.

Thanks for the correction, I'd just copied the info from the vendor page :)

In the meantime...


MICHIRU OSHIMA - SHOMUNI 2013 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
256K M4A | 91.1 MB | 16 TRACKS | 00:45:14


Catalog Number: PCCR-00571
Release Date: Aug 28, 2013

Tracklist
01 ショムニ2013
02 戦う女たち
03 奇妙な出来事
04 まあ、普通にいいね!
05 ショムニ～メインテーマ
06 強いオンナ、カッコイイオンナ
07 たくらみ
08 Love and Like
09 元気に行こう!
10 前向きな日常
11 闇にうごめくもの
12 穏やかな結末
13 不思議な人々
14 強大なるテキ
15 カイケツ
16 ショムニ2013～ピアノソロ

Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!wUdzCaxR!Py0ydxaQW5d5gtFnaC3QGBO_kiN-6TcYP998SGuZrl8

Thank you ^^

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Eh, I like Taniuchi. Talented rock composer if you ask me. I don't think his career should end over a mere 1.5 grams. But there's not really much that can be done to save him now. Anyways, time for another share.



YUGO KANNO - THE LOVERS OF SHARE HOUSE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
320K MP3 | 161.9 MB | 23 TRACKS | 01:13:08


Catalog Number: VPCD-81762
Release Date: Feb 20, 2013

Tracklist
01 シェアハウスの恋人～TERRA～
02 day by day
03 僕は宇宙人なんだ!
04 三角関係か!?
05 トキメキ
06 How to share
07 ちょいちょいちょ～い!!
08 ノッテる!
09 少しずつ、前に
10 あやしいなぁ～
11 胸騒ぎ
12 叶わぬ恋
13 シェアハウスの恋人～メインテーマ～
14 新しい風
15 笑っていればいい事がある
16 これは恋だ
17 キュンと切ない
18 トラブル
19 二度と、もう二度と
20 なんじゃこりゃ
21 あなたに会うために
22 シェアハウスの恋人～we are not alone～
23 空を見上げて

Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!EANSkZZJ!d9ZBEDAC6FbzaAkHRm97NF7DTs53lvfytvxdpSn YlWU

Click here for the main theme (http://kiwi6.com/file/9yp2wtz50b). I wonder, has anyone ever compiled all of Yugo Kanno's main themes? I think it would be worthwhile.

Thank you ^^

Does anyone have Trevor Jones' Dinotopia OST? There's a "recording session" flowing around here somewhere, but I would like the regular release just for the good bits.

Hey Dharte, could you not quote the entire posts with images? Thanks.

I have the complete score - which is what I think you are talking about. I have yet to see the OST emerge on any filesharing site. Heck I only saw this complete release once and never again.

Honestly, I'd advise that you just cut off the pieces that you do not like. Would probably be easier in some respects.

Then I will have to drudge through that 4(?) discs of monstrous length. I usually don't like recording sessions and complete scores even if it's John Williams.

Thanks though. :D

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Akash - check your PM in about fifteen minutes... you may find a solution to your problem. ;)

In the mean time, Kohei Tanaka's Gaist Crusher has just premiered... It's all cheap shit, no orchestra, Hans Zimmer percussion all over the place, guitars, electronics, all crap.

Only joking! The first win, you hear before even a note of score has played - in a lovely old-fashioned move that doesn't happen nearly often enough these days, the OP song was written by Tanaka instead of some crappy J-pop act... so we get a great, ultra-cool song that's somewhere in the "Overman King Gainer" soundworld, although not quite as harmonically daring and no orchestra... but a really smashing song all the same. It's amazing how "obvious" it is when real composers have played a part in these songs... giving a rare feeling of synergy between the score and the "theme tune".

As for the score, Tanaka is BACK. Nice size orchestra, tuneful, brassy, symphonic, lively... it's just amazing how fresh it all sounds - the guy is almost 60, but he writes like it's his debut score - after thirty years in the business, out pours the melody... the playful orchestration... the creative harmonies... all the things that have defined his orchestral style - and here it is, acknowledging modern scoring tendencies not one jot.

Also, always a good sign when there's a lot of (and varied) good material in episode 1 - meaning there will probably be a substantial amount of quality score...

Good start to the October season! Here's to the wonderful things that will appear over the next couple of weeks... :)

Thank you guys for the help! Really, really appreciated.

That's a promising comment for Tanaka's new score. I was really bored and checked out the cheap 2008 harem anime Rosario + Vampire this past weekend (scored by Tanaka and Hamaguchi). There were orchestral cues in there that absolutely floored me. Mostly short cues but quality stuff nonetheless, especially the really brassy ones. It made me realize how I have always slightly overlooking Tanaka - mostly due to many cheap cues that he includes with the good stuff.

One unfortunate thing about his scores, at least ones I have heard, is how claustrophobic they sound (more so than average). But hey, Japanese composers work with what they have.

I have also finally received Tenchijin 1 and 2 soundtracks somehow and will upload them tonight with two other albums I got recently.

Tenchijin Original Soundtracks
FLAC|LOG
My Rips

Composed and Conducted by Michiru Oshima
Strings: Masatsugu Shinozaki Strings except Main Theme (NHK Symphony Orchestra)
Saxophone: Nobuya Sugawa - A well-known saxophonist. Please check out wimpel69's glorious upload of his saxophone performance assortment here (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/wimpel69-concerto-collection-flac-work-progress-130729/3.html#post2334514)
Harp: Tomoyuki Asakwa :D <<< THE go-to harp guy!




OST 1 Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!cIAHCDBK!Fv9jTA2xWPjJidbevDqt2x4Py6ssZjes6Q0jK-PeB14



OST 2 Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!lNA0AaBR!DrpFGlLw0y5wBRgnNTcM-GPSxwx2tSAEPpm540hPIYc

Well, what can I say about Tenchijin, one of my favorite Oshima works? It ranges from the triumphant main theme to rocking fun with a guitar and beats. You can get a great glimpse of Oshima as a great orchestrator and more importantly, an extremely skilled composer who can do just any kind of genre. This is just a lossless upgrade to the currently floating MP3 rips (high quality), but let this serve as a good time to revisit this soundtrack!

So does anyone know what it is with japanese dramas and just giant text of the name of the show on the front like we see here in Tenchijin and the new Oshima above? I've always wondered about that. Somehow it looks interesting even though it is just basic text on a colored background.

YUGO KANNO - RAIN ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
320K MP3 | 87.3 MB | 30 TRACKS | 00:52:17


VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/41666)
Catalog Number: DQC-1175
Release Date: Oct 09, 2013

Tracklist
01 Rain
02 Awakenings
03 Little Lost Child
04 A Shadow Appears
05 Premonitions
06 The Unknown
07 Girl in Profile
08 Landscape
09 Raindrops, Footsteps
10 Iron City
11 Presence
12 Approaching Footsteps
13 Speechless
14 Clair de Lune
15 Meeting
16 The Two and the Town
17 The Night Circus
18 Falling Deep
19 Giant Cage
20 Vanishing Shadows
21 The Children and the Night
22 Floating Light in the Rain
23 Memories of the Girl
24 Unknown Town
25 Darker Than the Night
26 Darkness, Footsteps
27 Awaiting the Dawn
28 Night's End
29 A Tale Only the Rain Knows
30 Daybreak

Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!AZdzzBYI!O4lh8W2sawsWwrW7KiOtTx7YnitK_xq5ZInH5AG yJjc

"For rain, I didn't want to create any sense of "digital-ness," so I decided to stick with "live" instruments. For one of the sounds for percussion, I was actually beating things that were around me to add natural sounds that we create in the real world. I also put my efforts in using minimal number of instruments and the majority of songs are composed using 3 instruments: the piano, strings and bandoneon. I have removed all computer-generated sounds and limited the number of instruments, to be able to approach people's heart and emotions more directly." - Yugo Kanno

Anyone ready for some awesome jazzy tunes courtesy of Kotaro Nakagawa? Also some very enjoyable orchestral and relaxing music by Masaru and Tatsuya (both very underrated composers if you ask me).

PCCG-01362 | STELLA WOMEN'S ACADEMY, HIGH SCHOOL DIVISION CLASS C�... - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/40294)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/40294-1377369341_zpsf20373c8.png.html)

Title: STELLA WOMEN'S ACADEMY, HIGH SCHOOL DIVISION CLASS C� ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Kotaro Nakagawa
No. of tracks: 39
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Oct 02, 2013
Size: MP3 168mb/ ALAC 426mb
Host: Zippy/MP3 Mega/ALAC

Tracklist
Disc 1
01 Run, Girls, Run
02 The Sought After Stella Women's Academy
03 Theme Of Class C�
04 Amazing World
05 Theme Of Sonora
06 In The Field
07 Delusion I
08 Theme Of Yura
09 March Of Class C�
10 Mischievous
11 In Action!
12 Delusion II
13 Unbeatable
14 Theme Of Rin
15 La Regle du jeu
16 Into A Corner
17 Delusion III
18 The Game Is Up
19 Creeping Shadow
20 Enjoy!
21 Choujirou
22 Sacred Place
23 Memories Of Master
24 Step By Step
25 Looking Up At The Night Sky
26 Anxious Heart
27 Delusion IV
28 Delusion V
29 The 24-Hour Endurance Survival Game Tournament
30 Elite Gathering
31 Sharp Look
32 Uneasy Feeling
33 Swingin' Time
34 Hope For Tomorrow
35 The Siege
36 Nightmare
37 The Person Who Extends A Helping Hand
38 Illusion
39 True Companion



320 kbs MP3
Zippyshare.com - STELLA WOMEN'S ACADEMY, HIGH SCHOOL DIVISION CLASS C� ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK.7z (http://www5.zippyshare.com/v/55093657/file.html)

ALAC (Loseless)
https://mega.co.nz/#!2RImyTgB!BrF1c3iY2ys7p-o3E5PiYS3VM6JfulwpdBO4cTB0wqE


SFQBR100CD1~2 | Queen's Blade Rebellion SOUNDTRACK - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/40597)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/40597-1374442572_zps0319a380.jpg.html)

Title: Queen's Blade Rebellion SOUNDTRACK
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Masaru Yokoyama
No. of tracks: 21/21
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Sep 24th, 2013
Size: MP3 199mb/ ALAC 474mb
Host: Zippy/MP3 Mega/ALAC

Tracklist
Disc 1

01 The Daytime of Departure
02 Powerlessness & Sadness
03 Bloodthristy & Bashful
04 Queen's Blade Rebellion Main Theme
05 To Fear & Anger
06 Great Pirate Captain Liliana
07 Beyong the New Determination
08 With the Morning Glow
09 With the Approaching New Enemy
10 Beyond There
11 The Moment of the Duel
12 The Dance of the Beautiful Fighter
13 Moonlight Dancer Luna Luna
14 Enemy Attack
15 Field Match
16 The Unchanging Person
17 Repercussions
18 Climatic Battle
19 Inquisitor Sigui
20 Thundercloud Queen Claudette
21 Lovely Dance

Disc 2

01 Elina's Delusions
02 Nostalgic Times
03 Fear of Burning to Death
04 Love Theme
05 Just Barely
06 Anti-Demon Expert Tarnyang (slow)
07 Hyper Vibration Valkyrie Mirim (last)
08 Want to Sop By for a Sec?
09 Touch Touch
10 The Moment of Confusion
11 The Dance of Temptation
12 Blackmail
13 Alchemist Strategist Yuit
14 People Lurking in the Ruins
15 Celestial Punisher Laila
16 Anti-Demon Exper Tarnyang (fast)
17 Relaxing
18 Don't Say That
19 Encounter With a Powerful Enemy
20 Calibara Ruins
21 Hyper Vibration Valkyrie Mirim (slow)

320 kbs MP3
Zippyshare.com - Queen's Blade Rebellion SOUNDTRACK.7z (http://www20.zippyshare.com/v/14961038/file.html)

ALAC (Loseless)
https://mega.co.nz/#!mAR3HBQA!UjhZSVdFlCd3DAbxBp33lHM_tbkW3Dg8Qzys92J VR-4


LACA-9311~2 | Free! Original Soundtrack Ever Blue Sounds - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/40492)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/40492-1379495602_zps6530d406.png.html)

Title: Free! Original Soundtrack Ever Blue Sounds
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Tatsuya Kato, Ta_2, Yasushi Watanabe
No. of tracks: 32/32
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Oct 02, 2013
Size: MP3 305mb/ ALAC 785mb
Host: Mega/MP3 Mega/ALAC

Tracklist
Disc 1

01 Rage on (TV size)
02 A boy in the water
03 Taste the satisfaction
04 Rhythm of port town
05 Innocent boy
06 Revelry of student
07 Funny group
08 Woe is me!
09 Formal horror
10 Old days
11 Words that changed my life
12 Aggressive groove
13 Diving & Spray
14 Sparks crackled
15 Great nostalgia
16 To depths of blue
17 Painful incident
18 Analysis mania
19 Comical theory
20 Otoboke time
21 Timid boy
22 Strong rival team
23 Rival and friendship
24 Let's go to camp
25 Enjoy the tropical
26 Beautiful sea
27 Dangerous situation
28 Crisis of life
29 Memory of the past
30 I need you
31 Night sky & ever blue
32 Melody of ever blue

Disc 2

01 Brilliant swim
02 Strong swim
03 Swim toward the hope
04 Fear of defeat
05 Sound of sunset
06 Eternal friendship
07 Serious game
08 Sense of defeat
09 Like a Holmes
10 Clownish performance
11 Cute relationship
12 Family noise
13 Honest feelings
14 Time of competing
15 Not alone
16 Lonely swim
17 Confusion of my mind
18 Frustrating to you
19 Tenderness of teammate
20 Purpose of my mind
21 Passionate theory
22 Coming of despair
23 Real feeling
24 Feelings and emotions
25 Cherry blossoms
26 EVER BLUE
27 Trailer of Free! part.1
28 Trailer of Free! part.2
29 FrFr! Opening
30 FrFr! Ending
31 Welcome to the world of "Free!"
32 SPLASH FREE (TV size)

320 kbs MP3
https://mega.co.nz/#!XVgUXJrS!ED4DrxlS66e74Gn40iPJC1oM_80LJJHqhob19Zq hLDY


ALAC (Loseless)
https://mega.co.nz/#!yZZCBbjR!OB3Z8zdxx6UkBGIy1bPjzFOc-vsXj__cOAMiweYCerE


Enjoy ^_^

Next weeks I'll be posting Inu to Hasami wa Tsukaiyou, HIGH SCHOOL D�D NEW, Hakkenden -Touhou Hakken Ibun-, Uchoten-Kazoku and Kin-iro Mosaic vol.2

Thanks for C3. Wish Kotaro Nakagawa would do jazz more often. This is the first time I've seen him credited as playing an instrument other than keyboards too. For the jazz sessions he played the banjo, his father played the trumpet, and his brother played the trombone in addition to handling the musicians coordination.

Edit: I'm not happy that "In The Field" isn't the version that featured in the anime. In the anime the track is around 3:50. It starts off as a single bass line and slowly builds up to the explosion of brass in the middle. The album version is 1:50 and just starts off right in the middle leaving out all the buildup. What a pity, that track was the main reason I was looking forward to this album.

A little more music from Agents of Shield. I am hoping to generate some hype here among my peers ;).

Bear McCreary ? Official site (http://www.bearmccreary.com/#blog/agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d-0-8-4/)

Surprise score of the season - Keiji Inai's Outbreak Company. There's not one single live instrument playing, but THE MUSIC! This guy is a ludicrously good orchestrator and I just can't get over the style - traditional Hollywood grandeur without a hint of irony. Some of this stuff would sit well in Star Wars. It's infinitely better than the show requires, and even though there's no orchestra and obviously no budget, it pulls out all the stops - Inai is working his sample library incredibly well...

This is the sort of score you write when you want to announce to the world "Listen to what I can do - now how about a real orchestra next time?!" and that deserves endless respect...

Thanks for C3. Wish Kotaro Nakagawa would do jazz more often. This is the first time I've seen him credited as playing an instrument other than keyboards too. For the jazz sessions he played the banjo, his father played the trumpet, and his brother played the trombone in addition to handling the musicians coordination.

Edit: I'm not happy that "In The Field" isn't the version that featured in the anime. In the anime the track is around 3:50. It starts off as a single bass line and slowly builds up to the explosion of brass in the middle. The album version is 1:50 and just starts off right in the middle leaving out all the buildup. What a pity, that track was the main reason I was looking forward to this album.

I noticed that too. I truly have no idea why this happens. Any track that is played in the anime should be in the ost. Simple as that. I know there are rare cases with some composers who make their music to fit the particular situation shown in the anime (Hiroyuki Sawano is a good example) but that always pissed me off :(.

I for some reason enjoyed "Swingin Time" much more than i should have.
It's just one of those songs that makes you want to shake your hips and twirl your finger all day ^_^.

Yeah, for Outbreak Company they pretty much did a strings recording back in August and that's it. I want to hear real orchestral music from Keiji Inai but I wonder how long that will take.

On the bright side, the other guys from Imagine seem to all have budgets this season... We have Kohei Tanaka and Takayuki Negishi on Gaist Crusher, Shiro Hamaguchi on Galilei Donna, and possibly Hayato Matsuo and Yasunori Iwasaki doing the arrangements for Tokyo Ravens.

So does anyone know what it is with japanese dramas and just giant text of the name of the show on the front like we see here in Tenchijin and the new Oshima above? I've always wondered about that. Somehow it looks interesting even though it is just basic text on a colored background.

Kanjis just look cool. :smrt:

But really, even Japanese people take it pretty seriously as a form of art. Chinese calligraphy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_calligraphy) (called "shodou" in Japanee).

So Ender's Game... Preview of Steve Jablonsky's Ender's Game Score - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhL2n_tCh4Y) Is it just me or is that the Game of Thrones theme? >_>

No, I don't. It is a similiar conceptual idea though - have your main idea as layer 1, and have it more or less the same. Then have a bunch of minor ideas layers 2, 3, etc. that do change.

Shame that Horner isn't working on the soundtrack. Maybe this was miscommunication, or maybe he was kicked off the project. I was really looking forward to seeing what Horner would have done. You would think after Avatar Horner would have his name back in the spotlight.

I mean, on one hand you COULD say that he had what was coming with him being apparently a downright dick. Karma's a bitch and all that. BUT he is a great composer and its not fair that he isn't allowed to write in his craft just due to human emotions.

Still, this is a business and if you can't work with people you get thrown off the side.