Ah, that's good news! His last television anime was in 2009 - he's not my favourite composer in the whole wide world (not by a long shot) but it'll still be good to hear from him again. :)

In other news... I'm cancelling my "Carl Davis - Champions" project for the time being due to poor quality of the source material. There might be a solution on the horizon in a month or so, but for the time being, that one's shelved. Oh, well... :(

Change of plan, it's back on again. :) It's not perfect but it's still worth doing when you compare it to the other alternatives, of which two are available; a crackly and worn LP transfer and the Movietrack Classics bootleg which sounds like it was recorded underwater. Things got a whole lot better when I cracked open the cassette and transplanted the reels of tape into a new shell. It's going to take a bit more work but I think the results will be well worth a listen, at least until some enterprising label releases the damn score properly from the master tapes...

Progress: Track 1 - Champion's Theme. Still got work to do (dropouts...) but the EQ is pretty good and noise is low, and pitch is stabilised... http://www59.zippyshare.com/v/17318661/file.html

That's very good news ^_^.
I actually thought Kaoru had just disappeared from the composing scene and was simply going to work as an arranger. I've always been fond of his scores for Inuyasha (which was one shows that got me into anime) and Casshern SINS. Hoping this one holds up well.

Speaking of Kaoru Wada, has anyone been able to track this one down? KICC-819 | The Echo of Japan - Die Musik von Kaoru Wada - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/37740)

Even samples would be nice. :) I don't appreciate his soundtracks very much besides bits in Inuyasha, but I am hoping for some good stuff in his serious music (after all, he was a pupil of Ifukube)

It's available on youtube with live footage of performers at work

WRO Freundeskreis - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE26402AA397F1325)

Whenever an album is impossible to find i generally have no problems downloading it off of youtube (yeah the overall quality suffers but it's better than nothing eh?).

Well, I'm surprised YouTube out of all places has it! Thanks! Will comment on it after my work hours.

EDIT: Definitely not to my liking. I much more prefer the sparse and elegant style of Takemitsu, who does a far more interesting blend of "west meets east".

TAKAYUKI HATTORI - ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK SYMPHONIC SUITE "KURA"
FLAC, LOG, CUE | 229.0 MB | 19 TRACKS | 00:48:03
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Konstantin D. Krimets
Agafonnikov Philharmonic Chorus, conducted by Igor Agafonnikov


Catalog Number: SRCL-3326
Release Date: Oct 01, 1995

Tracklist
01. Prologue ~Chamberlain~
02. Chapter I: 1. Storehouse (http://kiwi6.com/file/nv580r4rgh) http://i.imgur.com/v9WfOyB.gif
03. Chapter I: 2. Fate
04. Chapter II: 1. Elegy
05. Chapter II: 2. Tears
06. Chapter III: 1. Setting Off
07. Chapter III: 2. Wind
08. Chapter III: 3. Yearning
09. Chapter IV: 1. Sei-Ya
10. Chapter IV: 2. As Long As There is Life
11. Chapter IV: 3. Prayer
12. Chapter IV: 4. Hope
13. Chapter V: 1. Throbbing
14. Chapter V: 2. Earnest Love
15. Chapter V: 3. Lovely
16. Chapter V: 4. Distant Feelings
17. Chapter V: 5. Love Light
18. Chapter V: 6. Dawn of Happiness
19. Fierce

13,14,15,19 composed by Masashi Sada
19 vocal by Masashi Sada, arranged by Toshiyuki Watanabe

Ripped, translated, etc. by me.

Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!gIMzSKiQ!Yfsab-ISf5zrtrdyT5hE2p-j2NbaZj43IeqV90ouoP8

Here's one of Takayuki Hattori's earliest works, written when he was 29 years old. If you're wondering how a 29 year old composer got access to a full orchestra and chorus in Russia, well that's because this is the soundtrack for an NHK drama. It's no Shinsengumi! (Thread 124554) but it's definitely one of Hattori's better works that I've heard. The beautiful theme heard in the preview track appears throughout the suite building up to a great climax in track 16. Check it out.

It could be related to Igor Agafonnikov, he was a choir conductor.
Very small Wiki article (http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%D 0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2,_%D0%98%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8C_% D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0 %B8%D1%87)

Also Sawano's shit is shit, leatherhead. I pretty much hate the guy lately. Now you can kill me if you want lol

That seems correct to me. Which means the kana should have been アガフォニコフ.

Anyways, thanks. Post updated.

Edit: Coincidentally, the only other place this chorus credited in English is on an album (Thread 161495) by Kaoru Wada...

NextDay thank you for Kura. It's not in the same level of Shinsengumi like you said, but it's still very good! Thanks for sharing :o

It could be related to Igor Agafonnikov, he was a choir conductor.
Very small Wiki article (http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%D 0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2,_%D0%98%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8C_% D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0 %B8%D1%87)

Also Sawano's shit is shit, leatherhead. I pretty much hate the guy lately. Now you can kill me if you want lol

Your actions as a proponent of the hostile operative insinuate you as being the sole organizer and leader of an organization dedicated to his worship.

Amusing that you mention "kill" considering Sawano is the dedicated composer for Kill LA kill. There over one million words in the English language and after a meticulous calculation of the chances of the word "kill" being used as well as taking into account the number of anime coexisting with the term, lead to an rudimentary conclusion that you are indeed fond of the said practitioner although on a miniscule level.

On the contrary to your statement, the superior qualities of the scientific method cast a harsh light of reality upon your false ruminations.

BWHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq271/leatherhead93/kucing_ngakak_zpse40b8c9a.gif (http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/kucing_ngakak_zpse40b8c9a.gif.html)

So the composer for the new Sailor Moon is not Toshihiko Sahashi but Yasuharu Takanashi. Shame that all the other more suitable candidates didn't get the job but if it turns out to be just his recent Precure scores but with bigger budget I will be at least entertained. Oh well, another missed opportunity for greatness, next is Gundam The Origin ... who bets on Sawano?Thank you for this update, klnerfan. I realize that I am a bit late in responding. Toshihiko Sahashi would have been a great choice for composer, as would have Michiru Oshima. The "Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon" J-Drama of the '90s was fairly forgettable, but Oshima's score for the show captured the "Charlie's Angels" sound that Takanori Arisawa imbued into the original anime. I am going to listen to some of Yasuharu Takanashi's music in order to get an idea of what this remake's soundtrack might sound like. I wonder if it will be an homage to the original Arisawa score, or if it will take a totally new direction. Either way, it sounds like Oshima and Sahashi have had their respective turns at scoring Sailor Moon music. I am looking forward to hearing their next albums!

Your actions as a proponent of the hostile operative insinuate you as being the sole organizer and leader of an organization dedicated to his worship.

I am part of Cooljacker organization. You Kill him, I will La Kill you. I am dedicated Spy... ahem... person in the organization. No one touches my Boss.

Mwahahahah xD

A side note...

Knowing who are in the production of Kill La Kill, which I am a fan.... knowing that Sawano is in the music department, I lost my will to see it. Right now, I am still deciding if I pick my balls high up and squeeze them to gain courage to see it with Sawano as music composer.

Sawano is not and never has been a composer. He makes a helluva lot of noise which fits exceptionally well with certain shows. It has the desired effect, which is to get your blood pumping. It's not music. I don't think Sawano could disagree with that assessment - it's merely an observation that the differences between a Sawano score and, say, a Hirano score aren't just skin deep. They are trying to do different things. They are taking a different approach - and I don't just mean a different musical approach - the concept of what it means to score something.

There is the school of thought that says a score should be musically interesting, thematically coherent, manipulative (whether that be directly in terms of overt emotionalism or indirectly by subtly introducing themes / motifs into the listener's subconscious thus affecting the way the brain responds when it hears those themes in full or in different contexts) and make some kind of commentary on (or even appear as a fully fledged character in) the story.

There is another school of thought that says a score should exist in the here and the now; it should accompany the image, not respond to or alter it. It should focus our perception of the image, not influence it. It is strictly a background entity - its purpose in the film is analogous to the purpose of cup to coffee. It need only be "music" in the vaguest sense; the content doesn't matter just as the style of cup (cardboard / china / plastic / plain / fancy / decorated) doesn't matter to the taste of the coffee.

Ironically, the term "background music" - the use of which has been completely over-saturated - is more applicable for this second variety of score. The "great" scores that have captured audience imagination and enjoyed success on CD and in the concert hall are anything but background music.

Sawano (he said through gritted teeth) is exceptionally good at scoring in the second variety. That's his method and it works for him... and clearly it works for the audiences too who, sadly, buy his CDs like an alcoholic buys bottles of Brandy and brown paper bags.

For people who need a score that does "other" things it just doesn't cut it.

Film scoring is, let's remember, a descendant of opera - the first film composers were classically trained and thus approached the concept of scoring as Wagner approached grand opera. The music and the words and the story were all intrinsically linked. The scores were symphonic (in terms of construction as well as instrumentation) and the stories were poetry.

Sawano and Co are existing in a completely different realm. As a proponent of Scoring Variety 1, it's hard for me to accept that his work is excellent by current expectations... I believe current expectations are wrong and that this type of scoring adversely affects the quality of storytelling. Others feel differently. It's somewhat lonely being a "classical guy" in a Zimmer/Sawano world.

My litmus test for good music is that I listen to it whilst doing something I find myself distracted by the music. For some people, their test is exactly inverse - they will prefer anything that slides along in the background; music to work to, music to relax to, music to cook to, music to accompany some other task - physical or intellectual. That's not what music is for me.

My test for music is if I can sleep to it.

Sawano is not and never has been a composer. He makes a helluva lot of noise which fits exceptionally well with certain shows. It has the desired effect, which is to get your blood pumping. It's not music. I don't think Sawano could disagree with that assessment - it's merely an observation that the differences between a Sawano score and, say, a Hirano score aren't just skin deep. They are trying to do different things. They are taking a different approach - and I don't just mean a different musical approach - the concept of what it means to score something.

There is the school of thought that says a score should be musically interesting, thematically coherent, manipulative (whether that be directly in terms of overt emotionalism or indirectly by subtly introducing themes / motifs into the listener's subconscious thus affecting the way the brain responds when it hears those themes in full or in different contexts) and make some kind of commentary on (or even appear as a fully fledged character in) the story.

There is another school of thought that says a score should exist in the here and the now; it should accompany the image, not respond to or alter it. It should focus our perception of the image, not influence it. It is strictly a background entity - its purpose in the film is analogous to the purpose of cup to coffee. It need only be "music" in the vaguest sense; the content doesn't matter just as the style of cup (cardboard / china / plastic / plain / fancy / decorated) doesn't matter to the taste of the coffee.

Ironically, the term "background music" - the use of which has been completely over-saturated - is more applicable for this second variety of score. The "great" scores that have captured audience imagination and enjoyed success on CD and in the concert hall are anything but background music.

Sawano (he said through gritted teeth) is exceptionally good at scoring in the second variety. That's his method and it works for him... and clearly it works for the audiences too who, sadly, buy his CDs like an alcoholic buys bottles of Brandy and brown paper bags.

For people who need a score that does "other" things it just doesn't cut it.

Film scoring is, let's remember, a descendant of opera - the first film composers were classically trained and thus approached the concept of scoring as Wagner approached grand opera. The music and the words and the story were all intrinsically linked. The scores were symphonic (in terms of construction as well as instrumentation) and the stories were poetry.

Sawano and Co are existing in a completely different realm. As a proponent of Scoring Variety 1, it's hard for me to accept that his work is excellent by current expectations... I believe current expectations are wrong and that this type of scoring adversely affects the quality of storytelling. Others feel differently. It's somewhat lonely being a "classical guy" in a Zimmer/Sawano world.

My litmus test for good music is that I listen to it whilst doing something I find myself distracted by the music. For some people, their test is exactly inverse - they will prefer anything that slides along in the background; music to work to, music to relax to, music to cook to, music to accompany some other task - physical or intellectual. That's not what music is for me.

I think that it's simply an issue with our current generation. I'm not sure how old you are but it seems like you've been around the music scene for quite some time, probably long enough to see when music sort of took the shift away from classical symphonies to overblown bombastic orchestras. Personally speaking i pretty much grew up watching movies that had either John Williams/Hans Zimmer setting the tone with their compositions. I actually hadn't gotten a good dosage of classical until i happened upon this thread. And i still have a great appreciation for it. Indeed there are many forms of music and depending on your own interruption. As someone who's been working to become a writer i constantly use music to fuel my ideas. I've literally overflown my 160 GB ipod with many different kinds of music be it jazz/classical/crazy Taku orchestral dubstep (lol). I admit there are times where i'll end up listening to a good song and just drop what i'm doing to have an extensive listening session as well.

Anyways i don't think Sawano is completely incapable of performing the any of musical feats you mentioned. He just doesn't have a reason to change at this time. You can blame him for pandering to a niche crowd of music lovers but it's like the old saying goes "Why fix what isn't broken?" If Sawano were to suddenly change into a more contemporary style i really don't think it would sit well with his fans. People who want something more note worthy from him might be satisfied but they make such a small minority that it would hardly be worth it. You can't please everyone after all. I don't think that makes him any less of a composer for it. He simply adds much needed variety to the the scene for anime OSTs and has a style different from pretty much any other japanese composer that you'll usually see. The truth is the majority of anime soundtracks out there these days are extremely basic, cheap and generic.

So it's nice to see when a composer is given a good budget for an ost and is able to leave an impression on the anime community (i discuss anime on a number of different forums and hardly an episode goes by without someone mentioning how awesome the soundtracks he makes are). At the very least you can look at a semi positive way as it at least serves as a means of getting more people into music instead of being completely indifferent to it ;).

I disagree.

You can do any genre and style and make it worthwhile. The problem is not that the scores are "basic, cheap and generic", it's that the composers who write them aren't worth anything. I grew up with old NES and SNES music and you can make even that sound interesting. Hell you could even write a Symphony with a Famicon soundchip if you know what you're doing. Problem is, most composers these days don't. They have no knowledge about how to write music and just use their electronic tools to accomplish that task. Don't get me wrong, you can do amazing things with samples and come very close to the real thing if you know how each instrument behaves (and the Player!) and how to do prober mixing and mastering. My main problem with Sawano is not the sound he uses, it's what he does with it. I can go to my DAW right now and hammer some "epic" drum lines and play some rock tunes on top of it and call it a day. But that's not what music is. Music is about themes, it's about melody and thematic progression and chord progression. It's about conveying an idea to the listener, develop that idea and make him have an emotional response. Everything else is just sound effects.

Also about pleasing fans: You don't know if they would reject a symphonic Sawano, that's a Zimmer fallacy. It's the same problem with modern Hollywood. If Sawano would do a Hirano score, maybe people would think "Well that's interesting.". If you just do a chord progression of I-IV-V most people would find it pleasing to the ear, no matter what genre you do, so why not add a bit more complexity and counterpoint.
Your last statement is actually my worst fear. It will just be Zimmer and modern Hollywood all over again. Sawano does not make music (in the sense that what he does is not what music is about) but sound effects and it will just lead to anime directors and fans, who just don't know nothing else anymore. If you never heared an Oshima or Sahashi (etc.) anime score, or even Iwasaki's Read or Die, of course you would be satisfied with Sawano and think it's good shit for your project, because you simply have no perspective in the music world and you have not experienced what a good (anime) score can do to your show and to the audience. The crux of the matter is, now everyone (Producers etc.) wants Sawano and if any composer comes forth and does a Tempest, it will be like "What is this? No Drums and that Epic sound you hear in Kill La Kill? Who would want to hear that? Do something like Sawano please!".

There you have my reason why I think Sawano is not worth anything as a composer. And all you people who think he's doing something that's never been done before and there's hidden things of brilliance in the sound he does: NO! (Trust me, I'm Naoki Syntho).


That said, he does make some nice sound effects, I'll give him that.

This topic is getting fired up.

I am 1000000% on tangotreats side. I don't need to point is subject,as is awfully right in what it says.

People are most likely to want to kill and might get offended with my thoughts. But here it goes

The major problem of the music definition of today, is the definition of music. Let's Pop Music (poop music). Pop music, as in popular music, easy listening, for the fact the music as nothing in it's components that will inspire you or give you chills of feelings or emotions. Basically, the pop music, is a style without feelings, without emotions, without anything noted to even called music. Because, it's music for brain dead people that don't know the real meaning of what music is supposed to transmit.
I like and appreciate many musical styles, even pop music, but be it stupid or not, only japanese pop music works with me... well, old Japanese pop music, because music nowadays, is just getting incredibly produced for even more laziness of easy to listen. I used to love some Opening and Ending songs of animes, or even image vocals. From 2007 to now, it's getting more and more.... Android shit. Music not worthy of being called that.
Passing through the other problem: These new "composers" they are emerging, are androids to me. Excuse me!!! They Are!!! Tatsuya Kato sucks, along with some big bunch of people who are not composers whatever what everyone might tell me. Their music is Synthetic. Android Synthetic. There is not Listening experience. These new composers are IKEA synthetic composers. Plastic composers, that music the same they take a shit in the toilet, and therefore giving us shit as music.
I don't always agree with klnerfan or tangotreats , since they hyper mega symphonic lovers (it's a positive compliment), when they say a soundtrack is bad just because it has electronic instruments or even guitars and called it noisy. We have point, that not everyone have the same tastes in music, but I do understand the reason they say that, and I do not crucify them for having their opinion about.
My roots are very tighten to symphonic and electronic music. My Grandfather was a musician, so symphonies have been in my heart and mind since a very little kid, but so was electronic, not just derived from chip-tuned games (Streets of Rage rave electronic style). I wish you people lived in my country. You guy would hang yourselves with symphonic music is for people in my country.
I was cast way kid because I liked Symphonic music and enjoyed , and I like SCORES (something that is not considered music in my country), people would say "That is old Fashion!! ! NO ONE LISTENS THAT CRAP!!! The news now is Bon Jovi!!!!" which would led some years later to "Bon Jovi is old fashioned!! the news now is Rihana and Lady Gaga".
Music is not Prostitution, vaginas, sex and being a whore and a slut (Lady Gaga). People love that shit!!!!!!!! That shit is not even music. That is the legacy youth of today is taking of what is music.
People raping the whole meaning of musical enjoyment, people who make music like the way they shit in the toilet. And people eat whatever shit these guys do, because the sensibility to understand what is wrong with these "composers", simply or is dead in people, or they just don't even care, and just listen any kind of music as POP (easy listening), and do it like those macho men, who fuck a woman once and throw out like a piece of garbage, and go for the next fuck.
I just can't enjoy any soundtrack of these new "composers" for games or animes, because I feel nothing with their music. It's black whole of nothingness. And it get's damn tiring for me to try to listen, because at some time I am forcing myself to try to listen it. So I decide to stop listening bad garbage. Good garbage is listenable.
And Sawano... I was listening "Sengoku Basara" season 2 ost while I was writing this post... and that is the only thing... the only thing he has that I like. All other stuff is tiring to listen. And before I get a hatred on the guy, the same way I got on Kaoru Wada, I am going to stop listening more Sawano, and just stay with this soundtrack.

I feel more optimistic, ironically, than you and klnerfan.

Japan produces a lot of crap. It has terrible composers who produce terrible music. It were ever so! There has always been many, many times more garbage than gold. Garbage keeps the lights on and the pilot light aflame.

Japan has given us the likes of Hiroyuki Sawano... but from the same generation, we have Souhei Kano, Yoshihisa Hirano, Kosuke Yamashita, Kentaro Sato, Yugo Kanno, and Wataru Hokoyama.

This is the new generation; these guys born in the mid seventies, early eighties, and flying the flag for real music. I have yet to see a "trend" in Japan towards bad scores and sub-standard composers in general - the rot is quite obvious in Hollywood, of course... but in Japan, in the same year Hiroyuki Sawano farted out Gundam Unicorn, Yoshihisa Hirano gave us a powerhouse avant-garde symphonic extravaganza sci-fi score in Break Blade. In the year Sawano scored Guilty Crown, Souhei Kano made his anime debut with Fractale - one of the best scores ever written full stop. In the year Sawano scored Kill la Kill, a member of the old guard Toshiyuki Watanabe wrote Majestic Prince, one of the most old-fashioned, shamelessly tuneful symphonic sci-fi scores in recent memory.

The trash exists. It's not a case of "new composers are crap" - some of the new generation of composers are right up there with the best ever... and they are producing music of exceptional quality that you don't have to justify the same way you do when a Hollywood composers writes something faintly orchestral in a sea of Hans Zimmer and electronica sound design: "Well, it's better than the other crap!"... It's just good music; it stands up on its own, it stands up when compared to the great works of the past. Good scores are a "going concern" - good composers are getting work, and they're getting to write good scores.

The problem for new, untested composers is as it always was; nobody wants to commit an enormous budget score to an unknown - so the newbies toil away on rubbishy shows for a few years until they get older / more experience. Occasionally, somebody takes a risk with a new guy and something amazing happens (Fractale) - but by and large the expensive stuff will go to the people who've done it before and proven they can. In Japan, you work up the ladder. If you work hard, and get noticed, better work comes your way. Kousuke Yamashita started off as a copyist for Kentaro Haneda... then he helped out on a Sentai score... then before you know it, he's off doing things like Garasu No Kantai and Xenosaga. Some people's careers never seem to take off the way they should but some people skyrocket. Some surprise us with something wonderful. Some let us down badly.

I'm not worried about Japan - yet. If Sawano gets the next Warsaw score, or Oshima's next sounds like Gundam Unicorn, I'll be worried... :)


I think that it's simply an issue with our current generation. I'm not sure how old you are but it seems like you've been around the music scene for quite some time, probably long enough to see when music sort of took the shift away from classical symphonies to overblown bombastic orchestras.

I'm 29, which I suppose places me in the "outgoing" generation. I'm going through something of a very early midlife crisis at the moment - as I realise that young adults (18, 19) are suddenly looking at me like a curiosity - an old fart in the young man's world. Young adults don't know what it feels like to go to the cinema and see a movie like Hook, with that operatic John Williams score. They don't know what it feels like to save up your pocket money for weeks on end, take a long bus ride into the city, and search for CDs in a music shop. I learned about classical music by reading books and listening to LPs in the library. I know how to set up, balance, and align a turntable. I know how to thread tape in a reel to reel. I have a VHS recorder, massive crates full of cassette tapes, and about 500 vinyl LPs. All this stuff makes me sound like some old git bleating on about how the old days were better; YOUNG PEOPLE TODAY!!!! and all that old crap... It's quite depressing actually. I'm 30 in two months. You have no idea how I'm dreading that. :(

It would appear the Pro and Anti-Sawano people aren't really talking about the same thing anymore.

@Orie

Oh boy I sort of left the wrong impression there :)
I would be lying if I say I listen to classic and film music all the time (maybe 70%). Just so you know, for a symphonic lovers such as myself (who listens to a lot of Rozsa lately), I actually like Takanashi's Precure scores (Some parts of Smile are especially fun to listen to), I also really like the electronics in Psycho-Pass, the quirkiness of Kosaki, the frentic style of Nakagawa Koutarou and Conisch and I even think Iwasaki's idea of a Dub-Orchestra is interesting to listen to. I also enjoy me some funky time (GOLDEN DELMO ACTION THEME from Agent Aika) and I really love Platina Jazz anime standards (Moonlight Densetsu is the shit!) ... and yes I'm guilty of actually enjoying Touhou music and some of those mega-cute-catchy J-Pop songs (Some BGM versions are surprisingly good). Some of my favorite anime scores are actually orchestral hybrids and some not even orchestral at all.
Not orchestral stuff from the game music world I recently enjoyed: Turrican Anthology & DK: Tropical Freeze, heck, even anything with a blazing guitar if I'm in the mood ROCKMAN ZERO (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuiOw1SlnWw).

@Tango

I'm still glad my fear is a giant "What if" and Japan is still far off from the state of modern Hollywood, infact Magi and Tempest were not two years ago and those are among my favorite orchestral scores in recent years. But it's still a sad reality that Japan is sort of a last bastion of good music, no matter the genre. I mean, film music in the west is pretty much dead (just Williams and the occasional spark from Desplat, Doyle etc.), game music is in a slightly better state but not by a large margin, TV is pretty much just Bear McCreary and just look at mainstream pop. Professional orchestral players in america are already losing their skill of playing the good stuff so times are dire. Just seeing the possibility of that happening to Japan is enough to freighten me.

Don't feel "guilty" at all about enjoying those Touhou music, buddy. Some of those doujin artists really know how to churn out tunes.

I still have a favorite from years ago: 05. live in vual - Listen and download mp3 - Kiwi6 Mp3 Upload (http://kiwi6.com/file/u1lm17d55y)

While Touhou is on the topic, I have been quite impressed by Machikado Mapoze's releases.

Especially this: https://soundcloud.com/nakazako/c85-keine-cantata

Who would expect a cantata on a Touhou release? I should stop being surprised.

Touhou is an absolutly amazing phenomenon, more popular than anything else and also a real creative spark for all kinds of musicians. There's more orchestral arrangements than stars in the sky right now and most are actually seriously good.

Tutti Sound - C84 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE80giTdCNs)

Tutti Sound - Dark Prophecy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5lof3RpawA)

Tutti Sound - Sound of Rivals (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRoz5gCRnSQ)

Tutti Sound - The Dark Ruler (my favorite) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwG8Kx7hvBw)


Imagine that with live players. One small indy label puts all of those multi-million-dollar-blockbuster-zimmer projects to shame and some do it not even for money. There are even some live symphonic pieces Dream (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7-us1D-6Wk).

Just seeing the possibility of that happening to Japan is enough to freighten me.

I guess it's always a possibility - we simply cannot know. Given that Japan has just unleashed a new guy with a big orchestra on a crappy children's show about plastic trains beating the living daylights out of each other, I'm not worried yet. ;)

It would appear the Pro and Anti-Sawano people aren't really talking about the same thing anymore.

I'm the only pro one here apparently =(.

No worries I'm sure that the stubborn tsunderes will come to my side eventually! http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq271/leatherhead93/kucing_malu_zps1ed6d008.gif (http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/kucing_malu_zps1ed6d008.gif.html)

On another note I'm not sure what to think of Space Dandy yet. There is definitely some good old jazzy tunes in there but i feel like it's still a bit.........lacking. Not a complete disappointment or anything but right now it doesn't even hold a candle to Cowboy Bebop. Fun show to watch though if you are high ^_^

(JUST KIDDING I DON'T SMOKE WEEEEED! http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq271/leatherhead93/kucing_ampun2_zpsf482b3e5.gif (http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/kucing_ampun2_zpsf482b3e5.gif.html))

Oh you are not the only pro Sawano here, Leatherhead ;)
I have only a few of his works, because i don�t like all of them.
But what i have is, in my opinion, quite good :)

Maurice Ravel - Complete Piano Works
MP3 V0|223 MB
My Rip

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet ・ Piano



This obviously isn't orchestral, but still wonderfully melodic, intelligent music by Ravel. Bavouzet has an extremely strong affinity for French piano music and here, he plays the hell out of almost all of Ravel's piano pieces (only La Parade is missing). My top recommendations among all the winning performances go to Gaspard de la Nuit and Miroirs. If you liked this, you might also enjoy Bavouzet's playing of complete Debussy (http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Works-Piano-C-Debussy/dp/B00925T9LK/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1394156261&sr=1-1&keywords=bavouzet+debussy). Enjoy. :)

https://mega.co.nz/#!RVhiBaKC!0gUYXKh11WaRXw0GlwbzbS3F13WjrFdiXSafGDe ZJhQ

Addendum: Ravel also orchestrated a good chunk of Le Tombeau de Couperin. It's a huge delight! (the joy on the cellist's face at 2:50 makes me smile): Paavo Jarvi - Le Tombeau de Couperin (http://youtu.be/fDDzxRpdtmE)

RAVEL ORCHESTRAL WORKS
MP3 V0 | 247.9 MB | 34 TRACKS | 02:30:01
Orchestre de Paris, conducted by Jean Martinon



Not included on this release: Daphnis et Chloe and Fanfare for L'�ventail de Jeanne. My rip.

Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!MV9G1DDQ!hj_1xyULcWCjsCleD9MvnuC8GuKqPzHh0T0mlBw s_AY

I was going to post some Ravel too because of the date. Since Akashi posted his piano works, I'll post some orchestral works. :)

A fine recording there, Nextday!

I posted Daphnis in one of wimpel's classical threads:


Maurice Ravel - Daphnis et Chlo�, La Valse
MP3 V0|121 MB
My rip

Pierre Boulez ・Berliner Philharmoniker



https://mega.co.nz/#!NRpFlChQ!Y-eugRFy9vv5c4_doE6Q9Ame5n4hnvFc8eJ_edLBo0M

And as a bonus for Ravel day...


Ravel, Debussy, Massenet - Fantaisie, Concertos, Piano Pieces
MP3 V0|128 MB
My rip

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet ・Piano, Yan Pascal Tortelier ・BBC Symphony Orchestra



Includes Debussy's early piece for piano and orchestra Fantaisie (very lively, flowery piece), both of Ravel's concertos, and Massenet's surprisingly decent solo piano pieces. Another fine performance by Bavouzet, but the orchestra sounds slightly under-rehearsed... I still wouldn't hesitate to grab this recording if you are at all interested in the distinct French pianism.

https://mega.co.nz/#!pMZTHLhC!dsKOPUaUa_ApHVQg0ZiXig1RtrkKeu4lRGF8gLe QODU

After all these years turns out I didn't know about the awesomeness from 38:00 onward in Morricone's Red Sonja Symphonic Suite for Chorus and Orchestra because I thought it was just all the tracks heard in the 2010 Perseverance release put together.
Red Sonja - Symphonic Suite For Chorus And Orchestra - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUuIOe56Kfk)

The chromatic scale has never sounded more epic.

Edit:
Okay, I figured out it's not from Red Sonja, even though the orchestration is extremely similar. It's from Morricone's Hundra and someone uploaded the score here http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/ennio-morricone-%5Bost%5D-special-collection-121088/7.html#post2193972

I honestly didn't know about this score. Definitely deserves to be in this thread.

Got another batch of uploads here. Please take note that i've started to add samples to my uploads. If you don't wish to be bothered to download to whole OST just take a listen to the sample and decided if it's worth it from there. For those of you looking for new Hiroshi Takaki in the precure score (as i'm sure not many folks care for Takanashi here) the sample is the new transformation track used for the Happiness Precure series and is quite delightful. Gundam Build Fighters is sporting a fantastic orchestra lead by Yuki Hayashi who i'm glad has been getting a reasonable amount of work considering how new he is to the anime game. And last but not least two helpings of Masato Kouda.

MJSA-01108 | Eiga Precure All Stars NewStage3 Eien no Tomodachi Original... - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/43296)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/43296-1391811636_zpsaaef3974.jpg.html)

Title:Eiga Precure All Stars NewStage3 Eien no Tomodachi Original Soundtrack
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Yasuharu Takanashi, Hiroshi Takaki
No. of tracks: 29
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Mar 12, 2014
Size: MP3 137mb/ ALAC 353mb
Host: Zippy/MP3 4shared/ALAC

Tracklist
01 Fun at the Fairy School
02 Pretty Cure ~Friends Forever~ (2014 version) [Movie size]
03 Fairy of Dreams Yumeta
04 Reunion at Solitaire
05 The Children Who Can't Wake Up
06 Into the Dream
07 Classmates' Nostalgia
08 Nightmare Beast Appearance
09 Pretty Cure Love Link!
10 Pretty Cure vs. Nightmare Beast
11 Maamu's Counterattack
12 Invitation to the Dream Cage
13 Ephemeral Dream
14 Faded Passion
15 The Real Dream
16 Pretty Cure! Spinning Mirror Change! (http://kiwi6.com/file/6ny7lyfo4r)
17 Indomitable Fighters
18 I Deliver Light
19 Wake Up PreCure
20 Pretty Cure Revival!
21 To Summon Up the Courage
22 Yumeta's Awakening
23 Return of the Nightmare Beast
24 Forward with Pretty Cure
25 Fierce Fight with the Huge Nightmare Beast
26 Miraculous Encounter
27 Brilliantly! Pretty Cure All Stars
28 Eternal Promise
29 Pretty Cure Memory (NewStage3 Version) [Movie size]


320 kbs MP3
Zippyshare.com - Eiga Precure All Stars NewStage3 Eien no Tomodachi Original Soundtrack (animeost).7z (http://www36.zippyshare.com/v/38730904/file.html)

ALAC (Loseless)

https://mega.co.nz/#!jVwzEZwR!H3vHC0Io6Md4MyXZJcDRaiPDNV1dc8CzLDgYKFn i7eE
Eiga Precure All Stars NewStage3 Eien no Tomodachi Original Soundtrack FLAC (animeost) - Download - 4shared - Joshua Curtis (http://www.4shared.com/archive/jRuwL-QKce/Eiga_Precure_All_Stars_NewStag.html)

AVCD-38914~5 | Gundam Build Fighters Original Soundtrack - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/43676)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/img028_zps0c4fd22c.jpg.html)

Title: Gundam Build Fighters Original Soundtrack
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Yuki Hayashi
No. of tracks: 33/22
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Mar 12, 2014
Size: MP3 312mb/ ALAC 740mb
Host: Zippy/MP3 4shared/ALAC

Tracklist
Disc 1

01 GUMDAM BUILD FIGHTERS (http://kiwi6.com/file/jnh4l8q3ij)
02 Emergency
03 Popa Popo Pappo Popo
04 Gundam Densetsu
05 Ready For Battle
06 Konshuu no Shingata Ganpura
07 Build-Fight
08 Anxiety
09 Foreign Prince
10 Futsuu no White Yori Tsuyakeshi White ha.
11 Ganpura Battle
12 Kurenai no Suisei -Tsuujou no Flamenco no Sanbai no Jounetsu-
13 Iori Mokei Ten
14 Fleeting Love
15 Speed-star
16 Unknown Enemy
17 Fairy Dance
18 Battle Bar
19 Ferini no Karei Naru Toujou to Karei Naru Nichijou to Karei Naru Kougeki
20 Sei no Yume
21 Fungannga
22 Scar
23 Decal Hattari.pura Color Nuttari.yasuri de Kezutt
24 Outlander
25 1/48
26 Mortal Combat
27 Enamel Toryou to Acryl Toryou ha Mazete ha Ike Masen.
28 Zenshin Suru Chikara
29 Rival
30 Gundam Build Fighters -pfver
31 Nibun No Ichi [Anime Version]
32 Imagination>reality [Anime Version]
33 Ganpura World

Disc 2

01 Semari Kuru Kyoui
02 [ano Nikuman.oishiku Tabete Kureyo.are Ha...ii Mono Da]
03 Aja -reiji Senyou Tsundere-
04 Sekai Taikai
05 Anyaku
06 This Is How We Do
07 Quickattack
08 Hangeki no Noroshi
09 Samurai-edge
10 Akui no Ritsudou
11 Meijin -tsuujou no Flamenco no Rokubai no Jounetsu-
12 Ferini No Karei Naru Kougeki Mk-2
13 Powerresonance
14 [fuhahahaha.kowakarou!]
15 Surechigai
16 Aira
17 Houkai no Hajimari
18 Allied Force
19 Soshite.futatabi
20 Gbf -openthefuturemix
21 Wimp Ft.lil’fang (from Faky) [Anime Version]
22 Han Pan Spirit [Anime Version]


320 kbs MP3

https://mega.co.nz/#!vYQEnBba!E-F0LnNL0u5Fjxg1luOmCFNa3x9l56DLBapZg_j-M2Q
Gundam Build Fighters Original Soundtrack (animeost) - Download - 4shared - Joshua Curtis (http://www.4shared.com/archive/ji0gAd3Xba/Gundam_Build_Fighters_Original.html)

ALAC (Loseless)

https://mega.co.nz/#!nYYDkShI!QIE-NgVg32XGiGraaLowTRPm1K8WO07SyRgwpz7rlVs
Gundam Build Fighters Original Soundtrack FLAC (animeost) - Download - 4shared - Joshua Curtis (http://www.4shared.com/archive/zoR13QcPba/Gundam_Build_Fighters_Original.html)

VTCL-60369 | Magical Warfare Original Soundtrack - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/43295)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/img017_zps0bb93aba.jpg.html)

Title: Magical Warfare Original Soundtrack
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Masato Kouda
No. of tracks: 30
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Mar 12, 2014
Size: MP3 149mb/ ALAC 371mb
Host: Zippy/MP3 4shared/ALAC

Tracklist
01 Mahou Sensou (http://kiwi6.com/file/fdd1jbq35l)
02 Hajimari no Asa
03 Invitation
04 Ghost Trailer
05 Seijaku wo Saku Hibiki
06 Yasashisa no Aria
07 Monophonic Card
08 Houkai Sekai
09 Arata na Seikatsu
10 Subaru Mahou Gakuin
11 Taisen no Kioku
12 Itsumo no Jikan
13 Marvelous Tune
14 Comedic Style
15 Tsukiakari no Kage ni
16 Kagee no Utsuro ni
17 Kuroi Shikibou
18 Shitou
19 Mado ni Utsuru Halation
20 Shinjitsu e no Kisou
21 Kinan
22 Mitsukaranai Kagiana
23 Scriber
24 Kodoku na Senritsu
25 Last Requiem
26 Kyoufu no Joshou
27 Versus
28 Ketsui to Kattou to Nikushimi to
29 New World ~Soundtrack ver.~
30 Mahoko no Heya

320 kbs MP3
Zippyshare.com - Magical Warfare Original Soundtrack (animeost).7z (http://www36.zippyshare.com/v/63740913/file.html)

ALAC (Loseless)

https://mega.co.nz/#!XV5AwSaJ!B5PHDwgrtaIp4G2Oy4tcmQBwFAwKNoKIHM_MOIl Agn0
Magical Warfare Original Soundtrack FLAC (animeost) - Download - 4shared - Joshua Curtis (http://www.4shared.com/archive/94AQ1WViba/Magical_Warfare_Original_Sound.html)

VTCY-43 | ARPEGGIO OF BLUE STEEL -ARS NOVA- ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 2 - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/42842)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/img002_zps89718272.jpg.html)

Title: ARPEGGIO OF BLUE STEEL -ARS NOVA- ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 2
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Masato Kouda
No. of tracks: 12
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Mar 07, 2014
Size: MP3 98mb/ALAC 168mb
Host: Zippy/MP3 Zippy/ALAC

Tracklist
01 Engage
02 Dear my...
03 Invisible Battle
04 Sleeping B...
05 Intrusion ~Osakabe Residence, 0:00am~
06 Makie and Haruharu
07 Yotaroh, Great!
08 Disappeared Truth
09 Heart-shaped
10 S.O.S. (Instrumental ver.)
11 A Beam of Light
<a href=http://kiwi6.com/file/vv0ppphrdv> 12 ARS NOVA </a>

320 kbs MP3
Zippyshare.com - ARPEGGIO OF BLUE STEEL -ARS NOVA- ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 2 (animeost).7z (http://www15.zippyshare.com/v/56970295/file.html)

ALAC (Loseless)
Zippyshare.com - ARPEGGIO OF BLUE STEEL -ARS NOVA- ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 2 FLAC (animeost).7z (http://www15.zippyshare.com/v/88258490/file.html)


Enjoy http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq271/leatherhead93/kucing_naksir_zps0200e2ef.gif (http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/kucing_naksir_zps0200e2ef.gif.html)

Just a short note that the FLAC uploads are pretty much restricted. It seems like 4shared now requires that you're logged in into one of the major "social" network thingies.

Just a short note that the FLAC uploads are pretty much restricted. It seems like 4shared now requires that you're logged in into one of the major "social" network thingies.

I just downloaded...

Magical Warfare Original Soundtrack FLAC (animeost) - Download - 4shared - Joshua Curtis

It didn't require any social connection from me.

I just downloaded...

Magical Warfare Original Soundtrack FLAC (animeost) - Download - 4shared - Joshua Curtis

It didn't require any social connection from me.
Nope, doesn't work for me. Clear your cookies and try again. You're probably still logged in to either: Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or Instagram (that's the list I see).

Still no real brass but Magical Warfare sounds better than Arpeggio. Wonder if Kameoka's assistance has anything to do with that.

(also I had no problems with 4shared either, I just logged into my 4shared account as usual which isn't linked to any other accounts afaik.)

Quick odd question perhaps, but has anyone listened to the Dark Souls 2 soundtrack yet? I remember months ago that it seemed like it was synth instead of being orchestrated like the past two games, which would be a disappointment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBf_91AjLv0 has the full OST, but I'm waiting until it's out on the PC to play it so I don't want to spoil anything. What's it sound like to you guys?

A huge improvement over the beta. Also of note, a significant amount of music was cut from the CE soundtrack. I'll upload a complete rip sometime tomorrow.

As always, props to Leather!

Just a short note that the FLAC uploads are pretty much restricted. It seems like 4shared now requires that you're logged in into one of the major "social" network thingies.

You can also just have a 4shared account to get it to work as well. It's free to sign up and isn't very tedious so I never saw it as that much of a problem. Anyway i added MEGA links just in case.

You can also just have a 4shared account to get it to work as well. It's free to sign up and isn't very tedious so I never saw it as that much of a problem. Anyway i added MEGA links just in case.
That works better, thanks a bunch!

MASASHI CLASSICAL ~LA M�LODIE~
FLAC, LOG, CUE | 184.2 MB | 10 TRACKS | 00:45:21


Catalog Number: FRCA-1037
Release Date: Dec 21, 2001

Tracklist
1. Sonnet for a Clown
Port Eliot Trio / Arranged by Toshihiko Sahashi

2. Cosmos (http://kiwi6.com/file/9sm0512vsg) http://i.imgur.com/v9WfOyB.gif
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Arranged by Takayuki Hattori

3. Consequences of the Rainy Season
Saint Germans Trio (Piano: L. Pierson) / Arranged by Akira Miyagawa

4. An Ode by an Ancient Japanese Coast Guard
BBC Concert Orchestra / Arranged by Toshiyuki Watanabe

5. Spirit Boat Procession
The EMMY Quartet / Arranged by Katsuhisa Hattori

6. Unrelated Slope
Saint Germans Trio (Piano: L. Pierson) / Arranged by Akira Miyagawa

7. Leave It to Me
K. Haneda Piano Duo / Arranged by Kentaro Haneda

8. Freddie or the Three Religions District ~In the Russia Concession~
London Symphony Orchestra / Arranged by Katsuhisa Hattori

9. Ghosh of the Cello Player
Saint Germans Trio (Piano: J. Alley) / Arranged by Takayuki Hattori

10. Heroine
BBC Concert Orchestra / Arranged by Toshiyuki Watanabe


Ripped, translated, etc. by me.

Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!BAswnRCZ!84922v_bNG5rF8bz--qygj97ba806_op8wto9YMTxd0

After my recent (Thread 167345) luck (Thread 169292) with albums that Masashi Sada had been involved with, I decided to look into what else he had done and found this half chamber / half orchestral arrange album with some talented arrangers on board. It's pretty good for a classical arrange album of folk-pop songs (though I don't think there are a lot of those out there). It'd be better if more than one composer was involved, though, because Sada's compositions tend to be very similar in structure.

---------- Post added at 11:05 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:20 AM ----------

Also two announcements for the upcoming anime season.

Taro Iwashiro - Blade & Soul (fantasy)
Kousuke Yamashita - Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii (fantasy, adventure)

Taro Iwashiro - Blade & Soul (fantasy)

Aw, shit.


Kousuke Yamashita - Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii (fantasy, adventure)

Aw, YEAH! :D

Thank you so much for the Masashi Sada album! Listening now. How the ***k did the BBC Concert Orchestra end up recording tracks for this?

I'm excited for the new Yamashita already, especially since this season has been pretty lackluster...

Lackluster? The words you're looking for are "fucking abysmal".

2013 was a bit of a stinker - at least in comparison to golden 2012. I think some good stuff will materialise in April and October.

By good stuff in April are you referring to Tatsuya's Kato's greatest album to ever grace the mech genre with it's overwhelming presence that would make even Toshiyuki Watanabe shed tears of envy???!!!!!

(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/h9F625E00_zps07f606e2.jpg.html)

Jokes aside other than Michiru Oshima's score for Patema April is looking kinda flat too. I think Pretty Rhythm will be good as well. Seems to me that idol based anime always gets good music for some reason (at least most of the time). The very notion should be contradictory!

Other orchestra soundtracks for the spring 2013 season:
Kaoru Wada - Kindaichi Case Files Returns
Satoru Kosaki & MONACA - Captain Earth
Ryosuke Nakanishi - Daimidaler the Sound Robot
Takatsugu Wakabayashi - Dragonar Academy
Yoshihisa Hirano - Broken Blade

If you want you can add Gaist Crusher (Kohei Tanaka) to this list because they had another orchestra recording session for it recently.

Possibly these:
Noriyuki Asakura - Knights of Sidonia
Shiro Sagisu - Black Bullet
Keigo Hoashi & MONACA - Nanana's Buried Treasure

And there's still a couple mecha/robo anime with no composer announced yet:
M3 -That Black Steel-
Fuuun Ishin Dai Shougun


On the drama side Sahashi and Koroku are both composing for NHK dramas. Kajiura is scoring NHK's new morning drama, replacing Yoko Kanno, but no one here really cares about that (by the way, 2nd Gochisosan soundtrack is due out soon). Yugo Kanno and Senju are scoring TBS dramas.

Also, since you'll all be interested to know, Sawano posted on his Twitter this week that he's currently composing for a new anime.

Daimidaler is very interesting - especially since Nakanishi is "new" on the scene, born in 1976 making him only a year older than Yugo Kanno. The score in the PV video is real people playing actual instruments and musically intriguing. Less optimistic about Dragonar, but who knows? Real orchestra, unsure about the composer... and the PV video does not inspire confidence...

Wada's score should be good. MONACA's I think will be excellent... Black Bullet could be Magi 2, but I'll wait and see if Amano is involved before getting my hopes up...

I have a nasty feeling Broken Blade will re-use the theatrical scores, but could be wrong... They have over 90 minutes of score already in the can - I honestly can't see them forking out for new music for what seems to be a very cheap project - re-editing the movies into a television series. At the very least, as I believe you said before, it might up the odds for Hirano's score getting a proper release.

Sahashi's NHK live action series may be good - are you talking about the historical drama? Or has he got another drama up his sleeve?

Also, great to hear Gaist is getting more music... I was getting worried about that one, but probably a soundtrack will materialise later on.

Thanks for the news, folks - a lot of potential goodies here and a few more-or-less guaranteed masterpieces.

Some random news and thoughts:

Yoko Kanno's NHK drama gets a second soundtrack as well, I hope it's more on the serious side this time.
Dragonar should be great fun, perhaps another entry in the "modern score done right" folder.
I hope Daimidaler has a bigger budget for the music than the trailer implies.
The TV version of Broken Blade gets my hope up for an offical soundtrack, if so I will buy ten copies.
Please let Black Bullet be Amano Sagisu, even Amano as an "orchestrator" and buried under electronics is still excellent.
I hope M3 is Naoki Sato with Warsaw.

Speaking of Warsaw, "Magi: Adventure of Sinbad" willl be out in a few months and with a little luck we'll get a soundtrack with all those delicious music from season two (and even original stuff from the OVA).
One last thing, would they please hurry up with the second Blu-Ray Boxset for Hellsing. Being a real sucker for Matsuo's delicious warsaw score, I actually extracted all the worthwhile music from the OVAs and was surprised that it's almost an hour of unreleased epic music. Unfortunatly the best track (Alucard vs. Anderson) has just too much SFX to be noticeable but have some taste of the good stuff: Track 01 (http://kiwi6.com/file/r3koi6lerq), Track 02 (http://kiwi6.com/file/orv4klw4s4), Track 03 (http://kiwi6.com/file/25irj71fa3), Track 04 (http://kiwi6.com/file/7cao6j61ew)

I don't think the Magi spinoff is going to have decent music, somehow... Could be wrong, but it's an unknown and the whole project reeks of "cheap cash-in" rather than a genuine attempt to produce something to the same standards as Magi. When I say stuff like this, life conspires to prove me wrong - so with any luck it will turn out to be Souhei Kano's Warsaw debut!

Daimidaler... now, I know what you're saying but it honestly doesn't sound too bad to me. It's real people which puts it a cut above. The orchestra doesn't sound enormous, but it's probably a good 35-40 people which is about average for a domestic Japanese score. Hopefully the composer will be making the most of his ensemble...

Other orchestra soundtracks for the spring 2013 season:
Kaoru Wada - Kindaichi Case Files Returns
Satoru Kosaki & MONACA - Captain Earth
Ryosuke Nakanishi - Daimidaler the Sound Robot
Takatsugu Wakabayashi - Dragonar Academy
Yoshihisa Hirano - Broken Blade

If you want you can add Gaist Crusher (Kohei Tanaka) to this list because they had another orchestra recording session for it recently.

Possibly these:
Noriyuki Asakura - Knights of Sidonia
Shiro Sagisu - Black Bullet
Keigo Hoashi & MONACA - Nanana's Buried Treasure

And there's still a couple mecha/robo anime with no composer announced yet:
M3 -That Black Steel-
Fuuun Ishin Dai Shougun


On the drama side Sahashi and Koroku are both composing for NHK dramas. Kajiura is scoring NHK's new morning drama, replacing Yoko Kanno, but no one here really cares about that (by the way, 2nd Gochisosan soundtrack is due out soon). Yugo Kanno and Senju are scoring TBS dramas.

Also, since you'll all be interested to know, Sawano posted on his Twitter this week that he's currently composing for a new anime.Thanks for the update.

I don't think i've ever seen Ryosuke Nakanishi given a real orchestra before. A lot of the shows he's had to work with lately have been rather low budget so it's nice to see him getting a shot to show his stuff. That aside i hope Senju comes back from dramas at some point to do more anime.

Looks like Sawano's twitter also says we'll get more information on the new show by the end of the month. Crossing my fingers that it's something for this upcoming season.


Also this is just a question but how can you tell if something has fake brass or is a real orchestra? Sometimes the credits are specific about it and other times they aren't. For example didn't Code Geass Akito the Exiled have a real orchestra? But it was never listed in the credits for having one. I've always assumed that if there are multiple people in the strings credits that it would be considered a real orchestra since you have real people playing right? Either way i'm not sure how one can clarify such a thing @_@.

Well, there's more to an orchestra than strings, for starters. ;)

A lot of these cheapo scores will have real strings and pad the rest out with synthesisers. Some are slightly more canny and use crafty tricks like using fake brass but throwing in maybe one human trumpet player and occasionally a trombone, giving them the melody line, and filling out the rest with synth - very clever and the effect can be quite subtle if it's done properly... There are acoustic methods you can use - one of the old favourites in television scoring was to get rid of the low strings (or have a tiny, tiny section) and give their parts to the piano. There's a million ways to do it.

This is where being a decent orchestrator can really help you - knowing what you absolutely cannot live without and how to hide the fact that the other stuff is missing. Case in point - Hirano on Book Of Bantorra; Strings, piano, one sax, one recorder, one trombone, one percussionist. Instead of writing for an orchestra he didn't have and then conjuring up electronic replacements later on, he wrote for the ensemble he had.

Akito does indeed credit a real orchestra - including an unusually meaty brass section - three trumpets, four horns, two trombones, one bass trombone (very fancy), and one tuba.

The best way to find out if something is fake is to listen to it. It's usually very obvious-sounding.

To be fair, you also need a bit of Ear training to recognize the different orchestra sections and instruments. For starters, it's always good to first hear each instrument of the orchestra individually and live to really know the difference to the synthetic sound (The LSO has some great videos on youtube). Then you best listen to a basic orchestral piece that combines the different sections of the orchestra one at a time. My vote goes to my favorite childhood piece for this kind of thing: Ravel - Bolero (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJRE1y5uxOM)
Granted, the problem with most japanese fake orchestra stuff is the very dated quality of the samples, but bringing humanization to samples is also rarely done. Mike Verta has some excellent videos on the subject.

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On the subject of synthesized orchestras, I went to see 300 Rise of an Empire today and damn they really did manage to make an orchestra sound totally fake. Then again at least this time they picked the right composer for a generic orchestral job, some new guy called Junkie XL. I don't know how but he actually wrote a score that makes Tyler Bates' work sound great by comparison. The film could have used a much better score that's for sure.

Also this is just a question but how can you tell if something has fake brass or is a real orchestra? Sometimes the credits are specific about it and other times they aren't.

Sometimes you can tell by the sound, if you have experience listening to a lot of other music that you know is real or synth. Or if you've played the instrument in question. It can also depend on the actual music - in my opinion, there are telltale phrases that computers don't play the way humans would, and these really jump out at me. Not all synth systems are equally good in general, too, and not all composers are equally good at writing to the strengths and weaknesses of synth when they're used to humans (or the reverse case, where someone who taught themselves at a keyboard discovers that what they wrote is awkward or impossible to play on the real instrument).

I think that the more expressive and technically demanding a piece of music is, the harder it is to get a computer to make it sound right - especially if it's something that was written for the physical instrument by a master and you've heard it played by a pro.

Brass is always the most obvious when it comes to fake instruments. Other fake instruments can be a little more deceptive but brass is always a give away. It just sounds fake. But then again, you need apparently need a somewhat experienced ear because I've had these people who act surprised when I tell them Touhou orchestra arrangements have no real instruments involved.


Also a small update to my post the other day...

Yamashita's new soundtrack will be released on May 21st. Sawano's new thing is likely the new Sengoku Basara that was just announced. And the music in the new JoJo PV is sort of interesting (still no composer announced): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F_9IHS_fkk


Including an unusually meaty brass section - three trumpets, four horns, two trombones, one bass trombone (very fancy), and one tuba.
Might interest you to know that Tanaka's Gaist Crusher and Wada's Kindaichi Case Files have around this many in their brass section (9-10 players) based off the recording session pics.

@Sirusjr

Wait, so you're telling me that this giant pile of garbage is somehow labeled orchestral music?! Worse, even decent people I know think it's "awesome" music and listen to it all day. Makes me want to crawl in a cave and wait for a miracle to happen because film music is now at an all-time low. I want to live in a world were "Rowing of the Galley Slaves" is used for ancient sea battles, not terrible electronic noise. I guess I should be thankful that no live players had to play it. Jesus Christ, talk about torture.


These days I can not even comprehend that this all started with Steiner & Korngold. Thanks to human progress and technological advancements we moved from this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJwa9mX0bxA) to this! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh7r5KPhHhU). Williams was only so good because of the influences from these great works, not to mention all the classics, especially the Planets, how many times has he ripped that one off by now?
And thanks to Star Wars we had a new wave of composers inspired by the sound from the past. And now? Endless waves of Zimmer drones (who are not even a fraction as good as him) pave the future for modern film music and it will continue at least a few decades more. At this point a composer has my greatest understanding if he wants to leave Hollywood behind, move to Japan and score "Kawaii adventures of little princess" because at least there he can write like Mozart and people will love it.

I prefer this theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOhxF6xxRio from the New Need for Speed movie. Not near as bad as Junkie XL's junk and quite enjoyable even though the drone nod at the end specifically. I thought '300' was worse than his latest score for Divergent, but that one was also bad, but at least it has some vocal work which was more enjoyable than sitting through a score full of drone, the rest of that score is much drone though; it is just a couple of non-ones which makes the listening experience better overall.

Yamashita's new soundtrack will be released on May 21st.

My money is on this being awesome. I'm glad the soundtrack is coming out relatively soon!

So what is out there that is Epic Choir Orchestral stuff ? I am talking Immediate Music style type of stuff. Any suggestions ?

So what is out there that is Epic Choir Orchestral stuff? I am talking Immediate Music style type of stuff. Any suggestions?

You mean something like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2SwR8HM43A this or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGjQe2RbkaU this, or maybe this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3H1eW2pKic?

Well, there's more to an orchestra than strings, for starters. ;)

A lot of these cheapo scores will have real strings and pad the rest out with synthesisers. Some are slightly more canny and use crafty tricks like using fake brass but throwing in maybe one human trumpet player and occasionally a trombone, giving them the melody line, and filling out the rest with synth - very clever and the effect can be quite subtle if it's done properly... There are acoustic methods you can use - one of the old favourites in television scoring was to get rid of the low strings (or have a tiny, tiny section) and give their parts to the piano. There's a million ways to do it.

This is where being a decent orchestrator can really help you - knowing what you absolutely cannot live without and how to hide the fact that the other stuff is missing. Case in point - Hirano on Book Of Bantorra; Strings, piano, one sax, one recorder, one trombone, one percussionist. Instead of writing for an orchestra he didn't have and then conjuring up electronic replacements later on, he wrote for the ensemble he had.

Akito does indeed credit a real orchestra - including an unusually meaty brass section - three trumpets, four horns, two trombones, one bass trombone (very fancy), and one tuba.

The best way to find out if something is fake is to listen to it. It's usually very obvious-sounding.

Yeah i know there is more to an orchestra besides strings but the strings are the most important part of making it at least SOUND like you have a real orchestra right? ;)

Personally i've always thought that if you hear some kind of background feedback like a slight echo or something then it's probably a real orchestra. Go Shiina's score for Kyousougiga had ton of players and sounded very orchestral but i believe that it was concluded here that it wasn't a real orchestra. I've listened to Taku's Gatchaman Crowds quite a bit but i honestly think it sounds fake a lot of the time. I suppose the abundance of electronic noise could be cause of that though. I should probably listen to a more classical music to get a better ear for it but by golly some composers are good at hiding that kind of stuff lol.

More samples of Yoko Shimomura's upcoming orchestra album "memoria" are on the official website. The tracklist is looking great with a lot of unexpected surprises. Arrangers include Kaoru Wada, Hiroyuki Nakayama, Sachiko Miyano, and Natsumi Kameoka.

Link to website: memoria! / ????25????????? | SQUARE ENIX (http://www.square-enix.co.jp/music/sem/page/memoria/)

Complete tracklist with arranger credits are here: SQEX-10431 | mem�ria! / The Very Best of Yoko Shimomura - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/44072)

I don't really like the Kiss of Jealousy sample as it feels very out of place. Maybe the orchestra comes in later. As for the other pieces, I really enjoy Beware the Forest's Mushrooms, Vector to the Heavens, Theme of Aya, and Elegie. Elegie receives a great piano arrangement from Miyano. I am hoping that the orchestra comes in somewhere. I am definitely not sold on the the piece featuring Hideaways, Kiss of Jealousy. It doesn't seem to feature any orchestration whatsoever and it seems an odd selection given the entire album is orchestral. Omnis Lacrima is sadly the only piece orchestrated by Kaoru Wada and it is the composition featured in the FFXV trailer. With that being said, it will be nice to have the Wada orchestration free of sound effects ;).

Oh and more good news...

"A New World: intimate music from FINAL FANTASY presents fresh arrangements of music from throughout the 25+ years of the FINAL FANTASY catalogue for a variety of chamber ensembles. The programs feature string quartets, piano and guitar solos, duos, trios and other mixed groups of instrumentalists to produce an immediate and personal encounter with the extraordinary FINAL FANTASY musical themes, characters and settings.

The new FINAL FANTASY arrangements are written by Arnie Roth and Eric Roth of AWR Music Productions, the critically-hailed team behind the Distant Worlds concerts, with additional arrangements by Shiro Hamaguchi, Uematsu�s longtime collaborator on the FINAL FANTASY video game soundtrack recordings.

A New World joins Distant Worlds as an exclusive, officially licensed production with the renowned game developer SQUARE ENIX. A New World introduces audiences to the music from FINAL FANTASY on a personal and intimate scale that has yet to be experienced."

I am hoping that means Hamaguchi is finally being brought in to make more music. He is clearly the best at arranging Uematsu's work, imo.

Still waiting for a new arrangement album to include music from Final Fantasy Tactics. Shocking that it hasn't been done yet.

Klnerfan - well I assumed it had to have been done with an orchestra somewhere under that noise because I sat through the credits mostly to see if an orchestra was involved. It listed an orchestrator and orchestra conductor though nothing of the orchestra itself. Perhaps the percussion and Persian vocals were recorded live and the rest of it was synth on top. I've given up trying to figure out if an orchestra was involved or it was just mixed by someone incompetent such that it sounds fake (Castlevania Lord of Shadows 2 anyone? recorded in Abbey Road and manages to sound like shit due to an incompetent mixer). EDIT: It seems 300 Rise of an Empire was in fact recorded with an orchestra. What a waste. Recorded at Eastwood Scoring Stage at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank. For a video about the scoring see: Creating the Music for ?300: Rise of an Empire? | Film Music Reporter (http://filmmusicreporter.com/2014/03/10/creating-the-music-for-300-rise-of-an-empire/)

You mean something like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2SwR8HM43A this or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGjQe2RbkaU this, or maybe this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3H1eW2pKic?

No to the first two & yes to the last. Also think With Great Power, With An Iron Fist etc

Seems like my worst fears have come true, only incompetent monkeys left and right in the scoring business, wearing the cloak of professionalism doing things even an average music student would know to do better by ear ... and those poor souls who had to "play" that, what did they do to deserve this?




And now something completely different: Another entry in my series of pointless suites because old habits don't die, this time...


Claymore
Original Score Suites

Music composed by Masanori Takumi



Download (https://mega.co.nz/#!ekghVSbY!zUTr6gxJv7lRNwVb2tKfKS3qH_V3pKRu903EQNu IMpY)
MP3 / 320kbps / 24 min

01. Slayer of Demons ~The Silver-eyed Witch~
02. Claire's Journey ~Alone in the Wilderness
03. Tale of Teressa ~Adventure of a Hero~
04. Parting ways ~In the Deep Forest~

A really nice score with some very oldschool orchestral tracks, some nice ethnic tracks and some pleasant guitar tracks. I took basically the best parts of the score and tried to form a cohesive structure. Track 1 is Orchestra/Rock, track 2 is Strings/Ethnic, track 3 is pure orchestra and track 4 is Strings/Piano.

Enjoy

I only can console myself that it is better to hire someone like Junkie XL if you are going to ask for a score like 300 Rise of an Empire. Better than hiring someone like Henry Jackman who knows how to write with an orchestra and telling him to write junk like Captain America The Winter Soldier. If you want an industrial score why not hire a rocker or DJ instead of a classical trained composer.

Future Soldier?

LOL silly typo. The music was so much in the style of modern future war fighting trash that I figured that name made sense.

http://static.qobuz.com/images/jaquettes/3149/3149024219825_600.jpgThe Amazing Keystone Big Band Pierre Et Le Loup... Et Le Jazz ! 2013

alava-07.rar (124,07 MB) - uploaded.net (http://ul.to/llxvzeaq)

The Amazing Keystone Big Band (Artiste, Interpr�te), Prokofiev Serge (Compositeur)

Pierre et le Loup r�inventent le jazz ! Denis Podalyd�s et Leslie Menu vous invitent � une dr�le d?aventure : l?adaptation big band du c�l�bre conte de Prokofiev. C?est irr�sistible ! Les instruments du jazz ont remplac� l?orchestre classique pour le plus grand bonheur des enfants et de leurs parents. En compl�ment de programme, une suite de jazz sur les th�mes du conte prolongera le plaisir en faisant la part belle aux improvisations des virtuoses de The Amazing Keystone Big Band . Toute l?histoire du jazz et de ses diff�rents styles est convoqu�e dans ce disque malicieusement illustr� par Martin Jarrie.

So I thought some here might be interested in a little bit of a report from my trip to Japan. My Japanese study before leaving didn't do a lot of good in my actual interactions at restaurants. I still got around fairly well thanks to a good amount of English signage for the subways. I can't believe I actually took the advice of the people who suggested visiting all the various shopping districts was worthwhile. Even Akihabara I was in and out of within 30 minutes. I still think it was worth visiting because I enjoyed going to Meiji Jingu and The Imperial Palace. I was pretty disappointed by how hard it is to get around Tokyo when you aren't heading to a major landmark. Smaller brew pubs I had on the map were impossible to find even when showing the map to a local. It doesn't help that I have no sense of direction. I would also say a visit to Japan is best enjoyed with drinking Sake because craft beer isn't yet at the level it needs to be to be more accessible. Plus the sake you get in Japan is much better quality than what reaches the US.

I can agree that Japanese beer brews are usually terrible, but I haven't tried to venture out to more lesser-known ones...

I can agree that Japanese beer brews are usually terrible, but I haven't tried to venture out to more lesser-known ones...

But that's the problem, finding Japanese Craft Beer (Ji Biiru) is very difficult except for the brewery I was able to visit on Tokyo Bay. Only a few little pubs have them and they charge you around 800yen per pint! Compare that with 800 yen for a good mid-range sake served in 330ml portions at a restaurant. Not only is craft beer hard to find it is expensive. Decent sake is everywhere, good quality, and cheaper.

I can't believe I actually took the advice of the people who suggested visiting all the various shopping districts was worthwhile.

I believe I was one of those people and I stand by my advice. You have a way of making it sound like people who misunderstand your very specific requirements are raving idiots. Only you will know what you like to do and it's hardly anybody's fault if you don't enjoy some of the things they thought you might. It's the luck of the draw.


Even Akihabara I was in and out of within 30 minutes.

I was there for about five hours and had to be dragged away by my girlfriend who was afraid I would spend all my money in one afternoon. Horses for courses, friend... ;)


I was pretty disappointed by how hard it is to get around Tokyo when you aren't heading to a major landmark. Smaller brew pubs I had on the map were impossible to find even when showing the map to a local. It doesn't help that I have no sense of direction.

Tokyo's a bit of a maze, to be sure... but isn't that the same in any country you're unfamiliar with? Not everything's going to be within five yards of a station on the Yamanote line. Getting lost and figuring things out is part of the fun. I imagine if you'd been there for longer it would've been less stressful. It's all well and good me saying "getting lost is fun" when you've got ten days to fart around... with all the stuff you were trying to squeeze in to just a few days, it must've been really irritating.

I could tell you how to get to Buckingham Palace, or Big Ben, or the Houses of Parliament quite easily, but how about my favourite Hi-fi store in Hoxton, round the back of a long alley, off a one way street, three quarters of a mile away from the tube station? Not quite so easy. Even if I gave you a map, you'd probably get lost. I expect I'd have the same problem where you live.


I would also say a visit to Japan is best enjoyed with drinking Sake because craft beer isn't yet at the level it needs to be to be more accessible.

Japan is not a country with a big beer brewing tradition. You go there to drink sake, plum wine, and Shochu. Beer was imported by the Dutch only a short while ago.

If you want beer, go to the UK, Germany, or Belgium. ;)

Hope you had a great time, all things considered... :)

From what I remember of past discussions (elsewhere), it really is harder to navigate Tokyo than in other countries, because they still use a traditional Japanese addressing system; the building numbers aren't all in a order by street (or any other pattern), they're related to when the buildings were built or something. You just have to know, or have a guide, or maybe GPS maps. Random people on the street won't be able to help unless you're already physically close.

I'm mostly a lurker on this thread. Have stuck my head in a few times before. Always extremely grateful to everyone who hangs around here; not just for the music, but for the great conversation and opinion that hangs around here too. So it is with a little bit of trepidation that I write this post. I composed a lot when I was younger - with varying degrees of success - and I had the joy of conducting an orchestra while at university. Most recently, I've been able to re-indulge in composition through samples and so on, which have come a long way from when I first started. Anyway: to the point! I really respect the ears and tastes of the people around here, so I'd be terribly obliged if you'd cast your discerning ear over the following short tune that I have, as the people in this business say, "mocked up." Please feel free to completely savage it. Both the composition and the "recording" - albeit on one condition: that you'll listen to future ones too, to see if there is improvement!

FLAC:
https://mega.co.nz/#!eRVFjQCB!pUc8qC0neVcYiMZ-cXuzJ0iKTvCiPeUb5hSrAVsSTmQ

MP3@320kb/s:
https://mega.co.nz/#!XJsWQSqb!NMHzU-Yb2dx5nNtJaHEUSzzzHZh0KgERyCBBC4En1CM

And the music in the new JoJo PV is sort of interesting (still no composer announced): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F_9IHS_fkk
It's just been announced Yugo Kanno is the composer.

Von Stalhein, my biggest concern is the title. :) It's more "embarking on an exciting quest" than "colliding worlds". Those slightly out-of-tune strings - by any chance, is it LASS? I liked the woodwinds at 0:30. On the other hand, the polyphony around 2:10 didn't work out too well, balancing voices in a fake orchestra is a daunting task. Also, by that time the piece started feeling a bit monotonous - I was expecting the motif to evolve. Regarding development, this thread will point you to a fine example - Jerry Goldsmith's "The Enterprise" (6th track in the Star Trek TMP soundtrack). There the recognizable motif appears 8 times and the whole theme 3 times (last one is cut short) but each pass through is unique and fresh (which can't be said about what happens on the screen at that time - it takes them bloody six minutes of flying around the ship in the drydock to finally board it). I'm looking forward to your future works!

Today i've Go Sakabe's latest score for Sonico the animation. It's pretty cheap but rather harmless and easy on the ears. I'd say it's an improvement from KKK though. It's good to see that Go Sakabe with be scoring for the second Date a Live series that airs this April. Hoping it'll be just as good as the first. Ryosuke's score for Sakura Trick is pretty much the same kind of fair. Oh and there is some good old Tatsuya Kato as well if anyone here is interested.............. (laughs).

PCCG-01393 | SONIANI -SUPER SONICO THE ANIMATION- ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/43863)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/img004_zps223c7f9b.jpg.html)

Title: SONIANI -SUPER SONICO THE ANIMATION- ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Go Sakabe
No. of tracks: 36
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Mar 19, 2014
Size: MP3 173mb/ ALAC 421mb
Host: Zippy/MP3 Mega/ALAC

Tracklist
01 SoniAni - Main Theme (http://kiwi6.com/file/bhvlyzcy5a)
02 SoniAni Main Theme ~Take It Easy~
03 Sunnyday Working
04 Spy
05 Unexpected Rain
06 Skippin' Girl
07 Minuet in College
08 Meitei
09 Polka Dot I
10 Terror of Zombie
11 Catch the Sonic I
12 Yasashii Hito
13 Takanaru Kimochi
14 Immigrant Breakdown
15 Friends Forever
16 Chiisana Sekai no Chiisana Watashi
17 Zombie Panic
18 Yosougai Sonic!!
19 Mousou Suiri
20 SoniAni - Main Theme ~Good Night~
21 Unexpected Rain (drizzle)
22 KI・TA・MU・RA
23 Polka Dot II
24 Unexpected Rain (misty)
25 Road to Sonic
26 Tension
27 Shidoromodoro
28 Catch the Sonic II
29 SoniAni - Main Theme ~Kichijoji Breeze~
30 Ike! Chura Ranger!
31 Mid Summer Sonic!
32 Nankurunai sa
33 Silent Night
34 Happy Christmas
35 Daydream
36 Yell for Tomorrow

320 kbs MP3
Zippyshare.com - SONIANI -SUPER SONICO THE ANIMATION- ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK (animeost).7z (http://www17.zippyshare.com/v/52086788/file.html)

ALAC (Loseless)
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PCCG-01391 | Sakura Trick Original Soundtrack - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/43693)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/img016_zps6dbc7c3a.jpg.html)

Title:Sakura Trick Original Soundtrack
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Ryosuke Nakanishi
No. of tracks: 36
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Mar 19, 2014
Size: MP3 158mb/ ALAC 338mb
Host: Zippy/MP3 Mega/ALAC

Tracklist
01 Main Theme
02 Sakurairo no Hitotoki
03 Heart ga Dokidoki
04 Nakayoshi
05 Kokoro Koko ni Arazu?
06 Otoboke no Waltz
07 Urusaku Shichau yo?
08 Relax Time
09 Kashimashi Kashimashi
10 Yoru ni Omou
11 Romantic
12 Kinchou
13 Tokubetsu na Koto
14 Kyou mo Nanika ga Okorisou
15 Sakurairo no Nichijou
16 Ottori Nonbiri Nohohonto
17 Aa Higeki no Heroine
18 Baiser
19 Ken'aku
20 Ten kara no Hikari
21 Vacances no Joou
22 Kokoro no Zawameki
23 Suppai Daisakusen
24 Suspicious
25 Horror na Kibun
26 Get Set Ready Go
27 Zettai Zetsumei!?
28 Yasashiku Kiss-shite
29 Carnival of Light
30 Snow White (http://kiwi6.com/file/nxn4d1micx)
31 Tasogaredoki
32 After Hours
33 Service Scene
34 Mata Ashita
35 Ohiruyasumi
36 Sakurairo Moment


320 kbs MP3
Zippyshare.com - Sakura Trick Original Soundtrack (animeost).7z (http://www17.zippyshare.com/v/18259151/file.html)

ALAC (Loseless)
https://mega.co.nz/#!GQ4FiT5C!J-4L4zYNtz1EoCl6lkf-n2rlHad-dNRqeIbi4-CI6uU


ANZX-11062 | Sekai Seifuku ~Bouryaku no Zvezda~ Vol.1 Bonus CD - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/43690)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/img030_zps50c8ed8e.jpg.html)

Title: Sekai Seifuku ~Bouryaku no Zvezda~ Vol.1 Bonus CD
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Tatsuya Kato, Masato Nakayama
No. of tracks: 19
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Mar 19, 2014
Size: MP3 154mb/ ALAC 299mb
Host: Zippy/MP3 Mega/ALAC

Tracklist
01 ZZZ ~Theme of ZVEZDA~
02 ZZZ ~Theme of ZVEZDA~ (Instrumental)
03 Eschatology
04 Asuta's Everyday Ennui
05 Theme of ZVEZDA
06 There's Only One Thing That I Can Do
07 From the Dining Table to the Graveyard
08 People of the Hiroshima Dialect Without Honor and Humanity
09 Codenamed ODIN
10 Theme of WHITE LIGHT
11 The Place Where Fairies Exist
12 UDO's in the Cold Ground
13 The Long Desired Starlight
14 Secret Society War Council
15 War Front to the End of the World (http://kiwi6.com/file/covi6yjnk3)
16 For Conquest the Bell Tolls
17 The Super Ancient Udogawa Civilization
18 The After School Treasure Club
19 May the Light of ZVEZDA Shine Throughout This World!


320 kbs MP3
Zippyshare.com - Sekai Seifuku ~Bouryaku no Zvezda~ Vol.1 Bonus CD (animeost).7z (http://www17.zippyshare.com/v/95007888/file.html)

ALAC (Loseless)
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Next week I will have another giant haul but the major ones i'm looking forward to are of course SPACE☆DANDY courtesy of the space dandy band and Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha done by Takeshi Senoo (his first anime score in like 5 years!).

It's just been announced Yugo Kanno is the composer.
Yeah, I saw. I'm sure Kanno will deliver a score better than Matsuo's Part 1 and Iwasaki's Part 2 assuming he hasn't used all his energy on Gunshi Kanbee.

Though he's already back in electronic/orchestra mode for his upcoming drama.

I don't think anybody suddenly expected Yugo Kanno to go symphonic on every single project just because he happened to approach ONE very expensive period drama that way. I'm pretty excited to see what he'll come up with for Jojo. Hopefully he will have some semblance of budget - Iwasaki had more than Matsuo, so here's wishing for another Tetsuwan Birdy Decode... ;)

(Speaking of Iwasaki's Jojo, it had maybe the greatest piece he's ever written - Il Mare Eterno Nella Mia Anima. Yes, that glorious piece of romantic opera was written by Iwasaki specifically for the show.)

I didn't either but I thought, y'know, it'd be nice if he stayed in Kanbee mode for just a little longer. :)

(Edit: Also, as lovely as that piece may be, I'd still pick Standing in the Sunset Glow as Iwasaki's best.)

(Speaking of Iwasaki's Jojo, it had maybe the greatest piece he's ever written - Il Mare Eterno Nella Mia Anima. Yes, that glorious piece of romantic opera was written by Iwasaki specifically for the show.)

Would have missed this gem among the noisy electronica... Thanks!!!

In more Yugo Kanno news, apparently he is also composing for the latest Gundam - Reconguista in G series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX_kQZLb64E
Sounds like err, heavy synth? Hopefully/Probably just some mockup since it's only premiering in Fall 2014.

WHAT? Tomino is directing a new Gundam?! YES YES YES YES YES YES YESSSSSSSSSSSSS! Yugo Kanno is scoring it? OK, that's just amazing.

There is no way in hell that a) Gundam, b) Tomino, c) 35th Anniversary, and d) Yugo Kanno would get short changed with a shitty music budget. This will be a quick mock-up and nothing more - it might not even be the final theme. Have a listen to Tetsuwan Birdy Decode to see what Kanno does with Mecha and a decent budget. And with an "old git" (I mean this with great affection) in the director's chair you can bet he'll be asking Kanno for music not sound design.

Absolutely excited beyond all common sense at this one. Thanks for the news!

Edit: I have a feeling they may even go Warsaw for this one. Just a little inkling.

Yugo Kanno is picking up some seriously high profile projects this year. The guy is on a roll.

A taiga drama, JoJo, and now a Gundam... and not just any Gundam, a Tomino Gundam. He now potentially has a chance to surpass his work on Gunshi Kanbee... already. Very exciting stuff.

Now then, I hope they get someone interesting for Origin as well.

Ok, next season seems already promising enough and now this ... it looks like this year will be a blast!

My dream announcement would be Sahashi with the LSO for Gundam: The Origin. I couldn't think of a better farewell gift for (and from) this "old" composer rather than just fading away in the background with no music tribute concert whatsoever. But looking at it a bit more realistic, Michiru Oshima is more likely (not that I mind).

I'm keen to know in what universe you think Michiru Oshima will get a Gundam series...! ;)

Don't get me wrong, I'd love it... but I would think she's not even on the radar.

Edit: And I'd hate to think of a Sahashi farewell... It's entirely possible he's just going through a bit of a snooze. He's only 54, which is barely middle aged in composer terms - six years younger than Kohei Tanaka, three years younger than Amano, nine years younger than Hisaishi.

I have a feeling Sahashi will "be back" - big time - sometime in the not too distant future. (Based on nothing but a suspicion.)

@Frogged: Thanks for the feedback! You're right that it is poorly titled, in retrospect. I wrote it when I was much younger and it was attached to a project of that name; I never bothered to think about selecting a more appropriate title for the music itself. The strings are actually Hollywood Strings (from EWQL). I set them to play with no-to-little vibrato, and the non-vib samples have that "slightly out of tune"-ness to them. I own LASS as well, and they're even harder to "tame" - the amount of bow and resin noise in the samples is ridiculously high. However, depending on the context (and subtle EQ) they do sound more life-like than Hollywood Strings. In any case, thank you for the encouragement! (And pointing out the horn polyphony: I have no idea how that got under my radar...!)

More Kanno news today. It just keeps coming.

Yoko Kanno is teaming up with director Shinichiro Watanabe for a third time. This time for a suspense/thriller anime airing this July.

It was also announced today that Psycho-Pass 2 will air in October with a movie coming the following winter. Yugo Kanno will presumably return to score both of them.

^ I JUST now saw that on ANN. This spring/summer is looking to be great. Are Shinichiro and Yoko good buddies or something? It can't be a coincidence they team up whenever Shinichiro gets chosen as a director for a show. Not that I'm complaining :)

Preview: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ioyu0

(for some reason youtube has blocked the video in just about every country)

Any new Kanno has got to be good news... this could be her next symphonic masterpiece, but let's wait and see... Noitamina suggests budget but 11 episodes and the subject matter heavily imply there won't be any Warsaw here.

Kanno only does symphonic masterpieces when she teams up with Kawamori or Tomino.

Hi Kreachure,
link is dead can you reup please.

Thanks for all.

arkhonte74, which link?

#18 (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/#post1118207)
#69 (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/3.html#post1119788)

I saw Kotaro Nakagawa will be scoring a mecha anime for the first time since Code Geass. The PV music is very synthy which is a bit worrisome considering it will air in around 3 months time. If they get him some real musicians before then, though, this could be a treat.

Hakugin no Ishi Argevollen PV (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHpHFaKdNJU)


Also, there's a new Black Butler series airing this July. Taku Iwasaki did some good music for the first two seasons but he will not be returning for the latest entry in the series, presumably because he's busy with other projects. This time we're getting an even more prolific composer: Yasunori Mitsuda. Definitely something to watch out for.

Yep from the sound of things it'll be another THE UNLIMITED Kyosuke Hyoubu/Devil Survivor 2 synth score with no real orchestra. I personally don't mind it that much since it's great to hear anything from Kotaro since he hasn't been all that active lately but it would still be kind of disappointing.

I hope it has a healthy amount of jazz tho <3

What with recent Yugo Kanno news, it seems like a good time to post this little gem, which I've been holding on to waiting for just the right time... ;)


YUGO KANNO
Spring Concert 2013



RUNNING TIME: 1:54:08

HIGH QUALITY VERSION: Video (H264 848x480), Audio AC3 2-channel 256kbps (untouched from DVD)
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JUST-ABOUT TOLERABLE QUALITY VERSION: Video (H264 416x240), Audio AAC 2-channel ~80kbps
https://mega.co.nz/#!88QxWCIa!XIi1-XvYeAVrvoipA-vMIlYza_ZMmx7sd6KpPHRLesU (242mb)

Main Theme from Resident~5-nin no Kenshui on YouTube:
Yugo Kanno - Resident~5-nin no Kenshui (Main Theme) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkx2q4IcGWA)

Coming up:
Audio-only version

Yugo Kanno shares the conducting duties with another gentleman who I believe I recognise, but I can't read the Japanese so I couldn't tell you who he was. I hope somebody will be able to assist.

This is a wonderful concert in which Kanno does a Joe Hisaishi - conducting, performing, and generally showing off his eclectic style. There's a bit of everything here - orchestral drama themes, big-screen action, solo piano pieces, jazz, funky sax grooves, electronica, you name it... and a thoroughly bizzare section near the end where everybody starts singing about Yugo himself, leaving him looking very embarrassed!

Wrong link, tango. The first link is the BBC Hollywood Rhapsody Prom.

Looking back, most of the decent orchestral stuff on Kotaro Nakagawa albums, especially Code Geass, wasn't actually written by him to begin with. Most of the good stuff was written by Hitomi Kuroishi. You can see composer breakdowns on VGMDB since unlike Zimmer the breakdowns are listed in the booklets. Thus it isn't surprising now that Hitomi Kuroishi has gone on to do her own stuff that the latest Kotaro Nakagawa stuff isn't particularly exciting.

Oh, SHIT! Sorry mate... Correct link now in place.

For those of you who did like the music to Da Vinci's Demons, here is a look at what we can expect in Season 2. I am so happy that McCreary took the amazing themes he wrote and found new ways to incorporate them into the new locale of Peru. I thought it particularly interesting that Bear wrote music around authentic Inca music which were performed by people from the Andes mountain region. I think his writing is at its finest with this show. He really must be inspired by what David S. Goyer and his team have created.

Also, the first piece featured in the video sounds a little like Hitoshi Sakimoto in the strings which isn't a bad thing at all!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH_zyqo9FDo

Additionally...


YASUNORI MITSUDA and NATSUMI KAMEOKA
Inazuma Eleven Go Galaxy



https://mega.co.nz/#!V8oAQA7a!C9rlMgk3zrZ32N90XycGGgqoKYNmXq8be6TW4xK 8Cwg

Not my rip. FLAC at Level 8. Discovered on JPDDL - range rip split and retagged in English by me, using VGMdb translations.

Samples at Kiwi6: http://kiwi6.com/file/8birb67pml

Well, it's all finished - Inazuma Eleven has packed up and gone home after running continuously for five years. The first series was scored by Yasunori Mitsuda (and friends), the second by Shiho Terada (in full Toshihiko Sahashi mode but with a tiny orchestra) and the third and forth by Mitsuda and Kameoka. This final score in the series represents yet another Japanese miracle - such wonderful, thematic, unashamedly orchestral music turning up in a crappy kids show about football rivals. It boggles the mind. But, it's Japan - so we're used to such things.

Performed by a ludicrously large orchestra (81 players - completely unprecedented for a domestically-recorded Japanese score) it's unusually lush and relentlessly tuneful. The lion's share is by Mitsuda with twenty minutes by Kameoka; although Mitsuda is credited as "arranger" on his own pieces, Kameoka's fingerprints are all over his pieces... Her cues are generally the most interesting musically but that's not to say Mitsuda's aren't any good - they're fantastic too.

Her Grand Finale cue ("To The End Of Everything") is just amazing; tremolo strings, a brassy fanfare, a retrospective piano performance of the main theme and a triumphant full-orchestra closure that plays to the series' sci-fi concept with music that you would expect to hear at the conclusion of a grand space battle. Just wonderful. We don't get enough of these; occasions where the orchestral score gets to go all-out "THE END" and finish with a bang.

Enjoy :)
TT

Well if anyone was wondering what went through Henry Jackman's mind when writing Captain America The Winter Soldier, this interview will help. Though it makes me shudder thinking of how much time they spend trying to come up with really dark sounds. No wonder I don't really like it.
https://www.samplesumo.com/artists/henry-jackman

I was especially disturbed by this quote though:
"Often it’s interesting to generate frequencies which you think are not inherent in the source signal at all. Like for instance, there is an extremely disturbing symphony sound for the historical Nazis in Captain America. Now, a timpani as of itself has connotations of gravity, classicalness and history because the timpani is part of the symphony orchestra. But just a regular recording of a timpani is going to be boring and just sound like every other timpani, but let’s start with that as a source sound."

Ah yes, the statement of the musically illiterate and compositionally challenged; he blames the instrument, ignoring the fact that it's not what you've got, it's what you do with it that counts...

Oh well, bugger Jackass (sorry, America - we've unleashed yet another hopeless prick on your movies) and his noisy score...

If they had any skill they could make the orchestra very disturbing without needing to run filters. Bernard Herrmann and Max Steiner were masters of that.

Damn straight.

Other master orchestrators for whom the symphony orchestra was "good enough" for them to express themselves: Rimsky Korsakov, Vaughan Williams, Ravel, Wagner, Scriabin, Berlioz, Dvorak, Richard Strauss, Mahler...

maybe jackman is just more accustomed to hearing the detail of a (timpani) sound, the same way that an experienced piano listener can tell *how* something is played (my English fails me here, but I guess key touch or key"strike" [Anschlag] of playing would be an example) rather than just what the melody is.

that does not mean he's not inapt or too lazy to use the orchestra effectively, but claiming as I read you that 'the orchestra can do mood/etc just fine, so no need to do anything else but always do them by proper orchestration/harmonization/melodic development/conducting' doesn't ring true to me, when building new instruments or pretending you have with the help of a cpu is also possible.

Shouldn't there be a wealth of things you can do with manipulation? What if Herrman had invented the harp in his time to make underwater sounds; wouldn't some people claim the Rheingold Vorspiel violins did water just fine, thank you very much (If we forget Harps in the rest of the Opera for the sake of argument)?

So are you sure there is no sound similar but not identical to the timpano (? :-) ) that could ever be more appropriate than what a percussionist+surroundings can do?

What with recent Yugo Kanno news, it seems like a good time to post this little gem, which I've been holding on to waiting for just the right time... ;)


YUGO KANNO
Spring Concert 2013



RUNNING TIME: 1:54:08

HIGH QUALITY VERSION: Video (H264 848x480), Audio AC3 2-channel 256kbps (untouched from DVD)
https://mega.co.nz/#!o95x2R4I!NVaWpUv_pekbMhWSIOn4CCtGkwlFIk8JY1sbQGV 37qI (WARNING: 1.2gb)

JUST-ABOUT TOLERABLE QUALITY VERSION: Video (H264 416x240), Audio AAC 2-channel ~80kbps
https://mega.co.nz/#!88QxWCIa!XIi1-XvYeAVrvoipA-vMIlYza_ZMmx7sd6KpPHRLesU (242mb)

Main Theme from Resident~5-nin no Kenshui on YouTube:
Yugo Kanno - Resident~5-nin no Kenshui (Main Theme) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkx2q4IcGWA)

Coming up:
Audio-only version

Yugo Kanno shares the conducting duties with another gentleman who I believe I recognise, but I can't read the Japanese so I couldn't tell you who he was. I hope somebody will be able to assist.

This is a wonderful concert in which Kanno does a Joe Hisaishi - conducting, performing, and generally showing off his eclectic style. There's a bit of everything here - orchestral drama themes, big-screen action, solo piano pieces, jazz, funky sax grooves, electronica, you name it... and a thoroughly bizzare section near the end where everybody starts singing about Yugo himself, leaving him looking very embarrassed!

Really great !!!
Thanks a lot for this and can't wait for the audio version

maybe jackman is just more accustomed to hearing the detail of a (timpani) sound, the same way that an experienced piano listener can tell *how* something is played (my English fails me here, but I guess key touch or key"strike" [Anschlag] of playing would be an example) rather than just what the melody is.

*snip*


Excellent points, there. I think my problem with Jackman comes from his in-articulateness. Herrmann was first and foremost a musician, and when his ideas exceeded his ensemble, he modified instruments and employed sophisticated (for the era) sound manipulation techniques to get what he wanted. I suspect Herrmann had his reasons for doing so, and that those reasons were a little more sophisticated than "a timpani is f*****g boring".

Herrmann was also a master orchestrator; with a solid musical education, decades of experience, and very evident genius.

I think that when you decide that a symphony orchestra - the most expressive instrument ever created by man, and one which has stood the test of time - yes it's evolved but its foundations were laid 500 years ago) - isn't "good enough" for you, you need to make a good case for it. It needs to be evident that you're actually doing what you're doing to further music in some way, not merely to disguise your own limited ability with "weird sounds".

It's funny, isn't it... These new guys talk at great length how they work on sound design, manipulation, and Jackman spends hours messing around with a timpani sample for "just the right sound" - and yet, all the scores sound the same, and they have the exact same amount of artistic worth. (IE, almost none.)

Herrmann would listen to these scores and, assuming he was in a really, REALLY good mood, probably say something like "You did all this clever stuff to your instruments, but your instruments are still playing shitty music."

Benny knew what he was doing. So did Goldsmith, another pioneer but in terms of actually integrating electronics into the orchestra.

Jackman, by comparison, takes a "boring" timpani (Mahler didn't think it was boring when he used it as a signal of death in his unfinished tenth symphony, Nielsen didn't when he wrote an almost-concerto for it in his fourth symphony) and makes it "interesting" by putting it through some gravelly electronic filter.

Edit: Sahashi's historical drama has aired. Sounding very good indeed! :D

"But just a regular recording of a timpani is going to be boring and just sound like every other timpani…."

Said the dilettante. That's gotta be one of the most inane remarks I've read this past week (and he's gotta lot of competition).

^^ Welcome back!

^^ Welcome back!

Nothing like a successful wannabe arteeste articulating(!!!) their feebleminded creative insight to get my goat. And don't get me started on their dull-witted idolaters.

Tango, I must say this new Inazuma Eleven score is quite lovely. And this is from someone who just didn't connect to the previous ones. Not only does it make good use of the orchestra to present some lovely melodies but it also makes good use of guitars for carrying beautiful melodies instead of covering up the orchestra.

Nothing like a successful wannabe arteeste articulating(!!!) their feebleminded creative insight to get my goat. And don't get me started on their dull-witted idolaters.

I still haven't forgiven him for his delightfully erudite "That's not a f*****g theme, it's a f*****g bassline!" diatribe...


Tango, I must say this new Inazuma Eleven score is quite lovely. And this is from someone who just didn't connect to the previous ones.

Really glad you're enjyoing it! Did you try Chrono Stone?

If you posted Chrono Stone I probably did. I might have listened to it a few times but it didn't grab me enough to go back later. I tend to forget things pretty fast if they aren't good enough to get buried in at the beginning.

I'm certain Tango didn't post it in this thread. I can assure you it's very close to Galaxy, I would even say both scores compliment each other beautifully, same massive ensemble and all.
I just looked at the booklet and bloody hell: SIX trumpets!, FIVE trombones!, NINE horns! and TWO tubas! and unlike Hollywood you can actually hear the difference!
I was actually tempted to do a Inazuma best of or just the orchestral score but it has the same problem that Final Fantasy has ... just too much great music. Even if I had to cut all rock tracks and some orchestral pieces I didn't enjoy that much it would still be over two hours of worthwhile stuff, so just buy the individual soundtracks you enjoyed the most.
Level 5 productions are mostly top quality in music and budget and it makes me really excited for their next big PS4 debut. More Ni No Kuni would be out of this world but I doubt that a sequel will happen.

Additionally...


YASUNORI MITSUDA and NATSUMI KAMEOKA
Inazuma Eleven Go Galaxy



https://mega.co.nz/#!V8oAQA7a!C9rlMgk3zrZ32N90XycGGgqoKYNmXq8be6TW4xK 8Cwg

Not my rip. FLAC at Level 8. Discovered on JPDDL - range rip split and retagged in English by me, using VGMdb translations.

Samples at Kiwi6: Untitled - Listen and download mp3 - Kiwi6 Mp3 Upload (http://kiwi6.com/file/8birb67pml)

Well, it's all finished - Inazuma Eleven has packed up and gone home after running continuously for five years. The first series was scored by Yasunori Mitsuda (and friends), the second by Shiho Terada (in full Toshihiko Sahashi mode but with a tiny orchestra) and the third and forth by Mitsuda and Kameoka. This final score in the series represents yet another Japanese miracle - such wonderful, thematic, unashamedly orchestral music turning up in a crappy kids show about football rivals. It boggles the mind. But, it's Japan - so we're used to such things.

Performed by a ludicrously large orchestra (81 players - completely unprecedented for a domestically-recorded Japanese score) it's unusually lush and relentlessly tuneful. The lion's share is by Mitsuda with twenty minutes by Kameoka; although Mitsuda is credited as "arranger" on his own pieces, Kameoka's fingerprints are all over his pieces... Her cues are generally the most interesting musically but that's not to say Mitsuda's aren't any good - they're fantastic too.

Her Grand Finale cue ("To The End Of Everything") is just amazing; tremolo strings, a brassy fanfare, a retrospective piano performance of the main theme and a triumphant full-orchestra closure that plays to the series' sci-fi concept with music that you would expect to hear at the conclusion of a grand space battle. Just wonderful. We don't get enough of these; occasions where the orchestral score gets to go all-out "THE END" and finish with a bang.

Enjoy :)
TT

Would you recommend the OSTs that came earlier in the series?

Reminds me that Kameoka's first solo soundtrack hasn't been posted here. She did a really great job with it.


NATSUMI KAMEOKA - KEN GA KIMI ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
MP3 320K | SCANS | 114.7 MB | 18 TRACKS | 00:46:27
Studio Orchestra


VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/41181)
Catalog Number: REC-092
Release Date: Jan 29, 2014

Tracklist
01. 「剣が君」 (http://kiwi6.com/file/zu3ft89wci) http://i.imgur.com/v9WfOyB.gif
02. 江戸、その日常
03. それぞれの道へ
04. 旅、東海道道中記
05. 戦闘、一番刀は誰のもの
06. 悲劇、その呪縛
07. 御前試合、天下五剣
08. マレビト、その呪い
09. 謎
10. その想いの先に
11. 涙
12. 決意
13. 激怒
14. 失意と哀しみの中で
15. 茜色の夕陽は
16. 終幕、剣
17. 終幕、剣（ハープソロ）
18. 終幕、君

1~17 composed and arranged by Natsumi Kameoka
18 composed by Yasunori Mitsuda, arranged by Natsumi Kameoka

Ripped/scanned by resha_12.

Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!tMllSbwS!U_jl_O43XJdAV3R75skF2AVxebXMgqW0O6t3YqA jXbw

Note: Disc 2 is drama tracks, so I didn't include it.

I thought some in this thread might like to know that Kritzerland has re-issued Hugo Friedhofer's score to One Eyed Jacks. This is one of my favorite Friedhofer scores and was a quick sell-out originally. If owning a copy matters to you, now is the time to order. Samples on Kritzerland's website are always pretty representative if you are unfamiliar with the music. It is a delightful Spanish-styled romantic score with some classy percussion-driven action music. The love theme gets me every time.

Thanks for Ken ga Kimi, nextday. It's lovely (Track 10 is the cute piece I needed for the day)!

It seems Silvestri would rather just not score Marvel films anymore as Brian Tyler is the man who will be writing the "music" to Avengers 2: The Age of Ultron. I at least hope he will try to make it orchestral like the first film and not like what Jackman did with Cap 2. I'm looking at this news with a lot of reservations...

I think it's better that way. It's more painful when a good composer has to produce trash to be "hip" then when a mediocre one just makes mediocre music for a mediocre cash-in. The man did Back to the Future for god's sake! I just hope he's finally fed up with all this current bullshit.

You might be right, klnerfan. Still Silvestri might have done wonders with it... I really loved his theme for the first Captain America film.

Announcement of The Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2014 Anime Of The Year Winning Programs And Winners: (http://animefestival.jp/en/post/259/)

>Best Music: Hiroyuki Sawano

:/

It seems Silvestri would rather just not score Marvel films anymore as Brian Tyler is the man who will be writing the "music" to Avengers 2: The Age of Ultron. I at least hope he will try to make it orchestral like the first film and not like what Jackman did with Cap 2. I'm looking at this news with a lot of reservations...

Tyler's scores for Thor 2 and Iron Man 3 were both full Orchestra scores (especially Thor 2), so i don't see any reason the Avengers 2 would be any different.

Just because Tyler is willing to do electronic music doesn't mean that's all he can do. I totally don't get people's reservations regarding Tyler. He's classically trained and not a part of RCP, so why is he treated as though he were? I think his music is great. Try listening to his score for The Greatest Game Ever Played.

Because his scores can be/are dull?

Announcement of The Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2014 Anime Of The Year Winning Programs And Winners: (http://animefestival.jp/en/post/259/)

>Best Music: Hiroyuki Sawano

:/ Who else did you expect there? I'm not sure how they judge these kinds of things whether it be opinions from the fans, sales or reputation but no matter how you look at it Sawano is always on top ^__^. I'd personally put Michiru Oshima on there for her work on Tempest but the sad fact is people don't want to fork over 80-100 dollars JUST for an OST which is why a lot of her recent work has gone unnoticed since just about everything she's done in the past year has been cursed to enclosure hell.

Because his scores can be/are dull?

Yes, some can be. I don't have more than one of his Fast/Furious scores because of this, but like i mentioned, that stuff is only one small part of what he does. Children Of Dune, DragonBall Z, The Greatest Game Ever Played, Iron Man 3, shit, even Timeline - these are all great scores. Heck, Tyler's score for Iron Man 3 was the best part of the whole stupid movie.

Obviously everyone is entitled to their own opinion, i just think Tyler's got some real talent and the results are great when he is allowed to do something original.

I love Silvestri - i grew up on his work, but i feel he can be boring as well. Everyone can when they're forced to mimic this or that temp score. Silvestri, just like Horner, or even Tyler, can all be repetitive. They each go to their bag of tricks, but each of them can really really shine when inspired and have the freedom to really create.

That's my two cents on it.

Who else did you expect there?

Someone who can actually write music would be a good start.

If it were judged by musical quality, Sawano wouldn't even have a nomination. But, as we have all learned time and time again, these awards are nothing to do with what's good and everything to do with lowest-common-denominator popularity.

Never mind. Gustavo Santaolalla has twice as many Oscars as Jerry Goldsmith. That tells you everything you need to know right there.

Can't even bring up Sawano without some insults being thrown his way around here lol :P. To each their own i suppose.

Btw here is an interview with Dai Sato about Space Dandy. He's apparently a well versed musician and has written quite a few works for notable shows like Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell. He also talks a bit about the "golden age" of anime and how it relates to the style they chose for Space Dandy. Pretty interesting read.

'Cowboy Bebop' screenwriter shares his secrets at Anime Boston | The Daily Dot (http://www.dailydot.com/fandom/dai-sato-anime-boston-cowboy-bebop-space-dandy/)

I totally don't get people's reservations regarding Tyler. He's classically trained and not a part of RCP, so why is he treated as though he were?

Because he cribs from the bottom of the barrel of other, superior creative artists and who has yet, despite his so-called training, to demonstrate any competence in long form dramatic or compositional structure (even back in the '90's when he was pilfering from Goldsmith's toy box) or other more demanding conceptual skills such as orchestration and counterpoint.

See, the thing is, Tyler, like Zimmer, Zimmer's prot�g�s and the remaining lower caste, compose and/or point 'n click for an orchestra as though it were a three man garage band with a sampled Mormon Tabernacle Choir jamming in some ticky-tacky suburban hell-hole in Whitebread, U.S.A.. The music is invariably coarse, inarticulate and unpracticed and it's been all the rage these past 18 years because…?

What's being sold today with the prime grade label is mostly effluent flushed from a factory farm system that's been raising a herd of castrated journeymen on the carcasses of the older, more experienced and higher educated talent that was put out to pasture, the result being most filmscores out of Hollywoodland these days seem to sound like they come from the sole baton of one Creutzfeldt–Jakob DZ.

Seriously: played back to back, no one can objectively say that Tyler bests or even comes close to equaling any composer's work born the generation before him.

Personally, I can only listen — at most — to a minute or two of Tyler material before I lose patience with its immaturity because it simply never goes anywhere novel structurally, instrumentally or dramatically.

Again, simply: Tyler can't hold my attention because he hasn't got anything interesting to say.

And even the few early Tyler scores that show some promise (Greatest Game Ever Played) are mastered so horribly. The bass is incredibly high on the album, though I'm sure Tyler did that himself because I'm told he produces most of his albums. That explains why they tend to be much more natural sounding in the film than on the album. Sure he showed the ability to write a nice Americana score with Greatest Game but it still isn't anything close to some of the better Rachel Portman scores.

Tyler knows how to write big bombastic scores for an orchestra that sound modern and have relatively catchy themes. The only reason anyone takes note is that the rest of the scores are even worse (Captain America 2, Gi Joe 2). Though I don't blame Tyler for mediocre scores. Patrick Doyle wrote a pretty serviceable score for Thor and Alan Silvestri has written some pretty generic stuff for Captain America and Avengers (minus the Captain's March, which never gets properly utilized in the film because that would be too old fashioned).

The producers want a score that doesn't call much attention to itself except for where a theme pops in here or there. In Thor 2 and Iron Man 3 the scores worked quite well, serving their purpose of raising the films a little bit. This was only noticeable because previous films had scores that might as well have not existed. Iron Man 2 had the score mixed so low under all the action music that even John Debney joked about how horrible it was. In my mind they might as well have not had a score for Iron Man 2 at all if they wanted it to be so in the background.

For the most part, Brian Tyler's recent scores grab me here or there when the main themes come on. The problem is that the rest of the score is largely throwaway and forgettable. I don't know how many times I need to hear a solo female vocalist used the way Tyler uses it in Thor 2 before I get tired at the generic sound of it. We get it, characters are sad, but it is no longer original or interesting to use a solo female vocalist in that way. I can rarely make it through either of the two most recent Tyler scores when I try because there is just not much meaty to dig into.

Whereas classic film scores tend to take a while to fully appreciate and then last for a while, this new breed of scores gives you a few nice themes that make you happy for the first few listens but after a while you realize how lacking the rest of it is and can't stand a full listen.

Again, simply: Tyler can't hold my attention because he hasn't got anything interesting to say.

K. You are obviously more knowledgeable about these things than i am. I grew up on Williams, Goldsmith, Barry, Horner, etc... And while i still love their work more than any other, i still like some of the work that's being put out today. I see each for its own merits. You may say none of today's work has any merit, and for you that might be totally correct, but i seem to be able to enjoy current music for what it is and still love the stuff i grew up on as much as i ever did. Once again the old saying is true ignorance is bliss.

I appreciate you taking the time to give me an intelligent answer. I truly ask because I'm curious. I'm an artist by trade, but not a musician. My love of music, and movie scores/classical music makes me curious to learn.

One note though: for the record, i never said Tyler's work was as good as anyone of the previous generation. i don't make such comparisons because it's obvious that the landscape has changed. The only people currently working that i think about in regards to the previous generation are composer's who's careers have bridged the gap between the previous generation and what's currently being done, like Horner, Howard Shore, Trevor Jones - guys in that age range.

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And even the few early Tyler scores that show some promise (Greatest Game Ever Played) are mastered so horribly. The bass is incredibly high on the album, though I'm sure Tyler did that himself because I'm told he produces most of his albums. That explains why they tend to be much more natural sounding in the film than on the album. Sure he showed the ability to write a nice Americana score with Greatest Game but it still isn't anything close to some of the better Rachel Portman scores.

Tyler knows how to write big bombastic scores for an orchestra that sound modern and have relatively catchy themes. The only reason anyone takes note is that the rest of the scores are even worse (Captain America 2, Gi Joe 2). Though I don't blame Tyler for mediocre scores. Patrick Doyle wrote a pretty serviceable score for Thor and Alan Silvestri has written some pretty generic stuff for Captain America and Avengers (minus the Captain's March, which never gets properly utilized in the film because that would be too old fashioned).

The producers want a score that doesn't call much attention to itself except for where a theme pops in here or there. In Thor 2 and Iron Man 3 the scores worked quite well, serving their purpose of raising the films a little bit. This was only noticeable because previous films had scores that might as well have not existed. Iron Man 2 had the score mixed so low under all the action music that even John Debney joked about how horrible it was. In my mind they might as well have not had a score for Iron Man 2 at all if they wanted it to be so in the background.

For the most part, Brian Tyler's recent scores grab me here or there when the main themes come on. The problem is that the rest of the score is largely throwaway and forgettable. I don't know how many times I need to hear a solo female vocalist used the way Tyler uses it in Thor 2 before I get tired at the generic sound of it. We get it, characters are sad, but it is no longer original or interesting to use a solo female vocalist in that way. I can rarely make it through either of the two most recent Tyler scores when I try because there is just not much meaty to dig into.

Whereas classic film scores tend to take a while to fully appreciate and then last for a while, this new breed of scores gives you a few nice themes that make you happy for the first few listens but after a while you realize how lacking the rest of it is and can't stand a full listen.

Thanks for this reply. Excellently expressed - completely even in tone and objective. I can definitely see what you're talking about. As i mentioned in my previous response, i guess i have more tolerance for the repetitive nature of some of today's scores. I listen to them while i work every day, so they kind of become background music - not the main focus of my attention. That probably has a lot to do with my tolerance levels. I admit, I'm a sucker for the catchy bits. But i really do get what you're saying here. When i think about Williams's score for Raiders Of The Lost Ark i can instantly bring to mind all the different themes and structural variety. There's just so much going on in that one score (which is probably my favorite score ever), unlike pretty much anything being composed today.

The thing is, if i got to pick who was doing all the composing and didn't have to pay attention to silly things like time and the realities that people age, I'd pick Williams and Goldsmith all the time, but that's obviously not an option. I still love all that stuff i grew up with and listen to it all the time, but i like new stuff as well - we all like getting something "new" you know? So i try to appreciate current music for what it has to offer and appreciate the stuff i grew up on for what it is. What's the other option? Get angry about how things have changed, close myself off to all things new, and begin the process of becoming irrelevant. I'm just not ready to do that yet - I'm still capable of enjoying stuff (for whatever reason, be it ignorance or something else) so I'm going to.

As an artist, i experience these same issues when it comes to illustration, cartooning, painting, animation, etc... Yeah, there's a LOT of garbage out there, but i manage to continually find just enough stuff that impresses me among my peers to keep me from sitting down.

Oh absolutely! I listen to most film scores as background music as well, whether when working or reading. Sadly, most of the time I still notice when a score is slightly lacking. I also do need new music, which is why I still listen to new releases even though I expect most of it will be disappointing. I can't just listen to the same music over and over but I need to listen to something new. Every once in a while I do get a new score that I enjoy enough to listen to for a while. I'm just disappointed that most of them don't last very long.

I also wouldn't be able to express to you exactly what it is that I love about the greats that is missing from the new scores. I try to express my limited musical knowledge as much as possible but in the end it really does come down to what keeps my interest over time. I use the same thing to judge any music from other genres. Something is either interesting enough to listen to twice through when you first get it or you quickly forget about it and let it collect dust on your hard drive. Sadly, these days I have a harder time getting to the end of most new releases (Noah). At least Noah wasn't as painful as Captain America The Winter Soldier.

Mmmmmm very excellent post scorecrazy. I find myself identifying with your sentiments quite a bit. I never try to strip down a score and identify how simple the inner working of it all are. In fact i think that kind of hinders your ability to enjoy this generations different breed of music sometimes. Because doing that with most modern music will only lead to the repeating of "Bah humbug these scores lack the complexity of those of my youth". I can understand the frustration of those who grew up those themes seeing them quietly disappear from this age of music. But I don't think dwelling on it for an eternity really does any good.

Personally as a someone working to become a writer i listen to all kinds of music be it old/new/electronic etc. to help inspire me. And i get just as many ideas from John Williams/Goldsmith scores as i do for Zimmer/Brian Tyler ones. They both have an enticing sound in their own right that allows me to easily enjoy them regardless of how "dull" a lot of people may claim the latter to be. Some may call me ignorant as well for liking what they deem as "garbage" but I'll take being ignorant any day over just reminiscing over the days of music that will never come back quite as strong as it once was.

As i've expanded over to listening to Japanese scores which undoubtedly has much more variety than American ones these days not much has changed. With as much anime and movies that i watch I still find it hard to completely dislike any score I've listened to and usually find some redeeming qualities in it as minor as they may be sometimes. I think helps to watch the context in which the music is used in order to get a better appreciation for it. I find myself not enjoying scores that i just listen to willy nilly as much as ones where i have actually watched the material in which it's used. Because as Sirusjr pointed out, producers don't usually want that from a score. If the score stands out to much and overshadows the film then it hasn't done it's job properly. It's supposed to be used to enhance the atmosphere of whatever is happening and intensify it's impact. Which is why i can understand why scores these days can be rather unspectacular sometimes.

That's why i take all these things into consideration when i listen to music. I'm sure one day I'll start getting fed up with it as others have here as well but for now I'm happy being the ignorant little fool who likes anything that is printed out nowadays ^_^

K. You are obviously more knowledgeable about these things than i am.

You might very well think that; I couldn't possibly comment.



You may say…

That I have certain expectations and standards of music generally and its role in enhancing a film narrative specifically which diverge from those of the current generation of film makers and the demographic they hew to.

The rest of what I say? Mostly there for my own amusement really because, you know, after so many years of reading this same back and forth it's all become as hazy a blur as John Debney’s back catalogue.

Oh absolutely! I listen to most film scores as background music as well, whether when working or reading. Sadly, most of the time I still notice when a score is slightly lacking. I also do need new music, which is why I still listen to new releases even though I expect most of it will be disappointing. I can't just listen to the same music over and over but I need to listen to something new. Every once in a while I do get a new score that I enjoy enough to listen to for a while. I'm just disappointed that most of them don't last very long.

I also wouldn't be able to express to you exactly what it is that I love about the greats that is missing from the new scores. I try to express my limited musical knowledge as much as possible but in the end it really does come down to what keeps my interest over time. I use the same thing to judge any music from other genres. Something is either interesting enough to listen to twice through when you first get it or you quickly forget about it and let it collect dust on your hard drive. Sadly, these days I have a harder time getting to the end of most new releases (Noah). At least Noah wasn't as painful as Captain America The Winter Soldier.

I haven't listened to either of those two new ones yet - too much bad mouthing, hahaha. On the plus side, my expectations are significantly lowered. Will it be enough? Guess I'll have to listen to them both tomorrow and find out.

Well Noah at least is an atmospheric Mansell score at its core. So if you like the style of Mansell and Murphy how they used to write five or six years ago then Noah might not be so bad. I just find most of those scores too slow moving for my tastes. They get the feelings right but leave behind any attempt at complexity or themes. There is a reason that Murphy's score to Sunshine has certain cues used over and over in trailers and other works. It gets the epic sound just right.

It gets the epic sound just right.

Epic; a loathsome word if ever one applied. Truly.

That's why i take all these things into consideration when i listen to music. I'm sure one day I'll start getting fed up with it as others have here as well but for now I'm happy being the ignorant little fool who likes anything that is printed out nowadays ^_^

I love this kind of music mainly because of the emotions they stir. The lack of lyrics helps with that a lot. I write a lot as well, and a lot of the work i do is storytelling, so what i choose to listen to depends heavily on what mood i want to enhance while working - meaning that the tone of the material I'm working on often dictates the mood I'm looking for in the music. I'm looking for the music to serve the exact same role that it does in a film.

I've also listened to scores while going to bed for almost 40 years. I really like that because it's a different experience than the working one. I'm more free to concentrate on the music. My wife's not into the whole thing so i do it with headphones on instead of through speakers, which makes the listening even more intimate. I used to listen to big bombastic stuff at night but in recent years I've started shying away from the more bombastic material - maybe I'm old enough that it keeps me awake too much now? I go for the quieter stuff now. A lot of Philip Glass too, which is really wonderful because so much of his work - even movie scores - don't ride an emotional roller coaster, and yet i feel pretty safe saying some of his more modern work, especially his symphonies and some of his movie scores, are pretty complex and interesting. He's monotonous and repetitive and yet not, all at the same time.

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You might very well think that; I couldn't possibly comment.



That I have certain expectations and standards of music generally and its role in enhancing a film narrative specifically which diverge from those of the current generation of film makers and the demographic they hew to.

The rest of what I say? Mostly there for my own amusement really because, you know, after so many years of reading this same back and forth it's all become a hazy blur just like John Debney’s back catalogue.

I'm sensitive to your last comment - that's why i try not to chime in too often, especially to ask questions. I can get most of my answers just by reading through threads. I totally get how this kind of conversation gets repetitive, stale, and mind numbing, which is why i appreciate you taking the time to answer me with a response that's not just angry drivel and contemptuous down talk.

Most of my life I've never really had anyone to talk to about movies scores. Most people have no interest in it. They go and listen to their pop crap and I'm left to enjoy orchestral music on my own, so it's been really nice to finally find a place where other people gather that like the same kind of music i do. It's even more fascinating to see just how much variety there is to the personalities drawn to "our" kind of music. So, yeah, like i said: thanks for going over a little bit of this stuff once more for me.

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Well Noah at least is an atmospheric Mansell score at its core. So if you like the style of Mansell and Murphy how they used to write five or six years ago then Noah might not be so bad. I just find most of those scores too slow moving for my tastes. They get the feelings right but leave behind any attempt at complexity or themes. There is a reason that Murphy's score to Sunshine has certain cues used over and over in trailers and other works. It gets the epic sound just right.

I like some of Mansel's work. Really enjoyed Sahara. Moon was interesting. I was hoping that Noah would be something with bigger themes and a little punch. Seems like the kind of film for a 'big' score. I might be wrong though.

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NP: Lake Placid

What few reviews you find online about this John Ottman score from 1990 deride it udderly*, but how they managed to overlook his superbly crafted Goldsmith influenced main title and assorted action set pieces is quite beyond me (there's even early Hornerisms to be found too), though given their peculiar disapproval of the composer's lighthearted take on what, to me, and no doubt the composer himself, was a rather obvious adventure comedy romp co-starring a monster crocodile clearly demonstrates poor judgement on the their parts. Ottman included the tick-tock motif from Peter Pan for goodness sake!

It isn't Jaws, but then neither is the film, so as far as I'm concerned Ottman deftly matched the tone of the movie by delivering a suitably rambunctious B-movie soundscape.

I just love film score reviews when the "professional" reviewer has no knowledge of golden/silver age scores or classic music in general. It's just sad when no one knows that Star Wars is basically the very best of Korngold, Holst and Stravinsky. Or how Krypton from Superman is just Respighi. Not to mention anime scores, I would love when someone would mention the heavy use of Goldenthal, Williams and Prokofiev in Aquarion when reviewing the music.

The problem with all that has been said above me is that all your definition of modern music is different from mine. For me modern cinematic music is Joe Hisaishi (Ni No Kuni was 2010/11), Michiru Oshima (Tempest was 2012), Masamichi Amano (Magi was 2012), Kousuke Yamashita (Glass Fleet was 2006), Naoki Sato (Priceless was 2012), Yoshihisa Hirano (Broken Blade was 2011, Tanken Driland was last year). Yoko Kanno's Aquarion was 2005! Even Sahashi's Gundam Symphony was not even five years ago.
These are the John Williams, Goldsmiths and Horners of our times, and they're not even a fraction as popular as Williams over here, but as Tango said "popularity is not quality" and you may not like it but I can assure you the best modern music of our time, especially if you like film music, is not written in Hollywood anymore. These times are over and will probably never return. So I will go with the times and turn my view to the east.

But good film music is still written for the game music world in the west, surprisingly even by Tyler himself (Lego Universe, 2010), we had the bombastic Lair by Debney in 2007, Schymann's Dante's Inferno in 2010, Grant Kirkhope's Viva Pinata in 2009 and his take on Williams in Kingdoms of Amalur in 2012. Joris de Man gave us a very good film score with the Killzone Trilogy, Benny Oschmann composed a very old-fashioned adventure score for The Book of Unwritten Tales (2011), James Hannigan did Williams justice with his game scores for Harry Potter 5 (2007) and 6 (2009), Dynamedion (or Sillescu) composed many good scores in the last years and even Mark Griskey gave us his only competent contribution to Star Wars with the Sith Lords in 2007. So there is still hope in the game music world.

You know what, I must now also go forth and say to any fan of film music, please listen to the stuff that made film music that great in the first place, perhaps you will find the most epic and amazing music you ever heared and it just might be better than Star Wars (just so you know, I think Kings Row has the better theme), not to mention all the little references you will spot in your favorite scores which you thought were original. But it makes it not worse, it actually enriches your enjoyment of it. I do enjoy Star Wars even more than before and to get myself ready for Kanno's BLAQUARION, I will just listen to Titus Slays Mutius to get me in the mood :D.

And all these modern monkeys who talk about new orchestral effects ain't got shit on Respighi and Stravinsky. Respighi's Fountains of Rome has some parts that are just a mesmerizing explosion of color, I was simply awe-struck when I first listened to it, and it was just your regular symphony orchestra that did these effects. Even the very early film scores such as Alexander Nevsky shit on any modern definition of an epic score. The theme of the Teutonic Knights, and especially their danger motif (brass) is simply among the best there is, not to mention the Battle on the Ice which is essentially the primary source for Yoko Kanno's action music. If you really want epic cinematic battle music that lasts for more than just three minutes, listen to Bruckner, and you got sometimes over ten minutes of great action. He really fires up in his third movements.

Especially the 20th century is so full of really epic film scores which are not even film scores that it's not even funny, here, turn up your volume and listen to a piece that has one of my favorite tunes ever and is among my all-time favorites. It's a great adventurous score, full of romanticism and great melodies, heroic battles and epic moments. Is it a swashbuckler?, Is it a SciFi adventure?, Could it be a western? ... no, it's a symphony! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f36P3tZwXCQ)

It's happening.

Macross Science-Fiction Anime Franchise Gets New TV Series - News - Anime News Network (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-03-26/macross-science-fiction-anime-franchise-gets-new-tv-series)

New Goldenthal classical release announced on his facebook page.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/goldenthal-string-quartet/id828569958
CD is available as well.

Here is a batch i have very much been looking forward to sharing. We get a taste of what the Space Dandy band can do and there is certainly a lot of musical experimenting going on here. Feels like they were given as much freedom that the animation staff was with the show lol. Of course there is still some enticing jazz tunes as well. Takeshi Senoo awakens from his slumber and gives us another amazing score with Inari Konkon with some great orchestral cues. Masaru Yokoyama has another double release this month but Nobunaga is easily the one that stands out the most. Seems like this OST had two recording sessions, one in Tokyo and the other in Los Angeles (it's been while since i'd heard of a session taking place there). This is certainly Masaru Yokoyama at his best imo.

VTCL-60368 | SPACE?DANDY O.S.T.1 BEST HIT BBP - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/44032)
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Title: SPACE☆DANDY O.S.T.1 BEST HIT BBP
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Space Dandy Band
No. of tracks: 23
Format: MP3 and ALAC
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Release Date: Mar 26, 2014
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Tracklist
01 Star Future.
02 Viva Tears (TV size)
03 HOT WIND
04 Fatty but oh so Goody
05 If I'm With You
06 love you,dandy
07 Stardust Pipeline
08 SORROW OF DANDY
09 Hey Wha
10 Connect
11 Gun Man Muller Hunt Oh!
12 Action Man
13 SPACE FUN CLUB
14 Tumbleweed
15 Dandy in Love
16 I Want to Know
17 New Disco on the Block
18 The RAW
19 The Morning Will Come, The Dawn Is Soon
20 ANATATO
21 SPACE CHANTEY (Space Shanty ~ However, Somewhat Seasick)
22 Cosmic Adventure (http://kiwi6.com/file/bdlyvez7pn)
23 Welcome to the X Dimension (TV size)


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VTCL-60365 | INARI KONKON KOI IROHA O.S.T. - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/44031)
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Title: INARI KONKON KOI IROHA O.S.T.
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Takeshi Senoo, Ayano Tsuji, Sergei Rachmaninoff
No. of tracks: 25
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Mar 26, 2014
Size: MP3 181mb/ ALAC 438mb
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Tracklist
01 Tears Streaming Down
02 Village in the Heavens
03 Always, in My Heart, a Blue Sky. -Main Theme-
04 Wind and Light, You and I.
05 Inari, Elegant, Stroll in Kyoto.
06 Perfect Girl Evolution
07 Two-Storied Gate (Interlude)
08 Inari, Kon Kon, Love Mambo. -Super Duper Kon Kon Mix-
09 Adagio for Strings, Op.1 -Spirit- (http://kiwi6.com/file/j248yvhyfa)
10 KYOTO no.43 -Classical Style-
11 KYOTO no.43 -EDM Style-
12 Metamorphose. (Interlude)
13 Always, in My Heart, a Blue Sky. -Traveler's Sentiment in Showa Edition-
14 Keihan Cheerful Adventure
15 Macaron Moon
16 I Yearn for You, Sky of Stardust.
17 To a Person More Important than Anyone Else
18 I Will Never Forget You on That Day -Acoustic Piano Version-
19 Spring-colored Waltz
20 City of Early-Summer Rain
21 Summer Festival, Dream Fireworks.
22 Autumn-colored Waltz
23 Eternal Bond
24 I Will Never Forget You on That Day
25 Tears Streaming Down -Reprise-


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LACA-15390 | NOBUNAGA THE FOOL ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK VOL.1 - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/43862)
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Title: NOBUNAGA THE FOOL ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK VOL.1
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Masaru Yokoyama, Tatsuya Kurauchi, Kayo Shimokawa, 1pack market, R・O・N
No. of tracks: 33
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Mar 26, 2014
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Tracklist
01 FOOL THE WORLD (TV size)
02 Love, Destroy the World
03 Quickening
04 Battle Armor
05 The Guidance of Heaven's Will
06 Jeanne Kaguya d'Arc
07 The Oath of the Unification of Heaven and Earth
08 Startup Sequence
09 Advance Unobstructed
10 Tactician
11 Himiko
12 Oda Camp
13 Surrounded by Enemies
14 Song of the Universe (piano ver)
15 Now Go Forth to Battle
16 The Place Where Hearts Return
17 Memory of a Distant Day
18 Come Stop by and Look
19 Song of the Universe (Kagura Dance ver)
20 Fuurin Kazan
21 I'll Risk This Life
22 Sky of Heartlessness
23 Voice of a Drop
24 At Peace at Least
25 To a Beloved Family
26 Become a Demon
27 I Will Perform
28 Oda Nobunaga
29 Approaching Warlord
30 Slice Open Destiny
31 Savior King Nobunaga (http://kiwi6.com/file/bepzkrdwwz)
32 Destruction King Nobunaga
33 AXIS (TV size)


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TGCS-7788 | FREEZING VIBRATION COMPLETE SOUNDTRACK 02 - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/41576)
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Title: FREEZING VIBRATION COMPLETE SOUNDTRACK 02
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Masaru Yokoyama, Shujin
No. of tracks: 19
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Mar 26, 2014
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Tracklist
01 Freezing Vibration
02 Poolside
03 Keikaku Kaigi
04 NOVA CRUSH (http://kiwi6.com/file/8n8pdgtu71)
05 NOVA FORM
06 Pandora Mode
07 Yes My Lady
08 Kako to no Souguu
09 Sister
10 Zetsubou no Fuchi
11 Freezing ARIA
12 Machination
13 Sanction
14 Yuki no Daichi
15 Yuki no Daichi Pf Solo
16 Freezing Counterpoint
17 Vent debout
18 AVENGE W0RLD (TV Size)
19 Sekai wa Kizu wo Dakishimeru (TV Size)

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SQEX-10430 | LIGHTNING RETURNS:FINAL FANTASY XIII Original Soundtrack... - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/44071)
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Title: LIGHTNING RETURNS:FINAL FANTASY XIII Original Soundtrack PLUS
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Masashi Hamauzu, Naoshi Mizuta, Mitsuto Suzuki, Nobuo Uematsu, Hiroshi Kaneko
No. of tracks: 25
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Mar 26, 2014
Size: MP3 186mb/ ALAC 436mb
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Tracklist
01 Lightning Returns – Special Trailer Ver. –
02 High Voltage – Game Ver. –
03 The Captive Saint
04 Sazh and Dajh – Complete Mix –
05 Death Game – Synthesizer Ver. –
06 Desert Lullaby – Instrumental –
07 Snow’s Theme ~Final Words~ – Complete Mix –
08 The Doomed Soul ~Caius and Yeul~
09 The World Is Ending Soon
10 The Dead Dunes – Live Edit Ver. –
11 The Ark – Soundtrack Exclusive Ver. –
12 Serah’s Theme – Piano Ver. –
13 Soul Seeds
14 Lightning Returns – Aggressive Mix –
15 Succession of Demons
16 FINAL FANTASY – Yusnaan Ver. –
17 Eternal Wind – Dead Dunes Japanese Ver. –
18 Clash on the Big Bridge – Yusnaan Ver. –
19 Terra’s Theme ~Biggs & Wedge Ver.~
20 A Place to Call Home
21 Traveler’s Ballad
22 Eternal Wind – Dead Dunes English Ver. –
23 The Savior’s Words – Japanese Ver. –
24 The Savior’s Words ~Christmas in Nova Chrysalia~
25 Inn

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LACA-9340~1 | Recently, My sister is unusual. Original Soundtrack - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/43785)
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Title: Recently, My sister is unusual. Original Soundtrack
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Ryosuke Nakanishi, Kousuke Okui, Kyo Takada
No. of tracks: 27/26
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Mar 26, 2014
Size: MP3 211mb/ ALAC 436mb
Host: Mega/MP3 Mega/ALAC

Tracklist
Disc 1

01 Ore ni Imouto!?
02 BINKAN♡ATTENTION (TV-size)
03 Eyecatch B
04 Kanzaki-ke no Nichijou
05 Heiwa ga Ichiban!
06 Yappari Imouto wa Giri ni Kagiru!
07 Sports Bannou
08 Imouto no Yousu ga...
09 Okashi na Yousu
10 Yuuya no Omoide
11 Mitsuki no Omoide
12 Chijimaru Kyori
13 Kouiu no Warukunai kamo
14 Sawayaka na Asa
15 Kyoudai wa Nakayoku
16 Nonbiri Yuuya
17 Osananajimi no Oneesan
18 Rival Shutsugen
19 Akinai Futari
20 Dotabata Gakuen Seikatsu
21 MITSUKI and HIYORI
22 Atafuta Mitsuki
23 Imoutoomoi no Oniichan
24 Yasashii Oniichan (http://kiwi6.com/file/jl5dcivb76)
25 Yuuya to Mitsuki
26 Eyecatch C
27 MITSUKI GEAR SOLID2

Disc 2

01 Akarui Yuurei
02 Do, Dou Shiyou...
03 Kikiteki Joukyou!
04 Mitsuki feat. Hiyori
05 Mitsuki feat. Hiyori ~CLIMAX~
06 Sekimen Mitsuki
07 Hakiwasurechatta
08 A, Ano Musume no Sei Nandakara ne!
09 Kazoku Nante
10 ...Arigato
11 Oboroge na Kioku
12 Shinjau!?
13 Tsutawaranai Omoi
14 Hanareteiku Karada
15 Toki no Hazama
16 Senakaawase no Gauge
17 Heart Gauge Shoumetsu no Kiki
18 Kanshisha
19 Eyecatch A
20 Itazura Hiyorin
21 Takurami Hiyorin
22 Hangeki no Hiyorin
23 Mitsuki no Mousou
24 Namidame Mitsuki
25 Charming Do! (Piano ver.)
26 Jikai Yokoku

320 kbs MP3
https://mega.co.nz/#!mRxh1Y5Y!A0XnMA66vvAuDF9c89X9pTG8mB8N79orCLx0-Yknsv8

ALAC (Loseless)
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SVWC-7994 | Silver Spoon Original Soundtrack - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/43951)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/43951-1395938579_zps51b21ec7.jpg.html)

Title: Silver Spoon Original Soundtrack
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Shusei Murai
No. of tracks: 27
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Mar 21, 2014
Size: MP3 142mb/ ALAC 279mb
Host: Zippy/MP3 Mega/ALAC

Tracklist
01 Silver Spoon Main Theme (http://kiwi6.com/file/d0jdbwjjjg)
02 Ezono
03 Mikage
04 Draft Horse Race
05 Dairy Arrange 2
06 Silver Spoon Main Theme Arrange 3
07 Ezono Arrange 4
08 Escape
09 Troublemaker
10 Uneasy
11 Disassembly
12 Silver Spoon Main Theme Arrange 1
13 Ground
14 Unfulfilled Thing
15 Silver Spoon Main Theme Arrange 7
16 Ezono Arrange 2
17 Giga Farm
18 Fleeing
19 Go Ezono
20 Fall Tournament
21 Newcomer Match
22 Ezono Arrange 3
23 Silver Spoon Main Theme Arrange 2
24 Classroom
25 Dairy
26 Ezono Arrange 1
27 Silver Spoon Main Theme Arrange 5

320 kbs MP3
Zippyshare.com - Silver Spoon (Complete) Original Soundtrack (animeost).7z (http://www71.zippyshare.com/v/84805343/file.html)

ALAC (Loseless)
https://mega.co.nz/#!HMpDFAwB!N_SfWVrZRe7yoKJseWyNTU_alAxuawdcuFHDxmQ tPOA


Enjoy http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq271/leatherhead93/kucing_ngakak2_zps186267bd.gif (http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/kucing_ngakak2_zps186267bd.gif.html)

VTCL-60368 | SPACE?DANDY O.S.T.1 BEST HIT BBP - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/44032)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/44032-1393610749_zpsc3408ffc.png.html)

Title: SPACE☆DANDY O.S.T.1 BEST HIT BBP
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers: Space Dandy Band
No. of tracks: 23
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Mar 26, 2014
Size: MP3 195mb/ ALAC 543mb
Host: Zippy/MP3 Mega/ALAC

Tracklist
01 Star Future.
02 Viva Tears (TV size)
03 HOT WIND
04 Fatty but oh so Goody
05 If I'm With You
06 love you,dandy
07 Stardust Pipeline
08 SORROW OF DANDY
09 Hey Wha
10 Connect
11 Gun Man Muller Hunt Oh!
12 Action Man
13 SPACE FUN CLUB
14 Tumbleweed
15 Dandy in Love
16 I Want to Know
17 New Disco on the Block
18 The RAW
19 The Morning Will Come, The Dawn Is Soon
20 ANATATO
21 SPACE CHANTEY (Space Shanty ~ However, Somewhat Seasick)
22 Cosmic Adventure (http://kiwi6.com/file/bdlyvez7pn)
23 Welcome to the X Dimension (TV size)


320 kbs MP3
Zippyshare.com - SPACE?DANDY O.S.T.1 BEST HIT BBP (animeost).7z (http://www35.zippyshare.com/v/67289799/file.html)

ALAC (Loseless)
https://mega.co.nz/#!LVxFiLSC!CkvuaEcfbE1NfihwhosFOTPtDoNe6gnsSD3NfPm zYug



If the internet had a mouth, I would kiss you through it. :p

I have no idea how you do it, but many thanks for your stupendous generosity Been waiting for Space Dandy goodness since that first broadcast on AS. Christ, that show. :love:

Naoki Sato - Kano Original Soundtrack (2014)

Track List:

1. Romance of the Brave (Performed by Rake, Kousuke Atari, Van Fan, Suming Rupi, Yokuy Utaw)
2. Overture
3. Long Road
4. The Temperature Of The Sun
5. Bright Guardian
6. Heat Spread
7. My Failure
8. Ready To Go
9. Eagles Learn To Fly
10. Expedition
11. Belle Epoque
12. Fantasy Land
13. Fight
14. Outbreak Of Black Soil
15. Brave Homecoming

Mega:
https://mega.co.nz/#!l1UGkRDT!Q8IpXQWuR6IA1hM9RYussxEBSgrAYRIkSmfTZqZ w79g

Mediafire:
KANO Original Soundtrack (http://www.mediafire.com/download/anj2akaksd9vr6r/KANO+Original+Soundtrack.rar)

MP3 320 ripped from here:

Xiami (http://www.xiami.com/album/1393472811)

Wow, Senoo can really do a full orchestral score, shame the ensemble is really small but he makes the best of it. It's not ARIA, but then again, how can one top that? The Main Theme is lovely, same with the rest of the string pieces. Also it has this cute and quirky album art that I love. And if "Adagio for Strings, Op.1" is not a random track title then perhaps we can expect a classical album some time in the future?

Thank you Smack81 for the new Sato! Not his best but very enjoyable.

Also the last track of My sister is unusual made me smile. Even that show has about 30 minutes of nice music.

Nathan Furst is rocking some James Horner in his 'Need for Speed' score.

20. In the Lead - Need For Speed Movie Soundtrack - YouTube (http://youtu.be/l9AGm5_j3LE?t=1m43s)

Hey, I know that motif!!!

Nathan Furst is rocking some James Horner in his 'Need for Speed' score.

20. In the Lead - Need For Speed Movie Soundtrack - YouTube (http://youtu.be/l9AGm5_j3LE?t=1m43s)

Hey, I know that motif!!!

Suddenly, German snipers!

1:47 ... jajaj.. from Willow to Avatar

I'll take that over other recent action score disasters.

Hey guys, I have known you guys through the many discussions of this thread and I respect all of you even though we have had some heated discussion lol. As some of you may know I am a musician and I write music. I have written a couple of compositions that I really would like any of your astute opinions on. It is a mockup using EastWest Goliath and I am still very much an amateur at mixing. I wrote both of these in Sibelius first then mixed them. Anyway, I tried to go for a very cinematic sound. I will let you all be the judge. Any critique will be helpful as I am wanting to learn how to better myself.

https://soundcloud.com/josh-barron/new-earth-new-life

https://soundcloud.com/josh-barron/as-the-ellcrys-withers

The second is one that I plan on submitting to the production crew of the Shannara tv adaptation.

MYSTERY CORNER
Coming up later this evening or tomorrow... A contemporary (1977) piano concerto by a living composer that I will bet NOBODY on this forum has heard, or even heard OF. It's been recorded just once - that recording was released in 1982 only in its native country - not Britain, America, or Japan. A country known more for political turmoil than for its classical music tradition and which has only a handful of symphony orchestras still in operation that fight for dwindling audiences.

It's a smashing piece in the late romantic tradition. The composer, who emigrated to his adopted country in the 1970s from England, enjoys minor celebrity status there but is almost completely unknown internationally. Here's the first movement to whet your appetites...

Zippyshare.com - Piano Concerto.flac (http://www25.zippyshare.com/v/2629258/file.html)

Composed by
KENTARŌ HANEDA
Grand Symphony
YAMATO
The NHK Symphony Orchestra, Kazuko Kawashima (scat), Tsugio Tokunaga (violin), Kentarō Haneda (piano)
conducted by Naoto Ōtomo

Planning & Executive Producer: Yoshinobu Nishizaki
Theme Motif by Hiroshi Miyagawa, Kentarō Haneda

Recording Venue: Gotanda U-Port, Kani-Hoken Hall (五反田簡易保険ホール), Tōkyō, May 4, 1984.

Remastered Re-Release
Release Date: 19.03.2014
Publisher: NIPPON COLUMBIA
Catalog Number: COCX-37410



FLAC + LOG + SCANS | 5 Tracks | 01:09:39 | 388 MB

First Movement: Birth
Second Movement: Battle (Scherzo)
Third Movement: Prayer (Adagio)
Fourth Movement: Hope for Tomorrow (Double Concerto)

Bonus Track:
Fourth Movement (First Release CD Version)

My wonky rip.

<hr>


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

FLAC - https://mega.co.nz/#!q45mgQrT!9G5JtAhT__KMTT1JWFVkZyu7Al-TLKtmTdReH2mUHkI

MP3 -V0 - http://www.adrive.com/public/dcBc5v

Originally posted by Space Dandy?

:roflspock:

I thought I recognized that one. Maybe it would be helpful if you included the cover from Tango's original post. That way people would know if they want to grab it as an upgrade.

Well, the 2009 recording is overall superior but this one was first and has a special charm all of its own - and Haneda himself at the piano. It's great to have it, particularly as it has been properly remastered and is sounding INFINITELY better than its earlier CD release. A rare thing; a Japanese remaster with dynamic range that actually surpasses the original release in every way.

I can't quite see how including a different cover would help people identify it; unless they can't read... This is Kentaro Haneda's Grand Symphony Yamato.

Infinite thanks, Mr Salat... As ever. :)

So... John Powell is back with some orchestral power - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApRro-SUer0

Sounds like fun.

^ Nice.
Dragon 2 also coming this year so good times...

I think that when you decide that a symphony orchestra - the most expressive instrument ever created by man, and one which has stood the test of time - yes it's evolved but its foundations were laid 500 years ago) - isn't "good enough" for you, you need to make a good case for it. It needs to be evident that you're actually doing what you're doing to further music in some way, not merely to disguise your own limited ability with "weird sounds".

...

Benny knew what he was doing. So did Goldsmith, another pioneer but in terms of actually integrating electronics into the orchestra.



So is this documented anywhere? It always felt to me like the attempts at going beyond the 19th century symphony in the pre-RCP era were either very subtle (what did Herrmann do?) or horrible 80s synthesizers or moogs and theremins, which seem like the first iteration of something that should have developed into something more versatile.

Last week, I listened some to Mahler's 7th, and really wondered about the small oboe/clarinet (yeah, making a fool of myself here, but so what) 'bird call' near the start, wondering if it could be replaced. Wiki/de tells me the rest of the movement has many more birds appearing and, put quaintly, this developing into more abstract music. But I wondered every time if a sample, could be much better, and if not someone should try. ...and later fix Messiaen's horrible Catalogue d'oiseaux, while (s)he's at it even for us poor non-synaesthetic muggles :-)

This makes me suspicious of there being lots of missed opportunities. It don't wanna rant on about my belief that classical music professionals outside the ensemble intercontemporian et al. mold are a horribly conservative bunch, but I like to think that there is a whole forest of low-hanging fruit in terms of new, invigorating, fanciful sounds that are only picked by fools, and only the red ones of these fruit at that. ... This is a little opaque, I know. I guess what I am looking for is an academic course in acoustics :-)

Some example of what I'd love to see more of, and I'm happy if anyone knows things like that:
-There's an algorithm to automatically and dynamically adjust the pitch of individual notes depending on tonality, and in Germany a company that builds organs that let you have more "pure" intervals in (some) music by these small adjustment to pitch during a song.
-A voice and a sax can flow into each other somewhat elegantly, I've heard this on a recording, but shouldn't it be possible to also mix the "aural impressions" of other kinds of instruments into one another. Is there a facemorph/face blend for the sounds of instruments?
-SNES (and surely other) sounds have pitches available for instruments that the actual instruments cannot produce, iirc. Wouldn't this be a great addition
-Some part of the feeling of liveliness of real piano players is due to recurring "flaws" in the execution (Article (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23519688),Newspaper report (http://www.zeit.de/2013/30/musiker-pianisten-noten)). This makes me dream that synthesizers could become much more interesting to listen to if one were to copy and artificially recreate such effects.

I am going on much too long already and maybe nobody cares ;-) but I'm here once a week only, anyway. For now, I have to get part of my fix/ what interests me from unnecessarily dumb music, in part, which is a little sad.

Last week, I listened some to Mahler's 7th, and really wondered about the small oboe/clarinet (yeah, making a fool of myself here, but so what) 'bird call' near the start, wondering if it could be replaced. Wiki/de tells me the rest of the movement has many more birds appearing and, put quaintly, this developing into more abstract music. But I wondered every time if a sample, could be much better, and if not someone should try. ...and later fix Messiaen's horrible Catalogue d'oiseaux, while (s)he's at it even for us poor non-synaesthetic muggles :-)

There's an outrageous amount of experimental "classical" to be had in the back catalogue. Ya just gotta go looking for it.

You want something consonant with bird calls, eh? Try Einojuhani Rautavaara's relatively well known Cantus Arcticus for orchestra and tape.

Pili Heroes Music Featured forty-eight


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1.轟掣天下（轟掣天下第二片頭曲）04:38 曲/編曲：風采輪 詞：廖明治 演唱：荒山亮 TW-M03-13-26338
2.潛龍出淵（山龍隱秀武曲）03:22 曲/編曲：風采輪 TW-M03-13-26334
3.照世明燈（照世明燈新曲）03:39 曲/編曲：風采輪 TW-M03-13-26337
4.罪負英雄（罪負英雄角色曲）04:00 曲/編曲：黃名偉 TW-M03-13-01701
5.滄海諸星（魄如霜武曲）03:51 曲/編曲：孫敬凡 TW-M03-13-28017
6.三圖狼子（三圖狼子角色曲）03:16 曲/編曲：風采輪 TW-M03-13-26326
7.道心之慟（倦收天悲傷曲）03:14 曲/編曲：風采輪 TW-M03-13-26331
8.漂鳥少年（森獄水精靈）03:37 曲/編曲：風采輪 TW-M03-13-26336
9.星河靖海（魄如霜角色曲）03:12 曲/編曲：丁天牧 TW-M03-13-04803
10.龍刃天鋒（太歲劍曲）03:21 曲/編曲：丁天牧 TW-M03-13-04903
11.絕境天光（天諭情境曲）02:58 曲/編曲：翁偉瀚 TW-M03-13-27303
12.淚鴉（淚鴉角色曲）03:16 曲/編曲：吳智暉 TW-M03-13-16905
13.天羅子（天羅子情境曲）03:37 曲/編曲：丁天牧 TW-M03-13-04902
14.浴佛典（佛鄉聖會）03:20 曲/編曲：風采輪 TW-M03-13-26311
15.道磐（式洞機角色曲）04:41 曲/編曲：黃建秦 TW-M03-13-28338
16.元宗六象（南修真氣勢曲）03:41 曲/編曲：黃建秦 TW-M03-13-38261
17.藍峰鰲首（一色秋角色曲）03:19 曲/編曲：孫敬凡 TW-M03-13-38259
18.落花江煙（天諭與玄囂）04:18 曲/編曲：孫敬凡 TW-M03-13-28204
19.滾龍震天（玄囂太子氣勢曲）03:57 曲/編曲：孫敬凡 TW-M03-13-28365
20.清涼歌（轟掣天下第二片頭曲）04:25 詞/曲/編曲/演唱：蓮歌子TW-M03-13-22305

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Boys, I'm baaaaack.



DIABLO III: REAPER OF SOULS
Composed by Derek Duke
224 VBR V-0 | 3"50'24 | 403 MB



1.Derek Duke - Reaper of Souls (4:11)
2.Derek Duke - The Crusader (1:14)
3.Derek Duke - Act V (0:46)
4.Derek Duke - The Forest Path (1:47)
5.Derek Duke - The Bridge (1:02)
6.Derek Duke - The Dead Walk (1:02)
7.Derek Duke - Harvesters of Souls (1:58)
8.Derek Duke - Dread Forces (1:35)
9.Derek Duke - Reapers (0:57)
10.Derek Duke - Search for Survivors (1:20)
11.Derek Duke - King Julius IV (1:14)
12.Derek Duke - Against the Reapers (1:00)
13.Derek Duke - Survivors Enclave (2:18)
14.Derek Duke - Cellar (1:01)
15.Derek Duke - Realm of the Rats (9:11)
16.Derek Duke - Artifacts of the Plague (8:26)
17.Derek Duke - Lords of Rats (1:54)
18.Derek Duke - Filth (6:28)
19.Derek Duke - Pillars of Flame (1:35)
20.Derek Duke - Gideon's Row (1:30)
21.Derek Duke - The Soul Batteries (1:48)
22.Derek Duke - Sewers (1:06)
23.Derek Duke - The Streets of Westmarch (5:52)
24.Derek Duke - The Mystic (1:49)
25.Derek Duke - The Reaping (0:38)
26.Derek Duke - Briarthorn Cemetary (0:51)
27.Derek Duke - The Deathly Maidens (1:40)
28.Derek Duke - Distressed (4:46)
29.Derek Duke - Souls for the Fire (2:09)
30.Derek Duke - Skatsimi (3:32)
31.Derek Duke - The Old Faith (4:34)
32.Derek Duke - The Gidbinn (3:04)
33.Derek Duke - Westmarch Burns (0:33)
34.Derek Duke - The Burning City (1:17)
35.Derek Duke - Urza�l (5:42)
36.Derek Duke - The Blood Marsh (2:28)
37.Derek Duke - Path of the Drowned (6:05)
38.Derek Duke - The Bog (4:49)
39.Derek Duke - Wave, Leaf, Flame and Air (3:06)
40.Derek Duke - The Path to Corvus (4:38)
41.Derek Duke - Corvus (2:43)
42.Derek Duke - Glimpse of Pandemonium (0:50)
43.Derek Duke - Vengeance (4:54)
44.Derek Duke - The Battlefield of Eternity (8:15)
45.Derek Duke - Whispers (9:29)
46.Derek Duke - The Ravaged Land (4:10)
47.Derek Duke - War Ravaged (5:05)
48.Derek Duke - Mestrache (4:08)
49.Derek Duke - Words in the Air (1:36)
50.Derek Duke - The Runekeepers (2:36)
51.Derek Duke - Scavengers (2:28)
52.Derek Duke - Stuck in Time (1:36)
53.Derek Duke - The Forgotten Dead (1:33)
54.Derek Duke - Onium (4:34)
55.Derek Duke - Tau (3:09)
56.Derek Duke - Muonium (1:57)
57.Derek Duke - Positronium (1:01)
58.Derek Duke - Pionium (0:26)
59.Derek Duke - Baryon (0:26)
60.Derek Duke - Dibaryon (1:14)
61.Derek Duke - Skyrmion (1:49)
62.Derek Duke - Pomeron (1:30)
63.Derek Duke - Odderon (1:56)
64.Derek Duke - Upsilon (1:28)
65.Derek Duke - Neutrino (2:37)
66.Derek Duke - Onward (1:46)
67.Derek Duke - In Arius (3:42)
68.Derek Duke - Līlītu (2:35)
69.Derek Duke - Heaven and Sky (3:33)
70.Derek Duke - Inevitability (2:27)
71.Derek Duke - The Earth Fed Us (1:52)
72.Derek Duke - We Feed the Earth (2:00)
73.Derek Duke - The Perished (4:39)
74.Derek Duke - Nephalist (4:05)
75.Derek Duke - Chains of Fate (1:31)
76.Derek Duke - Nave'Tern (7:00)
77.Derek Duke - Light (1:43)
78.Derek Duke - Death (1:26)
79.Derek Duke - The Heart (0:40)
80.Derek Duke - Malthael (7:40)
81.Derek Duke - A Mortal Heart (1:19)


https://mega.co.nz/#!3dAWHIpZ!fzY7LDTr2B9SaIQYFrv9K0aKVTRHSxsfJ8WUiRN vh9g

Another Blizzard game, another complete soundtrack. I've trimmed quite a bit of fat off this one, believe it or not.

Anyway, sorry for the extended absence guys. I've been more than a bit preoccupied with school (and Dota 2. And Diablo III. And Lords of Shadow 2.), and after our last few conversations I've been more than a bit tired out. Kinda hard for optimistic me to deal with all of your pessimism at times!

I'm sure by the time it comes to the next debate you will be wishing I was gone. :D

Good god! 4 hours is trimmed of all the fat? Shoot me now.

Considering you are Mr. "LOTR Complete Recording is too long!", I'll be more than glad to supply the bullet. What is your preference?

ALLAN STEPHENSON
Piano Concerto (1977)
Toccata Festiva for Castanets (1976)

Cape Town Symphony Orchestra (Kaapstadse Simfonie-Orkes)
Stewart Young (piano)
Deanna Blacher (castanets)
Haim Hadar (violin)
Pierre De Groote (viola)
conducted by
The Composer



Sample: Piano Concerto (first movement) - Zippyshare.com - Piano Concerto.flac (http://www25.zippyshare.com/v/2629258/file.html)

My transfer and restoration from vinyl. HQ scans included. As ever, folk complaining about missing CUEs or LOGs will have their names written in my Death Note. I have "the eyes" and I'm not afraid to use them.

FLAC Level 8: https://mega.co.nz/#!84pXVZzA!dyRBen6Q2zpQAMd_e3zluya9ZPYTd-PyKnZjkCR5ZYo

Allan Stephenson was born and educated in England, but emigrated to South Africa in 1973 to become sub-principal cellist with the now-defunct Cape Town Symphony Orchestra. His music certainly has more of England than Cape Town! He's a contemporary composer with a difference - his style is firmly tonal, tuneful, elegant, and lyrical. Think Finzi, via Vaughan Williams, via Moeran. This is music out of time. Stephenson makes a wonderful case for the continuing relevance and timeless "rightness" of tonal music.

Despite a career spanning over forty years and continuing to this day, he has received only a handful of recordings - this exceptionally rare LP - recorded and manufactured in South Africa - was, I believe, the first. His music is tuneful, melodic, lyrical, tonal, and expertly constructed. The performance is awfully good (the Cape Town Symphony were hardly world class, but not by any means bad).

Technical notes:

These recordings were made in live concert; as the sleeve notes explain, this performance has been supplemented with passages from the dress rehearsal. This is usually a good idea; "patching" live recordings with rehearsal recordings enables "on the night" mistakes and passages of audience disturbance to be removed quite easily. Unfortunately, South African recording technology wasn't up to much, and accordingly it's not executed particularly well - the two different recordings do not mesh together particularly well. The rehearsal was recorded only in mono (the concert in stereo) leading to very conspicuous and sudden transitions to mono and back again. Microphone placement was different, and the tape recorders employed were running at different speeds - the rehearsal being about a quarter-semitone flat - leading to disturbing pitch variations.

I have addressed the pitch variations (with success) but have decided that the other issues should be left alone. I contemplated treating the mono passages with ambience processing or even hall reverberation but experimentation proved unconvincing.

The piece for castanets and orchestra is presented in its raw and untouched transfer, as distinct from the piano concerto which I have cleaned up and remastered to my usual standard. The reason being that the tonal characteristics of the castanets are awfully similar to noise; thus, the noise reduction algorithims which are usually completely non-destructive to the musical signal, in this particular freak case, completely ruin the music. I tested the noise reduction at various strengths and settings and eventually decided to dispense with it all together. The vinyl is in very good condition (considering the age and country of origin) and surface noise, whilst audible, is not intrusive.

Also of interest to vinyl-heads: Though both sides are well-filled (21 minutes) they leave a massive amount of dead wax. The record is cut relatively quiet, enabling narrower groove spacing. This gives the record exceptionally good high frequency reproduction (even near the end of sides) at a cost of slightly increased overall surface noise. Since music is kept out of that crucial last inch-and-a-half this is one of the few records ever cut that doesn't suffer from progressive frequency loss. Them South Africans managed to get something right! ;)

While we are on topic...why do people even post CUEs and LOGs anyway? I just delete them as soon as I see them.

CUEs have been useless for many years - back in "the day" they were used to split range rips (ie, one gigantic MP3/FLAC/whatever with the whole album) back into tracks, maintaining the original split points... but since every lossless codec is natively gapless (and even MP3 has that functionality bolted on) range rips are obsolete and competent rippers don't produce them any more.

LOGs are, on the other hand, very useful and quite relevant; they provide information that you can use to determine that a CD was ripped properly. Unfortunately, there are a lot of erroneous opinions as to what constitutes "properly" but they're still worth having. EAC (and other decent ripping programs) can produce them automatically, so why not? (iTunes, which is NOT a decent ripping program, cannot produce them.)

It's worth bearing in mind that both are only useful for digital extractions - ie, CD rips. I have had people complaining about no LOGs on vinyl transfers in the past - which is like asking for an air-worthiness certificate for a wheelbarrow.

And, welcome back DH. :D

Good to be back, although I imagine you guys will be regretting my return in a few days!

Why, are you going to post a 586 track, 37 hour edition of Agents Of Shield, or something? ;)

Why, are you going to post a 586 track, 37 hour edition of Agents Of Shield, or something? ;)

Now I am honorbound to do that to you out of spite.

Now I am honorbound to do that to you out of spite.

You should do that as I would listen to every second of it :). Tango might too :P.

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


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

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

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

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

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

Thank you nextday for this score. Awesome. :)

Thanks for sharing tango. Interesting find. You can find some of this composer's other works on Amazon.

Burlesque for Double Bass and Small Orchestra
Concerto for Double Bass and Small Orchestra
Concerto for Cello and Full Orchestra
Amazon.com: The Music of Allan Stephenson: Music (http://www.amazon.com/The-Music-Allan-Stephenson/dp/B006T2PGHU/)


Piano Concerto
Toccata Festiva For Castanets
Oboe Concerto
Amazon.com: Concertos of Allan Stephenson: Music (http://www.amazon.com/Concertos-Allan-Stephenson/dp/B00004TQVL/) (currently unavailable)


Concerto for English Horn and String Orchestra
Amazon.com: Concert for Strings & Flute & English Horn: Music (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0068DU7T2/)

You should do that as I would listen to every second of it :). Tango might too :P.

I wouldn't even know how to do it. Ripping music from a game is a totally different beast than doing it from a film or show.

Yeah I will agree, Doublehex. Despite Walking Dead having released 3 seasons on dvd no one has made an actual rip of the show's music yet. Which I am honestly surprised that AMC has not released the actual score yet.

The problem with game music (at least for me) are the thousands of layers for a single music piece. I know many game directors and composers love the "situational context approach" but I honestly fail to see the benefits. Music can be another layer of the narrative of a game, much the same as film music, especially if long cutscenes are involved so why remove the quintessential power of music just because you can.
Instead of doing layers, why not let your piece naturally build and if you cannot win against the studio decision, then cut your piece down to A section (Level1) and B section (Level 2) etc. Nothing puts me out of an experience more than when there's some unnatural change in instruments or the piece suddenly cuts to another one. Almost all horror games do this and it is simply annoying because I cannot be scared because the music tells me something is 100% behind me. Even my favorite games do this. Take SotC for example: Why cut the opening and ending of the piece when it's more powerful and satisfying to play the whole piece then just starting at a random point of the loop.
If you have to loop then loop the entire piece and do not cut out important parts just for the soundtrack. I know in many cases it's not even the composers fault how his music is represented in a game but that makes it all the more frustrating. Thankfully some games do it right, Ni no Kuni (PS3 version) being a perfect example. That's how you handle music in games, it's context sensitive but the game keeps the integrity of Hisaishi's score intact. I will always prefer a 60 minute, well composed and narrative score that is not chopped up but has many emotional tones for specific situations over a 240 minutes score, full of different versions (E-Guitar, Trumpet, Strings etc.) of individual pieces (even if the pieces themselves are great!).

Well to fair RPGs have always had that kind of advantage for as long as i've known. There are only three things that a composer has to focus their attention in those kind of games. Overworlds, Battles and Cutscenes. That's it. And maybe a few minor sound bits that play when getting an item or something like that. It gives them an enormous amount of freedom which is why they tend to sound better collectively other games that rely on contextual situations.

With horror games especially i just don't see them adopting that kind of style at any point. It just doesn't fit nearly as well in practice. In most horror games the music is relatively quiet and menacing to immerse you into the situation. In Dead Space's case there are TONS of stingers that play whenever you are suddenly attacked and for the most part I've always felt it fits very well in making the player surprised (though some of us have outgrown the whole jump scare bit after all these years). If there was just one long track for the level you are currently playing i feel like those jump scares wouldn't have as much of an effect. Sure you can try to make the music intense for at certain sections of a track but whether or not the jump scares line up with the score is entirely dependent on the player. Every person plays these kinds of games differently so it's an unreliable way to score a game of this nature for sure. It's better for the game itself if the score is controlled by the composer/programmer than the player. I agree with you that a RPG style of composing should certainly be more prevalent in games today but i don't think it works for all genres sadly for the game itself which of as you mentioned is out of the composers hands.

Here other spanish work that I love it. Fully epic, a mix between the old scores by Miklos Rozsa and the force of Basil Poledouris.

It is a score for a animated movie titled El Cid, La Leyenda (2003) by Oscar Araujo.

(http://www.subirimagenes.com/otros-cidleyenda0602498617-1785136.html)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1M9H2RDK

Track listing

1. La fuerza de mi coraz�n (04:10)
Song
2. Heroes (01:47)
3. Sin honor (01:48)
4. Caballero (02:47)
5. Tolerancia (03:28)
6. Duelo (08:10)
7. Encuentro a media noche (01:12)
8. En la corte (01:38)
9. Amor imposible (01:51)
10. El legado (02:49)
11. Almoravides (02:07)
12. Noche en Valencia (02:15)
13. Partida (01:36)
14. Conspiraciones (01:31)
15. Lucha de libertad (01:57)
16. Sin mirar atr�s (02:16)
17. La muerte del rey (02:12)
18. Encuentro con Sancho (02:05)
19. El reino de un sue�o (03:55)
Song
20. The power of a broken heart (04:10)
Song

Total Duration: 00:53:44

Hey my friends, anyone woul have a link for this one, seems quite interesting!
Thanks in advance guys ;)

Here you go. Fun score
Oscar Araujo - El Cid
Download links for El_Cid__La_Leyenda.rar - Mirrorcreator - Upload files to multiple hosts (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/DEKDAGTQ/El_Cid__La_Leyenda.rar_links)

For all composers in here: Happy April Fool's day! (http://audiosex.pro/index.php?/topic/11173-review-live-orchestra/)

For all composers in here: Happy April Fool's day! (http://audiosex.pro/index.php?/topic/11173-review-live-orchestra/)

I lol'd. I think will give Andrew my entire tax check for this :P.

Here you go. Fun score
Oscar Araujo - El Cid
Download links for El_Cid__La_Leyenda.rar - Mirrorcreator - Upload files to multiple hosts (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/DEKDAGTQ/El_Cid__La_Leyenda.rar_links)

Many thanks for this Sirusjr ! :)

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



Ah !... Normal french...



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


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

mdr. c'est s�rieux tout �� ou c'est juste pour le fun ? sinon j'arr�te de rigoler

Pas s�rieux :)

Ce sera une saison fantastique. Un autre partition d'orchestre ;)

Nanana's Buried Treasure PV - Keigo Hoashi (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QKNXFwwrTE)


Two Star Driver scores in one season. Can it still get better?!

There's an outrageous amount of experimental "classical" to be had in the back catalogue. Ya just gotta go looking for it.

I know, but I'd so like the stuff to flow back into the mainstream opera house where my taxes go to.

And I'd love to find lectures or books like the many there are on classical composition in major/minor going more into the details of sound

Two Star Driver scores in one season. Can it still get better?!
By the way, Captain Earth's soundtrack release is also the same as Star Driver... Split into 3 volumes spread out months apart with the first one on July 18th.

I'm going to remain skeptical about Nanana. Don't want another letdown like Galilei Donna where the orchestral piece in the PV is the only significant piece on the soundtrack. I'm drawing a connection here because they're both 11 episode noitaminA shows by Aniplex.

April Season Roundup:

Kousuke Yamashita - Sorodemo Sekai
A lovely theme... but I fear that we may be facing a fake-brass penny-pincher. (Unless it's just exceedingly poorly recorded.)

Ryosuke Nakanishi - Daimidaler
Awfully good, good-sized ensemble (about average TV size) and a straight-up serious mecha score... for what seems to be a very silly, borderline-hentai show. (Full frontal female nudity literally within the first five seconds of the show starting. Accompanied by a frantic dissonant brassy action cue.)

Kaoru Wada - Kindaichi Case Files
It's like he's never been away. Big orchestra - by Wada's standards anyway - but apart from that, very little to distinguish it. No nasty surprises (apart from the electronic harpsichord effect over the orchestra) but as of episode one, I'm only pursuing a passing interest.

Yugo Kanno - Jojo
An orchestra is present - and it may even be completely real - but it's sparingly used in the first episode. Too early to tell, but instinct suggests this won't be his best. In the year of Gunshi Kanbei, that's hardly a surprise.

Takatsugu Wakabayashi - Dragonar
Real orchestra... cautious optimism. A young composer, and a newcomer, with a decent ensemble. A few orchestra-only cues in the first episode, including a smashing little trumpet-led victory theme. This may turn up some good stuff.

Keigo Hoashi & fifty other peple - Captain Earth
Did we expect anything different? This is Star Driver 2 with a similar-sized orchestra. Massively enjoyable, old-fashioned sci-fi score.

Koichiro Kameyama - La Corda d'Oro
OOH! I don't think this one was on anybody's radar, but it might be the biggest orchestra of the season, and the score is just wonderful so far. It's a show about classical music, and there's a certain elegant quality about the score that I haven't heard in anime for a very long time. Now would be a good time to recommend Kameyama's Beast Saga (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/502.html#post2384393) - a brilliant orchestral score for a stupid shitty kids show.

So, a mixed season. Encouraging to see new guys let loose with orchestras, and VERY encouraging to hear the approach taken with Daimdailer. A surprising mix of "old guard" (Kameyama, Yamashita) and the newbies. A little uneasy about the prospect of Kosuke Yamashita of all people doing a cheapo score... but his theme is so good it'll carry the score regardless. Nice to see Kaoru Wada back on television after a five year snooze, and even if he's not doing anything remotely different, it's a positive thing that he's still around and working and getting good budgets...

And there's still more to come in the coming week.

Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii: So far so good. Rather light-hearted and usual by Yamashita's standard. Now on to Mahouka and Captain Earth...

EDIT: Anddd Tango's report is already here.

EDIT 2: Mahouka (Iwasaki) has a killer romantic cue. Wish he could compose like that all the time. Only 4 minutes into the show so far, though. And there's that nice jazzy piano track...

What's your opinion of Sorodemo? Do you think the brass sounds dodgy too?

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What's your opinion of Sorodemo? Do you think the brass sounds dodgy too?

Edit: Mahouka - Iwasaki is a genius - I have always believed this. To hear beautiful moments like that cue you mentioned, floating in an other otherwise anonymous, forgettable melange of electronica experimentation... is most painful. Iwasaki may be the most melodically interesting composer there is, after Hisaishi.

As you said, the theme is good but I thought it was just the performance that is poor. The ending cue (the best one so far) sounded okay, though.

And yes... Iwasaki's so goddamn good. Unbelivably versatile and original. I always look forward to his new work even if there has been a lot of noise lately.

The attacks on the trumpets are very unnatural. We'll see. It's Yamashita... It can't be bad. (Edit: What the fuck is a trimpet?)

Mahouka is deceptive. In the first five minutes there's these lovely strings and piano pieces and I'm thinking "Iwasaki is finally back!". And then after five minutes he was back to business as usual.

And yes, the brass in Soredemo does sound suspicious.

Edit: Oh and it's probably not worth mentioning here but Yuki Kajiura's score for the new NHK morning drama is good. There's none of her usual antics. No dark ambiance, no chorus, etc. Instead we get a lovely score with celtic and classical influences. There's even a few orchestral pieces. You wouldn't know it was her if her name wasn't on it. I guess I'd say it's similar to a Mina Kubota score in some ways.

Daimidaler: stupid show with surprisingly decent music. The show is so blatantly typical ecchi that it's somewhat amusing - for me at least.

I'm very intrigued by La Corda d'Oro. Will be the next one to try.

And shame about the rest of Mahouka... I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for more good stuff in following episodes.

I have recently been listening to some of Iwasaki's old stuff, and I am reinforced in my belief that he's a really distinct artist even compared to the likes of Oshima and Hirano. It feels funny to say this but I would even put Iwasaki's ability to create tunes over that of Hirano... And anyone ever listened to his 009-1 OST from years ago? It's a real treat for jazz lover (strings + jazz hybrid)

I speak as somebody who, despite a handful of recent disappointments, is still a fantatical member of the Cult Of Hirano... and I somewhat agree with you. Overall, Hirano is obviously the superior musician, but I would say that the prize for melody belongs to Iwasaki. Iwasaki is also a disturbingly competent orchestrator - not a fantastic one, not a terrible one, but definitely a good one. It's one of the criminal ironies of music that he seems to have such a distaste for the medium. That a composer skilled at orchestration and positively superhuman at melody would consciously eschew both in pretty much all of his recent work. What's even more unusual is that his recent works don't seem particularly musical. They're technology pieces, not musical pieces. This would be understandable if Iwasaki were some idiot... but he's absolutely not that.

My favourite Iwasaki scores remain Read Or Die and Bincho-tan; the former an insanely cool orchestral/jazz/electronica hybrid jam-packed with great tunes, funk, and even some delicious romantic cues, and the latter a sensitive and beautiful chamber score for small ensemble and ondes-martinot showcasing Iwasaki's heart and effortless lyricism.

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How about something from the Golden Age?


The Greatest Film Scores Of
DIMITRI TIOMKIN

London Symphony Orchestra
London Voices
Whitney Claire Kaufman, vocals
Andrew Playfoot, vocals
conducted by
Richard Kaufman



https://mega.co.nz/#!Nw4XwaYT!K-zBmCoP3wTes6yqeLmmBRW-zOg7D-uTzs6AsFkjC7U

My rip at FLAC Level 8. Booklet scans included.

This is a new (2011) recording of a selection of film scores by Dimitri Tiomkin, a man who was there at the birth of the film score (with Steiner and Korngold) and known for over 100 famous scores. This CD is very generously stocked (77 minutes) and is a fantastic introduction to Tiomkin if you're not familiar with his work - and it's also a great album if you are familiar; performance and sound quality are both top-notch.

Enjoy :)
TT

The things we find at our local secondhand shops....


ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD
SINFONIETTA
for large orchestra, Op. 5
The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gerd Albrecht
Produced by George Korngold

FLAC + LOG + CUE | 4 Tracks | 43m21s | 215.8 MB



(Alas, you'll have to PM me for the link).

Erich Wolfgang Korngold obviously needs no introduction 'round these parts. Despite the title, this is a large scale work for a large orchestra. It's been speculated that the title refers to the light-hearted and major tonalities of the piece (the main thematic material is called Motif of the Cheerful Heart), and also perhaps as a reflection of the fact that Korngold was only fifteen years old when he began to compose it. It premiered when he was seventeen. Yes, this was written by a teenager. The mind boggles.

Then two more albums:


PETER MENNIN
SYMPHONY NO. 3
New York Philharmonic, conducted by Dmitri Mitropoulos
PIANO CONCERTO
John Ogdon, pianist
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Igor Buketoff
SYMPHONY NO. 7
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jean Martinon

FLAC | 11 Tracks | 74m43s | 339 MB
(Not my rip)



https://mega.co.nz/#!8x5kBTKI!Dr-2WQCwQMFPhzKlXihJIKV5wgzpVpDDbcRJkmCy3mk
Pass: barnburner

SYMPHONY NOS. 8 & 9, FOLK OVERTURE
Columbus Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Christian Badea

FLAC + LOG + CUE | 8 Tracks | 55m35s | 206.6 MB



https://mega.co.nz/#!Ntw30RxS!J-vy-8ZZFEHf_K14WkoRWzLTQSLBZE9GN_KIHwSLCYE
Pass: stark

These probably require a little explanation. I stumbled across the latter disc in the secondhand shop and picked it up mostly out of curiosity of finding a disc by my hometown orchestra. I listened to it and was intrigued enough to find out more. Peter Mennin was an American composer who dealt almost entirely with large-scale orchestral works who, despite winning accolades in the 40s and 50s, has by now become fairly obscure. The Eighth and Ninth Symphonies are very dark, angry works, and all of these pieces have a definite sense of propulsion, constantly driving forward. After hearing the CSO disc, I found the piano concerto on YouTube... and so on it goes.

A few words of caution -- the Third Symphony is an older mono recording, and to be honest I haven't listened to much of it. The Piano Concerto and Seventh Symphony date from the 1960s and are good stereo recordings, while the CSO disc is late 1980s digital. Also, the CSO isn't the London Symphony; they're a regional-grade orchestra, but they seem to handle themselves well enough here.

The Mennins are challenging listens, no doubt, but the Folk Overture and the Piano Concerto are two good places to start, IMO.

Please re-up the Tiomkin. The link is down. Thanks in anticipation.

tango's Mega link (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/578.html#post2636474) works for me. Here's another mirror, though.

Please include the following link in your post, Space Dandy!! :'D

http://www.solidfiles.com/d/82d2c3f88a

Link is fine.

Edit: Thanks Herr Salat - can I steal your mirror and add it to the original post, please? :)

Sweet Jesus.........so many amazing scores this season. Completely obliterates what we got from the winter season. Why the hell does Lantis have to be so absent this season? ='/. Hope they don't make to many of these scores enclosure only.

Mahouka indeed has some amazing orchestral cues though they are few and far inbetween right now. I think the score will get the usual treatment. Half forgettable eletronica/ half pure Taku Iwasaki gold. As tango mentioned i wonder if he's starting to lose interest in sticking to his natural style of composition we all know and love. Even though I didn't think Noragami was that bad isn't it the first time he's ever composed for an anime without an orchestra? That alone kind of worried me a bit. I know Taku likes experimenting but there is only so much you can by composing something purely syth before it starts to sound less like music and more like some amateur using FL Studio. I wouldn't mind if he took more of a Gatchaman Crowds approach though. The electronica so subtly mixed in with the cues to not detract from their brilliance but at the same time making the melody have a bigger impact.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyTdiH2C9Bo

I'd be happier if Yamashita's score wasn't a cheapie (though I'll reserve a final judgement on that until I've heard more) and there was something from Oshima, Amano, Sahashi, etc... and we're missing an extravagant prestige score... but yes, it's turning out pretty well and a massive improvement on the last batch. Still not reached the giddy heights of 2012, but we're not licked yet - there's a handful of April shows that haven't premiered yet and there's still the October season to come.

April 2014; above average.

Link still unavailable for me, so thanks for the mirror.

Would you mind going into a bit more detail regarding what you see when you try to download? The link IS OK - so you are doing something wrong at your end. A screenshot would be most helpful.

Love Live S2:

The opening cue followed by the musical number was quite lovely. Though sadly there is a good number of reused tracks from the first OST present here and there. Yoshiaki Fujisawa is still quite young but i have high hopes for him if he can stay away from the cheap synth that ruined the few great tracks in Uchoten-Kazoku.

Gokukoku no Brynhildr:

Interestingly enough the OST for this anime comes out in only a couple weeks. But after taking a listen I can honestly say it was nothing short of unimpressive. Might be the only score that i literally didn't like anything about in a while. Quite depressing since the setting is kind of interesting and the author being the same man that made Elfen Lied. It should have warranted at least a decently sized ensemble to say the least.

I've just tried the Tiomkin mega link again and it's now working fine. Previously, I had a message along the lines of link no longer available.

Seems like a decent enough season; nothing awful, but nothing standout, either. Really looking forward to hearing more from Jojo and the second volume of Kanno's Gochisou. Yamashita's is alright, but I don't really respond to him the same way some of y'all do.

The Gamba re-recording of Rozsa that was released recently is very worth checking out. It's already uploaded by wimpel on this forum.

I think this might be of mild interest to some. Though it doesn't seem practical or likely but hey.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/outcast-reboot-hd/outcast-reboot-hd

Stretch goal 1.35M: Next-gen consoles

New game music !
Lennie Moore (the composer of the outstanding Outcast original music) will compose 15 minutes of new extra original music. The new music will feature (among others) brand new combat themes, and a new exploration theme for the Shamazaar undergrounds. The new music will be recorded using top notch studio samples.

Stretch goal 1.7M: A new world: Kizaar

That�s not all ! The original orchestral soundtrack was awesome, and of course we want more !

Orchestral soundtrack
. 15 Minutes of new music specifically created for Kizaar.
. All of the 30 minutes of new music (previous goal + this goal) will be recorded with a live symphony orchestra (like the original game�s music was) !

You can tell by the starting numbers that it won't make it that high.

THANKS! ~YUGO KANNO BEST SELECTION~
320K MP3 | 179.6 MB | 16 TRACKS - 01:19:09


Catalog Number: SICL-30002
Release Date: Jan 29, 2014

Tracklist
01. Shinzanmono -Main Theme- (http://kiwi6.com/file/q6ohq07qj7) http://i.imgur.com/v9WfOyB.gif
02. PSYCHO-PASS
03. Security Police -Movie Version-
04. Theme of Kageyama
05. The Most Beautiful Place in the World (piano & strings version)
06. Automotive Revolution Opening Theme
07. MR.BRAIN
08. Andalucia: Revenge of the Goddess
09. Double Face
10. LIFE (piano & strings version)
11. Glow of Fireflies -Opening Title- (piano & strings version)
12. Diplomat Kuroda Kousaku
13. The Waste Land
14. Sonatine (quartet version)
15. Detective Galileo (piano & strings version)
16. Au petit jour

Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!xZdl3IrB!hyvWYdxVBlKXj4kXe5iHFzfoGoReifQlZHkjJw5 oZ2o (source: Xiami)

This is the second best album from Yugo Kanno, following his first best album GIFT (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/yugo-kanno-gift-~kanno-yugo-best-selection~-131613/). It's mostly themes that have already been released but there's a few unreleased themes such as Double Face, yet another arrangement of the theme from Glow of Fireflies, as well as some new tracks not from any soundtrack. Shinzanmono is a favorite of mine so it's nice to see it's the first track here.

MOZU airs in a few days with music by Yugo Kanno. It's from the same director and music director as Double Face so we'll probably be in for a similar sounding theme.

$1.7million Kickstarter for a sequel to a fifteen year-old game that nobody played? Wow... That's some ask.

Well, stranger things have happened... I shan't be holding my breath, though.

Am I the only person who's getting sick of these Kickstarter things, by the way? Find my new games console! Fund my crappy game! Fund a new episode of an anime nobody liked! Fund a big choir and thousands of dollars worth of over-production for my shitty ripoff album of Zelda themes! God, give it a break...

$1.7million Kickstarter for a sequel to a fifteen year-old game that nobody played?
I pity you for not having played Outcast. You're missing a lot. One of the truly magnificent games that can't mentioned enough.

What's the problem with Kickstarter? I've only funded a few but they are all things I'm interested in seeing. It's a website that serves it's purpose.

I pity you for not having played Outcast. You're missing a lot. One of the truly magnificent games that can't mentioned enough.

I didn't say I'd never played it. I have. (Or, should I say, I recently started it about six months ago.) My point was that it didn't do very well at the time and is barely remembered today outside of the cult gaming community. Therefore, it's highly unlikely to attract enough backers for a ludicrous ~$1.7million stretch goal.


What's the problem with Kickstarter? I've only funded a few but they are all things I'm interested in seeing. It's a website that serves it's purpose.

I know, I didn't say that either. There's no problem with Kickstarter and it achieves a lot of good things. My issue with it is a personal one and centred around the over-saturation it's getting now. What was once a new and unique idea is now "Oh, that again?!" - with great and worthy projects getting lost in a sea of opportunistic crap and unrealistic propositions. Crappy projects that trade on nostalgia and name-dropping and actually get funded, whilst genuinely good ideas that are missing the "star factor" struggle (and frequently fail) to reach their goals. Wasn't there one that fizzled out a couple of months ago to hire Yasunori Mitsuda (for half a million dollars!!!) to score some amateur game? (For �300,000 you could get four hours of Yoshihisa Hirano and the London Symphony Orchestra. I know where I would donate...) ;)

Campaigns that ask for ten times more than they need and don't get funded. Campaigns that ask for ten times more than they need, get funded, produce something crummy and f**k off with the rest of the money. Projects that ride on the coattails of famous things in order to line the pockets of the organisers. (ZREO springs to mind.)

It does have its uses, though. It enables risky projects to thrive. I just wish it were more sparingly (and intelligently) used; as it stands every single crackpot on the planet is after a slice of the pie. It's a mathematical problem; Finite money, infinite projects.

Just a personal whinge is all. Give me that, folks... ;)

Edit: "Surprising Good Score Of The Season" Corner

Dragon Collection (Megumi Ohashi) - looks like 2014's Beast Saga. Brightly coloured, stupid, and exists pretty much to sell merchandising. Ohashi has her usual spindly but big-enough orchestra. Her name hasn't been listed anywhere, to my knowledge, so I think this is actual news! :D

Oreca Battle (???) - to a lesser extent... Music, if I know my Katakana (and I don't) is credited to "Konami Digital Entertainment" but there are some humans playing. Don't recognise the composer at all. Could be potentially intertesting...

I've just post this on another thread. It is entirely orchestral and is performed by the London Symphony Orchestra :)

My favorite track, apart of 'Fiesta del Sol' theme that opens and close the album, is 'Mosaico Turistico'.





El Pueblo Del Sol

Composed and Conducted by Lee Holdridge

1. Fiesta del Sol (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTO-qA5zPeM)
2. Latir de Progreso
3. Paisajes
4. Culturas Antiguas
5. Mosaico Turistico
6. Sue�os
7. Interludio
8. Origines
9. Estampas Hist�ricas
10. La Gran Tenochtitlan
11. Cuadro Final

Total Time: 39:43

All Tracks @ FLAC
Sendspace (http://www.sendspace.com/file/jkk15r)


Here is a grand orchestral score composed by Lee Holdridge. This is rich thematic score with a majestic main theme that is vaguely reminiscent to one of his themes composed for The Beastmaster. It is not a surprise here because both scores were composed around the same time.
It is a soundtrack that musically portrays the greatness of the historical and cultural heritage of the native peoples of Mexico. So if you like symphonic music punctuated with little bits of Mexican colours orchestrations, then i'm sure you'll like to hear this score! Enjoy :)

Thanks for the Kanno best, Nextday. "The Most Beautiful Place in the World" is beautiful. :'(

tango's Mega link (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/578.html#post2636474) works for me. Here's another mirror, though.

Please include the following link in your post, Space Dandy!! :'D

DT-TGFSODT.7z - Solidfiles (http://www.solidfiles.com/d/82d2c3f88a)
Click on the underscored Direct download link.

Thanks for the mirror. For some reason Tango's original MEGA link wasn't working for me either. I thought originally it was just MEGA having issues but then another recent MEGA link was downloading right away with no problems. Thankfully, this link seems to be working for me just fine.

Tiomkin really wrote some gorgeous scores and themes. I'm still waiting for a proper re-recording of Giant because the last time I recall listening to the existing recording it didn't sound very good. Though that could have been so early in my exposure to that era that I didn't recognize how good it really sounded. Thankfully, there are plenty of re-recordings with suites from Giant.

As for Rozsa, the new Gamba recording is delightful though I could have done without more Ben Hur suites. I have so many albums with Ben Hur suites already. But we also have the new Intrada re-recordings that I have not gotten to listen to yet so perhaps that will satisfy those who wanted something a bit more obscure. I didn't have the other suites already that are included on the Gamba so they were new to me.

Anyone who isn't familiar with golden age works should search out the Gerhardt re-recordings, especially the ones that were re-issued recently. There are also some gorgeous albums with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra titled The Golden Age of Hollywood (3 volumes) that give a nice introduction with gorgeous modern sound.

This is really reallllly stunning!!!
Thanks!!!

YES! Black Bullet is full on Amano! And it's Warsaw. Orchestra sparingly deployed in episode 1 (ie, only one cue - and somewhat buried in explosions, yelling, and splattering blood) but nonetheless, here is 2014's prestige score, only 24 hours after I moaned about there not being one.

Are any of these new Anime shows worth watching? I recently gave up on Wizard Barristers after 6 episodes so that leaves me still with Silver Spoon and Space Brothers with nothing else. I tried Pilot's Love Song and couldn't stand it.

Also to Tango, I appreciate that you have now started zipping up a folder when you post something. This small change is very much appreciated to my OCD self.

The second season of Mushishi is very good. But I'm always a sucker for relaxing, slow-paced shows so that one won me over instantly. I still need to finish Space Dandy but I'm not that interested in it right now. I'm still a bit sad that Space Brothers is over for now, just when the last episode brought Space Brothers back to greatness (Shame we didn't see Vince family). But at least that means new music. Space Brothers may be not the greatest score in the world and it's far from complex but the music has so much heart that it ranks among my favorite animes scores. Not to mention the show the music is written for is actually good, that does not happen often.

@Tango: So it's pretty much confirmed that Sagisu is now fused with Amano :D
Btw, Fafner is getting a new anime in 2015 by Tsuneyoshi Saito, perhaps a new Warsaw score on the horizon? Also, any luck with Tiara Concerto or is it still nowhere on the net?

Uh... Daimidaler if you want a laugh - robotic penguins with tails that look like erect penises menace Tokyo; standing in their way, a giant Mecha powered by HORNINESS and piloted by a pervert who can't fight unless he's turned on; I wish I were making this up... Apart from that, nothing's really LEAPING out at me. If you're at a loose end (as I am, now Space Brothers has finished) my picks would probably be Kindachi SHounen, Soredemo, Captain Earth, and La C'orda D'Oro. It seems like they're four of the handful of shows this season not concerned with a) enormous breasts, b) Captain Merchandise and the Plastic Dragons Of Doom, c) enormous breasts, or d) REALLY enormous breasts...


Also to Tango, I appreciate that you have now started zipping up a folder when you post something. This small change is very much appreciated to my OCD self.

I can't say this has been intentional... I figure that people will either a) keep the archives and play the music from inside them, or b) extract them according to their own library / folder structure... in both cases, my archiving files in folders or just files doesn't really make any difference; if it's wrong for the downloader, it takes all of three mouse clicks to fix it... Scans go in folders now mainly because that's where my auto-script sticks them. Therefore, I can't promise I'll always do this, but I will try to remember. :)


@Tango: So it's pretty much confirmed that Sagisu is now fused with Amano

Haha! I prefer to think of it as Sagisu does the Sagisu stuff, Amano does the Amano stuff. Honestly, straight up, completely putting aside my dislike of Sagisu, I barely detect any of his stylistic tendencies in the orchestral music in Magi and indeed in Black Bullet. I think they've realised that each member of the team should play to his strengths. I am more or less certain that Sagisu's contribution to the Warsaw cues in recent scores is almost nothing; it sounds like Amano composing with Sagisu's root melody. Sagisu is a good tunesmith, so I think this arrangement works out quite well. I do wish that it would cross somebody's mind; "Hang on, this Amano guy did Giant Robo! He could score our show all on his own! Who needs Shito Fagisu?" -- but, for the moment, we've got an arrangement that produces a) good scores, and b) soundtrack releases... so I shan't complain too loudly... :)


Btw, Fafner is getting a new anime in 2015 by Tsuneyoshi Saito, perhaps a new Warsaw score on the horizon? Also, any luck with Tiara Concerto or is it still nowhere on the net?

Yeah, spotted that. I'm not sure if I see Fafner 2 getting a Warsaw score. Saito seems to have settled down in his "small ensemble" style of late. I think we'll get something like Heaven And Earth. Which is no bad thing, really... I prefer Saito in his small orchestra style, to be honest...

No joy with Tiara at my end, as yet - but I admit I haven't been looking too hard... I think it'll show up.

Are any of these new Anime shows worth watching? I recently gave up on Wizard Barristers after 6 episodes so that leaves me still with Silver Spoon and Space Brothers with nothing else. I tried Pilot's Love Song and couldn't stand it.

Also to Tango, I appreciate that you have now started zipping up a folder when you post something. This small change is very much appreciated to my OCD self.

Oh my lord.........i think you just picked the two WORST series of last season by accident. I'm surprised that you lasted that long with Wizard Barristers since I hated it from episode 1 and it overall just makes a complete mockery of the justice system. Considering last season i highly recommend Log Horizon which was easily my second favorite show. The concept is that players are trapped in a game but unlike most shows people do not die when they are killed in the game. Also it should be mentioned that Log Horizon is the first anime of this nature that strongly focuses on the sociological/economical elements that come into play in a society like this. We are shown the process of building a proper society from the ground up using MMO elements and i must say it's rather engaging. It has a slow start but gets really good during it's second half.

As for this season so far........really worth noting has shown up in my opinion besides Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei i guess which still has some annoying elements in it but from what i hear is supposed to get better later so i wouldn't take my word for it yet. Of course if you haven't seen Space Dandy I recommend it if you need a good laugh or want your mind subsequently blown. The show functions much like American cartoons where each episode has no effect on the ones prior. I think the series has rather slow start but gets much better later on. I highly recommend Episode 10 as it was the funniest episode for me. Haven't seen Mushishi yet but looks pretty interesting.

Really though i wish Japan would animate more stories like Silver Spoon and Space Brothers and stopped spewing all this blatant otaku pandering garbage that pollutes the network. It's hard to get attached to a series when all the characters are so artificial and barely have any relatable traits that a normal human being would have.

P.S

Hooray for more Shrio/Amano! :3

The problem with game music (at least for me) are the thousands of layers for a single music piece. I know many game directors and composers love the "situational context approach" but I honestly fail to see the benefits. Music can be another layer of the narrative of a game, much the same as film music, especially if long cutscenes are involved so why remove the quintessential power of music just because you can.

I understand the frustration - and coming from the perspective of someone who rips music, I kinda wish they didn't. I won't tell you how many times I accidentally included a copy of a track because it was just a shortened piece of a longer track, or one with less or more instruments. I know why they do it - its to add more flexibility to what is played on screen. Video Games are so damn long, they need as much music as they can squeeze out.

But, honestly...do they need to make it such a pain in the ass to know which is what?


Instead of doing layers, why not let your piece naturally build and if you cannot win against the studio decision, then cut your piece down to A section (Level1) and B section (Level 2) etc. Nothing puts me out of an experience more than when there's some unnatural change in instruments or the piece suddenly cuts to another one. Almost all horror games do this and it is simply annoying because I cannot be scared because the music tells me something is 100% behind me. Even my favorite games do this. Take SotC for example: Why cut the opening and ending of the piece when it's more powerful and satisfying to play the whole piece then just starting at a random point of the loop.

because games need to loop, due to the uncertain length of each scene. If you have a fanfare go off before you kill a boss, it would make no dramatic sense.


If you have to loop then loop the entire piece and do not cut out important parts just for the soundtrack. I know in many cases it's not even the composers fault how his music is represented in a game but that makes it all the more frustrating. Thankfully some games do it right, Ni no Kuni (PS3 version) being a perfect example. That's how you handle music in games, it's context sensitive but the game keeps the integrity of Hisaishi's score intact. I will always prefer a 60 minute, well composed and narrative score that is not chopped up but has many emotional tones for specific situations over a 240 minutes score, full of different versions (E-Guitar, Trumpet, Strings etc.) of individual pieces (even if the pieces themselves are great!).

Thing is, Ni No Kuni is a turn based game. As such, each scene is gonna take a long time. I imagine even easy fights will be longer than what you'd see in other genres. As such they have the liberty to have long, sprawling music. If they do what you suggest, we'd just have a Symphony of the Night where you will kill a boss before you even hear a 1/4 of the music!


Am I the only person who's getting sick of these Kickstarter things, by the way? Find my new games console! Fund my crappy game! Fund a new episode of an anime nobody liked! Fund a big choir and thousands of dollars worth of over-production for my shitty ripoff album of Zelda themes! God, give it a break...

Yeah and no. I mean, on one hand there is a hell alot of Kickstarters. Practically everyone and their mother wants their game, or book, or soundtrack funded. I fully understand the appeal - I like the idea of being notified by something as it is being worked on. I like the whole notion of being able to fund something that couldn't through more conventional means.

But by God, there sure are alot of them.

Speaking through the perspective of a tabletop fan, who likes card games and roleplaying games, and even some high tier board games now and then, Kickstarter has kinda been a God send. For a while now you had a huge divide between the game companies that already had some money to spend on their games to make them look really good...and everyone else. Kickstarter helped close that gap in a really huge way, so that we see more and more AAA games being published by the little guy. We're starting to see games that really experiment with conflict resolution - like Fate of the Norn, that uses Nordic inspired runes instead of dice, or Numenera, where the more you get hit the worse your character is. You wouldn't see that from Wizards of the Coast or White Wolf - they'd be more than happy to stick with Dungeons & Dragons or World of Darkness.

So from that perspective, I don't mind Kickstarter at all. Now, if we could just solve all the other problems tabletop games seem to have (like the insane amount of sexism and the inclusive nature of the communities that surrond these games), we'd may be onto something.

Daimidaler got a laugh out of me when that dude ran into traffic, but I also really wish that it had ended there. I had heard...things, and tuned in out of morbid curiosity but it doesn't even have the decency to be a trainwreck. It WAS extraordinarily difficult to watch, tho(and my poor bf was with me XD)

And aside from that, haven't really seen to much else and what I did, I wouldn't exactly recommend. There's always Captain Earth, though, if you're in the mood for some good ole fashioned anime bullshit. It is already the most "BONES Mecha Anime" BONES Mecha Anime in existence by a country mile, for all that entails. Also, World is Still Beautiful is supposed to be good, who can say?

Hello!
I'm a big fan of Yugo Kanno
is that someone has the OST of the "KAIJI" movies ?

thx

Yeah I considered Space Dandy until I saw the trailer and the funky music makes me want to cut things. I certainly agree we need more anime like Space Brothers and Silver Spoon.

The second season of Mushishi is very good. But I'm always a sucker for relaxing, slow-paced shows so that one won me over instantly. I still need to finish Space Dandy but I'm not that interested in it right now. I'm still a bit sad that Space Brothers is over for now, just when the last episode brought Space Brothers back to greatness (Shame we didn't see Vince family). But at least that means new music. Space Brothers may be not the greatest score in the world and it's far from complex but the music has so much heart that it ranks among my favorite animes scores. Not to mention the show the music is written for is actually good, that does not happen often.

@Tango: So it's pretty much confirmed that Sagisu is now fused with Amano :D
Btw, Fafner is getting a new anime in 2015 by Tsuneyoshi Saito, perhaps a new Warsaw score on the horizon? Also, any luck with Tiara Concerto or is it still nowhere on the net?
I'd second Mushishi and also mention JoJo. Both are second seasons and are sure to be great. Aside from that, I'd recommend checking out Ping Pong from my favorite anime director Masaaki Yuasa. His most recent directorial work was The Tatami Galaxy back in 2010

Tiara Concerto surfaced on astost (http://www.astost.com/bbs/read.php?tid=10957821) a couple months ago. It's around 30 minutes. I'd upload it here but astost has rules against uploading other people's rips without permission and I'd like to keep my account.


Edit: I actually got around to watching some stuff today that I just skimmed before. Yamashita's theme for Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii is nice but what bothers me is that in the first episode I heard like four different arrangements of it. I'm hoping this won't be one of those scores where the main theme is just repeated over and over. Aside from that, Daimidaler seems to have some pretty interesting music. It doesn't seem high budget, the brass section makes it pretty obvious, but Nakanishi seems to be good at effectively using what he has available to him. For his first time writing music for orchestra, it's a pretty competent work. There's also Dragonar Academy, which is the first score by a 29-year-old composer. I was kind of worried after hearing the PV music full of beats and guitars but the BGM in the show was actually okay. Some of the cues around midway through the show, like the race music, were particularly good. A lot of these new ~30 year old orchestra guys are pretty sketchy but it seems like this one passes for now.

Edit2: Oh, and just a little tidbit I'll share. Michiru Oshima was in studio yesterday with a nicely sized orchestra (for a studio one, at least). I hadn't seen anything about her recording something since late last year so it's good to see she's back.

It tis time for round 2 of Yoko Kanno's score on Gochisousan! Another wonderful score as always but the symphony track at the end certainly leaves a great lasting impression. Nijine is back with Chuubo but personally i still think the movie OST was better.

VICL-64161 | Gochisousan Original Soundtrack Gochiso Note Okawari - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/44458)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/44458-1395081774_zpsa88c621f.jpg.html)

Title: Gochisousan Original Soundtrack Gochiso Note Okawari
Type OST: Drama Soundtrack
Composers: Yoko Kanno
No. of tracks: 27
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Apr 09, 2014
Size: MP3 182mb/ ALAC 372mb
Host: Zippy/MP3 Mega/ALAC

Tracklist
01 O kawari!
02 Ichigo no uta ~ Genta shussei no hi
03 Keijijo machiudo
04 Piano wa odoru
05 Naniwa gento
06 Higemo-da nizumu
07 Odaidoko kenkyushitsu
08 Soshu yakyoku
09 Uzumore
10 NUKADOKO nosutarudjiya
11 Shindoshi hoga
12 Ikezutango
13 Pan mimi
14 Rupashika
15 Threepenny Physical
16 Mukuna shokutaku
17 Awa no goto
18 Kodomotaru mono
19-Gen shojo kurabu
20 Fu hisa no fushiginasekai
21 Gakai su
22 Tsumetaki chi
23 Misson
24 8 Man 8 sen-kai no kuchifuku
25 Adajio
26 Itadakimasu
27 Gochisousan Symphony (http://kiwi6.com/file/i9beo1r8oa)

320 kbs MP3
Zippyshare.com - Gochisousan Original Soundtrack Gochiso Note Okawari (animeost).7z (http://www74.zippyshare.com/v/93346483/file.html)

ALAC (Loseless)
https://mega.co.nz/#!uIo3yagJ!jZYsRfUWqi5k82uddkvBbAkZCT2o2MH8ZBVHQ2s 8iK8


LACA-9344~5 | Chu-2 byo demo KOI ga shitai REN Original Soundtrack - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/43808)
(http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/img006_zps957f39ca.jpg.html)

Title: Chu-2 byo demo KOI ga shitai REN Original Soundtrack
Type OST: Anime Soundtrack
Composers:Nijine
No. of tracks: 31/26
Format: MP3 and ALAC
Bitrate: 320kbs and Loseless
Release Date: Apr 02, 2014
Size: MP3 223mb/ ALAC 552mb
Host: Zippy/MP3 Mega/ALAC

Tracklist
Disc 1

01 VOICE (TV size)
02 Arata na Hajimari no Yokan
03 Heiwa na Nichijou
04 Subarashiki Gakuen Seikatsu
05 Comical Days
06 POP! HAPPY! ENJOY!
07 Dekomori, Kenzan ~Tsuujou~
08 Dekomori, Kenzan ~Yuutousei~
09 Tohoho na Nichijou
10 Chiisana Koufukukan
11 Honto no Kimochi
12 Kyouteki Shutsugen
13 Hazero Real! Hajikero Synapse!
14 Petit Jiken Hassei?
15 Owari Yokereba Subete Yoshi
16 Hashiridasu Kodou (http://kiwi6.com/file/16up427u2i)
17 Kyokutou Majutsu Hirune Kessha no Natsu no Chotto Zannen na Hibi
18 All Green!
19 Yuuta, Keiyaku wo...
20 Kore ga Bokura no Nichijou
21 Chuunibyou de Aru to Iu Koto
22 Morisummer, Kourin
23 Ouen Enzetsu I
24 Ouen Enzetsu II
25 Kyokutou Majutsu Hirune Kessha no Natsu no Chotto Tanoshii Hibi
26 Dekomori no March
27 Game Taiketsu ~Binbou King Hen~
28 Game Taiketsu ~Dance Battle Hen~
29 Siesta Battle I
30 Siesta Battle II
31 Chuunibyou Eyecatch Ren A

Disc 2

01 Chuunibyou Eyecatch Ren B
02 Shichimiya Satone no Theme
03 Ano Ko wa Osawagase Girl
04 Physical Linkage
05 Yuuta to Shichimiya no Deai
06 Henshin Scene ~Shichimiya Satone~
07 Shuugaku Ryokou
08 Itsumo to Chigau Yoru
09 Ippo Fumidashitakute
10 Koigokoro ga Ugoku toki
11 Futarikiri no Ichinichi
12 Souzouryoku, Bakuhatsu (Imagination Big Bang)
13 Accident Hassei!
14 Kimi wo Omou to Iu Koto
15 Kimi to no Keiyaku
16 Nise Morisummer no Theme
17 Morisummer no Shoumei
18 Spiritual Caricature
19 Watashi wa Watashi de Iyou to Omou
20 Full Armor Jaoushingan
21 Kanarazu Nashitogerareru
22 Watashi no Naka no Teki
23 Rikka no Sagashimono
24 An'enryuu to no Tatakai
25 Bokutachi wa Omoitsudzukeru
26 Van!shment Th!s World (TV size)

320 kbs MP3
https://mega.co.nz/#!GJwF3QjD!IfI-FkVVKHK7rB4uc5J9Ln6iG6Zju-TikoTguj3SaUw

ALAC (Loseless)
https://mega.co.nz/#!7UpCRBCb!Zcu-mWgqgjX28-ovJn10uDubfMkoHKca1yJQ1QiPc_c


Scans included as always. Enjoy http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq271/leatherhead93/kucing_mikir_zps95512653.gif (http://s455.photobucket.com/user/leatherhead93/media/kucing_mikir_zps95512653.gif.html)

Next week I have a couple surprise scores that i plan to upload. I'm crossing my fingers it was worth the headaches trying to track them down.

Gochisousan is just too interesting. There's really no genre that Kanno can't tackle. She's just a master of everything. That final track is pure beauty.

Tons of thanks for Gochisou, Leatherhead! Can't wait to give it a full listen. This series has such a measured, refined consistency and focus rare from Kanno, and yet still has such a breadth of texture and color, in addition to a wry, Napple Tale-ish sense of humor. Will have full thoughts soon.

Super thanks for Gochisousan OST 2, leatherhad333! Yoko kanno still continue to amaze me!!

Thanks for the new Yoko Kanno!! and can someone reupload THANKS! ~YUGO KANNO BEST SELECTION~ ? the link is down

No, it's not.

A delightful surprise: Is the Order a Rabbit? has music by Ruka Kawada.

It's the Kiniro Mosaic of the season with music by the composer of Kiniro Mosaic. Real instruments and a lovely overture right from the start.

EDIT: It's happening! Nanana is another Star Driver/Captain Earth! What a theme! I really hope this gives Keigo Hoashi more exposure.

Just for fun and I'm curious... What do you guys use to manage and play your media (audio & video)? I have been using Foobar for audio and MPV for video. For mobile, I'm tied to Google Play Music for Android since I heavily use its subscription-based streaming.

I'm also an OS X user and would love to hear what you are using besides iTunes, which blows IMO.

Holy crap, Nanana! BLOODY HELL! :D

Gochumon is just gorgeous.

Now feeling really upbeat about this season - music-wise at least! Half a dozen potentially brilliant orchestral scores in a variety of shows - stupid Hentai mecha, dumb kids dragon crap, straight sci-fi, adventure, crime mystery... A nice mix of composers. Some youngsters getting their first taste of an orchestra. AND a big Warsaw score by Amano. All we need now is to discover that Hirano actually scored the Broken Blade TV anime (LSO please!) and this will go down as one serious hell of an April.

Akashi - on my main PC, Foobar2000 for audio, PotPlayer for video. XBMC for both on the HTPC. PowerAmp on Android for mobile and in-car audio. :)

At home (windows PC), I use foobar for audio and MPC-HC for video. On the go, I still use my iPod which I manually manage (and I share your sentiment about iTunes - it's even worse on Windows).

Never a greater moment in my IT life than when I finally said goodbye to iTunes and my iPod. Stuck a 64gb SD card in my Samsung Galaxy S4 and never looked back.

Funny thing, I recently had this feeling that Nanana will be better than Captain Earth, particularly because I enjoyed Hoashi's contributions to Star Driver the most and here he is let lose on a solo project without any restrictions from other members of the team (thematic material or style).
Overall this is an incredible season so far, sure it has it's disappointments (Chaika, B&S) BUT we seldom have so many great orchestral scores in one season. Not to mention a handful of really enjoyable Hybrid and lovely ensemble scores. I also find myself really enjoying the electronic music in No Game, No Life. Even in the coming weeks we'll have Patema and a new Yamashita score. Not to mention that Amano seems to be back and Kajiura is writing decent orchestral music. I'm now overjoyed. My pessimism gone :D

Sahashi back? Where??

And can anybody link me to Kajiura's drama? I can't find it for love nor money... My usually good Google-Fu is obviously not working today...

Having my devices separate makes things easier for me to manage, I think. And my S3's battery life sucks enough as is. Using it for my music as well would be overkill.

And, well, my phone doesn't have close to 160GB of storage.

Edit: Here you go tango, this is episode 7 and has some nice cues starting around 5:20 - http://video.fc2.com/content/20140407ZfnTJx93

Sorry Tango, false Alarm!

(What is wrong with me today...)

Thank you, sir!

*listens*

Seriously? This is Kajiura? This surprises me twice:

a) That she'd take a job knowing she'd have to write something so far away from her usual style, and b) that she'd pull it off SO BLOODY WELL...


Sorry Tango, false Alarm!

Aaaargh! *cries*

Thought I'd missed Toshihiko Sahashi - "Super 200 Episode Gundam Show" performed by the London Symphony Orchestra...

It's a NHK series, tango. NHK does mysterious things to composers. Soundtrack will be out in June and I'll certainly be grabbing it.

Sahashi actually does have some drama this season but it's just the usual piano and strings, I think.

Please excuse me, but what is this whispering about Kajiura writing decent orchestral music??? Are we talking about Yuki Kajiura? Tango, are you serious? Now this i have to hear...is it for an anime or NHK drama or Kitano movie or what?

I wouldn't have even tried it if it hasn't been for nextday's recommendation... such is the power of this splendid thread.

But, I've skimmed a few episodes and it's tuneful, and very tasteful indeed. I still can't quite wrap my head around it.

Hooray for NHK!

Endymione - how are you? Haven't seen you around for months! :)