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June 10th, 2008
xen0glossy
 | 04:35 am
Maybe someday I'll do a real update again. In the meantime, have some albums I uploaded for a trade and don't want to waste.
Kuwashima Houko - Flores
Lia - dearly
Matsu Takako - a piece of life
Matsu Takako - Bokura ga Ita
Matsu Takako - Concert Tour 2003 "second wave"
Matsu Takako - Concert Tour vol. 1 "a piece of life"
Matsu Takako - harvest songs
Matsu Takako - home grown
Matsu Takako - Itsuka, Sakura no Ame ni...
Matsu Takako - Sora no Kagami
Minagawa Junko - TRUTH / Darkness of chaos
Momoi Haruko - Famison 8-Bit
And some quick reviews so that this looks less lazy:
"Flores" is a bit of an odd album. It seems to have some kind of story/concept going, but I'm not sure what it is. It's interesting, though, and Kuwashima Houko is a good singer, so I think it's worth getting.
"dearly" is not Lia's best album, in my opinion. Then again, I think "Colors of Life" is the best thing she's ever done, and that's not much like her other work, so you can take that with a grain of salt. Anyway, I find it rather generically poppy, overall. I do like karma and Last Regrets ~duo version~, though. And Lia's voice is absolutely gorgeous, as always. It might still be worth picking up if you're a fan.
Matsu Takako is a pop artist who plays the piano; she does mostly ballads and relaxed, down-tempo sorts of songs, though she has some more upbeat ones in there. She's not going to win any awards for originality, I admit, and if you listen to too many of her songs in a row they all start to run together and sound a bit monotonous, but in serving sizes of no more than one album she's pretty good. My favorite album of hers is "Itsuka, Sakura no Ame ni..." so if you only take one, I suggest that one.
"TRUTH / Darkness of chaos" is a single; the B-side was the ending theme to the game Remember11. It's... pop-rockish, I think? I haven't listened to it in a while, so I forget. I like Minagawa Junko a lot, but this single has never grabbed me.
"Famison 8-Bit" is a bunch of classic anime songs done in a chiptune style. If you ever wanted to hear your favorite anime songs as if they were background music for a twenty-year-old video game (plus vocals), this is the album for you. If you're glad that sound card technology has progressed past that stage, or are otherwise lacking in the necessary nostalgia factor, this is probably not the album for you. It's a hit-or-miss kind of thing.
Enjoy!
Also, does anyone have Matsumoto Rica's "RICA the BEST" album? I have most of it, but I discovered today that my file for track 4 of disc 1 (which I think is romanized "Ah, Mujou ~Genroku Chaya Oharu~," but I've never been sure) is corrupted and will no longer play past the one-minute mark or so. So if anyone could upload/point me in the direction of that one song, that'd be great.
Current Music: Takano Urara - Akutoku no Hanabira
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March 1st, 2008
xen0glossy
 | 10:48 pm
... And another long gap. Something like three months there. ... I've been very busy, is all.
Also, no one comments anymore now that the requests post is separate. Seriously, guys, is a little thanks too much to ask?
( Requests )
( My Picks )
As always, requests are open; my list is here. One request per customer, and please request a specific song (not "anything by ____" or "anything from ____"). Please comment with your requests on the request post and not any other. Requests posted on rotations will be ignored.
Current Music: Shiina Ringo - Yokushitsu
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February 7th, 2008
xen0glossy
 | 01:41 am
Hey guys,
As you may or may not have noticed, all of the files that I'd uploaded for this site are gone. This is because the web host I was using said "no filehosting" and they had to be pulled. So! What this means is that as soon as I get back to updating (which will be soon, I promise), we'll be back to free upload services.
That said, does anyone have any recommendations for said services? I haven't used one in ages, I don't really know which are best. A relatively cheap webhost who won't kill me for filehosting would be good too, but that may be asking too much.
Current Music: Iwao Junko - Yasashisa no Tane
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December 17th, 2007
xen0glossy
| 07:44 pm
And we're back to the long waits. Sorry about that. I'll try to get back on a more regular schedule soon.
This update doubles as my annual Christmas update. Only eight songs this year, which is way less than last year, but... oh well. I'm tired. (You know, I don't know what it is about Christmas music that I like so much. I'm not a big fan of Christmas. I'm not even really a Christian -- though Japanese Christmas music tends to be pretty secular anyway. I just like the music, for some reason.)
( Requests )
( My Picks )
As always, requests are open; my list is here. One request per customer, and please request a specific song (not "anything by ____" or "anything from ____"). Please comment with your requests on the request post and not any other. Requests posted on rotations will be ignored.
Current Music: Teikoku Kagekidan - Kiseki no Kane
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October 31st, 2007
xen0glossy
 | 12:57 pm
Another update less than a month after the last one? What is this madness?!
I'm doing NaNoWriMo in November, so I probably won't be updating at all next month (though I seem to remember I did last year anyway, so who knows). And I thought it wasn't fair to you guys to make you wait over a month again, so I decided to use part of my last day of freedom to make this post.
Requests
Song: Flower Psychedelic (Otani Yuri ver)
Game/Anime/etc.: Alien Nine
Type: 3rd OP
Artist: Ibata Juri
Comments: Cutesy catchy pop song. It's not particularly amazing, but it will get stuck in your head.
Download!
Song: Futari Dake no Ongakukai
Game/Anime/etc.: Da Capo Four Seasons
Type: Spring theme
Artist: Horie Yui
Comments: Cute, laid-back pop song. It's not unpleasant to listen to, but not very memorable either.
Download!
Song: Ganbare
Game/Anime/etc.: Mugen no Ryvius
Type:
Artist: Seki Tomokazu
Comments: I'm sort of tired and braindead and I don't know what to say about this song. It's... sort of relaxed and folky and catchy. Yes.
Download!
Song: No Brand Heroes
Game/Anime/etc.: Koko wa Greenwood
Type:
Artist: Sakamoto Chika
Comments: Cheesy 90's anime pop. It's not bad, but not great.
Download!
Song: Pasera
Game/Anime/etc.: Nurse Witch Komugi
Type:
Artist: Ootani Ikue
Comments: Still more cutesy pop.
Download!
Song: Reverse
Game/Anime/etc.: Nurse Witch Komugi
Type: Kyosuke song
Artist: Saiga Mitsuki
Comments: Rockish with a bit of techno distortion. Saiga Mitsuki is great, as always.
Download!
Song: Tsubasajin Densetsu ~Tori no Uta~
Game/Anime/etc.: AIR (the movie)
Type: BGM
Artist: Suo Yoshikazu
Comments: I've never seen the movie version of AIR, so I've no idea when this plays. Anyway, this is an instrumental version of the game's (and anime's) opening theme, Tori no Uta. It starts out sort of... weird, for lack of a better word (what is that instrument?), but soon goes into a sweeping, rather epic-sounding rendition of the song, with violins as the main instrument. Later on, what sounds like a drum machine kicks in (which is a bit incongruous, if you ask me, but it's not too bad). Then, at around three minutes, it sounds like the song is about to end, but instead it starts up again -- slower, without the drums, and with something of a foreboding sound. Overall, while not my favorite BGM track in the history of ever, it's pretty solid. And hey, it's Tori no Uta. You can't go wrong with that.
Download!
Song: Why! The Zona's Song
Game/Anime/etc.: N/A
Type: J-pop
Artist: Morikubo Shoutarou
Comments: Morikubo Shoutarou does almost as much talking as he does singing in this track. The actual song parts are rockish and sort of cheesy, and the lyrics are kind of weird -- all about the singer being "the mysterious person Zona".
Download!
My Picks
Song: Kimi to Yozora to Sakamichi to
Game/Anime/etc.: Myself; Yourself
Type: ED
Artist: Itou Kanako
Comments: I had high hopes for Myself; Yourself after hearing that it was written by the scenario writer for Ever17, which is one of my favorite visual novels. However, it turned out to be a disappointingly cliché harem show -- the plot is unoriginal and the characters so cookie-cutter I couldn't make myself care about them at all. However, the time I spent watching the first four episodes wasn't a total waste, because the opening and ending themes are awesome. I particularly like this one, an upbeat pop-rock song featuring Itou Kanako's powerful vocals. Much like the show itself, it's nothing new or ground-breaking, but unlike the show, it's fun to listen to anyway.
Download!
Song: Koumaroku
Game/Anime/etc.: Koumaroku
Type: theme
Artist: Energyfield
Comments: In the spirit of the holiday, I bring you a song from an H-game about demons. Don't look at me like that, I haven't played it. I just like Energyfield's music. This song is actually quite gorgeous -- it starts off with the singer singing the chorus a cappella, slowly adding eerie, percussive music underneath her. Then there's a brief instrumental bit with piano and violin, and then the singer comes back, this time with... what I thought were echo effects until I actually listened and realized that the "echo" was singing something different from the singer. Anyway, it's quite pretty and haunting and, at only two minutes, far too short. I wonder if there's a longer version out there somewhere.
Download!
As always, requests are open; my list is here. One request per customer, and please request a specific song (not "anything by ____" or "anything from ____"). Please comment with your requests on the request post and not any other. Requests posted on rotations will be ignored.
Current Music: MELL - Virgin's High!
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October 17th, 2007
xen0glossy
 | 11:56 pm
Another two-month gap in updates. Oops.
To the person who requested Orikasa Ai's Handsome, I'm sorry, my copy of the song seems to have vanished.
Requests
Song: Across the Universe
Game/Anime/etc.: Magic Knight Rayearth 2
Type: Lantis song
Artist: Kosugi Juurouta
Comments: Kosugi Juurouta performs a fairly simple, slow, repetitive melody over a distorted, discordant background... until around 2:40, when it transitions into an equally repetitive (if not more so) but less discordant and more major-key rockish chorus, which repeats until the end of the song, growing increasingly distorted. It's interesting, I'll give it that.
Download!
Song: Amethyst Remembrance ~ AMEJISUTO-iro no Omoide
Game/Anime/etc.: Yami no Matsuei
Type: Episode 2 insert
Artist: Saitou Kaoru
Comments: A fairly pretty, dreamy song with lyrics based on a poem by Emily Dickinson. Unfortunately, the singer's accent is terribly thick, making the lyrics very hard to understand. (This is the same artist who did "Who Has Seen The Wind" for Elemental Gelade, by the way, so if you've heard that, this song has a very similar sound.)
Download!
Song: Arashi no Umi
Game/Anime/etc.: N/A
Type: Electronic
Artist: Hirasawa Susumu
Comments: I lack the knowledge of electronica (or, really, of music in general)to properly describe any of Hirasawa Susumu's works, which is too bad, because I really like them. This one has a kind of sea-shanty-ish sound in parts -- appropriately enough, given that the title is "The Stormy Sea." And... I'm not really sure what else to say. It makes me think of pirates.
Download!
Song: Baka Survivor
Game/Anime/etc.: Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo
Type: 2nd OP
Artist: Ulfuls
Comments: Baka Survivor is a rock song, I guess. Really, it's not so much a song as some guys shouting in a way that is vaguely in tune with some music. Maybe it's funny if you're familiar with the show, I don't know. It's not really my thing, though it may be yours.
Download!
Song: Kizuna
Game/Anime/etc.: Gokusen 2
Type: insert song
Artist: Kamenashi Kazuya
Comments: This song is a slow pop ballad, heavy on the acoustic guitar. The singer's voicce is a bit nasal, but it's not terrible. Personally, I find it a little boring, but then I'm not so much a fan of pop with male vocalists.
Download!
Song: Maze of the Dark
Game/Anime/etc.: Mahou Sensei Negima
Type: Evangeline, Sayo, & Chachamaru song
Artist: Matsuoka Yuki, Shiratori Yuri, & Watanabe Akeno
Comments: Somehow, a song sung by a vampire, a ghost, and a robot seems very appropriate for this time of year. Anyway, this is a surprisingly badass dark rock song. All three seiyuu sing quite well, which is something of a rarity in seiyuu group songs (Watanabe Akeno is particularly good, actually -- it's a shame she doesn't get more work). All in all, it's quite lovely -- definitely my favorite of the Negima group songs (though "Invitation ~Toshokan e Youkoso~" comes a close second... which could very well be because I love to read and any song that makes reading sound mysterious and magical and kind of sexy is okay by me).
Download!
Song: Super Shomin Car (short version)
Game/Anime/etc.: Shimotsuma Monogatari, a.k.a. Kamikaze Girls
Type: The Song That Goes Under The Credits, I believe. Well, one of two. Not technically the ending, since that's supposed to be Hey My Friend.
Artist: Cecil
Comments: Laid-back pop-rock with a definite retro feel. The singer's voice is kind of soft and whispery. It's very cute and catchy -- and at nearly four minutes, not all that short. Makes me wonder how long the full version is.
Download!
Song: Truth
Game/Anime/etc.: N/A
Type: J-pop
Artist: Minagawa Junko
Comments: A down-tempo song (mostly backed by piano and synths) that picks up a bit in the chorus. Minagawa Junko's voice is lovely, as always, but I find the song a bit bland, regardless.
Download vocal version!
Download karaoke version!
My Picks
Song: Schwarzweiß ~kiri no mukou ni tsunagaru sekai~
Game/Anime/etc.: Atelier Iris: GRAND FANTASM
Type: theme
Artist: Shimotsuki Haruka
Comments: I don't know how I've gone this long without posting this song. It's been at the top of my "most played songs" list for the past five months. If nothing else, this should tell you that I really, really love this song. If I had to give it a genre, I'd say it's some kind of rock (the instrumentation is heavy on the drums, electric guitar, and keyboard), but it makes use of violins and choral singing at some points, and between those things and Shimotsuki Haruka's ethereal vocals, this song is definitely something more than your average rock song. Most songs I love, I lose interest in after a few months, but I have yet to get tired of listening to this one.
Download!
Song: you
Game/Anime/etc.: Higurashi no Naku Koro ni?
Type: ???
Artist: Yukino Satsuki
Comments: I have no idea if this is an officially Higurashi-related release, or if Yukino Satsuki (who plays Shion and Mion in the anime series) just decided to pay homage to Higurashi's original music of her own accord. Anyway, this is a vocal version of "you," a background track from the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai visual novel(s), which should be instantly recognizable to anyone who's familiar with that version of Higurashi. The instrumentation isn't changed much from the original -- it's still heavy on the synthesized piano, though it adds something else I can't quite identify. Yukino Satsuki has a fairly nice voice, and the part where she harmonizes with herself is quite pretty. The lyrics are different from those of the vocal version of "you" found on the composer's "thanks / you" album, but the new lyrics are nice too, from what I can tell. All in all, a very pretty song, whether you know the original or not.
Download!
Song: Densha Kamo Shirenai
Game/Anime/etc.: N/A
Type: ... weird?
Artist: Chiku Toshiaki
Comments: Consider this one a special Halloween bonus. It's a strange little song, and I'm not quite sure how to describe it, but it's very creepy and appropriate for Halloween (see the lyrics). There's a video for it here, if you want to know what you're getting into before you download. (The singer's voice is kind of grating at first, but the song grows on you. At least, it did on me.)
Download!
As always, requests are open; my list is here. One request per customer, and please request a specific song (not "anything by ____" or "anything from ____"). Please comment with your requests on the request post and not any other. Requests posted on rotations will be ignored.
Current Music: Sakurai Atsushi - Neko
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September 8th, 2007
xen0glossy
| 04:49 pm
Okay, guys, we're going to try something new with the requests. Starting after the next rotation, THIS WILL BE THE OFFICIAL REQUEST POST. It will be linked at the bottom of every entry. All requests should be left ON THIS POST instead of on the rotation post itself. Instead of taking the first eight requests on the entry, I'll take the next eight requests from this post. Each person is allowed only one "open" request at a time -- that is, if you have a request waiting to be fulfilled, you can't make any more requests until that song is posted. Multiple requests from the same person will be deleted.
I'm not sure if this will work, but clearly the way I've been doing it hasn't been working, so I'm going to give it a try. The songs requested last rotation will still be posted next rotation, but after that, any request left on a post other than this one will be ignored.
ETA: Just a reminder that you cannot request songs I don't have. Well, you can, but I'll delete your request, so it's really not recommended. I'm not going to go find songs for you, sorry. I have better things to do with my time.
ETA^2: Oh, for the love of-- can't any of you Google people read? Here, copy-pasted directly from the top of my list page:
"If you comment on the community, you may only request ONE song at a time, and it will be posted on the community, not sent to you. DO NOT go to that post to ask me to e-mail you a song. I will ignore you, and probably delete your comment."
Let me repeat that: DO NOT come to this post to ask me to e-mail you a song. This is for songs to be posted on the community ONLY. Why is that so hard to understand?
Current Music: Takahashi Youko - Zankoku na tenshi no TEEZE (Ambivalence Mix)
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September 5th, 2007
xen0glossy
| 01:23 pm
Sorry, I don't have another update for you guys just yet. College has been eating me alive. However, as fans of anime music (at least, I assume most of you here are, since that's what I tend to post), I thought you might be interested in this. It's a countdown of the top 100 best anime songs of all time (according to 2ch). There were some classics that I was expecting to show up, some songs I was surprised to see on the list, some songs I was surprised not to see on the list... but half the fun of these things is finding out for yourself what makes the cut, so I won't say any more. Enjoy!
Current Music: Hidaka Noriko & Kozakura Etsuko - ARABIAN KAFE
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August 16th, 2007
xen0glossy
| 12:58 pm
Remember when I used to update regularly? Yeah, neither do I. I didn't realize it'd been nearly two months since the last update. orz
As a note, I've begun tagging my files in Japanese (kanji & kana, that is), so if some of the filetags seem to be question marks or other such gibberish, that's why. The title and artist information in romaji is still here, though, so you can fix it if you want. Sorry!
Well, anyway, on to the music!
Requests
Song: Disintegration Symphony - Second Movement
Game/Anime/etc.: N/A
Type: Trance/Orchestral
Artist: Sugai Eri
Comments: This arrangement takes the song (originally by Lia), slows it down, and gives it a (fairly minimal) pseudo-orchestral backing. It's pretty enough, but at nearly six minutes it gets a little boring. Also, nice as the singer's voice is, I still prefer Lia.
Download!
Song: Knockout Drops
Game/Anime/etc.: Araiso Executive Committee (aka Shiritsu Araiso... Reallylongtitle)
Type:
Artist: Ishikawa Hideo & Morikawa Toshiyuki
Comments: Down-tempo R&B-ish song -- it's even got a brief (very brief) rap break in the middle. I think the chorus is mostly in English, but I have no idea what they're saying.
Download!
Song: Menchi Aishuu no Borero (Human version)
Game/Anime/etc.: Excel Saga
Type: Episode 26 ED
Artist: The Excel Girls
Comments: The ending song of Excel Saga, only instead of the dog singing and the human translating, it's the other way around. This was used as the ending to the infamous Episode 26.
Download!
Song: MIRAKURU BODI ni Goyoujin
Game/Anime/etc.: VS Knight Ramune & 40 Fresh
Type: OP
Artist: Miyamura Yuuko & Hikami Kyoko
Comments: Action-y, slightly cheesy '90s anime theme with a side of innuendo. Okay, a lot of innuendo. Okay, maybe it's too blatant to even be called innuendo at all. One way or another, it's pretty catchy.
Download!
Song: Shiroi Inori
Game/Anime/etc.: N/A
Type: J-pop
Artist: Orikasa Ai
Comments: The song starts with a brief music box tune, then goes into a sort of techno-dance-y song, which isn't bad, on the whole (it is Orikasa Ai, after all), but doesn't do much for me, personally. Your mileage may vary, of course.
Download!
Song: Subete wa Umi e
Game/Anime/etc.: Sakura Taisen
Type: Sakura & Maria song, from Kaijin Bessou
Artist: Takano Urara & Yokoyama Chisa
Comments: I love this song. I love it so much that it's hard for me to give it a coherent description that's not just "a;lkdsf so pretty ♥♥♥". Anyway, this is a duet between Sakura as the princess of the land and Maria as the prince of the sea. It's very dramatic, and the harmony is gorgeous, especially at the end.
Download!
My Picks
Song: LeMU ~Harukanaru LEMURIA Tairiku~
Game/Anime/etc.: Ever17 ~Out of Infinity~
Type: OP
Artist: KAORI (not the I've one)
Comments: As you may or may not have noticed, I love visual novels, which is what Ever17 is. I got it recently, and almost immediately after seeing the opening video, I went and tracked down a copy of the song. (The video itself is pretty shiny too, by the way. Also, play the game, it's awesome.) It's a trance sort of thing (I think? I'm bad at genres. Definitely something electronic, though), and it has a sort of mysterious sound, which is fitting given the mysterious nature of the game. I really like it, if that wasn't already obvious.
Download!
Song: veracious ~Matataku Isshun no Hikari~
Game/Anime/etc.: N/A
Type: Doujin
Artist: Marie
Comments: This comes from a GWAVE Super Features album. I'm not entirely sure what those are except that they seem to involve a number of better-known doujin music composers/arrangers (like Barbarian on the Groove, Takumaru, OdiakeS... I don't know if these mean anything to any of you, but oh well). Anyway, this particular song is my favorite one off the album. It's got a rockish sound, and... actually, I can't seem to put into words why I like it so much. But it's a good song.
Download!
As always, requests are open; my list is here. One request per customer, and please request a specific song (not "anything by ____" or "anything from ____"). Starting this rotation, I will take the first eight (8) requests, which is really no less arbitrary a number than six, but it brings the total to an even ten, and I like that. Please comment with your requests on this post and not any other.
Current Music: Sendai Eri - Biancaneve Bruno
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June 28th, 2007
xen0glossy
| 12:16 am - I am totally capable of closing my HTML tags properly.
Sorry this took so long -- I've been busy with work and things.
Requests
Song: Daisy to Croissant to Waltz
Game/Anime/etc.: N/A
Type: J-pop
Artist: Orikasa Ai
Comments: As the title suggests, it's a waltz-styled song. And... I'm really not sure what else to say about it. Uh... it's pretty?
Download!
Song: Kaze ni Naru Made
Game/Anime/etc.: Metal Fighter Miku
Type: OP
Artist: Momoda Kayoko
Comments: Cheerful slightly-rockish pop; fairly catchy. It's got kind of a generic "90s anime theme" sound to it, but it's not a bad song by any means.
Download!
Song: Melodie [Salva Nos ver.]
Game/Anime/etc.: Noir
Type:
Artist: Kajiura Yuki
Comments: It starts out with a keyboard (?) version of the Melodie, er, melody, then adds violins. About halfway through Salva Nos comes in, shortly followed by a choir singing lyrics which I'm pretty sure are English to the tune of Melodie. It's pretty typical Kajiura Yuki techno-meets-classical fare overall, but hey, it works.
Download!
Song: Moonlight Densetsu
Game/Anime/etc.: ... uh.
Type: Anime/cover
Artist: Hayami Shou
Comments: No, Hayami Shou was not actually in Sailor Moon. No, I don't know where this is from. Probably a radio show, I'm guessing. I'm not really sure how to describe it, beyond that it's Moonlight Densetsu as sung by Hayami Shou. What more do you need, really?
Download!
Song: Mrs. Robinson
Game/Anime/etc.: N/A
Type: J-pop/cover
Artist: Takano Urara
Comments: I remembered this as being painfully Engrishy with a weird arrangement that really didn't work for me, but listening to it again, it's not so bad. It doesn't do anything too new with the song, I don't think (though it's been a while since I've heard the original), and it doesn't seem to suit Takano Urara's voice very well, but it's decent.
Download!
Song: Tabikounen Sora e
Game/Anime/etc.: N/A
Type: J-pop
Artist: tiaraway
Comments: Upbeat and poppy without being cutesy. It's pleasant to listen to, but generic, and leaves little in the way of a lasting impression.
Download!
My Picks
Song: Doshaburi LONELY HEART
Game/Anime/etc.: Harukanaru Toki no Naka de ~Mai Hitoyo~
Type: Tenma song
Artist: Seki Tomokazu
Comments: Fast, rockish song. I don't know what it is about this song that makes me love it so much more than any of the similar songs I have, but for some reason I do. Also, it's good for driving very fast to. Particularly at night and/or in the rain (not that I encourage such reckless behavior, and I'd certainly never do it myself).
Download!
Song: Yorokobi no Uta / Watashi no Aozora (a capella)
Game/Anime/etc.: Sakura Taisen
Type:
Artist: Teikoku Kagekidan (plus Orikasa Ai)
Comments: From a live show, so the quality isn't great, but the song itself is lovely. It starts off with a slow bit to the tune of the Ode to Joy (why, I have no idea -- it's a bit odd but at least it sounds nice), and then goes into an a capella version of Watashi no Aozora (the ED of the original OVA). The girls (or women, I suppose -- they're nothing like as young as the characters they play) harmonize very well, and the arrangement is very nice and... basically I love this song.
Download!
As always, requests are open; my list is here. One request per customer, please request a specific song (not "anything by ____" or "anything from ____"), I will only take the first six (6) requests. Please comment with your requests on this post and not any other.
Jesus, people, I have six requests already. I had six within a day of posting this. You can stop now and, you know, wait for the next rotation.
Current Music: Shimamiya Eiko - Sora o Mau Tsubasa
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May 6th, 2007
xen0glossy
| 05:22 pm
I'm still not totally up to doing a real entry (that requires thinking, and my brain cells are all being used up on memorizing facts about the history of Japan at the moment), but I saw this meme and thought I'd post it here, since I haven't got enough people on my actual friendslist to make it worthwhile.
So, comment here with a number between 1 and 3701, and I'll upload the corresponding song from my playlist. (Caveat: not all of my music is Japanese, so you run the risk of ending up with Russian technopop, Spanish punk rock, classical choral music, or something else you have absolutely no interest in. The majority of it is Japanese, though, so it is what you're most likely to get.)
ETA: Now with bonus link-dumping!
The Delgados - The Light Before We Land (Gunslinger Girl OP)
Heart, aka Kawashima Ai - Kimi no Koe (Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho)
I've (Ayana) - I Am Calling You (I've Remix)
I've (Reina) - Cross Talk (2006 version) (TSUGUNAHI 2)
I've (Utatsuki KAORI) - Cross Talk ~FISH TONE Style~
Kuwashima Houko - 16:05 @ Shinjuku
Midorikawa Hikaru - Go Ahead!! (Sukisho)
Midorikawa Hikaru - Pax Vobiscum (Samurai Deeper Kyo)
Miki Shin'ichirou, Hayashibara Megumi, & Inuyama Inuko - Roketto-dan yo Eien ni (Pocket Monsters)
Shimokawa Mikuni - Tomorrow
Current Music: Tomizawa Michie - Watashi no Hito Gingahen
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April 12th, 2007
xen0glossy
 | 11:09 pm
I do hate to do this, but having been pwned hard by college, I may not be able to start updating again until the term ends a little less than a month from now. I realize that's a long time to make you wait (especially considering you've already been waiting about a month) but... I just don't have the time right now, especially with the school internet as slow as it is. I'm really sorry.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/neko/kaokitty/busy.gif) busy
Current Music: Lia - Hanabi
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February 23rd, 2007
xen0glossy
| 01:04 pm - Guess who's back?
pwned by school. have not slept for over 24 hours. am slowly overdosing on coffee. plz send help.
By which I clearly mean that now is a good time for an update! :D
Requests
Song: America
Game/Anime/etc.: N/A
Type: J-pop/cover
Artist: Takano Urara
Comments: I've always thought this song was... kind of an odd choice. But if you can get over the irony (?) of a Japanese woman singing about... whatever the hell this song's about, I don't know, but it's got to do with America... it's not a bad song. Takano Urara has a very powerful voice, and the arrangement's pretty nice.
Download!
Song: Bara wa Utsukushiku Chiru
Game/Anime/etc.: Rose of Versailles
Type: OP
Artist: Suzuki Hiroko
Comments: For some reason AL.tv says that this is sung by Ogata Megumi, while AnimeNewsNetwork says it's Suzuki Hiroko. It doesn't sound like Ogata Megumi in the least, though, so I'll go with ANN's listing. Anyway, this song is a classic which has been widely covered- chances are you've heard one of the covers at some point. I'm partial to Lareine's, myself. But this isn't about that. Um... it's a fairly pretty up-tempo song and I am too brain-dead to describe it any further. Yay.
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Song: Fortress
Game/Anime/etc.: Deep Fantasy
Type: theme
Artist: Shimamiya Eiko
Comments: Have I uploaded this before? I probably have. Since I've uploaded just about every Shimamiya Eiko song I have at one point or another. Anyway, it's a slow, haunting trance song. Fairly pretty. I like it.
Download!
Song: HIT IN THE USA
Game/Anime/etc.: Beck
Type: OP. I think. Possibly ED. I'm too lazy to check.
Artist: BEAT CRUSADERS
Comments: Let me just say that I don't really think you're "made to hit in America" until you can actually pronounce English in such a way that one can tell that it is, in fact, English. That said, this is a fun, catchy pop-rockish song, if a bit short.
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Song: Hoshi Meguri no Uta
Game/Anime/etc.: Planetarian ~chiisa na hoshi no yume~
Type: ... Theme?
Artist: MELL
Comments: Planetarian made me cry the first time I played it, and listening to the music still makes me kind of sad (it's the same with AIR, actually- curse you, Key Entertainment!). Not as much this song, though, because it wasn't actually used in the game- it's a vocal version of an instrumental theme. That said, it's a pretty song- the melody is fairly simple and repetitive, but that just contributes to the dreamlike feeling.
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Song: Itsudatte Motto Aishitai Aisaretai
Game/Anime/etc.: Marginal Prince
Type:
Artist: Morita Masakazu
Comments: Upbeat rock with occasional Engrish. It's kinda fun.
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My Picks
Song: Farewell Song
Game/Anime/etc.: N/A
Type: J-pop/cover
Artist: Takizawa Ichiru
Comments: Takizawa Ichiru has done some original music with Barbarian on the Groove, but I have to admit that I like this cover of the ending theme from AIR better than most of her original songs. Ichiru's voice is nothing special (Lia's is much better, in my opinion), but the acoustic arrangement is just lovely.
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Song: Rather than a Life of Finality
Game/Anime/etc.: Narcissu
Type: BGM
Artist: Yano Masashi
Comments: I uploaded two Narcissu tracks a while back, and I think it's time for another one. Because I like Narcissu's music. This track, in particular, is one of my - it's a very pretty, melancholy (synthesized) orgel track which adds some other "instruments" towards the end.
Download!
As always, requests are open; my list is here. One request per customer, please request a specific song (not "anything by ____" or "anything from ____"), I will only take the first six (6) requests. Please comment with your requests on this post and not any other.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/neko/kaokitty/exanimate.gif) exanimate
Current Music: Number 201 feat. rhu - Ataraxia
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February 8th, 2007
xen0glossy
| 12:49 pm
Sorry, guys, I'm kind of busy at the moment, but I'll try to get the next rotation up soon. In the meantime, I'm going to be deleting the files from the, uh, "current" rotation to make room for other stuff. (It's a little late? early? for Christmas music anyway.)
Current Music: Ann Lewis - Onna wa Sore o Gaman Dekinai
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December 21st, 2006
xen0glossy
 | 02:27 pm
Here you go- the promised holiday update.
( Your presents are under the cut. )
Requests are open, list is here, one request per person, I'll only take the first six requests.
And happy holidays, everyone!
Current Music: Teikoku Kagekidan- Kiseki no Kane (movie version)
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December 13th, 2006
xen0glossy
| 01:29 am
Well, the good news is that there was better counting that time.
The bad news is... well, now that I'm not using upload services anymore, I can actually see how many times a file has been downloaded. And the numbers don't match up with the numbers of comments at all. For example, Spica, from the last rotation, was apparently downloaded 70 times. The entry's got 20 comments. You do the math.
I don't particularly want AUoK to become one of those really strict communities where it's friends-locked and you must comment on every entry whether you download or not and if you don't comment for five weeks in a row I ban you or whatever. Though admittedly this is more because I'm too lazy to keep track of that stuff than it is out of the goodness of my heart. And I don't particularly mind if a few people each entry forget to comment. But there is a huge discrepancy between the number of comments and the number of downloads, and that's just not nice to me or to the person who's letting me use his domain for this.
So in conclusion, if that was too long for you to read, every time you download without commenting, God (or Domo-kun, whichever) kills a kitten, and so on and so forth. Anyway, on to the music.
( And there's lots of it this time. )
Oddly enough, requests are not open right now, because sometime in the next twelve days I want to do a holiday update. You can make your requests then.
Current Music: Horie Yui- Farewell Rain
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November 16th, 2006
xen0glossy
| 12:55 am - I Aten't Dead
Sorry, NaNoWriMo ate my life. Is still eating my life, in point of fact. But here, have an update anyway- I was starting to feel guilty.
In other news, jeez, you guys cannot count. When I say six requests, I mean six requests. Six. Thou shalt not make seven requests and eight is right out, &c. But on to the music.
Requests
Song: Bubblegum Dream
Game/Anime/etc.: N/A
Type: J-rock
Artist: Zwei
Comments: This track is somewhat unusual for Zwei- it's lighter and poppier than their usual rock stuff. It's catchy and fun, but it gets annoying after a while in a way that their other songs don't. Still, it's Zwei, and I don't think I can hate anything they do. Plus, if you find their usual sound too weird, chances are good you'll like this song better.
Download!
Song: Futari no Xenopittan
Game/Anime/etc.: Xenosaga Freaks
Type: Theme
Artist: Maeda Ai, Suzuki Mariko, & Shishido Rumi
Comments: This is an upbeat, poppy, and utterly infectious song; the vocals are cute, with a sort of digitized beeping in the background and lyrics that are more about rhyme and repeated sound than meaning. It's not for everyone, obviously- you won't find any stunning vocal performances or innovative composition here- but it's good fun. A word of warning before you download, though: trust me, it will get stuck in your head.
Download!
Song: Houseki (Minagawa Junko)
Game/Anime/etc.: Anime Tenchou'b
Type: ... I can't remember her character's name.
Artist: Minagawa Junko
Comments: This song was B-VOICE's first release, and it remains my favorite. It's a mid-tempo song with just the right balance of pop and rock, and Minagawa Junko gives a solid performance (it never stops amazing me how good she is at actually sounding like a boy, while most female seiyuu voicing boys don't even come close). Again, you're not getting anything remarkably original or artistic here, but it's a fun song, and great to sing along to if you're so inclined (lyrics are here- scroll down for the transliteration).
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Song: Shao Pai Long
Game/Anime/etc.: Macross
Type: Lynn Minmay song
Artist: Iijima Mari
Comments: Yet another catchy pop song, this one older and somewhat cheesier than the others this rotation, but still a good deal of fun. It's also on the short side, clocking in at under two minutes. It's got a bit of a Chinese-style thing going on in the intro (as the title would suggest), but the motif isn't carried through the rest of the song, which is a shame, because although it could've been really cheesy, it would also have made the song stand out a little more amongst the many similar-sounding Minmay songs. As it is, this song offers nothing special.
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Song: Spica
Game/Anime/etc.: N/A
Type: J-pop/trance
Artist: Lia
Comments: Breaking the trend of upbeat pop stuff, we now go to something slower and more techno. This was my first Lia song, so it's got a bit of sentimental value for me, but I much prefer the other two songs off of this single, Hanabi and Moon, to this one. It's a decent trance song, along the lines of Tori no Uta but less dramatic and with more of a pounding beat, and it's got a nice chorus. It just doesn't really stand out to me much.
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Song: Uneasy -Remix-
Game/Anime/etc.: N/A
Type: J-pop/trance
Artist: MOMO
Comments: And we have yet another I've girl. This song is along much the same lines as the last one, but it's somewhat darker and also more repetitive. At four and a half minutes, it feels longer. Again, it's a decent song, and fans of trance (or I've or MOMO in particular) will probably like it, but it's nothing amazingly special.
Download!
My Picks
Because I feel guilty for deserting you for so long, have four songs for the price of two.
Song: Aozora no Hate / Zetsubou no Hate
Game/Anime/etc.: N/A
Type: J-pop/rock
Artist: Okuda Miwako
Comments: Okay, I know, Okuda Miwako is a lot more mainstream and less obscure than the artists I usually showcase in this section. But I just got her album Futari, and I'm kind of addicted, so here you go. With her rockish sound and angsty lyrics, she reminds me a lot of Cocco in her softer-rock mode- think RAINING or Kutsushita no Himitsu- but with less folk influences and more pop. Aozora no Hate, a particularly angsty song about a girl who tries to kill herself because she's been rejected by a boy- is a good example of this general style. Zetsubou no Hate, on the other hand, takes Aozora no Hate, gives it more optimistic lyrics, and turns it into a piano ballad. Oddly enough, despite the fact that the former version is the angstier one, her voice is more raw and emotional in the latter, but that's not a big deal. They're both good songs, and both worth a listen if you're not allergic to a little emo every now and then. (By which I'm referring to the lyrical content, not the musical style.)
Download Aozora!
Download Zetsubou!
Song: Narcissu ~Instrumental~ / Narcissu ~Setsumi's Theme~
Game/Anime/etc.: Narcissu
Type: BGM / theme
Artist: ebi / REM
Comments: And we're back to the obscure stuff again. Narcissu is a doujin visual novel that deals with the last few months of two characters with terminal illnesses. It's fairly predictable- I mean, it's hardly a spoiler if I tell you that the main characters die at the end- but it handles the subject matter with a refreshing lack of sappiness in my opinion (and I'm not the sort who generally enjoys this sort of thing, either). It does veer sharply towards sentimentality at the end, but overall it's quite good. It's not a very well-known game, and it's not a very high-budget one either, I assume, given that it can be downloaded (legally!) in full, but it has a surprisingly good soundtrack. This particular piece, the main theme, is a pretty, melancholy (synthesized) piano track; the vocal version adds breathy, ethereal vocals and is even more gorgeous. There are other really nice pieces on the soundtrack, too- it was hard to pick just one- so you'll probably see more of them showing up here in the future.
Download instrumental!
Download vocal!
As always, requests are open; my list is here. One request per customer, please request a specific song (not "anything by ____" or "anything from ____"), I will only take the first six (6) requests. Please comment with your requests on this post and not any other.
Current Music: Mi- Yumemiru Shoujo ja Irarenai
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October 12th, 2006
xen0glossy
| 07:01 pm
I know I do this all the time and I'm sorry, but I'm having trouble accessing the domain that has been kindly provided for me to host the music on, so until this is cleared up there may not be another rotation. If it never clears up or takes a very long time, I can just go back to using YSI, but I'd really rather not.
Current Music: doa- Rock 'n Roll Star
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September 19th, 2006
xen0glossy
| 01:20 am
So I realized the other day that I have a whole bunch of stuff uploaded to the server that I uploaded for friends (and for my now months-old AIR FST), and I figured if I've already got it up, why not share it here before I delete it? Thus, this entry is especially long- probably the biggest rotation I'll ever have here.
( 36 songs under the cut )
Requests are open. My list is here. I'll take six requests before I close them. Please count the requests before you make one, as I frequently forget to edit this post once I close requests. Only one song per person, please.
Current Music: Itou Kanako- Tenni Yukyuu
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September 5th, 2006
xen0glossy
| 03:56 pm
Sorry this took me so long.
Requests
Song: America
Game/Anime/etc.: N/A
Type: J-pop/cover
Artist: Takano Urara
Comments: Another Simon & Garfunkel cover. This is the only one (at least of the ones I've got) which is sung in English; I've got mixed feelings about that- on the one hand, I do like the original lyrics, and it'd be kind of weird to translate a song like this into Japanese, but on the other, she's got a very thick accent, which can be off-putting in serious songs. Actually, I think this is a pretty weird choice of song to do a Japanese cover of in the first place- it's so, well, American. However, it is pretty, the instrumentation isn't too obnoxious, and Takano Urara can at least sing (unlike Midorikawa Hikaru certain seiyuu I could name), so... overall, it's not bad.
Download!
Song: Dianoia
Game/Anime/etc.: Saishuu Shiken Kujira
Type:
Artist: Riya
Comments: This song is mid-tempo pop with pleasant vocals that seem well-suited to the song, but nothing about it stands out to me. It's pretty enough, but not exactly groundbreaking.
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Song: Mezase Pokemon Master (ParaPara Remix)
Game/Anime/etc.: Pokemon
Type: Remix
Artist: Ishida Youko
Comments: It's, uh, exactly what it sounds like, really- a Eurobeat remix of the Pokemon theme song. It's fun, but the original is better.
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Song: Nandakana
Game/Anime/etc.: Ebichu
Type: ED
Artist: Mitsuishi Kotono
Comments: I know next to nothing about this show, other than that there's a hamster involved, but at some point, somehow, I stumbled across this song, which is apparently not too easy to find. It's cute, though a bit slow for my tastes and not particularly well-sung.
Download!
Song: Teruterubouzu
Game/Anime/etc.: Jungle wa Itsumo Hare Nochi Guu
Type:
Artist: Aikawa Rikako
Comments: This song is fairly slow, and the singer has something of a weird voice (she did the songs Harahara Relay, Harahara^2 and White Dance for Pokemon, if that means anything to you), but it's kind of cute nevertheless. In a weird way. Which, I am told, pretty much sums up the series it comes from as well.
Download!
Song: Wanda Wanda
Game/Anime/etc.: Katamari Damacy
Type: Insert song
Artist: NAMCO Sound Team
Comments: Oh, Katamari Damacy. How do I describe your music? This song is sort of... techno-y, in a special Katamari way; there's a synthesized voice going "wanda wanda" over and over, hence the title. It's a lot of fun.
Download!
My Picks
Song: Douzo
Game/Anime/etc.: N/A
Type: J-pop-ish
Artist: Sasagawa Miwa
Comments: i don't really know how to classify Sasagawa Miwa. She's a very interesting, unique, sort of folk-y singer that not many people seem to have heard of. Her singing has a sort of chanting quality sometimes- it's not quite as evident here as it is in some of her other songs, such as Tsukusu, but it's definitely there. She's not going to be everyone's cup of tea, but I suggest giving her a try.
Download!
Song: Fallen Wings (Bad End)
Game/Anime/etc.: VG NEO
Type: BGM
Artist: I've Sound
Comments: A site I frequent sometimes puts up H-game soundtracks- not just the two or three songs by KOTOKO or whoever that we've all heard of and care about, but all the BGM and things. I tend to download them out of curiosity, and more often than not they're pretty horrible. But every so often I stumble across a good track, and this is one of them. It's a melancholy piece that begins with just piano and later on adds some sort of synth-y thing and then at the end goes back to piano again. It's very pretty.
Download!
Requests are open. My list is here. I'll take six requests before I close them. Please count the requests before you make one, as I frequently forget to edit this post once I close requests. Only one song per person, please.
Current Music: Mitsuishi Kotono- Aikotoba wa Moon Prism Power Make Up!
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