/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Hello everybody. I hope you read my passage about doujin music history. For those who are interested, it is here:
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Pastebin is not optimal, to say the least. I'll have to move it onto another medium sooner or later. Perhaps something like Denpa no Sekai?


Moving on, I have something else today - "junk.test 通" from 1995.
https://mega.nz/#!sJFRSIIJ!sobNRASLDqAOaWTCtt4RhLBNIt7LQO6GLyuflB5MRK8
The second in a series of albums by doujin circle mplayers RECORD, it brings a balanced share of vocal and instrumental music with impressive production value. The participants are a wide collection of early doujin musicians, as described in my passage of doujin history: a mix of musicians and video game enthusiasts who were all into computers and thus into online collaboration.
Some of them ultimately became video game composers, others faded away into oblivion.

I'd like to note the following:
Track 01, which received a Vocaloid adaptation by its own creator Masao Asakawa, as it seems, 17(!) years following its original release.
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm16968378
Track 03: Eerie elements not unlike those of Kinniku Shoujo Tai's "Reticle za Mosou", essentially the denpa before otaku denpa. A song about a sleepless night of hide and seek games in the darkness, with a distant voice beckoning to the path of the dreams.

I'm sure the other tracks have stories of their own, and that they're in part recorded in the decrepit websites of their own makers. However, this is as much as I'll do for now. Please enjoy these historic sounds.