/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

Let's discuss Touhou music! So far I've figured out that the following are the most essentials after spending some time weeding out that lossy music collection, am I missing anything worthwhile here?

Alstroemeria Records
IOSYS
Alice's Emotion
IZMIZM
Demetori
IRON ATTACK
Cis-Trance
Aquaelie

[The /jp/ Police !TOD33vFX8s No.]

syrufit

[Anonymous No.]

C.H.S - Honey I Scream is good

[Anonymous No.]

I really like both Sekkenya and Iemitsu. You might want to check those out; they are pretty well known.

Sekkenya is mainly rock while their sister circle Zekkenya includes that plus some rock/folk fusion. Male vocals, some might not like but I think they're good.

Iemitsu is mainly electronic/pop but they've made a hiphop album as well. I might want to mention that it's really good.

Of course there's more; what kind of music do you like? Out of the circles you've been listening to, what did you like the most?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031283
>and SOUND HOLIC

[Anonymous No.]

Thousand Leaves

[Anonymous No.]

i don't know IZMIZM and Aquaelie, what genre are these ?
instrumental are essential, vocal can be ok but male vocal, i've never heard a good male vocal because they all sound gay to me

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031286
SOUND HOLIC are well-known but their overall quality is kinda meh in my eyes. You should know who they are though.

I prefer SWING HOLIC

OP also missed Innocent Key. I didn't like their earlier albums that much, but I did enjoy both their C78 and Reitaisai 7 releases. TouhouCeleb as a CD has some sort of weird charm to it. It mixes "lol so random" with "elegant and sexy" and it works strangely well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031285
I pretty much intended this thread for generic high-quality Touhou music recommendations (frankly most are shit and/or poorly produced/recorded), so my personal preferences really don't matter. Demetori, Alice's Emotion and Alstroemeria are my personal top3 if you wat to know.

[Anonymous No.]

Demetori, Yuki, and Buta-Otome are the only groups I listen to anymore.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031296
Gay as in bad or gay as in homosexual?

I know good male vocals are rarer than good female vocals when it comes to Touhou arranges but that doesn't mean that they are inexistent.

[proREMIRIAt Elite Force Commander !rSDMROXTB. No.]

Dbu music
Tamusic
Neutral
CROW'SCLAW

and more.

[Anonymous No.]

Am I the only one who likes golden city factory?

[Anonymous No.]

dBu: the guy pretty much redoes ZUNs music
Everfades : only have one album but its full of pro piano
I mostly like SOUND HOLIC for their jazzy stuff.
Azure & Sands does jazz as well
Demetori for rock/metal
COOL & CREATE if you're into pop sounding stuff I guess

[Anonymous No.]

>this thread

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031306
>(frankly most are shit and/or poorly produced/recorded)
I guess if you just took some random albums out of the torrent and listened I guess that would be your impression.

Of course a lot of it is bad, but the amount of it that is good is still large. This C78 I have downloaded practically everything to come out and I have enough above decent albums to make for many many hours of listening.

I just remembered no-one has mention Dobu Usagi. Check them out. Also maybe CYTOKINE. They are both well-known and have some really good tracks.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031337
>I just remembered no-one has mention Dobu Usagi
Ignore this, I took a long time writing this post.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031326
I really liked Kiyoma's piano-only album. Otherwise? Not that much, sorry.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031306
If you like Demetori, you'll love Pizyua's Cell & MyonMyon.

IMHO, their Grimoire of Alice (album) > Offering to Sukhavati.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031342
What would the name of that piano album be?

[Anonymous No.]

I realized maybe we should make one of those "Hey jaype I want to listen to Touhou arranges where do I start/what are the essentials" images.

We have one for VNs, right? It could be useful.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031346
"東方ミッドナイトフィギュアコレクション博麗 霊夢"

It's a Reimu's-themes-only CD. Dream Battle arrangement was awesome. Now that I recall it there should be a Marisa version as well. I should download that ASAP.

I'm pretty sure these albums came with the Marisa and Reimu figurines that they made.

[Tripfag McGee !NHqdxYQAec No.]

ALiCE'S EMOTION is hit or miss for me. I like Angel Rings and Lycoris, but despise Otonoishi and Chaos Flare.

minimum electric design is fairly recent but shows promise even if I didn't like the C78 album. Gensokyo Electronic Shoegazer and sanae telegraph show markings of a circle of making really good shit.

fromadistance is another circle that poked it's head out around the end of 2009 with eureka and released historie at C78. He also did two original songs on a web-released EP that were pretty good as well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031347
nice idea, altho threads like this are not that common.. also, listing essential albums for listening would be quite daunting task.

[Anonymous No.]

Why have I never heard of IZMIZM Until now?
It's so beautiful

[Anonymous No.]

Not OP here, but i figured i'd post here.

What are some good NON-vocal albums/singles?
Piano is preffered but i've kinda taken a liking to string instruments after TAMusic's Touhou Violin Rock series.

Reccomendations, please?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031363
Well, something that is well known is well known for a reason, right? The chart could try and recommend a few circles per music genre, and then we'd try to cover both well-known circles and less known yet good circles.

We don't have that many, but we've had some past the few months. I just realized it might be good to make the chart more "Touhou general"; it would be an answer to all those "Hey guys what's Touhou teach me" threads, and it would recommend some music, some doujinshi some fangames and of course list the most important original works.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031372

This and DDBY. I'm quite a fan of Drum & Bass and these two labels (and some of Rolling Contact) have some pretty excellent D&B style tracks. DDBY is also good for Jazz fans because there is a strong jazz influence on their albums.

Favourite DDBY track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ikiYqJVo10

Favourite IZMIZM track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD8SaSL39ro

[Anonymous No.]

Get Sound Sepher.

Sound Sepher is good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031273
>am I missing anything worthwhile here?

Generic trance and metal crap plus IOSYS?

You're missing everything worthwhile, bro.

>>6031347
>We have one for VNs, right?

Right, and it's this one.

Actually, there were two even better ones, one that had even more titles and another that just said "www.google.com", but this one is the original.

[Anonymous No.]

O-Life Japan (オーライフジャパン): almost nothing but pure instrumental gloriousness everywhere. If I recall correctly, the only vocal tracks they have are in the album with Reisen and the most recent album with Cirno. Even so, get all of their albums and enjoy.

Forest306: nothing but relaxing shit.

UI-70: their style varies a bit from album to album, but they're mostly awesome, so get them all. One of their latest albums had NOTHING but Phantom Ensemble arrangements, and that's amazing.

t=NODE: I have no idea of how to explain this circle, but they're just plain amazing in my opinion. Their albums sometimes have one or two vocal tracks at maximum (and they are hilarious vocals), so don't worry about that too much.

[Anonymous No.]

maybe people who know the circles very well should make a list about the genre of each circle, i'm really lost when i browse the DL chart of every touhou album and i don't wan't to download everything

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031308
>Buta-Otome
I really liked their first two CDs, but I found their C78 release (not the piano only album) to be disappointing. Is this just me?

The only track I really liked was the Green Eyed jealousy arrangement, and even if I found that track awesome it wasn't really enough to cover for the rest of the CD.

I still like them though. The Necrofantasia arrangement on their second CD is probably my favorite song by them. It's just gorgeous.

[hugh No.]

>>6031375
spctrm - historie (not Touhou, i think, but it's new and great doujin music)
[白いしましまうさぎ - 東方和楽・通 (Traditional Japanese Orchestrated Touhou Arrangements)
畳 - Lifework
ユタカナウシロ - 珍時怪異 (modern instrumental)
Ravy - 東方幻奏録7
氷織 - ぱんつミュージック！！(pantsu song)

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031375
Well my recommendations would be everything (but at least) Offering to the Sukhavati by Demetori, 東方ろりぽっぷ by Drop, Co;external by IZMIZM, Crevice by Alice's Emotion (altho it has one lyrical song, 2 U) and Plastic Mind in casket of Star by Aquaelie

[Anonymous No.]

さかばと (Sakabato): relaxing instrumental arrangements (and they even have a Seihou album!). Definitely check them out.

ししまいブラザーズ (Sisimai Brothers): piano with other instruments, they're pretty good as well.

まらしぃ (Marasy): piano, glorious piano. You've heard of him.

君の美術館 (Kimino Museum): some pretty nice instrumental arrangements. Their C78 album had a... rock drama or something like that, and it was completely unrelated to Touhou.

大麻葉吸: Not Touhou, but they're amazing.

岸田教団 & The 明星ロケッツ: ichigo's voice is delicious. Get all of their albums now.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031416
>>6031420
Thanks, much appreciated!

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031395
>Generic trance and metal crap plus IOSYS?
>You're missing everything worthwhile, bro.

Then enlighten us stupid ignorant sheeple, guy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031416
>spctrm - historie (not Touhou, i think, but it's new and great doujin music)
This IS Touhou. There might be an original track in there that I missed, but I'm pretty sure there's not.

Also thanks for the list, I'm not person who asked but I'll look up the ones I didn't recognize.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031416
So i wanted to check out spctrm but the 7th hit on Google seems to be this very thread and the first ones don't really seem to be right either.
Does it have a japanese name or such?

Pardon me if i'm doing something immensely wrong

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031429
OP here, thanks to your listing in kana/kanji, I figured out intuitively how to browse those "alphabetically" (yea, I'm as amazed as everyone else. number of strokes, am I right?). I have never vetured to kana side of my collection before.

[Anonymous No.]

EastNewSound

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOz-T3NPtLA

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031478
http://www.mediafire.com/?uzo44z277zbbugu

Not the person you asked but here you go.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031503
Thanks a bunch!
Marasy just finished downloading, checking that out.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031478
They usually release albums under the name of "fromadistance".
Remember to get eureka as well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031449
Just read this thread, silly.

[hugh No.]

>>6031459
Oh good, thanks for clearing that up.
>>6031514
I think fromadistance was the producer on this one iirc.

[Anonymous No.]

Fucking Touhou. That's faggit sheeit.

[Anonymous No.]

KITSUNE'S WORKSHOP

Excellent classical styled music. Unperfect Cherry Blossom is particularly good.

[Anonymous No.]

does someone know a group that make jazz, lounge genre please ? i 'm kinda bored of rock and techno

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031512
No problem! I hope you enjoy Marasy. His arrangements can be a bit rough, so my opinion of him varies a it from iece to piece. His album covering the entire MoF OST was pretty nice as a whole, and my favorite singular track is probably his arrangement of Lunatic Princess.

>>6031514
I agree, and I think eureka is actually the better album. All tracks are really good. Here's that one too;
http://www.mediafire.com/?zqviwgmlyyy

>>6031543
Try flap+frog. It's a pleasant mix of jazz and chill out.

[Anonymous No.]

>IZMIZM

THANK YOU! Today I found something glorious again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTwQNZqCfJ8

How come Innocent Key hasn't been mentioned yet?

[Anonymous No.]

...just noticed I forgot some stuff.

黒夜葬: ...gothic metal, I think? I have no idea of how to describe this circle, but they're interesting as well. Instrumental.

趣味工房にんじんわいん: They have a pretty awesome piano album. Not sure about the rest of them.

東京アクティブNEETs: Some awesome shit. They have some medleys too.

彩音 ～xi-on～: More awesome shit, and once again I don't know how to describe it. Six albums so far, I think, and all of them are good.

巣鴨北口店: Because ノーザン・キラー is awesome. Metal?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031546
Oh boy, how i wish all recommendation threads were like this.

The one i've got is called "幻想遊戯 ～ Museum of Marasy ～"
Is this nice, or not by him at all, like a shout out?
Either ways, it's really good.
Downloading Eureka as i'm posting this.

[Anonymous No.]

And damn, I forgot Knights of Round as well. The style of that circle really varies from track to track, but I love all of their albums (except the fourth which hasn't popped up on Share yet, dat bitch)

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031546
ah yes i completely forgot about flap+frog, i've listened to one album and it was good, the only thing is that i don't know where to find their albums, if someone can post a DL link i would be pleased

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031559
That's him alright. He's made three albums so far.
They are;
幻想遊戯 ～ Museum of Marasy ～
幻想遊戯2 ～ Museum of Marasy
幻想遊戯 ＜風＞

The last one mentioned is the MoF album.
I had the mediafire on hand for that one so here you go;
http://www.mediafire.com/?naqzhnymym0


Also this one below is just a two track album, but I love this piano arrangement on Nuclear Fusion;
http://www.mediafire.com/?znv5wogzzmn

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031589
http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=torrentinfo&tid=144722

Only take what you want, like everything mentioned ITT. Or everything. I'm seeding.

[Anonymous No.]

If you like trance I highly recommend checking out Levo Lution. Hell, even if you don't like trance or any electronic music I'd still recommend giving them a listen. Their earlier stuff is Ragnarok and Final Fantasy arranges but they have 2 (or 3) touhou arrange albums, their opus being Skyrise (in my opinion). Here's the opening track from the album:

Transparent Metropolis of the Sky High - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlNfM4ndRwk

Wonderful uplifiting trance and no vocals. Can make you feel chilled out or make you feel awesome. If /jp. does ever make an essential Touhou Albums list, this one has to be there under trance section.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031589
Try the lossy/lossless torrent v.8. There's a mediafire for their latest album at least (C77) but that might be the one you have already. Anyway here you go;
http://www.mediafire.com/?nnyddyr3htx

You might like this as well, it's calm jazz with a lot of piano. The Legendary Fish arrange is awesome;
http://www.mediafire.com/?5vinngzmymj

[Tripfag McGee !NHqdxYQAec No.]

>>6031416
>Lifework
All Time for XXX is the song of all songs. This and SUBHUMAN by Subroc Recordings are the two best original albums released back at C77.

As for Touhou stuff, Mushi/Lumpy/Musique Concrète released two one-of-a-kind arrange albums. I guess it was a temporary circle project as it discontinued seven months after it formed. Marasy is also cool, but I find him more fun to watch than listen to. I really hope he releases a CD with his Bemani covers. It will probably never happen, but I shall continue to dream.

[Anonymous No.]

5150: really hit and miss. They can be awesome, or they can suck horribly.

NEUTRAL: it's varied, but what little metal they have is good

UI-70: mostly metal, most of it good

MyonMyon: awesome in their offvocal albums, Linkin Park in their vocal ones (with Pizuya's Cell)

Unlucky Morpheus: the only metal with vocals I found worthwhile. Awesome

Demetori, Crow's CLaw and IRON ATTACK: the Touhou metal circles by excellence!

There's also Kissing the Mirror, Thousand Leaves, South of Heaven, Kokuyasou, Valhalla*, El Dorado*, Barrage Am Ring, BLANKFIELD, Bloody Sword, Dark PHOENiX, Magnum Opus, Bliss Rings* and Stygian Riversides*, and that's just metal.

*if their following albums are like their preceding one, they will be well on their way to awesome.

[Anonymous No.]

You guys are my favorite anons ever!
Loving what i've got yet!

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031667
>NEUTRAL: it's varied, but what little metal they have is good

Their metal artist is called nazz-can, and he rocks. Pretty much everything else by Neutral is terrible. It's like what ARM is to IOSYS.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031683
That explains why all of their songs I didn't delete have nazz-can (and one or two others) listed as the artist.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031667
>Unlucky Morpheus: the only metal with vocals I found worthwhile. Awesome

You mean that girl they have? Jesus Christ I love her, she's rough sometimes but she puts everything into her singing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQmXilg3sqc

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031603
Thank you very much

>>6031614
Inversions & Dimensions is really good, thank you too

[Anonymous No.]

I love when these threads come around, but I never have much to say. I guess I could suggest 回路(Kairo).
I'm not sure who made this song anymore, but
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjSDtDsZ0Zc
has always been one of my favorite songs.

[Anonymous No.]

EastNewSound anyone?

[Anonymous No.]

>黒夜葬: ...gothic metal, I think? I have no idea of how to describe this circle, but they're interesting as well. Instrumental.
>東京アクティブNEETs: Some awesome shit. They have some medleys too.

Thank you!

Anything more like flap+frog? Can't wait to try that kind of music out the next time I smoke weed.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031782
Try SWING HOLIC

[Anonymous No.]

I just want to dump this here;
http://www.mediafire.com/?yumgzdyxj3z

It's 回路-kairo-'s Reitaisai 7 release; a 4 track album in which 3 tracks are awesome. It's pop/rock. Flawless Clothing of the Celestials arrange knocked my socks off.

[Anonymous No.]

O-Life Japan
Tokyo NEETS
Forest306
Neutral (nazz-can, Doppelman)
IoSYS (minami)
k-waves LAB

[Anonymous No.]

posting surprisingly underappreciated circles

rock
光収容の倉庫
Girl's short hair
TANABATA

synth
S.S.H
神斬ゼロ式
ひえろぐらふ

piano
ReSoundWave
project-delta
Unknown-Dimension
Bibamus moriendum est (an album by pizuyas cell)

[Anonymous No.]

How has nobody mentioned Mohican Sandbag?

[Anonymous No.]

>this thread
>no C-Clays mentioned yet

Oh, come the fuck on. This group can make sweet arrangements of a vast variety of genres

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP4uCaFvt8Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mStGRuO-oG8

They also have pretty decent vocals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_9gxylLh3s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NREh4U5oz_4

[Anonymous No.]

I love how the album that the OP is parodying is better than any of the music recommended in this thread.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6032197
Because I doubt that you have listened to every single album released by every single doujin circle mentioned in this thread, I'm going to believe that you are either someone with a closed mind or a troll.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6032197
Back to your horrible opposite parallel universe with you

[Anonymous No.]

I imagine booru-like site for doujin music, with tags and all, that would be great

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031614
Oh shit, 715GB for Lossless torrent pack?!

Also, http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=torrentinfo&tid=136231
Album arts alone take 16GB of HDD!

My face. Really. That's fucking ridiculous. My HDD is 0,4476% of that torrent.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6032260
buy a bigger laptop

Was TaNaBaTa mentioned? Nice basic rock, I'd say it has the best male vocals out of everything I've heard.

[Anonymous No.]

>ctrl+f silver forest
>no results

I'm dissapointed but you're entitled to your own opinions.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6032260
There's a lossy version if you look on nyaatorrents, it's only around 150GB

[Quagsire !BALDCFdFzA No.]

Would EcN be considered essential?

[Anonymous No.]

Haven't heard these mentioned, so:

Shibayan Records - Really nice house/trance arrangements
Liz Triangle - lily-an's voice is delicious
Hatsunetsumiko's - Relaxing, vocals, various genres

[Anonymous No.]

How come Bitplane is never mentioned in these threads?

竹取物語 is excellent album, and everybody should listen to it. And while their first album isn't really as great, it still has some awesome orchestral tracks.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031397
Not 100% accurate since some circles do multiple genres.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6032336
They also have their Secret of Alice album, but 竹取物語 is their best.

[Anonymous No.]

Reposting the O-Life compilation I uploaded after the MoF album came out. Cheers, OP.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YZJZGJ6Q

[Anonymous No.]

>>6032724
Nice start, I'll make it better tomorrow as tomorrow is Sunday and all the shops & places are closed anyways so nothing better to do.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6032756
>After the fighters album

mah bad

[Anonymous No.]

>>6032756
You should buy this album off toranoana and upload it for us.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6032783
I ordered it three days ago. It hasn't shipped yet.

[Quagsire !BALDCFdFzA No.]

ARA does some good chiptune if you're into that

[Anonymous No.]

anyone care to link to good metal downloads (i.e. IRON ATTACK, CROWS CLAW, thousandleaves etc) either c78 or previous works.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6033377
see >>6031603

[Anonymous No.]

ripple doesn't get enough attention.

Septette for the Dead Princess
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DyGcST4iPc

Luna Dial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ODpOr7G2TU

君の美術館 needs love too. Their instrumentals are great.

3rd Eye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe5xwRxO4JM

Alice in Wonderland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJmlzramkrU

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031603
how does i select specific files to download instead of downloading all 156 gigs?

[Anonymous No.]

Golden City Factory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNBSpMN7rmA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVvUf12BwdI

[Anonymous No.]

>>6033528
try using a real torrent client, like utorrent

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031362
>fromadistance - historie

You are a gentleman and a scholar. Thank you.

[Tripfag McGee !NHqdxYQAec No.]

http://www.mediafire.com/?joe0zmyx2jm
I fucking love this album. It's deceptively complex and is unusually well mixed for a doujin album and is heavily layered, but I have trouble describing it outside of listing genres. Ambient techno, house, breakbeat, glitch, hardcore, dub, drum and bass, etc. I can't directly name an artist or album to describe the execution of the songs in question, so here's a small dose:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIKfCE8u8_g
Describing parts like 1:55 is hell for me since there is so much shit going on. Ambient drones, the leading melody, glitch, various beats and breaks, and shittons of other sounds that are along for the ride. It appears so simple while being densely layered. I'm embarrassed to admit that I have spent nearly 20 fucking minutes thinking of a description that didn't just involve name-dropping your typical big-name stock artists like Autechre, boards of canada, Cylob, Global Communication, The Orb, etc. since it would just me saying "It's ambient with beats hurr", and yet I'm doing it anyway. Songs on here unfold in ways that keep them fresh and interesting. It's like a striptease that takes off revealing clothes and then puts on other articles of clothing that are equally provocative (if not more).

Man, I am so going to get that job at Pitchfork one day.

[Anonymous No.]

"ad libitum records" should sound good for techno/trance people. More unique than REDALiCE, I think

[Scandaroon !/n8SKATORI No.]

All Touhou music is shit because it isn't ska.

lolported

[Anonymous No.]

Can kind /jp/ recommend a good touhou music stream? The last one I heard just kept repeating the same Alstromeria and "yi er san yi er san one two three ichi ni san".

[Anonymous No.]

Anonymour Imma let you finish but [梶迫小道具店] Capricioasă Gând is one of the best touhou albums of all times!
I'm serious.
It's wonderfully various and truly well made.
And it's really an international album, just get it.

Also, why no love for Fragile Online? I loved their Abbey Road disc, strongly reccomend that too.

Eastern Piano & Ensemble.

And [トマト組] TOMATO GUMMYYYYYY!!!!!! for the (Jazz)funk tunes.
Attrieletrock for the (lounge)chill ones.
Hobby Atelier Carrot Wine for the chip ones.

The rest is already in the thread.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6035194
Whenever we have threads like this it makes me realize just how many Touhou music arrange circles out there, and how many of them that actually make hand full of really good tracks. Even if I spent all my free time doing nothing but listen to all this stuff I couldn't cover it all.

>Fragile Online
I loved だってしょうがないじゃない. Idk, it was just so... unique. Like electronic-pop goes horror musical. I should listed more to them.

>>6033795
This sounds interesting, will download. Thank you.

[Prof. Anonymous !Ge55NoG1Cg No.]

>>6033795

BROFIST.jpg

[Anonymous No.]

Yo.
http://www.mediafire.com/?1tdydbmvyke
http://www.mediafire.com/?w5eyjgrnkyz

[Anonymous No.]

>>6031362
>but despise Otonoishi
How could you hate mother 2 tunes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6033439
The Luna Dial arrange reminds me of Tekken music.

[Anonymous No.]

Oh hi, OP here again. I'm compiling Refined Touhou Lossy Music Collection /jp/ Edition 2010, copying albums from lossy torrent and converting id3 tags to 2.3 (Windows doesn't understand 2.4) and setting circle name as artist name and genre as Touhou for clarity & searchability with id3-tagit.

Artist mentioned ITT that I dismissed:
5150
dBu
Neutral

Too varying quality, I only include whole albums. Also, half of IOSYS had to go.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6035375
I love you.

[Anonymous No.]

Thirding 回路-kairo-.
The first alum (R7) was awesome, and the new C78 album i just as good IMO.
Fantasia of the Shades, By the Shades, For the Shades
http://www.mediafire.com/?01ogp8hjr3496bw

[Anonymous No.]

>>6035638
Genre?
Vocal?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6035644
Rock, female vocals

>>6035375
>Artist mentioned ITT that I dismissed:
>dBu

I agree they have some varying quality but at least try their C77 releases; March over Sky and Serenade at Midnight. The latter is the weaker one, so skip that one if you feel that you must, but I though that March over sky was pretty sweet overall.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrXQEY4nAss&feature=related

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>>6035655
dBu isn't really about quality issues, but the way remixes are made is way too close to originals (take original, add simple riff + drum machine = dBu). I'm including ZUN originals from super high-quality Akuyy's Untouched Score albums in this anyway.

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this thread really lacks orchestrial arranges like the ones from 狐の工作室 (Kitsune no Kousakushitsu / Kitsune's Workshop)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M15AAsByugE
or something like オーライフジャパン (O-Life Japan)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reManpyI9w4

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I, for one, believe sound skt, kimino-museum, and PARADOX are severely underrated and should receive more love.

Also pleased that Northern Killer gets mentioned in this thread.

[Tripfag McGee !NHqdxYQAec No.]

>>6035309
I like Mother 2's music, but I didn't like the remixes. I found them painfully awkward at best. The second one is better, but by a slim margin. It's a miracle I didn't ride off the whole circle after the OTONOISHI remix albums, seeing as how they were the first two ALiCE'S EMOTION releases I have listened to.

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What are the Alstroemeria albums you would recommend?

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>>6036083
Dolls
Double Counterpoint
Last Moment to Remember
Lovelight
Strings of Life
Trois Noir

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Where does /jp/ get albums? I can never find the full albums, only singles.

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>>6036094
You forgot to mention Garnet of Star. Tracks 1-6 are just godly to the ears

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>>6036094

ah, that's most of the ones i have, thanks for the input!

i liked The Brilliant Flowers as well

>>6036098

http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=torrentinfo&tid=144722&showfiles=1

I've been noticing that the Lossy torrents have been downsizing in quality for a while, so I might recommend the v7 or v6 (Does anyone else have an issue with this?)

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>>6036103
What about no? It's too simple, too repetitive and plain boring album.

Nuclear Fusion from Trois Noir is the best song by Alstroemeria followed by their 2nd best song Last Remote, on their 2nd best album. Double Counterpoint set the new platinum standard for Touhou electronic music IMAO, it's amazingly professional and well balanced.

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>>6036131
I love you. Thank you so much.

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>>6036083
My personal favourites are some of their older stuff.
Last Judgement
genealogy｜shrinemaiden
東方幻樂編曲集第参集　禅-ZEN-

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Vaux, nolisse

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>>6036137
I guess we'll agree to disagree. Garnet of Star was kinda sitting in the bottom of a bunch of Alstroemeria stuff I have but I really liked it when I first listened to it.

I liked "Double Counterpoint" but it didn't have the same effect "of memories" did on me, where every song just absolutely had to be listened to. But I should give Double Counterpoint some play again sometime soon.

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>cntrl+f
>no one mentioning "Bad Apple"
>my face

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>>6036531
It's pretty much a given, but you have to wade through so many mediocre Alstroemeria albums to find which one it's in.

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>>6036531
Good, but a bit too overrated. Also, that's not how you use the quote function.

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>>6036539
It's 'Lovelight', wise guy.

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>>6036588
Found it months ago, but thanks, smartass.

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SHO (Sonic H-something O-something)
Knights of the Round
Kissing the Mirror
=NeutraL=
Magnum Opus
dBU

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>>6036602

Then, seeing as the last dozen posts have been about ALR albums, you should have been Ctrl-F'ing for "Lovelight" right?

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Seconding 岸田教団＆The 明星ロケッツ

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>>6036623
>I have already said I found the album months ago.
>Continues to act like I need a neon sign to find the album I already have.

>>6036721
Thirding it. Ichigo's voice is awesome.

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>>6036806
>>6036721
>岸田教団＆The 明星ロケッツ

I don't know. I listened to this album and wasn't convinced at all. I agree the vocals are probably the best part, but it's just messy, generic rock. The best track was probably the Nuclear Fusion arrange but I there were at least two better rock+vocals arranges of Nuclear Fusion released at the same event so yeah.

I love the cover though.

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>>6036835
I didn't hear the vocalist first on that album. I forget what the circle is, but コイヤミツキ features a couple of songs with her voice, a nice cutesy Koiiro Master Spark song and a really dark and well-sung Septette. Finding her on that album was just more Ichigo to enjoy, even if the rock itself was generic.
Even the generic rock Touhou covers are better than the horribad pretenses at trance or hardcore where it takes 2 minutes of a 5 minute song to get to the 30 seconds of music that sounds remotely similar to the Touhou track it's supposed to be emulating.

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the main dBU albums, like the one for each new title, are really decent. they are my replacement for in game BGMs.

however other stuffs by them are kinda meh. Demetori's recent albums are getting better though. 黒夜葬 had some nice Alice arrangements and their booklets are sexy.

ししまい3号's C75(?) albums are also very nice.

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>>6036896
I searched my Itunes and I actually have that album! What a coincidence. I don't think I've listened to it yet though, and it's fallen out so I need to re-add the files.

>Even the generic rock Touhou covers are better than the horribad pretenses at trance or hardcore where it takes 2 minutes of a 5 minute song to get to the 30 seconds of music that sounds remotely similar to the Touhou track it's supposed to be emulating.

I kinda agree with you. Generic rock albums you can at least listen though once and go "well that wasn't horribad but not very exciting either" and then just move on to next album. I like listening chill-out occasionally and all that but some of the more lowtier albums can be frustration to listen though because they never end and nothing happens. Long build-ups can be nice, like what fromadistance did with a lot of the tracks on eureka; Alstroemeria can pull it off too but it's hard to get it right.

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>>6036924
I have nothing against slow intros. Some can build up really well, like PASTRY's Moon Rise Again. It just seems like every techno-related Touhou doujin album needs every track to have excessively long intros and outros that aren't even that pleasant to listen to. After a while, I lose interest in listening and waiting around for Fuujin Shoujo cover #349578 to pick up.

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No WAVE or O-Life Japan? Come on.

O-Life's SA album was amazing.

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>>6031543

O-Life Japan's Subterranean Animism album(forgot what it's called) was very jazzy.

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>>6036956
Read the thread. O-life has been mention like thrice. Idk about Wave, but I'm pretty sure it's in there too.

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Someone needs to do a gothic rock Touhou album, with trebley chorused guitars, ambient synths, and someone singing like a witch.

[Tripfag McGee !NHqdxYQAec No.]

>>6036983
I'm pretty sure every genre on the planet has been used for Touhou arrangements, except maybe instrumental hip-hop.

MAYBE

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>>6036983
We're in a world where Blind Guardian sings about Lord of the Rings and Therion sings about the Cthulhu mythos... there's always a chance our favorite rock genre will pick up the Touhou mantle eventually. I'm hoping for some symphonic metal, personally.

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>>6037005
They would have to be extreme weeaboos, something quite uncommon for your average metalfag.
Don't forget LotR and Lovecraft are still more mainstream than Touhou

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>>6037011
Mainstream, but still unlikely topics for a band to center themselves upon.
A better example: Austrian Death Machine. A group composed of members of different metal bands got together because this one vocalist from one band did a funny Arnold Schwarzenegger impression. They produced an album with songs based on lines from his movies like "If it bleeds, we can kill it."
Never underestimate metalheads' determination to take something silly a long way.

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Recommending ALTERNATIVE for their orchestra album Twilight Symphony and their chill out album Nocturnal Flight. I'm not sure if they've made anymore albums besides these, but I do think they belong in the collection of anyone who likes these genres.

Also ARA is good for more than chiptunes guys. Seriously check out Hobby Atelier Carrot Wine for:
Shangri-la Storm
東方オーケストラ Symphonic Quest I ～冥界の剣と紅魔の妹君～ (Be wary of the chiptune track. It has some really annoying sound effects)
麗 −RAY− 月天夜姫
悪魔嬢伝説レミリア ～運命の舞曲～
東方オーケストラ Symphonic Quest II ～屠られし者たち～ (Again be wary of chiptune)
東方発表会 第一部 -ピアノとアンサンブル-
Most are orchestrated and have some chill tracks here and there. The last is about half jazz half piano if I'm not mistaken.

Finally try Sensative Heart (a.k.a. koutaq) for some more chill out pieces. He released four albums and I enjoyed them all (save for 月射録 ～ The Moon-shooter which I thought was a bit bland, but I'd give it a try since it's just a half hour)

All of these can be found in the lossless/lossy torrents if I'm not mistaken.

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>>6036956
Dude what the fuck.

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>>6037005
There's a circle called SHO but they suck eventually.

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needs more Silver Forest

[Remilia Scarlet !reMILiaJAM No.]

>>6036940
That's the whole idea of progressive trance, the slow build up to the main melody is what defines the genre. Also, the reason for long intros/outros is because it's easier for DJs to mix a particular composition.

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>>6037397
That's great that it has a purpose, but I still don't find it pleasant to listen to.
The intros and outros are by and large more repetition than build, and the part that I want to hear is often far too brief--often 45 seconds in a 5-7 minute song. Is it too much to ask for more than 1/5 of the song to be interesting?
A slow intro can be interesting and done well. I have found songs I enjoy that do that (as I said PASTRY does it well), but they're often in the dance genre. Each repetition of a few measures adds an element.
Snare and cymbal
Snare, cymbal, and bass drum
Snare, cymbal, bass drum, high hat, and bass guitar
Snare, cymbal, bass drum, high hat, bass guitar, and synth
etc

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>>6037397
Also, are you feeling okay? This thread had your name written all over it, but we didn't see you until just now. Been busy?

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Tossing in these as nobody mentioned them.
- Riverside (various) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH8pU97bRhY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP2ZOEGxwVc
- QLOCKS (various) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jSs0gaoCnc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LTCMVvK5ZQ
- Unchiku Company (instrumental) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHdiGp8t5_g

[Remilia Scarlet !reMILiaJAM No.]

>>6037431
Progressive trance is by far the most popular electronic genre in doujin circles. It can be hit or miss most of the time, since it heavily relies on the progression of the melody and gradual addition of instruments, but the main idea behind all the repetition and slow build up is to put you into trance. There are some circles that do it really well making the whole track feel interesting, not just the climax part of the composition. I still think that older Alstroemeria or Sound Online arrangements for instance had some of the best prog trance in Touhou music.

>>6037446
I've praised Mohican Sandbag for their unique approach to music before. I love how this circle changes its style with each new album and still manages to keep their compositions fresh and interesting. From light, groovy, 80's rhythms mixed with Touhou down to the dark, raw psytrance tracks ending with some sort of an experimental music. It's sort of a mixture of various genres and it also shows what this circle is still capable of. Even the promo tracks are mini mixes instead of regular fade outs that other groups put out.

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>>6037614
Sound Online is only good when someone like Aki Misawa is doing vocals.

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Damn I wish ZTS made more touhou music. He's as good as Levo Lution in my opinion, if not better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFxBAteQNWw

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bumpo

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Mosaic.wav does touhou or not?

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My ageru reaches heaven.

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>>6038668
What?

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since this thread is here, i feel i should ask, are there ANY arranges that are similar in style to these?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BGpEQrVxCg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3e3cVwGGhs

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>>6042017
There is something like two dozen GOOD metal groups listed in this thread.

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>>6042091
>GOOD metal

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>>6042091
if you payed attention, i asked for Arranges that are similar in styles, not circles/groups