Black Lagoon OST Review.
Tuesday, November 21. 2006
Now, let's look at the soundtrack. Action demands speed, weight, and a thoroughly pumping soundtrack. It's just not as fun without a little hardcore music to back it up. I believe that Edison, who composed most of the music, did an okay job. It's nothing quite spectacular on its own, but fit the show well, in both the peaceful and violent moments of the series. Listening to Edison's tracks separately from the show, however, the music is pretty mediocre and I can't imagine myself listening to it very often. Some of the songs get outright annoying, but thankfully I don't remember them being in the show. At least, for very long.
Now, like most music in anime, there's something holding the music back, even while watching the anime. In my experience, whenever the producers bring in some other band to do the music for the OP or ED, it's just nonsensical and asinine [for the best {worst} example of this, watch Meine Liebe] The OP theme fits the show, and it could've been good, but man, the vocals. Just listen and you'll hear what I mean, I hope :( [of course, that little waveplay bit at the end was just me messing around in Cool Edit :)]. Oh well, I guess the Japanese are into sheep or something.
What a horrible review.
Crow's claw and their broken phantasms
Monday, November 20. 2006
As a type-moon fan, I usually hang out on an irc channel called #beastslair, which is a channel dedicated to everything Type-moon, ranging from Fate stay/night to kara no kyokai. During my various visit there, I'vwe had the chance to discover many interesting sites, like Arai's Fuyuki wiki. Yet, the thing I'm probably the most grateful for discovering is this : Broken phantasm.
Broken phantasm is an arrange album (wait, is that even the proper words to name this? anyway, that's how they call it....sounds like engrish) of various songs from Fate stay/night, Fate Hollow/ataraxia and Melty blood. It was realeased by a really obscure japanese band called Crow's claw. It's mostly more metal-ish versions of these songs, with one of them having techno elements added. It's really different from most metal cds, as only one song has lyrics. The electric guitar is easily the most prominent and the better sounding instrument out of all the ones used in the various song. Yea, the guitarist has talent and it shows. It's truly an album for electric guitar lovers, as the band itself seems to really put an emphasis on it (their 5th album is called "parental advisory, explicit guitar" :p). Most of the songs are truly better versions of the original games' soundtracks, which only makes this CD more awesome.
All in all, this is a great album to own by any type-moon fan out there, or even metal fans who want some good old electric guitar driven music.
Remix Genesis Evangelion
Monday, November 20. 2006
First off, if anyone was wondering where I was this past weekend, I took a little vacation and visited some friends down in San Diego, kicking off the trip with a visit to see The Hush Sound with Murder By Death and a couple other bands that really don't compare. Anyway, suffice to say that The Hush Sound and Murder By Death were both amazing and my friends and I have several complete sets of signatures. I mean, come on, how often do you get to see someone plucking an electric cello in the middle of a Western-esque rock song? Plus there are lots of really good singers overall. Thanks, OverCoat, for taking care of the blog in my absence. It looks like we've made it to one week old without any major problems!
As for more unrelated news, this weekend also saw the release of both the PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Wii. My friend and I went to camp out for the Wii, but apparently we weren't hardcore enough because by the time we got there, all the lines were too huge already, and we didn't end up getting one. It sounds like overall, both launches went about as well as can be expected, which is to say that Nintendo's was a little less messy than Sony's - with supplies like that, it was bound to be trouble for PlayStation diehards. Personally, I think I'd rather have had my Wii signed, like the guy on the right. Update: Apparently the guy is a very dedicated gamer and pretty well-known on the east coast, named Isaiah Triforce Johnson. Yes, he got his middle name legally changed.
So today I have the honor of presenting you, our faithful readers, with an older anime arrangement but a good one you might not have heard. A little more than a year ago Trenthian sent in a late entry to Anime Remix's annual Halloween contest. It never did get posted to that site, so I'm posting it here instead, because as Trenthian himself says, "I forgot how pimp this mix was."
Beginning with a pretty neat piano but soon bursting into a a pulsing electronic melody, the song is incredible: it's unmistakably Rei's theme from Neon Genesis Evangelion, but the groove is completely different and a lot of fun. Several layers of synths, filtered piano, and a persistently rockin' beat make this one remix you don't wanna miss:
Trenthian - Neon Genesis Evangelion - Rei i
Passion - Music from Anime & Videogames Concert!
Sunday, November 19. 2006
David the Gnome Chiptune
Friday, November 17. 2006
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