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From the site:

After the success of Andrew's 2008 release of Japanese pop rock covers, Andrew W.K. was approached by Sunrise Inc., the owners of the Gundam franchise, to record an album of classic Gundam music, to celebrate Gundam's 30th anniversary.

The album of English-language rock covers will be released on September 9th, in Japan, by Andrew's longtime label, Universal Music Japan. The release will feature the music from the first "Mobile Suit Gundam" television series and movie trilogy, as well as Andrew's versions of the Gundam score and background music. Plus, Andrew will reenact Gundam's opening narration and the famous memorial speech that the Gihren Zabi character gives for his fallen brother.

The album's front cover artwork features an original illustration by respected Gundam artist, Akira Yasuda. The image depicts Andrew flying through space next to the Mobile Suit Gundam. The album's design also features special photographs by Andrew Strasser.

This is Andrew W.K., so that should tell you something right there. I much prefer the gundam rock covers by Richie Kotzen [a few posts below this one!] but I just found this to be quite a random piece of news. Some of the music on the album isn't so bad either, but I much prefer the original music, as it was a lot more.... funky.

Also: Happy Thanksgiving, all you kawaii gaijins out there, uguu.

Taken from Moetron:
"An ad for the supplemental issue of DTM magazine has revealed news that Nakajima Megumi (Ranka Lee of Macross F) will lend her voice for SSW Internet software company’s next Vocaloid virtual idol. It was nearly a year ago today since the announcement of their first Vocaloid release — Gackpoid; voiced by musician/actor Gackt himself."
Here is a sample:

That's some crazy vibrato. Can't wait to see what people do with "Megumi's" voice.

As a huge ARIA fan I was surprised and saddened last year to hear the news of Eri Kawai's death. I still don't know much about it but I'm fairly sure she was very young, and it really came out of nowhere. As I was browsing Anime News Network I saw that Victor Entertainment has released a memorial album featuring her songs..

Rachael Carothers of ANN writes:
"It was sad news when, just before noon on August 4, 2008, singer-songwriter Eri Kawai passed away. She contributed songs to Aria the Animation, Air and Tales of Symphonia, among others. A memorial tribute album, Himawari (Sunflower), was released on December 24, 2008. The album features songs from Aria, Bamboo Blade and Sketchbook ~full color'S~. Four live tracks from ARIA The CONCERT, which were never intended to be released to the public, complete the present to Kawai's fans. "
read more here

I would love to hear these live tracks, myself. I didn't know they had an ARIA concert

Anime Remix
Oh lawd. Here's what I said over there:
WE'LL DO IT LIVE! We did a LOT of testing with this new version of the site, to iron out all the big bugs, but there's likely a few left just from carrying this new design over. If you find anything wrong or if you'd like to give feedback on the design, let Xaleph know [because that's not my job :D]. Well I think it's great, the black and brownish greens were getting depressing. All those headers read more...everyone worked on are now gone but I hope anyone didn't work TOO hard on those. Perhaps we'll enlist everyone's help on making new site headers this time too! AAAAAAAAnyway, welcome to the new site.

There's also a new mix by Xaleph featuring some woman I've never heard of Check it.

I have no idea where these came from or how I even stumbled upon them, I think it was just random YouTube browsing? Anyway, totally rockin' Gundam song covers incoming:
Zeta Gundam OP1 "Beyond the Time":

Zeta Gundam OP2, "Filling the Star of Water With Love":

"Soldiers of Sorrow" the end song to the Mobile Suit Gundam movie trilogy:

Gundam 0083, "The Winner" [my personal favourite]:

Mobile Suit Gundam "Fly Gundam!" for the lulz:


There's more on youtube if you want to look at them but these are my favourites. I'm sure some of you probably already know about these songs, as they are quite old. Actually, I believe when Toonami showed Gundam 0083 in America they used Richie Kotzen's version for the dub!

These are my ideal "Anime Remix" songs. A small daydream of mine is him submitting these songs to animeremix.org. While Anime Remix is up. :3