Nekomimi Music - Music Downloads

Slayers Next Remix by DistantJ

nospam@example.com (OverCoat) — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:10:07 -0700

DistantJ - Slayers Next - A Reason

What's that low booming sound, getting ever closer? Why, a DistantJ track of course! And this one is way better than his last Slayers remix, which was a bit... Well, not too good. This new track is totally heavy hitting and well done, and I didn't even mind the cliché'd vocal clip. Unfortunately, it's a short track for the genre, and I wish it were twice as long. Still, Slayers fans must check this out.

Narutoverload

nospam@example.com (OverCoat) — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:00:21 -0700

Okay, so finally AR gets some new material. Perhaps the most horrible of coincidences is that they are both remixes of the same song.

Electric Concerto - Sadness and Sorrows Trance
Themaister - Sadness and Sorrows

Oh boy! Electric Concerto's tune is surprisingly good trance, and themaister, while his song was initially not good enough, he resubmitted it to AR twice and now it's something passable. Good dedication, man!

El Cazador OST Review

nospam@example.com (mDuo13) — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:54:00 -0700

ｷﾀ━━━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━━━━!!!!!

My El Cazador CD arrived via DHL today. Well, at this point, it might be more accurate to say yesterday. It came in just before noon while I was at work. "El Cazador Original Soundtrack 1", as it is labeled (not getting creative like they did with the Tsubasa Chronicle "Future Soundscape" OSTs here) contains 17 tracks for a total of 51 minutes, 1 second of ~~bliss~~ music. All keyboards and programming are by Yuki Kajiura, while various other musicians sit in for a few songs each, providing a variety of live instruments, from the ubiquitous string section to the swanky harmonica and the impossibly rocking accordion. Booklet and inner cover art consists of just various caps from the series; the front cover is a rather bland picture of Nadie and Ellis floating amidst rose petals. [I'll be able to provide some scans later, hopefully.]

Overall, this first El Cazador soundtrack is very solid quality, with Yuki Kajiura sounding a lot less restrained than in some of her other recent endeavors. The level of traditionalism and experimentation is about on par with her Madlax soundtracks, which is high praise. Many of the tracks, such as #1, "Maxwell's Witch", are sort of less interesting songs that get used often in the background of the anime; #14 ("hotel del sol") and #13 ("small fry") are all passable quality but not worth frothing over. There are a number of subtle but good tracks, such as the mood-setting acoustic guitar solo "ennui", the haunting pan-pipe piece "murderous intent", the rocking "hit it and run!", and the bluesy "ballad of a bounty hunter", each of which is definitely worthwhile in its own way - but it cost me $50 to import this thing (international shipping on CDs still feels like banditry to me). Thankfully, there are three songs of such incredible quality that I don't regret it at all:

Track #6, inca rose, is the main killer in the soundtrack, for me. It starts with an entrancing melody played on what sounds like an organ, supplemented by plucks from an acoustic guitar, some beautiful pads, and a nicely layered techno groove. But there's also room for a heavenly chorus and some heartful electronic guitar solos. But don't take my word for it: download a 30-second sample clip!
El Cazador - 'inca rose' Sample [30 seconds; 780k mp3]

Track #12, el cazador, is the trademark action insert song. It starts out with a string progression and techno beat that sounds like it was plucked right off the Tsubasa soundtracks, which had practically dozens of this sort of thing, but within the first minute, that gives way to an acoustic guitar backing up Yuuka Nanri (the vocalist half of "FictionJunction YUUKA") in what appear to be Spanish lyrics. 1:31-1:56 also houses an accordion solo that puts "Romance" from the Noir soundtrack to shame. After a beautiful breakdown, it picks up where it left off and eventually finishes roughly where it started, which is not bad at all.

And finally we reach track #17, forest, the only song on the soundtrack whose vocalist (Emily Bindiger) is labeled on the back of the case next to the track name. And for good reason: this is the same vocalist who performed some of the most memorable English-language tracks from the .hack//SIGN soundtrack, and the resemblance is crystal-clear. This halfway-upbeat song was used as an insert song for a powerful scene of episode 14. Strings, bell synths, a wonderful flute solo, and all the usual suspects are present here. The lyrics, as included in the insert booklet, are [apparent typos and all]:

summer rain falls on the apple branches
lights from heaven dancing with the shadows

come take my hand
let me be in your forest

sometimes you think loneliness is better than pain
and you sink deeper in your valley

is this the place to be, in your memory?

no, I never wanna lose you in the forest of the night
in vanity's lair
yearning for the angel calling
hear the lonely prayer ringing through the land of rain
across the thin air
they sing voice to voice
the ancient melodies
calling you

autumn goes by
combing twilight into my hair
I look back on the passing tenderness

let me stay by your side
In your memory

no, you never gonna find me in the forest of the night
In vanity's lair
no more holly angel calling
hear my lonely prayer ringing through the land of rain
across the thin air
we sing voice to voice
the ancient melodies
I'm calling you

Anyway, the gist of this is that if you're familiar with Kajiura, you probably don't require this review to decide whether or not you want the soundtrack. However, it's up to you whether you're willing to import it at that price. Roughly $30 for the CD plus $20 in shipping adds up to highway robbery (heck, for that price you could get an entire season of Emma), but for a soundtrack like this, I'm willing to suffer the cost.

...And Here Come the NES Covers

nospam@example.com (OverCoat) — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:11:57 -0700

Tony Thai - Motteke Sailor Fuku [NSF format]. This link should work for a while but I'll replace it if it starts failing [and you mention it!]

Lucky Star, for being such a "mediocre show" [according to a few of my friends who have seen it], is getting quite a bit of attention. You can hear the original tune for this cover in the previous news post. Despite the TV show itself it is quite a viral tune, probably because MOE CANNOT BE REASONED WITH.. Maybe the fact that there will always be a new "fad anime" out these days is a good thing. More covers for us anisong fans! Additionally, here is a YouTube video of Rockman/Megaman robots dancing to a different chip version of the Lucky Star OP. This version of the song sucks but hey, DANCING ROBOTS.

po! - Totoro's Groove

nospam@example.com (mDuo13) — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:48:14 -0800

So this comes a little bit late, but I might as well throw it out there - Anime Remix added a new song the other day, an old little sample-remix called "Totoro's Groove" by po! It's a goofy little groove with a chopped up sample from that fun old Ghibli movie, "My Neighbor Totoro". Not a totally complex or amazing remix, but it sounds pretty cool anyway.

What's more fun about this remix is what it signals for Anime Remix, which is that straight-up remixes - not just rearrangements - are now fair game for the site. Anime Remix, which has been hosting rearrangements of anime songs since 2002, made a decision that, legally, straight-up remixes weren't any less of a gray area than rearrangements, so catchy little songs like "Totoro's Groove" are just the beginning of what's possible. Check it out:

Death Note 2nd OP and ED

nospam@example.com (mDuo13) — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:07:09 -0800

This is a bit of a follow up to a couple entries ago. Basically, starting at episode 20, Death Note has new opening and ending themes by Japanese metal band Maximum the Hormone. They're already drawing praise and criticism for the style, which is much more hardcore metal than the previous pop-rock themes by Nightmare (Thanks for the correction, Souzou!). Personally, I like the first pair a little better, but there's definitely something exciting about the blood-pulsing energy of the second opening. The visual style of the OP sequence is pretty interesting, too. Ryuk and MisaMisa are totally awesome in it. Take a look:

Edit: Youtube link moved, since the first one went down.

As for the ending theme, "Zetsubou Billy", I'll just give you a 30-second demo download.
Death Note 2nd Ending Theme Demo [.mp3, 742kb]

Remixer Interview: Fray

nospam@example.com (mDuo13) — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:37:00 -0800

First off, let me apologize for the utter lack of posts in the past couple weeks. We've been following up various leads, and some of us are finding our free time less copious than usual: My spring semester started, and OverCoat (I'm glad to say) got a job. Congratulations! That's enough apologizing, though: let me introduce you to today's feature, a new type of article we're trying out: a remixer interview. Kicking off this process, I've interviewed Fray, also known as Nathan Monteleone of Arlington, Texas. Fray has one Anime Remix and one OC ReMix to his name, and has been an active member of the remixing community for some time. To let you in on a secret, I'm a big fan of his and find myself singing along to Shine embarrassingly, all the time. Then again, it seems like a lot of people who listen to the song have that experience.

mDuo13: Hello, Fray, and thanks for joining us. You've got one complete anime remix so far, yes? Care to tell us how you got into anime remixing in the first place?

Fray: Well, I remembered seeing the website in people's sigs on OCReMix. Seeing Haibane Renmei revived my interest in anime, so I hit up AR looking for Haibane remixes. And since I'd already been involved with video game remixing, the transition to anime was pretty natural from that point.

mDuo13: Ah, so how long have you been involved in video game remixing?

Fray: My first attempts go back to around early 2002, culminating in me actually getting a remix past the judges' panel on OCR in 2004.

mDuo13: So, what sort of musical training do you have?

Fray: I took 10 years of piano lessons starting around age 7. For all that I never got to be nearly as good as I should have been, but I could play some pretty technical pieces by the end of it. Scott Joplin rags were always my favorite. I played bassoon throughout high school, plus a few other wind instruments... and then completely slacked off of music in college after I got kicked out of the community orchestra there for being a bum.

mDuo13: *laughs* Bassoon, really? How is that?

Fray: Bassoon? It's really a fun instrument to play. Looks bizarre, sounds about as strange, and attracts lots of attention. There are a few problems with it though -- One, they're expensive as all hell, as are the reeds. To top it off, you can't just buy a reed and play on it, you usually have to do some work on them with a special knife, etc... Two, they're quiet, so no one hears you most of the time in an orchestra, and three, they're delicate.

mDuo13: Ah, well, that's too bad. I take it you haven't played any bassoon recently, then?

Fray: I've been wanting to use it in a remix sometime, actually. But I'm horribly out of practice -- you're right, I haven't played it in a couple years.

mDuo13: I look forward to seeing it. Anyway, that brings me to another question: what hardware and software do you use for mixing?

Fray: First, a disclaimer: I have more money than I have free time. As such, I have way more gear than is really necessary, and much of it I haven't used to the fullest. So if you want to get into remixing, don't think you need even half this stuff. People have sounded better than me using less than $100 worth of software.

mDuo13: *laughs* I'll keep this in mind.

Fray: So! I use Cakewalk Sonar 5, Producer edition as my main software. It's one of the best MIDI sequencers out there, and the audio stuff is starting to contend with the big daddies. I use it for just about everything -- recording my outside gear, fixing mistakes in MIDI tracks, mixing, effects, all that. It's also got some really nice software synths that come with it (Pentagon I is my favorite).

My Roland RD-600 is my main MIDI Controller; it's a stage piano, so it's got builtin sounds of its own -- they're pretty nice, but kinda limited to pianos, EP's, and organs. It has a few synths and things, but they're kinda crappy, so I turn to other sources for many of my sounds. The main draw, for me, is the keyboard feel. I wouldn't say it's a convincing replica of a real piano, but it definitely allows for very expressive playing, so generally, I lay down tracks using it. For some really simple stuff I'll click the notes into Sonar with a mouse, but generally I record MIDI off the RD-600.

A lot of the other sounds come from a Roland XV-5050 rack synth. It's more a jack of all trades; it's got everything from strings to brass to wacked out synths, and all the patches are very editable too. I also use a dave smith evolver -- it's a monophonic synth. It has real analog filters and oscillators in it, but it's got digital ones too - it's a hybrid. I use that when I want cool leads and basses, because it has a lot of its own character.

mDuo13: Anything else?

Fray: That's the main stuff. Other than that I have an Oktava MK-219 mic that I picked up on the cheap at Guitar Center. They were blowing them out for like $70. Oh, and autotune (haha). Couldn't live without that. I have decent pitch but I can't control my voice very well. Recently I got a novation remote 61 MIDI controller, which sits directly on my desk -- that can be really handy when I'm going back and forth between playing things on the keyboard and making edits in Sonar. The RD-600 is so huge that there's no way for me to access it and my computer keyboard/mouse easily at the same time.

mDuo13: Yeah, I can imagine.

Fray: Drums I usually get off my XV-5050. It has some really nice sets on it, but to be honest, I've never quite found a drum setup I'm comfortable with. I've tried a bunch of different ways of going about it, and all of them seem to be more of a pain than really necessary.

mDuo13: I see. So, what's your remixing process like, in general?

Fray: My best ideas definitely start with me banging around on the piano. I pick out the chords (or some variation on them) from a theme I like, and the remix usually grows from some way of riffing on that. From there I generally just layer stuff on for a while - synths, strings, that sort of stuff. I'll put down some real simple drums to begin with; the final drum part tends to come last. I probably should, but I never think much about the overall structure of the song from the beginning. I more lay down a section and think "ok what would sound cool after this?" I feel like I'm still in the noob phase when it comes to remixing process. I think I get away with it because I had so much music training in elementary-high school.

mDuo13: Now I wish I had actually stuck with piano lessons for more than a couple months.

Fray: I might add that I don't really think about effects much until the end. To me, the music is in the notes more than the production tricks -- which is not to say I don't enjoy the work of people who focus more on the latter. It's just how I think when doing my own work.

mDuo13: That makes sense. But, the real question is, why does it take you so long to make a single remix?

Fray: Damn good question. *laughs* Ultimately I think it's a matter of time. I serve too many masters, if you catch my drift.

mDuo13: I think a lot of us are familiar with that feeling. Do these other ''masters'' include any other musical stuff, like playing in a band?

Fray: Well, I was pretty involved with a band over the last year, although I just quit. I played my last show with them last weekend. Also, being married takes up quite a bit of time (but in a good way). Warcraft 3 also chews up quite a bit, at least if you play it like I do.

mDuo13: So tell us a bit more about this life outside of remixing. What do you do for a living? What's your wife like?

Fray: I'm a programmer for a living. I work for a defense contractor, so sometimes the work is interesting, and sometines it's mind numbing. Ultimately I'd like to do something else with my life; I'm not particularly crazy about the defense industry. My wife's a scientist for Mary Kay cosmetics. We met in college, on the first week actually. A couple months later I asked her out and we've been together since. She's quite literally the only girl I've ever dated. Guess I got lucky on the first try ^.^ I was kinda starting a relationship with someone else at the time, but I ditched her because Amanda was hotter and smarter. *laughs* Writing is her real passion, by the way, not science.

mDuo13: Writing? Do tell.

Fray: Yep, her foundation is gothic romance, although she's been pushing her stuff in a slightly more literary direction... In the Romance world, if you wanna get published, you kinda have to follow these preset formulas. She's taken more to ignoring those and writing whatever the heck she wants. She posts some of it up on her livejournal.

mDuo13: I wish her luck. More to the point, is there any chance of getting her involved in a future remix?

Fray: Actually, yeah, she has a really cool soprano voice that I'd love to use in a remix.

mDuo13: What sort of remixes do you have in the works, anyway? Anything right now?

Fray: Yes, two. One's a remix from the game Crystalis - that's sort of your usual epic trance video game affair. I still love that style, even if it's been beaten to death a bit. And the other one is a Chobits remix that's very much styled after Ben Folds Five ballads. It has its genesis in a compo very, very long ago.

mDuo13: Is there anything else you want to add before we go?

Fray: I'd like to say that I seriously love the remixing scene. Compared to playing clubs in a band, I feel like there's a much greater appreciation for musicality and creativity. I've always found it really inspiring, and I might have let playing music slip out of my life entirely if I hadn't been introduced to places like OCR and AR.

mDuo13: Well, thank you very much for joining us, and good luck with your remixes. I'll be sure to post them here when they're finished.

And that's that for our first interview. It was a lot of fun putting it together, and I'd like to extend my thanks to Fray for lending me a bit of his time, and to all of you reading it. If you're interested, Fray's two remixes are a Morrowind remix called Fear Not and a remix from Voices of a Distant Star, Shine. Fray has also generously granted us permission to host a direct download for Shine:

Fray - Voices of a Distant Star 'Shine' [mp3, 4.73mb]

Shariq's First Anime Remix!

nospam@example.com (OverCoat) — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:25:09 -0800

Hooray! Shariq Ansari AKA DarkeSword writes:

"Just last night I finished my first remix based on music from an anime, specifically, Naruto. The song is called Iron Dance and the White Eyed Maiden, and it was inspired by an episode of some filler arc where Hinata is fighting a ninja who uses magnetism as a means to fight. At the end of the battle, a muted version of the song "Dance" plays. I really liked the low-key feel that the song added to the scene, so I tried to capture that in my piece. I also added in "Hinata vs. Neji" as a reference to Hinata's character."

Iron Dance and the White Eyed Maiden [5.53MB, MP3]

His filename sucks, but that's alright. I'm listening to it right now and it sounds like... well, pretty much anything else he writes. So fans of Shariq will definitely dig this, and I know some people go nuts over his music. Anyway, enjoy the new tune.

If you don't know who DarkeSword is, you probably didn't ever visit OCR or VGMix. He has quite a few mixes on both sites [or, for now, just OCR. VGMix will be back in January OMFG SO EXCITED] and is actually a Judge on OCR. I know Darke digs anime, and it was about time he remixed something! Let's hope he makes some more in the future.

Two More Anime Remixes!

nospam@example.com (OverCoat) — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:05:42 -0800

Check it out!

Click either picture to be taken to the remix page.

One is another good one from Xaleph/Carbunk1e, and the other is the first official Anime Remix by Vampire Hunter Dan! He made a great tune for the Halloween Remix Competition as well, though it's not on Anime Remix right now. This is also the first Anime Remix to feature multiple anime for the source material! Dan says: "The themes involved here are: Ai no Theme (3x3 Eyes), Departure (Rurouni Kenshin TV), Main Title (Giant Robo), Spending Time in Preparation (Evangelion), Theme of Battle (Record of Lodoss War OVA), and Yakusoku wa Iranai (Escaflowne). The original composers are Kaoru Wada, Noriyuki Asakura, Masamichi Amano, Shiro Sagisu, Mitsuo Hagita, and Yoko Kanno." The "Various" image should change a bit too, soon...

me: also hold on a sec
medley-su
but what if it's a medley from one anime
>_>
you need to make it "various-su" or something [tongue]
Matthew: -_-'
me: YA I NO, LOL
Matthew: picky~su
me: hahaha
Matthew: hmm
yeah you're right
I just don't want to open the image again at work
and get weird looks from people

Enjoy the new tunes!

New Anime Remix Myspace Page

nospam@example.com (OverCoat) — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:26:08 -0800

Anime Remix at Myspace!

Reelmojo's back! And he got this idea to make a Myspace page for the site. He writes:

"So I was just looking for a new song to put on my MySpace page while listening to "Run With Us" by Distant J and Spray when it occured to me that it'd be awesome if I could put that or other AR songs on there. Then it hit me, AR needs its own MySpace Music page. Since MySpace allows for four songs at a time it should probably always have the four most current songs on AR. The pictures section could even be pictures submitted by remixers.
[some posts later]
"Alright I'm in an ambitious mood or something because I just started working on it. I guess I volunteer! I could probably use someone else to make updates too in case songs get posted when I'm away or something like that. I'll run it, they'd basically be there just so someone else is making sure it's as up to date as possible... meaning you wouldn't really have any hard responsibilities or anything like that."

He's got the right idea. A lot of netlabels I check regularly have myspaces, and it's a good way for myspace folks to stumble upon your music. I've gotten a few interesting fans since I created my Myspace page in January of this year. One of them was actually pretty creepy, but a fan is a fan! He had "Frozen" on his page for a while! Actually, a few people did. I guess that's a fan-favorite.

Anyway, I'm already a friend of the account, and now there's a way to put the brand new AR releases on your page! Unless of course you already have your own :)

No News

nospam@example.com (OverCoat) — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 15:00:11 -0800

Yeah. If anyone reads this blog, I apologize. It's not a matter of irresponsibility, there's simply nothing to post! So here, have a nice picture:

Well actually, there IS something. djcubez just linked me to this over IRC. It's a remix of an FMA tune, with some beats and scratching over it. Still a work in progress, but so far it's nice. Also, it's something ヽ(´ー｀)ﾉ

Remix Genesis Evangelion

nospam@example.com (mDuo13) — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:46:12 -0800

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

David the Gnome Chiptune

nospam@example.com (OverCoat) — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:35:27 -0800

Download here [51 kb, .it format]. You can play this using WinAmp, VLC Media Player, XMPlay, or any .it-compatible tracker. I should hope you have at least one of those!

I'll be honest. I don't remember David the Gnome. I don't know how coda remembers, since he is only as old as I am, and neither of us were born yet [I bet Nobuyuki had something to do with it, you '80s fanatic you!]. You older readers of NMM might remember this show. All 1 of you.

It's a catchy tune though. I hate the idea of posting with youtube videos twice in a row, but you should really see the David intro:

Good Medecine indeed!

Scryed and Gackt Mashup: Vanilla Fire!

nospam@example.com (mDuo13) — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:28:00 -0800

So, one of the things that we're glad about here on Nekomimi Music is that, being a blog and not a "ReMixing" site, we aren't limited by the constraints of those websites. And one of those things we have the freedom to post, while other great sites don't, is mashups. For those of you who aren't really familiar with the mashup phenomenon, Wikipedia describes it pretty well, but I'll give you a basic run-down: you take the music of one song, and the vocals of another song, and put them together. Well, TheMacAttack (remove "SPAMSUCKS" for email) of Melbourne, Australia has brought us our first mashup, with the music of Scryed's opening theme "Reckless Fire" combined with the a capella of Gackt's Vanilla (thanks for the correction). The result works almost startlingly well, and you'll probably wonder if the lyrics were made for the song. There's also a little bit more than Gackt thrown in: a recording of the War of the Worlds drama, and a little rapping by 2 Brothers on the Floor, which also fits uncannily. For those of you who haven't heard Reckless Fire, it's a pretty awesome song to start, with Spanish as well as electric guitar, orchestral hits, a cheesey horn section, and a solid techno drum beat powering the whole thing. According to TheMacAttack, he was just brushing up his multimedia editing skills and doing some mashups for fun when his friends requested this - and the result was a surprise even to him.

I guarantee you'll be rocking along with it, so download it now!

And if you're as much a fan of it as I am, you might also be interested to know that TheMacAttack has several more a capellas of anime songs (including stuff from BECK and Chobits, among others), and he's totally willing to pass them along to would-be remixers and mashup creators for their use in making new stuff. And, of course, we here at Nekomimi Music would only be too happy to post it.

Rock on, and may the cat ears be with you.

P.S. I had some problems posting entries, dunno why. It seems to be fine now. And yes, there was some downtime earlier. Hopefully I will be able to afford a real host sometime.

TWO New Anime Remixes!

nospam@example.com (OverCoat) — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:44:00 -0800

Two in one day! Holy freaking crap!

Kim Possible - Call Me Beep Me. Oh no, gaijin music!

A dangerously catchy Disney cartoon theme turned 8-bit, making it even more infectious. I've never heard of this dude before, but somehow he makes his .nsf files with MML, which takes mad programming skills. For the leet guys, I have uploaded the original .nsf to my site:
kptheme.nsf - 24kb

If you wanna play .nsf and you're running Windows, check out the NotSoFatso plugin for WinAmp.

Next up we have a new DistantJ track, called "Run With Us," covering "The Raccoons," which I have never heard of. Featuring someone named Spray. I wonder if that's who's behind the female vocals? Since there's no actual writeup for the song yet, looks like I'll have to tell you about it. This is standard DistantJ UNTS, so it's a dancey, happy trance tune. DistantJ hails from the U.K. with a completely different '80s nostalgia compared to America. We got G.I. Joe and Ninja Turtles, they got The Raccoons and Watership Down. (mDuo13's Note: this is just opinion, but as much as I like Watership down I have to say the British got the short end of the stick this time.) Doing some research here, Spray seems to be a U.K. synthpop group that covered the theme song recently, and DistantJ seems to have borrowed the vocals.