days of otaku-ness » Music

Sakuranbo Kiss Acoustic version

ronnie — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:54:55 +0000

Here’s an acoustic version for the hippity-hop song Sakuranbo Kiss sang by Kotoko (I’ve Sound).

The OS-tan intro OP parody

TAO taiko

ronnie — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:33:59 +0000

I attended a Kyushu-based taiko troupe at the Palms in Crown Casino last night. Calling themselves TAO, these awesome people gave me a extraordinary, sounding performance. It beats my heart away, so to say. : ) I heard about them before and a few years ago they were in Melbourne to perform; I missed it.

What set them unique is they orchestrate a fusion of modern and traditional beats/music/score along with well choreographed dances and moves, not to mention the rippling muscles plus the sweat too. I sat on the second row from the front but thank goodness I wasn’t hit by the rain of sweat. XD

The next Vocaloid 2 singer: Megurine Luka

ronnie — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:47:51 +0000

(Source)

Here comes the next Vocaloid 2 singer (third), Megurine Luka which is expected to be released end of this month. The new virtual singer has a bilingual vocal database, Japanese and English apparently.

[Demo song]

Don’t worry Hatsune chan, I’m still a fan of yours.

Kara no Kyoukai – The Garden of Sinners-

ronnie — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:18:17 +0000

If you are a fan of TYPE-MOON’s Tsukihime and Fate/Stay Night, I’m sure you’ll love Kara no Kyoukai.

The OST for the first chapter is composed by Yuki Kajiura (Yay!).

Joe Hisaishi- Summer

ronnie — Mon, 19 May 2008 05:13:38 +0000

IOSYS from Comiket 73

ronnie — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:36:05 +0000

Another IOSYS Flash produced for the last Comiket 73 in December 2007. Something about the cucumbers.

Vocaloid 2

ronnie — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:55:00 +0000

(One of the first “virtual singer”, Hatsune Miku)

I was a little slow to pick up this neat application. Vocaloid is a human voice synthesizer developed by Yamaha some years ago that will change the need of human vocals in music composition. With an “authentic human voice” Virtual Singer, all you need to do is to provide the lyrics and the music, and the singer will sing to the tune you want. The first instalment featured a female sound library, Hatsune Miku. After some searching, I found out her name defines a specific meaning: Hatsu (初, First), Ne (音, Sound), and Miku (未来, Future).

With such computer application, I guess composers will have second thoughts of hiring backup vocals (even lead vocals!) for his/her music.

Original music composed for Vocaloid

She can even sing a Finnish tune, Ievan Polkka.

And she sings my fav song, Fact of Fact ~ Resolution (Kotoko)

She tried to sing in English. Well, she’s not “trained” to sing English lyrics but it is still cute anyways.

Timberland is a black dude!?

ronnie — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:44:15 +0000

Forgive me if I’m out of touch with the current music. I was randomly listening to one of the R&B music albums and came across a song called “Apologize” by Timberland featuring One Republic. I’ve heard this tune before somewhere in the clubs or music shops and that time I didn’t know who sang it but that’s not the point of this post.

The talk of the day is an embarassing, confession post. I always thought Timberland is an extension of Justin Timberlake or something like that, probably due to similar names given. I only found out the former is a black dude and the latter is a white guy after I took the trouble asking a friend of mine over the weekend.

Me: say, oli
Oliver: ?
Me: what’s the diff between Timberland and Justin Timberlake?
Oliver: one is a black guy and the other is a white guy
Me: Oooohhh
Oliver: why?
Me: I thought they are the same person. Shhh***t.
Oliver: Dun tell me you renamed all the Timberland mp3s to Justin.
Me: *gulp*

Now I know both are different artists. Music knowledge gained +1.

Gunslinger Girl Il Teatrino (Season 2)

ronnie — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:49:14 +0000

Killing machine girls on the prowl again. Loved the opening song, Tatta Hitotsu no Omoi by KOKIA.

IOSYS going hyper

ronnie — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:23:56 +0000

Not the Windows IO.SYS. It’s a Touhou (again!) and these are the doujin artists that made some Flash based on their music releases.

Going Touhou (>’ ‘)>

ronnie — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:24:29 +0000

These days I’m sooo addicted to Doujin and Touhou Project inspired music. Usually, they are very synthetically synthesized (loved the pun) and filled with digital sampling. Probably not a professional, grade A+ or top-of-the-chart rated composers to the ears of an average Joe, these underdogs are still able to deliver the cool beat that soothe my daily-needed doses of music.

Download audio file (NYO_-_Being.mp3)

Title : 御柱の墓場　〜 Grave of Being
Artist : Silver Forest
Album : 東方風神録　～ Mountain of Faith

Song of Storm and Fire – Yuki Kajiura (Eminence Live)

ronnie — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:28:10 +0000

Bloody hell! Why this concert is only held in Sydney? I wanna listen to Yuki Kajiura!!!! *screams*

Eminence Orchestra (2006)

ronnie — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:22:36 +0000

Sound./Ecriture

ronnie — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:29:18 +0000

Love this album!

Download audio file (SECD0002_XF_Demo2.mp3)

UNオーエンは彼女なのか -Toho Grand Orchestra-
紅桜 – Bright Piano Arrange
Mayohiga
Spring Essence isn’t Here
月まで届け、打上花火
お宇佐様の例月祭
Witch of Luv Potion
魅惑の月世界旅行～Now I’m on The Moon
神々が恋する幻想郷(special edition)

[Sound./Ecriture website]