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Exit Trance presents Eki Tra
Release Date: 12/2/09
Price: 1905 yen

The title translates to “Station Trance.” I was looking forward to covers of songs like “Long Train Runnin’,” “Last Train to London,” and “The Loco-motion,” but apparently the theme isn’t trains. 🙁 Instead, the album will have something to do with “Hassha Melodies,” which are the jingles played at train stations when trains arrive/depart. For example, here’s “Motteke! Sailor Fuku” done in the Hassha Melody style:

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Exit Trance presents Speed Anime Trance BL
Release Date: 12/2/09
Price: 1905 yen

44% of voters thought that Speed Anime Trance BL was not a real, upcoming Quake title. After all, Quake have done plenty of oddly themed albums in the past, but BL? Unfortunately or not, Quake have indeed decided to go there. Their latest SATB sub-series will target fujoushi and feature songs from BL anime series. Hmm, does this mean the first ever guy on a Speed Anime Trance Best cover? That should make for an interesting cover….

The answer to the quiz, by the way, is Zenbei No. 1 Telebi Trance. There isn’t an album of TV themes in the works right now.

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Exit Trance presents Speed Anime Trance Best 8
Release Date: 11/4/09
Price: 1905 yen

Song previews are now up: http://anitra.jp/title/8.php

Track 4 sounds incredibly fast. o_O

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Exit Trance presents Aerodynamic Best 3
Release Date: 10/21/09
Price: 1905 yen

Bad Boy. Yes, the Cascada song. It’s not even the Red Monster remix, but the original mix from 2004. Sigh. Oh, Quake, what are we gonna do with you?

Most of the songs are repeats from Quake Trance and Quake News, though at least there’s one new song on the album.

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Exit Trance presents Speed Anime Trance Best Ecstasy Third Season
Release Date: 10/21/09
Price: 1905 yen

Even more trance covers of bishoujo game themes. Again, no Ryu*.

I can’t say I recognize any of the songs except for “Kimi o Nosete,” whose inclusion is pretty baffling. When I think of bishoujo games I don’t exactly think of Ghibli.

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Exit Trance presents Speed Anime Trance Best 8
Release Date: 11/4/09
Price: 1905 yen

Quake posted an updated list for SATB 8. In addition to N.O.-SYO’s SATB debut, Ryu* will also be making his return to Exit Trance with an original song. Note that this is still not the final track list; there are at least 3 tracks left to be revealed.

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Exit Trance Best #10 ~Premium Best~
Release Date: 11/18/09
Price: 1905 yen

Wow, is it really going to be 8 months between Exit Trance Best releases? Not that it’s been a huge loss, seeing as the series has been nothing but repeats for a while now. The 10th release is being given the subtitle “Premium Best,” though apparently it’s still only one disc. Songs will supposedly be picked from out of the 122 albums and 2400 songs in the Exit Tunes/Trance series, but realistically they’ll probably just choose from the albums released since Best #9.

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Just Hits -R&B Trance-
Release Date: 11/11/09
Price: 1900 yen

Years ago they probably would’ve just named this “Super Best Trance presents R&B Trance,” but I guess Avex have abandoned the SBT brand. Anyway, most of these productions appear to be of European origin, thought I can’t find any info on a lot of them.

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Quake Trance presents Quake News #08
Release Date: 10/7/09
Price: 999 yen

“Funk” was already on Quake News 7 (albeit with a different remix), so it would’ve been better to have something completely new.

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Exit Trance presents Sagyouyou BGM Trance 3
Release Date: 10/7/09
Price: 1905 yen

The BGM Trance series seems to be MK’s domain, as he has lots of new songs and remixes on this third release in the series.

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Exit Trance presents UmaUma Dekiru Trance o Tsukutte Mita 6 Doushite Kou Natta!
Release Date: 10/7/09
Price: 1905 yen

The sixth release in the UmaUma Trance series. It appears that they really have stopped the tradition of including a “Caramelldansen” remix on each release. Also conspicuously absent is Ryu*. N.O.-SYO, however, makes his UmaUma Trance debut with a trance cover of Pachelbel’s “Canon.” An odd choice, considering that there’s an existing cover by Freedom, and the song would’ve been better suited on a Trancemaster 04.

Samples can be found on Quake’s official site.

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Men’s Egg Night -M10- (Men’s Egg Soukan 10 Shuunen Kinen)
Release Date: 9/30/09
Price: 1900 yen

Originally scheduled for release on August 26, this special CD commemorating the 10th anniversary of men’s egg magazine will finally be released on September 30. The early track list was pretty much all psychedelic trance, but the final list is mostly repeats from the Trance Rave Best series as well as licenses from Exit Trance.

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Evacuate the Dancefloor
Artist: Cascda
Release Date: 10/21/09
Price: 2000 yen

The Japanese edition of Cascada’s third album comes out this October. There’ll be four bonus tracks, including new remixes by DJ Uto and DJ Yoshinori.

Update! Looks like DJ Uto and DJ Yoshinori won’t be appearing after all. 🙁

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Quake Trance presents Quake News #09
Release Date: 11/4/09
Price: 999 yen

Oh no, not Axel F again.

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Exit Trance presents Famitrance EX
Release Date: 11/4/09
Price: 1905 yen

GASP! Can it be? Quake are finally doing a VGM trance? The title is a portmanteau of “Famicom” (itself a combination of “Family” + “Computer”) and “Trance.” The EX is just there to make it sound more extreme. The album will consist of trance versions of popular Famicom themes, with songs from Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest already confirmed. I imagine Super Mario Bros. and Zelda will also be well represented.

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