Dizzi Mystica and Hommarju reign supreme on this 11th release of the SATB series. They have six tracks each, though one of Hommarju’s is a collaboration with Starving Trancer. MK shows up with a respectable 4 tracks, while the relatively recent alias Booing Day has 3. Ryu* is sadly missing, likely due to his being busy with Ageha.
Anim…eighties? Rather than continuing the Wa Euro Best or Premier Euro series, EMI and DJ Yossy have instead decided to start a new series featuring 80s disco covers of popular anime themes. No, this isn’t a joke. Think “Cat’s Eye” done in the style of “Beat It” or “Eternal Blaze” redone like “Turn It Into Love.” This is either a very bad idea or a very very good one.
Many thanks to Heather of Disco NRG for translating the track list. Right now 30 tracks have been announced, which would be really surprising since it’s unlikely we’d get any repeats.
The EX(citing) sequel to Geki Atsu J-Euro. Believe it or not, according to Oricon’s sales charts the first edition actually sold fairly well, outselling even Avex’s Super J-Euro Best Mix. Mai Nishida will be the image girl on the cover, while the booklet will surely have even more pics of her in a bikini.
New tracks from Akiba Koubou mainstays like Kei, Miyabi, Shihori, and Mi->Na. There’ll also be plenty of tracks from established utatte mita singers like Usa and Priko.
Suzumi’s “Go Tight” appears to be the only “repeat” (it originally appeared on Dreamusic’s Super Anime Remix series), although if this is anything like the first Geki Atsu! then it’ll at least be rearranged a little.
6 tracks from DJ Command, 3 from Rayto, and 5 from valle blanco. 2bad fittingly has 2 songs.
A non-stop mix produced by legendary producer, Danceroid. In addition to 39 tracks from the Anime House series, the CD will also include 3 Danceroid classics as well as 1 unpublished song for a total of 43 tracks. Comes with a fake credit card.
After a rather lengthy hiatus, the AHP series is back with a best-of release featuring songs from the 3 releases in the main series. There are supposed to be 20 songs in all, and I’m assuming it’ll be a non-stop mix.
A new J-Pop cover CD mixed by DJ Yuuna. These are supposed to be trance covers, but it’s still unknown who’ll be producing. Aside from the tie-up with Itasha G magazine, this has no relation at all to Quake’s Itasha Trance series.
Exit Trance releases are certainly slowing down to a crawl, and it’s particularly telling that they’re not even bothering with a limited edition for SATB 11. The CD will come with another one of those fake credit cards, however.
Ghibli Swing
Artist: Swing All Stars
Release Date: 10/6/10
Price: 1705 yen
Ghibli covers continue to be all the rage, as evidenced by this latest cover album by Swing All Stars. The CD is a tad cheaper than most, but there are only 7 songs. No surprises here, but even though these songs have been done to death there are some enjoyable arrangements. Check out some samples at the official website: http://www.boundee.jp/catalog/details/product_9934.html
Piano House compilation featuring covers of popular Ghibli songs. Tracks include the inescapable “Ponyo” as well as the theme song from Studio Ghibli’s latest, The Borrower Arrietty.
Perhaps they should’ve just called it “Repeat Edition”? All but 3 of the tracks are repeats from the Super Anime Remix series. In fact, “Sousei no Aquarion” and “Shangri-La” were among the tracks that Akiba Koubou first produced when they started in 2008.
This remix CD will be coming out almost a full year after Re:Construction Anima was released. All of the tracks from the first CD will be appearing with new remixes. There’ll also be 4 new songs. No word yet on who will be doing the new remixes, much less what style they’ll be.
From the makers of Piano Master and the Anime Nitro series comes this Evangelion cover CD. The songs are done in a jazzy piano house style, and include vocals when appropriate. You can listen to samples on iTunes Japan.
A special digital release of AHP Oshare Selection with 4 new songs. It’s now available on iTunes Japan. Oddly enough, it’s 600 yen cheaper than the previous digital release of Oshare Selection.