DanceMaster | 
06 10th, 2012| 
R40 Premium Dance Mix
Release Date: 5/28/12
Price: 1905 yen
Dance covers of R40 J-Pop hits. Produced by Drive Music Entertainment. Appears to have a few tracks licensed from FARM’s Geki Love J-Euro as well as J-Pop Cover Densetsu.
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Jun
10
Jun
9
Magic ~ A Collection of Black Disco Classics mixed by DJ Kawasaki
Release Date: 7/25/12
Price: 2381 yen
A new compilation from EMI mixed by DJ Kawasaki. The album will include Disco and Salsoul classics from artists like A Taste of Honey, Chaka Kahn, Quincy Jones, and Diana Ross.
Jun
8
Moshi Moshi (Single)
Artist: Smile.dk
Release Date: 6/5/12
American Smile.dk fans rejoice! After switching distributors, Smile.dk have finally made the song available on US iTunes! Smile.dk recently returned to the studio as well, so hopefully Makeup Collection is still on track for a 2012 release.
Jun
7
Utattemita J-Pop Speed
Release Date: 7/4/12
Price: 1905 yen
This has 11 songs in common with the original Utattemita J-Pop, so I’m thinking it’s less likely that they’ll be straight repeats. In fact, “Return to Myself” was originally done by Sumijun, but here’s it’s listed as a Beat Charger production.
Edit: Apparently it was just a typo, as AKBK’s official site still lists “Return to Myself” as a Sumijun production.
Jun
6
Utattemita Anison Speed
Release Date: 7/4/12
Price: 1905 yen
Final list has been released, and it’s still not clear if we’ll be getting new arrangements. “Discotheque,” one of my favorite AKBK productions, does get a resing by Shihori, but the listed artists and arrangers are same as before for everything else. There are even 3 repeats from the regular Utattemita Anison. I’m even more worried that this will be nothing but repeats yet again.
Jun
5
Age mix 2 ~All Genre Best~
Release Date: 7/11/12
Price: 1905 yen
Sequel to last year’s Age mix, which was a surprise best-seller. Features covers of J-Pop, K-Pop, Anison, Western and Disco hits.
Jun
2
Mega Dance Climax
Release Date: 7/25/12
Price: 1886 yen
Dancemania × Dance Panic!?! Full Moon’s new series will feature dance pop hits of the 80s and 90s including lots of Dancemania and Dance Panic! classics like “Dub-I-Dub,” “Samba de Janeiro,” “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” “Call Me Mañana,” and more! Right now I get the feeling that they’ll just be licensing the tracks from EMI and Victor, but I would love AKBK forever if they actually did eurobeat remixes. I guess another possibility is that they’ll be licensing covers from Saifam. In any case, it’ll be interesting to see how the series develops in the future.
May
31
Don Gino – EP
Artist: Disco Gino
Price: $3.96
The latest track from J-Mi and Midi-D is a sequel to “Disco Gino” which, oddly enough, hasn’t seen a single release outside of the Disko Warp remix. I was afraid that the Disco Gino gimmick would wear thin, but exploiting a different Italian stereotype this time was a good call. The J-Mi & Midi-D remix in particular is highly recommended. That said, the best Pizza-related song still goes to “Kochira Mona Pizza.”
And I know it’s supposed to be a mafioso hat on the cover, but I keep seeing either an elf or an orc. o_O
May
23
Utattemita Anison Speed
Release Date: 7/4/12
Price: 1905 yen
Okay, now I’m convinced that Akiba Koubou have to rearrange these tracks. “Tiger & Dragon,” for example, was originally 136 BPM on Geki Atsu! Drama Euro Kizuna Hen, so there’s no way they can just transplant it as is. Pleeaaaasseee don’t disappoint me again, AKBK.
May
22
Utattemita Anison Speed
Release Date: 7/4/12
Price: 1905 yen
Early list is out, and so far it’s all songs that have previously been covered by Akiba Koubou. If this ends up the same as J-Mach!! I’ll be extremely disappointed. I’m convinced that they’ll have to actually rearrange these, though, because many of the songs already appeared on the original Utattemita Anison, and there’s no way they’d just reuse the same arrangements again, right? Right?!
May
17
Non Stop Mega Mix Party -Maximum-
Release Date: 4/25/12
Price: 1886 yen
Third release of the FARM series, featuring house, electro, and trance remixes of pop hits. Includes the album debuts of Daiki × ZK’s “Born This Way” and “Party Rock Anthem” covers. Daiki × ZK also get the lead track with a new version of Mr. Saxobeat.
Mega Trance’s DJ U*Hey? is back with quite a few new tracks under his main alias as well as other pseudonyms. As DJ U*Hey? he brings us a cover of Madonna’s “Give Me All Your Luvin'” He uses his Threemason alias for “Hangover,” “Titanium, and “Part of Me.” Keen readers will remember that “Titanium” was already done under his DJ U*Hey? persona a few months ago, so who knows if the Threemason version is actually new.
Soichi Ono, perhaps best known as Minimum Cox, returns with a new remix of “The Edge of Glory” as well as a new cover of “Mr. Know It All” under his main alias. He also uses his “Jewel” alias for a new production of “Good Feeling.”
I.T.T. gets a single new track with “International Love” while i-steal gets a remix of “I Will Always Love You.”
There are also quite a few new artists. Beatek, Ginger Parker, and electrowarden appear to be new to FARM, though it’s unclear if they’re actually new or just more aliases for existing artists. In any case, this release is one to look out for if you’re a fan of R&B House.
May
16
Best Hits 51 Megamix mixed by DJ Fumi*Yeah! & DJ Yu-ki
Release Date: 4/27/12
Price: 1905 yen
Two-disc set featuring 51 popular songs mixed by DJ Fumi*Yeah! and DJ Yu-ki, featuring Fatman Scoop. Tracks are licensed from Aqua Project, Saifam, Dynamix and Power Music. Unfortunately, it’s exclusive to Tsutaya Records.
May
12
Utattemita Anison Speed
Release Date: 7/4/12
Price: 1905 yen
The other new Utattemita release will feature high-speed versions of J-Pop classics. Unfortunately, AKBK’s similarly themed J-Mach!! -Hi-Speed Dance Mix- is almost certain to become a source of tracks for this release. Please prove me wrong, EMI.
May
11
Utattemita Anison Speed
Release Date: 7/4/12
Price: 1905 yen
Dancemania Speed…lives? This July will see the continuation of the Utattemita series with two new Akiba Koubou-produced CDs. This one will feature high-speed versions of Anison themes. You may remember that AKBK have their own Speed release coming up, J-Mach!! -Hi-Speed Dance Mix-, but that release has very few anime songs so I’m hopeful that EMI will commission lots of new remixes for this.
The first two Utattamita releases from EMI weren’t branded as Dancemania releases, but I’m hoping they retroactively add them and these two new releases to the series. It’d just be nice to say there’s a new Dancemania Speed release after 5 years.
Apr
28
Dancehall Lovers J-Covers
Release Date: 4/25/12
Price: 2171 yen
New release in the long-running Dancehall compilation series. This one is notable for jumping on the J-Pop cover bandwagon. Yes, that’s right, if you’ve ever been jonesing for a reggae version of “Zankoku na Tenshi no These,” this is the album for you. To further increase the novelty, it also appears that all of the songs have been translated into English. They used Bentley Jones’s existing English version for “Sunao ni Naretara” but the rest sound like almost direct translations, which results in some awkward lyrics.
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