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May 19

CM Covers 3Exit Trance presents CM Covers 3
Release Date: 5/20/09
Price: 1905 yen

Synchronized Love!! What an awesome random song for them to choose. Even better, they’ve chosen to cover my favorite Ouendan song, “Rirura Riruha.” Icon is usually pretty hit-or-miss for me, but I’m hoping for the best.

Again, it’s worth noting that they’ve changed the title from “CM Trance” to “CM Covers,” so these may not all be trance covers.

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May 13

Exit Trance presents Zenbei No. 1 Cinema Covers 2
Release Date: 7/1/09
Price: 1905 yen

Interesting that they changed the title from “Cinema Trance” to “Cinema Covers.” I guess they don’t want to pigeonhole themselves. No early track list, but I’ll be happy as long as it still contains copious amounts of Engrish.

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May 12

Exit Trance presents Speed Anime Trance Best 7
Release Date: 7/1/09
Price: 1905 yen

The seventh release in the SATB series will feature themes from the following shows:

01. “Minami-ke Okaeri”
02. “To Aru Majutsu no Index”
03. “Tora Dora!”
04. “Rideback”
05. “Maria†Holic”

Pre-order at CDJapan.

May 6

UmaUma Trance 5Exit Trance presents UmaUma Dekiru Trance wo Tsukutte Mita 5 – Hyper Kenja Time
Release Date: 6/17/09
Price: 1905 yen

Please don’t google “Kenja Time.” Trust me. Anyway, Quake didn’t provide retailers with a tentative list for this release, so the track list remains a mystery. I do have a crazy theory that “Caramelldansen” will appear again. Just call it a hunch.

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Apr 30

Aerodynamic Best 2Exit Trance presents Aerodynamic Best 2
Release Date: 5/8/09
Price: 1905 yen

Ring-a-diggi-dong, what’s going on?! The utterly cheesy, yet strangely infectious, “Wake up the world” is the lead track for this latest collection of Quake repeats. Some of the repeats are from really old albums, going as far back as Quake Trance Best 5.

The album is mixed by DJ Murauchi, who also contributes the album’s sole new song.

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Apr 29

R25 4Exit Trance presents R25 Speed Anime Trance Best 4 ~Ghibli Edition 2~
Release Date: 5/8/09
Price: 1905 yen

I don’t follow Studio Ghibli as close as I should, so few of these tracks are familiar to me. I guess that’s for the best. After all, they could’ve just remixed “Ponyo” again.

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Apr 19

Sagyouyou BGM Trance 2Exit Trance presents Sagyouyou BGM Trance 2
Release Date: 4/22/09
Price: 1905 yen

New songs and remixes! Of course, there are still plenty of repeats, but I think the new material looks worthwhile enough. I’ve particularly grateful for a new “Holylance” remix instead of having to endure the Texas Boys or Crystal remix yet again.

Judging by the titles alone, “Healing Place” and “Open Your Eyes (Perfect Stream vs. MK Uplifting Remix)” should be great, peaceful music to listen to in the background.

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Apr 14

Exit Trance presents Speed Anime Trance Best The Movie
Release Date: 6/3/09
Price: 1905 yen

Yes, this was one of the real titles I alluded to on April Fools’ Day. It’s yet another SATB sub-series, this time focusing on anime movie themes. The strange thing is a couple of the tracks on the early list have already been featured in previous SATB releases. Hopefully they’re new remixes/covers instead of just plain repeats.

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Apr 13

Exit Trance presents Speed Anime Trance Best Ecstasy Second Season
Release Date: 6/3/09
Price: 1905 yen

More trance covers of bishoujo game themes. You little perv, you.

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Apr 8

TranceMaster 03Exit Trance presents TranceMaster 03
Release Date: 4/15/09
Price: 1905 yen

[b]Update![/b] As mentioned in the comments, it appears that TranceMaster 03 features only original songs, and not trance covers of classical pieces. I’m slightly disappointed, but at the same time rather relieved that we’ll finally get to hear original songs instead of covers.

TranceMaster is a series of trance albums featuring covers of classical masterpieces. You know, masterpieces such as “Funk You!” and “Crush on this groove.” In all seriousness, I’m as confused as you are. Presumably these will still be covers of classical tracks, except with random new titles, similar to the Delaction tracks from the first two albums. “Forever” did appear previously on N.O.-SYO’s Cyber Drift 2 album, though I can’t remember if it was indeed a cover.

The original trance masters are mostly accounted for. DJ Kaya, Overhead Champion, DJ Uto, Delaction, and DJ Yoshinori return, but Remo-Con seems to be conspicuously absent. Meanwhile, a lot of Quake’s artists will be making their TranceMaster debuts. Starving Trancer (with Mayumi Morinaga, no less), MK, B.U.S., and others will be taking a break from their usual anime duties to participate in TranceMaster for the first time.

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Apr 3

Exit Trance presents CM Covers 3
Release Date: 5/20/09
Price: 1905 yen

Interesting. Previous releases in the series were titled “CM Trance,” but Quake have switched it to “CM Covers” for the third release. I hope that doesn’t mean they’re shying away from trance.

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Mar 23

Quake News #02Quake Trance presents Quake News #02
Release Date: 4/1/09
Price: 951 yen

The second release in the new Quake News series. Radio edits. 🙁

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Mar 22

Tokusatsu Trance 2Exit Trance presents Gakkou Trance 4 Jigenme
Release Date: 4/1/09
Price: 1905 yen

100% new material this time, with no repeats from Quake Trance. There are also no themes from Western shows or movies. I guess they’re saving those for the inevitable Cinema Trance 2.

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Mar 21

UmaUma Trance 4Exit Trance presents UmaUma Dekiru Trance wo Tsukutte Mita 4 – Goran no Arisama Dayo
Release Date: 4/1/09
Price: 1905 yen

“Caramelldansen” gets remixed for the umpteenth time on this 4th release in the UmaUma Trance series.

In happier news, Ryu* takes on “Airman ga Taosenai.” And yet another Ouendan song, “Kokoro Odoru,” gets the Exit Trance treatment. It won’t be long before Ouendan Trance, I’m sure!

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Mar 17

Quake News #03Quake Trance presents Quake News #03
Release Date: 5/8/09
Price: 951 yen

Quake had better be kidding about including Cascada’s “Faded,” as it’s well over a year old already. Heck, why not just throw “Bad Boy” in there, too?

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