Uekiya – Allegoria

I have been putting this review off for at least three weeks. No more excuses. Let’s do this.

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Wind Tune – 旅人のうた

Short album review for you guys here. Obviously only picked it up for the cover since I know NOTHING of Wind Tune. I gotta stop doing that, right? Well, I was under the impression that Wind Tune was a trance group? Maybe I’m confusing them with someone else…

(I actually didn’t know this album was very recent. Neat)

Today we’ll be using the demos posted on the site for your listening pleasure. Just giving you a heads up in case something seems off. Again, please tell me if something doesn’t work.

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Umineko C76 Releases and Previews

We have here a blog that has compiled all of the Umineko releases at C76. Which is becoming increasingly better sounding.  You can find the full article here: http://shiba.dtiblog.com/blog-entry-693.html. Let’s just peek at some upcoming albums here. I’ll try to post demos and album covers lead to the website of the album if they have one specifically.

CT/Luck Ganriki already released an album like this featuring tracks from the episodes earlier. This is essentially the same except with some new tracks such as Birth of the New Witch (which I for one am enthralled with) and Happy Maria -BAND ARRANGE- which is, brace yourself, a rock version of Happy Maria. It actually sounds crazy badass even if Maria sounds like Saki from Onechanbara at the begining of the demo. This album will be worth just these two tracks.

I don’t know much about this album but I’m pretty sure it isn’t all Umineko no Naku Koro ni. From the demo, what I could identify and tracklist though sounds great. Some of the faster tracks in the original OST are slower and therefore much creepier, if that makes sense. Since the music from the series is already so strange, making it creepier is a great task. Anyways, a very big album at two disks and roughly 35 tracks. In fact, listening to the demo made me go back and look at their other works. That must be saying something, right?

Musicbox Blue and Red is the release of most of the game tracks by Dai and ZTS. Tons of new albums are released and if you visit the site you can see them. They are the tracks with asterisks beside their names (on the Red Musicbox anyways). If you don’t already have the OST tracks this will be something worth checking out.

Expect a review for the first volume very shortly. When they sing is a series about… well the series being sung. I don’t know how much Higurashi no Naku Koro ni is involved. Apparently this features everything from Symphony, Jazz, Rock and Techno so it should have something for everyone. A symphony version of Happy Maria? There isn’t a demo but I doubt it’ll be as awesome as the rock version. There is also a track called Nice Beat. It’s lulzy sounding.

Observer -witch who lives- is an album from Pre-Holder. I believe it contains most of the game tracks (they sounded the same to me) but Pre-Holder does a lot of the great music from the series so that’s okay. Actually, listening to the demo for 終焉_VerC is different with creepy laughing and some of that demonic chanting. So it’ll be even more worth a listen if you aren’t into hearing the same music twice.

That is only some of the Umineko no Naku Koro ni music being released so there is lots to look forward to. I’ll try to cover as much as I can here on Loli Salad but it depends how available this becomes. I might not be around during Comiket unless the weather is really crappy.

Umineko Motion Graphic 4 Translation/EP Full Patch

Two sorta big Umineko posts here. I was supposed to review the other new (there were a few..) Exit Trance albums but I had to rage about the Umineko anime. So let’s do this before I rage here on LS, okay?

Someone over on livejournal translated the latest Umineko no Naku Koro ni Motion Graphic (the text/lines, not the song) and then added the notes into the video! I’d beware there’s some thinly masked spoilers. But if you’re already browsing Loli Salad you should be used to Umineko spoilers. I plan on creating a complete list of spoilers, plot twists and things you shouldn’t know before you watch the anime. But I’m very bitter about the anime. So. Yeah.

Episode Four has been fully translated by Witch-Hunt! I know I’m a bit late but I figure it’s worth sharing. You can find the patch over on Witch-Hunt’s site. I’m looking forward to playing myself! Here’s a link to Witch-Hunt’s site incase you (for some crazy) reason don’t have it. Comiket is right around the corner so WH gets a small break before EP5. Better get ready you guys! Great work and thanks from all Umineko fans!

[M3] Forest – Emotions

Eh, what can I say? We really did turn into a music oriented blog. Meh. And I guess doing reviews besides Touhou and Exit Trance would be a good idea.

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Yukari Higa Info

So I fangirled when I found out my favorite artist ever was doing the Nanoha manga. But what ANN fails to tell me, I find through livejournal. She is also doing the new (?) Kiddy Grade manga! Of course I’m talking about Yukari Higa. Let’s try and get some more information available, okay?

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Another Upcoming Exit Trance and TOUGE 2 Info

I’ve done this before when I get too excited. Remember? Well I read something that I just had to post. I would like this time to post that this is a pre-tracklist and is in no way final. As one of the tracks I mentioned before was not added onto the final album. Sorry about the confusion over that. Let’s hope we actually get this one, okay? But we’re not just talking about upcoming Exit Trance albums today. No no, we have another treat in store.

Where to start? Let’s start with the second ’season’ of Exit Trance’s Ecstasy. Maybe reporting ont his is a bad idea? I have a feeling the list stated over on Dancemania is going to change dramatically. The songs listed are from the anime of the eroge series rather than the eroge themselves so I’m a little confused. Regarldess the tracks so far are SHUFFLE’s ‘You’, Kimi ga Aruji de Shitsuji ga Ore de’s ‘Hizamazuku Made 5 Byo Dake!’, H2O’s ‘Katayoku no Icarus’, and Nanatsuiro*Drops‘ ‘Shining Star Bless’. But like I said this list will most likely change. Afterall, the ET crew has already got You under their belt in the anime series. But they did reuse one of the (or two?) songs from School Days in the first Ecstasy.

Next we’ll go onto Anime Trance: Best the Movie. Apparently we have a few repeats here. But that is okay! Because the track that inspired me to write this blurb up was that we’ll be getting a remix of Kara no Kyoukai’s Oblivious!! Now I’m sure we haven’t had this song in the Anime Trance before. So maybe we’ll have only a few repeats. But if we have forgive me. It must not have been a very good remix if I can’t even remember it. We got some tracks from the Shana and Gurren-Lagann movie too.  Oh, Rahxephon too. All repeats. This and Ecstacy 2 come out in two months so we’ll find out more in due time. If the list interests me, I’ll definitly keep you guys posted.

We have a possible new series from the Exit Tunes guys too. Stardom. So guess, what could it be? We have American movies taken care of. We have anime taken care of. Anime Movies. Commercials. Classical Music. Nico Nico hits. And so many more. So what are we missing? Doujin! I know right? Hahahaha. I wouldn’t really care because I don’t recognize most of the tracks. Except I went ‘Hooooray!’ when I saw Strawberry Generator by Albatrosicks is going to be Stardom! There is another IOSYS track but I don’t recognize it. And of course. Caramelldansen. Enough Exit Trance. Enough. This one, unlike Ecstacy and Best the Movie, comes out in May.

And let’s talk about another album I’m excited about! Super Anime Remix Touge 2. Feautring such tracks as  Danjo (Danjo Danjo~ *pumps arm*), Higurashi Matsuri’s ‘Complex Image’, Higurashi’s ‘Naraku no Hana’, Shana’s ‘Hishoku no Sora’, the theme from Miko Miko Nurse, the infamous Nursery Ryhme’s ‘true my heart’, Negima’s ‘1000% Sparking’, ‘Saikyo Pare Parade’ from the Haruhi game (I think), Idolmaster Xenoglossia’s ‘Binetsu S.O.S’ and the peice de resitance~ ‘Kurenai’ from Night motherloving Wizard. I never thought I’d live to see the day when Night Wizard, a proclaimed favourite, would be remixed. But the chances of getting this album? Slim. There is another anime trance series I want but can’t find. But for the sake of Night Wizard, I will buy this album. <3

Strike Witches STG Review

I want to review more doujin games (I have some OELVN reviews coming once I finish the games too) so here’s a quick review of a Strike Witches danmaku you may or may not have heard of before. Don’t expect anything too long. I’m sort of in a hurry.

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Shoot, Shoot, Shoot!: Suguri and eXceed

Clearly I am a big fan of Touhou, but what other danmaku/shooting games do I play, you ask?

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