This album is kind of a late review, being a Reitaisai 11 release. I couldn't find it anywhere on the web so I had to resort to actually buying it myself.
Secret Messenger is the name of Yuy's current circle. Yuy used to be known as t=node, back when he made touhou arrangements. Yuy has a pretty unique style of music, utilizing seemingly random sounds and instrument notes at times in addition to long buildups and breakdowns. Since working as Secret Messenger and composing his own music, Yuy has been utilizing vocalists in his music. Overall his style is something that you'll either love or hate.
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The last Reitaisai 11 post! Unless I discover something really special. Again, all of these albums can be found for download at Doujinstyle. Let's take a look at the last few remaining albums that I wanted to listen to. Circle: DDBY Album: Hifuu Ryokouki Genre: Instrumental Rating - -/- Can't say that I liked this album... it was pretty boring and simplistic to me. It's a bit different sounding than DDBY's usual albums Circle: ShibayanRecords Album: DISCO METRIC Genre: Remixes (electronic, disco, etc) Rating - -/- I didn't end up liking most of the remixes here except for the two Desert Years remixes, especially Nhato's. The two remixes are just really fun to listen to, and of course the base arrangement being really good helped a lot. Circle: ShibayanRecords Album: TOHO bossanova 3 Genre: Bossa Nova Rating - 4/5 Yes, Bossa Nova is an actual genre! I didn't actually know that before. Overall I found the album enjoyable, with a mix of relaxing and upbeat music instrumental music, The tracks that I liked the most were #3 and #5 since they're arranged by ham (foxtail-grass studios) Circle: Surreacheese Album: FETA Genre: Jazz Rating - 5/5 Excellent, just as I expected from Surreacheese! As you can see from the cute cover art, FETA is tropical themed Jazz. Yes, I know that sounds strange at first, but it really works! My favorite tracks go to Silky Hair for the excellent sax and guitar work and Magical Color for being an such a relaxing and unique arrangement of Emotional Skycraper. Here's the link to the rest of the Reitaisai 11 posts that I made earlier.
Overall it was such a great event for Touhou music. My picks for the favorite albums of Reitaisai 11 are Caramel Crunch, Touhou Gensoukai -Chireiden no Oto-, FETA, and CLOUD 9. Surreacheese and Foxfactory have always been consistent in their arrangement quality, so I'd like for them to continue with what they're doing for the upcoming Comiket 86. CROW'SCLAW is heading into a great direction with Taka including vocals into his excellent guitar work, I really hope I get to hear Nachi Sakaue in his next album. Finally, I'm glad that Alstroemeria Records is heading into a different direction as his last few albums were pretty bad. CLOUD 9 was really refreshing and fun to listen to, and I hope Minoshima and his vocalists continue the great work. So what did you guys think of Reitaisai 11? Please leave some comments below! The school semester is now finally over and I finally have more time for my otaku and audiophile stuff! Still unsure of what I'm going to be doing for the rest of the semester but I'm fine with bumming it out and trying to get my driver's license again. Anyways... here are the three most recent Reitaisai 11 albums that I've listened to so far! Circle: Pizuya's Cell Album: 基底現実と仮想空間 Genre: Metal, Electronic, Vocals Rating - 4/5 Hmm, the album was okay. It's similar to Grand Guignol so if you liked that, you'll probably like this album. I have to say that I prefer Pizuya's older works. Circle: Carrotwine / Ara Album: Charisma Lush Type-R Genre: Orchestral, Film Rating - 4/5 Ehh, This album is very similar to the works of Tutti Sound. It's the explosive style of orchestral music rather than the BGM orchestral style of Ara's two older albums. Circle: CROW'SCLAW Album: Caramel Crunch Genre: Rock, Vocals Rating - 5/5 Yep... this album exceeded my expectations and ties Chireiden no Oto as my favorite Reitasai 11 album. Taka has outdone himself with this album, bringing his stylisitic guitars and solos in a more cheerful and upbeat way compared to Sepia Recollections. And of course, the vocalists in this album are outstanding, though I wish there were a Nachi Sakaue track. It was really fun to listen to all these familiar themes being arranged by Taka in a fresh new way. Up next... DDBY, hopefully Surreacheese and ShibayanRecords.
Playing through this game on Easy mode is just ridiculous... most of the normal enemies die in 1 hit and as you can see, EVERYTHING stacks up onto each other. Basically everything just melts once half the screen is filled with your weapons.
It's still pretty fun though, just wrecking everything onto the screen. I got up to Stage 5 and was facing Utsuho when my game crashed :(. Will have to try to beat Easy mode again something this weekend without crashing. Download Link I've listened to two albums so far: Alstroemeria's Cloud 9 and foxfactory's -Chireiden no Oto-. Sometime later once I've gone through all the reitaisai 11 stuff that I want to go through, I'll have a post-reitaisai 11 page with my end thoughts and reviews. As always, music download links can be found on the doujinstyle's reitaisai 11 thread. Circle: Alstroemeria Records Album: CLOUD 9 Genre: Electronic, EDM, Trance, Vocals Rating: 4.5/5 Alstroemeria is back with some sweet upbeat trance! Much less EDM this time around compared to his last few albums. It's quite a relief that this album turned out good, as Alstroemeria was headed towards the dark side with all that bad EDM. I think the non-vocal tracks were much weaker than the vocal tracks in this album and keeps the album from being a 5/5 out of me. The new vocalist, Takanashi Toriko, from track #4 ECCENTRICITY does a fantastic job in this album. Though the track was arranged by a guest, Camellia, I think it may be my favorite track out of the album thus far with the mix of Camellia's style and Toriko's vocals. The other vocal tracks come pretty close though, as the veteran vocalists performed very well for their respective tracks. This album is definitely worth a listen for fans of alstromeria record's older works and those who are interested in electronic arrangements. Overall the album is just lots of fun to listen to! Circle: foxfactory Album: Touhou Gensoukai -Chireiden no Oto- Genre: Orchestral Rating: 5/5 Christian was over in my room when we listened to this album using our UERMs and it was just fantastic. Right after we finished the last track, I told him "5/5 easy and maybe the best reitaisai 11 album" he agreed! The only album that can top Chireiden no Oto for us would be CROW'SCLAW's Caramel Crunch. Featuring the themes from Subterranean Animism, Yukkie brings us arrangements of popular themes such as Satori Maiden, Nuclear Fusion, Last Remote, etc. The style of the album is very similar to Fuujinroku no Oto in that the album is evenly paced with exciting tracks and relaxing ones inbetween. However in this album, Yukkie has really outdone himself with the arrangements. I feel like they're more creative than ever before, and it's simply impossible for me to pick a favorite track out of the album. This album is a must-listen for anyone who enjoys Touhou music, but most especially foxfactory fans. In addition... I found a download link for Shoot Shoot Nitori and have re-uploaded it here. It's... a unique game xD. I lost all of my lives on the second stage unfortunately, where things got a lot more hectic. Seems like when you kill enemies, you collect their weapons and use them. If your weapons get hit a few times, they disappear. As long as you have weapons, Nitori doesn't lose any lives. I'll have to play a bit more later this week.
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