Reitaisai 8 is on it's way!

So Reitaisai 8 is coming march 13, and the circles have started to upload their crossfades and album previews, so far not many have been released, but enough to know that I'm gonna spend quite a bit of money on this event.

Most of the circle I watch have not yet released any statement for Reitaisai 8, C-CLAYS and Silver Forest are gonna be there but no new album has been announced.

x[Innocent Key] - 東方スクール

[君の美術館](Kimino-Museum) - ataraxia - 願うは儚き幻想の -

x[Yellow-Zebra] - 東方閃囁歌 ~Phantom and Reality~

x[UI-70] 悠夜永翔 ~ Endless Flight of Eternal Night

x[ふぉれすとぴれお] - Memory Box

x[イオシス] - 東方メレンゲ少女夜行

[kapparecords / Jill's Project] Aphrodite -SCARLET FANTASIA VII-

x[Thousand Leaves ~Bach SIDE~] END OF ENDLESS NIGHT

x[IRON ATTACK!] Concerto of the Scarlet Elements

x[Sound Holic x 709sec] Scarlet Shooter

x[LOST BLESS] - 東方奏々歌 - Synthesized Vocal Arrange Album

x[TAMUSIC] - SAQURA

x[回路-kairo-] - And, I wake up under the cherry blossoms tonight.

x[Magnum Opus] - 東方追想録 ~ Recollection of Ancient history~

x[六弦アリス] - 夢想演舞 妖之理 -Fairy tale for Cherry blossoms-

x[K2 SOUND]  -「RUSH！ -ラッシュ！-」

x[C-CLAYS tsunamix's CD] - 「AGGRESSIVE EXPLOSION」

x[556ミリメートル] - Passion-Dance battle girls-

x[monochrome-coat feat. めらみぽっぷ] - Memorial

x[セブンスヘブンMAXION] - Devote Strikers!! Zwei

x[SYNC.ART'S] - もっとらぶれすっ！

x[ALiCE'S EMOTiON] - Overture | KANA

x[ALiCE'S EMOTiON] - Overture | SUWA

[Girl's short hair] - 流星スピード

[石鹸屋](Sekken-ya) - 東方マグマー

This time im gonna order them all (well those with a x are those that I've already found the way to buy, but I should be able to get them all)

EDITS: took me like 10 trys to post this up, this ain't a good day

Peace, Mahjong and Music

So... Peace seem to have finally come in the Anime Community in Quebec city. Is it real? Is it to stay? No Idea but at least for now my blog will stop being a war zone... let hope this truce will last.

Last week-end there was the first found raising even for nadeshicon, and during that event there was a mahjong game... yes just one since we really suck at it right now. But everyone had fun, and we decided to start a Riichi Mahjong club in quebec city. I have been planning to start this club for at least3 months but had to find people (at least 4) to play with me, now it'S done, it's official, and all we need now is ... a mahjong set!
Since we created the club, I've been re-watching Saki episodes, this show is awesome, and I remember why it got me into mahjong... however... I still haven't found the way to make thunder when I get a tsumo...

I'm still listening to the C79 stuff that is coming out so no review yet, but here my opinion on the releases I got and listened to so far:

The Awesome:
Inocent Key - ココボク MUSIC PARTY
This album surprised me, especially after listening to the cross-fade... I was not expecting much, even if I love Koko's voice. But this album is full of energy, her voice is very cute and most songs are pretty good to listen to, especially "Shirley!!".

The good:
SOUND HOLIC - 文 -BUN-
While nobody would be able to like every song on this album, everyone should like about 2-3 of them, at least. This a mixed album, with about 1-2 song per music style. So even if I wouldn't listen to the whole album, everyone can find something for them in there.

Innocent Key - 叙聖のクオリア
The songs are good, especially koko's one, but this is a story driven cd, and I wasn't able to get my hand on the story part, so as of yet, not enough music, and no story, so I can't really tell much about this album... except: you should listen to "地底惨憺劇 ～Remontant rose～"

君の美術館 - Viator de memoria - Episode II - 
While not at awesome as episode 1, it's still a very good album, but I'll have to re-listen to it and make a full review of it.

The Meh...:
ALBATROSICKS - MERGE THE STRAWBERRY!
Only remixes of old songs, nothing new... while 1-2 songs are nice, the originals were better, kinda disappointed.

That's pretty much it for now, lots of good albums, but nothing awesome... (except koko's music party)

Comiket 79 is coming up!

Comiket 79 is coming up pretty fast, lots of new albums, especially awesome collabs coming, IOSYS&TANO*C is up there on my list, but the Album that makes me impatient right now is Kimino-Museum's second episode of Viator de Memoria. God I can't wait... I still have this awesome feeling when I listen to the first one, I sure hope episode 2 will be up to my expectations!

My to get list:
[君の美術館] Viator de Memoria Episode II
[君の美術館] Black Rock Museum 2
[Albatrosicks] MERGE THE STRAWBERRY !
[IOSYS vs HARDCORE TANO*C] dont know album name but this will be awesome
[IOSYS] 東方云符不普
[IOSYS x JOYSOUND] - 霧雨レクイエム
[SOUND HOLIC] 文 -BUN-
[いえろ～ぜぶら] 東方詠劫歌 ～Point and Eternity～
[5150] - シンフォニック東方Ⅳ
[ALiCE's EMOTiON x Alstroemaria Records x Sound Online] - THE TROIS PROJECT
[Hardcore TANO*C] TANO*C REMIXES 2
[HARDCORE TANO*C] Nanosecond Eternity
[豚乙女] 縁 (Ranko)
[豚乙女] 東方猫鍵盤2 (Paprika)
[Iron Attack] Poltergeist
[Girl's short hair] 幻想輪廻
[Silver Forest] 永き夜のロンド
[TAMUSIC] マクロスFinale-フィナーレ
[TAMUSIC] 東方弦奏歌-Sister-
[C-CLAYS] 煌彩 -KOUSAI-
[C-CLAYS] 氷凛 HYO-RIN
[Sync.Art's] Sweet&Fluffy
[Sync.Art's] ATTRACTOR
[Halozy] Cosmic Armonica
[Halozy] Halozy Remixes vol.1
[Syrufit x Cytokine] Dead man's hand (Cytokine CD), Love Hearts (Syrufit CD)
[Syrufit] - Live A-Round
[Innocent Key] 叙聖のクオリア
[Innocent Key] ココボクMUSICPARTY

Good thing I'm not in japan again... while less impressive than my summer list, it would still have ruined me!

Edit: strike trough of what I got so far.

Very late review of 'Endless Seeker'

Here is my (Very Late) Review of SOUND HOLIC's C78 release, featuring 709sec. "Endless Seeker".

So, for those who did not know, 709sec has been the main male vocalist for SOUND HOLIC for a while already, so why does it say feat, 709sec.? Because he was the one who arranged every songs on the album.

This release is a Touhou Arrange release, and is very metallical in nature, in good old SOUND HOLIC fashion. If you liked "Phantom Dreamer" and "Metallical Astronomy", this album is for you.

I was in line for 1:30 during comiket to get my hands on this album, and it was totally worth it. It's the album I've listened to the most since that. Every song on this album is a hit. The album start strong with a remix of a song from a previous album (Night Bird from 永 -TOKOSHIE- ) called "Night Bird EX". This remix takes an already pretty good song and put it up there in my all time favourite songs. It is actually my favourite song on an album filled with excellent songs. While it can be said for most of the album, I think that this song is almost guilty by itself of giving me that urge I got recently of wanting to buy a Drum. Ken☆Ken's Drumming and abuse of the hi-hat gives me orgasm from my ear.
709Sec.'s Engrish is as awesome as ever. I don't think anyone else than him could misspell stuff like this and make it sound so epic.

It would be very long to tell about every song of the album since they are all pretty much awesome songs. The only song that is not 5 starred in my iTunes from this album right now is "Aura Ole" which is still a very good song, just not as incredible as the others.

I will however talk about "FIRE FLOWER" since it was the song from the PV released for this album that you can watch here:


While the PV isn't that impressive animation wise, the drawing are really nice. But this is a musical review so what we want to know is: Is the song good, and does it represent the album accurately?
Yes to both question, While not the best song on the album according to my taste, the drum, voice and general melody and performance of the song is all top-notch. This time 709Sec. sings half in Japanese and half English, so there's less Engrish in the song, except for the 'rap' part of the song. The drum is very powerful in the song and so is the guitar. the way 709Sec. shout 'FIRE FLOWER' is pretty epic tough, so if sometime you ear me shout this for no reason, I'm not thinking about Mario's fire flower, but about this song or Mokou.

While almost every song on this album is awesome (I have never given so many 5 stars on an album before) as a whole, there isn't a sense of unity in the album, and that would be the only negative point to the album.
so it gets 9.5/10
It really is a must listen.
You can ear the cross fade here: http://www.sound-holic.com/mp3/SDHC_CF_Demo21.mp3
See the website for the album here: http://www.sound-holic.com/_c78_list.html
and listen to the PV above.

OMG! It's a new post!

Ok, sorry everyone I haven't posted since I've been back from japan. Lots of stuff happened, I broke with my GF like 3 weeks ago (my notion of time sucks as always). We both decided it was over, it was done nicely and we are still very good friends so do not worry about that.

I had lots of albums from Comiket to listen to, so I'm definitely not gonna review them, but I am gonna review SOUND HOLIC's Endless Seeker, which is probably one of the best album I've ever heard.

Japan was awesome and I really miss it. Sometimes I have flashes of memory that comes to me when I do different stuff, and then I feel nostalgic, and just want to go back already... I am definitely going to go back, but I hope I will not be alone this time.

Lots of other stuff happened more recently, which is actually the main reason why I have no written here yet... but I wont enter in the details of it, there is still some information that needs to be hidden.

When there is an awesome goal to achieve, when the prize is that wonderful, You just got to keep trying, never give up. Keep fighting until the end, until all of you spirit is completely destroyed, and even then, just keep going because in the end, it'll all be worth it!