Monday, October 24, 2011
All part of the toaplan
And just in case you had some money left over after picking up all that stuff I just mentioned, Sweep Records (in association with INH) bring you the ¥10,000 box set of Toaplan music. Wat!?11? (Kind of want that V-V disc...aw hell! Mark November 14th on your iCal kids.)
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Shoot like lightning
The last post seems to have generated some interest on the internets, so while I have your attention, let me drop some knowledge on ya heads. A few months ago I mentioned INH and Team-e's retro game music collections. They've been successful enough apparently to expand the product line somewhat. It doesn't hurt that the latest release is a collection focused around personal favorite, Seibu Kaihasu/MOSS's Raiden series. The four disc set, '雷電 The Lightning Strikes Back,' brings together the previously released sound tracks for Raiden 1 & 2 (discs included with 'The Aces High' DVD set), Raiden III ('The Flash Desire' DVD set), and 'Ultimate Of Raiden' (bonus included with Raiden IV's first print run on the Xbox 360), along with the original and New Release versions of the Raiden DX score, which has not received a soundtrack of it's own to my knowledge to date. Until they make a Raiden V, this is your (almost*) definitive source for Raiden music, composed by series maestro, Go Sato, and remixed by industry heavyweights. The disc set has been out since September 28th, and I'm rather annoyed that I have not heard of it until now.
That, however is not even the real news here. In celebration of the album's release, and of the Raiden series (and Sato's contribution) as a whole, a concert will be held in Tokyo's Club Goodman, appropriately found in a basement of Akihabara, on November 23rd. The headlining act will be Heavy Metal Raiden, made up of Go Sato himself on bass, Success Corp's WASi303 on guitar, and some dude called Ikedaminorock of 2nd guitar (with a hardcore drum machine accompanying the live players no doubt see below). Check out the PV for a taste of what Raiden metal sounds like. I need to be in Tokyo in 30 days.
*Go Sato was not responsible for the iconic original Raiden 1 score, and the remixed tracks found on the FM Towns version of Raiden Trad seem to be missing.
11-11-11: The drummer for the Heavy Metal Raiden show will apparently be some bloke called Ritz Kawase (川瀬リツ), and the keyboardist will be TaRAKO. You can check out the band/show site here. According to that site, some of those dudes were responsible for the music found in Triangle Service games, Milestone's "games," and the Muchi Muchi Pork/Pink Sweets collection. That's kind of underwhelming(?) ...
Update 2nd: The main keyboardist for Heavy Metal Raiden is apparently now some dude called Kazushi Tsurukubo. He's got an entry at VGMDB, but the games he's worked on don't ring any bells.
That, however is not even the real news here. In celebration of the album's release, and of the Raiden series (and Sato's contribution) as a whole, a concert will be held in Tokyo's Club Goodman, appropriately found in a basement of Akihabara, on November 23rd. The headlining act will be Heavy Metal Raiden, made up of Go Sato himself on bass, Success Corp's WASi303 on guitar, and some dude called Ikedaminorock of 2nd guitar (
*Go Sato was not responsible for the iconic original Raiden 1 score, and the remixed tracks found on the FM Towns version of Raiden Trad seem to be missing.
11-11-11: The drummer for the Heavy Metal Raiden show will apparently be some bloke called Ritz Kawase (川瀬リツ), and the keyboardist will be TaRAKO. You can check out the band/show site here. According to that site, some of those dudes were responsible for the music found in Triangle Service games, Milestone's "games," and the Muchi Muchi Pork/Pink Sweets collection. That's kind of underwhelming(?) ...
Update 2nd: The main keyboardist for Heavy Metal Raiden is apparently now some dude called Kazushi Tsurukubo. He's got an entry at VGMDB, but the games he's worked on don't ring any bells.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
It's time for October's post
Recent SNK Playmore co-conspirators, Exar, seem to be cleaning up their act of making shoddy third party accessories, and making shoddy third party accessories with authentic arcade parts. Their first (?) foray into the cutthroat world of Sanwa-parts-in-a-cheap-plastic-enclosure will be the Exaprize USB Stick Sanwa Edition for PS3, avoiding all those bothersome licensing fees for Xbox certification. Quelle exaprize! The stick hits on November 23rd, at the decent MSRP of ¥9,429. Cheapest Sanwa stick to date? Not bad Exar. Not with this exchange rate. Good grief.
Tech specs:
In other peripheral news, old school cheap plastic stuff makers Hori, have just released the Tactical Assault Commander 3. It's a palm rest with WASD keys and a USB mouse combo that plugs into the PS3. My interest in such a peripheral is less than zero, I'm only making a note of it because it continues Hori's long tradition of calling their peripherals "Commander" without looking completely foolish. How clever.
Tech specs:
In other peripheral news, old school cheap plastic stuff makers Hori, have just released the Tactical Assault Commander 3. It's a palm rest with WASD keys and a USB mouse combo that plugs into the PS3. My interest in such a peripheral is less than zero, I'm only making a note of it because it continues Hori's long tradition of calling their peripherals "Commander" without looking completely foolish. How clever.
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