So after a long break, I want to wish everyone very late Happy Christmas, Happy New Year of 2024 and finally post this long message - I’ve updated the thread with over 70 new albums and provided necessary links! Since there already are a bunch of Google docs/sheets, Discord servers and Youtube playlists related to Touhou-style fanmade music. It’s now sorted by the order of things from albums I love the most to least favourite ones I’m still willing to recommend!
Patch notes for the OP:
- Added everything that has been mentioned in the thread that I’m willing to recommend.
- Added “Seven Period Mystical” by hybC
- Added 2 albums by Studio Nenem: “東方天流宮 ~ Heavenly Gathering of Clouds.” and “東方奇界泉 ~ Adventures in Inferno."
- Added 3 albums by DreamerBard circle: “衰盛橘果譚 ~ Citrus Resuscitation.”, “智慧人狂想曲 ~ The Victors' Space Odyssey and “歪曲列島 ~ History of
- Distortion.”
- Added 2/3 albums by Yurihaka: “柊野文庫 ~ Crypto-porticus in Memory” and “東方久交承 ~ Rainbow Ashes, Smoke and ……” (including bonus track from mini album)
- Added 2 albums by MiragEden/Eban: “閑雅祭囃子 ~ Historical Mirage of Japan.” and “深月都詩 ~ Abyssal Abandoned Metropolis.”
- Added “Treasure Castle Labyrinth” by Pesot
- Added “Shenhai Festival” by SKJD-X
- Added 2 albums by Jani
- Added 2 albums by Kale Hokkaido
- Added 2 albums by Pouty Keiki
- Added 4 albums by Orange
- Added “Bright Location Unlike Externals” by Ido & Wanwan
- Added 2 albums by Paradise of Boundaries
- Added “Dumpsite of Suicidal Intention” by 悠久ホロウ
- Added 3 albums by Yorin
- Added 2 albums by FanTBS
- Added “Sudden Gold Rush” by むし
- Added 3 albums by Komainu
- Added 2/3 albums by Useless
- Added “Traces of Utopian Civilisation” by Akakyu
- Added "Legend of Oblivion” by 隠居者の倉庫
- Added “Dreamy Galaxy Express” by Lapisp
- And added others I can’t recall now.
Disclaimer in regards to Download Links.First of all, I don’t host anything that is illegal and I am always in favor of supporting the original creators, all the cheeky download links I’ve linked to are easy to find with just a google search, if they will be taken down without a reupload, I won’t host the files myself. Secondly, I did check all the links in case of viruses or other harmless stuff, so far everything is fine. In case of something that isn’t digitally available elsewhere, has been taken down and/or is exclusive to Japan, I think it’s a fair game to host these albums up until I get notified they are finally available normally. I am also hosting some reuploads and rips if you want to download the individual songs, seeing as a lot of these are only available as one big video upload, I just want to save everyone else’s time in this case. If you can, do support the artists, but I understand not everyone is in the comfortable financial situation, especially lately. And finally, feel free to DM or send any message in regards to those, if they break the rules or if you want to remove them, etc. As long as it’s not for hypocritical reasons, I’ll consider it.
Ratings.I wanted to try something subjective and more personal to distinguish this thread from all the sheets and servers people made since to share these. Like I’ve explained in the last part of the OP, not everything I’ve encountered will be shown and recommended, since I honestly see no point in sharing albums I’d rate for D or below, outside of archivization purposes. I’m also incredibly biassed, just count how many times I’ve mentioned the use of erhu (
). And just because I gave something low rating doesn't mean I have anything against the creator, in fact, with lots of these I still have respect for the artists. Lots and lots of these are subject to change and are never final. Sometimes just having bad presentation can take it down a point or two for me and sometimes just know the lore of the album might help me appreciate it more paired with fitting music, speaking of appreciating lore-
Translations.I’ve tried using as little of external translations as possible, unless they are confirmed/approved by the album's creators themselves or translated by Gilde, because to be quite honest, I’m just used to Gilde’s translation and I’d rather not try messing around with Google Translate for that. On that note, if you're reading this then I hope I didn’t overload you with work (sweat), consider this a challenge, but also both take your time and it’s up to you what you want to translate from the first posts if anything.
Enjoy!