My Rating: S+ / Goku tier
If I'm honest, I doubt I will appreciate any Touhou-style album as much as this one, it really feels like it was made for me. I've made both English and Polish review of it talking about each track and just to point out how much I like it, it has a leprechaun using traditional Irish instruments and it's still somehow not my favorite track, even though it would've made me rate this as S tier alone.
Really, do yourself a favor, grab nice pair of quality headphones, DL this album and take a listen. Wherever you go, I guarantee you, listening to this will enhance it.
♪ 1. Musical Duel of Wind and Tone Color ~ Celtic Ens (by Komainu)
♪ 2. Detuned Wind (by Poh)
♪ 3. Ultimate Transcendent Supersaw ~ Oct.JP Saw (by Poh)
♪ 4. Classic Insert (by Fuu'un)
♪ 5. Toned Dorato ~ St.Harpsichd (by Fuu'un)
♪ 6. Gazing Up at the Module in the Heavens Above (by N4, mix by Kanade Komeiji)
♪ 7. Firewall Behind the Scenes ~ MG Saw Lead (by N4, mix by Kanade Komeiji)
♪ 8. Fantastic Interface (by Kanade Komeiji)
♪ 9. Hybrid Reed Duo ~ OB Square & Hybrid Saw (by Komainu)
♪ 10. The Display that Projects the Earth's Surface (by Amen)
♪ 11. Non-Reeded Reed Leader ~ Reed Romance (by Amen)
♪ 12. The Font Where Tones are Born (by Burnyuho)
♪ 13. The First of the Soundfont's Native Tones ~ D.L.A.Pad (by Burnyuho)
♪ 14. Wind in a Dozen Tones and Colors (by Burnyuho)
♪ 15. Rainbow Wind Drawn on the Canvas ~ Touhou-style Dream... (by Burnyuho)
♪ 16. Decolorized Wind (by Aruto)
♪ 17. Freelance Sound (by Aruto)
My Rating: S
This is a collaborative album organised by my possibly favourite composer in this genre, Burnyuho, it’s supposed mimic aesthetics of EoSD-PCB era and each character is based on each composer’s favourite synth instruments. I’m probably biassed as to why this is so high, but Final Boss’ theme is probably in my Top 5 songs of this genre and everything else is just so solid, while sticking to the motif of the project and I’m saying this as someone who actually prefers ZUN's more modern songs compared to early Windows era. The only complaint is that the Extra stage theme can sound radically different in quality on different headphones compared to speakers or on airpods, but it’s mainly a nitpick of mine. This is the album that really makes me want to get into composing myself, it’s just so good and inspired despite being pretty simple.
01 The Age of Sailing Through the Cosmos ~ Second Space Age (Ryuuou)By 夢想吟遊詩人 (Dreamer Bard)
02 Darwinism Capriccio (Ryuuou)
03 On the Other Side of Empty News (Kiryuu)
04 Midnight Spell Card (Pesot.jp)
05 The Rabbit of Oki, The Moon's Lullaby (Pesot.jp)
06 Alice in Wonderland ~ Girls' Adventures in Universe (Ryuuou)
07 Faraway 380,000 Kilometer Voyage (Kiryuu)
08 Requiem for a Certain Someone (Maki)
09 Star Voyage 20XX (Ryuuou)
10 The Mystery in Your Town (Ryuuou)
My Rating: S
I don't think there's a single weak track in there and each time I relisten to it, I'm just amazed this didn't come from ZUN himself. From an amazing intro song sampling famous speech, to really atmospheric but melancholic pieces and some good arrangements. Probably my favourite album from that circle, it really captures both space exploration and this feeling of unknown chaos so amazingly well. Great track and artist selection, each ones doing their best job at the styles they are most capable of. I don't think any hifuu albums, including ZUN's albums are beating this one any time soon.
My Rating: S
If you ever loved celtic sounding vibes, Mystery Dungeon OST or you feel nostalgia for sea shantees and Pirate/Touhou music, then this is an easy S-tier. Boss 2, 4 and 5 are great. But then we get stage 4, which will take a second getting used to but it just feels so unique and mystical and that's not even getting International Trade which is in my Top 5 Final Boss themes now. But other themes aren't half bad either. I just personally feel like EX themes struggle to pick up steam from main campaign themes and even Credits/Ending, but that's just me.
My Rating: S.
Part 1 = A+ (borderline S). Part 2 = S.
Grouping and reviewing them together since they came out so close to each other and share a name.
Also I'm only using Part 1s cover art because this is my thread :meiling: sorry homies
If you like Undertale-like/modern indie OST, then this is definitely for you. Part 1 was already fantastic and even includes bonus arranges in more normalized style. That being said, Part 2 feels more superior. Like final boss of part 1 was alright, but it felt lacking somehow, but it got arrange in Part 2 that fixes all of my problem and somehow I grew attached to this composition despite it still being fresh in my mind.
It's funky, it's even very oriental. It's catchy. It's a bop. To even quote Ms. Spears, it's A Circus.
1. Sweet-Scented Fantasy NationMusic composed by Burnyuho
2. A Saccharine-Strange Dreamworld
3. Formication Upon Waking from a Dream
4. Chocolate Forest
5. Happy Sweet Water
6. Torte of the Castle Gate
7. Fake Sweets Soldier
8. Coronet March ~ Avec creme de ganache
9. Langue-de-chat Quartet for the Nutcracker Doll
10. Dragées Dance on a Candy-Crafted Throne
11. Claramary, the Queen of Sweets
12. Fantasy Elimination Half-Life
13. Fantasy Withdrawal Syndrome ~ Sweet Smells and Foolish Evils.
14. Cold Meleagris
15. Bad Flowers Drive Out the Good
16. Apparitions’ Restoration ~ How done it!
17. Dream Definition
My Rating : SBelow is the demo's original cover and my rating for the demo
Another fantastic banger of an album from my favorite composer in this genre. Based on The Nutcracker, but also other things. I love how even the demo OST got revamped and updated for the full release. Bumped it to S tier after realizing I no longer have any gripes with it and I still listen to Happy Sweet Water or Stage 3 Boss' theme when I should be doing other things. Moreover, I straight up prefer Dream Definition and How done it! over Necrofantasia and Who done it?, despite the latter being the former's original inspirations. Crazy, I know.
My Rating as a demo: A
Something tells me that if this fully releases it might become one of my favorites if not The favorite Touhou-style album. It's not just a unique idea, not only does Burnyuho bring her A game with varied styles, all the songs are at the very least solid. My favorite part being "Fake Sweets Soldier"'s climax, which is just amazing, but it does feel like there's quite a bit of set up to this.
1. Touhou Enbukyoku (Eastern Waltz)
2. An All-Too-Lively Oumagatoki
3. Night Fairy Dancer
4. Racing Through the Noisy Forest
5. Rampage Wolf
6. Satellite Bluemoon
7. Ailing Queen ~ Fourteen Heart
8. Waltz of the Blue Moon
9. Pegasus Writer
10. Starry Sky of Elegantly Refined Tones
11. Hypnotist Conductor
12. Fantasy Rhapsody
13. Now, Before the Magic Wears Off ~ Lunatic Rhapsody
14. Lunatic Rhapsody
15. Crystal Shine Road
16. Prince of the Lunar Palace ~ Chandra Mahal
17. Shards of Glass
18. Banquet's End ~ Blue Moon Waltz
My Rating: S
An album by Chama (ちゃま) that's based on the much-loved song Waltz of the Moon from the NHK's Minna no Uta. From the “Rampage Wolf”, “Pegasus Writer”, “Lunatic Rhapsody” to “Chandra Mahal” the usage of guitar is brilliant and even though this album doesn’t feature any characters, it is memorable on its own and I’ve even got inspired by some of these songs to make some characters. Initially I was hesitant with putting it in S tier, but I think it deserves it.
My Rating as of the demo: S
Yeah, a demo I'd rank that high. It's only a shame there will be no characters or lore for it, but I can definitely imagine some good ones for it already, all boss themes are splendid and really replayable, all stage themes are at least solid and then you have ones using erhu. So yeah, I'm looking forward to this.
1. Nablas Strewn Hither and Yond (Title Screen)Music composed by khirhio
2. Rondo of Balmy Breeze (Stage 1)
3. Dancing Leaves (Aoi Fura's theme)
4. A Flute's Whistling in the Summer Sky (Stage 2)
5. Heavenly Noise Above the Ground (Nemuro Ohka's theme)
6. Cursed Region (Stage 3)
7. Black Shaman Girl (Kambe Fumi's theme)
8. Torch-Bearing Cave Exploration
9. In the Dark, With a Perfect Field of Hearing
10. Mystic Flow
11. Silver Dragon of the Underground Lake
12. Deep-Stratum Limestone
13. A Certain Android's Timespace Voyage ~ Diverged Epistemophilia.
14. Half-Summer Hallucination
15. Peaceful Neuromancer
16. Player's Score
My Rating: A+
The second of khirhio and nokisakifuurin’s albums that mimic 6 stages of a Touhou game. I find this one to be a big step forward, especially for khirhio, not only do I think the overall quality of songs is way higher than in Brilliant Works, I also really appreciate the references and inspirations behind each song, which are also mentioned and did in fact get me into SMT OST and Focus. You could argue it’s not creative, but the difference is definitely there, the songs aren’t carried by the originals, it’s transformative, which leads me to the fact that final stage and boss’ themes are partially composed by an AI, which khirhio then remixed and added on, which is fitting for the final boss and project itself, but it’s also kind of interesting, seeing as ZUN himself despises AI art and that’s what motivated him for Touhou 19. I’m not going to pick a side here, especially since it does again feel like khirhio only included that for the sake of the motif and his style is the one carrying it (that and an amazing incorporation of the Daisy Bell), it’s just an observation. Really good stuff!
01 Odd World Fountain ～ Adventures in Inferno (Marie)Collaboration by Studio Nenem
02 Neighbourhood Adventure (Wanwan)
03 Hell of Child Demon ～ past glory (HAMRIKU)
04 Dream Hell, forever
05 Flutter the Dovecotes! (古山智之)
06 The gateway to Hell (梅干茶泡飯)
07 Carefree Guardian (XRCreate)
08 Dark Road ～ Nether Road (法蘭)
09 Eternal Wickedness
10 Phantom Hell Flower ～ Dreamy Amaryllis
11 Closed World (Shirona)
12 Wonderland ～ washed ashore (MIKO大冒險)
13 Going to Yomiji
14 Fantasy Disaster ～ Ultimate Phantom (桐生)
15 Mysterious Shrine Maiden flying in the Sky
16 Starry (MIKO大冒險)
17 Alice in Strange World (龍樣)
18 Endless Dream (HAMRIKU)
19 Fountain of Rest (XRCreate)
20 Phantom is also in Full Swing (MIKO大冒險)
21 Future Century Stella (Bu揚)
My Rating: A+
The only Touhou-style album mimicking a game in the PC-98 era! Was originally planning to place this a bit lower, because technically I do think it’s sister album - Heavenly Gathering of Clouds, has few better bangers, but this one gets bonus points not just for all artists (visual and music) sticking to the style and making something beautiful out of it. The character’s designs are clearly simple or reference something already in the series, but they do fit given Touhou 1-5 aesthetics for sure. Rin’s theme is still my favourite because the climax of it is just perfect, but “washed ashore”, “Eternal Wickedness”, “gateway to Hell”, Final Boss’ theme and many others deserve a huge praise. I’ve seen people claim this is their favourite album in Touhou-style and I can definitely see why, since it stands out and it’s not likely it will be outdone in its niche soon.
1. The Mystery that Appeared Beyond the Screen (SlowBro)Album organized by SHO
2. A Floral Pattern Sunken into Memory (N4 - EoSD style)
3. Eyewitness Photo Projected in the Mist ~ Someone noticed me! (Aruto - EoSD style)
4. The Hour of the Sun's Slumber Has Already Arrived (Shounen - UM style)
5. Modified Stream (SHO - UM style)
6. Cold Breath of Bare Rock Faces (Tokimigusa - IN style)
7. Dimensional Visitor from a Parallel World (SlowBro)
8. DREAM.DAT (Tokimigusa - LLS style)
9. Mirroring Device (SHO)
10. The Leaves of Fantasy Reflect the Sun (Fuji Yuu - PCB style)
11. Sword of Loyalty, Split the Dark Seas ~ Raging God (Aruto - various)
12. Distorted Sunrise (FD - SA style)
13. Sunset of the End Times (FD - SA style)
14. Memristor of Virtual Images (Amen - WBaWC style)
15. Arithmetician Patty ~ Augmented Reality (Amen - UM style)
16. Is this Aurora a Lamplight, or the End of a Tunnel ~ Light of Mystery? (VCLN)
17. D.C. Dream (EoSD style? - Fuji Yuu)
My Rating: A+
(I've accidentally deleted it from OP, WHOOPS)
An amazing album with each track referencing different era of Touhou. I'm not sure about Stages 1-2. but then Final-Extra is pretty much flawless. Again, great idea for an album, but I feel like it leans too heavily on references while the best parts are original like the stage 4-EX developers, at least to me. Probably one of the more interesting approaches to "Tradition vs. Progress" in this series though.
01「虹雨のせせらぎ」Music by hybC
02「晴天の天気大雨を行く」
03「遠州のブロッケン」
04「壮麗の湿原」
05「リモースティアー」
06「深緑ビーストトレイル」
07「クラウドハンティング」
08「神脈を繋ぐ桜ヶ池」
09「厄災祓いの神霊」
10「フロードリバー」
11「視伝する病魔 ～ Pandemic Vision.」
12「幻想の池」
13「燦然たる神池の水宝玉 ～ Fleeting Emotions.」
14「妖怪日和の幻想郷」
15「海鳴讃歌 ～ Follow the Wether!!」
16「雨上がりの神社」
17「龍神の水帰り」
My Rating: A+
A big and positive surprise that apparently took 2 years from hybC. It not only brings the best of ZUN’s instruments with amazing piano, guitar, trumpet/violin and synths as heard best with Stage 4 Boss in my humble opinion. I don’t really think there are any bad songs in this and I’ve listened through to this one a lot despite being so recent.
My Rating: A+
Even without the fantastic story, I do think this album is highly underrated and whenever I'm in the mood for it, it does deliver it, I even do prefer the earlier versions of some of the tracks, such as "Aurum Camellia", which in the original version is one of my all time favorites. I don't relisten to Chapter 1 songs that often compared to Chapter 2 though. Other than that, absolutely fantastic stuff I can recommend to anyone, even though at first you can tell this is composer's first attempt with still pretty outdated kit.
1 灰都を抱く細雨 (Title Screen)By Yurihaka and 04 and 05 tracks with the help of カブレイ.
2 鈍色の幽境 (Stage 1)
3 どんちゃん騒ぎの有象無象 (Stage 1 Boss)
4 アソースミアズマ
5 幻想のアーモロート ～ in the Cage.
6 デフォーレランヴェール
7 永遠に憂鬱なバーブイリム
BONUS: 幻想機関 ～ Machine City Vecriga
My Rating: A+
An album that made me personally believe that Yurihaka is a musical genius. Even besides the usage of erhu, each track brings something new to the table and it made me smile. Special mention goes to I think Stage 3's boss which is an earworm through and through. I think only Stage 1 boss' theme isn't that high in my regards, but despite it being an album on smaller side, I definitely wish it got expanded in the future.
My Rating: A+
Hishimottie is a composer that has perfected repetition in his work. In some of their work it's not exactly utilized or seen as a strength, but in this melancholic album themed after Hieda no Akyuu? It makes wonders, the first song and arrange of Child of Are is great.
1 幻想教典 〜 Loeil de FaustBy Komainu_Inu
2 涅色白胡蝶 〜 Innocent Lotus
3 黒刀剣
4 ブギーマンの上機嫌な食卓
5 ピンクのハサミ 〜 FEVER TIME!!
6 Digital hallucination
7 Innocence Pleasure 〜 とある集落の秘め事
8 置き去りの好奇心 〜 A
9 ヴィジオモルテフェロー
10 子羊達の祝宴
11 神隠しの路上少年
12 ハイブリッドリードデュオ 〜 おぞましい二人
13 ヴァニタス・インテロゲイション
14 楽園追放
My Rating: A+
Weirdly enough, the best thing Komainu has made that made me love DiPP-style much more than I did before. Not only did we get some awesome bangers that could easily be mistaken for something ZUN himself has made back in the ye olde' days, we even got an arrange of Komainu's own contribution to my top favorite Touhou-style album in the form of an arrange of "Hybrid Reed Duo ~ OB Square & Hybrid Saw". But that's not all, "FEVER TIME!!" is just an absolute MVP I've replayed so many times it's insane, from catchy piano, to crazy tempo changes and that U.N.Owen-esque atmosphere so many composers try to replicate, but can't. I definitely recommend it to anyone, especially if you miss old style Touhou OST.
My Rating: A+
Very pleasant album mimicking a full game, this time with more ambient and a couple of inspirations from Zuntata, as can be heard in Extra stage. Those tracks and stage 1 boss theme “Indigo Eyes” are definitely my favourites. A bit mixed with some tracks though.
Volume 1:
1. The Disappearance of the Hakurei Shrine's Miko (Title screen)
2. Foggy Netherworld (Stage 1)
3. Lost Corpse (Stage 1 Boss)
(^ this one has a remastered version here (https://youtu.be/6DsJfVuTWV4?si=O2liWkOpqsRBI3lS))
4. The Underground Closest to the Ground (Stage 2)
5. Distorted Division (Stage 2 Boss)
6. The Underground's Blue Sky (Stage 3)
7. The Boundary War III (Stage 3 Boss)
Volume 2:Music composed by Useless/IchigoPaprika
1. My Grandfather's Clock Was... (Stage 4)
2. The Good 'Ole Days Running in Parallel ~ Contemporary Period (Stage 4 Boss)
3. Imitation "Perfect and Wrong" (Stage 5)
4. The Lèse-Majesté at [DATA EXPUNGED] (Stage 5 Boss)
5. The Frozen Bluebird (Stage 6)
6. The Romantic Trumpet From That Day (Stage 6 Boss)
My Rating: A+The Garden of Sinners
I’ll rate Smells like Beer albums in pairs because that’s mostly how they’ve released, with small breaks in between the twos. I’m fairly certain SlB1&2 were one of Useless’ attempts to mimic and predict WBaWC’s style, down to the point where Vol. 1’s music uses the exact same instruments, synths for each respective song at some points, but it mixes things up to stay on the creative side with “The Underground's Blue Sky” vs. “Everlasting Red Spider Lily” being a great example. Honestly both songs from Stage 4 and “Imitation “Perfect and Wrong”” are my favourites from this, they’re just so atmospheric, yet unique. I do feel like however the remaining songs are close to perfect, yet have some parts I’m not too fond of, like most of “The Romantic Trumpet From That Day” until climax, which arguably, is emotional and epic.
1. A Sky Blanketed in Natural CatastrophesMusic composed by sisyou02
2. Tiny Birds and Thunder Peals in a Rainy Sky
3. Heavenly Lightning
4. The Shadow of a Sky Colored by Filtering Sunlight
5. Parasol Waltz
6. Youkai Megalopolis
7. Silhouette Standing Against the Light's Glare ~ Funny monster
8. Touhou Hatenkou (Eastern Sky-Conquering Port) ～ Empty gateway
9. Northern Storm
10. Severed Otherworld ～ Lost Heaven
11. Scarlet Weather Immaginazio
12. Reality and Wisdom of Dreamlike Non-Self
13. O, Thou Who Bears Knowledge of Samsara's Interstices ～ Traitor's Requiem
14. Barrier Aureole
15. Undead Girl in the Lingering Glow
16. Today's Weather: Sunny With a Chance of Shrine Maidens
17. Twilight Shrine
My Rating: A
An album mimicking a Touhou game that technically has been released three times now, the last version polishing it a notch and adding new extra arrangements of the songs in specific style. The artstyle and the designs are really topnotch, to the point you could confuse them with the real stuff. I really adore half of the songs, especially “Undead Girl in the Lingering Glow” which is just my kind of creepy-mix funk with a side of Ten Desires. However, except for maybe one or two stage themes, I do find them mostly forgettable, with most of the trial songs also being a bit mid. I like how Final Boss’ theme shares a name with that one Jojo's OP.
01. The Players Enter the Venue ～ Let's start with tuning.Music composed by various artists.
02. To the Cool and Refreshing World Directly Below
03. Berry Berry Jellysweets
04. Cold of Chemocline
05. Tranquil Buccal Cone ～ Sweet Angel?
06. Unmanned Pleasure Cruise ～ Pay for life.
07. Echo to the Sea of the Heart, Like the Sound of a Kemari Ball
08. A Great White Shadow Creeping Closer ～ 1819.
09. Signal Flag Enticing Into Fantasy
10. The Dimly-Lit Backstage Waterway
11. Rachmaninoff in the Deep
12. The Doors Will Open Shortly ～ Ladies and Deepfish.
13. Listen Well to the Concerto of Revival ～ Sound of Soul.
14. A Bright Cavern Walk in the Depths of Night
15. Sightless, Tri-less Blind Red Eyes ～ Pleiotropic.
16. Dozing Amidst Lingering Sound ～ Fuyofuyo.
17. The Players Leave the Venue ～ finale.
My Rating: A
While I was a bit disappointed that fantastic melodies used in 4th and EX Stage bosses aren’t longer/repeated more, it's still a huge improvement over the previous album with the majority of the songs definitely catching my interest.
01 Flow of Heaven's Tears ~ Princess's Wish ♪ まっきー (Makky)Collaboration by Studio Nenem, each composer is next to a note.
02 Country of Flood ♪ Pesot.jp/
03 Restive Horse of the Water's Surface ♪ after
04 Today Brings Rainy Skies ♪ Wanwan
05 Wild Splice ♪ XRCreate
06 Youkai Inn on Mt. Oshimari ♪ DhiArk
07 Skull Masquerade ♪ 森の子リスのミーコの大冒険 (Phroneris)
08 Dragon's Nest ♪ まっきー (Makky)
09 The Water Wanders Under ♪ 権太夫 (Gondayu)
10 A Secret Passage Diving Into the Sky ♪ た人 (Tahito)
11 Wicked Seventh Guard of the Whirlwind[2] ♪ yosiyosi
12 Thus Spoke the Waterfowl ♪ こむぎ (Komugi)
13 Ancient Children's Song ~ Firefly ♪ リュウオウ (Ryuuou)
14 Rumbling ♪ リュウオウ (Ryuuou)
15 Romantic Tour — Dan-no-ura ♪ samidare
16 Longsword of the Chrysanthemum Crest ♪ 桐生 (Kiryuu)
17 Waterfowl's Return to the Country ♪ まっきー (Makky), こむぎ (Komugi)
18 Travels of the Sea Dragon ~ Princess's Smile ♪ まっきー (Makky)
My Rating: A
Absolute classic that is being turned into a full fangame. Don’t know if I could respect myself if I placed this any lower than A, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have some problems with it, namely around Stage 4-5 this album isn’t as perfect as it is during Stages 2-3 for example. A lot of tracks from this still remain as some of my favourites and remain unique even after all those years like “Skull Masquerade” utilising maraca or how non-typical yet still powerful sounding despite the one-note piano part “Firefly” is. Weirdly enough the Title Screen and Credit’s themes (which are rarely my favourites) are in Top 5 of tracks in this one. And then there’s the imposing EX Boss’ theme which could easily have just been the True Final Boss’ theme.
01 鈍色の旧都They were hard to find for me since I can't read Japanese, but these are definitely it this time!
02 忘れられた旧き里
03 ヘルコンバット
04 不思議の船着場
05 スカルクルーザー
06 明けやらぬ黄昏時
07 夢の国の御伽噺
08 アビスマルスカイ
09 ブレイズイーター
10 ニ万由旬の地の果てに
11 滅びゆく悪趣の法
12 音なき地の底に
13 あの日願った希望の光へ〜Subterranean Mage
14 ロトゥンキャピタル
15 幻想のエレクトロニカ
16 奈落が昇りゆく
17 明くる日の陽光
My Rating: A
My favourite out of all solo albums by SHO, I know these aren’t exactly Touhou, but they do definitely follow modern Touhou-style music and until you check out characters on site, you can just use your imagination. Arguably Unexpected Revenge is more solid, but the likes of Stage 1 boss, Stage 4 and Stage 5 boss themes, which just sound heavenly after a few listens or from the get go make me relisten to this album. Only stage 3 boss theme isn’t for me and EX Boss’ theme is… unique? Kinda’ goofy? Other than that, yeah, another good example of SHO understanding modern Touhou style, especially the guitar.
My Rating: A
Very well realized hifuu-style album, where weirdly enough both choices of arrangements and its own original repertoire are very well matched. My favorite track probably being the second one, perfectly balancing between the accoustic guitar and piano.
1 Bowsprit of High Waves (Ryuuou)By 夢想吟遊詩人 (Dreamer Bard)
2 Escaping Journey of Youkai Village (Ryuuou)
3 Hometown of Mayunganashi (まっきー / Makky)
4 An Eternity That is More Transient than Scarlet (Ryuuou)
5 Joyful Wishes of the Wriggling Century (Ryuuou)
6 The Boundary Where the Waves of the Eternal World Wash Over (Ryuuou)
7 Rise and Fall of Tachibana Fruit (Ryuuou)
8 At the Harbor of Spring ~ Awakening of Lives (Ryuuou)
My Rating: A
The most exotic out of Touhou-style vibes I've heard, which is clearly noticable in the best track in this album - Rise and Fall of Tachibana Fruit. But there are also some modern and funky songs like - Hometown of Mayunganashi, but also mysterious and melancholic with some. That's a pretty wide palette and honestly, it really feels like a good album for sightseeing and exploring, but not every track is super memorable and I think the Victors' Space Age had better arranges. That being said, TVSA had more artists, here it's almost exclusively Ryuuou and he does a great job! Still deserving of an A, just for being so festive, positive and actually being of high quality through all of the tracks!
1. Fantasy Research Laboratory (Title screen theme)Music composed by Burnyuho
2. Gensokyo in Silence ~ Silent Incident (Stage 1 theme)
3. Singing Mandragora ~ Lunatic Song (Nasu Kanoko's theme)
4. An Utterly Unprecedented Bizarre Case (Stage 2 theme)
5. Inscrutable Tea Party ~ Strange Teaparty (Theophilia Cinnabar's theme)
6. Fantastic Night Flight Behind the Shrine Grounds (Stage 3 theme)
7. Melusina of Subservience ~ Dragonmaid (Melusina Brittany's theme)
8. Lakebed Shoot-Out (Stage 4 theme)
9. Chemical Trigger happy (Kabino A. Hekiko's theme)
10. The Fantasy Philosophy that the Girl Sang of ~ Fantastic Neoplatonism (Stage 5 theme)
11. White-Coated Creator God ~ Dream of Dr. Jaldabaoth (Phillipa A.T.B. von Hohenheim's theme)
12. The Truth Casts a Shadow on the World of Reality (Final Stage theme)
13. Perfect Human ~ Dream of Humanity (Hinoide Ai's theme)
14. Eastern Postscript Story ~ An Utterly Unchanging and Stimulating Daily Life (Extra stage theme)
15. Can the Corpus Delicti be Proven? (Theophilia's second theme)
16. Knowing Not Love, Humans Know Grief (Ending theme)
17. Reverie Pursuit Laboratory (Staff Roll theme)
18. Player's Waltz (Game Over theme)
My Rating: A
The album which technically started the original thread and has skyrocket my interest in this genre. EX Boss’ theme is probably the best track in it, and it's getting even better with every listen for me. On base, I think every song here is A+ or S even, however you can tell this one of Burnyuho’s earlier creations, with “Dream of Humanity” and “Strange Teaparty” having some serious sound mixing and trumpet issues, which nowadays seem to be completely gone if “The First of the Soundfont's Native Tones ~ D.L.A.Pad” from CoMW is any indication. I also really like the character designs, even if some of them look goofy. Probably an album I’ve returned to the most and for a reason.
1. Candlelight BridgeMusic composed by Khirhio
2. Vermilion Sky
3. White Messenger (Wakaba Yahata's theme)
4. Wickedest Forest
5. Blustery Staccato (Kazari Kamakura's theme)
6. Foggy Twilight
7. Silhouette in the Dusk (Yu Mikage's theme)
8. Rest in the Flow of a River Bathed in Light
9. Magic Hour of Clear Streams (Ukyou Izumi's theme)
10. Shining Silence of a Remote Land
11. Solitary Silent Hunter (Shizuka Udzuki's theme)
12. The Sound of Flowers Echoing in the Night Sky
13. Gleaming Flowers that Fill the Sky ~ Brilliant Bouquet (Shushu Hinoya's theme)
14. -? (Ending theme)
15. -? (Staff Roll)
16. -? (Game Over theme)
My Rating: A
The first of khirhio and nokisakifuurin’s albums that mimic 6 stages of a Touhou game. With this one there's arguably bigger amount of absolute bangers, like “Blustery Staccato'' mimicking the feeling of beeing stuck in a tornado, but I feel like compared to Acquisitive Invader, there’s less of a quality when it comes to some songs, especially stage themes - I only really like “Rest in the Flow of a River Bathed in Light” and Final Stage in this album. Speaking of, the final stage and boss utilising Fireworks SFXs or trying to mimic them is probably one of the best things in this. I could also criticise a few more songs and praise a few others, but all in all, it’s good stuff that initially helped me go through tough times, since the full version was released in early 2020.
00.Opening Theme-Jewel Box of a Festival's Eve
01. Super-Ancient Lifeblood
02. Heavenly Star's River Crossing
03. Edge of the Helix ~ Red Marriage
04. Illusionary Light Town
05. The Spirit Butterfly Dances in Midair
06. Deep Aquamarine
07. Explosive Ice World Stone ~ Oxygen Conversion
08. Emerald Cavern
09. Uncountably Large World of Trust ~ World Trust
10. Stone Concerto
11. Shinya Ouki-Sound of a Nightmare
12. Academy ''Dance Moon'' Token
13. Taisui Xingjun
14. Life-Form Inspector's Historical Records
15. Encounter of the Heavenly Space Ceremony ~ Space Surveillance
16. Star Independent Days
17. Lit Road of the Seven-Coloured Light
18. Crystal Flower Lantern's Mysterious Guide ~ Crystal Lantern
19. Black Opal Labyrinth
20. 240 Million-Year Samsara ~ Sandplay Toys Clay
21. A Samsara Game Named Despair
22. Rakshasa of Purgatory ~ Combat Heaven Rasetsu
23. Leaves of Ancient Words
24. Longevity of the Yellow River ~ Ancient Dreams...
25. Girl's Danmaku Romance 26.Player's Score
My Rating: A
One of the first fanmade Touhou-style albums that offered everything games did, except for actual gameplay and it has already been turned into a game since! A game I highly recommend which was made with help of people who knew what they were doing including the original composer and ofc Gilde. I’ve always liked this album and the character designs (well even though some didn’t translate that well into ZUNart which has been reposted on YT) and I do love some of the updates in game’s updated OST, especially Banka’s theme update, but even though it sounds more rough, I still prefer Crystal Lantern simply because of how expressive and over the top it was originally. Anyway, great stuff.
My Rating: A
Probably one of the most solid out of the DiPP-style albums (which there are a lot of) I’ve heard, maybe with an exception of a few that also try EoSD-style as well. The arrange selection is also really great, with choices like Seraphic Chicken, Seihou’s Morgan theme or Infinite Being being great choices as well.
1 晦冥探訪 〜 Dumpsite of Suicidal IntentionsBy 悠久ホロウ
2 蒼空のスプリット
3 独り歩きて過去の風
4 妖怪の夜想昼夢
5 サデンリーサンセット
6 レベラントパペット 〜 Filled Vassel
7 プロフェテウス大聖堂 〜 Thysia
8 ブラインドファクト
9 Past of The Night
10 明けの明星 〜 Thanatos' Obsession
11 楽園の夢
My Rating: A
Yes, a Touhou-style music album with original tracks with this name and subject matter... can be oddly comfy and atmospheric, especially if you listen to it at the dusk of night on a stroll. It also helps that the style seems to mostly pull from DiPP and GFC albums, but also does more of its own stuff. In fact this is one of the albums I'm most interested to see story translations for.
My Rating: A
Collab album with Azumanga Daioh. The amount of effort that went into aesthetics this time shows and even if music isn’t always memorable, I will remember this album.
01 欲に満ちた強欲の世界By Myaga
02 無法の巌窟
03 ミロのアンプテーター
04 畜生蔓延る森
05 ウィーカープレデター
06 刹那の世に流れる川
07 ルートリネ・オブ・シノビ
08 ジャンキングハイウェイ
09 玉虫色のビーストライダー
10 虚空を突き抜く鉄のハルカス
11 冥府のハートイーター
12 デザイアビルディング
13 冀望は奇冥なる翠楼に ～ 新世界
14 コンテイジャスヴェノム
15 小さなクラウンヴァイパー ～ Virus Infection
16 収束の終息
17 翠楼 ～ Abydos Dream
My Rating: A
The album that made me fall in love with Myaga's style, even with some of its imperfections. I will start with the negatives, not every character design looks alright, sometimes the Izanagi Object fonts and drumkits make it sound too strange, mechanical and a lot of early tracks won't age so well because the artist took a break before finishing this album, but in my opinion it's far better to end on a great note than start with your best stuff and this album is exactly that in my opinion, especially with great Final Boss/Staff Roll march-like melodies to such an amazing EXBoss' theme, which is my favorite track from them so far, which ironically I don't think gives Myaga any revenue because it has been marked with COVID-19 disclaimer because it has 'virus' in the title.
1. Bustling Fantasy CityComposed by Kisaragi and others
2. Straight path ~ Straight loose
3. Positive Youkai Roku
4. Happy Rageness
5. Magical World in the Girl's Brain
6. Between the Outside World and Fantasy
7. Hero's Return ~ Heroic Polonaise
8. Beyond the Wonders of Electronics
9. Explosive Technology ~ System Projector
10. Gene Cell of Artificial City (by DO)
11. Geometric Mad Scientist
12. The Small Fort Left for Last
13. Tenchi Creation Gensokyo ~ Tragedy Princess (by Kisaragi)
14. Mystic Akihabara (by Burnyuho)
15. 2019 Sound of Bells Ringing ~ Heart Steal!! (by Burnyuho)
16. Twilight in the Fantasy City
17. Scattered Time ~ Dream City
18. Flower Arrangement Monopoly
My Rating: A
This rating is probably the most biased one, because arguably and like it has been said previously, this album isn’t exactly worth its original price and quality of songs is really, really uneven, with Stages 1-3 of this just existing. Meanwhile “Explosive Technology ~ System Projector” is unironically in my Top 5 songs from any Touhou-style album or genre. I love the beeps, the structure, and I want to see and hear a MAD of it. The song by Burnyuho is good in both voice and voiceless version, Extra stage theme gets better with every listen, like a good EX stage song should and all 4 themes for stages 5-6 and their bosses are growing me. So yes, really uneven, but I still do recommend it.
My Rating: A
A solid album done by people known from making Shenhai Festival
Note - I’d appreciate help with translating the remaining titles.
01 Overcast Carnival Day (曇天のお祭りの日)By Team Eclectic Anthologists
02 A Waterlogged Hibernation (水浸しの冬眠)
03 Exiled Psalakantha (亡命プサラキャンサ )
04 The Silent River Below the Sunless Sky (陽のない空の下、静かな川)
05 Blue Shadow of Aggrandizement (誇張の青い影)
06 Harmony and Dance Amidst Fragrant Fields (薫り高いの原での和と舞)
07 Unparalleled Grace ~ Heavenly Terpsichorean (比類なき優美 ～ Heavenly Terpsichorean)
08 Symposium of Nebulas (星雲シンポジウム)
09 An Okeanid-Sylph's Sky Embodiment (オケアニドシルフの天空具現化)
10 Starlit Ceremony of Paradise (楽園の星空儀式)
11 The Kindreds Intertwined by One Undying Nexus (不滅の絆で結ばれた同族達)
12 Jubilant Fields in Elysium (エリジウムでの歓喜分野)
13 The Ostracized Seraphic Emissary ~ Zeal Hauler (追放された熾天使者 ～ Zeal Hauler)
14 Slumbering Mists (眠霧)
15 Symposium of Nebulas ~ Evergreen Mix (星雲シンポジウム ~ Evergreen Mix)
16 Extra Stage: The Leafage Blanket Shields Them from the Storm (葉の毛布が嵐から彼らを)
17 Extra Stage Boss: Protector of the Evergreen Dharma ~ Floral Guardian (常緑法の守護者 ～ Floral Guardian)
18 Extra Ending Theme: Words From an Evergreen Authority (常緑の権威の言葉)
19 Credits theme: A World of Festivity and Joyful Treasures (祭騒ぎと嬉々な宝物の世界)
20. EGoA Bonus - Blue Shadow of Aggrandizement (Beta Mix)
21. EGoA Bonus - The Leafage Blanked Shields Them From the Storm ~ Piano Mix
My Rating: A
Western collaborative album inspired by Sapphire Panlogism with a really good presentation and for stages 1-4 I would normally give this an A+ (Unparalleled Grace is that good), but then it takes a nosedive. I love Stage 4 boss’ theme, until the mid climax which I disagree even with its composer about. Stage 5 theme I honestly believe is just a bad song, it having so much commentary praising it feels pretentious on top, which is weird seeing as the dude made a good stage 3 theme. Stage 5-6 bosses have an okay theme, but not for me. I really love EX stage and boss’ theme, but the stage is almost entirely ambient and its climax could’ve utilised the koto (?) better. EX Boss’ entire song using the same instrument with only a short break (I imagine it was meant to be a nod to Native Faith?) can get repetitive. I am content with how this project’s team replied to my criticisms of this album though so I wish you good luck with future projects if they will look and sound at least as good as this.
My Rating: A-
Hifuu-style album with little to no covers, unless you count the fact all songs have a second version in non-Touhou-style as it is the case with Mace's albums, funnily enough this came out before Book of Star Mythology which was also going to be only an album like that.
1 深淵へ沈む廃都 - えばんBy えばん/MiragEden/Eban
2 スプートニク幻夜 - えばん
3 歪みのフォーマルハウト - あめん
4 振り向かない黄泉の道 - えばん
5 トータスドラゴン - えばん
6 月影に昇る詩 - えばん
7 無極星アムネジア - 望宙ゆず
8 幻想浄瑠璃 - えばん
9 深月都詩 ～ Abyssal Abandoned Metropolis - えばん
10 蓬莱伝説 - えばん
My Rating: A (if you like non-Touhou style mixed in with the rest and experimental approach) / D (if you don't)
Starting with the very first track you can already tell this is much different compared to a typical Touhou-style album, with some arranges such as Illusionary Joururi's having almost hiphop influence and some tracks feeling like they came out of anime orchestra. You can still tell there's a lot Touhou influence, however, it can be quite jarring, hence two different ratings. However, unlike a lot of tracks I've heard, especially from western composers, this does work, not only thanks to album's theme of exploring abyssal metropolis and showcases mixes that work (for example mixing in hiphop with Touhoustyle trumpet and oriental drumkit) instead of just meshing styles without rhyme or reason.
My Rating: A-
If you like Marine Benefit, this is basically a sequel mimicking a game's OST with same style of music and some nods to the melodies used in the original fangame. It did receive an extra stage after being published and it's pretty neat. I don't really have an issue with this album, I just find Marine Benefit's last version's OST to be better and compositions from Kuroha's next album to be much better.
Disc 1Organised by Eban
1 桃源は静謐に帰す - 匙星
2 桜花之恋塚 ～ Japanese Harmony - えばん
3 フェアリー大雪大合戦 - DO
4 妖怪百段階梯 - 時見草
5 春告精の通り道 - よいやみ
6 セッション no.6 (ordinary) - Wanwan
7 先立つ影に見ゆ - FD
8 凪薫る博麗華 - NED
9 桜禍爛漫 ～ Full Bloom Soul - 壱太
10 馳せる夢走の閃光 - 古山キリヲ
11 幽霊客船の時空を越えた旅 - イガグリ
12 風神少女 - えばん
13 エクステンドアッシュ ～ 蓬莱人 - 翡翠
14 ミラージュフェアリー - 深蒼穹
15 虚夢無想 ～ if You are... - 妖琳
16 ラストオカルティズム ～ Esotericist of the Present World - 朧月
17 Eternal Dream ～ 幽玄の槭樹 - 亡我
Disc 2
1 たまゆらの夜、恋の魔法 - Mafi
2 今日も妖怪は駆けてゆく - こをり
3 莎草七変化 - 望宙ゆず
4 宵月パンザマスト - 風雲
5 神々が恋した幻想郷 ～ Traditional Colors - Prism
6 美しくて残酷な虚構の地 ～ Lost in Erewhon - Aka Kyuketsuki
7 無曲名. - むいす
8 異変が還る場所 ～ Whirling Spellcards - Pesot.jp/
9 晦冥探訪 ～ Ghostly Hollow - 古明地かなで
10 ファンタジアへの怨讐 ～ μανικὴ βασίλεια - あめん
11 波濤の深流 - えばん
12 フィン・デムネ・ファール ～ Next Phantasia - えばん
13 テーマ・オブ・イースタンストーリー - えばん
14 フラクタルロリータ - えばん
15 河童様の云う通り - えばん
16 ススキヤコウ - わほた
My Rating: A-
An even bigger album from Eban with even more songs, but arguably, still fantastic original compositions and arranges. What’s more is that a lot of the songs at the end of the DISC2 arrange fanmade classics, such as One-Way Accelerator. With it being an over 30+ track album by several different guest artists, my no. 1 complaint is of course, there being so much and a lot of it being just lost in the amount and styles not being varied enough. At the very least, it’s all solid and very much on the level of ZUN’s. There’s a pretty sizable amount of tracks giving a feel of an almost nice, comfy hamlet feel, so there’s that.
My Rating: A-
Really good album, bringing both originals, arrangements, surprises (like Adventures in Inferno Stage 2 boss and Rebellious Blood from the same composer), sadly it's khirio's weakest work due to overlience on organs that don't necesarily mesh well and it was made when the composer was still learning their style I feel
By SHO
01 黒焔艦 ～Signal of Revenge
02 春蘭の彼方へ
03 ゴシックモスキート
04 サンタマリアの桟橋
05 旋風のスカルギャザー
06 イマジナリーケイブ
07 咆哮の有頂天の頂に
08 神出鬼没のウォーリナー
09 黒焔エアーシップ
10 怨恨に愛された守護者
11 遥か天空の業火
12 救済と復讐の黒焔を挙げよ〜 I'm back now!
13 欠けぬ月の城郭
14 偉大なる神代～Sixteenth General
15 陽炎につつまれて
16 白夜を灯す焔熊親父
My Rating: A-
Probably most solid all around from SHO’s albums, with EX stage themes being uncontested bangers, giving sort of a feeling of drowning in a warzone. This album’s gimmick is that apparently stage 1 boss returns as a final boss and you can hear it too, which is pretty neat, but I’d argue I actually prefer how the melody is used in Final Stage and as first boss instead of being the final showdown. I do really like a lot of earlier songs too, stage 2 boss is incredibly catchy, stage 3 is overall moody and stage 5’s themes also bring a lot to the table.
My Rating: A-
A typical music album that mimics a full game that was meant to be a full game according to its creator, but was cancelled due to a drama and artists leaving. I appreciate the honesty and I definitely do prefer it over their previous project. Doesn’t really have any low notes, but I can understand getting tired of mostly samey sounding songs, especially given a lot of songs do sound similar to TZaTC.
1 大地は蓮の花を咲かす - 妖琳Mostly by Yorin/妖琳
2 厭世の吹溜りにて～Haunted Night - 風雲
3 天空の花の都 - 妖琳
4 Magical and Hopeless - えばん
5 コウヤ奇怪旅行 - 妖琳
6 冥界の夜桜 - 翡翠
7 幽霊楽団～Phantom Ensemble - 妖琳
8 幽玄の裏世界 - 妖琳
9 蜿々は、十六の夜に - 妖琳
10 妖々跋扈～Ghostly Mix - 妖琳
11 牧歌の郷～Arcadian Dream - 妖琳
My Rating: A-
If I'd have to pick one word to describe this album it'd be "Atmospheric". Other than that I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys and praises Perfect Cherry Blossom, Imperishable Night or Ghostly Field Club's OSTs.
EDIT: Rised it to A-. I've underestimated just how amazing and great at replicating that early Windows era style this album is!
My Rating: A-
Album by the same people who made Shenhai Festival and a couple of tracks reference their previous fangame album, more specifically, the final boss’ theme. Much like SF, this is a very modern, dubstep and drum & bass influenced album and this team definitely finds themselves in said style. Despite the lower quantity, I actually recognize more tracks fondly in this short album as opposed to SF, just be mindful, some tracks are barely by Touhou-style rules.
01 Paradise Drifting in the Sea ~ Oriental CloudsBy WhiteBlugt/Orange
02 Flying Through the Oriental Clouds
03 Ushinagi's Theme: Magnificent Lightning
04 Mellifluous Japanese Skies
05 Hitomi Furukawa's Theme: Luminous Stars
06 Boundaries Between Light and Darkness
07 Piero Hoshikawa's Them: Emotion Outbreak ~ Phenomenal Circus
08 Lullaby Sea ~ Can't See Anything!!!!
09 Tayako Ebisu's Theme: Jellyfish Strike Back ~ Lithe Dancing
10 Incandescent Darkness
11 Monodoku Amatsuka's Theme: The Abandoned Sun and Moon Stealer ~ Quintessential World In My Hand!!!!
12 Tranquility Deep Skies
13 Tennyo Umikazu's Theme: Quintessential of Aeonian Ocean ~ Eudaimonia
14 Is Pure Beauty Still There?
15 Pure Sea ~ Watching Everything
16 Untold Story About Picturesque Sky
17 Kurotako Kuragekai's Theme: Organismic Dysfunction Syndrome ~ Deep Dark Soul
18 Is It Over?
19 Umimimi Rabimaru's Theme: Nefelibata Dreams ~ Ethereal Rabbit (ft. Lunar)
My Rating: A-
Album from Orange, that may actually turn into a full game someday! It's probably my favourite one from said artist, not only first two stages are pretty much flawless (stage 2 having erhu at the end is nice touch and its boss having catchy star waltz atmosphere helps) and all songs for Extra Stages are quite good! Even though I wish EXBoss' theme was catchier before climax, the climax sells it and I do like how Phantam Stage sounds ominous with Boss and its theme being a complete 180 of bouncy happiness, nice twist. Final Boss' theme in this is probably my favorite from Orange, although it does suffer from drum kit sounding a bit obnoxious. Not the biggest fan of Stages 3-5 and their boss themes, I feel like some of them are either overcomplicated or quite the opposite and I can't return to them often. That being said, the good strongly outweight the mid in my opinion and I like how much progress and inspiration from TH19 OST the artist did!
01 神々の調By Misora
02 陽気な怪たちと空の旅
03 気焔万丈 ～ grim determination
04 雨と雲の遊覧飛行
05 流るる泡沫が如く
06 木漏れ日を抜けて
07 紫翠の森 ～ harmony with nature
08 儚くも美しきルインズ ～ abandoned mine
09 鈍色の軌跡 ～ Mine pulsation
10 星空の回廊～ Moon's melody
11 最果てにある頂を目指して
12 高天原の伝承～ Myths to be handed down
My Rating: A-
The only full album made by Misora, which is weird considering how much they contributated to the early history of Touhou-style fanmade songs. This is only a miniOST, with roughly 4 stages and bosses and each song being quite short. My favourites of this one include "Mine pulsation" and most of the stage themes, because I do think Misora shines brightest either with stage or catchy/intimidating bosses. Do be mindful that if you don't like some of the things you've heard from them, such as shrill or over the top earrapey trumpets, you might have the same issues with some tracks, but I do like it and I do like the idea of this album going from stages about weather rain, sunny etc.
1 巫覡の夢 - 妖琳By Yorin
2 夢降る夜の神社 - 妖琳
3 Magician's Melancholy - 妖琳
4 博麗祭祀遺跡 - 妖琳
5 Lost Emotion - 妖琳
6 Reverse Ideology - 妖琳
7 日ノ神來タル宮 - みゃが
8 The Great Fantastic Underground Railway Network- 妖琳
9 麗々巫宮 ～ Imperfect Fantasy World - 妖琳
10 Heian Alien - 妖琳
11 絢爛たる不完全な世界に - 妖琳
My Rating: A-
First of 3 released so far albums by Yorin and I honestly think it's their best one. With good original tracks and arrangements. I think Yorin gets this stuff, especially the arrangements and the choice of thereof, they are very much like something ZUN would put in his hifuu albums. That being said I did feel mostly ambivalent towards it despite several relistens through it. I don't exactly know what theme and story it has so as much as I wish I could place it higher, I still think A- is fair.
01. 天聖スーパーノヴァ ～ Balance Collapses！ - アズレシアンOrganised by アズレシアン / Azureshian53m
02. 双葉が賢者に育つ時 - Burnyuho(うづきねい）
03. その名を冠した者たち ～ Heavenly Grail - 音屋のばけばけ
04. フライボーンインセクト - 或兎
05. 鎮魂のテウルギア - 風雲
06. 毎秒１グーゴルのクッキークリッカー ～Be Multiply and Multiply! - 中道夜市
07. 不完全なロータスイデア～Lake Dancer - 或兎
08. 瓦礫の大地と黄昏の空 ～ A Torn World - 凹山
My Rating: A-
An almost 3 stage demo (?), seems like the theme of it is to make Touhou-style compositions based on other games. Overall I like what was prepared so far, especially since usually when there's a Touhou-style collab album, it’s either hifuu-style or made/organised by western fans with varying results. This time we have a potential for perhaps something as good as the Book of Star Mythology/Fairyland of Mishmash. Pretty much all of the songs sound good, there might be heavy contrast between the artists, with little to no correlation or theme keeping the OST together, but it’s still solid. Also Lake Dancer dances in my head rent free.
01 Reminiscent Memories of SoulsMusic and story mainly by Popcat/Sodacat/Mike
02. Recollections of Miscellaneous Articles
03. Minuet of Wisdom
04. Garden of Evermore Desires
05. Lonesome Maiden of Flowers
06. Overture of a Neverending Nightmare
07. Justice For the One and Only
08. Frozen Lamentation ~ Sub Zero Furnace
09. Unwound Ticking Clockworks
10. Purity Bought From Scorching Deals
11. Scorned Fate ~ Irresistible Existence
12. Unyielding Bell
13. Última Presto
14. Rain that Cries Out for Someone
15. Esoteric World ~ Sinful Entreaty
16. An Inevitable Paradox
17. Boundaries of Parallel Possibilities
My Rating: B+
Composer’s first mainly solo album by Popcat and man, what a solo debut. It being inspired not just by previous Touhou experience, but mainly by lots of Metroidvenias results in a unique blend of moody and dynamic tracks, with my favorite being weirdly enough Stage 1 Boss’ theme (the fact the main instrument very well mimics owl cry is 10/10) and Extra Boss’ theme. Other than that I personally feel this album is kind of uneven and I still can’t get into “Última Presto '' or “Justice For the One and Only”. The character designs are pretty darn good, but they can borderline on weird or not exactly working with ZUNart (as seen with stage 1 boss).
1 エモーショナルな低次元への憧憬By Burnyuho
2 平和主義者の大君
3 他人の不幸は飴の味
4 もう手紙は送らない
5 デザインドネオン
6 不死なる救済者 ～ Undead Death
7 善意を騙る哄笑
8 創世神は忘れない ～ Memory of Desires
9 黒白の巫女は瞳を瞑り
My Rating: B+
A lot of songs are pretty solid, but I don't feel any special connection with any of these so far. "善意を騙る哄笑" has this really nice mix of electric music mixed with good ole' orient, but it ends before it gets more melodic. It's good, but I probably prefer Burnyuho's other works and lack of arrangements to anything I knew or feel familiar also kind of prevent me from indulging into this one.
1 幻想のリフレーミング - 風雲By thyumenikki and multiple people
2 永遠の春夢 - Burnyuho
3 幽霊楽団 ～ Phantom Ensemble - ラルム
4 ネクロマンテイオン - 或兎
5 不朽の曼珠沙華 - 朧月
6 顕世に伝う異聞奇譚 - 古明地かなで
7 鶴の千年、亀の万年 - あめん
8 法界の火 - えばん
9 カミオカンデの波 - DO
10 花は幻想のままに - こまいぬ
My Rating: B+
I want to know how on earth I went by this album without giving it a proper listen. So many good arranges including Doremy's and Prisrimriver Sister's theme. Overall a very solid and dreamlike hifuu album.
My Rating: B+My old write-up
What a surprise, this actually got finished! I don't think any demo songs got changed or at least the update isn't as noticable as with SSaFE. I do actually prefer boss themes in demo, but stage themes in stages 4-6 so this checks out. Stage 5 boss' theme is also once again kind of similar to the leitimotifs SHO used before, especially LDQ, but this is probably the best variation of said leitimotif and execution, I do wonder what's up with that though.
I do think SHO should attempt making collab album again next though. He's a great solo man, but unlike a lot of artists who don't do well with collabs, his only attempt is still by far one of the best collabs out there and his best work, so there's that, just a penny for your thought, AoD is very solid nonetheless.
My Rating for the demo: B-
A music album supposed to mimic a full game by SHO with his own franchise (8th part Aogami Project?), which as far as I know has been cancelled/never finished. I’m not covering prior ones because as far as I know the quality is either worse or they were actual video games before having their OSTs dumped on YT. Anyways, AoD is really good for a demo OST, especially Boss tracks, with 2 and 3 being incredibly catchy albeit simple. Not exactly a fan of stages, especially the third stage’s theme. The character designs are different from Touhou, but they are nowhere near HoSS’ abominations and the artstyle’s alright. Wish that SHO would release the rest of this, because even if this isn’t his best work, it’s still a hidden gem!
01 Archipelago Mission ~ Dawn of our Destiny ( 匙星 )By 夢想吟遊詩人 (Dreamer Bard)
02 Tectonics Museum (Pesot.jp)
03 A Nightmare World You've Never Seen Before ( 桐生 )
04 The Original Scenery of Japan Seen by a Girl ( 古山キリヲ )
05 A Warm Inn in the Cold Hakuba (Prism)
06 False History of a Black Shadow ~ Excluded Cyclops ( 壱太 )
07 Izanagi Fantasy (水月)
08 Last Occultism ~ Esotericist of the Present World (壱太)
09 Geo Poetry ~ Poetry of the Earth (しゃわ)
10 Hellfire Mantle (Pesot.jp)
My Rating: B+
This one I was expecting to enjoy more than I actually did, because both the subject matter, the arrangements and the atmosphere is more in my style. Even arranging one of the OG fanmade character's themes! Except, I honestly felt said arrange kind of lost the flavor of the original. I also think this album is another example of 'Too many cooks spoil the food', which honestly slowly becomes a mantra of mine when it comes to larger circles, since my favorite ones from Dreamer Bard's were mostly made by either Ryuuou or Pesot. I will say that "Geo Poetry" is a massive banger that makes this album worth it by itself, but there are other powerful tracks, such as Hellfire Mantle's arrangement that starts and ends off with nuclear vibes.
EDIT: Increased rating to B+, didn't realize I love Sumireko's theme arrange this much including couple of other originals and intro song too!
1 祭囃子の音は遥かに - えばんBy えばん/MiragEden/Eban
2 憂鬱なペトリコール - 風雲
3 妖異達の通り雨 - えばん
4 万年置き傘にご注意を - えばん
5 待ちわびた逢魔が時 - えばん
6 芥川龍之介の河童 - えばん
7 ハルシネーションステラ - えばん
8 夜空に咲く泡影の華 ～ Ephemeral Dream - えばん
9 幽寂レトロニム - 望宙ゆず
10 祭囃子の音は静かに - えばん
My Rating: B+
First of albums by this composer and I must admit, it's kind of tough to review these albums despite waiting for so long for a chance to finally listen through them. The presentation of course is great and the first tracks are bombastic! However, as much as I really like the oriental instrumentation, I don't think this album puts it to best use and I'm also not fan of the choices of some of the arranges, while Kogasa's theme sounds fantastic, I swear I've heard almost the same variation of Candid Friend in previous albums I've covered. It's curious how this album includes Ephemeral Dream and I don't know if it's the original version or just a new updated version by Eban, but honestly this might be my favorite version of said track. I recommend this one to people who like quality over quantity and festive vibes, but also don't mind some of more modern Touhou style tracks.
My Rating: B+
It's actually two albums in one, one with theme of sea exploration and another focused on dreams, sort of like VD (which makes sense because it has Sumireko on its cover). There are few tracks in particular that feel really good and inspired, but most covers are IMHO downgrades here.
My Rating: B+
Very Rock&Rollish album from Useless/Ichigo-Paprika. With intro track probably being my favorite. It's not as memorable as Smells like Beer volumes, but you can probably get drunk to these vibes pretty easily as well.
①胎児へ戻る旅～Back to the Beginning(オリジナル)By 快晴 / Kaisei
②地蔵だけが知る哀嘆(アレンジ)
③ひも落とし、欠ける月(オリジナル)
④王女が愛した聖体拝領(オリジナル)
⑤逆転するホイールオブフォーチュン(アレンジ)
⑥ネバ―フローンバタフライ(オリジナル)
⑦近未来的モラトリアム回顧(オリジナル)
⑧禁断の扉の向こうは、あの世かこの世か(アレンジ)
⑨終わらない二人の未来年表(オリジナル)
⑩紅より儚い永遠(アレンジ)
My Rating: B+
Hifuu album with both arranges and originals. I like the mystic feeling of most of the tracks and I think it has one of the best arranges for HSiFS Stage 5 I’ve ever heard. There’s nothing wrong with it and if you have extra space for an album or two somewhere, this is very good background music for almost any activity, which is great for a hifuu album. Without any extra story of theming behind the hifuu album, I’m really at a loss for reasons to come back to this one or to come up with more things to say about this one, sorry!
01 裏道のハイカラ世界By Yurihaka
02 Voile, the Magic Library
03 スペクトル・シナントロープ
04 ガス燈の明かりに導かれて
05 穢れの歴史は忘却の彼方に
06 本と二人とティーカップ
07 煌びやかな腐敗
08 Spring Lane ~ Colorful Path
09 Cheat Against the Impossible Danmaku
10 幻想の四畳半主義者
11 木洩れ日さす窓
My Rating: B+
Despite being lower than the other Yurihaka's album, I still highly recommend it if only for the introduction song which is a massive banger that gets better with each listen. The arranges are on the weaker side, but some do bring something new to the table, especially EoSD's Stage 4 with more folky instruments. Good album to listen to when visiting a village, inn or whatever.
My Rating: B+
First of the trilogy by 旧雨忆梦幻想乐团 crew, this being definitely their weakest album, mostly inspired by eastern mythology and having very oriental OST. I really love the character designs and overall presentation, but a lot of songs mostly feel the same just by comparing final boss themes, you can tell the issue with this album. I don’t think the composers figured out what works for them with this one. It’s interesting how there are two sets of stage 3 bosses and EX stage themes, but that’s really it. I still think it’s worth DLing to see how much these composers improved, also a very slick final stage theme!
My Rating: B+
Technically these are just Imperishable Night OST tracks but in PC-98 style AND each track also mixes in aspects of Touhou 1-5 songs. For example, Night Bird has parts of Break the Sabbath or Keine's theme has parts earily similar to Rikako's theme. That does give this album a lot of nuance despite the appearence
My Rating: B+
With how much I adored volumes 1&2, 3&4 have a noticable issue in feeling kind of unfinished and while it's obvious what first two volumes were supposed to be, I didn't feel that with the latter two. I will give it that each volume has at least one absolute banger. With 3rd volume having simple. catchy yet inspired "P-0002-2000" for the superior moth girl and I think it's meant to be a stage 2 boss? 4th volume has very short, but very ellegant "終焉の霽月" which would work/I think is intended as a stage 4 boss' theme. Some other tracks do stand out, especially due to modern and experimental percussion. it is also interesting how vol. 3 starts off with arranges of MoF's stage 3.
My Rating: B+
Despite the cover and intro track not being most inviting, this is a really good hifuu-style album. Lost River, Fly Over Hatoyama at Night or SA stage 3 theme arranges are grand and original tracks do get better over time in this one.
01 Uninvited Guest ~ The Destruction of GensokyoBy Pouty Keiki
02 Burnt heart ~ Lost in the maze of emotion
03 Draining your life!!
04 The Secret Wind Tunnel
05 Answer of the wind ~ Winds up!!!
06 Red Illustration ~ Fire of Eternity
07 The red fire of resentment
08 The Right Path ~ Destined Destination
09 Thought of the Creator and Destroyer ~ The Amethysia age
10 Trapped Souls and a Poor Girl ~ Crying Wasteland
11 Cicada's incantation of Realization.
12 Until the peace comes to Gensokyo ~ Dream Battlefield
13 Victims deities ~ A god who dives into the path of darkness.
14 True ending
15 Spiritual Technology
16 The Last Revenge of a Vengeful Spirit
My Rating: B+
Despite some issues related to author's previous album and the theme just being elements, this is an amazing improvement, where the composer has decided to include more mockup screenshots, Monalisa (artist help) redrew the designs into something much more pleasant looking, they've included full profiles in videos, but the composer also has stepped up their game, especially when it comes to their trumpet and especially (https://youtu.be/fU0-_jAyb04?si=ymVuParLg4bI49Br)guitar (https://youtu.be/gz_YDgzhrwg?si=T8Ft0kgLvWnx9UeC). While in the previous album, I had an issue with the majority of songs, this time, every single one at least has a section that is really good, best example being Final Boss' theme, which despite pretty meh buildup and intro, has just this beautiful trumpet climax. Oh and of course the first boss is once again one of the best themes.
DISC1:By 夢想夏月郷
1.麗らか女中日和（風雲）
2.不完全な妖精メイド達の毎日（DO）
3.従全十美クリーンナップ（こまいぬ）
4.断崖を征くルナティッククライマー（山椒魚）
5.Eternal Blood ~ Dusk Moon（Kale Hakaido）
6.A Maid from a Strange Turntable World（KR.Palto47）
7.千古の地底宮殿 ～ Historical Maid Territory（壱太）
8.地を這う脈動、龍の心臓（あめん）
9.The Housemaid who Strives - Deity's Burden（ISMTUD）
10.オレンジペコと霧時雨（SHO）
11.お菓子と紅茶、午前2時（えばん）
DISC2:
1.蜿々は、十六の夜に ～ Valet's Silver-Eyes（妖琳さん）
2.夜伽幻想～日替わりの御主人様に口付けを（或兎）
3.スーベニアオブネザーワールド（Burnyuho（うづきねい））
4.しがない雑務係（ｻﾞﾃ）
5.冥土の従者（N4）
6.永劫に近しき時でさえ ～ Unbreakable Heart（ラルム）
7.vieux reves, fantasmes oublies（Artifex）
8.機械少女 ～ Logical blues（藤酉）
9.Daily Life of a Melancholic Maid（PopCat）
10.Red-Blood Service ~ Maid Business（FanTouhouMusic）
11.瀟洒な従者の忙しない日常 ～ With Fairy（音屋のばけばけ）
12.ティータイムには懐旧談を ～Afternoon maiden（みちぇ）
DISC3:
1.風歌の裏庭（こをり）
2.ブラッドメイデン（わほた）
3.えっちなのはいけないと思います！（翡翠）
4.Cafe-Sunrise（ivanlychkov）
5.ぽん・しゅわ・ぎたー（雨水）
6.オーダーメイド・メイデン（古明地かなで）
7.Dedicaed Housekeeper（Broken Moon）
8.空疎なる箱庭の侍婢（凹山）
9.あなたに笑顔を返した日 ～ After Moon Tea（翡翠）
My Rating: DISC1 - A, DISC2 - B+, DISC3 - B+ = B+
A collab album which from my understanding is based on the manga and anime series called Mahoromantic which is this sci-fi comedy series with ecchi elements, which I've tried watching for the sake of proper review. It's not exactly for me and I'm unsure if any of the tracks are arranged from the show or just something similar? They also might not just be referencing Mahoromantic, but also other series with similar vibes/genre, which would make sense given the Magia Magic album. I personally think that it starts with really good first impressions, but there's just so much of it that it gets a bit too chaotic.
That being said, I do like the idea of those crossover Touhou-style albums, makes me wish someone did something similar but with Utawarerumono, I do think that series has enough complex and fantastical tracks that would fit in Touhou-style already... but I'm getting off track. tl;dr it's a good album
By SHO
01 A Rainbow Falling on Gensokyo
02 The Shining Lunar Jewel, The Entrance at Evening
03 Rainbow Amuse
04 An Unending Perfectly Circular Waltz
05 Red Light Legacy
06 Rainbow Illusional Ray
07 Mesmerizing Flapper Girl
08 Otherworld Bridge Dashing Through Heaven
09 A White Rainbow, If It Pierces the Sun ~ Poor Little Innocent
10 Sukhavati of Endless Madness
11 Dishonest Gambler
12 Daydreamers
13 Only the Universe is an Equal World ~ Marketism in a Circle
14 The Animals' Dazzling Rainbow
15 Cloud-minded Moon-natured Anonymous ~ Just be your Fave!
16 A Routine Lacking Saturation
17 Rising with the Rainbow
My Rating: B+
Touhou-style album by SHO with characters for the first time drawn by him as well. It’s pretty good quality wise, but I must admit, outside of “Mesmerizing Flapper Girl” and “The Animals' Dazzling Rainbow” which sound like “Smoking Dragon” and WBaWC EX stage on steroids, I didn’t really feel like much of it has left THAT much of an impression on me compared to his previous work. I feel like it all just sounds too “fake happy” almost the entire time? Even with Stage 4 boss theme, which has an amazing intro, but the rest of the song is way too massive of a departure for me. It’s still quite good and I do like the character designs and their colours despite the simple ZUNart.
My Rating: B+
A mini album PoB with all tracks being originals and its pretty darn good! Makes me wonder how their game and its OST will turn out if I personally prefer their original stuff to their arranges, although they seem to be more focused on the latter.
01 Forbidden Spell CardBy Jani
02 Rainy Forest ~ Even in Summer?
03 Immeasurable Rain
04 Scent of Past Leaves
05 Call of the Leaves
06 Sea of the Final Decision ~ Deep Mystery
07 Duel Between the Barrier ~ Breaking the Limit
My Rating of the 2016's Demo Ver: B+
Despite the simplicity of the designs and songs, I must say, I've always had a soft spot for this one simply because I've been coming back to it for so long, it was also made before we have other fanmade Touhou-style modern albums showcasing post-GFW music. As for the actual pros, the stage 3 alone, which even nowadays sounds great and reinforces one of my favorite tropes, that being "this could easily be a final stage/boss, but not this time". Also decent guitar and trumpets mixing, I really hope the new version won't disappoint me.
tracklist:By Ido and Wanwan
01 夢澪標 ～ Affective Ocean
02 53ミニッツの青い海
03 ミストレイク
04 比翼連理の籠を発ちて
05 グラスハートシュバリエ
06 大神神話伝
07 カイトフライト ～ Winging into Ancient
08 レトロスペクティブ京都
09 歴史から消された姫君
10 ワールドヤマタイザー
11 幻想国家黎明 〜 Prayer Player
My Rating: B+
Kaisendo team's very first album, which has only like 3 tracks by Wanwan and the rest are by Ido.
Firstly I highly recommend you checking it out if you're a fan of Riverbed Soul Saver, especially seeing as Stage 4-6 boss' themes got arranges in this. You'd expect the best tracks being by Wanwan, but honestly, I do think Ido carries this album, with third track being fantastic, Prayer Player's arrange mixing in both Ido's original version with Wanwan's updates in RSS pretty nicely to create a nice melancholic piece. Wanwan's stuff is by no means bad, they just feel like something for Trifocuser 2, take it however you will.
1. Overture of the Sprites
2. Pastorale of Grey Water ~ Long for homeland.
3. Duet of Bird and Beast
4. Passion of a Sweltering Day
5. March of the Blacksmith in the Turmoil's Center
6. Rondo of the Sacred Gold Mine
7. Waltz of the White Mallet Rabbit
8. Chorale of the Basilica di San Cristisia
9. Intermezzo of the Five Elements' Revival Sprites
10. Nocturne of the Bakeneko Tribe ~ Abyssal Xanadu.
11. Nursery Song of Chief Nekomatsu
12. Oratio of the Five Elements' Five Peaks
13. Quintet that Resounds Atop the High Summit ~ Elemental Quintet.
14. Finale of the Sprites
15. Fantasia of the Maidens
16. Score of the Players
My Rating: B
A Touhou game mimicking album (without EX stage, there was one made by a third party, but I don’t recommend it) with music composed by Tokiko Tatsunagi and story written by OyasuMilka (writer of Kaisendo Team’s games and others), dunno’ who the artist behind artwork is, sorry. This project’s biggest musical strength can also be considered its cons, almost every song sounds like a church psalm to an extent. It works amazingly with songs like “Waltz of the White Mallet Rabbit '' which is probably the sole reason to get this album, but it can get old fast. I also feel like Stage 4/6 Boss Themes have an amazing setup, but not quite there climaxes (or with Intermezzo’s case specifically, the bridge part is so short despite being the best part). It’s still great and I’m glad it’s no longer considered a lost media.
My Rating: B
A short hifuu-style album, with completely non-Touhou-style arrange of Jelly Stone being my favorite from this alongside intro track.
01 Fragrance of the TideBy kirbio
02 The Festival Starts Today
03 Nocturne of the Swelling Celestial Tides ~ Aflame Inviolable Illusion
04 Ridicule Rondo ~ Sneer of Woods
05 The Colorful Maiden, Through the Colorless World
06 Lazy Sands of Nakanotorishima
07 Alleyway of Roaring Waves
08 Footprints of Trieste
09 Undying Flower ~ Immortal Lotus
10 Touhou Red Kappa ~ Interactive Dream
Bonus Track: The Clamor of the Festival Echoes Distantly
My Rating: B
A hifuu club album with arrangements of existing fanmade Touhou tracks by kirbio, who is more well known for his work western fangames as well… on Silvagunner. Honestly I actually prefer his work to the latter and I symphatize with the dude on trying to make fan made tracks such as Ridicule Rondo (by Misora) get more popular with the western audience as well. I also do respect him to even make cover art for his own album, but I’d be lying if I wasn’t honest that kirbio’s composing work is better than his drawings and artstyle, at least I don’t find it appealing. I do like the selection of tracks here, either from fangames like Marine Benefit, to even arranging the song that plays during Kaisendo Directs! It’s pretty solid and styles are varied, but I usually prefer the originals.
My Rating: B
I’m incredibly biased and it’s purely this high because it has Tiny Shangri-La arrange in it, but besides that, it’s alright.
01 海の波が天辺に伝わる～Sea wavesMusic composed by SKJD-X
02 夢の海の始まり～Dream start
03 聖海の神話伝説～Legend of holy sea
04 聖傁誾海の贈り物～Gift of God
05 海の幻想伝説～Legend of the sea
06 水底海草の踊り～Dance of seaweed
07 悠々便前人格たる海底回廊～Submarine corridor
08 廊下の果て，分岐した世界～A divided world
09 広大な海底の大世界～Underwater world
10 暗黒の水底，どこ唤に光明があるか～Hearts of Darkness
11 今日の終わりの明るい猖螶世界～End the light
12 生命の贈り物，すべての涋渷碨栐始まり～the origin of life
13 狂瀾伝説～Rhapsody of Shark
14 海底の魔力伶大都市～War-Gods of the Deep
15 海底は幻のシロナガスクジラ合议用身石の夢を見る～Blue whale
16 海底を飛び出し，空に向かって飛ぶ～Break through difficulties
17 幻の天辺は今何ですか？～A horizon that no longer exists（A)
18 幻の天辺は今何ですか？～A horizon that no longer exists（B)
19 海の向こう側にある～The horizon of the sea
20 海面が穏やかな時～The sea is calm
21 海底の幻水側～On the water side
22 結果直象特流幻録～Player's Score
My Rating: B
An album hosted on Netease Music from the Chinese side of the fandom. It’s much more of a departure from the traditional OSTs, with the final boss’ theme being the best example, over how loud, electronic and different it sounds. Said example and Stage 3 boss’ theme are my favourites from it, but ngl I have trouble finding other tracks memorable for a variety of reasons. If you do like Touhou games’ OST structure, but you want something different, this is a good choice.
①Thanatosical SickerBy Kaisei
②LSD-25の魔女
③夜毎憂愁な籠の鳥
④べドラムの狂者塔 ～ Insane Tower
⑤フィリップ・ピネルによる人道的解放哥
⑥玲瓏たる鐘の音は ～ My Dear Days
⑦それでも死に征く愛おしい君へ
My Rating: B
DiPP-style album, which interestingly is labelled as #0 out of the artist. It’s pretty melancholic and it’s all originals. That being said, it works mostly as background music and it captures more of a ZUN’s Strange Works rather than DiPP-style personally, but that’s just my opinion. I weirdly enough like the compositions, just not the style it’s sold in, but that might be because there are so many other Touhou-style albums already trying this same thing.
Tr.1 出会いと始まりの魔法乙女 (by NED)By 夢想夏月郷
Tr.2 彼等のために、狂おしいほどの瞬間を (by 古明地かなで)
Tr.3 ルーファルマジック (by 200yen)
Tr.4 マジカルウィッチクラフト (by 壱太)
Tr.5 Holic Spider (by 翡翠)
Tr.6 魔法の雪で凍てつく前に (by 翡翠)
Tr.7 マジカルキューティーガール (by きさらぎ)
Tr.8 Psychic Dreamer (by sou1)
Tr.9 ある魔法使いの断片的な記憶 (by 濟藤もえぎ)
Tr.10 ル・シエル・ブルー〜Magical flight! (by こまいぬ)
Tr.11 不思議でステキな魔法 (by こをり)
Tr.12 桃色の香り、潤んだ青空 (by 翡翠)
Tr.13 lain (by 翡翠)
Tr.14 平安の魔術師 (by わほた)
Tr.15 忘れられた魔法の詩 ～ Fairyland (by 風雲師匠)
Tr.16 涙 ～ Puella Magi of Tears (by 翡翠)
My Rating: B
A crossover album with Madoka Magica and other anime/manga series from Denpa genre. I know that, because one track reference Serial Experiments Lain pretty strongly. I'm not a Madoka fan, in fact, I'm more of an antifan of it, but I sure love SEL and Denpas in general so I've decided to give this one a shot and it was worth it if only for Track #14, which is glorious. Weirdly enough the Lain track I feel takes the electrical pole music too seriously and most of the album is stuck in a limbo between sounding cute or ominous, but it doesn't really hold attention for long. I'd still recommend it though.
1. The Theorists' Interpretation of "Fantasia"By Akakyu / Aka Kyuketsuki
2. Refreshing Earth of Krummholz
3. Hidden Under the Willows ~ Ancient Backwoods
4. Curious Capital of Sheen and Beauty
5. Orwell's Quarantined Utopia
6. Undecided Fate of the Altered Strings
7. A Maiden's Nonsensical Bunraku
8. Diamond Tears in the Palace
9. Unseen Madness
10. Two Snowflakes Wafting Above One Big World
My Rating: B
A Hifuu-style album made by Akakyu, the main dev and artist behind the still upcoming fangame - Unification of The Artful Rain, which I wish her all the best with. Technically she did upload UoTAR's OST back in 2015 as a Touhou-style album and similarly to TLC, the she did revamp the OST for the demo and upcoming release, however for now I'm not going to rate the 2015's version because I do want to wait and hear how at the very least Final Boss' theme compares to original composition.
I'm focusing so much on UoTAR instead of Traces, because not only a couple of tracks in Traces are already taken from UoTAR and revamped, it also does feel like those are the two best examples of Akakyu's work besides couple of their tracks for GoDS and WWW fangames ("Kadath, the Giant Castle of Dreams" is my favourite song from them btw). There's this tense yet fantastical mood in most of them, some of the might seem 'too jolly' or just typical fanmade Touhou-style nowadays, but if you'll enjoy at least a couple of tracks from Traces I can guarantee you will like Akakyu's other stuff, believe me (https://youtu.be/R66vsjyeGXY?si=kg-Ud9JZWX05F9e6).
My Rating: B
I was just browsing playlists and found this little gem. Basically, the it's the OST of the first Plants vs. Zombies game, but in Touhou-style. I honestly enjoyed it and surprisingly a lot of Laura Shigihara's stuff works surprisingly well, at least given the direction.
01 晩秋、去るかアキアカネ (Stage 1 Theme)By SHO
02 百国集聞ゆめものがたり(Stage 1 Boss)
03 宵闇はサーペントネスト(Stage 2 Theme)
04 辺境のカドプレパス (Stage 2 Boss)
05 ゲリラ・ザ・ビースト (Stage 3 Theme)
06 鬼裏問の三獣 (Stage 3 Boss)
07 酔いどれ水夫の仙境自慢～Dreamy blossoms (Stage 4 Theme)
08 桃源郷出生奇譚 (Stage 4 Boss)
09 地獄変より (Stage 5 Theme)
10 赤鬼様が嗤ったら～Iron ruler (Stage 5A Boss)
11 青鬼様が泣く頃に～Red Demon and Blue Demon (Stage 5B Boss)
12 鬼在らずとも鬼城山 (Stage 6)
13 赤鬼様が嗤ったら～Iron ruler(last_boss ver) (Stage 6A Boss)
14 青鬼様が泣く頃に～Red Demon and Blue Demon(last_boss ver) (Stage 6B Boss)
15 虹の入江のカンパネラ (Stage EX)
16 さらば、流浪の宮人よ～Akashic gate keeper (Stage EX Boss)
17 千夜御伽草子 (Ending)
My Rating: B
SHO’s album with a main gimmick being there are two Stage 5 and 6 boss sets and themes and the both of the Stage 5 bosses can act as Final stage bosses and have their theme upgraded. It’s a cool idea and this album does have some bangers, such as the aforementioned “Iron ruler(last_boss ver)”, both Stage 3 themes if you like garage rock guitar sounds and I could argue both Stage 4 themes are good depending on the mood. Sadly I don’t really care for most of it. Probably weakest EX Stage out of SHO’s work too, even if part of EX boss’ theme is literally 1:1 HSoB’s EX Stage Boss, but I don’t blame the guy here.
01.地底の奥深くへBy Ichita
02.闇に紛れて
03.青火の白花鳥
04.底深き大沼
05.クレストカープ
06.鬼が住む大きなお城
07.不滅のゲートキーパー
08.まつろわぬ片雲
09.青碧の悪鬼
10.真っ赤に染まりし清流
11.阿曽媛物語 ～ Prayer of sadness
My Rating: B
Very SA-stylized album, which I know almost nothing about other than it starting off normally with the first "main menu" theme, has traditional 4 stages and boss themes and then 2 more boss themes? Kind of weird, and the original demo's album seems to have been cancelled, alongside the character designs, but at least they've released the songs on Nico and YT. For me personally the 5th and 10th tracks are the biggest bangers, the first one (Stage 2 boss' theme) starting with classy piano and evolving into a super intimidating piece that I could definitely see ZUN including in TH10-12. That being said I'm not the biggest fan of that Touhou-style period and then there are pieces such as the Stage 4 boss theme that starts off amazing, but get lost alongside the road.
1 明澄のスターリーナイトBy Lapisp
2 宙を映す水面の記憶
3 神話幻想 ～ Infinite Being
4 リュヌレジュレクシオン ～ 再び蘇りし少女
5 裏側の太陽
6 緋き星辰のカプリチオ ～ the Prosperous Must Decline
7 ロジカルサーキュレーション
8 秘封俱楽部はアンドロメダの夢を見るか？
9 車椅子の未来宇宙
10 銀河鉄道１番線 ～ To the Pleiades
My Rating: B
Happy that Lapisp has released this one for free (now waiting for the other albums) since I was really curious about this one. Was pleasantly surprised by the quality of arrangements such as Shinki's theme or Future Universe of Wheelchair. I think the latter originals are definitely stronger than the early ones.
1.Monjudo Keepers (ND mix)By NED
2. Extolment of Shancai Tongzi ~ Bubbling Imaginary Treasures (ND mix)
3. Gandhara’s Utopia (ND mix)
My Rating: B
A short album consisting of arrangements of all songs NED composed for OCs in BIT fangame. While I’m not the biggest fan of BIT or its OST, this album casts a new light towards those songs, made me appreciate piano sections in Final Boss’ theme, reworks Wukong’s theme slightly and adds more meat to the oni duo.
My Rating: B
This being Orange's second album I've listened to, they did seem to improve a lot from previous one in a lot of places, with way better art and more songs that actually stuck with me. Instrumentation is also better, however, this album seems to have a major issue I don't see often, tracks are too long before they loop with not enough variation in each section, which for an album that mimics actual game's OST is a weird problem to have, especially noticable with EX Boss' theme, which is great and has amazing climax, sadly, it requires almost an entire song to loop twice with barely any differences on second loop, down to the point that arranges of it only arrange the part without climax. I also think that while final boss' theme is epic, I don't understand why there are two versions of it, why is the intro repeated so much and why did it need so many people working on it, again, felt like too many cooks spoiled the food, but other than that, it's solid.
01夜空のミステリー/もえぎBy Komainu_Inu
02悲願の花-考子桜/神月ステラ
03寒昴/もえぎ
04孤独なる空に向かって/神月ステラ
05エンシェントロア/こまいぬ
06永訣のプロキオン～Obedient Dog/神月ステラ
07Donnerschnee -雷雪-/もえぎ
My Rating: B
I remember being surprised Komainu had first released their album for free and then they started charging, especially seeing as I do think YTTBC despite the weird name is their second best stuff. It's short, it's atmospheric, but mostly DiPP-style, it's classy, y'know how it goes.
1. Re: Ibutsukan (*Reliquary Museum) ~ Memory of PortraitsBy Burnyuho
2. Re: The Art Museum is Alive
3. Re: Phantom Figment Girl ～ Mary Sue
4. Re: Countdown to Heartbreak
5. Re: Blue Rose Knight ～ Forgotten Portrait
6. Re: Atop Scattered Flower Petals
7. Re: Memento Memory ～ Inanimate Bloom
8. Tea Party in a Picture Frame
9. The Paintings Dream of the World Outside ~ Memento Dream...
My Rating: B
Crossover album of Touhou and classic RPG Maker horror game - Ib! Features 3 stages with each having a boss depicting a different protagonist of said game and each track is inspired by OST of Ib, but with Touhou style. It's not Burnyuho's best, even though I do really like ib, it's just that I don't think Ib's OST has enough potential to be turned into a project like this, with some of the tracks basically rearranging the same leitimotifs (both stage 2 themes use Gary's theme and both Main Menu, final boss' theme and credits' use Ib's Main theme) however, there are some surprise bangers like "Re: Atop Scattered Flower Petals" which takes this basic and tense theme from Ib and actually makes it works as a final stage's theme.
My Rating: B
1. Useless – "Let's Begin"
2. Sajiboshi – Ghost Scapegoat
3. Useless – Midnight Spell Card (Remix of Touhou 14.3's second scene theme)
4. Koori – Toward the Paradise Floating in the Sky
5. Useless – Distorted Division (Remix of "Smells Like Beer vol.1" Track 5)
6. Yoiyami – Rainy Fairies' Diary
7. Amen – Nogama's Whirlwind
8. Larum – Empty Vision
9. Larum – Incomplete Memory
10. Boga – Alice in Wonderland (Remix of Touhou 5's extra stage)
11. Yoiyami – Love Is More Scarlet Than Scarlet ~ Scarlet Rhapsody
12. Tokimigusa – Step-by-Step Stroll
13. Oborozuki – Bibliophile with a Deciphering Eye (Remix of Forbidden Scrollery's bonus CD track 1)
14. Useless – Everlasting Red Spider Lily (Remix of Touhou 17's stage 3 theme)
15. Muisu – Untitled
16. Useless – Freeze Sign "Ultimate Freeze"
17. Koori – Vǫlva's Words
18. Amen – Watchdog of Gévaudan
19. Useless – Hellfire Mantle ~ The Deepest Sky (Remix of Touhou 11's stage 6 theme)
20. Eban – Dashing Through the Peaks of Clouds
21. Tokimigusa – False Strawberry (Remix of Seihou 1's stage 1 theme)
22. Useless – Shanghai Teahouse ~ Tea is Oishii. (Remix of Touhou 6's stage 3 theme)
23. Useless – Jellyfish Aquarium. (Remix of "The Scorching Wind Carried by Beasts" for Touhou 17, by Useless)
24. Useless – Demystify Scarlet
25. Fuun Shishou – Border Aureole
26. Eban – Cloudy Mirage
27. Useless – Spirit Sign "Freeloading Black-and-White Magician" (Remix of Tipsy Wanderings' Bar Old Adam track 4)
28. Useless – Beautiful Clothes, Autumnal Candles
29. Useless – Worship the God of the Everlasting World! (Remix of Touhou 16's Eternity Larva's theme)
30. Amen – Is the Gloomy Rain a Premonition?
31. Useless – XXXXX (Remix of “The Lèse-Majesté at [DATA EXPUNGED]", "Smells Like Beer vol.2" track 4)
32. Useless – The New Eighth Aerial Paradise City
33. Useless – Harmful Substance in False Structures
34. Useless – Be Careful Not to Doze Off
35. Useless – Thank You For Your Hard Work ~ Hard Worker
My Rating: B
It’s close to being three hours plotless album organised by Useless. As you can tell, the name of this album kind of fits and is one of my major issues with it, it’s so large, especially to listen to all of it and moreover, half of the songs in it just get lost in memory, even though I’ve tried evaluating the entire album several times now. A lot of songs like the first one also are either basic or just serve a purpose of blending into other songs, with very random consistency between artists and a lack of story or any visuals don't help with parts of it just not being memorable That being said, it’s no Travelogue of Bloat~ it does have some really quality tracks from each artist and some of the remixes are really obscure, but definitely welcomed. It does a solid job and I do recommend picking a couple of songs for your playlist at the very least.
My Rating: B-
You can tell the artist really improved since their previous work and I am more confident in recommending their latest track, this included. I also like the direction Stage 3 is taking, but I feel like the artist is still trying to figure out where they work best I guess. I still don’t feel this percussion, bassline and lead work together as can be noticed in stage 1 boss theme, but I do hope post stage 3 will experiment with different styles more.
01 Dreams as Old as Time (by Kale Hakaido)
02 Eren Like Avocado (by Orange)
03 Sameimaru Akika's Theme - Falconer's Whistle (by Kale Hakaido)
04 Seeding the World ~ Fraternal Forest (by Kale Hakaido)
05 Sanyoki Kuro-ko's Theme - Intimidation of a Fool (by NED)
06 Village-like Cat's Footsteps ~ Not Real (by Orange)
07 Mairu Goutokuji's theme - Boundary Between Reality and Fantasy (by Yutong Chen)
08 Spring Festival Atmosphere (by FanTBS)
09 Akuma no Hana & Kishin Yoko's Theme - The Lovely Girl Hides Cruelty (by Orange)
10 Festive Walk Through the Dark ~ Jubilant Road (by Yutong Chen)
11 Sameika Tensho's Theme - Festive Drums ~ Spring Dance (by Kale Hakaido)
12 Meer Der Erinnerung (by Orange)
13 Jina Kasaga's Theme - God's Hand Relying on Dreams (by Orange & Kale Hakaido)
14 Dense Forest (by Asumerday/summer)
15 Natachi Suruika's Theme - Clockwise ~ Little Witch from The Dream (by too many ppl to list)
16 Ending Theme (by Orange)
17 Staff Roll Theme (by Orange)
18 Dark Soul (by Orange)
19 Hako no Shoujo's Theme - The Ark of Death ~ Humanity (by FanTBS)
My Rating: B-
One of the first albums I’ve learned of/from/organized by Orange/WhiteBlugt. It does feature one of my favorite fanmade bangers, that being “Festive Drums ~ Spring Dance'' and also that one song by NED, but I honestly never really cared much for the rest of the songs. Clockwise feels like another one of ‘too many cooks that spoiled the food’ kind of deals. You’ll probably find something for yourself here since the styles are varied, but it’s also far from being consistent in my opinion.
My Rating: B-
An album consisting of original songs in PC98 style, arrangements and remixes like Septette for Dead Princess sounding earily similar to ...Asgore's theme from Undertale xD
It's all ending with super impressive arrange of Fires of Hokkai alongside Complete Darkness. Recommended, but I do feel like I need context for some of these choices.
1. An Unknown Red-Colored ArrivalBy FanTBS/FanTouhouMusic
2.A Red Evening with Fairies and Youkais
3.Bright Feathers ~ Little Sparrow
4.Reddish Misty Lake
5.Deep Mermaid of a Far Land
6.Bizzare Nights
7.Delusion Hibernation
8.A Hope Above the Dark Mist
9.Dark Cinderella
10.Melancholic Mansion of the Past
11.Red-Bloody Service ~ Maid Business
12.Soaring to the Red Full Moon
13.Agony, Bloodshed and Misdirection ~ Divine Revolution
14.A Reconciliation
15.Insane Whereabouts ~ Senseless Pathway
16.Aggression and Grim ~ Demon's Offensive
17.End of a Deal
18.When the Red Moon Sets and the Sun Rises in the Sky
My Rating: B-
Bigger and better album than author's previous one. Does feel a bit derivitive with character designs and you can tell the author really likes EoSD/FDF1 and wanted something similar for themselves. My favorite tracks being stage 2 boss theme and stage 5 theme despite the simplicity of both. I do like Final boss' theme and everything past that, but they can get especially repetitive. I still look forward to more stuff from the author despite the style and fonts not always being my cup of tea.
01 シャンゼリゼの盃」
02 そよ風が齎す静寂」
03 頭領の入り知恵」
04 一寸先は奇奇怪怪」
05ドランケンスネーク」
06 理想郷のアーベントロート」
07ヒラリアスゴースト ～ Shall we dance？」
My rating as of the demo: B-
Stage 2 boss and Stage 3 are bangers, but other than that, I must say this one has a lot of potential and really good instrumentation, knowing what it's about will probably help me appreciate it though, because currently there are just too many albums I prefer or remember about over this one. Normally I would shrug off stage 3 boss' theme, but seeing as the composer did make a Len'en arrange previously, then yeah, it's quite obvious? Unless it's just that much of a popular Engrish phrase in Japan.
My Rating: B-
A short and repettive album, but can be perfect for specific moods, intro song probably's the best one in here.
My Rating: B-
Very short (5 song, used to be 3, but now including everything in the playlist) makeshift album that is a crossover/tribute to game called Needy Girl Overdose
I really like the stage theme of it and both of the bosses have decent compositions and presentations. Not the biggest fan of the main menu theme. Not much else to say, I'm just happy Burnyuho tries more short projects like this
01. 梦纪行 by A.SAKACollab organized by RickyRickster, ft. akarinomiya_a, FanTBS and others
02. 化鸟之诗，流离于梦之旅路 by Muisu
03. 海波逐风流 by 灵空
04. 死出之山歌 ～ Ancient Nostalgia by FanTouhouMusic
05. 祇园花行路 by a100xiaoxue
06. 华尽染分恋语录 ～ A Fruitless Love by FanTouhouMusic
07. 雨月尽头的妄樱 by 某猹OS
08. 春花长留望月庵 ～ Drowning in the Spring Sky by FanTouhouMusic
09. 童戏御谣曲 by 龍騰-星夜
10. 梁尘醉狂歌 ～ A Lifelong Indulgence by FanTouhouMusic
11. 白峰漫想谭 by 穆然皎若
12. 鞠壶自有四方天 ～ アリ、ヤウ、オウ！by FanTouhouMusic
13. 僧耶魔耶 ～ Monk or Monster by 新月轩
14. 阳炎涅槃忏悔咒 ～ Confession or Curse by FanTouhouMusic
15. 荣花之色，明灭于幻之海空 by HP9
16. 日暮归倦鸟 ～ Meteor Dream by RickyRister
My Rating: B-
An album made as tribute towards Mystical Power Plant and its stage 4 boss, Tenmu. Beautiful character artworks and presentation, really enjoyed stage themes, especially 4th one being the MVP, however it does suffer a bit of sounding samey with bosses since FanTBS is working on them, so if this is your thing then probably you'll enjoy this one more. Again, it's alright, the presentation definitely carries it, but I rarely return to it since the songs itself didn't feel memorable enough.
1. 楽園巡行〜Far east paradise(始まりの桃の木)By Komainu_Inu
2. 涅色白胡蝶〜Black and white
3. 昭和15年の鹿鳴館
4. Polychronic Freaky
5. Deceptive Children
6. Magical Girl's Crusade
7. 夢少女は眠らない
8. 薄れゆく紅の散る頃に
9. 楽園の伝説
10. 踊り子ピエロ〜spectacle child
11. 西洋画に描かれた館
12. 魂の還ってくる日
13. Peaceful romancer
My Rating: B-
As it goes with the author, it's very Dolls in Pseudo Paradise / classical Touhou-style inspired through and through and it definitely does sound like something ZUN would put either mentioned album or in his "Strange Works' folder". That being said I don't think it's quite as good as the rest of Komainu_inu's stuff or as good as anything in Canvas of Music Coloured Winds. If you do really and I mean really love this style and classical music it might be much higher though, it's just that most of the tracks in this miss having much of an impact for me personally.
My Rating: B-Gensokyo Light Festival (Demo)
I really dislike the first track, which usually are the high note of Hifuu albums, but other than that, if you like Myaga's stuff, you'll enjoy this.
My Rating: B-
Very nice a serene demo with 4 stage tracks, two boss themes (third and fourth), main menu theme and credits, so being able to experience tracks out of order is a weirdly interesting way to promo your work. It does seem like the artist behind it has done so because they excel at mostly positive and brimming with energy tracks as opposed to something more intimidating, but if anything, that makes me curious how the final version will turn out.
01 Late Night Study with a Noble CatBy Popcat/Sodacat/Mike
02 Aboard the Ship that Sails the Air
03 Frozen Lamentation ~ Sub Zero Furnace
04 Cloaked Moon in the Sea of Leaves
05 Lonesome Maiden of Flowers
06 The Grand Estate of Dr. Latency
07 Lost Blossom Dancing in the Moonlight
08 Rem's Cycle of Nightmares
My Rating: B-
Hifuu-style album made by Popcat. It's not my favorite by any means but I really do enjoy the two arrangements from Paradoxical Esoterica and some of the latter songs in the album. Great to listen to at the peak of night.
1 曼然とした雛鳥のマンドリンBy Burnyuho
2 暴食妖精の美味しい恋（Full Version）
3 パピーテイルメイデン
4 大地に芽吹け、心の果実 ～ Apple Seed
5 未発見のアトリビュートエラー
My Rating: B-
Also a short and free (bless the artist) album by Burnyuho, showcasing I presume some unused songs and one she already posted on her YT. Special mention goes to 5th track, which despite starting off really strange, becomes this glorious composition I really wish would get remade for any game for a really hard Stage 5 Boss.
01「東方電脳海」By けっきー
02「虹の掛かる五線譜〜Rainbows Score」
03「メロディックダンサー」
04「雲影の揺らめき」
05「パズルオブドロップ」
06「空に開いた大海」
07 「防火壁のガーディアン」
My Rating as of the Demo: B-
Touhou-style album that is supposed to mimic games, with currently the only video on it that is available showcasing music up to Stage 3. It's mostly a standard faire and there are no OCs or characters shown besides Reimu, which is understandable. There isn't really much to say about this one except that: 1) stage 2 and 3 boss themes are quite interesting, former being quite a smooth yet emotional banger and the latter... sounds like a maniacal, chaotic yet funky composition with a possessed windpipe being the main instrument; 2) I do wonder how the name "Cyber Sea" will come into play.
My Rating: B-
A Touhou-style album, originally titled as Touhou 19 Land of Automatic Nirvana, which was supposed to be a prediction about what the 19th game would sound like, it was however TH19 was revealed to be a Vs. Game. For now the only Kale Hakaido's solo album here, mainly because I've tried to enjoy "Traditions of the Old World" and I disliked and "Izanagi World" didn't leave much of an impression on me either. Here however, even with some whacky sound mixing like with Stage 2 boss, Stage 1 theme being earily similar to this (https://youtu.be/sF3sS9hCQu8?si=6Pzvjt7pI6zzBdoE), there's some good stuff, like Extra boss being almost relaxing and yet catchy, the motif of technological progress being pretty well utilized and I do find stage 4 boss' theme "Army of workers" being incredibly catchy and inspired, we need more castanets in Touhou-style for sure!
Again, I really want to like more of Kale's work since they do seem to cheer on every beginning Touhou composer under their vids, even though I doubt we'll get along after my criticism of their stuff lmao
1. アイスの願いは叶うのか？By WhiteBlugt/Orange
2. Tonight! We Celebrate Christmas Eve on Cali
3. Ice Spirit in the Night Sky
4. 真夏に降る雪〜 Snowden (Chrismash Mix)
My Rating: B-
Very short minialbum from Orange prepared right before Christmas Season featuring some interesting two new tracks, one arrangement of an already existing track and an arrangement of a track that actually debuted with an album that appeared months later. I actually thought "Ice Spirit in the Night Sky" would've been a good early boss theme when I heard in this album, however it turns out it ended being an extra stage theme in "Twilight Zone Above the Clouds" where the track was remade and renamed into "Untold Story About Picturesque Sky" and both versions are unique and good! Not much else to say about this one, if you're in the festive mood I do recommend checking it out.
My Rating: B-
This isn't a Touhou album, but similarly to SHO's previous stuff, it's an album mimicking a game, with universes non-related to Touhou. I’m really torn with this one, mainly because some tracks not only have potential, but they sound great and distinguished! If you like Len’en series, but you want more bassy tracks, however this series is called, I can recommend it and I’m looking forward to hearing previous attempts from the creator. However, not everything works, for example Stage 5 theme just sounds terrible at some point and Stage 3 despite great motifs, uses basic MIDI flute which almost anyone can tell, doesn’t exactly enhance the experience. But for every failed attempt, there’s Stage 2 theme for example, which really, truly surprised me.
My Rating: B-
A microalbum with just two tracks and it's DiPP-stylized. Mainly the second track is quite famous and pretty great, with first one is more of a buildup with tense atmosphere, but kind of a weird melody.
1 永劫暮らしの唐傘お化け - 妖琳By Yorin
2 藪知らずの迷い路 - 妖琳
3 もう歌しか聞こえない - 妖琳
4 妖怪モダンコロニー - 妖琳
5 この枯れ果てた楽園で ～ who is dancing？ - アズレシアン
6 旧地獄街道を行く - 妖琳
7 寂寞幻想郷 - 妖琳
8 万年置き傘にご注意を - 妖琳
9 神が降らすは暗然たる秋霖 - アズレシアン
10 古きユアンシェン - 妖琳
11 素晴らしき孤独な楽園 - 妖琳
My Rating: B-
Newest Yorin album. It's really okayish. I feel like the drumkit used in a lot of tracks is distracting and most of the arranges are worse than originals or other fanmade arranges I've heard (Outside of Old Yuanxian which is pretty good in this), I also didn't find that many new tracks to be memorable personally and it does feel like this album just doesn't really have that much personality compared to author's previous two, even if I didn't fully get them, I still felt like they were about something or were related to the title. I will give it that it at least gets better over time and later songs did at least get my attention, last track is quite beautiful and utilizes erhu which, if you know me, I am biased towards.
1 栗花落の夜は上の空 -By Myaga
2 ラストリモート -
3 リドルストラクチャー ～ Inverted Square Pyramid -
4 針小棒大の天守閣 -
5 空中都市のリユニオン -
6 ワクワクする見慣れた幻想郷 -
7 広有射怪鳥事 ～ Till When? -
8 夢殿大祀廟 -
9 シークレットアーカイブス -
10 カマビストール ～ Soak in the Afterglow
My Rating: B-
Smaller hifuu album by Myaga, bonus points for a great arrange of "リドルストラクチャー ～ Building Beast " from PaH in form of "Inverted Square Pyramid" and weirdly enough it does feel refreshing to hear things like Youmu's original theme or "Last Remote" but with this mechanical, heavy drumkit and style. Again, not for everyone, but is for me.
1. The High-Schooler who Spirited Away in a DreamBy Paradise of Boundaries
2. The Forest of Once a Lovely Great War
3. The Hermit Who Leads to Salvation
4. The Road of the Misfortune God ~ Dark Road
5. Flowering Night
6. Multi Nature
7. Hiroari Shoots A Strange Bird ~ Till When
8. Unlocated Hell
9. The Hakurei Shrine Rests Among Havoc
10. The Concealed Four Seasons
11. The Lie that Nearly Sealed the Student's Fate
12. The Reiwa Era Students Walking Away From the Dream
My Rating: B-
Hifuu album from PoB, which I'm always confusing for Akakyu's album. It's alright, but a lot of the arranges in it aren't as good as the originals or don't improve on them and even despite its age, I struggle to find a reason to return to this album and its tracks.
From【DISC1】Big collab, published by Alice Magic, all people are listed
1.旧跡は洞穴の奥底に ～ immortal machine(アズレシアン)
2.デッドラインイブ(古明地かなで)
3.夢酔いピュアリーショット(ラルム)
4.アンステイブルワイナリー(壱太)
5.Dreaming Reality(Mike (PopCat))
6.山の暗い午後(Orange)
7.殺人者メリーの告白(あめん)
8.直到繁星的尽头(某猹OS)
9.不可侵の周回軌道結界(わほた)
10.白の高龍神社(DO)
11.The Voyager Lost in Ruins(Dr. Fishnberg)
From【DISC2】
1.朝逝く雲雀、青天を翔り(翡翠)
2.Emancipation 1/6(こまいぬ)
3.アストロノミカル幻想郷(妖琳)
4.宇佐見蓮子の木曜天国(えびない)
5.虚空の風に吹かれて(時見草)
6.The Idyllic Ride across the Endless World(ProfPrac)
7.未来科学世紀 ～ Future Ahead(音屋のばけばけ)
8.古き星は夜行く標となりて(雨水)
From【DISC3】
1.Flooded Shrine Where Magic Hides(ivanlychkov)
2.楽園至上主義者達の勘違い日和 ～ Secret Taboo(快晴)
3.ふたりの景色、ふたつの幻想 ～ Pale Lullaby(凹山)
4.廃都「深月」より(えばん)
5.怪奇伝言 ~ 0x486966752077616b6172616e(へるくん)
6.フェスタホリックヴェスパー(みゃが)
7.Yellow Flower～世界中の子と友達になれる(或兎)
8.Careless Travels of the Care-free Witch ~ Youkai Route(Zturtle)
9.曰く名残雨(風雲)
10.冥土の旅路や一夜塚(山椒魚)
11.科学世紀のジオトープ(藤酉)
12.鏡面上の魔女(よいやみ)
13.摩訶乙女と不思議な部屋(NED)
14.雨空の彼方へ(オボロチ)
15.Locus Amoenus ~ Green-White Love(RickyRister)
My Rating: Disc 1 - A-; Disc 2 - B; Disc 3 - D; Final Rating: B-
One of the absolute units of an album, with every track being unique to the album itself, this both makes it refreshing and poses a problem of it not being quite memorable and turning into quantity over quality. It starts off pretty good, with a good mix of both classic and modern Touhou-style, second disc is mixed, but then comes Disc 3, which if I had to rate it by its own, I wouldn't even put on this list nor I would recommend it. It actually hurt my ears and its obvious some of the tracks are made by newcomers using most basic MIDIs.
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U-01
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Booth: https://booth.pm/en/items/4001932
Youtube: https://youtu.be/LOEPm2J20f4?si=JvMGSgh7qF4w9Oak
Cheeky DL link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qKd0hxY97ViX4YnnAXfCZEUguReTvEKf?usp=sharingQuoteTrack List:By Useless/IchigoPaprika
・B-170i30「遡行」：惑星
・B-180g15「狂喜」：恒星
・B-171a03「散逸」：惑星
・B-180e20「揚々」：恒星
・B-180h23「常夜」：恒星
・B-170e14「最古」：惑星QuoteMy Rating: B-
I keep forgetting Useless made this. Not a single track is memorable, but they're not bad. I don't get the themeing behind it and it's weird that it can be bought, but also entire album is on YT and can be ripped from there. It's fine, although I feel like I need context for this one. And if you're reading this please go download Useless' Free-Use stuff instead, it's a too big of a thing to place and rate here, but there are some massive bangers there!
Awakening Deep Mythos
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YT Video: https://youtu.be/30Z7GJ1NFBY?si=7feIr2vWtzIVzy_N
DL: https://wookywok.itch.io/awakening-deep-mythosQuote1. The Shadow Over Gensokyoby Wookywok and DJThunderHeart
2. The Breeze That Unsteadies Gentle Waters
3. A Schooling of Strange Fish
4. Moonlight Through the Twisted Branches
5. The Cat Who Dreamt of Outer Space
6. Rainbow Grey Badlands
7. A Color Streaks Across the Spectrum
8. Mutating Deep Cavern
9. Sorrowful Cry of Southern Birds ~ Lament of Flesh
10. The World Where Logic Has No Claim
11. The Messenger From Deep Beneath
12. Black Stars in a Yellow Sky
13. Theater of Unspeakable Truths ~ Magnum Innominandum
14. The World of Fantasy Touched By the Unknown
15. See the Sounds, Smell the Sights
16. Well of Infinite Depth ~ Electric Onryo
17. The Slowly Healing WastelandQuoteMy Rating: C+
An album which features chiptunes on top of traditional Touhou-style synths and instruments. The positives for me are the Stage 3 and Extra Boss’ themes, which are pretty damn good, not perfect, but there’s a potential. That’s probably the word I’d use for this one, potential, because almost every other track feels like it could be better than they are, in fact FanTouhouMusic did rearrange some of the tracks, like Stage 2/6 Boss’ themes and they sound far, far superior. The chiptune album isn’t a bad idea either, I feel like it just wasn’t used properly. I don’t think creator of this should be discouraged though, they’re already good at writing good music. The art isn’t in ZUNart, but it’s not bad, the designs aren’t for me though.
Reawekening of Youkai Mountain
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Bilibili reupload: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Mg411X7cV/
DL Link(with all songs this time!): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-WVO1ezGx98XjcB5Ha8i14DTR_BOx5rE?usp=sharing
By Roka Enzaki/Team MystiqueQuoteMy Rating: C+
So this for years was meant to be a full western fangame, then it was cancelled due to drama and developer team not doing much/not getting along and turned into Touhou-style album, but now this has become an actual vaporware, possibly because of more drama. I've always been split in regards to this album, it's not bad by any means, I never really liked the ZUNart or most of the designs in this and similarly, I only think Extra Boss' theme and some of the Stage 1-3 themes were good, but I might be biased.
Stages 4-6 really like to introduce a bunch of whacky designs and songs that should be memorable, but I honestly always was reminded why I was never a huge fan of this album whenever I saw anything past Stage 3. It's just sad what happened to it. I never bought it so I've never listened to any additional tracks and arranges, so do keep that in mind.
Immense Will of a Thousand Swords
(https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0936449427_16.jpg)
Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/uihNLWAJ9os?si=hSORwGCnUR0_5LLE
Bandcamp: https://fantouhoumusic.bandcamp.com/album/immense-will-of-a-thousand-swords
DL link: https://fantouhoumusic.itch.io/immense-will-of-a-thousand-swordsQuote01 An Eastern Story from Another WorldBy FanTBS/FanTouhouMusic
02 Calming Rivers of Youkai Mountain
03 An Iwana's Deep Lecture
04 Little Spirits' Dance in a Steep Valley
05 Illusionary Trickster
06 Remote Mountain Cage
07 Awakening Mountain Beast ~ Oni's Wrath
08 Breezing Wind of Fallen Arrows
09 Beware of the Evil-Punishing Eyes ~ Purifying Sights
10 Behold as Oumagatoki has Come Again
11 Thousand Years Old Samurai Sword ~ Shimmering Blade
12 Futsunushi's No Man's Land
13 Warrior God who Wields Countless Swords ~ Immense Battle Force
14 End of a Battle
15 Where this Path will Lead Us to?
16 Emerald Warrior of Love and Hope ~ Glorious Battle
17 Behold as Hinode has Come AgainQuoteMy Rating: C+
Despite placing it lower I still have absolute respect towards its author and for the stuff they release, as well as for their overall taste in music and putting their inspirations front and center. Overall this album was more traditional with the fonts and instruments, but imho it lacked power compared to composer's more current releases. Personally I've enjoyed Stage 2 Boss and 3 Boss' themes the most. Later stages felt less inspired and more of a copy of something that already exists (although their next album was even more that) and I felt like these songs were more of a stitched together interesting remixes rather than its own thing, still, solid enough.
Ancient Power of Words (Demo)
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Download Link. (https://booth.pm/ja/items/3074000)
Crossfade (https://youtu.be/QGPBV-CcSzk) and artist's Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/user-264538247).Quote1. The Classical Word is Stronger than the SwordMusic composed by あまほ
2. Zhōngguó Fortress
3. Tàishàng Lǎojūn's Test of Strength
4. Free and Unfettered Journey of Love
5. Don Juan's Red Dream
6. Valiant General's Requiem
7. Crimson Rabbit (Long ver.)
8. Player's Score (APoW ver.)QuoteMy Rating as a demo: C+
Weirdly enough I love the author's instrumention, but not exactly what they always do with their work. For example, stage 3 boss' theme hits really hard, but it does feel like it gets way too repetitive. I do like few stage themes at least a bit to include it here and it does seem like the rest of the songs are already included on author's soundcloud, they just need to do the rest and update them.
Heavenly God War
(https://i.imgur.com/LISZlZC.jpg)
Youtube Playlist (with some unrelated videos at the end): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnctVcPjVhrQlF_yzIKOTC9iJ7gf-JyuD
DL link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yDXOH473DBYGQQLmDNQpgBArUtXrRyyb?usp=drive_link
By Pouty KeikiQuoteMy Rating: C+
The kinemaster logo in all of the videos. Official playlist having some unrelated videos. It's obvious that English isn't the author's first language. General amateurism related to some of the thumbnails, compositions and presentations. I'm starting with a heavy critique of PK's stuff, because despite all of it, I do find a couple of gems in their stuff here, like the Stage 1 boss theme in this which I wasn't expecting to be this smooth and catchy.
HGW is a fanmade Touhou album mimicking official games, but it's quite evidently has some nordic mythology roots and I'm not saying that just because one of the tracks is called "Yggdrasill's wrath" :cirnotan:
I do find it quite inspiring and while some tracks do use quite basic MIDI fonts that remind me of flash games, I do think Misma's theme is the only thing that comes close to SSS Kage's theme in terms of mischievousness.
Land of Fruits
(http://p2.music.126.net/mGeMjPDcZGISll4WUQ89tQ==/109951167128858830.jpg?param=600y600)
Site: https://music.163.com/#/djradio?id=967841662
DL link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CaRBVYFMhjISx-tNvv_-rI7cJ2m8qUtb?usp=sharing
By 吞了魔炮后就吃不下了吧-hpfQuoteMy Rating: C+
For now I’m only including two albums from this circle, because while I do agree, they certainly made an effort, I think the glory and fame is still even more effort before them… or at least they should change their instrumentalization. Especially the backing percussion, a lot of tracks just feel like they have so much filler and noise. While there are albums like Blue Moon Rhapsody or Seven Period Mystical, where the lack of characters is in fact a strength, because the music tracks are specific enough you can just close your eyes and imagine how characters, their personality and their fights look like, I can’t really do the same here, it all blends together pretty hard. I do like that EX Boss is nightmarish, but funky, as it tends to happen with most EX Boss themes, especially from Misora (which this track seems to be inspired by), but it’s hard to mess it up (surprised no one has coined the term Nightmarefunk for Hidden Boss theme ngl)
Daydream of Dozen Rose
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DL link: https://booth.pm/en/items/5683084
Cheeky DL Link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/5hv3hhw5ywsf2m2/
By Alice MagiaQuoteMy Rating: C+
Album supposed to be a crossover with Rozen Maiden series like a lot of Alice Magic ones. I mean, it's alright, works more as a background music than anything else IMHO.
Through Diffuse Reality
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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgKoynnsu9_g5c93-NTKVD1JgfZakFVwQ
DL link: https://ko-fi.com/s/15b039d56fQuote01. Midnight TripBy Jani
02. Labyrinth of the Lost
03. Sea of the Final Decision ~ Deep Mystery
04. Blazing Wings of Fate
05. Wild Vegetation ~ Prunus Profusion
06. Isolated Village ~ Vastity Breeze
07. Children's Nightmare
08. Timeless Dimension
09. The Forbidden Creation ~ Final Dimension
10. Our Reality ~ Imperfect World
Bonus Tracks
11. Void of Pure Catastrophes ~ Cataclysm
12. Tribal Dance of Beasts ~ Maleficent DanceQuoteMy Rating: C+
Only other full album made by Jani outside of currently unfinished EDoM, they did make a good track alongside Useless for Rapture of Khione, but the rest of the album wasn't anything that great. TDR is a pretty simple, if a bit bland hifuu album and it even teases both the Final Stage theme (which is interesting) and Final Boss theme (which I really hope will get a revamp because I can't follow it) for EDoM. Much like most of the hifuu albums, it is struggling for attention and with being memorable, because it neither doesn't feel like it has much of a theme and the tracks are alright, but try to be either too atmospheric or too experimental. It's not bad though, by any means and I do love the arrange of "Sea of the Final Decision ~ Deep Mystery", even if I still think I prefer the original.
Lunatic & Noisy Festival
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Youtube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOSvCoiSVzcQxf_5v32b50yN2N8R31rL-
DL link: https://omyaga.booth.pm/items/5038135
By Myaga
True Fruit of the Galaxy
Youtube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOSvCoiSVzcQODrSzmOrVX65s9_a7hqLb
By MyagaQuoteMy Rating: C+ for both
They’re both not the greatest from Myaga, with True Fruit getting better at the end, since those themes were composed last, you might enjoy it if you like either Izanagi Object or LoLK-style, but they’re rough compared to the rest of creator’s work, for sure. Also final track in Pursue the Truth is an arrangement of EX Boss’ theme from TFotG.
Desecration of the Dead
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DL link: https://booth.pm/en/items/5365219
By モン魔理 / 徒然なる境界線QuoteMy Rating: C+
Pretty weird free album that jumps between atmospheric pieces, to something like a pretty bangerish guitar piece, to some more basic pieces to an 8 minute monster that is Infinite Doll. I barely know anything about the author, but so far I'm pretty stoked to hear more from them, even though I'm giving this album a low rating for now.
Journey for Blood Substitutes
(https://d2pqhom6oey9wx.cloudfront.net/img_original/1298560141603e12e30709e.png)
Youtube Stages 1-3: https://youtu.be/FZo2rwbw2iU?si=ll6M5DyOLYSFTNeZ
Youtube Stages 4-6+EX: https://youtu.be/xLlG7TMA9s0?si=FnAwl72BYH2LuFVU
DL link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PF4zXxr-ciuL3_g15nLgr7wi0WkAyJoS?usp=drive_link
Site: https://privatter.net/p/6948078
By SHOQuoteMy Rating: C+
Out of all albums by SHO, this one is definitely the jankiest one and I wish it got remade one day. Probably the guitar and percussion are the biggest offenders, where you can hear they sound like they were taken straight from MUGEN, but the songs do definitely have a potential and I did enjoy how evil and funky Extra boss' theme sounds.
Eternal Childhood Dreams
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Booth: https://orangegood.booth.pm/items/5111130 (but you can't get it from there)
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0F_y9rbwMKWJzx_Bg0JqaSAiURTYDvqHQuote01.The forgotten fairy tale (Mania,Orange)By WhiteBlugt/Orange
02.Prebattle Act1 (Orange)
03.Snowball Fight ~ Chill (Overtale,Mania)
04.Imaginary Match of the Forerunner (summer,Orange)
05.Principle Breaking Sliver (summer,Overtale)
06.Prebattle Act2 (Anouid)
07.Darkness Mirror (Orange)
08.Immortal Body In Cherry Paradise (Orange)
09.Echo of a desperate maiden ~ jellyfish song (Orange)
10.Thousand Year Paradise That The Spring Covered ~ Living River (Orange)
11.a World Have No Enemy (Anouid)
12.Extremely Fair Magic Battle (Mania,Orange)
13.No way To Heaven (Orange)
14.Shanghai of Meiji 17 (Orange)QuoteMy Rating: C+
Pretty obvious this was supposed to be an album that mimics a Vs. Game and there are some inspirations taken from TH19. My biggest issue with this album is that everything in it feels like a prototype only to be seen and heard by author's close friends, the only canon characters in it being Reimu, Marisa, Aunn and Hong Meiling (with only Meiling getting an arrange) is weird, but not as weird as the designs of the new OCs, which suffer either from poor ZUN, uninteresting designs or DeviantArt curse. Music's alright, with "Jellyfish song" being my favorite simply because it reuses voice samples used in Zanmu's theme, but that's really it, sorry.
I do wish we got more albums in the style of Vs. Games and that this won't discourage anyone from attempting them!
Prosperity and Hunger
(https://booth.pximg.net/6219cbb8-856f-4e96-8ad3-b97840c297b0/i/3792376/c7606fe2-9181-436f-9de9-2927859cc33e_base_resized.jpg)
Youtube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOSvCoiSVzcSFFnEu0KsoV_5qho1ZBD2E
DL link/Booth: https://booth.pm/en/items/3792376Quote1 失われし生命の源By Myaga
2 情熱の咲く哀愁の空
3 サンシャインファルコン
4 トライデッドロード
5 スリーヘッズモンスター
6 オーガナイズドスレイバー
7 ドレッドファング〜 Power is Power!
8 緋色の冥土道
9 アポイタカラーキテクト
10 砂の吹き荒れるディストピア
11 リドルストラクチャー ～ Building Beast
12 日ノ神來タル宮 ～ Pyramid
13 王族黎明 ～ The Past Glory of the Suffering King
14 昏天黒地の大地
15 ヴィシャスエンペラー ～ Moral Harassment
16 空に煌めく太陽の船
17 暁色の帰り道QuoteMy Rating: C+
Myaga is a composer/artist that makes their own Touhou-style albums by usually slowly drip feeding stuff they made, with PaH being the first one I've discovered, since it was the first one to be uploaded on Booth. Because of that it does suffer from a lot of rookie mistakes, such as the tracks being a borderline cacophony or soundmixing not being as good as it is nowadays, it doesn't help that Myaga really likes Izanagi Object-esque drumkit and fonts and they can overwhelm for sure.
However I'm still including PaH here for several reasons. First being that it has actual bangers, such as "Building Beast" or "Moral Harassment", they might take a while to grow on you, but they will. Secondly, I do like and support this artist and they do still reference stuff they made earlier so it's worth checking it out for additional context. Third, I like the Izanagi Object drum kit, even when it's technically misused.
Sound"E"scapes
(https://booth.pximg.net/1ff7cc65-5871-497e-9079-4d1f429c3131/i/3227196/77a4294e-4c89-4d44-a2d7-f8497f76f139_base_resized.jpg)
DL link: https://booth.pm/ja/items/3227196
Cheeky DL link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oxnOLvpLJvbjoptZZSGbg2AnDeBke94T?usp=sharing
By UselessQuoteMy Rating: C
It's not terrible per se, but just... try listening to it. My favorite few tracks from it are repurposed from somewhere else also.
Champaign of Unfinished Dreams
(https://en.touhouwiki.net/images/thumb/8/81/CoUD_Jacket.jpg/900px-CoUD_Jacket.jpg?20211019191540)
YT video English version: https://youtu.be/F74eIwtA4Y4?si=0hc0geVEbl5BtNiR
Japanese version: https://youtu.be/mtnUHCsYuk4
Bandcamp: https://consonancesdissonances.bandcamp.com/album/champaign-of-unfinished-dreamsQuote01 Distant Paradise Seen in One's DreamMade by Consonances & Dissonances.
02 Unease Blowin' in the Wind
03 Carnival of Runaway Danmaku
04 Senshuraku of Nightmares
05 Grave of Melody
06 Between Solitude and Sweet Cocoons
07 Ophelia's Miniature Garden Theatre
08 A Roadway Brimming with Colors
09 Spiritual Scenery ~ A Thousand Colors
10 The Festival Starts Today
11 Brilliance of Individuality, Glory of Everyone
12 Nostalgic Lamentation
13 Phantasm Paradise ~ Lost Dreams
14 A Mirage-like Flower of Dreams
15 That Which was Seen at the End of One's Dreams
16 Player's Score
17 Fragments of Dreams, Beyond the Night
18 The Calendar is Definite, the World is Transient
19 That Which Was Born from the Depths of One's Heart
20 Departing on a Fine Sunny DayQuoteMy Rating: C
As some of you might already know, I don’t like Consonances & Dissonances’ stuff, as to why it’s explained here. (https://pastebin.com/YiXhYDxt)
It’s also why I’m only going to rate CoUD (and Touhou 19 hoax OST), because I feel like I can recommend these personally and I do think someone should actually review and rate them, someone who isn’t actually affiliated with the group (looking at you RickyRister).
Champaign of Unfinished Dreams is an album supposed to mimic a Touhou game with a motif of different pieces and styles of art. It’s also getting a full danmaku game being made in the meantime. The ZUNart and the designs are alright, but you can tell they are fan made designs/they’re not eastern enough and as for music, it’s a mixed bag. I do like Stage 1 boss’ theme as well as EX Boss’ theme, but despite trying my hardest, I can’t remember or appreciate much else in this. Each artist’s styles just clashes too much with each other and by the end we have an album that certainly sounds and exists, but I can’t tell you much more about it. Despite the lower rating, even compared to the hoax OST, I do think this is a high note in C&Ds work, for better or for worse.
Artificial Star in Forgotten Orbit
(https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2868782290_16.jpg)
Youtube playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkj50aZAYspbXpNS1Li09lfxYr9H5G0_2
Bandcamp: https://lunar13.bandcamp.com/album/artificial-star-in-forgotten-orbit
By LunarQuoteMy Rating: C
Visually really lacking and you can tell this is the author's first album like that (If I recall they were mostly coders before that), but there are some cool ideas here and there, like the boss theme using I think morse’s code? So despite the low rating, I definitely don’t want to discourage the artist and I think it’s cool they’re trying different things.
Downpour of Weaver Festival
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Youtube: https://youtu.be/KOMAabvhRPU?si=d3ErmzWfVuVUWxKm
DL link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18fpRiZ0dHDdEe-QN0wHGpICV3qcWbyw4?usp=sharing
BOOTH: https://booth.pm/en/items/4811759Quote♪01. 短冊の雨提灯By 麗古堂
♪02. 雨天結構の幻想郷
♪03. 弾み弾けるレインダンス
♪04. 飛燕の雲海渡り
♪05. 座っていられない荒天 ～ Forecast Shooter
♪06. 七夕の天壌豪雨
♪07. 仙天雨蓮華 ～ Lotus of Rain
♪08. レイニーヴォヤージュ1977
♪09. リブラ・ベータ・ボーラ
♪10. 零露のミルヒシュトラーセ
♪11. のぞみのさき ～ Divine Raising
♪12. ミルヒシュトラーセの彼岸
♪13. 羽衣伝説 ～ Swan Maiden
♪14. 日照りの幻想郷
♪15. カタストロフィックドラウト
♪16. 閏の晴れ
♪17. 雲間の月光 ～ Drop Dream...
♪18. 雨の神社
♪19. エスニカルキャロットQuoteMy Rating: C-
Despite trying to get into this album, I just don't think it's very good and barely any tracks work.
Probably the sole exception being Extra boss' theme "Catastrophic Drought" which sure fits its title mixing in both oriental sounding instruments with meaty bass and powerful trumpet, but it's the only track like this.
Prepared but Unrated
Unfinished/missing parts:
Hellish Utopia in Vapor
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DL link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1X_76OcmyxQvI0EkceHsRhiKq5JKkPjxF?usp=sharing
By LapispQuoteNote - only tracks 01, 04, 06 and 09 are currently available.
Travelogue of Colourful Dream
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DL link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nYFmcNPWyVzD3Te-00mBpxhuOmRP5gZf?usp=sharing
By LapispQuoteNote - only tracks 6-8 are currently available.
Rapture of Khione
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DL link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1b9ECswjb6oAOj6j-Xy1MHpne36jZh4PN?usp=sharingQuoteNote - missing all songs done by Rayson.
Ryousou: the Apotheosis of Pitch-Black Beast
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Youtube: https://youtu.be/W6dXDTSY-Xs
DL link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VKZ0hYVOWLeuPvumVzpVZIZ9TJK4Baiu?usp=sharing
By Occult Miko
Lunatic Swordsmans Party
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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=LOSvCoiSVzcRNXpAfGsqFDLb_O6ENYWsw
By MyagaQuote
Really loving the boss themes in this one, especially stage 3 boss.
Note - Missing currently Final Boss theme and onwards
Not out yet/unavailable:
Retro-electronics exorcists
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Youtube XFD: https://youtu.be/k-RpLQQuY2A
By Burnyuho
Calm Sea and Raging Lake
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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGya5xvNdXM&pp=ygUYQ2FsbSBTZWEgYW5kIFJhZ2luZyBMYWtl
Second Trailer: https://youtu.be/OrQJ9z1nx_Y
FD Medley
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DL link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1b5iJpmuJEieNI6LrtCsB4Bm0fq8LdzTr?usp=sharingQuotea secret album consisting of medleys of other fan Touhou-style songs, didn’t know where to put it so here you go
Previous thread here - https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?topic=21513.0 (https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?topic=21513.0)
If there’s something that fits the criteria, but isn’t here, then it’s because:
- I don't personally recommend it or I straight up dislike it, sorry.
- I don’t own it/can’t currently link it or I’m too slow and it’s bound to happen, especially with recent releases, I’m only one man and I can only do so much.
- Some recent stuff, but that should be rectified real soon. Should be
- Anything focusing too much on either NSFW/fetish/real life modern politics. I also would rather not have to show cover art with a focus on a bum or skimply naked character, so there's that.
- Nansei Project and albums by Lenk64, because of my former affiliation and because that would be at least 30 albums-worth of spam. I do recommend most of them though.
- Some albums are without cover art, with two prominent examples that are predictions or fake OSTs for during that time unreleased Touhou games, such as
- Useless’ TH17 Stage 4-6 OST ( https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm35516516 and DL link is here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1C6vRcUYnMFpWwwbtztu1jSyHlLaPHsDV?usp=sharing) or C&D’s TH19 fake demo OST.
- There are albums that only arrange stuff by ZUN/not by the arranger and I’m on the fence with these for different reasons with each:
- JynX’s Touhou PC-98 albums remaking LLS, MS and PoDD as well as the twoparter album featuring Evanescent Existance’s OST alongside arranges and few new themes, made back when I had hopes for Len’en and its fandom, are alright, mixing in folks/electronic elements, but still having the infamous sound mixing issues from JynX. I still sadly remember the last time someone shared these albums and was harassed for this. https://tricknostalgie.bandcamp.com/ All of them can be found here, but you will sadly have to rip/record it yourself and I can’t share the attached files because last time it happened, HiroSacredFire got lynched by Len'en community.
- Paradise of Boundaries` albums remastering several Touhou OSTs, I don’t think with any of the tracks there I preferred the new version sadly and even with usage of different styles of eras (for example one PCB track being in LoLK or WBaWC) it just never felt memorable enough for me to give a good enough recommendation. It also feels weird how some of them can be only DLed from their discord server. Are they bad? No, someone has already mentioned them here and if you want to DL or listen to them, you should try looking for them. I strongly prefer PoB’s more original stuff.
- https://booth.pm/en/items/2849715 This free SA remaster album, again, I don’t think any track is better than the original. I know it tries to update each track for modern stuff. I just don’t know how to rate it considering the originals.
- The Last Comer’s remasters (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3Gksmzm523Nd3SOeRWwSiwSXSzDzoFi3): which might be used in a remake, might be not? Some updates are interesting, but the arranger completely missed the point of Stage 5 Boss’ theme imho and I think it is tied to a fangame/release that is just not public for now, so that’s why I’m hesitant to put it here.
Shrine Maiden Who's Not Sweet Towards Youkai - Reimu Hakurei
Magician Who's Not Sweet Towards Herself - Marisa Kirisame
Stage 1 - A Sweet World and a Sour Society ~ Overworked Employee (Sky over Gensokyo, presumed)
"Black shadows wriggling atop a strangely sweet world. Could they be connected to the incident?"
Boss: One of the Top 20% of Hardworking Ants, Nimuni Ookuro. A hard-working youkai ant with the ability to carry home sweets, who mistakes the protagonist for a giant ambulatory dessert. (If one applies the usual pattern of "stage 1 boss is small-scale foreshadowing of the game's overall theme", then 'ants crawling all over sweets' seems kind of ominous...?)
Stage 2 - Lab Animals' Paradise ~ Mouse Park (Forest of Magic, presumed)
"You mustn't let sugary sweets loose in the wild. Humans aren't the only things they'll attract."
Boss: The Bizarre Seven-Brained Mouse, Shiroko Nanazu. A genetically-engineered lab rat who passed into fantasy, and who has seven brains as a homage to The Nutcracker's seven-headed Mouse King. A local hero to outcast mice; she likewise mistakes the protagonist for a giant cake, and seems genuinely surprised to discover that they're human.
Stage 3 - Inedible Sweets ~ Sweetheart of Tin (Kingdom of Sweets - In front of castle gate)
"The towering walls of a candy castle. Just who is it that stands before the gate?"
("So that looks like the wall of a candy castle to you? Very well! Very well indeed!")
Boss: Fake Sweets Built of Tin, Moe Suzuki. Andersen's titular Steadfast Tin Soldier, now a human-hating doll youkai who's been assigned to protect "Her Highness" and friends by guarding the castle's gate. Though she's made of tin through and through, the protagonist seems convinced that she's made of candy; upon noticing this, Moe changes her attitude and lets them pass. The sudden gray-out in the stage title intro also seems to indicate that the castle isn't as saccharine as it looks...
BGM listing
1. Sweet-Scented Fantasy Nation
2. A Saccharine-Strange Dreamworld
3. Formication Upon Waking from a Dream
4. Chocolate Forest
5. Happy Sweet Water
6. Torte of the Castle Gate
7. Fake Sweets Soldier
Hi again! I'm back. :D[Yo! Long time to no see.
I also don't have any copy of The Artificial City (yet..... ;w;), so I can't give details on that, but I do have a summary for Sweet Smells and Foolish Evils! The 'full version' is planned for Niconico Dousai in summer 2021... which is a bit of a wait, but oh well. (;; ^^)
Aw yea I've been waiting for this thread. This sorta stuff is excellent and really helps pass the time between official releases.Thank you, happy to hear and hope you have a good time checking things me and others shared in these threads.
There apparently was a Touhou event as of late? I know that technically if not for COVID-19 we'd have Reitaisai, but it seems like now a lot of artists are just releasing their albums or stuff in general and for free, which is also a surprise.That would be this year's Nico Dousai (https://nicodosai.com/), yeah! It's a regular JP fandom event where people post any sort of Touhou content they've made to Nicovideo. (Though it's a regular thing, I'm sure Reitaisai's cancellation certainly had an impact on this year's turnout... ;;^^)
Also I imagine the reason why Suzuku Nanazu is in the hospital clothes is because of the mentioned operation, but there's just something unsettling about that blood bag with AKR written on it... I don't know if I get this one."AKR" seems to be the acronym for a specific breed of albino lab mouse. It's more like she was bred for certain genes rather than operated upon, so I figure the clothes and bag are because her genotype also has anemia or the like?
1. A Sky Blanketed in Natural Catastrophes
2. Tiny Birds and Thunder Peals in a Rainy Sky
3. Heavenly Lightning
4. The Shadow of a Sky Colored by Filtering Sunlight
5. Parasol Waltz
6. Youkai Megalopolis
7. Silhouette Standing Against the Light's Glare ~ Funny monster
8. Touhou Hatenkou (Eastern Sky-Conquering Port)* ～ Empty gateway
9. Northern Storm
10. Severed Otherworld ～ Lost Heaven
11. Scarlet Weather Immaginazio*
12. Reality and Wisdom of Dreamlike Non-Self*
13. O, Thou Who Bears Knowledge of Samsara's Interstices ～ Traitor's Requiem
14. Barrier Aureole
15. Undead Girl in the Lingering Glow
16. Today's Weather: Sunny With a Chance of Shrine Maidens
17. Twilight Shrine*
*(same as the album's JP title, in the vein of eg. PCB's stage 5 theme)
*(lit. 'scarlet heaven imaginary/fictional song'; creator comment says it's a play on the English title of SWR, backported into Japanese)
*("reality and wisdom": 境智 (https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/dic/Content/F/245). homophone pun on 'muga no kyochi' ("state of non-self").)
*(pun on 'Hakurei jinja' / 'hakumei jinja')
1. The Players Enter the Venue ～ Let's start with tuning.
2. To the Cool and Refreshing World Directly Below
3. Berry Berry Jellysweets
4. Cold of Chemocline
5. Tranquil Buccal Cone ～ Sweet Angel?
6. Unmanned Pleasure Cruise ～ Pay for life.
7. Echo to the Sea of the Heart, Like the Sound of a Kemari Ball
8. A Great White Shadow Creeping Closer ～ 1819.
9. Signal Flag Enticing Into Fantasy
10. The Dimly-Lit Backstage Waterway
11. Rachmaninoff in the Deep
12. The Doors Will Open Shortly ～ Ladies and Deepfish.
13. Listen Well to the Concerto of Revival ～ Sound of Soul.
14. A Bright Cavern Walk in the Depths of Night
15. Sightless, Tri-less Blind Red Eyes ～ Pleiotropic.
16. Dozing Amidst Lingering Sound ～ Fuyofuyo.
17. The Players Leave the Venue ～ finale.
S1 boss: Mitsuki Yotsume, a moon jellyfish who spends her days aimlessly sleepwalking. (Or sleep-floating, rather.)
S2 boss: Mashu Tenhyou, a sea angel who's friends with Mitsuki.
S3 boss: Ayuka Choubane, a lantern fish (and kemari champion) who communicates via writing on a whiteboard.
S4 boss: Fue Kyourou, a sperm whale who uses her species' amazing diving capabilities to serve as a deep-sea tour guide.
S5 boss: Mirei Utsuhora, a giant moray pianist who reincarnated from a human girl. Used her "ability to seize one's heart/body and never let go" to open a portal to Gensokyo, and stole all the sound for her and the S6 boss's concert.
S6 boss: Shiwina (= Shiina) Umisedo, a coelacanth who reincarnated from a sickly human girl. Uses all of Gensokyo's sound to conduct an undersea concert that she and Mirei had promised to in their past life.
EX boss: Eve Dolan Hikage, a blind cave fish. In an inverse of the main game, she steals all of Gensokyo's silence to make things noisy (and therefore easier for her to "see").
1. 杯盤狼藉のナブラ (Title Screen)
2. 薫風のロンド (Stage 1)
3. ダンシングリーブス (Aoi Fura's theme)
4. 夏空に響く笛の音 (Stage 2)
5. 地上のヘヴンリーノイズ (Nemuro Ohka's theme)
6. カースドリージョン (Stage 3)
7. ブラックシャーマンガール (Kambe Fumi's theme)
8. (Game Over)
I also wonder where did the second part of SSaFE go, but Burnyuho can take all the time they need imho.Yeah, she's just taking her time with it. It'll be done when it's done! \(:3 _ )_
1. Nablas Strewn Hither and Yond
2. Rondo of Balmy Breeze
3. Dancing Leaves
4. A Flute's Whistling in the Summer Sky
5. Heavenly Noise Above the Ground
6. Cursed Region
7. Black Shaman Girl
8. Torch-Bearing Cave Exploration
9. In the Dark, With a Perfect Field of Hearing
10. Mystic Flow
11. Silver Dragon of the Underground Lake
12. Deep-Stratum Limestone
13. A Certain Android's Timespace Voyage ~ Diverged Epistemophilia.
14. ? (ending)
15. ? (staff roll)
16. Player's Score
1. The Mystery that Appeared Beyond the Screen (SlowBro)
2. A Floral Pattern Sunken into Memory (N4 - EoSD style)
3. Eyewitness Photo Projected in the Mist ~ Someone noticed me! (Aruto - EoSD style)
4. The Hour of the Sun's Slumber Has Already Arrived (Shounen - UM style)
5. Modified Stream (SHO - UM style)
6. Cold Breath of Bare Rock Faces (Tokimigusa - IN style)
7. Dimensional Visitor from a Parallel World (SlowBro)
8. DREAM.DAT (Tokimigusa - LLS style)
9. Mirroring Device (SHO)
10. The Leaves of Fantasy Reflect the Sun (Fuji Yuu - PCB style)
11. Sword of Loyalty, Split the Dark Seas ~ Raging God (Aruto - various)
12. Distorted Sunrise (FD - SA style)
13. Sunset of the End Times (FD - SA style)
14. Memristor of Virtual Images (Amen - WBaWC style)
15. Arithmetician Patty ~ Augmented Reality (Amen - UM style)
16. Is this Aurora a Lamplight, or the End of a Tunnel ~ Light of Mystery? (VCLN)
17. D.C. Dream (EoSD style? - Fuji Yuu)
Story: There was a huge earthquake, and now it's raining buckets out of nowhere! What the heck,
S1 boss: Shirane Koshino, a youkai rock ptarmigan (ie. 雷鳥 / "thunder bird"). Despite being called a thunder bird, she only manipulates the *sound* of thunder, not the thunder itself. Popular at festivals.
S2 boss: Yuunagi Masumida, a rain-woman (w/ fox and courtesan motifs) living on the Youkai Mountain. Actually the cause of the rain incident; the Stage 3 boss recruited her to redistribute water from a particular location that's been flooded.
S3 boss: Chie Sengetsudou, a daruma tsukumogami who can bring paintings of youkai to life (much in the vein of famous woodblock artist Toriyama Sekien). Mainly sells friendly paintings that assist and protect their buyers. Fought inside a Youkai Mountain cave, where she's doing flood prevention work on orders from the Yama.
S4 boss: Satomi Iwakura, a deified boulder youkai (based on both the boulder that blocked Ama-no-Iwato and the god who hurled it aside). Serves as the gatekeeper for one of Heaven's main ports of entry above the Youkai Mountain.
S5 boss: Nadeshiko Nawi, the divine spirit of a Nawi clanswoman, who uses her ability to sense underground veins to issue directions to the keystone-placing Hinanawi. (Also partly based on Kushinada-hime.) Usually located in Gensokyo, but came up to Heaven to observe the situation there.
S6 boss: Inasa Oomuranokami, a.k.a. Takemikazuchi. A god of thunder, earthquakes and war, with legendary exploits that include suppressing an earthquake-causing catfish and subduing Takeminakata (ie. Kanako). After discovering that Heaven was invaded by a pack of beast youkai aiming to steal the weather-controlling Yata-no-Kagami, she caused an earthquake and raging storm in order to flood the Sanzu River, therby cutting off their escape route (Heaven → Netherworld → Sanzu River located below).
EX boss: Hiyori Chigayama, a drought-causing beast youkai (魃 / batsu) who temporarily becomes a drought-causing goddess (魃 / hiderigami) with the power of the Yata-no-Kagami. Invaded Heaven to steal the mirror, got trapped due to the Sanzu River's flooding, made her getaway while the protagonists fought Inasa, then uses her souped-up drought powers in the EX stage to cancel out the rainstorm that awaited her back in Gensokyo.
1. The Classical Word is Stronger than the SwordStage 1 boss is Kinkaku, one of the two ogre/fox spirits from Investiture of the Gods. (You probably know her as one half of Bubbling Imaginary Treasures' Stage 5 boss, lol.)
2. Zhōngguó Fortress (*lit. 'chinese' in katakana, then 'fortress' in JP kanji)
3. Tàishàng Lǎojūn's Test of Strength
4. Free and Unfettered Journey of Love
5. Don Juan's Red Dream
6. Valiant General's Requiem
7. Crimson Rabbit (Long ver.)
8. Player's Score (APoW ver.)
edit several days later: oops it's been a bit longer than 'a day or two' huh. I've uploaded all the MB spinoff tracks I have to a Google Drive, but right afterward, I actually found someone's archive with several more tracks (possibly YouTube/Nicovideo rips?) on a Chinese music-posting website! I'd like to make the Google Drive as complete as possible, so I'm going to add the remaining tracks and write little blurbs describing where they're each from. I think I should be done with this by the end of the month, so I'll message you about it around then.You mean something like these?
You mean something like these?Yeah!
Servants: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14N_sDeIN79eXMh81pSYJppcp1-6eMTWL?usp=sharing
Migration: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oS_URUywuDSitwSOchX5bZpqdnfuhawp?usp=sharing
1. Re: Ibutsukan (*Reliquary Museum) ~ Memory of Portraits
2. Re: The Art Museum is Alive
3. Re: Phantom Figment Girl ～ Mary Sue
4. Re: Countdown to Heartbreak
5. Re: Blue Rose Knight ～ Forgotten Portrait
6. Re: Atop Scattered Flower Petals
7. Re: Memento Memory ～ Inanimate Bloom
8. Tea Party in a Picture Frame
9. The Paintings Dream of the World Outside ~ Memento Dream...
1. Touhou Enbukyoku (Eastern Waltz)
2. An All-Too-Lively Oumagatoki
3. Night Fairy Dancer
4. Racing Through the Noisy Forest
5. Rampage Wolf
6. Satellite Bluemoon
7. Ailing Queen ~ Fourteen Heart
8. Waltz of the Blue Moon
9. Pegasus Writer
10. Starry Sky of Elegantly Refined Tones
11. Hypnotist Conductor
12. Fantasy Rhapsody
13. Now, Before the Magic Wears Off ~ Lunatic Rhapsody
14. Lunatic Rhapsody (*in katakana)
15. Crystal Shine Road
16. Prince of the Lunar Palace ~ Chandra Mahal
17. Shards of Glass
18. Banquet's End ~ Blue Moon Waltz
Yeah!A bit late, but I just wanted to let you know that I hope you realize you're awesome Gilde. Seriously, thanks for doing this, I'll add them to the OP when only I'll have the time.
By "several more tracks," I meant tracks from unfinished future albums, plus several one-off tracks and remixes. Here's my full Google Drive (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1e6Zj6Vzhm6W0AtmJNznrSoqWOFev5E8Y?usp=sharing); feel free to grab any tracks you don't have and add English file info as you like.
(extra note: The "Yaobi's Branch Shrine" track in your MCS folder is actually "Oumi's Lost Page (Regular Tenpyou version)", a remix that was up on SoundCloud for some period of time. And I never downloaded it myself, so thank you so much for saving it!! :O:cirnotan:
Boop a doop. Making a new post in here to detail any new albums that come out in this year's Nico Dousai. First up: 東方円蒼月 ~ Blue Moon Rhapsody (https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm40737508), an album by Chama (ちゃま) that's based on the much-loved song Waltz of the Moon from the NHK's Minna no Uta (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minna_no_Uta). No plot or characters; just a fun set of songs inspired by one of the composer's favorites.Will also add it to OP in a bit, but for those who already want a download, here's author's drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12VwpKTzsAPuA2Mb49v-Qd8z56pAMltC_?usp=sharing
As for Elemental Quintet, I've actually got a physical copy of it, plus a couple of digital backups... and since I'm friends with the composer, I can probably just ask for a batch upload of it. (Might depend on if NRT's okay with sharing it openly, but I think the composer was working on remastered versions of the tracks a little while ago, so I wouldn't be surprised if NRT had something else planned for the tracks later on too. Yay)
I also have most if not all of the Marine Benefit spinoff tracks, so I can send you those within a day or two. And yeah, the Tumblr vanished into the ether somehow (; ^^) I still have all the text on my end, and last I checked, Kuroha's been reuploading most if not all of his blog-post stories after his Nicovideo blog likewise went down. So while I can't guarantee it'll be in the near future, I'd like to repost (and finish :P) the story translations on a more stable hosting service some time.
Well, if this thread is getting bumped anyway, I might as well post the album I made...
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https://wookywok.itch.io/awakening-deep-mythos (https://wookywok.itch.io/awakening-deep-mythos)
Seems like discussion here has stalled out. I have emailed NRT and tweeted at them as well, which seems to be the only way to get your hands on Elemental Quintet these days (as of 2018...). Will reply back if I make progress.As you might know, I'm interested in both.
Separately I purchased The Artificial City. It's ok but probably not worth the $17 I paid for it. Would host somewhere if people are interested.
Well, if this thread is getting bumped anyway, I might as well post the album I made...Looks solid, I'll listen through to it.
https://wookywok.itch.io/awakening-deep-mythos (https://wookywok.itch.io/awakening-deep-mythos)
Anyways, as for the rest of the albums shared, I'll try to include them, but, small explanation:
- I've been mostly including high quality eastern albums to spread info about them, gilde's help also helped in making an info dump of sorts for them. I know it's just my personal preference, but I'd prefer to mostly include things I find at least almost as good or interesting as stuff ZUN or Kaisendo Team makes and ones that have an extra barrier of entry like translations and extra story, with a lot of western albums, I don't see the need for a forum thread when all that's needed to get the gist of it is the youtube video/download link, but of course you can always suggest anything.
- I know not every artist is fine with spreading the word and free downloads of their work. For something that is available only via discontinued or japanese only sites, they usually understand and I think noone will mind or at least harass me about it, but I've been told to avoid sharing work of some composers whose albums have been mentioned, but of course you can always suggest anything.
- Personal bias. I'd rather not include anything from people I personally know, worked with or had issues with in the past, unless I can really look past that, but of course, list of those people (especially the last part) in Touhou community is too expansive, so you can always suggest anything.
And most importantly, thank you for keeping this thread alive.
I might actually be one of the few people still having any Rapture of Khione songs because I only saved one, the stage 2 boss theme made by Jani.
No progress on Elemental Quintet even though i see NRT has been active on twitter since I tweeted at them. Will probably just need someone who has it to directly upload as i've done.No need to!
I think Roka is active with the Paradise of Boundaries latin american Touhou circleThanks, I remember Roka being a big help back in the day, it also turns out I actually also have the two songs by Useless as well from that project. Might slowly piece together that demo OST as well with help from others.
Hello. I have a question. Does anyone have a picture of Elemental Quintet's final boss? If yes, then could they please share it? Thanks in advance :)Not me, sorry, I focus on archivizing music above all else, Tokiko's friends have them since I've seen few edits of it and like Gilde said, they might remake said album soon™ so the old scans might be rereleased/reused in some way as well I hope?
I found new demo album! https://youtu.be/TDw6CRsM_hE
I somehow found a reupload of Gilde's Kaikeidou Translation Tumblr
After months of being lazy, I've finally cleaned up OP or at least I've made an attempt.
I'll probably start adding fanmade hifuu albums such as History of Distortion and Ryuuou albums alongside more well known albums that most people in community already know about such as original Treasure Castle Labyrinth, HGoC, Adventures in Inferno to the second post for the sake of it in case anyone will be interested in that.
I'll probably start adding fanmade hifuu albums such as History of Distortion and Ryuuou albums alongside more well known albums that most people in community already know about such as original Treasure Castle Labyrinth, HGoC, Adventures in Inferno to the second post for the sake of it in case anyone will be interested in that.Wait, Ryuuou made albums? I didn't know that
Anthology of Forgotten Fables is a 23 person collab album featuring over 22 original compositions.
Made in the style of a 'what if' theoretical Touhou fangame, it features a fully-fledged story containing 6 + 1 stages and a colourful cast of bosses.
Enjoy the music as you watch Keine, Akyuu, and Kosuzu explore a strange new world inside of a scroll.
A Touhou-style Musical. Follow the Prismriver sisters as they investigate a rumor about a dancing plague and the band behind it.
We will be releasing our 4th album, 東西幻想録 ～ Travelogue of 47 Days on October 23rd! The album will have a total of 48 tracks (a mix of arranges and touhou-style)! Make sure to also download the accompaning booklet containing the Hifuu club's journey across Japan on Bandcamp!(Note that the album's already been released, the video I linked is just the crossfade preview)
A journey of a witch through a gauntlet of ice and fire…
Hey I'm surprised the albums by the folks at Consonances & Dissonances haven't come up much. CoUD was shared here but the others haven't. Let me remedy that real quickThey also made fake TH19 Leak which is imho their best work, but I won't and can't add it and their other albums to the first post for reasons I've disclosed, sorry.
khirio released something new on aquisitive invader https://soundcloud.com/khirio/ai09?si=dac59e88343c4dabb91893adbd43d171&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharingYup, both stage 4 and stage 4 boss' themes have been released.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyBztMR88E0Thank you, was just about to post that~
it seems like burnyuho is making something new
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxqhQ4_Yfzk
khirio released the yt video for acquisitive invader stages 4-6
Acquisitive Invader's new ED and credits themes are respectively called "Half-Summer (https://www.japanesewiki.com/culture/Hangesho.html) Hallucination" and "Peaceful Neuromancer".Very nice and thanks for the comments.
The Stage 6 through to Ending tracks were partly composed via AI!
According to Khirio's track descriptions, the S6 boss theme includes Touhou Kaikidan from HRtP, Explorer from Shin Megami Tensei II, 92_Lullaby from Amadeus Code's music AI, and Daisy Bell (the HAL9000 song :V) by Harry Dacre. The ending theme includes 149_Latinjazz from Amadeus Code's music AI.
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer doEDIT2: Yeah, Silver Scale is literally referenced in the intro to Ryuko's theme. Amazing how the same melody can sound so different with proper instrumentation that fits it. It kind of reminds me how certain songs in Sid Meier's Civilization series might not sound like anything like its originals, but they technically are based on each other.
I'm half crazy all for the love of you
It won't be a stylish marriage
I can't afford a carriage
But you'll look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P_Ey3_UzfEIt drops in about a month or so from what I've read.
new hifuu album dropped
edit: it will be downloadable through jani's ko-fi
I was really impressed by canvas of music colored winds. One of the best aspects of some of these fan made albums is the ability to have all the tracks follow a consistent instrumentation and feel like it's a continuous idea. This is what turns me off the "consonants and dissonance" group as the songs all sound like they were made by someone else with a different idea in mind.I agree with this message wholeheartedly.
It feels like we're living in the golden age of touhou-style composition with new works coming out like this every few months.
https://twitter.com/mazyu_aratame/status/1684169808257110016Sadly, don't get your hopes up, it will probably be paid only
a new hifuu album?
So Oyasu Milka (i think?), dev from Kaisendo and a bunch of fans made this tribute to MPP and Tenmu:It always surprises me how much people like Tenmu compared to any other fan character
(https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0806175041_16.jpg)
https://youtu.be/2lBzTTXyRZ4?si=tfJL2nfX591XB_P7 to watch
https://rickyrister.bandcamp.com/album/a-journey-of-reminiscences to download
Ngl seeing RickyRister in credits and bandcamp makes me really worried, but eh
FanTouhouMusic also worked on this so if you like "MoF style" of natural sounding Touhou-style I imagine you will enjoy this too.
It always surprises me how much people like Tenmu compared to any other fan characterShe's more of a traditional tengu than Aya or Hatate and her color pallete is really, really good.
01 A Rainbow Falling on Gensokyo (Title Screen)
02 The Shining Lunar Jewel, The Entrance at Evening (Stage 1 theme)
03 Rainbow Amuse (Chimata's theme)
04 An Unending Perfectly Circular Waltz (Stage 2 theme)
05 Red Light Legacy (Stage 2 Boss' theme)
06 Rainbow Illusional Ray (Stage 3 theme)
07 Mesmerizing Flapper Girl (Stage 3 Boss' theme)
I have no clue who the other bosses are other than stage 1 obviously being Chimata in similar vain to Yuyuko in TD, stage 2 being another moon rabbit and stage 3 either being a T-Posing woman from Outside World or another satori? Also she has noticable Theme of Eastern Stories appearing like twice and SHO didn't need to draw her this curvy lol
Obviously with rainbow themeing and Chimata present, this seems like mostly a nod to UM and I like how the acronym is GoLD. Stage 1 theme feels like WBaWC stage 1 but in different key. Stage 2 waltz segment reminds me of Wanwan's "Surpass the Gate of the Silver Key" from Riverbed Soul Saver for obvious reasons, but it's still solid
https://youtu.be/B0gMFra_F6Q?si=e3dYYxhbU7seMEVchttps://youtu.be/wEsW3_XABo8?si=a79J4D7nTv_BIECh
Sho's releasing new Touhou-style album!
So far, Stages 1-3 have been released
Making another post just to recommend @Myaga0514 again, since they've finished both Touhou-styled album stylized after WBaWC sequel game: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOSvCoiSVzcQept3EyKT2lQIe7QRaRIZI
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NWk1IEBrYoQ/hq720.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEhCK4FEIIDSFryq4qpAxMIARUAAAAAGAElAADIQj0AgKJD&rs=AOn4CLBH67cVm8tm-UW0JlVg-DmgCckgdQ)
All in all I hope my fellow touhou doujin album appreciators are doing well. I don't really know of any western language corners of the internet that are interested of these and I've even tried /jp/.Great to hear from you and yeah, I think people on /jp/ probably care about posting characters rather than focusing on non-ZUN original Touhou-style music, if you do find something interesting and related to the subject there, then feel free to repost it here. I know there are discord servers and aforementioned Touhou-style album spreadsheet which I've seen, but never had access to and based on my opinions and interactions with some of the western fans and composers, I doubt I ever will :cirnotan:
Here are some albums that you missedThank you, especially for Golden Age, I never thought I'll get so addicted to Touhou-style mixed with pirate songs.
Thanks so much Popcioslav for the write up and updates. A lot to work through! I wanted to share one on youtube that actually just posted today. Composer is Chama who made Blue Moon Rhapsody which is still probably my favorite fan touhou album.Thank you, I also regard BMR really, really high and I'm glad to hear that the composer made another banger album that even though tries new things, it still feels like something that would fit in Touhou universe :meiling:
(https://s2.booth.pm/10afc9b1-ec68-4512-a828-9acf7f89f2d7/i/5630512/23fcdf05-4854-4177-a151-25fd4dd30b85_base_resized.jpg)
DL Link: Ring World Magical Country (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjnyQojtLlQ&ab_channel=%E5%A4%A9%E9%B3%A5%E3%81%A1%E3%82%83%E3%81%BE)
Stage 4 - The Bustle of Confectburg ~ Nutcracker (Kingdom of Sweets - City streets)
"A welcoming fanfare echoes wide, with the candied conductor standing out in front. Is their marching song reality, or fantasy?"
Boss: The Wicked Nutcracker, Pirlie (Pirlipat Drosselmeyer). The titular "ugly" Nutcracker of Tchaikovsky's ballet, now a human-hating doll youkai who's working alongside Moe. Upon meeting the Stage 6 boss, the S6 boss provided the doll duo with a means of bringing destruction to humans without physically harming them: the addictive scent of her hallucinogenic flowers.
Stage 5 - The Puppet Queen ~ Claramary (Kingdom of Sweets - Queen's castle)
"The weakest, unluckiest humans are the first ones to be devoured. The world's always spun that way."
Boss: The Puppet Queen,Mariko KurayoshiClaramary. A young, downtrodden Human Villager who ran afoul of the youkai trio upon running away from home, and who they promptly set up as their figurehead "queen". She's fully aware that the kingdom is fake and that the youkai are mocking her, but she prefers it to her old life and refuses to budge... so Marisa heads out to beat up the "royal advisor".
Stage 6 - Who Determined That Flower to be Evil? ~ Sweet Smells and Foolish Evils. (Crimson Flower Garden)
"WHO'S THE REAL FOOL?"
Boss: Red and Sweet Flower of Evil, Keshika Koukaen. An opium flower youkai (though the word "opium" is never mentioned out loud) who delights in bewitching both humans and youkai alike. 100% malicious, 100% remorseless, and (nearly?) 100% unfitting for the Gensokyo that we're used to.
(She also has no backstory relating to the Opium War whatsoever. :V But it's certainly fitting for an opium youkai to represent the grim underside of Team "Shanghai" Alice's world, right?)
Marisa handily defeats her and banishes the hallucinatory incident... but the ending and Staff Roll leave an awful aftertaste. Mariko goes back to her miserable village life with nothing to show for it but withdrawal symptoms, spending all her time trying to locate Keshika, Moe and Pirlie again in vain. The end.
--> ...
--> "Like hell we'd let a story like this be 'fantasy'!"
Extra Stage - The Second "One-Person Species" ~ Dream Definition (Gensokyo skies, southwestern region)
Midboss: Ex-Soldiers of the Kingdom of Sweets, Moe Suzuki & Pirlipat Drosselmeyer
The music snaps back to regular Touhou style!
Boss: Definition of All Things in Nature, Hanezu Kinarido. One of Gensokyo's youkai sages, and a "one-person species" youkai like Yukari (hence her given name meaning "vermillion flower", and her surname deriving from the late Japanologist Donald Keene / Kiinu Donarudo). Her job is to manage Gensokyo's metaphysical definitions... but she slept on the job long enough for someone as nasty as Keshika to come out of the woodwork.
She actually debuted in Unrecognized Error in Fantasy, a mini-album that Burnyuho released some time after Uncreatable Idea. The album featured a handful of OCs with subtly un-Gensokyo-like traits, which I suppose is now retroactive foreshadowing.
Now that she's gotten a wake-up call, Hanezu promptly revised the youkai trio's definitions. Moe and Pirlipat have renounced their ties to Keshika and resolved to scare humans in the normal Gensokyo way, and Keshika has likewise turned over a new leaf offscreen as "a youkai that's useful to Gensokyo".
Hanezu's penultimate spell is "The Definition of a Youkai in Gensokyo": an impassable wall of bullets with a single, narrow path punched through it. The purpose of a youkai is to be a threat that humans can overcome-- and in a beautiful, elegant fashion, at that. The Outside World's brand of evil has no place here.
Marisa asks Hanezu to relieve Mariko's symptoms while she's at it, which she agrees to do. (If not out of the goodness of her heart, then at least because "a human villager actively seeking out youkai rather than fearing them" goes against Gensokyo's policies...? :V)
Then there's another author message saying “this story is 100% fictional, does not condone criminality or malice IRL… and takes place in a fake Gensokyo dreamed up by an outside-world human, so don’t worry.” ;w; LOL thank u burnyuho
BGM listing
8. Coronet March ~ Avec creme de ganache
9. Langue-de-chat Quartet for the Nutcracker Doll
10. Dragées Dance on a Candy-Crafted Throne
11. Claramary, the Queen of Sweets
12. Fantasy Elimination Half-Life
13. Fantasy Withdrawal Syndrome ~ Sweet Smells and Foolish Evils.
14. Cold Meleagris
15. Bad Flowers Drive Out the Good
16. Apparitions’ Restoration ~ How done it!
17. Dream Definition
*track 8: the subtitle is in regular Japanese, but given the French in track 9 and 10 I figured it was appropriate lol
*track 16: Mouryou Fukko in Japanese, mirroring PCB's Youyou Bakko. I tried to make it sound like what the wiki currently has for Youyou Bakko, though it feels like the translation consensus for that one changes every couple of years. :V
;w; LOL thank u burnyuhoBasically, yeah.
I do remember you've mentioned that at least with demo tracks SSaFE were supposed to be an exercise for Burnyuho trying different things like stage 2 theme being a mix of Konga and Touhou-style, do you perhaps know or have read anywhere about post stage 3 OST inspirations?EDIT: Now that the individual music-room videos are up, here's the full list!
S1: Touhou + walking pace ("but still mostly touhou")
B1: Touhou + slap bass
S2: Touhou + conga ("although the acoustic guitar might've overshadowed the conga a little")
B2: Touhou + 8-bit
S3: Touhou + drum march ("although the trombone might've overshadowed the drums a little")
B3: Touhou + big band ("although the trombone might've..." etc.)
S4: Touhou + wind ensemble
B4: Touhou + woodwind ensemble
S5: Touhou + classical music excerpts
B5: Touhou + pop + wind instruments, including a medley of instruments from Stage 1~5. The trombone on the right is Moe, and the sax on the left is Pirlie. (Burnyuho also thought about including vocal samples at one point, but scrapped it.)
S6: Touhou + drum loops
B6: Touhou + dubstep (plus "theme for a S6 boss who's Actually Evil (TM) in the way that canon S6 bosses aren't")
And then the EX songs are intentionally "stereotypical Touhou". Ta-da
- Like you've mentioned some time ago the score in first Lap references Opium War, I'm still trying to figure out the rest of the numbers, but I'm starting to think they're related to Cannabis because Hanezu explodes into leaves of such.The EX score numbers are the birth and death dates of Donald Keene! The graze number is the year 2011, when he immigrated to Japan following the Tohoku earthquake.
fyi, some of the images in the OP are broken because they're being hosted on discord.Yup, that's being fixed right now alongside links, only third part of OP should still have broken images
I've recently found this Hifuu-style album known as Pursue the Truth (https://omyaga.booth.pm/items/5671257?utm_source=pixiv&utm_medium=popboard&utm_campaign=popboard). Could that be covered here?Already linked to it here:
https://booth.pm/en/items/5671257 second Myaga album in this styleI'll cover it in OP once I'll have the time to listen to it :fullpower:
Probably old news here, but Treasure Castle Labyrinth has a new version with remastered tracks + a whole game for itSaid info about it has been on the OP for months, but thanks for reminding me to check it out again once Labyrinth Stage drops. Cheers!
(Can't really put links rn cuz on phone)
The chinese circle 旧雨忆梦幻想乐团, responsible for The Potential Crisis and The Golden Age Will Return Again, has released their third fangame album.I definitely agree with you there! Especially since Golden Age is currently in my Top 5 so I do doubt this will beat that, but if it does, holy cow. Delaying update and patch notes till I'll listen through the new album, thanks!
东方华讨声章 ~ Stability of Broken heart
Three high-quality album releases in the span of less than a year is really impressive. You can see each album getting progressively better than the last.
- -Added ‘Stability of Broken heart’ by 旧雨忆梦幻想乐团 - it got its own tier
- -Added ‘The Golden Age Will Return Again’ by 旧雨忆梦幻想乐团 - S
- -Added ‘Ring World Magical Country Part 1&2’ by Chama - S
- -Added Full version of ‘Sweet Smells and Foolish Evils’ by Burnyuho - It’s S now
- -Added ‘Ancient Hidden Prayer (Demo)’ by 祈仙沙月 - S
- -Added ‘A Closed Eternal Paradise’ by Otobake - A
- -Added ‘Dreams in Parallel Phantasia’ hosted by Eban - A-
- -Added ‘Explore the magic of genes’ by 文水海洋俱乐部 - A-
- -Added ‘ゲーム概念東方風合同 (Demo)’ hosted by アズレシアン - A-
- -Raised ‘Near Death Experience’ to A-
- -Added Full version of ‘Alchemist of Desire’ by SHO - it’s B+ now
- -Raised ‘History of Distortion’ to B+
- -Added ‘Songs for All Weak Adolescence’ by Kaisei - B+
- -Added ‘the Potential Crisis’ by 旧雨忆梦幻想乐团 - B+
- -Added ‘Fractals of Infinite Cosmos’ by kirbio - B
- -Added ‘Patients of Salpetriere’ by Kaisei - B
- -Added ‘Bubbling Imaginary Treasures OST <Hana>’ by NED - B
- -Added ‘Resurgent Creations (Demo)’ by 吞了魔炮后就吃不下了吧-hpf - B-
- -Added ‘Gensokyo Light Festival (Demo)’ by Ivan Lychkov - B-
- -Added ‘Land of Fruits’ by 吞了魔炮后就吃不下了吧-hpf - C+
- -Added ‘Lunatic & Noisy Festival’ and ‘True Fruit of the Galaxy’ by Myaga - C+
- -Added ‘Artificial Star in Forgotten Orbit’ by Lunar - C
First and foremost, the music. I always thought Touhou-style was amazing. It’s the main reason why I’m a fan of Touhou, the fangames, etc. Initially when I joined the fandom I was saddened how most people just focused on characters, even forming specific communities around fawning over specifically Marisa for example. But the Touhou-style albums community was always this perfect place for me because it was always predominantly about music. Secondly, I always admired how all these fangames and fan albums paid respect to the original work. I don’t think ZUN is this perfect person like I’ve mentioned few times, even on this very forum, but I’d be lying if I didn’t say the dude was and still is a musical genius at the very least and he created this wonderful setting where characters from different mythologies, cultures etc. can come together and just hang out, while sometimes drunkenly battling to the death.
I don’t have to be Japanese or to believe in Buddhism to appreciate Byakuren or her theme. And I always thought that’s great. I tend to return to ZUN’s interview where he said UFO was supposed to have Byakuren’s brother be the final boss, but he went against it. See, I don’t think having more male characters in Touhou would be a bad thing, if implemented well, like with Rinnosuke or Unzan, for purpose of reflecting historical romance (although Miko x Tojiko is a thing) or for something else entirely, I’d be alright with it and I’m usually fine with fanworks that add a guy or two, but I still would prefer that if it’s in Touhou setting, the cast should be primarily female. Not because of my own personal preference (I’m dude, but I still see myself as Polish Reimu because I’m so greedy and judgemental of others lol), but because out of respect for the original work, respect for the original author. Touhou being mainly Japanese import and having almost as popular doujinshi side, it’s unavoidable there will be a lot of works focusing on NSFW elements. Not only is that a different culture I don’t fully understand, I also have to accept not everything will be for me. What is surprising is that with some eastern fanworks that are focused on NSFW, they still can be great. I remember chatting with someone on /jp/ how they’ve read this doujin/love story about Akyuu’s incarnations, that they’ve stayed for the writing instead of the obvious and I think that’s brilliant. However, especially with some of the modern releases, I feel like the line has to be drawn.
From what I’ve seen, according to my sources and as well as according to my (now former) friends, a lot of beginning or struggling composers and artists alike in this fandom, get introduced to a lot of different groups (some of them you probably already have seen being mentioned here) and they get the opportunity to work on them on collabs. There’s nothing wrong with it. Some of my favourite albums are collabs (Fairyland of Mishmash, Canvas of Music-colored Winds or Book of Star Mythology started as a Touhou-style album that is a banger in more ways than one). However in said collabs, one thing that often gets lost, is individuality, resulting in something I’ve complained about several times already, going for quantity over quality, pumping out tracks and getting as many artists as possible instead of focusing on what makes each of them great. So to grab even more attention, I’ve noticed said artists resort to pandering. Either specific fetishes or claiming “We have our first ever POC in Touhou!”, even if it’s technically untrue, but I digress. Again, fine, in theory. You still post it online, in public. People have the right to criticise it and have opinions about your work, just like you have a right to express yourself through your work.
The amount of times I’ve seen artists, either new ones, going through an art block, or just becoming pressured to include things like that, is quite saddening to me. Then going out of their way to insult or accuse fans of your previous works just because they don’t like the new direction, that’s even more saddening. Yes, like the saying goes - “sex sells”. If you go to the latest albums that have the ‘thing’ I’ve observed, you might see me and others complaining, but you will see people praising it, sometimes, often or always more, because it panders to their preferences. To reiterate the two personal reasons why I’ve got so invested in this fandom, usually these albums are some of the most bland ones I’ve ever had the displeasure to listen to and if it doesn’t look pleasing to me, I usually won’t bother giving it another go. It’s possible someone will download it specifically because it panders to their taste, yes and we’ll get to that, but debating your fans or fans of your friend, who might, or might not actually know a thing about music, very rarely brings something good.
If music is amazing and doesn’t try to ruin someone else’s prior work, I don’t care if it includes stuff I personally don’t have good experience with - Eastern composers usually show it well with people like Chama, that just now dropped another banger of an album, although the cover of it is not for me and that’s fine! Because Chama specifically said RWMC isn’t part of the Touhou Project, it’s his own thing. I also don’t have to read through the guy’s discord or twitter (which I’ve checked and… yeah) I can just separate the artist from the craft and have mutual respect that way. But what if it’s an album set in a Touhou setting and I specifically have an issue with the music, not the designs? I still remember when I was really harsh to Burnyuho on her first album, specifically, final boss’ theme. Did she tell me I was wrong and I should GTFO? No, she gave me a like and has proven over time with improved releases, that I was just complaining for no reason and I don’t know a thing, her actions spoke louder than her words. But that’s two examples, of two my favourite artists, on the subject of what I was talking about with my two subjective points. I recently came up with the main reason why I’m writing this message and why I think artists in this community should avoid doing what I’ve mentioned.
The regret. The same people and artists who seem to be in fact most involved with the ‘Phase’ or ‘Change’ in the coomerish style, focusing on quantity over quality or trying to include everyone and everyone’s fetishes are, even to my surprise, are usually the very same artists that most often delete their own work and projects, people who want to wipe existence of something they made previously. I don’t want to give too many examples and accuse people of something I’m not fully confident about, but Rapture of Khione, Reawakening of Youkai Mountain, early C&D work, even some of the western fangames, the list can go on. Sometimes these projects were deleted "because of internal drama", sometimes they just mysteriously disappeared and became lost media, with talk or trying to archive them becoming forbidden from the artist that made it. And if there’s something that hurts more than an artist that I’ve respected calling me names or ruining their or someone else’s work, it’s definitely trying to delete a piece of history or art and not allowing it to be discussed or shared any more. And I get it, I’ve worked with artists that didn’t like their old stuff before or even have deleted it, but at the very least, they still allowed it to be reuploaded all as long as people didn’t place ads on said videos or didn’t try to make money off their work and they didn’t insult fans of their older work. How are you going to improve as an artist if you will just start over any time you make something and you’re not satisfied with it? And to tie my point fully, would you like to be a part of a project that can just delete your entire input, just because of one person? Keep in mind, if you’re part of the team and a different person decides to do something, either from adding controversial/alienating OC, try to go after ‘the haters’, your name can get dragged down and usually, from what I’ve seen with groups with negative results like that, people try to hide it afterwards.
Whether the projects that are being deleted are good or not, whether you were the only artist on it (but perhaps you were just influenced to include something questionable in it back then), I still think they shouldn’t be deleted, I still think they should be preserved. And you definitely shouldn’t go after people who won’t respect your wishes for just trying to preserve something. Not on the internet. Yes, you might be successful and something will become lost media forever, but forever on the internet is an oxymoron, it never actually lasts forever and you have to accept that. If you are actually hesitant to include your name under a group project or to release something because of someone else’s interests, don’t do it, no one is forcing you to include things you don’t agree with or you consider you might regret later.
I do understand that nowadays it can be hard to be an artist, to see someone else’s work get way more interest and fans than your work gained, even though you might’ve worked more and harder on it. Or to be always compared to someone else. Or to have difficulty distancing yourself from your work and take things less personally. We’re all adults here (at least I hope so) and again, if you truly enjoy doing what you’re doing, I can be wrong and I’m just projecting, even despite the evidence and the sources of my observations. I’m leaving with this wall of text and two smaller pieces of advice/suggestions not because I want to change people to a certain way, because firstly, I know I can’t and I definitely shouldn’t be changing minds of anyone and secondly, I do think there’s beauty to all the different kinds of this subculture, not everything has to be for me, you all have a freedom to express yourself just as I do to express my opinions about your expressions, at least until I’ll get banned or something (I mean look at current war between Helldivers 2’s artists/mods and their fans)
What prompted the above post?It was long time in making, I just didn't want to deliver it, but couple of latest releases and incidents involved with them made me reconsider, of course, this thread isn't for that, so if you want the specifics, either feel free to ask me in private messages or investigate it yourself.
As far as the drama is concerned Touhou is an extremely alternative, niche "genre" that attracts extremely alternative niche people and creators who bring with them drama, particularly in this day and age.Yeah, I've been in Len'en fandom for a while, so this isn't new stuff for me :spell:
I guess I wasn't aware of any mass deletion of prior media/ music.I also didn't realize just how much stuff is being wiped/was removed/is canceled/is being gatekept until I dig into it because I wanted to archivize and collect as much as possible. While I do like how a lot of fans of these albums are also creators that get very much self involved, it does lately feel like it's just people congratulating themselves no matter what they do, what was their involvement and if something happens, it's swept under the rug.
Prepared but UnratedHave you still not listened to Silent of Soul yet?
Silent of Soul
(https://melonbooks.akamaized.net/user_data/packages/resize_image.php?image=233000001626.jpg)
Link to Youtube video: Teaser (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP9j6cugZNQ)QuoteA sequel to Artificial City. Can't share since I don't own it. Stage 4 and its Boss' theme sounds really good from the crossfade and the tweets though.
Here's a cheeky listening link (https://music.163.com/#/djradio?id=978378243) thenFirst of all, I get it :cirnotan: Thank, thank you, so very much, I've finally found One Piece of Touhou-style.
Hey, hey everyone again. A mini update
First, SHO has released trial of their next Touhou game-like music album:
Scenery of Memorable Adventure.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GeCzvYba0AAj3T5?format=jpg&name=large)
https://youtu.be/V9LY9wRe7Mg?si=9k0SS9AHwCEKJntr Here in video format
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1toBaH1lN0ldLjm-m6RMeTZaKECZTmNjx?usp=drive_link Here already ripped, separated and turned into mp3s
Really looking forward to full version with this one! As for tracks, my favorite ones so far are main menu theme, stage 1 theme and second boss' (Koromi Tsuchihara's) theme.
(https://booth.pximg.net/b5d83f9a-9a77-448e-91a1-6140cfa9e7d3/i/5987239/742e1a85-e1fa-43d2-b6af-211d5d1c751d_base_resized.jpg)
Although they are mostly, but not only arrangements, I highly recommend this album by Kori: https://kori-0204.booth.pm/items/5987239
Arithmetical Doll can be downloaded now off from BOOTH or via this cheeky DL link (https://doujinstyle.com/?p=page&type=1&id=26752).
Retrospective Koedo received a BOOTH DL: https://booth.pm/ja/items/6234625
東方少女 ～桜花散り行きて by Neuzkraft can be found here (https://doujinstyle.com/?p=page&type=1&id=26810), albeit these are just official stuff's arrangements.
Still waiting for Retro-electronics exorcists to be available via BOOTH or other means because this album is like the last thing that isn't unreleased that I desperetly want to experience at least once.
:lpower: :player:I don't deserve the thanks alongside the artists seeing as all I do is post links to albums here, but thank you anyways!
I wish to express my warm thanks to both the Authors-Artists,"SHO" the latest and quoted one," and of course you "Pocloslav"as BOTH This Thread-Starter AND its constant updater.
Each one for your own proportional part and effort,for all your creativity and detail,for all your inspiration and potential,for all else nice.
:lpower: :player:
01 Spurious Nine Lotus Lanterns (Original Track by KomaInu)[In style of Touhou Unreal Mahjong]
02 Primrose Shiver (Seihou 1 Arrange by DO)[In style of Grimoire of Marisa]
03 Sleepless Night Once a Month (Original Track by aruto155328601)[In style of Forbidden Scrollery CD]
04 Thorn Path (Original Track by Otobake)[In style of Lotus Land Story]
05 Shooting Star Praying Night (Original Track by Eban)[Appearently in style of Curiosities of Lotus Asia]
06 Curious Old Shanghai Tile (Retro Ver)(Touhou Unreal Mahjong's arrange by Eban)[Appearently in style of Curiosities of Lotus Asia]
07 Mystic Oriental Love Consultation (Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream arrange by sisyou02)[In style of Phantasmagoria of Flower View]
08 The Magic Straw Hat Jizo ~ Forgotten Magic of Gratitude (Hidden Star in Four Seasons arrange by Ichita)[In style of Phantasmagoria of Flower View]
09 Starbow Magus (Original Track by KomaInu)[In style of Grimoire of Marisa]
10 Replicated Dream (Original Track by Seraphim)[In style of Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost]
11 Demystify Feast (Immaterial and Missing Power's arrange by Amen)[In style of Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost]
12 Corpse Voyage ~ Be of Good Cheer! (Subterrean Animism's arrange by Seraphim)[In style of Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost]
13 A Strange Yet Ordinary Trump Card (Original Track by sisyou02)[In style of 100th Black Market]
14 Selene's Light (Lotus Land Story arrange by Yorin)[In style of Seihou MIDIs]
15 Swordsman of a Distant Star (Highly Responsive to Prayers arrange by soregacyy)[In style of Seihou MIDIs]
16 Doll's Story ~ Sorrowful Doll (Mystic Square arrange by 凹山)[In style of Seihou MIDIs]
17 Written by Agatha Chris, the Warrior Maiden ~ Mysterious Writer Q (Psueodarrange of "Heart of Valkyrie" from Seihou 2, "U.N.Owen Was Her?" from EoSD and also I think "Child of Are" by Otobake, this song and its title is a reference to Akyuu's pen name - Agatha Chris Q. which is of course Agatha Christie reference)[In style of Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]
18 White Wind and Vermilion Feathers (Original Track by azureshian)[Appearently in style of Curiosities of Lotus Asia]
19 The Tomb of the Lost and Unrelated (Original Track by Yorin)[Appearently in style of Curiosities of Lotus Asia]
20 Fairies' Feast (Original Track by MKWiiLuigi) [In style of Eastern and Little Nature Deity]
21 The Bonfire Pure of Sparkle (Original Track by Laruc_Larum) [Appearently in style of Visionary Fairies in Shrine]
22 A Star of Hope Rises in the Blue Sky (Hidden Star in Four Seasons arrange by show_wow)[Appearently in style of Visionary Fairies in Shrine]