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Various - Red Traxx - 17-Dec-07 11:26 AM
This release could also be known as the "£100 EP" because people believe mere rips of the vinyl have the same value as perhaps an ounce of Moroccan hashish, despite the only striking thing about this release being its rarity. This has resulted in Red Traxx becoming an online currency, often bartered for with indecent sexual favours and other methods of human degregation.

Word of warning kids: if you pay money for lossless unmaximized rips of a record simply because it's rare, you've been had!

DJ Technorch - Boss On Parade: XXX Meets Gabba - 29-Apr-07 04:25 AM
Take some powerful sampled stabs and unforgettable vocal microsamples from dozens of early 90s hyper techno tracks and toss them all in a blender. The result is the title track from this CD, "Boss on Parade". Serve with a potent hallucinogenic, and you have the DJ Sharpnel remix.

From beginning to end, this CD sounds like it was made for playing in warehouses to test their durability. I've certainly never heard so many kick drums in an hour.

Various - Rumble Roses Original Soundtrack - 15-Jan-07 12:34 AM
"Rumble Roses" was one of those wrestling/beat 'em up games that uses breasts as the main marketing pitch, i.e. basically Konami's answer to Dead or Alive.

Unless you are unbelievably titillated by CGI breasts I would not buy this release solely for the DVD. The only highlight of the DVD is a full length music video to Junction Rainy Blue; besides that the rest of the DVD consists of montages of game footage set to the more popular of the tracks within the soundtrack.

However, this is worth obtaining if you were a fan of the game or you enjoy music by artists such as Sota Fujimori or DJ Taka from the Bemani series of games. The Japanese rock version of Look To The Sky (a vocal trance song originating from Dance Dance Revolution) has been produced tremendously well and is an interesting spin on the original track.

The worst point of the album is probably the vomit-worthy "B.E.C.K.Y.", a cheerleader-style rhyme that could almost be placed in a kids' TV programme if it weren't for the semi-slutty lyrics.

Takayuki Nakamura / Katsumi Yokota - Lumines Remixes - 30-Dec-06 03:41 PM
There's one vital thing this soundtrack is missing: the licensed songs. It was tracks like Mondo Grosso's "Shining" and Eri Nobuchika's "Lights" that are missed out of this 2CD package which are why I fell in love with the music on this game! This was a huge disappointment for me when I bought the CD.

Those songs aside, the soundtrack is still fairly enjoyable but most of the tracks aren't particularly memorable.

REDALiCE / 源屋* - Sugurashi - 18-Dec-06 12:35 PM
Sugurashi is REDALiCE's 3rd happy hardcore "arrange" album, and this time around the inspiration for the tracks is a PC game called Acceleration of Suguri. I haven't actually played the game myself, in fact I bought it after being impressed by the preview clips I heard. Personally I don't think it matters, and I'm sure that people familiar with the original compositions would probably enjoy them even more than I do.

Overall I am impressed with the effort that has gone into producing this album. There are only 2 artists involved with the production of the tracks, which is surprising because the style of every track is varied (despite the constraints of the happy hardcore genre itself).

To me, the highlights of the album are: Green Airplane, a very typical yet melodically beautiful example of Japanese hardcore, Get Last, which almost sounds like an early DJ Shimamura track, Funky Light, which is a rather unusual freeform hardcore track on the verge of being acid techno, and the final track of the megamix, You (Hardcore Remix), which despite its simplicity posesses a particular melody that will get stuck in your head for days.

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