Anime Soundtracks

I'm not sure if we have a thread about this, but if we do, whatever.

Anime soundtracks. Those beautiful melodies that accompany animation of the Japanese variety.

Obviously we cannot begin this thread with anything but:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6jCJZEFIto

Yoko Kanno, The Seatbelts, Tank, nuff said.

With that out of the way, I'd also recommend the her work on the Darker than Black Soundtrack (season 1):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5smK3X4mHyE

The feel is somewhat more futuristic, but an awesome composition regardless.

Completely steering out of the way of Kanno for now, I'd also recommend the Baccano Soundtrack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI76wS6tlKs

Done by Yoshimori Makoto, I don't know if he has much else composed, but the Baccano OST is truly befitting of mobsters, crime lords and crazy thieves

And now, for something completely different, anything by The Pillows? How does this relate to anime? Well mostly all of the songs of the FLCL OST were done by this awesome old school rock band...which happens to be from Japan (no, it isn't j-rock)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9S_ZQsGJiE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhRefR7mudg&feature=related

But really, anything by The Pillows is awesome. And its over 20 years of stuff.

While STILL on single bands, to name some more, lets see.
Asian Kung-Fu Generation - Mostly know for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2t3BaNme6k
Anything, but literally ANYTHING by a band called "JAM Project". It's WAAY to much to post here
Abingdon Boy School - Their most famous contributions are HOWLING (DtB's first opening) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh_2jhSVYB4 and STRENGTH (Soul Eater's ending 4) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7tmIZrs6RE

And SINCE we mentioned Soul Eater, their OST is fucking awesome as well (case in point, Psychedelic Souljam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mto_4TRoxXw )

And now, shifting to old school Space Opera, Gunbuster and Diebuster OSTs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxKhhMdbU5I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DefWLEA5gxg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xqsmaOC8YA (possibly one of my favorite anime compositions of all time)

And finally, to finish, something VERY recent GAINAX stuff (released December 29 in Japanese stores) the Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt OST, consisting of electronica done right.
The two transformation sequence songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK-HMo2t87U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIn3ImOvMMA&feature=related

Well, that's all I've got. If you want other awesome shit, go here: http://bluwiki.com/go/Ultimate_soundtr/a/ck for several albums of anything ranging from Hotblooded, to Tearjerking, to Techno, to whatever. I've lost track.

And that's it for me. Feel free to contribute more stuff. For ANY of these OSTs, just ask. I could set you up with both good online shops, or good download sites, whatever rocks your boat

lol yes Bacanno has epic music.
Gurren Lagann also has a lot of awesome songs!

I really like the theme for Serial Experiments Lain, "Duvet"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WidfjUJdk_8&feature=related
There's something about it that sounds almost....nostalgic, like I've known it since I was a kid, even though I only first heard it about a year ago.

Duvet is probably one of my favorite intros, but the OST for Lain is also awesome.

As for Gurren Lagann:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IJX-LNWTEQ

Nuff said
>I KNOW YOU WANT IT BUT ITS MI~NE!!

lulz awesome

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! I give to you the NO PAN NIGHT!
Basically, a Panty and Stocking themed RAVE
And anime in general

DISCLAIMER! This was STREAMED and recorded from SAID STREAM
Made available by GAINAX themselves. So it's all legal

Torrent for the video: www.mediafire.com/?scd8t0gmat7uzgq
Torrent for MP3: http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=torrentinfo&tid=196545
Youtube (A part of the stream): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TVfI9UO19I&feature=player_embedded

And while we're at it:

Mukei Spirit (MUGEN LOOP REMIX by TeddyLoid):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1AxYRZu8b4


Glorious Zelda remix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSkW_Wk1XTs

kz- fuxxxin huntin' life (monster hunter):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP7tQ-e9Yr8

pandaboy - love circulation remix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVc3CAEZ5qc

Heart Beat（Panda BoY Re:MIKUS):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abpbp-GAxZg

Special shout out to this guy: http://www.altemarecords.jp/13.html
He did the Renai Circulation remix

That Zelda remix is pretty sick. So THAT'S the "deadmau5" band everyone's talking about....not bad, not bad

EDIT: listened to it again, just realized that only like 2 minutes of it is actually zelda...kinda boring X D Needs MOAR zelda!

Hey a lot of nice tracks here Lol! Thank you for posting this!
Some of them will surely enter my "having fun and relaxing"-playlist

Thanks

I'll keep posting more as I come up with them.

For example, I believe I haven't mentioned this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d86yH-WsSwM

Why is it anime related? Wait for around the middle mark (2:22)

If you don't recognize that voice, I dunno man.

Also, while we're at it:
from the original OST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAvg0RHJTdA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHRBFTWSguY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5roqbNkvIc
from the 2.22 OST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBr-SdkpCKk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBP_P44cKng&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08cgyxj953o (my personal favorite)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2sKTDXqN6U&feature=related

And, from another good anime, Fate/Stay Night (although just read the fucking VN)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4poryDakX0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkRqvsbRZiM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUs8FEsDUZ4
This is the most epic tune you will ever hear. Obviously if you haven't played the VN, you wont get it, but trust me, it is.
Also any and all remixes sound awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCL_EqNKpVA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff2tM4-nZA0&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErttGQvvp5I&feature=related
both with the same tune, but I prefer the last one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu4T2A2k-oE

and finally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNvsGRzw-ys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AmfJZ1rpgA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huUiTYcWwYY

Full Metal Alchemist has some pretty frakkin cool opening/endings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQpEONWPaYs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCc42T99Da4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW3wvLfkm2I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDTrKIzwXeE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18dPu9ZniIE&feature=related
Lat last one just makes me want to jump and yell and sing and be happy. makes me feel like a kid again. Well, a little-er kid.

Also here's something that blew my mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5exSmwBNWI

You have no fucking idea man

Also, I posted this in the proper thread I made, but the song "Magia" by Kalafina is fucking awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_k1gdafHBs
Also this one voice over (bonus points if you speak german, but it sounds heavenly regardless):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI6sNTl-8ok
Also a wide orchestra version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm3p9k3HwF0

Just saying, the song is AWESOME.
The soundtrack of the show itself also seems to be pretty good. Some of the more ominous songs are somewhat medieval and Germanic in the sound

NAISU! as Japanese would say I didn't know that Full Metal Alchemist and Fate/Stay Night has such a great OSTs! Actually I never heard of Fate/Stay Night anime before HAHAHA!

kewl music Lol-kun.
But now, it is time for...
TOUHOU.

Spoiler:

Bad Apple! This is my favorite music video ever for anything. ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzEUeWnV73U
DAT ANIMATION.

I wanted to post more touhou music, but honestly there's so many songs, and probably like 10 fan versions for each, so it's like impossible to know where to start X D after I'm able to play the games again maybe I can find some good songs.

>implying I don't play Touho at top difficulty

I'm not just an /a/non you know. I make /jp/ my hangout just as much

Love those games.

I think there's a torrent for touho music somewhere that is fuckhuge

http://deadfrog.fapis.com/entry.html?id=10057

This is only official stuff. The one I'm talking about has remixes as well

Some of them over 40 minutes in length

As I like to say, the only good thing about touho is the music

EDIT:
Found this
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtCOLbpf61vydG5qaDhEM1BDVzZaMWVBU2lWeXlqd2c&hl=en#gid=0

Enjoy

gah! I didn't know you knew about touhou! lulz. I fail
>40 minute remixes
D : awesomeness, I like to play looooooong remixes of music when I'm surfin' da web, otherwise I have to stop and change my music constantly

Did you guys read about Kenji Yamamoto's Kai soundtrack getting edited/removed due to copyright infringement? Apparently, the guy's been at it for years, blatently stealing songs from bands like Pink Floyd.

Good news is they're replacing his tracks with music from the original Dragon Ball and DBZ composer Shinsuke Kikuchi. That makes me so happy as his music was always so much better. I hope they make a version of DBK with his music instead of Yamamoto's, or maybe I shouldn't call it Yamamoto's.

http://daizex.com/

Wait, but its all remixes right?

Hmmm...I guess that's fucked up
Composers of electronica normally have to rely on their editors to pay royalties for remixed shit if they plan on selling it