[Coolzo]

About time, my fellow EDM fan
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Pendulum - Hold Your Colour (2007) (CD)

 

[TwinQY]

Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Lasting Weep - Le Spectacle De L'Albatros
William Parker -  O'Neal's Porch
Shadowfax - Shadowdance 
The Manhattan Transfer - Brasil 
Steve Eliovson & Collin Walcott - Dawn Dance
Unleashed - Odalheim 

 

[MorbidToaster]

Oh please. I've now got both the versions. I had the 2007 version already I just hadn't bought the CD until now.
 
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About time, my fellow EDM fan

 

[MrQ]

Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream
Porcupine Tree - Signify
Porcupine Tree - Recordings
Porcupine Tree - Nil Recurring
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

 

[meme]

IU ~ "Twenty Years of Spring"
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu ~ "Pamyu Pamyu Revolution" (Limited Edition)
miss A ~ "Touch"
Taetiseo ~ "Twinkle"
Younha ~ "Lost in Love"
 

 

[TJ Elite]

I discovered Vocaloid exactly two weeks ago an have bought a lot of stuff on iTunes after that, which I don't usually do since I much prefer CDs and other physical formats. I don't even like the fact that iTunes still doesn't offer their music in lossless quality, but I do think that 256kbps AAC is good enough for the price they are asking for most of the releases. When I say this I'm referring to albums that are in the price range of 5€ (which probably $5 in the American iTunes). When the price is closer to 10€, however, I really start to expect lossless files since I'm not getting a booklet, the actual disc nor a CD case, but I'm paying an amount that's comparable to the price of a physical release. I'd at least expect to receive a hi-res image containing the album artwork, but no. Anyway, I didn't mean to rant about iTunes. The files they sell usually sound really good but when a reasonably new service like Bandcamp for example does a better job at making both the artist and the consumer happy there's clearly room for improvement.

 

What I intended to convey, is that I haven't made very many digital purchases in the past, so for me to buy this much is unheard of. My only defense is that a lot of these would either be very difficult or expensive to obtain in physical form, or in many cases there has never even been a physical release so digital files are the only option to begin with. I understand that some of the music I've bought as downloads are (at least currently) somewhat esoteric, but I beginning to fear that in the years to come this will slowly become the norm and more and more releases will have the digital version as the main release and the physical release will be a "limited/special edition".

 

Moving on to the actual music I've bought. Those who are not familiar with Vocaloid might want to check the the Wikipedia page for it, but I'd recommend going to YouTube and searching for either "Vocaloid" or "Hatsune Miku" (without the quotes, although you'll get results with them, just possibly a little less). The word Vocaloid currently returns me close to 180k and Hatsune Miku around 90k results, which should be enough to satisfy anyone's curiosity. The complete list of my purchases is below with the EPs and singles included after the albums (to satisfy my desire/need to be through). I've been pretty loose with the distinction between an album and an EP, and I don't even want to think what on earth might be the difference between a mini album and an EP. I normally don't see the point of singles and ESs but in this case at least they've turned out to be well worth exploring. Oh, and two of the releases on the list are non-Vocaloid albums, but I leave it up to the Vocaloid aficionados to entertain themselves by spotting them (probably not that hard really).

 

Albums

 

36g - The Raingazer's Song

AVTechNO! - Core | AVTechNO↑

AVTechNO! + Saiya - AS

Babuchan - The Epilogue of World

bonoris - mugen no tsuki

Clean Tears - Hane Ito | Artificial Rainbow | Sonorous

Electrocutica - RE:CYCLE

Hikarisyuyo - Cynicism | Centralia | Amberoid

Hiroyuki ODA - Thirty

JevanniP - Mind of Rin

kiichi - Yashima Unite

millstones - Twilightholic

monaca:factory - Latimeria Will Dream

North-T - Interlude

Phoenix Project - Forest, Refrain

pinocchioP - Poncotsu

Re:nG - Period 1

river - Rhythm Symphony

Shun - STYLE.TUNE

SOSOSO (Tsukui Kazuhito) - World Breakout | Reboot

TinySymphony - Liberator

Toraboruta - Torabotic Tune

uniMemo - A Dagger and a Venturer's Clothes

Various artists - VocaRock Collection | EX2 ~Exroducers2~

Vocalotus - Spinning Lotus

wowaka - Unhappy Refrain

Yuni - Paradox Girl

ブンガP - Umoremix Online | Flowers

匿名希望の東京都在住 - Virtual Songs

 

 

EPs and singles

 

Atols - Babel | Omega

AVTechNO! - I Love Loop Tanchou | Fuyu no Sakura | E-ROiRO | KIMIyoMIKUnoNOZOMInoYOROKOBIwo | Nelnelnel | SouZou | For Example | Free | Nihongo wo renshuuchuu no megurine luka ga hananokawori wo renshuuchuu | Abeken no nichiyoubi no asa | Six Under UG | Sixnine | CABA | Contradiction | Feminity "real me" | C | KVLR | Kimi no Sobani / Sakura | Kimi no Sobani | Encryption - D | Plus/Space | Draw the Emotional * AVTechNO! | Mujitsu | Lust Doll | Cryonics | tear | Hatsune Miku TEAR | 8sec

Clean Tears - Sakuradayori | Set Digital | Kaede -ver.2.0 | To Be Style

effe - sss

Electrocutica - ARCA | Aquila

HSP - Incarnation | The Endless Love

kiichi - Inquisitor Girl VS The Youth Killer

m@rk - Tautology

millstones - Kagaribito

Minatsuki Toka - Silent Dloc

SOSOSO (Tsukui Kazuhito) - Sunspot Cycle

Taishi - There

tokuP - SPiCa

Vocalotus - A Song of Morning Glory

るなちゅ - Silent Rain

 

 

My next post in this thread will contain just CDs; I promise. And I haven't stopped listening to all the other types of music. I still listen to black metal, followed by some free jazz, followed by modern classical, followed by some indie video game music, followed by progressive rock from the '70s, followed by some soul, followed by slugde metal, and so on, and so on... Now I just feel like I might some day be able to add pop music on that list. That might never actually happen, but it's at least theoretically possible now. In addition, I think Vocaloid has made me wanna sample some trance music... Oooh boy. Music, a never-ending spiral.

 

[Radioking59]

I'm in Florida for vacation this week. I went to FYE where someone traded in 800 old CDs so he could get the "new and better versions". I've never seen so many smooth sided cases in my life. His loss ,my gain.
 
The Who - "Who Are You" Japan for US
The Who - "The Who By Numbers" Japan for US
Steely Dan - "Can't Buy a Thrill" Japan for US
Crosby, Stills & Nash - "CSN" West German Press
The Moody Blues - "To Our Children's, Children's, Children" West German Press
David Bowie - "Tonight" Japan for US
The Cars - "Panorama"
Dire Straits - "Communique" Japan Target
Dire Straits - "Love Over Gold" Japan Target
Queen - "News of the World" West German Target
Queen - "The Game" West German Target
Madonna - "Madonna" Japan Target

 

[MorbidToaster]

The Cars - Candy-O
Otis Redding - The Dock of the Bay
Europe - The Final Countdown
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping
Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
America - America
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Asia - Asia
Pendulum - Hold Your Colour (2007)
Gotye - Making Mirrors
Five Finger Death Punch - American Capitalist
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Jack White - Blunderbuss
Foreigner - 4
Cee Lo - Cee Lo Green Is...The Soul Machine
Rush - Presto
 
These are all CDs. Lots of ripping going on.

 

[Brooko]

Nice list Morbid!
 
We share a couple of recent purchases .....
 
Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events
Ed Sheeran - +
Gotye - Making Mirrors
Kimbra - Vows
Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia
Porcupine Tree - Voyage 34
Roger Waters - In The Flesh
Roger Waters - Amused To Death
Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion

 

[Radioking59]

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I'm in Florida for vacation this week. I went to FYE where someone traded in 800 old CDs so he could get the "new and better versions". I've never seen so many smooth sided cases in my life. His loss ,my gain.
 

 
I went back today for some more.
 
Dire Straits - "Brother in Arms" West Germany
REM - "Fables of Reconstruction" Japan for US
Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Street Survivors" West Germany
Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Gimme Back My Bullets" Japan for US
Yes - "90125" West German Target
Talking Heads - "True Stories" Japan for US
Carpenters - "The Singles 69-73" Japan for US
Bruce Springsteen - "Born in the USA" Japan for US
Tom Petter & The Heartbreakers - "You're Gonna Get It" Japan for US Hoffman Master
 

 

[9pintube]

All LP's  1.Joe Walsh------ "Analog Man"      2. Wes Montgomery-------- "Tequila"           3. Norah Jones---------"Little Broken Hearts"      4.Tedeschi Trucks Band--------"Live"     5. FosterthePeople----- Torches

 

[Destroysall]

"Imaginaerum"-Nightwish
"Dark Side of the Moon"-Pink Floyd
"Oracular Spectacular"-MGMT
"The Lost Children"-Disturbed
"Era Extrana" -Neon Indian
"Under My Skin"-Avril Lavigne
 
Now sue me, yes I like Avril Lavigne.

  Neon Indian was a gift from a close friend and it is alright, something new is always good.  The others (excluding Distrubed) are some of my favorites.  Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the old Disturbed.  This new Disturbed is disturbing.  I can't believe how mainstream they have become..

 

[MorbidToaster]

So you don't like The Lost Children tracks?
 
I haven't heard it yet, but I really enjoyed Indestructible and their latest album Asylum. Worst for me were Believe and Ten Thousand Fists. The Sickness was of course the height of their career.
 
Actually got in my vinyl collection the other day. Excited to hear it as I've heard the dynamic range is much better with this release.
 
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"Imaginaerum"-Nightwish
"Dark Side of the Moon"-Pink Floyd
"Oracular Spectacular"-MGMT
"The Lost Children"-Disturbed
"Era Extrana" -Neon Indian
"Under My Skin"-Avril Lavigne
 
Now sue me, yes I like Avril Lavigne.

  Neon Indian was a gift from a close friend and it is alright, something new is always good.  The others (excluding Distrubed) are some of my favorites.  Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the old Disturbed.  This new Disturbed is disturbing.  I can't believe how mainstream they have become..

 

[fatcat28037]

 

[Destroysall]

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So you don't like The Lost Children tracks?
 
I haven't heard it yet, but I really enjoyed Indestructible and their latest album Asylum. Worst for me were Believe and Ten Thousand Fists. The Sickness was of course the height of their career.
 
Actually got in my vinyl collection the other day. Excited to hear it as I've heard the dynamic range is much better with this release.
 

Lol, honestly I enjoyed everything up to "Indestructible", 'Liberate' ("Believe") is one of my favorite songs from them.  I haven't heard "Asylum" in it's entirety, so I wouldn't find it fair to compare the two yet.  However, I am starting to listen to "The Lost Children" more and I have found myself enjoying both 'This Moment' and 'Old Friend' a lot.  I guess I jumped to a quick conclusion without giving the album much of a chance.