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Burning bandwidth

GreyDuck recently posted nearly an hour’s worth of his favorite music on his site. I thought I’d do something similar, in case anybody is curious about what I listen to. Here are nine tunes I like in batches of five and four. I picked mostly shorter tunes, so the total time is about twenty-two minutes. My tastes run toward the obscure and the eccentric (hence my interest in anime); if anyone recognizes more than one or two of these, I will be impressed. No matter how broad your tastes are, there is sure to be something here to annoy you.

[mp3]http://tancos.net/audio/favorites1.mp3[/mp3]

[mp3]http://tancos.net/audio/favorites2.mp3[/mp3]

Update: Identifications below the fold.

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The yes lovely idle singer

Hatune Miku, a “vocal android” suited for J-pop and anime songs, might be a lot of fun to play with. Unfortunately, she’s Windows-only at this time. (The Vocaloid website doesn’t list a release date for the Mac AU version, but I can hope.)

Complicated noises

When I first started fooling around with music on computers, one of my projects was to make my own primitive version of Switched-on Bach. I arranged Bach’s two- and three-part inventions and a few other things for software synths and sequencer. I recently unearthed the CD I recorded. It hasn’t aged well, but some of it doesn’t hurt my ears. I’ve uploaded some selections to my music site for the curious. (Click on the little speaker icons next to the download link to preview the tunes.)

When I made these recordings five years ago, I used as wide a variety of synthesizers as possible. After making the selections, I was surprised to realize that the majority of arrangements I found still listenable used only one synth, FMHeaven, an emulation of the Yamaha DX7.

l’Arc-en-ciel meets Alvin

You probably didn’t want to know this, but The Chipmunks are still around. Nowadays, they do covers of anime themes. Here is their most recent release, which I just (cough) discovered, the theme to Seirei no Moribito:

[mp3]http://tancos.net/audio/SeireiShineTB.mp3[/mp3]

J-pop and worse

I’ve posted the opening of Oh! Edo Rocket on the video weblog. I also a uploaded a clip of the “abacus dance.”

It was trivially easy to add the 1 Bit Audio Player to my music pages, so you don’t have to actually download the mp3s to sample the tunes, or whatever you want to call them.

Testing, testing …

I haven’t been able to get the mp3 player that Astro uses to work, so I’m experimenting with the 1 Bit Audio Player. Here’s a piece from the Denno Coil soundtrack. There should be a little speaker icon after the link. Click on it to hear the tune. If you don’t see it, or if the music doesn’t play, please let me know.

Kodomo no Asobi

Here’s another possibility:

[mp3]http://tancos.net/audio/09-Kodomo-no-Asobi.mp3[/mp3]