177.6 gigabytes of Touhou music

[DesuDesuDesuDesu]

http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=torrentinfo&tid=10830

Yeah, have fun with this.

For the record, it'll take me 54 days to download the entire torrent.



(Granted, it's LOSSLESS quality so there is a reason to its RIDONKULOUS file size.)

[HellMuT]

Aha, no. I'm very picky with my Touhou music.

[merquryman]

what is that, 1024kb/s? i barely have half the space on my hard drive for that file anyway

[Kilvoctu]

Oh dear, I wasn't aware there was even that much Touhou music and mixes to cover such a large amount of space. It would take me a lifetime to sort though all that. I would like to download it though. There may be some hidden gems lurking in that huge torrent.

Alas, my hard drive only holds 160gb (over 50% already used).

[HellMuT]

Oh dear, I wasn't aware there was even that much Touhou music and mixes to cover such a large amount of space. It would take me a lifetime to sort though all that. I would like to download it though. There may be some hidden gems lurking in that huge torrent.

Alas, my hard drive only holds 160gb (over 50% already used).

There is a 23-5g version somewhere out there.

[Ikagaros]

Touhou? What? 

Someone care to give me a brief explanation? 

[JakeCourtney]

I think it's Japanese music.

[AbyssalSoul]

Japanese music indeed. Comes from a one-man game series precisely called "Touhou Project" (the guy makes the programming, music, story, art... well, the "art" is a special story). Wikipedia has more info.

It is also reputed to have some of the best game music ever for the simple fact that the music exceeds the games and is really good on its own (the guy releases solo albums that follow a storyline and sometimes feature tracks from the games but with improved quality or additional passages/sections)

It also has ridiculous, obscene, amounts of arrangements, remixes and rearrangements of all the genres you can imagine. However, a good amount of 'em are either techno/electronic stuff or vocals and pop or just plain weird. But there are solo violin, solo piano, "folkish"/Enya-like, orchestral and even plain good ol' heavy metal too. Oh, and even albums that joke about Final Fantasy (Advent-Cirno series)

With 10 games out and several "related" titles... there is plenty of musical material to listen to.

Some hate the original songs due to an excess of e-trumpets or the "cheap" synth feeling but... I love the chiptune feeling.

I usually see these games as playable music CDs (of course I'm over exaggerating) but that's how nice the musical experience can get. The series wouldn't be that interesting without the music backing it up.

177.6gb... my disk has 160gb. Good lord that's way too much.

A little warning: once you enter this terrain, well, obsession is just around the corner.

[the quiet fox]

A little warning: once you enter this terrain, well, obsession is just around the corner.

I can vouch for this statement. x_x

That said, 178 gigs all at once is probably not gonna happen for me.  Good to know there's so much out there, though.

[Kilvoctu]

You could stand to have been more thorough on that explanation, AbyssalSoul. 

There is a 23-5g version somewhere out there.

Yeah, I have it paused in my torrent list. Can't afford to use up more space right now. 

[adorya]

Touhou music is good, but not everything unfortunately, like the C73 releases, Suwa Foughten Field needed more love and they missed epic instrumental in this batch.

Techno/transe/goa remixes are ok but get boring fast, the doujin teams successive releases had a lot of misses than good last year  ( Alstroemeria Records > don't make a full vocal please, it hurt the ears;  COOL&CREATE > don't dump instrumental version of your songs in wtf; CYTOKINE > omg a full miku miku album, thanks but I'll pass)

What I find funny while trying to play some Touhou in Audiosurf is that instrumentals like Everfade are much harder than MyonMyon metal musics.

[AbyssalSoul]

You are right! Indeed, I found solo piano songs to be cool, moving, fast paced and overall funnier than the regular punchi-punchi tecno stuff. Not that all the tecno stuff is bad of course.

I agree that the newer releases weren't as good. I miss something like WAVE's symphonic album or pure guitar solo like Diverse System.

[SplinterOfChaos]

Oh, god. I guess I'm obsessed with this music already because I couldn't help but start the download despite my already limited space. DAMN YOU TOUHOU!!!!

BTW, AbyssalSoul: You seem to be knowledgeable of Touhou music. Does IOSYS really have a 4 year old vocalist like I think they (or he or she) do (or does)? Specifically, I mean the one who sings A Reason to Fly. The only reason I actually don't like that song seems to be what seems to me to be a 4 year old's voice.

[AbyssalSoul]

Yeah, I know quite a lot but try to limit myself (as in: knowing too much isn't good XD) IOSYS has the weirdest/oddest songs by far. I could really see them using a 4 year old child, but that sounds a strange...

However, they are japanese (gold rule of oddity: it's usually japanese) and they tend to have this uber childish and high-pitched voices when it comes to female singing (usually seems to be an intended thing, I think they even made fun of this in the Bleach anime) so I wouldn't be surprised to find out the singer is 30 years or worse. That tragic program/software that makes an electronic "voice" (Vocaloid) has this type of voice and not so long ago they added other "vocal" ranges. I'm glad the hype for this program dissipated a bit because even a pianist I praised a lot fell for it and ruined a precious solo piano song with that electronic monstrosity.

To speak truthfully, I'm not really that fond to IOSYS (but they are fun, and really creative) given the wide and usually clashing genres they get into. You can't give me a pure heavy metal song and mix it with a pseudo nu metal thing with rapping lyrics or a full orchestral piece with the most rotten and mindless pop... that's like mixing acid with bases; something that has been done quite a lot to my dismay.

If you seek a more "uniform" musical experience, Everfades - Reverie is full of win and solo piano and Wave's symphonic albums (and Archiv-East) are the pinnacle of good orchestral stuff. Then you have Bitplane for a "synth" orchestra approach with a lot of ambience and TAMusic albums for relaxing violin+piano pieces although sometimes they tend to use annoying techno beats that absolutely break the mood of the piano (and what added insult to the injury, they used them right in one of the best songs: Necrofantasia) It's not that I hate techno or dance and such. I have my fair share of pieces that I love, which includes Rez soundtrack amongst other thingies, but... in this case it just doesn't cut it and gets tiring rather quickly. The album LOST PARADISE from Melodic of Harp suffers of this issue. A lot.

Plus some of these guys really don't know how to balance the techno stuff and the beats can end up getting on your nerves, especially if you have a good set of speakers and the basses and low tones drown everything else, which at least for me happened quite a lot no matter how much I played with the equalizer the volume controls. An example of good use could be "With Soloist" from WAVE's Archiveast Disc 1 (the one that isn't completely orchestral). At least there, the violin doesn't get killed by heavy synth beats... and it's a frigging hard song to play with Audiosurf so I recommend it!

[Radical Halo]

Dear God...

And i complained about a 5 gig Beatles collection o____o