Comments on: Doujin Album: ANIME HOUSE PROJECT ~Kamikyoku selection vol.2~ – Review

By: Diamondolphi

Diamondolphi — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 06:52:49 +0000

I’ve always had weird tastes in music, but fuwa fuwa time and super driver from this album are in my top 10 ever. I also liked cagayake! girls. I have to agree though, the rest is pretty terrible.

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Sat, 30 Oct 2010 19:52:31 +0000

[...] of their tracks are somewhat gimmicky and the last album that Anime Instrumentality reviewed, their Anime House Vol. 2 album, was utterly atrocious. Still, that they’ve gotten this gig is pretty interesting and I [...]

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Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:25:55 +0000

[...] the message I’ve gotten when I was unfortunate enough to have to listen to either of the Anime House albums or TAMUSIC’s godawful Haruhi arrange album. Hell, if it weren’t for kevo’s [...]

By: zzeroparticle

zzeroparticle — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:14:04 +0000

@Crystal
As you can probably guess, I don’t have that much in the way of knowledge with house music, so I can’t really comment. All I know is that most of these songs aren’t as good as I was hoping. Do look forward to giving AHP1 a listen though!

By: Crystal

Crystal — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:53:44 +0000

I only liked 2 songs of the first AHP (K-ON! and Rinbu Revolution) and then only Cagayake. It was okay for “anime house” but I think Japan’s house music is way different that European house.(?)(The songs were edited on the vocals and only a flat beat in the background? Yeah, not much. K-ON songs were the only songs that were only a bit spiced up) I have no clue since the only house music I listen to is English/Euro ones, and not Japanese ones. Basically, if you’re used to listening to traditional house music, AHP won’t really sound like house music.

By: zzeroparticle

zzeroparticle — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:59:39 +0000

@kevo
Yeah, that version is pretty rad. Not gonna lie.

Also, sounds like an opportunity if I ever heard one. I guess the closest thing that we have so far are para para versions of famous anime themes?

By: kevo

kevo — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:51:37 +0000

The best remix of Dango Daikazoku is A.Q.’s gangsta remix end of discussion.

and zzero, house is a kind of dance music (invented in my hometown of Chicago thank you very much) which was descended from disco. Speaking of which I’ve noticed that there are no house anime remixes I’ve seen. Hmmm….

By: zzeroparticle

zzeroparticle — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:45:11 +0000

@Yu
I’ll admit that I’m not a huge fan of Chata, so her original rendition of Dango Daikazoku was nice and pleasant, but it could have been a lot better with a different artist at the helm. Will say that adding a techno layer on top is hardly the pinnacle of creativity there, so it’s understandable if you think the remix doesn’t add a lot to the original.

@Yi
This is fairly representative of the whole song, so you can imagine why I’d be annoyed with how it all played out. Like I said, it took me 5 listens to get through and you probably saw why that was :p

By: Yi

Yi — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:16:16 +0000

Cagayake! GIRLS was really quite terrible. My eardrums are still hurting from the first 5 seconds… or more like 25 seconds… or the whole song. The beats are too jarring for my tastes.

But I enjoyed Tomare and You.

By: Yu

Yu — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:39:22 +0000

I have to disagree about this rendition of Dango Daikazoku as being better. For me, that is not the kind of song which requires a beat to make enjoyable. The title means “A Big Dango Family”, and the original vocals and lack of beat gave it that childish sound which the title (and lyrics) reflect. Then again, that might not be your thing

I generally dislike remixes. They usually don’t end up worth listening to, since the mixed in beat nearly always disrupts the flow of the song. Occasionally you get a techno song further remixed. Techno Squared.

By: zzeroparticle

zzeroparticle — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:58:29 +0000

@kevo
Is that really a term? I’m assuming that it means people getting together for mixing music with techno beats and the like, but if you can elaborate on what that entails, that’d be pretty awesome.

I’m usually fine if the album in question wants to put in a diverse track list of jazz, techno, trance, or whatever, but the music needs to be good. Like you said, there’s no cohesion, complexity, and very little creativity in here, so yeah, blergghhhhh is right.

By: kevo

kevo — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:18:21 +0000

The title “Anime House Project” leads me to fear if this is the state of the current house scene in Japan. Not that this album has any semblance to house music whatsoever.

The tracks are rhythmically retarded and overmixed like there’s no tomorrow, lacking both complexity and cohesion. They feel totally uninspiring, as if the tracks couldn’t decide if it wanted to be synthpop, jazz, or J-core. Bleeehggghghhh

By: zzeroparticle

zzeroparticle — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:36:47 +0000

@digitalboy
Also the jazz. I don’t know about you, but I’ve never been able to turn away from Touhou jazz bits. :p

By: digitalboy

digitalboy — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:46:39 +0000

Just gave it a listen, and it was pretty darn good! I suspect it had a lot to do with them not ruining it with any of their ungodly vocalists LOL

By: zzeroparticle

zzeroparticle — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:17:33 +0000

@Reltair
I’d say “butchered” is putting it mildly :p

@Glo
I almost wonder how sadistic they were feeling. I might not have strong composition skills, but I’d have to work pretty damn hard to make a piece sound that bad.

@digitalboy
IOSYS not your thing? I figured that if nothing else, you’d approve of Dead Girls Bebop

And yeah, this was something I decided to do out of left field. Sometimes it’s worth exploring other stuff, but this clearly wasn’t one of those times :\

By: digitalboy

digitalboy — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:37:40 +0000

So they did a bunch of songs that have been done by everyone and their grandma, and they did them horribly. Sounds pretty worthless to me.

Then, I’ve never been an IOSYS fan. I find everything I’ve heard by them unbelievably annoying, even if I managed to find them catchy (WHY DO I KNOW THEIR MARISA STOLE THE PRECIOUS THING BY HEART?!?! WHYYYYY??!?!)

By: Glo

Glo — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:21:31 +0000

Fuwa Fuwa Time was probably the best, although wow. they really butchered Motteke! Sailor Fuku and Cagayake! Girls. Funny how both songs have simlar titles:

Word followed by exclamation mark! More word(s)

Motteke started off good too (as you said), but quickly turned to shit.

By: Reltair

Reltair — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:51:37 +0000

I usually don’t listen to remixes, but oh god. They butchered Cagayake! GIRLS.