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An Interview with Platina Jazz’s Rasmus Faber

A little over six months ago, I got the chance to listen to and review Platina Jazz Vol. 1, an album consisting of – you guessed it! – jazzed up arrangements of popular anime themes. Listening to it proved to be a pleasant ear-opener, especially given how most anime theme arrangements tend to fall towards [...]

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Anime Instrumentality’s Call for New Staff Writers

Anime Instrumentality has come a long way since its nascent days reviewing anime titles as the site slowly made a concerted effort to live up to its title (the music-related meaning of “instrumentality”) by ramping up its coverage of anime music with the goal of becoming a thorough resource for opinions about the music that [...]

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Previewing the Music for Winter 2011′s Anime Season

Other people toss up preview posts with the aim of highlighting plot, characters, seiyuu, and art design. Our idiom here is music all the way, so once again, we’ll highlight the soundtrack offerings for this Winter anime season. Naturally, there’s a high chance I’ll only get around to watching three or four shows (one of [...]

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Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt The Original Soundtrack – Review

Album Title: Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt The Original Soundtrack Anime Title: Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt Artist: Hoshina Anniversary, TeddyLoid, ☆Taku Takahashi, Jun Sasaki, Emyli, Booty Bronx, LISA, Mitsunori Ikeda, Debra Zeer, Kodai of KinKieS, Mariya Ise, Aimee B Catalog Number: VTCL-60236 Release Type: Soundtrack Release Date: December 29, 2010 Purchase at: CDJapan, Play-Asia

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Anime Music of Christmases (Long) Past

Unlike the iconic Dickens novel, I do mean long-past. I won’t be talking about special vocal albums like the Marimite Christmas album either, as hilarious as it is. No, for the purposes of this entry, I’m going to focus more on compositions or instrumental arrangements that channel the spirit of Christmas. Back when I started [...]

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