Last time on
umi_uta we had sad, mellow songs. :( BUT THIS TIME ITS THE TOTAL OPPOSITE. :D Thats right, this weeks theme is Remixes! Everyone knows how cool remixes are. They turn a cool song into something even cooler. 8D Also an entire cd. So come dive in and look what Umi has got for you this week~
1.
Ayumi Hamasaki - M (Above & Beyond Edit)Genre: remixxxxx
Language: Japanaese
Comments: I think i liked pretty much every Above & Beyond remix ive heard. Well, theyre not one of the best trance artists around for no good reason, now are they? I like this one cause she sings faster, and the music is more danceable. One of 43535349573450 remixes of this song. :3
Format: mp3
Rateing: 7/10
2.
L'arc~en~ciel - milky way 2005Genre: punk
Language: japanese
Comments: Well, its really P'unk~en~Ciel, but whos counting? Not me~ 8D Anyways. Its like they gave the original song a new breath of fresh air. I think i like Tetsus vocals better in the 2005 version then Hydes in the orginal. ><; *dodges fangirl attacks* The guitar and drums are more prominate and strong in this version too. A good song to do some slight headbanging to. C:
Format: mp3
Rateing: 5/10
3.
Morning Musume - The Peace (Trance Remix) Genre: trance
Language: Japanese
Comments: OMG. Trance + Morning Musume = Super Energy Time! XD It sounds like your average trance song though, nothing horribly random in this mix. All the vocals are more or less the same, with some cool distortions sprinkled in it. The music part is the coolest part of it. They did take out Rikas speaking part though. If you like the original song, you should download this.
Format: mp3
Rateing: 5.5/10
4.
Chrono Trigger - Ocean Palace Wave Breaker OCRemixGenre: breakbeat/synth
Language: n/a
Comments: Yus, Chrono Trigger! I heart this game, and espically the music. This fan remix (taken from
OverClocked Remix) is great. The overlaying beat is repeatative, but in a good way (like all good trance/techno/etc songs). Around the middle though it starts to change though, and it tones down the overlaying melody somewhat. I think it ends too early though. :( Even though the song is not quite trance, it does kinda have the same effect. :3
Format: mp3
Rateing: 6/10
5.
HYDE - SHALLOW SLEEP (english ensemble)Genre: soft piano ballad
Language: English
Comments: Not so much of a remix, but I just had to sneak this in here. Hyde singing in his own brand of English, accompanied with a lovely piano. sigh. *daydream in 3...2..1...* *snaps back to reality* oh sorry. *^_^* Like i said, the piano!! go download.
Format: mp3
Rateing: 6/10
6.
Koda Kumi - Koi no Tsubomi (A Cup Of Milk Tea Bossa Nova Version)Genre: bossa nova! XD
Language: Japanese
Comments: Now, everytime I hear this song, i imagine it being played in some fancy party, with well dressed gentlemen and ladies, who are all standing around gossiping with some type of white wine in their glasses, and waiteress walking around calming offering them fancy plates with shrimp and coctail sauce on them. XD; Wow, that really paints a picture, doesnt it? By all means, its very jazzy and lighthearted. Very good for those summer days~
Format: mp3
Rateing: 6/10
7.
Koda Kumi - Real Emotion (Overhead champion Remix)Genre: trance/house
Language: japanese
Comments: A remix of the song that blasted Koda Kumi into popularity: real Emotion. Done gracefully by the japanese remix dude man Overhead Champion. (duh.) I like the whip cracks. XD If you thought the original song made you move your feet, then this one will have you danceing all over the place. definatly something to listen to if you need some energy.
Format: mp3
Rateing: 8/10
8.
Morning Musume - Chokkan 2 ~Nogashita Nasaka wa Ookii Zo!~ (Mattaku Sono Toori Remix)Genre: pop
Language: japanese
Comments: If I ever become a principal of a school, this song is going to be my fight song. It just totally is, haha. But again, this remix isnt that much differnt from the original. Just the background music is more electronic or something like that. It reminds me of kind of i guess you would say tribal beats. This song always makes me bounce up and down~ souda souda souda souda!
Format: mp3
Rateing: 8/10
9.
Morning Musume - Koi No Dance Site (M.I.D KH-R Club Mix)Genre: pop remix
Language: Japanese
Comments: I like this one. K-K-K-Koi~Koi~Koi~Koi no danusu sitooo~This one makes me think of people doing circular dance moves. XD; I make weird and vauge comparisions, dont I? XD; Gomen. Its got a very steady beat though, ill give it that. Vocals stay the same. Its still good.
Format: mp3
Rateing: 7/10
10.
Morning Musume - Koi no Dance Site (pandart sasanooha remix)Genre: remix!
Language: japanese
Comments: My brother always makes fun of this song everytime hes around when im playing it. He calls it the "Hoo Ha" song. XD; Thats probably because they mixed that part of the original into the remix about a million times. Its cool though, i like the weird horn sound. SEXY BEAAAAAAAAAM~!
Format: mp3
Rateing: 7/10
11.
SMiLE.dk - Butterfly (Pikachu and the Pokemon's MixGenre: WTF
Language: English
Comments: So. Totally. RANDOM. But at the same time, so totally awesome. Some times it gets kinda annoying, cause theres some parts where Pikachu is just going 'Pika~chu, pika pi, pika~chu, pika pi" over and over again, but thankfully it stops before i feel the need to run him over with a motorcycle. :D I like the end part cause thats when that guy starts doing all of the Pokeraps. oh yes. That by itself is reason enough to download this. :D That, and Butterfly is a awesome and immortal song from DDR.
Format: mp3
Rateing: 5/10
12.
The Black Mages - Otherworld (FFX)Genre: rock
Language: English
Comments: Everyone remembers in the begining of Final Fantasy X, when Tidus is about to play Blitzball, the song that was playing the background? Well, this is is, but redone by Nobuo Uematsus rock band, The Black Mages. I like this version better because this time we can actually understand what the guy (well, this time its a girl) is saying. Yay! Its got some great electric guitar in it.
Format: mp3
Rateing: 7/10
13.
Utada Hikaru - Devil Inside (Richard Vission Radio Edit)Genre: pop remix
Language: English
Comments: Im too lazy to rip the real version from my cd, so everyone gets the radio version. XD; Its perfectly fine though, cept for the guy saying the radio station name in the begining, so whatev. This is the best remix of Devil Inside on the whole single, according to me. Most of Hikkis English singles had strange remixes. >.>; This one is grand though. :D Theres not much vocal remixing, just the background music has a more club-like beat to it. Good to get your blood flowing if youre going to start danceing at a club or something~
Format: mp3
Rateing: 6/10
14.
Utada Hikaru - Distance (m-flo remix)Genre: pop
Language: Japanese
Comments: :D I love the first minute of the song. The little swirls they put in her voice are so cool! XD If that doesnt make any sence, once you download it it will. And even cooler is that they creep up later on too, yay! This one is plesently more upbeat then the original, yay.
Format: mp3
Rateing: 5/10
15.
Utada Hikaru - Passion ~During the Battle~Genre: pop
Language: Japanese
Comments: A combonation of Passion ~single version~, Passion ~opening~, and Passion ~After the Battle~. Neato~
Format: mp3
Rateing: 9/10
16.
Utada Hikaru - Simple and Clean (Influence Mix)Genre: pop
Language: english!
Comments: oOoOoOo this one has some groovy beats! Makes me want to just bob my head and tap my foot along with it. Bass is this songs friend! :D
Format: mp3
Rateing: 5/10
17.
Alizee - J'en Ai Marre (Soft Skin Club Mix)Genre: club
Language: French
Comments: If youve ever played World of Warcraft, youve probably seen the night elf females dance. They took it from the French pop artist Alizees dance from her performance of J'en Ai Marre (translation: Im Fed Up). This remix is sexy. It sounds like a normal club mix. A good listen~
Format: m4a
Rateing: 5/10
18.
L'arc~en~Ciel - HEAVENS DRIVE 2005 but really P'unk~en~ciel.
Genre: punk
Language: Japanese
Comments: OMG. THIS IS MY FAVORITE SONG EVER. EVEREVEREVEREVEREVER. YOU MUST DOWNLOAD THIS NOW. NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW. ITS THE SUPER RARE AWESOME CHOCOLATEY FUDGE COATED MEGA SUPER SONG.
Format: mp3
Rateing: 10000000000/10
19.
L'arc~en~Ciel - Fate (Everybody Knows But God Mix)Genre: not so rock rock >.>;
Language: Japanese
Comments: This is from L'arcs Ectomorphed Works album, which contains songs from their previous albums remixed by Yukihiro, the drummer. Its got this cool trippy beat, and the begining reminds of me of some cool 8bit Nintendo song. XD
Format: mp3
Rateing: 7.5/10
20.
Utada Hikaru - Hikari (Bilingual Mix)Genre: pop
Language: Japanese & English
Comments: Exactly what it sounds like. One verse is in Japanese, the next in English, Japanese, English...you get the point. Very cool and very fitting of Hikki. :)
Format: mp3
Rateing: 8/10
21.
Utada Hikaru - You Make Me Want To Be A Man (Bloodshy Mix)Genre: pop
Language: English
Comments: Best English!Hikki remix. Its just cool, thats all. Download it, understaaaaaand? Cool kind of...drug-induced sounding beat. >.>;;;
Format: mp3
Rateing: 6.5/10
22.
Morning Musume - Single Medley Hawaiian versionGenre: hawaii!
Language: Japanese
Comments: From the Hawaiian de Kiku Morning Musume Single Collection cd. ^_^ This cd is so fun and relaxing. :3 I listen to it when i go to sleep~ Basically they took the singles all the way up to 5th gen and made them sounds Hawaii-ish. So this track is like a sample of all of the songs on the cd (besides Souda! Were Alive, which a clip of it is in this song, but not avalible as a full track on the cd. :[ )
Format: mp3
Rateing: 5.5/10
23.
DDR - ABSOLUTE (Cuff -N- Stuff it Mix)Genre: Epic Trance
Language: n/a
Comments: DDR MUSIC!!!! yaaaaay. I like this song a lot, they did a great job remixing it. It still has that familiar ~do de do, do do, do do doooo~ beat. Love.♥ One of my favorite songs to play. :3 Featured on DDR Extreme2 (aka 9th mix) for the PS2~
Format: mp3
Rateing: 5.5/10
24.
DDR - B4U (B4 ZA BEAT MIX)Genre: duh...cool? 8D
Language: English
Comments: This song is so cool! Its got these cool violin-type sound thingys in them...not the classical sounding kind - you know the sound when you scratch the bow across the strings really fast and it sounds kinda like youre scraping metal? Yeah that. Its cool. The rapping part is pretty cool too. Bloody hard song to pass though. D: Featured on DDR Max2 (aka 7th mix) on PS2.
Format: mp3
Rateing: 5/10
25.
DDR - Healing Vision (angelic mix)Genre: trance?
Language: n/a
Comments: Ok, the heart monitor sound in the background gets on my nerves a little bit. I never did like that sound, it always freaked me out. D: I do like this song though, dont get me wrong, its one of my favorites (even if it does make me feel like im about to pass out everytime i play it @@;). Its fast paced and sounds like a song they would play in the background in a ER episode when they were trying to save someones life, lol. My favorite part is at 1:03 when it pulls this trippy thing with your speakers, haha. totally cool. Featured on DDR Max (aka 6th mix) on PS2.
Format: mp3
Rateing: 7/10
26.
DDR - HERO (HAPPY GRANDALE MIX)Genre: dance pop
Language: english
Comments: Awww, so cute. Its actually a pretty good song nevertheless the cheesy sounding title and lyrics, haha. Its got a cute, dancey beat to it that you can jump around to (if youve ever played the song at the arcade, you know what i mean @@;). Featured on DDR 4th Mix. (Alvalible in the arcade and for Japanese PS1 only.)
Format: mp3
Rateing: 5/10
27.
DDR - Look To The Sky (Trance Mix)Genre: trance
Language: english
Comments: I like the trance version of this song a lot. Its got cool twisty ripples and a really good beat you can just kind of just wonder around to~ Like youre flying in the sky~ Its a little shorter then Id like though. D: Featured on DDR Max2 (aka 7th mix) on PS2.
Format: mp3
Rateing: 4.5/10
28.
DDR - PARANOiA survivorGenre: the kind that INTIMIDATES YOU.
Language: n/a
Comments: OMG ITS PARANOiA EVERYONE RUN. Really, the PARANOiA series of songs strikes fear into so many DDR players hearts. D: I think this is one of the best remixes of it though. I espically like the parts where the bpm slow down, at 0:20 seconds, 0:35-0:59 seconds, and the big BOOM at the end. That boom is like, symbolic. its like YES YOU HAVE REACHED THE END OF THE SONG. Also im putting this song up in celebrateing my victory over it a couple of weeks ago! :D Im a hardc0r3 l33t DDR player, that i am, bwaha. (its not THAT hard...at least not to me...>.>;). Featured on DDR Extreme2 (aka 9th mix) for the PS2.
Format: mp3
Rateing: 6.5/10
29.
HYDE - EVERGREEN (DISTORTED)Genre: kinda soft rock
Language: Japanese
Comments: Im glad Hyde decided to remake the Roentgen singles. I loved all of them, but now i love them more! He played this on his Faith tour too, so yay. Also, its not very hard rock, more like a nice comfortable medium between soft and regular rock~
Format: mp3
Rateing: 6/10
30.
Metroid - Samus Strut (OC ReMix)Genre: synth
Language: n/a
Comments: The immortal theme of Kraids Lair from Metroid. This is one of my favorite games, and also, my favorite theme from it. Its so awesome. This remix is so cool, its my favoite. ^_^ A offical
OCRemix.org review: "This Metroid track features percussion that heavily relies on a rimshot and not a snare, which keeps it from sounding too upbeat and givesit what I feel is a more laid back, film quality. There's atmosphericwhooshes and 'space sounds' that appropriately act as a sonic blanketfor the main melody, which is played by a nice distort-guitar. The moving, ultra-low sub-bass is well used as well." There you go. :B
Format: mp3
Rateing: 8/10
Link to the entire Rotation. EXTRA:
BeForU album: BeForU II :D Enjoy!
Also, a note: Im going to start uploading on Savefile from now on. If this is a problem for anyone, please say so and ill think of something. I was going to go with Box.net, but they have a file limit of 10mb per file, and only offer you with 1GB of space and that just doesnt fly with me. If anyone else knows a site that has the same features of box.net or savefile, please tell me!
I also made a little button that you can stick in your user info or what have you~ :D
Just save the button to your own server, and pimp me out! 8D
Heres till next time!! :DDD