1. What’s Left For Us 2. The Real Thing 3. Sick 4. Ruin 5. Cry and Fall 6. Beyond Hope 7. Moment of Silence [playtime: 29'27"] After two years of silence – which I spent listening to the previous albums released by the band - HeavenDust is back with a nice bonus album. They’re working on a [...]
The Tai-Chi Master (aka Twin Warriors) soundtrack is a rare gem, and it’s quite surprising that it’s still available at yesasia (or at least it was recently), since this classic kung fu flick starring Jet Li was made in 1993. The composer is Wu Wai-lap (William Wu). A video: http://www.crunchyroll.com/media-277310/OST-The-Master-of-Tai-Chi.html The CD has 28 songs, [...]
The soundtrack of the Hong Kong blockbuster Infernal Affairs I-III. movies were all written by Chan Kwong-Wing (aka Comfort Chan), and they have been released separately in 2002-2003 (some of them are OOP) and later as a “Trilogy” 3 CD pack, which can be purchased here. Chan was born in 1967 in HK, and has a [...]
I just found a real rarity, that I didn’t even know it existed. I think movie soundtracks are less likely to get released in Hong Kong compared to Korea or Japan, many of them never get on a CD. That’s why I was surprised to see that a movie from the 90′s, the only [...]
Gackt’s 23rd single, Redemption was released in January. The two songs on it are from the PS2 game, Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus. Tracklist: 1. Redemption 2. Longing 3. Redemption instru. 4. Longing instru. The album consists of two song, Redemption, Longin and their instrumental / karaoke versions. Thefirst, Redemption is a simple, catchy rock [...]
The Wire Magazine’s electronica album of the year 2000. Susumu Yokota is one of Japan’s biggest house/techno DJs, but this album is more about the soft, ambient tunes. Tracklist: 1. Saku 2. Tobiume 3. Uchu Tanjyo 4. Hagoromo 5. Genshi 6. Gekkoh 7. Hisen 8. Azukiiro No Kaori 9. Kodomotachi 10. Naminote 11. Shinsen 12. [...]
Ayumi Hamasaki’s 40th single was released this week. The album titled Blue Bird contains 3 songs and 6 tracks together with remixes… Tracklist BLUE BIRD – 4:09 Beautiful Fighters – 5:17 Ladies Night ~another night~ – 4:04 BLUE BIRD (Harderground remix) – 6:24 BLUE BIRD (Instrumental) – 4:09 Beautiful Fighters (Instrumental) – 5:17 The [...]
Utada Hikaru‘s 4th album has just been released in June. Featuring previous hit single songs it’s a nice, long-avaited pop/dance album. Tracklist 1. This is love | 2. Keep Tryin’ | 3. Blue | 4. Nichiyou no Asa | 5. Making Love | 6. Dareka no negaiga kanau koro | 7. Colors | 8. One Night Magic [...]
http://www.heavensdust.com/ I came across HeavensDust‘s music by chance and I fell for it at once, the band is mixing Japanese traditional music with doom metal. A little dark but beautiful music. They have 3 albums released already, and we can find a video on their website and listen to songs too. Their bassist is a [...]