- Sun Jan 12, 2020 12:15 pm
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Demon City Shinjuku by Motokazu Shinoda
To echo @inksb appreciation. This is hands down my favourite release of TLV'S SUB so far. Possibly my favourite thing they have put out so far.
I'm so pleased they made this a double LP with all the extra cuts. For me this typifies what I love about collecting this genre, so much unique electronic sounds/music. Yes, there are a couple of cheesy themes that would be hard to swallow for most but that's part and parcel of this era and I'm glad those songs have not been edited out.
But!! The rest of the music is wonderous dark mutant electronic noodlings and hooks, a style you really don't hear anywhere else. The closest I can think of would be early VGM music, which I think has a big crossover, in Japan at least l, with 80's anime OSTs. In fact the composer of this record's main career was programming games for the sega genesis (megadrive).
When recommending anime OSTs to those outside of the rabbit hole one could go for something very accessible that leans close to many non anime soundtracks, which makes sense. But, I would also consider something like Demon City Shinjuku which is a perfect example of the unique sound to this genre, and in particular this era (80's edgy trashy anime).
I really hope this sells well for TLV as getting gold like this released for the first time ever is a god send.