That’s right … VOLUME 6 of The K!☆Mix Kollection has arrived!

(For previous volumes, see Volumes 1–3, Volume 4, and Volume 5.)

Volume 6 can be downloaded here (192 kbps).

The K!☆Mix Kollection

I don’t really have anything to say about these. To listen to them directly, click on the links on the left sidebar. And this isn’t really an album but rather a collection of mashups I’ve already put up, so apologies for the varying quality and volume levels.

I am working on an album though. I’m afraid I’m scratching the proposed H!P-COMPLETE album project (it’s way too old already), and doing a Buono!-themed album instead, titled Buonissimo!. I also have a Koha album and more general albums in the works. Stay tuned.

As you may be aware, the official instrumental track for Buono!’s “Rottara Rottara” is not an ideal track to work with, whether you are dubbing or remixing: The “rottara rottara” and “dore kurai”, etc., bits are left intact in the instrumental, which means you don’t have the option of dubbing those vocals yourself or using those bits cleanly in a remix. Luckily, a clean instrumental is used as background audio in the Single V release for “Rottara Rottara”. The entirety of the track isn’t available in this fashion, but both verses and the first two instances of the chorus are, albeit not contiguously.

I’ve assembled as much of a clean instrumental as I was able to, and also made a mostly clean vocal rip. Some of the parts have been moved around, so this isn’t completely faithful to the original piece: for example, the third instance of the chorus is actually the first chorus repeated (same lyrics but different performer arrangement). Also, some of the backup vocals and the trailing “rottara rottara” segment at the end are still in the instrumental because I couldn’t remove them.

The corrected instrumental and vocal rip are available here in WAV format. You can do whatever you want with them. Enjoy and good luck!

Eight new mashups to munch on…

SOME BOYS! Bye Bye Bye! — °C-ute × Goto Maki

I’ve used “SOME BOYS! TOUCH” as a backing track before, for one of my very first mashups, but it never gets old.

THE MADAYADEPOWER!!! — Berryz Koubou × Morning Musume.

I never liked “THE Manpower!!!”. I still don’t. But it’s a little more interesting now.

FoRever in youR Eyes — °C-ute × Tommy february⁶

This one was a bit tricky since “FOREVER LOVE” has parts in both major and minor scales. So I had to turn the minor verses into major verses. It was partly successful, I think. Also a little weird.

CHE.R.RY wa NS — YUI × Kira☆Pika

“Futari wa NS” is one of my favorite all-time H!P songs. Yayz.

Furusato Hanabi — Morning Musume. × Watarirouka Hashiritai

“Furusato” like you’ve never heard it before! Now you can rock out to it! *dances*

GET UP! BOY — SALT5 × Buono!

I just love twice-tempo mixes. Here’s another one.

Sougen no Warp! — Buono! × Matsuura Aya

I love half-tempo mixes too. They’re usually hard to do because there’s often audible instrumental residue. But this was a clean vocal rip, so yayz. And Buono! needs to do more ballads.

MY BOYFRIEND — Buono! × Fujimoto Miki

And of course I love Buono! … and awesome titles.

It’s been only a month and a half since Volume 4, but VOLUME 5 of The K!☆Mix Kollection has arrived!

(For previous volumes, see Volumes 1–3 and Volume 4.)

Volume 5 can be downloaded here (192 kbps).

The K!☆Mix Kollection

New mixes since last post include:

Kaeritakunatta GOGO — ikimono-gakari × MilkyWay

This one has its moments. Largely a failure. Oh well.

Rakuten Eagles ga Jama wo Suru — GAM × AKB48

Probably the most natural-sounding artificial key change in my remixing history (there’s no key change in “Daisuki Rakuten Eagles”). Those are hard to pull off; they often end up crackly or Chipmunk’d. Yay for Melodyne!

LU LU LU no Inori — GAM × Mano Erina

A tearjerker and one of my personal favorites. “LU LU LU” has never sounded so sad and hopeless before. Too bad the vocal rip was a mess. *shakes fist at UFW*

Hatehatena no Waltz — Hanasaki Cobeni starring Kikkawa Yuu × Eco Moni.

My first 3/4-time mashup. (H!P very rarely releases any non-4/4 time songs.) Quality isn’t too great for various reasons, lack of an instrumental being one of them. It’s a shame neither of the artists represented were ever given their own single and instead had to piggyback on releases featuring other artists. (The linguist in me is screaming at the grammatical weirdness of that last sentence. Ahem.)

Seishun HEAVEN — Yaguchi Mari × Perfume

Yaguchi’s vocals are a bit too much for this song.

A few more since last post…

Shugo Shugo! Cha Cha Cha! — Mini Moni. × Shugo Chara Egg!

Everybody’s favorite cracktastic 4-nin kiddie group meets everybody’s other favorite cracktastic 4-nin kiddie group. Cracktastic galore.

Okashi Wonderland no Kisetsu — (°C-ute + Mini Moni.) × Shugo Chara Egg!

And again, with some extra °C-ute thrown in.

♥Lonely in Twilight♥ — Morning Musume. × Tommy february⁶

I never really liked “Kanashimi Twilight” … but this version is awesome. Not posted to YouTube because Defstar Records will undoubtedly invoke the much-dreaded DMCA-hammer and possibly have my entire account revoked. For the record, I’m not buying anything from Defstar again.

FIRST KISS ni Sachi Are — Aa! × Morning Musume.

I never really liked “FIRST KISS” either … but now it’s got a beat.

Love to Yuki is forever — Tanpopo × Tommy february⁶

The title only makes grammatical sense if ‘to’ is interpreted as an English preposition.

je t’aime ★ je t’aime SEXY GUY — Goto Maki × Tommy february⁶

Semi-requested by Mars. I had the toughest time with this one. It was practically impossible to get a decent vocal rip out of “Uwasa no SEXY GUY” … this was the best I could do. It still has audible instrumental residue; hopefully it’s not distracting.

I’m on a mission to revitalize Ayaya’s ballads and make them exciting…

BINGAO! — Matsuura Aya × AKB48

“Egao” with twice the tempo (exactly — what a coincidence).

Suna wo Kamu You ni… OLALA — Matsuura Aya × Tsukishima Kirari starring Kusumi Koharu (Morning Musume.)

For all the Kohaters who can’t stand Koha’s voice … try Ayaya’s voice instead. Another twice-tempo mix.

Watarasenegai — Matsuura Aya × Perfume

My Perfume mixes are always easy to make. Like “Hajimari no Fighter”, this one also took 20 minutes.

And I’ve also posted the following mixes since last post.

Chocolate no Moufu — AKB48 × Matsuura Aya

Mmm… chocolate blanket. Yum.

Iroppoi Kamo — Morning Musume. × Morning Musume.

Title translates to “sexy … maybe”. Requested by Vee.

Also, I now have an RSS widget thingy on the left column … you can access my latest mixes directly. Enjoy.

Since the last post, I’ve posted a number of new mashups to my audio repository …

Ki ga Happy Birthday — NEWS × Matsuura Aya

Yes, this is a Johnny’s × H!P mix, requested by misa. I’m afraid I’m not much of a Johnny’s fan. None of their music have grabbed me yet, but who knows? Send me any recommendations you might have … they might end up being mashed with H!P.

Kimagure Ready? — Tommy heavenly⁶ × ikimono-gakari

My first completely non-H!P mix. Alas, this and my two previous Tommy mixes were DMCA’d and taken down from YouTube, by the request of Defstar Records, Inc. I think remixes are fair use, but I don’t really have the resources to fight this in court, and I don’t really care that much anyway. In my opinion, their actions (including taking down pretty much everything that makes use of Tommy february⁶, Tommy heavenly⁶, and the brilliant green recordings) is doing them more harm than good. I happen to own 13 Tf6, Th6, and tbg CDs, and none of them would have been purchased had I not encountered Tommy by chance on YouTube during the summer of 2007. But anyway … these three mixes will still be up here, unless Defstar finds out about them as well.

Planetaria — Otsuka Ai × ikimono-gakari

Requested by pengie. This is my first mashup of two songs having the same title: “Planetarium”. The backing track has been upshifted two semitones.

Tamago love — Shugo Chara Egg! × Perfume

I seem to having good results with Shugo Chara Egg! × Perfume mashups. This one’s also a polyphonic mix preserving the original Perfume vocals from “Puppy love”. They make pleasant background vocals, I think. I can’t wait for Shugo! Shugo! to come out.

Happy☆Happy Summerday Wedding! — Morning Musume. × Tsukishima Kirari starring Kusumi Koharu (Morning Musume.)

It’s always nice to have tracks that match in key, tempo, and title. This pair even have the same exact key change. Amazing coincidence.

FREE Chocolate — Matsuura Aya × ERIKA

Another amusingly titled mashup. I want free chocolate … ^_^

All of these, along with those remixes released since the previous three volumes of The K!☆Mix Kollection are now available here:

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The K!☆Mix Kollection

Three more remixes!

L·O·V·E·L·Y ~Yume Miru Namida Iro — Matsuura Aya × Tommy february⁶
Resonant SCREAM+ — Morning Musume. × Tommy heavenly⁶
Hajimari no Fighter — Shugo Chara Egg! × Perfume

L·O·V·E·L·Y ~Yume Miru Namida Iro~ is especially fitting since Ayaya and Tommy were my introductions to J-pop back in July 2007. I’d heard a few J-pop songs before that, but these two really had me hooked…

Resonant SCREAM+ has a more sensible title than “Resonant Blue”, methinks. And it is quite an appropriate title for this piece.

Hajimari no Fighter has been on repeat on my computer for the last several hours. It took me about 20 minutes to make. I haven’t been keeping track, but this is probably among those mixes that took me the least time to produce. It’s nice when you can get an awesome-sounding mashup with minimal tweaking.

In other news, I’ve started uploading to YouTube again. I stopped doing so last June because I got tired of making videos and uploading them. But now I have a script that takes in an audio file, generates a video for it, and uploads it to YouTube all in one go! No browser or video editor needed. Really convenient. I should make it upload to Mediafire and my audio repository at the same time, too.

Three new mashups, featuring tracks from Buono!’s new single, co·no·mi·chi:

• “Muteki no ∞ Aitakatta” — AKB48 × Buono!
• “Aitakatta no ∞ Power” — Buono! × AKB48
• “co·no·ha·na” — Buono! × Abe Natsumi

Here are a couple more remixes for your listening pleasure…

Minna FOR ONE & Tamago FOR ALL! – H.P. All Stars × Shugo Chara Egg!
Daiko Generation – Maeda Yuki × Berryz Koubou

For 2009, I’m planning to finish this blasted remix album that’s been in the works since May, do another one (!), and experiment more with polyphonic mixes. A few of the mashups work really well with overlapping melodies; I haven’t tried it on very many, and I haven’t posted any, but polyphonic mashups rock! ^_^ Yay for counterpoint!

And I also want to do more melody-changing mixes, like “Go Girl ~Koi no Watarasebashi~”, which started out as an accident and was nearly thrown away before I decided to salvage it. Pitch-changing can often lead to distorted vocals, so it’s tricky. We’ll see…

I’m also interested in doing more original compositions. Composing and remixing are two different things, and I’ve done way more of the latter than the former.

See you in 2009!

So I finally decided to tackle tracks that didn’t come with instrumentals, specifically two of my absolute favorite H!P songs, “Tsuugaku Vector ☂” and “Hoshi no Hitsujitachi”. These are a bit harder to work with, and they sound a bit off, but hopefully they’re listenable.

RoboVector ☂ – W × Suzuki Airi (°C-ute)
VERY BEAUTY no Hitsujitachi – Berryz Koubou × Buono!

Enjoy! The second track also happens to be my 50th publicly released mashup remix. The previous 48 can be found in The K!☆Mix Kollection, Volumes 1 through 3.

That album is still in progress, but for those of you who’ve enjoyed my remixes, I’ve assembled all of my publicly released mixes (and a few more) into three volumes for easier downloading.

The tracks are ordered by when I finished them, not when I released them. The four tracks in blue were not previously released.

If you’re just starting to listen to these, I would recommend starting with Volumes 2 and 3 (or the last four tracks of Volume 1). Much of Volume 1 is terrible, because I was just starting out at that point (“Khan no Dance Site” was my first remix).

Enjoy!

The K!☆Mix Kollection (192 kbps)

Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3 (upload fixed if it wasn’t working before)

Contents:

I’m in Buono! mode…

My Love☆Kana – Buono! × Tsukishima Kirari starring Kusumi Koharu (Morning Musume.)

Aruiterottararotteru – Morning Musume. × Buono!

Renai♥Chance! – Buono! × Tsukishima Kirari starring Kusumi Koharu (Morning Musume.)

The best things in life come in groups of three…

Kiss! Kiss! Kiss! Tan! Tan! Taan! – Buono! × MilkyWay

UPDATE: And indeed, there must be three remixes to do “Tan Tan Taan!” justice… This song has the best instrumental since “VERY BEAUTY” … ~^.^~

Sottan Kuchizuketan Gyuttan Dakishimetaan! – Fujimoto Miki × MilkyWay (or MikiWay?)

Tan Tan Taanai (Z) – °C-ute × MilkyWay

The long-awaited remix album by DJ Kirarin☆Snow ☃ is … still long-awaited. Hopefully it’ll be out in November.

In the meantime, here is a preview of the cover:

The official album art, consisting of 100% vector graphics, is in PostScript, and the design is actually randomly generated every time you load the file (this randomness doesn’t carry over to most other image formats, hence the PDF, PNG, and JPEG alternatives are poor substitutes, in order of strictly increasing poorness). The background image on the front cover is taken from a screenshot from the “Koko ni Iruzee!” PV, which was sampled and replicated as a fractal consisting of about 350,000 circles. This information is stored in the PostScript file. When you load the PostScript file, each of those circles has a 1/4 probability of being drawn. Below is an animated GIF screencap of the GhostScript interpreter loading the background image:

I may have spent more time designing and programming the album art (in plain text!) than I’ve spent actually working on the remixes themselves. But hey, randomized album art is always awesome. Interior and back cover images will be released with the final version of the album tracks.

And here’s a track listing, which I believe is finalized but may be subject to last-minute changes. Official track titles are in Japanese; Romanized renditions are given in blue, and English translations (of dubious accuracy) are given in red.

H!P-COMPLETE — DJ Kirarin☆Snow ☃

This is a total of 12 tracks, 5 of which (Tracks 3, 5, 6, 10, and 12) are brand new (to the public; I’ve shared a few previews in private), including Tracks 3 and 12, which are inverses of mixes previously released. The remaining tracks have previously been released in some form, but all of them have had significant changes, including the addition of new source vocals to Tracks 4 and 9.

A note on the mathematical notation used in the bylines:

Previously I used the plus symbol (+) for indicating which groups or artists performed the original songs being mixed together. This was more-or-less idiosyncratic, as mashups are commonly denoted “X vs. Y”. But I don’t like “versus”; it gives the remix a confrontational feel, and I don’t see the combinatorial nature of mashups as necessarily antagonistic.

The problem with “+” is that in math, it represents addition of objects, which is commutative. The combining of tracks X and Y is in general not commutative. In this case, one track is used for its vocals, and the other is used primarily for its instrumentals. If you switch X and Y, the roles they play become reversed, but indicating this as “Y + X” sort of implies that it’s the same as “X + Y”.

Hence I have replaced the “+” with “×”, which represents a product of objects. For complex numbers, this is just multiplication, which is commutative, but products in general need not be commutative. If we’re talking about groups (in the mathematical sense, which is the part of the motivation for adopting mathematical notation to use with musical groups), then for two groups X and Y, “X × Y” represents the direct product of X and Y. “×” is also used to denote the Cartesian product of sets and the cross product of vectors, and this “crossing” aspect of the meaning is also intended. Thus “W × Morning Musume.” means, informally, the crossing of W with Morning Musume., in that order.

Of course, when applied to non-mathematical objects, the meaning of specific operators becomes quite fuzzy, so my use of mathematical notation is primarily intended for semantic resonance and should not be interpreted as technical statements.

The “∈” symbol means set membership, and in this case, the group names are intended to refer to collections of works by a group rather than collections of artists. So one could interpret “Koi no Vacance ∈ W” as “Koi no Vacance is a work by W”. Then “Osaka Koi no Vacance ∈ W × Morning Musume.” means Osaka Koi no Vacance is a work in the crossing of W and Morning Musume. In general, you can read “A ∈ B × C” as “A is an element of B crossed with C” or “A is one of the pairings of B and C” or just “A is a product of B and C”.

Then we get into more complicated stuff like multiple tracks being used for their vocals, hence the reintroduction of “+” in a different context. Here “+” is commutative, and when used with sets, refers to the disjoint union of sets. I’ve appropriated this symbol to indicate the union of vocals from different tracks placed disjointly in time. For example, “Souda! Tropica~l Scramb~le Mode ∈ (Fujimoto Miki + Goto Maki + Morning Musume.) × Matsuura Aya” means that Fujimoto, Goto, and Morning Musume. all contribute vocals to the resulting remix, but their contributions are disjoint and don’t overlap.

And finally, there’s the monster of a MoMusu megamix “Dekkai Uchuu ni Namida ga Aruiteru zee! ∈ (Morning Musume. + Morning Musume. + (Morning Musume. Otome Gumi ∩ Morning Musume. Sakura Gumi)) × Morning Musume.”, in which Morning Musume. Otome Gumi and Morning Musume. Sakura Gumi contribute overlapping vocals in the same section. Since this is intuitively different from a disjoint union, we need a different operator. And here, I’ve adopted the “∩” symbol denoting set intersection, so that “(Morning Musume. Otome Gumi ∩ Morning Musume. Sakura Gumi)” represents the set of works that both groups have performed.

Overall, the notation may be a bit sloppy, but at least it’s semantically motivated and makes sense if you’re familiar with the mathematical usage of these symbols. I don’t know if I can say that for some of H!P’s own mathematical notation abuse, as in “C\C (Cinderella\Complex)” (if “\” denotes the set-theoretic complement, then C\C is ironically the empty set), Sakura → Nyuugakushiki (a function mapping cherry blossoms to school entrance ceremonies??), or “Yuki / Ai × Anata ≥ Suki” (I don’t even know where to begin…).

I should write a blog entry on H!P math notation….

I’ve posted a few new files to my audio repository:

http://kirarinsnow.vox.com/library/audio/

I experimented with decreasing the bit resolution of various H!P tracks and some of them turned out semi-palatable, somewhat resembling video game music from the classic “8-bit era”:

“Tsuugaku Vector ☂”
“Go Girl ~Koi no Victory~”
“Koi☆Kana”
“Ne~e?”
“Ai no Imi wo Oshiete!”

I also discovered the awesome dsp_centercut Winamp plug-in that very cleanly splits a track into center-panned and side-panned components apparently using fast Fourier transform phase analysis. This usually does a good job of suppressing the vocals while still retaining the stereo split of the instrumentals. Pure awesome!

I took advantage of this to produce an alternate arrangement of “Hare Ame Nochi Suki ♡”, which has some of the best background vocals I’ve ever heard in an H!P song (though to be truthful, I haven’t paid much attention to background vocals since they’re often drowned out…). This piece removes most of the main vocals in the pre-chorus and chorus and amplifies the background vocals instead, resulting in a fresh new melody… ^.^

And finally, here’s a bunch of noise “transformations” of “Tsuugaku Vector ☂” and the entire Kirarin☆Land album, which I recorded last night (in real time, one pass each for the background track and the vocals+ track) using some fancy studio equipment (actually just a delay filter). “Tsuugaku Vector ☂” is kind of stale, but Kirarin☆Land is … something else.

Enjoy!

[CFB: Poke me if you want a lossless copy of the noise... ]

Sorry for not updating in a month. Here’s another batch of remixes. Most of them have been sitting around collecting dust and have been heard only by the folks who frequent Wotachat. But now they’re public, and you can enjoy them if you haven’t heard them before (or even if you have).

I apologize for the tacky method of posting the audio files on a separate audio repository; I plan to move everything to my own server, but unfortunately that server is currently dead and needs to be repaired. So I’ll have to make do with this for now…

http://kirarinsnow.vox.com/library/audio/

Mikancake – Tasty.

Gachinko de Jirushi no Oomori Song – Interesting fact. This mixes together Suzuki Airi’s earliest single (as a member of 4KIDS) and her newest single (as a member of Buono!).

Gachinko de Honto no Jibun Song – Same as the above, but with “Honto no Jibun” vocals as well.

Mikan no Kaori Dance. – This was going to be on the album, but was displaced by another track (to be revealed).

Balalaikattarouze! – Say that ten times fast.

Yeah! Meccha Hinamatsuri! – Festive.

Hana Koero Pu~n! Rakuten Eagles – Baseball and trigonometry! A perfect combination.

Minihamuzu no Monkey Dance – Hamsters, monkeys … same difference.

OK, so I finally decided to explore the world outside of H!P, and mwahahahaa … six new remixes. You can enjoy them in high-quality stereo at my audio repository (embedded and playable):

http://kirarinsnow.vox.com/library/audio/

You can also subscribe directly to its feed:
http://kirarinsnow.vox.com/library/audio/atom.xml

Gackt singing in new and exciting genres!

ºG-ackt – Ooki na Ai de Oikaketa Yume
Tsukishima Kirari starring Gackt – Wasurenai☆Kana

And also some H!P favorites set to instrumental tracks by others:

High-King + Gackt – R\C (REDEMPTION\Complex)
ZYX + Perfume – Baby Shiroi Love
Morning Musume. + AKB48 – Sakura ga Tomaranai Houkago 2008
Matsuura Aya + AKB48 – Saigo no Hito

I have opened an audio repository at

http://kirarinsnow.vox.com/library/audio/

I find this to be a more enjoyable experience of listening to my remixes, as opposed to the embedded YouTube videos I’m currently using, which have horrible audio quality and consume too much bandwidth. I’m not actually moving my blog to Vox, though, since I find Vox to be completely unusable (I considered it and it failed spectacularly on multiple levels). So I’m sticking with WordPress (yay!), which unfortunately doesn’t allow audio embedding for free. But whatever. Enjoy.

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More! <3 Ayaya.

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I’m pleased to announce that the long-awaited remix album is now in … post-production? Something like that. Will be out soon, hopefully. In the meantime, I’ve racked up a bucketload of additional remixes, so I’ll be releasing a bunch of them shortly.

Also, I’ve finally figured out how to turn an audio file, a text description, and a background image into a video on the command line. Yay! No more wasting 15 minutes struggling through a GUI to do something that’s not actually video editing at all. This process took only 5 seconds when I ran it on the command line. And the general idea could also be applied to dubbing a PV with an audio file.

Here’s what I did using Ubuntu 8.04 and the ffmpeg and convert utilities. Configure as you wish; your system may vary.


% convert -font helvetica -fill white -pointsize 20 -draw "text 6,20 'Title'" -pointsize 12 -draw "text 6,48 'Artist'" background.jpg output.jpg
% ffmpeg -loop_input -shortest -f image2 -i output.jpg -i audio.mp3 -ab 192kbps -y outputvideo.mpg


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(Higher-quality downloadable version at Veoh)

Download audio:

(lossless AIFF)
(320kbps MP3)
(192kbps MP3)

This one was originally going to be on the album, but I decided the reverse mix sounds better.

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Go Girl ~Koi no Watarasebashi~
or, Non-Variations on a Theme by Tsunku
or, When Did “Go Girl ~Koi no Victory~” Turn Into a Breakup Song?
or, The Trainwreck of a Remix That Should Never Have Seen the Light of Day

This is not going on the album.

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I’m not completely satisfied with this one, hence my decision to replace it with “The☆Kiss!☆Kiss!☆Peace!” on the upcoming album.

It has some problematic parts … but it also has some pretty fun parts, so I’ve fixed it up a little and put up what I have. Enjoy.

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This one may or may not be on the upcoming remix album. I’ve already got a full plate … but it’s so awesome I might just have to kick out one of the weaker tracks I have planned… ^.^

Update: Hmm … yeah. This is definitely going on the album. It will be replacing “16sai no Cinderella”, which I’ll put up sometime. I find the “The☆Kiss!☆Kiss!☆Peace!” piece (hee hee) much much more fitting as an album closer than “16sai no Cinderella”.

And the correct pronunciation of the title is the Japanese one, where “kiss” rhymes with “peace”.

The☆Kiss!☆Kiss!☆Peace!
(Seizure Dance ver.)

Apologies for the jerkiness of the video. I don’t know what happened. I dumped the VOB rip of “The☆Peace!” into Open Movie Editor for Linux (my first time using Open Movie Editor), produced a .mov file, and converted it to a smaller-size .mpg file using the command-line ffmpeg utility.

Feel free to make a non Seizure Dance version if you wish; I’ll replace the video with yours if you let me know about it. Thanks.

You may still feel free to make your own PV version of this (or of any of my remixes, for that matter), though I’ve decided that the Seizure Dance version is awesome enough on its own that it’ll remain the official version. Heck, if any video deserves the Seizure Dance treatment, it’s “The☆Peace!” That thing has Seizure Dance written all over it, thanks to DANCE☆MAN. I’ve put up a higher-quality-than-YouTube PV download below as well.

Audio MP3: Download
PV MPG: Download

Here’s a preview of the upcoming H!P-COMPLETE ~1st Kawaiirrhea☆Mixes~. It needs some polishing up, but since it’s been a while since the last remix, I’ll put up what I currently have:

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New information has surfaced regarding DJ Kawaiirrhea’s remix album!

The album has the (rather Tsunkuesque) tentative title of

H!P-COMPLETE ~1st Kawaiirrhea☆Mixes~

and the following tentative track listing:

Update I’ve made a number of changes to this listing, and the final one will be a surprise! Mwahahahaha…

1. げんきホントのじぶんソング
2. 大阪 恋のバカンス
3. トロピカ〜ル スクランブル モード
4. でっかい宇宙に涙が歩いてるぜぇ！
5. 都会っ子 呪縛
6. ブギーはNS ’03
7. VERY 風信子(ヒヤシンス)
8. カッチョイイゼ！TOUCH
9. 奇跡の香りみかん。
10. ピリリとチャンス！
11. AS FOR ONE KISS
12. 16歳のシンデレラ

or

1. Genki Honto no Jibun Song
2. Osaka Koi no Vacance
3. Tropica~l Scramble Mode
4. Dekkai Uchuu ni Namida ga Aruiteru zee!
5. Tokaikko Jubaku
6. Boogie wa NS ’03
7. VERY Hyacinth
8. Kacchoii ze! TOUCH
9. Kiseki no Kaori Mikan.
10. Piriri to Chance!
11. AS FOR ONE KISS
12. 16sai no Cinderella

You can probably guess what original tracks are going into this.

A number of remixes have obviously not made it onto the album, or have undergone substantial changes, and a few new ones have appeared. If your favorite remix is missing, sorry. My criteria for including a remix were (a) if I could stand listening to it on repeat for an hour (ehhhh… yeah…); and (b) if the mix was sufficiently original; that is, no recycling of large parts of the vocals from the instrumental track (à la “Seishun! Telephone! Lunch Lunch Lunch”), other than intros, extros, interludes, or single chorus lines.

This album will appear mumble mumble May something something I should stop wasting time on remixes and actually get some work done 2008.