At the recent Sonic Adventure Music Experience event in Japan, people there were given a CD with remastered music that's not officially going to be sold anywhere else. Thankfully Emi Jones, who was there, is now uploading the tracks. First one is of Windy & Ripply: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ztiqICH_s She's uploading the other four tracks on the CD as well.
So glad these are making their way out so we can all appreciate them. I understand the notion of wanting to keep the physical CD an exclusive gift for those who can attend, but I was hoping the digital tracks could at least still be distributed after a time window. That said, if they do eventually release them on iTunes I'll happily pay to support them. That new guitar bit in the last 30 seconds is pure love.
Wow this is so swell! Can't wait to hear the rest! Thanks for those who uploaded the windy valley track.
Hopefully when the writer over at Stadium who has this does his review we get some scans of the booklet and all the stuff in it for the wiki and VGMdb. It'd be a shame to only have just the tracks.
The other 4 tracks are uploaded now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4Qy0iHNUuw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xbBRYWZOew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvITs7uXxqs (Keys The Ruin) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQA3KKgfagw (That's The Way I Like It)
Welp, hope someone saved them somewhere, 'cause apparently her guilt got the better of her. https://twitter.com/namineahtellai/status/719335019576070144
Well, they've been on the web for more than an hour, so they're going to turn up again no matter what. And unless Sega wants to release them digitally, all the better that we have them.
Supposedly the physical album itself was a one-time only thing, but I do hope they release them digitally. Until then, we pirate. :v
ffmpeg can extract the .m4a audio tracks from the .mp4s if you don't want any loss in Quality due to re-encoding. iPods and most every other music players support m4a audio natively. Thanks for sharing these, they're awesome. I hope they release them on iTunes, especially if they were to offer additional remastered tracks as well. I would love to buy them in the highest possible quality. (Although the rips are great too)
I'm going to have to check this out once I'm not on an awful internet connection...I just wish we had flacs. I'm kind of obsessed with lossless music these day.
THAT METAL HARBOUR TRACK. HOLY MOLY. As soon as it kicks in, you just feel like everything was lovely once again. Everyone likes a good biscuit tin to drum on every now and then it seems.
Since I just got around to ripping the audio out of those MP4s myself, I figured I'd share. They're M4A like sonicblur mentioned. Download here (only 16MB).
To be honest I'm pretty underwhelmed. The songs went from being unique sounding to all sounding like one big Jun Senoue guitar session.
