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Volatile Vacuity （2009-02-15）- 社团：OG-G Music Works
Jan 1, 2024
various genres
Average hardcore variety pack. My favorite of the bunch are Nocturne~Eastern Nightmare and 上海大麻館～Toxic tea (Whiy Is M.H. Dead).
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WEIRD ADORABLE WAVE （2009-10-11）- 社团：OG-G Music Works
Jan 1, 2024
various genres
Even more varied than Volatile Vacuity and I like it more, though I don't have any particular standout tracks.
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X-RateD -Back 2 Back 90's- （2010-03-14）- 社团：OG-G Music Works
Jan 2, 2024
various genres, with a specific 90s theme
Makes me want to listen to more 90s hardcore, if only because this just doesn't feel like 90s to me. This is, however, more varied than the 90s rave revival I hear nowadays.
Be of good cheer M.F.!! is a clear favorite. Always like when a speedcore track throws in slow groovy parts for contrast.
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東方酒乱集・弐 （2011-12-30）- 社团：HEKATONCHEIR BEATS
Jan 2, 2024
schranz V/A comp
Kept my interest for a while which is pretty cool. My favorite track on this is yujurie's OWEN OWEN OWEN, which layers futuristic space music on top of the genre's typical construction site sound.
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Pathetic Girls （2010-10-31）- 社团：Bitter Quartz, mono music
Jan 3, 2024
makina
yeah I'll skip commenting on this one. didn't make me like the genre any more. Pretty nice of them to include breaks on Makina Spark.
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MENTALISTS （2010-05-05）- 社团：Bitter Quartz
Jan 4, 2024
mostly makina, + a few gabber & hardstyle tracks. First 4 and the last track is Touhou, the other 3 are original.
The MIDI choir vocals Complexed C (Volvic Remix) is super neat. Good standout among the makina stuff.
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GENSOU HARDSOUND＃007 （2011-12-30）- 社团：KINZOK ON
Jan 4, 2024 (revisit)
nu style gabber (mostly)
hell yeah that's what I'm talking about. full of fist-pumping tunes
As I commented on the circle's page, moro's original music is much, much more unique than his Touhou arrangements. There are hints of later moro present like a short flute part on It is I and an industrial rap-rock part on Sickness, but they don't exactly blow my mind.
...ahhhh who am I kidding, that part on Sickness gets me every time. The closest thing this scene has ever come to sounding like Death Grips.
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東方ブレイクコア （2009-08-15）- 社团：east breaks in thousand
Jan 5, 2024 (revisit)
breakcore, also dubstep on the first half of the last track
Out of all the breakcore releases that apply to this list, I chose this one first because it's the only one I didn't like and I wanted to see if I warmed up to it over the years. It's still very lackluster. The breaks sound impressive at first but a lot of it is basic amen break loops with a few snare rolls. There aren't any emphasis on technical drum programming or cool rhythm tricks other than that one part on 竹取飛翔 ～ Lunatic Princess -ab remix- where there are kicks that plays in time with the melody. Basic amen loops has been the default approach to breakcore since the 00s, and while I can enjoy it as a default, it's not something I like by itself.
The good thing about this genre, though, is if your chopping sucks, you can always make up for it with sampling, genre fusions or a gimmick! So let's see what happens if you take away the breaks! It's faithful MIDI instrument arrangements. Which isn't even all that good by Touhou arrangement standards. The Lunatic Princess arrangement has a tabla which sounds interesting until you realize that tabla playing can have very complex grooves and this just doesn't do anything with the instrument.
The dubstep part sucks too. The piano is super loud and the reverb makes it covers the bass, which misses the point of the genre.
I've been dunking on this EP but I do want to recommend the circle's later music. In particular, ebi1000's arrangement of Chrono Trigger's Corridor of Time from Ancient Breaks LP is excellent and has interesting breaks going on.
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久遠の記憶 （2007-04-22）- 社团：sun3 FielD
Jan 5, 2024 (revisit)
trancecore, happy hardcore, + other genres
sun3's music was ripe for charts back in the early Stepmania days but my undisputed classic is still the beautiful artcore dnb track 彼岸帰航-idling mix-. The others are better than I remembered.
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Ghost Region （2011-12-30）- 社团：ALiCE'S EMOTiON
Jan 5, 2024
various EDM, trance and hardcore genres
Wanted to try an album from this circle I haven't listened to before, and ended up with one that was slightly more non-hardcore than hardcore (6 non-hc vs 5 hc tracks).1 It was worth it, however, because I got to hear Saint Force, Redalice's hardcore take on Jersey club.
The vocal tracks do nice turns with the original melodies without losing catchiness, which shows how much the arrangers have grown as songwriters. The t+pazolite track is colorful and fun (in spite of the Eurobeat parts), as expected. Believe It and Imagery also stand out as two house tracks that radiates warmth, one through 2010s electro house and the other through heavy guitars.
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Re：+ （2008-11-02）- 社团：BubbleRecords
Jan 15, 2024
trance, house, hardcore/hard dance
Another one that's slightly more hardcore/hdm than not (3 vs 4) but I'll keep it here anyways.
Hell for Frandle and Goblin Girl are both good gabber tracks, the latter with a 00s J-core & trance twist. Kero-chang Core is makina. I like it more than the other makina stuff from this list.
Beyond that, my favorite is ICE Lover, a house track that shows Cirno's whimsical and delicate side with its distinct instrument choices.
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Re：- （2009-03-08）- 社团：BubbleRecords
Jan 15, 2024
hard dance, trance
This one has 4/7 hard dance tracks!!!
Bloodstained Dance Party is fast paced and eclectic. While it's not super unique as far as J-core goes, it's still the type of music that's unique enough to make me interested in the genre in the first place. Moon Rise Again is also solid speedy happy trancecore. The rest is okay, Nuclear Warhead and Welcome to Ghost town are both midtempo slumpers and listening to them made me feel the circle's long track lengths more than the other albums I listened to.
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Sacredess Fantasy Ship （2010-08-14）- 社团：音召缶
Jan 15, 2024
pop, trance, trancecore, happy hardcore, also maybe hyper techno on some parts
You might think I have nothing to say about this but you'd be wrong. This jumpscared me with the Nonary Game intro. It also features Wooming from Kissing The Mirror and TAM from TAMUSIC on a song but honestly the Zero Escape jumpscare is more noteworthy to me.
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Unlimited Spark! （2006-05-21）- 社团：C.H.S
Jan 15, 2024 (revisit)
hardcore variety pack, a lot of happy hardcore though
As much as I love t+pazolite, my long-held opinion is that he only developed his unique takes on hardcore techno from RESetup; onwards. But nah, even his first album had those playful instruments and wild samples! 完全で瀟洒な従者のための郷想曲のはずだったのに is some of the most unique breakcore you can find from 2006 (even more than most the stuff displayed on 蟲と東方と毒殺ミルク), and the guitar on Remillia2080 goes super hard. This album also has some Stepmania classics, namely the long trancecore track World End's Yama Xanadu and speedcore track NECROPOTENCE.
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STORM BRINGER（Prismatica Material Records） （2008-08-16）- 社团：Prismatica Material Records
Jan 30, 2024 (created page)
trancecore & makina. V/A comp but somewhat of an edge case because the circle lead does half the arrangements
just realized I've been writing down 2023 and not 2024 all this time haha
I like Myon Beyond!! and Goblet of Flowers (makina remix) but it's probably the Beatmania references that are doing a lot of the work. catastrophe is a clear departure from the rest of the album. It has a stripped down and subtle sound palette, but at the same time it feels percussive and bassy. The bells that comes on in the middle makes for a beautiful contrast.
More Stepmania talk: the release page says it features popular Stepmania composer D.J.Iristear, which most people reading this probably have no idea who they are. Well the circle was formed as a staff team for the "DDR party nite MIX" series of Stepmania packs, and Iristear appears on a few of these packs.
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BOUNDARY -MIX UP "Project Shrine Maiden"- （2008-10-13）- 社团：Prismatica Material Records
Jan 31, 2024 (created page)
trancecore & makina DJ mix
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STORM BRINGER e.p. （2008-06-29）- 社团：Prismatica Material Records
Jan 31, 2024
trancecore & makina
preview for STORM BRINGER album
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TOUHOU REMEMBER （2014-05-11）- 社团：淡麗
Feb 2, 2024
trancecore (created page)
Crunchy mastering. The first two tracks and the Baldr Sky arrangement goes on too long for the originals' short length (but Far East does have sections that space things out). Overall okay, and I appreciate that it includes a megamix at the end.
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東方女犯坊 （2008-12-29）- 社团：DJ Schwarzenegger
Feb 2, 2024
trancecore + speedcore on the last track (revisit, created page)
I got distracted while making the album page and never finished it for 7 years. Which I regret because this is way better than the other Touhou release from this label. Fun psy basslines.
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東方紅想歌 （2006-02-12）- 社团：Cis-Trance
Feb 2, 2024
makina, hardcore
I like the hardcore tracks, esp the kagome kagome sample on 萌え萌え東方ハードコア!!.
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月喰淵夜 -ツクバミエンヤ- （2007-10-08）- 社团：Angelic Quasar
Feb 2, 2024
mostly trancecore + some hardcore
Does some interesting things with the trancecore formula. Amane turns the original melodies super sugary on Sugar Sweet Strawberry and whirl in the wind, and the latter song even has tribal drumming. A few tracks have more distorted hardcore percussions that you don't get from this genre, but they more or less exist on top of a trancecore base. In Imperishable Screaming Schranz's case, it ends up feeling even more abrasive and mechanical than regular schranz. The big standout is 詠懐に謳う寂寥の念 (Original Version) which is lush tribal house.
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Catcher to TreasureShip （2009-06-07）- 社团：KINZOK ON
Feb 2, 2024
mostly gabber
So yeah I never tried listening to their Touhou discography from before the Gensou Hardsound series. In my defense I thought they would suck because it's their early work.
The first track is some weird collage-idm-gabber blend that reminds me of moro's later experimental tracks. Sadly the following two tracks are boring as I feared. The last one does pick up a bit with unusual percussions at the start and the end, but drags in the middle.
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Bug core （2009-08-15）- 社团：KINZOK ON
Feb 2, 2024
psychedelic hardcore - half nu style gabber, half grab bag of hardcore/hard dance genres
As with Unlimited Spark, once again I've underestimated the early discography of an artist I like.
The tempo shift on the first track is already a good indication of weirdness, and later tracks deliver on that with a mix of organic sounds and hi-tech effects. The march of fly isn't breakcore but glitchy IDM. Noctiluca's escape is good start at making pretty-sounding atmospheric speedcore - and since moro never picked back up this sound again, I'm gonna shill Neurocore's The Magellan Chronicles and Speedcore Front ost Berlin's Speedcore Symphonia for examples of this niche at its best.
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Qino Core （2009-10-11）- 社团：KINZOK ON
Feb 3, 2024
gabber + grab bag of hardcore/hard dance styles
There are still psychedelic parts on the album but it's nowhere near as varied as the psych on on Bug Core. It also doesn't help that the midsection (tr. 5-7) drags. The rainy background intro yamabushi RAIN is good, then the beats come in and it's weak techno with played at a plodding midtempo speed. Personal highlight is tukiyo LUMINESCENCE which goes all in on the glitchy psychedelia.
Honestly just listen to Bug Core instead. It's more consistent and doesn't have boring filler tracks.
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So Many Materials （2012-08-11）- 社团：C.H.S
June 2, 2024 (revisit, but in the sense that I've been listening to it on and off on my phone and only decided to post now to get motivation to continue this)
hardcore variety pack
Still one of the most imaginative Touhou hardcore EDM albums out there. t+pazolite has refined their unique taste for cartoonish, cutesy-fantastical sound palette and surreal vocal sample chops. Even the one non-dance track on here, loop them loop, feels like forest level music from a pastel-colored indie RPG.
He did end up influencing people, of course, or he wouldn't be as popular as he is now, but it's not an influence that I hear much in this scene. If anything, the hardcore/-adjacent EDM from the past decade that feels the most like an extension of t+paz's music - Iglooghost (Neō Wax Bloom), galen tipton (nightbath but also check out the rest of her music, she's super creative), Ruby My Dear (Brame, À Dada) - are all from outside the J-core scene.
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アカラドノクライスキ （2011-05-08）- 社团：fractaleline
June 13, 2024
half schranz, half house
キノドクスカイ is a very unique take on schranz that mixes in 90s rave techno synths, hi-tech IDM sound design and bleepy synths. The house tracks are good too, full of funky grooves.
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NoTRick, NoTRack （2010-12-30）- 社团：Polyphonic Bug Choir
June 23, 2024
gabber (track 1), schranz (track 2/3), drum and bass (track 4), techno (track 5)
Again, unique and amazing takes on schranz with rave synths and eclectic sounds. Tracks 1 and 4 are also full of that eclecticism, even if I wish kefy stuck a bit more of that IDM sound on 4.
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Lunatic Phaser （2006-08-13）- 社团：MINAMOTRANCE
July 26, 2024 (revisit)
another borderline case, it's mostly trance, with trancecore in the second half (4/10 hardcore tracks)
sorry this one is just boring. the dream trance tracks like 無何有ノ郷、夕闇ノ詩 make it slightly more pleasant but it mostly felt like a slog to get through and the hardcore stuff only feel interesting by comparison
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