Completing Rurouni Kenshin's OST
For more than four years I have been looking for two tracks I've heard from Samurai X. I've gotten all of the vocal tracks I'm interested in when I bought the "Rurouni Kenshin Best Collection" at Comic Alley SM North with my first ever College allowance.
I was almost satisfied (or ready to give up) when I got the fighting tracks (Warrior's Suite) used in RK battle scenes. I also got the sad solos (Starless and Departure). Basically there was only two songs I really wanted to have left. The theme when there was something funny happening (usually in the Kamiya Dojo), and the theme that plays before a major Shishio encounter.
The sad part was that since there was no way of knowing the titles of the songs, and the fact that they're only known to really hardcore fans, they were quite hard to find.
Then I stumbled upon this 580mb chunk of file in BitTorrent. It said "Rurouni Kenshin Complete." Needless to say, I clicked on the link and spent three days downloading.
50%... Hurry up, damn it! I say.
78%... And it just suddenly stopped. I can't even begin to explain the chagrin that registered on my face with that thought.
I restarted and then it started downloading again.
85% at 15Kbps, not bad, the success of the download was almost assured.
99%.... The combined excitement and anticipation's killing me.
100%!!! It's done.
I quickly transferred them to my own terminal and started labeling the tracks. Most of the mp3s had long filenames and was truncated when I transferred them to a Macintosh. Plus all the tags have to be checked.
With trembling hands, I checked the files. Everything's there! Apparently the funny scene theme was Demo ne! Honto wa ne! something I'd never would have guessed. While the battle anticipation music is the later part of a longer track entitled The Last Wolf Suite.
And it's all there. I paused for a moment. I mentally crossed out an item in my "Things to do before I die" list. Another quest fulfilled.
I was almost satisfied (or ready to give up) when I got the fighting tracks (Warrior's Suite) used in RK battle scenes. I also got the sad solos (Starless and Departure). Basically there was only two songs I really wanted to have left. The theme when there was something funny happening (usually in the Kamiya Dojo), and the theme that plays before a major Shishio encounter.
The sad part was that since there was no way of knowing the titles of the songs, and the fact that they're only known to really hardcore fans, they were quite hard to find.
Then I stumbled upon this 580mb chunk of file in BitTorrent. It said "Rurouni Kenshin Complete." Needless to say, I clicked on the link and spent three days downloading.
50%... Hurry up, damn it! I say.
78%... And it just suddenly stopped. I can't even begin to explain the chagrin that registered on my face with that thought.
I restarted and then it started downloading again.
85% at 15Kbps, not bad, the success of the download was almost assured.
99%.... The combined excitement and anticipation's killing me.
100%!!! It's done.
I quickly transferred them to my own terminal and started labeling the tracks. Most of the mp3s had long filenames and was truncated when I transferred them to a Macintosh. Plus all the tags have to be checked.
With trembling hands, I checked the files. Everything's there! Apparently the funny scene theme was Demo ne! Honto wa ne! something I'd never would have guessed. While the battle anticipation music is the later part of a longer track entitled The Last Wolf Suite.
And it's all there. I paused for a moment. I mentally crossed out an item in my "Things to do before I die" list. Another quest fulfilled.
posted by Ban at 8:31 PM
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