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Golden Mix megamixed by DJ Roc the Masaki
Release Date: 10/17/12
Price: 1900 yen
New compilation from FARM Records mixed by the “Megamix King,” DJ Roc the Masaki. There’s a surprising amount of new tracks, including covers of 90s hits from DJ U*Hey, Minimum Cox and other FARM artists. 50 tracks in all. You can listen to samples on iTunes JP.
Princess for Princess
Release Date: 10/3/12
Price: 2190 yen
New compilation from FARM records featuring Vocaloid songs performed by Ikemen. Visit the official website for samples and more info.
Exit Tunes presents Mayu
Artist: Mayu
Release Date: 12/5/12
Price: 1905 yen
New Vocaloid 3 voicebank from Exit Tunes featuring Mayu, who is presumably voiced by the one and only Mayumi Morinaga. The package comes with 2 CDs + CD-ROM. The music CDs will contain 30 tracks performed by popular Vocaloid producers, while the CD-ROM will have the Mayu voicebank. First-press copies come with a mousepad (1 of 6 designs) and cell phone strap (1 of 6 designs). You can visit the official site for more details in the future.
Anim80s 2 ~Anime Hits in 80s Disco Style~
Release Date: 11/28/12
Price: 1886 yen
Update (11/8/12): Track list has been rearranged somewhat, and producers have been revealed. It’s mostly the same producers from the first Anim80’s, with a majority of the tracks done by dance Beyond and Youhei Fujita. Rayto is also responsible for a few tracks, but it looks like DJ Command is sitting this one out.
EndlessroLL
Artist: Hitoshizuku × Yama?
Release Date: 12/19/12
Price: 1905 yen
New album from Hitoshizuku × Yama? featuring Kagamine Rin and Len. First-press copies come with a cell phone strap, mouse pad and clear file.
Pre-order at CDJapan.
Exit Tunes presents Ikemen Voice Paradise 5
Release Date: 10/17/12
Price: 1905 yen
Fifth release in the Ikemen Voice Paradise series, featuring male utaite covering Vocaloid songs. First-press copies come with a bonus talk CD, poster, cell phone strap (1 of 5 designs), and mouse pad (1 of 5 designs). Send in the survey card for a clear file. Retailer-exclusive bonuses include can badges and bromides. Visit the official site for a crossfade demo and more info.
Drive ga 100-bai Tanoshiku Naru J-Pop Mix
Release Date: 12/12/12
Price: 1886 yen
Eurobeat covers of J-Pop songs that will make driving 100 times more fun! Or something like that. This will most likely have repeats from Utattemita J-pop/Speed, but there’ll also be a song from the dance vocal unit, Space Girls Planet. Fool me once, shame on your AKBK. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times…oh, hell, who am I kidding? I’ll probably be buying these too.
Drive ga 100-bai Tanoshiku Naru Anison Mix
Release Date: 12/12/12
Price: 1886 yen
Oh lord, not this again. Apparently Christmas ga 100-bai Tanoshiku Naru Party Mix is the start of a new series, with Anison and J-Pop releases to follow. Chances are these will just be the same repeats we’ve been subjected to with the Utattemita Anison/J-Pop/Speed releases. No word yet on whether the 100-bai series will be under the Dancemania umbrella, but since Saifam and AKBK have previous ties with Dancemania I’d be surprised if they aren’t included eventually.
Hyakkaryouran! Anison Cover Mix!
Release Date: 12/5/12
Price: 1714 yen
It’s been a relatively quite second half of the year for Akiba Koubou, but they’ll be finishing 2012 off with what everyone’s been wanting from them: another anime compilation! The track list for this looks suspiciously close to the Tsutaya-exclusive Anison “Kamikyoku” Cover Mix. It shares many of the same songs in common, but I guess that’s to be expected since AKBK can’t stop repeating “Sousei no Aquarion” -_-
EDM Compilation
Release Date: 10/3/12
Price: 900 yen
A new digital only companion to EDM ~Electronic Dance Music~, featuring full versions of the EMI songs from the mix album.
EDM ~Electronic Dance Madness~ 2
Release Date: 12/5/12
Price: 2190 yen
Whoa, the electronic dance music scene in Japan must be huge if EMI are releasing a sequel to EDM just 3 months after the first release. It reminds me of when Dancemania was on a similar schedule 🙁 Anyway, the second release will feature more tracks from EMI artists like David Guetta, deadmau5, and Coldplay, but is also set to include more licensed tracks, including a song from Britney Spears.
V.I.P. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop/Dance Trax IX
Release Date: 12/19/12
Price: 2171 yen
Ninth release in the V.I.P. series, featuring top 40 hits from artists like Kylie, Katy, Karl Wolf, and Koldpla…err, Coldplay. In the past the V.I.P. series most focused on R&B/Hip-Hop, but lately it’s been focusing more on dance songs due to the surge in popularity of EDM artists like David Guetta.
Handz Up Posse 2 mixed by DJ Uto
Release Date: 12/19/12
Price: 1905 yen
What the fridge? Of all the series to resurrect they had to go with this one? Nothing against Handz Up, but I kind of assumed that Quake Trance Best 23 would fill that void. Like Quake Trance Best, the last (and only) release in the Handz Up Posse series came out in 2010. Now that I think about it Anime80s was another 2010 release that’s coming back in 2012. It’s as if everyone decided to skip 2011.
Pre-order at CDJapan.
Exit Trance presents Speed Anime Trance Best 17
Release Date: 1/2/13
Price: 1905 yen
Only 2 SATB releases this year. 🙁 On the plus side, it looks like they’re changing up the release schedule, as the 17th release in the series will come out in January instead of the usual April. One odd thing is that it’s being listed as “Exit Tunes presents” instead of the usual “Exit Trance presents”. Is the Exit Trance brand finally dead? I guess we’ll see…
Pre-order at CDJapan.
Saifam Speed – October 2012
Artist: Various Artists
Wow, Saifam’s been prolific lately. October has barely started and they’ve already released 3 new Speed songs. The first is a cover of the Three 6 Mafia song, “It’s a Fight.” The second is a cover of the Tiffany song, “I Saw Him Standing There,” which itself was a cover of The Beatles’ “I Saw Her Standing There.” Finally, their latest Speed creation is a cover of Carly Rae Jepsen’s inescapable “Call Me Maybe.” It actually turned out really well. o_O
SPE198 – [5:30] It’s a Fight (The Factory Team Speed mix) / Speedogang
SPE199 – [4:23] I Saw Him Standing There (The Factory Team Turbo remix) / Speedmaster
SPE200 – [5:01] Call Me Maybe (Factory Team Turbo remix) / Speedmaster
DanceMaster | 
10 21st, 2012| 
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