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Apparently it launched last November, but I only just noticed that Starving Trancer now has an official website up at www.starvingtrancer.com The site has a rather extensive discography, including stuff he’s released outside of Exit Tunes. They kind of gloss over his contributions to Exit Trance, though.
His most recent non-Another Infinity song, “Fall of Gust,” is pretty awesome piano trance. I’m glad he’s stayed true to his roots and hasn’t become Starving EDMer.
Asamade Nomisugi Chuui Ho! ~Enkai Song Best~
Release Date: 12/18/13
Price: 900 yen
New digital compilation from Avex with songs for end-of-year parties. Features favorites like “Night of Fire,” “Dragostea Din Tei,” and “Tokyo, Go!”
Blue Dragon
Artist: Seiryu
Release Date: 12/25/13
Price: 1905 yen
Santa’s bringing a special present this year for Ryu* fans. Back when Plan 8 was released I speculated that the relatively small number of tracks would mean they would release two Ryu* albums this year, and it ended up being true. Seiryu is the alias that Ryu* uses for 190+ BPM tracks, and Blue Dragon will focus on songs he’s released under the alias as well as his other dragon aliases. Like Plan 8, this album will contain 15 tracks, many of which have previously appeared on various Konami music games.
Bonus items include a cell phone strap, signed seal, pass case, poster, and clear file. The official site has samples and more info. There are also retailer-exclusive bonuses available, ranging from can badges to special remix CDs:
Animate
– Kouryu Special Remix CD – Blue Dragon (Kouryu Remix)
Tsutaya Records
– Rairyu Special Remix CD – Blue Dragon (Rairyu Remix)
Tora no Ana
– Hakuryu Special Remix CD – Blue Dragon (Hakuryu Remix)
Occult Maiden Character Song Album
Release Date: 12/18/13
Price: 2381 yen (CD+DVD Edition) or 1905 yen (CD Only Edition)
A new collaboration between Square Enix and Exit Tunes. Occult Maiden is an iOS/Anrdoid mobile game, and this CD will have characters from the game singing their own themes. Producers include Exit Tunes mainstays like Starving Trancer, YM, and Dead Ball P. Also includes two bonus remixes by DJ Uto and Ryu*. The CD+DVD version includes a DVD with preview videos and commercials. Bonus items include a cell phone strap (1 of 12 designs), poster, clear file, and a serial code for a rare item in the game. Visit the official website for more info.
Koharu Sakurai presents Exit Tunes Academy -11th Anniversary Special- @20130407 Saitama Super Arena
Release Date: 12/18/13
Price: 4286 yen (Blu-Ray Edition) or 3333 yen (DVD Edition)
The Exit Tunes Academy live tour has been a huge success for Exit Tunes, and this December they’ll be celebrating the 11th anniversary of the Exit Tunes brand with a special DVD/Blu-Ray release featuring footage shot during the performance at Saitama Super Arena. Almost 18,000 people attended the event to watch ETA artists like Mayumi Morinaga, Shamuon, recog and others perform live.
Both the DVD and Blu-Ray releases will come with a cell phone strap, poster, and clear file. You can visit the official website for more info.
Exit Trance presents Speed Anime Trance Best 20
Release Date: 12/4/13
Price: 1905 yen
A final list has been revealed for the 20th release in the SATB series. Thankfully, Acid=Stone Valley’s return back in SATB 19 wasn’t just temporary, though he still only has one track. Airportexpress has been allocated the most, with five total tracks. Other artists include Hommarju (3 tracks), plazma (3), kinoto (2), Flash back Dominant (2), MK (2), Dizzi Mystica (1), and Icon (1). It also appears that there’ll be some new vocalists/aliases present, like Yuuji and Goneko.
Bonus items include a cell phone strap shaped like an ornament, a poster, and a special item (most likely a clear file) if you send in the included survey card. The official website has also been updated with samples.
For SATB fans, I’ve compiled a list of chart performances of each of the previous 19 titles. The data come from Oricon, which track physical sales data from most, but not all, of Japan’s retailers.
More after the break.
Dur-Moll Heaven
Artist: N.O.-SYO
Release Date: 11/27/12
Price: ??? yen
N.O.-SYO’s album is now up on Japanese iTunes, and will be available worldwide on November 30. You can listen to samples on Amazon MP3. Unfortunately, it does look like he’s dropped the “club/trance” aspect of his music for this album; the arrangements are pure rock.
On a side note, I contacted N.O.-SYO by e-mail a few months ago asking if he was willing to ship Sound Drive -Drift Luxy V.I.P.- worldwide, and he just recently got back to me and kind of misunderstood the question (my fault for using Google Translate, lol). He reiterated that Sound Drive -Dance Rock Mix- is finally available digitally worldwide, but made no mention of DLV.
Exit Trance presents Speed Anime Trance Best 20
Release Date: 12/4/13
Price: 1905 yen
A final list has been revealed for the 20th release in the SATB series. Thankfully, Acid=Stone Valley’s return back in SATB 19 wasn’t just temporary, though he still only has one track. Airportexpress has been allocated the most, with five total tracks. Other artists include Hommarju (3 tracks), plazma (3), kinoto (2), Flash back Dominant (2), MK (2), Dizzi Mystica (1), and Icon (1). It also appears that there’ll be some new vocalists/aliases present, like Yuuji and Goneko.
Bonus items include a cell phone strap shaped like an ornament, a poster, and a yet-to-be-revealed special item.
Dur-Moll Heaven
Artist: N.O.-SYO
Release Date: 11/27/12
Price: ??? yen
N.O.-SYO’s been teasing it for a while now, but his latest album will finally be released next week. He seems to be billing it as a fusion of hard rock and classical, which makes me wonder if he’ll leave out the club/trance sound of his previous works. It should also be noted that a number of the tracks on the album have already been covered by him.
On a related note, Doc-S pointed out in the comments that Sound Drive -Dance Rock Mix- will finally be made available digitally after 3 years. Hopefully the rest of N.O.-SYO’s catalogue will make its way online sooner rather than later.
Blue Dragon
Artist: Seiryu
Release Date: 12/25/13
Price: 1905 yen
Santa’s bringing a special present this year for Ryu* fans. Back when Plan 8 was released I speculated that the relatively small number of tracks would mean they would release two Ryu* albums this year, and it ended up being true. Seiryu is the alias that Ryu* uses for 190+ BPM tracks, and Blue Dragon will focus on songs he’s released under the alias as well as his other dragon aliases. Like Plan 8, this album will contain 15 tracks, many of which have previously appeared on various Konami music games.
Bonus items include a cell phone strap, signed seal, pass case, poster, and clear file. The official site is already up with more info.
Occult Maiden Character Song Album
Release Date: 12/18/13
Price: 2381 yen (CD+DVD Edition) or 1905 yen (CD Only Edition)
A new collaboration between Square Enix and Exit Tunes. Occult Maiden is an iOS/Anrdoid mobile game, and this CD will have characters from the game singing their own themes. Producers include Exit Tunes mainstays like Starving Trancer, YM, and Dead Ball P. Also includes two bonus remixes by DJ Uto and Ryu*. The CD+DVD version includes a DVD with preview videos and commercials. Bonus items include a cell phone strap (1 of 12 designs), poster, clear file, and a serial code for a rare item in the game. Visit the official website for more info.
Koharu Sakurai presents Exit Tunes Academy -11th Anniversary Special- @20130407 Saitama Super Arena
Release Date: 12/18/13
Price: 4286 yen (Blu-Ray Edition) or 3333 yen (DVD Edition)
The Exit Tunes Academy live tour has been a huge success for Exit Tunes, and this December they’ll be celebrating the 11th anniversary of the Exit Tunes brand with a special DVD/Blu-Ray release featuring footage shot during the performance at Saitama Super Arena. Almost 18,000 people attended the event to watch ETA artists like Mayumi Morinaga, Shamuon, recog and others perform live.
Both the DVD and Blu-Ray releases will come with a cell phone strap, poster, and clear file. You can visit the official website for more info.
RTTF the Best
Release Date: 10/30/13
Price: 1000 yen
A new non-stop mix from RTTF Records featuring 20 songs requested by fans, 10 bonus songs that were previously available only on bonus CDs distributed at events, and 5 select songs by regular artists for 35 tracks in all. Included are some of my personal favorites like Chris Bucknall’s “Rhapsody in Blue” and MK’s “Jupiter.”
The CD will be available at the upcoming M3-32 event in Japan, but foreign buyers can buy it by contacting DJ Hyuji: http://rttf.eternalbreeze.net/contact.html. Also available is a Classical Candy set with both Classical Candy and its sequel for 1,800 yen. Classical Candy 2 in particular is worth it for the full version of “Rhapsody in Blue,” which is almost 6 minutes in length.
Exit Trance presents Speed Anime Trance Best 20
Release Date: 12/4/13
Price: 1905 yen
The landmark 20th album in the Speed Anime Trance Best series has just been announced for a December release. That’s pretty remarkable considering that 2012 only had 2 SATB releases. In fact, this will the first time ever that 4 mainline CDs have been released in the same year. Not many details yet, though hopefully they continue to return to their roots and bring back more composers and vocalists from the past. B.U.S. and Ryu*, please?
Also, for some reason the catalogue number is QWCE-315, compared to SATB 19’s QWCE-342. It’s almost as if they planned for the 20th release before they did the 19th. -_-
Pre-order at CDJapan.
Exit Trance presents Speed Anime Trance Best 19
Release Date: 9/4/13
Price: 1905 yen
HOLY CRAP. It took them until 5 days before release to finally reveal a track list, but maybe it’s because they didn’t want to spoil the surprises. First of all, the Dizzi Mystica alias returns to Exit Trance with 4 tracks after skipping SATB 17 and 18 (though technically he was still present on those as Disco da Gama). The kinoto alias also comes back from retirement with a new song, though apparently Flash back Dominant and plazma were his aliases, so he hasn’t really been gone, either. MK represents with 4 tracks, while Booing Day features with 3. Hommarju gets a bum deal with only 2 tracks, thought Icon gets it worse with only 1. A new artist by the name of airportexpress also makes his debut.
Now, here’s the biggest shocker of them all: Acid=Stone Valley is back! I had to refresh the page a few times to make sure I wasn’t seeing things, but apparently Acid=Stone Valley will indeed be making his glorious return to Exit Trance after being M.I.A. since 2010. It’s only a single track, but it’s exciting to see him back as he was an old favorite of mine. I can’t help but wonder if Quake are purposely going back to their roots by heavily featuring old aliases and artists. Hopefully they make SATB 20 a proper anniversary release by asking back even more old ET artists.
The selected songs are mostly a good mix of recent anime offerings. I was admittedly rather perplexed to see “Uchuu Senkan Yamato” since it was already covered on one of the R25 albums, but apparently there was a recent sequel series that features a new arrangement of the old theme.
Oh, and why only a 1:15 edit for one of Dizzi Mystica’s tracks? The entire album clocks in at around 1 hour and 10 minutes, so surely they could’ve given it more time. 
DanceMaster | 
01 11th, 2014| 
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