[darktruth]

We know that RahXephon uses music alot to either drive the series plot or add depth to it but what are your opinions about it?

Personally, many of the background music in the series felt kind of jazzy but they had some great piano pieces like "Solitaire" to give the series a moody feel as well. "Katun no Sadame" had an interesting and catchy intro and beat but I didn't really like the singing in it though. "Yume no Tamago" was kind of hard to listen to at first but once you get into the series, it becomes easier. It has a sort of haunting feel from that song.

This brings me to another question, have any of you guys bought the OST? (lol or got it off the net?) One thing I'm pissed about the OST's was that NONE of them contained the flute/recorder version of "Yume no Tamago" (it was played a number of times throughout the series but I think it can be best remembered in episode 3 where Ayato is on the bicycle with Haruka sitting at the back). That piece to me was the best musical highlight from the series but it's sad to see that it wasn't added onto any of the OST's and they had 3 chances to put it on (4 if you count the OST for the movie). The closest one similar to that version of Yume no Tamago is a track called "Second Sorrow" but I can't remember on which OST it was on. I've only bought the single for the opening theme "Hemisphere" so far, you can see my review of it on the main website or in the News & Updates forum but maybe sometime in the future I'll buy the soundtracks.

[Rebel]

I havent gotten any of the music suprisingly....And I dont actually remember it that well, that either emans it was too quiet for me to remember, or not good enough for me to remember.

And to use the word "remember" one more time, you should always remember the best peices are either hidden in some really big track, sound different, or not realeased at all(until the special ultra-limited edition CD boxset comes out).

[Black Howling]

I would have loved to buy the music, though the problem is where to start off, if i had a good place to start i would definitly start buying the soundtracks.

[Lynk Former]

The same thing happened with BGC2040, in the series in one of the episodes you hear an acoustic instrumental of Waiting For You.... but it's not on any OST

[darktruth]

Found an interesting remix of Hemisphere today, it's really upbeat, more faster and techno-ish but the interesting part is that it is completely resung by another artist, I think it's done Yoko Ishida and it's the "Hyper Yocomix" of Hemisphere.

The beats sounded fairly good but I think the added electronic sounds kinda ruins the feel of the song, another part of the remix I didn't like was that the voice of Yoko Ishida didn't seem to fit the song either even when it was a techno remix version. Her voice sounded too young and squeaky compared to Maaya Sakamoto's voice which sounds alot more mature, I would've preferred if it didn't replace Maaya's vocals with Yoko's.

I think this remix version was also added onto the Para Para Max arcade game or it was remixed specifically for it.