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Yen For Nothing And The Clicks For Free

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008


Susumu Hirasawa, the author of “The girl in Byakkoya - White Tiger Field“, the main theme to the Satoshi Kon film Paprika, has made it and the outtake track “Runner” available for free download to commemorate the release of the official soundtrack album.

To download them in MP3 format, click on the track titles above. Before you do so though, please click here first to view the terms and conditions. I’m just listening to them now and they’re pretty cool.

Hirasawa also did the soundtrack for Kon’s Paranoia Agent and the dreamlike quality of these new tracks is reminiscent of this show.

As an aside, Kon’s work would make a good backdrop to a Hawkwind concert. Paranoia Agent for Paranoia anybody?

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Full Metal Hawkwind

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

I just stumbled on this on You Tube. Hawkwind’s Assult & Battery/Golden Void as the backing to a Full Metal Alchemist video. Bizarre. Then again it should keep both me and Calvin happy for a while.

With two main characters in Full Metal Alchemist having a surname of Elric, a track from The Chronicle of the Black Sword might have been more appropriate. Any excuse to listen to Needle Gun again. Well Jerry Cornelius was an aspect of the eternal champion, as was Elric. A good enough connection for me.

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