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The unfinished demons
2005-08-12
It's been the longest hairy time ever since the last update... well the remix scene is calming down a lot, not much has happened lately, and of course that includes ourselves.
Anyway, finally new contents are here! WindsorBallet and his newest 2 remixes of Osaka Koi no Uta and Ai no Bakayarou! Both are rock approch remixes that never disappoint.
Really tight in time here, but I hope I can spare some to prepare the other new content updates ASAP since I feel this place really needs some refreshment (not many people are coming to the site recently... can you guys help spamming a bit? lol)
Hito-less no sougen
2005-04-24AEUGNewtype has a new approach - a piano ballad re-vamp of Aya's Sougen no Hito - taking mellowness against mellowness. Check it out homies.
Another new update are new MIDIs from him as well! 3 of them in the midi page, including Maki's Postive Genki on her 3rd Station album.
New stuff on site - streaming radio
2005-04-03
This week I was surfing random websites and found out people using a nifty little thing offered by this site - radio.blog.club - a Flash based mp3 streaming frontend that people can put on their own webservers to use. Then I figured, hey wouldn't it be neat to put that up astrobox as well?
Therefore I present to you the radio of our own that I've just done setting up - CLICK HERE (pop up window) or straight URL http://radio.astrobox.org to try it out! The audio is 64kbps stereo 22.05KHz rbs (mp3). Also if you noticed I added a cell on the left column of this front page for the radio pop up link as well, so later on you can check there to play it.
So far, I have added most of the tracks of astrobox mixers, plus the ones that kagobrinco offered on his TOYBOX site. It is not meant to be a replacement of the mp3 downloads that we already have them constantly up, so it is (only) ideal to listen to the radio when you are off your home's music, like at school, work, or something.
In the future I really hope that I can get other Japanese fan mixers' permissions to add their tracks into the playlist too, but I don't have much idea of how that should go... If any of you are reading this, tell me what you think!
orz
2005-04-02
So, that was our site's April Fools joke. In case you missed it, this is now at /bukkake.html. Oh, yeah, you guessed right, it is exactly what it is about ;)
Apparently someone must find it disturbing or plain rude, but it is just a parody, I hope this isn't being taken seriously, so please excuse our absurd way of humor. Actually folks on 2ch thread talked about it too... so, 済みません , folks...
The big ass H!P remixes list
2005-03-27
I was talking about that remix list I outputed and linked here, now I updated it to contain a whooping 557 track counts, just for the reference / archival purpose. It was remotely linked before now I put it back on this site which you can find here.
I know that the list may be inaccurate, and missing a few other mixes too but what the hell, I think the sheer volume already turns many people in awe anyway :) I will keep that thing updated on a monthly basis probably.
By the way, does anyone have the knowledge of maintaining Database that can do this better? I was trying to use PHP and parse stuff from a text file but it doesn't even remotely work, I suck at these things... if anyone knows please help out.
YO! KOSO JAPAN
2005-03-25
surasshu has returned from his grave, and presents us his brandnew creation - Kacchoiize JAPAN (Meant To Be Mix) - A techno approach of the Biyuden new single!
Also new are 2 other vocal rips in the resource page. And by the way, some time ago I fetched my entire H!P fan remix collection in a playlist, and outputed a comprehensive tabled HTML list just to see how it looks. I haven't updated it for months but it is like 80% complete so far. It is here on my other host, I am going to add the rest of the mixes soon, I just figured people may find it useful too anyway.
Hmm......
2005-03-03
The mp3 upload was corrupted for the last mix by CrappleJunktown, you will need to download it again, link here, very damn sorry...
The "New Update Finally" Train '05
2005-02-24
I can't believe how long it has been... but wheeeee! New remix from Crapplejunktown, an alternative, dark approach of Yuko's Kuyashi Namida Porori - Ghost Train '05 mix . A major improvement on the mixer's part,and themed even (which I love).
Very much sorry for the silence here... been extremely busy...
Another oversea fan remix community
2005-01-02
It is rare enough, so I should take the chance to talk about something interesting going on elsewhere in the oversea jpop fan community.
Over at the AHS forum, likely the oldest and the largest English Ayu forum around, the folks held a contest recently - an ayu fanmix battle among the board regulars. The voting was just over and the winner was also decided, along posted are also the rest of the entries with 12 remixes, most of which have amazing quality and great diversity of approaches in terms of style. I really enjoyed most of them and of course particularly the winner, but a lot other ones are great as well (my pick is the Fly High Rock is Dead). The series of contests isn't over yet, though. There is also the CD booklet design contest going on for this compilation of entries, something I would really want to enter as well :)
Being inside a niche of a niche as our site, it just amuses me to hear resonance from other corners of the oversea jpop fan community. The aim of this site is to promote not only H!P but also j-pop fan mixes, which hardly began to happen yet... But this event really fuels me to try to bridge the gaps closer, because there are apparently people out there doing these great things like we do.
New Year, New Look
2005-01-01
In celebration of yet another year, ASTROBOX has a sort of new look right now. Nothing all that fancy, the basic navigation is the same, I just kinda tweaked the CSS and stuff a bit so it looks more professional, and text should be way more readable now. I dubbed this a version 2.0, but, there were supposed to be other real updates to the site than just the look... I didn't finish those on time, so here a new look should suffice for now :)
Also new are 4 MIDIs from AEUG!. It is a sort of back-track cuz I missed some of the updates on his part. Enjoy!
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