KNT Music

[Tigriss]

Hi, about the dramas, I was wondering, has anyone translated these, even a rough translation? I am really curious to know what they are saying!

The only I've gpotten from them are the Ninja Crows doing phone jokes to Otama and a real version of Karamaru (A Ninja Crow talking to a normal crow thinking that is Karamaru)... Off course I can be wrong...

That is the real Karamaru, and the other crow's name is "Karasu Ninja He no San-ban" (roughly "Ninja Crow Number Three" from what I can tell).

[adam808]

A question and a story:
Which do you like better of the opening themes: the original Yazawa one or the one by Kawamura? The latter is a special 'new' version fans would like on the second CD. Kawamura does have a sweet voice. I'm sure anime fans have heard a few of her songs already. Also it has been featured in at least one flash movie as the KNT opening in place of the original. I got used to the Kawamura one first as an album version, but it was interesting to discover the album/single version of the original TV one. Websites then didn't have that one yet, or the “drama” tracks either. I was fixated by that at the time and went on a quest to locate it, even though we SPC United forum people weren't sure it even existed. Luckily the full version of the original did turn up on WinMX. Then something better: a new rip of both CDs! It was on a Yahoo Group called spc_soundtracks. Sadly, today no new members can join as the owner lost his access. I believe the owner once wrote an article about SPC in a magazine. We shared the mp3s from it on P2P and FTP sites. If you want, you can get disc images that are like having a CD duplicate (available at http://knt.shin-getter.net/misc/).

[Violet]

I like Maria Kawamura's version better, but I might be a little biased since she's the voice of Usa Hime.

[felineki]

I suppose this fits here...

I'm wondering if there are any other KNT MIDIs out there that I don't have. (Yes, I'm a MIDI freak, bear with me ) I have the three by Hero Boy ("Ottodokkoi Nihonbare", "To Be Yourself", and "Yasu Kekunai"), another version of "To Be Yourself" by "Osaka zaijuu no hito" ("A resident of Osaka"?), and the three BGM MIDIs from Violet's page. Oh, and there's the two I made, but they don't count.  The BGM ones interest me, because while they include no info on who sequenced them, they have internal titles of "CAT" (cat_yatt.mid), "CAT2" (cat_show.mid), and "CAT5" (cat_sono.mid), implying that they might be part of a larger collection. Is there any info on their source?

The S.P.C.Japan page apparently had a MIDI section while it was online (it's down now, but www.archive.org was able to let me view the main page). The Japanese version of the page, which as far as I know might still be up, gives me a "403 - Forbidden" error when I try to access it. O_o. Were/are there any MIDIs there that I didn't mention?

Thanks for your time.  *Listens to cat_show.mid*

[DarkMatter_Zero]

Battle in Flash is the best, I can't stop listening to it and thinking to my self "Hissatsu Neko Me Surasshu!" 

[felineki]

Battle in Flash really is good, I suppose it helps that it's based on one of my favorite pieces of BGM from the show.

I really like Mikazuki Connection, too. Too bad only a tiny snippet of it actually was used in the show. Tha part about 1 minute in with the "Ooooh" chorus, synth brass and arpeggio is absolutely beautiful.

[felineki]

Found a neat site with info on all of KNT's vocal songs:

http://members9.tsukaeru.net/alfred/nns/chronicle/1980/1990/teyandee/teyandee.htm

Along with usual lyrics and singer info, the lyricist, composer, and arranger of each song is listed.

[Hayama]

  There are 2 CDs.  I have all the tracks ripped in 192 kbps.  Plus high res scans of all the booklet pages as well as scans of the CD's and their cases themselves.  Feel free to message me on AIM if anyone is interested in obtaining them.

[TGLucario475]

have ya tried here?

http://www.edoropolis.org/spcpolly/Sounds.html

worked for me

[B.J.]

Has the "Teyandee Special Express" song ever appeared in the show? I asked the person at Nyanki Fanatics and he/she wasn't to sure.

[Mechadon]

Has the "Teyandee Special Express" song ever appeared in the show? I asked the person at Nyanki Fanatics and he/she wasn't to sure.

I remember it appearing in the KNT version of Unidentified Flying Oddballs. At the end when they're rescuing Princess Vi.

[felineki]

It was in a few different episodes: "Zenin Shuugou! Tenkaichi no Daishiai" (Kung Fu Kitty Contest) and "Koon no Kami Shijou Saidai no Sakusen" (Comet Caper Pt. 1) both come to mind. I don't think it was in "UFO!? Nyankii Tai Uchuujin" (Unidentified Flying Oddballs), but "Adesugata Mecha Cat!" was.

[Sinder]

Songs from the soundtrack aren't generally hard to find right now, but daitrombe.net has MP3s of a few songs that include embedded lyrics. If your MP3 player of choice supports this feature, you can read along as the music plays.

[Kits'Okami (fr. Dragonfox)]

Speaking of songs in episodes, did 'Battle in Flash' ever appear in any KNT episode other than its 'Bad Bird Uncaged Part 2' episode?

Yep, 'Battle in Flash' is my favourite KNT song too. Go fig'.

[Truro]

Yes, it was used in the Japanse versions of Gone with the Ginzu, and The Great Comit Caper part 2  I forget the Japanese names of the episodes, but I always thought it was particularly cool in the Japanese Comet Caper. 

[felineki]

Here's a new address for the site I linked to earlier: http://nunagasea.net/nns/chronicle/1980/1990/teyandee/teyandee.htm

Anyone know if the CD ISO's that used to be in the KNT section of the Shin-Getter server are still available anywhere?

[B.J.]

Does anyone know how to track down the Lovely Mipple's song. Someone made a KNT Myspace account and I heard it from there, having me thinking "how was this person able to find this song if it's not on CD"?

[felineki]

It was on the CD. Track 7 of the first CD to be specific.

[B.J.]

In one of the two untranslated episodes, "Battle in Flash" played during a segment in the KNT verison of Samurai Charm School when Pururun battles the robot. You can find it somewhere in the "Untranslated episodes" topic. Wasn't that in the actual episode as well?

[felineki]

Recently I've been doing a bit of study into synthesizers, particularly those of the late '80s-early '90s era, since they're featured in many of my favorite media (including KNT). While listening to samples I've found on the internet, I occasionally come across a familiar sound. Here are some of the sounds I've recognized from KNT's soundtrack:

Roland R-8 Drum machine
This was a very well-known and widely used drum machine released in 1988, not too long before KNT was created. It is heavily used in KNT's soundtrack, with some of those most common and recognizable sounds used being the "Ouch!" Snare, and the Ambient Room Toms (Hi, Mid-Hi, Mid-Lo, Lo). Roland produced an "Ethnic" expansion card for this machine, which featured several traditional Japanese percussion sounds that were also regularly used in KNT's soundtrack: Hyoushigi (wooden clapper), Tsuzumi (small, hourglass-shaped drum: Hi, Lo) You'll probably recognize the high tsuzumi sound from the eyecatch jingles.

More to come later...