[Album] Gradius Tribute (SCDC-00530)

http://www.gmronline.com/info.asp?CatNumber=SCDC-00530

To be released on December 20.

Play-Asia and Neowing have short little blurbs in Japanese that don't really reveal a whole lot of information when run through Google Translate beyond the fact that it's obviously a Gradius arrange album.

The GMR link in the first line of this post has a list of arrangers found from who knows where. It's actually really interesting, though:

• Motoaki Furukawa
  The Man
• Takayuki Aihara
  Namco and SuperSweep stuff; has arranged a bunch of stuff, but never Gradius before as far as I know, so that's kinda nifty
• Shinichi Sakamoto
  HOLY CRAP WHERE DID THEY DIG HIM UP FROM; composed the four SMS Wonder Boy games (<3) and Panic Bomber (Virtual Boy, represent), but disappeared from Earth after 1995
• Kimitaka Matsumae
  Tamamayu Monogatari 1-2 (Jade Cocoon), arrangements on the Mother 1+2 "Soundtrack," S.S.T. Band member
• Yukio Nakajima
  Energy Breaker and Chaos Seed
• dj wat
  who is this i dont even know

So, who knows, well, anything more about this album?

Don't just say it's a Gradius arrange album, or I'll slap you.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

We have tracklisting!

1. MORNING MUSIC ~LARGO mix~
2. GRADIUS MEDLEY ~MS-20 MIX~
3. CHALLENGER 1985
4. FINAL ATTACK
5. BURNING HEAT
6. lpdrv/SYNTHETIC LIFE(lpdrv flashback remix)
7. GRADIUS 2 FINAL-STAGE MEDLEY
8. AQUA ILLUSION
9. GRADIUS 3 MEDLEY

So that's four tracks from Gradius I (1-4), three from Gradius II (5-7), and two from Gradius III (8-9). Still no word on who remixed each track, unfortunately.

There's nowhere I can't reach.