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All files uploaded to MediaFire in MP3 format = AUDIO only. Compression done with WinRar.

MANY THANKS TO: pixychild (for our mutual X love, Zilch, hide with Spread Beaver and many other things <3), nivani (for Yoshiki Selection), ttrin (for having the most X related stuff in one place I've ever seen O_O), naokidesu (for Psyence), Lucs (for Metal Box), Arucard (for P.A.F. and many other Pata's and Taiji's solo), Chris aka jigokugal (for Ass in the... err.. Earth in the Dark), Merryweather aka 003chan (for pointing me to Taiji's, Pata's and Heath's solo), Sander aka Hypno (for Toshi overload °_°), Osharewood aka Hollywood (for writing about Taiji so often that it annoyed me enough to download the albums and fall in love with this music). One BIG thank goes to X Radical Dreamers, because I wouldn't be able to build this MUSIC GALLERY without Radical Pan's uploads!! ^_^ THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN, DARLINGS!!!

!! Please, respect these musicians and remove the files from your computer within 24 hours. If you liked what you listened to, some of their work presented here is available at CDJapan and YesAsia. And what you can't find there, you could find at Ebay. !!

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>>!some stuff is still under construction!<<
>>what's not here is probably not upploaded YET or I don't have it YET<<

( X JAPAN Studio Albums )
( X JAPAN Singles )

( TAIJI Sawada )
( Hiroshi HEATH Morie )
( HEATH & PATA )
( Tomoaki PATA Ishizuka )
( Toshimitsu TOSHI Deyama )
( Hideto HIDE Matsumoto )
( YOSHIKI Hayashi )

Well... Today I had to go to the customs.... XD; And pay.... but not that much. I think I'm the only one who noticed the price (in yen) WAS writen both on the package itself and in the papers... But somehow it was moved down so nobody else noticed. And thus they asked me how much it was and if I paid for the shipping. Well, I told them the price (which I didn't remember so I made it up) and said the shipping was for free. Which it wasn't. XD But they didn't have to know, did they? >:3 I still had to pay a bit... but I believe it's nothing compared to how much it would be if they knew the real price.
-_-; I think I'll try YesAsia next time. Maybe they can avoid this circus...

Anyway... :D ...here it goes:
( My precious!! Mwahahahaaa.... )

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*melted away long ago because of his smile*

X JAPAN, hide memorial live!
100,000 fans to fill Aji Stadium!

On March 20th it was revealed that a memorial event for X Japan guitarist hide (Matsumoto Hideto, deceased 33years of age) who's sudden passing is coming up to its 10th anniversary on May 2nd is to be held on May 3rd and 4th at Ajinomoto Stadium Tokyo Metropolitan Choufu city. It will be X JAPAN's first ever memorial live with all members set to perform. In addition, bands LUNA SEA, Dir En Grey and approximately 20 other bands will perform to a crowd of 100,000.

According to sources close to X JAPAN, the event is to be sponsored by hide's younger brother and produced by YOSHIKI. 100,000 people are expected to attend over the 2days to be held at Ajinomoto Stadium in Tokyo on May 3rd and 4th following hide's death memorial which is May 2nd.

The event is to be called hide memorial summit. Living up to its name the summit is set to include the performances of such big name artists as LUNA SEA, Dir en Grey and T.M. Revolution, as well as X JAPAN with all its members.

Amongst the performers, attention is being paid to a so called INVINCIBLE BAND. A compilation of bands, friends and staff that were dear to hide. Drummer YOSHIKI selected the guitarist and vocalists (members unannounced) for this mega band.

The memorial concert was originally planned to take place after hide's death. However, plans were stopped because of the huge mental shock of the tragedy to YOSHIKI. But with X JAPAN's reformation last year YOSHIKI thought they should hold the memorial concerts for hide now that 10years have passed and that things have settled down a bit.

Another source elaborated that YOSHIKI doesn't want the memorial to be a sad occasion and wants to make it a noisy and festive event that shocks and excites fans just as hide would have done. The event is set to be a memorable performance fitting of the 10th year anniversary of hide's shocking passing

YOSHIKI: putting his life on the line to drum

After a 10year silence, X JAPAN is set to perform renunion shows at Tokyo Dome to a total of 150,000 fans between the 28th and 30th of this month. Each performance carries a different title Night of Destruction (28th March), Night of Recklaceness (29th), Night of Creation (30th), with the setlists set to be different on each night. YOSHIKI: I wont be holding back at any of the performances. I'll risk my life to perform. 5 ambulance vehicles will be ready at the scene to react not only to excited fans, but for YOSHIKI who's neck and body carry injury.
Police announced that over 50,000 fans crammed into Tokyo's Tsukijihonganji shrine for in 1998 for hide's funeral, which made big headlines on the news.

Original full artcile: SANSPO.com
Source : Special thanks to Eri of Endless dream Japanese fansite
Translated by Danny (feel free to repost!)

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I hope he survives. O_O;

Because I know I'd forget where I found it...

Orient-Extrême: First, about your career. I would say there are two main periods in X Japan: the "aggressive rock" era of the 80’s, with Blue Blood and Vanishing Vision; and the more "romantic" era, initiated by Jealousy. To you, does one of these two eras represents more X Japan than the other?
YOSHIKI: This is an interesting question. I don’t really know. But I think both of them equally represent X Japan.

Orient-Extrême: I was hoping to get a clue about the future reunification of X Japan… Do you already know if the new X Japan will be something like your early work, or like… Forever Love, for example ?
YOSHIKI: Well, I haven’t completely decided yet, but I’ve been thinking about it for the past several months, because last year, my old vocalist, Toshi, contacted me. But I’m not really gonna try to resurrect the old X Japan; if I do it, it could be for just one tour, or something like this. I just wanna put a period on the X Japan era ; because, after Toshi left X Japan, hide and I were supposed to reform. When he died, he left me out dry, so I haven’t really put a period to it. To move on. I don’t know if it’s good, or bad, I just want to "do something". So if I do it, it may just be X Japan’s old song… there’s actually one song I wrote after hide died… so there could be one new song.

Orient-Extrême: So you don’t have particular ambitions about that reunification that actually won’t be a real one?
YOSHIKI: I don’t know. It’s too painful. I mean : there’s no way to resurrect X Japan. Without hide, there’s no X Japan. I just want to properly finish X Japan, for him, but also for myself… because I just couldn’t move on, during the past ten years.

Orient-Extrême: About the future, on inevitable question : is there a precise final date for this so-called Violet UK album we’ve been waiting since 2002?
YOSHIKI: Yeah… it may sound too perfectionist. I’ve been recording and recording… and I believe now that it’s almost done. I’m just waiting for a good timing, to release it. So it’s pretty much done, I’ll finally be able to deliver it to people.

Orient-Extrême: We’re waiting for it. What about SKIN? There’s been the first member’s meeting in March, in Los Angeles. Did both of you immediately have the same way of thinking SKIN’s music?
YOSHIKI: Well… before we moved forward, I kind of told them that I wanted something hard. You know… I don’t want anything pop in this band. So it WILL be hard. Still, it doesn’t mean we won’t make any ballad, it just won’t be pop. So yes, there was a common idea.

Orient-Extrême: SKIN lacked a bassist. Ju-ken, who’s usually one of Gackt musicians, played as a replacement during your first live. Is he going to be the one, or will there soon be another change?
YOSHIKI: I don’t know yet. At that time, of course, we didn’t have a bass player, so we asked him to play. But we haven’t decided anything. But this is a possibility… We just don’t know yet. It’s not like we’re keeping everything secret, you know! We REALLY don’t know yet.

Orient-Extrême: SKIN is a band which has international ambitions. Is it going to be exported in Europe? Do you plan tours or CD releases in Europe?
YOSHIKI: Oh, I hope so. I’d love to. Probably.

Orient-Extrême: Nothing planned, so far?
YOSHIKI: We’re gonna start planning very, very soon. Until now, we were just trying to finish that show, about last week or so; so we were just focusing on it, and were not thinking about anything else.

Orient-Extrême: By the way, what about this show? What did you think of it?
YOSHIKI: I think it was great. I mean: as a band, I really think it was ok. Of course, we could have performed better, but fans were just awesome, they supported us so much…

Orient-Extrême: Yet another project for you, since you’ve been entrusted with making original soundtrack of the new animated series The Rose of Versailles. How’s it going? Since the directors let you do whatever you want, where did you start from, to make that OST?
YOSHIKI: At that time, there were just using whatever I released, classic albums, whatever I composed. Here, it’s kind of difficult, because they don’t say anything. They just said: "do whatever you want". So I say "ok!" [laughs]. I don‘t know. We’ll see.

Orient-Extrême: Let’s just go back in time. A personal question, about one of your most popular singles, Tears. It seems there are two versions of the song: in the first one, Toshi talks with a low voice, during the last minutes. In the second, his voice disappeared. Is there an explanation?
YOSHIKI: Well, actually, I was the one talking (smiles). I was my voice.

Orient-Extrême (imitating seppuku): O-o-okay… Then why is there another version?
YOSHIKI: I don’t know. Usually I like to make different versions when I compose a song. But about that one, the version in which I talk was a little bit too personal… because I’m talking to my father, who’s just died at that time.

Orient-Extrême: Knowing that, one can understand why the “talking” version is simply the best. What kind of feelings helps you writing, if there are specific ones? More positive feelings, or more negative feelings?
YOSHIKI: I sure think about death, a lot. But it doesn’t mean I always think negatively : when I write a song, I’m gonna think about death, THEN I’m gonna think about life, the one we’re living, and I try to think about positive things. But in the end, everything comes from death, pretty much. And I’m gonna write songs till I die. So sure, pain helps me writing. If I can’t write, or can’t perform, certainly I’m not alive. Because everything I want is in music.

Orient-Extrême: About life. Recently, you’ve kinda launched out into medical research, with experienced people’s collaboration, focusing on general music effects on human brain. You even played piano in front of mentally disease people. Are you still into it? Why those researches did interest you in the first place?
YOSHIKI: One of my family members had a heart disease; she had to go through an operation, and at that time, during the surgery, doctors played my classical music. The operation was successful. So I went to see them, and asked "why?" They told me that first, it helped everyone relax during the operation, and it also has effects on patient. I found that very interesting. I started talking about that around me, then met musical therapists, who help disable people, or mentally ill people… and while doing my researches, I realized than music DOES have some effects. So right now, I’m still experimenting. But before I die, make it five years or ten years, I’m gonna try to create a music or sounds that may affect brain to just heal some diseases.

Orient-Extrême: One last thing : I read on Toshi’s website that when both of you were recording Without you, you said "One song tells much more than million words".
YOSHIKI: Yes. Toshi and I met in Los Angeles in March. That was actually the second time we met face to face after hide’s death. And when he arrived, he just started talking about a lot of things, I don’t remember what, I just couldn’t concentrate. He kept talking and talking, and then I told him: "Do you know what? I don’t understand what you’re talking about". So he said "ok, then, let’s do one song". When he started singing and I started playing piano, I don’t know, I felt we were connected. Music can do something, more than words. It’s so hard to be connected just through words; music is the only way Toshi and I can be. Which means we still haven’t found the way out, and are still trying to figure it out. Because, our lives have always been so different… even before X Japan’s disband. But once he singed and I played, everything was okay. What’s what he meant, I think.

Orient-Extrême: Thank you so much for your answers, and just… please, keep doing music forever.
YOSHIKI: I will.

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What/who made him resurrect X Japan? O_o

...I'm posting this interview. Old but who cares, right? From Korea. And Yoshiki speaks English, which is good (for us, who can't speak Japanese YET!), BUT those idiots put background music too loud (and yes, I love Forever Love, but interview is in a matter of fact about listening to someone, no?! -_-;) so it's often quite difficult to understand. And it has almost 10 minutes, so it'll take a while loading.



OFF TOPIC: And... WTF? Who played piano in Gackt's Leeca? O_O

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*staring blankly*



In case it's not working: THE NOSEBLEED VIDEO

...I think I'm hungry... *random wannabe-thoughts* ...hmmm.....

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X_X

*while talking and drinking Golden Well earlier today*

nage: "...and he's like a child. Writing about the best ice-cream in the world!"
shertso: "He figured it out in his what... 40's? What about us?"
nage: "Well..."
shertso: "The greatest ice-cream is still Magnum."
nage: *realized the double meaning* -> *ROFL*
shertso: XDDD

I'm concerned about those 3 nights in Tokyo Dome. And all the things said at jpopmusic.com/forum made me think about it more.

( Me, being pissed of; people talking about X Japan... and so on... )

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( SOM LULZ... XDDD )