We have Gaia to thank for some great info on Experience DJ and hardcore producer EXCALIpUR, including this very nice freeform remix of a track from the Fate/stay night visual novel. The trouble with living in the home of anime is that there’s so much utterly awful stuff that it becomes impossible to spot the gems, and so this series has completely passed me by. After some background reading, I discovered the excellent original version of PDBW (Emiya) was remixed for the anime by none other than the master himself, Kenji Kawai (Ghost in the Shell, Avalon, The Sky Crawlers etc).
Anyway, EXCALIpUR’s why we started all this, and PDBW is a fantastic take on the track, if a little gentle for real freeform. The other tunes I’ve checked out so far lean towards happier J-Core, but I’m definitely looking forward to his set next Saturday.
Fate/stay night is a magnificent visual novel. I’ve “played” (or rather read) all the chapters. Everyone should give it a try… It’s even perfect experience for newcomers to this genre. 🙂
The fan-made english translation can be obtained here:
http://mirrormoon.org/
As for EXCALIpUR, yes. He sure is a great producer, in my opinion. I stumbled over this guy, while proceeding with my journey through the near infinite VGM universe.
Here’s a rather complete list, of the works, he has done so far:
http://vgmdb.net/artist/4430
There are some other excellent remixes of Emiya.
zts – エミヤ -faith / denial-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh89QID-9EA
NUMBER 201 – Emiya #0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF29ATE3PTE
Oh, nearly forgot to mention, that Fate/stay night got a killer soundtrack. 😉