Kodama Direct 2024 (日本語字幕付き)

Hello everyone, welcome to the  2024 edition of “KodamaDirect”, our brand new communication operation to disclose the upcoming projects for Kodamasoft / Kodamasounds throughout the coming year. I’m glad you could join us for this! Let’s jump straight into it, and refresh our memory with… …ECLECTIC RESONANCE Memories, our Chiptune & FM inspired original work album! “Memories” is the Chiptune and FM Music variant of our “ECLECTIC RESONANCE” original work album series. Globally inspired by retro ga

me music and FM synths, the idea is to make chiptune music, purely and simply, with no specific music style restrictions. Using a tracker or FM synths is heavily recommended, but you do not have to follow this rule to perfection to participate. If you’re a fan of songs with hardware limitations or nostalgic leads, this is gonna be an album worth checking out! Still planned for release on M3-53 on April 28th,  its deadline for songs is still set to April 8th. There’s also one more album releasing

on that same date! ECLECTIC RESONANCE UPRISING 2 is already in sight, with a direct followup to our HARD EDM focused album which was released just last year! Hardcore, Frenchcore, Pystrance, Hardtek, Hardstyle… So long as it’s juicy and nergetic, there’s a chance an EDM song of yours can make it into this compilation! So don’t be shy, and submit whenever you can for  this punchy album, releasing for M3-53 on April 28th alo ngside ECLECTIC RESONANCE Memories! And finally, one last reminder for o

ur third album of spring 2024! VANTABLACK 2, the widely anticipated sequel to VANTABLACK released in 2022, is back for another round for next Reitaisai. Dive back into the world of Gensokyo at war, with a Touhou project themed compilation album filled with a dark, bloody, and gritty atmosphere. Between experimental and harder pieces, you will once again be able to enjoy Gensokyo Party at the peak of its edginess. Gensokyo Party Vol. 5 VANTABLACK 2 releases on May 3rd, with a deadline for song su

bmission set on April 12th! Now let’s KILL THE PAST, and move on to something completely new. Another Tribute Album makes its entry once again in our discography, with this time, an album focused on cult classics produced by Grasshopper Manufacture & SUDA51. Silver Case, No More Heroes, and many other cherished games directed by uncle Suda are under the spotlight of another grand compilation album No specific style or genres aimed for this one, so long as they represent the mentioned titles, so

go ahead and go nuts! MIDNIGHT SYNDROME -a Grasshopper Manufacture tribute album- is planned to release for Comic Market 104 in August 11th, with a submission deadline set to July 20th. Now, it’s time for some totally fresh new project announcements for the second half of the year! Get ready, cause we are not in any way near done! Two more brand new ECLECTIC RESONANCE typed albums are about to go down - making it a year year stacked with brand new original albums! The first is ECLECTIC RESONANCE

Legendaria! This time focused on a more traditional and celtic setting, this album’s intention is to make you feel like you’re in a fairytale. Inspired by fantasy RPGs and more traditional types of songs, we hope that this album will be able to let less electronic inspired musicians take part on our KodamaSounds journey. Although the main theme is aimed at replicating the style of traditional RPG soundtracks, it’s fine if you enter with the simple intention of making a song in a folk & celtic t

one. ECLECTIC RESONANCE Legendaria is planned to release during M3-Fall 2024 in late October, with a deadline set earlier within that month. Simultaneously, get ready for some  more electronic music for your needs. With ECLECTIC RESONANCE hollow horizons, we’ll be sure to represent electronic music in its more mellow moods. If UPRISING represents the harder side of electronic music, hollow horizons will focus on a more downtempo side of things. Whether it’s for traditional techno, IDM, ambient m

usic and more refined tunes emphasizing on rich textures, if you’ve got an ear for more contemplative stuff, this will be right up your alley! ECLECTIC RESONANCE hollow horizons will have its deadline & release date at the same time as Legendaria, throughout October 2024. Are you ready for the emotional climax of Gensokyo Party? After a second dire war, the world of Gensokyo is now in total shambles. As some people try to resurrect the place to its former glory, some others prefer to move on. “B

order in Stasis” is one of our most  ambitious Gensokyo Party album projects, focusing on a crystalline and melancholic tone you can’t find anywhere else. With a soundscape dedicated to disorder, melancholy, with a blend of hope and despair, Border in Stasis will be the biggest landmark in the maturity of the Gensokyo Party series. Gensokyo Party Vo. 6 Border in Stasis is planned for release in Autumn, during Fall Reitaisai. This year will be a busy one, with not one, but two tribute albums! Our

last planned album of this year will be Vanilla Parfait, a potpourri of arrangements from one of the most ambitious japanese game studios out there. Vanillaware is known for their very unique and colorful video games, rich with some of the best music the media has offered to this day. Chances are you’re a fan of at least one of their games already! Between 13 Sentinels, Odin Sphere, Muramasa, and the recently released UNICORN OVERLORD, rest assured  that there’s plenty of music to deal with. Va

nilla Parfait -a Vanillaware tribute album- is set to release in december, for a Winter Comic Market release. And that’s it for all albums planned for release in 2024! That should be plenty enough for both  artists and fans to dig their teeth in. Still, if you didn’t spot a project of your  interest in there, rest assured that the coming years will be just as stacked! You will be able to read more detailed guidelines on each dedicated project page on the website, shortly after this broadcast is

over. KodamaSounds has grown exponentially in recent years, and it’s looking as promising as ever. I thank every artist and fans all over the world, for checking us out and supporting us since 2020! We have plenty of other interesting projects in preparation that we are unable to share any further for this Direct, but they may come to fruition sometime this year. These include physical items, such as CD and Vinyl pressings of our albums, merchandise related to our past releases and artworks, som

e bonus secret albums, and maybe even some event participations… But let’s not get too ahead of ourselves this soon, all of these will come around eventually! The website should be receiving a fairly big update, with a brand new logo courtesy of cal, a staff page of our members at long last, and obviously, plenty of brand new project pages. We will soon be adding more content related to KodamaSoft, which has been neglected in recent years. But rest assured that the time for the  Soft side of thi

ngs will be able to shine soon! Oh, wait, speaking of… Just maybe, before we leave you guys… We’ve got one last thing to show you.