Thought we weren't going to have this until the official release date tomorrow? Well, to hell with that; the album's been leaked far earlier than expected! Well, it could have been even earlier by a day or two, but details have to be compiled after all. Some of these are quite exciting.
Here's the tracklist for reference. Now let's see what we've got here:
- Taiko 0 new songs first! MATSURI D/A is composed by 'Vincent', an alias for god knows who.
- Hayabusa is by Takafumi Sato (佐藤たかふみ). That makes it his 4th Namco Original in just one year (Wanya World, Cycle of Rebirth, Meena no Oyashiki). This guy is active, I'll give him that.
- Growing Up is by a2c from MintJam, and the vocalist is TERRA. No, not the TERRA from Bemani.
- Samba Alegria is by Sampling Masters AYA
- Dodon ga Don is by Sampling Masters Mega. That explains its similarity to Rotter Tarmination nicely.
- Hey, Mr. Professor is by an alias 'P-Co', and the composer of the song is another enigmatic name 'Professor S'. Now who in the world...?
- The Magician's Dream is by Thor Kawai (川井遠瑠), or better known as YakitoriThor....no I am not kidding. He's from JBG Music School, which has also done a whole bunch of Namco Originals in the past one year: Marble Heart and Kuon no Yoru which are in this album, and LOVE Ikusa!! and Chiheisen no Aeolia in the Donderful album.
- Now updates to existing songs. Magical Little Spaceship, the Namco Original on Taiko PSP DX, is by ELEKTEL. And yes, from Bemani this time!
- Kissa Rain, Obsession Latino and Bubbly Queen, all of which are on the Full Combo soundtrack together, share one composer, Hiromi Shibano (柴野浩美). She also made the Beethoven version of Turkish March (the one used on PS2 7 and DS3)
- SORA-I and SORA-III are by Satoshi Ishikawa (石川敏), and SORA-II and SORA-IV are by Ryuuichi Takada (高田龍一), confirming the old rumor in Taiko Wii 2 when his name appeared in its staff roll (vocalist for SORA-IV is of course, Kaori Aihara). No information on SORA-V yet.
- Senpuu no Mai (Heaven) is the AC version, and Senpuu no Mai (Earth) is the console version. Heaven is taken as the Ura chart on console, and vice versa.
- Taiko no Tatsujin Ai no Theme gets more than just lyrics confirmation; it's a long version song. How long? 9 minutes and 24 seconds long, which makes it by far the longest Taiko song ever made.
