Have you ever thought, that this is kinda unfair, when albums are being released without instrumental versions for every song, while singles usually have them? Well, I do understand, that CD capacity of 700 MBs is not enough to hold both average album (~500 MB) and the corresponding instrumentals, but why not release 2 CDs in one packaging or maybe separate, so that the price of the actual single is not affected? So far the only album that has its instrumentals released was Mizuki Nana's Ultimate Diamond and even this was a quite "special" release, not freely available for buying (more details here). I'm not taking into account 2 Minorin's Unification albums, since they are rather "unrelated" to existing albums and have quite rearranged music. One might think, that album's instrumentals are never being actually recorded or stored anywhere after album's release, unlike singles' ones, but that's not true - sometimes you can hear these instrumental versions being played in live concerts as background (i.e. not performed live by musicians on the stage), usually in credits section.
The very fact of the instrumentals being played at live concerts and the release of Unifications, as well as the awesomeness of Kikuta Daisuke's music in early Minorin's songs (that is, before yet including Parade album, when there still everything was about violins) motivated me to investigate further, whether there is something I can do to fix such an unfairness. And sure I found the way. Continue reading
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