.hack’s charm // To the releasing of the soundtrack
From CyberConnect2 CEO Hiroshi Matsuyama:

First of all, I’d like to tell all of the users, “Thank you for waiting!” Ever since we released the first volume of the game in June of last year, the voices to request the release of the game version’s soundtrack came in by mail, e-mails and our Homepage’s Q&A section from the users nationwide. During this time the soundtracks for the video version of .hack//SIGN were released one after another and I often heard praise such as “it’s a great soundtrack!” or requests such as “how long do we need to wait for a version of the game soundtrack?” At last, we can tell everyone: thank you for waiting.

The soundtrack for all 4 volumes of .hack are packed into this best collection CD. Once you have finished all of the games, if you listen to this album, everything from the 4 volumes will play in your head like a revolving lantern. This album could even make you want to play the game all over again starting from the first volume. I believe the quality of this album is good enough for that.

.hack is one of a few mixed media projects among the many other products released every year. As pillars in this family of products related to .hack, the game soundtrack and animation soundtracks are not separate entities and have a few common characteristics. This game soundtrack will probably remind you of a scene from .hack//SIGN when you listen to it, however .hack has such charm and I believe that is an added value of the project.

The best thing that happened in this .hack project is that we became the trigger itself for the entire project. Although .hack has been widely developed in different media formats it all began with our planning of the script three years ago. Fortunately, the production of the game, animation and comics started with the help of Bandai and many other related entities in the industry. All of the .hack projects have not been just a simple media mix, but a media project where each component had its own time axis, main characters and stories. Therefore, no matter where you started from (game, animation or comic), you can enjoy the project itself and also gain additional enjoyment from the different dimensions of the links between the projects. That is our biggest accomplishment as well as our satisfaction. I believe you will experience such an enjoyment from this soundtrack, that I’d recommend that you listen to .hack//SIGN, .hack//LIMINALITY and .hack//EXTRA soundtracks, too. I think that is the way to enjoy .hack. It would be my pleasure if you fully enjoy this project from the first track to the last.

Text • interviewer / Osamu Kobayashi

TRACK LISTING
01  rtown0 Server Water Capital Aqua Anu
02  stage01 Field Prairie Rain As a General Rule-Combat
03  aura1 Aura's Theme
04  blackrose BlackRose's Theme
05  cathedral The Concealed Forbidden Sanctuary
06  str9_2 Balmung Appears then the Virus Bug
07  mia Mia's Theme
08  piroshi Piroshi's Theme
09  rtown1 Server Highland City Dun Loireag
10  ev05 Phase 1 Skeith
11  str10 A Recollection of Volume 1(The Birth of Cubia)
12  str11 Lios ~ Helba
13  ev10 Phase 2 Innis
14  rtown2 Server Cultural City Carmina Gadelica
15  dgn03 Field Forest As a General Rule-Combat
16  ev00 Net Slum
17  ev11 Phase 3 Magus
18  rtown5 Server Aerial City Fort Ouph
19  ev13 Phase 4 Fidchell
20  puti Putiguso's Theme
21  ev14 Phase 5 Gorre
22  str19 Macha's Arrival
23  ev17 Phase 6 Macha
24  rtown6 Server Relic City Lia Fail
25  ev20 Cubia The Fourth Level
26  ev18 Phase 7 Tarvos
27  ev19_1 Phase 8 Corbenik The First-The Second Levels
28  str21 Drain Heart
29  ending Ending
30  staff4 Volume 4 Staff Roll
31  str32 Resurrection of Mia•A Revolution Fantasy

STAFF
PRODUCED by Keiichi Nozaki (VICTOR)
CO-PRODUCED by Daisuke Uchiyama (BANDAI)
Hiroshi Matsuyama (CYBERCONNECT2)
SOUND PRODUCED & PERFORMED by BooHooWoo
"BooHooWoo" is Norikatsu Fukuda, Chikayo Fukuda, Seizo Nakata (CYBERCONNECT2)
MASTERING ENGINEERED by Hiroshi Kawasaki (FLAIR)
SUPERVISOR Yoshiyuki Sadamoto X Kazunori Ito X Kouichi Mashimo
TEXT WRITER Osamu Kobayashi
SPECIAL THANKS TO Shin Unosawa (BANDAI) Fukashi Azuma (TV Tokyo)
Kouji Morimoto (BANDAI VISUAL)
Kuninori Egawa (Bee Train)

US STAFF
Executive Producer: Henry Goto
[GENEON ENTERTAINMENT (USA) INC.]
Producer: Nobu Yamamoto
[GENEON ENTERTAINMENT (USA) INC.]
Associate Producer : Michiko Powers
[GENEON ENTERTAINMENT (USA) INC.]
Mastering: Mack • Nightjar
English Packaging: KGI

Sound Team : BooHooWoo
“BooHooWoo” is Norikatsu Fukuda, Chikayo Fukuda, Seizo Nakata
Vocal & Chorus : Tomoyo Mitani
Vocal Track Recording Engineer : Satoshi Nagashima (Light Link • Music)
CyberConnect 2 :
They have developed and produced PS software titles, Till Concerto in 1998 and Silent Bomber in 1999.
Since 2002, they have developed and produced .hack//INFECTION Vol.1, .hack//MUTATION Vol. 2, .hack//OUTBREAK Vol. 3 and .hack//QUARANTINE Vol. 4. These popular titles on sale from Bandai.
http://www.cyberconnect2.jp

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