THE ANSWER - Armored Core Tribute Album - 01 Morning, Thinker (3:43) 02 Twisted on the Surface (3:12) 03 Apex in TECHNO (5:19) 04 RAY of Speed (3:13) 05 Shining Highway (2:35) 06 Hyper Monkey Likes the Dancefloor (4:45) 07 Dropping Atoms (3:19) 08 Death to the King (2:56) 09 We Can See No.373 (3:34) 10 Over the Pain (3:56) 11 Goodbye, Thinker (3:42) Creator's comments: Armored Core. High speed mecha action. Few games make my adrenaline pump as hard as Armored Core. There is something magical about building your own machine to take on the world. The music in the games was always a big part of that for me. I was introduced to the series with Armored Core 4 and it was through the music I felt I had to explore the rest of the series. What I discovered was an amazing repertoire ranging from techno to rock and even orchestral. Kota Hoshino's music especially floored me as some of the most unique and appealing music I had heard in a video game. The amazing vocal lines, the no-nonsense rock, the club beats, the bombastic choirs, it all had an incredible personality while still working within the game. This was music I wanted to show my respect for, so I set out to create a tribute album. After four months of sporadic work and a successful preview release at Comiket78, the album is now complete. 11 pieces of music arranging 15 tracks from the Armored Core series. All made in Propellerhead's Reason and Record with a little help from a guitar, a bass and some great vocalist friends. I'm incredibly proud of the end result. I hope you like this album as much as I liked creating it. Thank you for listening. SPECIAL THANKS: Kota Hoshino & FromSoftware, Johanna, Don, Audun, Dave, Larry, Deia, Jill, Judges, OCR, VGMdb, AFFT. "Deep-sea fish loves you forever" CREDITS: All tracks arranged, produced and performed by Mattias Häggström Gerdt except otherwise noted. mattias@anosou.com http://anosou.com Vocals on track 1, 4 and 6: Deia Vengen Vocals on track 9 and 11: Jillian Aversa Vocals on track 10: Kota Hoshino Tracks remixed: 01: "Morning, Lemontea" (Armored Core 3: Silent Line), "Thinker" (Armored Core 4) 02: "Twist It" (Armored Core 4), "Someone is Always Moving on the Surface" (Armored Core: for Answer) 03: "Apex in Circle" (Armored Core: Master of Arena) 04: "Speed" (Armored Core 4) 05: "Shining" (Armored Core: Nexus), "Autobahn" (Armored Core: Nexus) 06: "Super Monkey Likes Daddy" (Armored Core: Nexus) 07: "Atom Smasher" (Armored Core 2), "Whiz Drop" (Armored Core 2) 08: "King Lear" (Armored Core 2) 09: "I Can See All" (Armored Core: for Answer), "isaku-No.373" (Armored Core: Formula Front) 10: "Cosmos" (Armored Core: for Answer) 11: "Thinker" (Armored Core 4) Originally composed by: Kota Hoshino (1-11) Keiichiro Segawa (3, 7, 8) Tsukasa Saitoh (3) Yuji Kanda, Ikuya Ichinohe (7, 8) Ayako Minami (9) Artist Bios: Mattias Häggström Gerdt is a Swedish composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist and game enthusiast. He creates music in a wide variety of genres for a multitude of purposes. Mattias has already started to make his mark on game music with numerous soundtracks composed, a heavy involvement in the game music arrangement scene and a strong tie to the independent game developer community. When Mattias isn't making music, he's studying musicology, focusing on video game music and its culture, at the University of Stockholm. Jillian Aversa is an award-winning, classically trained vocalist and songwriter whose shimmering voice has appeared in a medley of musical projects - from hit dance singles, video games, and film, to her own widely-acclaimed original albums. Game credits include God of War: Ghost of Sparta, Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, and Pump It Up Pro 2, as well as popular arrange albums like Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream and Touhou Zerokyo Kitan ~ Sophisticated Insanity, in which she collaborated with renowned Secret of Mana composer Hiroki Kikuta. Jillian will be performing in cities across Japan this February 2011; stay tuned for more details at JillianAversa.com! Deia Vengen has been singing for seven years unprofessionally. She began singing as a hobby while she attended college for music education with an instrumental emphasis, and has taught for 3 years. Deia is currently a submissions judge at OverClocked ReMix as well as a ReMixer. Lyrics: "Morning, Thinker" I'm a thinker, I could break it down I'm a shooter, a drastic baby "RAY of Speed" I would talk about speed for you "Hyper Monkey Likes the Dancefloor" I want say that I'm the one forever I can try "We Can See No.373" We're the masters We can see all "Over the Pain" Let it go around the cosmos Over the pain "Goodbye, Thinker" I'm a thinker. I could break it down. I'm a shooter. A drastic baby. Agitate, jump out. Feel it in the will. Can you talk about deep-sea with me. The deep-sea fish loves you forever. All are as your thinking over. Out of space, when someone waits there. Sound of jet, they played for out.