UPDATE: Everyone say hello to Aria!

Note: The YKDB SMS Chant posted below is just a preview of the first 4 people who sent their entries. It should set an example of how the chant sounds as an online collaboration

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Rules:
The song has to be a Macross F song (preferably not Lion or Northern Cross or… Aimo… but I can’t stop you if you insist) with Kanno involved in it. You may sing over a karaoke version of the song, sing over the song, or sing over a karaoke-ized version of the song using an audio editor. If you’re going to sing acapella, or sing with your own instruments being played, then it has to be a song composed by Kanno (not just arranged). The website manager has the right to reject entries deemed inappropriate. Please see the current list of Macross F songs and their credits here.

For the SMS Chant Community collab, there has to be at least two people singing. Please send me only the final version.

Do not worry about the quality of your recording or your voice, this is not a contest. We’re doing this only for fun by the request of the readers!!!

Deadline of Submission:
December 21, 2008

Submission Format:
Name(s):
Website (optional):
Country (optional):

Submission format for group SMS chant:
Community:
Names (optional):
Website (optional):
Country/Countries (optional):

Send to mike underscore s underscore 6 at yahoo dot com

Entries credits, in alphabetical order:

Name	Country	Website
Aiwritingfic	born Malaysia, now living in Japan	The Digital Pensieve
AlexL	USA
Aria	Indonesia
fugue	Malaysia
Fukurou	France
Fuu-san (piano)	Japan	Asakusa Biyori
Goliath	Austria
Naddie	Malaysia	SoundClick
mai	Philippines	you’re looking at it
Pippa	UK
Xy	Philippines

Group credits:

Listen to the entries here:
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UPDATE: Lots of submissions for the deadline week!!! If you scroll downward, the new entries start from Kai onwards That concludes our Lion single challenge, until next time

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As we were discussing over at the Lion Single Review comments, wouldn’t it be fun to sing over the karaoke versions of Lion and Northern Cross? Let’s do this in celebration of the good first day sales of the single

And now our sacrificial lamb (or dying cow if you wish), me singing over the refrain of Lion. Listen at your own risk. Okay here goes *breathes deeply*:

mai
www.gabrielarobin.com
Philippines


Kle
http://kleiorihs.livejournal.com
Malaysia

Goliath
http://maincrossltd.com/goliath/
Austria

Naddie
http://eiki.livejournal.com/
Malaysia

dead cow
to the west of Philippines

Yyrkoon
France

Goliath
http://maincrossltd.com/goliath/
Austria


AlexL55
http://www.soundclick.com/ninjaofthenet
USA

SMS Fabri
www.myspace.com/fabritardini
Brazil

Pippa
UK

Kai
New Zealand

Koori
http://www.putfile.com/kyeion
http://kyeion.livejournal.com
Malaysia

Obsidian
USA

RaeRin
http://www.soundclick.com/raerin (Our site)
http://www.soundclick.com/iriswisteria (Rae’s personal songs site)
http://www.soundclick.com/seimei (My personal songs site)
SIN (Rae), MAS (Rin)

AlexL55
http://www.youtube.com/user/AlexL55
USA

Pippa and Goliath
UK (Pippa) and Austria (Goliath)

grunty
site
Britannia

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Pippa, Jerome, Simon, great job! Where’s the album cover of your cover album?

Album Details:

Vocals:　Pippa (England)
Guitar: Jerome　(France)
Mix and Master:　Simon
Where:　Purple Pro Audio Studio　(Leeds, England)

Tracklist:
01:Makiba! Alice
02:Kodoku
03:Daniel
04:Pocketto wo kara ni shite
05:Chibikko Folk
06:Yukka
07:NO FEAR/aisuru koto
08:pilot
09:here
10:yoru
11:alkaloid
12:yubiwa
13:Gift
Secret Track:Gift ~why not? why not? version~

As a background, the makers of this album come from Maayas.net of which I am also a member. They’ve been cooking up these covers for what, about 3 years now? Recently, they made a full release and are sharing it all over the net.

I love that tiny bit of blrrrrrr ing in Poketto o Kara ni Shite! If I’m not mistaken, that kind of vocalization is used in warm-ups before the actual singing… right?

Go ahead and listen to some of my favorites from their set:

Chibikko Folk:

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No, they’re not here. But I can show some samples

EDIT: Samples removed due to bandwidth constraints.

To be frank, I thought that both songs were overproduced. Mayn’s voice had too much chorus effects. (And if you listen closely to the background, you might even hear Britney Spears. Just kidding.) But then I still like Diamond Crevasse, though I wish there would be a Ranka version

perhaps May’n leaked it? Nah.

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This has to be the second time this fan is featured in this blog for a violin cover. This time, he covers “Sagittarius, 9pm, Don’t be Late” from the first episode of Macross Frontier. If you’ve heard the song, there’s a noticeable flat (a note shift) in the refrain which gets amplified in this cover. It’s possibly the first time I heard Kanno pull of something like this.

For those who missed his cover of Sousei no Aquarion, here it is again:

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