R:MIX and Shimomura, Uematsu, Sakimoto, Hirota, Ito et al.

[layzee]

I didn't get any satisfactory replies last time (2009) so have a read of that thread first.

Since then, I haven't browsed the R:MIX official website. Until just now.

Quick recap: "R:MIX" appears to be play/theater group. Most likely, you last saw them in The Black Mages: Darkness and Starlight Live DVD acting out the 16 minute opera scene.

I don't remember if this section of the website existed in 2009 (maybe I missed it) but I only came across it now: http://rmix.net/music/03_music_01.html

My thoughts on the whole thing: The buttons on the left are the names of some of the live play/performances by the R:MIX group. The music samples you see/hear on those webpages appear to be specially composed for those events, and are most probably, original compositions (I don't remember hearing them elsewhere at least).

The two tracks that "lured" me to the website in the first place were these two (or just go to those Nico Nico links in the other thread):

http://rmix.net/music/03_yh_ym01.swf 「何処までも」 by Yoshitaka Hirota and Yasunori Mitsuda

http://rmix.net/music/03_kf01.swf 「楽園の崩壊」by Kenichiro Fukui.

Also here's a similarly nice recent song (full version): 「荊の道」by Yoko Shimomura: http://www.rmix.net/music/s/03_music_s.html

I'll probably pick up the DVDs at some point. Wonder if the music got a CD release too (assuming they are unique)?