The biggest archive of hard electronic music released in Japan. Your guide to the world of happy hardcore, UK hardcore, freeform, breakcore, drum’n’bass, makina, rave, gabber, speedcore and other amazing music genres. The first version of the compilation was released back in 2008, and neatly managed and compiled since then, keeping the best EAC 100% rips and scans available. For instance, about 20-30% of the albums are exclusive rips made by me, my friends and the fans of Audio-4U.
Famous labels: C.H.S (t+pazolite), DYNASTY RECORDS (DJ Shimamura), HARDCORE TANOC, J-NERATION, Japanese Stream Hardcore, GUHROOVY, Lilium Records, Massive CircleZ, MINAMOTRANCE , M.P.T., MADDEST CHICK’NDOM, MOB SQUAD BLACK LABEL, NOTEBOOK RECORDS (RoughSketch), pichnopop (PLight), Psycho Filth Records, S2TB Recording (kors k), SHARPNELSOUND, SKETCH UP! Recordings (DJ Noriken), UOM Records (USAO), VIVID HARDCORE, X-TREME HARD, YTR RECORDS, かめるかめりあ (Camellia) and many many more!
Comments - 4
MahoHuh
Out of curiosity, have you tried experimenting with using Opus instead of Vorbis? It should have better quality/filesize ratio than Vorbis, but I do wonder how well it handles various sound effects j-core has. Would be interesting to learn if you have tried using it already but weren’t too impressed with the results (if so, which version of Opus and bitrate did you use?).
raitaF
I did not. I know there are some more promising formats recently comparing to vorbis, but the question of compatibility and legacy is still in the air.
voss
encoded all my music to “128 kbps” opus which is supposed to be transparent, and i’ve never had reason to believe otherwise. The actual bitrate it chooses is all over the place, from 160kbps on tricky tracks (sharp glitchy sfx, guitars and harmonicas) down to around 110kbps on most jcore tracks… So somewhat surprisingly it’s practically made for jcore, and support is booming too
raitaF
j-core 13 released https://nyaa.iss.one/view/1652549