Key Sounds Label

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Key Sounds Label
Parent company Key
Founded 2001
Founder Visual Art's
Genre J-pop, Video game music
Location Osaka, Japan
Official website http://key.soundslabel.com/

Key Sounds Label is a Japanese record label for the visual novel software company Key known for developing such titles as Kanon and Air. Key Sounds Label is a brand of Visual Art's, and was established in 2001.[1] Excluding three albums that were released before the label's formation, every album that is released based from one of Key's titles is on this label. The majority of the music on the label is by Key's signature composers: Jun Maeda, Shinji Orito, and Magome Togoshi, though Togoshi is no longer affiliated with Key or Visual Art's.[2] There are other albums on the label not directly related to the visual novels, such as two albums by Lia and one by Eufonius.[1] Three of the albums on the label are available through the iTunes Store—partial albums of -Memento- and Recollections, and the complete album Ma-Na—under the name Key Sound Team. Key often sells albums on this label at Comiket; as of Comiket 73 in December 2007, eighteen out of thirty-two separate albums have been sold at the convention. Key Sounds Label is under contract with JASRAC, a Japanese copyright collection society.

Key hosted a concert as a part of Key's tenth anniversary commemoration[3] called "KSL Live World 2008: Way to the Little Busters! EX" which was held on May 10, 2008 in Tokyo, Japan, and again on May 17, 2008 in Osaka, Japan.[4] Each time, the concert lasted for two and a half hours and featured songs sung by Lia, Rita, Chata, and Tomoe Tamiyasu who have previously sung songs for albums released under Key Sounds Label.[3] Tickets for the event were first available through mail order online on March 26, 2008.[5]

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[edit] Discography

The first three albums listed below were released before Key Sounds Label was formed and thus were not under the Key Sounds Label name at the time of their production. They are reproduced here due to their relation to the other albums on the label, and to show the origins of the label. Each of these three albums were released in limited editions, and thus were not widely sold.[6]

Album # Album name Original release date
1 Anemoscope June 4, 1999 (with Kanon's first release)
2 "Last regrets / Place of wind which arrives" November 23, 1999
3 Ornithopter September 8, 2000 (with Air's first release)
Album # Label # Album name Original release date
01 01 Humanity... August 10, 2001
02 02 "Natsukage / Nostalgia" August 10, 2001
03 03 Recollections December 29, 2001
04 04-05 Air Original Soundtrack September 27, 2002
05 06 Kanon Original Soundtrack October 25, 2002
06 07 Birthday Song,Requiem December 28, 2002
07 08 Spica/Hanabi/Moon August 15, 2003
08 09 Sorarado December 28, 2003
09 10 Re-feel December 28, 2003
10 11 Mabinogi April 28, 2004 (with Clannad's first release)
11 12-14 Clannad Original Soundtrack August 13, 2004
12 15 Sorarado Append December 28, 2004
13 16-17 -Memento- December 28, 2004
14 18 Ma-Na August 12, 2005
15 19 Love Song August 31, 2005
16 20 Tomoyo After Original Soundtrack November 25, 2005 (with Tomoyo After: It's a Wonderful Life's first release)
17 21 Piano no Mori December 29, 2005
18 22 Air Analog Collector's Edition May 3, 2006
19 23-24 OTSU Club Music Compilation Vol.1 June 23, 2006
20 25 Planetarian Original Soundtrack December 28, 2006
21 26 "Last regrets / Kaze no Tadoritsuku Basho" December 28, 2006
22 27 Planetarian Drama CD "A Snow Globe" December 29, 2006
23 28 "Little Busters!" May 25, 2007
24 29 Planetarian Drama CD "Jerusalem" July 27, 2007
25 30-31 Planetarian Drama CD "Hoshi no Hito" July 27, 2007
26 32 Semicrystalline. July 27, 2007 (with Little Busters!' first release)
27 33-35 Little Busters! Original Soundtrack August 17, 2007
28 36 "Mag Mell / Dango Daikazoku" October 26, 2007
29 37 Rockstar Busters! December 28, 2007
30 38 "Rin no Hisokana Koi no Uta / Mission:Love sniper" December 28, 2007
31 39-40 OTSU Club Music Compilation Vol.2 February 29, 2008
32 41 Little Busters! Analog Collector's Edition May 4, 2008

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Key Sounds Label discography (Japanese). Retrieved on 2008-05-11.
  2. ^ Magome Togoshi's official blog announcement of his resignation from Key (Japanese) (July 10, 2007). Retrieved on 2008-05-11.
  3. ^ a b Presenting Information on an Event - KSL Concert (Japanese). Key (March 14, 2008). Retrieved on 2008-03-14.
  4. ^ KSL Live World 2008 official website (Japanese). Key. Retrieved on 2008-04-04.
  5. ^ "KSL Live World 2008: Way to the Little Busters! EX", "OTSU #02", Ticket Mail Order has Started (Japanese). Key. Retrieved on 2008-04-04.
  6. ^ Key Sounds Label albums with contributions by Jun Maeda (Japanese). Retrieved on 2008-05-11.

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