It's sure great that Otakon gets a talentless hack who steals music and is a sham figure head of a group of people posing as one collective composer.

Is it too late to get a badge and room for Otakon? I might just go this year.

>>6841004
butthurt AX fag detected.

Go an enjoy your con with a cosplay GoH.

>>6841008
No I'm actually going to otakon, I just fucking hate yoko kanno

whats her story?

>>6841030

Yoko Kanno claims that she made all her music however it was later found out that she was "paying homage" to western producers

a list here www youtube com/results?search_query=Yoko%20Kanno%20Plagiarism

I still love her music even after finding this all out, but it kind of breaks my heart

>>6841030
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Kanno

"She" composes tons of anime OSTs. Cowboy bebop, GiTS SAC tons of others, but those are famous works. And first off it turns out that she herself isn't the one "composing" rather her and a group for 10 odd people do. But as far as composing goes most of it is either sampled without acknowledgement or permission, or straight up just blatantly stealing the backtracks to other songs from contemporary artists without any permission or mention of them

The most well known one is between the original song Battersea by Hooverphonic and the ripped off version Cyberbird from SAC. The instrumental soundtrack is basically the same. Also compositions done for people such as Maaya Sakamoto are basically just rippoffs of the beetles shit like that.

>>6841057
I like her music, but as a musician myself I can say I don't respect the Yoko Kanno Project as a group of musicians. You can like music without liking the people behind it. Yuki Kajiura has replaced her long ago for my favorite composer, with Akiko Shikata a close second.

>>6841062
This just tells you about all the music "she composed" it doesn't mention anything even close, other than that gabriella robin bullshit

I've been playing Ragnarok Online II and she did the music for the game and I'm absolutely in love with it. I wish I could go to Otakon now.

Whatever you feel for Yoko Kanno doesn't change the fact that Otakon's guest roster blows AX's out of the water,as it usually does anyway.

Saving up for Otakon as my big summer con from now on, seriously, just looking at their yearly guest lists...AX just hasn't been comparing.

A bunch of stuff that was either "sampled" or "inspired by" songs that already existed.

Nobunaga's Ambition Zenkokuban/Sangokushi:
When Seasons Change (Kisetsu no kawaru koro) = Gabriel Faur - Pavane
Sengoku Gunyuuden - Toki no Shirabe, sung by Akino Arai

Ishin no arashi:
Triumphant Return (Gaisen) = Peter Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D, 1st Movementt

Daikoukaijidai II:
Catalina = Billy Joel - Allentown

Napple Tale:
A Stroll = Patrick Doyle - Willoughby (from Sense and Sensibility)
13 Ice Cream = Camille Saint-Saens - Carnival of the Animals: Finale
Dreams In A Pie = The Beatles =Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

Macross Plus:
Go Ri A Te = Ryuichi Sakamoto - Thousand Knives

Vision of Escaflowne:
Dance of Curse = Carl Orff - Carmina Burana: O Fortuna
Revenge = Maurice Ravel - Bolero
Blaze = J.S. Bach - St. Matthew Passion: Chorus Come ye daughters, share my mourning

Escaflowne Movie:
Sora's Folktale = Bjork - All Is Full Of Love (Single Version)

Cowboy Bebop:
Bad Dog, No Biscuit = Tom Waits - New Orleans Instrumental
Pot City = Angelo Badalamenti - Dub Driving (from Lost Highway)
Too Good, Too Bad = Herbie Hancock - Chameleon
You Make Me Cool = Harry Connick Jr. - Blue Light, Red Light (No One's There)
Words That We Couldn't Say = Sting - La Belle Dame Sans Regrets
Zodiac Sign = Imperial Drag - Want It All Back
Go Go, Cactus Man = Ennio Morricone - Main Theme (from The Good, The Bad & The Ugly)
Call Me, Call Me = The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
Black Coffee = Brigitte Fontaine - Comme a la Radio
On the Run = Pink Floyd - On the Run
Papa Plastic = The Beatles - Come Together
Mushroom Hunting = DJ Food - Let the Good Shine

Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' On Heaven's Door:
Ask DNA = Beck - Devil's Haircut
Pushing the Sky = Lunatic Calm - Leave You Far Behind
Yo Pumpkin Head = Lou Bega - Mambo No.5
Powder = Steve Reich - The Desert Music: 1st Movement
Cosmic Dare (Pretty with a Pistol) = The Sugababes - Overload
No Reply = Skunk Anansie - Secretly

cont.

>>6841110
Brain Powered:
Ark = Giuseppe Giordani - Caro Mio Ben
Crossing = Vangelis - End Title (from Blade Runner)
Prism = Alan Silvestri - Pseudopod (from The Abyss)
True Love = Passengers - Always Forever Now
Dear My Mother = Rogers & Hart - Isn't It Romantic

Turn-A Gundam:
Pitiful Soshi = Simon & Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair
Innocent Lie = Eric Serra - Fatal Weakness (from Goldeneye)

Arjuna:
Resonance of the Earth = Russ Landau - Ancient Voices (from Survivor)

Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex:
Where Does This Ocean Go? = Bjork - Hyper-ballad
Fish ~ Silent Cruise = Craig Armstrong - Ruthless Gravity
Be Human = Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space
Good By My Master = Craig Armstrong - Escape (from Plunkett & Macleane)

Wolf's Rain:
Heaven's Not Enough = Craig Armstrong - Wake Up In New York
Face On = Craig Armstrong - Finding Beauty

Record of Lodoss War - Heroic Knight Legend:
Sea of Miracles = Adiemus - Adiemus

Mizu no Onna:
Searching for the Shadow of Umbrella = Maurice Ravel - String Quartet in F: 2nd Movement

Maaya Sakamoto:
Alkaloid = The Beatles - Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite
Noon Snow = Frou Frou - Maddening Shroud
03 = Frou Frou - Old Piano

Obviously some things don't really count, but a lot of this stuff was from artists that were still selling albums at the time.

Hack or not, AX has had her twice already, so I doubt they care.

>>6841131
Yeah, and she was shit anyway.
Still laughing at >>6841110 though, I knew Bad Dog No Biscuits sounded fucking familiar.

>>6841131
Right now they only got a few VAs lined up while Otakon is nailing a buch of high profile music guests.

In the end Otakon is now the premire anime con.

>>6841110
>>6841115
>looks up just the Beatles songs for brevity and easy research
>Dreams in a Pie
only sounds inspired, maybe some Strawberry Fields Forever in there too but eh
>Papa Plastic
stylistic similarities, didn't stick out as much of these songs, starting to think I'm wasting my time
>Alkaloid
holy shit man I will consider these accusations with the greatest gravity

>>6841154

Uh AX has like one actual seiyu. I give no fucks about dub actors.

>>6841165
It actually pissed me off that they took shit from UK artists like frou frou/imogen heap and hooverphonic. Why? If you listen to cyberbird vs battersea it's fucking scary.

>>6841169
Thanks for hammering my point even further. AX's main bulk for con guets are dub VAs and a cosplay GoH

A few years ago I would have been full-on jelly but I'm not. Damn. Maybe I'm getting too old for this shit. I've only been going to cons for a decade too.

Regardless of what you guys say, gotta knock a little harder is still one of the best things to ever come out of Cowboy Bebop (aside from the series itself)

that series is my childhood, my god

>>6841110
>>6841115
Holy fucking shit. I listened through a handful of these and I'm thoroughly convinced. I would throw tomatoes at her.

>>6841427
To be fair, she didn't actually know much of what was going on, she's just the face not the brains.

>>6841438
Kind of makes it even worse in my opinion.

>>6841448
It's pretty pathetic actually. Though, you can hear that there is a general theme in what she actually composes, but that's the worst part. When I idolized her a few years ago it was precisely because she had so much variety in her composition, so it was really disheartening to me to find out it was all basically just fake.

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Wow, back in the day I thought Yoko Kanno was the shit, super talented and good at showcasing her talent.

It's really shocking to know it's several people. Why do that? Call it the Kanno Collective or something. CLAMP does this and everyone acknowledges their work as a group and as individuals.