yea! i was suprised to see one of Ayu's mixer is a member here! and so maybe Ayu is a member here too??? watch out everyone Ayu is here watching us! LOOL

Yeah, he came here last year before Virgin Road and Last angel came out~

^ wow that's cool i never noticed it before haha..
i wonder how he knew about this forum ~

I like it. :) It sounds good.

OMG... i have no idea if one of ayu's songs' mixers is a member here!! :D

(well, at least I can expect the best, the full song will absolutely leaked here first, LOL! :D :D)

Googling "Ayumi Hamasaki" in some cases can get you here from the first page of results I think :innocent

But is really is amazing to see Dave Reitzas here, thanks a lot for these news updates and for your AMAZING work(with Ayumi and other artists, I got some recordings you worked on right next to me here :)) and the mixing work you did for some songs on the Love Songs album was simply beautiful. Amongst the best I have heard on Ayumi albums definitely, if not the best.

The more I listen to this preview, the more it brings me back to the days when Hitomi Shimatani produced songs so epic like this like Shinku, Falco, Destiny
but Im not surprised because now Ayu has Yuta Nakano :3

omg omg omg now I'm even more excited to listen to full preview :thud

The song made me think of blossom meets Nana Mizuki's SCARLET KNIGHT(because of the specific use of instruments, not the genre itself) but now that you mention it it does sound like something Shimatani would sing :)

Wow, this forum has eally become something after so many years. We've done so many things for ayu, and now I find that a person who remixes ayu's music is a member here, amazing! :thud

yea i know..
but it's really quite rare to see someone who got connection with ayu actually coming by to our forum quite often

oh, I love hitomi shimatani too, until today!!!! :yes

i save intro and chorus.

Thanks for sharing!

How I miss those times :(

haha, I'm glad other people were making the Hitomi Shimatani connections as well :) I certainly miss those songs and the crossover-style. It'd be nice to hear bits and pieces of that style from Ayu!

Your numbers are questionable.

For this me, in that "10%", I feel that she continues to release the same style without anything fresh. For years I've seen most people just absolutely love every single 10 seconds of a preview they get and know that its going to be a super amazing song. Yet this forum continues to promote such a biased opinion that chases out those who differ.

At any rate. She still makes the majority of you happy and that's great. Unfortunately, for me, she continues to go flat. I'll always be a fan of her for what she did give and that shouldn't discredit my fandom for her simply because stans can't handled a difference of opinion.

Definitely a true statement. For me I see where you are coming from, but thankfully, over time, I always come to appreciate each era of music as it passes. Well, I guess the NEXT LEVEL > R'n'R era wasn't my favorite as I grew tired of most of the stuff before it even fully grew on me - but sometimes I really fall in love with stuff I wasn't "in love" with over time. GUILTY definitely (grew to love fated, Together When..., untitled which at first I felt was lackluster). Same with the Love songs era. Hated MOON for so long (lackluster), crossroad and the entire L single I thought was very bland at first, but soon I came to love them - the album as well.

Sure, I always miss the days when Ayu's music was so fierce and epic from first listen onwards, but I have learned to go into everything with little to no expectations or hopes and that way I am usually satisfied or pleasantly surprised.

^^That's what fans are, right? Being biased to their favorite artist :shrug

So when we like everything Ayu does and don't think the same way you do we're stans? Why would you even care about what someone else thinks about your opinion? It's quite normal that people who are members of an Ayumi Hamasaki forum get biased towards her work. :thud Heck I didn't come her to read how everything she does is terribly bad all the time especially when there are so many places you can read that kind of **** at...

I'm biased when I feel like it, and no one should gaf about it.

But lately I just cbf... The preview is alright though.