“sound sketch for lain” Doujin Album

Recently, a very old Serial Experiments Lain doujin (fan-made) album was discovered and uploaded to the internet!

Album Information

Title: sound sketch for lain
Composer: 坂本秀一 (Sakamoto Suichi)
Release Date: 1999-12-19

Track List

connect lain
彼女の目的
玲音ーlain
muder intent
layer
NAVI
electric wire
real world
make me sad make me mad
peace of mind

Additional Credits

Cover Design: 高井真
R-Works: 前田肇
S-Thanks: 島居克己·志尾原英史・酒井強

Album Discovery Information

The album was first uploaded to the Chinese video service Bilibili by the user “挺好人_ネオス”, and is available here: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1qCFQevEsN/

The video has also been mirrored to YouTube for western audiences:

As for how the album was first discovered, the uploader provides some additional information in the video’s description:

骏河屋福袋开出的神秘专辑，问了一圈包括权威人士没有人见过（
从专辑内附带的纸张可知，这是由坂本秀一制作的玲音lain同人音乐专辑，发售于1999年末，除此之外的所有制作人员及社团历史已无法考证（调查失败。

下载链接：
度盘：pan.baidu.com/s/1eygOuOS1MfjNSCtEoIX8Sw?pwd=lain
mega：mega.nz/file/FAN0mAwT#jP4PhG9YwXKAQWDqOrfeezoLOoiyutpMKlq2J1XcTtM

Translated to English, the description reads:

Surugaya Fukubukuro opened a mysterious album, asked around including the authority no one has seen it (

From the paper included in the album, it is known that this is the Reine lain homage music album produced by Sakamoto Shuichi, released in late 1999, in addition to all the production staff and the history of the society can not be verified (investigation failed.)

Download link:
[Download Links]

The uploader of the video also provided photos of the disc and case in the comment section of the video.

Front cover of the "sound sketch for lain" album

Back cover of "sound sketch for lain" album

photo of the omake page included with the "sound sketch for lain" album

Address included at bottom of omake page from the "sound sketch for lain" album

lain的同人专辑，本体非常神秘，碟面为纯白，内部附赠了一张纸，简述了制作人员与社团。其中的主创除作曲家坂本秀一外均无法查到，浏览其主业可知他于1999年开始创作，遂锁定为同一人。
当初拍照的时候认不出来就有预感是狠货了，没想到这么狠（
能在福袋开出这种玩意可以说是三生有幸了。

本人其实还没看过玲音，不过久闻大名了，ost之前听过觉得很有世纪末的那种特有的忧郁感。因为本人也是拳皇系列的粉丝所以很喜欢snk的新世纪乐曲杂技团的音乐，因为同样是90年代的日本，所以这张初听就很戳我（
下载链接在简介

Again, once translated into English, this reads:

lain’s homage album, the body of which is very mysterious, has a plain white disk with a sheet of paper attached to the inside that briefly describes the production staff and society. None of the creators of the album could be traced except for composer Shuichi Sakamoto, and browsing through his main career showed that he started composing in 1999, so he was locked in as the same person.
When I first took the picture, I couldn’t recognize it, so I had a feeling it was something tough, but I didn’t expect it to be this tough (
), so it’s a blessing to be able to open this kind of thing in a lucky bag.

I actually have not seen ReiYin, but I have heard a lot about it, ost before I listened to it, I think it is very end of the century that kind of unique sense of melancholy. Because I am also a fan of the King of Fighters series, so very much like snk’s new century music acrobatic music, because the same is the 90’s Japan, so this first listen to the very poke me (
download link in the introduction)

They apparently purchased the CD through Surugaya’s 3000-yen, 10-CD lucky bag (fukubukuro).

Omake OCR Attempt

In an attempt to translate the Omake page from the CD, I ran it through a web-based Japanese OCR (optical character recognition) tool. The output of this OCR is included below.

free talk

お買い上げ誠にありがとうございます。
今回のお題がlainだったのですが、自分なりに感じたlainのイメージが
冷たくネットワークな感じだったので、頭の中に浮かんだイメージがテクノ、現
代音楽、アンビエントをまぜたようなものでした。しかしできあがってみると、
まとまりのついてるんだか、ついてないんだかわからないアブストラクトなCD
になりました(笑)
個人的には、TRACK8の(real world)という曲が機械的な冷た
いGuitarのアルペジオと、それに反した民族音楽的なパーカッションが合
わさり、ちょっとどっちつかずの浮遊した感じが現実か? 現実じゃないか解らな
いlainの世界でのreal worldかなと、勝手に思い込んでます。
全体的に、DTM,DTMしたのは避けたいと思い、こんな感じになりました。
発注したCD屋がマスタリング時に低域にブーストをかけたので、少し歪む所が
あるかもしれませんが、CDデッキのほうで調節してもらえると有難いです。
今回使用した機材はアカイのサンプラーとローランドのJVで、Guitar
は全部手弾きでアカイに取り込んで、あとは3万円ぐらいのミキサーでMIXし
ています。
聞いていただいたご意見やご感想など頂けると非常に参考になりますので、是非
感想などありましたら、下記の住所まで、、、。では、あなたの中に遍在する彼
女によろしく、、、。

1999.12.19 今日まで21才、明日は、、、坂本秀一

works
Composer:坂本秀一
Cover Design:高井真
R-Works:前田肇
S-Thanks:島居克己·志尾原英史・酒井強
…..and YOU

Translated to English using DeepL, this section reads:

Thank you very much for your purchase.
The theme of this project was “lain”, and the image of lain that I felt
was cold and networked, so the image that came to my mind was a mixture of techno, present
generation music, and ambient. However, when I finished the CD,
it became an abstract CD
that I don’t know if it is coherent or not.
Personally, I like the song (real world) on track 8, which has a mechanical cold
arpeggio on the guitar, and the ethnic percussion that goes against it. The song is a bit of a floating feeling of either reality or non-reality. I think it’s the real world in the world of
which I can’t figure out if it’s not real or not.
Overall, I wanted to avoid DTM, DTM, DTM, so this is what I came up with.
The CD shop I ordered the CD from boosted the low frequencies during mastering, so there may be some distortion
, but I would appreciate it if you could adjust it on your CD deck.
I used an Akai sampler and a Roland JV for this project. I played the guitar
by hand and imported it into the Akai, then mixed it with a 30,000 yen mixer and
mixed it.
If you have any comments or opinions, please send them to the following address:
. Please give my best regards to the omnipresent man
woman in your life.

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