Key Sounds Label

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Key Sounds Label
Logo is a cartoon frog holding a music note.
Parent companyKey
Founded2001
FounderVisual Arts
Distributor(s)Pony Canyon
GenreJ-pop, Video game music, New-age
LocationOsaka, Japan
Official websitehttp://key.soundslabel.com/

Key Sounds Label is a Japanese

Air. Excluding two albums and one single that were released by Key and Visual Arts' before the label's formation, the majority of releases on the label all have a basis from one of Key's titles. There are other albums and singles on the label not directly related to the visual novels, such as two singles by Lia and one album by Riya.[2]
Unlike typical record labels, Key Sounds Label does not license any of the artists featured on albums and singles released on the label.

When Key Sounds Label formed, Jun Maeda, Shinji Orito, and Magome Togoshi were Key's signature composers and have continued to produce the majority of the music on the label, though Togoshi is no longer affiliated with Key or VisualArt's.[3] Key often sells albums and singles on this label at the convention Comiket. Key Sounds Label is not under contract with JASRAC, or any other Japanese copyright collecting agency. As such, the releases on the label are not sold in Japanese stores with other music albums and singles, but are still widely available for online purchase.

History

See also: Key Sounds Label discography

Key Sounds Label has its origins in 1999, two years before the first album on the label was released. When the

Air, and was the first music release by Key to bear a catalog number, KYCD-0303.[6] Each of these three were released in limited editions, and thus were not widely sold.[7]

In 2001, Visual Arts and Key decided to form Key Sounds Label and start cataloging the albums and singles released by Key with the tag "KSLA–" followed by the four-digit label number. For example, the first release bears the catalog number KSLA-0001. The first two releases on the label were an album and a single released at the

Clannad, Little Busters!, and Little Busters! Ecstasy.[8][9][10] These three albums were never re-released for general sale.[2] In early 2008, three of the albums on the label became available through the iTunes Store—partial albums of -Memento- and Recollections, and the complete album Ma-Na—under the name Key Sound Team.[11] Later, -Memento- was removed, and the full Recollections album became available.[11]

Most of the releases on the label contain music directly related to Key's

Kanon was produced on the label, and an anime single for the Clannad anime television series followed in October 2007.[2] A third anime music single, this time for the Clannad After Story anime television series, was released in November 2008.[2] A short remix album for Clannad After Story was released in December 2008.[12] Music singles and albums for the anime Angel Beats! were released between April and December 2010.[2] A single for the Little Busters! anime television series was released in October 2012.[13] Two singles for the Little Busters! Refrain anime television series were released: the first in October 2013 and the second in November 2013.[14][15]

Head and shoulders drawing of a brown haired and a blond female cartoon character, both with long hair and spiked bangs. The blond is winking one eye. Brochure writing covers part of them.
KSL Live World 2008 concert flyer.

The first

gramophone records. The first OTSU Club Music Compilation album primarily containing remixed music from Key's visual novels was released in June 2006. The second OTSU Club Music Compilation album was released in February 2008 as a promotion for the second concert, and contains remixed music from Little Busters!.[2] The third OTSU release, OTSU:Blasterhead, contains remixed music from Key's visual novels and was released in February 2009.[16]

Concerts

Key hosted a

live album containing the recording of the second concert held in Osaka was released in December 2008 entitled KSL Live World 2008: Way to the Little Busters! EX.[22]

Another concert called KSL Live World 2010: Way to the Kud-Wafter was held in Tokyo on May 21, 2010 and again twice more on May 22, 2010.

MCs at the concerts were Shinji Orito and Rita; Jun Maeda also made appearances at the concerts. Tickets for the event were first available through mail order online on March 30, 2010.[23] A live album containing the recording of one of the May 22 concerts was released in December 2010 titled KSL Live World 2010: Way to the Kud Wafter.[24]

A third concert called KSL Live World 2013: Way to the Little Busters! Refrain was held in

Koto, Tokyo on September 16, 2013.[25][26] The concert featured songs sung by Tomoe Tamiyasu, Keiko Suzuki, Rita, Suzuyu, Ayaka Kitazawa and Lia. Jun Maeda and Shinji Orito once again made appearances at the concert. A fourth concert called KSL Live World: Way to the Angel Beats! -1st- was held in Akihabara, Tokyo on April 11 and April 12, 2015.[27][28] A fifth concert called KSL Live World 2016: The Animation Charlotte & Rewrite was held in Toyosu, Tokyo on April 30, 2016.[29]

Artists

Unlike typical record labels, Key Sounds Label does not license any of the artists featured on albums and singles released on the label. When Key Sounds Label formed, Jun Maeda, Shinji Orito, and Magome Togoshi were

LiSA, Marina, Runa Mizutani, Psychic Lover, Rita, Riya, Harumi Sakurai, Haruka Shimotsuki, Keiko Suzuki, Miyako Suzuta, Suzuyu, Aoi Tada, Tomoe Tamiyasu, and Nagi Yanagi have also been released on records through the label. The musical units Work-S, Eufonius, OTSU, PMMK, and MintJam have also produced music on Key Sounds Label. Musicians from I've Sound have been working with Key Sounds Label on the arrangement
of songs, as have many others.

See also

  • List of record labels

References

  1. ^ ""Toki o Kizamu Uta / Torch" single listing" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved November 26, 2008.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Key Sounds Label's discography" (in Japanese). Key Sounds Label. Retrieved May 11, 2008.
  3. ^ a b "Magome Togoshi's official blog announcement of his resignation from Key" (in Japanese). July 10, 2007. Archived from the original on March 15, 2012. Retrieved May 11, 2008.
  4. ^ "Anemoscope album listing". VGMdb. Retrieved August 3, 2008.
  5. ^ ""Last regrets / Place of wind which arrives" single listing". VGMdb. Retrieved August 3, 2008.
  6. ^ "Ornithopter album listing". VGMdb. Retrieved August 3, 2008.
  7. ^ "Key Sounds Label albums with contributions by Jun Maeda" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on February 16, 2008. Retrieved May 11, 2008.
  8. ^ "Mabinogi album listing". VGMdb. Retrieved August 3, 2008.
  9. ^ "Semicrystalline. album listing". VGMdb. Retrieved August 3, 2008.
  10. VisualArt's
    . Retrieved August 3, 2008.
  11. ^ a b "Key Sound Team" (in Japanese). Apple Inc. Retrieved December 24, 2010.
  12. ^ "Clannad ~After Story~ "Toki o Kizamu Uta / Torch" -Piano Arrange Disc-". VGMdb. Retrieved December 24, 2010.
  13. ^ "Little Busters!／Alicemagic～TV animation ver.～" (in Japanese). Key Sounds Label. Retrieved March 1, 2013.
  14. ^ "Boys be Smile / 目覚めた朝にはきみが隣に" [Boys be Smile / Mezameta Asa ni wa Kimi ga Tonari ni] (in Japanese). Key Sounds Label. Retrieved October 20, 2013.
  15. ^ "Key Sounds Label HomePage" 君とのなくしもの / 涙色の翼 [Kimi to no Nakushi Mono / Namidairo no Tsubasa] (in Japanese). Key Sounds Label. Retrieved October 20, 2013.
  16. ^ "OTSU：Blasterhead" (in Japanese). Key Sounds Label. Retrieved March 1, 2013.
  17. ^ a b "Presenting Information on an Event - KSL Concert" (in Japanese). Key. March 14, 2008. Retrieved March 14, 2008.
  18. ^ "KSL Live World 2008 official website" (in Japanese). Key. Retrieved April 4, 2008.
  19. ^ ""KSL Live World 2008: Way to the Little Busters! EX", "OTSU #02", Ticket Mail Order has Started" (in Japanese). Key. Retrieved April 4, 2008.
  20. ^ "KSL Live World 2008 Pamphlet and Memorial Disc album listing". VGMdb. Retrieved August 3, 2008.
  21. ^ "Goods section at KSL Live World 2008's official website" (in Japanese). Key. Retrieved August 3, 2008.
  22. ^ "KSL Live World 2008 way to the Little Busters! EX" (in Japanese). Key Sounds Label. Retrieved March 1, 2013.
  23. ^ a b "KSL Live World 2010 ― way to the Kud-Wafter" (in Japanese). Key. Retrieved March 13, 2010.
  24. ^ "KSL Live World 2010 ～Way to the kud Wafter～" (in Japanese). Key Sounds Label. Retrieved March 1, 2013.
  25. ^ "KSLLiveWorld 2013×リトバス!～Refrain～上映会開催決定!!" [KSL Live World 2013 × Little Busters! Refrain Screening Decided!!] (in Japanese). Key. August 2, 2013. Retrieved August 4, 2013.
  26. ^ "KSL Live World 2013 Way to the Little Busters! Refrain" (in Japanese). Key. August 2, 2013. Retrieved August 4, 2013.
  27. ^ "Key15周年記念イベント『Key 15th Fes.』 開催決定!!" [Key 15th Anniversary Event "Key 15th Fes." Will Be Held!!] (in Japanese). Key. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
  28. ^ "Key 15th Fes. 「KSL Live World way to the Angel Beats! 1st」&「AKIBA BASE!!」" (in Japanese). Key. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
  29. ^ "KSL Live World 2016: The Animation Charlotte & Rewrite" (in Japanese). Key. Retrieved February 5, 2016.
  30. ^ OdiakeS. "OdiakeS' discography on his personal website" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on October 22, 2007. Retrieved August 4, 2008.

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