I think "dictate" is the wrong word you guys.

^^ I dont know how I feel about CREA and her music. I alwas thought since she writes her own lyrics she has to have some kind of idea what she thinks it would sound like??

Plus, I always thought that when she wrote the lyrics and wrote the music you got a better idea of what she was trying make, musically.

I always felt more connected to her through her crea music because its ALL hers, you know?

Exactly :yes

woohoo. Trance cover is the best

"Would've come out eventually", well yes. But be grateful that some of our members made it happen now. The way some people moan about there not being any new info the day after a new single/album, I thought you would :P

random, but...these are tracks I think are missing from this collection:

rainy day "Ramon Zenker Remix"
Virgin Road "Acoustic Orchestra Version"
RAINBOW "Acoustic Orchestra Version"
GREEN "Jonathan Peters Radio Edit"
Sweet Season "A Eurobeat Mix"

Rainbow and GREEN yes..
the others, not so much

OH and how could I forget JEWEL "Svenson & Gielen remix"

I think a trance version of momentum would be orgasmic *_*

Ia, especially if they remix the instrumental bridge. Best part of the song.

omg yes. it needs to happen.

You hit the nail right on the head. I think what we influenced was the release of Ayu trance and Ayu ro but I think the ayu-mi-x was probably already considered for release.

What we did do was make it happen sooner I believe and with the added ayu trance and ayu ro. So then Avex said to themselves "well, if we're gonna release 4 remix albums at once we might as well make a special edition box set to go with it".

Ayu had a composition that was a contender to be a song when she was making Rule/Sparkle, but her song didn't make the final cut or whatever. This was some time in November or December of 2008.

I wonder which track it was that won out. I have a feeling it was Sparkle since Rule might've already been made at the time since it was for the Dragon Ball movie.

^at least it's the amazing Sparkle that won over it. besides, we don't know if CREA still has "it" anymore. she's not really creative anymore so I doubt we'd get anything as good as her old CREA hits. it still would be nice to hear something from her after all this time though. maybe an album track or something.

OMG only 25 boxes left in stock at CDJ!

^ oh crap! I need to preorder another one!

She needs to fire her cover designer.

What would redeem the covers is if the bright coloured parts are shiny like the ayu-mi-x 6 covers. But yeah, not impressed.

01. STEP you (Morris Capaldi versus ayumi hamasaki rmx)
- did ayu a job here? please!!

03. For My Dear... (HOUSE NATION remix)
- since listen to kumi's driving hit's i can't wait to listen to remix of HOUSE NATIOn for ayu ^^

10. BLUE BIRD (Arranged by Akimitsu Homma)
- hope this beautiful song, is much sweeter in aov :D

07. Rule (Public Domain remix)
- i really can imagine how this remix sounds like... yay~

and for:
09. INSPIRE (AKBK "valle blanco" remix)
- i'm a bit happy that this is not the remix from Ganzen PARA... ^^

12. CAROLS (Push remix)
- i'm a bit happy that this is not the ''STF remix'' from Super J-Best Trance (or whatever)... ^^


aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand...
...for the covers, i think they really fit these albums and ayu's actual style...
i like them much more than ayu-mi-x 4 or 5 series... ^^
but ayu-mi-x 3 and 6 series can't be topped :D

^ See I am kinda mad they decided to do another Carols trance and INSPIRE euro because I feel like both the mixes we have already are PERFECT! And Push is such an amazing DJ, sad that he chose (or was given) a song that already has a good trance song. I'd rather he breathe life into something new!

I know about the carols trance but a inspire euro?? what is that called?

I believe ENERGY INSPIRE MIX. From Kazen Para Para presents Super J-EURO Best.

I wonder if the Push remix of Carols is gonna sound nothing like the original, like with his remix of Boys and Girls (which I still love) lol.

you should read what ayu tweeted to max. the fans did make it happen.

I think people don't want to be disappointed on the remixes because how fast it was made that
they want to believe that it was planned for some time.


look at the covers not many people are happy with them because they feel they did a rushed job.

at least were getting remix albums, I don't care about the covers

Preach, baby! :luv2

They definitely would've released Ayu-mi-x 7 eventually, we didn't create the release, Avex is a multi million dollar company like people said, a few dozen fans on twitter really can't force a release.

However, I do think because Ayu knew we wanted it so much, she made it happen fairly quickly. We could've been waiting until 2012, but we're already getting it! I also think that because of us, it's 4 CD's and a boxset instead of just 1 or 2 or something.

I think this too... But i also thing that its weird that she would do this for her 50th single.. why not 3 years ago for her 10 year ann? All we got then were two remix cds.

It could be a combination of the two.

I love it and think it looks good for ayu-mi-x. Seeing the covers for the first time made me decide to preorder the limited box set straight away and I wasn't even going to buy the ayu-mi-x 7. I don't get why every time ayu releases something now, people complain until they get it in there hands and if you haven't preordered or planning to get it then why complain about it if your not going to own it. though I would like covers like ayu-mi-x 4 to appears again :P

^ people love to complain... thats really the only reason. I think the covers are really good, some of the best that she has had in a long time. There simple and elegant, not overly done. Thats they way i like them, but of course some people will say that they are stupid and blah.

Whatever, to each there own, i guess

^ true true :P

Eventually still means we made it happen. Idk about you, but Ayu saying: "OK, let's do it!" seems like we persuaded her.

No one's been saying anyone at AHS invented the idea of putting out Ayu-mi-x 7.

the problem is that they are too simple, cause she had simple covers since rnrc till now. i like them really in fact, but when i hear "remix albums" i imaginate something creative/diffrent. i know that her face is her own advertise, but i was expecting at least sth like latest ayumix

Of course we would have gotten the release at some point, but the fact that we're getting it NOW after we asked for it means we've had something to do with it. I mean think about it, outside of classical (which I don't really think counts as part of ayu-mi-x), when is the last time we got an orchestra album? 2002. When is the last time we got ayu trance or ayu-ro mix? 2003. It's 2011 and there's no doubt they may have made another ayu-mi-x like 6 eventually, but the fact we got our voices heard that we want the other genres too means we had an affect on this release. It very well may have been in Avex's mind to make it but because we asked, we get it NOW. That's the point. Why is that so difficult to understand or believe? Because Avex is a billion dollar company and they don't have to listen to the fans? Well, this time they did. And it DOESN'T mean we can go around "dictating" what Ayu does from now on like some think. Please let's not show her the demanding, *****y side to her fandom.


Soooooooooooo excited >____________< Where is the OS version? I wanna pre-order ;-;...

^really? what about BnDnfairyland,moments,no way to say,Startin'/Born to be cover?those are simple,IMO

ayu-mix 6 gold and silver is simple (except that they put the ornament on her face and make it blend on her face and make is gold and silver)

I think pepper may have meant within the ayu-mi-x series, compared to the previous covers these are too simple. But these are certainly not her "simplest" remix album covers. But at the same time, they're not ugly and they're not horrible. They could have been a whole lot worse and the fact that they kept it simple is for the best in my opinion. Even if they had went all out, we would still be getting complaints so I don't even know why people care anymore. :shrug

i'm happy that the cover is like this.(i was expecting them to make a collage of her 50 singles and make it as a cover (just like the poster we get for the 50th single)) :P
i really hope pepper meant the 'simple cover' is from the remix series (and not all ayu discography because pepper mentioned 'cause she had simple covers since rnrc till now'
maybe i'm over-reacting :p

I personally don't think RnRC was simple... Out of all her original album covers, it's got the most going on. But if she means since the RnRC era, it's true. MOON/blossom, crossroad and L all had pretty basic covers. And even though Love songs covers were simple, they were really really beautiful! Maybe simple and beautiful is just the phase she's going through now.

SO I guess if there were going to be a delay, we would have heard about it by now...right?

is あゆ goin' to postpone all the new releases on 3/30?

There's been no news on any postponing. I don't think it's going to be.

Lord I hope not.. I dont want to wait anymore. But with all the rolling blackouts and everything they they plan on doing who on earth is going to go out an buy anything?? besides food and water that is?

But the blackouts are only for the affected areas right? Like south Japan isn't going anything are they? its jsut the tokyo area and up and around?

It does look that way, and don't get me wrong I would love to believe that but I just can't. It just seems too out of this world to me that we can actually persuade a megastar like Ayu to release something. I just can't grasp the idea of it!

But all the evidence points towards it, so I guess we made the impossible happen! :)

I'm having a hard time believing fans made this happen. Maybe we shoved the idea at them and they worked with it, but we did not make the box set. I want more proof. we need people to tweet stuff for her next stuff and see if it comes true.

^It doesn't matter what ayu says because she's not in control of that stuff. It's max's power when it comes to releasing, and what and when to release stuf.

Believe baby, belieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeve. :luv2

:love

I agree with you. But I do think however that ayumi has a lot if not some control over what does and doesnt get released. That was the whole point of her My Story album anyways. She wanted more control and say and she got it.

I don't get why people don't want to believe fans made this happen. the tweets are probably posted somewhere for evidence, can't find them though.

so yes. ayu fans are resonsible for ayu trance 4. but the rest? that's negotiable. They probably thought "hey. while we're doing trance, let's do everything else too." So I am still skeptical that we are responsible for the whole ayu-remix box set. I think we just got the ball rolling.

^^ :yes:yes

I pretty sure if it sells well we can expect more too. I know they stopped after Ayu trance 3, Ayu-ro 3 and ayu-mix 5 because of horrible sales. And from my understand ayu-mix 6 was okay, but nothing near what they use to sell.

Hope it sells well though she we can have more!

yeah :D that's exactly what I think. some people seem to want to deny that we even made ayu trance happen though.

I think 2010 was just an unbelievable year to remember for Ayu fans. First, London and the fan book, then Twitter, and finally LA. So many things happened last year that seemed too good to be true, but they were true. I mean how many users here would have ever imagined in their wildest dreams that they would be talking to Ayu face to face in English?

As for ayu-mi-x 7, I think that they had probably planned to do it at some point in time, but the fan reaction on Twitter sped things up. There was quite some time after fans got through to Max and Ayu where we did not hear about the project at all, which is probably when they were negotiating how they were going to do this thing. (amount of albums, release date, remixers to use, etc...) I do feel that fans played a big part in this release, but mostly it was showing extreme interest in something that Max might have been considering in the back of his mind, you know?

Was it really just a few dozen people? I remember looking at Max's Twitter at the time and there were a LOT of fans who jumped on the idea of new ayu-mi-x once it started going. (Most of the requests for a new ayu-ro mix were from Japanese fans... which sort of makes me wonder if ayu trance 4 is dedicated to overseas fans, and ayu-ro mix 4 is for the Japanese fans.) I also recall that this was around the time where Max was really into replying to fans on Twitter and my timeline was ALWAYS full of Max tweets. It was also around the time where he fought with a certain fandom and then decided to not reply to fans much after that.

And just a related note, Ayu became a SoftBank spokesperson just by asking about it on Twitter to the CEO, haha.

^ thats pretty cool. BEcoming a spokes person just by asking about it.. lol

~16 days left~

(...I'm getting more panic each day X.x)

^You know, I've been wondering if this will still be released on time now that the earthquake has happened... I can't imagine that printing up copies of ayu-mi-x 7 is a top priority in Japan right now.

Yes, this is what I was guessing before as well. But ppl on AHS rather disagreed with me like "it's important to get back to the normal life, why would they cancel ayu-mi-x 7 release date?". See what I mean? =(

As cold as this might sound, luckily not the whole Japan is in distress. While it's not the top priority for sure, millions of people still live their daily lives, they go to work and feed their families. I can't imagine why would they postpone it?

Who knows.. They havent announced anything yet. So it still may be released on time.
Heres hopin.

people are making it sound bad

what's so bad that we made it happen.
atleast we got the remix albums....chillax

I feel bad for hoping that the Albums don't get delayed because of the Quake, but it would be cool some of the sales when to Quake Relief (or ALL that'd be more awesome~). I love when artist let there money from sales go to charity

Wouldn't most of the copies have been made by now? I think it will release on time. But who knows.

I hope America does something for japan.. If it gets much worse I can see some of the stars doing it.
I mean Lady Gaga has that wrist band, maybe others will do something too?

I got an email today from yesasia saying my payments been approved and expected shipping date is the 4th of april. I have to update my picture :( same date for her R`n`R Circus tour dvd too

^ ah, thats good, I guess that means there is no hold on the release.

Well~....Don't write american's off just yet I'm sure they care and they'll probably show it in different ways then just song.

i bought it in yesasia but they didn't send me any mail :(

^ These companies are pretty reliable, Im sure if they couldnt send everything out on time we would of gotten an e-mail by now. I don't think we should fear, the closer the date gets the more confident that everything will be okay, (in the department that the release still will still come)

They didn't send me any email either..O__O but I mean, surely it's not late enough to still cancel that order, because I'm not sure I can get all the Ayu-mi-x albums..?

I'm pretty sure they'll keep the schedule on time- despite the massive earthquake, they'd have to backorder/hold up everything, and that will cause more money to be lost compared to them shipping it out as promised. And, of course, money is everything.

Besides, we'd all be getting emails/etc. about a delay if they were doing something like that. I know CDJapan and Yesasia are very reliable like that.

Tweets:

"Max: Ayu Tranceのリクエスト多いけどどうする？ There are a lot of requests for Ayu Trance, but how will we proceed?
Ayu: 創ろう♪創ろう♪ Let's start it! Let's start it!
Max: では、久々に得意ジャンル制作させて頂きます！ Well, it's been a long time since we worked on this genre!
Ayu: いぇ～(^O^)／(^O^)／(^O^)／♪ Yea!
Max: 大丈夫。いつも通りアカペラで俺たちが作るから It's okay, we'll just use the a capella's (that are already made)
Ayu: 楽しみ～っっっ(^O^) It will be fun! / That's cool!

Fan: Are you release a new Ayu trance 4? Is it true? (*O*)
Max: 今さっき、決まった！ We have JUST decided on that! "

Uhh, I honestly don't think that AHS made this happen on its own (Like many of you say). Sure many of you asked Max if they were planning to release/working on this (ayu-mix-7), but that doesn't mean that you are the reason why this is released.
We are not the only fans, AHS is just a small collection of fans across the whole world. I'm sure that there were over 9000 other people asking for another ayu-mix for a looong time. (With the long time between the last remix album and this one, I'm sure that everyday there where several requests.)

That doesn't mean that I don't believe that some members helped with achieving the release of ayu-mix-7, It's just that everyone did this and not AHS but us!

Basically, Ayu and Max agreed to release/work on ayu-mix-7 and people here think that they in general made that possible... No people, It's not you, It's everyone .
_
Anyway, I'm exicted for this release, and ordered it. I sure hope that Hamasaki stays okay during all of this tragic news :(.

^^...maybe...you weren't around during that time, but you kind of had to be there.

AHS is solely responsible for the release of ayu trance 4. It was my initial idea to start tweeting max and ayu. I think we just got lucky, I'm sure this isn't something we could keep doing...they're not just going to give us everything we tweet them and ask for. I just feel like we caught Max on a good day and the stars worked in our favor.

From what I understand, trance hasn't been that popular in Japan for the last few years, so why would they make a new ayu trance album unless they knew there was some real interest?

Give the fans what they want!

I might get tweeter and see what I can get, lol..
i want more CREA!:strike

Only 11 limited boxes left at CDJ!
I'm surprised they lasted this long! haha

No one said it was just AHS... No one's that delusional. But pieces did bring ayu trance up and together he and I asked everyone for help. Word got around beyond AHS and even Japanese fans jumped in to ask for ayu-ro mix. So no one is saying it's just us but it did start here.

Not to be rude, but I'm sick of people who obviously weren't even around for this telling us what really happened. Yes, Avex more than likely had the idea for ayu-mi-x 7 already in consideration but it was our collective voices as FANS that made it possible for it to be released now and to include other genres such as trance, acoustic orchestra and eurobeat. These genres haven't been used in a remix album since 2002/2003 so there was no reason to suspect that they would be included in the next remix series unless we ASKED. And so we did and it happened. STOP TRYING TO TAKE THAT AWAY FROM US.

you tell em girl.
really though, so what if fans made most of this happen? why is it so important for some people to try to prove they didn't? do some of you guys just enjoy trying to rain on peoples parades all the damn time? I don't get it.

^ you cant really group an entire country in as one. You can might say on average the people of "blah" country might not care, but no matter where you go someone will care, groups of someones will care.

I dont think anyone is trying to prove anything.. this is most likely a compensation of people that DO like the covers to complain about something, lol (I am referring to the fight of covers "this is cool, no these suck comments")

I was going to say this but didnt want to start a commotion, I'm glad someone commented on it! It's honestly so annoying people who just live off of putting other people down!

@jbrat2219: Preach it sistah. Let your voice be heard gurlfran <3

I'm so sad there's no DAISHI DANCE remix on the album...his HEAVEN remix is wonderful, and he's one of my favorite producers/remixers. He could have done HANABI or Together When... some real magic <3

HANABI isn't being remixed is it??
Man I wish it was...

I don't mind it being in orchestral form. It's gonna sound amazing.

Oh yeah, DUH.. i knew that, lol I was looking forward to that want too.. lol

acoustic orchestra is a remix.

just wanted to state that house is not something new for ayu, nor is this the first house release.

the ayu-mi-x series is BASED on house. I mean...the only reason they're titling it "ayu-mi-x 7 HOUSE" is because with trance, eurobeat, and acoustic orchestra, they had to title this one...even though it's not all house.

There are probably going to be a few typical sounding club remixes on the HOUSE side (like the jonathan peters and hex hector remixes). So...yeah.

FYI, it's not really an opinion when it comes off all "matter of fact". Especially when it's from someone who really doesn't know anything about the situation at all. It's a little ignorant.

I feel like unless you were actively on the forum in the days when ayu trance 4 was initially announced, you don't really get it. :/

PS off topic but your font is overbearing, annoying, and unnecessary. since you seem to be all about opinions. :)

^ do you think the other ayu-mi-x albums have been house??..

You know all this is so confusing, I dont think I know the difference between on the different types of the dance genre.

^^I'd say there are a few different genres within ayu-mi-x (excluding trance, eurobeat, and acoustic orchestra).

I don't know too much myself, but there are genres like dubstep (which I despise lol) and just general dance music (which may be sub divided into different categories, but I don't know them. House is generally defined as any kind of electronic dance music).

But yes...ayu has many house remixes featured on previous ayu-mi-x albums.

I kind of had the feeling "ayu-mi-x 7 HOUSE" was just the name and not necessarily the genre like it is with the other albums. I mean it can't really be the only one without a name, can it? xD;

^^exactly XD

Umm..no.

ayu-mi-xes in the past have had some house in them, true, but they're also mixed with other genres that have essentially nothing in common with house (drum & bass, electro, dub) other than the fact that they're all seen as types of dance music.

House is characterized by a 4/4 beat which isn't found in the other genres I mentioned above, or techno or trance. It can sometimes be found in techno or electro, which is where the terms tech-house and electro-house come in. All of the genres of electronic music are distinct.

^soo...wikipedia's and dictionary.com's definition of house music is incorrect, but yours is right? lol spare me.

also...you just reiterated what I had already said. previous ayu-mi-x albums were mostly house tracks with some other genres thrown in there as well. I just don't specifically know how to classify them.

i feel the same way...but i think avex did this project in a very short time
so i think djs producer like Daishi Dance and other important artist were busy
or with a large list of project so maybe they can't make a work so fast

you can go to "Jody Den Broeder" and ask him for a remix and he can say: sure..but in 6 months

LOL, and it just gets more and more confusing...

I think the HOUSE version is what it is, HOUSE.. i mean with the other ayu-mi-x albums there werent named, but most came with 2 CDs Nonstop and then a second cd with remixes on them...

right, but nonstop or not, those remixes still all have genres...right?
most of which are house. there are so others that i'm not familiar with. :)

made me laugh XP

Not sure what definition you were reading, dear.

I did kind of repeat what you said, only because I don't think you get the point. It's not just called ayu-mi-x 7 because it's not ayu-mi-x 7. It's specifically the house genre, not a melange. Listen to a house nation album and then listen to an ayu-mi-x. They're not the same.

go jbrat2219 honey show em!!


you guys still arguing about who influenced the remix albums and lmao get a damn life

:yes:yes Agreed, but for the nonstop would you consider it just one genre or a mix of all of them?