Talk:Kaze no Tadoritsuku Basho/@comment-66.183.106.202-20200605073232

RE: Rap lines in this song.

So according to http://parasiteeve2.blog65.fc2.com/blog-entry-456.html (It's highly recommended that you understand some intermediate Japanese when you visit this site), the rap verses were pretty much taken from the sampler CD titled "Rapsody". The sampler CD was a paid-to-use sampling library; it was intially released in Europe/Germany by masterbits back in early 90's, and later was licensed to Crypton Future Media (if you are not a fan of computer music production, you should've known they created Hatsune Miku, a Vocaloid voicebank, yay) for releasing in Japan.

Europe site URL: https://www.masterbits.de/cli1_e.htm

CFM's page on this CD (it noted release date in Japan and that was in Dec. 1995): https://ec.crypton.co.jp/product/detail/10690

The producer of this CD was an American rapper named A.K. Swift, a recurring/past member of a German eurodance project group, Magic Affair. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Affair

A.K. Swift has his own YouTube channel, twitter and Facebook; however in regard to the mysterious rap lyrics' official disclousure, I wouldn't bother contracting him as I doubt he would disclose that as it may have some potential licensing issues. (Not to mention western fans' excellent ear-copied unofficial rap lyrics, hmmm...)

Moreover, since that is a library sampler CD, many other works samples from this CD. https://mugenguild.com/forum/topics/masterbits-rapsody-vocals-2-140775.0.html