I just happened to notice that one of the tracks on ColdolR no Ikei*ColdolR, “Tokeihime and a Dog Walking at Night ~ Plant Garden,” got matched by Content ID to an instrumental track from some random Japanese reggae artist, “Finale -OUTRO-” off MUNEHIRO’s 2007 album Limited. The reason, it turns out, is that “Tokeihime” is constructed entirely from two tracks from a 1997 audio library CD, Victor Sound Effects Library 6. Household: the clock noises and then the baby vocalizations in the final thirty seconds. MUNEHIRO’s song also uses the same clock noises, but with additional clock ticking layered on top.
I assume this is one of those royalty-free library CDs where you buy it and then you can do whatever you want with the contents. (The line drawings on the covers of the albums in this series are really charming, by the way.)
The clock noises track specifically is kinda interesting and weird, in that the other tracks on the album are all shorter recordings of a single object, as you might expect from a SFX library, and then this track is a two minute tapestry recording a bunch of different clocks all striking 12 at random intervals. Seems more niche and less practically useful? Though evidently at least two different people have used it commercially, so what do I know.
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