History Music / TouhouFanMusic

* Music/SoundHolic

[[folder:SWING HOLIC]]
!!SWING HOLIC

A subgroup of SOUND HOLIC that focuses on {{jazz}}.

* ConceptAlbum: Most of their albums focus on one ''Touhou'' game.
* RearrangeTheSong: The circle made ''Touhou'' arrangements.
* Title1: ''SWING HOLIC VOL.01''

[[folder:Syrufit]]
!!Syrufit
!!!'''Notable Members:''' hiro.na (arrangement, composition, bass, mixing and representative), Kazumi Mogi (lyrics)\\
'''Former Members:''' SHIKI/aka eerie (lyricist and vocalist), Sakai Takuya (arranger and composer, now active under his own circle Poplica* and a member of Arte Refact)
Studio "Syrup Comfiture" (Syrufit for short) is a doujin circle who makes ElectronicMusic arrangements. They've been around as far back as 2009, but took a three-year hiatus from making arrangements between 2013-2016. They also have close ties to the circle ALADDIN due to Syrufit's representative hiro.na being a member there.
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* RearrangeTheSong: They make ''Touhou'' arrangements.
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[[folder:SOUND HOLIC]]
!! SOUND HOLIC
!!!'''Notable Members:''' Nana Takahashi (vocalist & lyricist), 709sec. (vocalist & arranger), [=MasKaleido=] (arranger), GUCCI (arranger)
An old circle founded in 2006. Notable for creating tracks in a variety of genres, including {{pop}}, {{jazz}}, {{heavy metal}}, {{rock}} and {{eurobeat}}. They are also responsible for ''TOHO PROJECT SIDE STORY "Memories of the Stars"''.

** The ''NANA HOLIC'' series is a compilation of Nana Takahashi songs.
** The ''REVIVAL BEST'' series is a compilation of 709sec. tracks.
** ''zikeez'' is a compilation of tracks arranged by zikee.
** ''SOUND HOLIC MEETS TOHO ～JAZZ ARRANGE SELECTION～'' is a compilation of jazz tracks from the ''SOUND HOLIC MEETS TOHO'' series.
* ConceptAlbum: The "Kanji Series" albums have a theme. It's usually one specific game, but it can be something like "final bosses" too.
* CoversAlwaysLie: The characters on the cover are usually relevant to the album. The exceptions are the albums based on bosses from specific stages:
** The cover of ''LAST BOSS'' features Reimu and Marisa. Only Reimu has served as a final boss, and none of the themes on the album belong to her at all. At least both of the girls have ''fought'' most of the bosses represented on the album.
** The cover of ''EXTRA BOSS'' features Sakuya and Youmu. Neither has ever been an Extra boss, and they've only faced a few Extra Stage bosses each.
** The cover of ''FIFTH BOSS'' features Sanae and Aya. The latter has -- you guessed it -- never appeared as a stage 5 boss. At least Sanae's theme is arranged on the album.
* GreatestHitsAlbum: ''THE BEST SELECTION''
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming:
** Their ''SOUND HOLIC MEETS TOHO'' have titles on the form ''SOUND HOLIC MEETS TOHO ～[Japanese title]～''
** The Kanji Series and New Kanji Series both follow the pattern ''[kanji] -ROMANIZED KANJI-'':
*** For their one-game albums, the kanji is the third kanji of the game's title (i.e. the first that isn't 東方). If they later make another album based on the same game, the new title will use the third and fourth kanji. Examples: their ''VideoGame/TouhouFuujinrokuMountainOfFaith'' albums ''風 -KAZE-'' and ''風神 -FUUJIN-''.
*** In the "New Kanji Series", the kanji are the last name of a playable ''Touhou'' character.
*** The ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' parody album uses "烏賊", which means "squid".
*** One album uses "令和" (Reiwa). It's SOUND HOLIC's first all-new album in the Reiwa era.[[note]]They released two compilation albums at the same event.[[/note]]
*** Their boss-themed albums follow the basic pattern, but still stand out: they all use "強敵" ("Tough Enemy") for the kanji, and replace the romanization with "[STAGE] BOSS" (e.g. "FIFTH BOSS").
** All of their metal albums have "Metallic" or "Metallical" in the title.
** The Featuring 709sec. albums have titles that consist of two English words, e.g. ''Frozen Freezer'' and ''Chaos Bringer''.
* {{Instrumentals}}:
** The ''SOUND HOLIC MEETS TOHO'' albums are mostly or entirely instrumental. The compilation ''SOUND HOLIC MEETS TOHO ～JAZZ ARRANGE SELECTION～'' consists of instrumental {{jazz}} arrangements from this series.
** Their main ''Touhou'' albums start with an instrumental intro. Some of them contain more instrumentals later on as well.
** The ''TOHO PIANISM'' albums are entirely instrumental.
* LuckyCharmsTitle:
** The ''Fantasy★A La Mode'' album series.
** The song titles "LOVE ≒ HAPPY", "デタラメ妖精大戦争☆" and "渚のぷるぷる果実♡".

** The ''EUROBEAT HOLIC'' series features {{eurobeat}} remixes of some old songs.
* SelfTitledAlbum: The entire ''SOUND HOLIC MEETS TOHO'' series is partially eponymous.

** Most of their albums consist entirely of ''Touhou'' arrangements.
** ''ROCKMAN HOLIC'' is an album of ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' arrangements. It was released to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the franchise.
* XtremeKoolLetterz: The song title "W∀NTED".
* WorkInfoTitle: The title of ''SOUND HOLIC MEETS TOHO ～JAZZ ARRANGE SELECTION～'' lets you know that it's a compilation of {{jazz}} tracks. Similarly, the ''EUROBEAT HOLIC'' albums are {{eurobeat}} albums, and ''TOHO PIANISM'' is a series of piano albums.

[[folder:[=SuganoMusic=]]]
!! [=SuganoMusic=]
!!!'''Notable Members:''' Sugano (representative, arranger)

A {{eurobeat}} circle that released its first album in 2010. Between 2012 and 2016, it released eight ''Touhou EUROBEAT ARRANGE'' albums (plus a GreatestHitsAlbum) and four ''Original EUROBEAT'' albums. Then they switched to the ''EUROBEAT FESTIVAL'' series, which are mostly original compositions, with only a few ''Touhou'' arrangements per album.

* RearrangeTheSong:
** The ''Touhou EUROBEAT ARRANGE'' albums are ''Touhou'' {{Remix Album}}s. Additionally, the mostly-original ''EUROBEAT FESTIVAL'' albums contain a few ''Touhou'' arrangements.
** They sometimes rearrange their own songs.
* RemixAlbum: The ''Touhou EUROBEAT ARRANGE'' albums consist entirely of ''Touhou'' arrangements.
* Title1: ''[=SuganoMusic=] Touhou Arrange Vol.1''
* XtremeKoolLetterz: Their ''EUROBEAT FESTIVAL'' albums have "DANCE TRAX" on the cover.

[[folder:SYNC.ART'S]]
!! SYNC.ART'S
!!!'''Notable Members:''' Gojou Kai (arranger)\\
'''Notable Contributors:''' Meiko Nakamura (from Adresse), Sora Yuizuki (from Soranetarium), [=YuNa=] (from [=FataMorgana=]), Misato, Kaori Aihara (from Production GIW)
Gojou Kai's personal circle, active since 2004. In the first two years, the circle primarily made instrumental arrangements of tracks from various works. Then Gojou Kai started focusing on vocal ''Touhou'' arrangements and original songs. He works with members of other circles for lyrics and vocals. Around 2016, he started collaborating with a circle named Music/{{Lunark}} on original albums.

* CompilationRerelease:
** ''LIMIT BREAK～限定解除～ Alternative 2010-2012'' is a compilation of tracks released on "ALTERNATIVE" demos.
** ''Reisui Musou'' is a compilation of songs arranged by Gojou Kai that have been released in albums by other circles.
** ''cantante'' is a compilation of SYNC.ART'S songs with vocals by Misato. It also features a new arrangement.
** ''Angelic Meister'' is a compilation of SYNC.ART'S songs with vocals by Meiko Nakamura. Two of the songs have been remixed.
* CoversAlwaysLie: The cover of ''[=Alternative201305=]'' is a picture of Sakuya. None of her themes are arranged on the album. In fact, while two games are represented on the album, Sakuya doesn't even ''appear'' in either of them!
* GratuitousEnglish: "Grip of Death" has some Engrish lines like "You'll can't hide away forever".
* {{Instrumentals}}: Many of the circle's early arrangements are instrumental.
* RearrangeTheSong:
** Their ''Touhou'' arrangements, of course.
** Two of the old songs on ''Angelic Meister'' have been remixed.
* RemixAlbum:
** Many of his albums consist entirely of ''Touhou'' arrangements.
** His early arrangement albums consist of remixes from various franchises, e.g. ''VisualNovel/{{CLANNAD}}'' and ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline''.

[[folder:Swing Of the Dead]]
!!Swing Of the Dead
!!!'''Notable Members:''' Pinetree (arranger, from UNDEAD CORPORATION)\\
A {{jazz}} project that only ever made one album.

* OneBookAuthor: ''TOHO JAZZY VOCAL Ⅰ'' is its only release.
* RearrangeTheSong: The circle made ''Touhou'' arrangements.
* Title1: ''TOHO JAZZY VOCAL Ⅰ''. (There was never a ''TOHO JAZZY VOCAL ⅠⅠ''.)

[[folder:SWING HOLIC]]
!!SWING HOLIC

A subgroup of SOUND HOLIC that focuses on {{jazz}}.
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* ConceptAlbum: Most of their albums focus on one ''Touhou'' game.
* RearrangeTheSong: The circle made ''Touhou'' arrangements.
* Title1: ''SWING HOLIC VOL.01''

[[folder:Syrufit]]
!!Syrufit
!!!'''Notable Members:''' hiro.na (arrangement, composition, bass, mixing and representative), Kazumi Mogi (lyrics)\\
'''Former Members:''' SHIKI/aka eerie (lyricist and vocalist), Sakai Takuya (arranger and composer, now active under his own circle Poplica* and a member of Arte Refact)
Studio "Syrup Comfiture" (Syrufit for short) is a doujin circle who makes ElectronicMusic arrangements. They've been around as far back as 2009, but took a three-year hiatus from making arrangements between 2013-2016. They also have close ties to the circle ALADDIN due to Syrufit's representative hiro.na being a member there.
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* RearrangeTheSong: They make ''Touhou'' arrangements.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:TUMENECO]]
!! TUMENECO
!!!'''Notable Members:''' tomoya (arranger), yukina (vocalist), Nanatsume (lyricist)
A pop/rock circle that started in 2008. They seem to prefer arranging themes from ''Music/ZUNsMusicCollection''.

* CompilationRerelease: ''TUMENECO COMPLETE BOX'', which features every album released by the circle up until the release of ''Rasen no Yume'' excluding off vocal tracks
* RearrangeTheSong: Their ''Touhou'' arrangements.
* RemixAlbum: Their albums consist mostly or entirely of ''Touhou'' arrangements.
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* RearrangeTheSong: Their ''Touhou'' arrangements.

%%*ToiletHumor: [=BeatMARIO=] is fond of poop jokes.

** Downplayed for ''LUNATIC SOUNDS'', ''scarlet marrygold'' ''Chocofan BEST 2020'' and ''RAINBOW SOUNDS'', all of which almost let you see a character's butt.

** The cover of 桜花転生 outright features the upper body of a naked Yuyuko with her breasts partially covered by the album logo.

A circle that was founded in 2008. It was kaztora's main circle until 2017, when it disbanded due to vocalist lily-an's time constraints and health.

** The album of the collaboration album ''FUSION=CAUTION'' features Utsuho in a black bikini.

*** One album uses "令和" (Reiwa). It's SOUND HOLIC's first Reiwa-era album.[[note]]They released two compilation albums at the same event, but this is their first all-new album from that era.[[/note]]

[[folder:CYTOKINE]]
!! CYTOKINE
!!!'''Notable Members:''' Linjin (arrangement and lyrics), Unagi Kabayaki (illustrator)

CYTOKINE is a doujin label run by Unagi Kabayaki that primarily produces illustrative works based on the ''Touhou'' universe. From 2006 to 2011, Linjin released arrangement albums under the CYTOKINE label, but after it became a circle solely for illustrated works at the end of 2011, Linjin started to release his new musical works under the new circle name ZYTOKINE.

* RearrangeTheSong: Their ''Touhou'' arrangements.
* RemixAlbum: Most of their albums consist entirely of ''Touhou'' arrangements.
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[[/folder]]

[[folder:ZYTOKINE]]
!! ZYTOKINE
The circle Linjin created after CYTOKINE stopped releasing music.

* LongTitle: The song title "It's to see sad two, says 'not sad too', co-code to your sad two".
* LuckyCharmsTitle: Album titles: ''gold*'' and ''silver†''. Exaggerated with ''＞＞＞＞'' and ''Ћ⊿⊿θ▽△''.
* RearrangeTheSong: Their ''Touhou'' arrangements.
* RemixAlbum: Their albums consist mostly or entirely of ''Touhou'' arrangements.
* TheUnpronounceable: The album titles ''＞＞＞＞'' and ''Ћ⊿⊿θ▽△''.
* XtremelyKoolLetterz: "'''Z'''YTOKINE" (instead of CYTOKINE). Linjin originally released albums under the CYTOKINE label. When that label stopped releasing music, he made his own circle and gave it a unique name by replacing the C with a Z.

An old circle founded in 2006. Notable for creating tracks in a variety of genres, including {{pop}}, {{jazz}}, {{metal}}, {{rock}} and {{eurobeat}}. They are also responsible for ''TOHO PROJECT SIDE STORY "Memories of the Stars"''.

Pizuya's circle, active since 2007. Its musical style can be broadly described as a combination of three elements; {{Metal}}[=/=]{{Rock}}, {{Classical|Music}}[=/=]{{Orchestral|Music}} and {{Electronic|Music}}. Combinations of these three styles make up the majority of the circle's music. Early albums by the circle were primarily instrumental metal, but releases since have branched out to feature vocal arrangements and electronic elements, instrumental piano-centric albums have become a staple for the circle are are released in tandem with their regular albums.

* Title1: ''SuganoMusic Touhou Arrange Vol.1''

[[folder:Syrufit]]
!!Syrufit
!!!'''Notable Members:''' hiro.na (arrangement, composition, bass, mixing and representative), Kazumi Mogi (lyrics)\\
'''Former Members:''' SHIKI/aka eerie (lyricist and vocalist), Sakai Takuya (arranger and composer, now active under his own circle Poplica* and a member of Arte Refact)
Studio "Syrup Comfiture" (Syrufit for short) is a doujin circle who makes ElectronicMusic arrangements. They've been around as far back as 2009, but took a three-year hiatus from making arrangements between 2013-2016. They also have close ties to the circle ALADDIN due to Syrufit's representative hiro.na being a member there.

* RearrangeTheSong: They make ''Touhou'' arrangements.

[[folder:TUMENECO]]
!! TUMENECO
!!!'''Notable Members:''' tomoya (arranger), yukina (vocalist), Nanatsume (lyricist)
A pop/rock circle that started in 2008. They seem to prefer arranging themes from ''Music/ZUNsMusicCollection''.

* CompilationRerelease: ''TUMENECO COMPLETE BOX'', which features every album released by the circle up until the release of ''Rasen no Yume'' excluding off vocal tracks
* RearrangeTheSong: Their ''Touhou'' arrangements.
* RemixAlbum: Their albums consist mostly or entirely of ''Touhou'' arrangements.

* RearrangeTheSong: They make ''Touhou'' (and a few ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'') arrangements.

** Most of their albums consist entirely of ''Touhou'' arrangements. They've also released two ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' remix albums.

* RemixAlbum: Their albums consist mostly or entirely of ''Touhou'' arrangements. ''[=COLLECTiVE:MOTiON=]'' involves a lot of ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' themes as well.

A pop and rock circle that was formed when the core members of Yellow Zebra reunited. They continued making ''Touhou'' [=CDs=] in a similar style as Yellow Zebra (though their 2016-2018 albums leaned more towards rock), and kept the ''WebAnimation/TouhouM1GrandPrix'' series going. They've also made two series of side albums (''Yoshiha Style'' and the "whisper" albums) and a ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' album. At the end of 2018, Yoshiha and Ucchii left the circle, but the two remaining members kept going.

* RemixAlbum: They've made one ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' arrangement album. The rest of their albums consist entirely of ''Touhou'' arrangements.

** Most of the circle's albums consist entirely of ''Touhou'' (and sometimes ''Seihou'') arrangements. The only exceptions are the two ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' albums, the original composition on ''Former [=Frontier1+2=]'' (later re-released on ''memoria vol.3''), and ''Deja-vu'' (whose songs combine ''Touhou'' themes with something from a non-''Touhou'' source like ''Franchise/LoveLive'').

A major circle that focuses on ElectronicMusic, {{Trance}} and {{Eurobeat}}; renowned for its distinctive, emotional-arousing style of electronic arrangements. It provided the music for ''WebAnimation/FantasyKaleidoscope - The Spring Snow Incident''. It has a sister circle named Shoujo Fractal, and together, they become organizers of monthly event called "Touhou Ongaku Fes", where various circles can join and have fun together, regardless the genre. Not to be confused with Yuuhei Katharsis, which makes ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' music.

Primarily an {{Ambient}} and {{Pop}} group; they often combine vocals with ElectronicMusic. Renko of ORANGE★JAM provides English lyrics.

* SexyPackaging: Many of their later album covers feature almost naked ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' characters.

''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' is notable for the large number of {{doujin|shi}} circles that {{rearrange|TheSong}} ''Touhou'' themes, may or may not [[WithLyrics add lyrics]], and (usually) put them on [[RemixAlbum albums]]. The "genre" seems to have started at Comiket 64 (in 2003), when [=PopKorn=] & Hara-Kara released ''Stardust Reverie''. The fan music scene has grown massively since then, and there are now hundreds of groups dedicated to arranging music from the ''Touhou'' series.

The most commonly arranged themes are the ones from the mainline PC games (starting with ''VideoGame/EmbodimentOfScarletDevil''), but you'll also see themes from the spin-offs, ''Music/ZUNsMusicCollection'', PC-98 games, and rarely other franchises like ''VideoGame/{{Seihou}}''. In addition, some of the circles create original compositions.

** "the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil." combines every theme from ''VideoGame/EmbodimentOfScarletDevil'' into one song that clocks in at almost 11 minutes.
** "Perfect Cherry Blossom" is similar: it features every theme from ''VideoGame/PerfectCherryBlossom'' and is just over 14 minutes long.
** "Moonlight's fanatic story" does the same to every theme from ''VideoGame/ImperishableNight'', but is "only" a little short of 7:30.

* EpicRocking: "東方風神祭", a medley of ''VideoGame/MountainOfFaith'''s themes, is 11 minutes long.

*** For their one-game albums, the kanji is the third kanji of the game's title (i.e. the first that isn't 東方). If they later make another album based on the same game, the new title will use the third and fourth kanji. Examples: their ''VideoGame/MountainOfFaith'' albums ''風 -KAZE-'' and ''風神 -FUUJIN-''.

!!!'''Notable Members:''' pizuya (arranger), Meido (AKA Futoumeido; vocalist, lyricist & illustrator), godwood (pianist), UNE (web designer & MV)

A major circle that focuses on ElectronicMusic, {{Trance}} and {{Eurobeat}}; renowned for its distinctive, emotional-arousing style of electronic arrangements. It provided the music for ''WebAnimation/FantasyKaleidoscope - The Spring Snow Incident''. It has a sister circle named Shoujo Fractal. Not to be confused with Yuuhei Katharsis, which makes ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' music.

* CoolMask: All of its vocalists are wearing some kind of party mask to cover their identity. Toa, on the other hand, wears a black veil instead.

* VocalTagTeam: senya used to be the sole vocalist. However, after other vocalists (Yuzurisa, Toa and Marcia) joined, the circle started splitting its songs between them.

* DigitalPiracyIsEvil: DDBY does not take kindly to fans uploading their content on Website/YouTube. Given the controversial nature of the subject, [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment it's best not to discuss it here]].

!!!''Notable Members:''' Shiren (AKA Yukimura Hirano; arranger), Fuyuki Tenge (vocalist, lyricist), Tsuyoshi Denshirenji (AKA Kasumi Shinjou; vocalist)

** ''Hypothetical Box ACT 2'' contains remastered versions of the tracks from ''Hypothetical Box'', as well as some tracks that didn't appear on the original.

!!!'''Notable Members:''' NAGI☆ (arranger & representative), Maurits "Zen" Cornelis (arrangement), Maika (vocalist), Mika (vocalist), Vivienne (vocalist), Boyz Party (arranger & lyricist), W.nova (backing vocalist), Eris (arrangement, also active in Murder Ground circle), Renko (Englis lyricist from ORANGE★JAM)

A now-defunct doujin circle founded in 2009 that made ElectronicMusic arrangements, varying from {{Trance}}, {{Eurobeat}} and ElectroHouse. They announced on October 2017 that they'll be suspending all activities and no longer produce any more ''Touhou'' arrangements.

* KnowWhenToFoldThem: According to former circle representative sumijun, the main reasons why he decided to suspend the circle entirely were because he eventually grew dissatisfied of his work and can no longer keep up, later lamenting how his circle had gone too commercial for its own good. Combined with other personal factors, he officially announced on October 2017 about the circle's suspension. Outside of one album release in 2018 (aptly-named "Definitely Rare CD"), they had never produced any doujin music since then, and no official statements about their return has been made.