MELLSCOPE is the first studio album from the I've Sound singer, Mell

Mell

Mell is a female Japanese singer from Sapporo, Japan. She is a senior vocalist of I've Sound, and one of the main vocalists. She has released six singles and one solo album...

, released on August 20, 2008. The album contains four new songs, two old songs from an eroge

Eroge

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, two remixed old songs (including a remix of her first song with I've Sound), and four songs from her first three released singles, namely "Red fraction

Red fraction

"Red Fraction" is the first single of I've Sound singer Mell and her first single under Geneon Entertainment. The title track was used as the opening theme for the anime series Black Lagoon...

", "Proof/no vain

Proof/no vain

"Proof/No Vain" is Mell's second single under Geneon Entertainment. "Proof" was used as the first ending theme for the anime series Hayate no Gotoku!...

", and "Virgin's high!/kicks!

Virgin's high!/kicks!

"Virgin's High!/Kicks!" is Mell's third single under Geneon Entertainment. "Virgin's high!" was used as the opening theme for the anime series Sky Girls. The single reached #15 in the Oricon charts and sold 19,800 copies...

".

The album comes in a limited or CD+DVD edition (GNCV-1005) and a regular or CD-only edition (GNCV-1006). The DVD will contain the PV for "SCOPE" and alternative PVs for "no vain" and "kicks!". The DVD also contains a documentary of MELL's time in France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

, and documents both the photo shoot

Photo shoot

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 for MELLSCOPE as well as her work with Deep Forest

Deep Forest

Deep Forest is a musical group consisting of two French musicians, Michel Sanchez and Eric Mouquet. They compose a style of world music, sometimes called ethnic electronica, mixing ethnic with electronic sounds and dance beats or chillout beats...

. Lastly, Deep Forest's Eric Mouquet is interviewed in full English, including Japanese subtitles.

Track listing (CD)

1. SCOPE - 4:21

   Composition/Arrangement: Kazuya Takase

   Lyrics: MELL

2. Red fraction
   Red fraction
   "Red Fraction" is the first single of I've Sound singer Mell and her first single under Geneon Entertainment. The title track was used as the opening theme for the anime series Black Lagoon...
   
    - 3:41

   Composition/Arrangement: Kazuya Takase

   Lyrics: MELL

3. Way beyond there - 5:04

   Composition: Tomoyuki Nakazawa

   Arrangement: Tomoyuki Nakazawa, Takeshi Ozaki

   Lyrics: MELL

4. repeat - 6:38

   Composition/Arrangement/Lyrics: Kazuya Takase

5. Virgin's high!
   Virgin's high!/kicks!
   "Virgin's High!/Kicks!" is Mell's third single under Geneon Entertainment. "Virgin's high!" was used as the opening theme for the anime series Sky Girls. The single reached #15 in the Oricon charts and sold 19,800 copies...
   
    - 4:21

   Composition/Arrangement: Maiko Iuchi

   Lyrics: MELL

6. no vain
   Proof/no vain
   "Proof/No Vain" is Mell's second single under Geneon Entertainment. "Proof" was used as the first ending theme for the anime series Hayate no Gotoku!...
   
    - 5:59

   Composition/Arrangement: Kazuya Takase

   Lyrics: MELL

7. Permit - 4:09

   Composition: Tomoyuki Nakazawa

   Arrangement: Tomoyuki Nakazawa, Takeshi Ozaki

   Lyrics: MELL (English Translation: Harry Yoshida)

8. Under Superstition - 4:59

   Composition/Arrangement: Maiko Iuchi

   Lyrics: MELL

9. kicks!
   Virgin's high!/kicks!
   "Virgin's High!/Kicks!" is Mell's third single under Geneon Entertainment. "Virgin's high!" was used as the opening theme for the anime series Sky Girls. The single reached #15 in the Oricon charts and sold 19,800 copies...
   
   - 3:49

   Composition/Arrangement: Kazuya Takase

   Lyrics: MELL

10. The first finale in me - 5:09

    Composition/Arrangement: Tomoyuki Nakazawa

    Lyrics: MELL

11. - 5:13

    Composition/Lyrics: Kazuya Takase

    Arrangement: Kazuya Takase, Tomoyuki Nakazawa

12. repeat -Deep Forest remix- - 4:49

    Composition/Lyrics: Kazuya Takase

    Arrangement: Eric Mouquet (Deep Forest)

Track listing (DVD)

1. SCOPE (PV)
2. no vain -another side-
3. kicks! -another side-
4. Documentary of MELL's time in France
5. Interview with Eric Mouquet of Deep Forest