Youko's blog about music games.
Another routine is here but that’s not the only thing which is here.
I spent several last days by trying to produce a high quality, good ratio, effect and good sound videos of me doing ParaPara and I wish to “produce” it on a DVD one day. The videos are quite big for uploading so from now they will be only on bemanitube. Tell me what you think, because the small version video does not look that good as the big ones I have on my computer.
Someone on youtube replied to a video of Kyle Ward and Chris Foy freestyling with another freestyle. I didn’t like the vid, but I realized that I haven’t seen any freestyle videos from other countries than France in quite a long time.
So I just would like to put here this video (pretty old one actually). This is my first time seeing an arcade, playing this song and actually having fun by doing whatever I felt looked ok. Nothing prepared or anything, just what came to my mind.
Watch this video, the end with Twilight on Expert is magnificent. This would be impossible in my country….
573 does this number sound familiar? Do you know what it has to do with this blog? Well, I will tell you.
Beatmaniaiidx.com was supposed to be mainly about the great music game BeatMania IIDX (7K) which is an “upgrade” of BeatMania (5KEYS). BM is the first musical game from a series called BEMANI. As you can see everything on this blog has to do with either BEMANI or other music games. BEMANI games are produced by a company named KONAMI. So you wonder where the number 573 is hidden in the word KONAMI?
It’s easy actually. KONAMI is a Japanese company. Isn’t there something more to the name? Well, there is. Five is said “go” in Japanese and it can be changed to voiceless version “KO”. Seven can be said nana and from there comes the “NA”. “Number” three can be described by mitsu from which comes the last syllable “MI”. From this 573 was born and the company is also known under this number.
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573 number can be found in KONAMI games. For example both The Legend of Max and Max300 from DDR have max combo exactly 573.
Sincerely, after failing this song twice and one clear there was so much sweat that I could bathe in it (ok, I’m kidding but the sweat was pouring from me….-_- and my feet hurt as hell)
I guess that all of you have played Piano Concerto No.1 Anti-Ares in Beatmania IIDX11 or other version of BM IIDX. It’s level of difficulty 8 on another may be to difficult to some and easy for others.
But have you ever imagined that this score was actually composed for the piano? That’s not seven/fourteen keys and a turntable.See how this young Japanese pianist tried his best on this concerto.
Click here to view the video => Piano Concerto No.1 Anti-Ares
Well, it’s nothing awesome nor brilliant but my boyfriend showed me the maybe most powerful tool to work with videos. It’s AVI synth. Enables you to write scripts which can do almost anything you’d like.
So we tried our best with it but the source files were already badly taken so well the result is somewhere between not bad and good.
Here’s the video of me (my hands) playing Aurora a 7 level song.
dj TAKA as he is most known is a Japanese musician contributing a lot to KONAMI’s BEMANI series games. You can find most of his songs in Beatmania IIDX games.Did you ever wonder what these people - OutPhase, Iconoclasm, DJ Amuro, TAKA, lion MUSASHI, DJ Setup, 金獅子 and Risk Junk - have in common? I personally did, because I like them all and later I found out that it is actually one composer and that his name is Takayuki Ishikawa (石川貴之) - the real name of our beloved dj TAKA.
In June this year dj TAKA released his first album called Milestone and it was a great success.
Small amount of info on Taka’s life…
Takayuki became obsessed with turntables at the age of 17. But it wasn’t his only love. He was also a passionate drummer. He became well known in Tokyo when his rock group Oblivion Dust became successful. Several years later Taka found out that for him turntables mean much more than drumming and started his DJing carrier. Soon his fame preceded him and what started as a small party for friends became a big club event.
You can visit dj Taka’s own blog at dj Taka official blog
Anyway the rest of the routine is fine and I like it^_^. Thanks to Euro B-Side.
Also please don’t mind that I stand there still for a long time after the song ends. There’s no way of cutting the stupid video…-_-
Download => Exotic Japan
BemaniTube => Exotic Japan
