In-house Dance Game Musicians: Good/Bad Points?

Darwin (Is he an external artist who writes songs for Konami?):
Good - His happy hardcore music is really uplifting and makes you want to play the song
Bad - Apart from the L'amour remix, all his DDR songs so far sound almost exactly the same.

Shawn the Horny Master:
Good - His house songs are very well composed.
Bad - Pity there are only TWO DDR songs with his name on it (Fly Away remix and Scorching Moon).

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Yes.

Also that revived song of his on IIDX GOLD has a fucking terrible chart.
But otherwise it's kinda cool.

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Big Idea (COMMISSIONED ARTIST)
Good: Brings a lot of musical variety to DDR (and in the case of TOE JAM, IIDX)
Bad: Haven't made a song for Konami since Ultramix 3

You forgot abour Return of the Toe Jam on Universe 1! I loved that song!

Big Idea has a few songs appearing in DDR Universe 3

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Hirofumi Sasaki

Good : His songs always complex but nice to hear. Many hi-hat or snare hits on his songs.

Bad : His songs always hard on GF/DM even on Basic but not in DDR Extreme.


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Good : their song usually hard trance or ordinary trance.

Bad : their hard trance had many repetitive sounds.

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You know that this is Shoichiro Hirata right? Who has plenty of songs under his own name, ans also Sho-T.

I forgot about Return of the Toe Jam.

And I didn't know about them being in Universe 3. i don't own an XBOX 360 yet.

I disagree. They actually make hard trance sound good (see No God from the MAX3 sim pack). That's also why I like Tomosuke: His songs make various genres seem interesting.

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Amen to that. It's why I like Osamu Kubota.

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