beatmania IIDX 26 Rootage (AC)

Seeing how we got two legendaria charts, I'm gonna guess no revival this time around.

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NEW ARC SCORE COMING 8/1

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ARC SCORE HAPPY SKY. Also there's 3 versions of the song based on difficulty ala Scripted Connection.

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Welcome back HS bgm select!


Nice video pays tribute to HS videos.

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Since SINOBUZ (or maybe in the beginning of Rootage) I've been so hyped about a song in IIDX.

GENE is pure gold and rocks so hard in all the 3 versions of the song (For those who didn't know, GENE changes between difficulty like Scripted Connection or almost all the Tatsh/DJ Murasame songs)

Gene's amazing; kinda reminds me of Rock It by Hommarju (Wouldn't be surprised if he's Vincent Ganatch).



Here's the "full version".

Some people on twitter are saying that Vincent Ganatch might be Tatsh.

It can't be because isn't be blacklisted from Konami? I'm leaning towards Hommarju considering how diverse he is.

Why would Tatsh be blacklisted? He left Konami in 2007, but did commissioned songs from 2010 to 2013.

^ this
he also appeared on sdvx recently although the song wasn't made for the game per say
A pink pong song got revived, dj Simon came back in pop n music, etc
there's no blacklisting, Konami was just a lil' salty they left for a while that's it, that's how japanese company is can be sometimes, they don't like it if a worker of theirs willingly leaves them

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That, and I think Konami miiight some pride issues, as well. A good chunk of their artists have either joined other labels or started their own because they'd own the rights to their music, thus making Beatnation Records a much less sweet deal by comparison.

The number of artists who work at Konami are probably a lot smaller than there were 10 years ago, so that's why they applied the "Bemani Sound Team" moniker.

But that's just my theory.

They're still bigger than they were in the late 90s when they started. A lot of earlier BEMANI composers were just people who already worked on other video games. Very few were just hired to work at BEMANI as in-house staff at the time, with rare exceptions like DJ Simon and Hideyuki Ono. Off the top of my head, we still got among in-house composers:

DJ Yoshitaka
dj TAKA
L.E.D.
Nekomata Master
wac
Akhuta
SYUNN
HuΣeR
Sota Fujimori
U1-ASAMi
TAG
Mutsuhiko Izumi
Yoshihiko Koezuka
Asaki
Yuei Uematsu
MarL
PON
Des-ROW
Qrispy Joybox (albeit just under TATSUYA now)
S-C-U
Gekidan Record
Yuuya (joined in 2018)
Time Capsule Lab (joined sometime around 2017)
Seiya Murai
TOMOSUKE
DJ TOTTO
PHQUASE (joined in 2017)

Delabity Laboratory floor 3 is live. Unlocks:

[EURO DYNAMITE] Night! Night! Night! / MM
[ELEMENTAL JIG] The Sealer ～ア・ミリアとミリアの民～ / Zektbach [from pop'n music]
[SPEED CANDY] お菓子の王国 / Snail's House
[JAPANESE POPS] 泰東ノ翠霞 / bermei.inazawa/feat. 霜月はるか [from CS 10th style]
[JAZZY HOLIC] Please Welcome Mr.C / C-Show

Found footage of Night! Night! Night! and 泰東ノ翠霞. I was expecting Endless Summer Story to get revived but 泰東ノ翠霞 is fine.

Night Night Night is superb!



A banger as well!

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I can't be the only one getting Naoki vibes from Night Night Night, right? I hear Dynamite Rave and B4U in there, and more too.

Well its genre is EURO DYNAMITE (I mean, it samples the drums from DYNAMITE RAVE) and the artist is MM (I legit read it as NM at first)

This is 255 all over again

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Candy kingdom!!! It's the cutest and best song of the event!!!

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I thought MM would be for Mayumi Morinaga, she's probably the one singing. Have we gotten a confirmation on 255 by the way?

I'd be shocked if 255 was by anyone but Ryu.

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