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Asaki (あさき) is an artist hired by Konami Corporation to create music for their Bemani game series. His lyrics are mostly ballad based and sung in a scat singing style (indeed, many listeners have a hard time understanding his singing), while his music incorporated the style of Japanese Visual kei, classical Japanese, classical European, and jazz, with most of his music appearing in the Guitar Freaks/Drummania series. He also did Elegy (Shiawase wo utau uta), Lament (Shizuku) and Enzetsu (Saru no kyou) for the Pop'n Music series, as well as Industrial Review (Kigonshu) for the beatmania IIDX series. Compared to most other Bemani musicians, he's the most reclusive, and is quite unheard of in North America, especially among bemani fans who do not play Drummania often. This is due to the fact that most of his songs are featured on Drummania and are very difficult, and thus not commonly heard by beginners.

About all that is known about Asaki is that he likes curry and cats, and was quoted in a Konami interview that he had previously been a bassist in a visual kei band. He also composes his own music, writes his own lyrics, and plays all of his own instruments. Even in a recently publicized photo, his face was covered up with a cat plushie.

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[edit] Songs

This is a list of most of Asaki's works, using his own name, and appear in the game:

  • Sanagi (蛹) (Guitar Freaks 7th Mix & DruMmania 6th Mix/Guitar Freaks & DrumMania MASTERPIECE GOLD)
  • Tsuminagara...to kanojo waifu (ツミナガラ...と彼女は謂ふ) (Guitar Freaks 8th mix & DrumMania 7th Mix/Guitar Freaks & DrumMania MASTERPIECE GOLD)
  • Gekkou chou (月光蝶) (Guitar Freaks 9th mix & DrumMania 8th Mix/Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA/pop'n music ee'MALL/Guitar Freaks & DrumMania MASTERPIECE SILVER)
  • Shiawase wo utau uta (幸せを謳う詩) (pop'n music 10)
  • Konoko no nanatsu no oiwaini (この子の七つのお祝いに) (Guitar Freaks 10th mix & DrumMania 9th Mix/Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA/Guitar Freaks & DrumMania MASTERPIECE GOLD)
  • Agnus Dei (Guitar Freaks 10th mix & DrumMania 9th Mix/beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY/Guitar Freaks & DrumMania MASTERPIECE SILVER) (Instrumental)
  • Akai suzu (赤い鈴) (Guitar Freaks 11th mix & DrumMania 10th mix/Guitar Freaks & DrumMania MASTERPIECE GOLD)
  • Hotaru (蛍) (Guitar Freaks V2 & DrumMania V2)
  • Shizuku (雫) (pop'n music 12 IROHA)
  • Neji no hito (螺子之人) (KONAMI ee'MALL 2nd Avenue/Guitar Freaks & DrumMania MASTERPIECE SILVER)
  • Saru no kyou (猿の経) (pop'n music 14 FEVER!)
  • Kito ni tsugu (虧兎に告ぐ) (Guitar Freaks V3 & DrumMania V3)
  • Kigonshu (鬼言集) (beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD)

[edit] Discography

Asaki released his first album, "Shinkyoku" (神曲) (officially pronounced as Shinkyoku) in September 16, 2005. The CD track list is the following:

  1. Sanagi (蛹)
  2. Hotaru (蛍)
  3. Shiawase wo utau uta (幸せを謳う詩)
  4. Konoko no nanatsu no oiwaini (この子の七つのお祝いに)
  5. Yogo no oto (予後の音)
  6. Gekkou chou (月光蝶)
  7. Akai suzu (赤い鈴)
  8. Shizuku (雫)
  9. Shinkyoku (神曲)
  10. Sorasumi no hiyodori to (空澄みの鵯と)

The album title, which translates to "Divine Songs", is a pun; pronounced "shinkyoku", or "new song", it can refer to a type of music for the shakuhachi, which would refer to his zen-influenced music. Incidentally, 神曲 is the Japanese title for Aligheri's Divine Comedy.

[edit] Other works

[edit] Cover

  • Romance (ロマンス)(GF8th / dm7th: as Captain Rock, cover/singing PENICILLIN)
  • BEAMS (GF9th / dm8th： covering as Captain Rock, covering Kuroyume)

[edit] Under other names

  • Hana no uta (花の唄) (GF9th / dm8th: arrange for Chi-chan)
  • Onihime (鬼姫) (GF11th / dm10th: original as 鬼の子合唱団 (Devil's Choir))
  • mushroom boy (GFV / dmV: original, singing and arranging)
  • Plastic Umbrella (GFV / dmV: original, arranging as Chico)
  • Micro fin（GFV3 / DMV3 : original, arranging as Rotten Blotch）

[edit] Collaboration

  • Dare? (誰?) (GF7th/DM6th: with Handsome JET Project)
  • Wasuremono (わすれもの) (GF8th/DM7th, power-up ver.: with Handsome JET Project feat.みずしな孝之)
  • Shun teki ai ka (JET LOVE) [瞬的愛歌(JET LOVE)] (GF9th/DM8th: with Handsome JET Project/コーラス)
  • Helicopter (ヘリコプター) (GF10th/DM9th: lyrics, working as Pink Capsule)
  • Kagonotori (カゴノトリ) (GF10th/DM9th: working with Orange Special Lounge)
  • Handsome JET L-Project (GF10th/SM9th: with Handsome JET Project）
  • Futari wa love love (kari) [二人はラブラブ(仮)] (GF11th/DM10th: with Handsome JET Project）
  • Kotatsu to mikan (こたつとみかん) (GF11th/DM10th/pm12: with Pink Capsule）
  • Meikyou shisui (明鏡止水) (pm10/GF11th/DM10th: with Tomosuke Funaki）
  • Aishuu no korigorira (哀愁のコリゴリラ) (GFV/DMV: with ハンサムジェットプロジェクト and みずしな孝之）
  • Hitori botchi (ひとりぼっち) (GFV/DMV:with Pink Capsule）
  • Junbenka (純勉夏) (ee'MALL 2nd Avenue: with ションボリくらぶ and ジェットさん）
  • You can't do it if you try (GFV/DMV: with 遠藤一馬）
  • Die Zauberflöte(GFV/DMV: with わんにゃん☆パニックス）
  • Cashless wa aijoukesu tissue (キャッシュレスは愛情消すティッシュ: literally translated as "Cashless is a tissue that cancels love")(IIDX 12 - HAPPY SKY: with GINGER and Jimmy Weckl）
  • ShinchoushinTION (真超深TION) (pm13カーニバル; GFDM V2 (\真超深TION\): with Des-ROW (右寺修))
  • Ru-Ru-Ru（GFV3 / DMV3 : with Sis Bond Chit）
  • four-leaf (beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD : with Sis Bond Chit)

[edit] Trivia

  • He is sometimes depicted as a cat with the letter "A" on its forehead
  • Based from Asaki's comment on the song "ONIHIME" (from GF11DM10), "ONINOKO GASHODAN" is "12 Asakis". [１２人くらいのあさき]
  • Asaki is a member of わんにゃん☆パニックス (the group who did Die Zauberflöte), along with Hideyuki Ono and TOMOSUKE.

[edit] External links

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