Era (nostalmix)

era (nostalmix)

Song Information

Artist: TaQ
Composition/Arrangement: TaQ Sakakibara
BPM: 90-180
Length: 1:51
Genre: DRUM'N BASS
VJ: VJ GYO
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 3rd style
Other Music Game Appearances:

• beatmania III APPEND CORE REMIX
• DanceDanceRevolution 4thMIX

Lyrics

None

Song Connections / Remixes

• A different version of era (nostalmix), titled era (step mix), appears on beatmania IIDX 4th style.
• A live version of era (nostalmix) appears on TaQ's bounce connected album.
• era (nostalmix)'s ANOTHER charts sound significantly different from other Single/Doubles charts, and they are entitled era (step remix).

Trivia

• Prior to beatmania IIDX 9th style, era (nostalmix)'s BPM was displayed as 89-179. However, its actual BPM is 90-180.
• Prior to beatmania IIDX 19 Lincle, era (nostalmix) is one of the few songs where its HYPER chart (12) is rated higher than the ANOTHER chart (11) in Doubles.

Song Production Information

Commentary by dj TAKA:

This track always makes me feel some sort of maddening, incredibly overwhelming energy. Only a song where the artist poured his all into production can give listeners that sort of experience. To say it frankly, I didn't really appreciate this song that much when I first heard it, but the first time I heard it come from the machine, it sent shivers down my spine. It's kind of hard on 7KEYS, but I hope you'll practice it on LIGHT7 so you can pass it some time.

Video Production Information

era. Ages, epochs. The expression of the passing of ages is what first started the spell. That is, I felt history spreading itself out from one point to another, following a catalog of "eras" in succession. But when I listened again, I felt it was more of a song that expressed the splendour of time and space that people always feel. In the end, I decided to visually symbolize the various sounds and phrases that occur throughout the song. I wasn't really pleased with certain elements of the video, but I was relieved to hear TaQ's response to it. He had told me in an email earlier that he really liked blue, so he seemed pleased with the fact that I used it as the base color throughout the video. He also seemed pleased with things like the passages where the woman was falling (doesn't she look like a sculpture filled with water?).

Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)

Game	SP Difficulty				DP Difficulty
	Beginner	Normal	Hyper	Another	Normal	Hyper	Another
Notecounts	137	437	555	786	437	952	1226
beatmania IIDX 10th style	?	5	7	N/A	5	8	N/A
beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED	1	5	7	N/A	5	↑8+	N/A
beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY	1	5	↑8	↑9	5	↑11	↑11
beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD	↑2	5	8	9	5	11	11
beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD	-	5	8	9	5	11	11
beatmania IIDX 15 DJ TROOPERS→18 Resort Anthem	-	5	8	9	5	↑12	11
beatmania IIDX 19 Lincle→Present	-	5	8	9	5	12	↑12
beatmania IIDX 3rd style CS	-	5	7	7	5	7	7
beatmania IIDX 5th style CS	-	5	7	7	5	7	7
beatmania IIDX 7th style CS	-	5	7	7	5	7+	7+
beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD CS	2	5	8	9	5	11	11
beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS + PREMIUM BEST	2	5	8	9	5	12	11