Genki Hikota
Genki Hikota
Artist Information
- Name: Genki Hikota (彦田元気)
- Birthday: July 23rd, 1990
- Homepage: http://djgenki.net/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/genkianamei, https://twitter.com/Gram_Requiem (Gram)
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DJ_Genki
- SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/genkianamei
Profile
Genki Hikota is a Japanese UK hardcore and J-rock producer affiliated to Hifumi,inc.. He owns the SKETCH UP! Recordings label alongside Kento Oizumi and is a member of the HARDCORE TANO*C circle. He appears on several doujin circles, Massive Circlez and S2TB Recording to name a few, and he's part of the GAT trio alongside doujin artists aran and Ryosuke Tachibana. He also appears on commercial releases. As of late 2016, he started to use the SKETCH UP! Recordings' DJGenki sub-label for his releases.
Rarely, he makes tracks close to the frenchcore genre. As of late 2014, he's one of the producers and guitarists of the utaite metal band GRILLED MEAT YOUNGMANS and as of 2015, he's one as well for the Genki-kun Band (元気くんバンド) which comprises Yukacco, Masaya Oya and Ayato Homma. He has also been using his Spada†leggendaria alias, Gram, more frequently outside of BEMANI, primarily for symphonic psycore songs.
Trivia
- Genki is an extremely skilled beatmania IIDX player, able to full combo the Single Player Black ANOTHER charts of ICARUS and 卑弥呼.
- According to Genki in a 4gamer interview alongside Toshiyuki Kakuta and Yoshitaka Nishimura, the song 冥 was what inspired him to compose music.
- He also mentioned on his twitter that he played pop'n music as an elementary school student (the same post also confirmed that he was CapsColte).
- Genki is a member of a band HYPERNOVA but strangely credited separately in BEMANI.
- Genki is named as the advisor of the APINA VRAMeS team for BEMANI PRO LEAGUE 2021 and BEMANI PRO LEAGUE -SEASON 2- event.
- Genki has also made contributions to BANDAI NAMCO's THE IDOLM@STER MILLION LIVE! and 太鼓の達人 series, Bushiroad's D4DJ Groovy Mix, SEGA's CHUNITHM and オンゲキ series, and TAITO's GROOVE COASTER series.
- Genki has also composed You Only Live Once, the ending theme of the Yuri!!! on ICE (ユーリ!!! on ICE) anime series.
- He also composed music for the anime adaptation of Paripi Koumei (パリピ孔明, also known as Ya Boy Kongming).
- According to Genki, in his pop music production, the chiptune elements and melody lines are influenced by mint candy ☆ citrus drop, cartoon or carnival elements by BABY P, and the sense of rhythm by Healing Vision ～Angelic mix～ [1].
Aliases
- DJ Genki
- CapsColte (with vocalist Yukacco)
- Gram
- 元気くんバンド
- 元祖ボーイズ男子ボーイズ (member of)
BEMANI Songs
Discography
Albums
- FirstDate (2012)
- Starry Orange (2014)
- Prizmatic! (2015, with Yukacco)
- REALIZE (2015)
- The Requiem (2017, as Gram)
- ULTRA HAPPY COLLECTION!!! (2017)
- Reflection of (2018, with Yukacco)
- DJ Genki ULTRA BEST (2018)
- Odin (2019, as Gram)
- ULTIMATE HAPPY CARNIVAL (2021)
- ミラクルポップ☆アドベンチャー!!!!! (2023)
- XODUS (2023, with DJ Myosuke, as Gram)
- Vivid Refrain (2024)
- Abyss (2024, as Gram)
EP
- GAT01 (2013, as GAT)
- GAT02 (2013, as GAT)
- GAT03 (2014, as GAT)
- GRILLED MEAT YOUNGMANS (2014)
- GAT04 (2015, as GAT)
- 元気くんバンドEP (2015, as 元気くんバンド)
- 元気くんバンドEP2 (2016, as 元気くんバンド)
- 葛西ハーコーズEP (2016, as 葛西ハーコーズ)
- TIERRA EP (2016)
- GAT Until 01 (2016, as GAT)
- 葛西ハーコーズEP2 (2017, as 葛西ハーコーズ)
- 葛西ハーコーズEP3 KASAI BASEBALL CLASSIC (2018, as 葛西ハーコーズ)
- FUSION AXELL EP (2019)
- こげみょー家 (2020, as こげみょー屋)
Singles
- Shiny Memory (2018, with USAO and Yukacco)
- WILD PITCH (2022, as 葛西ハーコーズ with Yuta Imai)
- 幻想のRebellion feat.Valkyria (2023, with DJ Myosuke)
- Σ (2023, with DJ Myosuke and t+pazolite, as Gram)
- ホムラ (2024, as G'z with Yukacco)
- Caduceus (2024, as レクイエムズ)