Move Me

Move Me

Song Information

Artist: good-cool feat. Raj Ramayya
Composition/Arrangement: Tatsuya Furukawa
Lyrics/Vocals: Raj Ramayya
BPM: 93-186
Length: 2:03
Genre: AFRICA
Movie: F-FLY
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED
Other Music Game Appearances: None.

Lyrics

When I feeling low, I want you to know
That it comes to this oooh oh oh
When I feeling low, I want you to know
That It's you I miss

Dalailailailai...
Don't you know that you need me
Dalailailailai...
Don't you know that you move me

You're the best thing in my life ooh ooh
You're the one that moves me
You're the best thing in my life ooh ooh
You're the one that moves me

I don't need you

Song Connections / Remixes

• A long version of Move Me appears in good-cool's second album, good-cool ultra expander.
• A remix of Move Me by ELEKTEL, titled MOVE ME (PSE vs WBC mix), can be found in the V-RARE SOUND TRACK 14 CD.
• A house remix of Move Me appears in good-cool's fourth album, good-cool precious housekeeper.

Trivia

• Move Me marks Raj Ramayya's first appearance in the beatmania IIDX series.
• Move Me's video is the third part of the GLOBAL TRAVEL series, representing Africa. The GLOBAL TRAVEL series also includes 大桟橋, Les filles balancent, and Close my Eyes for Me.

Song Production Information

good-cool

TAKA's instructions were to create "a sturdy human-like sound with an African theme".

This song features the vocalist Raj Ramayya.
Raj was also in charge of the vocals for "BOBBY SUE AND SKINNY JIM" in Gitadora.
When TAKA asked me to "include a voice like that", I thought he was the only suitable person for this.
I immediately phoned Raj and went to meet him at an Indian restaurant to eat curry. Both of us became curry masters and spent nearly two hours having silly conversations which were barely related to this song, but the meeting was eventually completed successfully!! (laughs)

After that, I quickly created and submitted a song demo, but TAKA criticized it as "perhaps being a little too digital-ish".
F-FLY, who was in charge of the movie, demanded me to "redo it aga~~~in!!"... (tears)

I regained my motivation here, and created a completely brand-new song.
Firstly, I needed it to feel completely African.
One day, when I was hanging out with Ryu* and Dai-chan.
We casually passed by a general store and found a kalimba. A kalimba is an African musical instrument which has various long iron sheets lined across a wooden board.
They left it alone and looked around for nice things to buy.
I naturally didn't know how to play it, but just by playing it properly, it makes an extremely somewhat authentic-ish sound.

This feels completely African!!

I can see a herd of elephants in front of me!!

It seems I can count the stripes on a zebra from 2km away!!

That's how I completed this song, and when I finally got the OK, I was so happy that I unconsciously spoke in Swahili.

Tatsuya "good-cool" Furukawa

Raj Ramayya

Recording "Move me" with Tatsuya Furukawa was indeed a pleasure.
The song really grooves and I am sure that it will have an impact on IIDX fans around the world!
I have worked with several producer/songwriters and Tatsuya is definetly one of the coolest.
I look forward to more collaborations in the future and creating more great songs for all you game enthusiasts.

Cheers

Raj Ramayya

Video Production Information

F-FLY

>F-FLY, who was in charge of the movie, demanded me to "redo it aga~~~in!!"... (tears)
Huh!! Is this true (tears)!? Ahh~~h~~h~~ I'm sorry!!

That was the concept for the "introduction, development, turn, and conclusion" video series!
This was an innovative project "from the movie designers asking the sound designers that they would include visuals like this in their songs", but it was a difficult thing for me, who only knew music as a hobby (I played the piano until high school, and just played the guitar)...

As someone with no musical knowledge, casually suggesting "I want this kind of song" was an extre~~mely difficult thing... ignorance is scary...
To be honest, I couldn't help but feel sorry about this project...

For this "AFRICA" theme, I wanted to incorporate things which haven't currently been included in the IIDX series! So I made this suggestion. Even though beatmania has reggae songs, there hasn't been a song with this feeling?
I hope I can teach everyone about the wonderful music worldwide in this way... that's my opinion, but what do you think?

Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania IIDX difficulty rated 1 to 8+ in IIDX RED, and from 1 to 12 from HAPPY SKY onwards.

Game	SP Difficulty					DP Difficulty
	BEGINNER	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA
Notecounts	230	358	615	837	-	358	615	-	-
beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED	-	4	6	N/A	-	4	6	-	-
beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY	-	4	6	7	-	4	6	-	-
beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD	-	4	6	↑8	-	↑5	6	-	-
beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED CS	2	4	6	7	-	4	6	-	-