Reo Nagumo: Difference between revisions

Reo Nagumo (born November 20th, 1973) joined KONAMI in February of 1996. He can be considered the grandfather of BEMANI as he was one of the co-creators of [[AC bm 1st|beatmania]] in 1997. He was also the first sound director, the first in-house composer, and did the first title screen music. He's also the only BEMANI composer to sound direct all three beatmania series, as well as write songs for the short-lived ''ParaParaParadise''. His musical styles are especially focused on rave and pop music, though he dabbled in a few other genres as well.

In October of 2000, Reo Nagumo left KONAMI to work for Sony Computer Entertainment as a director. However, he continued to provide tracks as a commission artist until 2006 for beatmnaia IIDX and 2007, for pop'n music. He also did a remix of [[GRADIUSIC CYBER]] for once-colleague [[Takayuki Ishikawa|dj TAKA]]'s album [[milestone]] in 2007. In 2008, all of his post-[[AC 4th style|4th style]] songs were removed from [[AC EMPRESS|beatmania IIDX]], and the following year so were all of his songs in [[AC DDR X|DanceDanceRevolution]] (and quite a few in [[PnM AC 17|pop'n music]] as well).

It was hinted that he inherited a sushi restaurant (see the [[Tiger yamato#Music_Production Info|music production Info for tiger yamato]]), though this was later proven untrue. Since March of 2003, Reo is the CEO of a Japanese company called Yudo Ltd., and wrote music for the WiiWare/iPhone series Aero Revolution. A link to an article on this can be found [http://fingergaming.com/2009/01/reo-nagumo-returns-to-rhythm-gaming-with-aero-series/ here].