Kiyoshi Murai: Difference between revisions

* Real name: 村井清(Kiyoshi Murai)

One of pop'n music's most frequent composers, Murai's history with Konami dates back to as early as the early 1990's, where he started off doing music for various Mega Drive games and music tracks for the then popular ''Tokimeki Memorial Vocal'' CDs, as well as the 1998 Red Company-developed RPG / dating simulation ''Mitsumete Knight''. His first project for BEMANI was the 1999 [[AC pns ex|pop'n stage ex]], an updated release of [[AC pns|pop'n stage]] with two new songs, one of them being his song [[WE TWO ARE ONE]] that was soon ported to [[AC pnm 4|pop'n music 4]]. Since [[AC pnm 4|pop'n music 4]] he has appeared in every arcade entry. His style of music tends to drift more into a 1980's synth sound (as seen in his V.C.O. and ALT songs), though he's also dabbled occasionally in rock and orchestral sounding music as well.

Murai also served as head sound director of [[AC pnm 4|4]] and [[AC pnm 5|5]], as well as being the co-director of [[AC KBM 2nd|KEYBOARDMANIA 2ndMIX]] with [[Hiroki Koga|Naya~n]] and head sound director of [[AC KBM 3rd|KEYBOARDMANIA 3rdMIX]], the final entry in the series. After pop'n music 5, fellow BEMANI composer [[Jun Wakita]] would handle the sound direction of pop'n music with [[AC pnm 6|pop'n music 6]], though he continued to sound direct various pop'n music entries up to [[AC pnm 16|PARTY♪]]. Murai also appeared regularly for years in beatmania IIDX as of [[AC DistorteD|DistorteD]], and was the sound producer of the ''ミライダガッキ FutureTomTom'' series.

Sometime around late 2017, Murai was transferred from Konami Amusement to the Konami Digital Entertainment department.

* Murai has stated in an interview with the Japanese website [https://web.archive.org/web/20070815195132/http://www.gpara.com/contents/creator/bn_098.htm Gpara.com] that "Seiya" isn't his real first name.

* Murai did the rearranged pop'n music title screen theme heard in [[AC pnm 4|pop'n music 4]] and [[AC pnm 5|5]], as well as the new intro themes from [[AC pnm 9|pop'n music 9]] through [[AC pnm 12|pop'n music 12 いろは]].

* Murai is the first in-house BEMANI artist to use a VOCALOID in a song. He used Prima in [[Tekkou otome -under the steel-|鉄甲乙女 -under the steel-]] in [[AC EMPRESS|beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS]].

* Murai's V.C.O. alias is an abbreviation for "Voltage Controlled Orchestra".

** The song comments for [[A SHOOTING STAR]] note how one of Murai's first sound specific jobs at KONAMI was making new sound effects for the PC Engine Super CD ports of some of KONAMI's games, like ''GRADIUS II''.  

* One of Murai's tracks from ''Mitsumete Knight'' was later remixed in pop'n music as [[THE MAN FROM FAR EAST]].

* According to the [http://www.konami.jp/bemani/popn/music9/qa/02.html pop'n music 9 Q&A], Murai notes that the Kiyommy+Seiya alias was decided after he placed his name at the end of said alias. Originally it was intended to just be Kiyommy.

** He also mentions that his natural bear alias was named by [[Katsuhiko Suzuki|Nazo²鈴木]] after he said to Murai, "Is it a natural bear?" (ナチュラルベアでいいじゃん？).

* Murai produced music for KONAMI's arcade game ''Otoca♥d'or'' (オトカ♥ドール), which launched on March 14th, 2015, until July 2017. Its website can be found [https://www.konami.com/amusement/ac/otoca/ here].

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