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New English translations for Song Production Information (original Japanese source: beatmania Append GOTTAMIX official website)
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== Song Production Information == | == Song Production Information == | ||
=== beatmania Append GOTTAMIX === | |||
==== Togo of "Togo Project" ==== | |||
R&B is shaking up the modern J-POP scene. | |||
The debut of Hikaru Utada definitely had a lot to do with it, but now artists are popping up like mushrooms in a rainy forest... Even looking at the charts, they used to be dominated by Komuro-style dance pop until just recently, but now I can feel the march of time. Record companies may make themselves more popular just by crowning themselves as a "female R&B vocalist" label, but there's just so many of them that I get a little fed up. | |||
"R&B... Popular Black American music that debuted in the 1940s. Due to the sheer diversity in musical and performance styles - such as harmonic ballads, or jump blues in jazz combo form - no clear criteria for a definition has been established." | |||
(Excerpt from 'beatmania GOTTAMIX Official Guide', published by NTT) | |||
... So it says. The characteristics of Japan's currently popular J-R&B genre are as follows. | |||
1) Female vocalists with emotional singing and a sense of fashion both styled after Black women. | |||
2) A slightly bouncy groove of around 100 BPM. The rhythm tracks use methods from breakbeats. | |||
3) A "sad" minor seventh cyclical chord progression. ("Minor seventh" being the name of a musical chord, not a new version of 'Ultra Seven'...) | |||
4) Simple bass phrases. The backing is somewhat low-key. | |||
That's an explanation of the genre from a sound producer's perspective, but that's about it, right? | |||
For those of you who like the genre, your local store these days will have plenty of CDs lined up, so listen to a wide variety of albums. | |||
In 'Hunting for you' for GOTTAMIX, I used a sequencer to compose everything except for the guitar. | |||
I like the song itself, too (I actually wrote the melody some years ago, so I'm quite fond of it.) | |||
The vocalist is Megumi Oka, who's scheduled to make her CD debut with a certain major record company. The English lyrics and rapping are courtesy of the mysterious (?) DJ Scotty D. The stocky, fierce-looking character that pops up in the game during the song is actually him! (When he takes off his sunglasses, he has really gentle eyes.) | |||
A long version of the song will be included on 'GOTTAMIX Original Soundtracks' (KMCA-24 <LC428>), set to be released by Konami Music Entertainment on Friday, August 27th. | |||
The remix has tighter bass, and is a great listen, so be sure to check it out. See ya later! | |||
=== beatmania 4thMIX=== | === beatmania 4thMIX=== | ||
Here's another song ported over from GOTTAMIX on PlayStation. The track is your basic R&B number that has a catchy melody and rapping. | Here's another song ported over from GOTTAMIX on PlayStation. The track is your basic R&B number that has a catchy melody and rapping. | ||