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→Song Production Information: English translation of "VOL.5 AMBIENT" on Music Column section of website for beatmania CS / APPEND YebisuMIX.
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=== beatmania completeMIX English site === | === beatmania completeMIX English site === | ||
You'll become addicted to the mesmerizing samples of synth-beat. | You'll become addicted to the mesmerizing samples of synth-beat. | ||
=== beatmania CS / APPEND YebisuMIX Music Column site === | |||
==== [[Hiroyuki Togo]] ==== | |||
The other day, I was invited by a young (?) friend who often goes to clubs, and so I went to an event at one.<br> | |||
The club was in Roppongi, inside a giant, lavishly decorated building that looks like it was built during the bubble era. In the basement of that building was a space that looked like ruins on the edge of a landfill, divided up into several floors. On each floor, battles between DJs of various genres were unfolding, with peculiar-looking people being free and intoxicated by the beats.<br> | |||
It's great that young kids these days do what they want with their appearance: piercings in noses, tongues, or various places (!?); shaved heads; tattoos; strange cosplays... I feel somewhat frightened writing that out... (When I was in high school, I used band-aids on my ear to hide a piercing! Back then it was still a big deal for men to get pierced!) In such a gloomy, brutal era, seeing young kids dress up and freely enjoy their own interests makes an old man envious and say, "What a great era this is, huh?" in a certain sense. | |||
Well, I got off-track there, but in such a free open space was a floor to cool yourself down when you were tired from dancing, a so-called "relaxation room (?)" where this "ambient" music (the subject of this column) was being played. Directly translated, the word "ambient" means something like an atmosphere or an environment. On the topic of environmental music, there are genres like healing and new age, but those are based on themes like naturalism, healing, returning to nature, and so on. In contrast, ambient has sort of an intoxicating feeling, like tripping on drugs (?).<br> | |||
To explain it in terms of music, it's like music that doesn't have a sense of narrative, letting you just listen to music free from modern music theory (like chord progressions) that holds conventions like rising and falling (or things like "tonic" and "dominant," in musical terms). Something like that?<br> | |||
It's incredibly difficult to explain music through words, so if you're interested, go hang out at one of those places. Games are great and all, but you've gotta go to a club! ... The life of a flower is a short one! | |||
''Until next time, have a wonderful BEAT PLAY LIFE.''<br> | |||
''(Hiroyuki Togo, Composer & Sound Director for ''beatmania'' on PlayStation)'' | |||
== Video Production Information == | == Video Production Information == | ||