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=== beatmania completeMIX English site === | === beatmania completeMIX English site === | ||
A hard-driving electronic dance groove. | A hard-driving electronic dance groove. | ||
=== beatmania CS / APPEND YebisuMIX Music Column site === | |||
==== [[Hiroyuki Togo]] ==== | |||
The other day, I was critiqued as "an excited old man" by a certain friend who read this section, and I'm feeling somewhat remorseful... how are all of you doing today? Are you excited? "YAY!"<br> | |||
... The way in which I wrote incredibly stiff sentences in the first article about breakbeats certainly broke down with each follow-up, and I've put a stop to the lame old man jokes. I'll regain my composure here and live seriously from now on (but if the material runs out, I'll probably run back to the jokes...). | |||
Now then, over to the meaning of "minimal" in the Bemani (!) genre name that is MINIMAL TECHNO MIX. Speaking musically, "minimal" refers to a form in which a single sound form or motif is repeated over and over. Steve Reich and Brian Eno are among the famous forefathers of the iconic "minimal" method.<br> | |||
In traditional genres like pop, rock, and classic, melodies basically have several kinds of structures; with pop for example, it has progressions like "Intro > A-Melo > B-Melo > Hook > Interlude" and so on.<br> | |||
The "minimal" method, however, is based on a completely different set of values: a sense of emptiness stemming from a repetition that rejects narrative structure, and a masochistic elation (?) coming from it being endlessly repeated, you might say... I ended up expressing it rather crudely, but to sum it up, they're conventional ways of making it easier to dance or enter a trance, and are incorporated in modern techno, hip-hop, and others. | |||
Lyrical music, which has progression, is still at my core, and I'm also still somewhat of an amateur (?), so when I create a song that repeats just one motif, I am plagued with nervous thoughts like, "Am I not doing enough to earn the reward I get for this job?" or "Aren't listeners going to get tired of this?" Yep, I'm a great person filled to the brim with the service mindset (... sorry, I got carried away again).<br> | |||
However, creating good phrases that won't tire the listener, and can withstand repetition, is also difficult; it's rather tough work because you're creating them while listening to them again and again. Therefore, it isn't taking shortcuts! ... Ahem. | |||
If you think about it, that ape-like feeling of pleasure at continuing to press buttons may be one of the things that makes beatmania interesting, but life is better when it's full of changes, and isn't something flat and minimal (... that wasn't a coherent conclusion). | |||
''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 == | ||