Keitaro Ujiie
Keitaro Ujiie
Artist Information
- Name: Keitaro Ujiie (氏家慶太郎)
- Birthday: February 23rd, 1997
- X: https://x.com/ujicosnail, https://x.com/ujwaon
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/loudnessfete
- SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/ujico, https://soundcloud.com/stripecat
- Bandcamp: https://0101.bandcamp.com, https://stripecat.bandcamp.com
Profile
Keitaro Ujiie is a music artist based in the city of Tokyo. As opposed to many of the more club-focused or event-oriented artists, his presence is mostly felt through the internet. Ujiie's music is primarily concept-based and is separated into multiple projects. The first is Ujico*, fusing electronic sound with themes and elements of story/world-building. As part of the more concept-focused approach, genres can often vary between glitch hop, trance, post-rock, and many more depending on whatever suits the production.
In mid-2014, a new project under the name of Snail's House was born. Snail's House, in some ways, can be seen as an opposite to Ujico*, distancing itself from the grander scale of music and focusing its themes on smaller, everyday things. In particular, Snail's House is known for its candied style of music, but much like Ujico*, varies in genre and style depending on its theme and concepts. With constant release after release, the popularity of Snail's House has exponentially increased over the years through a variety of platforms.
Keitaro also makes music under the alias of StripeCat, which is focused on a dirtier, more distorted style of bass music. He is affiliated with a variety of labels (Diverse System, Attack The Music, and wavforme to name a few), but mostly releases music independently.
Trivia
- Keitaro cites wac as one of his many musical influences.
- Much of his music as Snail's House is often associated with anime-esque visuals, but Keitaro says that they've never really been a big draw of inspiration for him.
- Keitaro has also made contributions to BANDAI NAMCO's DEN-ON-BU media mix project, THE IDOLM@STER MILLION LIVE! and 太鼓の達人, Rayark's Deemo and VOEZ, and SEGA's CHUNITHM.
Aliases
- Snail's House
- Ujico*
BEMANI Songs
Song | Artist | Game | Genre | Composition | Arrangement |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Magical | Snail's House | beatmania IIDX 24 SINOBUZ | KAWAII FUTURE BASS | ✓ | ✓ |
お菓子の王国 | Snail's House | beatmania IIDX 26 Rootage | SPEED CANDY | ✓ | ✓ |
smooooch・∀・ (Snail's House Remix) | Remixed by Snail's House | beatmania IIDX 28 BISTROVER | CANDY RAVE BASS | - | ✓ |
Zenith | Snail's House | beatmania IIDX 28 BISTROVER | PLUS ONE | ✓ | ✓ |
魔法のかくれんぼ | Snail's House | beatmania IIDX 28 BISTROVER | FANTASY TOYPOP | ✓ | ✓ |
VR - Virtual Reality (prod.by Snail's House) | KMNZ | beatmania IIDX 29 CastHour | DANCE MUSIC | ✓ | ✓ |
青の洞窟 | Ujico* | beatmania IIDX 29 CastHour | AQUARIUM QUARTERSTEP | ✓ | ✓ |
AWA AWA | Snail's House | beatmania IIDX 30 RESIDENT | BOSSA NA NOKA | ✓ | ✓ |
惑星鉄道 | Snail's House | beatmania IIDX 31 EPOLIS | PROLOGUE | ✓ | ✓ |
ELYSIUM | Snail's House | beatmania IIDX 32 Pinky Crush | RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES | ✓ | ✓ |
BLSTR | Ujico* | DanceDanceRevolution A20 | - | ✓ | ✓ |
Pixel Galaxy | Snail's House | ポラリスコード | - | ✓ | ✓ |
Discography
Albums
Ujico*
- Aerie (2013)
- PF*ADDICTION (2014)
- Storyteller (2014)
- 空中都市 (2015)
- [FLOWERS] (2017)
- WonderWorld (2017)
Snail's House
- Ordinary Songs (2016)
- Snö (2018)
- L'ete (2018)
- scenery (2019)
- Imaginarium (2020)
- THE IDOLM@STER LIVE THE@TER PERFORMANCE Remix 03 Remixed by Snail's House & Friends (2021, with sky_delta, nyankobrq, Nor, Getty and Tanchiky)
- THE IDOLM@STER LIVE THE@TER HARMONY Remix 05 Remixed by Snail's House & Friends (2022, with Nor, nyankobrq, yukiyanagi, Sober Bear, Tsubusare BOZZ, 5u5h1 and KOTONOHOUSE)
EP
Ujico*
- VASS DROPPER (2014)
- VASS DROPPER 2 (2014)
- Goodbye, Our World EP (2014)
- Summer Nostalgia EP (2014)
- VASS DROPPER 3 (2015)
- -PROGRESS- (2015)
- Dream Castle EP (2016)
- 妖 -AYAKASHI- (2020)
Snail's House
- Kirara EP (2015)
- Kawaii Collective (2015)
- Sweety Sweety (2015)
- Love Story (2016)
- Ordinary Songs 2 (2016)
- Pixel Galaxy (2017)
- Ordinary Songs 3 (2017)
- エイリアン☆ポップ (2017)
- Ordinary Songs 4 (2018)
- エイリアン☆ポップ II (2019)
- エイリアン☆ポップ III (2019)
- Love Magic (2019)
- Ordinary Songs 5 (2020)
- ujbeats vol.1 (2020)
- Love Songs (2021)
- Pâtisserie Snail (2021)
StripeCat
- WATCHING YOU FROM THE DARK (2018)
Singles
Snail's House
- Ma Chouchoute (2015)
- Grape Soda (2015)
- Pixel Dream (2015)
- First Love (2016)
- Dream Princess feat. 初音ミク (2016)
- Balloons (2016)
- Sparkle (2017)
- Pastel (2017, with Moe Shop)
- Journey (2017, with in love with a ghost)
- .。:+*mal d'amour.。:+* (2018)
- BLITZ (2021)