AETHER

ÆTHER

Song Information

ÆTHER's jacket.

Artist: TAG underground
Composition/Arrangement: TAG
BPM: 192 (beatmania IIDX, REFLEC BEAT), 192-384 (DanceDanceRevolution)
Length: 2:01
Genre: ASTRAL HARDCORE
VJ: Steins
Jacket design: 07
First Music Game Appearance: REFLEC BEAT colette -Summer-
Other Music Game Appearances:

• beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA
• DanceDanceRevolution (2013)
• REFLEC BEAT plus MUSIC PACK 53
• ミライダガッキ FutureTomTom Ver.2

Lyrics

None.

Song Connections / Remixes

• ÆTHER shares some similarities with Cosmic Hurricane, from the Tsugidoka! (つぎドカ!) event.
• The beatmania IIDX version of ÆTHER has louder piano sounds in the middle of the song.
• The DanceDanceRevolution version of ÆTHER sounds slightly different from the OST version of the song.
• The ending part of ÆTHER utilizes a similar sounding portion of PARANOiA Revolution's beat structure from DanceDanceRevolution X3 VS 2ndMIX.
• A vocal version of ÆTHER by Hommarju, titled ÆTHER –Try to Sing Ver.-, can be found on the We are “Try to Singers” album.
  • An instrumental version of ÆTHER –Try to Sing Ver.- also appears on We are “Try to Singers”.

Trivia

• ÆTHER is one of the unlockable songs of the second phase of REFLEC BEAT colette -Summer-'s Pastel Adventure colette Fishing unlocking system.
  • As of REFLEC BEAT groovin'!!, ÆTHER is playable by default.
• ÆTHER is Yasuhiro Taguchi's first non-DanceDanceRevolution original song under his TAG underground alias.
  • ÆTHER is also Yasuhiro Taguchi's first song in the REFLEC BEAT series with a HARD chart rated 10+.
• According to ancient and medieval science, æther or ether is the material that fills the region of the universe above the terrestrial sphere.
• In REFLEC BEAT, ÆTHER'S BPM halves to 96 in the middle of the song.
• ÆTHER was added as a default song to beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA on March 25th, 2014, as part of the TAG seitansai (TAG生誕祭) event.
• ÆTHER is one of DanceDanceRevolution (2013)'s special EXTRA STAGE songs. It was added on March 25th, 2014, as part of the TAG's Birthday event.
  • ÆTHER and esrev:eR are the first BEMANI crossover songs in the arcade DanceDanceRevolution series that are used as EXTRA STAGE songs.
  • As of DanceDanceRevolution (2014), it can be unlocked via the EXTRA ATTACK unlocking method.
• In DanceDanceRevolution (2014), before June 17th, 2014, ÆTHER was sorted alphabetically after A Stupid Barber, which meant it was sorted as "ATHER". It is now sorted between Adularia and AFRONOVA, as "AETHER".

Song Production Information

None.

Video Production Information

None.

Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12.
DanceDanceRevolution difficulty rated from 1 to 20 from X onwards.
REFLEC BEAT to groovin'!! Upper difficulty rated from 1 to 10+, and from 1 to 12 from VOLZZA onwards. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)

beatmania IIDX

Game	SP Difficulty					DP Difficulty
	BEGINNER	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA
Notecounts	-	514	833	1440	542	839	1385	{{{8}}}	{{{9}}}
beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA→Present	-	5	8	11	5	8	11	{{{9}}}	{{{10}}}

DanceDanceRevolution

Game	Single					Double
	Beginner	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge
Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows	215 / 11	372 / 26	551 / 23	704 / 6	- / - / -	368 / 25	550 / 19	688 / 9	- / - / -
DanceDanceRevolution (2013)→Present	6	9	14	17	—	9	14	17	—

REFLEC BEAT

Game	Level
	Basic	Medium	Hard	Special
Notecounts	248	475	780	—
REFLEC BEAT colette -Summer-→Present	5	8	10+	—
REFLEC BEAT plus	5	8	10+	—