Illuminate

Not to be confused with illumina.

illuminate

Song Information

Artist: Sota Fujimori
Composition/Arrangement: Sota Fujimori
BPM: 146
Length: 2:04
Genre: SYNTHETIC EDM
VJ: Fukutomi WAVE (location test), Taiyo Yamamoto (final release)
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 22 PENDUAL
Other Music Game Appearances: None.

Lyrics

None.

Song Connections / Remixes

• A long version of illuminate, titled illuminate -Extended Mix-, appears on Sota Fujimori's fifth album, SYNTHESIZED5.

Trivia

• illuminate is one of the PRESENT Phase exclusive songs of beatmania IIDX 22 PENDUAL.
  • In the location test version of beatmania IIDX 22 PENDUAL, illuminate was a FUTURE Phase exclusive song instead.
• illuminate had a generic video in the location test of beatmania IIDX 22 PENDUAL. It received its own unique video in the final release.

Song Production Information

Sota Fujimori

So Nekomata Master is going into electro house? When I received the request to make a song, they wanted me to make an electro house song but it ended up something far different (laughs).
While I added elements of EDM to the song, I really put a lot of my personality into the song.
Once the track was finished, the song was released in October.
SYNTHESIZED 5 contains the long version of the song, so please check it out.

Video Production Information

Taiyo Yamamoto

Recently, my popularity has exploded like a planet Yara, so I was contacted into doing a 2nd season here.
I feel that I had a few good years for myself, so I decided to make this.

So, when I was working in this song, I noticed that few movies in IIDX that emphasized color.
The word illuminate means lighting up something, so I wanted to show how items would behave when different types of light shined on them.

If you look carefully, the sequences from this movie are linked to the movie in subtractive and some of the sequences can be linked together.
It may make the movie sequences more interesting for you in the beginning.

Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd and TexTage.cc.)

Game	SP Difficulty					DP Difficulty
	BEGINNER	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA
Notecounts / Backspin Scratches	-	316 / 1	817 / 1	1172 / 1	297 / 1	832 / 1	1250 / 1	{{{8}}}	{{{9}}}
beatmania IIDX 22 PENDUAL	-	3	8	10	3	8	11	{{{9}}}	{{{10}}}
beatmania IIDX 23 copula→Present	-	3	8	10	3	↑9	11	{{{9}}}	{{{10}}}