Yusuke Ishiwata

Yusuke Ishiwata

Artist Information

• Name: Yusuke Ishiwata
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/com_giko_31
• SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/xi_com_giko_31

Profile

Yusuke Ishiwata is a Japanese music producer known for his Be-Music Source Files (BMS) and for his appearances in Rayark Games' rhythm series Cytus, which made him quite popular. Yusuke Ishiwata almost always writes piano and artcore songs, however he's recently producing under various electronic genres.

He was a member of the 100sec Records label until March 31st, 2014 and currently is a member of the Diverse System label.

Trivia

• xi is pronounced "sai".
• Until TU-MA-MI△ALL-NIGHTER (which had a Level 14 EXHAUST chart), all of Yusuke's songs in the SOUND VOLTEX series had EXHAUST charts rated Level 15 (in the Level 1 to 15 scale).
• SOLID STATE SQUAD is Yusuke's favorite beatmania IIDX song, as noted on the BEMANI ULTIMATE REMIXes album site.
  • He also remixed the song for the above album, under the title SOLID STATE SQUAD -RISEN RELIC REMIX-.

Aliases

• xi
• Diceros Bicornis (with BlackY)
• xi underground
• Mastermind (with nora2r)

BEMANI Songs

Song	Artist	Game	Genre	Composition	Arrangement
Singularity	xi	jubeat clan	-	✓	✓
Fiat Lux	xi	SOUND VOLTEX II -infinite infection-	-	✓	✓
Innocent Tempest	Diceros Bicornis	SOUND VOLTEX II -infinite infection-	-	✓	✓
Quietus Ray	xi	SOUND VOLTEX II -infinite infection-	-	✓	✓
Wish upon Twin Stars	xi	SOUND VOLTEX II -infinite infection-	-	✓	✓
Halcyon	xi	SOUND VOLTEX III GRAVITY WARS	-	✓	✓
Inixia	xi	SOUND VOLTEX III GRAVITY WARS	-	✓	✓
Parousia	xi	SOUND VOLTEX III GRAVITY WARS	-	✓	✓
Time to Air -Fly High Remix-	xi	SOUND VOLTEX III GRAVITY WARS	-	-	✓
TU-MA-MI△ALL-NIGHTER	xi underground	SOUND VOLTEX III GRAVITY WARS	-	✓	✓
Aragami	xi	SOUND VOLTEX IV HEAVENLY HAVEN	-	✓	✓
Dreadnought	Mastermind(xi+nora2r)	SOUND VOLTEX IV HEAVENLY HAVEN	-	✓	✓
Failnaught	xi	SOUND VOLTEX IV HEAVENLY HAVEN	-	✓	✓
FREEDOM DiVE	xi	SOUND VOLTEX IV HEAVENLY HAVEN	-	✓	✓
Last Resort	xi	SOUND VOLTEX IV HEAVENLY HAVEN	-	✓	✓
Aerial Fortress	xi	SOUND VOLTEX VIVID WAVE	-	✓	✓
Calamity Tempest	Diceros Bicornis	SOUND VOLTEX VIVID WAVE	-	?	?
ЯeviveR	Diceros Bicornis	SOUND VOLTEX VIVID WAVE	-	✓	-
?	xi	SOUND VOLTEX VIVID WAVE	-	-	✓
Bad Elixir	xi	SOUND VOLTEX EXCEED GEAR	-	✓	✓
Grand Chariot	xi	(NEW GENERATION 夏の流星フェスタ2016)	HARD ART CORE	✓	✓
Solar Storm	xi 「グルーヴコースター3 リンクフィーバー」より	(天下一音ゲ祭)	-	✓	✓

Discography

Albums

• Parousia (2011)
• Agartha (2013)
• World Fragments (2015)
• Evolved Chronicles (2016)
• Quietus Ray (2018)
• のらねこさい まとめ (2019, with ねこみりん and nora2r)