Ska a gogo: Difference between revisions

This ska song was a pioneer in the BEMANI series! Were you able to experience that high-speed backbeat?

This song had the hardest difficulty level since the beginning of beatmania. The music genre called ska has a similar backbeat focus to reggae, and features a fast and light tempo, different to reggae's strong and comfortable rock influence.<br>

This song also uses plenty of ragga rap, and in contrast to the accompanying vocals and the song's laid-back composition, many players will be sent into the abyss.

I created this song for [https://web.archive.org/web/20150507183511/http://www.konami.jp/am/bm/2nd/ beatmania 2nd MIX], which led to the immediate breakthrough of music games. At that time, this song had the highest difficulty level, and it was said that the final barrage of "ska streams" was the most difficult point. It's been 10 years since then....<br>

It's been a long time since I listened to it, but oh! It's cool. While retaining the original song's phrases, does it feel like walking alone down a new life? If I compare it in human terms, isn't it similar to parents having an only child who resembles them, but cooler, and raising them to be strong, despite appearing slightly middle-aged? There's a particularly enjoyable feeling of having others arrange and remix my own songs, and this is what I love the most.

It was personally a big boss song, along with [[super highway|SUPER HIGH WAY]].<br>

At that time, I often wet my pillow when facing that last song..

Now! It's in pop'n! I thought I could clear it... even its HYPER chart was difficult to clear.<br>

(I could clear it if I used S-RANDOM, but it feels like failing...)

As expected, when I played this song's charts in pop'n, it was immersive.<br>

...The next day...<br>

I tried using the above method and slightly increased my score!<br>

It finally came! I'm happy! I played this song when my allowance was still 1000 yen! I wanted to participate just a bit, so I created a 3P color (laughs). That chicken in the background. The words appear that way.<br>

However. Well, it seems I don't have enough strength to clear this song! I have one gauge left, but....

And as a result of thinking about it, if I press 1+5 and 1+4 with my right hand, while pressing 3 with the middle finger on my left hand, oh~ wow~, how did I do that! It became easy.<br>

Do I remember SKA a gogo? OK, let's talk about it.<br>

Looking back eight years ago, I was involved in developing beatmaniaIIDX substream.<br>

Speaking of Ska, as everyone knows, it was the initial beatmania wall song, but I wasn't very familiar with beatmania at that time.<br>

I first heard about this song when working here, from the IIDXsubstream cabinet I was in charge of developing.<br>

Anyways, the up-and-coming sound designer at that time, dj TAKA, created the ANOTHER chart! I was also ordered to create a few ANOTHER charts for [[PARANOiA MAX～DIRTY MIX～|PARANOiA]], [[celebrate]], and other songs, but if I remember correctly, dj TAKA created this masterpiece of SKA a gogo's ANOTHER chart.<br>

dj TAKA was still amazed by the novel idea of the stream, said to be the final death zone which increasingly multiplies, and I rolled my tongue.<br>

Furthermore, the EX chart is the SKACORE mix from CORE REMIX, with the song title and artist name originally changed, but it was impossible to include due to hardware problems. I'm sorry, KEN MATSUMOTO.<br>

And for the difficulty levels of the HYPER and EX charts, as a result of repeated test plays, I thought about both charts having the same difficulty level from "luck" and "biorhythm dependency", but it was impossible to include due to hardware problems.