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Big Idea Music Production Inc.

General Information

• Members:
  • Chuck E. Myers (Founder/Producer/Composer), Tommy Hopkins (Producer/Composer), Bjorn Thorsrud (Producer/Engineer), Brady Ellis (Composer), Lisle Moore (Composer), Walt B. Gaisford (Composer), Anthony Zito (Composer), Michael Greene (Engineer)
• Website:
  • Big Idea Inc. website
  • Big Idea Music Productions website

Profile

Big Idea Music Productions Inc. (shortened as Big Idea) is a full-service music production company founded by Chuck E. Myers. They produced mostly (?) songs for the DanceDanceRevolution series from DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX2 until DanceDanceRevolution Classroom Edition/Pocket?.

Sandbox

Independant artists who worked with Big Idea on songs:

• Eric Anthony
• Brenda Burch

BEMANI Songs

Song	Artist	Game	Genre	Composition	Arrangement	Lyrics	Vocals
Baile Le Samba	Big Idea	DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX2	SAMBA
La Cucaracha	Big Idea	-	DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX2
MAKE A JAM! (Dub/House)	Big Idea	-	DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX2
Monkey Punk	Big Idea	-	DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX2
A Dream	Big Idea	-	DanceDanceRevolution UNIVERSE3

CS DDR

• Hey, What's Your Name
• Just Pretend
• Return of the Toe Jam
• Big City Lights
• Dance Till The Sun Come Up
• Jewelya of De'Nile
• The Cult of Gnosyllis
• Rock-a-billy Willy ULTRAMIX3
• Dança de Yuka
• Lesson2 by DJ
• A Spoonful of Sugar
• Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride
• He Mele No Lilo
• A Pirate's Life
• Can You Feel The Love Tonight
• Chim Chim Cher-ee (Disney Grooves)
• Ev'rybody Wants To Be A Cat
• I Just Can't Wait To Be King
• I Wan'na Be Like You
• The Bare Necessities
• Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah (Disney Grooves)
• Mickey Mouse Club March || ♪♪♪♪♪ || - || DanceDanceRevolution Disney Grooves
• TOE JAM
• Lesson 4 Choreograph Style ♪♪♪♪♪
• The Island Song - TAG feat. Eric Anthony
• Unreal - Eric Anthony (vocals)
  • Add the other songs

Classroom Edition

• All Through The Night || Big Idea
• Bad Little Kitty || Big Idea
• BillyRock || Big Idea
• Blue Waltz || Big Idea
• Celia || Big Idea
• Don't Expect || Big Idea
• Nah Dee || Big Idea
• Next Big Thing || Big Idea
• Nightbird || Big Idea
• Opus 5 || Big Idea
• Que Pasa || Big Idea
• Return My Heart || Big Idea
• Situation Critical || Big Idea
• Someone To Love || Big Idea
• Zorba the Greek || Big Idea

DDR X

• To complete.. :)

Unlockable Songs

FINAL / EXTRA STAGE / ENCORE EXTRA STAGE

These songs are written in red instead of black in the Select Music Screen.

FINAL STAGE

Standard Mode: Getting an A on any song (on any Dance Level except BEGINNER) before the FINAL STAGE unlocks a special song for the FINAL STAGE, On The Break. The FINAL STAGE-only song difficulty will be same as the difficulty that the A was obtained on. In order to have more difficulty choices, multiple A's can be obtained on other difficulties before the FINAL STAGE. Or AA instead to unlock them all?
Battle Mode:

EXTRA STAGE

The EXTRA STAGE songs are set with a LIFE GAUGE with HOW MANY LIVES?

To access the EXTRA STAGE, On The Breaks or a song picked using Random should be cleared with a rank of A or higher first on the FINAL STAGE. Usually, SABER WING will be default song as EXTRA STAGE but other songs can be added when other conditions have been fulfilled:

• SABER WING (AKIRA ISHIHARA Headshot mix): If the difficulties of the previous songs before the EXTRA STAGE added up to number found using a special formula (13 x Number of songs played + 1).

ENCORE EXTRA STAGE

For the first time, no modifiers are locked during the ENCORE EXTRA STAGE. To access the ENCORE EXTRA STAGE, the EXTRA STAGE song have to be cleared with a rank of AA.

The default song as ENCORE EXTRA STAGE is Horatio but other songs can be unlocked depending on which of the conditions below was fulfilled:

• If SABER WING (AKIRA ISHIHARA Headshot mix) was the EXTRA STAGE then bounce will be also unlocked.
• If the result value of the special formula (Sum of the songs dance level number > 13 x Number of songs played + 1) is true, then Trigger will be unlocked.

X-Special Charts

To celebrate the 10 years of the series, all the previous boss songs received brand new CHALLENGE-only charts. These new versions are known as X-Special songs. Although the EXTRA STAGE was introduced in DanceDanceRevolution, it only made a come-back in DDRMAX. Thus, only the boss songs from DDRMAX to EXTREME are exactly in the same order as they were in their original games. For the other games, the "hardest" songs from each game were selected instead. A total of 8 set of 2 songs each from DanceDanceRevolution to EXTREME, with also 2 songs representing DanceDanceRevolution X were made. The first set was released on December 24th, 2008 and on March 16, 2009 for the remaining sets. Each set have one EXTRA STAGE and one ENCORE EXTRA STAGE song. To unlock them, special conditions related to their series of origin have to be fulfilled.

After a while, the original set of conditions were "relaxed". On October 1st, 2009, all the X-Specials songs were added for normal play and can be found in DanceDanceRevolution X folder.

Unlock Requirement

EXTRA STAGE songs

Song Unlocked	Requirement
PARANOiA(X-Special)	Before the EXTRA STAGE, clear at least one song from DDR 1st folder with AA.
SP-TRIP MACHINE(JUNGLE MIX)(X-Special)	Get an AA on PARANOiA MAX(DIRTY MIX) on the FINAL STAGE by getting in on Random
PARANOiA Rebirth (X-Special)	Before the FINAL STAGE, a song have to be selected in the DDR 3rdMIX folder. Then, ←←←→→→←→ have to be pressed on the dance panel before clearing that song with AA or higher. This step code was used in 3rdMIX to unlock the SSR Mode.
TRIP MACHINE CLIMAX(X-Special)	Play as YUNI or JENNY and clear a song from the DDR 4thMIX folder with at least AA.
PARANOiA ETERNAL(X-Special)	Any Xmix song have to cleared with a rank of AA or higher.
MAX 300(X-Special)	Any song from the DDRMAX folder have to cleared as AA before the FINAL STAGE. As FINAL STAGE, On the Break have to be cleared with an AA using the SPEED modifiers at 1.5x and SCROLL set to REVERSE.
MAXX UNLIMITED(X-Special)	Clear with AA any song that has CHALLENGE-only charts before the FINAL STAGE.
The legend of MAX(X-Special)	The Legend Road (伝説道) songs have to be played in order with AA on them all: MAX 300 → MAXX UNLIMITED → Sakura → The Legend of MAX → PARANOiA Survivor MAX. Alternatively, playing MAX 300 with an Xmix song will also work.

ENCORE EXTRA STAGE songs

To get to the ENCORE EXTRA STAGE, the EXTRA STAGE song must be cleared with a rank of AA or AAA.

• Table with requirements.

Unlock Schedule

All the X-Special songs require special conditions in order to make them appears. Even when unlocked for normal play, these songs can still be played on their respective STAGE.

Song	STAGE	Normal Play Unlock
Added on 12/24/2008
On The Break	FINAL	04/09/2009
SABER WING	EXTRA	05/21/2009
SABER WING (AKIRA ISHIHARA Headshot mix)	EXTRA
Horatio	ENCORE EXTRA	07/02/2009
on the bounce	ENCORE EXTRA	08/13/2009
Trigger	ENCORE EXTRA	09/17/2009
PARANOiA (X-Special)	EXTRA	10/01/2009
TRIP MACHINE (X-Special)	ENCORE EXTRA
Added on 03/16/2009
SP-TRIP MACHINE ~JUNGLE MIX~ (X-Special)	EXTRA	10/01/2009
PARANOiA MAX ~DIRTY MIX~ (X-Special)	ENCORE EXTRA
PARANOiA MAX ~DIRTY MIX~ in roulette (X-Special)		-
PARANOiA Rebirth (X-Special)	EXTRA	10/01/2009
AFRONOVA (X-Special)	ENCORE EXTRA
TRIP MACHINE CLIMAX (X-Special)	EXTRA
PARANOIA EVOLUTION (X-Special)	ENCORE EXTRA
PARANOiA ETERNAL (X-Special)	EXTRA
Healing Vision (X-Special)	ENCORE EXTRA
MAX 300 (X-Special)	EXTRA
CANDY☆ (X-Special)	ENCORE EXTRA
MAXX UNLIMITED (X-Special)	EXTRA
革命 (X-Special)	ENCORE EXTRA
The legend of MAX (X-Special)	EXTRA
Dance Dance Revolution (X-Special)	ENCORE EXTRA