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| [[AFRONOVA PRIMEVAL]] || 8bit || Dance Maniax || TRIBAL || - || ✓ || - || - || - | | [[AFRONOVA PRIMEVAL]] || 8bit || Dance Maniax || TRIBAL || - || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| [[BAILA! BAILA!]] || DANDY MINEIRO || Dance Maniax || LATIN POP || ✓ || | | [[BAILA! BAILA!]] || DANDY MINEIRO || Dance Maniax || LATIN POP || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| [[BROKEN MY HEART]] || NAOKI feat. [[Paula_Terry|PAULA TERRY]] || Dance Maniax || HYPER EURO BEAT || ✓ || | | [[BROKEN MY HEART]] || NAOKI feat. [[Paula_Terry|PAULA TERRY]] || Dance Maniax || HYPER EURO BEAT || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| [[GORGEOUS 2012]] || THE SURRENDERS || Dance Maniax || - || ✓ || | | [[GORGEOUS 2012]] || THE SURRENDERS || Dance Maniax || - || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| Jet World + DROP OUT + PARANOiA MAX TYPE 2 || Non Stop Mix Special || Dance Maniax || - || | | Jet World + DROP OUT + PARANOiA MAX TYPE 2 || Non Stop Mix Special || Dance Maniax || - || - || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| [[KEEP ON MOVIN' ~DMX MIX~|KEEP ON MOVIN' ~DMX MIX~]] || N.M.R-typeG || Dance Maniax || - || - || ✓ || - || - || - | | [[KEEP ON MOVIN' ~DMX MIX~|KEEP ON MOVIN' ~DMX MIX~]] || N.M.R-typeG || Dance Maniax || - || - || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| ENTER THE DRAGON (G'z Island Mix) || B3-PROJECT || Dance Maniax 2ndMIX || - || - || ✓ || - || - || - | | ENTER THE DRAGON (G'z Island Mix) || B3-PROJECT || Dance Maniax 2ndMIX || - || - || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| [[KISS KISS KISS]] || NAOKI feat.[[Shanti Snyder|SHANTI]] || Dance Maniax 2ndMIX || HYPER EUROBEAT || ✓ || | | [[KISS KISS KISS]] || NAOKI feat.[[Shanti Snyder|SHANTI]] || Dance Maniax 2ndMIX || HYPER EUROBEAT || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| [[Kiss me all night long]] || NAOKI J-STYLE feat. [[Miyuki Kunitake|MIU]] || Dance Maniax 2ndMIX || J-EURO POP || ✓ || | | [[Kiss me all night long]] || NAOKI J-STYLE feat. [[Miyuki Kunitake|MIU]] || Dance Maniax 2ndMIX || J-EURO POP || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| [[Matsuri (J-SUMMER MIX)|祭 (J-SUMMER MIX)]] || RE-VENGE || Dance Maniax 2ndMIX || ETHNO DANCE || | | [[Matsuri (J-SUMMER MIX)|祭 (J-SUMMER MIX)]] || RE-VENGE || Dance Maniax 2ndMIX || ETHNO DANCE || - || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| PARANOiA jazzy groove + TRIP MACHINE CLIMAX + DEAD END || Non Stop Mix Special || Dance Maniax 2ndMIX || - || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | | PARANOiA jazzy groove + TRIP MACHINE CLIMAX + DEAD END || Non Stop Mix Special || Dance Maniax 2ndMIX || - || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| [[L'amour et la liberte(DDR Ver.)|L'amour et la liberté(DDR Ver.)]] || [[Paula Terry|NAOKI underground]] || [[AC DDR EXTREME|DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME]] || TRANCE || - || ✓ || - || - || - | | [[L'amour et la liberte(DDR Ver.)|L'amour et la liberté(DDR Ver.)]] || [[Paula Terry|NAOKI underground]] || [[AC DDR EXTREME|DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME]] || TRANCE || - || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| [[ | | [[LOVE SHINE|LOVE♥SHINE]] || [[Riyu Kosaka|小坂りゆ]] || [[AC DDR EXTREME|DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME]] || J-HAPPY HARDCORE || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| [[PARANOIA survivor]] || 270 || [[AC DDR EXTREME|DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME]] || - || - || ✓ || - || - || - | | [[PARANOIA survivor]] || 270 || [[AC DDR EXTREME|DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME]] || - || - || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| [[PARANOIA survivor MAX]] || 290 || [[AC DDR EXTREME|DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME]] || JUNGLE MIXTURE || - || ✓ || - || - || - | | [[PARANOIA survivor MAX]] || 290 || [[AC DDR EXTREME|DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME]] || JUNGLE MIXTURE || - || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| [[The legend of MAX]] || ZZ || [[AC DDR EXTREME|DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME]] || - || ✓ || | | [[The legend of MAX]] || ZZ || [[AC DDR EXTREME|DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| [[TEARS]] || NAOKI underground feat. [[Noria Shiraishi|EK]] || [[AC DDR EXTREME|DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | | [[TEARS]] || NAOKI underground feat. [[Noria Shiraishi|EK]] || [[AC DDR EXTREME|DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| [[TRIP MACHINE survivor]] || DE-SIRE || [[AC DDR EXTREME|DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME]] || - || | | [[TRIP MACHINE survivor]] || DE-SIRE || [[AC DDR EXTREME|DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME]] || - || - || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| [[PASSION OF LOVE]] || NAOKI feat. [[Paula Terry|PAULA TERRY]] || [[CS DDR EXTREME2|DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME2]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | | [[PASSION OF LOVE]] || NAOKI feat. [[Paula Terry|PAULA TERRY]] || [[CS DDR EXTREME2|DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME2]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| [[will]] || [[Frances Maya|NAOKI]] || [[CS DDR HOTTEST PARTY|DanceDanceRevolution HOTTEST PARTY]] || HOTTEST PARTY || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | | [[will]] || [[Frances Maya|NAOKI]] || [[CS DDR HOTTEST PARTY|DanceDanceRevolution HOTTEST PARTY]] || HOTTEST PARTY || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| [[DOUBLE TORNARD]] || evo-X || [[CS DDR HOTTEST PARTY|DanceDanceRevolution HOTTEST PARTY JP]] || - || ✓ || | | [[DOUBLE TORNARD]] || evo-X || [[CS DDR HOTTEST PARTY|DanceDanceRevolution HOTTEST PARTY JP]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| [[Pluto The First]] || WHITE WALL || [[CS DDR HOTTEST PARTY|DanceDanceRevolution HOTTEST PARTY JP]] || - || - || ✓ || - || - || - | | [[Pluto The First]] || WHITE WALL || [[CS DDR HOTTEST PARTY|DanceDanceRevolution HOTTEST PARTY JP]] || - || - || ✓ || - || - || - |
Revision as of 18:32, 30 April 2018
Naoki Maeda
Artist Information
- Name: Naoki Maeda (前田尚紀)
- Birthdate: April 28th, 1969
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/NAOKI_MAEDA428
Profile
Naoki Maeda is a Japanese composer and arranger from Toyonaka, Osaka. After graduating from the Osaka University of Arts in music (piano), Naoki joined KONAMI AM (Amusement Machine) Division in 1995. He served as composer and sound producer of TwinBee Yahoo! Fushigi no kuni de ouabare!! (ツインビーヤッホー! ふしぎの国で大あばれ!!) in 1995 and SALAMANDER 2 (沙羅曼蛇2) in 1996 under his エンゾニック前田 (Ensoniq Maeda) alias. Naoki was recruited by Yoshihiko Ota, a game producer at KCET to work as a composer on a brand new music game called DanceDanceRevolution in early 1998. Following the success of the first release, he became the sound producer of DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX, a role he kept until DanceDanceRevolution X. Naoki was also involved in the short-lived spin-off DanceDanceRevolution Solo from 1999 to 2000 as a composer.
Outside of the DanceDanceRevolution series, Naoki contributed tracks to other BEMANI series as well, such as beatmania, Dance Maniax, beatmania IIDX, pop'n music, GuitarFreaks and DrumMania, jubeat and REFLEC BEAT.
In 2001, Naoki formed the J-POP group BeForU with the four winners of the DanceDanceRevolution 5thMIX アーティストオーディション (Artist Audition) 2001. He was the main producer for the first three albums of the band and on Riyu Kosaka's first album, begin. In 2002, Naoki created TËЯRA with jun.
By 2009, Naoki became more involved with the console releases of DanceDanceRevolution as a producer. Naoki also produced the original Xbox 360 game DanceMasters (known as DanceEvolution in Japan). He was also involved in its subsequent arcade release as DanceEvolution ARCADE in 2012.
In the beginning of 2013, Naoki left KONAMI. Following his departure, KONAMI removed nearly all pictures or videos of him from BEMANI games. His last, playable songs for BEMANI were Everything I Need and You for the 2013 DanceDanceRevolution arcade game.
Later in 2013, he joined CAPCOM. He served as producer for the mobile rhythm game CROSS×BEATS (2013) and its arcade releases beginning with crossbeats REV. (2015), both published by CAPCOM, until the ending of the series in 2018. In 2018, Naoki appeared in SEGA's CHUNITHM series with the song otorii INNOVATED -[i]3- and will appear as one of the artists of オンゲキ (O.N.G.E.K.I.).
Trivia
- Some of Naoki's favorite licensed Dancemania songs from the early DanceDanceRevolution titles are Have You Never Been Mellow, DAM DARIRAM, NEVER GONNA MAKE (FACTORY DANCE TEAM MIX), TRIBAL DANCE (Almighty Mix), and RIGHT NOW.
- Two of NAOKI's favorite music genres are ballads and R&B, as noted in the song comments for Remember You.
- According to an interview with bemanistyle in 2010, Naoki's favorite DanceDanceRevolution title is 4thMIX, as he felt it was the one where he was able to express his musical style the best.
- According to an interview Naoki did with Tatsh (as seen here - expand the second set of questions), finite budgets for the early DanceDanceRevolution games is why a lot of his earlier songs for the series used vocal samples. Naoki would finally get to record songs with newly sung vocals in the main series in DanceDanceRevolution 3rdMIX.
- Naoki appears in the intro video of DanceDanceRevolution (PS3).
- The Naoki "character" in SEGA's CHUNITHM comes with multiple forms and skills that all reference BEMANI in one way or another (Source).
- The evolved forms, aside the first one (Normal), are named, in order of level: Be For You (referencing BeForU), SEQUENCE UNLIMITED, MAXX and NMR.
- Naoki's forms, in order of level, reference the following BEMANI songs' jackets: Ignition∞Break, Flash Back 90's, UNLIMITED FIRE, THE FALLEN and VALLIS-NERIA.
- The Be For You skill COME ON '98!! references DanceDanceRevolution's debut year (1998) and its effect references the number 180, which is PARANOiA's BPM and artist name (which has also debuted in the first DanceDanceRevolution game).
- The SEQUENCE UNLIMITED skill DIRTY FIRE's effect references the number 190, which is PARANOiA MAX~DIRTY MIX~'s BPM and artist name.
- The MAXX skill Ω references Naoki's Ω alias used in MAX 300, as well as in crossbeats REV. SUNRISE's 2020; its effect references the number 300 and 320, the maximum BPM of MAX 300 and MAXX UNLIMITED respectively. The negative part of the effect works like the LIFE4 modifier in the DanceDanceRevolution series, with four misses hard failing the song.
- The NMR skill スーパーノヴァ (Supernova) references Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA and its effect's numbers reference Fascination MAXX's artist name 100-200-400. The negative part of the effect has the song hard failing with a number of misses equal to 18, which is the difficulty rating for Fascination MAXX's both CHALLENGE charts.
- The CHUNITHM twitter's update announcement image covering the Naoki content has 革命 written in the background and the "ATTACK ALL JUSTICE!! / EXTRA NEW TRACK" text mimicking "ATTACK PERFECT FULL COMBO!! / ENCORE EXTRA STAGE" as seen in songs such as Over The "Period".
Aliases
- NAOKI
- NAOKI underground
- NAOKI J-STYLE
- NAOKI-EX (with Asaki)
- NM
- N.M.R
- NMR runners
- 8bit
- 100-200-400
- 180 / 190 / 190' / 200 / 270 / 290
- 1479
- B3-PROJECT
- BeForU (founder/music producer)
- BIG-O
- Black∞Hole
- BLUE DESTROYERS
- Crystal Aliens
- C×F
- d-complex
- D.J.RICH
- DE-SIRE / DE-SIRE改 / DE-SIRE alterative
- DIGI-SEQ-BAND2000
- DIVAS
- DJ KAZU
- Dr.VIBE
- evo-X
- FACTOR-X
- FIXX
- Freeman
- Happy CoreMAN
- J.J.Pops
- kTz
- Latenighter / Latenighters / The Latenighters
- LOVE+HATE (member of)
- Luv UNLIMITED
- mitsu-O! / mitsu-O!SUMMER
- MR.DOG
- MUSTACHE MEN
- N&S
- NO.9
- NW260
- platoniX (10th style only)
- Reven-G / RE-VENGE / Reven-G改 / Reven-G alterative
- RICE-C
- Stepper
- STONE BROS.
- TËЯRA (member of, with jun)
- THE FINAL BAND
- The Lonely Hearts
- THE SURRENDERS
- The W
- trance star
- true dreamer
- UZI-LAY
- WHITE WALL
- Z / ZZ
- Ω
BEMANI Songs
Discography
Albums
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