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* Outside of BEMANI, Yuichi has also composed music for games like ''NBA POWER DUNKERS'', ''RUMBLE ROSES'', and ''Police 911''. | * Outside of BEMANI, Yuichi has also composed music for games like ''NBA POWER DUNKERS'', ''RUMBLE ROSES'', and ''Police 911''. | ||
* Yuichi currently has the second longest career of any in-house BEMANI artist, performing music for BEMANI since early April 1999, only two months behind [[Takayuki Ishikawa|dj TAKA]]. | * Yuichi currently has the second longest career of any in-house BEMANI artist, performing music for BEMANI since early April 1999, only two months behind [[Takayuki Ishikawa|dj TAKA]]. | ||
* Almost every song Yuichi composed has its song comment center-aligned. | * Almost every song Yuichi composed has its song comment center-aligned when shown in the game title's website. | ||
== Aliases == | == Aliases == | ||
Revision as of 17:15, 1 March 2021
U1 redirects here. For the playable character in DanceDanceRevolution 5thMIX, please see U1 (character).
Yuichi Asami
Artist Information
- Name: Yuichi Asami (浅見祐一)
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/U1_ASAMi
- Birthplace: Tokyo
- Birthdate: September 1st, 1971
Profile
Yuichi Asami is known as one of the first KONAMI artists for the DanceDanceRevolution series, along with Naoki Maeda. Yuichi worked near exclusively on console DanceDanceRevolution titles until DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA; he's even served as a director on some titles, like MARIO MIX and the HOTTEST PARTY series. In the early 2010's Yuichi started composing songs for other BEMANI series like beatmania IIDX and REFLEC BEAT.
Yuichi's music mainly focuses on electronic genres in BEMANI. He's known for house, rave, and trance, with a couple of speedcore and hardcore tracks. Lately, he's ventured into EDM as well. He's also a proficient DJ and turntablist.
In 2011, Yuichi started sound directing the arcade DanceDanceRevolution series beginning with DanceDanceRevolution X3 VS 2ndMIX, sharing sound directing duties with TAG. He left after X3 to serve as the sound director of the ミライダガッキ FutureTomTom BEMANI series until its end on July 31st, 2015. He returned to DanceDanceRevolution near the end of DanceDanceRevolution (2014).
As of DanceDanceRevolution A, Yuichi is once more the sound director of the DanceDanceRevolution series.
Trivia
- His main alias, U1, reads as "yu-ichi".
- Yuichi's 2MB alias refers to the amount of RAM found in Sony's PlayStation gaming console.
- Yuichi's NPD3's alias is a reference to the NBA POWER DUNKERS 3 game, which he composed music for.
- Outside of BEMANI, Yuichi has also composed music for games like NBA POWER DUNKERS, RUMBLE ROSES, and Police 911.
- Yuichi currently has the second longest career of any in-house BEMANI artist, performing music for BEMANI since early April 1999, only two months behind dj TAKA.
- Almost every song Yuichi composed has its song comment center-aligned when shown in the game title's website.
Aliases
- U1-ASAMi
- U1
- NPD3
- 2MB
- 2.1MB
- U1 overground
- CLUB SPICE
- Chang ma (member of, with "AQUI LA JAMAOKA")
- U1ミライダガッキ連
- U1 undefined behavior
- U1 High-Speed
- Zodiac Fall
- Musical Cosmology
- U1 unplugged
- U1 Ground-Speed