True Blue...

This page is for the dj TAKA album titled True Blue.... For the song of a similar title, please see True Blue.

True Blue...

True Blue... is dj TAKA's second album, co-produced by Sota Fujimori. It features a second disc with remixes of dj TAKA's songs by new, recent artists that had been at the current time in BEMANI games.

Album Information

True Blue...
Artist	dj TAKA
Release Date	12/25/13
Catalog Number	LC-2172~3
Published by	Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
Track List
DISC-01 Original Side
Title							From
01. Broken							REFLEC BEAT
02. Hollywood Galaxy							REFLEC BEAT
03. True Blue							jubeat saucer
04. CARTE BLANCHE -TISF mix-							Carte Blanche (licensed cover)
05. ZZ							jubeat saucer / REFLEC BEAT colette -Spring-
06. message							REFLEC BEAT
07. quaver♪							REFLEC BEAT limelight / GITADORA
08. roman							NEW
09. ΕΛΠΙΣ							beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro
10. perditus†paradisus							beatmania IIDX 18 Resort Anthem
11. Liberation							beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro (REFLEC BEAT colette -All Seasons-)
12. Last Dance -extend vocal ver.-							beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA
13. 天空の夜明け -TISF mix-							beatmania IIDX 19 Lincle
14. VENUS bonus track							VENUS (licensed cover)
DISC-02 Remix Side
Title				Artist			From
01. Time To Empress -DJ Noriken Remix-				DJ Noriken			beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS + PREMIUM BEST
02. Broken -DJ Genki Remix-				DJ Genki			REFLEC BEAT
03. One More Lovely -P*Light Remix-				P*Light			beatmania IIDX 10th style
04. Rainbow Flyer -DUBSTEP RMX!!-				USAO			beatmania IIDX 8th style
05. Votum stellarum -Hommarju Remix-				Hommarju			pop'n music 10 (beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA)
06. THE SAFARI -DJ TOTTO mix-				DJ TOTTO			beatmania IIDX 3rd style (REFLEC BEAT colette -All Seasons-)
07. NEMESIS -gratitude remix-				PHQUASE			beatmania IIDX 6th style (beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA)
08. memories -90's Visual Kei is Extasy-				マチゲリータ			beatmania IIDX 8th style
09. 天空の夜明け -felicitas mix-				BlackY			beatmania IIDX 19 Lincle
10. F -cosmobsp remix-				cosMo@暴走P			beatmania IIDX 19 Lincle
11. Colors -sasakure.UK Futurelogic Remix-				sasakure.UK			beatmania IIDX 6th style
12. AA -Renaissance Concertino Mix-				OSTER project			beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED
Staff Credit "True Blue..." produced by Takayuki Ishikawa co-produced by Sota Fujimori Director: Yasuhiro Takeda Producer: Junichi Kamei Mixing & Mastering Engineer: Sota Fujimori Graphic Design: Takahiro Yamaguchi (FAVGEAR) Artwork Coordination: Hiroshi Banno, Tsuyoshi Kato (T&M Creative) Promotion: Yoshihiko Maekawa, Atsuko Suzuki Label Assistant: Tomomi Iitaka Label Producer: Yoshitaka Shibata Executive Producer: Fumiaki Tanaka Special thanks to: DJ UTO (EXIT TUNES) Tetsuya Ejiri (EXIT TUNES) Bunsho Kido (U/M/A/A Inc.) usagi (Candy Poet, .Inc) Yusaku Murata (TOKYO LOGIC) Fumimasa Sawa (LS MUSIC) Katsunori Okita Yoshihiko Ota Tadao Kageyama Mitsuhiro Nozaki Yoshitaka Nishimura Hiroyuki Masuda Kenji Watanabe wac beatnation Records artists Special thanks to Konami Digital Entertainment 'BEMANI Production' All Staffs, And All BEMANI Fans! DISC-01 Original Side music: dj TAKA (1,2,6,7,11-13), Ferry Corsten and Vincent De Moor (4), D.J. Amuro (5), Risk Junk (7), Takayuki Ishikawa (8), iconoclasm (10), LEZYNA (14) lyrics: AiMEE (1,3), flare (6), dj TAKA (12), LEZYNA (14), Yoshihito Fukui (14) vocals: AiMEE (1,3), flare (6), Shion (12) backing vocal: Yui Kakihara (12) remixed by TISF(dj TAKA & Sota Fujimori) (4) arranged & performed by colors (Vocals by koyomi / Guitar by Shintaro / Bass by TAKA) (14) DISC-02 Remix Side music: Takayuki Ishikawa (1,4,8), dj TAKA (2,9,11), Risk Junk (3), iconoclasm (5), Lion MUSASHI (6), D.J.SETUP (7), D.J.Amuro (10,12) lyrics: Takayuki Ishikawa (1,8), AiMEE (2), CHIYOKO (11)

Trivia

• According to dj TAKA, Sota Fujimori convinced him to make True Blue....
• True Blue... is the first BEMANI artist album since Ways For Liberation from 2010 to have a remix disc.
• With dj TAKA's decision to have his songs remixed on the album by the new generation of BEMANI artists, the artist selection in True Blue...'s remix disc consists of mostly newer commission artists.
  • DJ TOTTO was the only remixer at the time of True Blue...'s release that's an in-house BEMANI artist.
• Liberation uses the album cover of True Blue... as its jacket in the REFLEC BEAT series.

External Link

• dj TAKA「True Blue...」 - コナミスタイル (archived)