Osamu Kubota

Osamu Kubota

Osamu Kubota

Artist Information

• Name: Osamu Kubota (久保田修)
• Web Site: http://osamukubota.com/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/osamukubota

Profile

Osamu Kubota majored in linguistics at the French literature faculty of the University of Tokyo. His debut in music was a band keyboardist in 1989. Prior to that, he began piano lessons at the age of four. In 1999, he joined KONAMI at the recommendation of TaQ, good-cool and dj TAKA. Being one of the most unique artists to step into BEMANI, Osamu provided the games with a variety of tunes, often incorporating sounds from all over the world. Unlike other artists in the series, Osamu was more driven to a more classical sound, offering jazz, classical and swing pieces.

Aside from BEMANI, he works extensively with both TaQ and onoken on TaQ's ongaq production company and recording studio. Osamu also participated in a range of video games, television and movie scores, albums, and band projects.

Aliases

• Celia (member of)

Trivia

• Osamu speaks eight different languages (Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Korean and more) as noted by his friend dj TAKA in the song comments for 1989.
• Osamu was one of the few recurring beatmania IIDX artists who never had a song with a chart rated Level 12 on ANOTHER.
• Osamu was the arranger, orchestrator, and conductor of five tracks on The Epic of Zektbach -Ristaccia- in 2008.
  • He also did the same job for the tracks on the second disc of wac's 音楽.
• Osamu has his own recording studio, Musique de Poche S.A.R.L. Japon.
• Osamu composed L'episode for SEGA's rhythm game CHUNITHM PLUS, his first rhythm game appearance in half a decade.
• None of Osamu Kubota's beatmania IIDX songs have yet to appear in beatmania IIDX INFINITAS, due to copyright with JASRAC.
  • None of his songs appear on beatmania IIDX ULTIMATE MOBILE, or can be listened on the MUSIC PLAYER on the game either.

BEMANI Songs

Song	Artist	Game	Genre	Composition	Arrangement	Lyrics	Vocals	Piano/Organ	Other Instruments
Presto	Osamu Kubota	beatmania IIDX 3rd style	PIANO AMBIENT	✓	✓	-	-	-	-
sanctus	Osamu Kubota	beatmania IIDX 4th style	ROCK OPERA	✓	✓	✓	✓	-	-
Vienna	Osamu Kubota	beatmania IIDX 4th style	PIANO AMBIENT	✓	✓	-	-	-	-
1989	Osamu Kubota	beatmania IIDX 5th style	ROCK OPERA	✓	✓	✓	✓	-	-
Estella	Osamu Kubota	beatmania IIDX 5th style	SPANISH WALTZ	✓	✓	-	-	-	-
still my words	TaQ feat.Meg	beatmania IIDX 5th style	AMBIENT	-	-	-	-	✓	-
Doigts de Fatima -ファティマの掌-	Osamu Kubota featuring Sizzle Ohtaka	beatmania IIDX 6th style	CELTIC	✓	✓	✓	-	-	-
Five Regrets	Osamu Kubota	beatmania IIDX 6th style	JAZZ ARGENTINO	✓	✓	-	-	-	-
foreplay	Osamu Kubota	beatmania IIDX 7th style	PROGRESSIVE JAZZ	✓	✓	-	-	-	-
Red Nikita	Osamu Kubota	beatmania IIDX 8th style	LATIN SWING	✓	✓	-	-	-	-
Distress	dj TAKA Remixed by TaQ	beatmania IIDX 9th style	MIXTURE	-	-	-	-	-	✓
Golden Horn	Osamu Kubota	beatmania IIDX 9th style	TURKISH PIANO'N'BASS	✓	✓	-	-	-	-
Drop on the floor	good-cool	beatmania IIDX 10th style	HOUSE	-	-	-	-	✓	-
scherzo	Osamu Kubota	beatmania IIDX 10th style	PIANO AMBIENT	✓	✓	-	-	-	-
惑	Osamu Kubota	beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED	ASIAN CROSSOVER	✓	✓	-	-	-	-
mind the gap	Osamu Kubota	beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY	UK PROGRESSIVE	✓	✓	-	-	-	-
2hot2eat	Osamu Kubota	beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD	HINDU SALSA	✓	✓	-	-	-	-
avant-guerre	Osamu Kubota	beatmania IIDX 15 DJ TROOPERS	CLASSICAL PIANO SOLO	✓	✓	-	-	-	-
Carezza	Osamu Kubota	KEYBOARDMANIA 3rdMIX	SWING	✓	✓	-	-	-	-
Magical 4	good-cool	pop'n music 16 PARTY♪	WORLD TOUR 2	-	-	-	-	-	✓
L'eternita	Celia	pop'n music 19 TUNE STREET	ARIA JAZZ	✓	-	-	-	-	-
嘆きの樹 (BEMANI SYMPHONY Arr.)	金獅子 × Nagiha & Osamu Kubota + gaQdan	pop'n music 解明リドルズ	-	-	✓	-	-	-	-
Scandal	Osamu Kubota	ノスタルジア Op.2	PROGRESSIVE SWING	✓	✓	-	-	-	-
City of Mirrors	Osamu Kubota feat. Ffion Elisa	ノスタルジア Op.3	-	✓	✓	-	-	-	-
Note d'Azur	Osamu Kubota	ノスタルジア Op.3	-	✓	✓	-	-	-	-

Albums

• Snow in Saigon (2004)