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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. | 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 (album)|begin]]. In 2002, Naoki created [[TERRA| | 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 (album)|begin]]. In 2002, Naoki created [[TERRA|TЁЯRA]] with [[Junko Karashima|jun]]. | ||
By 2009, Naoki became more involved with the console releases of DanceDanceRevolution as a producer. Naoki also produced the original Xbox 360 game [[CS DanEvo|DanceMasters]] (known as DanceEvolution in Japan). He was also involved in its subsequent arcade release as [[AC DanEvo|DanceEvolution ARCADE]] in 2012. | By 2009, Naoki became more involved with the console releases of DanceDanceRevolution as a producer. Naoki also produced the original Xbox 360 game [[CS DanEvo|DanceMasters]] (known as DanceEvolution in Japan). He was also involved in its subsequent arcade release as [[AC DanEvo|DanceEvolution ARCADE]] in 2012. | ||
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* Stepper | * Stepper | ||
* STONE BROS. | * STONE BROS. | ||
* [[TERRA| | * [[TERRA|TЁЯRA]] (member of, with [[Junko_Karashima|jun]]) | ||
* THE FINAL BAND | * THE FINAL BAND | ||
* The Lonely Hearts | * The Lonely Hearts | ||
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| [[CARRY ON NIGHT (English version)]] || [[platoniX]] (EURO style) || [[AC_10th_style|beatmania IIDX 10th style]] || EUROBEAT || - || ✓ || - || - | | [[CARRY ON NIGHT (English version)]] || [[platoniX]] (EURO style) || [[AC_10th_style|beatmania IIDX 10th style]] || EUROBEAT || - || ✓ || - || - | ||
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| [[DoLL]] || [[TERRA| | | [[DoLL]] || [[TERRA|TЁЯRA]] || [[AC_10th_style|beatmania IIDX 10th style]] || HYPER J-POP FOUR || - || ✓ || - || - | ||
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| [[SHOOTING STAR (Riyu Kosaka)|SHOOTING STAR]] || [[Riyu Kosaka|小坂りゆ]] || [[AC_10th_style|beatmania IIDX 10th style]] || J-POP || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | | [[SHOOTING STAR (Riyu Kosaka)|SHOOTING STAR]] || [[Riyu Kosaka|小坂りゆ]] || [[AC_10th_style|beatmania IIDX 10th style]] || J-POP || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | ||
|- | |- | ||
| [[Ichizuna koi (HYPER J-EURO MIX)|一途な恋 (HYPER J-EURO MIX)]] || [[TERRA| | | [[Ichizuna koi (HYPER J-EURO MIX)|一途な恋 (HYPER J-EURO MIX)]] || [[TERRA|TЁЯRA]] || [[AC_10th_style|beatmania IIDX 10th style]] || J-REVIVAL || - || ✓ || ✓ || - | ||
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| [[KI-SE-KI (IIDX RED EDIT)]] || [[BeForU]] || [[AC IIDX RED|beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED]] || J-POP || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | | [[KI-SE-KI (IIDX RED EDIT)]] || [[BeForU]] || [[AC IIDX RED|beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED]] || J-POP || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | ||
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| [[TAIYO|太陽~T・A・I・Y・O~]] || NAOKI feat.[[Kanako Watanabe|星野奏子]] || [[AC IIDX RED|beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED]] || CYBER J-EURO || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | | [[TAIYO|太陽~T・A・I・Y・O~]] || NAOKI feat.[[Kanako Watanabe|星野奏子]] || [[AC IIDX RED|beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED]] || CYBER J-EURO || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | ||
|- | |- | ||
| [[ULTiMATE|ULTiM∧TE]] || [[TERRA| | | [[ULTiMATE|ULTiM∧TE]] || [[TERRA|TЁЯRA]] || [[AC IIDX RED|beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED]] || HYPER J-POP FIVE || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | ||
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| [[EDEN]] || [[TERRA| | | [[EDEN]] || [[TERRA|TЁЯRA]] || [[AC HAPPY SKY|beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY]] || HYPER J-POP SIX || - || ✓ || - || - | ||
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| [[I am]] || [[Miharu_Arisawa|有沢みはる]] from [[BeForU]] || [[AC HAPPY SKY|beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY]] || CYBER J-ROCK || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | | [[I am]] || [[Miharu_Arisawa|有沢みはる]] from [[BeForU]] || [[AC HAPPY SKY|beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY]] || CYBER J-ROCK || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | ||
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| [[ALFARSHEAR Futatsukamui ni mawaru yume|ALFARSHEAR 双神威に廻る夢]] || [[TERRA| | | [[ALFARSHEAR Futatsukamui ni mawaru yume|ALFARSHEAR 双神威に廻る夢]] || [[TERRA|TЁЯRA]] || [[AC_DistorteD|beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD]] || HYPER J-POP SEVEN || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | ||
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| [[DEEP ROAR]] || NAOKI & [[Tatsuya Shimizu|Tatsh]] || [[AC_DistorteD|beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD]] || SUPER RAVE BEAT || - || ✓ || - || - | | [[DEEP ROAR]] || NAOKI & [[Tatsuya Shimizu|Tatsh]] || [[AC_DistorteD|beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD]] || SUPER RAVE BEAT || - || ✓ || - || - | ||
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| [[Parasite World]] || [[TERRA|TЁЯRA underground]] || [[AC_DistorteD|beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD]] || HYPER J-CORE || ✓ || ✓ || ✓ || - | | [[Parasite World]] || [[TERRA|TЁЯRA underground]] || [[AC_DistorteD|beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD]] || HYPER J-CORE || ✓ || ✓ || ✓ || - | ||
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| [[ZERO|零 - ZERO -]] || [[TERRA| | | [[ZERO|零 - ZERO -]] || [[TERRA|TЁЯRA]] || [[AC_GOLD|beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD]] || HYPER J-POP ZERO || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | ||
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| [[Treasure x Star|Treasure×Star]] || NAOKI & [[Ryutaro Nakahara|Ryu☆]] fw.さちまゆ || [[CS_GOLD|beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD CS]] || DANCE POP SPEED || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | | [[Treasure x Star|Treasure×Star]] || NAOKI & [[Ryutaro Nakahara|Ryu☆]] fw.さちまゆ || [[CS_GOLD|beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD CS]] || DANCE POP SPEED || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | ||
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| [[PEACE|PEACE (^^);]] || [[BeForU]] || [[AC DDR SuperNOVA|DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA]] || - || ✓ || - || - || - | | [[PEACE|PEACE (^^);]] || [[BeForU]] || [[AC DDR SuperNOVA|DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA]] || - || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| [[Hana ranman -Flowers-|華爛漫 -Flowers-]] || [[TERRA| | | [[Hana ranman -Flowers-|華爛漫 -Flowers-]] || [[TERRA|TЁЯRA]] || [[AC DDR SuperNOVA|DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA]] || HYPER JAPANESQUE 2 || - || ✓ || - || - | ||
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| [[COME CLEAN]] || NM featuring Susan Z || [[CS DDR SuperNOVA NA|DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA CS (America)]] || - || - || ✓ || - || - | | [[COME CLEAN]] || NM featuring Susan Z || [[CS DDR SuperNOVA NA|DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA CS (America)]] || - || - || ✓ || - || - | ||
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| [[Scenario|シナリオ]] || [[BeForU|BeForU NEXT]] || [[AC_GFDM_V|GuitarFreaks V & DrumMania V]] || - || ✓ || - || - || - | | [[Scenario|シナリオ]] || [[BeForU|BeForU NEXT]] || [[AC_GFDM_V|GuitarFreaks V & DrumMania V]] || - || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| [[ESCAPE TO THE SKY|ESCAPE TO THE SKY★彡]] || [[TERRA| | | [[ESCAPE TO THE SKY|ESCAPE TO THE SKY★彡]] || [[TERRA|TЁЯRA]] || [[AC_GFDM_V|GuitarFreaks V & DrumMania V]] || - || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| [[GLIDE]] || [[TERRA| | | [[GLIDE]] || [[TERRA|TЁЯRA]] || [[AC_GFDM_V2|GuitarFreaks V2 & DrumMania V2]] || - || - || ✓ || - || - | ||
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| [[BLACK OUT]] || [[BeForU]] || [[AC_GFDM_V2|GuitarFreaks V2 & DrumMania V2]] || - || ✓ || - || - || - | | [[BLACK OUT]] || [[BeForU]] || [[AC_GFDM_V2|GuitarFreaks V2 & DrumMania V2]] || - || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| [[Hong Kong choutokkyuu Z|香港☆超特急Z]] || [[Shigeharu Saeki|明星有限公司]] || [[AC_GFDM_V2|GuitarFreaks V2 & DrumMania V2]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || ✓ || - | | [[Hong Kong choutokkyuu Z|香港☆超特急Z]] || [[Shigeharu Saeki|明星有限公司]] || [[AC_GFDM_V2|GuitarFreaks V2 & DrumMania V2]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || ✓ || - | ||
|- | |- | ||
| [[ZENITH|ZËNITH]] || [[TERRA| | | [[ZENITH|ZËNITH]] || [[TERRA|TЁЯRA]] || [[AC_GFDM_V3|GuitarFreaks V3 & DrumMania V3]] || - || - || ✓ || - || - | ||
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| [[REVOLUTION|RЁVOLUTIΦN]] || [[TERRA| | | [[REVOLUTION|RЁVOLUTIΦN]] || [[TERRA|TЁЯRA]] || [[AC_GFDM_V4|GuitarFreaks V4 & DrumMania V4]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | ||
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| [[Kyoka suigetsurou (GFDM EDITION)|鏡花水月楼 (GFDM EDITION)]] || [[TERRA| | | [[Kyoka suigetsurou (GFDM EDITION)|鏡花水月楼 (GFDM EDITION)]] || [[TERRA|TЁЯRA]] feat.宇宙戦隊NOIZ || [[AC_GFDM_V5|GuitarFreaks V5 & DrumMania V5 Rock to Infinity]] || - || - || ✓ || - || - | ||
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| [[Catharsis Garden]] || [[TERRA|TЁЯRA]] || [[AC_GFDM_V6|GuitarFreaks V6 & DrumMania V6 BLAZING!!!!]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | | [[Catharsis Garden]] || [[TERRA|TЁЯRA]] || [[AC_GFDM_V6|GuitarFreaks V6 & DrumMania V6 BLAZING!!!!]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | ||
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| [[Chance and Dice]] || 日本少年 || [[AC jb|jubeat]] || - || ✓ || - || - || - | | [[Chance and Dice]] || 日本少年 || [[AC jb|jubeat]] || - || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| [[THIS NIGHT (jubeat EDITION)]] || [[TERRA| | | [[THIS NIGHT (jubeat EDITION)]] || [[TERRA|TЁЯRA]] || [[AC jb copious|jubeat copious]] || - || - || ✓ || - || - | ||
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| [[SENSATION -from SALAMANDER2]] || [[Shinji Hosoe]](REMIX) || [[AC KBM 3rd|KEYBOARDMANIA 3rdMIX]] || K-Generation || ✓ || - || - || - | | [[SENSATION -from SALAMANDER2]] || [[Shinji Hosoe]](REMIX) || [[AC KBM 3rd|KEYBOARDMANIA 3rdMIX]] || K-Generation || ✓ || - || - || - | ||
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| [[DIORAMATIC MOMENT]] || [[TERRA|TЁЯRA]] || [[AC RB|REFLEC BEAT]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | | [[DIORAMATIC MOMENT]] || [[TERRA|TЁЯRA]] || [[AC RB|REFLEC BEAT]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | ||
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| [[Hana ranman -Flowers- (2nd EDITION)|華爛漫 -Flowers- (2nd EDITION)]] || [[TERRA| | | [[Hana ranman -Flowers- (2nd EDITION)|華爛漫 -Flowers- (2nd EDITION)]] || [[TERRA|TЁЯRA]] || [[AC RB limelight|REFLEC BEAT limelight]] || - || - || ✓ || - || - | ||
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| [[Ignition Break|Ignition∞Break]] || NAOKI || [[AC RB limelight|REFLEC BEAT limelight]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | | [[Ignition Break|Ignition∞Break]] || NAOKI || [[AC RB limelight|REFLEC BEAT limelight]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || - || - | ||
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== Discography == | == Discography == | ||
=== Albums === | === Albums === | ||
* [[REVOLUTION (album)|RЁVOLUTIФN]] (2005, with [[Junko Karashima|jun]], as [[TERRA| | * [[REVOLUTION (album)|RЁVOLUTIФN]] (2005, with [[Junko Karashima|jun]], as [[TERRA|TЁЯRA]]) | ||
* [[EVOLUTION (album)|ЁVOLUTIФN]] (2011, with [[Junko Karashima|jun]], as [[TERRA| | * [[EVOLUTION (album)|ЁVOLUTIФN]] (2011, with [[Junko Karashima|jun]], as [[TERRA|TЁЯRA]]) | ||
* Dynamite Dynamite Rev. -NAOKI SPECIAL ALBUM- (2018) | * Dynamite Dynamite Rev. -NAOKI SPECIAL ALBUM- (2018) | ||
Revision as of 14:46, 9 August 2022
Naoki Maeda
Artist Information
- Name: Naoki Maeda (前田尚紀)
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/NAOKI_MAEDA428
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw4bm0e3fNS0FzPVWPprvOg
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 TЁЯRA 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 for CAPCOM. Following his departure, KONAMI removed nearly all pictures or videos of him from BEMANI games, with his last songs for BEMANI being Everything I Need and You for the 2013 DanceDanceRevolution arcade game. At CAPCOM he served as producer for the mobile rhythm game CROSS×BEATS (2013), and its arcade releases beginning with crossbeats REV. (2015), until the series ended in 2018.
In August 2018, Naoki established an indie game studio named UNLIMITED STUDiO. The studio released its first title, a mobile music game called SEVEN's CODE, in October 2019.
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 noted in the DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME Weekly Journal he got into trance during the development of DanceDanceRevolution 5thMIX, which inspired him to compose ECSTASY and INSERTiON.
- He notes Healing Vision was inspired by his frustrated and unfulfilled feelings during the rocky development of 5thMIX, which he worked on simultaneously alongside Dance Maniax 2ndMIX.
- Naoki's mitsu-O! alias is taken from one of the designers of the original DanceDanceRevolution game, Mitsuo Nagamoto.
- Naoki appears in the intro video of DanceDanceRevolution (PS3).
- Naoki has also appeared in SEGA's CHUNITHM, オンゲキ and maimai でらっくす series, Step Revolution's StepManiaX dancing game, TAITO's テトテ×コネクト rhythm action game, and Neonovice's EZ2ON REBOOT:R rhythm game.
- 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 DanceDanceRevolution 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”.
- SEGA has also released an album of songs by Naoki called Dynamite Dynamite Rev., which can be abbreviated as "DDR", as well as being one letter away from DYNAMITE RAVE.
- Naoki composed the song Wish me luck!!!!, which is used as the ending theme of the 2018 anime Harukana receive (はるかなレシーブ).
- The lyrics for the song, written by Riyu Kosaka, mark the first collaboration between him and Riyu since 2006.
- Naoki is in charge of artist casting management in ANDAMIRO's Chrono Circle rhythm game [1].
Aliases
- NAOKI / NAOKI MAEDA
- NM SEQUENCE / NM SEQUENCE UNLIMITED (used only for composition/arrangement credits)
- 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
- D&G Music Factory (used only for composition/arrangement credits)
- evo-X
- FACTOR-X
- FIXX
- Freeman
- Happy CoreMAN
- J.J.Pops
- kTz
- 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.
- TЁЯRA (member of, with jun)
- THE FINAL BAND
- The Lonely Hearts
- THE SURRENDERS
- The W
- trance star
- true dreamer
- UZI-LAY / YU-EI-UI
- WHITE WALL
- Z / ZZ
- Ω
BEMANI Songs
Discography
Albums
- RЁVOLUTIФN (2005, with jun, as TЁЯRA)
- ЁVOLUTIФN (2011, with jun, as TЁЯRA)
- Dynamite Dynamite Rev. -NAOKI SPECIAL ALBUM- (2018)