AETHER

ÆTHER

Song Information

ÆTHER's jacket.

Artist: TAG underground
Composition/Arrangement: TAG
BPM: 192 (beatmania IIDX, REFLEC BEAT), 192-384 (DanceDanceRevolution)
Length: 2:01
Genre: ASTRAL HARDCORE
VJ: Steins
Jacket design: 07
First Music Game Appearance: REFLEC BEAT colette -Summer-
Other Music Game Appearances:

• beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA
• DanceDanceRevolution (2013)
• REFLEC BEAT plus MUSIC PACK 53
• ミライダガッキ FutureTomTom Ver.2

Lyrics

These lyrics are from the We are “Try to Singers” album for ÆTHER -Try to Sing Ver.-. The original ÆTHER has no vocals.

Japanese

待ったなしのスピードで  やってくる時間に
本当のことを託したら  気づけば後に引けない
ひょっとしたらこれ以上  入り込んでしまう?
まっさらな紙の上で  物語が動き出す
積み重ねた砂の城  何度も壊されて  やっと悟る
心ごと海に溶けで  泡になる

それは青く青く  ただよう陽炎
揺れる  揺れる  幻のよう
巡り巡る神秘の扉を  開いたその先へ...

それは青く青く  ただよう陽炎
揺れる  揺れる  幻のよう
巡り巡る神秘の扉を  開いてみつけた

それを辿る辿る  真理の迷路
揺らぐ  揺らぐ  命の模様
めくりめくる  ページの最後に  刻んで残した

それは続く続く  まばゆい継承
宿る  宿る  魂、鼓動
光り光る未来の歴史へ伝える
5つのNeed for the ÆTHER

Romaji

matta nashi no SPEED de yattekuru jikan ni
hontou no koto wo takushitara kizukeba ato ni hikenai
hyottoshitara kore ijou hairikon de shimau?
massarana kami no ue de monogatari ga ugokidasu
tsumikasaneta suna no shiro nando mo kowasarete yatto satoru
kokoro goto umi ni toke de awa ni naru

sore wa aoku aoku tadayou kagerou
yureru yureru maboroshi no you
meguri meguru shinpi no tobira wo aita sono saki e...

sore wa aoku aoku tadayou kagerou
yureru yureru maboroshi no you
meguri meguru shinpi no tobira wo aite mitsuketa

sore wo tadoru tadoru shinri no meiro
yuragu yuragu inochi no moyou
mekuri mekuru PAGE no saigo ni kizan de nokoshita

sore wa tsuzuku tsuzuku mabayui keishou
yadoru yadoru tamashii, kodou
hikari hikaru mirai no rekishi e tsutaeru
itsutsu no Need for the ÆTHER

Song Connections / Remixes

• ÆTHER shares some similarities with Cosmic Hurricane, from the Tsugidoka! (つぎドカ!) event.
• The version of ÆTHER used in the beatmania IIDX, DanceDanceRevolution, and ミライダガッキ series has louder piano sounds in the middle of the song.
  • This version of ÆTHER appears in the DanceDanceRevolution Original Soundtrack Vol.2 album.
• The ending part of ÆTHER utilizes a similar sounding portion of PARANOiA Revolution's beat structure, from DanceDanceRevolution X3 VS 2ndMIX.
• A vocal version of ÆTHER by Hommarju, titled ÆTHER –Try to Sing Ver.-, can be found on the We are “Try to Singers” album.
  • An instrumental version of ÆTHER –Try to Sing Ver.- also appears on We are “Try to Singers”.

Trivia

• ÆTHER is one of the unlockable songs of the second phase of REFLEC BEAT colette -Summer-'s Pastel Adventure colette Fishing unlocking system.
  • As of REFLEC BEAT groovin'!!, ÆTHER is playable by default.
• ÆTHER is Yasuhiro Taguchi's first non-DanceDanceRevolution original song under his TAG underground alias.
  • It is also Yasuhiro Taguchi's first song in the REFLEC BEAT series with a HARD chart rated Level 10+ (11 or 12 from REFLEC BEAT VOLZZA onwards).
• According to ancient and medieval science, æther or ether is the material that fills the region of the universe above the terrestrial sphere.
• In REFLEC BEAT, ÆTHER'S BPM halves to 96 in the middle of the song.
• ÆTHER was added as a default song to beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA on March 25th, 2014, as part of the TAG seitansai (TAG生誕祭) event.
• ÆTHER is one of DanceDanceRevolution (2013)'s special EXTRA STAGE songs. It was added on March 25th, 2014, as part of the TAG生誕祭 event.
  • ÆTHER and esrev:eR are the first BEMANI crossover songs in the arcade DanceDanceRevolution series that are used as EXTRA STAGE songs.
  • In DanceDanceRevolution (2014), it could be unlocked via the EXTRA ATTACK unlocking method.
  • From December 17th, 2015 onwards, ÆTHER has been automatically unlocked for all players.
• In DanceDanceRevolution (2014), before June 17th, 2014, ÆTHER was sorted alphabetically after A Stupid Barber, which meant it was sorted as "ATHER". It is now sorted between Adularia and AFRONOVA, as "AETHER".

Song Production Information

None.

Video Production Information

None.

Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12.
DanceDanceRevolution difficulty rated from 1 to 20 from X onwards.
REFLEC BEAT to groovin'!! Upper difficulty rated from 1 to 10+, and from 1 to 13 from VOLZZA onwards. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)

beatmania IIDX

Game	SP Difficulty					DP Difficulty
	BEGINNER	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA
Notecounts	-	514	833	1440	542	839	1385	{{{8}}}	{{{9}}}
beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA→Present	-	5	8	11	5	8	11	{{{9}}}	{{{10}}}

DanceDanceRevolution

Game	Single					Double
	Beginner	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge
Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows	215 / 11	372 / 26	551 / 23	704 / 6	- / - / -	368 / 25	550 / 19	688 / 9	- / - / -
DanceDanceRevolution (2013)→Present	6	9	14	17	-	9	14	17	-

REFLEC BEAT

Game	Level
	Basic	Medium	Hard	Special
Notecounts	248	475	780	-
REFLEC BEAT colette -Summer-→groovin'!! Upper	5	8	10+	-
REFLEC BEAT VOLZZA→Present	5	8	11	-
REFLEC BEAT plus	5	8	10+	-