CONTRACT

CONTRACT

Song Information

Artist: 朱雀 (Suzaku)
BPM: 180
Genre: Sublime Techno
VJ: あけのすずめ
First Appeared On: AC DistorteD
Length: 1:47

Lyrics

None

Song Connections/Remixes

• One of the 4 Cardinal Gate songs.

• A long version of this song appears on the CARDINAL GATE conclusion CD (on CS DistorteD's Special edition) along with Ganymede, waxing and wanding, 華蝶風雪, and 嘆きの樹.

Trivia

• This song features a red/orange colored skin.
• Suzaku is believed to be DJ Yoshitaka's alias. Yoshitaka performed CONTRACT live at Tokyo Game Show 2006. CARDINAL GATE conclusion (the CD that comes with the special edition of IIDX DistorteD CS) credits DJ Yoshitaka as composer, proving that Suzaku is one of his aliases.
• Suzaku has a song in IIDX GOLD called VANESSA. Suzaku also has a song in IIDX DJ Troopers, Anisakis -somatic mutation type "Forza". The IIDX 16 Empress OMES "Himiko" features Suzaku vs Genbu.
• The video features a VJ GYO-style winged girl character as the embodiment of Suzaku.
• In VANESSA, the Extra Stage song for AC GOLD, there are loud guitar sounds from this song, as well as the high pitched vocal loop.
• Suzaku is a Chinese god that is a Phoenix.
• In Akumajou Dracula X: Rondo of Blood 1 of 4 of Maria's animal friends is a bird. The rest are a cat, dragon, and turtle.
• Suzaku, Seiryu and Genbu are the only Cardinal Gate aliases that have been used outside the Cardinal Gate songs in DistorteD (see VANESSA, Time to Air and 卑弥呼.).

Song Production Info

This expresses the terror born of "motion" and "tension".

Video Production Info

The representation of humans is flat, the representation of nature (flames) is dynamic.
As I fixed my thoughts on the style born of the painters of antiquity, I sought out the sublimity that sometimes dwells in modern things.