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| [[Taking It To The Sky (PLUS step)]] || BEMANI Sound Team "U1" feat. [[Tammy Hanson|Tammy S. Hansen]] || [[AC DDR A20 PLUS|DanceDanceRevolution A20 PLUS]] || - || - || ✓ || - | | [[Taking It To The Sky (PLUS step)]] || BEMANI Sound Team "U1" feat. [[Tammy Hanson|Tammy S. Hansen]] || [[AC DDR A20 PLUS|DanceDanceRevolution A20 PLUS]] || - || - || ✓ || - | ||
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| [[BREAKING THE FUTURE]] || [[Youhei Kimura|ARM]] (IOSYS) x BEMANI Sound Team "U1" ft. [[Kradness]] x [[Corey Prasek|TRIΔNGLE]] || [[AC DDR A3|DanceDanceRevolution A3]] / [[CS DDR GRAND PRIX|DanceDanceRevolution GRAND PRIX]] || - || ✓ || ✓ | | [[BREAKING THE FUTURE]] || [[Youhei Kimura|ARM]] (IOSYS) x BEMANI Sound Team "U1" ft. [[Kradness]] x [[Corey Prasek|TRIΔNGLE]] || [[AC DDR A3|DanceDanceRevolution A3]] / [[CS DDR GRAND PRIX|DanceDanceRevolution GRAND PRIX]] || - || ✓ || ✓ || - | ||
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| [[EGOISM 110]] || BEMANI Sound Team "U1 Ground-Speed" || [[AC DRS|DANCERUSH STARDOM]] || - || - || ✓ || - | | [[EGOISM 110]] || BEMANI Sound Team "U1 Ground-Speed" || [[AC DRS|DANCERUSH STARDOM]] || - || - || ✓ || - | ||
Revision as of 03:10, 25 July 2023
U1 redirects here. For the playable character in DanceDanceRevolution 5thMIX, please see U1 (character).
Yuichi Asami
Artist Information
- Name: Yuichi Asami (浅見祐一)
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/U1_ASAMi
- Birthplace: Tokyo
- Birthdate: September 1st, 1971
Profile
Yuichi Asami is known as one of the first KONAMI artists for the DanceDanceRevolution series, along with Naoki Maeda. Yuichi worked near exclusively on console DanceDanceRevolution titles until DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA; he's even served as a director on some titles, like MARIO MIX and the HOTTEST PARTY series. In the early 2010's Yuichi started composing songs for other BEMANI series like beatmania IIDX and REFLEC BEAT.
Yuichi's music mainly focuses on electronic genres in BEMANI. He's known for house, rave, and trance, with a couple of speedcore and hardcore tracks. Lately, he's ventured into EDM as well. He's also a proficient DJ and turntablist.
In 2011, Yuichi started sound directing the arcade DanceDanceRevolution series beginning with DanceDanceRevolution X3 VS 2ndMIX, sharing sound directing duties with TAG. He left after X3 to serve as the sound director of the ミライダガッキ FutureTomTom BEMANI series until its end on July 31st, 2015. He returned to DanceDanceRevolution near the end of DanceDanceRevolution (2014).
As of DanceDanceRevolution A, Yuichi is once more the sound director of the DanceDanceRevolution series.
Trivia
- His main alias, U1, reads as "yu-ichi".
- Yuichi's 2MB alias refers to the amount of RAM found in Sony's PlayStation gaming console.
- Yuichi's NPD3's alias is a reference to the NBA POWER DUNKERS 3 game (released in North America as NBA IN THE ZONE '98), which he composed music for.
- Outside of BEMANI, Yuichi has also composed music for games like the NBA POWER DUNKERS/IN THE ZONE series, RUMBLE ROSES, and Police 911.
- Yuichi currently has the second longest career of any in-house BEMANI artist, performing music for BEMANI since early April 1999, only two months behind dj TAKA.
- Almost every song Yuichi composed has its song comment center-aligned when shown in the game title's website.
- All of Yuichi's beatmania IIDX songs have their genre starting with ORBITALIC; this was also used in Flow's appearance in pop'n music 15 ADVENTURE.
Aliases
- U1-ASAMi
- U1
- NPD3
- 2MB
- 2.1MB
- U1 overground
- CLUB SPICE
- Chang ma (member of, with "AQUI LA JAMAOKA")
- U1ミライダガッキ連
- U1 undefined behavior
- U1 High-Speed
- Zodiac Fall
- Musical Cosmology
- U1 unplugged
- U1 Ground-Speed