Waxing and wanding

waxing and wanding

Song Information

Artist: 青龍 (Seiryuu)
Composition/Arrangement: Ryutaro Nakahara
BPM: 191
Length: 2:05
Genre: DANCE SPEED
VJ: GOLI
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD
Other Music Game Appearances:

• REFLEC BEAT limelight

Lyrics

Are you ready?
Bass from outer s-, bass from outer s-
Are you ready?
[cut up sample] Brain power!

*repeat

Song Connections/Remixes

• waxing and wanding is one of the four Cardinal Gate songs.
• A long version of waxing and wanding appears on the CARDINAL GATE conclusion album (on CS DistorteD's Special edition) along with CONTRACT, Ganymede, 華蝶風雪, and 嘆きの樹.
• Another long version of this song appears on the bonus disc of Ryu☆'s album starmine.
• waxing and wanding (kors k mix), remixed by kors k, is on Ryu☆'s album starmine.
• A speed remix of this song by JAKAZiD, waxing and wanding (JAKAZiD's 新月 Remix), appears on the cyber beatnation2 - Hi Speed conclusion- CD.

Trivia

• waxing and wanding's title refers to two phases of the moon, "Waxing" (when it changes from new moon to full moon) and "Waning" (from full moon to new moon).
  • The song was intended to be called "waxing and waning", but was accidentally submitted as "waxing and wanding", see here.
• 青龍's identity was confirmed when Ryutaro Nakahara played "waxing and wanding" during his set at the 2007 beatnation summit -beatmaniaIIDX premium Live- concert.
• The video features two embodiments of Seiryuu, one being a blue dragon, and the other being a woman in kimono, resembling the woman in the video of 雪月花 (another Ryutaro Nakahara song with a GOLI video).
• Seiryuu is a Chinese god that is a blue dragon.
• waxing and wanding is the second song of Lincle Link 5 to be unlocked in REFLEC BEAT limelight. It becomes available once Glass Level 25 has been reached.

Song Production Information

I love the moon.

Once when I was travelling to Europe, when we were flying over Siberia, the only thing floating up in an empty, and I mean truly empty, sky was a perfectly round moon. It looked just like a shimmering, perfectly round pearl. The nature of the air high in the atmosphere lent to the effect, and it traced out an arc in extremely high resolution. As I was watching this gem of the heavens and bathed in its almost mystical light, I fell into the impression that all of my everyday cares were being healed.

This image is burned deep into my retinas.

This wonderful voyage occurred four months after I finished this song.
What!? Yes, that's right. Four months after. Almost exactly.
The passage before was just making up an image. Sorry. I'll reflect on what I've done.
As I made this song, I was thinking lots of exuberant thoughts like "Oh~, the moon. It's awesome~! So fabulous!"

Yes. That's right! It was four months after. I just grew a little bit, is all.
Don't make me say it over and over again.

Well, thank you so very much for having a look again today. This has been Seiryuu, and now everything is exposed.

For some reason, T called this song "wowow".
Maybe it doesn't abbreviate very well, I just don't get it, it's just one thing after another ...

And so, with everything exposed, this is Sei ... huh? Hey, I told you, it was four months later!
Four months later, and not a centimeter more! Get serious, I'm gonna get mad!

Video Production Information

Untranslated.

Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12. REFLEC BEAT difficulty rated from 1 to 10+. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BemaniWIKI 2nd.)

beatmania IIDX

Game	SP Difficulty				DP Difficulty
	Beginner	Normal	Hyper	Another	Normal	Hyper	Another
Notecounts	-	658	997	1457	647	966	1399
beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD→14 GOLD	-	7	10	11	7	10	12
beatmania IIDX 15 DJ TROOPERS→Present	-	7	10	11	7	10	↓11

REFLEC BEAT

Game	Level
	Basic	Medium	Hard
Notecounts	144	381	678
REFLEC BEAT limelight→Present	3	7	10

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