CLOUDY MUSIC
CLOUDY MUSIC
Song Information
Artist: SLAKE
Composition/Arrangement: SLAKE
BPM: 190
Length: 1:46
Genre: DRUM'N'BASS
Movie: MORO (beatmania), VJ GYO (overlays by GOLI) (beatmania IIDX)
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 7th style
Other Music Game Appearances:
Lyrics
None.
Song Connections / Remixes
- CLOUDY MUSIC samples backbeat and bassline elements from Check the Rhime, by A Tribe Called Quest.
- The vocal samples in CLOUDY MUSIC are taken from the sample CD Vocal Planet by Spectrasonics.
Trivia
- CLOUDY MUSIC marks SLAKE's first appearance in beatmania IIDX since I'M FOR REAL in beatmania IIDX 4th style.
- CLOUDY MUSIC is the only beatmania IIDX song since beatmania IIDX 3rd style to ever appear in beatmania/beatmania III.
- CLOUDY MUSIC received overlays in beatmania IIDX 7th style CS. These overlays never appeared in an arcade beatmania IIDX game.
- CLOUDY MUSIC is a hidden revival in beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS. It can be unlocked by playing 70 rounds.
- As of January 7th, 2009, it is available by default.
- According to Takehiko Fujii himself, he did not know exactly what the vocals in CLOUDY MUSIC were saying until they were translated for him many years later.
- CLOUDY MUSIC is unlockable in beatmania IIDX INFINITAS from May 6th, 2020, after purchasing its charts with BITs.
Song Production Information
beatmania
SLAKE
CLOUDY MUSIC from IIDX makes its way over to THE FINAL.
It's a musical drum'n bass track where a moog-esque synthesizer ties together with rushing breakbeats and a jazz-flavored electric piano.
beatmania IIDX
SLAKE
A handsome old man's drum'n bass with full-throttled juice, and a slightly too fast BPM that feels just right.
Moog-like synth sounds intertwined with jazzy Rhodes riffs feels nice.
The reason for having an old man with a sexy voice is a secret.
Video Production Information
VJ GYO
Downtown, lined with an old apartment with stairs installed on the outer wall... a narrow alleyway covered a neverending shadow... suddenly a black cat passes through there...
This is life of the inner city, that always seems to be blocked from the light.
In such a city, people have active, cool, and sometimes thrilling and speedy lives.
Therefore, it conveys a freshly squeezed, cultivated real groove!
Difficulty & Notecounts
beatmania difficulty rated from 1 to 9.
beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 7 from 7th through 9th style, and 1 to 12 from 12 HAPPY SKY to present. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from KANI KANI CRAB and BEMANIWiki 2nd.)
beatmania
| Game | SP Difficulty | DP Difficulty | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | Hard | Another | Normal | Hard | Another | |
| Notecounts | 422 | 532 | - | 422 | 620 | - |
| beatmania THE FINAL | 5 | 6 | - | 5 | 7 | - |
| beatmania III THE FINAL | 5 | 6 | - | 5 | 6 | - |
beatmania IIDX
| Game | SP Difficulty | DP Difficulty | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEGINNER | NORMAL | HYPER | ANOTHER | LEGGENDARIA | NORMAL | HYPER | ANOTHER | LEGGENDARIA | |
| Notecounts | 229 | 422 | 620 | - | - | 422 | 619 | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX 7th style→10th style | - | 4 | 6 | - | - | 5 | 7 | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS | - | ↑5 | ↑7 | - | - | 5 | 7 | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX 17 SIRIUS→20 tricoro | - | 5 | 7 | - | - | 5 | ↑8 | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX 7th style CS | 2 | 4 | 6 | - | - | 5 | 7 | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX INFINITAS | - | 5 | 7 | - | - | 5 | 8 | - | - |