Summerblue
Summerblue
Song Information
Artist: Toby Fox & Camellia
Composition: Toby Fox
Arrangement: Camellia
BPM: 145
Length: 2:05
Genre: GAME MUSIC
Movie: Steins (location test), BEMANI Designers "4O8Q" (final release)
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 30 RESIDENT
Other Music Game Appearances: None.
Lyrics
None.
Song Connections / Remixes
- A long version of Summerblue, titled Summerblue (Extended Vacation), can be found on the beatmania IIDX 30 RESIDENT ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK album.
Trivia
- Summerblue marks Toby Fox's debut in the beatmania IIDX series.
- It also marks his first original composition in BEMANI.
- Summerblue had a generic video in the beatmania IIDX 30 RESIDENT location test. It received a unique video in the final release.
- The 16-bit videogame aesthetic of the video, along with the designs of the Toby Fox and Camellia characters, are references to KONAMI's TwinBee series.
Song Production Information
Toby Fox
For this track, I composed a simple piano outline and melody, and Camellia used 10000000000% power to turn it into a gigantic explosion of solar energy.
So, I only did a bit of the work, but kind of like blue food coloring in a ramune-flavored soft drink, it's a huge part of the flavor! (He doesn't know food coloring has no flavor)
Camellia
Good morning, I am the 100000000% guy, Camellia from beatnation RHYZE.
I'm finally excited to seeing the release of the song, "Summerblue", that I had been working with Toby together!
Toby and I have had several opportunities to create something together before, such as working together on the soundtrack for a game called "Dweller's Empty Path" and the collaboration track (Myths You Forgot) on my own album.
However I never expected to be given the role of creating explosions with solar energy, so | had to start working on it from the scratch, as the point of becoming able to convert light energy into emission.
Thanks to that, I think you can get sunlight out of the IIDX machine, can't you?
It's natural summer sunlight. You should enjoy it for your health.
Well, as you can tell by listening to Summerblue, it has a catchy, pop, playful, but somewhat nostalgic melody that Toby is best at.
Then I have 'BEMANIZED' it into a song that you can have fun playing in IIDX.
Of course I was curious to hear what the song would be like when Toby finished the whole, but since I received the task in my hands, I gave it my all and finished the song!
Somehow, some players may have the impression that I'm filled with evilness and destruction rather than hope and dream (I don't deny it though) (but I have written many happy songs!), but we have created a rather pop and colorful song. I'm positively thrilled for how it would come out in the game!
I tend to write songs that are kinda 'monochrome', so I hope that this time the fusion reaction between the two of us has given the song a fresh blue taste this time!
Please play it for your memories of this summer, and for the place you can always come home, in the middle of your future stories.
Thank you!
Video Production Information
Untranslated.
Difficulty & Notecounts
beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12. (Notecounts obtained from TexTage.)
| Game | SP Difficulty | DP Difficulty | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEGINNER | NORMAL | HYPER | ANOTHER | LEGGENDARIA | NORMAL | HYPER | ANOTHER | LEGGENDARIA | |
| Notecounts / Charge Notes | - | 551 / ? | 886 / 8 | 1232 / 8 | - | 552 / ? | 885 / 8 | 1271 / 8 | - |
| beatmania IIDX 30 RESIDENT→Present | - | 5 | 8 | 10 | - | 5 | 8 | 10 | - |
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