Summer Vacation(CU mix)
Summer Vacation(CU mix)
Song Information
Artist: OutPhase
Composition/Arrangement: TaQ, dj TAKA
Guitar: Tim Leffman
BPM: 135
Length: 1:44
Genre: TRIP HOP
Movie: VJ YUZ
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 6th style
Other Music Game Appearances: None.
Lyrics
None.
Song Connections / Remixes
- An extended version of Summer Vacation(CU mix), titled summer vacation, appears on TaQ's first album, bounce connected.
Trivia
- Summer Vacation(CU mix)'s video shows footage of Guam.
- Summer Vacation(CU mix) lost its unique title card in beatmania IIDX 7th style.
- Summer Vacation(CU mix) was absent from the location tests of beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD. However, it reappeared in the final release.
Song Production Information
OutPhase
Tim Leffman, an Englishman nearly 2m tall, is a hardcore live guitarist who spent most his life playing the acoustic guitar, singing, and travelling.
I knew him as an acquaintance since TaQ was in charge of recording his previous album, so he was featured on this song.
He usually performs in Irish pubs and bars, so his general musician mentality is typical of a night owl.
Aside from "SummerVacation", based on the original concept of the sun, recording began at a studio in Shibuya during the day on the Obon holiday.
The reason we collaborated with Tim is simple.
Our way of performing relentlessly with sounds sometimes offends performing musicians afterwards. Musicians play sounds with their own meaning, and we didn't want to change this. Tim is very flexible in that regard, as his interests in new music and sounds never fades. Thanks to him, we were able to try a new method of using Tim's recordings at the beginning of the project.
While feeling full from the necessity of coffee in the studio (with free refill), we confirmed each other's intentions and decided on handclaps and tempo.
Tim showed us the phrases he came up with in succession. I guess that the rhythms from his phrases were grouped together in a suitable loop, and recording commenced.
TaQ entered the booth with Tim and directed with a live vibe feeling, while TAKA stayed in the control room with an objective perspective.
It didn't take more than 3 hours to finally see the song and get the necessary phrases.
TaQ took the recorded material back to our studio, and started editing the guitar and arranging the rhythms, as a remix battle between OutPhase started with that material.
During the summer of 2001, in the sweltering heat, it's a sweating and wrung out midsummer track, Summer Vacation!
Video Production Information
VJ YUZ
The video was very difficult to make because I received the request during an extremely tight schedule....
I tried to complete it to link it with Blueberry Stream.
I personally purchased an underwater DV filming unit, so was the footage I filmed a big success? I'm trying.
Difficulty & Notecounts
beatmania IIDX difficulty rated 1 to 7+ from 6th through 9th style, 1 to 8 in 10th style, 1 to 8+ in IIDX RED, and from 1 to 12 from HAPPY SKY onwards. beatmania (2006) difficulty rated from 1 to 10.
| Game | SP Difficulty | DP Difficulty | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEGINNER | NORMAL | HYPER | ANOTHER | LEGGENDARIA | NORMAL | HYPER | ANOTHER | LEGGENDARIA | |
| Notecounts | 379 | 667 | 949 | - | - | 984 | 1328 | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX 6th style→9th style | - | 6 | 7+ | - | - | 6 | 7+ | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX 10th style | - | 6 | 8 | - | - | ↑7 | 8 | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED | - | ↓5 | 8 | - | - | 7 | ↑8+ | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY→13 DistorteD | - | 5 | ↑9 | - | - | ↑8 | ↑12 | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD→18 Resort Anthem | - | 5 | 9 | - | - | ↑9 | 12 | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX 19 Lincle→Present | - | ↑6 | 9 | - | - | 9 | 12 | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX 6th style CS | 3 | 5 | 7+ | - | - | 6 | 7+ | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX 7th style CS | 3 | 5 | 7+ | - | - | 6 | 7+ | - | - |
| beatmania (2006) | 3 | 5 | 8 | - | - | 8 | 9 | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX ULTIMATE MOBILE | - | 6 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - |