Waxing and wanding
waxing and wanding
Song Information
Artist: 青龍
Composition/Arrangement: Seiryu
BPM: 191
Length: 2:05
Genre: DANCE SPEED
Movie: GOLI
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD
Other Music Game Appearances:
- REFLEC BEAT limelight
- REFLEC BEAT plus MUSIC PACK 46
- REFLEC BEAT + KONAMI MUSIC PACK 34
Lyrics
None.
Song Connections / Remixes
- A long version of waxing and wanding appears on the CARDINAL GATE conclusion album, included with beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD CS's special edition.
- Another long version of waxing and wanding appears on starmine 青龍 DISC, the bonus disc of Ryu☆'s first album, starmine.
- Yet another long version, titled waxing and wanding (BD MIX), appears on 青龍's first album, BLUE DRAGON. This version of the song has the whole intro removed.
- A remix of waxing and wanding by kors k, titled waxing and wanding (kors k mix), also appears on Ryu☆'s first album, starmine.
- Another remix of waxing and wanding by JAKAZiD, titled waxing and wanding (JAKAZiD's 新月 Remix), appears on the cyber beatnation 2 -Hi Speed conclusion- album.
- Another remix of waxing and wanding by しま兄, titled waxing and wanding (SS Remix), can be found in SOUND VOLTEX IV HEAVENLY HAVEN.
- waxing and wanding's high-pitched vocal samples are taken from Franca Acapella 1, a vocal track found in the sample CD Techno Trance Essentials by Ueberschall.
Trivia
- waxing and wanding is one of the four CARDINAL GATE EXTRA STAGE songs.
- 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", according to this interview.
- Seiryu (青龍) is the Japanese name of Qinglong, a Chinese god that represents the east and the spring season.
- The video features two embodiments of Seiryu, 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).
- 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.
- In REFLEC BEAT colette -All Seasons-, it has been automatically unlocked as of May 14th, 2014 by using an eAMUSEMENT PASS.
- waxing and wanding's jacket illustration is taken from the starmine 青龍 DISC CD.
- In REFLEC BEAT +, waxing and wanding's artist was romanized as SEIRYU.
- waxing and wanding is unlockable in beatmania IIDX INFINITAS from November 2nd, 2017, after purchasing its charts with BITs.
- From April 20th, 2022, it is available by default in beatmania IIDX INFINITAS (2020).
- After being removed from the initial release of REFLEC BEAT 悠久のリフレシア, waxing and wanding was revived on December 28th, 2017.
- waxing and wanding received LEGGENDARIA charts in beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS. These charts can be unlocked from September 13th, 2018 by clearing the CARDINAL EXPERT course.
- As of beatmania IIDX 26 Rootage, these charts are available by default.
- These charts are available in beatmania IIDX INFINITAS (2020) since July 26th, 2023.
Song Production Information
Seiryu
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 to groovin'!! Upper difficulty rated from 1 to 10+, 1 to 13 in VOLZZA/VOLZZA 2, and 1 to 15 in 悠久のリフレシア. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)
beatmania IIDX
| Game | SP Difficulty | DP Difficulty | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEGINNER | NORMAL | HYPER | ANOTHER | LEGGENDARIA | NORMAL | HYPER | ANOTHER | LEGGENDARIA | |
| Notecounts | 281 | 658 | 997 | 1457 | 2000 | 647 | 966 | 1399 | 2000 |
| beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD→14 GOLD | - | 7 | 10 | 11 | - | 7 | 10 | 12 | - |
| beatmania IIDX 15 DJ TROOPERS→24 SINOBUZ | - | 7 | 10 | 11 | - | 7 | 10 | ↓11 | - |
| beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS→Present | - | 7 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD CS | 3 | 7 | 10 | 11 | - | 7 | 10 | 11 | - |
| beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS + PREMIUM BEST | 3 | 7 | 10 | 11 | - | 7 | 10 | 11 | - |
| beatmania IIDX INFINITAS | - | 7 | 10 | 11 | - | 7 | 10 | 11 | - |
| beatmania IIDX ULTIMATE MOBILE | - | 7 | 10 | 11 | - | - | - | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX INFINITAS (2020) | - | 7 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
REFLEC BEAT
Old Charts
| Game | Level | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | Medium | Hard | Special | |
| Notecounts | 144 | 381 | 678 | - |
| REFLEC BEAT limelight→VOLZZA 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | - |
| REFLEC BEAT plus | 3 | 7 | 10 | - |
| REFLEC BEAT + | 3 | 7 | 10 | - |
New Charts
| Game | Level | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | Medium | Hard | White Hard | |
| Notecounts | 158 | 409 | 706 | - |
| REFLEC BEAT 悠久のリフレシア | 5 | 9 | 12 | - |
| CARDINAL GATE | |
|---|---|
| EXTRA STAGEs | CONTRACT - Ganymede - waxing and wanding - 華蝶風雪 |
| ONE MORE EXTRA STAGE | 嘆きの樹 |
| Lincle LINK #5 | |
|---|---|
| beatmania IIDX songs | ビューティフル レシート - Flip Flap - Castle on the Moon - TITANS RETURN - quaver♪ |
| REFLEC BEAT songs | The Sampling Paradise - waxing and wanding - EXUSIA - 灼熱Beach Side Bunny - 天空の夜明け |
| Both games | HAERETICUS |