Hiroshi Takeyasu
Hiroshi Takeyasu
Artist Information
- Name: Hiroshi Takeyasu (竹安弘)
Profile
Hiroshi Takeyasu (born July 9th, 1966) is one of the earliest BEMANI artists, working in the original beatmania along with Reo Nagumo and Tomomi Ohta. Hiroshi is credited for giving the idea of a DJ/club theme for beatmania upon hearing Kiyoshi Mizuki's original idea for the game, and pushed for electronic/club music to be featured on it. He was then a big contributor to pop'n music, and was the sound director of the first four arcade games.
In 2000 Hiroshi left the pop'n music team to work as the chief music producer of ParaParaParadise, then a sound supervisor in beatmania IIDX for beatmania IIDX 4th style, 5th style and beatmania 7thMIX keepin' evolution, and then as the music producer of DDRMAX2 and DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME. He returned to the pop'n music team again in 2003, where he stayed until his eventual departure from the series altogether.
Hiroshi stopped contributing music to BEMANI for over a decade after pop'n music 15 ADVENTURE, though he continued to work on BEMANI albums as an A&R director until at least 2012. In the late 2010's he briefly wrote new music for beatmania IIDX and pop'n music.
Hiroshi Takeyasu left KONAMI sometime between 2020 and 2024, as he can be seen on a non-KONAMI album under the .THi alias [1].
Trivia
- Prior to working on beatmania, Hiroshi Takeyasu composed music for some of KONAMI's arcade and NES games, his work dating as far back with the company as the mid-1980's.
Aliases
- HIRO
- aprésmidi (with Sanae Shintani)
- The Ebisu Sisters (with Sanae Shintani and Hiroyuki Togo)
- POST MODERN
- LOVEMINTS
- MIRAK
- SPIRITUAL RIDE
- THE BALD HEADS
- The Dust Fathers
- prophet-31
- avant-midi