Quickening
Quickening
Song Information
Artist: dj TAKA
Composition/Arrangement: Takayuki Ishikawa
BPM: 150
Length: 1:45
Genre: PSYCHEDELIC
VJ: VJ YUZ
First Music Game Appearance: Dance Maniax 2ndMIX
Other Music Game Appearances:
- beatmania THE FINAL / beatmania III THE FINAL
- beatmania IIDX 9th style
- DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA
- DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX
Lyrics
Some vocal samples, including "sabroso negrito lindo".
Song Connections / Remixes
- A long version of Quickening appears on dj TAKA's album milestone.
- A small loop of music sounding a lot like Quickening plays in the music select screen in beatmania IIDX 5th style.
- Quickening shares the "sabroso negrito lindo" sample with El pais del sol, LATIN from pop'n music.
Trivia
- According to dj TAKA, he was requested to write Quickening by NAOKI, who was the sound producer of Dance Maniax 2ndMIX.
- And according to his comments on the official song page for Quickening on beatmania THE FINAL's website, TAKA was stubbornly against Quickening being transplanted into beatmania at first.
- TAKA also got requests to put Quickening in IIDX as early as 6th style. VJ YUZ himself offered to make the video for Quickening when it finally appeared in 9th style, which made TAKA happy.
- And according to his comments on the official song page for Quickening on beatmania THE FINAL's website, TAKA was stubbornly against Quickening being transplanted into beatmania at first.
- Quickening is the last Dance Maniax song to date to appear in IIDX.
- In DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX, Quickening's artist is credited as dj. TAKA.
- Quickening received a unique video in DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME2.
Song Production Information
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Video Production Information
Untranslated.
Difficulty & Notecounts
beatmania IIDX to 10th style difficulty rated from 1 to 7+ (up to 9th style) or 8 (10th style), from 1 to 8+ in IIDX RED, and from 1 to 12 from HAPPY SKY onwards.
DanceDanceRevolution difficulty from 1 to 10 from DDRMAX2 to SuperNOVA2, and 1 to 20 from X onwards. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)
beatmania IIDX
| Game | SP Difficulty | DP Difficulty | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beginner | Normal | Hyper | Another | Normal | Hyper | Another | |
| Notecounts | 206 | 478 | 875 | 1062 | 440 | 620 | 1044 |
| beatmania IIDX 9th style | — | 5 | 7+ | N/A | 5 | 7 | N/A |
| beatmania IIDX 10th style→11 IIDX RED | — | 5 | 8 | N/A | 5 | 7 | N/A |
| beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY→Present | — | 5 | ↑9 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 10 |
| beatmania IIDX 9th style CS | — | 5 | 7+ | 7+ | 5 | 7 | 7 |
| beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED CS | 2 | 5 | 8 | 8+ | 5 | 7 | 8+ |
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