Genki Hikota
Genki Hikota
Artist Information
- Name: Genki Hikota (彦田元気)
- Birthday: July 23rd, 1990
- Homepage: http://djgenki.net/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/genkianamei
- SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/genkianamei
Profile
Genki Hikota is a Japanese UK hardcore and J-rock producer. He owns the SKETCH UP! Recordings label alongside DJ Noriken and is a member of the HARDCORE TANO*C circle. He appears on several doujin circles, Massive Circlez and S2TB Recording to name a few, and he's part of the GAT trio alongside doujin artists aran and Tachibana (Massive New Krew). He also appears on commercial releases. As of late 2016, he started to use the SKETCH UP! Recordings' DJGenki sub-label for his releases.
Rarely, he makes tracks close to the frenchcore and psycore genres. As of late 2014, he's one of the producers and guitarists of the utaite metal band GRILLED MEAT YOUNGMANS and as of 2015, he's one as well for the Genki-kun Band (元気くんバンド) which comprises Yukacco, Masaya Oya and Javelin (Massive New Krew).
Trivia
- Genki is an extremely skilled beatmania IIDX player, able to full combo the Single Player Black ANOTHER charts of ICARUS and 卑弥呼.
- According to Genki in a 4gamer interview alongside L.E.D. and DJ YOSHITAKA, the song 冥 was what impulsed him to compose music.
- It is speculated that Genki is パイタン from the SOUND VOLTEX series and CapsColte from the pop'n music series.
- Genki has also appeared in TAITO's GROOVE COASTER series, writing the song "MIRACLE PARTY".
Aliases
- DJ Genki
- Gram
- 元気くんバンド
- 元祖ボーイズ男子ボーイズ (member of)
BEMANI Songs
Discography
EP
- GAT01 (2013, as GAT)
- GAT02 (2013, as GAT)
- GAT03 (2014, as GAT)
- GRILLED MEAT YOUNGMANS (2014)
- GAT04 (2015, as GAT)
- 元気くんバンドEP (2015)
- 元気くんバンドEP2 (2016)
- 葛西ハーコーズEP (2016, with Camellia, Yukacco and C-Show)
- TIERRA EP (2016)
- 葛西ハーコーズEP2 (2017, with Camellia, Yukacco and C-Show)
Albums
- FirstDate (2012)
- Starry Orange (2014)
- REALIZE (2015)
- The Requiem (as Gram, 2017)