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
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOBImwu_rnAAMGzX_XoWABw
- 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. 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 genre. 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. He has also been using his Spada†leggendaria alias, Gram, more frequently outside of BEMANI, primarily for symphonic psycore songs.
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.
- He also mentioned on his twitter that he played pop'n music as an elementary school student (the same post also confirmed that he was CapsColte).
- It is speculated that Genki is パイタン from the SOUND VOLTEX series.
- Genki has also made contributions to TAITO's GROOVE COASTER series, BANDAI NAMCO's 太鼓の達人 series, and SEGA's CHUNITHM series.
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)
- CapsColte
BEMANI Songs
Discography
Albums
- FirstDate (2012)
- Starry Orange (2014)
- Prizmatic! (2015, with Yukacco)
- REALIZE (2015)
- The Requiem (2017, as Gram)
- ULTRA HAPPY COLLECTION!!! (2017)
- Reflection of (2018, with Yukacco)
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, as 元気くんバンド)
- 元気くんバンドEP2 (2016, as 元気くんバンド)
- 葛西ハーコーズEP (2016, as 葛西ハーコーズ)
- TIERRA EP (2016)
- GAT Until 01 (2016, as GAT)
- 葛西ハーコーズEP2 (2017, as 葛西ハーコーズ)