Beginning of life
Beginning of life
Song Information
Artist: QUADRA
Composition/Arrangement: Hiroshi Watanabe
BPM: 110
Length: 1:18
Genre: AMBIENT
VJ: MiZKiNG (beatmania, beatmania IIDX), VJ GYO (beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD CS)
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania 2ndMIX
Other Music Game Appearances:
Lyrics
None.
Song Connections / Remixes
- An extended version of Beginning of life can be found on the beatmania 2ndMIX complete album.
- A remix of Beginning of life, titled Beginning of life (THE GROUND PULSE MIX), appears in beatmania CORE REMIX.
- Anonther extended version of Beginning of life, titled Beginning of Life beatmania-DA!! Special Version, can be found in beatmania打!! and beatmania打打打!!.
Trivia
- Beginning of life received HARD charts in beatmania 3rdMIX, although these charts are duplicates of Beginning of life's NORMAL charts.
- These charts do not appear in beatmania THE FINAL.
- In the DanceDanceRevolution series, Beginning of life's title is shown as BEGINNING-OF-LIFE.
- Beginning of life received a Single ANOTHER chart in beatmania IIDX substream.
- Beginning of life is one of the eight revived beatmania songs that can be found in beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD CS.
- Unlike the other beatmania revivals in beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD CS, Beginning of life did appear in the arcade version of beatmania IIDX prior to its CS IIDX debut.
- Beginning of life received brand-new NORMAL charts in beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD CS, along with new HYPER charts that replace its old charts.
- Beginning of life is the only song in beatmania that does not have scratches in the chart.
Song Production Information
beatmania 2ndMIX
A very popular song on the first stage, like REGGAE FUNKY MIX. This is the first time I've mapped slow-attack synth strings to buttons. Each button sound has its own presence and feels soothing.
beatmania completeMIX English site
You'll become addicted to the mesmerizing samples of synth-beat.
Video Production Information
None.
Difficulty & Notecounts
beatmania difficulty rated from 1 to 9.
beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 5 in 1st style and substream, 1 to 7 in 2nd style, and 1 to 12 from HAPPY SKY onwards.
DanceDanceRevolution difficulty from 2ndMIX CLUB through 5thMIX (and the Solo games) rated from 1 to 9. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from KANI KANI CRAB.)
beatmania
Original Charts
| Game | SP Difficulty | DP Difficulty | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | Hard | Another | Normal | Hard | Another | |
| Notecounts | 80 | 80 | - | 115 | 115 | - |
| beatmania 2ndMIX | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | - |
| beatmania 3rdMIX→completeMIX | ↓1 | 1 | - | ↓1 | 1 | - |
| beatmania THE FINAL | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| beatmania III→THE FINAL | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| beatmania CS | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | - |
| beatmania for WonderSwan | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
GOLD CS Charts
| Game | SP Difficulty | DP Difficulty | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | Hard | Another | Normal | Hard | Another | |
| Notecounts | 57 | 80 | 96 | 99 | 115 | - |
| beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD CS | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | - |
beatmania IIDX
Old Charts
| Game | SP Difficulty | DP Difficulty | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEGINNER | NORMAL | HYPER | ANOTHER | LEGGENDARIA | NORMAL | HYPER | ANOTHER | LEGGENDARIA | |
| Notecounts | - | - | 80 | 96 | - | - | 115 | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX substream→2nd style | - | - | 1 | N/A | - | - | 1 | - | - |
New Charts
| Game | SP Difficulty | DP Difficulty | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEGINNER | NORMAL | HYPER | ANOTHER | LEGGENDARIA | NORMAL | HYPER | ANOTHER | LEGGENDARIA | |
| Notecounts | - | 57 | 80 | 96 | - | 99 | 115 | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD CS | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | 1 | 2 | - | - |
DanceDanceRevolution
| Game | Single | Double | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beginner | Basic | Difficult | Expert | Challenge | Basic | Difficult | Expert | Challenge | |
| Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows | - / - | 83 / 0 | 131 / 0 | 167 / 0 | - / - / - | 90 / 0 | 167 / 0 | - / - | - / - / - |
| DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX CLUB VERSiON 2 | - | 2 | 4 | 6 | - | 3 | 6 | - | - |
| DanceDanceRevolution 2ndReMIX APPEND CLUB VERSiON vol.1 | - | 2 | 4 | 6 | - | 3 | 6 | - | - |
| DanceDanceRevolution CLUB VERSiON (DC) | - | 2 | 4 | 6 | - | 3 | 6 | - | - |