Gentle stress
gentle stress
Song Information
Artist: DJ Swan
Composition/Arrangement: Keiichi Ueno, Toshiaki Komiya
BPM: 175
Length: 1:43
Genre: DRUM'N'BASS
VJ: MORO (beatmania), VJ GYO (overlays by ?, beatmania IIDX)
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX substream / DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX CLUB VERSiON 2
Other Music Game Appearances:
Lyrics
None.
Song Connections / Remixes
- A remix of gentle stress by MR.DOG, titled gentle stress(SENSUAL MIX), can be found in DanceDanceRevolution 3rdMIX.
- A "live" long version of gentle stress, titled gentle stress(Live@honeyhunter TKO ’08) appears on Keiichi Ueno's first album, Rewind!.
- A remix of gentle stress by fu_mou, titled gentle stress wobble rmx, can be found in SOUND VOLTEX BOOTH.
Trivia
- gentle stress marks the debut of Toshiaki Komiya in BEMANI.
- Also, gentle stress and Macho Gang both mark Keiichi Ueno's first original compositions in the DanceDanceRevolution series.
- In DanceDanceRevolution, most of gentle stress' background animations are tinted red.
- According to Keiichi Ueno's song comments on Secret of Love, dj TAKA was the one who came up with the name "gentle stress" for the song.
- In beatmania IIDX substream, gentle stress' genre was DRUM'N BASS.
- On the beatmania maniac-tracks from IIDX 2ndstyle , Yebisu MIX , Dancing Stage featuring TRUE KiSS DESTiNATiON and beatmania BEST SOUNDTRACK albums, gentle stress is instead titled Gentle stress.
- gentle stress' overlays are used as generic animations in beatmania THE FINAL.
- Appropriately, they are used several times in gentle stress' animations.
- From beatmania IIDX 3rd style to beatmania IIDX 5th style, gentle stress' BPM was shown as 174. This was fixed in beatmania IIDX 9th style.
- gentle stress received LIGHT charts in beatmania IIDX 3rd style.
- During the location tests of beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD, gentle stress was absent. However, it reappeared in the final release.
- gentle stress received ANOTHER charts in beatmania IIDX 15 DJ TROOPERS CS. These charts were added to the arcades in beatmania IIDX 27 HEROIC VERSE.
- gentle stress is an unlockable revival in beatmania IIDX 27 HEROIC VERSE. It can be unlocked by fulfilling one requirement described in this article.
- It received new Single/Double NORMAL and HYPER charts upon its revival.
- As of beatmania IIDX 28 BISTROVER, it is available by default.
Song Production Information
beatmania
Fujii
A crossover from IIDX substream.
This early-era drum'n bass track, which uses a format called artcore, has piano rhythms that create beautiful streams, and a pleasant thrill of soaring away.
Video Production Information
None.
Difficulty & Notecounts
beatmania difficulty rated from 1 to 9.
beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 5 in substream, 1 to 7 from 2nd through 4th style, 1 to 7+ in 5th through 9th style, 1 to 8 in 10th style, 1 to 8+ in IIDX RED, and from 1 to 12 from HAPPY SKY onwards.
DanceDanceRevolution difficulty from 2ndMIX CLUB VER. through 5thMIX (and the Solo games) rated from 1 to 9. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from KANI KANI CRAB and BEMANIWiki 2nd.)
beatmania
| Game | SP Difficulty | DP Difficulty | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | Hard | Another | Normal | Hard | Another | |
| Notecounts | 232 | 350 | - | 272 | 351 | - |
| beatmania THE FINAL | 3 | 4 | - | 4 | 5 | - |
| beatmania III THE FINAL | 3 | 4 | - | 4 | 5 | - |
beatmania IIDX
Old charts
| Game | SP Difficulty | DP Difficulty | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEGINNER | NORMAL | HYPER | ANOTHER | LEGGENDARIA | NORMAL | HYPER | ANOTHER | LEGGENDARIA | |
| Notecounts | 148 | 232 | 350 | 728 | - | 272 | 351 | 772 | - |
| beatmania IIDX substream→2nd style | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | 4 | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX 3rd style→4th style | - | 3 | 4 | - | - | 3 | 4 | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX 5th style | - | 3 | 4 | - | - | ↑4 | ↑5 | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX 9th style→16 EMPRESS | - | 3 | 4 | - | - | 4 | 5 | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX 3rd style CS | - | 3 | 4 | - | - | 3 | 4 | - | - |
| beatmania IIDX 15 DJ TROOPERS CS | - | 3 | 4 | 9 | - | 4 | 5 | 8 | - |
| beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS + PREMIUM BEST | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | - | 4 | 5 | 8 | - |
New charts
| Game | SP Difficulty | DP Difficulty | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEGINNER | NORMAL | HYPER | ANOTHER | LEGGENDARIA | NORMAL | HYPER | ANOTHER | LEGGENDARIA | |
| Notecounts | - | 172 | 342 | 728 | - | 198 | 327 | 772 | - |
| beatmania IIDX 27 HEROIC VERSE→Present | - | 2 | 4 | 9 | - | 3 | 5 | 9 | - |
Other chart not shown on the above table:
- beatmania IIDX 15 DJ TROOPERS CS Double BEGINNER: total notes: unknown.
DanceDanceRevolution
| Game | Single | Double | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beginner | Basic | Difficult | Expert | Challenge | Basic | Difficult | Expert | Challenge | |
| Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows | - / - | 207 / 0 | 290 / 0 | 333 / 0 | - / - / - | 207 / 0 | 290 / 0 | - / - | - / - / - |
| DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX CLUB VERSiON 2 | - | 6 | 8 | 9 | - | 6 | 8 | - | - |
| DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX APPEND CLUB VERSiON 2 | - | 6 | 8 | 9 | - | 6 | 8 | - | - |
| DanceDanceRevolution CLUB VERSiON (DC) | - | 6 | 8 | 9 | - | 6 | 8 | - | - |