Osamu Kubota
Osamu Kubota
Artist Information
- Name: Osamu Kubota (久保田修)
- Website: http://osamukubota.com/
- X: https://x.com/osamukubota
Profile
Osamu Kubota majored in linguistics at the French literature faculty of the University of Tokyo. His debut in music was a band keyboardist in 1989. Prior to that, he began piano lessons at the age of four. In 1999, he joined KONAMI at the recommendation of TaQ, good-cool and dj TAKA. Being one of the most unique artists to step into BEMANI, Osamu provided the games with a variety of tunes, often incorporating sounds from all over the world. Unlike other artists in the series, Osamu was more driven to a more classical sound, offering jazz, classical and swing pieces.
Aside from BEMANI, he works extensively with both TaQ and onoken on TaQ's ongaq production company and recording studio. Osamu also participated in a range of video games, television and movie scores, albums, and band projects.
Aliases
- Celia (member of)
Trivia
- Osamu speaks eight different languages (Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Korean and more) as noted by his friend dj TAKA in the song comments for 1989.
- Osamu was one of the few recurring beatmania IIDX artists who never had a song with a chart rated Level 12 on ANOTHER.
- Osamu was the arranger, orchestrator, and conductor of five tracks on The Epic of Zektbach -Ristaccia- in 2008.
- Osamu has his own recording studio, Musique de Poche S.A.R.L. Japon.
- Osamu composed L'episode for SEGA's rhythm game CHUNITHM PLUS, his first rhythm game appearance in half a decade.
- Osamu collaborated with owl＊tree, under the syrah＊tree alias, in the song Jörqer, from owl＊tree's pvq album.
- A short version of this song appears in SEGA's maimai, CHUNITHM, and オンゲキ.
- Osamu has also appeared in some of Diverse System's albums such asAD:PIANO and works.
- None of Osamu Kubota's beatmania IIDX songs have appeared in beatmania IIDX ULTIMATE MOBILE, or can be listened on the MUSIC PLAYER on the game either, due to copyright with JASRAC.
- His ノスタルジア songs appear in the MUSIC PLAYER, though.
BEMANI Songs
| Song | Artist | Game | Genre | Composition | Arrangement | Lyrics | Vocals | Piano/Organ | Other Instruments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Presto | Osamu Kubota | beatmania IIDX 3rd style | PIANO AMBIENT | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | - |
| sanctus | Osamu Kubota | beatmania IIDX 4th style | ROCK OPERA | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | - |
| Vienna | Osamu Kubota | beatmania IIDX 4th style | PIANO AMBIENT | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | - |
| 1989 | Osamu Kubota | beatmania IIDX 5th style | ROCK OPERA | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | - |
| Estella | Osamu Kubota | beatmania IIDX 5th style | SPANISH WALTZ | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | - |
| still my words | TaQ feat.Meg | beatmania IIDX 5th style | AMBIENT | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - |
| Doigts de Fatima -ファティマの掌- | Osamu Kubota featuring Sizzle Ohtaka | beatmania IIDX 6th style | CELTIC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - |
| Five Regrets | Osamu Kubota | beatmania IIDX 6th style | JAZZ ARGENTINO | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | - |
| foreplay | Osamu Kubota | beatmania IIDX 7th style | PROGRESSIVE JAZZ | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | - |
| Red Nikita | Osamu Kubota | beatmania IIDX 8th style | LATIN SWING | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | - |
| Distress | dj TAKA Remixed by TaQ | beatmania IIDX 9th style | MIXTURE | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ |
| Golden Horn | Osamu Kubota | beatmania IIDX 9th style | TURKISH PIANO'N'BASS | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | - |
| Drop on the floor | good-cool | beatmania IIDX 10th style | HOUSE | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - |
| scherzo | Osamu Kubota | beatmania IIDX 10th style | PIANO AMBIENT | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | - |
| 惑 | Osamu Kubota | beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED | ASIAN CROSSOVER | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | - |
| mind the gap | Osamu Kubota | beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY | UK PROGRESSIVE | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | - |
| 2hot2eat | Osamu Kubota | beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD | HINDU SALSA | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | - |
| avant-guerre | Osamu Kubota | beatmania IIDX 15 DJ TROOPERS | CLASSICAL PIANO SOLO | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | - |
| Everlasting Message (BEMANI SYMPHONY Arr.) | ぺのれり × Osamu Kubota + gaQdan | jubeat (2021) | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - |
| Carezza | Osamu Kubota | KEYBOARDMANIA 3rdMIX | SWING | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | - |
| Magical 4 | good-cool | pop'n music 16 PARTY♪ | WORLD TOUR 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ |
| L'eternita | Celia | pop'n music 19 TUNE STREET | ARIA JAZZ | ✓ | - | - | - | - | - |
| 嘆きの樹 (BEMANI SYMPHONY Arr.) | 金獅子 × Nagiha & Osamu Kubota + gaQdan | pop'n music 解明リドルズ | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - |
| Scandal | Osamu Kubota | ノスタルジア Op.2 | PROGRESSIVE SWING | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | - |
| City of Mirrors | Osamu Kubota feat. Ffion Elisa | ノスタルジア Op.3 | - | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | - |
| Note d'Azur | Osamu Kubota | ノスタルジア Op.3 | - | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | - |
| 冥 (BEMANI SYMPHONY NOSTALGIA mix) | Amuro vs Killer × Osamu Kubota & TaQ + gaQdan | ノスタルジア Op.3 | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - |
| 量子の海のリントヴルム (BEMANI SYMPHONY NOSTALGIA mix) | 黒猫ダンジョン × Osamu Kubota + gaQdan | ノスタルジア Op.3 | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - |
Albums
- Snow in Saigon (2004)