Air
This page is for the KONAMI original song Air by DJ SIMON. For the BMS license by SHIKI, please see Air (SHIKI).
Also not to be confused with アエル.
air
Song Information
Artist: DJ SIMON
Composition/Arrangement: DJ SIMON
BPM: 130
Length: 1:17
Genre: HOUSE
Movie: ちひろ
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania 6thMIX THE UK UNDERGROUND MUSIC
Other Music Game Appearances:
Lyrics
None.
Song Connections / Remixes
None.
Trivia
- This song has different backgrounds, banners, jackets, or other related images. For more information, please see this page.
- air marks Kiyotaka Sugimoto's only original song composed for the mainline beatmania series.
- According to Kiyotaka, it was his last song written as an in-house artist for KONAMI [1].
- air was used as the opening theme for the Jouhou live Miyaneya (情報ライブ ミヤネ屋) TV show, from July 31st, 2006 to August 1st, 2008.
- According to Kiyotaka, he was not aware of his song being used for the show at the time [2].
- air, along with 321 STARS and 魔法の扉(スペース🪐マコのテーマ) being crossed over mark Kiyotaka Sugimoto's first appearance in the arcade DanceDanceRevolution series.
- air's banner and jacket use the same font as the one used to display the song title in beatmania 6thMIX and beatmania 7thMIX keepin' evolution's music select screen. (This was similarly done for .59 in DanceDanceRevolution 4thMIX.)
- air received a unique video in DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME2. This video was carried over to the arcade titles in DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA and eliminates any on-screen dancers prior to DanceDanceRevolution WORLD.
Song Production Information
Fujii
Definitions for "air"
- atmosphere, al fresco
- space, aerial, sky
- breeze, soft wind
- disseminate, announce
- looks, appearance, countenance, demeanor, attitude, pretense
- tune, melody
- broadcast, propagation of radio waves
- aviation
That's the general feel of the song.
DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME2
"air" is the latest house track from the same artist behind "321STARS", which appeared in DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME. "air combines house rhythms with a jazzy-lounge vibe to create a relaxing tune that makes breathing air while you dance a lot easier.
Video Production Information
Chihiro
The image I had in mind was one of feeling the air. The patterns that pop up look like you're getting sucked right into a spinning windmill, fluctuating your sense of stability.
Difficulty & Notecounts
beatmania difficulty rated from 1 to 9.
DanceDanceRevolution difficulty rated from 1 to 10 from DDRMAX2 to SuperNOVA2, and 1 to 20 from X onwards. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from KANI KANI CRAB and BEMANIWiki 2nd.)
beatmania
| Game | SP Difficulty | DP Difficulty | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | Hard | Another | Normal | Hard | Another | |
| Notecounts | 180 | 306 | 337 | 180 | 306 | 341 |
| beatmania 6thMIX | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| beatmania 7thMIX→THE FINAL | 3 | 4 | 5 | ↓1 | ↓2 | ↓4 |
| beatmania III APPEND 6thMIX→III THE FINAL | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| beatmania 6thMIX + CORE REMIX | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
DanceDanceRevolution
| Game | Single | Double | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beginner | Basic | Difficult | Expert | Challenge | Basic | Difficult | Expert | Challenge | |
| Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows | 88 / 0 | 152 / 0 | 177 / 2 | 219 / 10 | - / - / - | 170 / 0 | 185 / 4 | 217 / 8 | - / - / - |
| DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME→SuperNOVA2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | - | 2 | 5 | 8 | - |
| DanceDanceRevolution X→Present | 3 | 5 | 7 | 10 | - | 5 | 7 | 11 | - |
| DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME CS JP | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | - | 2 | 5 | 8 | - |
| DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX2 / Dancing Stage Unleashed2 | ⁂N/A | 3 | 5 | 7 | - | 2 | 5 | 8 | - |
| DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME2 / Dancing Stage Max | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | - | 2 | 5 | 8 | - |
| DanceDanceRevolution GRAND PRIX | 3 | 5 | 7 | 10 | - | 5 | 7 | 11 | - |
⁂ Denotes that no proper chart data actually exists.