Kiyoshi Murai: Difference between revisions

* Real name: unknown

One of pop'n music's most frequent composers, Seiya's history with Konami dates back to as early as the early 1990's, where he started off doing music for various Mega Drive games and music tracks for the then popular ''Tokimeki Memorial Vocal'' CDs, as well as the 1998 Red Company-developed RPG / dating simulation ''Mitsumete Knight''. His first project for BEMANI was the 1999 pop'n stage EX, a re-release of [[PnS_AC_1|pop'n stage]] with two new songs, one of them being his song [[WE TWO ARE ONE]] that was soon ported to [[PnM AC 4|pop'n music 4]]. Since [[PnM AC 4|pop'n music 4]] he has appeared in every arcade entry. His style of music tends to drift more into a 1980's synth sound (as seen in his V.C.O. and ALT songs), though he's also dabbled occasionally in rock and orchestral sounding music as well.

He also served as head sound director of [[PnM AC 4|4]] and [[PnM AC 5|5]], as well as being the co-director of ''KEYBOARDMANIA 2ndMIX'' with  [[Hiroki Koga|Naya~n]] and head sound director of KEYBOARDMANIA 3rdMIX, the final entry in the series. After pop'n music 5, fellow BEMANI composer [[Jun Wakita]] would handle the sound direction of pop'n music with [[PnM AC 6|pop'n music 6]], though Seiya continued to sound direct various pop'n music entries up to [[PnM AC 16|PARTY♪]]. Seiya also appears regularly in IIDX as of [[AC_DistorteD|DistorteD]].

Seiya is currently the sound producer of ミライダガッキ FutureTomTom.

* Seiya has stated in an interview with the Japanese website [https://web.archive.org/web/20070815195132/http://www.gpara.com/contents/creator/bn_098.htm Gpara.com] that "Seiya" isn't his real name, and that he wishes to keep his real name a secret.  

* Prior to [[8bit Princess]], all of Seiya's beatmania IIDX songs had their own videos.

* Seiya is the first in-house BEMANI artist to use a VOCALOID in a song. He used Prima in [[Tekkou otome -under the steel-|鉄甲乙女 -under the steel-]] in [[AC EMPRESS|beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS]].

* Seiya's V.C.O. alias is an abbreviation for "Voltage Controlled Orchestra".

* Famous KONAMI composers [[Michiru Yamane]] and [[Miki Higashino]] were Seiya Murai's seniors in the same department as him when he first joined KONAMI in the 1990's.

* One of his tracks from ''Mitsumete Knight'' was later remixed in pop'n music as [[THE MAN FROM FAR EAST]]. Likewise, an arrangement of his song [[Tenohira no kakumei|掌の革命]] from ''Tokimeki Memorial Best Vocal Collection 2'' has also made an appearance in pop'n music.