Summerblue

Song Information

Artist: Toby Fox & Camellia
Composition: Toby Fox
Arrangement: Camellia
BPM: 145
Length: 2:05
Genre: GAME MUSIC
Movie: Steins (location test), BEMANI Designers "4O8Q" (final release)
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 30 RESIDENT
Other Music Game Appearances: None.

Lyrics

None.

Song Connections / Remixes

A long version of Summerblue, titled Summerblue (Extended Vacation), can be found on the beatmania IIDX 30 RESIDENT ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK album.

Trivia

Summerblue marks Toby Fox's debut in the beatmania IIDX series.
- It also marks his first original composition in BEMANI.
Summerblue had a generic video in the beatmania IIDX 30 RESIDENT location test. It received a unique video in the final release.
- The 16-bit videogame aesthetic of the video, along with the designs of the Toby Fox and Camellia characters, are references to KONAMI's TwinBee series.
Summerblue received a BEGINNER chart in beatmania IIDX 31 EPOLIS.
Summerblue is available in beatmania IIDX INFINITAS (2020) as part of the beatmania IIDX INFINITAS Music Pack vol.25 (beatmania IIDX INFINITAS 楽曲パック vol.25).

Song Production Information

Toby Fox

For this track, I composed a simple piano outline and melody, and Camellia used 10000000000% power to turn it into a gigantic explosion of solar energy.
So, I only did a bit of the work, but kind of like blue food coloring in a ramune-flavored soft drink, it's a huge part of the flavor! (He doesn't know food coloring has no flavor)

Camellia

Good morning, I am the 100000000% guy, Camellia from beatnation RHYZE.
I'm finally excited to seeing the release of the song, "Summerblue", that I had been working with Toby together!

Toby and I have had several opportunities to create something together before, such as working together on the soundtrack for a game called "Dweller's Empty Path" and the collaboration track (Myths You Forgot) on my own album.
However I never expected to be given the role of creating explosions with solar energy, so | had to start working on it from the scratch, as the point of becoming able to convert light energy into emission.
Thanks to that, I think you can get sunlight out of the IIDX machine, can't you?
It's natural summer sunlight. You should enjoy it for your health.

Well, as you can tell by listening to Summerblue, it has a catchy, pop, playful, but somewhat nostalgic melody that Toby is best at.
Then I have 'BEMANIZED' it into a song that you can have fun playing in IIDX.
Of course I was curious to hear what the song would be like when Toby finished the whole, but since I received the task in my hands, I gave it my all and finished the song!
Somehow, some players may have the impression that I'm filled with evilness and destruction rather than hope and dream (I don't deny it though) (but I have written many happy songs!), but we have created a rather pop and colorful song. I'm positively thrilled for how it would come out in the game!
I tend to write songs that are kinda 'monochrome', so I hope that this time the fusion reaction between the two of us has given the song a fresh blue taste this time!

Please play it for your memories of this summer, and for the place you can always come home, in the middle of your future stories.
Thank you!

Video Production Information

BEMANI Designers "408Q"

"Summerblue" made me think of the sort of "Happy End!" of a fictitious retro game, so I made the movie look like the sort of "And they lived happily ever after" cutscene you'd see during the game's ending.

Those of you have have already played this song will understand that this super emotional sound allows you to re-experience a nostalgic sense of a game you really loved to death that one summer, right!?

I actually lost count of how many times I shed a few tears during the production of the video.

Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12. (Notecounts obtained from TexTage.)

Game	SP Difficulty					DP Difficulty
Game	BEGINNER	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA
Notecounts / Charge Notes	186 / 0	551 / 5	886 / 8	1232 / 8	-	552 / 4	885 / 8	1271 / 8	-
beatmania IIDX 30 RESIDENT	-	5	8	10	-	5	8	10	-
beatmania IIDX 31 EPOLIS→Present	2	5	8	10	-	5	8	10	-
beatmania IIDX INFINITAS (2020)	2	5	8	10	-	5	8	10	-