Toshio Sakurai

Toshio Sakurai

Artist Information

• Name: Toshio Sakurai (桜井 敏郎)
• SAFETY SHOES website: http://www.shoesmusic.com/

Profile

Toshio Sakurai is a former artist for the GuitarFreaks & DrumMania series. From GUITARFREAKS to GUITARFREAKS 9thMIX / drummania 8thMIX, he provided a number of songs for the series, many of them involving Thomas Howard Lichtenstein. He was also the head sound director of drummania.

Toshio left KONAMI sometime in the early 2000's. He is currently in the band SAFETY SHOES.

Aliases

• Love machineguns (with Hideyuki Ono and Yuei Uematsu as composers, and Thomas Howard Lichtenstein on vocals)
• Nut & Bridge (with Hideyuki Ono)
• Monoral Heads (with Thomas Howard Lichtenstein on vocals)
• Voo Doo (with vocalist Stephen McKnight)

BEMANI Songs

Only songs not fully composed by Toshio Sakurai on his own have guitar listed, since all of his songs composed by him have guitars in them.

Song	Artist	Game	Genre	Composition	Arrangement	Guitar	Chorus
GET IT ALL	BRASS TRICKS	Dance Maniax	-	-	-	✓	-
Cutie pie	Toshio Sakurai	GUITARFREAKS	POP	✓	✓	-	-
Cutie Pie DM mix	Toshio Sakurai	drummania	-	-	✓	-	-
Depend on me	Thomas Howard Lichtenstein	drummania	POPS	✓	✓	-	-
D.M."POWERFUL"MIX	桜井敏郎	drummania	-	✓	✓	-	-
Eyes of kids	Thomas Howard Lichtenstein	drummania	-	✓	✓	-	-
Good times	Elizabeth Dobbs	drummania	-	✓	✓	-	-
Heaven is a '57 Metallic Gray	Sweet little 30's	drummania	SWING ROCK	-	-	✓	-
I think about you	Elizabeth Dobbs	drummania	ROCK	✓	✓	-	-
Ska Ska No.1	小野秀幸	drummania	SKA	-	-	✓	-
USED CARS	Toshio Sakurai	GUITARFREAKS 2ndMIX Link Version	R&R	✓	✓	-	-
BREAK OUT	Thomas Howard Lichtenstein	GUITARFREAKS 3rdMIX / drummania 2ndMIX	FUNK	-	✓	✓	-
COSMIC COWGIRL	Toshio Sakurai	GUITARFREAKS 3rdMIX / drummania 2ndMIX	HEAVY METAL FUNK	✓	✓	-	-
MIDNIGHT SPECIAL	Love machineguns	GUITARFREAKS 3rdMIX / drummania 2ndMIX	SKA PUNK	✓	✓	✓	-
P.P.R.	Handsome JET	GUITARFREAKS 3rdMIX / drummania 2ndMIX	PUNK	✓	✓	✓	-
SAY WHAT YOU MEAN	Monoral Heads	GUITARFREAKS 3rdMIX / drummania 2ndMIX	-	✓	✓	-	-
STOP SPINNING ME IN CIRCLES	Thomas Howard Lichtenstein	GUITARFREAKS 3rdMIX / drummania 2ndMIX	ROCK	✓	✓	-	-
1175	Thomas Howard Lichtenstein	GUITARFREAKS 3rdMIX	-	-	✓	✓	-
バンビーナ	(布袋 寅泰)	drummania 2ndMIX	-	-	-	✓	-
ANARCHY IN THE U.K.	(Sex Pistols)	drummania 2ndMIX	-	-	✓	✓	-
I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU	(Bay City Rollers)	drummania 2ndMIX	-	-	✓	✓	-
VIRTUAL INSANITY	(Jamiroquai)	drummania 2ndMIX	-	-	✓	✓	-
COSMIC COWGIRL (Long Version)	Toshio Sakurai	GUITARFREAKS 4thMIX / drummania 3rdMIX	-	✓	✓	-	-
NEWSPAPER	Nut & Bridge	GUITARFREAKS 4thMIX / drummania 3rdMIX	-	✓	✓	-	-
P.P.R. (Long Version)	Handsome JET Jr.	GUITARFREAKS 4thMIX / drummania 3rdMIX	-	✓	✓	-	-
YOU OUGHTA KNOW	(Alanis Morissette)	GUITARFREAKS 4thMIX / drummania 3rdMIX	-	-	✓	✓	-
YOU ELEVATE ME	Voo Doo	GUITARFREAKS 4thMIX / drummania 3rdMIX	-	✓	✓	-	-
CASSANDRA	亜熱帯マジ-SKA爆弾	GUITARFREAKS 5thMIX / drummania 4thMIX	SKA	-	-	✓	-
DEPEND ON ME (New Ver.)	Thomas Howard Lichtenstein	GUITARFREAKS 5thMIX / drummania 4thMIX	-	✓	✓	-	-
DEPEND ON ME(Long Version)	Thomas Howard Lichtenstein	GUITARFREAKS 5thMIX / drummania 4thMIX	-	✓	✓	-	-
NEWSPAPER (Vocal ver.)	YOSHIKO SAKAI	GUITARFREAKS 5thMIX / drummania 4thMIX	-	✓	✓	-	-
Orange Jet Stream	Jeni Freeman	GUITARFREAKS 5thMIX / drummania 4thMIX	-	-	-	✓	-
ありがとね。	MAKI	GUITARFREAKS 5thMIX / drummania 4thMIX	-	✓	✓	-	-
pot-pourri d'orange	Orange Lounge	GUITARFREAKS 7thMIX / drummania 6thMIX	-	-	-	✓	-
Out of breath	Thomas Howard Lichtenstein	GUITARFREAKS 9thMIX / drummania 8thMIX	-	✓	✓	-	✓

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