AETHER
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ÆTHER
Song Information
Artist: TAG underground
Composition/Arrangement: TAG
BPM: 192 (beatmania IIDX, REFLEC BEAT), 192-384 (DDR)
Length: 2:01
Genre: ASTRAL HARDCORE
VJ: Steins
Jacket design: 07
First Music Game Appearance: REFLEC BEAT colette -Summer-
Other Music Game Appearances:
- beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA
- DanceDanceRevolution (2013)
- REFLEC BEAT plus MUSIC PACK 53
- ミライダガッキ FutureTomTom Ver.2
Lyrics
None.
Song Connections / Remixes
- ÆTHER shares some similarities with Cosmic Hurricane, from the Tsugidoka! (つぎドカ!) event.
- The beatmania IIDX version of ÆTHER has louder piano sounds in the middle of the song.
- A vocal version of ÆTHER by Hommarju, titled ÆTHER –Try to Sing Ver.-, can be found on the We are “Try to Singers” album.
- An instrumental version of ÆTHER –Try to Sing Ver.- also appears on We are “Try to Singers”.
Trivia
- ÆTHER is one of the unlockable songs of the second phase of REFLEC BEAT colette -Summer-'s Pastel Adventure colette Fishing unlocking system.
- As of REFLEC BEAT groovin'!!, ÆTHER is playable by default.
- ÆTHER is Yasuhiro Taguchi's first non-DanceDanceRevolution original song under his TAG underground alias.
- ÆTHER is also Yasuhiro Taguchi's first song in the REFLEC BEAT series with a HARD chart rated 10+.
- According to ancient and medieval science, æther or ether is the material that fills the region of the universe above the terrestrial sphere.
- In REFLEC BEAT, ÆTHER'S BPM halves to 96 in the middle of the song.
- ÆTHER was added as a default song to beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA on March 25th, 2014, as part of the TAG's Birthday event.
- ÆTHER is one of DanceDanceRevolution (2013)'s special EXTRA STAGE songs. It was added on March 25th, 2014, as part of the TAG's Birthday event.
- ÆTHER and esrev:eR are the first BEMANI crossover songs in the arcade DanceDanceRevolution series that are used as EXTRA STAGE songs.
- As of DanceDanceRevolution (2014), it can be unlocked via the EXTRA ATTACK unlocking method.
- In DanceDanceRevolution (2014), before June 17th, 2014, ÆTHER was sorted alphabetically after A Stupid Barber, which meant it was sorted as "ATHER". It is now sorted between Adularia and AFRONOVA, as "AETHER".
Song Production Information
None.
Video Production Information
None.
Difficulty & Notecounts
beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12.
DanceDanceRevolution difficulty rated from 1 to 20 from X onwards.
REFLEC BEAT difficulty rated from 1 to 10+. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)
beatmania IIDX
| Game | SP Difficulty | DP Difficulty | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beginner | Normal | Hyper | Another | Normal | Hyper | Another | |
| Notecounts | — | 514 | 833 | 1440 | 542 | 839 | 1385 |
| beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA→Present | — | 5 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 11 |
DanceDanceRevolution
| Game | Single | Double | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beginner | Basic | Difficult | Expert | Challenge | Basic | Difficult | Expert | Challenge | |
| Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows | 215 / 11 | 372 / 26 | 551 / 23 | 704 / 6 | - / - / - | 368 / 25 | 550 / 19 | 688 / 9 | - / - / - |
| DanceDanceRevolution (2013)→Present | 6 | 9 | 14 | 17 | — | 9 | 14 | 17 | — |
REFLEC BEAT
| Game | Level | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | Medium | Hard | Special | |
| Notecounts | 248 | 475 | 780 | — |
| REFLEC BEAT colette -Summer-→Present | 5 | 8 | 10+ | — |
| REFLEC BEAT plus | 5 | 8 | 10+ | — |