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= Beginning of Life =
= Beginning of life =
 
==Song Information==


== Song Information ==
[[Image:BEGINNING-OF-LIFE.png|thumb|BEGINNING-OF-LIFE's banner.]]
Artist: QUADRA<br>
Artist: QUADRA<br>
Composition/Arrangement: [[Hiroshi Watanabe]]<br>
Composition/Arrangement: [[Hiroshi Watanabe]]<br>
BPM: 110<br>
BPM: 110<br>
Length: 1:18 (game version), 1:43 (beatmania 2ndMIX OST)<br>
Length: 1:18<br>
Genre: AMBIENT<br>
Genre: AMBIENT<br>
VJ: [[VJ GYO]]<br>
Movie: [[Kiyoshi Mizuki|MiZKiNG]] (beatmania, beatmania IIDX), [[Gyo Eguchi|VJ GYO]] (beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD CS)<br>
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania 2ndMIX<br>
First Music Game Appearance: [[AC bm 2nd|beatmania 2ndMIX]]<br>
Other Music Game Appearances:
Other Music Game Appearances:
* [[AC 1st style|beatmania IIDX]]
* [[AC 1st style|beatmania IIDX]]
* beatmania III
* [[AC bm III|beatmania III]]
* [[AC DDR CLUB VER.2|DanceDanceRevolution CLUB VERSION 2]]
* [[AC DDR CLUB VER.2|DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX CLUB VERSiON 2]]
 
==Lyrics==


== Lyrics ==
None.
None.


== Song Connections / Remixes ==
== Song Connections / Remixes ==
* An extended version of Beginning of life can be found on the ''beatmania 2ndMIX complete'' album.
* A remix of Beginning of life, titled [[Beginning of life (THE GROUND PULSE MIX)]], appears in [[AC bm CORE REMIX|beatmania CORE REMIX]].
* Anonther extended version of Beginning of life, titled ''Beginning of Life beatmania-DA!! Special Version'', can be found in ''beatmania打!!'' and ''beatmania打打打!!''.


* A remix of Beginning of Life, titled [[Beginning of life (THE GROUND PULSE MIX)]], appears in ''beatmania CORE REMIX''.
== Trivia ==
* An extended version of Beginning of Life, titled ''Beginning of Life beatmania-DA!! Special Version'', can be found in ''beatmania-DA!!'' and ''beatmania-DA DA DA!!''.
* Beginning of life received HARD charts in [[AC bm 3rd|beatmania 3rdMIX]], although these charts are duplicates of Beginning of life's NORMAL charts.
** These charts do not appear in [[AC bm THE FINAL|beatmania THE FINAL]].
* In the DanceDanceRevolution series, Beginning of life's title is shown as '''BEGINNING-OF-LIFE'''.
* Beginning of life received a Single ANOTHER chart in [[AC substream|beatmania IIDX substream]].
* Beginning of life is one of the eight revived beatmania songs that can be found in [[CS GOLD|beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD CS]].
** Unlike the other beatmania revivals in beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD CS, Beginning of life did appear in the arcade version of beatmania IIDX prior to its CS IIDX debut.
** Beginning of life received brand-new NORMAL charts in beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD CS, along with new HYPER charts that replace its old charts.


==Trivia==
== Song Production Information ==
=== beatmania 2ndMIX ===
A very popular song on the first stage, like [[jam jam reggae (Funky jam Cookie mix)|REGGAE FUNKY MIX]]. This is the first time I've mapped slow-attack synth strings to buttons. Each button sound has its own presence and feels soothing.


* Beginning of Life is one of the eight beatmania revivals in [[CS GOLD|beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD CS]].
=== beatmania completeMIX English site ===
** Its remix, Beginning of life (THE GROUND PULSE MIX) was also available in beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD CS.
You'll become addicted to the mesmerizing samples of synth-beat.


==Song Production Information==
=== beatmania CS / APPEND YebisuMIX Music Column site ===
==== [[Hiroyuki Togo]] ====
The other day, I was invited by a young (?) friend who often goes to clubs, and so I went to an event at one.<br>
The club was in Roppongi, inside a giant, lavishly decorated building that looks like it was built during the bubble era. In the basement of that building was a space that looked like ruins on the edge of a landfill, divided up into several floors. On each floor, battles between DJs of various genres were unfolding, with peculiar-looking people being free and intoxicated by the beats.<br>
It's great that young kids these days do what they want with their appearance: piercings in noses, tongues, or various places (!?); shaved heads; tattoos; strange cosplays... I feel somewhat frightened writing that out... (When I was in high school, I used band-aids on my ear to hide a piercing! Back then it was still a big deal for men to get pierced!) In such a gloomy, brutal era, seeing young kids dress up and freely enjoy their own interests makes an old man envious and say, "What a great era this is, huh?" in a certain sense.


Untranslated.
Well, I got off-track there, but in such a free open space was a floor to cool yourself down when you were tired from dancing, a so-called "relaxation room (?)" where this "ambient" music (the subject of this column) was being played. Directly translated, the word "ambient" means something like an atmosphere or an environment. On the topic of environmental music, there are genres like healing and new age, but those are based on themes like naturalism, healing, returning to nature, and so on. In contrast, ambient has sort of an intoxicating feeling, like tripping on drugs (?).<br>
To explain it in terms of music, it's like music that doesn't have a sense of narrative, letting you just listen to music free from modern music theory (like chord progressions) that holds conventions like rising and falling (or things like "tonic" and "dominant," in musical terms). Something like that?<br>
It's incredibly difficult to explain music through words, so if you're interested, go hang out at one of those places. Games are great and all, but you've gotta go to a club! ... The life of a flower is a short one!


==Video Production Information==
''Until next time, have a wonderful BEAT PLAY LIFE.''<br>
''(Hiroyuki Togo, Composer & Sound Director for ''beatmania'' on PlayStation)''


=== DanceDanceRevolution ===
The monotonous beat of fat, lo-fi live drums, and the ultra-low bass, known as heavy bass, gallop around these phrases. It sounds like the beginning of life, and current daily life. Small synth parts appear from such heavy bass parts. Something crawls in the eternal flow of time, will the life pulse begin from there?<br>
The single note strings are used very impressively, and they cause the creation of time and small energies to stand out more.
== Video Production Information ==
None.
None.


== Difficulty & Notecounts ==
== Difficulty & Notecounts ==
beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12.
beatmania difficulty rated from 1 to 9.<br>
beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 5 in 1st style and substream, 1 to 7 in 2nd style, and 1 to 12 from HAPPY SKY onwards.<br>
DanceDanceRevolution difficulty from 2ndMIX CLUB through 5thMIX (and the Solo games) rated from 1 to 9. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from [http://kani.no.coocan.jp/bm/bm.htm KANI KANI CRAB].)
 
=== beatmania ===
==== Original Charts ====
{{bm Chart Header|
{{bm Chart Notecounts|80|80|-|115|115|-}}
{{bm Chart|beatmania 2ndMIX|2|-|-|2|-|-}}
{{bm Chart|beatmania 3rdMIX&rarr;completeMIX|&darr;1|'''1'''|-|&darr;1|'''1'''|-}}
{{bm Chart|beatmania CORE REMIX|1|1|-|1|1|-}}
{{bm Chart|beatmania THE FINAL|1|-|-|1|-|-}}
{{bm Chart|beatmania III&rarr;III THE FINAL|1|1|-|1|1|-}}
{{bm Chart|beatmania CS|2|-|-|2|-|-}}
{{bm Chart|beatmania for WonderSwan|2|-|-|-|-|-}}
}}
 
==== GOLD CS Charts ====
{{bm Chart Header|
{{bm Chart Notecounts|57|80|96|99|115|-}}
{{bm Chart|beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD CS|N/A|N/A|N/A|N/A|N/A|-}}
}}


=== Old Charts ===
=== beatmania IIDX ===
{|class="wikitable" border="1px" style="background:#ccccee; font-size:90%; text-align: center; margin: 1em auto 1em auto"
==== Old Charts ====
|-
{{IIDX Chart Header|
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" rowspan="2" width="250px"|Game
{{IIDX Chart Notecounts|-|-|80|96|-|-|115|-|-}}
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" colspan="4"|SP Difficulty
{{IIDX Chart|beatmania IIDX|-|-|1|-|-|-|1|-|-}}
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" colspan="3"|DP Difficulty
{{IIDX Chart|beatmania IIDX substream&rarr;2nd style|-|-|1|'''N/A'''|-|-|1|-|-}}
|-
}}
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" width="70px"|Beginner
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" width="70px"|Normal
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" width="70px"|Hyper
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" width="70px"|Another
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" width="70px"|Normal
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" width="70px"|Hyper
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" width="70px"|Another
|-
| Notecounts || style="background:#00FF7F;"|- || style="background:#73C2FB;"|- || style="background:#eeee77;"|80 || style="background:#FB607F;"|96 || style="background:#73C2FB;"|- || style="background:#eeee77;"|115 || style="background:#FB607F;"|-
|-
| beatmania IIDX || style="background:#00FF7F;"|- || style="background:#73C2FB;"|- || style="background:#eeee77;"|1 || style="background:#FB607F;"|- || style="background:#73C2FB;"|- || style="background:#eeee77;"|1 || style="background:#FB607F;"|-
|-
| beatmania IIDX substream&rarr;2nd style || style="background:#00FF7F;"|- || style="background:#73C2FB;"|- || style="background:#eeee77;"|1 || style="background:#FB607F;"|'''1''' || style="background:#73C2FB;"|- || style="background:#eeee77;"|1 || style="background:#FB607F;"|-
|}


=== 7 & 14 Keys Charts ===
==== New Charts ====
{|class="wikitable" border="1px" style="background:#ccccee; font-size:90%; text-align: center; margin: 1em auto 1em auto"
{{IIDX Chart Header|
|-
{{IIDX Chart Notecounts|-|57|80|96|-|99|115|-|-}}
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" rowspan="2" width="250px"|Game
{{IIDX Chart|beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD CS|-|'''1'''|'''2'''|3|-|'''1'''|'''2'''|-|-}}
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" colspan="4"|SP Difficulty
}}
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" colspan="3"|DP Difficulty
|-
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" width="70px"|Beginner
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" width="70px"|Normal
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" width="70px"|Hyper
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" width="70px"|Another
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" width="70px"|Normal
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" width="70px"|Hyper
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" width="70px"|Another
|-
| Notecounts || style="background:#00FF7F;"|- || style="background:#73C2FB;"|57 || style="background:#eeee77;"|80 || style="background:#FB607F;"|96 || style="background:#73C2FB;"|99 || style="background:#eeee77;"|115 || style="background:#FB607F;"|-
|-
| beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD CS || style="background:#00FF7F;"|- || style="background:#73C2FB;"|'''1''' || style="background:#eeee77;"|'''2''' || style="background:#FB607F;"|3 || style="background:#73C2FB;"|'''1''' || style="background:#eeee77;"|'''2''' || style="background:#FB607F;"|-
|}


=== 5 & 10 Keys Charts ===
=== DanceDanceRevolution ===
{|class="wikitable" border="1px" style="background:#ccccee; font-size:90%; text-align: center; margin: 1em auto 1em auto"
{{DDR Chart Header|
|-
{{DDR Chart Notecounts|- / -|83 / 0|131 / 0|167 / 0|- / - / -|90 / 0|167 / 0|- / -|- / - / -}}
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" rowspan="2" width="250px"|Game
{{DDR Chart|DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX CLUB VERSiON 2|-|2|4|6|-|3|6|-|-}}
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" colspan="4"|SP Difficulty
{{DDR Chart|DanceDanceRevolution 2ndReMIX APPEND CLUB VERSiON vol.1|-|2|4|6|-|3|6|-|-}}
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" colspan="3"|DP Difficulty
{{DDR Chart|DanceDanceRevolution CLUB VERSiON (DC)|-|2|4|6|-|3|6|-|-}}
|-
}}
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" width="70px"|Beginner
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" width="70px"|Normal
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" width="70px"|Hyper
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" width="70px"|Another
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" width="70px"|Normal
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" width="70px"|Hyper
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" width="70px"|Another
|-
| Notecounts || style="background:#00FF7F;"|- || style="background:#73C2FB;"|57 || style="background:#eeee77;"|80 || style="background:#FB607F;"|96 || style="background:#73C2FB;"|99 || style="background:#eeee77;"|115 || style="background:#FB607F;"|-
|-
| beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD CS || style="background:#00FF7F;"|- || style="background:#73C2FB;"|1 || style="background:#eeee77;"|2 || style="background:#FB607F;"|3 || style="background:#73C2FB;"|1 || style="background:#eeee77;"|2 || style="background:#FB607F;"|-
|}


[[Category:Songs]]
[[Category:Songs]]
[[Category:beatmania Songs]]
[[Category:DDR Songs]]
[[Category:DDR Songs]]
[[Category:DDR Cut Songs]]
[[Category:DDR Cut Songs]]
[[Category:IIDX Songs]]
[[Category:beatmania IIDX Songs]]
[[Category:beatmania IIDX Cut Songs]]
[[Category:beatmania IIDX Cut Songs]]

Latest revision as of 00:04, 29 October 2023

Beginning of life

Song Information

BEGINNING-OF-LIFE's banner.

Artist: QUADRA
Composition/Arrangement: Hiroshi Watanabe
BPM: 110
Length: 1:18
Genre: AMBIENT
Movie: MiZKiNG (beatmania, beatmania IIDX), VJ GYO (beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD CS)
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania 2ndMIX
Other Music Game Appearances:

Lyrics

None.

Song Connections / Remixes

  • An extended version of Beginning of life can be found on the beatmania 2ndMIX complete album.
  • A remix of Beginning of life, titled Beginning of life (THE GROUND PULSE MIX), appears in beatmania CORE REMIX.
  • Anonther extended version of Beginning of life, titled Beginning of Life beatmania-DA!! Special Version, can be found in beatmania打!! and beatmania打打打!!.

Trivia

  • Beginning of life received HARD charts in beatmania 3rdMIX, although these charts are duplicates of Beginning of life's NORMAL charts.
  • In the DanceDanceRevolution series, Beginning of life's title is shown as BEGINNING-OF-LIFE.
  • Beginning of life received a Single ANOTHER chart in beatmania IIDX substream.
  • Beginning of life is one of the eight revived beatmania songs that can be found in beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD CS.
    • Unlike the other beatmania revivals in beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD CS, Beginning of life did appear in the arcade version of beatmania IIDX prior to its CS IIDX debut.
    • Beginning of life received brand-new NORMAL charts in beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD CS, along with new HYPER charts that replace its old charts.

Song Production Information

beatmania 2ndMIX

A very popular song on the first stage, like REGGAE FUNKY MIX. This is the first time I've mapped slow-attack synth strings to buttons. Each button sound has its own presence and feels soothing.

beatmania completeMIX English site

You'll become addicted to the mesmerizing samples of synth-beat.

beatmania CS / APPEND YebisuMIX Music Column site

Hiroyuki Togo

The other day, I was invited by a young (?) friend who often goes to clubs, and so I went to an event at one.
The club was in Roppongi, inside a giant, lavishly decorated building that looks like it was built during the bubble era. In the basement of that building was a space that looked like ruins on the edge of a landfill, divided up into several floors. On each floor, battles between DJs of various genres were unfolding, with peculiar-looking people being free and intoxicated by the beats.
It's great that young kids these days do what they want with their appearance: piercings in noses, tongues, or various places (!?); shaved heads; tattoos; strange cosplays... I feel somewhat frightened writing that out... (When I was in high school, I used band-aids on my ear to hide a piercing! Back then it was still a big deal for men to get pierced!) In such a gloomy, brutal era, seeing young kids dress up and freely enjoy their own interests makes an old man envious and say, "What a great era this is, huh?" in a certain sense.

Well, I got off-track there, but in such a free open space was a floor to cool yourself down when you were tired from dancing, a so-called "relaxation room (?)" where this "ambient" music (the subject of this column) was being played. Directly translated, the word "ambient" means something like an atmosphere or an environment. On the topic of environmental music, there are genres like healing and new age, but those are based on themes like naturalism, healing, returning to nature, and so on. In contrast, ambient has sort of an intoxicating feeling, like tripping on drugs (?).
To explain it in terms of music, it's like music that doesn't have a sense of narrative, letting you just listen to music free from modern music theory (like chord progressions) that holds conventions like rising and falling (or things like "tonic" and "dominant," in musical terms). Something like that?
It's incredibly difficult to explain music through words, so if you're interested, go hang out at one of those places. Games are great and all, but you've gotta go to a club! ... The life of a flower is a short one!

Until next time, have a wonderful BEAT PLAY LIFE.
(Hiroyuki Togo, Composer & Sound Director for beatmania on PlayStation)

DanceDanceRevolution

The monotonous beat of fat, lo-fi live drums, and the ultra-low bass, known as heavy bass, gallop around these phrases. It sounds like the beginning of life, and current daily life. Small synth parts appear from such heavy bass parts. Something crawls in the eternal flow of time, will the life pulse begin from there?
The single note strings are used very impressively, and they cause the creation of time and small energies to stand out more.

Video Production Information

None.

Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania difficulty rated from 1 to 9.
beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 5 in 1st style and substream, 1 to 7 in 2nd style, and 1 to 12 from HAPPY SKY onwards.
DanceDanceRevolution difficulty from 2ndMIX CLUB through 5thMIX (and the Solo games) rated from 1 to 9. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from KANI KANI CRAB.)

beatmania

Original Charts

Game SP Difficulty DP Difficulty
Normal Hard Another Normal Hard Another
Notecounts 80 80 - 115 115 -
beatmania 2ndMIX 2 - - 2 - -
beatmania 3rdMIX→completeMIX ↓1 1 - ↓1 1 -
beatmania CORE REMIX 1 1 - 1 1 -
beatmania THE FINAL 1 - - 1 - -
beatmania III→III THE FINAL 1 1 - 1 1 -
beatmania CS 2 - - 2 - -
beatmania for WonderSwan 2 - - - - -

GOLD CS Charts

Game SP Difficulty DP Difficulty
Normal Hard Another Normal Hard Another
Notecounts 57 80 96 99 115 -
beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD CS N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A -

beatmania IIDX

Old Charts

Game SP Difficulty DP Difficulty
BEGINNER NORMAL HYPER ANOTHER LEGGENDARIA NORMAL HYPER ANOTHER LEGGENDARIA
Notecounts - - 80 96 - - 115 - -
beatmania IIDX - - 1 - - - 1 - -
beatmania IIDX substream→2nd style - - 1 N/A - - 1 - -

New Charts

Game SP Difficulty DP Difficulty
BEGINNER NORMAL HYPER ANOTHER LEGGENDARIA NORMAL HYPER ANOTHER LEGGENDARIA
Notecounts - 57 80 96 - 99 115 - -
beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD CS - 1 2 3 - 1 2 - -

DanceDanceRevolution

Game Single Double
Beginner Basic Difficult Expert Challenge Basic Difficult Expert Challenge
Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows - / - 83 / 0 131 / 0 167 / 0 - / - / - 90 / 0 167 / 0 - / - - / - / -
DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX CLUB VERSiON 2 - 2 4 6 - 3 6 - -
DanceDanceRevolution 2ndReMIX APPEND CLUB VERSiON vol.1 - 2 4 6 - 3 6 - -
DanceDanceRevolution CLUB VERSiON (DC) - 2 4 6 - 3 6 - -
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