Genki Hikota

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Genki Hikota

Genki Hikota

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Genki Hikota is a Japanese UK hardcore and J-rock producer affiliated to Hifumi,inc.. He owns the SKETCH UP! Recordings label alongside Kento Oizumi and is a member of the HARDCORE TANO*C circle. He appears on several doujin circles, Massive Circlez and S2TB Recording to name a few, and he's part of the GAT trio alongside doujin artists aran and Ryosuke Tachibana. He also appears on commercial releases. As of late 2016, he started to use the SKETCH UP! Recordings' DJGenki sub-label for his releases.

Rarely, he makes tracks close to the frenchcore genre. As of late 2014, he's one of the producers and guitarists of the utaite metal band GRILLED MEAT YOUNGMANS and as of 2015, he's one as well for the Genki-kun Band (元気くんバンド) which comprises Yukacco, Masaya Oya and Ayato Homma. He has also been using his Spada†leggendaria alias, Gram, more frequently outside of BEMANI, primarily for symphonic psycore songs.

Trivia

  • Genki is an extremely skilled beatmania IIDX player, able to full combo the Single Player Black ANOTHER charts of ICARUS and 卑弥呼.
  • According to Genki in a 4gamer interview alongside Toshiyuki Kakuta and Yoshitaka Nishimura, the song was what inspired him to compose music.
    • He also mentioned on his twitter that he played pop'n music as an elementary school student (the same post also confirmed that he was CapsColte).
  • Genki is a member of a band HYPERNOVA but strangely credited separately in BEMANI.
  • Genki is named as the advisor of the APINA VRAMeS team for BEMANI PRO LEAGUE 2021 and BEMANI PRO LEAGUE -SEASON 2- event.
  • Genki has also made contributions to BANDAI NAMCO's THE IDOLM@STER MILLION LIVE! and 太鼓の達人 series, Bushiroad's D4DJ Groovy Mix, SEGA's CHUNITHM and オンゲキ series, and TAITO's GROOVE COASTER series.
  • Genki has also composed You Only Live Once, the ending theme of the Yuri!!! on ICE (ユーリ!!! on ICE) anime series.
    • He also composed music for the anime adaptation of Paripi Koumei (パリピ孔明, also known as Ya Boy Kongming).
  • According to Genki, in his pop music production, the chiptune elements and melody lines are influenced by mint candy ☆ citrus drop, cartoon or carnival elements by BABY P, and the sense of rhythm by Healing Vision ~Angelic mix~ [1].

Aliases

  • DJ Genki
  • CapsColte (with vocalist Yukacco)
  • Gram
  • 元気くんバンド
  • 元祖ボーイズ男子ボーイズ (member of)

BEMANI Songs

Song Artist Game Genre Composition Arrangement Guitar Vocals
Shining World DJ Genki feat. Yukacco beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro ELECTRO POP - -
MAGIC & LOVE DJ Genki feat. Yukacco beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA HAPPY CORE - -
Sigmund Gram beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA REQUIEM PSY - -
Sweet Radar DJ Genki feat. Yukacco beatmania IIDX 22 PENDUAL ELECTRO POP - -
To The Paradise DJ Genki feat. SHIN from HYPERNOVA beatmania IIDX 23 copula EDM - -
DISAPPEAR feat. koyomin DJ Genki beatmania IIDX 24 SINOBUZ EMOTIONAL HI-TECH - -
GuNGNiR Gram beatmania IIDX 24 SINOBUZ REQUIEM PSY - -
Rave Cannon kors k beatmania IIDX 24 SINOBUZ SPEED RAVE - - -
Starry Sky DJ Genki feat. Mayumi Morinaga DanceDanceRevolution A20 - - -
The Town of Sunrise DJ Genki feat. SHIN from HYPERNOVA With 三代 GITADORA Tri-Boost - - -
ラキ☆ハピDAYS! 元気くんバンド GITADORA Tri-Boost - -
サイレンサイン 元気くんバンド GITADORA Tri-Boost - -
We Go Down DJ Genki feat. SHIN from HYPERNOVA With 三代 GITADORA Tri-Boost Re:EVOLVE - - -
幾何学的『トリックスター』 DJ Genki feat. SHIN from HYPERNOVA With 三代 GITADORA Matixx - -
夢色☆スパイラル!!!!! DJ Genki feat.ななひら,yukacco,藍月なくる With re-zi GITADORA Matixx - - -
ULTRA HAPPY MEGAMIX DJ Genki jubeat Qubell - - -
恋 No リセットゲーム!!!!! DJ Genki feat. ななひら,yukacco,藍月なくる jubeat festo - - -
existence(エレクトロポップン!MIX) parsec connected by CapsColte pop'n music Sunny Park AMBITION ポプコネ - - -
運命のパラドックス CapsColte pop'n music ラピストリア - - -
Get Future DJ Genki feat. yukacco With Gt 三代 REFLEC BEAT VOLZZA - - -
X-TREME 6 元祖ボーイズ男子ボーイ REFLEC BEAT VOLZZA 2 - -
Candy Star DJ Genki feat. yukacco SOUND VOLTEX IV HEAVENLY HAVEN - - -

Discography

Albums

EP

Singles