OCR01156 - Beatmania IIDX 7th Style 'Kick Your A'

[djpretzel]

What did you think? Post your opinion of this ReMix.

[shadowrunner]

This is a great song. This is one of those upbeat songs that I love to have playing while I drive somewhere. Good job.

[Sockatume]

I've been waiting for this to turn up on OCR since I first heard it on VGMix... it's fantastic, relentlessly intense even during its quieter moments.

[Coucou]

Great, great, super great!
I really like the "2:40-3:30" crazy part.
Until now, this remix is so rich
(where/how do you find enough time
to do such an amount of work on a remix ???)
that each time I listen to it, I hear new things.

(please excuse my so poor english writing...)

[Oddity]

You can all thank ME for telling to switch the game from DDR to IIDX!

DJ Amuro is simply DJ Taka from "V" ".59" "Abyss" "Leading Cyber" "Nemesis" (yes, he is DJ Setup as well) fame.

http://www.psn.ne.jp/~slayer/allmusic/artist/IshikawaTakayuki.html has most the rest of his songs. For some reason that site doesn't even have an archive of the song "A" but it's by him, and tons of others would agree.

Now, the original author doesn't HAVE TO change to "Takayuki Ishikawa" ( http://sardius.fefea.org/reviews/konamix/interviews.htm ) since in the game he just uses that pen name Amuro for some reason. It would just be truely correct.

As for the song, I've had it for quite awhile now and already made a tiny review/comment (I think). I would have to agree about the car thing. I already put this on a car cd. It took me awhile to get used to from the original even though it shouldn't have.

Meh, I'm not going to use my words that I can barely make out when reviewing something not as good. Maybe the gripe I can give is I wish the piano was longer. I was also wondering what was with the "off-key" piano thing. I kept thinking "the whole THING is off-key? That can't be possible since a lot of it came from the original" but then I just listened to it now and noticed there might be a couple off key notes in the million other notes, near the beginning (not talking about the very beginning prelude of the piano stretch with the same pitch 16th notes or whatever they are).

So what's that voice saying at around :49?

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*you will play Beatmania instead of ddr noooooooooow* ... *you will play Beatmania instead of ddr noooooooooow* ... *you will play Beatmania instead of ddr noooooooooow* ... *you will play Beatmania instead of ddr noooooooooow*

[Beatdrop]

I remember hearing this back when it was in its WIP stage. I didn't like it.

But this? Fucking awesome. The drums are fantastical, but the main thing that snares me is the synth work. The synths are all so incredibly diverse, yet they all fit together perfectly. Also, despite the length of the original, SGX managed to make this one strongly anti-repetitive. The LFO filtering and amplitude modulation = r0x. The thing at 1:42, the pad or strings or whatever, is awesome. Sample rate reduction phased upwards and then back down with that LFO effect... snazzy stuff. It's things like that that my production quality has been lacking lately. Truly an inspirational remix.

I didn't hear anything wrong with the piano. It strongly resembled the original, to me. Also, the synth SGX came up with at 2:50 is fucking perfect. It was different in the original; kinda gritty yet flat and smooth. In this, he's got the really stabby distorted brass sound for that melody, and it just works so well.

This is one of those remixes where you can listen to it and tell he spent an assload of time on it, and it really paid off. This makes me want to remix more Beatmania stuff. :(

[Mog]

This song kicks some serious A!

[sgx]

http://www.supergreenx.com/rns/SGX%20-%20Kick%20Your%20A.rns

This is the Reason project file if any Reason users wanna take a look at it. It's pretty CPU intensive, so be careful :) I post all of my Remix .rns files on my website.

I have a guy working on a stepfile for a short-edit of this mix for use in DDR sim programs. I'll post back in here when its available or you can watch my site www.supergreenx.com.

[Plumber in Paradise]

Jesus, this piece is freaking amazing.

The incredible intensity and variation astounds me. It's like an adventure every time I listen to it.

The ridiculous piano at 3:10 made my jaw drop in front of the computer. It took about 15 seconds for me to pick up my jaw and start laughing at how it makes me feel like an insignificant plumber that something like this exists in the same world as I.

And the modulation at 3:37 smacked me in the @$$.

This mix proves the point that video game remixes can rival the complexity and creativity of the instrumental greats of the musical past.

I bow.

[tgfoo]

YAY FOR MORE SGX ON OCR!! I've had this song since he told me he finished it and put it up and I must say, I like it. I didn't really like the original version of this song. Actually, to be honest, the only reason I like the remix is mainly because of new melody SGX added in the beginning and the end. Kinda wish he would have made an original song based off of that melody, but it's still a SGX song and yes, it is amazing.

[binster]

SGX is a mad skillz BT style master of the aurals. this is class.

[Sockatume]

I've really got to ask... has anyone performed the mentalist piano live? It's something I'd love to see.

[Fieari]

I'm definitely an SGX fan. I've had this song, also since he mentioned it was finished on the WIP board. It's so beautiful.

So what's that voice saying at around :49? That would be an awesome computerized voice saying "S G X" which is rather appropriate. The voice reminds me Ikaruga a lot. Probably the same synthesizer was used.

The beginning rocks. The slowdown rocks. The quiet bit rocks. The following build up rocks more. The strings rock hard. The thumping drums that signal the next build up are awesome. The driving drums the show up next are awesome. And then the piano. My Lord! The Piano! Is it even possible that something rocking so hard could be played by a real human being? I second the thought that I'd love to see it, because it'd be awesome to watch. It rocks my socks. Or "r0><0rz m`/ s0><0rz" if you will.

Right on! Of course, everything after that piano is just denouncement, but it's a nessesary part of the song, and it ends really really well.

Will the guy making the stepfile be making a COMPLETE stepfile, or will it just be superduper heavy mode like the stepfile the guy made for your other DDR mix (4F73R_M3)? I mean, I can do standard, I can do some heavy... but that was just insane. Like MAX300 on heavy or something.

Anyway. Here's to hoping. And here's a toast to your making more mixes that rock long and rock hard. Cheers!

[Blake]

God damn, this is the second pair of pants that goes in the washer now cuz of your extremely KICKASS musical creativity. I fucking love this, and...well there isn't much else to say, but 'I fucking love this' doesn't come close to how much I really love this song.

[panic!]

Awesome. Can't wait for steps. ^_^

[sgx]

Will the guy making the stepfile be making a COMPLETE stepfile, or will it just be superduper heavy mode like the stepfile the guy made for your other DDR mix (4F73R_M3)? I mean, I can do standard, I can do some heavy... but that was just insane. Like MAX300 on heavy or something

It's the same guy so it will probably be super heavy (yea, I can't do his hard stuff either) It is going to be entered in some step competition, so it will be pretty hardcore. I'll ask him if he can make an easier step file for it in addition to the hardcore one. It would probably only take him a few minutes.

[Oddity]

If it's some certain competition I am thinking of he will be REQUIRED to make all difficulties. Over at DDREI.

So, uh, back to the song?

[Syl]

I LOVE this. I've always been a fan of yours SGX, but this stuff takes it over the top. I was a fan of "A" to begin with, so that probably helps quite a bit. Having the heavy steps in my mind when i first heard this song (directly after listening to the original A from beatmania) This completely blew me away.

My only issue, and its a small one, is that the section from "2:50ish to 3:09ish seemed far too heavy on the background sound and nearly drowned out the piano which should have been a little louder."

thats more of a preference based on the awesome piano though.

This song is one of my faves from all of OCR now, i can't stop listening to it, this stuff is amazing.

The main piano part is something that i just about cried over, mainly because i was trying to imagine to DDR to something that fast. Any chance i can can get an actual strokes per minute on that segment?
(note sure if its called strokes per minute, but you konw what i mean)

[wingzerogundamepyon]

I'm a longtime fan of anything by taka/amuro, and have enough remixes(stepmania/bemanistyle) of both to sink a ship. this owns them all so hardcore it isn't even funny. I'm on my 11th time listening to it right now and making a 12c dwi for it as we speak...*ecstasy* this song is amazing

[Neo Samus]

this is a great song!! it doesn't even sound like any of the normal songs on any of the benami games.. Superb job!!!

[magizidane]

I love the song "A", but this version.... I can't express how this makes me feel. Is there a word for both "orgasmic" and "take my breath away"? Cause that would only describe half of how I feel. Good job, dude!

[Arch0wl]

I kinda watered down the difficulty of about 2 or 3 parts of 4F73R M3 in a v2.5 re-release I'm working on for my site when the main page launches after my collection comes out... right now, it's kinda strictly for keyboards, but this will make it able to be passed on pads pretty easily (not as hard as MAX300 heavy, but hard). Essentially the same steps, just removed the BS jumps and such. Anyway, the version of this I will do will have about 5 or so sets of steps, not 1 like 4F73R M3, considering the 4F73R M3 stepset was originally designed for FFR. You can get my originals at http://www.arch0wl.com

Oh and wingundamzerowhatever, don't even bother. Mwerp's already DWIed the long version; my DWI of the shortened 2:20 version (people are only human, they can't step to this for 4 and a half minutes) will be out for TM5 which is like next month and yours will seem incredibly insignificant. It may be harsh, but it's the truth.

One thing I am in need of is a graphic artist, Radical J is getting kind of flaky with stuff and wouldn't let me use the BG he did for Mwerp's, which is significantly superior to this one he made earlier http://www.arch0wl.com/kickyoura-bg.png which was based off the original bg at http://www.arch0wl.com/A-bg.png

It's good, but it doesn't capture the essence of the song. If anyone on here is a good photoshop artist and can make something that truly captures the song (and you want your graphic to be played in the background by thousands of people) then let me know.

As for strokes per minute... I don't know, but per second it's about 13 or so, with MAX300 being 10. It's actually not that fast in the games, it definitely is if it were to be played on piano but when you're talking like 7 or 4 keys you can get people who can go into the range of 23+ hits per second, including myself.

[Julio Jose]

SGX is a mad skillz BT style master of the aurals. this is class.

SGX= good, but no bt, sorry sir. BT is the king........ ney, the ruler of electronic music

[StarBLaSt]

This is some of the best music i've ever heard on ocr, ever. I love love love love love this remix, it kicks my a and also other letters as well.

[SnIpErMiKe]

I must say one thing: I didn't like the previous DDR song remix that was made by SuperGreenX.

.... But this one's damn good.

I like the fact that it keeps within the DDR-type style even though the original song is maybe 2:10 and this measures up at 4:46 strong.

The comments in the song's recap were very clear in this, only two parts in the song were kept, the main theme during the slow section, and the fast piano part, without either of these, it's a total revamp, not a remix, so I'd be surprised if anyone complains about it not being creative enough.

Solid, solid remix overall.

[Julio Jose]

This is probably the best remix on the site. Sorry all other remixers but it just seems sooooooooo much work and time was put into the making of this track. The climax's piano is absolutly amazing, along with the high quality string stabs and synth rolls. Very very very good.

[HyperZell]

Wow. What an outstanding mix. This is one of those songs where it doesn't take much for everything to sound like crap, but SGX finds a way to make it all work. Incredible to listen to, even repeatedly...I won't be tired of this one for awhile.

[ACDragonMaster]

A is one of my favorite Bemani songs, and this remix certainly didn't dissappoint. It definitely retains the original feel of the song while adding some new twists.

[ArgonX]

Incredible.

I love this mix to the max.

~AX~

[RuneLuhgern]

I much prefered "After Me" to "Kick Your A". They're both great remixes of great benami songs. I can't go all indepth about how good this one is: I've never taken a music class, nor had the money to learn how to write music. However, I can tell you one flaw I find in this remix: The bass is far too high. If you listen to the original by Dj. Amuro, there's virtually no bass. One instance of this annoying me a bit is at 2:50 through 3:33. The bass overpowers the piano's build up and climax. Perhaps I'm just not used to the whole bass thing yet.

Getting away from possibly insulting you: Do you have any plans of making a remix of Taka's song, "V", in the future? With your talent, you could make that song sound more grand than it already is...

[MaGi_TekK]

hmm this mix was ok but like, it's not something I play often. It definately didn't get my riled up the way that your Genso Suikoden Forgotten Daze remix did. (Which I must thank you for, it got me through organic chemistry. Trust me, there is NOTHING funner than enolate synthesis while listening to GSFD pumped up loud). Anyhoo, it's just a matter of taste nothing personal. You're still my third favorite remixer behind Starblast and Pretzel.

[Arch0wl]

Do you have any plans of making a remix of Taka's song, "V", in the future? With your talent, you could make that song sound more grand than it already is...

If he remixed V, he wouldn't be remixing V, he would be remixing Winter. Winter is a pretty bland song, V isn't as spectacular as you think it is. I know SGX's style and I know how he progresses and a song like V wouldn't make a good SGX mix. I know a few songs that would (revolutionary etude hip hop), but he didn't want to do them.

PS: It's "bemani", not "benami".

[RuneLuhgern]

[quote="Arch0wl]
If he remixed V, he wouldn't be remixing V, he would be remixing Winter. Winter is a pretty bland song, V isn't as spectacular as you think it is. I know SGX's style and I know how he progresses and a song like V wouldn't make a good SGX mix. I know a few songs that would (revolutionary etude hip hop), but he didn't want to do them.

Yeah, I found out later, after downloading V, that it is in fact, a remix of "Le Quattro Stagiono L'inverno" by Vivaldi, translating to The Four Seasons Winter.

You suggested songs to him? I'm surprised no one has suggested a remix of Dynamite Rave- it's versatile enough to be done in his style, and it's a classic, like B4U was... it's overrated, say a lot of DDR players. Well, I'm off. I'm probably annoying y'all anyway. And suggesting a remix of that song on here's a bit dumb. Someone would pick it up eventually. And I'm pretty sure there was a DDR remixing thread, wasn't there?[/b]

[sgx]

I don't think I'll be mixing any more Bemani tunes any time soon. I don't like most of the music (I didn't like B4U....that mix started as a joke), though the original A is a pretty tight song. I also didn't really want to hit more than one song from a particular series of games (though I may do Panzer Dragoon again). So, people can like stop requesting Bemani songs from me ;). The answer will 99.9% be no. Glad you like the mix though!

[OmegaPhoenix128]

Havent been browsing OCR for a bit of time and was behind on quite a few songs. When I got to listening to this one, I was surprised. Its pretty awesome. Wish there were more upbeat songs like this on OCR :D

[sonicboom]

This is simply one of the best techno remixes I've heard on this site. There's a lot going on all at once. Towards the end where the rapid-fire piano comes in, the piece gets really interesting. Good job SuperGreenX, I might as well get up and start dancing :D

[Claado Shou]

This song is almost magically flowing, perfectly combining violin, hard synth, breakbeat, and that piano bit in the middle that tears up the soundscape. Great work.

I have to say, though, that I preferred your work on "More Than A Weapon" to this particular remix. The vocals that you added from the game itself were immensely mood-enhancing, and they just make me want to, seriously, break out. So powerful. If you can, try and add more vocals to your songs. That would increase their power tenfold.

SGX ownz.

[LAzee]

i think the original sounds better for some reason. alot of the keys are off. TAKA SGX is not:D

[sgx]

i think the original sounds better for some reason. alot of the keys are off. TAKA SGX is not:D

The "keys are off"...ok.

Anywayz, stepfile is now available. Check it: http://www.supergreenx.com/music/kickyoura.zip.

[Blake]

i think the original sounds better for some reason. alot of the keys are off. TAKA SGX is not:D

The "keys are off"...ok.

Anywayz, stepfile is now available. Check it: http://www.supergreenx.com/music/kickyoura.zip.

Those "off keys" add a buttload of flavor in my opinion. They really stand out and I blink and go HELL YEAH.

[Flux]

Fantastic remix! 8O

I haven't heard this kind of music before so it's like fresh style to me. Fresh = good, so me likes A LOT! :D

Again one remix file more to add to my favorites. 8)

[Protricity]

Very impressive. I blast this in my car as I drive through the king david middle school as the kiddies get dropped off for summer camp.

[LiquidTrance]

an increidible remix for an incredible song. One of my favourite songs on DDR Extreme and this remix makes it sound even better :)

[Don-Don]

this song makes me dance....everytime i listen to it....i hate dancing....but i love this song

[Corporal Eschebone]

There's something about that 7-note "thing" that makes this mix pretty damn awesome... Sounds almost like a violin. I love this.

[NeOmega]

Something that costs nothing, but is so great, could be considered only a gift.

This remix is some unbelievable stuff!

[Arnexium]

SuperGreen X, you are my hero. Please create more beautiful songs like this. *drools*

[Cjaysez]

Nothing else I can say man.... Im getting chills!!!!

[Krisi]

Nothing else I can say man.... Im getting chills!!!!

Haha, I had them from the first note. A is one of my all-time favourite songs as it is. This remix does it MAD justice. They need this on the game.

...Just wow.

[okami_chi]

This has to be one of the best re-mixes i have ever heard... the layering on it is pretty much seamless, in the beginning the background strings are magnificent, and this re-mix never feels unbalanced as if one component is attempting to over-run the other, the build up to the climax is spectacular and the piano part near the end is well placed... over-all an awesome re-mix...

[zarvoxthezadvook]

Simply amazing. One of my favorite mixes. This remix is crazy awesome. Someone go make a stepfile for it. Now.

[SirRus]

holy hell Danny. teach me how to do this shizz. this song seriously kicked my ass.

[camelchild]

I have heard this Remix about 50 times over, each time I go into a state of almost ecstasy at the sheer beauty this piece reflects. I can't get enough, and even then, it's all I'll ever want (for a long while). Kudos to you by the bucket loads!

[anto80]

I like your remix very much. I like the original 'A' a lot as well, but I think you managed to do better (musically). For a very long time, I though it was an original IIDX track.
Good work!

[ChaosPlayer]

Classical, phenominal, slightly tech that fits just right, and yet very enjoyable to listen to. How do you people do it?! I love it with a passion.

[FinalTrigger85]

I just want you to know that you have made my favorite ocr song since I joined. I used to listen to this song in my car god knows how many times.

[HappyHopper]

Mind Blasting... *Gestures blast motion originating from skull*

[Nutritious]

Having SGX do a beatmania track almost seems unfair. It's already laid out to lend to his heavy electronic style well and he takes full advantage of that here. String stabs are contrasted with the distorted industrial beats and synths very effectively here. SGX again shows how well he pulls off various glitching and effects seemingly effortlessly, however, he also shows that he can pull a bit of classical strings effectively as well. I was really waiting for things to kick in and wasn't disappointed when 2:39 finally rolls around. Not much to criticize here at all, this is a great song to listen to and very well executed.

[Polo]

0:41 always sounds like "RCX" instead of "SGX" to me. But that's about the only awkward bit I can note in this magnum opus.

Percussion crashes the party like no one's business and synths jitter and glisten like they're getting buzzed/high. Every flamboyant part of the source is kept, but they're built upon in ways to give them even more oomph. For example, instead of echoed-into silence, low orchestral hums lurk in the shadows as violin quips lead the way back into hyperdrive. Also, the piano's freestyle run is wild enough in the source, but here, preparatory chords and a REALLY fast tease help launch it into a world of its own (so much that it hits higher notes at 3:25). And if that wasn't enough, the mix halts to take a deep breath at 3:33... and BAM! More ownage.

Definitely a trip. Would take it intravenously.

[OA]

'A' is my number one favorite DDr song, and every time I see a machine and try to play it, I look for that song first to see if they have it. This mix is distinctly more slow paced arrangement wise, and at 5 minutes long, it'd be a super endurance run if the piano solo was any longer, but it breaks down to a really awesome swagger section, giving a new feel to the song. The synths are excellent, as usual, and the beats are really good.
I love the fusion of sounds, and it's a great, recognizable remix.

[SiriusBeatz]

All the glitchy stutter edits and that wicked pitch bend around 3:33 really contrast with the softer orchestral elements in this one. A very dynamic mix overall :nicework: