List of Bemani musicians
Appearance
In the Bemani series of rhythm video games by Konami, there is the appearance of seemingly hundreds of different musicians and groups performing the songs. However, in reality there exists only a core group of a couple dozen Konami artists, performing under pseudonyms and forming new groups.
Artists and aliases
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- AKIRA YAMAOKA (primary pseudonym)
- Minimalian
- De-Vol
- ric
- riewo
- Jimmy Weckl
- Anettai Maji-SKA-Bakudan (member of)
- jun (primary pseudonym)
- TËЯRA (member of)
- Motoaki F.
- 8 bit – used only in "Afronova Primeval"
- 180, 190, 190', 200, 270, 290 – numeric pseudonyms refer to the song's BPM rating, and are used on the fast-paced "PARANOiA" sequence of songs
- Crystal Aliens – used only in "Sexy Planet" and "Sexy Planet (from Nonstop Megamix)"
- d-complex – used only in "Ecstasy"
- DE-SIRE – used mainly on the "Trip Machine" series of songs
- DIVAS
- FACTOR-X – used only in "Wild Rush"
- FixX – used only in "Vanity Angel"
- KTz – used only in "AM-3P"
- mitsu-O!
- N&S – used only in "Dead End"
- NAOKI – used often, though not always, in Eurobeat songs
- NAOKI 190 – used only in "Hysteria", also refers to the song's BPM rating
- NAOKI J-STYLE – used only in "Kiss Me All Night Long"
- NAOKI underground – used in a few trance songs
- NM – Naoki Maeda's initials
- N.M.R – used a few songs in earlier versions of DDR; it is commonly said to mean "Naoki Maeda Revolution", but some sources say it's "Naoki Maeda Recordings"
- NO.9 – used only in "End of the Century", refers to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, from which this song is a remix
- NW260 – used only in "Drop Out"; the 260 refers to this song's BPM rating, which was much higher than any other song from the game when released
- Ω – used only in "Max 300"
- platoniX - used for recent Beatmania IIDX songs
- RE-VENGE – later changed to RevenG, used in ethnic songs, like "Afronova" and "祭 [Matsuri] Japan"
- UZI-LAY
- Ζ – used only in "Maxx Unlimited"
- ΖΖ– two overlapped zetas; used only in "The legend of MAX"
- TËЯRA (member of)
- Des-ROW (primary pseudonym)
- D-Crew
- Positive MA
- MTO
- DesQ (member of)
- Sampling Masters MEGA
- Sana
- Stocatto Two
- さな
- Noria
- EK
- のりあ
- BeForU (member of)
- dj TAKA (primary pseudonym)
- DJ SETUP
- Lion Musashi
- ON
- Risk Junk
- iconoclasm (member of)
- OutPhase (member of)
- TaQ (primary pseudonym)
- DesQ (member of)
- OutPhase (member of)
- Thomas Howard (primary pseudonym)
- Captain T
- Love Machineguns
- Monoral Heads
- Tommy-T
- Sweet little 30's
- L.E.D (primary pseudonym)
- L.E.D-G
- L.E.D Light
- L.E.D Light-G
- wac
- DJ.W
- Lego Studio
- iconoclasm (member of)
- SOTA
- OKUYATOS
- System SF
- .3k
- CLI-MAX S.
- good-cool (primary psuedonym)
- School (member of)
- TOMOSUKE (primary psuedonym)
- T.E.M.P.O.
- Orange Lounge (member of)
- EeL (member of)
- Sho-T
- DJ Spugna
- Shawn the Horny Master