UBerserker · @Outhouse_Deco
5th Dec 2016 from TwitLonger
BEMANI hidden aliases resume
With no more outphase, the thread that covered all the hidden BEMANI aliases is dead and buried; it was the only thread in a Bemani website to cover mystery aliases so at the moment we have no real resume of them, which made me lead to just write a new one in form of a twitlonger post.
This will be about the most known old hidden aliases and all the newer ones. Anything that is already known won't be listed; artists that are supposedly already confirmed to be completely new people will be mentioned at the end.
Thanks to the people on Twitter for reminding me about some of the aliases that I might have forgotten about otherwise!
Six > = alias name
Three > = song appearance
Two > = list of identities, from strongest to weakest
>>>>>>BLACK STAR 幸広-YUKIHIRO-
>>>You'll say "Now!" (IIDX)
The classic mystery alias that will never ever be confirmed. Most people at first thought he was Tatsh because of how much the song resembled The Dirty Of Loudness but as we know Tatsh only returned from RA onward and there's no way that during a departure he'd be suddenly part of a Mitsuru joke.
Nowadays BLACK STAR's identity is heavily implied to be 96. 96 means Kuro, aka Black, and various things he's involved too are about the black: Full-Combo Title Achievement of GIGA BREAK is called "BLACK STAR", he has an album named "BLACK ALBUM", In The Blackest Den and Far Beyond Blackened. So much black that twitch chat would spam TriHard a million times by now. So it'd be easily given the fact that he's BLACK STAR; some of the sounds in the song are also similar to ones heard In The Blackest Den (scratch ones I believe). Even though I'd be questioning why he'd end up making a techno-only song considering 96 solely made rock stuff (but might explain the strange nature of You'll say "Now!"'s sounds, plus both songs have long scratch interludes).
The only other appearance of BLACK STAR (never confirmed it was him but who could be otherwise) was himself at the end of SA.YO.NA.RA. SUPER STAR's video (Visual Emotions 9 DVD version). To this day no one recognized who is the guy. His skin is dark like 96's but the facial features don't seem to be. Maybe PON? Considering PON popped up in Bemani right in the EMPRESS year and was also listed in the staff for that IIDX game; however it wouldn't explain why that mysterious "black star" person never appeared anymore.... NAOKI? You'll say "Now!" had such a DDR-style ending and the artist left some time after Visual Emotion 9 was released.
Another factor is the English comments for You'll say "Now!". They don't suggest absolutely nothing but they'll come in handy for another alias.
>>96, NAOKI, PON
>>>>>>Fantastic Bubbly9
>>>Bubbly Time (pop'n)
Another classic mystery alias, this time from pop'n, that will never be revealed. This one is a bit more straightforward as Qrispy Joybox is the only known artist believed to be behind the alias (he wasn't new to this thing - see Aegis on IIDX). Bubbly Time resembles Music-U quite a bit in sounds, and Qrispy wasn't seen in fantasia when he had an appearance in pop'n 19, 21 and 22, which further suggests he was hiding behind the Bubbly9 alias this time. Plus, 9 is read as kyuu, aka Q (Q for Qrispy). There were also sayings about Qrispy confirming somewhere he was him but I'm not sure if it was ever true.
>>Qrispy Joybox
>>>>>>sonic-coll.
>>>Flourish (DDR)
>>>Trigger (DDR)
Once again, another known mystery alias that won't see any reveal. This time from DDR X, the only AC DDR game which had Jason Borenstein as a sound director (the Micheal a la Mode guy which sadly died due to an aortic aneurysm). Only in this game we saw the neuras and sonic-coll. names. The former's identity has been discovered not too long ago and he's just a commissioned artist named Shuhei Naruse.
For sonic-coll. instead still nothing is known, and most likely he was an in-house artist - considering Trigger is DDR X's last boss I 100% doubt a commissioned artist was behind it.
It's suspected it's either NAOKI or actually Jason. Jason from what I know never did a song on Bemani beforehand (so we don't know what alias he would have used) and unless there's an exception I completely forgot about, sound directors always do songs for their games. Jason was the SD of DDR X and we had sonic-coll right there, and neither of them appeared afterwards. SDs are also known to make last boss songs for games. So yeah, it could be Jason.
Now I heard NAOKI said in an interview he isn't sonic-coll but could never find where he said it. NAOKI was usually the last boss guy of DDR until U1 came in with 2MB remixes. And somehow Flourish ended up in a DDR X course with all NAOKI songs. Trigger itself also sounds like a stereotypical NAOKI DDR boss song like Chaos.
No explanation why sonic-coll. as a name wasn't seen anymore but NAOKI has an history of random aliases being used once and never more. Difference is, we all eventually knew that trance star and the latenighters were NAOKI names, sonic-coll. instead never; which gives more of an edge to the Jason suggestion.
>>Jason Borenstein, NAOKI
>>>>>>Project B-
>>>Deceive Your Insight (IIDX)
>>>M.D.Injection (IIDX)
>>>Knell (RB)
>>>超青少年ノ為ノ超多幸ナ超古典的超舞曲 (IIDX)
>>>太陽SUNSUNボンジュールアバンチュール (IIDX)
>>>乱れた風紀に天罰を (pop'n)
>>>Glitter Flatter Scatter (jubeat)
>>>Sarutobi Champion is 拙者 (IIDX)
The current Mystic Moon (aka PON if you missed out the fact that he revealed it this year) of BEMANI, Project B- is an alias that will eventually be revealed. Everyone already refers to him as Akhuta as crapload of things regarding Project B- point straight at him; literally what's left is Akhuta himself making the announcement.
Project B- came technically before Akhuta in tricoro, so it was pretty impossible to figure out the identity at first. Once Akhuta started to appear, it became more apparent that he was Project B- because his first few GFDM songs had the same guitar solos as Deceive Your Insight's one. Piano in Knell and M.D.Injection was also done in the same fast and gothic style as Stella Sinistra's.
Other things are Akhuta's blood type which is B(Rh-), Project B-'s SPADA system voice sounding like Akhuta if the pitch is increased and how Project B-'s longs have a modified song title which was what Akhuta did to Stella Sinistra.
Now this year on jubeat Qubell, Akhuta became a sound director of the jubeat series and soon after the game got a Project B- last boss song (for the first group of Qubell tracks) after days of introduction on the G.F.S. website. And the person on Glitter Flatter Scatter's jacket looks pretty much like Akhuta.
>>Akhuta
>>>>>>麒麟 (Kirin)
>>>Broken Sword (IIDX)
Oh man this song.
So besides Kinjishi aka the Lion guy aka dj TAKA we have this giraffe guy who popped up in the 4th KAC live event in the most cringe-worthy way possible.
Giraffe is heavily implied to be Akhuta. The latter was nowhere on the stage when the Giraffe was around. Giraffe was also tall like Akhuta. A giraffe is also shown on Peragro's jacket, a song where Akhuta is heavily involved.
The piano of Broken Sword's second half is also a bit similar to 超青少年ノ為ノ超多幸ナ超古典的超舞曲's one. Considering the song's poor reception I doubt Akhuta will ever reveal himself as 麒麟.
>>Akhuta
>>>>>>パイタン (Paitan)
>>>LEMON SUMMER (SDVX)
LEMON SUMMER is one underground big Bemani hit and probably the best happy hardcore song in any game, however one small detail which a lot of people missed on is the artist. Who the hell is Paitan?
Looking on twitter he only registered in the month where LEMON SUMMER popped up, and he eventually only posted there in the days where LEMON SUMMER was going to be super relevant again. No other songs done by him, no appearances on albums considering LEMON SUMMER's ultra good reception.
Well, LEMON SUMMER sounds exactly like a Genki happy hardcore song; same style, same sounds, similar progression, everything. Guess that's solved? Neither Paitan and Genki follow each other but people like Noriken and P*Light follow Paitan.
And yeah, the LEMON SUMMER's song comments are written in the same Genki style. There you go.
>>DJ Genki
>>>>>>HEXA
>>>CODE:1 (RB) + revisions
>>>CODE:2 (RB)
Definitely TOTTO by the samey bass sounds and by the trademarked TOTTO-style progression we see in all his trance boss songs like vajra and also (most especially) Gravigazer.
Other than that, CODE:1 was the first song listed in the VOLZZA's ID list, which means it was likely the first song ready for the game and most probably the SD (TOTTO in this case) made that. Also, CODE:1 had two revisions and also had a sequel. I don't think anyone's song revisions would be even put in a game outside of the major authority (the SD) himself - and they're almost all on the same game including the sequel. SDs can do whatever they feel like.
>>DJ TOTTO
>>>>>>IDEA NOTE
>>>Attack NO.3 (IIDX)
A small one everyone forgets - a techno/electro song from EMPRESS that sounds very much like SLAKE stuff; in The Invisible Force live stream he did play a song that sounded extremely similar to Attack NO.3.
During the EMPRESS era, SLAKE was only appearing in IIDX CS games from GOLD only but that didn't mean he wasn't going to appear on AC anymore (not to mention, he had that one random appearance in pop'n fantasia years later).
>>SLAKE
>>>>>>Hirayasu Matsudo
>>>Pet Peeve (SDVX)
A person with a wig and a mask that appeared in Bemani live events and it's credited in SDVX for making the infamous knob-only charts. You'd think this guy is part of the Konami staff but... nah. Commissioned just like most of the people working on the SDVX series.
And of course, only outsiders can participate to music contests, even if they already closely work with Konami (see RHYZE artists). Of course, Hirayasu Matsudo's background is completely unknown and yet he's skilled at song making, just like Paitan.
Hirayasu Matsudo's most suggested identity is of course MAD CHILD. If you heard The Vice from one of the J/P-HD# albums (fourth one I think?), you can easily find the similarities between it and Pet Peeve. And Pet Peeve in general is pretty much rhythmic-only techdance that MAD CHILD always makes.
Other than that, some of the MAD CHILD's SDVX charts have patterns found in Matsudo's charts (or Bob Shimantogawa too, same person). MAD CHILD himself is a pillar of SDVX's charting and he's quite into Bemani things considering he was involved in that BEMANI SUMMER DIARY event's final boss (SDVX version).
>>MAD CHILD
>>>>>>Destron
>>>All is Wrecked (IIDX)
One so forgotten to the point that the song had a very low playcount and getting eventually axed in SINOBUZ. No overlays didn't help; sad though.
The name "Destron" quickly makes you think about Des-ROW, as some of his aliases started with "Des-" with a word afterward, depending on the artist he'd collaborate with or for another reason. Thing is that Destron is one whole word instead of using the Des- format which is sort of suspicious. Des-ROW, for those who don't know, hasn't made a IIDX song since SIRIUS (London Papers) - seems like his stuff aren't much played or are instead heavily disliked, 2ch almost always lists ハリツヤランデヴー as one of the top 10 worst IIDX songs; they don't like him and even more now after all the shit he did with the RB series.
All is Wrecked's song comments are written in English as well; and from there I make a call to those comments in BLACK STAR's song: 96 is involved? And this would also mean he's indeed BLACK STAR?
SPADA is the first IIDX without 96 since he popped up in the series, unless he was actually behind All is Wrecked. The guitars are sophisticated enough to believe it's 96 who made the song, and Des-ROW probably did only the shouting (definitely Des style). Or perhaps 96 just helped greatly because All is Wrecked at its core sounds more like Des-ROW composition than 96's, it's that the guitars are on another level of quality (let's be honest the song really sounds like INNOVATIONS at parts).
Quite difficult to speculate honestly but I still believe 96 had a hand. Des-ROW wasn't making metal for a long time by now. I believe All is Wrecked was a last-minute emergency song made for SPADA after the abort process started.
Another theory could be Qrispy Joybox (always with Des-ROW). He had no song on SPADA and the guy did REALIZE on GFDM.
>>Des-ROW and 96, Des-ROW and Qrispy Joybox
>>>>>>Kagutsuchi
>>>背水之陣 (Kagutsuchi Remix) (pop'n)
Another big mystery of pop'n that isn't going to lead anywhere. Appearing for a remix only and disappearing quickly like Kagutsuchi in the myths, it's quite hard to figure out who's behind the alias.
The most picked theory is the Ryu* one. Various things point at him: the high-speed nature of the remix, that "somebody scream" sample which is a trademark of him by now (not that anyone else can't use it though), no Ryu* song whatsoever in Sunny Park - he was going to have an original one according to the HDD data but I'm pretty sure this is unrelated, unless he really ended up with nothing at all (he had nothing in Lapistoria and éclale either). Finally, the song comments are very similar to NNRT and Do It!! Do It!! ones. So is it Ryu*? Well, the comments seem to very imply it but I'm not convinced. Kagutsuchi is like, a weird alias for him. He mostly always use dragon aliases except tūmahaB (and we're still talking about a dragon here) and Kraken (alright, but it's still a water thing and Ryu* likes WATER a lot, not Fire whose Kagutsuchi is made out). The rest of the aliases have a second person alongside Ryu*. The remix itself is also not very Ryu-ish. Ryu* high-speed remixes generally involve a lot of happy hardcore voice sampling, and feature a very clear hardcore bassline; they're also straightforward and those times Ryu* used guitars (Red Dragon), the style was completely different.
You know, I'm going to throw my own suggestion, which also went around quite a lot: Hommarju. The remix style reminds me of Hommarju more than anything else. The vocals being constantly repeated like crazy (Oh My Jam anyone?), and the very bass+guitar combo is extremely reminiscent of Verflucht (we're about in the same time period there). I feel like I'm hearing Verflucht all the time and there's a bit of HYENA's distorted guitar synths too.
It's very open to speculations but knowing both artists for years now I'm just going by instinct; Hommarju is a more popular pick in the JPN community at least. Then it could be a completely different person.
>>Hommarju, Ryu*
>>>>>>CapsColte
>>>existence(エレクトロポップン！MIX) (pop'n)
>>>運命のパラドックス (pop'n)
The alias that made me want to write all of this article. For a lot of people CapsColte was considered a completely new person out of the blue but upon hearing the song and the female vocals when the OST still solely credited CapsColte for everything I was getting super suspicious. A bit too good for a random commissioned person that Konami found from exactly nowhere. Turns out JPN people thought the same.
CapsColte seems to be, indeed, DJ Genki. Hearing the long version of 運命のパラドックス cleared things to me a lot. I actually already imagined CapsColte being Genki when I listened existence(エレクトロポップン！MIX) because of the very familiar electro-pop style a la Sweet Radar and the chiptune-ish sections that Genki loves to do.
Let's take 運命のパラドックス. It has a long, and Genki's BEMANI songs most of the time come with one. The intro of the long version is clearly the same one as in Sidragasum (SPEEDBALL GT) - bells with a closed door sound. Same method. The rest of the song's progression follows Genki songs very closely with the vocal section being repeated twice, a new long interlude then vocal section again and then the end. Just like MAGIC & LOVE or most of the Genki vocal songs on doujin releases like the Sunao ones on his two albums. The guitars and the piano style is also the exact same as Genki's and you can easily hear his trademark happy synths every now and then. It was very easy to figure out by this who CapsColte was. Good example for a 運命のパラドックス comparison: アルファルドの花 from Elder Dragon Legend II ～The Revenge of Swamp Queen～. It doesn't have the same guitar ending but you can find that in Genki's Sunao songs in REALIZE/StarryOrange or just at the end of MAGIC & LOVE. And also at the end of Rave Cannon too now that we know Genki did the guitars for it.
Lastly, 運命のパラドックス's comments end with the "until we meet someday" phrase which Genki uses a lot.
Not sure why lyrics and vocals are credited to CapsColte solely but I guess if they revealed the vocalist it would have been too easy to figure out the artist's identity (vocalist is definitely yukacco). Genki did something similar on one doujin album as well and overall he's not new to mystery aliases when we have that SDVX case already mentioned above.
>>DJ Genki (feat. Yukacco)
>>>>>>ACRID-9
>>>Pleasure with VOLZZA (RB)
This one would be an easy Des-ROW pick but I'm definitely rushing toward the Qrispy Joybox option.
Aside the the 9=kyuu=Q thing like Fantastic Bubbly9, the jacket features Pastel Kun who's basically the Qrispy mascot character other than RB's one. It's also a RB VOLZZA BGM medley and I see Qrispy Joybox working more on that than Des-ROW. Plus, the guitar riffs in this song are on par with MAX MAXIMIZER's stuff (DEADLOCK and Misera especially), and most of the rhythms/sounds heard in the second half resemble a lot CHERNOBOG.
>>Qrispy Joybox
>>>>>>EOOZ
>>>Ausretious#1-まどろみ、或いは嘆色の夢- (jb)
No fuck this I have no idea who's actually behind EOOZ. It's a very vague song and countless of names got dropped by the JPN community: wac, Akhuta, S-C-U, PON, Vivian, Cody, TAG, TOMOSUKE. What the hell man?
For the record, EOOZ seems like it can be read as MOON, which would refer to Mystic Moon aka PON. For the most part the closest person I can see making this song is wac; the flute, the piano style. All pretty articulate enough, I do see him doing this kind of hymn-like stuff and besides wac does a song every three decades nowadays and if he does one outside of pop'n it'll likely end up on jubeat. Akhuta might be on the vocals. I honestly have no idea.
>>wac & Akhuta
>>>>>>Bazole
>>>アガット (jb)
The first jubeat prop last boss. Most people instantly said Bazole (first it was Jerico but changed because there's already a known artist named Jerico and Jerico himself said it's not him) was S-C-U because of, you know, light-hearted chip synths and such but I don't think it works that way. Like, I would believe but since S-C-U himself ended up being the other prop last boss I doubt it's him at this point; S-C-U always does one proper exclusive song per jubeat game (prop the world counts for jubeat plus).
So instead I go with ZUKI. ZUKI came out pretty strong after time granular and her style is closer to the one of Bazole (more fast-paced, see Asterism). No wonder S-C-U focused on her for some more. Also, ZUKI named a song after a mineral (ulexite), so I would see her name a song Agate. Except, Agate is written in kanji, which would be a first for ZUKI. S-C-U does sometimes but for really different types of words (and from what I know, none of the S-C-U songs are named after some sort of mineral or crystal). Mystery.
>>ZUKI
>>>>>>Captain KING
>>>Siberite (DDR)
A great show of TAKA's passion on music. Here we have a slowed down trance version of Frozen Ray.
>>dj TAKA
>>>>>>Zodiac Fall
>>>十二星座の聖域 (DDR)
Not sure what's the deal with using so many aliases unless it was just too painful to look at a starting songlist with four U1-ASAMi songs. This is definitely U1 anyway, no point hiding a commissioned artist behind an alias. Some of the song progression is very U1-like and sure I'm hearing vengeance wobbles near the end of the song.
>>U1-ASAMi
>>>>>>Musical Cosmology
>>>宇宙(ソラ)への片道切符 (DDR)
One part of the song is directly sampled in SINOBUZ's U1 song after the interlude part. Nothing else to add, U1 was definitely rushing to make the DDR A exclusive songlist a bit bigger.
>>U1-ASAMi
>>>>>>黒脛
>>>忍恋花 (IIDX)
Everyone's impression is the same: Qrispy Joybox. It'd be his SINOBUZ song and overall it sounds exactly like a 狂喜宴舞 track. You can easily see it for yourself and I'm pretty sure it'll be revealed when the song comments go live. 96 might be involved.
>>Qrispy Joybox
>>>>>>上ノ瀬つかさ
>>>ruin of opals (RB)
>>>Dracophobia (RB)
Finally a tricky one. There are a bunch of clues to go forward figuring out who's behind this Tsukasa Kaminose alias but I just cannot stop imagining the artist being actually female. Another thing is that I strongly believe it's a commissioned artist as the appearances are only limited to REFLEC BEAT - if it was an in-house artist you'd see this person on every single game by now.
First of, Tsukasa appears so far in REFLEC BEAT only, which means it has to be probably a person that TOTTO knows. And TOTTO likely knows a lot of doujin composers thanks to his Riverside past. A lot of people have dropped wac, TOMOSUKE and OSTER as names. I'm sure none of them are Tsukasa.
For wac, doing quickly two songs under the same alias is completely out of his style, not to mention I can't see him behind the songs. TOMOSUKE on the other hand does like a new song once per 1.5 years because he's too busy with Hinabita. Considering he actually appeared in VOLZZA 2 under his main alias it'd be unthinkable that he'd do two new songs for one single game. OSTER could have been a pick but both her and Tsukasa appear in Reflesia.
The strongest pick I had always since the beginning has been m@sumi. Ruin of opals is reminiscent of Les Vague quite a lot (there's one part of ruin which almost sounds exactly like Les Vague). Then though why using a new alias for m@sumi? She isn't that unknown to RB players and m@sumi already doesn't appear that much (the one time she used an alias in pop'n music, the hidden identity didn't last for many months).
Either way I can't see anyone else outside of m@sumi being Tsukasa. If all else fails, Tsukasa might be indeed a new artist but for some reason always making it in RB with a hidden boss song.
Some words floating around on 2ch is that 上ノ瀬つかさ is a SDVX FLOOR person under a different name. I wouldn't say it's Cororo (she does chaotic stuff sometimes but in a completely different way). Would it be Haru-Naba? I'm not sure.
>>m@sumi?
One last thing about SHAMDEL and SYUNN.
SHAMDEL has been confirmed countless times to be a new person that S-C-U knows. The only thing that was speculated was the vocalist of Towards The TOWER, WHO IS NOT the composer SHAMDEL himself/herself. SHAMDEL is also not in-house.
SYUNN has been also introduced as a completely new person, seemingly in-house; even if his style is hella Camellia/USAO, he's new. Doesn't explain why Camellia and Genki on twitter acted like they already knew SYUNN beforehand, though. It's probably a person who was in the doujin/BMS field at first like 8284/HuZeR.