Hiroshi Watanabe

sylcmyk+ · 05-03-2007, 09:14 AM

Crunky Boy
DJ FX
DJ Mazinger
nite system
QUADRA

This is the man, YO!

I still can't stop listening to Attack the Music and Acid Bomb. Even after years

rmz · 05-03-2007, 01:40 PM

Beat Machine is amazing.

*Irob* · 05-03-2007, 04:04 PM

A lot of his stuff sounds similar, but man is he good.
Even though it's not solely him, Sounds of Instruments 2 is a great album.

mono-type · 05-05-2007, 01:16 AM

I've noticed that the name Hiroshi Watanabe was quite "generic" . I mean, there's an anime director named "Hiroshi Watanabe"; there's a member of a certain J-rock band named like that, too; and we got our Hiroshi Watanabe in Bemani, too. Are they one, or they're different persons at all?

*Irob* · 05-05-2007, 10:35 PM

They're different people.

nilmind · 05-06-2007, 07:58 AM

Cool, this place screams old school. I would have to say that of the songs in that period, his beats TAKA's outright, but that was before TAKA made any songs I really liked yet.

rmz · 05-07-2007, 02:06 AM

Yeah, Taka was one of those artists that seriously sucked in the early days of IIDX (with the exception of .59 I guess) but around 3rd style he started putting out more decent tracks, and he really took off around 6th.

Morning Blue · 05-07-2007, 03:46 AM

6th style? You mean the game where he had made more or less a rearranged Tangerine Stream and the overplayed Colors? His only good standalone song in that song (which excludes Summer Vacation, as great as a song it is) was Nemesis.

4th and 5th style Taka was great. Absolute, Flowers for Albion, Small Waves, Abyss, Final Countdown, V...I'll take these songs any day over the generic music he wrote in 9th and beyond.

Hiroshi Watanabe was great. Only he could make Love So Groovy sound like a real song. s.d.z. is severly underrated IMO.

Creed Bratton · 05-07-2007, 09:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Morning Blue

I'll take these songs any day over the generic music he wrote in 9th and beyond.

reincarnation (this is more directed at rmz), nageki no ki, earth scape, mei and ubertreffen would like to speak with you

personally I can't ever respect a man who does a song like "garden of love."

rmz · 05-07-2007, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Morning Blue

overplayed Colors

So...it's his fault that it's overplayed? That makes it less of a good song? Hrm. I should tell Beethoven that Symphony No. 5 sucks because it's played so much.

I don't see how you can like Small Waves, The Final Countdown, and Absolute, but dislike his stuff from later on. Flowers for Albion is amazing, though, and I think it's maybe his only good song on 4th.

Oni+> Reincarnation was good, yeah, and Tangerine Stream was good. That's why I basically meant "mostly" lame stuff prior to 4th. I still think his best tracks have been more recent (all of the D.J.SETUP songs, OML, Nageki, Ubertreffen, No.13, A, earth scape, and so on). I don't think V is a half-bad remix either but that's kind of an outlier.

Mangojoyride · 05-07-2007, 10:56 AM

this just turned into a Taka thread XD

Morning Blue · 05-07-2007, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Mayor Adam West

reincarnation (this is more directed at rmz), nageki no ki, earth scape, mei and ubertreffen would like to speak with you

You just listed essentially the only good music he's done since 9th (sans earth scape, which is generic piano ambience. I prefer Presto, Tangerine Stream, Flowers for Albion, 5.1.1., and 5.8.8.). I also like Inazuma and One More Lovely.

At the same time, I can list a lot of songs I don't like from him since 2002. AA. Rage against usual. Recollection. Melody Life. Candy Galy. Snow Storm. never... Moon. Looking for... All three of his Guitar Freaks songs. e-motion 2003 romantic style (the CORE Remix version is so much better). And then they brought back Quickening from Dance Maniax's grace. Blah.

And Colors sucks because the music is (IMO) generic and similar to his other trance works, the vocals are horrible, the video is stupid (and, for no reason, advertises for 6th style during it), and its note charts are way too saturated with notes, even on Light 7 / Normal!

Creed Bratton · 05-07-2007, 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Morning Blue

Rage against usual. Snow Storm. Quickening

thank you for giving me the incentive to discount that post. rage against the usual is fantastic, although I'm sure you'll dismiss it by saying the another chart is stupid or something

to be fair, LESSON5, MOON and Noria are really terrible though and Taka should permanently abandon that style of music

nilmind · 05-07-2007, 11:42 PM

Since I feel partially responsible for bringing up TAKA in the first place, I feel I should comment on my surprise on how Hiroshi Watanabe actually came up with loads of stuff through all of his years outside of Bemani: Hiroshi Watana.be. Does anyone know if his later stuff evolved since?

Morning Blue · 05-08-2007, 05:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Mayor Adam West

thank you for giving me the incentive to discount that post. rage against the usual is fantastic, although I'm sure you'll dismiss it by saying the another chart is stupid or something

You LIKE Quickening? It reminds me of Logical Dash: it sounds more like garbled sound effects than music. It was a bad song in DanceManiax, a bad song in DDR, beatmania the Final, IIDX 9th, and it should have NEVER been revived for the CS games, when infinitely better songs have yet to be seen since their sole CS appearance.

I don't quite hate Rage against usual, but I don't find it very interesting. I just plain don't like most IIDX rock music. It doesn't fit the series at all.

Snow storm is generic and I can't find anything cool about it aside from the pretty piano pieces. I have similar feelings for Pandora, aka Frozen Ray 2 with Japanese vocals.