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List Of DJMax Soundtracks
Pentavision has released DJMax soundtracks featuring songs from the games in a digital and physical retail format. This is a list of these albums. Digital audio soundtracks These soundtracks are being sold or have been sold in Korean digital music stores. After ''Vocal Paradigm'' albums others have been released as well. These albums contain various songs from the game series. Some have specific themes like concentrating only to rock or electronic genre. ''Portable Legacy'' and ''Portable Retro'' are essentially DJMax Portable original soundtrack repackaged into two separate albums which contain songs from both "L" and "R" in-game discs of DJMax Portable. DJMax Portable 2 Vocal Paradigm 1 ''Vocal Paradigm'' was the first album ever released outside influence of the games on February 5, 2007. It contains nine original songs from the DJMax Portable 2 which wasn't released at the time Vocal Paradigm came out. DJMax Portable Legacy DJMax Portable Retro DJMax Portable 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DJMax Portable
''DJMax Portable'' (Korean: 디제이맥스 포터블, ''dijeimaegseu poteobeul''; abbr.: DMP) is a music video game developed by Korean game maker Pentavision for the PlayStation Portable. It is a sequel to ''DJMax Online'', a web-based music mixing game for Windows. Game modes There are five modes where you play through four courses with increasing difficulty. Rookie DJing mode uses the four basic buttons, Pro DJing uses six and Master DJing uses eight buttons. Club DJing plays pre-made course of different songs. The player can play through four songs which are related based on either musical genre or theme of the songs. Freestyle consists of all button modes and allow unlimited combos. In this mode, you can play in either of the three different button modes and play the songs without restrictions. Effectors can change the speed of the game and faders, among other things. There is also a special harder mode depending on the button mode you are in. Music ''DJMax Portable'' lar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korean Pop
K-pop (), short for Korean popular music, is a form of popular music originating in South Korea as part of South Korean culture. It includes styles and genres from around the world, such as pop, hip hop, R&B, experimental, rock, jazz, gospel, reggae, electronic dance, folk, country, disco, and classical on top of its traditional Korean music roots. The term "K-pop" became popular in the 2000s, especially in the international context. The Korean term for domestic pop music is ''gayo'' (), which is still widely used within South Korea. While "K-pop" can refer to all popular music or pop music from South Korea, it is colloquially often used in a ''narrower'' sense for any Korean music and artists associated with the entertainment and idol industry in the country, regardless of the genre. The more modern form of the genre, originally termed "rap dance", emerged with the formation of the hip hop boy band Seo Taiji and Boys, in 1992. Their experimentation with different st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DJMax Portable 2
''DJMax Portable 2'' (DJMAX Portable 2, DMP2; Korean: 디제이맥스 포터블 2) is a music video game published and developed by Pentavision, for the PlayStation Portable which was released on March 30, 2007. This is the second installment of the ''DJMax Portable'' series. While the first installment, ''DJMax Portable'', never reached distribution outside of South Korea until the release of '' DMPi'', ''DJMax Portable 2'' was released in Japan along with English packaging and manuals. Features ''DJMax Portable 2'' contains new songs, new difficulties, new modes, as well as a few returning tracks from ''DJMax Portable''. A 5-button mode has been included along with a ''Fever'' mode and an ''Easy'' mode. ''DJMax Portable 2'' can be linked with songs from the DJMax Portable game using a new play system called ''Link Disk'' mode. There are also unlockable O.S.T. tracks from the game including Korean, Japanese and English versions of the songs which are played via the soundtrack m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DJMax Portable 3
''DJMax Portable 3'' (Korean: 디제이맥스 포터블 3; abbr.: DMP3) is a music game for the PlayStation Portable published and developed by Pentavision in South Korea, and is a sequel to the earlier ''DJMax Portable'' games. ''DJMax Portable 3'' was announced shortly after ''DJMax Technika 2'' was announced. The official trailers from PM Studios and Pentavision quickly followed. It is the seventh installment of the game for the PlayStation Portable, and regarded as the actual sequel to ''DJMax Portable 2'' since ''Clazziquai'' and ''Black Square'' branched out for the METRO Project in 2008, ''Fever'' for the North American release and the '' Technika'' series globally. New Features *Removal of autocorrect (where a single button can be bashed to complete a song) and removal of the green specialist note (which, if missed, muted the song until another specialist note was hit). *The button modes have been renamed to XT where X refers to the number of buttons (ex: 4B is now 4T) *A n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J-pop
J-pop ( ja, ジェイポップ, ''jeipoppu''; often stylized as J-POP; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also known simply as , is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in traditional music of Japan, and significantly in 1960s pop and rock music. J-pop replaced ''kayōkyoku'' ("Lyric Singing Music", a term for Japanese popular music from the 1920s to the 1980s) in the Japanese music scene. J-rock bands such as Happy End fused the Beatles and Beach Boys-style rock with Japanese music in the 1960s1970s. J-country had popularity during the international popularity of Westerns in the 1960s1970s as well, and it still has appeal due to the work of musicians like Charlie Nagatani and venues including Little Texas, Tokyo. J-rap became mainstream with producer Nujabes and his work on ''Samurai Champloo'', Japanese pop culture is often seen with anime in hip hop. Other trends ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melodic Trance
Progressive house is a subgenre of house music. The progressive house style emerged in the early 1990s. It initially developed in the United Kingdom as a natural progression of American and European house music of the late 1980s.Gerard, Morgan; Sidnell, Jack. ''Popular Music and Society'' 24.3 (Fall 2000): 21–39. Etymology In the context of popular music the word "progressive" was first used widely in the 1970s to differentiate experimental forms of rock music from mainstream styles. Such music attempted to explore alternate approaches to rock music production. Some acts also attempted to elevate the aesthetic values of rock music by incorporating features associated with classical instrumental music. This led to a style of music called progressive rock, which has been described as "the most self-consciously arty branch of rock." In disco music, and later house music, a similar desire to separate more exploratory styles from standard approaches saw DJs and producers adopting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electro House
Electro house is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by heavy bass and a tempo around 130 beats per minute. The term has been used to describe the music of many ''DJ Mag'' Top 100 DJs, including Benny Benassi, Skrillex, Steve Aoki & Deadmau5. Characteristics Simon Reynolds described electro house, as a style attributed to artists like Zedd, Erol Alkan and Bloody Beetroots. Electro-house is typified by its heavy bass. This is often in the form of buzzing basslines, such as those created with sawtooth waves and distortion. It is also often in the form of large bass drum sounds in a four-on-the-floor pattern. The tempo of electro house is usually between 125 and 135 beats per minute, usually 130. Electro house sometimes resembles tech house, but it can contain melodic elements and electro-influenced samples and synths. In contrast, Reynolds stated the genre had "little relationship with either house or electro". History Reynolds described the sound as being infl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinji Hosoe
, also known as Megaten and Sampling Masters MEGA, is a Japanese video game composer and musician most famous for scoring ''Ridge Racer'', ''Street Fighter EX'' and many Namco arcade games between 1987 and 1996. He also runs the music production and publishing company SuperSweep, alongside long time collaborator Ayako Saso. Biography Early life Hosoe was born on February 28, 1967 in Gero, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. His family moved to Chōfu while he was in first grade of elementary school. At the age of 8, he bought Isao Tomita's album ''The Planets''. He also listened to electronic music by artists such as Jean-Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk and Yellow Magic Orchestra. During his teenage years, he played bass in a Yellow Magic Orchestra tribute band. At the time, he did not have a serious interest in music and received low grades in music classes. After graduating high school, he studied computer graphics at Japan Electronics College. Namco (1985–1996) Hosoe joined Namco in 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DJMax Games
''DJMax'' (Korean: 디제이맥스, ''dijeimaegseu'') is an action-rhythm video game series created by Neowiz MUCA. Games feature mostly experimental music and visual art from Korean DJs, artists and composers. Known South Korean experimental group Clazziquai Project has also made songs for the series. There are also a few Japanese composers who have given significant contributions to the series. Release history The first game in the series, ''DJMax Online'', started on June 13, 2004 (closed alpha test) as a web based service for the Windows platform. It was only accessible from Korea, Japan and China. Since then, Pentavision has developed and published seven ''DJMax'' games mostly for the PlayStation Portable under the title ''DJMax Portable''. Pentavision released an offline ''DJMax'' game for Windows under the title ''DJMax Trilogy'' on December 25, 2008. ''Trilogy'' is a compilation of songs from three earlier games (''DJMax Online'', ''DJMax Portable'' and ''DJMax Portabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
