03/23/2018 - Support for DANCERUSH was added!
06/07/2018 - Due to eight recent cases of vandalism, registration has been closed for the time being.

Commercial (CD) published by frontline records, KONAMI MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT on Mar 22, 2001 containing original soundtrack, vocal from beatmania THE SOUND OF TOKYO! -produced by KONISHI yasuharu- / ビートマニア:ザ サウンド オブ トーキョー 小西康陽プロデュース / beatmania THE SOUND OF TOKYO! -produced by KONISHI. Game Credits - a list of credits for various BEMANI games, including beatmania IIDX, DanceDanceRevolution, pop'n music, and more. Record Labels - a list of the different labels which contribute either in-house or licensed music to BEMANI games. BEMANI Albums - a list of BEMANI related albums, featuring both in-house and commissioned artists. Beatmania: The Sound of Tokyo was a rhythm video game developed and distributed by Konami and was sold in combination with the special Beatmania Controller that had especial keys to play the game and was one of the last games of the Beatmania series.

This is a wiki used largely for documenting things of general interest to the BEMANI community. It is named after Dan Dickinson, who hosted it for a number of years.

このダンディキンソンのwikiです。これはBEMANIプレーヤーのために関心のあることを文書化するために使用されます。

Active BEMANI Series

beatmania IIDX Information

An encyclopedia of data about beatmania IIDX: everything from obscure song trivia to game errata.

Sections of Interest

• What is beatmania IIDX?
• General Information - Arcade • Home • Other
• Current AC Version: beatmania IIDX 26 Rootage
• Current CS Version: beatmania IIDX INFINITAS

pop'n music Information

An encyclopedia of data about pop'n music.

Sections of Interest

Beatmania The Sound Of Tokyo Isosorbide Free

• Current AC Version: pop'n music peace
• Current CS Version: pop'n music portable 2

GITADORA Information

Information about the GuitarFreaks & DrumMania series of games.

Sections of Interest

• Current AC Version: GITADORA EXCHAIN
• Current CS Version: GuitarFreaks V3 & DrumMania V3 CS
• Mobile Release: GITADORA (Mobile)

DanceDanceRevolution Information

Information about KONAMI's dancing game series, DanceDanceRevolution (also known as Dancing Stage).

Sections of Interest

• Current AC Version: DanceDanceRevolution A20

List of console releases by regions:

jubeat Information

Information about KONAMI's four-by-four touch rhythm game.

Sections of Interest

• Current AC Version: jubeat festo
• Current CS Version: jubeat plus / jukebeat

SOUND VOLTEX Information

Information about KONAMI's SOUND VOLTEX series.

Sections of Interest

• Current AC Version: SOUND VOLTEX VIVID WAVE
• Current CS Version: SOUND VOLTEX III GRAVITY WARS コナステ

NOSTALGIA Information

Information about KONAMI's ノスタルジア music game series.

Sections of Interest

• Current AC Version: ノスタルジア Op.2

DANCERUSH Information

Information about KONAMI's newest BEMANI series, DANCERUSH.

Sections of Interest

• AC Version: DANCERUSH STARDOM

Inactive BEMANI Series

beatmania Information

An encyclopedia of data about the original beatmania and beatmania III series.

Sections of Interest

Map Of The Sound Of Tokyo

• What is beatmania?
• General Information - Arcade • Home
• Last AC Version: beatmania THE FINAL / beatmania III THE FINAL
• Last CS Version: beatmania 6thMIX + CORE REMIX

pop'n stage Information

An encyclopedia of data about the dancing spin-off of pop'n music, pop'n stage.

Sections of Interest

• What is pop'n stage?
• Last Version: pop'n stage ex

KEYBOARDMANIA Information

Information about KONAMI's first piano simulation game series, KEYBOARDMANIA.

Sections of Interest

• Last AC Version: KEYBOARDMANIA 3rdMIX
• Last CS Version: KEYBOARDMANIA Yamaha Edition

REFLEC BEAT Information

Information about KONAMI's REFLEC BEAT series.

Sections of Interest

• Current AC Version: REFLEC BEAT 悠久のリフレシア
• Current CS Version: REFLEC BEAT plus / REFLEC BEAT +

DanceEvolution Information

Information about KONAMI's DanceEvolution series.

Sections of Interest

• AC Version: DanceEvolution ARCADE
• Last CS Version: BOOM BOOM DANCE

BeatStream Information

Information about KONAMI's BeatStream music game series.

Sections of Interest

• Last AC Version: BeatStream アニムトライヴ

MÚSECA Information

Information about KONAMI's MÚSECA music game series.

Sections of Interest

• Current AC Version: MÚSECA 1+1/2

Other BEMANI Related Things

• HinaBitter♪ - a further look at the media mix project co-produced by TOMOSUKE and FujimiShobo (富士見書房).
• BEMANI Sound Team - a look back at the infamous 2017 rebranding of KONAMI's in-house BEMANI musicians, and how it came to be.
• BEMANI Timeline - a timeline of various BEMANI games, soundtracks, and other BEMANI-related activities sorted by year.
• BEMANI Events - a list of all the BEMANI events that have happened through the years.
• BEMANI Records - a list of game/songs/charts that hold records of every BEMANI series.
• BEMANI Staff Tenure - a list of all the people who ever worked in-house on BEMANI game projects, and how long they worked in BEMANI.
• Game Credits - a list of credits for various BEMANI games, including beatmania IIDX, DanceDanceRevolution, pop'n music, and more.
• Record Labels - a list of the different labels which contribute either in-house or licensed music to BEMANI games.
• BEMANI Albums - a list of BEMANI related albums, featuring both in-house and commissioned artists.
• List of BMS songs appearing in BEMANI - an overview of the songs from Be-Music Source files that have appeared in BEMANI
• Scrapped Songs - a more detailed look into the deleted songs that never made to the final projects of BEMANI games.
• Later Appearing Songs - a more detailed look at songs that appeared in earlier BEMANI games, either via HDD data or in another series altogether, before their proper debuts.
• Cancelled Games - BEMANI-related games that never saw the light of day.
• Song Samples - a list of the most frequent samples heard in BEMANI songs.
• What Could Have Been - various errata (concepts, ideas, and transplants) that didn't make to the final release of BEMANI games, or put later on.

In the Bemani series of rhythm video games by Konami, it appears that seemingly hundreds of different musicians and groups perform the songs. However, in reality there exists only a core group of a few dozen Konami artists, performing under pseudonyms and forming new groups.

All names are in Western order (family name last).

This list does not include artists whose songs have been licensed by Konami, primarily through the Dancemania division of Toshiba-EMI.

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Akira Yamaoka (left in 2009)

Mainly composes for the Beatmania IIDX and Silent Hill series

• AKIRA YAMAOKA
• ric (sound producer of)
• riewo (sound producer of)
• DETROIAN
• 新谷あきら (member of)

Erica Ash

• OKUYATOS (member of)
• Chel Y. (member of) [DDR PC OST]

Geila Zilkha

• GEILA [DDR 4th MIX OST]
• GEILA Z. [pop'n music 5 OST]

H-K[edit]

Hideki Naganuma

• 長沼英樹

Jennifer Freeman

• Jenny F. [DDR PC OST]

Kosuke Saito

Mainly composes for the Beatmania IIDX series.

• kors k (primary pseudonym)
• disconation
• StripE
• Teranoid
• Eagle
• LIA (sound producer for) [IIDX 11 OST]
• Chonan Chiharu (possibly name of vocalist)
• Hardcore United Tokyo (member of)
• BONUS (member of)

L-O[edit]

Masafumi Takada

• 高田雅史

Naoki Maeda (left in 2013)

• NAOKI
• DE-SIRE
• TËЯRA (member of)

P-S[edit]

Raj Ramayya

Riyu Kosaka

• 小坂りゆ (primary pseudonym)
• BeForU (member of)
• りゆ & のりあ (Riyu & Noria) (used on '☆shining☆')
• MIKI ROBERTS (used on 'Baby's Tears' DDR SuperNOVA ver.)

Ryutaro Nakahara

Mainly composes for the Beatmania IIDX series.

• Ryu☆ (primary pseudonym)
• Ryu
• Ryu*
• 青龍 (originally used for Cardinal Gate in Beatmania IIDX)
• Kraken
• HHH (member of)
• Cream puff (member of)
• Another Infinity (member of)
• Vandalusia改 (member of)

Sayaka Minami

• 南さやか (primary pseudonym)
• BeForU NEXT (member of)
• BeForU (member of)

Seiji Koga

• DRAGOON

T-Z[edit]

Takeo Miratsu (deceased)

• Twin AmadeuS

Thomas Lorello

• Tommie Sunshine

Tomosuke Funaki

• TOMOSUKE
• Zektbach
• Caldeira / Galdeira (member of)
• Orange Lounge (member of)
• Dormir (with vocalist crimm)

Yoma Komatsu

• BeForU (member of)
• Disっ娘 (Diskko) (member of)

Yoshitaka Nishimura

• DJ YOSHITAKA (primary pseudonym)
• DJ Yoshitaka
• 朱雀 (originally used for Cardinal Gate in Beatmania IIDX)
• Humanoid
• Lucky Vacuum
• A/I (sound producer for)
• Caldeira / Galdeira (member of)
• Creative Life (member of)
• The Plastic Ambition (member of)
• VENUS (member of)
• Michael a la Mode (voice of)

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