Asaki

Asaki (あさき) is an artist hired by Konami Corporation to create music for their Bemani game series. His lyrics are mostly ballad based and sung in a scat singing style (indeed, many listeners have a hard time understanding his singing), while his music incorporated the style of Japanese Visual kei, classical Japanese, classical European, and jazz, with most of his music appearing in the Guitar Freaks/Drummania series. He also did Elegy (Shiawase wo utau uta), Lament (Shizuku) and Enzetsu (Saru no kyou) for the Pop'n Music series, as well as Industrial Review (Kigonshu) for the beatmania IIDX series. Compared to most other Bemani musicians, he's the most reclusive, and is quite unheard of in North America, especially among bemani fans who do not play Drummania often. This is due to the fact that most of his songs are featured on Drummania and are very difficult, and thus not commonly heard by beginners.