In the Bemani series of rhythm video games by Konami, there is the appearance of seemingly hundreds of different musicians and groups performing 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).

Contents

1 Akira Uchibori 2 Akira Yamaoka 3 Anna Quinn 4 Atsushi Sato 5 Atsushi Shindo 6 Aya Sakuma 7 Ayako Saso 8 BeBoBu BeBe 9 Geila Zilkha 10 Harumi Ueko 11 Heigo Tani 12 Hideaki Sugaya 13 Hiro Tanaka 14 Hiroaki Saitou 15 Hiroki Koga 16 Hiroshi Takeyasu 17 Hiroshi Watanabe 18 Hiroshi Watarai 19 Hiroyuki Togo 20 Isao Saito 21 Jennifer Freeman 22 Julie Ann Frost 23 Jun Wakita 24 Junko Karashima 25 Kazuhiro Senoo 26 Keiichi Uemo 27 Kiyomi Kumano 28 Kiyotaka Sugimoto 29 Kohta Takahashi 30 Koichi Tanaka 31 Kosuke Saito 32 Kouichi Yamazaki 33 Maki Kirioka 34 Manami Fujino 35 Masafumi Sekiguchi 36 Masaya Kyuhei 37 Masayuki Takahashi 38 Miharu Arisawa 39 Michiru Yamane 40 Mikio Endo 41 Mitukuni Murayama 42 Motoaki Furukawa 43 Mutsuhiko Izumi 44 Naoki Maeda 45 Noria Shiraishi 46 Noriko Fukushima 47 Osamu Kubota 48 Osamu Migitera 49 Paula Terry 50 Reo Nagumo 51 Risa Sotohana 52 Riyu Kosaka 53 Ryutaro Nakahara 54 Sadahiro Nakano 55 Sanae Shintani 56 Sayaka Minami 57 Scott Dolph 58 Seiji Koga 59 Seiya Murai 60 Shinji Hosoe 61 Shizue Tokui 62 Sho Maruyama 63 Shoichiro Hirata 64 Shuichi Kobori 65 Shunji Takenaka 66 Shunsuke Kida 67 Sota Fujimori 68 Sunny James 69 DJ Takawo 70 Takayuki Ishikawa 71 Takehiko Fujii 72 Takeo Miratsu 73 Takeshi Fujita 74 Taku Sakakibara 75 Tatsuya Furukawa 76 Tatsuya Mizuno 77 Tatsuya Shimizu 78 Tetsuya Tamura 79 Thomas Howard Lichtenstein 80 Tomoki Hirata 81 Tomosuke Funaki 82 Tomoyuki Uchida 83 Toshiyuki Kakuta 84 Tsugumi Kataoka 85 Yasuaki Kitagawa 86 Yasuhiro Abe 87 Yasushi Kurobane 88 Yokota Shokai 89 Yoma Komatsu 90 Youchi Yamazaki 91 Youhei Shimizu 92 Yuichi Asami 93 Yuji Kano 94 Yuki Kume 95 Yuuki Kuromitsu 96 References

Akira Uchibori

• GUHROOVY (member of)

Akira Yamaoka

• AKIRA YAMAOKA (primary pseudonym)
• DE VOL (member of)
• DETROIAN
• ric
• riewo
• Akira Shintani (新谷あきら Shintani Akira) - songs w/ Sanae Shintani as vocalist
• ヒロシ＆チー子

Anna Quinn

• ANNA [DDR PC OST]

Atsushi Sato

• Caramel.S [DDR PC OST]

Atsushi Shindo

• 新堂敦士

Aya Sakuma

• Aya

Ayako Saso

• sampling masters AYA

BeBoBu BeBe

• BEBE [BM 5 OST]

Geila Zilkha

• GEILA [DDR PC OST]

Harumi Ueko

• Jimmy Weckl
• Anettai Maji-SKA-Bakudan (member of)
• Sweet Little 30's (member of)

Heigo Tani

• Wall5 [IIDX 11 OST]

Hideaki Sugaya

• FinalOffset

Hiro Tanaka

• DJ 19 [IIDX 11 OST]

Hiroaki Saitou

• AKI [BM 5 OST]

Hiroki Koga

• Naya~n (primary pseudonym)
• Baleni Stella
• Blue & Green
• ensemble futuro
• III
• ナヤ～ン (naya~n)
• Naya~n Big Band
• Naya~n Jr.
• NL&P
• N.P.B.
• N.R.B.
• Sarastro
• Sludgy Hawks with N
• St. Naya~n
• THE RABBITS

Hiroshi Takeyasu

• apresmidi
• DJ HIRO
• LOVEMINTS
• MIRAK
• Political Trees
• POST MODERN
• pro phet-31
• ReR
• SPIRITUAL RIDE [BM 5 OST]
• THE BALD HEADS
• The Dust Fathers
• T.S.R.
• UNIVERS 6

Hiroshi Watanabe

• CRUNKY BOY
• DEEP EMOTION [BM 5 OST]
• DJ FX
• DJ Mazinger
• DJ ODDBALL [BM 5 OST]
• nite system
• QUADRA

Hiroshi Watarai

• DJ WATARAI [BM 5 OST]

Hiroyuki Togo

• Togo Project (primary pseudonym) [BM 5 OST]
• CHEAP FOREST
• ESPACIO BROTHERS
• Herbie Hammock & His Band
• staccato two-J
• Togo-chef

Isao Saito

• ASLETICS [BM 5 OST]
• ATHLETICS [PSX BM Club]

Jennifer Freeman

• Jenny F. [DDR PC OST]

Julie Ann Frost

• Julie [DDR PC OST]

Jun Wakita

• wac (primary pseudonym)
• DJ.W
• Lego Studio
• Morning Blue Dragon
• 少年ラジオ (Shonen Radio)
• iconoclasm (member of)
• Virkato Wakhmaninov

Junko Karashima

• jun (primary pseudonym)
• TËЯRA (member of)

Kazuhiro Senoo

• BRASS TRICKS
• Brian Morris
• Hiro
• K.Wit
• Orquesta Banano
• THE INFECTION

Keiichi Uemo

• ANAL SPYDER
• baby weapon
• DJ SUWAMI
• DJ SWAN
• Honey P
• Risky Men

Kiyomi Kumano

• Kiyommy
• 2Days (member of)
• natural bear (member of)

Kiyotaka Sugimoto

• a.s.a.
• DJ SIMON (primary pseudonym)
• DEPROGRAM MAN
• DOCTOR S
• ORANGENOISE SHORTCUT
• Original Cedar
• Original Cedar Pipe Band
• PRIORITY
• Rock'n'roll King
• ROUTE No.1 RAG UNIT
• simon
• SIMON MAN
• SUGI

Kohta Takahashi

• KOHTA [IIDX 11 OST]

Koichi Tanaka

• MPM [BM 5 OST]

Kosuke Saito

• kors k (primary pseudonym)
• disconation
• LIA (vocalist for Saito's song HORIZON) [IIDX 11 OST]

Kouichi Yamazaki

• RAM [BM 5 OST]

Maki Kirioka

• MACKY

Manami Fujino

• Parquets (member of)

Masafumi Sekiguchi

• SDMS [DDR PC OST]

Masaya Kyuhei

• Q'HEY [IIDX 11 OST]

Masayuki Takahashi

• napakick (member of)

Miharu Arisawa

• BeForU (member of)
• BeForU NEXT (member of)

Michiru Yamane

Mikio Endo

• MIKIO ENDO [BM 5 OST]

Mitukuni Murayama

• ENOLA QUINTET [BM 5 OST]

Motoaki Furukawa

• Motoaki F.

Mutsuhiko Izumi

• 泉 陸奥彦

Naoki Maeda

• 8 bit – used only in "Afronova Primeval"
• 180, 190, 190', 200, 270, 290 – numeric pseudonyms refer to the song's BPM rating, and are used on the fast-paced "PARANOiA" sequence of songs
• 1479 - used only in his remix of "Get me in your sight"
• B3-Project – Used only in "The Theme From Enter The Dragon"
• BeForU (sound producer)
• Blue Destroyers - used only in "Hypnotic Crisis"
• Crystal Aliens – used only in "Sexy Planet" and "Sexy Planet (from Nonstop Megamix)"
• D&G Music Factory - used only on OSTs [BM 5 OST]
• d-complex – used only in "Ecstasy"
• DE-SIRE – used mainly on the "Trip Machine" series of songs, on Healing Vision, and also on Tsugaru (vs. another Naoki alias, RevenG) [DDR Ex OST]
• DIVAS (member of) – used in "Baby baby gimme your love", its 2002 remix, and "Secret Rendez-vous" [DDR PC OST]
• DJ Kazu – used only for his remix of "Luv To Me"
• D.J. RICH – used only in "SUPERSTAR" and its remix
• FACTOR-X – used only in "Wild Rush"
• Fixx – used only in "Vanity Angel" [DDR Ex OST]
• KTz (member of) – used only in "AM-3P" and its remix "AM-3P East Mix"[DDR PC OST]
• Luv Unlimited used only in "Candy (star)"
• mitsu-O! - used in Jamaican-style songs [DDR PC OST]
• NAOKI – used often, though not always, in Eurobeat songs
• NAOKI 190 – used only in "Hysteria", also refers to the song's BPM rating
• NAOKI J-STYLE – used only in "Kiss Me All Night Long"
• NAOKI underground – used in a few trance songs [DDR Ex OST]
• NM – Naoki Maeda's initials [DDR PC OST]
• N.M.R – used a few songs in earlier versions of DDR; it is commonly said to mean "Naoki Maeda Revolution", but some sources say it's "Naoki Maeda Recordings" [DDR PC OST]
• NM Sequence Unlimited - used only on OSTs [DDR Ex OST]
• NO.9 – used only in "End of the Century", refers to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, from which this song is a reinterpretation [DDR PC OST]
• NW260 – used only in "Drop Out"; the 260 refers to this song's BPM rating, which was much higher than any other song from the game when released
• Ω – used only in "Max 300"
• Rice C. – used only in the remix of "Jam Jam Reggae"
• RevenG (alternately RE-VENGE and Reven-G) - used in ethnic songs, like "Afronova," "祭 (Matsuri) Japan," "exotic ethnic" and "桜 (Sakura)" [DDR Ex OST]
• Stone Bros. - used only in "Let the beat hit em!" and its existing remixes (the beatmania IIDX version, and Classic R & B style)
• The Final Band [DDR Ex OST]
• The Surrenders – used only in "Gorgeous 2012", a song from Dance Maniax.
• UZI-LAY - used in "Put your faith in me" and its existing remixes (Jazzy Groove and Saturday Night Mix)
• Ζ – used only in "Maxx Unlimited"
• ΖΖ– two overlapped zetas; used only in "The legend of MAX" [DDR Ex OST]
• N&S (member of) – used only in "Dead End", refers to Naoki & Sota (Fujimori)
• DDR ALL STARS (member of)
• TËЯRA (member of)

Noria Shiraishi

• EK
• のりあ (noria)
• Noria
• BeForU (member of)
• BeForU NEXT (member of)

Noriko Fukushima

• Lala Moore

Osamu Kubota

Osamu Migitera

• Des-ROW (primary pseudonym, pronounced 'death row')
• D-Crew
• Positive MA
• MTO
• DesQ (member of)
• NICK BOYS (member of)

Paula Terry

• DDR ALL STARS (member of)

Reo Nagumo

• dj nagureo (primary pseudonym) [BM 5 OST]
• jammaster'73
• N.A.R.D. [BM 5 OST]
• REO
• tiger YAMATO

Risa Sotohana

• BeForU (member of)
• BeForU NEXT (member of)

Riyu Kosaka

• 小坂りゆ (primary pseudonym)
• BeForU (member of)
• BeForU NEXT (member of)

Ryutaro Nakahara

• Ryu☆

Sadahiro Nakano

• SADA

Sanae Shintani

• Sana
• さな (sana)
• さなえ (sanae)
• Stocatto Two
• apresmidi (member of)
• Kiddy & Sunshine Lovers (member of)

Sayaka Minami

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

Scott Dolph

• Scotty D. [BM 5 OST]

Seiji Koga

• DRAGOON

Seiya Murai

• Seiya (primary pseudonym)
• Popperhead
• SOUNDROID
• TEMPULA-BROS
• V.C.O.
• WORLD SEQUENCE
• YASHI GANI
• 黒踊社中 (Takanaka)
• natural bear (member of)

Shinji Hosoe

• Sampling Masters MEGA

Shizue Tokui

• Orange Lounge (member of)
• 橙色特別室 (member of)

Sho Maruyama

• Mt. Circle

Shoichiro Hirata

• DJ Spugna
• Shawn the Horny Master [DDR PC OST]
• SHO-1
• Sho-T [DDR PC OST]

Shuichi Kobori

• kobo
• Kobo project

Shunji Takenaka

• SHUNZZY

Shunsuke Kida

• 1000 RIVER
• Kiddy & Sunshine Lovers
• LOVE AND ZEST
• Oh,la,la!
• Rock'n'roll King
• THE NEXT FILE
• Three Berry Icecream (member of)

Sota Fujimori

• .3k
• Chel Y. [DDR PC OST]
• CLI-MAX S.
• OKUYATOS
• S.F.M.P.
• SOTA [DDR PC OST]
• Supa Fova [DDR PC OST]
• System SF
• SySF. [DDR PC OST]
• Vision F [DDR PC OST]

Sunny James

• SUNNY

DJ Takawo

• DJ TAKAWO
• Guhroovy (member of)

Takayuki Ishikawa

• dj TAKA (primary pseudonym) [BM 5 OST]
• DJ. SETUP
• Lion Musashi
• ON
• Risk Junk
• TAKA
• ASKA
• flare
• iconoclasm (member of)
• OutPhase (member of) [DDR Ex OST]

Takehiko Fujii

• SLAKE (primary pseudonym) [BM 5 OST]
• CALF
• SPARKER
• SPAKER (used only in FUNKY MODELLING on DMX)

Takeo Miratsu

• Twin AmadeuS

Takeshi Fujita

• Fuzita Blender

Taku Sakakibara

• TaQ (primary pseudonym)
• DesQ (member of)
• OutPhase (member of) [DDR Ex OST]

Tatsuya Furukawa

• good-cool (primary pseudonym) [BM 5 OST]
• Delaware
• scl.gtr
• School (member of)

Tatsuya Mizuno

• 18times per 1,000
• EGOISTIC LEMON TEA
• PEACH TREES
• WATER STAND

Tatsuya Shimizu

• Tatsh (primary psuedonym)
• dj Killer
• platoniX (member of)

Tetsuya Tamura

• dj Remo-con
• Y&Co. (member of)

Thomas Howard Lichtenstein

• Thomas Howard (primary pseudonym) [DDR PC OST]
• Captain T [DDR PC OST]
• Love Machineguns
• Monoral Heads
• Tommy-T
• Sweet Little 30's (member of)

Tomoki Hirata

• DJ TOMO [IIDX 11 OST]

Tomosuke Funaki

• TOMOSUKE (primary pseudonym)
• APHs
• Ｂｅｒｉｍｂａｕ’66
• Dormir
• PARALLEL FLOATERS
• SHORTCUTS
• T.E.M.P.O.
• EeL (sound producer)
• NICK BOYS (member of)
• Orange Lounge (member of)
• 橙色特別室 (member of)
• 常盤ゆう
• 音々

Tomoyuki Uchida

• Mr.T (primary pseudonym)
• ucchie

Toshiyuki Kakuta

• L.E.D (primary pseudonym)
• L.E.D-G
• L.E.D.LIGHT [BM 5 OST]
• L.E.D.LIGHT-G [BM 5 OST]
• K.S.T. Band (member of)

Tsugumi Kataoka

• Buta Punch (primary pseudonym)
• Buta Punch Philharmonic Orchestra
• Pickles
• the LOOSE BEAT
• Parquets (member of)

Yasuaki Kitagawa

• kita-g [IIDX 11 OST]

Yasuhiro Abe

• 大部真由美
• 中山 結衣

Yasushi Kurobane

• SYMPHONIC DEFOGGERS

Yokota Shokai

• Y&Co (member of)

Yoma Komatsu

• YOMA KOMATSU (primary pseudonym)
• BeForU (member of)
• BeForU NEXT (member of)

Youchi Yamazaki

• RAM

Youhei Shimizu

• youhei (primary pseudonym)
• act deft

Yuichi Asami

• 2MB - used mainly for remixes of other songs, i.e. Healing Vision (Angelic Mix) and MAX.(Period) [DDR PC OST]
• Club Spice (used in both Cutie Chaser songs) [DDR PC OST]
• sAmi
• U1 (1 is pronounced ichi in Japanese) [DDR PC OST]
• U1-Asami [DDR PC OST]
• U1 Jewel Style [DDR PC OST]

Yuji Kano

• napakick (member of)

Yuki Kume

• Q-Mex (primary pseudonym)
• J.S.Mech
• Q.U.A.D.

Yuuki Kuromitsu

• PINK PONG

References

• http://www.psn.ne.jp/~slayer/allmusic/
• http://www.konami.co.jp/am/bm2dx/
• Original soundtrack booklets