Question

Disillusioned · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Location: Burning AZ

What category of music does DDR music fall under exactly? I mean, I would say songs like DXY, Sandstorm, .59, Burning Heat and such would be classified as 'techno.' But songs like Moonlight Shadow, Look to the Sky, Take me away, Drifting Away, and Heaven would fall under 'Trance.'

But what about songs like Destiny, Dive, Candy, Still in my Heart, Broken my heart, Can't stop fallin' in love, Max 300 and MaxX Unlimited?
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Agent J · Trick Member Joined: 29 Feb 2004 Location: Dimension X

I don't know what actual genre DDR songs would fall under, but some of them are given genre names that sound made up when they jump over to Beatmania IIDX. For example, Destiny, as well as a lot of Naoki's other songs like Still in My Heart, Can't Stop Falling in Love etc. fall under the genre of "Hyper Eurobeat," whatever that is, in IIDX. Songs like B4U and Dynamite Rave are categorized as "Speed Rave." If these genres aren't made up, I wouldn't know how to prove it as searching for "Speed Rave" brings up a lot of results related to Bemani, with a few results mentioning Raves and the drug speed. "Hyper Eurobeat" brings up nothing but Bemani results as it's already a song in DDREX.

Max 300 avoids this, however. I believe it's categorized as "Hardcore Techno," which is another name for the genre known as "Gabber." Maxx Unlimited I would assume fall under the same genre, but it's never been in a IIDX game to my knowledge so I'm not sure.

On a side note, things get even stranger in the Pop'n Music series where you have genres such as "Izumo," "Airport," "Istanbeats," "Latin Enka" (?!), "Ergos" (or maybe "Elgos"), and "Window Guitar."

Neodarthvader265 · Basic Member Joined: 22 Sep 2004 Location: Iowa City

I think that DDR music falls under its own catagory lol
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Flarone · Trick Member Joined: 13 Feb 2004

Isn't asking too general of a question? Isn't that like asking what ganre American music falls under, seeing as that DDR music tries to fill a variety of ganres?
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Emporer Z · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 10:02 am Post subject:

The categories are as follows:

Techno, Trance, House, R&B, Hip Hop, Happy Hardcore, Classical, Eurobeat, and Tribal.
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JMK173 · Trick Member Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Location: Minnesota

i put some on my ipod and the genre it put it under was dance/electronica

Spike · Administrator Joined: 17 Jan 2002 Location: Denver

You can't say that all DDR music fits in to one specific style. That makes no sense.
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RadMooseKiller · Trick Member Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Location: Northeast Ohio

max 300 is catagorized as "Speed-Core"
at least thats what i heard
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ITG>DDR

blak puls fyre · Trick Member Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Location: Ann Arbor, MI

Its has almost all genres
including rock, hip-hop, and pop too

Molobolo · Trick Member Joined: 12 Jul 2004

Wheres the Metal?

Septagon · Trick Member Joined: 18 Sep 2004 Location: Kingwood, TX

Japanese Pop.
Yes, there is lots of techno and trance too.

Flarone · Trick Member Joined: 13 Feb 2004

Why did you bump this?
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Danl · Trick Member Joined: 20 Sep 2004 Location: Northfield, MN

songs like dive or breakdown i consider j-pop. so add that to your list and smoke it.

or something.
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INSOMNiAK · Trick Member Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Location: Randolph, MA

AK (Vanilla x Mint Mix) · Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 2:58 pm Post subject:

We mustn't forget that Sakura's official genre is "Spirit" and Don't Stop's genre is "Happy Handbag," according to IIDX. ^^