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[SUPER STAR MITSURU]

m(_ _)m I'd never tell him this, but I totally idolize kors k. He'd probably tell me I'm weird. But yes, kors k was the one who got me into beatmania IIDX and hardcore music into the first place with SigSig and gigadelic and I haven't left yet.

I like a lot of his songs, but I'd have to say that SigSig is my all time favourite and that some people actually call me that as a nickname. He just has so many good songs (Well, with the possible exception of some songs on his first album.)

I'd totally write a beginner's guide to kors k, but yeah. Who else likes him?

[Kyle]

I want the beginner's guide, intermediate guide and expert guide.

[SUPER STAR MITSURU]

Fine, I'll start writing them then. 

[tsugaru7reveng]

I love "the shadow", "evergreen" and "ICARUS".

[SUPER STAR MITSURU]

It hasn't been confirmed that ICARUS is kors k, just strongly speculated to be. Which is another reason why I'm really waiting for the DJT soundtrack to be released.

[tsugaru7reveng]

Just 2 months and 20 days... just 2 more months and 20 days.

[Azzy2121]

I haven't heard alot of kors k.
But i realllllllllllllllllllllly love SigSig...
I could listen to that song all day long.

[SUPER STAR MITSURU]

The Beginner's Guide to kors k

kors k aka Kosuke Saito is a comissioned artist who has (so far) been exclusively for the beatmania IIDX series. He started composing on the tails of the J-pop remix wave, drawing inspiration from Tetsuya Komuro. With his synthesizers in hand, he began composing and won a musicianship competition held by Bemani with his song Clione; a dutch trance inspired that debuted in IIDX 4th Style along with Ryutaro Nakahara aka Ryu☆. Both kors k and Ryu☆ go on a short hiatus but come back again in 9th Style with remixing older songs - kors k coming back with his remix of TaQ's traces called traces -tracing you mix-, a 2 step take on the trance song with vocals that caused some people to complain that it sounded nothing like the original. (Or so they say, I can hear traces.)

From that point on, kors k has been a mainstay in IIDX; coming out with the trance tune Love is Eternity in 10th Style which is a favourite; producing HORIZON with known happy hardcore songstress LIA for IIDX RED, the highly popular SigSIg which he wrote for the female IIDX players (well, he managed to get me into IIDX with that song) and the rave song Get 'em up to R.A.V.E. under the name Disconation. He also collaborated with teranoid for 2 songs in IIDX DistorteD - tripping contact, a freeform hardcore piece and tripping contact (teranoid & MC Natsack mix), a nu style gabba take on the original with famed hardcore MC, MC Natsack and Power of Love, kors k showing that he really knows how to 2 step.

In the latest reincarnations of IIDX, kors k shows his versatility yet again by exploring more and more genres and how good he is at them with the shadow (schranz), heaven above (house, and kors k showing that he can sing... really well.) and FIRE FIRE (buchiage trance). In IIDX DJ Troopers, he shows yet again his versatility with wildly different songs - the house-y evergreen, the UK Hardcore-esque Rising in the Sun (original mix) with his girlfriend Rie and the energetic trance song Now and Forever with known hardcore artist Munetica

Intermediate guide coming soon!

[darkamdusias]

Awesome guide! Can't wait for the next installment!

(PS - I'm a HUGE SigSig fan too! All my friends associate the song with me. Hehehe!)

[nilmind]

*points to avatar for SigSig fans.  That song pops into my head whenever I have to make a quick sprint for whatever reason (like catching the next train ).

And yeah, I would consider kors k my favorite Bemani artist right now.  Seriously, I'm looking at my top 25 songs in my player right now, and 13 of them were either composed by him, remixed by him, or a song by him remixed by someone else (I really didn't realize this until now, haha).  Out of all his monikers, I noticed that I tend to lean towards the songs by OMEGA FORCE and StripE.  HORIZON, FIRE FIRE, and tripping contact are definite favorites.  I also really like Love is Eternity, but that seems like one of those love or hate songs.  This also doesn't include all the non-Bemani stuff he's done.

[Shigekix]

Out of all his monikers, I noticed that I tend to lean towards the songs by OMEGA FORCE and StripE.  HORIZON, FIRE FIRE, and tripping contact are definite favorites.  I also really like Love is Eternity, but that seems like one of those love or hate songs.  This also doesn't include all the non-Bemani stuff he's done.

Funny, I was going to say something very similar to this. One thing I admire about Kosuke is his versatility.  From 2Step, through Buchiage and Rave to Laundromatic and Hardcore, he does it all, and does it quite well. 

[SUPER STAR MITSURU]

Funny, I was going to say something very similar to this. One thing I admire about Kosuke is his versatility.  From 2Step, through Buchiage and Rave to Laundromatic and Hardcore, he does it all, and does it quite well. 

It's a vacuum sound, not a laundromat. D:

The Intermediate Guide to kors k

During the time of IIDX RED, a new composer called teranoid appeared with the song gigadelic that makes even the seasoned IIDX player cry with it's horrendous hyper and another charts (the normal makes me cry too). The song itself was subjected to a number of jokes, including that of gigadelic sounding oddly like a washing machine off balance (it's actually a hoover sound from a Roland Alpha Juno). It had people wondering "Who is teranoid?"

Riding on the success of gigadelic on IIDX RED (people liked it despite the horrible chart) teranoid released an album called teranoid underground edition. This had a long versions of SigSig, gigadelic and even a remix of the original SigSig done by RaverRose in addition to a Ryu* vs teranoid song and other tracks featuring known hardcore artists. This begged the question of course, who was teranoid?

When asked upon who teranoid was, MC Natsack would reply that teranoid took the form of whoever you invisioned it to be and was dangerously evasive on the subject. Other hardcore artists were just as reluctant, saying the same thing or claiming that they were teranoid. Which didn't help people too much.

Then there was the live events. Some people thought that teranoid was a pretty hot lady while others thought that teranoid was a pretty hot guy, judging from whoever was playing teranoid songs at live events. But people let the issue slide just a bit, because teranoid was pumping out incredible nu style gabba stuff including several albums - teranoid overground edition, teranoid overground edition 1.04, teranoid overground edition - KOJA YUKINO which featured up and coming vocalist Koja Yukino and teranoid anthems live@underground that featured well known names in hardcore club music - kors k, Ryu*, MC Natsack, DJ Shimamura, LIA, Naoki Atsumi, good-cool, kenta-v.ez, Sakakibara Yui, DJ Tekka... you get the drift. A teranoid album was more of a compilation of the best hardcore you can find, with kors k sound producing it along with MC Natsack and Naoki Atsumi. And these albums were popular. It basically revived interest in the hardcore club scene, tapping the interests of music game fanatics.

It wasn't only until recently that kors k revealed himself to be the one behind the teranoid sound, being the sound director of the whole teranoid project (the explanation of which is in the expert guide to kors k). Then the floodgates opened. People praised kors k for being a genius, or utterly utterly mad. All I can say on the issue was that I was pretty shocked (nil can tell you this when he told me) but after seeking out kors k himself, it actually made sense considering what goes on in that head of his.

So kors k was teranoid. That meant that he was versus-ing himself when he composed tripping contact. teranoid is actually more akin to a kors k alter ego, kors k referring to teranoid as his 'business partner' and was dangerously evasive about who it was. But it still doesn't change the fact that stuff composed under the teranoid moniker is most likely Kosuke Saito.

[Azzy2121]

Okay... Now i want more CD's >.<

And i was just going to ask if teranoid was kors k or not.

[Kyle]

So kors k was teranoid. That meant that he was versus-ing himself when he composed tripping contact. teranoid is actually more akin to a kors k alter ego, kors k referring to teranoid as his 'business partner' and was dangerously evasive about who it was. But it still doesn't change the fact that stuff composed under the teranoid moniker is most likely Kosuke Saito.

Well....I guess that explains why kors k and teranoid kick so much ass, equally. It's a bit odd, although it does make sense... o__o

[SUPER STAR MITSURU]

So kors k was teranoid. That meant that he was versus-ing himself when he composed tripping contact. teranoid is actually more akin to a kors k alter ego, kors k referring to teranoid as his 'business partner' and was dangerously evasive about who it was. But it still doesn't change the fact that stuff composed under the teranoid moniker is most likely Kosuke Saito.

Well....I guess that explains why kors k and teranoid kick so much ass, equally. It's a bit odd, although it does make sense... o__o

In a roundabout sort of way, right? I mean, the way that I found out was when nil showed me a page from the teranoid underground edition detailing a conversation between kors k, teranoid and Ryu* and basically teranoid and kors k supplanted each other and it was really Ryu* driving the conversation around, which sort of led to nil telling me that kors k is teranoid, yes!

... i swear it works.