Musicians - Taku Sakakibara

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Taku Sakakibara, better known as TaQ (pronounced Ta-KU, not tack), is a musician who works for Konami, producing songs for Bemani games (though he is no longer affiliated with beatmania IIDX as of 10th style; he has prosued other musical interest outside of Bemani). His productions are mainly electronic music. His style varies greatly and so does not fit neatly into any specific genre such as industrial or trance.

TaQ was born in Maryland, but grew up in West Germany. He currently resides in Japan. A prodigy in the musical arts, he began playing instruments at the age of four.

Gear

TaQ arranges his music with a PowerMac G4/500 and composes with the following equipment:

Akai S3200XL
Akai S900
Roland TB-303
Roland TR-707
Roland MKS-7
Roland JV1080 w/ Vintage Synth Expansion Board
Roland U-220
Yamaha DX7

Discography

Albums

bounce connected (August 2, 2003)
ongaq:stromatolite (April 21, 2004)

DVDs

visible:stromatolite (July 22, 2004)

Bemani series

A brief listing of TaQ's works over the Bemani series, by game in which the song first appeared:

beatmania complete Mix 2

"Release Your Mind"
"TetraQ"

beatmania IIDX 2nd Style

"Digital Mind (A/T Libra Mix)"
"Electro Tuned (The SubS
"Indigo Vision (Full Flavour Hide Around Mix)"

beatmania IIDX 3rd Style

"Era (Nostal Mix)"
"Holic"
"Schlagwerk"

beatmania IIDX 4th Style

"DXY!"
"Empathy"
"Era (Step Mix)"
"Voltage (feat. Hidemaru)"

beatmania IIDX 5th Style

"QQQ"
"Radical Faith"
"Still My Words"
"Sync" (as OutPhase
)

beatmania IIDX 6th Style

"Summer Vacation (CU Mix)" (as OutPhase
)

beatmania IIDX 7th Style

"Gravity"
"Stoic"
"Traces"

beatmania IIDX 8th Style

"Abstract"
"Symbolic"

beatmania IIDX 9th Style

"Distress" (remix of "beatmania IIDX 5thstyle Opening", originally made by DJ Taka)
"Karma"
"Quasar" (as OutPhase
)

beatmania IIDX 10th Style

"Changes"
"Innocent Walls"

pop'n music 10

"Jack" (as DesQ, a collaboration with Des-ROW)

Other works

"Paranoia" (remix of the same titled track, originally made by Naoki Maeda
)
"Rifformatic"
"Things of MaNeRi"
"Random Beat"
"Neo Tokyo"
"Conclusion"
"May I Dream"
"Libra Negra"
"...and then"
".59" (Live Remix of the same titled track originally composed by DJ Taka, as OutPhase
)
"Digital Mind" (With the collaboration of KoJ)
"Cynic"
"Ionity"

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