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. His productions are mainly techno music.
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.
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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
DVD's
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 mix)"
- "Indigo Vision (full flavour hide around mix)"
- beatmania IIDX 3rd Style
- "era (nostalmix)"
- "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, a collaboration with Dj TAKA)
- 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- "Distress" (remix of "beatmania IIDX 5thstyle Opening", originally made by DJ Taka)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)
External links
- OngaQ (http://www.ongaq.com/)
- TaQ Official Site (http://www.ongaq.com/taq/)