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Sota Fujimori (藤森 崇多) is composer from Tokyo, Japan who composed songs for the BEMANI Series music video games. He has been a staff composer for the KONAMI Corporation in Japan since 1998.

Early life
Sota was born on November 10, 1976 in Tokyo. He spent some of his childhood in the London area, where he said was inspired by various English funk bands as well as the synth-pop bands of the time. Also, Sota was impressed by game soundtrack of GRADIUS when he was young, the motive that he decided to become composer. Also, Sota first met with synthesizer when he was attending middle school, and he became enthusiastic at synthesizer. Sota graduated Keio Senior High School, and he later attended to Berklee College of Music in US majoring in synthesizer. He entered to KONAMI Computer Entertainment Tokyo in 1998, and made his debut by making soundtrack of game ‘Gungage’.

Work in KONAMI
Sota mainly composes Epic house, Trance, especially Psychedelic Trance, and Synthpop, especially songs for BEMANI series. Also, he often features the robotic vocals, such as ‘Cyborg Akemi’, or other robotic-sounding vocals by synthesizer.He uses detune, flanging, syncopation more than other BEMANI artists. However, he has composed orchestra song for other game, not music video games. Sota usually use synthesizer at his songs, and he also has much enthusiasm at synthesizer. He has more than 60 hardware synthesizers and numerous software synthesizers as well. Also, He often provides a tone for software synthesizer. Also, he is very expert at synthesizer, his co-worker DJ YOSHITAKA says to him ‘Walking Synthesizer Dictionary’.

He debuted at BEMANI series in 2001 by DanceDanceRevolution 5thMIX CS with song ‘Do It Right’. Firstly, he only worked for DDR for a while, but he take a role of beatmania IIDX 10th style and became main artist. He is also a regular composer for pop'n music since pop'n music 13, jubeat since jubeat ripples, GuitarFreaks / DrumMania since GuitarFreaks XG & DrumMania XG, and REFLEC BEAT since its beginning. He also still contributes occasionally to the DanceDanceRevolution series. He also composed the system BGM for SOUND VOLTEX BOOTH in 2012.

Sota is also a regular contributor to KOMANI’s non-BEMANI titles since when he composed song for ‘Gungage’. He have composed songs for Castlevania Chronicles, Contra series, the Winning Eleven series, both Rumble Roses titles, the QUIZ MAGIC ACADEMY series, and Road Fighter.

Known Original Works for Games

 * Castlevania Chronicles
 * Contra: Shattered Soldier (with Akira Yamaoka)
 * ELDER GATE
 * Gungage
 * Neo Contra
 * Rumble Roses (with Various Artists, featuring from BEMANI Akira Yamaoka, Takayuki Ishikawa, Reo Nagumo, Yuichi Asami, Des-ROW and Mutsuhiko Izumi)
 * Rumble Roses XX (for Xbox 360) (with Various Artists, featuring from BEMANI Akira Yamaoka, Takayuki Ishikawa and more Konami musicians like Norihiko Hibino and Michiru Yamane)
 * Winning Eleven 7
 * Winning Eleven 8 Liveware Evolution
 * Winning Eleven 9
 * World Soccer Winning Eleven 2008

List of Sota's Synthesizer
Below is a list of synthesizers that Sota owns. The list was originally on Sota's fansite.


 * Alesis ANDROMEDA A6
 * ARP Odyssey (Rev.3)
 * Clavia nordrack2
 * Emu Ultra Proteus


 * KORG MS20
 * KORG Trinity plus
 * KORG TR-Rack
 * KORG triton rack


 * Novation Super BassStationRack
 * Novation A-Station
 * Novation Supernova2


 * Oberheim Matrix 1000
 * Oberheim OBMX


 * Roland SH-101
 * Roland TB-303
 * Roland JUNO106S
 * Roland JD-990
 * Roland XV-5080


 * Sequential Circuits Prophet5 (Rev.3)
 * Sequential Circuits Prophet600


 * Studio Electronics MIDIMINI (minimoog rack)
 * Studio Electronics SE1
 * Studio Electronics ATC1


 * YAMAHA KX5
 * YAMAHA TX81Z
 * YAMAHA SY99
 * YAMAHA EX5S
 * YAMAHA MOTIF ES7

His other Works


Since 2008, Sota releases his individual album. In this album, there are original songs, extend and arrange of his BEMANI songs, and remix of other artist’s songs. His first album, SYNTHESIZED was released on August 29, 2008, second album, SYNTHESIZED 2 was released on January 28, 2010, and third album, SYNTHESIZED 3 was released on June 9, 2011. His recent album is SYNTHESIZED 4, which is released on November 21, 2012 at KONAMI style.

Also, Sota is member of ‘Beatnation Records’, which is group of BEMANI artists that is more weighed to communicating with fans and remixing other artist’s songs. His co-worker of Beatnation Records are DJ YOSHITAKA,dj TAKA, L.E.D., Ryu☆, and kors k.

Sota is also fixed writer of DTM(Desk Top Musician) Magazine as a BEMANI artist, which is Japan’s instrument magazine. He often writes about synthesizer. He also releases original song as an append of the magazine.

He is also known as wordplay (he calls it koyaji gag (コヤジギャグ)), so he plays it in video, interview and event related to BEMANI.

Known BEMANI V-Rare/Others Works

 * Look To The Sky -True Color Extended Mix- [DDRMAX -Dance Dance Revolution 6th Mix- V-Rare]
 * Kind Lady -interlude rough instrumental- [DDRMAX -Dance Dance Revolution 6th Mix- V-Rare]
 * Kind Lady (Funk Disco Extended Mix) [DDRMAX2 -Dance Dance Revolution 7th Mix- V-Rare]
 * Do It Right (Harmonized 2Step Extended Mix) [DDRMAX2 -Dance Dance Revolution 7th Mix- V-Rare]
 * Look To The Sky (Trance Extended Mix) [DDRMAX2 -Dance Dance Revolution 7th Mix- V-Rare]
 * Feelings Won't Fade (Extended Trance Mix) [DDRMAX2 -Dance Dance Revolution 7th Mix- V-Rare]
 * Kind Lady -FUTURE TRANCE MIX- [DDRMAX2 -Dance Dance Revolution 7th Mix- V-Rare]
 * Midnight Blaze (SySF Mix) [DDRMAX2 -Dance Dance Revolution 7th Mix- V-Rare]
 * i feel... (New Age Hope Mix) [DDRMAX2 -Dance Dance Revolution 7th Mix- V-Rare]


 * I Need You (Insideout Door 3Mixes) [Dance Dance Revolution Extreme Premium CD]
 * Do It Right (80's Electro Extended Mix) [Dance Dance Revolution Extreme Premium CD]
 * Look To The Sky (True Color Extended Mix) [Dance Dance Revolution Extreme Premium CD]
 * Love Is Eternity ~SF SYNTH TRANCE MIX~ [beatmania IIDX REMIX for 10th Success Anniversary]
 * 蒼い衝動 *Aoi Shodou* ~SF Cyborg TRANCE Mix~ - [TËЯRA - RËVOLUTIØN]
 * Baby Baby Gimme Your Love [Cyber Electronica R+B Mix] - [TËЯRA - RËVOLUTIØN]
 * Star Gate Heaven (Fracus' Crazy Chill Mix) [Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA USA V-Rare]
 * Star Gate Heaven (Extended Mix) [Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA OST]
 * ANDROMEDA (Extended Mix) [cyber beatnation 1st Conclusion]
 * Gradius Medley [GRADIUS ARCADE SOUNDTRACK]
 * Spring Comes Around (Extended) [Pop'n Music 13 Carnival]
 * Psyche Planet-V (Long ver) [Pop'n Music 14 FEVER!]
 * together 4ever (Extended) [Pop'n Music 15 ADVENTURE]
 * Back Into The Light -Ballad version- [from I-Revo]
 * NuMetal [from Sota Fujimori's official blog]
 * Heaven's Beat [from Sota Fujimori's official blog]
 * ACID NRG [from Sota Fujimori's official blog]
 * Nuclear [from Sota Fujimori's official blog]
 * PLASMA (More synth extended) [beatmania IIDX12 HAPPY SKY]
 * Rainbow Flyer -In The Dream Mix- [dj TAKA - milestone]
 * Can Be Real (Soul House Extended) [DDR Party Collection]
 * ANDROMEDA II (Extended Mix) [beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD]
 * i-revolution [from Sota Fujimori's official blog]
 * DENJIN AKATSUKINI TAORERU -SF PureAnalogSynth Mix- [L.E.D. - Denjin K]

Known DTM Magazine Works

 * Next Generation Syn
 * Tomorrow Wonderland [Appeared also in Winning Eleven 9, called Tomorrow Land]
 * V-Synth cyborg Trance
 * Psyche Planet-V [Appeared also in pop'n music 14 FEVER!]
 * Drumoon Bass-V
 * D50-V
 * The Blue
 * OCTOPUS [featuring Akira Yamaoka]
 * 100% ProphetV
 * 100% Analog Factory