Sota Fujimori Biography

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Biography Sota Fujimori

Sota Fujimori
Sota Fujimori (born November 10 in Tokyo) has been a staff composer for the Konami Corporation in Japan since 1998. Sota spent some of his childhood in the London area, where he said was inspired by various English funk bands as well as the synthpop bands of the time. He finished High School in the New York City suburb Manhasset, with a loving family. He later attended the Berklee College of Music in the US majoring in sythesis.

He specializes in aggressive electronica but occasionally will do an orchestral song or two for a game. He is most widely known as a Konami original artist making several songs for the Dance Dance Revolution series, and also the beatmania IIDX series, where he mostly produces trance music and house music. More recently he has been dabbling into more mainstream J-Pop.

He is also something of a synthesizer expert and enthusiast in Japanese tech-culture and regularly does inteviews about various new and vintage synthesizers in the Japanese magazine DTM (desk top musician). He is said himself to own at least 50 hardware synthesizers (consisting of new and vintage synths) and many software synths as well.

Sota's synthesizers

Below is a list of synthesizers that Sota owns. The list was originally on Sota's fansite (now down).

  • 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


Pseudonyms

  • .3k
  • SOTA
  • System SF *System Sota Fujimori*
  • SySF. *Sy Sota Fujimori*
  • CLI-MAX S. *CLI-MAX Sota*
  • OKUYATOS *SOTA YUKO, maybe the vocalist it's called Yuko*
  • Supa Fova *Supa Fova = Sota Fujimori*
  • SFMP *Sota Fujimori Music Productions*
  • Vision F *Vision Fujimori*


Known BEMANI Work

Dance Dance Revolution
Is exactly the same track used in the ending of DDR Party Collection, just the name is changed.
  • Electrified - Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA 2


beatmaniaIIDX



pop'n music
This is medley featuring 3 songs of the Konami's Game Rumble Roses, those are: Look To The Sky (Japanese Version) *arranged by Sota Fujimori with Yoshiko as vocalist*, The Bitter Road *arranged by Des-ROW* & Benikage -Crimson Shadow- *arranged by dj TAKA with Maria as vocalist*.
Track appeared in DTM Magazine, with a little change in the beginning (a little sound was added)

Known BEMANI V-Rare/Others Work



Known DTM Magazine Works

  • Next Generation Syn
  • Tomorrow Wonderland *Appeared also in Winning Eleven 9, called Tomorrow Land (maybe for being shorter than the original version... THE NAME OF THE "SHORT" VERSION IS NOT CONFIRMED BUT IS THE SAME SONG)]*
  • V-Synth cyborg Trance
  • Psyche Planey-V *Appeared also in pop'n music 14 FEVER!*
  • Drumoon Bass-V
  • D50-V
  • The Blue
  • OCTOPUS Akira Yamaoka
  • 100% ProphetV
  • 100% Analog Factory


Known Original Work for Games

  • Castlevania Chronicles
  • 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


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Living peopleVideo game composersJapanese composersVideo game musicians

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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sota Fujimori
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