-45

Doujin music artist focused mostly on electronic gothic music, known especially for his ability to create songs with dark and complexly twisted chord progressions. Being a self-taught musician, the first works that he made publicly available were mostly BMS (Be-Music Source), which is a file format for rhythm action games, by the end of 2000. Since then, a wide amount of BMS made by him have been released, being some of them remarkably popular, such as A, Gengaozo, Total Eclipse of Sun or suffruti, among others. His first known participation in a CD album took place in rebirth -rebirth of link-, released on May 2002, after joining the Link in Zillion circle, contributing four songs on it, being three of them higher quality versions of earlier BMS he made and one of them album-exclusive. Later on, he also contributed another album-exclusive song in Rêve -Beginning of Dream-, SENS (both of them under the same circle) and Over the sky (under a circle called peasant). Right after Link in Zillion disbanded in summer 2003, he created his own circle called D'va;;;;;;;;5, debuting that same summer with the first album of the circle, 45CD Project, which gathered songs of some former members of Link in Zillion, among many other participating artists, giving as a result an album with a wide range of genres, akin to the philosophy of the aforementioned circle. The subsequent albums of D'va;;;;;;;;5 lowered progressively the cast of participating artists and focused mostly on instrumental gothic music, with frequent collaborations of LUNE and occasionally some other guest artist such as guna. Conversely, -45 also made some contributions to LUNE's circle, T-Rify.D. The event that triggered most of the popularity of -45 was probably his participation as a composer in the popular and highly regarded visual novel Umineko no Naku Koro ni (When The Seagulls Cry), followed by the release in 2009 of his most well-known album, アムリタ, mostly consisting of a reissue of his older works, which also included most of his contributions to the aforementioned visual novel. After these events, he continued to release more albums, alternating solo works with other ones including several contributions of guest artists. He also kept releasing BMS once in a while, participating eventually in T-Rify.D albums and also contributing some songs to other circles, such as nlbs, Θ Complex and Team Grimoire, or even participating as a composer in commercial video games, such as Chaos Code and Chunithm.