Harumi Ueko
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Harumi Ueko
General Information
- Name: Harumi Ueko (上高治巳)
Profile
Harumi Ueko is one of the first composers of the GUITARFREAKS / drummania series. He contributed to least one song for every game of the series up to GuitarFreaksXG2 & DrumManiaXG2. He is well known for his jazz fusion songs.
Harumi was also a member of 亜熱帯マジ-SKA爆弾 (Antettai Maji-Ska Bakudan) alongside Hideyuki Ono and DokiDokiDokky, where he played the saxophone, trombone, and horns.
Outside of BEMANI, Harumi composed music for other Konami titles such as Ganbare Goemon, the SNES port of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, and the Silent Scope series.
Harumi retired from Konami on June 15, 2012. He currently works as an independent sound engineer.
Trivia
- Harumi's main alias, Jimmy Weckl, may be a reference to jazz drummer David Weckl. "Weckl" also might be an anglification of "Ueko".
Aliases
- Jimmy Weckl
- Vap Ueko
- 亜熱帯マジ-SKA爆弾 (member of, with Hideyuki Ono)
- JJ-road (member of, with Handsome JET)
- GINGER (with あさき)