BanYa

View moreBrowse piano sheets by BanYa on Zen Virtual Piano. BanYa was the musical group of the South Korean arcade game company Andamiro and wrote original songs for Pump It Up. Its music ranges widely, from hip hop and electronic to rock and classical crossovers. A group attached to one game series while its style ranged from hip hop to classical crossovers can be read as a sound that stretched wider than the single series it served. Wikipedia notes that classical remixes are among BanYa’s most popular productions, with several sonatas, symphonies and other pieces appearing in different versions. Mixing violins, guitars and heavy beats, these songs draw particular attention from players and passers-by. Beethoven Virus is presented as a classical crossover (Oratorio): a remix of the third movement, a rondo marked allegro, of Beethoven’s Pathétique sonata, Op. 13. A rondo from a Beethoven sonata, remixed with violins, guitars and heavy beats, can be read as a classical piece placed in a very different sound world. In Beethoven Virus, the Pump It Up wiki says, BanYa took the start of the main melody of the third movement of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 8, the Pathétique, and built the rest of the song from an original melody by the composer Oh Sang-jun. The wiki describes the song as the third classical remix in the series after Midnight Blue and Turkey March, and says it surpassed the latter in quality. According to the Pump It Up wiki, among the new songs in Perfect Collection Beethoven Virus made the biggest impact, and it has never been removed from the game except in the Reverse version, which erased the whole list of older songs. Beethoven Virus following Midnight Blue and Turkey March lets each classical remix be heard against those before it. The group’s first two releases under the name BanYa were Ignition Starts and Hypnosis, although Bee, Solitary and Final Audition had already been recorded by Yahpp as an independent artist. Up to 2004 they released three albums, and some nonstop remixes of BanYa songs were also made for Pump It Up. Beginning in Pump It Up NX, the former BanYa member Yahpp became a solo artist and his new music was credited to him, and starting in Pump It Up Fiesta, Msgoon, another former member, did the same. Members who moved to credits under their own names suggest a group in which individual voices later came forward, one step at a time.

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