Also know as "I've
sound", it is a group of people who make music, not just vocal but entire
soundtracks for games, mainly for adult, bishoujo, H(etchi) games. But, the songs are great and even though I
love I've songs, I have no interest in such games. They also made music for the
anime "Onegai Teacher" that comes from a H game but isn't an adult anime.
Also, the song Wing my Way is the opening of a game called "Farland Symphony" a non-adult game that has RPG
elements. Other non-H game/anime that include I've Songs are Kanon and AIR's "all ages" versions. Some games also have edited, "all
ages" versions as they've been ported to consoles, most for dreamcast, and recently for Playstation
2 by NEC Interchannel...
The first I've song I heard and made me like the group was Kanon's
Opening Last Regrets and its remix version Last Regrets Xmas Floor Style which
was used on a Card captor Sakura Anime Music Video made by Onegai Studios.
Recently I've has been producing music that's not connected to games at all,
like on the "dIRTYGiFT" Album.
They made their first live in 2005
Their style is something between
Techno/Dance/Trance... I think ^_^.
There’s good information
about them at Wikipedia now.
Group's History
The group started as a unit
of Kazuya Takase and Yasutaka Ippoushi
making compositions and song lyrics.
Originally these two people were active in Japan as club artists.
Afterwards, they worked in Canada,
with unit names of "WORM WORLD" and "F.T.K" making mainly,
euro beat songs. One song by "F.T.K" may be know for people who play
Dance Dance Revolution, "If you were
here" sung by Jennifer.
After that, they started making arrangements for adult games being credited as
"I've". Thus, making them a pretty famous unit in
those games industry.
Other Information
The base of
"I've" is Sapporo,
Hokkaido.
Originally, fans believed that I've stood for: "I Love, I Live, I
Leave." But it turns out that I've comes from 愛撫 (aibu),
the Japanese word for "caress", which traces back to their Eroge roots.
Besides the "I've Sound" logo
, in some recent CDs you can see the
logo "I've Low Trance Assembly"
They have an official site!
at http://ive.mu/
Most of the information
here came from http://www.intsurf.ne.jp/~to6468/i-ma.html (in Japanese)
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