TWO-MIX

TWO-MIX
Profile
Japanese name:	TWO-MIX
Date of creation:	1995
Origin:	Japan
Genres:	J-pop, Electropop, Techno
Years active:	1995-present
Labels:	King Records: 1995-1998 Warner Music Japan: 1998-2001 Geneon Entertainment: 2001-present
Website:	little-station.co.jp

TWO-MIX (temporarily known as II MIX⊿DELTA) is a Japanese pop music group formed in 1995 by Minami Takayama (vocals and composer) and Shiina Nagano (synthesizer and lyricist). Their style is fast electronic pop.

Members

• Minami Takayama (高山みなみ Takayama Minami) (Vocalist, Composer)
• Shiina Nagano (永野椎菜 ,Nagano Shīna) (Synthesizer, Lyrics)

Other members

• Miru Takayama (高山美瑠 ,Takayama Miru) (Miru Takayama and M★TWO -MinaMiru-) (Vocals)
• Joe Rinoie (ジョー・リノイエ ,Jō Rinoie) (II MIX ⊿ DELTA) (Vocals, Music composition)

Song themes in Detective Conan

Opening themes

• TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~ - Opening 5 (Episodes 124~142)

History

They met in the early 1990s. Minami, already well-established as a voice actress, was in the indie band Re-X and met Shiina through a friend. Minami released a solo album in 1992, Endless Communication which Shiina contributed to. They formed a group together Es Connexion and released an album. In 1995 they formed Two-Mix.

They have been featured in anime such as Gundam Wing and Detective Conan (in which the title character, Conan Edogawa, is voiced by Minami. They also made a guest appearance in one of the episode in which they were kidnapped and saved by Conan and his friends).

In 1999, Two-Mix produced Miru Takayama(a cousin of Minami) and in 2000 Miru and Minami formed M*TWO-MinaMiru-.

In 2005, Minami and Shiina were joined by Joe Rinoie as an additional singer and composer, changing the group's name to II MIX⊿DELTA for a limited time.

In 2008, Shiina started his solo music project ShiinaTactix-Music, featuring different female vocalists, Sanae Kobayashi, Yoko Hikasa and Mutsumi Tamura.

In 2013, Two-Mix released a digital download single "T-R-Y: Next / Across The End: Platinum Stream" and Shiina composed the music for a song "Rhythm Linkage" with Yoko Hikasa in her album "Hikasa Yoko Collaboration Album Glamorous Songs".

Discography

Two-Mix albums

Studio albums

• BPM 132 (1995)
• BPM 143 (1996)
• BPM 150 Max (1996)
• Fantastix (1997)
• Dream Tactix (1998)
• Rhythm Formula (1999)
• 0G (2001)

Mini albums

• TWO→（RE）MIX (1996)
• BPM "DANCE∞" (1997)
• Fantastix II (1998)
• BPM "DANCE∞" II (2001)

Compilations

• BPM "BEST FILES" (1997)
• Baroque Best (1998)
• SUPER BEST FILES 1995-1998 (1998)
• BPM CUBE (2000)
• 20010101 (2001)
• 7th anniversary BEST (2002)
• Categorhythm (2002)
• TWO-MIX Perfect Best (2011)

II MIX⊿DELTA albums

• Delta One (2005)
• Delta Two: Universe (2006)

Others

• M*TWO-MinaMiru- - Single & Single - 2000
• ShiinaTactix-Sana.K - BPM 151 Tactix - 2008

Singles

Two-Mix singles

• "Just Communication" - 1995 (first opening theme for Gundam Wing)
• "Rhythm Emotion" - 1995 (second opening theme for Gundam Wing)
• "T-R-Y: Return to Yourself" - 1996
• "Love Revolution" - 1996
• "Rhythm Generation" - 1996
• "White Reflection" - 1997 (theme for Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz OVA)
• "True Navigation" - 1997 (theme for The X-Files 3rd season in Japan)
• "Summer Planet No.1" - 1997
• "Living Daylights" - 1997
• "Time Distortion" - 1998
• "Beat of Destiny" - 1998
• "Last Impression" - 1998 (theme for Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz Special Edition Movie)
• "Truth: A Great Detective of Love" - 1998 (5th opening theme for Detective Conan)
• "Body Makes Stream" - 1999
• "Maximum Wave" - 1999
• "Side Formula" - 1999
• "Naked Dance" - 2000
• "Gravity Zero" - 2001
• "Before The Ignition" - 2003
• "Lightning Evolution / I'm Yours" - 2009

Digital singles

• "T-R-Y: Next / Across The End: Platinum Stream" - 2013

|| MIX⊿DELTA singles

• "Toki wo Koete" - 2007 (first opening theme for Engage Planet Kiss Dum)
• "A Runner at Daybreak" - 2007 (second opening theme for Engage Planet Kiss Dum)

Miru Takayama with Two-Mix singles

• "Justice: Future Mystery" - 1999 (5th opening theme for Kindaichi Case Files)
• "Kiss" - 1999
• "Rhythmic Youth" - 1999

Others

• M*TWO-MinaMiru- - 37°C: Binestu Senki - 2000

See Also

• Music

External links

• Little Station, Two-Mix's official Web site (Japanese) [Archive]
• Two-Mix at MusicMoz
• the Two-Mix electronic library fan site