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  link: artist/57101
  names:
    en: Dain Olsen
    ja: Dain Olsen
birthdate: '1986-05-17'
birthplace: Patuxent River, Maryland, United States
discography:
- catalog: KFSS-704
  date: '2002-10-10'
  link: album/1590
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Arranger
  titles:
    en: 'Project Majestic Mix: SQUAREDANCE [Limited Edition]'
    ja: 'Project Majestic Mix: SQUAREDANCE [Limited Edition]'
    ja-latn: 'Project Majestic Mix: SQUAREDANCE [Limited Edition]'
  type: doujin
- catalog: N/A
  date: '2003'
  link: album/11471
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Composer
  titles:
    en: Operations
    ja: Operations
    ja-latn: Operations
  type: works
- catalog: N/A
  date: '2004'
  link: album/11469
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Composer
  titles:
    en: Final Energy
    ja: Final Energy
    ja-latn: Final Energy
  type: works
- catalog: OCRA-0005
  date: '2005-08-08'
  link: album/5368
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Arranger
  titles:
    en: 'DooM: The Dark Side of Phobos'
    ja: 'DooM: The Dark Side of Phobos'
    ja-latn: 'DooM: The Dark Side of Phobos'
  type: doujin
- catalog: N/A
  date: '2005-10-14'
  link: album/11470
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Composer
  - Performer
  - Lyricist
  titles:
    en: Everlast
    ja: Everlast
    ja-latn: Everlast
  type: works
- catalog: N/A
  date: '2005-10-31'
  link: album/22002
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Arranger
  titles:
    en: Bound Together - An EarthBound Remix Project
    ja: Bound Together - An EarthBound Remix Project
    ja-latn: Bound Together - An EarthBound Remix Project
  type: doujin
- catalog: N/A
  date: '2006-08-20'
  link: album/5365
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Arranger
  titles:
    en: 'Bound Together: ReBound - An EarthBound Remix Project'
    ja: 'Bound Together: ReBound - An EarthBound Remix Project'
    ja-latn: 'Bound Together: ReBound - An EarthBound Remix Project'
  type: doujin
- catalog: KFSS-705U
  date: '2007-02-21'
  link: album/60314
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Arranger
  titles:
    en: SQUAREDANCE ∞
    ja: SQUAREDANCE ∞
    ja-latn: SQUAREDANCE ∞
  type: game
- catalog: N/A
  date: '2007-04-01'
  link: album/10184
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Composer
  - Arranger
  - Performer
  - Lyricist
  titles:
    en: In The Dark
    ja: In The Dark
    ja-latn: In The Dark
  type: game
- catalog: V-RARE SOUNDTRACK-14 USA
  date: '2008'
  link: album/9585
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Performer
  titles:
    en: DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA2 Limited Edition Music Sampler
    ja: DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA2 Limited Edition Music Sampler
    ja-latn: DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA2 Limited Edition Music Sampler
  type: bonus
- catalog: N/A
  date: '2008-04-01'
  link: album/7818
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Arranger
  titles:
    en: 'Super Mario Land 2: Tremendous Achievement'
    ja: An Achievement Unlocked in Video Game ReMixing
    ja-latn: 'Super Mario Land 2: Tremendous Achievement'
  type: doujin
- catalog: N/A
  date: '2008-11-17'
  link: album/11041
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Composer
  - Arranger
  - Performer
  - Lyricist
  titles:
    en: Burn Out
    ja: Burn Out
    ja-latn: Burn Out
  type: game
- catalog: N/A
  date: '2008-12-28'
  link: album/10507
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Composer
  - Arranger
  - Performer
  - Lyricist
  titles:
    en: Revolution
    ja: Revolution
    ja-latn: Revolution
  type: works
- catalog: N/A
  date: '2011-04-26'
  link: album/43398
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Composer
  - Arranger
  titles:
    en: 303EP.
    ja: 303EP.
    ja-latn: 303EP.
  type: works
- catalog: OCRA-0040
  date: '2013-07-01'
  link: album/40213
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Arranger
  - Performer
  titles:
    en: 'Final Fantasy VI: Balance and Ruin'
    ja: 'Final Fantasy VI: Balance and Ruin'
    ja-latn: 'Final Fantasy VI: Balance and Ruin'
  type: doujin
- catalog: OCRA-0055
  date: '2015-11-30'
  link: album/55902
  reprint: false
  roles:
  - Arranger
  titles:
    en: Super Cartography Bros.
    ja: Super Cartography Bros.
    ja-latn: Super Cartography Bros.
  type: doujin
featured_on: []
info:
  Birthdate: May 17, 1986
  Birthplace: Patuxent River, Maryland, United States
  Bloodtype: A-
  Credited works: 16 albums in database
  Credits:
  - 12 arranger
  - 7 composer
  - 6 performer
  - 4 lyricist
link: artist/1261
meta:
  added_date: 2007-11-12T16:59
  edited_date: 2023-05-09T02:22
  fetched_date: 2026-01-08T01:22
  ttl: 86400
  visitors: 7355
name: Beatdrop
notes: 'Dain "Beatdrop" Olsen grew up in a musically rich environment, with his father
  latching headphones on to his head while he was only a toddler, chuckling as he
  wobbled around in an attempt to dance to the likes of Fleetwood Mac and Genesis.
  Into grade school, he had a short-lived experience with the violin before entirely
  giving up on music performance until the age of 11.

  But around the time he turned 11, he garnered a newfound passion for percussion
  instruments, and began playing the trap set shortly after he set foot into fifth
  grade. When he wasn''t doing homework, he spent most of his freetime in the garage,
  drumming along to a lot of the same classic and progressive rock bands that he grew
  up listening to. Eventually, though, it became apparent that he wanted to do a lot
  more than just smack some drums with a CD backing; something more than just playing
  a marching rhythm on a snare drum in front of a crowd of parents in his middle school
  band.

  Near the end of 2000, a person with whom he frequently played Rainbow 6: Rogue Spear
  on the MSN Gaming Zone sent him a short drumloop that he''d composed himself. Mindblown
  and completely unaware of what it took to make such things, Dain was pointed towards
  Hammer Head, a freeware drum sequencing application. After making a number of drumloops
  with it and still craving more, Dain began to research computer music creation tools
  on the Internet.

  At the beginning of 2001, he came across an application known as FruityLoops. It
  offered many of the same features that Hammer Head offered in a similar interface,
  but also opened up many other possibilities, allowing Dain to begin programming
  his own melodies and creating his own full-length tracks.

  Nearly eight years later, having taught himself numerous synthesis methods, countless
  mastering and production techniques, and various aspects of music theory, Dain is
  seeing interest in his genre-bending styles of Techno growing rapidly. With two
  of his more recent tracks licensed by Konami Computer Entertainment for various
  iterations of the popular Dance Dance Revolution series, his fanbase is becoming
  far more global than it''s ever been.

  It doesn''t stop there, however. With the imminent release of his fifth full-length
  studio album, Revolution, Dain aspires to completely change the way that people
  look at Electronic music.

  "Far too often, people tell me that they aren''t interested in ''techno'' or ''dance''
  music because it all sounds like video game music," he says, "and that alone seems
  utterly ridiculous, but I intend to broaden everyone''s horizons just a little bit
  by giving them something they probably haven''t heard anywhere else yet: an all-encompassing
  fusion of elements designed to produce an enthralling listening experience."'
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sex: male
twitter_names:
- Beatdrop
type: Alias
vgmdb_link: https://vgmdb.net/artist/1261?perpage=99999
websites:
  Interview: []
  Personal: []
  Reference: []
