DM Ashura


William "Bill" James Robert Shillito, more commonly known as DM Ashura, is an electronic artist whose work can be found in the music games O2Jam, Dance Dance Revolution, beatmania IIDX, StepMania, Flash Flash Revolution, and Pump it Up.

Biography

Bill lived in Queens for 8 years and now resides in Atlanta, Georgia. He started playing piano at the age of 2 and composing around age 8. He also has played viola since age 12.
He graduated from Georgia Tech in 2008 with a Bachelor of Science in International Affairs and Modern Language, specifically Japanese, but he also speaks Spanish. He started teaching Maths in 2009 and was working towards a master's degree in Teaching. He has published a YouTube series, "Introduction to Higher Mathematics", and has collaborated on an animated TED video on Matrix Operations.
Bill creates his music under the name DM Ashura; the "DM" stands for Digital Maestro, while "Ashura" is Japanese for "fighting demon". He has made a number of remixes, particularly "neoMAX", which won first place in Tournamix 4, a DDR stepfile-writing contest. He has also since written a number of original tracks, and is well known in the music game community for his work.

Work in games

DM Ashura's music has recently been licensed for a number of music games:
Tracks in O2Jam :
All three of these songs can be found on the Malaysian server. GO! can be found on the Japanese server as well.
Tracks in Flash Flash Revolution:
Tracks in Dance Dance Revolution ULTRAMIX 4
Tracks in Dance Dance Revolution Universe 3
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Tracks in '
Tracks in Pump It Up Pro 2
Tracks in Pump It Up Fiesta EX
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Tracks in Pump It Up Infinity
Tracks in Pump It Up Prime
Tracks in Pump It Up Prime 2
Tracks in Pump It Up XX
DM Ashura first got his tracks into DDR when he won Konami's music competition on . His song GO! was selected among around 300 other entries. The other three winners were Grandolin by Zerofuser, Race Against Time by Jeff Steinman, and There's a Rhythm by Dig Bear feat. Kat Blu.

Discography

DM Ashura's first album, Digital Maestro, was released in May 2007 at Anime Central. Two of the tracks, "Snowblind" and "Nautilus", feature guitarist Ricky Graham.
Also, "Celebrate Nite " can be found on Konami's Ultramix 4 V-Rare 11, as well as the "Cusimo & Co. Extended Mix" on the Supernova/Ultramix 4 Combo V-Rare 10.