DM Ashura

William "Bill" James Robert Shillito (b. 1986-03-26 in Brooklyn, New York), more commonly known as DM Ashura, is an electronic artist whose work can be found in the music game O2Jam, Dance Dance Revolution , beatmania IIDX, Flash Flash Revolution, Pump it Up Pro 2 and Pump it Up Fiesta EX.

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.

Bill creates his music under the name DM Ashura; the "DM" stands for Digital Maestro, while "Ashura" (spelled 阿修羅) is Japanese for "fighting demon". He has made a number of remixes (mostly from music games), particularly "neoMAX" (a remix of the MAX series), which won first place in Tournamix 4, a DDR stepfile-writing contest.

Work in games

DM Ashura's music has recently been licensed for a number of music games:

Tracks in O2Jam (for PC):

• Euphorium
• GO!
• Astral

All three of these songs can be found on the Malaysian server. GO! can be found on the Japanese server as...
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