A tribute megamix I made of Naoki Maeda (the head sound designer for DDR)'s time at Konami from 1998-2013. The man is an absolute genius, and my biggest inspiration as a musician.
Yep. That was his project. Konami decided it wasn't worth investing in, so he left the company and now works for Capcom making music for CROSSxBEATS. Interestingly enough, all of his music is still in the newest DDR, DDR A, unlike the other musicians who left Konami.
Yes, they are still supporting it in JP and Asia. They haven't supported it in 6 years here in America. Hiroyuki Togo, pinkpong, DJ SIMON, U1-ASAMi, jun, SLAKE, game designer Tak Fujii and more famously Hideo Kojima left Konami too.
U1(aka U1 ASAMi) has been releasing numerous songs for Bemani (including the latest in DDR A - Electric Dance System Music) Egoist 440 was HIS boss song.