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Memorial Day Special Release & Random Updates

I figured we hadn’t done a special release in a while…  so I wanted to do something for you guys.  Enter Ievan Polkka, by Otomania, quite possibly the catchiest song ever.  It may sound familiar, as Pretty Green Onions is a mix of the same song.  IMO, it’s a Low FMO…  the jumpjacks with 3-framers are JUST enough to make it not be VC, but I’m willing to listen to other opinions.  Mad props to my main man jimerax for this awesomely fun chart that you will won’t be able to stop playing.  Oh yeah…  it’s on Page 1 of Dance2 for easy access.

In other news, I haven’t forgotten about all of you.  Don’t think that I have.  :(.  The P4U fix that resulted in the chart being offsync is being worked on again, and should be sync’d by the time you read this.  Also, I like cake.

-Tass

Oh yeah…  if you care about the batch, notes should be up tomorrow.  Maybe I’ll even be nice enough to unlock the discussion thread.

Very, Very Old Bug Now Fixed!

A small one, but a very old one… dating way back to 2003. We all love the cute little dancing white thing in the background video for Party 4 U v2, but sadly the music wouldn’t play when you went to try it again (and the notes would lag). This has been fixed! Big thanks to NSane for the assistance on the fix. No more P4U bug! Yay!

-Tass

New Features To The Subscriber Beta FFR

I put together this little video to show off the new features of the Beta version of FFR:

-New sexy graphics
-Better in-genre navigation
-FC/AAA graphics in-game
-Combo/Accuracy masking

Any suggestions for other things we should work on adding? If you feel these features are as sexy as I do, subscribe!

-Tass

Put the Retrigger on the Bong-Ra and hide the children

Bong-Ra:
Bong-Ra, Jason Köhnen’s electronic alter ego saw life in 1996. Hailing form The Netherlands, Bong-Ra initially started as a dj, but quickly focused his priority on producing his own music in 1997. Since then he has set up two record labels and released well over 40 albums on many record labels (including Cock Rock Disco.) His latest release, the Vitus Blister EP, features the song many of you have probably grown to love, Nomina Nuda Tenemus, which was released a week or so ago and was stepped by here. It’s either an FMO or FGO, there seems to be a lot of disagreement about the actual difficulty [it's just jumpstream, right? ].

Retrigger:
Retrigger is an electronic musician from Brazil, also known as Raul Costa, who has been producing hard and experimental music since the year of 2001. He has released tracks in labels from different countries, in 5 different continents. His sounds range from breakcore to 60s psychedelia, from punk to funk, from garage rock to hip hop or anything he’s listening at the time, mostly sounding like all of those at the same time. Just last week, resident stepfiler and FFR stepfile judge kommisar[os]‘s file for Jeanie and Caroline became public and it’s an FMO focusing on Retrigger’s wonderful drums. Check out his website for free music and keep an eye for a release on Cock Rock Disco.

Hope you all enjoy the new breakcore!

-blu

SotY 2009! Take me back 5 years!

Song of the Year took a break in 2008, because we didn’t have anything awesome enough for it.  There were rumors of Mario or TMWT…  but it all came and passed.  And now it is 2009.  And we have SotY again!  We’re going to party like it’s 2004!

The full name of the song is OSTER Project presents World Tour 2004.  Seeing as how that is both a mouthful and redundant, I labeled it simply “World Tour 2004″.  Artist is, of course, OSTER Project.

Now, why does this song classify for SotY?  Because each one of us can relate to it.  The song hits music from all over the world.  It also happens to be the longest song in FFR and the song with the most notes.  A AAA on this will net you over 6 million points!  It is 8:38 and 3940 of goodness by behanjc.  It’s FMO for some jacks and length and PAing 24th jumpstream…  but it’s not TOO bad.

How can you play this, you ask?  All you need is 20,009 credits and you’ll find it at the top of page 3 of Secret.

Enjoy and Happy New Year!

-Tass

FFRMas 2008 Epic Conclusion Of Awesome!

You may say…  “Tass, you’re lazy and you didn’t give us any news stories about the previous few days!” And, you’d be right.  But, there is madness behind my logic.  Sort of.  I wanted to let you all simmer and come to a slow boil, culminating in today’s over the top bonanza of filey goodness.

Let’s do a slight recap…  we’ve had Shash and S.S.H., Virt and SHK, easy files and hard ones, Leeroy Jenkins and some Ladies To Which We Say HEY, kLutZ and KgZ…  not to mention, RATO.  To finish it all off, we’ve traveled Across Rooftops to Wish You A Merry Christmas while Church Bells chime for all!
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FFRMas 2008 – Days 7 & 8!

I’ve been putting in way too many frequent flyer miles the past week.  I was on an airplane all day yesterday, quickly uploaded levels last night and went to bed.  Apparently there was an issue to Hey, Ladies…  but I fixed that up today.

Hey, Ladies is a MASSIVE Parental Advisory song.  It’s absolutely hilarious, but definitely NSFW!  A 6 in difficulty, it’ll be harder because of how much you’re laughing.  Of course, it’s a Futuristic Sex Robotz nerdcore song stepped by dore.  What else would it be?

I Hate The 80s is a massively overstepped, yet fun, song by Duran Duran Duran.  I’d like some input as to whether this is really high FMO or low FGO.  File is by bluguerrilla, but please don’t encourage him to make more charts like this.    If nothing else, this song is another excuse to say Cock Rock Disco.

Brandish Headless is the first chart for today.  Those in the know will definitely recognize the song from SM.  Those not only need to know 3 simple things…  Shash file.  S.S.H. song (with Jun A.).  FMO.  Go go go!

Finally is Lady’s Cake by our own DarkbearX.  Fairly simple song that follows climax theory, making it a 7 difficulty overall.  Chart is by DarkbearX & HammyMcSquirrel.  DbX adds his name to the ever growing list of users with both a music producer and simfile author distinction.

-Tass

FFRMas 2008 – Days 5 and 6!

I have a good reason for no story yesterday… I wanted to make sure the sync issues in Etude in E Major were fixed first. I took care of that earlier today, so voila.

Etude in E Major is a really simple file, a Classical FBO. Song is fairly well known, composed by Chopin. Stepfile by Xandertrax. Juxtaposed with that is Toxiferous Dystopia, which is a FMO song by DJ Cristo. It’s a pretty darn rough FMO. Stepfile by TC_Halogen.

Today’s 2 files are both on the harder end of the spectrum. Master Maid (which, I’ve been told, has no relation to I Am Maid apart from both being Sharpnel songs with “Maid” in the title) is a FMO Sharpnel file. Because of the name, I stuck it in Purchased… 2500 credits only. It’s pretty much what you’d expect out of a FMO Sharpnel file. Still fun to play though, so give props to kommisar[os]. Along with that is t+pazolite‘s easy-at-a-VC song Summer Time Perfume. Just like the name says, it’s a pretty fun and airy journey through 4 arrowdom. I’m not sure what bmah was thinking…. but the file has 1666 notes. Your guess is as good as mine.

Other news: I’m so swamped right now, plus traveling all day tomorrow, that I’m pushing back PSH3: Return of the Mannequin until the 1st weekend in January.

-Tass

FFRMas 2008 – Day 4! 1st of 2s

I mentioned on Day 1 that only 2 users would have multiple files in this event… and it just so happens that both have files released today. Our lucky 2 are behanjc and Silvuh.

Moonlight River is a melodic piece by Ikodo Moonstrife that I’m sure you all will enjoy playing. The chart may remind you a bit of World of Dreams… it’s full of jumps. But not as long, not as hard, and 10bpm slower. A solid 6.

Fake Jazz is a pretty self explaining song title… although it sounds pretty similar to not-Fake Jazz. Lots of 24th stream to guitar and piano solos make this one heck of a fun VC chart to play. Oh yea… did I mention it was by S.S.H.?

-Tass