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A SOTW To Reach The Ends Of The Earth
Hey everyone! SOTW time again – well, even though there’s usually more than one new song every week. This one is special, though – we’ve just added the talents of yet another wonderful signed artist, Joy Electric. One of my personal favorite artists, Joy Electric is the pseudonym of Ronnie Martin, a synthpop musician who’s been around for well over ten years. Martin’s sound is unique due to his almost exclusive use of monosynths, giving the music a very crisp, analog feel that’s unlike anything else we have on FFR.
Our first Joy Electric song is From Mount Chorus, off the incredible album Hello, Mannequin. The song is in the Misc section, and it’s rated a 6 on our 12-point scale – definitely something most casual players should be able to handle. Please take a look at the entire album and support his work – I can personally attest that Hello, Mannequin is wonderful from beginning to end. Look for more lovely synthpop from sounds here in the future…
Cheers,
Chardish & The Electric Joy Toy Company
Songs of the Week, 4th week of February
2 songs were released for SotW #1 of this week last night, one more song will be released tomorrow.
Sonic 1 Final Zone, both song and steps are by Wlokos, his first song for FFR.
It’s the third song stepped by the song author, since Abtrusity by RageVI.
Short and fairly easy song, we rate it 2/6(Easy).
You can find this song in Arcade.
Another song is Gaussian Blur 3, a new secret song. You need 30,000 credits to play.
Song is by Kil-, steps are by Rebirth0. It has 182 BPM long streams and some tricky bursts.
Difficulty Rating is 4.5/6(Challenging). Gaussian Blur 1 and 2 will be also on FFR, I believe.
More information, Improvisation et Chien will be released tomorrow.
Song is by Dissonance and steps are by hi19hi19. Steps basically go with saxophone, not very fast but rhythms are really complex and tricky so it’s pretty hard to hit accurately. Rating is 3.5/6(Difficult). You’ll be able to find this song in Misc section.
Have fun with SotW.
Edit: Improvisation et Chien is out now!
JX
2 new songs for this Sunday night
This time, we have 2 new unique songs, Ruins and Honolulu.
Both songs are essentially based on 12th or 24th notes (purple and pink arrows).
I think we didn’t have those kind of songs on FFR until now.
Ruins is a cool song by Yamajet, steps are by me. In my opinion this song is definitely one of his best songs, so I got permission from him and stepped. A fairly difficult file with many 120BPM 24th notes (the same speed as 180BPM 16th notes), especially trills and jumps at the end are tough. Difficulty rating of this song is 4.5/6 (Challenging).
Honolulu is a simple and hilarious song by Torley Wong, steps are by dAnceguy117, his first simfile for FFR. Mostly steps are 136BPM 12ths and overall a fun and intermediate file, still has some tricky parts with doubles and 24ths. We rated it as 3/6 (Tricky).
You can find both songs in Misc section.
Enjoy unique rhythms.
JX
Song of the Week #1 – Air
Finally.. we have a Shiki‘s song on FFR, Air. It’s a really well-known song for those who play Stepmania, since a lot of people have stepped this song. FFR version of this song is stepped by Rebirth0, also very popular stepfile artist here. This is a full version so the length is 4:23 and has 1,940 total notes, steps are awesome and fairly tough with 178 BPM 16th streams and some bursts. Difficulty rate is 5/6 (Very Challenging), so it’s a really challenging song to Full Combo.
You can find this song in the 3rd page of Dance2 section.
Good luck.
JX
SOTW #2: Science Genius Girl (lameboy mix)
Song of the Week #2 for this week was released last night, Science Genius Girl (lameboy mix). Song is by Freezepop, and steps are by hi19hi19. The song is not that fast (138 BPM (Beats Per Minute)), but long trills at the middle of the song are fairly hard, so we set it at high-3.5 on the difficulty scale.
You can find this song in the upper left corner of Misc section.
Let’s enjoy.
JX , Powered by Synth
SOTW List .. Yes, We Fell Behind Posting But They Are All In
We’ve been falling behind lately in the announcements on the Songs of the Week. Sorry about that, but this will get it all caught up.
Added last Friday (February 2, 2007) was Destiny, our first collaboration simfile. What’s a collaboration simfile? It’s just one simfile, with one set of steps, done by two people. This simfile was done by Rebirth0, AND i love you. Song is by Smiley, and can be found in the first page of Dance2. It’s a fairly easy simfile but it has a couple difficult parts, which is why this simfile is a 4 on the difficulty scale.
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Added last Sunday (February 4, 2007) was World of Dreams. Song by DJ Karbon, steps by hi19hi19. There are hundreds of jumps in this simfile, but that doesn’t mean it’s hard, or not fun. It is fun to play, and it’s only a 3.5 on the 6-point difficulty scale. It can be found in the third page of Dance.
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And now for today. Our SOTW#1 for this week is {Frozen}. A nice addition to the collection of cornandbeans simfiles we have in the game. Bahamut-X did the steps to this song, and they’re not as easy as you would expect. This simfile has quite a lot of 16th streams and 16th jumpstream, which is why we rate it a 5 on the difficulty scale. Right now it can be found in the first page of Dance2, but it will soon be moved to the second or third page.
Have fun,
Coactive: Unleashed upon the public!
Coactive, by long time FFR music producter SuperGreen X, marks the first post-dated file release in FFR history. It was added to the database a week ago, and was played by aproximately 45 people before tonight’s release. Who are these lucky people? Well, they are those amazing people who feel that FFR is so much apart of their lives, that they will subscribe to the site for extra content. A future post, in the near future, will give much more focus on subscriptions.
You can find Coactive in the lower left hand corner of Dance. It was stepped by unknown and newcomer debit13. The steps are a bit difficult compared to the music, but everything flows together quite nicely.
Enjoy.
-Tass, his lass, and a bit of sass
RED ALERT!!! MORE CORNANDBEANS AHEAD!!!
We bring you another long overdue cornandbeans file, by long time forumite Neonatrias. Red Alert is a short and very up-tempo song. Most of the file is 185bpm, but it is only 496 notes total. Not TOO difficult, although Sunday’s file will be easier. I managed to black flag it twice in a row, but no AAA yet.
You can find it in Misc. Page 2, upper left hand corner. We are working very hard on either combining Hip Hop and Funk together into 1 group and making the empty one Dance 2 OR adding a 10th genre for Dance 2. Expect one of these in the near future, to make it easier to sort through Dance… all 7+ pages of it as of now.
Enjoy,
-Tass (and I know Jason will add in all the links for me. 
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Song of the Week 1: Be Princess
So, it’s Friday night, which under our new system means it’s time for the first of this week’s two new songs. Tonight we release the song Be Princess, by DJ Sharpnel (Warning: link contains “not safe for work” material). It’s been AGES since we’ve released a song by Sharpnel, the most recent one being Torinouta (19 songs ago), so we’re happy to bring you yet another song from this commonly-stepped artist. The song is very challenging (as you’d expect from its difficulty rating), and contains many bursts of 16ths at 190 BPM. The steps are by longtime FFR veteran Jimerax.
Another song will be released Sunday, as promised. Have fun with Be Princess.
Happy FFR’ing,
