Archive for the 'Song of the Week' Category
I Can See The Light…. FINALLY!
So, I Can See The Light by Pyroshock and stepped by Silver_Brian has been sitting in my queue since the end of SEPTEMBER. That is over 3 and a half months. Needless to say, I felt obligated to add it, since no other file has been in the queue more than 6 weeks.
(p.s. It’s in the lower *left* corner of dance, and has a difficulty of “Standard”. -Shash)
(p.p.s. Apparently, I can discern my right from my left in only TWO tries. Mad skillz. -Shash)
Enjoy.
-Tass
Also: Congrats to our 2 new MP Mods, Rebirth0 and Windscarredfaith.
Songs, Songs, Songs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, since our queue keeps growing and growing and growing, we’ve decided to make Friday’s our second official release day for new songs. We’ll release a new song EVERY Friday in addition to EVERY Sunday. 2 new songs, each and every week, for all eternity, or at least until our queue gets down low again.
Tonight’s file is back to the Classics. Turkish March is another Beethoven piece stepped by our resident classical stepfile expert, Reach. It seems fairly simple at first, but the entire song is laced with jacks, which makes it a nightmare to FC on FFR (I’ve yet to break a 350 combo in about 20 trial attemps, but I can FC every time in SM).
Anywho, enjoy the new song and the news of getting 2 new songs a week instead of the previous one.
PS – If you didn’t notice, we removed the jacktacular ending arrows in Synesthetic, reducing it from 773 to 769 arrows. It is now AAAable. Unfortunately, we had to wipe the High Score list for this song. So, you’ll need to replay it if you care about having a score on every song.
Boycotting URL links because I’m lazy, (note: I am not flazy 
jason)
-Tass
New Song! CAUSE I FEEL LIKE IT!!!
So, I started a new job about 3 weeks ago. First 2 weeks were training for a few hours a day; real simple stuff. This week was the start of the REAL training, on site. Worked about 37 hours over the past 4 days, and expect that trend to continue next week, the week after, and every week after that (50+ hours for the non-holiday weeks). Not to mention working 12 hours today alone.
What did I want to do when I got home tonight? Play a new song in FFR. And what do you know… I have the ability to add a new song to FFR. So I’m doing it. BECAUSE I WANT TO! Enjoy.
This song has been in the queue forever. One of the 1st songs I received after taking over SotW duties, yet it hasn’t made it in… until now. Chaotic Sound is a song with a nice hard beat, by our very own RaVeRaVeR, who goes by DJ Chaos for his musical endeavors. Stepped by my main man Jimerax, you’ll be sure to love it. Not too difficult of a song… I’ve SDGed every time I’ve played it, although yet to AAA. You can find it in Dance, lower left hand corner.
In other news, you may have noticed that some of the difficulties were changed on certain levels. FINALLY, right? They now all reflect the difficulties that we, as a community, feel are accurate, as per this thread. Big thanks go to Shashakiro for fixing this…. cause I was too busy bring home the big bucks.
Don’t worry either… there will still be another song released on New Year’s Eve… but it won’t be SotY. Unfortunately, there has been a slight delay to SotY, which will be released as soon as it is finished.
Rockin’ In The New Year… 2 days early,
The 12th Song of FFRmas: Carol Megamix by Hiro
Well guys, this entire thing has been a lot of work for me, but SO MUCH fun too. And it wouldn’t be a proper ending without a holiday jingle. Carol Megamix is probably well known already by many of you, from O2Jam. Not only did Rebirth step this, he also went out and got permission to use it from Hiro.
In case you were wondering, the songs in the mix are:
0:00-0:15 – Made up
0:15-0:39 – Jingle Bells
0:39-1:03 – Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
1:03-1:16 – Made up
1:16-1:30 – Joy to the World
1:30-2:19 – Santa Claus is Coming to Town
2:19-2:36 – Made up
You can find the Megamix in Misc. It will be in the upper left for the next week (and every Christmas season in the future), but in non-Christmas time, it will be at the end of Misc, past Jelly Roll Blues. I’d say it is a 4 or 4.5 in difficulty, nothing too challenging, BUT… you may say that this file is overstepped. Well, it is. But there is a very good reason for it… I’m sure everyone will figure out what that reason is for themselves. 
So, have a Merry Christmas everyone! Or a Happy Hanukkah, if you’re an Israelite like myself. And we wouldn’t want to forget about our friends who celebrate Kwanzaa, Festivus, or any other End-of-December joyous event.
We’ll go back to our normal SotW starting next Sunday night. Or will we….
Enjoy your presents from FFR and enjoy the mystery,
Tass & all the other not-quite-as-cool FFR Staffers.
CHARDISH EDIT: Tass, you only wish you were as cool as me.
I wanted to thank everyone for their enthusiasm during the 12 Songs of FFRmas. These songs were all kind of like Christmas presents for you, but everyone’s support for the game is like a constant year-round present for us. We love you guys.
A bunch of the music for these 12 days was taken from 3rd Style. As the music coordinator for 3rd Style, let me assure you that there’s still plenty of good stuff on the way. All of 3rd’s music is very good – and while some of the best songs were featured this week, some of the best is still yet to come. Keep waiting for it – trust me, it’s going to be phenomenal.
Cheers,
Chardish
Day 11: Play It Funky by CanBlaster
Well… despite what y’all may think, I do have a life outside of FFR. Which is why the past 2 songs have been late in their release. Also, because it is quite late, this news post will be brief.
This song is our first Funk song in FOUR FULL YEARS, and completes my goal of adding at least 1 new song to every genre. Play it Funky is a remix of the song Play That Funky Music by the one hit wonder band Wild Cherry. Remix is by CanBlaster and the stepfile is by dore. You can find it in funk, currently 2nd row in the middle, although this may change. The song is not very difficult to Full Combo, although the odd syncopation will make it a wee bit harder to AAA.
Enjoy and may the funk be with you,
Day 9: Tension by Inspector K
Once again guys, we apologize for the loss of scores on the previous 8 days + Coat Czech. What it really comes down to is that we knew how amazing everyone one of those songs were… so we wanted to make sure you all played them at least one more time. .
Tonight’s song is our second release by famed ITG artist Kyle Ward. Tension is released under his Insector K alias, but he is the same guy as Smiley, who did Delirium. The stepchart is by Kit-, and is fairly straight forward at 180bpm stream and just under 1000 notes in 1:56. I’d rate it a mid 4.5. Nothing at all compared to TOMORROW’s file. Muh haha. Then days 11 and 12 are special.
We also felt that Tension was appropriate for tonight, given that we’re all quite tense in our anticipation for that new server tomorrow. Will be such a blessing without all of those Server Overloaded messages.
Enjoy and happy times,
Tass & his 3 cats, Pixel (the fats one), Corey (the boy cat), and Maya (the rat).
Day 6: Classical Insanity by DM Ashura
I gave everyone a clue in the FFR General Talk thread… but it would appear nobody noticed. Classical Insanity is an awesome mix by our favorite remixer in the whole wide world, DM Ashura. And of course… stepped by everyone’s favorite stepfile artist (except for EHHS, GGC, etc etc etc) Shashakiro. 1 part Revo, 1 part Moonlight Sonata, 1 part Rondo, 1 part HD5, 1 part B-Virus, 1 part FotBB (and 3 other not as cool parts because they aren’t seperate files in FFR… yet) = Classical Insanity, for sure.
Definitely a solid 5 on the difficulty chart between long streams at 175bpm (few jumpstream) and those DREADED running men. Will be difficult for the average FFRer to even pass and the great FFRer to FC. Don’t expect a AAA unless your name is Shash, Baha, JX, or scottish (maybe a few other uber FFRers). Although, we’ve steadily gone up in difficulty over the past 6 days… tomorrow we go back down to the easy file; the cake AAA.
Oh yea. It is located in Classical (duh). 3rd row, middle.
Enjoy the insanity,
Day 5: {Firestorm} by cornandbeans
OK guys… I want you to go HERE right now. What is it, you ask? It is cornandbeans‘ music page. All of you need to listen to his stuff, that is how good it is. {Firestorm} is an Ethnic Techno / House song that has a very unique sound to it. It is stepped by newcomer Silvuh, who I don’t know very well, but it just goes to show… you don’t need to be an FFR God or a forum regular with 5000 posts to get your stepfile onto FFR. Once again, you can find the file in the lower left hand corner of Dance (expect a few non-Dance in the next couple of days, I promise!).
Also, expect a few more of cornandbeans’ songs appearing in FFR over the next few weeks. You can read and post comments about his songs in this thread. If you are interested in stepping a song for FFR, please read the information in this thread.
This file continues the trend of each file being more difficult than the one before. It is 2:38 long and has 1010 arrows. A 4.5 on the 6.0 scale, IMO. Basically… we’ve gone from 100+ AAAs on Come With Me to 58 on Horizon to 38 on Kick It to 9 on Palindrome… I’d be shocked if we have more than 5 or 6 on {Firestorm} after 48 hours.
Until we repeat this dance again tomorrow night,
Day 4: Back to Sanxion7
Since everyone liked Horizon so much, we’re giving you another shot of Sanxion7. Palindrome is yet another very unique sound. On Sanxion’s website, he says that the song is inspired by TaQ, and it does have a bit of a TaQ sound.
This file is also pretty unique, and I hope we don’t have that strong of a negative reaction to it. It is EXTREMELY repetitive, but it is done that way on purpose to fit the song. Personally, I like the way our 1st Lady of FFR, Kit-, stepped it… but I can also see how some people wont’ like it. My advice: make sure your right arrow isn’t broken; you’re going to need it in this file.
You can find it in the lower left hand corner of Dance. I’d say that it is a 3.0 or 3.5, although definitely harder to FC and AAA because of the 32nds.
Discuss it here. Brag about it here.
I’m running out of stuff to say in these daily news posts,
