New Flashbulb Token!
Did I get your attention? Tonight’s easy skill token is Do Not Sex To This by The Flashbulb. It is a short and sweet song, very different than your normal Flashbulb experience. Personally, I would not sex to it… but, I won’t tell you guys what to do. If you really want to, you have my permission to sex to this. But only once! The file is by 1st time stepfiler L Endorphin L, who also made this most recent batch of token images. To unlock, pass Activity Unbroken (Dance) with 30 or less misses.
Truly yours, unsexing to this,
-Tass
Special Release! FFR Welcomes Veritas to the family!
I’d like to welcome the Southern California band Veritas to our family. Veritas mashes hard rock with synth pop for a sound that is gutsy, catchy and delightfully odd. (I stole that right from their myspace… I’m so unoriginal). Anyway, their keyboardist, Jamie (aka White Thunder), is a good friend of mine, so I implore all of you to go and check out their myspace and their website. I’ll be seeing them in concert tonight, so any special requests you might have for them, post them up and I’ll pass them along.
The song is called 5 Black Skulls. It carries a sweet synth sound throughout, and some very Metal-ish lyrics. Mad props, as always, to our evil stepfile genius jimerax for busting this out in record time for me. You can play 5 Black Skulls in Rock, upper left hand corner of Page 1. The file is very doubles heavy with a smattering of 16th trill streams to the drums. I’d rate it a high 8.
Enjoy, and again, check out Veritas on myspace or epitunes,
-Tass
Batman Does Spinfiles for SpinItUP!
So, for the latest spinfile, we have a song by an extraordinary musician, Karius Vega. He makes some of the most unique, emotional, and organic electronic music out there. I recommend you all pay him a visit at his myspace (http://myspace.com/kariusvega) and thank him for his awesome music.
You can also thank lord_carbo for making this awesome spinfile. It’s a tricky one!
Karius Vega – The Day The Planet Decided To Explode [Difficulty: 7]
Love and Kisses,
iPatcH
I GOT A AAA…. I’M RAVING AT THE COSMIC ORCHESTRA!!!
First off… our new user skill token for tonight. I’m Raving is originally a song by Scooter. Our version is remixed by new FFR artist B0UNC3, although I’ve received many submissions of songs by him. His homepage is here, although I found it to load a bit slow. Very catchy song, for sure. Stepfile is by Ben Speirs, of the way too difficult to type out username group. I rated it a low 4; please give me some input on whether you think it should be a 3 or not. To test this file, pass Love You Anymore (Hip-Hop) with 40 or less goods.
Today’s public Song of the Week is, along with Szamar Madar from a few updates ago, a new personal favorite of many of our forumites. Cosmic Orchestra is a very classy progressive rock song by OSTER Project. The stepfile is mostly 16th jumpbursts at 150bpm, but it has a few non 4-framer 24th streams and 1 long 24th trill that is entirely 4-framers. Because of that, it is a solid 10 in difficulty. I HIGHLY suggest you all check out this masterpiece by jimerax, and give him mad props. You can find it at the very very end of the Rock genre.
Today’s subscriber SotW is a pretty well known remix stepped by Exag0n. It is AAA by DM Ashura. You can find it in Funk.
And for those nitpickers… I’m in California. It isn’t midnight yet here.
-Tass
Profile Chat Feature List
As many have you seen, we have made a significant update to the profile chat within FFR. This chat module was brought over from the recently developed widget chat that we created with the aid of Xelius and Bemaniruler. Below is the short list of features:
Design! Thanks to Bemaniruler for layout and animation!
(Xelius was the lead for features)
Avatars for each user in the userlist
Sorting by classification of user on FFR
Color coding for each classification in user list and in chat
Personal chat room for your profile
Accurate reporting of the number of people in each room
Admin mute, kick, ip ban, entire chat mute / close
The color coding for usernames is as follows:
Red = Admin
Black = User
Green = Super mod, Mp mod, Chat mod
Blue = Subscriber
Yellow = Band
White = Banned
Grey = Guest
We are continually evolving the features and will be in there over the next few days taking feature requests and chatting with everyone. Come visit your profile to check it out! 
Cheers,
Synthlight
Whole Bunch of Small Stuff – Profile Chat Update, SotW, New Rock songs, Easy ST.
First off, check out the new profile chat! Yea! This is working off of the same technology as the embedded player chats (Yes, all the myspace embedded players have their own chats!). So, check it out. It’s really swanky and hot looking and awesome. Not to mention, it’ll be much easier for us to moderate!
Yesterday I released the 3rd and 4th song by LoveHateHero into Rock, which had previously been exclusive to their embedded player. They’re upper left of Rock. I have since moved the other rock songs by LoveHateHero and Making April to their appropriate spots throughout the genre. So, enjoy the songs and check out their awesome sites.
Today’s Public SotW is State of Emergency by SynthWulf. I’m not really sure how this happened, but apparently this song became public 1 week ago as opposed to today, and I never noticed. Oh well. Many of you may know this song from Spin It Up. It’s 190bpm and pretty fast paced. It has a bunch of 4-frame jacks in it, so watch out! Difficulty is a 10, because of the 4-framers. Stepfile is by Silver_Brian. You can find it on Page 4 of Misc.
Today’s subscriber SotW is available on Page 2 of Funk. It is Never Look Back by DJ SBX (SymBiotiX). Interesting coincednece that I just spoke with SBX yesterday about getting more of his stuff in game. I do what I can to please the musicians; without them, there wouldn’t be an FFR. Will have a full write up on the song in 3 weeks when it’s public.
Finally… today’s easy Skill Token! 5.1.1. (AG Supercool Mix) is, in fact, a supercool mix of the song 5.1.1. by DJ Nagureo remixed by Aerogroove. The stepfile is a cut of the full song, and is either a hard 2 or an easy 3. This file is MixMasterLar’s 1st file to get into the game, after lots and lots of failed submissions and re-submits. He proves the power of dedication, in that if you work hard and keep at it, you can get a file into the game. To unlock, Pass Dance 2 This (Dance1) with 20 or less boos.
Hope that wasn’t too much information for all of you…
-Tass
FlashFlashRevolution Widget Featured on ZDnet.com
ZDnet has once again contacted us for an article. This time regarding our newly release widget player that enables both bands and fans to embed their music directly into external websites, myspace pages, facebook applications. (the list goes on)
Check out the article. It’s great to see some recognition for the passion we put into our projects.
Cheers,
Synthlight
Halcyon – Newest Breed of Pokemon! Add it to your DnB!
So Drugstore and I were discussing what we could use for the newest of our easy skill token songs, Pokemon DnB (by cornandbeans.. omg no {}!!), and we decided that Halcyon sounded like it could be a species of pokemon. Not to mention… one of the definitions of Halcyon is a mythical bird. So… we bring up Pokemon #653, HALCYON! It is the offspring of a Moltress and a Zapdos. It can evolve into a Halcyon-on-on (thanks to Chardish for the pun/reference). Basically, we put way too much effort and thought into this… but, it’s pretty damn amusing.
Pokemon DnB is exactly that… a light Drum n Bass song based off of the Pokemon theme song. I find the ending to be especially LOL. Stepfile is by Silver_Brian and it is a 3 in difficulty. Mostly 4th notes, few 8th note triplets at the end and a few 8th gallops in the middle. As said, you have to play Halcyon to unlock… Pass it with 20 or less averages to unlock Pokemon DnB. Halcyon is in Dance.
-Tass
Enjoy, good night, and hope everyone who was in the Subscriber Chat tonight (we maxed out at over 60 people in there at one time) had a good time and got a decent preview of what 3rd style will be.
PS – All kinds of other big news going on throughout the site… but that is news for another day.
Making April Embedded FFR Widget A Success – 50,000+ Gameplays
Thanks to the legions of fans both here on FFR and the many loyal Making April fans, the FFR widget on their myspace has become a success. In the short time that it has been available, it has been played over 50,000 and rising by thousands each day.
The widget is changing quickly. If you have not seen it lately, I suggest that you run over to the Making April Myspace page and take a look. We have added a realtime chat, highscores based upon your FFR login or IP address and a whole new look compared to last week.
Thanks again to Making April and the other bands that are adopting this widget system and realizing it’s power to draw crowds.
Cheers,
Synthlight
